{"id":285,"date":"2012-11-19T22:45:49","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T22:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/?p=285"},"modified":"2012-11-20T22:57:06","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T22:57:06","slug":"the-prepared-vinyl-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/2012\/the-prepared-vinyl-project\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prepared Vinyl Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1999, I released a record that you couldn&#8217;t play. What follows is taken from the press sheet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/scanner214.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/scanner214-293x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Prepared Vinyl 7&quot;\" width=\"293\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/scanner214-293x300.jpg 293w, https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/scanner214.jpg 1003w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Imagine 7&#8243; vinyl and art combined. A record made without instruments, tape recorders, computers or sound, made without going into a recording studio, made without a conception of how it will be heard until it is played, if it is played at all.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine the hardest sounds your stereo can cope with, with no regard for rhythm, tone, timbre, melody or key, giving up only the by-product of a messy and violent coupling.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine a record which has a history, but which is then rewritten in a smothering, revisionist tactic, a cruel drowning of the efforts of past artists, relabelled and appropriated for nothing, nothing, nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine a record disunited with its ability to entertain, a record devoid of funk, grooves, rock, roll and soul. A record tied up and shamed, strong armed into relinquishing the very qualities that define it, dislocating its overweening pride and conscending pomposity.<\/p>\n<p>This, fathermuckers, is what you have right now. It&#8217;s what you&#8217;d expect from Spunkle, only in a way you&#8217;d never expect. After this, nothing will have changed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/scanner216.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/scanner216-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Press Sheet\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/scanner216-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/scanner216-715x1024.jpg 715w, https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/scanner216.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1999, I released a record that you couldn&#8217;t play. What follows is taken from the press sheet. Imagine 7&#8243; vinyl and art combined. A record made without instruments, tape recorders, computers or sound, made without going into a recording studio, made without a conception of how it will be heard until it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}