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The Last and Final Outtakes Record Ever (abstractCD015) May 24, 2016

Found as a compiled Audio CD in pristine condition in a shoebox of massive abstract/concrete archives (dated 3 500 B.C.), this audio Compact Disc was compiled & sequenced by the band and the band find it could play as a whole. Sequenced from the massive mastertapes of rehearshall recordings, this audio CD features a long first track, because as the band prepared for live performance by unchaining the songs to form a massive wall of melody/noise, the first track that start the last and final baby (10 years after the band disbanded!) feature 3 songs unchained as performed live. This particular take is of course like no other due to the improvisational space left trought the composition, the intro, a piece of ‘blank’ improv in the middle, the unerving & space riffing that will explode freely and this kind of band self-language to create an athmosphere and present songs that usually got the same timing but in recording differs because of the improvistional parts build up and let free trought the entire catalog of songs performed by Outtakes at that time

A catalog expanded by a curious one take rec song that ends up as the final Side B Track 1 of the LP and a song that only got two takes, here is the second rare alternate  of “Electricity Pole” (original take 1 that ends up as Side B Track 1 of the LP) that features as the disc second track (remaining one of the latest track/improvisational soundscape the band composed (w/ Mexico City Blues that was planned to end up on abstractLP02 that never came out (as we planned to issue recordings w/ the money from the first 500 copies which finally kind of sold out trought the last 10 years history of this LP, trought small indie stores, most of it was given free as a promotiuonal item, it’s now becoming a part of the prestigious collection of the BNF (Bibliothèque Nationale de France) that guarantee us a conservation in pristine condition, as a new law that date from 2015, finally conceived small production & true indie labels as part of the cultural landscape of this country’s music & artistic production, (as they’ve contact us trought email, which wasn t a spam at all, to the most surprise, they seem to got the email trought our bandcamp recent uploads & give us a link to ‘La Documentation Française’ to download fill up w/ adobe reader and send for free as the law also make the postage free & recognise the efforts of all those small labels to make music, it seems audacious as it will join a collection of rare recordings made by most of all this country’s unpaid musicians who despite their lack of success didn t seem to lack of idea and talent, as the music production trought home studio became affordable technology (mostly everyoe can get a computer and a small 8-track to beguin with, with decent microphones under 100$ as we does)

So its an astonishing news, to at least after all those years of music making and efforts to be recognised as true artist that the Ministry of Culture along with the BNF (secteur Audiovisuel) propose to small indie labels to surely conserve the piece of handmade Art as a piece of cultural landscape of national small indie artists. We try to record the LP in a kid of state-of-the-art if we can sa it, I recall buying a lot of gear at that time I was working & was very well paid, to put a large amount of what I was pay for in the music, the gear, the audio solutions, dreaming about what mic can be affordable what kind of new fx I coulkd buy & produce a real LP with mastering credit and all. After all it gives a sense of hope for future music production, as it is well known this LP cost us a arm or at least a leg, I personnally still wait for the 300 ex of a new  LP, considering that 525 digital copies in MPeg LayerIII (more simply say MP3) of the “The End of Time” main title (41min) free download, without counting the 2 000 copies (yes two thousands copies) of the two sides of Sky Piece LP (abstractLP04) dedicated to the work in Art of Yoko & John, Sky Piece Side A 33.3rpm free download here & Sky Piece Side B 33.3rpm free downoad here ; also freely downloaded in HQ MP3 (320K/bps at least) [also available in FLAC , a lossless format who play in most ofplmayers except itunes] those free downloads which can become, I hope, some sort of credibility for asking public (or private) investment that mean money to produce the whole stuff & find a more professional distributor, also the public money is redirected locally trought local management of ‘difficult’ music & out of the art world game & music industry bussiness plan, lifespan & career as a musician.

The End of Time / Sky Piece Side a & side b 33.3rpm de Mat s Trip est mis à disposition selon les termes de la licence Creative Commons Attribution – Pas d’Utilisation Commerciale – Pas de Modification 4.0 International.

It seems to be less a kind of utopic dream then years ago as the small indies label that offer those free MP3 of original creation in a way compete with the industry who cannot offer better then free music (music industry who was & still against MP3, making overpaid ‘artists’ sign for the credibility of the dumbest message, when the real problem is that those artists that offer free music as a way to promote what they do, it doesn t mean that the music they made doesn t cost anything or didn t have any cost, it just still a way of promoting, even more a politic of running a label that Abstract Sound Recording (even despite internal tension) is till promoting (if you check our Bandcamp page  & our Soundcloud pagemost of the tracks are free to download + the profit will go to charity action but we’ll see it later, let s refocus on this web blog article on a recent recording made by a band that lived and recorded but years and years ago (10 to be approximative).

