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Live @No Fun 2008

by Illusion of Safety

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Sound: Daniel Burke
Recorded direct to PCM on 5-18-2008
Live at No Fun Festival, The Knitting Factory. NYC 2008
Thank you Carlos Giffoni
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbXuuzpw4-g

Thank you Paul Haney for the cassette edition, Previously released by Obsolete Units as a C-36 OU030 in 2011

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released August 7, 2023

Illusion of Safety, “Live @ No Fun 2008″ tape 8-1, 2011 By Bobby Power
Daniel Burke’s Illusion of Safety has been a vibrant if not endlessly-prolific entity for almost 30 years, but the project’s vivid and fresh approach to a certain musique concrete is on full display in this live-to-tape recording of Burke’s performance from the 2008 installment of the No Fun Fest series. For roughly 30 minutes, Burke plows through a focused set of layered field recordings, deeply rumbling tones, and eerie electroacoustic sounds. It’s a surreal trip mixing outsourced sounds from all over the world and encompassing everything from the human voice to chugging diesel engines. Burke’s ability to meditate on certain scenes of beauty amongst not-quite jarring edits of material is unmatched in this particular piece. Extended moments of pastoral softness carry particular weight in the context of a largely noisey set in the of a largely noise fest, but quickly make way to rhythmic sheets of static drones rivaling Mark Lord or Rene Hell’s immersive assault. With seamless transitions between cut-and-paste collages and manufactured drones, it’s easy to get lost in the deep passages of this recording. Obsolete Units

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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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