Segmented Purity : The Remixes
Editorial Reviews O L D S C H O O L : Alex Westner, Freedom Baird & Stefan Agamanolis first met in 1996 as grad students at MIT's Media Lab. Freedom liked Stefan's poise. Stefan liked Alex's signal processing know-how. Alex liked Freedom's ass, and visa versa. Livesexact took shape in '97 when the trio was awarded a $6000 grant from the MIT Council for the Arts to develop a set of unconventional MIDI instruments — including stuffed animal drums, body triggers, and astro-turf looping targets — that allow them to play music and video simultaneously. Through continued gigging, Livesexact's distinct brand of electro-punk-dance-pop began to emerge. Later in '98, along with several other New England bands, Livesexact opened for EBN at the Salisbury Beach Multimedia Festival. Fun times in Salisbury led Livesexact to co-organize its own digital festival, dubbed Cubestock, at MIT's Media Lab, where they played to a packed house of technophilic freaks and geeks. In '99 Livesexact headlined the! Boston Cyber-Arts festival at The Middle East, shortly after which two of the band members got married in the woods. N E W S C H O O L : Livesexact spent a year in '00 and '01 in and out of studios in Vienna, Austria and Cambridge, MA, developing it's much anticipated debut CD Upsetting Remedy, released in August, '01. Freedom and Alex then bid a fond & squeezy farewell to Stefan, as he commenced his mad scientist adventure in Dublin, Ireland. Shortly thereafter, Scott Schmitt and Amy Dattilo appeared out of a blue sparkly vortex called The Cellar, and slid seamlessly into the gap left by Stefan's departure. Hallelujah — it's a gender-balanced band! During this time, Livesexact made kissy-kissy with Martin Atkins (Pigface, Ministry, PiL, etc.), who in '01 remixed Livesexact's "You Must Get Down." Their burgeoning relationship led to Livesexact's participation in Invisible Records' (now Underground, Inc.) first Notes From Thee Real Underground compilation, and an opening slot at the Roxy for the Boston date of the "Preaching to the Perverted" tour with Pigface, Gravity Kills & Godhead! . A F T E R S C H O O L : Livesexact is now steadily gigging around New England, eliciting jaw-dropped wow's, grins & mailing-list sign-ups at each stop. Segmented Purity, a full-length, 15-track CD of remixes of Livesexact songs, as performed by local and international artists, hits the streets in September '02. Eye peeled & ear cocked for Livesexact on the road, Fall/Winter '02-'03.
About the Artist
M I S S I O N : Livesexact strives to return the energy, power & spectacle of live performance to the realm of electronic music, and to reformulate the band's relationship with its audience, so that, ultimately, everyone gets to GET DOWN!
Album Description
Last year Livesexact invited 12 whip-smart artists from across the USA & Vienna to remix tracks from their debut CD, Upsetting Remedy. Segmented Purity is the response - a driving, breaking, drole, funhouse ride through an IDM, drum-n-bass, pop-collage playland!
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Segmented Purity : The Remixes
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ASIN: B00006LFCG Release Date: 2002-09-24 |
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Album Description
Last year Livesexact invited 12 whip-smart artists from across the USA & Vienna to remix tracks from their debut CD, Upsetting Remedy. Segmented Purity is the response - a driving, breaking, drole, funhouse ride through an IDM, drum-n-bass, pop-collage playland!Music:
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Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 18/7 Preludes
Richard Wagner: Tristan Und Isolde
Sunday Best: The Cream of the Solo Albums
Something to Live for: The Music of Billy Strayhorn