Plunderphonics 69/96

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Plunderphonics 69/96
Plunderphonics 69/96 cover
Compilation album by John Oswald
Released April 3, 2001
Recorded 1969—1996
Genre Experimental
Length 2:33:20
Label Fony/Seeland
Producer(s) John Oswald
Professional reviews
John Oswald chronology
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{John Oswald & The Grateful Dead)
(1995)		 Plunderphonics 69/96
(2001)		 ]


Plunderphonics 69/96 is a two-CD compilation album by John Oswald. The album complies most of Oswald's infamous Plunderphonics recordings, including the 1989 Plunderphonic self-released giveway album that ran afowl of the Canadian Recording Industry (CRIA), and the Elektrax promotional EP that had been originally commissioned by Elektra Records. The "69/96" in the title derives from the fact that Oswald created the recordings represented therein between 1969 and 1996.

Oswald originally intended to release the album on his own Fony Records imprint, but was allegedly unable to get a pressing plant in Canada to cooperate with him. The American experimental music group Negativland, who runs their own micro-label Seeland Records, offered to release the recording themselves, as they were able to deal with an American pressing plant that respected Negativland's and other Seeland artists' right to creative appropriation of found sounds.

According to a statement he makes the album's interview booklet, Oswald intended Plunderphonics 69/96 to be packaged as a box set so that record stores would be forced to file the album in the more visible and musically diverse box set area rather than in an experimental music section in the back of the record store. Since Oswald's name does not appear on the outside package, the box set would be filed as if Plunderphonics was the artist/group name, thus having it filed between Luciano Pavarotti and Prince.

The two discs are categorized and identified as "Songs" and "Tunes". The tracks represented on "Songs" are based on rock and pop music, while the "Tunes" disc has cuts based on classical and jazz music.

The second disc is mastered so that it actually begins with track number 27, rather than track 1. This technical variation nonetheless made it impossible for some Plunderphonics fans, especially those using Apple computers, to either play the second disc on their computer or rip mp3 files for use in digital media devices like the iPod, unless "particular software" identified on the Plunderphonics website at the time was used.

[edit] Track listing

[edit] "Songs" disc

  1. "Btls" (1989)
  2. "Power" (1975)
  3. "O'hell" (1990)
  4. "2net" (1990)
  5. "Anon" (1990)
  6. "Vane" (1990)
  7. "Mother" (1990)
  8. "Z" (1990)
  9. "Angle" (1990)
  10. "Way" (1987)
  11. "Sfield" (1980)
  12. "Ebb" (1990)
  13. "Madmod" (1993)
  14. "Brazilianaires Theme" (1996)
  15. "Bday" (1996)
  16. "Philosophry" (1992)
  17. "Cuss" (1988)
  18. "Explo" (1996)
  19. "Sonic Euthanasia" (1994)
  20. "Cyfer" (1992)
  21. "Pretender" (1988)
  22. "Dont" (1988)
  23. "White" (1989)
  24. "Black" (1989)
  25. "Brown" (1989)
  26. "Dab" (1989)
  27. "Case Of Death Part One, Chapters 1-16" (1991)
  28. "Fabulous" (1983)

[edit] "Tunes" disc

  1. "Case Of Death Part Two, Chapters 1-9" (1991)
  2. "Andy (Dang Fishy Riff)" (1977)
  3. "Z24" (1993)
  4. "Net" (1989)
  5. "Birth1" (1989)
  6. "Mist" (1987)
  7. "Barely" (1969)
  8. "Birth2" (1969)
  9. "Prelude" (1990)
  10. "Mach" (1993)
  11. "Barelys" (1969)
  12. "Birth3" (1989)
  13. "Rose" (1988)
  14. "Ten4gv" (1986)
  15. "Debizet" (1991)
  16. "Pocket" (1987)
  17. "Tune" (1988)
  18. "Fold" (1995)
  19. "Mirror" (1988)
  20. "dWig" (1991)
  21. "7th" (1988)
  22. "Lune" (1995)
  23. "Discorite" (1996)
  24. "Lovedrops" (1989)
  25. "V&" (1991)
  26. "preLieu" (1991)
  27. "Para D" (1986)
  28. "Rainbow" (1989)
  29. "1001" (1993)
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