Hands To : Cicuye

"The raw material for the tape was recorded during a car trip through the four corners area of the Southwestern United States. All of the sounds were recorded in or around Anasazi indians ruins, some inside national parks or monuments, others on public land. I have always been interested in what the world sounded like before the advent of modern technology, before mechanized transportation, industrial machinery, mass-media. It was my hope at the time that this tape might give some sense of what it was like." ( Jeph Jerman )

Originally released on tape by Animist Recording in 1993.

The package includes : scan of the original tape cover, additional photos by Jeph Jerman and a new Yugen artwork.

Many thanks to Jeph Jerman.

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Jliat 16:05:94

Yugen Archives is a collection of old works, (re)released as free downloads, by some of todays most interesting experimental artists. A rediscovering of their roots.

I am honoured to be able to start the series with Jliat 16:05:94

Originally released by James Whitehead in 1994 on his own label, this got unanimous praise on all the right paper fanzines and quickly gained a cult status. Simply one of the best digital drone compositions ever released.

16:05:94 is (re)released for the first time in high quality 320k mp3 with scans of the original booklet and a new artwork designed by Yugen.

Many thanks to James Whitehead.

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Yugen Ae'shT'aT'aQ

Ae'shT'aT'aQ

a) I Am The Illusionist

b) Three Exquisite Examples Of Holy Water

c) The Spoonbending Girl

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Yugen Plays Christian Volf Acoustic Records

Side A : Three Superfluous Movements With A Funny Smell (Wax Cylinder Version)

Side B : A Theory Of Equilibrium As The Fourth Dimension Of Hearing

The Volf Acoustic Records are nine 78rpm vinyls with therapeutic sounds recorded in 1936/37 by the Danish-American physicist Christian A. Volf.

The sounds, recorded using self-built oscillators, were designed to influence the sense of hearing and improve the inner ear functions, especially the hearing dynamics in the treatment of dyslexia in young children.

Volf's 78rpm are the earliest Danish electronic music and, internationally, one of the first electronic music recorded on disc. There are very few complete collections of the original Volf Acoustic Records 78-plates. Maybe only one.

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Shinkei : in.fohr.MAY.shun puh.loo.shun

Information Pollution is information overload taken to the extreme. It's where it stops being a burden and becomes an impediment to your ability to get your work done.

The entire ideology of information technology for the last 50 years has been that more information is better, that mass producing information is better, but the net is not so much a machine with all the answers instantly, it has mutated into a "procrastination apparatus", which spews information without much prioritisation. And e-mail is worse because it is a weird mix of personal and mass communication.

If people don't develop really harsh counter-measures, it will basically destroy their ability to use the computer in any productive way and it becomes the ruler of your time... Ultimately, time is a non-renewable resource.

Once that day is gone, it is never coming back.

Jakob Nielsen

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