The radiophonic feature Radio Metamix, a 2007 collaboration between Lloyd Barrett, Lucas Darklord, Buttress O’Kneel, Rik Rue and Shannon O’Neill, was broadcast on Sunday February 26, 2012 on FBi Radio’s Ears Have Ears.

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After touring extensively, including the National Gallery in Canberra, the University of Woollongong, and the Arthouse in Melbourne, Buttress took the new songs she’d been trying out on audiences (like ‘Dexodus’ and ‘I Like’) and placed them alongside live experiments with AudioMulch (with source material ranging from Guns N Roses, to Crystal Waters, to Wu Tang Clan), as well as several pieces she’d composed for other projects (including ‘Some Assembly Required’s 50/50 compilation). Continues in her fine tradition of straddling the line between breakcore, mashup, and pure dada. 100% Interwebmegalink-approved.

Tracklist

01 Dexodus 2:06
02 A Piece of Meat 0:50
03 GlitchGlop A 3:30
04 Grave-Kissed Amy 4:07
05 Devil Musick 0:47
06 Take You Away 4:01
07 99% Pure Love 5:15
08 Pstairway Part 1 5:04
09 Ode to a Popular Social Networking Site’s Limited Notions of Creativity 0:05
10 Pstairway Part 2 5:09
11 GlitchGlop B 3:12
12 Hazy Rain 3:36
13 Kicking the Can (Into Night Town) 4:16
14 Even the Great Big Hah Hoos! 1:26
15 I Like 4:26
16 Sweet Child of Yours 7:35
17 Zero Interest 2:15
18 Put Away Your Own Fucking Dishes 4:32
19 Gusts and Thrones 3:44

Total time: 01:05:46

Made by Buttress O’Kneel, 2010.

2011 Alias Frequencies AF044

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“Isn’t there something in your mind, that says, this is wrong, this is wrong on every level?”

At the time, at the time, it was like… it was…

…like horses, you know?

Comprised of two parts,* …like horses is presented as the ultimate in dark corporate stoner reflective/receptive grinding face core.

Listen to …like horses at maximum volume, as set during the first track. Shifts in density and volume have been tailored to best function at a minimum of 90dB.

…like horses is recommended as perfect for long drives late at night, for community and public radio, for all intoxicated people, for going to sleep, for those days at work, and for ALL human life on the planet.

*Each part is approximately 45 minutes in duration. The first part is made up of tracks 1 to 6, and the second part is tracks 7 to 12. If burning to a cd, or playing as mp3 files, there should be no gaps added between tracks. Silence has been added to the tracks where it is required. Please people; we’ve put time and money into this. Don’t fuck it up now.

Made by Lucas Darklord, 2009.

2011 Alias Frequencies AF043

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So prolific was John Watermann, that in 1991 he began releasing cassettes of his music under a number of aliases, including Total Disease, Radio Mull, and Spinal Machine, on his label Nightshift Records.

‘Scraping It Hard’ was Watermann’s first release as Spinal Machine. Its four tracks range from minimal electronics, to cutups, to soundscape manipulations.

Made by John Watermann, 1991.

1991 Nightshift Records NR012

2011 Alias Frequencies AF042

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“To let understanding stop at what cannot be understood is a high attainment. Those who cannot do it will be destroyed on the lathe of heaven.” (an epigraph to chapter 3 of “The Lathe Of Heaven” by Ursula K. Le Guin.)

While i’m never short of ideas, both aural and visual, i’ve always found that a positivist approach rarely results in art I really feel like owning. The tracks on “ITACIDTWATQ” were originally developed as the audio component of a live AV performance. The equanimity with which I applied these sounds to each other and to vision encouraged a constant evolution of both sound and image. Trying to nail all this down to a form that I can then retire seems antithetical to an open evolutionary work. I have been mixing this material for 4 months now, and it sounds different every time I hear it, but it is time I set this iteration free to play with you. This is a dynamic snapshot that will allow you to paint your own picture.

