ARTiST: VA
ALBUM: I Hate Music (The Best Of Output Recordings)
BiTRATE: 200kbps avg
QUALiTY: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.97 Final / -V2 --vbr-new / 44.100Khz
LABEL: Output Recordings
GENRE: Electronic
SiZE: 212.10 megs
PLAYTiME: 2h 20min 51sec total
RiP DATE: 2007-10-17
STORE DATE: 2007-11-12
Track List: Disc #1/2
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01. Fridge - Lojen 4:02
02. Four Tet - Glasshead 11:26
03. 7 Hurtz - Beatbox 5:11
04. Gramme - Crooks And Criminals 3:49
05. Sonovac - Human Fly 2:09
06. Icarus - Cyan 7:27
07. Skull - Flump 3:26
08. The Boy Lucas - There Are Great 4:06
Monsters Going Past
09. Tall Blonde - DonÆt Stop 2:37
10. Colder - Crazy Love 5:10
11. Dempsey - ODB On The Run 2:38
12. Dead Combo - You DonÆt Look So 3:48
Good
13. Playgroup - Make It Happen 4:09
14. Blackstrobe - Innerstrings 5:34
15. DK7 - The Difference 8:03
Track List: Disc #2/2
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01. Manhead - Birth, Death, Work, 5:21
School
02. Lopazz - I Need Ya 5:28
03. Mu - Paris Hilton 5:41
04. San Serac - Tyrant 4:07
05. DK7 - WhereÆs The Fun 4:26
06. Colder - To The Music 5:27
07. Kreeps - All I Wanna Do Is 3:57
Break Some Hearts
08. George Demure - Main Attraction 3:29
09. Luke Abbott - 4:09
B,B,B,B,B,B,B,B,B,B
10. 7 Hurtz - 3 Sisters 4:43
11. Kate Wax - Beetles & Spider 5:10
12. Circlesquare - 7 Minutes 4:59
13. Mongrel Wireless - You And I 4:42
14. How To Cure Dyslexia - 5:37
Afternoon
Release Notes:
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Of course it's impossible to say what the current musical landscape would have
looked like if Output recordings hadn't begun life in 1996, back then when
information moved around a bit slower, when the musical underground seemed like
it was more than just a feeder pool for mobile phone ads.
Back then, when the dance press was all about Superclubs and Djs in jacuzzis,
and eclecticism meant throwing an acid track in with the latest Bentley Rhythm
Ace hottie, Output began life with a burst of smoky instrumental hip hop, some
spacey post rock and edgy electronica - sometimes all at once as in the case of
the iconic Four Tet's / (Kieran Hebden's) 1998's epic debut" Thirty six twenty
five" - and by release number five had released it's first 7 inch by the band
FRIDGE .As we sit here in 2007 with the 7 inch as the fastest growing format of
the last year, its easy to forget now how different it felt in 1996, a thing of
the musical past that was about to become part of the future again thanks to the
likes of Trevor Jackson and Output.
And it wasn't just past formats that Output was playing with whilst casually
inventing the future, Gramme's 1997 debut 7 inch " Mine" (a post punk funk disco
jam) helped set in motion a musical force that has yet to peak, let alone end .
From the jointly DFA / Output released Rapture and LCD Soundsystem , through to
Franz Ferdinand, Tom Vek, !!! , CSS, Gossip, Klaxons, Foals and a thousand other
post punk / new rave hopefuls, Output's role as forbearers of the angular, art
school funk aesthetic that still dominates today is unquestioned.
Of course history is littered with the half remembered names of the innovators ,
the ones that took the chances , and then moved on, as oblivious to the
commercial value of a movement whilst they walk away from it, as they were when
they helped start it . Trevor Jackson's parting statement as Output closed was
full of negativity and bitterness (the total opposite of the enthusiasm and
positivity that forced him to create the label in the first place), his love of
the music drained from him as the industry bullshit closed in; but that was a
year ago, the dust is settling, now we're just left with the music.