interference
interference
the social registry tsr040 2xlp
street date:
01/26/2010
in recent years there has been no shortage of people trying to shine a light on the
downtown nyc music scene of the
early 1980s. a redrafting has occurred with each
book or
box set, with a cast list being based upon whatever recordings become
commercially available. though this release might implicate us in this
transgression, we would hope it at least challenges the convention, adding
interference to that list and suggesting that revisionists might have left a few stones unturned.
forming out of the musical insurgence that was the
noisefest at
white columns gallery in
1981;
interference coalesced around three key figures of new york’s downtown scene:
anne demaranis,
david linton and
michael brown.
demaranis had just parted ways with an early incarnation of
sonic youth and co-curated the
noisefest with
thurston moore.
linton had headed to
nyc a few years earlier with then school/band mate
lee renaldo, eventually hooking up with
rhys chatham for a three year stretch.
brown, then a twenty six year old
phd candidate at
nyu, had recently broke rank with
rhys chatham and drafted a wholly unconventional
percussive approach to the
fender bass.
from their inception through their eventual fragmentation
30 months later,
interference charted their course across the stages available to them:
cbgbs, the
mudd club, the
kitchen, etc., ultimately swelling to a
quartet with the addition of fellow
rhys chatham veteran
joe dizney. in
1982 they recorded this lp at
radio city, engineered by
don hunerberg (blondie, kiss, the ramones, sonic youth, live skull) and with guest appearances by
elliot sharp and
sue hanel (the swans). originally slated for release on
josh baer and
glen branca’s legendary
neutral records, the record has remained unreleased, aside from a scant number of self-released cassettes.
after the bands demise,
linton remained entrenched in the
new york underground art and music scene, through involvement with the
kitchen, the
wooster group, and
soundlab, which lead him to the early
21st century downtown
electronic scene. it was from here that
david recruited the
remixers which make up the forward thinking companion lp of this release:
david last,
doily and
criterion (broklyn beats),
binsang aka
toshio kajiwara (phenomena),
qpe (agriculture) and the
8-bit gameboy tag team of
bubblyfish &
glomag.
this music, a
quarter century old and born out of
new york’s
early eighties downtown music scene, still resonates with
undiminished invention, and its merits are far beyond that of a
musical artifact. with that
the social registry is pleased to present the music of
interference in its entirety for the first time. this
deluxe double lp set includes both the original
unissued lp, painstakingly
remastered from the
original master tapes, and couples it with an
additional remix lp.
Tracklisting:
LP 1:
1. EXCERPT #1, VERSION 2
2. INTERLUDE 1
3. CONTEMPT
4. SHE SAID DESTROY
5. INTERLUDE 2
6. NUMBER FOUR
LP 2:
1. DISAMBIGUATOR (BUBBLYFISH & GLOMAG REMIX)
2. INTERFERENCE VS THE 13 DEVILS OF SYNCOPATION (DAVID LAST REMIX)
3. ALL OR NOTHING (DOILY REMIX)
4. QPE #5 DUB REMIX (QPE REMIX)
5. GLOBALIZATION REPORT MIXX (BINGSANG REMIX)
6. INTERFERIX (CRITERION REMIX)