Category Archives: Media

Paisley Babylon Presents Mash-Up Found Sound Headphone Trip “TV Party, Radio Riot”

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For the uninitiated, Paisley Babylon is the name/project moniker I’ve been working under since 1996 as both a DJ and recording artist. Over at the Paisley Babylon official site, there’s a post of an hour-long mashup/audio sculpture/experimental curated cutup called TV Party, Radio Riot.

I recorded and edited it back in 2001, released it in a limited form in 2002 and it’s been gathering dust ever since. It’s about time it saw the light of day and it’s now available as a free MP3 download for a limited time.

I’m putting things like this out now because I’m getting ready to start recording and producing more found sound/mashup and audio collage programs as part of a project I’m working on. Where it will go, nobody knows, but it’s exciting to be working in audio in this way–not 100% music, not 100% found sound, not all mashups or collage, but a melange of approaches, techniques and disciplines. Christian Marclay is definitely an inspiration here but I aim to take the project far beyond the turntable–thought vinyl does play a very large part in the project.

Download “Paisley Babylon Presents TV Party, Radio Riot” for a limited time.

–Joe Wallace

Cereal Box Records

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Apparently there is a booming business on eBay selling cereal box records. As in, music recorded on flexi disc-format and included in the packaging for breakfast cereal. I found a reference to these on the ultra-fun Frank’s Vinyl Museum, and did a bit of digging. I turned up a big pile of results for cereal box records on eBay. Would you believe that some of these sell for as much as $90 USD?

There must be a collector’s market for these if they’re selling for between 40 and 90 bucks a pop…but wouldn’t it be awesome if bands started doing this again NOW? Imagine an Air cereal box-only release on the back of Sugar Crisp, or perhaps Trent Reznor exclusives on a box of Count Chocula…Motorhead doing Captain Crunch? Someone would have to invent a new type of breakfast food for the Godspeed! You Black Emperor version–perhaps a box of crunchy peanut butter, chocolate chips, and chili powder.

 

Record Store Day 2011: The dB’s Play Amplifier at Criminal Records

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Record Store Day 2012 is fast approaching–we are 52 days away from April 21, 2012 at the time of this writing. There is always plenty happening nation-wide on Record Store Day, and this is just one little sampling. The dB’s did an in-store performance at the mighty Criminal Records in Atlanta, Georgia as part of Record Store Day 2011, and since “Amplifier” is a favorite around here…well, watch the clip, mark your calendars and get in the mood to buy some vinyl!