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OR SQUISH4
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New pressing of the third Farmers Manual CD, following releases on Mego & Tray. "Following their highly acclaimed 2nd CD, fsck on Tray, Farmers Manual got to work with their bare hands and produced Explorers_We on OR. One constantly changing track with 60 PQ start points, making full use of your dusty shuffle button... Ost, one of the Farmers, called it 'a sinewave massacre'. "A soprano voice sings notes that never arrange themselves into a melody, that fall apart in the same way as dead proteins...." --Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow.
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MEGO 777DVD
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"Mego is proud to announce the long awaited new Farmersmanual release! Consisting of every locatable live recording and more dating from 1995 until now and beyond on one special hybrid DVD. A versatile archive documenting the live development of one of the most innovative computer based groups of the last 10 years.... etc blahblah." "Farmersmanual's performance was about algorithms and their artifacts. Clicks and textural discontinuities were rampant. The demeanor of the performers was stoic: that of accountants working a spreadsheet program rather than artists expressing themselves. Despite the apparent detachment of the performers, the musical pace was extremely rapid, both in terms of events per second and the speed of textural change. At several points the performance veered towards totally unexpected textures with complete confidence and synchrony among the performers (and in keeping with the straight-faced nature of the performance, no indication that anything unusual had occurred)." -- Eric Lyon. Format: DVD-Video/ROM (Duallayer DVD9, NTSC, Region free). Total running time: 03:21:38:03 (d:h:m:s).
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MEGO 008CD
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1999 remaster of the first Mego full length (the label name comes from futurologist Herman Kahn: "my eyes glaze over"). Originally released in 1996 in an awkward oversize cardboard sleeve (now reduced to standard card sleeve). "Nine mad tripped (but not hopped) pieces with the additional bonus in shape of (well) a surreal CD ROM, which no one really gets, but nevermind...deeply disturbing and strangely entertaining, Farmers Manual is absolutely some of the most cutting edge experimental techno and sound sculpture to emerge on disc!"
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