Technological Retreat Radio Mixes 1985-1989
Between the hours of 1am and 6am, in the late 1980s, Greg Carr created a show called Technological Retreat on community radio station KFAI in Minneapolis. Long before mash-ups, Carr worked multiple turntables, tape loops, field recordings, and sundry effects into “surreal radio minced with audio minglings and mutant responses…” mixed live into a free-form sound collage.
Relocating to Minneapolis from the West, Greg spent a lot of time exploring the urban landscape: “Walk down the street talking to someone and a plane goes overhead as traffic goes by and there’s different music and talking coming out of different places all at the same moment as a dog barks and a plane goes overhead.”
Technological Retreat Radio – 1985-1989 Mixes Vol.1 collects some of Greg’s favorite moments into a single disc, chopped and reassembled 20 years later into a continuous mix.
From the liner notes: “He made a radio station into a musical instrument, its’ turntables and tape players and switches and knobs into the buttons of his clarinet, the strings of his guitar.”
Limited to 500 copies. Includes a signed, numbered fragment from a collage inspired by memories of this unique radio show.
NB. This title is not available digitally
