Plunderphonic / U2

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Label: Mystery Tape Laboratory

Track A3 Source: The final chord from The Beatles "A day in the life" (Lennon McCartney) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Capitol 4XT 2653), plus an interpolation of the fanfare chord from "A hard day's night", by the same group. Track 1 segues into Track 2

Track A4 Source: All sounds are borrowed, electronically unaltered, from "Bad", produced by Quincy Jones. Index 1: revised. Index 2: improvised. Index 3: homogenized. Refer: "Gesang der jüngling" by K.Stockhausen.

Track A5 Sources: "Blue jay way" (George Harrison) and "Strawberry fields forever" (John Lennon), taken from the Magical Mystery Tour collection (EMI / Capitol / Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab C-047). Index 1: Molly's budgies. Index 2: sfield. Refer: Faithful by Todd Rundgren.

Track A6 Sources: Index 1: "Well" (a cappella) from Trout Mask Replica by (Reprise 1 2027-2 SRC=05 M1 S3). 'i froze in solid motion well well" etc. Index 2: Simultaneously "Bellerin' plain" bass; "Petrified forest" and "I wanna hold your big toe" guitar; "Flash Gordon's ape" and "Bellerin' plain" percussion; all of which, along wtih the title track vocal, are from the LP Lick My Decals Off Baby by Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band (Straight/Reprise 6420). Refer: Mirror.

Track Α7 Source: Index 1: Entirely "White Xmas" (Decca Album No.A-403 1065-A), since 1943 THE best selling single record. Refer: "I'm dreaming of a black Christmas", a series of paintings by Richard Hamilton. Segue to: Sources: Index 2: Aka Pygmies (Unesco Phillips 6586 016) and an unidentified tango record from Claude Vivier's collection. Refer: Fabulous.

Track Α8 Source: "Don't" (RCA Victor 6382-2R). Added: guitars (x3); basses (x4); brushes (x3); pianos (÷3 : index1); piano (x1 : index2). Refer: Phil Spector.

Track Α9 Source: Entirely "The Great Pretender" (RCA PB-13756-B). Refer: Ray Charles LP's played at 45rpm.

Tracks Α10/11 Sources: Selections from the "James Brown Audio Utterance and Riff Archive" (distilled from two dozen LP's), Prince's "The Black Album", It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back by Public 'yo can't copyright no beats man' Enemy (CBS/Def Jam BFCT-44303), "Beat dis" by Bomb The Bass (Island / 4th & B'way IS1192), "Pump up the volume" by M.A.R.R.S. (Vertigo / 4AD SOVX 2400), alto saxophone cadenza from "A night in Tunisia"(Dial?), street traffic, and Mystery Lab gunfire file. Refer: "I'm real" by James Brown and Full Force.

Track Α12 Sources: Aka Pygmies and "S'posin'" from Fabulous (Sparton / Command RS862SD). Refer: White; Peter Gabriel.

Track Β1 Source: "The Andy Griffith Theme" simulated by TeeVee Toons (A&M 91002).

Track Β2 Source: The piano score for "Etudes d'exécution transcendante:1. Prélude". Refer: Spike Jones.

Track Β3 Source: Several tracks from ...And Justice For All (Elektra CD 60812). Refer: Pocket.

Track Β4 Source: "Birthday" from "White Album" (Parlophone CDP 7 46444 2 DIDX 1905 LC 0642 #108078). Index 1: Index 2: Index 3: Refer: Prelude.

Track Β5 Source: "Corner Pocket" from "Crème De La Crème" (Nakamichi / Sheffield Lab RA-4000). Refer: "Porner cocket", a dance by Bill Coleman and his North American Experience.

Track Β6 Sources: 4 soloists: solo soprano sax concert at Music Gallery (22March'76); (1977), from the Mystery Lab K7 "Drums"; solo double bass concert at the Music Gallery (25February'84); "Mirror and water gazing" in Berlin (9April'86) from For Olim (Soul Note SN 11150 CD). Refer: Replica, MIst, White, and Fabulous.

Track Β7 Sources: 2 arrangements of "In a mist" (from Strange Interlude (Sparton/ Command RS 829 SD); and from Jazz (Warner Bros. CD 3197).

Track Β8 Source: "Pieces for orchestra, opus 10: #4" for 9 instruments. Refer: Prelude.

Track Β9 Sources: In order of overlapping appearance: sine tone at concert pitch; generic Symphony Orchestra tuning; samples from "Jaeger Master Violin Library"; introduction to "Atmosphères for large orchestra without percussion" (from Wergo 60162-50); "Prelude to act 1 of La Traviata" from "Anechoic Orchestral Music Recording" (Denon PG 6006); solo violin orchestra tuning (Mystery Lab). Refer: "Lontano" (far) by György Ligeti.

Track Β10 Source: "Le sacre du printemps" (Telarc CD-80054 DIDZ-10019).

Track Β11 Source: "Symphony #7, op.92, in A major, movement 4: allegro con brio" (Telarc CD-80163).

Track Β12 Source: "Raindrops keep falling on my head"; "My way"; "Theme from love story"; and "Somewhere my love" scored on 4 music boxes. Refer: Charles Ives.

Track Β13 Source: The aria from Glenn Gould's 2nd recording of the "Goldberg variations, BWV 988" (CBS MK 37779).

Track Β14 Source: "Over the rainbow" from "Magnificent Digital Sound" (Alshire ALCD 28). Refer: "Music for mike, piano, tape recorder and whistling" by Michael Snow.

Rerecorded at Mystery Lab, Toronto, except: Glenn Gould's pianos recorded at Government House and the National Archives, Ottawa, with the permission of the Glenn Gould estate. Michael Snow's tracks for Track A8 recorded at Music Gallery, Toronto. portions of Track B9 assembled in Henry Kaiser's garage, Oakland.

Bobby Wiseman appears courtesy of WEA / Risqué Disque.

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