[78-L] Is there a Disco mix, ya think?

[Martin Fisher]

Just the thing for one of Classic Records to release on their single sided,
45 r.p.m., 200 gram vinyl format.  :-)

Mar(yeah, I buy one occasionally)tin

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- bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of David Lennick
- Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 9:27 AM
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- Subject: [78-L] Is there a Disco mix, ya think?
- 
- Can't wait for the video.
- http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/music/in-uk-stars-record-john-
- cages-silent-work-433-and-its-a-seasonal-hit/article1833069/
- 
- n U.K., stars record John Cage's silent work 4'33" - and it's a
- seasonal hit
- ELIZABETH RENZETTI
- LONDON- From Saturday's Globe and Mail
- Published Friday, Dec. 10, 2010 4:00PM EST
- Last updated Friday, Dec. 10, 2010 5:11PM EST
- 
- You can't sing along with it or dance to it. It does not have a catchy
- beat -
- or, in fact, any beat at all. Yet the producers of Cage Against the
- Machine are
- hoping that their single - four-and-a-half minutes of famous musicians
- being
- perfectly silent - will be the top-selling single in Britain this
- Christmas.
- 
- This week, 40 musicians representing the old guard (Billy Bragg,
- Orbital) and
- the new (the Kooks, Guillemots) entered a London studio and did not
- play their
- instruments in a performance of John Cage's famous silent composition,
- 4'33''.
- 
- The studio microphones picked up breathing, shuffling and, on the
- second take,
- the muffled sound of someone's buzzing BlackBerry. But there was no
- singing,
- and no music played. The resulting single, the proceeds from which will
- benefit
- four charities, will be released this week, in time for the frenzied
- British
- ritual known as the race for the Christmas No. 1.
- 
- "There was an incredible atmosphere in the studio," said Julie
- Hilliard, who
- dreamt up the project with her husband Dave, an artist, and their
- friend John
- Rogers. "Everyone turned up on time, there was no diva attitude."
- (However
- there were reports that troubled Babyshambles singer Pete Doherty
- failed to show.)
- 
- Although it's not available for download or radio play until Monday,
- Cage
- Against the Machine has already won a sizable Internet following, with
- 80,000
- fans on its Facebook page. The remix maestro Mr. Scruff is planning a
- cover
- version, in which he tapes himself walking around silently for four and
- a half
- minutes.
- 
- ''The great thing about 4'33'' is that you can project anything you
- want onto
- it," said Hilliard. "It's a beautiful blank."
- 
- The Christmas No. 1 has become an unlikely battle ground in Britain in
- recent
- years. After several stars of the X Factor TV show won the top spot -
- which is
- so highly coveted that bookmakers take bets on it - last year an
- Internet
- campaign was launched to end the dominance of Simon Cowell's music
- factory. In
- a hard-fought battle, X Factor's Joe McElderry was narrowly beaten by
- the
- hard-core U.S. band Rage Against the Machine and its song Killing in
- the Name.
- 
- This year's silent single is in part a tribute to the Rage Against the
- Machine
- campaign (the band's Tom Morello has called the song "awesome"). "A lot
- of
- people see it as a way of sticking it to Simon Cowell," Hilliard
- acknowledges,
- "though I have nothing against him."
- 
- More important, she says, is raising awareness and funds for charity -
- including CALM, an anti-suicide group, and the British Tinnitus
- Association. In
- November, a charity single from the British Legion consisting of two
- minutes of
- silence reached No. 20 in the charts.
- 
- But will enough people actually buy a four-and-a-half-minute anti-song
- to
- propel it to No. 1? "That is the million-dollar question," Hilliard
- said,
- adding "there's definitely a place for silence and reflection at this
- time of
- year." It's an experiment worthy of American composer Cage, who once
- noted,
- "There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is
- always
- something to see, something to hear."
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