a r t i s t : VA
t i t l e : Jukebox Buddha
d a t e : 2006
l a b e l : Staubgold
g e n r e : Other
r l s. d a t e : Sep/2006
t r a c k s : 15
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 95,0 MB
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15 tracks made with the FM3 BUDDHA MACHINE. Featuring
exclusive contributions by Adrian Sherwood + Doug Wimbish,
Blixa Bargeld, SunnO))), Thomas Fehlmann, Sun City Girls,
Gudrun Gut, Kammerflimmer Kollektief, Jan Jelinek, Andrew
Pekler, Hanno Leichtmann, Mapstation, Aki Onda, Robert
Henke/Monolake, Es, Alog, Minit and Wang Fan.
It was about three years ago whilst loafing in one of
Beijing's finer foot massage joints that Christiaan Virant,
the other half of Chinese duo FM3 to Zhang Jian, began to riff
mutation fantasies as applied to the Buddha Machine. The
Buddha Machine is a literal translation from Mandarin for the
small plastic box, driven by two double 'A' batteries, that
grinds out low-fi looped sutra variants across the whole of
China and South East Asia. The original concept was to locate
the nest, infect the breeding process with the new strain of
meditative sonics developed by FM3 over the previous couple of
years, lop off a hundred or so clones for promotion purposes
and bounce off the impact with a few European gigs.
That idea died a death as soon as the little babies fell into
the hands of Brian Eno, a rare musical expeditionary from the
far West visiting China, and the notorious Alan Bishop of the
Sun City Girls, who had burnt regular paths further south but
had never ventured into mainland China. Only just over twelve
months later the little beggar polls 88 thousand pages on
Google (the number 8 is the luckiest number in China) and has
a dedicated My Space page almost as amusing as the soundbox
itself when only the Pope is missing from its fanbase!
(http://www.myspace.com/fm3buddhamachine)
On "Jukebox Buddha", the first chapter of Buddha version,
disciples of many levels stretch, compress, reconfigure, rub
and dust, fuck around with the nine floating loops clipped out
from FM3's confrontational world of quiet. Moving straight to
level four the entry from Einsturzende Neubauten's Blixa
Bargeld finds the Beijing resident submitting to sweeter
harmonies than those with which he is traditionally associated
even eschewing voice in a move that could free him from the
eternal cycle of rebirth. Level two devotee Wang Fan, longtime
associate of FM3, builds environmentally friendly filigrees of
sound whilst new initiates Sherwood and Wimbish immediately
recognize the key importance of bass to the Buddha. A true Zen
moment is struck by the shameless humour of Jan Jelinek,
Andrew Pekler and Hanno Leichtmann's commercial but Robert
Henke (Monolake) takes a more devotional approach with a lift
from his new album of droneage based entirely on loops from
the Buddha Machine.
Although Mapstation sound like Mapstation, in an act of
submission Thomas Fehlmann bucks the beat and builds floating
layers of naked vocal. The Sun City Girls prove they have
visited more temples in the East than any other Westerner and
sunnO))) arrive from a different dimension with a restraint
not common in their work of late. In fact, the absence of self
indulgence pervades many of these contributions, as with Minit
whose contribution is the only one to actually sound like FM3
but none more so than Gudrun Gut's analysis of the creative
process employed in producing the track she has offered here.
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01-Wang Fan - Xuanzhuan De Tuoluonidi [05:45]
02-Kammerflimmer Kollektief - Gammler, Zen + Hohe Berge [03:54]
03-Aki Onda - The Buddha in New York [04:19]
04-Adrian Sherwood + Doug Wimbish - Karma-Cola [05:56]
05-Thomas Fehlmann - Liquid Buddha [03:20]
06-Robert Henke - Layer 02 [05:00]
07-Blixa Bargeld - Little Yellow [01:08]
08-Es - 3 Tietae Valojen Taa [05:46]
09-Gudrun Gut - Rendering Buddha [04:14]
10-Mapstation - Watching Paik's Video Buddha [02:23]
11-Jan Jelinek/Andrew Pekler/Hanno Leichtmann - [02:25]
BuddhaMachineCommercial
12-sunnO))) - BP//Simple [10:06]
13-Alog - A Dragon Lies Listening [03:41]
14-Minit - Winged Life [04:40]
15-Sun City Girls - Dry Valley [05:40]
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