- Artist
- Graeme Miller & Steve Shill
- ReleaseProduct
- The Carrier Frequency
- Label
- Finders Keepers Records
- Catalogue Number
- FKR105LP
- Release Date
- October 2, 2020
-
Vinyl 1×LP
$25.99Read MoreFKR105LP
Genres
Press Release
Frozen in time over four decades, this 1984 ‘cyclic incantation’ combines electroacoustics, grazed euphoria, industrial aesthetics, sampled salvage and recycled mechanic folk to score a widely revered dystopian physical theatre performance from the UK’s hugely influential Impact Theatre Co-Operative. From a seminal post-punk art-action faction (formed in a Leeds warehouse space alongside Gang Of Four and The Mekons), this apocalyptic prophecy not only cracked avant garde stage boundaries but provided a captive audience with stunning set design and an incredible broken-music soundtrack before its swan song amidst Poland’s 1986 power plant panic. From the sonic workbench of the very same bedsit- situationists that created the haunting 1983 music to ‘The Moomins’ TV animation comes the eventual isolated music release to this pioneering theatrical spectacle of truly mythical status. ‘The Carrier Frequency’ (1984) was a legendary stage work that emerged from the collaboration between the influential performance company Impact Theatre Co-operative and cult novelist Russel Hoban. The incantation of Hoban’s text voiced in the broken verbiage of a post-apocalyptic broken language and the entranced physicality of Impact’s ritualistic performance in a pool of cold dark water printed deeply on those who witnessed it. It reached an impassioned crescendo on the rising score by Graeme Miller and Steve Shill who also performed in the work. The music exploited samples from Hoban’s own recordings of the shortwave radio broadcasts which he tuned in as he wrote, helping him order the green phosphorescent letters on the screen of his Apple computer. Shill and Miller mirrored Hoban’s channelling in their approach to making the score, following the notion that this was the broadcast of some Central Eurasian radio station doomed forever to circulate fragments of static interlaced with desultory public information broadcasts and ‘The Record’, its only surviving fragment of a lost culture. The score was forged on an 8-track tape recorder sandwiching harmonium and accordion with the output of a digital delay machine that could trap and fragments of audio to be triggered and manually pitched. It is a knowingly crude montage where samples denote fragmentation itself and their reassembly, like Frankenstein’s monster, shows the stitches that join the stolen body parts. Available for the first-time ever on deluxe vinyl with the full cooperation of the composers and Impact Theatre Co-Operative lynchpins Graeme Miller and Steve Shill.
Track List
A Long Paleness
Reggie Windmill
Landschaft
And Now The Record
Longdream
Beat Frequency Oscillator
Without Impatience
A False Altar
The Girl From Tirana
Graeme Miller & Steve Shill
-
- Artist
- Graeme Miller & Steve Shill
- ReleaseProduct
- The Moomins
- Label
- Finders Keepers Records
- Catalogue Number
- FKR090DL
- Release Date
- February 3, 2017
- LP (special)
- CD
- Download
-
- Artist
- Graeme Miller & Steve Shill
- ReleaseProduct
- The Moomins
- Label
- Finders Keepers Records
- Catalogue Number
- FKSP007DL
- Release Date
- April 27, 2015
- Download
Finders Keepers Records
-
Pre-order
- Artist
- Graeme Miller
- ReleaseProduct
- Comet In Moominland
- Label
- Finders Keepers Records
- Catalogue Number
- FKR111LP
- Release Date
- June 3, 2022
- LP
-
- Artist
- COS
- ReleaseProduct
- COSMIX
- Label
- Finders Keepers Records
- Catalogue Number
- FKR104
- Release Date
- July 16, 2021
- LP
-
- Artist
- Various Artists
- ReleaseProduct
- Strain Crack & Break: Music From The Nurse With Wound List Volume Two
- Label
- Finders Keepers Records
- Catalogue Number
- FKR108LP
- Release Date
- June 18, 2021
- LP
-
- Artist
- Anadolu Bayramlari
- ReleaseProduct
- Iyi ve Iyi
- Label
- Finders Keepers Records
- Catalogue Number
- PVC2DL
- Release Date
- May 7, 2021
- Download
-
- Artist
- COS / Daniel Schell / Dick Annegarn
- ReleaseProduct
- Mein Maschine Ist Schön/The ff BOOM
- Label
- Finders Keepers Records
- Catalogue Number
- FKSP019DL
- Release Date
- March 5, 2021
- 7″
- Download
-
- Artist
- Alain Pierre
- ReleaseProduct
- Ô Sidarta
- Label
