Gradually getting back into video and uploading some of my degree/personal video work.

(Excerpts from) The Milk Lab Tapes 1995 (remixed 2002)
(NSFW, contains super8 of birth and a rather charming 1950s porn lady, quite quaint really…)

Milk Laboratory was an experimental music night - well not that experimental, we’d play Aphex Twin, LFO, Throbbing Gristle, Air Liquide - industrial and dark ambient. I did the visuals, using found video, adverts, stuff I’d shot around Sheffield, and remixing Super8 that a friend had collected and was doing loops from. I also used to shoot a lot of video from buses - my degree show was shot in the bus station - and super8 shot on the moors (which will be another film/post) and upside down reverse video shots - literally I took VHS tape and respliced it upside down so the helical scanning drum would read  correctly yet backwards - and it worked! I loved the way the colours reversed and the image broke up.

Posted it here because a) it contains some music I’ve not released yet - from 1992-95 it contains the pieces under my Reality Engine moniker - you might be surprised from my pop mashups where my history lies, in more extreme noisetronica/experimental cutup work, that would be more akin to Merzbow, Zorn and Burroughs than Soundhog or Go Home Productions!

• ‘Killed or Murdered (Headcleaner mix)’ (the WW Catholic Radio sampling one, with feedback through an effects unit)
• ‘Test Broadcast’ which I did for a film in my second year (and yes that is me on vocals)
• ‘Semi Automatic (Headcleaner mix)’ which was a cutup I did on the Amiga, again with feedback, and the track I was working on for my degree installation -
  
• ‘Counter Surveillance Program’ which included loads of mobile phone scans. The rest of the tracks are bits from the N.E.M.C.

You can find part two here - both p1 and 2 were the ‘remix’ re-edit I did in 2002 from the 15 minute original,  taking out the boring morphs and really dodgy stuff. Yes there was dodgier stuff!

And here’s a video I did of people smashing up televisions. Yes as you will see in future posts I liked to destroy things, including intentionally glitching video:

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