OCSID are:
CM von Hausswolff [Phauss/KREV]
Edvard Graham Lewis [Wire/Wir/Dome/He Said]
Jean Louis Huhta [Lucky People Center]
CM von Hausswolff [Ash 2.6CD2, Ash 3.7], Edvard Graham Lewis [Ash
1.8CD2, Ash 2.6CD2, Ash 3.9] and for the first time on the label,
Jean-Louis Huhta combine for their second Ocsid CD*, Opening Sweep.
Opening Sweep was recorded at L-O-K, a club in Munich, Bavaria, on
the 12th November 1999.Ocsid started performing before the audience
arrived: and finished as the floors were being swept (2200 - 0330).
Opening Sweep is the first 75.04 experienced by five dogs and a man.
It took a year before Ash received the MD master, as they are all
exceptionally busy people; Graham took part in the reformation of
Wire and subsequent tour; CM exhibited and performed around the
world; Jean-Louis started a family whilst continuing to record and
play. Discussions as to whether the master should be altered in any
way...or not...were intense yet brief...it wasn't...this is it...
They all live in Sweden. [Because of global warming, the bears in
Stockholm Zoo can't hibernate, so their cages have to be
refrigerated.] The CD was then mastered by Denis Blackham onto
exabyte digital tape at Country Masters...'
Just want to get on the outside...
I was dreaming...
##### I began to lose control...
I was feeling insecure...
Cheeky sample checklist - Wir He
Said John Lennon
Lennon's loss of control could be seen as the ultimate
representaion of the hopelessness of the hapless 20th
century rock star. During the final years of his life
Lennon, who had always sung of freeing the mind, was
utterly confined and alienated by his massive
popularity.
>>>>>You've overstepped the mark!
Cut up officious German voice, zooms in and out of
focus, and echoes incoherently about in vast grey
chambers, ordering the mashing of all brass bands by
giant rotor blades. But the brass bands are
irrepressible and parp from beyond the grave. Their
bodies were gone, but their art lingered on. They
cannot mash us all.
Frozen gun shot beats decelerated to 3 rpm, energy
sucked into circuit boards and blasted out in terror
or joy?
Is that 'Casino Royale' in your kitchen?
>>>>>You've overstepped the mark!
Technology as a means of control, tracking, scanning,
spying or as the liberator of humans from their
present lamentable condition. The internet has been
called a great equaliser, but perhaps the atom bomb is
more so.
Closed circuit TV crackle - On screen: Ocsid
presenting technology as a step or series of steps
leading either up or down? Or are they just leading?
Fractured Radio broadcasts hijacked and ruptured...
'Ominous' replaces 'Edvard' as his name on days like
these!
>>>>>You've overstepped the mark!
Massive solitary pulses, drones, hums, machines taking
over? Over what?
Late Throbbing Gristle into Coil - elph and beyond.
It's sinister but sometimes once is not enough!
Glitches twitch...
The spur of 'In Esse'?
Improvisation?
It can't be the theme from 'Countdown' can it?
>>>>>You've overstepped the mark!
It could be considered post-industrial even though
that's too much of a defining cliche for sound
sculpture as unique and unsettling as this.
>>>>>>>>>>>Security Breach<<<<<<<<<<<
is a perfect soundtrack to atrophy and decay of
control, starting with the oppressive bleak
atmospheres of surveillance and latterly piling up
apocalyptic noise collages which collapse into escape
pod techno beats.
Ultimately, is defining shapes for
protest music in the 21st century - disco in reverse
indeed...
Just want to get on the outside...
Just want to get on the outside...
Just want to get on the outside... - Wire website
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