Some Assembly Required is a weekly focus on sample based music and audio art. Host Jon Nelson explores the world of sound collage via this weekly podcast of his nationally syndicated radio program
Episode 135, Some Assembly Required
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Episode 135 features 14 tracks by artists such as CCC, DJ Danger Mouse, Steve Dirkx, DJ Earworm, DJ Food, Steev Hise, Kid Koala, People Like Us, Silica Gel, Splatt, Sudden Head Trauma, Think Tank, Myeck Waters and Woulds. Check it out HERE.
There were an unusually large number of Minnesota artists in this week’s episode. Check out Splatt’s “Better'n bread,” off 2004’s “World of Splatt,” on the Recombinations label. Recombinations is a sound collage record label managed alongside Some Assembly Required. The other Minnesota artists featured in this week’s episode are Think Tank, with a track off of their Mandroid EP (1996), titled Baphomet, and an untitled track by Sudden Head Trauma… enjoy!
Check out the SAR Blog for our year end list of Q&A’s uploaded in 2008, not to mention an alphabetized list of all the Q&A’s uploaded since starting the weekly project in 2006. That’s over 125 artist features, not to mention the 30+ phone interviews with sound collage artist from around the world. Check it out HERE, and download Episode 135 HERE.
Thanks for listening!
Jon Nelson
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Jon Nelson is an artist, curator and producer, focused almost exclusively on collage, with forays into radio, visual art, theater, writing and installation. His nationally syndicated radio program (Some Assembly Required) is a weekly radio art show, featuring the talents of audio artists who appropriate sounds from their media environments.
Some Assembly Required is online, at: www.some-assembly-required.net & www.some-assembly-required.net/blog
http://www.mnartists.org/jonathan_nelson