A prescription for the enhancement of oneirological pursuits, be it art, reading, sleep, or a free three-quarter hour meditation in an unlit space. It evolves and so will you.

To go is to return.

Secret Killer of Names

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Lloyd Barrett in Albion, July 2009 – January 2010.

2010 Alias Frequencies AF041

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Five of Australia’s leading sound artists interpret the idea of remix for radio.

• Lloyd Barrett remixes dreams, nightmares and talkback radio
• Lucas Darklord remixes the culture of Black Metal
• Buttress O’Kneel remixes her favourite remixers, including Negativland, John Oswald and Coldcut
• Rik Rue remixes his own history of remixing
• Shannon O’Neill remixes all of the above.

Radio Metamix was broadcast on ABC Radio National‘s The Night Air on July 1, 2007, as part of the Liquid Architecture festival. Also broadcast on FBi Radio‘s Ears Have Ears on February 26, 2012.

Tracklist

01 Radio Metamix 50:59

Total time: 50:59

Made by Lloyd Barrett, Lucas Darklord, Buttress O’Kneel, Rik Rue and Shannon O’Neill, 2007.

Produced by Shannon O’Neill.

Image by Buttress O’Kneel.

Thanks to John Jacobs and The Night Air.

2009 Alias Frequencies AF040

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Quite possibly one of the greatest albums ever made, this untitled release is the meeting of two of Australia’s most interesting, most underground, and most belligerently misanthropic sound-artists.  Any collaboration between Buttress O’Kneel, with her sample-happy postpop cheeky-as-a-schoolgirl breakmashing, and Lucas Darklord, with his dark grinding corporate evil-as-a-business-retreat scrapescapes, was sure to be extreme.  But their decision to cover the entirety of Led Zeppelin’s fourth album, track by track, using no source-material but the original songs themselves, makes an extremity that will perhaps awaken the sleeping Rock Gods, dormant since Bonham’s untimely vomit-inhaling demise.  A rock-purist’s worst nightmare, and a sample-police’s greatest dream, this album marks the year 2009 as a year when THINGS CHANGED.

Brought to you by the IWML and the Crypt Designers Guild.

Now FUCKEN ROCK!

Tracklist

01 Black Dog 8:20
02 Rock and Roll 4:04
03 The Battle of Evermore 12:04
04 Stairway to Heaven 2:12
05 Misty Mountain Hop 9:03
06 Four Sticks 7:56
07 Going to California 7:53
08 When the Levee Breaks 17:16
09 Untitled 9:09

Total time: 1:17:52

Made by Buttress O’Kneel and Lucas Darklord, 2009.

2009 Alias Frequencies AF039

Festival of Sound Arts Sydney

24-27 June, 2009

Liquid Architecture 10 will be a landmark occasion for the festival and for sound culture in Australia. Celebrating its tenth consecutive year, the Liquid Architecture sound arts festival will be held across three city venues, The Performance Space, the University of Technology Sydney and Hermann’s Bar, presenting an exciting program of contemporary sound arts. With a decade of experience to draw upon the diverse program features live events and installations showcasing the highest quality sound work in an intense, focused listening environment. In Sydney, Liquid Architecture 10 presents a program of performances, installations and artist presentations. The breadth of diversity of artists and artistic practices includes meticulous recorded work, improvised instrumental performance, new sound for screen work, radical uses of digital technology, inventive self-made sound making devices and historically informed practices.

