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 FAST FORWARDS - not 4 2 long (meltdown mix - remastered 2008)
(MP3 / AAC / 2001 mix details / album artwork)
THIS CD WILL BE INCLUDED FREE WITH ANY POSTAL DELIVERY OF GOODS WORTH £10 OR MORE
>>a prototype collage of words and music, sound and sense, commissioned by Unknown Public Radio
>>four aural snapshots of our hurriedly-turning world - focusing on communication, money, icons, identity...
>>recorded in London and New York in the weeks following September 11...
>>sampling and remixing extracts from seminal issues of Unknown Public - the creative music journal...
>>devised and created by award-winning radio producer and composer Antony Pitts...
>>distributed as a free CD with the London Review of Books (Vol.24 #21) in the UK during the Autumn of 2002
A journey to the corners of the new world order - real, imagined and hidden - in 60 action-packed minutes fast forwards captures in sound the experience of surfing the Net - following trails of information, linking to unexpected, sometimes unwanted sites of varying presentation and depth of content - one moment waiting impatiently for images to download, the next moment drowning in a sea of data - now delighting in the most arcane facts and figures, then frowning at the extraordinary opinions and antics of wired-up strangers fast forwards combines sharply-contrasting ideas, superimposed sonic materials, and content that is at once serious, mundane, humorous, poignant - within the formal structure of a traditional symphony.
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featuring the voices of
Ekene Akalawu
Marcus Brigstocke
John Drinkwater
Lowell Flanders
Paul Foot
Jim Garrison
Leslie Griffiths
Bob Heckler
Clifford Hill
T.G.H.James
Gary Kah
Anatole Kaletsky
Duncan Knowles
John Loeffler
Gerry Morvell
Kathryn Oswald
John Pilger
David Pitts
James Rothnie
Mark Sandler
Louise Scheuer
Magnus Spence
Geoffrey Turk
James Turk
Alan Walker
Qiang Zhang
and music performed by
Black Box White Noise
Heliopause
Room 33
TONUS PEREGRINUS
plus extracts from previous editions of Unknown Public
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MEDIA WORKERS AGAINST THE WAR 19/11/2002
"Fast Forwards is a very original piece of work that draws together the important issues that affect us today on one CD...
The 60 minute CD is divided into four sections; communication, finance, cultural icons, personal and national identity. Each section is a fusion of opinion, music and sounds that represent the pressing questions of where we are and importantly where we are going.
The myriad information draws you, as a listener, into your world and demands you to take stock of the rapidly changing landscape, technologically, globally, and morally. Fast forwards is like a time capsule for the beginning of the 21st Century and makes one challenge all that we take for granted in this age."
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