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London
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Los Angeles
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Before Spotify, and before Napster; those of us with an appetite for weirdo, left-field, alternative, underground hip hop would trade dubbed cassette tapes through janky Angelfire-built websites. Connecting w/ eachother via chat rooms like AOL's "Hip Hop Music'', SOHH (Search Online Hip Hop), UGHH.com; or on message boards like the Living Legends forum, the Heiro message board, the Anticon message board, LA2THEBAY forum. We’d spend hours scouring websites like HipHopSite.com and ThaLandz.com for RealAudio files of new underground hip hop; and pour over new releases at online retailers like Access Music, Sandbox Automatic, and B-Boy Kingdom; always looking for the most obscure rare underground rap tapes. A lot of music from that era never made it onto streaming. This show is dedicated to the lost golden age of underground hip hop & the internet. Enjoy.

Kinothek Percussion Ensemble

Kinothek Percussion Ensemble

Kinothek Percussion Ensemble has been played on NTS shows including Adam Oko, with In Search Of first played on 21 January 2018.

Kinothek Percussion Ensemble consist of Californian composer, musician & performer DNA Hoover. Using percussion instruments as well as found objects, his main “instrument” is a multitrack studio where he puts together what will later form his albums: musical pieces, arranged by dramatic mood and style, dealing with thematic film music. The original principle of Kinothek was developped in 1919 by Italian composer Giuseppe Becce who published “Kinobibliothek”, a catalogue of film scores from which theatre music directors could choose appropriate pieces to accompany the films (which then didn’t have soundtracks) that were shown at that time. “Kinobibliothek” was the most succesful among other catalogues and soon became the industry standard; later, they all were referred to as “Kinothek”. DNA Hoover not only adopted the name “Kinothek”, but also works in a familiar way like Becce - instead of written compositions, he published records containing music for films - real ones or for the “cinema in the head”. On “Industry !”, Hoover has enlargened his musical “bibliothek” with lots of “found” sounds from mechanical sources; these sounds form a system of interactive “templates”, creating a shifting wash of polyrhythms, based on 55,110,165 and 220 beats per minute. Listening to the record may be like a walk through an imaginary factory; not harsh noise, but subtile, repetitive and dense soundscape of mechanical contraptions, more familiar to ambient sounds than to the clumsiness of the socalled Industrial scene.

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Kinothek Percussion Ensemble

Kinothek Percussion Ensemble has been played on NTS shows including Adam Oko, with In Search Of first played on 21 January 2018.

Kinothek Percussion Ensemble consist of Californian composer, musician & performer DNA Hoover. Using percussion instruments as well as found objects, his main “instrument” is a multitrack studio where he puts together what will later form his albums: musical pieces, arranged by dramatic mood and style, dealing with thematic film music. The original principle of Kinothek was developped in 1919 by Italian composer Giuseppe Becce who published “Kinobibliothek”, a catalogue of film scores from which theatre music directors could choose appropriate pieces to accompany the films (which then didn’t have soundtracks) that were shown at that time. “Kinobibliothek” was the most succesful among other catalogues and soon became the industry standard; later, they all were referred to as “Kinothek”. DNA Hoover not only adopted the name “Kinothek”, but also works in a familiar way like Becce - instead of written compositions, he published records containing music for films - real ones or for the “cinema in the head”. On “Industry !”, Hoover has enlargened his musical “bibliothek” with lots of “found” sounds from mechanical sources; these sounds form a system of interactive “templates”, creating a shifting wash of polyrhythms, based on 55,110,165 and 220 beats per minute. Listening to the record may be like a walk through an imaginary factory; not harsh noise, but subtile, repetitive and dense soundscape of mechanical contraptions, more familiar to ambient sounds than to the clumsiness of the socalled Industrial scene.

Original source Last.fm

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In Search Of
Kinothek Percussion Ensemble
Audiox1987
In Wait
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Coaxed By Wile
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Premonition
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Rotary Movement Of The Ratchet-Faced Wheel By The Pawls
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No Man's Land1992