Sydney Directors: Jennifer Teo & Shannon O’Neill

Production Manager: Sarah Davies

Program

• Download LA10 Sydney Program (PDF)

Wednesday 24 June 

Exhibition: Correspondence @ Performance Space

Wed 24 – Sat 27 June FREE

Opening Wed 24 June (6:00pm)

Performance by Ruark Lewis & Rik Rue Scott Arford (USA), Ruark Lewis & Rik Rue, Lauren Brincat, Vicky Browne, Josie Cavallaro. Memory Flows: Nigel Helyer, Greg Shapley, Maria Maranda & Norie Newmark, Jacqueline Gothe & Ian Gwilt. A composition of works interrogating ideas of sound, music, conversation and silence. In Memory Flows, artists from the UTS Centre for Media Arts and Innovation collaborate around the shared theme of rivers, accessing the flow of memories via objects, sounds and projections.

Thursday 25 June

Forum & Performance @ Bon Marche Theatre, UTS

Forum: Sustainability of Sound Arts in Australia 3:00 – 5:00pm FREE

Julian Knowles (Queensland University of Technology) Paul Mason (Australia Council for the Arts) Sarah Last (Australian Network for Art & Technology) Somaya Langley (Electrofringe) Nat Bates (Liquid Architecture) Gail Priest (RealTime) via Skype Julian Knowles will be joined by a panel of leading voices from Australian sound culture to discuss important issues around the sustainability of contemporary sound arts practice in Australia. * Image Ecologies Launch – Level 4, Tower Building, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo 6-8pm

Memory Flows Performance: The Field 8:00 – 9:00pm FREE

Artists Chris Caines, Shannon O’Neill and Jessica Tyrrell improvise together on themes of memory and water, responding to each other and to audiovisual material from sources including the ABC’s Pool website. This performance will also be streamed live online at http://www.communication.uts.edu.au/centres/cmai/.

Friday 26 June

Concert One @ Performance Space

7:30 – 10:30pm $25/20

Thomas Koner (DE)

Garry Bradbury

Cat Hope

Alex White

The full spectrum of sound will be explored in this concert, from noise and infrasound, to intricate detail and atmospheric ambience.

Saturday 27 June

Concert Two @ Performance Space

6:00 – 9:00pm $25/20

Asmus Tietchens (DE)

Plump

Whirlpool

Somaya Langley

New instruments, new approaches to traditional instruments, and a major figure in the history of electronic and experimental music.

10 Year Anniversary Celebration @ Hermann’s Bar

10:00pm – late $20/$15

The Evolution Control Committee (USA), Buttress O’Kneel, Puzahki, Atone, Loom, DJ Lieutenant Colonel Spastic Howitzer, DJ Corporal Leper

Come and celebrate Liquid Architecture’s 10th birthday at this special late night show, featuring the pioneers of the mash-up, the Evolution Control Committee (USA). A night of breakcore, cabaret, dub and more, with some of Australia’s finest underground talents.

Tickets

SPECIAL Season Pass $50/$40 Both concerts + entry to closing night party at Hermann’s Bar.

BOOKINGS: For Festival Pass, Concert One & Concert Two Ticketmaster http://www.ticketmaster.com.au

For Hermann’s event only The ACCESS Centre, Level 1 Manning House, University of Sydney Ph: 9563 6000 Email: info@usu.usyd.edu.au

Venues

Performance Space, Carriageworks 245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh

University of Technology Sydney UTS Bon Marche Theatre, 755 Harris St, Ultimo

Hermann’s Bar Cnr City Rd & Butlin Ave, University of Sydney, Sydney.

Accessibility

All venues are wheelchair accessible. Accessible toilets.

Festival Partners & Supporters

Liquid Architecture 10: Sydney is proudly presented by Performance Space, Centre for Media Arts Innovation (UTS), Alias Frequencies and Plum Industries. Liquid Architecture is assisted by the City of Sydney, NSW Department of the Arts, Sport and Recreation, and the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. Additional support from Goethe Institute & Sound Travellers.

