Linear City (Internet Audio Collabs Vol. I)

Issued in a slim jewel case with a folded 4-panel insert. Reissued as in 2006 on. Linear City Holger Czukay Internet Audio Collabs (from the front sleeve) Holger Czukay ▪ Internet Audio Collabs Vol. 1 Dignose DIG002 (from the spine) © Bucks Music Ltd Dignose Records DIG002 © 2001 Design: www.frank gerhardt.de (from the outer panels) Maybe it was only a dream of playing in a band again without getting confronted by unnecessary privacies like dirty dishes and disgusting toilets in the rehearsal room. Smoking and disturbing guests distracting from what you are aiming for and all the other etceteras... An internet collaboration seemed to become the solution for getting rid of all these obstacles like superman did on all his crashflights. So it happened that the BBC World Service sent me a recording of Sudanese zar ceremonies and asked if I could do a remix. Oh no. Not again these ethno-tourist excursions I thought and so I put the tape away. After one and half years I found it again. Listened and started working on a fictional Sudan-scape. When this file was finished I wanted to know how other people's creativity would flow into such a ceremony. On my website I invited visitors to participate in this idea www.czukay.de/collabs which ended up in the start of "Africana". Only four samples of the original tape were given and a little universal world came out. Two more collaborations followed in which the participants had access to a web storage account where they could up- and download the enriched samples and present their musical visions. These were finally edited and mixed into these four CD files. To sum up: collabs showed off how nice and effective it can be working together with people you have never seen or met before - thanks to the new medium called the internet. Artwork Cover: [...] www.pilmeyer.be Concept: [...] [...] and [...] Collabs Contributers: Africana: [...], [...], [...], [...], [...], [...] Echogirl: [...], [...], [...], [...], [...] from EFPR, [...], [...] (Boomboy), [...] Ten Steps: [...], [...]*, [...], [...], [...], [...], [...], [...], [...], [...] *appears courtesy of Linear City Initiated, composed and produced by [...] (from the inner panels) Dignose Records DIG002 © 2001 © Bucks Music Ltd (from the CD) www.dignose.com www.czukay.de (from the back sleeve) Track durations are printed differently on the CD and the back sleeve as: 1. 11:16 2. 11:41 3. 23:02 4. 18:14 Artist name Luca Formentini is misnamed Luca Kormentini on the inner panel.