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Various Artists – Notre Dame 7 ET18 – This Window – Poultry / Chow

 This Window – Poultry / Chow

I discovered this video on Facebook. It is always flattering to find a track taking on a new life in a different format. Originally this was released on a cassette compilation in 1994 (see below).
Various Artists – Notre Dame 7  ET18
Released: 1994
Genre: Electronic
Style: Experimental, Ambient, Drone, Minimal
Label: EE Tapes  – Belgian label, founded in 1987 by Eriek Van Havere, specialising in experimental, ambient and noise music.

A place for electronic, ambient and adventurous music. Since 1987. Where legends feel at home… EE Tapes


2009 remix of ‘Extraction’ by Jake Bright.

Originally released by EE Tapes in 1989, Extraction was conceived to be heard in two parts, side A and side B. This download mix is a lot softer and feels a lot different from the original cassette release as the tracks are broken down into single files.

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This Window - Cassette Culture 1989 - 2009 - Extraction Pt. 1

Notes on original cassette version: The tracks on this release merge so individual track timings are difficult to work out. Side A is 19:45 and Side B is 19:40. ‘Extraction’ was recorded for EE-Tapes of Belgium in 1989. Part of this recording was made in a bathroom and features Nicola Mumford the vocalist from Finish The Story.

“Extraction” proves conclusively that This Window are no mere flash in the pan,with ‘songs’ that sting in the face and playing that flays the senses raw. I clearly prefer This Window to any other current state of the artmixers that are presently popular.

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‘The Search Begins’ 1981 – recorded on a Tascam 144 Portastudio

PURE AUDIO AND VISUAL MAYHEM!

Published on 28 Sep 2016

The good ol’ days of home recording in anolog . 4 track recording with early VHS video. It is meant to look like this and the intro is meant to be pure audio and visual noise!!!!

From Garry Smout‘s Facebook Page

Peter Bright (AKA This Window) recorded the music on a Tascam 4 track cassette in 1981 and I crash edited the video between two VHS machines and a titler around 1982 or 83. Early home recording all round! It ‘won’ me three silk handkerchiefs at the Tokyo Film Festival (they even sent the VHS back!) and totally baffled the BBC on how it was made. Which was odd as it was the early intro to the BBC’s Doctor Who that is the inspiration! And yes, that is Gene Kelly at the beginning but the fine, thin figure with the long ponytail (OK, mullet) is me running in my Bristol living room. Blistering track from Peter and yes, it is meant to look like that. Only 2016 addition is a credit/copyright at the end and I sharpened the image a little.

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New video – This Window live in Venice 2016 #jazz #experimental

Venice – a live Performance by This Window is a very rare occasion

 

A rare performance in Venice. The bells are the actual sounds of Venice in full voice. Piazza San Marco (in English = St Mark’s Square) is the main public square of Venice, where it is locally simply known as “the Piazza” and is the key part of the social, religious and political centre of Venice is a cacophony of sounds.

Venice Highlights:

There is so much art in Venice to see – I must admit I neglected most of the galleries except the Guggenheim (Palazzo Venier dei Leoni) where Peggy Guggenheim lived and which has a couple of great Pollocks, my favourite being Two, 1943–45 and a typical Bacon (Study for Chimpanzee) in the European Art exhibition. It was also great to see a slashed canvas of the Italian artist Lucio Fontana (1899-1968). The simple act of slashing a canvas would now be a pointless exercise but during his time this was a dramatic statement about art and painting.

 

Venice

These views have been represented in paint and photographs a billion times – they are common to generations of travellers and the walls in galleries around the world groan from the weight of their presence.


We all have bigger audiences and the distribution of music is cheap but the question we need to ask is – Are we better for it?

 

The democracy of releasing material has punched a hole right through the mainstream record industry, the business models of the 20th century no longer apply and ironically the ‘Home Tapers’ philosophy and strategy of DIY has suddenly become the mainstream itself. It is no longer viable for major labels to invest and promote new stars. YouTube, SoundCloud, ReverbNation et al, have enabled the artist to become creator, producer, distributor and manager. The object as product and art, the cassette, has become replaced by the file. The freedom we craved in the 1970’s has now actually happened. We all have bigger audiences and the distribution of music is cheap but the question we need to ask is – Are we better for it?

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Cassette Culture 1989 – 2009 by This Window

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Recycled postcard that was originally a promo for ‘Cassette Culture

Cassette Culture 1989 – 2009 by This Window

Still number one in local charts and still in the top 150 in the UK – not bad considering  Cassette Culture 1989 – 2009 was released in 2009.

In 2009 a free download of ‘You Have The Power‘ by This Window was made possible by Microsoft. There were 1,000s of other FREE songs available to download. These free downloads (m4a and mp3) were all from ReverbNation artists and made possible through the Sponsored Songs program. These songs were EXCLUSIVE to the program, which meant you would have to pay to get these downloads from anywhere else.

This was a fantastic success with thousands of copies of the track being downloaded, which helped sell other tracks.