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artist · various artists
release · radical beauty mixed by nick philip
year · 1997
genre · lo-fi
label · om records
catalogue · om 007
website · www.om-records.com
date · 26-nov-2003
quality · 192kbps/44,1khz
source · compact disc
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01 va - radical beauty mixed by nick philip 54:39
playtime · 00h 54m 39s
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the history of art is simply a history of getting rid of the ugly
by entering into it and using it. after all, the notion of
something outside of us being ugly is not outside of us but inside
of us. we are working with our minds -- trying to get them open so
that we don't see things as being ugly, or beautiful, but we see
them just as they are. -- john cage
as a manipulator of the "ugly," and a deconstructor of "beauty,"
john cage has exhibited enormous influence over contemporary
music. so much that the idea of, say, preparing a piano with
silverware between the strings, or creating a song out of radio
noise no longer seems so revolutionary at all. yet one of the
legacies of cage's radical musical experiments (radical in the
sense that they brought music down to its root -- noise) lives on
in some today's electronic musicians. today, any sound can be used
freely for composition, an aesthetic whose practice is facilitated
by the use of cheap, readily-available computers. this sense of
musical history and innovation are apparent on the two-disc
cd/cd-rom set radical beauty.
the cd disc features a continuous mix of hypnotic, ambient, and
otherwise innovative music that effectively showcases cage's
philosophy in contemporary electronic music. artists such as
skylab, daniel pemberton, pfm, and t-power weave noises, drums,
loops, and samples in a space-age musical collage. nick philip's
mixing brings it all together in an effective manner, letting you
meld with the ether.
the other disc is simply just a cd-rom, which we did not include..
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