Episode 88, Some Assembly Required

Episode 88, Some Assembly Required

01 Sucking Chest Wound - “That’s wrong”
02 Girl Talk - “I want you back”
03 DJ Abilities - “Two men and a lady”
04 DJ Brokenwindow - “Mr. Schmidtt’s guiro”
05 The East Village Other – “Lucy’s Wedding (segment)”
06 The East Village Other – “Lucy’s Wedding (segment)”
07 Lecture on Nothing – “Fresh makeup”
08 Negativland – “Asphalt remix”
09 Steve Fisk – “One more valley”
10 Dum Dum Tv – “Recycle scratch up”
11 Cassetteboy - “Well now”
12 Cassetteboy - “You always seemed so brave before”
13 Cassetteboy - “What happened to you, eh?”
14 Cassetteboy - “Herron?”
15 Christian Marclay, Elliot Sharp - “The noon train”
16 Dan Serkland – (Track two, Lounge Music)


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May 21, 2006: Girl Talk

May 21, 2006: Girl Talk

Back to the regular routine, then. After having to repost episode 89 a couple of weeks ago and then breaking from our schedule to podcast the live interview with Mark Hosler last week, getting back to the focus of this blog/podcast will feel good. For those of you who are new to this (and really, we're just getting started here), the goal of this project has been to get the 2nd year of Some Assembly Required online, and to do a blog focus on one artist each week, from that week's episode. We're still airing new episodes around the country (and Canada!), so stay tuned to your radio for new episodes of the show - while checking out the podcast every week, for past episodes from our 2nd year in syndication, along with blog features on the many sound collage artists we feature on the program.

This week's featured artist is Girl Talk! A glitch oriented super-fan of pop music, Girl Talk is most often reviewed as party music, and I'm sure that is just fine with Gregg Gillis - the man behind Girl Talk. Stay tuned for episode 88 of Some Assembly Required - among the 16 sound collage tracks is one called I want you back by Girl Talk, off of his 2002 release, Secret Diary.

Another feature in this week's podcast is a look at a record called The East Village Other - Electric Newspaper - Hiroshima Day. Dolores Dewberry did a couple of little features for the show our second year, and this is one of them (stay tuned for another one on sampling and The Beatles). The track we focus on, from The East Village Other... is Lucy's Wedding, as it samples an interview with Lyndon Johnson's daughter, Lucy Byrd, on the day of her wedding - with The Velvet Underground providing background instrumentation. The record was released in 1966, and included contributions from Steve Weber, The Velvet Underground, Marion Brown, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlowsky, Tuli Kupferberg, Viki Pollon, Peter Rawson and many others. Andy Warhol even took part. His contribution was silence - according to the liner notes.
...but back to Girl Talk - He's got three records currently: Secret Diary (2002), Unstoppable (2004) and Nightripper (2006), all on the Illegal Art label. There are some vinyl releases, as well, on 12 Apostles and 333 Recordings. I've not yet had the pleasure of seeing Girl Talk live, but every review seems to agree that its something not to be missed. If stories of drunken debauchery, reckless abandon and general glee-inspired mayhem sound like a good time to you, then be sure to check out Girl Talk, the next time you see him on the bill. For now, I'll just have to settle for my records, and anxiously await my copy of Nightripper...

Without further ado, here's the SAR Q&A with Gregg Gillis of Girl Talk!

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*Name: Girl Talk

*Members: Gregg Gillis

*Tape manipulations, digital deconstructions or turntable creations: I don’t use tapes or turntables for making music, so if I had to pick one of the above, I guess it’d be “digital deconstructions.” I really don’t know how “deconstructive” my stuff is these days though.

*Do you have a different descriptor you like to use? My music is pretty much pop music.

*Location: Pittsburgh, PA. Steel City, USA.

*Original Location: Pittsburgh

*What is your creative/artistic background: I played saxophone in 3rd grade. I was in some rock bands that never practiced in middle school. I was in a noise band that smashed a lot of stuff in high school.

*History: I started Girl Talk in the summer of 2000.

*Born: October 26, 1981 in Pittsburgh, PA.

*Motivations: I like to make music that my friends will dance to.

*Philosophy: It’s fun to mix up a ton of pop songs.

*How would you like to be remembered: Our generation’s Kurt Cobain.

*Web address:
www.girl-talk.net
www.myspace.com/girltalkmusic

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Thanks to Gregg Gillis of Girl Talk. As you can see, there's a page for Girl Talk at Myspace. Check out the SAR Myspace page, while you're there. And come back next week, for a special feature on V/VM...