See also our page on CBC the Canadian Radio – who let us made an artist page – well designed & with stream of most of our better soundscapes & improv’ & composition right here (big thanks to CBC, Radio Canada, Musique (…)

As I already said before running the production of abstractLP03 “the end of time” [free download full lenght (41.07)] as again a LP only (w/ download card + CD w/ missing tracks digipacked) to 300 ex. max on LP only/DG & also the production of abstract LP04 which is a tribute to John Lenon & Yoko Ono  (who can be cost effective to our small bank accounts) here is a recent quotation made by Yoko Ono that will refocus this article on the 2016 issue of a record sequenced by a band that disbanded few years (10 or more to be approximative) ago (2008 to be exact) . Here is the beautiful statement Yoko made recently

« I don’t rely on time, Time is what manmade for our convenience, and in reality, it does not exist, » (Yoko Ono, April,26^th 2016)

Reprint copyrighted by Penguin Books

The Audio CD ends up eventually with a very beautiful take of “Mexico City Blues”, one of the latest full lenght song written by outtakes (as “Il est temps de se sentir libre” was abandonned as a part of live performances at that time) . As many songs written by the band, some not to say all have massive real improvisational parts which made the result vary on each and every take recorded. It is also well known, that with all this equipment & in a home studio situation for rehearshing, each and every rehearshall was captured to tape by mat w/ a 16-tracks console, ultra DIs (direct inject boxes) with amp simulators and as well over-mic’d amps plus double reverb , de-esser and trriple virtualizer for the recording and mixing at abstract soundscapes of all tracking w/ potent audio solutions

The sound gear collection was produced mainly by mat as a result of his well payed job at the time, drealing every night of what next peuice of gear would be nice to fit the demand of mic a full drum despite two overheads in paired microphones in stereo with cartridge that can change from 360° to more specific soundcource and so on. It ends up with abeautiful 16-tracks with magic hand faders and many stereophonic opportunities that goes trought machines and digital recorder to end up on the computer after mixing session. So the sound was more than a priority in the lenght of time

It beguan with a 8-track with limited gear and ends up w/ over miced situation (because the gear was designed to record live and studio rock bands with amp miced and full set for drums and so on. Outtakes liked using DI boxes a lot for recording, it also permit to have a sound both very clean and also the sound of the amps w/ light distorsion the mix for 3 musicians used most of the 16-tracks and the result was more than nice after a while, you can hear the sound quality on this particular CD. Check a view of Abstract Soundscapes Studios I

To add up bonus tracks to close the pouttakes (finally prollific & exeeding discography) a temporary studio situation at mauriac sound city during the last day of the six day session for the art of skalping by ass n dick outtakes played there with different set up more amped up and the reverb of the concrete wall can be heard on 3 tracks, one end up as side a 1^st track of the LP, here is as bonus a song by outtakes dubbed by spoken word by mat of Allen Ginsberg Poem ‘transcription of organ music’ (it was also from HOWL but finally it was footnotes to howl who was sent to Montréal for mastering (it may appear on the internal releases for the band w/o abstract number, and no real issued authentic CD
It seemed I have to justify, as the guardian of the temple, this self created label (with a little help from my friends) because I still run it, spend time on it, design the booklet, print the artwork, back up the stuff on cloud, make it happen, make tracks available for public download (as I already said one thousand people downloaded a single side of a future LP, a configuration of a CD that must have been cuted and shaved up to fit the demands of the quality on a long player phonograph (meaning 20min + per sides) so cut in two 41 min tracks & stuff like that (some engineer & technicians musrt remember my alcool fueled conversations to issue a record like Steve Reich did on Warner output of ECM records, meaning a 30min+ side, thinks engineer didn t do anymore except some, & I don t got this super powers , as many engineers were tired to explain to cut it tought pro tools which I finaly assumed to do. To be honest thanks again for the hardcore supporting (see list below)

So enjoy this Outtakes bandcamp add-on to listen to the full experience of the total play time/Total recording time (TRT) of 64min 57sec (plus 4 bonus; and a piece of free silence [that push the totalplaying time at more than 2 hours] w/ add’l music from the latest of latest out//takes efforts, to compare as the CBS president does w/ the career of unlikes like Janis Joplin “it has been a beautiful candle, that burn with brightness and beautiful incandescence but unfortunatly burn way too quick” I didn t think we have the kind of talent Joplin have or at least in a very different way but I think we make some beautiful sound at the time and disbanded too quickly despite many efforts to continue in two sepârate duets, but even the miracle of technology didn t save our balls (as overdubing and stuff as we may have planned) but the one-take recording fairly used to record live rehearshall in a stereophonic manner & w/ a lot of gear (even over equiped for a 3-piece musical band (the gear was planned for a classic 4-piece rock band w/ full drums equipment even the little stand for the ground drum) in any way (because I engineer it I guess and spend time to archive trought DVDs and clouds (which truly save at least my balls after as usual my ol’ computer seriously crashed and a hard drive full of music had been mistakenly erased (and the back up drive prove to cannot be reached (as it used old IDE system)))) well this adventure was nice and this is not really a turning point (well in the publication of our sound yes) but a definitive stop of our exceeding prolific discography. As I already written at least ten times I’m so proud, as a producer, musician and human being that two copies of our LP record album effort will be considered for archiving at the one and only BnF, because suddently in this music-industry slease, some consider that Art can be also music and that those who didn t sell doesn t mean they haven t got any talent and also realize that there is a real underground circuit of music production, thank to home studio technology and to technology that became affordable, real musicians making real music (that don t have any airplay or commercial sucess) but despite all is a true annd respectable part of the cultural landscape of this country’s music production versus over-played & nicely paid ‘artist’ that take most of the pannel w/ marketing plans & public songs directed to a very large audience (trought lenght, trought sound marketing reshearcher tought they would like to hear and consider sadly music as entertainment, that’s why I have a lot of contempt for music-industry standards & even more for ‘indies’ label w/ credibility that began to do what everyone wants & what makes that the employees are paid, money. Sadly enough the enternment way & music industry doesn t offer a space for original creations, that could be percived as difficult (as John Cage’s music except in the Art world the contemporary is more musically accepted by critics and audience) There was also a time a programm was launched for what they called ‘difficult’ music meaning music who has poor access to airplay and doesn t make enough money for the industry. I mean we were poorly paid for performance, except when we used to be selected to play a real event nicely paid we didn t exist at this time & have been easily replaced (despite efforts mùade by a nice & real vinyl merchant at Toulouse) (a new maybe all the band didn t know, in any way it was way too late to go back to our instrument as many must have forgotten the complexity of the music we used to made even if there as large space for improvisational soundscape, a kind of two way transmition w/ the audience, a way to connect w/ the public, sometimes it worked greatly other times there was less appeal but anyway Outtakes had lived, Outtakes disbanded, long live Outtakes !