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In the year 2000, Buttress O’Kneel (with the help of her housemates at the time, fellow artists Mantis Sage, Aynat Sool, Panthera Leo, and A D MacHine) began documenting the artistic works of several robots that had achieved unprogrammed sentience.  These robots were never designed to be creative, but, perhaps through simple wear and tear, commonplace quantum occurrences, or perhaps through their own dogged persistence, these robots began displaying artistic musickal tendencies, reworking and remixing standard CDs into stuttering, abstracted comments on modern humyn culture.  Every night, as the humyns sat down in front of the stereo and attempted to play some musick, the robots would take over and present them with an astounding improvised glitchfest of cultural detournement and live sonic manipulation.  And, thankfully for us, Buttress and her friends would quickly press “record” on the tape deck, and have captured much of those heady A.I. jam sessions for us to enjoy to this day.

These tracks have not been manipulated or edited in any way by humyn hands, but are the carefully-preserved cassette recordings of these artificial intelligences, verbatim, as they were played.  Some have called this musick “AIDM” (artificial intelligence dance music), others “unplunderphonics”, while some have even said “hang on, that’s just a CD player skipping”.  But no matter what the label, there are few people who would deny that these sessions may indeed have not only revolutionised our vision of commonly-available machines as robots, but also our own vision of ourselves as uniquely creative.  And, thanks to Alias Frequencies, these archived tracks are now available for you to enjoy nearly a decade later.  While the mechanical artists who created these pieces have long passed away or been put out in hard rubbish collections, we still have these recordings of their works to remember them by, and, whenever we are questioning our own artistic validity, can always use them as a shining example of what can be acheived, against all likelihood, all intentions, and all odds.  Some people will always see these works as malfunctions – others will always see them as acts of revolutionary art.  And truly, what is the difference?

NOTE: Exhibits V through Z are edited constructions created by B’O’K from raw CD skips, as a memorial to all the robots.  All the robots involved in these recordings are now deceased.  R.I.P.

Curated by Buttress O’Kneel and Alias Frequencies.  Interwebmegalink approved.

Tracklist

01 Exhibit A 1:08
02 Exhibit B 6:56
03 Exhibit C 1:50
04 Exhibit D 1:00
05 Exhibit E 1:28
06 Exhibit F 4:34
07 Exhibit G 1:33
08 Exhibit H 1:38
09 Exhibit I 1:18
10 Exhibit J 4:39
11 Exhibit K 1:57
12 Exhibit L 0:20
13 Exhibit M 3:21
14 Exhibit N 0:18
15 Exhibit O 0:52
16 Exhibit P 1:43
17 Exhibit Q 0:26
18 Exhibit R 0:23
19 Exhibit S 5:04
20 Exhibit T 0:40
21 Exhibit U 2:29
22 Exhibit V 4:02
23 Exhibit W 3:32
24 Exhibit X 1:48
25 Exhibit Y 0:54
26 Exhibit Z 2:19

Total time: 55:54

Made by Buttress O’Kneel, 2000.

2009 Alias Frequencies AF038

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With her Snares-influences fading, Buttress returned to her unique musickal place, straddling pop, mashup, and breakcore, this time creating a musical flow that brings to mind her ground-breaking “MegaMegamix”, and the “meme-couplets” of “MemeCore”.  With a blend of glitch-pop and mashcore, and such sources as Madonna, Dethklok, Bowie, Dead Kennedys, Portishead, and Popcorn, O’Kneel creates a break-heavy megamix that pauses only to deliver every expletive Samuel L Jackson unleashes in “Pulp Fiction”, condensed into one single surreal stream of abuse, before screeching back off again into popmangled madness.  This is the album that MySpace wouldn’t let her upload.  Interwebmegalink-approved.

Tracklist

01 Imagination 4:31
02 Orangutans 6:02
03 Planetarium 6:04
04 Holiday 6:00
05 Storm 4:34
06 Love 4:32
07 Darkness 5:52
08 Sweet 4:30
09 The Ragged Hole 4:23
10 Bbachpsea 3:58
11 Bbachpsea 2 4:36
12 Samuel Motherfucking Jackson 1:51
13 Your Pop Aint Saving Shit 6:00
14 The Flaw 6:38

Total time: 1:09:21

Written and produced by Buttress O’Kneel.

