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Zeitkratzer and Lou Reed: Metal Machine Music
by John Eyles
Zeitkratzer and Lou Reed Metal Machine Music Asphodel 2007
The original Metal Machine Music (RCA, 1975) may be the most notorious and controversial album ever released by a major rock star. Possible competitors? Two Virgins (Apple, 1968)? Self Portrait (CBS, 1970)? Not even close. When first released, MMM was almost universally panned, returned by record numbers of purchasers and soon withdrawn from sale.
In contrast to preceding Lou Reed albums such as ...
Continue ReadingKen Nordine: Colors
by AAJ Staff
Originally intended as a nine-part series of commercials for a paint company, Ken Nordine’s 1967 classic is still a brilliant and, um- colorful trip through the big crayon box. Re-released with ten new 90 second shades, Colors (the American spelling, thank you!) gives form and flesh to a J. Crew catalog full of familiar but perhaps underappreciated tones. Though the usual suspects such as Yellow, Brown and Black are in revue, Nordine also reaches out to such colorfully entitled tints ...
Continue ReadingThe User: Symphony #2 For Dot Matrix Printers
by Glenn Astarita
This Canadian aggregation’s previous effort had something to do with converting a Montreal grain silo into “an instrument of sound.” Hence, the band has purportedly qualified itself as a hi-tech entity. With this release, the artists have sampled the sounds of ancient dot-matrix printers via midi technologies, software engineering, sampling, and so forth. In addition, the press has announced that this venture will also be issued on 45 RPM 12” format in Europe only. Perhaps the gist behind this move ...
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