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NBC: Big Sexy Sound (AFR 14)

by Neighborhood Bass Coalition

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1.
Sha Ku Ha Chi 03:57
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2.
Sterilize 04:03
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3.
Spider Web Castle 03:19
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4.
No God West of the Pecos 02:05
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5.
Mambo Chingado 02:59
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6.
Let's Do It 03:58
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7.
Come On 02:33
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8.
Skull Island 04:00
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9.
Wiggle It 04:02
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10.
Kill Thy Neighbor 03:24
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100% Live Improvisation, No Overdubs, No Rehearsals

This is the line recording of NBC's live improvisational performance on May 19, 2001, at the BLUE Warehouse on 136 Dore Alley in San Francisco's South of Market district. The "neighborhood" was a haven for all kinds of counter-culture artistry before multiple tech booms brought in high-priced apartment projects, pushing the "starving artists" out. The dilapidated warehouse was likely condemned, and the party we participated in was completely illegal, something I imagine to be very difficult to get away with in San Francisco today.

This recording is truly an audio engineer's nightmare, documenting what I consider one of NBC's most high-contrast anti-music performances, not just for the combination of clashing sounds and destruction of rhythms, but also for what ROBO labels NBC's "live chupa-mix!". There are some gorgeous moments of accidental brilliance ("Sterilize", "Skull Island", and "Wiggle It" come to mind) but I think we were really pushing the "sweet and sour" concept to the limit here.

Despite that, our relatively large audience responded by dancing with wild abandon to our experiments in "audio cognitive dissonance"... it was even rumored that an orgy was happening in a giant hammock in one of the corners behind the stage during the show... perhaps not a coincidence, considering many of the song titles.
Fast times in The City, indeed!

For best results, playback over large speakers or over-the-ear audiophile headphones is recommended; the uncompressed bass in this recording is likely to damage built-in laptop speakers or small headphones at full volume.

PLAY LOUD!

-zerø K 2019

credits

released April 2, 2019

• XTine - naive bass guitar on tracks 1 and 10
• Rob Wortman - Korg Electribe Sampler, ???
• ROBO - rhythm "beds" on all tracks; triggered CD-R samples of original synth rips and music loops, NBC IDs
• zerø K - treated samples (vocal, movie and TV), Alesis AirFX, circuit-bent toys, "Air Organ" (Track 5), and Digitech Space Station in feedback mode (Tracks 6, 8 and 9)

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Neighborhood Bass Coalition San Francisco, California

Often simply referred to as "NBC", this group of outsiders in San Francisco created unique avant-garde and experimental noise/music on the fly, with no rules whatsoever as to genre or instrumentation- the stranger the better. Often what resulted was a hybrid noise camouflaged as various forms of electroacoustic and electronic music. ... more

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