All rights reversed 2008.

An Interwebmegalink permaculture initiative.

2009 Alias Frequencies AF037

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Buttress decided to follow her accessible, poppy, enjoyable album “Hard DadaPop” with one of the most difficult listens she’s ever created.  Although she writes this album off as simply “what happens when I listen to too much Venetian Snares”, it still has the unmistakable “O’Kneel” stamp all over it.  Sure, it’s mostly all in 7, sure, it’s 100% extreme digital breakcore, and, sure, it’s filled with stretched and glitched noise passages that would make Mr Funk shake his furry head, but it also incorporates enough elements of Billy Idol, Black Sabbath, Operator Please, and I Dream Of Genie that it could only be the work of B’O’K.  More like an EP that remixes itself three times than an album, “NonCore” is nonetheless 100% Interwebmegalink-approved.

Tracklist

01 Paragon Humanoid 3:38
02 CandyBrain (CandyCastle Diamond Mix) 5:07
03 Ghirghtteur (Child Sacrifice Mix) 4:21
04 The Dog’s Out 1:54
05 BeefJerky (BeefGenie Mix) 4:27
06 CandyBrain (RockingChair Mix) 3:42
07 The River (in Frozen Droplets) 7:20
08 C is for Satan (Blood and War Mix) 5:08
09 Schlagenzeuger 5:18
10 BeefJerky (Jerky Mix) 4:54
11 Brotherhood of the Snake 5:20
12 Ghirghtteur (Moloch’s Feast Mix) 4:49
13 Granular RudeStyle 5:43
14 CandyBrain (Sweet SixSixSixteen Mix) 3:28
15 Breakcore Is Like Totally Over 12:05

Total time: 1:17:04

Created by Buttress O’Kneel. All rites reversed March/April 2008.

A psubconscious analysis and interpretation of PostSatanic Child Sacrifices and MetaSacrifices as performed by Mind-Controlled Humyn Slaves of the Global Reptilian Puppet Computer God Gangster Government.

An InterWebMegaLink BrainShackle MindKey PermaCulture MemeMusick Initiative.

2009 Alias Frequencies AF036

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With the tenth in the compop series “Classic Hits: Live 2007” being dedicated to live reinterpretations of many of her classic pieces (transformed through a CDJ and several guitar pedals), this return to the studio took Buttress to new realms entirely. Inspired and freshened, her ear turned once again to the multi-mash-up, and pushing the genre as far as it could go. One of her poppiest releases since “Hyperpop”, this album sees Bjork and Bowie hijacked into glitch-n-bass, Led Zeppelin and Young MC fused at the riff, and Enya coupling with Morbid Angel’s drummer, all glued together with The Knife’s “Heartbeats”, and ending with a long drifting live track from 2006. Interwebmegalink-approved.

Tracklist

01 The Britney Spears Records 0:51
02 Change Like Me 7:36
03 HeartBooty 5:18
04 Move On 4:55
05 Deuerwrghtea 4:26
06 The Orinoco Grind 1:06
07 Quewrayzeea 5:30
08 The Gold Operator 4:36
09 The Witch’s Win 5:10
10 The EggMan 2:44
11 Lick the Diamond 3:58
12 Psghtwrongueeur 4:24
13 The Sorcerer of Death 6:29
14 Is Love All? 8:02
15 Slipping (Live 17 11 06) 14:53

Total time: 1:19:50

Created late ’07 early ’08. All rites reversed B’O’K.

An Interwebmegalink permaculture initiative.

