Alias Frequencies

In the year 2000, Buttress O’Kneel (with the help of her housemates at the time, fellow artists Mantis Sage, Aynat Sool, Panthera Leo, and A D MacHine) began documenting the artistic works of several robots that had achieved unprogrammed sentience.  These robots were never designed to be creative, but, perhaps through simple wear and tear, commonplace quantum occurrences, or perhaps through their own dogged persistence, these robots began displaying artistic musickal tendencies, reworking and remixing standard CDs into stuttering, abstracted comments on modern humyn culture.  Every night, as the humyns sat down in front of the stereo and attempted to play some musick, the robots would take over and present them with an astounding improvised glitchfest of cultural detournement and live sonic manipulation.  And, thankfully for us, Buttress and her friends would quickly press “record” on the tape deck, and have captured much of those heady A.I. jam sessions for us to enjoy to this day.

These tracks have not been manipulated or edited in any way by humyn hands, but are the carefully-preserved cassette recordings of these artificial intelligences, verbatim, as they were played.  Some have called this musick “AIDM” (artificial intelligence dance music), others “unplunderphonics”, while some have even said “hang on, that’s just a CD player skipping”.  But no matter what the label, there are few people who would deny that these sessions may indeed have not only revolutionised our vision of commonly-available machines as robots, but also our own vision of ourselves as uniquely creative.  And, thanks to Alias Frequencies, these archived tracks are now available for you to enjoy nearly a decade later.  While the mechanical artists who created these pieces have long passed away or been put out in hard rubbish collections, we still have these recordings of their works to remember them by, and, whenever we are questioning our own artistic validity, can always use them as a shining example of what can be acheived, against all likelihood, all intentions, and all odds.  Some people will always see these works as malfunctions – others will always see them as acts of revolutionary art.  And truly, what is the difference?

NOTE: Exhibits V through Z are edited constructions created by B’O'K from raw CD skips, as a memorial to all the robots.  All the robots involved in these recordings are now deceased.  R.I.P.

Curated by Buttress O’Kneel and Alias Frequencies.  Interwebmegalink approved.

Tracklist

01 Exhibit A 1:08
02 Exhibit B 6:56
03 Exhibit C 1:50
04 Exhibit D 1:00
05 Exhibit E 1:28
06 Exhibit F 4:34
07 Exhibit G 1:33
08 Exhibit H 1:38
09 Exhibit I 1:18
10 Exhibit J 4:39
11 Exhibit K 1:57
12 Exhibit L 0:20
13 Exhibit M 3:21
14 Exhibit N 0:18
15 Exhibit O 0:52
16 Exhibit P 1:43
17 Exhibit Q 0:26
18 Exhibit R 0:23
19 Exhibit S 5:04
20 Exhibit T 0:40
21 Exhibit U 2:29
22 Exhibit V 4:02
23 Exhibit W 3:32
24 Exhibit X 1:48
25 Exhibit Y 0:54
26 Exhibit Z 2:19

Total time: 55:54

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Made by Buttress O’Kneel, 2000.

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With her Snares-influences fading, Buttress returned to her unique musickal place, straddling pop, mashup, and breakcore, this time creating a musical flow that brings to mind her ground-breaking “MegaMegamix”, and the “meme-couplets” of “MemeCore”.  With a blend of glitch-pop and mashcore, and such sources as Madonna, Dethklok, Bowie, Dead Kennedys, Portishead, and Popcorn, O’Kneel creates a break-heavy megamix that pauses only to deliver every expletive Samuel L Jackson unleashes in “Pulp Fiction”, condensed into one single surreal stream of abuse, before screeching back off again into popmangled madness.  This is the album that MySpace wouldn’t let her upload.  Interwebmegalink-approved.

Tracklist

01 Imagination 4:31
02 Orangutans 6:02
03 Planetarium 6:04
04 Holiday 6:00
05 Storm 4:34
06 Love 4:32
07 Darkness 5:52
08 Sweet 4:30
09 The Ragged Hole 4:23
10 Bbachpsea 3:58
11 Bbachpsea 2 4:36
12 Samuel Motherfucking Jackson 1:51
13 Your Pop Aint Saving Shit 6:00
14 The Flaw 6:38

Total time: 1:09:21

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Written and produced by Buttress O’Kneel.

All rights reversed 2008.

An Interwebmegalink permaculture initiative.

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Buttress decided to follow her accessible, poppy, enjoyable album “Hard DadaPop” with one of the most difficult listens she’s ever created.  Although she writes this album off as simply “what happens when I listen to too much Venetian Snares”, it still has the unmistakable “O’Kneel” stamp all over it.  Sure, it’s mostly all in 7, sure, it’s 100% extreme digital breakcore, and, sure, it’s filled with stretched and glitched noise passages that would make Mr Funk shake his furry head, but it also incorporates enough elements of Billy Idol, Black Sabbath, Operator Please, and I Dream Of Genie that it could only be the work of B’O’K.  More like an EP that remixes itself three times than an album, “NonCore” is nonetheless 100% Interwebmegalink-approved.

Tracklist

01 Paragon Humanoid 3:38
02 CandyBrain (CandyCastle Diamond Mix) 5:07
03 Ghirghtteur (Child Sacrifice Mix) 4:21
04 The Dog’s Out 1:54
05 BeefJerky (BeefGenie Mix) 4:27
06 CandyBrain (RockingChair Mix) 3:42
07 The River (in Frozen Droplets) 7:20
08 C is for Satan (Blood and War Mix) 5:08
09 Schlagenzeuger 5:18
10 BeefJerky (Jerky Mix) 4:54
11 Brotherhood of the Snake 5:20
12 Ghirghtteur (Moloch’s Feast Mix) 4:49
13 Granular RudeStyle 5:43
14 CandyBrain (Sweet SixSixSixteen Mix) 3:28
15 Breakcore Is Like Totally Over 12:05

Total time: 1:17:04

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Created by Buttress O’Kneel. All rites reversed March/April 2008.

