WMD …And Other Distractions (2004) FULL EP
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00:00 WMD - American Justice
02:39 Day of Horror
05:08 Disturbing Practices (Overboard)
10:02 Ramshackle
13:44 Bushbeats
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From the original liner notes in the 2004 CD booklet:
1. WMD - American Justice
Vocals: George W Bush, John Howard, Tony Blair
Loudspeaker Sermon: unidentified (recorded in vegetable market, Siwa Oasis, Egypt)
Beats, Scratches & Sound FX sourcing & editing: Tom Compagnoni
2. A Day Of Horror
Vocals: John Howard, George W Bush and an intro by Colin Powell
Beats, Scratches & Sound FX sourcing & editing: Tom Compagnoni
3. Disturbing Practices (overboard)
Vocals: Philip Ruddock, John Howard, Peter Reith, Admiral Chris Barrie
Bass: Benson Graham
Beats, Scratches & Sound FX sourcing & editing: Tom Compagnoni
Drums: Hamish Ford
4. Ramshackle
Ud: Atilla (recorded in Petra, Jordan)
Vocals: Roda & friends (recorded in Petra, Jordan)
Call to Prayer: Mosque, Siwa Oasis, Egypt
Bass: Benson Graham
Drums: Hamish Ford
Percussion: Tom Compagnoni
5. Bushbeats
Vocals: George W Bush
Loudspeaker Sermon: unidentified (recorded in vegetable market, Siwa Oasis, Egypt)
Guitar: Tom Compagnoni
Bass: Benson Graham
Drums: Hamish Ford
"...we were all wrong": Dr David Kaye - retired head of US survey group hunting for WMD stockpiles
© 2004 Tom Compagnoni / Wax Audio. Thanks to fellow AnD colleagues (Benson & Hamish) for their unwitting contributions to these pieces & for helping preserve the original material for which their performances were once intended. Cheers also to Boydo for the software that enabled me to put it all together.
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My 2020 reflections on this release:
WMD. ...And Other Distractions was the very first Wax Audio release, produced in 2003 & 2004 using Cubase SX. It combines audio from political speeches and news reports with downloaded sound effects, loops and edited audio from a 1997 recording session from a band I played in called AnD (for an album that never was). It also contains samples recorded during my travels in the Middle East in 2001 (on a dictaphone!). It was released online and as a mail-out CD in 2004.
I was very much inspired by the anti-war movement (the Iraq war was in full swing) and felt that I could use my passion for audio production and my newfound discovery of cut & paste/mashing techniques to contribute an artistic statement on the state of the world at the time. I sent CD copies out to everyone I could think of who might take an interest (there were probably around 100 copies in circulation). It did the rounds of community radio here in Australia and the odd bit of pirate & community radio in the US. As far as I was concerned this was a success of Beatlemania proportions.
Listening back to this, it's an interesting audio document of the time. It combines my newfound love of "mashing" (before I actually knew of that term) with my sudden desire to produce something akin to political satire. It was produced in the era of dial-up Internet, before YouTube and social media and there's a quaintness to the sound.
To anyone who remembers hearing this back in 2004, I hope you enjoy rediscovering it. And for those coming across it for the first time, welcome to the birth of Wax Audio.
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