2009 Alias Frequencies AF035

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After her triumphant “core” series was wrapped up with the invention of “corecore”, Buttress was determined to be the first to go beyond it.  So, while others were still trying to come to terms with the concepts behind “corecore”, she created the mind-bending new genre “post-corecore”.  Not only does this album apply the tools and strategies developed in the “core” trilogy to works by artists such as Yes, Rihanna, Madonna, and the B-52’s, but it again extends the “core” genre with the inclusion of heart-breaking MOR ballads, stretched noisescapes, drone-based live material, and her infamous Windows-cracking track that was used to close the documentary “Steal this Film II”.  Interwebmegalink-approved.

Tracklist

01 Die-About 5:51
02 Ungberella 4:49
03 Goodbye My Healer 4:56
04 Lungdon (Picadilly Circus Mix) 2:26
05 The Key (Live 27 11 07) 4:55
06 Balls (Macho Man Mix) 3:31
07 Dreamers Dreaming (Live 27 11 07) 12:04
08 Hot as an Oven (Circus Maximus Mix) 2:51
09 Underspace 6:52
10 Kung-Fu-Core 4:06
11 Ddonnttcchhaa 6:31
12 Unclelover 2:07
13 All In Cheque 2:03
14 Breaking Windows 4:22

Total time: 1:07:19

All tracks fuckedwith by B””’O””’K. All rights reversed 2007. “The Key” and “Dreamers Dreaming” recorded straight to cassette at Guitar and Plunger Studios, Reservoir.

Balls is dedicated to all the rampant testosterone found in the breakcore movement.

“PostCoreCore” is an Interwebmegalink permaculture initiative.

2009 Alias Frequencies AF034

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The final in her “core” trilogy, “CoreCore” again revels in the grunting syncopation of breakcore, but mixes it with an altogether softer touch.  As well as the classic Public-Enemy-meets-the-Seinfeld-theme opening track, O’Kneel incorporates several of her more psychedelic-drone live tracks (created with a CDJ and a buncha guitar pedals).  Although, there’s still plenty of filthy breakcore (including the cookie-monster-metal-mashup “C is For Satan”), this final in the “core” trilogy sees her wrapping up the series with a focus on what breakcore can become, rather than what it already is.  Interwebmegalink-approved.

Tracklist

01 Bring Nothing 1:29
02 Anti-War Hole Master 5:44
03 Para (Live) 3:39
04 C is for Satan 2:36
05 Stone (Live) 6:41
06 A Hidden Experience 5:32
07 Going Out 3:51
08 Ziggy Pumped It 2:49
09 Experience Reprise (Live) 7:36
10 Always on Time 5:19
11 Come (Live) 5:36
12 A Fatal Round 6:25

Total time: 57:08

Featuring: The Seinfeld theme, Public Enemy, David Bowie, Metallica, The Beach Boys, Black Sabbath, Cookie Monster, Morbid Angel, Anal Cunt, Manowar, Darkthrone, Jimi Hendrix, Bjork, Cypress Hill, Rob E-G, Blood Duster, The Black Eyed Peas, Black Box, Kyuss, The Beatles, and the Velvet Underground.

Recycled by Buttress O’Kneel, 2006-2007. All rights reversed, Interwebmegalink.

2009 Alias Frequencies AF033

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Following on from the broken shitcore of Compop 6.66, Buttress gives us the second in her “core” trilogy; a meme-splicing dadaist culture-tweaking album that straddles both the worlds of breakcore and mashup, to create something truly unique.  With several tracks blending together to create longer pieces (“aural meme-couplets” as she calls them), this album draws its sources from the likes of Skyhooks, the Pussycat Dolls, and Shakira.  To accompany the frenetic and sometimes-painful breakcore tracks, she intersperses them with pure mash tracks like “Get One Thing Right” (where she simply places J-Lo and Amerie over each other), and ends with an insane live drone track, recorded live at Black Lotus’s “ArseCore”, 2006.  Interwebmegalink-approved.

