Fifteen • Finite Material Context

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2.	8-13-88 live in Pittsburgh 04:56 video	buy track
3.	Temple Set 07:52	buy track
4.	New Game 05:02	buy track
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8.	Gravity 03:35	buy track
9.	Mixed Signals/Despues de la Mentira 05:52	buy track
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13.	Theme From Bensenhurst Race Riot 03:23	buy track

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From Fifteen Cassette Complacency:
Dan Burke: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7
Mitch Enderle: 3,4,6,7
Mark Klein: 3,6,7
Mark Sorensen 2,3
Thymme Jones 1,5
Chris Block: 3,5
Solo tracks from Finite Material Context box set:
Track 8: Chris Block & Kitty Bouzek
Trk 9: Dan Burke
Trk 10: Thymme Jones
Trk 11: Mitch Enderle
trk 12: Chris Block and Douglas
trk 13: Spark Lunch (Mark Sorensen)

Finite Material Context
For such a prolific group -- and one with a constantly luctuating lineup -- IOS consistently deliver excellence. This tape compiles solo tracks from individual members, and though diverse, it shows their common artistic vision. Finite Material Context starts off with Chris Block's "Gravity," a piece with tightly overlapping vocal loops over spacey, whining noises. Nex up is an untitled Jim O'Rourke composition with the aura of a distant highwayand windchimes, and a vague sense of doom. I was totally absorbed in teh piece, when BAM! Dan Burke's "Mixed Signals" came in and my heart skipped a couple of beats. Spark Lunch's "Theme From Bensonhurst Race Riot" is a dense and intense collage work, Block's "Fondness Maakes The Heart Grow Absent" has a rotating squeal over repetitious industrial (remember that word?) percussion, and Lunch's "Mr. Blankford's Lament" takes us out on a more restful note. This tape is strong throughout.

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released September 9, 1992

Released by Tesco sublabel Functional Organisation 001 in 1992.
Tracks 1-7 originally released as Fifteen Cass (Complacency, 1990).
Tracks 8-13 originally released as part of Finite Material Context Cass (Complacency, 1990).

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Since 1983, Burke and his many conspirators under the IOS banner have over the course of 40+ releases traversed most every facet of the avant sound plane, from early industrial pop deconstruction to blindingly minimal sound art to densely surreal found-sound collage, creating uneasy music that is dense and dystopian and yet also beautiful. ... more

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