Otomo Yoshihide - The Night Before The Death Of The Sampling Virus

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Otomo Yoshihide
The Night Before The Death Of The Sampling Virus

Album AU 1993 on Extreme label
Electronic (Noise, Experimental)

Recorded and mixed at Lost Space, Tokyo, January-May 1993. Mastered at Kojima Recordings, Tokyo, May 19 and 20, 1993. In Otomo's recording credit his name is misprinted as 'Toshihide'. This conceptual recording by the Tokyo avant-garde composer was a groundbreaking experiment in deconstruction released in 1993. The piece is based on a system that exploits the malfunction of the CD player, whereby the listener is instructed to play the CD in shuffle mode to achieve a random replay of very small fragments of sound and thus hear an entirely different piece of music with repeated listens. Much in the way that Oval worked with the destabilization of the CD medium.

Musicians

	Otomo Yoshihide ttbl, g, *1959 JP album by
	Haruna Ito voc, liner notes, english translation
	Tenko voc, JP voice, sampled
	Yamatsuka Eye voc, voice, sampled
	Hideaki Sasaki , performer on track
	Yuji Katsui vn, JP performer on track

Producers

Morishita Masaki co-producer

Oishi Chikako design

Hiromi Takase mastered by

Iwamura Satoshi mastered by

Michael Brand photography by, image & photos

Otomo Yoshihide producer, recorded by, mixed by

Roger Richards producer

Album Tracks

No	Title	Artist	Duration
1	Toyota	Otomo Yoshihide	0:02
2	Akai	Otomo Yoshihide	0:06
3	Matsushita	Otomo Yoshihide	1:18
4	Aiwa	Otomo Yoshihide	0:29
5	Nintendo	Otomo Yoshihide	2:25
6	Mitsubishi	Otomo Yoshihide	0:03
7	NTT	Otomo Yoshihide	0:32
8	Fuji Film	Otomo Yoshihide	1:30
9	Hitachi	Otomo Yoshihide	0:15
10	Shimizu	Otomo Yoshihide	0:27
11	Canon	Otomo Yoshihide	0:05
12	Kashima	Otomo Yoshihide	0:48
13	TEAC	Otomo Yoshihide	1:05
14	Nissan	Otomo Yoshihide	0:04
15	Citizen	Otomo Yoshihide	1:02
16	Sony	Otomo Yoshihide	0:30
17	Olympus	Otomo Yoshihide	0:34
18	Sansui	Otomo Yoshihide	0:15
19	NEC	Otomo Yoshihide	0:12
20	Honda	Hideaki Sasaki	2:25
21	Seibu	Otomo Yoshihide	2:05
22	Bridgestone	Otomo Yoshihide	0:03
23	Yamaha	Otomo Yoshihide	1:50
24	Matsuda	Otomo Yoshihide	0:30
25	Toshiba	Otomo Yoshihide	0:03
26	Sharp	Otomo Yoshihide	0:12
27	Mitsui	Otomo Yoshihide	1:02
28	Casio	Otomo Yoshihide	1:33
29	Nihon Victor	Otomo Yoshihide	0:41
30	Sega	Otomo Yoshihide	1:47
31	JUKI	Otomo Yoshihide	1:35
32	Pioneer	Otomo Yoshihide	0:34
33	Fostex	Otomo Yoshihide	0:16
34	Sumitomo	Otomo Yoshihide	0:17
35	Obayashi	Otomo Yoshihide	1:03
36	Asahi Kasei	Otomo Yoshihide	1:28
37	Kenwood	Otomo Yoshihide	0:04
38	Toyo Engineering	Otomo Yoshihide	1:02
39	Nakamichi	Otomo Yoshihide	0:19
40	Nikon	Yuji Katsui	1:11
41	Suzuki	Otomo Yoshihide	0:07
42	Nisseki	Otomo Yoshihide	0:03
43	Fujita	Otomo Yoshihide	0:20
44	Isuzu	Otomo Yoshihide	1:48
45	Daihatsu	Otomo Yoshihide	2:15
46	Konica	Otomo Yoshihide	0:28
47	Maxell	Otomo Yoshihide	0:37
48	Contax	Otomo Yoshihide	0:11
49	Roland	Otomo Yoshihide	1:19
50	Fujitsu	Otomo Yoshihide	0:34
51	Seiko	Otomo Yoshihide	0:49
52	TDK	Otomo Yoshihide	0:29
53	Sanyo	Otomo Yoshihide	0:03
54	Kao	Otomo Yoshihide	0:31
55	Shiseido	Otomo Yoshihide	0:34
56	Marubeni	Otomo Yoshihide	0:34
57	Sekisui	Otomo Yoshihide	0:24
58	Kanebo	Otomo Yoshihide	1:07
59	JAL	Otomo Yoshihide	0:12
60	Fuji Jyuko	Otomo Yoshihide	0:16
61	Crown	Otomo Yoshihide	0:52
62	uniden 21	Otomo Yoshihide	0:27
63	Brother	Otomo Yoshihide	0:11
64	Minolta	Otomo Yoshihide	0:15
65	Komatsu	Otomo Yoshihide	1:27
66	Ito Chu	Otomo Yoshihide	1:50
67	Parco	Otomo Yoshihide	0:09
68	OKI	Otomo Yoshihide	0:38
69	Amano	Otomo Yoshihide	0:22
70	Bandai	Otomo Yoshihide	0:34
71	Renown	Otomo Yoshihide	0:30
72	Sogo	Otomo Yoshihide	1:13
73	Takeda	Otomo Yoshihide	0:10
74	Kubota	Otomo Yoshihide	1:18
75	Konami	Otomo Yoshihide	0:11
76	Amada	Otomo Yoshihide	0:06
77	Korg	Otomo Yoshihide	0:01

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