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(Perennial) (Psychonavigation) (Sursumcorda) 01 Tirudel Zenebe 03 “Gue” (Wire Tapper edit) Aspec(t) 05 THE WIRE TAPPER 26 TAPPER WIRE THE From Ililta!: New Ethiopian Dance Music (Terp) “Intorno Al Drago” Kikuchi Yukinori Taken from a 12" split single shared with Tesfaye Taye, Tirudel From a forthcoming Nuun Records release “Crystal” (Wire Tapper edit) Zenebe’s “Gue” was produced with Mesele Asmamaw, who Naples’s Aspec(t) are SEC_ (Revox tape recorder, samples, From Luminous (Test Tone Music) has also worked with the Terp label on an earlier compilation no-input feedback) and Mario Gabola (acoustic/feedback Japanese computer musician Yukinori began making music as documenting Ethiopian musicians’ rehabilitation of traditional saxophone and electroacoustic chain of resonant drums, Billy? in 1993, the same year he launched his Test Tone Music dance musics lost during the nation’s Derg regime. This was piezo speaker feedback, mini-tapes, audio contact bars). label. Selecting sounds by improvisation and “considered recorded during one of Dutch underground group The Ex’s “Feedback, self-regulating systems, mimicry, mutations, unconsciousness”, his Max/MSP constructions have also musical exchange trips to Ethiopia. becoming-animal, asymmetrical dislocation” are the duo’s own been heard in sandmachine, ANSONIC and various overseas terprecords.nl keywords in their musique concrète research. collaborations. toxorecords.com/aspect facebook.com/yukinori.kikuchi nuun-records.com testtonemusic.net

02 Joe Morris Wildlife “Display” (excerpt) 04 06 From Traits (Riti/AUM Fidelity) DJ Balli Anne James Chaton & Andy Moor Wildlife is one of free jazz bassist Joe Morris’s many “Skatebored Is Not Skateboard” (Valpelice Live Mix “Princess In A Mercedes Class S 280” projects. Beginning as a trio, it now includes Jim Hobbs 2011) From Transfer/2: Princess In A Car (Unsounds) (alto saxophone), Petr Cancura (tenor/alto saxophones), From In Skateboard We Noize! (Sonic Belligeranza) Since Anne James Chaton joined The Ex on stage in 2004, the and Luther Gray (drums). “We use the idea of change as the “Hard electronics blaxploitation” is DJ Balli’s own description poet has collaborated with the group’s guitarist Andy Moor on primary device for the creation of sequence in performance,” of his contaminated dancehall/hiphop rhythms and ripped various multimedia projects. Their Transfer series is based on comments Morris, “rather than relying on one piece. Our noise shards. Working with exclusively skateboard-generated themes of transportation and transition; this track comes from intent is always to reach for a highly spirited performance that sounds here, the Italian’s noise-poisoned breaks use a their ‘reconstruction’ of Princess Diana’s last hours before grooves and is rich in melodic invention.” combination of turntablism, sonic manipulation and “vinyl her fatal car accident in 1997, and features a rhythm track by joe-morris.com infringement”. Yannis Kyriakides. aumfidelity.com myspace.com/djballi333 aj.chaton.free.fr

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