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I have made the audio available like the CD as it should be heard with no pops between tracks. Track one is the first half & track 2 the second half of the CD.
I have great memories of these 90's live collaborations with Tom in the bay area. My favorite place on Airstrip One. He was full on into his Kurzweil live sampling rig and feedback system that provides the otherworld mindfuck to these proceedings.

The truth is, you found something incomprehensibly comforting in these sounds, this noise, this audible darkness. It occupies the space and fills your lungs, so in such a short time you grew accustomed to this nightmare, probably just in time for Burke and Dimuzio to sever the umbilical cord so suddenly, leaving you helpless and in silence. (Richard di Santo / Incursion)

Dan Burke has called this one of his favorite works he’s put out. Dimuzio is the guy behind Gench Studios, the place where so many experimental labels get their stuff mastered. HZ is a refined, driving, eclectic nightmare of beats, darkhop and odd sound tones and soundscapes. The listen deepens as it progresses, with varied layers of styles developing and fading. Very nice little digipack item. (Manifold web site)
HZ documents a series of California performances presented by Burke and Dimuzio in October of 1997. The improvised tracks operate in the desolate arena of post-industrial sound, but the perpetrators take a page from the example of AMM's jazz-like metamusical interplay to imply a certain, if covert, human presence. Motors purr, hiss, scrape, and groan, setting up a foundation of sonorous drones for Burke and Dimuzio's sonic manipulations and electronic outbursts. The duo's efforts range from freakish alien-zoo atmospheres ("Aware," "Dross," "Outflow") to the labored workings of arcane machinery ("Dropforge," "Rota"). HZ strikes an especially poignant note on "Charastrigor," as radio strains drift sadly across the rubble of a bomb-scarred city square. —All Music Guide

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released June 29, 2023

ORIGINALLY released as CD by Sonoris in digipack on
October 15, 1999
Thank you Franck Laplaine!
www.sonoris.org

Dan Burke: Objects, Radio, Electric Guitar, Processors, Tape
Thomas Dimuzio: Sampler, Processor, Loops, Feedback

Recorded Live October 1997
San Francisco, Berkely, Oakland

Recorded by Thomas Dimuzio
Compiled by Dan Burke and Thomas Dimuzio
Mastered at Gench Studios, San Francisco
Cover art by John Dalton
Layout by Anne Bonham

Thanks Mike Rizzi, KALX-FM, Mr. Hate, KFJC-FM, Scott Arford, Trevor Paglen, Chris Rogers, Tim Crowe, Anne Bonham, John Dalton.

© 1997 Dan Burke and Thomas Dimuzio
℗ Gench Music [BMI]

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Illusion of Safety Elgin, Illinois

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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