artist: Otomo Yoshihide
title: The Night Before the Death of the Sampling Virus
type: album
release date: 1993
length: 53 minutes
genre: noise/add
country: Japan
format: mp3
bitrate: 128kbps
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| This conceptual recording by the Tokyo avant-garde composer was a groundbreaking experiment in deconstruction released in 1993. The piece is based on a system that exploits the malfunction of the CD player, whereby the listener is instructed to play the CD in shuffle mode to achieve a random replay of very small fragments of sound and thus hear an entirely different piece of music with repeated listens. Much in the way that Oval worked with the destabilization of the CD medium. |
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| Finally available once more, this is Japanese experimental music pioneer’s defining work on sampling and audio terrorism. Something in-between noise music and plunderphonics, across a mind-boggling 77 tracks Yoshihide takes the listener on a journey through the streets of Tokyo at night by way of digital manipulation and disconcerting glitches and pops. Hell, even the liner notes warn that the disc might cause damage to your cd player, but since this was released over ten years ago now, I would hope cd players have become a little sturdier. Small fragments of misheard conversations, street noise, cars, trains, scrapes and clatters are mulched beyond all recognition and listening to the cd in its entirety can be a thoroughly disorientating experience, yet somehow in all the insanity there is light. There is a feeling that no-matter how random the record sounds, it was never intended to be – and that Yoshihide’s audio virii are quite hopelessly infectious. Dedicated audio explorers be aware – you need to hear this record! |
01 Toyota 0:02
02 Akai 0:06
03 Matsushita 1:18
04 Aiwa 0:29
05 Nintendo 2:25
06 Mitsubishi 0:03
07 NTT 0:32
08 Fuji Film 1:30
09 Hitachi 0:15
10 Shimizu 0:27
11 Canon 0:05
12 Kashima 0:48
13 Teach 1:05
14 Nissan 0:04
15 Citizen 1:02
16 Sony 0:30
17 Olympus 0:34
18 Sansui 0:15
19 Nec 0:12
20 Honda 2:25
21 Seibu 2:05
22 Bridgestone 0:03
23 Yamaha 1:50
24 Matsuda 0:30
25 Toshiba 0:03
26 Sharp 0:12
27 Mitsui 1:02
28 Casio 1:33
29 Nihon Victor 0:41
30 Sega 1:47
31 Juki 1:35
32 Pioneer 0:34
33 Fostex 0:16
34 Sumitomo 0:17
35 Obayashi 1:03
36 Asahi Kasei 1:28
37 Kenwood 0:04
38 Toyo Engineering 1:02
39 Nakamichi 0:19
40 Nikon 1:11
41 Suzuki 0:07
42 Nisseki 0:03
43 Fujita 0:20
44 Isuzu 1:48
45 Daihatsu 2:15
46 Konica 0:28
47 Maxell 0:37
48 Contax 0:11
49 Roland 1:19
50 Fujitsu 0:34
51 Seiko 0:49
52 TDK 0:29
53 Sanyo 0:03
54 Kao 0:31
55 Shiseido 0:34
56 Marubeni 0:34
57 Sekisui 0:24
58 Kanebo 1:07
59 Jal 0:12
60 Fuji Jyuko 0:16
61 Crown 0:52
62 Uniden 0:27
63 Brother 0:11
64 Minolta 0:15
65 Komatsu 1:27
66 Ito Chu 1:50
67 Parco 0:09
68 Oki 0:38
69 Amano 0:22
70 Bandai 0:34
71 Renown 0:30
72 Sogo 1:13
73 Takeda 0:10
74 Kubota 1:18
75 Konami 0:11
76 Amada 0:06
77 Korg 0:01