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Operation Mind Control

Operation Mind Control have released one album - Funkturm (ADOR 401, 1994) on D.O.R. The tracks on this CD use various percussion instruments, radio transmissions and other samples to create a hybrid of techno and musique concrete. Using the radio transmissions as the skeleton and structural elements of these recordings, this CD has a conceptual feel similar to the recent Conet Project releases, and is an exploration of "the dichotomy of technology in its function for global communication: on one hand increased access to information; on the other increased sublimation of the individual." Another Operation Mind Control track, Hands Up is featured on the D.O.R. sampler The Elements series: Earth. This project has now transmuted into Funkturm, but the O.M.C. recordings are a ritualistic, techno-tinged foretaste of the forthcoming minimalist breakbeat Urban Mantras collection. "OMC's mantric, mechanical hypno-rhythms prompt the coinage industri(b)al. Disturbing, disorienting and relentless, the eleven tracks here slug your solar plexus while creating a diabolical sonic wasteland that consistently compels. OMC have made a soundtrack for that imaginary sequel to Eraserhead." - Alternative Press, May 1995.