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A Bunch of Foulness In The Pit - post Palais pop, but even heavier on the sampling keyboards for the noise

Ohi Ho Bang Bang - perfect single

Demixed - released right after As Is in 1992, very early extremely schizoid techno remixes shamelessly pilfering tons of contemporary loops in the best way possible, does anyone know who these 'remixers' are or is it just Hiller and Daniel Miller?)

Little Present - radioplay collage about a visit to mid-nineties Japan that keeps diverting into impossible tiny songs, field recordings and radio/tv samples, my favorite thing he's done

'as is', we trainspot now? techno rush remix of 'gesang der jungliche', keyboard riff from Neg's 'yellow black & rectangular' turned into house anthem, the best loops from Can's 'quantum physics' drawn out & extended... what else?

'demixed' is even crazier / dancier. they knew their detroit...

Mauritz von Oswald guests on 'A Bunch of Foulness' in 1984...

he put out a s/t in 2000, it had a few good things on it like 'micki mouse', though I'm not sure I'd start with that one. I need to find those early singles.

anyone heard his cover version of the Hindemith opera with Fehlmann?
http://www.discogs.com/release/88254

Not without teh several acrimony – full story on Kev Hopper's site:
http://www.kevhopper.dsl.pipex.com/Stump.html

put on 'as is' last night and ended up going through nearly all of them. pretty great.

when that 'advice to clever children' article came out and all four of the victims counter-reviewed the Stockhausen pieces, saying he should loop and build them up... I smiled because Hiller had already done that on 'As Is', along with tons of other concrete pieces & 80's digital computer music, & he'd done it perfectly... he'd obviously spent years in reverent listening, & knew how to apply the best snippets over rhythms to make them catchy without being disrespectful. Turning Berio / Berberian's 'Visage' into _good_ dance music.

the Stockhausen remix turns up again on Demixed, this time paired with the 'What is going on? / & Why are you being so nice! nice! nice!' sample... in the early 90's, with good raves still going on in northern california, the idea of a record that overtly combined Stockhausen with SPEED LIMIT THREE equalled one happy me.

Better quality of the above YouTube

so good.

can anyone speak to how different the "Hyperprism" mixes are from "Oben Im Eck"? I've only heard the latter.

i second that emotion.

also, any more sightings of hh? the last thing i know of was a co-production on a chicks on speed record around 2002.

came here to post that youtube clip above.

all else I've heard so far is A Bunch of Foulness in the Pit, from which I've been playing the instrumental tracks on repeat. they're almost like acoustic Schimpfluch noise reconstituted into odd rhythms. so great!

holy shit just scored a copy of the ohi ho bang bang 12", it's insane! "the three" samples "a wongga dance song" (ATTN milton!!)

"the two" sounds like a different mix to the version in the video upthread though, the beats are kinda heavier. where can i find the video mix?

actually it's "the path" that samples sakamoto, got the sides mixed up. the bass on this track is huge!

"Johnny Du Lump" is frickin' amazing.

that Izumi Kobayashi album he produced has finally been blogged and it's wonderful. the exact kind of crosscultural cutup I love. Holger's a lot more present as a producer than he was on the later Azucar Letal album (which I like, but which is relatively straightforward)

and some of Izumi's earlier disco & technopop singles from 78-83 are on youtube now and you can see why they got along, search 'coffe rumba'

I need this.

is that IK.I? been looking for that for a while. i'm a huge fan of their collaborative effort Oben Im Eck. noticed she played keyboards on Wild and Lonely by the Associates which is pretty cool. guess that was the Maurizio connection

recently been enjoying Holger Hiller's album A Present. it's a travelogue of sorts, field recordings of Tokyo he made during a trip visiting his son. lots of strangely catchy sample collages interspersed with narrative. extremely cool

still sux that the video mix of Ohi Ho Bang Bang is not readily available (afaict)

he's def one of the greats

oh, Milton already mentioned A Present upthread, and did a much better job of describing it than I. good album

Ha't Vo'i Quê Huong 7 inch, 1982

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0nMGiLeDik

half hour interview with Hiller via Momus on the subject of one single 2.5 minute song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3YPOvKDumk

ten thousand glass-bead-game points to Nick for bringing up Musicae Atrium de Madrid in response to Hiller's clue that he'd sampled reconstructions of ancient Greek music

Atrium Musicae de Madrid / Gregorio Paniagua

also: listening to the 2000 self-titled. while I remember why it seemed slightly behind the times when it came out -- he was using a lot of mid-90's era drum loops -- 20 years later, that now actually adds to the fun, because all the unexpected edits / audio non-sequiturs applied to those basic materials only make it more difficult to place the era of what you're listening to. the ingredients are safely historical but people are only beginning to catch up to forms like this now.

still nothing around that sounds much like his 80's records but shouldn't be surprised that this last record ended up aging well

'Little Present' is one of the best albums ever. 100% unique.
This guy is a treasure - can't wait to listen to this. Thanks for posting!

>still nothing around that sounds much like his 80's records

going through 'Oben Im Eck' & Izumi Kobayashi's 'IK.I' today and... well, in terms of digitally precise disjunctive sample manipulation music, there's been a lot of popular music in the wake of this. now that software samplers lead everyone to think of musical form in terms of sample libraries & dropdown file browsers, you don't need to have even heard of Hiller to have your music travelling through some of the same aesthetics he mapped in the 80's but it is seriously a major oversight that his name does not come up more often among people who are paid to map these things, considering the modern territory

at the same time I get why Oneotrix / vapor stuff travelled further -- it goes for soma / ambient / psychedelia instead of Hiller's hyper-alert atonality. it is easy to escape into vapor; Hiller's stuff isn't about zoning.

just in case anyone else has learned the answer since I asked ten years ago -- how different are the mixes on 'Hyperprism' to 'Oben Im Eck'? did 'Hyperprism' even ever end up on CD anywhere?

drat

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