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wembley can change in 28 days
23:50 / 23.04.02
Hit me with your expertise. I was just listening to a Robin Porter track on forays into Epitonic.com, and at the same time, my flatmate was scrambling some eggs. The bass line somehow mixed *perfectly* with the sound of the eggs being whisked in a metal bowl... think of me as the bird in the Far Side cartoon that's pleased by the coconut-sound made by a cat, dog, and owner's heads colliding as they simultaneously reach for a ball.

Anyway, I was wondering, has anyone made an album out of kitchen sounds? And is it any good?
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
00:09 / 24.04.02
I know that a great deal of the sounds on Bjork's newest LP, Vespertine were created/recorded/sampled by Matmos using household appliances.
 
 
wembley can change in 28 days
00:18 / 24.04.02
Yeah, their liposuction album freaks me out on a major scale (oops pun). They opened for Björk when I saw her live, and they were my favourite part of the evening. They played amazing percussion on a very large helium balloon, and another instrument was a hamster cage (no hamster inside, don't worry). They were fun - perhaps I'll try out my copy of Vespertine tonight.
 
 
Saveloy
06:37 / 24.04.02
Spooky did an album back in the early/mid 90s called 'Found Sound', which was made entirely of samples of sounds made around the house - mostly by banging radiators and plumbing and things that made pleasant, metallic percussion sounds, but there was probably the odd kitchen noise in there too. I liked the idea, but the music left me cold.
 
 
rizla mission
08:28 / 24.04.02
According to an extensive song-by-song discography I've got, Beck once recorded a track called 'Atmospeheric Recordings' with was;
"Not a musical track but a short recording of Beck (and friend?) making breakfast and watching a cartoon on TV".

Why, that crazy guy..
 
 
mondo a-go-go
09:13 / 24.04.02
i once heard what me and my friend thought was the bass rumblings of house music being played in a basement club, a sort of echoing vibration thing going on. we got all hyped, thinking we could go dancing, turned a corner and...

it was a taxi revving up.

have wanted to sample the engine noise and use it on a dance record ever since...
 
 
Saveloy
09:28 / 24.04.02
On a similar tip, the really deep bass hum of large vehicles passing by often fits nicely with things I happen to be listening to. I'm always turning the stereo down to see if it's on the record or coming from outside.

Roger Waters (yeah, sorry) and [some bloke whose name elludes me] did an album called 'The Body', which was built out of noises made using the human body and nothing else (claps, slaps, farts and belches).
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
10:44 / 24.04.02
The Body: Ron Geesin? Fatbeardypowers are GO!

Ahem.

Which reminds me: there's a Pink Floyd track called "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast" which is a tune that's played while a recording of someone having breakfast (eggs, cereal, that kinda thing) is played over the top. It's interesting, but fairly disposable. You'll find it on the Atom Heart Mother album, which is genius in places, dire in some.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
10:46 / 24.04.02
Also, if you're interested in recordings-made-of-found-sound, there's a lot of stuff like that that comes out of Montreal; the emprientes digitales label handles a stack of that kind of thing... it's not quite as accessible as some of Einsturzende Neubauten's later stuff, though...
 
 
Ierne
12:43 / 24.04.02
Right now on the Office Stereo we have a CD called Bodily Functions by an artist named Herbert. He's integrated all sorts of sounds that emanate from the human body such as fetal heartbeats, digestion, bloodflow etc. with instruments and vocals in order to create a very funky, groove-laden album. It's out on K7! records.
 
 
Not Here Still
18:53 / 24.04.02
Yeah, I was just about to recommend Herbert (also known as Dr Rockit among other things) and his particularly weird CDs.

Bit too "good in theory, ? in practice" for my tastes, although his latest anti-globalisation work, made from ripping up Gap clothes and beating up Big Macs, sounds interesting.

Oh, and his website's here.
 
  
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