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INTERFERENCE 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 releasing Intereference's lost self-titled album might implicate us in this transgression, we would hope it at least challenges the convention, suggesting that revisionists might have left a few stones unturned. The album is set for a vinyl and digital only release February 2010. 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 DeMarinis, David Linton and Michael Brown. DeMarinis 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 Ranaldo, 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: CBGB’s, 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 Elliott Sharp and Sue Hanel (The Swans). Originally slated for release on Josh Baer and Glenn 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 (Brooklyn 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. 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. |
Catalog Number: TSR040 Tracklisting: All Tracks Listed In Blue Are Linked To A Downloadable MP3 |