Cassette CONcert (NFF), by Conrad Schnitzler

Cassette CONcert (NFF)

by Conrad Schnitzler

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1.	Cassette CONcert (No Fun Fest 2009) #1 22:55	buy track
2.	Cassette CONcert (No Fun Fest 2009) #2 19:30	buy track
3.	Cassette CONcert (No Fun Fest 2009) #3 23:33	buy track
4.	Cassette CONcert (Run-Through) #1 22:34	buy track
5.	Cassette CONcert (Run-Through) #2 21:11	buy track
6.	Cassette CONcert (Run-Through) #3 21:43	buy track

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At the final No Fun Fest, I was honored & a TBH a bit overwhelmed to have been asked by good friend & curator Carlos Giffoni to perform one of Conrad Schnitzler's famed "Cassette CONcerts." I can't even describe the feeling when the package of CD-R's arrived from Germany; I was as giddy as a schoolboy on receipt of the Sears Wishbook, so much detailed information & possibility encoded within.

I was (and remain) a life-long über-fan of Schnitzler's work (the two LPs released on his son Gregor's "Private" imprint are amongst my all-time favorite records, and of course the "color" series are the bedrock for just so much of the better end of Experimental Electronic music in the intervening decades). See my remix/reconstruction of CON's "Rot" LP in the "Remixplosion" set here on BC (as intended for a ca. 2000 Plate Lunch compilation; RIP Norbert) for a taste of where my head was at about 20 years back.

After a good decade+ in which I assumed that no recording of the May 17th, 2009 concert had survived the various archival decimations, Amethyst Sunset's William Berry (who you may remember released a fine split LP w/ Mike Shiflet 10 years back & just recently did that fantastic Imaginary Softwoods "Annual Flowers in Color" LP; all of this to say BUY EVERYTHING ON AS HERE: amethystsunset.bandcamp.com ) came out of the woodwork with his own damn-good sounding audience-recording, and here we have it, newly remastered at Lafayette Underground during early July 2020, and sounding just bonkers (if anyone had their reservations as to the piece's inclusion in the typically Harsh Noise-skewing festival; skip to the peaks in the middle of the third act).

In addition to the live recording, I found a lone copy of a CD-R I'd burned at the time of a "Run-Through" of the piece made in the days before the performance, recorded shortly after unboxing the 4 CD-Walkman units I'd purchased from J&R Music World (RIP) for the occasion, as run through a Mackie Mixer w/ a minimum of outboard effects. Here, as with the performance, I tried to stay as true to CON's instructions and let the sounds breathe for themselves; they're a wonderful assortment of odd synth plonks & drum-machine hisses, all perfectly in line his whole sonic universe, and beyond.

I'm sharing these recordings w/ the utmost of respect, as I don't believe this late iteration of the piece has been available elsewhere and was likely the final version made before CON passed away a few short years later.

RIP CON.

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released July 3, 2020

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