The Final Record/Alt Takes (disc two) (abstractCD015) de Outtakes the rock band est mis à disposition selon les termes de la licence Creative Commons Attribution – Pas d’Utilisation Commerciale – Pas de Modification 4.0 International.
Fondé(e) sur une œuvre à http://death666rec.chez.com/artist/outtakes.html.
Les autorisations au-delà du champ de cette licence peuvent être obtenues à http://Death666rec.chez.com/about.html.

All the music can be downloaded for free on FLAC (Lossless Audio Compression or Mpeg Layer III under Creative commom Licence) Enjoy our last & final effort !

It was recorded winter-autumn 2005

all the super sounding recorded at abstract soundscapes studios with 16-tracks console

this is a AAD audio CD recording (recorded trought an analog console system, mixed w/ an analog system & of course mastered & edited w/ a digital recording system)

recording/mix engineering : Mat

all songs written by outtakes (except ‘transcription of organ music’ words : allen ginsber music : outtakes published by abstract soundscapes music/ text published by city lights book/publisher group west (used by permission)

the rest of the song is published by abstract soundscapes music publishiung (administred by bug music) & sacem/sdrm for EU

written and performed by outtakes

outtakes (at this time)

igor : analog synths, bass lines

vinz : electric gtr, fx, add l production

mat : electric gtr, fx, sound, production

this is abstractCD015

100% of the profit will go to the benefit of Amnesty International / Aides / ASUD / SAFE and Aides (check out individual website if you wish to donate indepedently for just one time or regularly)

as of 2016 abstract/concrete admin gives a total of 400 eur approx to those three charity associations (MSF médecins sans frontières), Amnesty & Aides) you can also support those associations ponctualy or trought time, please check respective websites, we cannot encourage you more to give to these transparent association that promote justice, health (in what could be the end of the epidemic of AIDS) and freedom & justice trought the world & for those who cannot have access to these fundemental rights.

See ya soon thanks to our hardcore fan base, to the many internet user who downloaded so many copies in digital that give us kind of wings, w/ all those free copies. To be honest we didn t really make money with our works but make music and original difficult music in the sense that it s not that one could listen turning on the radio, so thanks to internet and specifically all our fan base & the web 2.0 listener & tribe that follow us trought updated blogs (unlike the main website, but we ‘re at leats I m working on it) all@death sound, Sylvie@[PIAS], d34th666w3bs1t3@chez.com , Fleur@Ministry of Culture(FR), Fender gtrs, Boss electronics, Steinberg Cubase, Cool Edit Pro, Digidesign, Ibanez electronics, Laney appliance and amplification, Beringher systems, MS OS, Rick@RFI CD Mastering, Rashad+Frederic@D+M (Berlin), Simon+Graham@CST Records, Harris@Grey Market, Mike+Ju@[PIAS], Steven+Steven@Sterling Sound, Jade@Sterling Sound [for hardcore support],  and many thanks to you ! thanks for your time for listening and reading and downloading in High Quality (all mp3 are 320Kbps)

Please note our new email : abstract.conrete@yahoo.com (also abstractsoundrec@orange.fr (contact Main Admin & Mgr : Mat) even for permission over the scope of the licence (including music for soundtracks, commercials etc…)who can say that this one will solely work trought time ?) Big up to you & thanks for downloading HQ MP3 & original music productions, this was the latest and final outtakes rec (I reshearch so much the mastertapes that I solely & honestly think I might not come up w/ something new this time) But like Yoko said this is ‘just an illusion’! Be shure to check the CBC Artist Page on Outtakes right here  [CBC is Radio Canada]