- Finders Keepers Records
- Catalogue Number
- FKR107LP
- Release Date
- December 11, 2020
- LP
-
- Artist
- Various Artists
- ReleaseProduct
- Daisies (Sedmikrasky)
- Label
- Finders Keepers Records
- Catalogue Number
- FKR038LPC
- Release Date
- November 20, 2020
- LP (special)
-
- Artist
- François Tusques
- ReleaseProduct
- La Chasse Au Snark
- Label
- Finders Keepers Records
- Catalogue Number
- 27CACKLP
- Release Date
- September 4, 2020
- LP
1980s
-
- Artist
- Oxbow
- ReleaseProduct
- Let Me Be A Woman
- Label
- Blackhouse Records
- Catalogue Number
- BH999146LP
- Release Date
- April 29, 2022
- LP (special)
-
- Artist
- Tristan Disco
- ReleaseProduct
- Demonstration: Takes & Retakes (Krikor & Civilistjävel! Remixes)
- Label
- Camisole Records
- Catalogue Number
- CAM023
- Release Date
- March 4, 2022
- EP
-
- Artist
- Hiroshi Yoshimura
- ReleaseProduct
- Music For Nine Postcards
- Label
- Empire Of Sign
- Catalogue Number
- EOS01
- Release Date
- October 6, 2017
- LP
-
- Artist
- Yasuaki Shimizu
- ReleaseProduct
- Kiren
- Label
- Palto Flats
- Catalogue Number
- PF011
- Release Date
- February 25, 2022
- LP
- Download
-
- Artist
- Jimmy Smack
- ReleaseProduct
- Death Is Certain
- Label
- Knekelhuis
- Catalogue Number
- KH040
- Release Date
- March 4, 2022
- LP
- Download
-
- Artist
- Peter Davison
- ReleaseProduct
- Glide
- Label
- Fact Of Being
- Catalogue Number
- FoB-006
- Release Date
- May 14, 2021
- LP
- CD
-
- Artist
- This Mortal Coil
- ReleaseProduct
- It'll End In Tears
- Label
- 4AD
- Catalogue Number
- EAD3X04A
- Release Date
- October 1, 1984
- LP
- CD
- Download
-
- Artist
- This Mortal Coil
- ReleaseProduct
- Filigree & Shadow
- Label
- 4AD
- Catalogue Number
- EAD3X05A
- Release Date
- September 22, 1986
- LP
- CD
- Download
Soundtracks
-
Pre-order
- Artist
- Jon Natchez
- ReleaseProduct
- Luzzu [official soundtrack]
- Label
- Phantom Limb
- Catalogue Number
- KINO006
- Release Date
- May 6, 2022
- LP
- Download
-
- Artist
- Eli Keszler
- ReleaseProduct
- The Scary of Sixty-First (OST)
- Label
- Deeper Into Movies Records
- Catalogue Number
- DIM001LP
- Release Date
- April 15, 2022
- LP (special)
-
- Artist
- Jonny Greenwood
- ReleaseProduct
- Spencer
- Label
- Mercury Classics
- Catalogue Number
- 3845243
- Release Date
- April 8, 2022
- CD
-
- Artist
- Howard Shore
- ReleaseProduct
- Videodrome
- Label
- Mondo
- Catalogue Number
- MOND252B
- Release Date
- March 25, 2022
- LP
-
- Artist
- Lawrence Lek
- ReleaseProduct
- AIDOL (OST)
- Label
- Hyperdub
- Catalogue Number
- HDBCD054
- Release Date
- November 27, 2020
- LP (special)
- Download
-
- Artist
- Flying Lotus
- ReleaseProduct
- Yasuke
- Label
- Warp
- Catalogue Number
- WARPDD334
- Release Date
- April 30, 2021
- LP (special)
- CD
- Download
-
- Artist
- Toto and Brian Eno
- ReleaseProduct
- Dune (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
- Label
- Jackpot
- Catalogue Number
- JPR063LPB
- Release Date
- January 21, 2022
- LP
-
- Artist
- Bobby Krlic
- ReleaseProduct
- The Alienist: Angel of Darkness (Original Series Soundtrack)
- Label
- INVADA Records
- Catalogue Number
- LSINV254D
- Release Date
- January 22, 2021
- LP (special)
- Download
Vinyl Reissue
-
- Artist
- Low
- ReleaseProduct
- Things We Lost in the Fire
- Label
- Kranky
- Catalogue Number
- KRANK046
- Release Date
- January 1, 2001
- Download
-
- Artist
- Oxbow
- ReleaseProduct
- Let Me Be A Woman
- Label
- Blackhouse Records
- Catalogue Number
- BH999146LP
- Release Date
- April 29, 2022
- LP (special)
-
- Artist
- Lootpack
- ReleaseProduct
- The Lost Tapes
- Label
- Crate Diggas Palace
- Catalogue Number
- CDP2002LP
- Release Date
- May 13, 2022
- LP
-
- Artist
- Robert Rental / Thomas Leer
- ReleaseProduct
- The Bridge
- Label
- Mute
- Catalogue Number
- IBRIDGE1
- Release Date
- June 11, 2021
- LP (special)
- CD
- Download
-
Pre-order
- Artist
- Run The Jewels
- ReleaseProduct
- Run The Jewels
- Label
- Seeker Music
- Catalogue Number
- SEEKR001
- Release Date
- May 6, 2022
- LP (special)
-
- Artist
- Tenniscoats
- ReleaseProduct
- Papa's Ear
- Label
- Morr Music
- Catalogue Number
- morr 184
- Release Date
- January 15, 2012
- LP
- CD
- Download
-
- Artist
- Tata Vega & Al Johnson
- ReleaseProduct
- I’ve Got My Second Wind
- Label
- Melodies International
- Catalogue Number
- MEL21
- Release Date
- April 1, 2022
- 12”