Episode 13: Mutant Beatniks

Statement:

Mono words. Memories of long nights tracing the airways; music and cross talking frequencies bleeding into each other. Subtune on one waveband, find apertures opening, disappear into the ether.

A piece of atmospheres, drifting mixes, illbient textures. A soundtrack to an unmade film. An out of tune radio hovering between stations. Some private diary tapes sent between estranged lovers.

MONO dips into a large archive of sounds, going back into childhood, in the days before internet, where radio was the instrument for transportation.

Bio:

The Mutant Beatniks started with the idea to produce short form Music Concrete pieces; noise music with an edge of outsider pop and breakbeat. Mutant Beatniks has experienced multiple band configurations with gaps in album production with different concepts and focuses. Many of their albums have been collaborations with other musicians and bands including members from William Strong and Upstairs (Animal Farm, 2008), Tool (Fountain, 2008 and Blazen, 2009), Dennis Ward (TRANSGRESSION, 2010), Shaun Robert, Victoria Clark and Frank Wright (ATLAS, 2011 and abstract, 2011), Mark Benson, and George Out.

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