format: limited cd in handmade sleeve with comics, games and competitions
release date: monday 3rd may 2004
twocsinak's "art's equivalent to mfi with his rolls royce of builders' skip" is an endearingly shambolic attempt to rebuild musical forms, using the most basic of digital editing set-ups, but with ears constantly open to the broad range of sound sources around us. this very long ep expands upon the total wave Editor work he distributed on a 23-copy tape to close friends, from which the two tracks on clean cut's original "cut your teeth" compilation were taken (one for each format, for some convoluted reason).
shunning the enormous technological possibilities and vast parameter sets usually employed by laptop musicians, twocsinak instead focuses on the minutiae of recorded sound, drawn from fastidiously archived jam sessions, field recordings and improvisations on cheap, often borrowed, instruments.
beneath the sometimes cryptic, always long-winded track titles, we find a surfeit of ideas, from piano duets played on cdjs and abstract dance music made from san franciscan street noise, to unversed interpretations of folk, hip-hop, indie-rock and jungle. style magazines are pissed on, tracks are made without even listening to them, and guest stars come and go at an absurd rate (one track features a choir of 16 producer/dj friends, forced to display their vocal talents, or lack thereof).
22 tracks hurtle by in 45 minutes (ideal for cassette bootlegs), uninterrupted save for the sound of a computer crash in the second track. we have been shown just some of the brain-thoughts of a bedroom musician trying (and failing) to escape his confinement.
track listing:
01. Dr Wilson MD presents 'Soup pilot'.
02. Sooner or later everything will malfunction. featuring the Blind Harmony Choir.
03. Allergy to cats, part 1. remix by the Knowledge of Bugs.
04. Getting dressed in the dark.
05. Mixmaster him belong Jesus Christ.
06. Remix for a pair of shoes. Jack Purcell's no Zeppelin edit.
07. Burn your face with a soldering iron. Edward Chambers suite.
08. Antishock toe warts. with Asteroth.
09. Lies charm any instinct of fear.
10. Lebensmittelvergiftung silent introscan frenzy. vs. the Meine 909 sample library.
11. How Beyoncé became pop's teen queen. featuring Sophie Hare.
12. Gravel doesn't clean itself. with Casio Bassman Chaytor & MC Uncle Phil.
13. New senile bias / I enable sinews. vs. Edward Chambers Went The Wrong Way.
14. I've never felt lonelier than the day my flatmates got engaged.
15. Choreography for drunks.
16. A grave, played with phantom cheer. by DJ Sarah Wilson.
17. Anthem for national drycleaning fortnight. by Two Inferior Bugs.
18. With no fare I could bring your snare. by Twocsinak & W*O*R*D.
19. Allergy to cats, part 2. remix by the Knowledge of Bugs.
20. Getting undressed in the park. reprise.
21. You look like a physics teacher, mate. with the Understudy Inferior.
22. Configsafe 95 version 1.01.07