Until then - thanks for listening!
Jon Nelson

www.some-assembly-required.net

Mark Hosler (Negativland) live on SAR

Mark Hosler (Negativland) live on SAR

A live radio interview with Mark Hosler, of Negativland, recorded 5/6/06, on Some Assembly Required, at KUOM in Minneapolis (tracklisting below).

01 Negativland – “Happy Hero: The Remedia Megamix”
02 Negativland – “Escape From Noise”
03 Negativland – “Favorite Things”
04 Negativland – “Smelly Water”
05 Negativland – “Prologue”
06 Negativland – “Helter Stupid (segment)”
07 The 180-G’s – “Helter Stupid”


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Negativlandland Exhibit

May 14, 2006
Well, its been a big week here in Minneapolis. Starting last week at the Rogue Buddha Gallery where I had the honor of DJing at the opening for "4 (four)." At one point, someone came up and said they'd just overheard someone saying that I was the best DJ they had ever heard! Of course, I didn't take credit for the mashups I was playing that night. If one person could mix live what several dozen individuals took countless hours to first dream up and then actualize, well then - that would be the best DJ ever. It was just fun to get people dancing!

The real fun though, was helping to hang the Negativlandland show, with Mark Hosler and the gang at Creative Electric Studios. I just started a new day job, so had my evenings free - and spent about every other night there this week, helping to get everything hung exactly right. Here's a picture of the opening, where you can see some of the work (which by the way, hang exactly two inches from eachother), right behind Mr. Hosler there in the foreground.

Earlier this week, I was pleased to invite Mark Hosler, along with Dave Salmela of Creative Electric Studios, down to Radio K for a rare live episode of Some Assembly Required. I'm getting ready to upload that to the podcast this week, so stay tuned for a recording of a LIVE interview with Mark Hosler of Negativland, talking about their art show, and their recent work. We even play a bit from an as yet unreleased CD of recordings done by Negativland fans - a group (the 180-G's) doing covers of Negativland songs. Its a lot better than it sounds - believe me - and the track we play isn't even (in my opinion) the best example on the disc (though it is Mark's favorite).

Here's a blurry photo of Mark, live in the studios at KUOM...

Chuck Olsen conducted his own video interview with Hosler, one afternoon this week at Creative Electric Studios. Its split into two parts at the mnstories website. The first section shares a bit about the art exhibition, and then briefly explores how (in the 1980's) Negativland heard about a news story which took place in Rochester, Minnesota, and used it to make a point about the fallibility of the news media. A trick they would of course repeat in different ways, again and again. The second section provides some insight into the band's connection with Creative Commons and their collaboration with that organization, in creating a new sampling license. Very nice work!

You can hear more about these subjects and more in my previous interview with Hosler, if you go back and download episode 90 of Some Assembly Required (it was podcast April 23, 2006). And stay tuned for the live interview with Mark Hosler (and Dave Salmela) - recorded last Saturday, April 6, on Radio K - which will be uploaded as this week's podcast, in just a few. And after that, I promise to focus on something else! As much as I admire the group's work, and as fun as it was getting to know Mark this week, I think even he would agree that we've focused enough on Negativland for awhile, and it would be good to move on...

So stay tuned for this week's podcast, and check out the Creative Electric website for more info about the show (which runs through June 10, by the way - gallery hours are Saturdays, 11-4PM).

Here's a photo taken at Psycho Suzi's after the opening on Friday. Pictured are (L-R) Jenny Adams and Dave Salmela (Creative Electric), Mark Hosler (Negativland), myself and Phil Harder (Harder/Fuller Films). Photo courtesy of Simon Peter Groebner - thanks Simon! And thanks to Creative Electric and Mark Hosler for a great time on the 12th...

Thanks for listening,
Jon Nelson

www.some-assembly-required.net

Reposting Episode 89

This is a re-posting of the episode I tried to upload last week, because somehow the wrong episode was uploaded. Not sure what the problem was, but here's Episode 89, as promised (just a week late) - Sorry about the confusion!

Episode 89, Some Assembly Required
featuring over 100 very short sound collages...

