STATE ROWDY / Waqt Ki Zanjeer

scene shift >
Cassette artifacts.
Filmi split circa 1989.

scene shift >
Punjabi beats / boombox.
Tablas and Robots.
cue spit sequences
> dance dance.

scene shift >
Enter > Dohl blasters
at the discotheke.



Two plot lines delineating the razor thin margins between high camp aesthetics, 21st century politics and vocals sublime.

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STATE ROWDY
The Telugu tale of Prithviraj, a poor village cop climbing the ranks only to be canned by the corrupt Superintendent aka Laajmani. Stripped of his badge, Prithviraj re-dubs himself Kalicharan and begins his deadly dance by hijacking a busload of MLAs.

Feat. playback singer S. Janaki aka "The Nightingale of the South." Her unparalled vox modulations spit sparks to split the cuffs off any stuffed shirt.
Multilingual assist by the prolific playback artist
S. P. Balasubrahmanyam.


STATE ROWDY
1 Rani Rani
2 Tere Liye Hai Yeh Jaan
3 Are Panuva Khaike
4 Mast Bahaar Hoon Main
5 1,2,3,4...Dance Dance
6 Title Music

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WAQT KI ZANJEER
More bondage, breakdancing, overzealous moustaches,
desire and anti-kiss plus other pop injustices.
Feat. playback singer Asha Bhosle

WAQT KI ZANJEER (with dialogues)
1 Sare Bazar
2 Jhoothi Izzat
3 Tawaif Tawaif
4 Kismat Hamen Laai Hai
5 Music (the end)

وردة الجزائرية : MODERNE EGYPTIEN

cassette via Ciaro mid 1980's .
live recording {split}

WARDA Al-Jazairia : Moderne Egyptien [MCPE 1136 cassette]
a side: moderne egyptien
b side: moderne egyptien

the Rose of Algeria

GILL ARNO

WALKED
rewinding recorders > thermal electrics > light projectors
> small motors > muscle memory

IN/EX/D
"recordings from various places where i grew up and so on.
playing brings me to a sort of dreamland, which i keep exploring and landscaping, re-assessing and re-defining, more or less impulsively, more or less deliberately."

FOUND
"four of them are in the picture above. the first was found around the corner from where i live, the second was handed to me in the lower east side and has been mostly re-recorded in williamsburg's streets, the third was used to record the subway in milan, circa 1997, the last was found in my apartment when i moved in. people whom i know had lived here before us came from iran, portugal, switzerland and the u.s.a."

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mpld
unframed recordings
fotofono

G. LUCAS CRANE vs.NONHORSE

Cassette-jockey and noise auteur G. Lucas Crane unspools hidden sounds from analog-based archeologies. Winding down from touring and making noise at SXSW, his calloused fingers prove that man/machine evolution is an ongoing process.

Paul Haney from Obsolete Units returns with his bag of tricks, captures the four winds and initiates the worshippers of rust with rare earth magnets.

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in) Phroq from Half Asleep Music [entr'acte]

OBSOLETE UNITS : dj set 1>
a) Idea Fire Company - The Island Of Taste - The Island Of Taste [swill radio]
b) Blood Stereo - Tapes no. 1 - Enfold The Hiss [chocolate monk]
c) Andy Borsz - side a - Metal Mirror [cryptic carousel]
d) Hells Hills - Under the Arcade - The Pearled Ether [wodger]


G. LUCAS CRANE vs. NONHORSE : first battle


OBSOLETE UNITS : dj set two>
h) Work/Death - Gull Deep Inland (Gordon Overlooking The Atlantic) - Contained In Proper Place Names [monorail trespassing]
i) Opponents - track 5 - I Swarm With A Thousand Bees [obsolete units]
j) Family Treasures - Earth Pile - Black Totality - [temple of pei]
k) 16 Bitch Pile-Up - Untitled - Live At Skylab - [little miracles]
l) Rust Worship - Shea Stadium - Informalities - [obsolete units]
m) Charalambides - side a {excerpt} - Rose/Thorn [klang industries]


G. LUCAS CRANE vs. NONHORSE : second battle

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