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***themselves are doseone and jel. doseone is the nowhere man out to make the world small and something lovely of his neurosis, who skipped Cincinnati town for somewhere more dreamt in the dust of a marketing degree. He's an artist who is free of form and slave to his own scatterbrained genius. jel is the drum-machine's premiere musician, whose distinct few-bit sound and rhythmic sensibility render him coveted by vocalists far and wide. His frequent Chicago-to-Cincinnati sojourns to collaborate with doseone took a final turn when they removed themselves to California. the no music of aiffs is the companion piece to the duo's September 2002 release, the no music, which was picked as a New York Times top ten record by Neil Strauss. The original has been remixed down to its smallest intestine and back toward the light until only the order of its tracks remains intact. The record features a new themselves song along with guest remixers Controller7 and matth, Hrvatski, why?, Hood, alias, A Grape Dope (John Herndon), Fog, odd nosdam, The Notwist and Electric Birds. The listening experience that follows is a personality-heavy splay of the thousand threads in every of sort of human music. Twelve diverse guest artists were selected in a real life lottery from an entire globe's worth of eligible home recordists. Each original track is reborn-- re-contextualized and translated, through a new lens, unique to each of the guest artist's sensibilities-- from Hood's noisy-fuzz madness, to the bright colors of A Grape Dope's (John Herndon's) extremely tweaked source sounds, to The Notwist's relentless melodic pop organism. Heard from a new perspective, the coloring, shading and textures added and/or removed by each guest forces a marriage of obscure pallets and eccentric tastes into an entirely new, several-second-long adventure. Elements that were previously nascent are now vibrant and pulsing and vice versa. If you've heard the no music, listening to the no music of aiffs is like remembering a song you might have heard somewhere, but this time you're on the other side of the world and in a kitchen instead of the basement, depending on the song and the remixer. The CD is enhanced with two music videos - visual remixes of "poison pit" and "you devil you," directed by Ravi Zupa. the no music of aiffs offers an eerie and pleasantly eccentric intimacy that permeates this collage of a collage of a collage. The end result of the record is the gladdening of aging and the erosion of the everyday genres the artists involved are generally filed under, all the while maintaining a consistent bedroom-music sound. And so the moral of this record is that sometimesÖ good music can lead to good people, or music is what friends are for... or something like that. - Features guest artists Controller7 and matth, Hrvatski, why?, Hood, alias, A Grape Dope (John Herndon), Fog, odd nosdam, The Notwist and Electric Birds.
- the no music is critically acclaimed, a "Best of the Year Top Ten" pick in the New York Times
- Enhanced CD with two music videos by Ravi Zupa
- Full fall 2003 tour planned
30-second RealAudio excerpts: Terror Fabulous
Hat Set for Butler (demixed by Themselves)
Mouthful (remixed by Matth and Controler 7)
Good People Check (remixed by Hrvatski)
Poison Pit (remixed by Why?)
Livetrap (remixed by Hood)
Only Child Explosion (remixed by Alias)
Dr. Moonorgun Please (remixed by Grapedope)
Darkskydemo (remixed by Fog)
You Devil You (remixed by Odd Nosdam)
Out in the Open (remixed the The Notwist)
Hat in the Wind (remixed by Electric Birds) If you have a recent version of iTunes software on your computer, clicking on the link below should open the iTunes application and take you to the iTunes Music Service page-- where you can listen to samples and buy this album, or individual tracks: themselves "the no music of AIFFS" (anticon) For a complete listing of Midheaven exclusive albums available for download from the iTunes Music service, please visit the Midheaven Mailorder/Revolver USA Downloadables page.
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