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Antenna Farm
12+ albums
Allspotifyphthalo records
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Starting out from a bedroom in Brixton, Antenna Farm began its life in 1998, as a very primitive 'plunderphonic' DJ unit, we used multiple decks and CD players, a crappy KPM mixer with sampling function, and 4-track cassette mixer to improvise dense, messy, chaotic mixes using a wide range of other people's music. We played a bunch of shows with allies like V/Vm, Speedranch, Goodiepal, Diskono, etc., and toured Germany and Austria with Process, Transient Waves and DJ Alex Knight as part of a FatCat package. Over time, some new kit (minidisc players, an Atari, a Zoom sampletrack unit, etc.) was organically integrated and the source material was pushed and manipulated to become less and less identifiable and more and more our own. We started folding field recordings made with the MDs into the mix, as well as using radio receivers and occassionally guitars. Around 2000, the sound and processes changed again with the introduction of powerbooks. We used these to compile our first album, chopping up piecing together a range of material we'd improvised and recorded down to DAT and MD. This was released as 'Early Mess' (or 'Fog / Splinter Tracks') on the US label, Phthalo in 2001. The same year, we spent a week living, recording and improvising with Main (our friend Robert Hampson) at Extrapool's little electronic studio in Nijmegen. The results were later edited together to form the 'AF_M' album, released that year on Staalplaat imprint, BromBron. Around this time, we played numero
