Stereo Odyssey - A KCRW Radio Transmission, 1996

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Label: KCRW

Seller's description:

"William Orbit took over the airwaves of KCRW in Los Angeles at the beginning of 1996. His half-hour broadcast aired every Friday at midnight and captivated listeners in L.A. for three months. Because it was broadcast on radio, he didn't need to worry about copyright clearance for his audio samples, nor did he worry about creating songs that fit into a radio-friendly format, or even creating individual songs for that matter. For 30 minutes, he played what he wanted to hear, and it was all mixed, scratched and fused live in the studio.

He usually opened each show with a low droning sound which evolved into either a song or collage of music and spoken words. The mix would then take off in a fiery ball of improvisations over various reggae and dub tracks, live recordings and even previously unreleased material.

Note: Never officially released, this music is only available on promo-only CDr (if you know the right people).

This is a three CDr promo-only compilation of the music described above, released by KCRW. This was never available to the general public. The track listing is in the second picture above.

This CDr has also been signed by William Orbit."

Sub-track duration from media player, index track duration from packaging, sub-tracks best-guess/arbitrarily attributed to the index track; they don't add up quite right...

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