Electric Newspaper

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Electric Newspaper is a CD series by the industrial band Psychic TV , which was created from 1994 to 1997, the last part of which was published under the group name Splinter Test , and about which there was a controversy about the public domain of the audio material contained.

prehistory

The band Psychic TV of the industrial pioneer Genesis P-Orridge had already gone through various metamorphoses by the mid-1990s. While their sound was influenced by the compositions of guitarist and songwriter Alex Fergusson during the mid-1980s, after Fergusson's departure the group turned to electronic rhythms, for which Fred Giannelli was responsible from 1987 until his departure in 1991 . After his exit, P-Orridge had to leave England in 1992 due to an arrest warrant directed against him. In the difficult two years that followed, there were no more tours or performances in the previous context due to the lack of previous songwriters. The move to the USA also meant the end of the group's own label Temple Records , so that in future it was necessary to cooperate with new label partners. While Richard Schiessl and Andrew Chatterley formally recorded the album Peak Hour in London for Temple Records almost on their own and without P-Orridge, the latter sifted through the remains of his archive confiscated in England and published film scores and previously unreleased CD series on the four-album series Splinter test from the Syard label . For spoken word performances in the USA, P-Orridge initially worked with Craig Ellenwood , and from 1994 with Larry Thrasher .

Release history

Together with Larry Thrasher, P-Orridge initially published three CDs with additional archive material on the German Dossier Records label under the group name Psychic TV . While the foregoing CD series Splinter test carefully separate detail arranged and contained fully documented individual pieces, the first editions of goods Electric Newspaper an uncommented collection of raw archive material in each 70-minute audio tracks in the booklet as entertainment Kaotic be called. The archive material goes back to the 1960s and includes interviews, snippets of conversation and noise as well as loops and beats from different albums from different eras of Psychic TV. On the first CD, the series of publications is described as quarterly, which was almost complied with three times in quick succession from January to November 1995. Like the never-ending series of 23 live albums, the Electric Newspaper series ended abruptly after the third issue.

In 1996, P-Orridge and Thrasher recorded several other albums with a semi-permanent accompanying group that tended away from rock and techno and towards spoken word. In order to express the change in style, the project was renamed Splinter Test for several publications . Surprisingly, a fourth and so far last CD in the series was released under this group name in April 1997, which now contained 92 short tracks instead of one long one.

Scope of the CD series

  • Electric Newspaper, Issue One (Dossier Records, released January 1, 1995)
  • Electric Newspaper, Issue Two (Dossier Records, released April 28, 1995)
  • Electric Newspaper, Issue Three (Dossier Records, released November 17, 1995)
  • Electric Newspaper, Issue Four (Invisible Records, released April 29, 1997)

Public Freedom Controversy

Already the first CD of the series contained numerous and unmistakable evidence of the public domain of the audio material contained: Any and all of the audio files, loops, or even longer trance sections on this CD, are FREE to whoever wishes to utilize them ... It is here to be re-used ... as a resource to be sampled, reworked, adjusted, and processed by other individuals for their own personal works ... It's yours because it's free! . These and similar formulations will also follow on the other CDs.

However, there is controversy about the actual free availability. Fan circles and some musicians, including the Dutch group Neo Realism, take the release seriously and continue to publish remixes or their own pieces that are based on samples from the series. However, P-Orridge has since contradicted the release.