01 The Bran Flakes - “Top”
02 The Tape-beatles - “Remain quiet and passive”
03 Steve Fisk - “Preamble”
04 Wobbly - “Harmony argue”
05 Kid Koala - “Strat hear”
06 Klarc Qent - “Angry red planet instrumental track one”
07 The Tape-beatles - “Dashed against the rock”
08 The Bran Flakes - “Hey won’t somebody come and play”
09 People Like Us - “Nobody loves you”
10 The Tape-beatles - “Different tool”
11 Invisibl Skratch Piklz - “Damn you scratchy”
12 Unknown - “Martha Stewart Collage”
13 Cassetteboy - “Blood and pus”
14 Jim Allenspach - “Not normal”
15 Tom Brokaw - “Dope party”
16 The Bran Flakes - “Buttermilk”
17 Girl Talk - “Pump it up”
18 The Tape-beatles - “The ads become the news”
19 Wobbly - “All day long song”
20 Evolution Control Committee - “Bush speech (corrected – part one)”
21 Silica Gel - “Deanie”
22 The Tape-beatles - “Deeper”
23 Klarc Qent - “Erroneous Data – track 06”
24 Donna Summer - “Why I love Styx”
25 People Like Us - “Good joke”
26 Silica Gel - “You weird”
27 Evolution Control Committee - “Isn’t it grand to be a christian”
28 Stark Effect - “Armour hot kids”
29 Otomo Yoshihide - “Ntt”
30 The Avalanches - “Avalanche rock”
31 Lecture on Nothing - “Facts”
32 The Tape-beatles - “Frog story”
33 Soulwax - “(track four)”
34 The Bran Flakes - “Brain Flakes (edit no. 7)
35 The Button - “No zone”
36 Klarc Qent - “Erroneous data (track 02)”
37 Wobbly - “He sees something”
38 Jim Allenspach - “Friends”
39 Wobbly - “Die peeps”
40 Myeck Waters - “Hey Mr. Storyteller”
41 Mag Wheels - “Monieblurg”
42 Cassetteboy - “Pilly the bigs”
43 Osymyso - “Hidden track”
44 Buttfinger - “House of slacks”
45 DJ Shadow - “Best food forward”
46 Wobbly - “It Burn With It Burn, Burn, Take It, Wild Need More,”
47 Emergency Broadcast Network - “Search”
48 The Bran Flakes - “Oh don ho”
49 Wobbly - “Matching wallpaper”
50 People Like Us -“Sing with melodious inarticulate sound”
51 Buttfinger - “Mystery hole”
52 Experts of Legitimaziation - “Breathe”
53 The Bran Flakes - “Marcy and Joey”
54 Cassetteboy - “My dad knows your brother”
55 The Tape-beatles - “I can’t help you at all; sorry”
56 Cassetteboy - “Billy bonds loop”
57 Big City Orchestra - “(track 49, Consumer CD)”
58 Cassetteboy - “Dancing with manatees”
59 Phil Milstein - “Window chimes (rooster)”
60 People Like Us - “Mmm perfect”
61 Wobbly - “Marriage primer”
62 Buttfinger - “Machine five”
63 Otomo Yoshihide - “Toshiba”
64 Wobbly - “I quote your help”
65 The Tape-beatles - “Message”
66 Buttfinger - “Type and return”
67 John Oswald - “Cuss”
68 People Like Us - “Guide to broadcasting (expert)”
69 DJ Pantshead - “Untitled (track one)”
70 Emergency Broadcast Network - “Go to”
71 Wobbly - “I love guy”
72 John Oswald - “Sonic euthanasia”
73 DJ Qbert - “A word from fresh breath mouthwash”
74 Felix Kubin - “Broken lady symphony – no fish”
75 People Like Us - “People like modern clothing”
76 The Tape-beatles - “Number one cheese spread”
77 Evolution Control Committee - “Arrhythmia’s gonna get you”
78 Cassetteboy - “Melbourne Parker intro”
79 Omer Fast - “CNN concatenated part “ (Im American…)
80 John Oswald - “Z”
81 DJ Shadow - “Autre Introduction”
82 Jim Allenspach - “Garbage can”
83 Cassetteboy - “Fist up mother brown”
84 Evolution Control Committee - “Hello”
85 Klarc Qent - “Angry red planet (track two)”
86 Dsico - “Booty of choice”
87 The Button - “Intro”
88 Kid Koala - “Grandmaphone speaks”
89 Big City Orchestra - “(track 47, Consumer CD)”
90 Freddy Fresh & The MPC Genius - “Track two”
91 People Like Us - “Next record”
92 Wobbly - “Never never die”
93 The Bran Flakes - “Now you can play along with us (segue I)”
94 Kid Koala - “Radio Nuphonia”
95 Tim Maloney - “Shatner”
96 Silica Gel - “Punishment”
97 Wobbly - “Scary umbrella”
98 People Like Us - “Uh dear”
99 Steinski - “B-Beat Classic (Airwave Interlude Mix)”
100 Evolution Control Committee - “Toot”
101 Cassetteboy - “Sabbaba”
102 The Tape-beatles - “Rah rah up and down”
103 Wobbly - “Wedder witnid”104 DJ Pantshead - “Untitled track 11”
105 David Shea/DJ Grazhoppa - “Hum hum hum”
106 Evolution Control Committee - “Happening”
107 People Like Us - “Music of your own”


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