Tracklist

01 The End of the Universe 6:10
02 Insane 1:07
03 I’m Not American 6:33
04 Get One Thing Right 3:36
05 My BLIPS Don’t Lie 4:05
06 Manbaahtiu 3:00
07 Xtego 3:46
08 Fuck or Shit 1:15
09 Cunt and Dick 4:01
10 Sexylove Skyline 5:19
11 Licksexy Backshots 4:06
12 Losing Up My Buttons 2:22
13 The Drone of the Broken Pop-Mill 5:00

Total time: 50:15

Track 13 recorded live at ArseCore 2006. Thanks to Cat-Grrl, Xian and the Black Lotus. All rights reversed Buttress O’Kneel, December 2006.

2009 Alias Frequencies AF032

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O’Kneel’s first deliberate foray into the ubiquitous “distorted-and-cut-up-amen-break” genre known as “breakcore”, this album sees her applying it to as many unlikely and inappropriate sources as possible: Radiohead, the Beatles, even Peter Allen.  As well as trying to reinvent breakcore as a pop phenomenon, she simultaneously makes her beats filthier and more jarring, creating what she dubbed “shitcore”.  Not only does this album cover the entire gamut of her shitcore techniques (a style she never fully manages to shake off on any of her albums to follow), but it contains the dancefloor-shaking pop sensation “No Bananas”, as well as four bonus live tracks from her megadistorted “MONO” recordings of 2004.  Interwebmegalink-approved.

Tracklist

01 Don’t Ghanguech with my Heart 3:01
02 These Broken Wings 1:43
03 No Bananas 4:20
04 Paraplegic Android Pt 1 3:35
05 Given Away 2:30
06 Curdled Milk 4:15
07 Baby Baby 0:27
08 If Baby$=”Smile” Then Goto Rio 2:52
09 Paraplegic Android Pt 2 2:20
10 Tomorrow’s Working Standards 5:41
11 Shakescrublick 2:26
12 Eleanor’s Headlights (Sink Beneath the Sun) 5:09
13 MONO 1 6:30
14 MONO 2 5:42
15 MONO 3 5:56
16 MONO 4 15:24

Total time: 1:11:51

Tracks 1-12 by Buttress O’Kneel, August 2006. Mono bonus tracks performed live April 2004.

References: Black Eyed Peas / Beatles / Gwen Stefani / Cats / Radiohead / Busta Rhymes / Red Hot Chilli Peppers / Kelis / Sean Paul / Jamiroquai / Peter Allen / Captain and Tenille / Tortoise / Missy Elliot / Aphex Twin / TLC / Basement Jaxx / Madonna / and generic breakbeat sample 1 and 2.

2009 Alias Frequencies AF031

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After her explorations into bastard pop (her previous two albums were “Bastard Pop” and “MegaBastard”), Buttress wanted to return to the minutely-sliced memetic Frankenstein-techniques she had honed so well on her second Compop release “MegaMegamix”, but with an ear more attuned to artists like Squarepusher and Aphex Twin.  As she describes it, she “wanted to push bastard pop into the shape of drum-n-bass, or something”, using artists like Beyonce, Gwen Stefani, the Black Eyed Peas, and Kelis as source material.  Both poppy and jarring, both revolutionary and sentimental, this may be her most iconic and unique recording to date.  100% Interwebmegalink-approved.

Tracklist

01 Repeating Yrself 1:20
02 Hold Us Underground 4:58
03 GrrlShake 1:54
04 Tricked 3:05
05 Dicked 2:41
06 Thieves of Light 3:32
07 No Matter What They Say 5:08
08 Attack of the 50 Foot Misogynist 0:39
09 Return of the 50 Foot Misogynist 2:11
10 Extremely Rich Girl 1:38
11 Satisfied. Enough. (Xtina mix) 3:34
12 Biting Arizona 4:29
13 Outta Lies 5:44
14 O 5:52

Total time: 46:45

All rights reversed, Buttress O’Kneel 2005. Additional NWA assistance by bress on tracks 4 and 12. Tracks 2, 3 and 10 contain samples of the Buttress O’Kneel album “Compop 4.4: ‘MegaBastard'”, used by permission. Track 9 contains elements of the Buttress O’Kneel track “Ha’ah’ahY’aasE’Eh”, off “Bricolage No 1”, released by Illegal Art. Used by permission. Thanks to Dodgy DJ Dave for the use of his Kaos Pad.

