BARBED - Through the Barricades

Format: 10inch

Label & Cat.Number: Auf Abwegen travel_document # 6

Release Year: 2008

Note: crazy plunderphonics from UK, lim. 500

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"Barbed are Alex Burrow and Alex McKechnie. They formed in London in 1988, and spent the next six years working on their album". Thanks to the amazing patience and encouragement of These Records (or Recommended Records as they were known then) the album finally appeared in 1994. Where it got reviews, it got great reviews, but otherwise it fell on deaf ears. Shortly afterwards, the term 'plunderphonics' came into being and Barbed were taken in by this new gang. Happy to be accepted somewhere (even though they had no interest at all in the genre) Barbed tagged along and collaborated in arduously long concerts with Negativland, People Like Us and the Tape Beatles, resulting in a few live recordings and some subhuman contact. Meanwhile, they continued producing low quantities of high quality material, and generally wasting time on dead ends. Around 1998 disaster struck and Barbed joined the band Add N to X (it was supposed to be just one concert but they ended up staying a year). No recordings survive from this period. Another, more successful diversion came in the form of a collaboration with Joram ten Brink. They spent more than a year doing the soundtrack for his arthouse classic 'The Man Who Couldn't Feel', which divided audiences at the Berlin Film Festival in 1997. In the ten years between the album and now, they've leaked their material out to various compilations, live records & remixes, and in 2000 a single appeared on elevatorbath records. So here we are in 2007. That upbeat 2nd record is finally out on LOaF, plus a collection of eccentric short pieces on this pleasing ten inch on aufabwegen." (label info) this is #6 in a series of travel documents issued by the ministry of detours of the kingdom of elgaland-vargaland [krev], edition of 500 copies." [label info]

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