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{"id":7518112350458,"title":"Camarades Breton \/\/ Camarades Breton TAPE","handle":"camarades-breton-camarades-breton-tape","description":"\u003cp\u003e実験ダブ作家Camarades Bretonが、2020年にイタリア実験ダンスレーベルGang of Ducksから100本限定でリリースしたカセットです。DLコード付属。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2463011980\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" seamless=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ------------------------------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdition of 100.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGang of Ducks:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe album has been entirely recorded by the artist at home, using only a CMX-5000 CD-J, a twin CD-mixing system rack distributed by Pioneer at the beginnings of the 2000s, and an old two-channel mixer he has been using since childhood.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eRecordings started in a very instinctive and naif way, by simply putting together two very short loops taken from two different sources, just\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003efor the fun of it. Quite soon however, this extremely simple technique turned into a proper method highlighting a constant struggle between two different forces. As a result of a constant shift of tempo and pitch, the two inputs rarely fit together perfectly. This conflict awakens the producer’s vision, turning this clash of sounds either into an emotional struggle, in tracks such as Stella, or into a political struggle, like in the B-side opening track NoTav which, through the costant tension between the two audio sources, evokes the recent fight against the construction of theTurin-Lyon high-speed railway line that is causing huge social and environmental damages.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe sounds get hijacked and given a new meaning, mostly in a contradictory way, giving life to the sounds beyond their original sources.This method can be compared to that of the\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e détournement, as Situationist Guy Debord named it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe choice of using old material has political reasons as well. Feeling unconfident in producing new sounds in a consumerist and over- polluted Western world where culture has reached a saturation point, the artist decides to recycle some of the sounds recorded in the last fifty years, randomly picking bargain second-hand CD’s or taking them away from the dust at people’s places.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe artwork of the album, made by the artist himself, integrates the conflictual contrasts of the record, juxtaposing a photograph of the 1962 Algerian women’s demonstration for Independence with a photograph of the May ‘68 Paris streets riots – two different struggles with a common revolutionary feeling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrench director Jean-Luc Godard once said that “you need to put together two images to let things happen”. 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Quite soon however, this extremely simple technique turned into a proper method highlighting a constant struggle between two different forces. As a result of a constant shift of tempo and pitch, the two inputs rarely fit together perfectly. This conflict awakens the producer’s vision, turning this clash of sounds either into an emotional struggle, in tracks such as Stella, or into a political struggle, like in the B-side opening track NoTav which, through the costant tension between the two audio sources, evokes the recent fight against the construction of theTurin-Lyon high-speed railway line that is causing huge social and environmental damages.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe sounds get hijacked and given a new meaning, mostly in a contradictory way, giving life to the sounds beyond their original sources.This method can be compared to that of the\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e détournement, as Situationist Guy Debord named it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe choice of using old material has political reasons as well. Feeling unconfident in producing new sounds in a consumerist and over- polluted Western world where culture has reached a saturation point, the artist decides to recycle some of the sounds recorded in the last fifty years, randomly picking bargain second-hand CD’s or taking them away from the dust at people’s places.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe artwork of the album, made by the artist himself, integrates the conflictual contrasts of the record, juxtaposing a photograph of the 1962 Algerian women’s demonstration for Independence with a photograph of the May ‘68 Paris streets riots – two different struggles with a common revolutionary feeling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrench director Jean-Luc Godard once said that “you need to put together two images to let things happen”. This is probably the best explanation for how this album has been recorded, treating two sound sources as if they were images, waiting for something to finally happen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe album will be released in a cassette format to encourage an uninterrupted listening, as suggested by the producer. For the same reason it will be released into just two continuous tracks in the digital version as well.\u003c\/span\u003e \"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist : Camarades Breton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel : Gang of Ducks\u003c\/p\u003e"}