2009 Alias Frequencies AF030

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Thoughts Flash comprises two hallucinatory tracks from Wake Up and Listen’s unreleased debut album. Recorded in the late 1990s, the album featured a number of studio recordings, as well as edited excerpts from WUAL’s long-running radio show on 2MBS-FM. The technique of condensing extended radio improvisations into relatively short pieces, as on these two tracks, suggested a fruitful direction for the duo, however Bertram and O’Neill spent the following years focusing on other projects, with WUAL continuing primarily as a live act (their 2001 mini-album Mustard Keanu notwithstanding). WUAL’s recorded archives are nevertheless extensive, and it is likely that more material will be published on their website as well as on future Alias Frequencies releases.

Tracklist

01 Thoughts Flash 5:38
02 Children Speak Backwards 3:18

Total time: 8:56

Made by Adrian Bertram and Shannon O’Neill, Sydney, 1998-1999. Bass and CDs on Children Speak Backwards by Jasmine Guffond.

Thoughts Flash was included on the compilation CDR Static Museum Two in 2001.

2009 Alias Frequencies AF029

Selections from Anthologies 2 & 3

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These selections represent a sample of individual works, experiments and never-to-be finished pieces produced between 2005 and 2007. Some pieces mark the beginnings of failed projects or redundant tangents, whilst others came to be for unknown reasons. All compositions are intended for most appropriate use in managerial meeting rooms, excecutive boardrooms, vaults, darkness, at volume and with influence. It is advised that this composition be played in all work places both before and after work each day. This music is without genre and is Dark Corporate Techno, Dark Grinding Corporate Ambience, Dark Corporate Art Core and 21st Century All Family Punk. As such it is intended for consumption by all, and so it should be. Music for Everyone. If you listen, you’ll hear that Lucas Darklord is pleased that you are.

Tracklist

01 Also Cautious 4:03
02 Complete Commodification 0:21
03 untitled 003 6:35
04 Data Interception 4:59
05 New Faces in Global Capitalism 14:37
06 Nothing #12 11:46
07 Battery (of Melancholy) 2:21
08 Handheld Apocalypse 4:26
09 Nothing But Success 0:15
10 Higher and Higher 3:55
11 Analytics 0:07
12 Effectively Integrating Them 3:00
13 At Least Half a Percent Off 0:18
14 Bloated Bureaucracies 0:11
15 Innovating Enterprises 3:00
16 A Serious Constraint 2:45
17 Driving Data 4:37
18 Backlog of Upcoming Floats 27:19

Total time: 1:34:38

Made by Lucas Darklord, 2005-2007.

2009 Alias Frequencies AF028

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The pieces on this album were created using a specially designed system code-named “Habitat”.  Autonomous artificial agents feed on live and prepared sound and vision, excreting their own mutated variations which are then collected and presented for listener edification.  The process is the culmination of combined research by Paul and Lloyd in the construction of a live electro-acoustic audiovisual engine that draws from both academic and underground practices. All material presented was originally generated live and has been edited only to remove fatty excesses.

Tracklist

01 noh dreams in the concrete forest 11:28
02 cracked shell brings life 3:46
03 once where the bowerbird sang 4:24
04 always share your whistling friend 4:05
05 now whirling beak to heel 3:31
06 no sound more musical penetrates the air 3:51
07 ghost calls from the abandoned aviary 6:18
08 defenestration not deforestation 3:44
09 untitled 5:20

Total time: 46:27

Made by Lloyd Barrett & Paul Forbes-Mitchell, Brisbane, 2006-2007.

2009 Alias Frequencies AF027