A-Muzak by Terre Thaemlitz

Text from the original release:

A-Musik Presents A Program Of...
A-MUZAK
...Featuring Arrangements
By Terre Thaemlitz

Under The Slogans Of:
TRANSGENDERED LIBERATION
TRANSSEXUAL RIGHTS
WOMEN'S EQUALITY

OPEN IMMIGRATION
COMMUNAL DIVERSITY

REPLACING MALE FIGUREHEADS
WITH FEMALE TO MALE
CROSSDRESSERS

SEXWORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE

For generations MUZAK has functioned on a secondary level, "heard but not listened to." Similarly, MUZAK's pretense of leisure withholds a secondary agenda. MUZAK broadcasts around the world have been used to increase production of capital, create passivity in social contexts, and further exploit existing hierarchies

Today MUZAK gives way to A-MUZAK.

What once had the appearance of
A-POLITICALITY assumes
POLITICALITY.

Millions of people, internationally, find inspiration in A-MUZAK's demand for attention to the cacophony of the periphery.

A-MUZAK IS A PHENOMENON OF OUR AGE. IT AROSE AMID THE "DIRECT ACTION" LEFTIST AUDIO ENGINEERS AND IDEOLOGISTS.

THE PRESENT RECORDING IS AN AGITATIONAL PROGRAM WITH WHICH THE A-MUZAKISTS BEGIN THE STRUGGLE WITH THE SUPPORTERS OF TRADITIONAL MUZAK.

This A-MUZAK program was specially engineered to reflect multiple stages of production and utilization, giving proper audibility to digital residue generated during compositional production; surface residue incurred during manufacturing; and your own contributions of noise to be determined by wear patterns resulting from normal usage.

Tracklist

1.	Program-A	4:23

2.	A-Program	3:39

Credits

released January 1, 1999

Originally released under license from Comatonse Recordings in 1999 as a red vinyl 7-inch single (Germany: A-Musik, 1999), A-14. Contract has since expired and all rights reverted. Recorded at Meow, Oakland for A-Musik, Köln. Produced, mixed and arranged by T. Thaemlitz (BMI). Design, concept and found image manipulation by Terre.

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