A psubconscious analysis and interpretation of PostSatanic Child Sacrifices and MetaSacrifices as performed by Mind-Controlled Humyn Slaves of the Global Reptilian Puppet Computer God Gangster Government.

An InterWebMegaLink BrainShackle MindKey PermaCulture MemeMusick Initiative.

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With the tenth in the compop series “Classic Hits: Live 2007” being dedicated to live reinterpretations of many of her classic pieces (transformed through a CDJ and several guitar pedals), this return to the studio took Buttress to new realms entirely. Inspired and freshened, her ear turned once again to the multi-mash-up, and pushing the genre as far as it could go. One of her poppiest releases since “Hyperpop”, this album sees Bjork and Bowie hijacked into glitch-n-bass, Led Zeppelin and Young MC fused at the riff, and Enya coupling with Morbid Angel’s drummer, all glued together with The Knife’s “Heartbeats”, and ending with a long drifting live track from 2006. Interwebmegalink-approved.

Tracklist

01 The Britney Spears Records 0:51
02 Change Like Me 7:36
03 HeartBooty 5:18
04 Move On 4:55
05 Deuerwrghtea 4:26
06 The Orinoco Grind 1:06
07 Quewrayzeea 5:30
08 The Gold Operator 4:36
09 The Witch’s Win 5:10
10 The EggMan 2:44
11 Lick the Diamond 3:58
12 Psghtwrongueeur 4:24
13 The Sorcerer of Death 6:29
14 Is Love All? 8:02
15 Slipping (Live 17 11 06) 14:53

Total time: 1:19:50

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Created late ‘07 early ‘08. All rites reversed B’O'K.

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After her triumphant “core” series was wrapped up with the invention of “corecore”, Buttress was determined to be the first to go beyond it.  So, while others were still trying to come to terms with the concepts behind “corecore”, she created the mind-bending new genre “post-corecore”.  Not only does this album apply the tools and strategies developed in the “core” trilogy to works by artists such as Yes, Rihanna, Madonna, and the B-52’s, but it again extends the “core” genre with the inclusion of heart-breaking MOR ballads, stretched noisescapes, drone-based live material, and her infamous Windows-cracking track that was used to close the documentary “Steal this Film II”.  Interwebmegalink-approved.

Tracklist

01 Die-About 5:51
02 Ungberella 4:49
03 Goodbye My Healer 4:56
04 Lungdon (Picadilly Circus Mix) 2:26
05 The Key (Live 27 11 07) 4:55
06 Balls (Macho Man Mix) 3:31
07 Dreamers Dreaming (Live 27 11 07) 12:04
08 Hot as an Oven (Circus Maximus Mix) 2:51
09 Underspace 6:52
10 Kung-Fu-Core 4:06
11 Ddonnttcchhaa 6:31
12 Unclelover 2:07
13 All In Cheque 2:03
14 Breaking Windows 4:22

Total time: 1:07:19

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All tracks fuckedwith by B””’O””’K. All rights reversed 2007. “The Key” and “Dreamers Dreaming” recorded straight to cassette at Guitar and Plunger Studios, Reservoir.

Balls is dedicated to all the rampant testosterone found in the breakcore movement.

“PostCoreCore” is an Interwebmegalink permaculture initiative.

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The final in her “core” trilogy, “CoreCore” again revels in the grunting syncopation of breakcore, but mixes it with an altogether softer touch.  As well as the classic Public-Enemy-meets-the-Seinfeld-theme opening track, O’Kneel incorporates several of her more psychedelic-drone live tracks (created with a CDJ and a buncha guitar pedals).  Although, there’s still plenty of filthy breakcore (including the cookie-monster-metal-mashup “C is For Satan”), this final in the “core” trilogy sees her wrapping up the series with a focus on what breakcore can become, rather than what it already is.  Interwebmegalink-approved.

Tracklist

01 Bring Nothing 1:29
02 Anti-War Hole Master 5:44
03 Para (Live) 3:39
04 C is for Satan 2:36
05 Stone (Live) 6:41
06 A Hidden Experience 5:32
07 Going Out 3:51
08 Ziggy Pumped It 2:49
09 Experience Reprise (Live) 7:36
10 Always on Time 5:19
11 Come (Live) 5:36
12 A Fatal Round 6:25

Total time: 57:08

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Featuring: The Seinfeld theme, Public Enemy, David Bowie, Metallica, The Beach Boys, Black Sabbath, Cookie Monster, Morbid Angel, Anal Cunt, Manowar, Darkthrone, Jimi Hendrix, Bjork, Cypress Hill, Rob E-G, Blood Duster, The Black Eyed Peas, Black Box, Kyuss, The Beatles, and the Velvet Underground.

Recycled by Buttress O’Kneel, 2006-2007. All rights reversed, Interwebmegalink.

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Following on from the broken shitcore of Compop 6.66, Buttress gives us the second in her “core” trilogy; a meme-splicing dadaist culture-tweaking album that straddles both the worlds of breakcore and mashup, to create something truly unique.  With several tracks blending together to create longer pieces (“aural meme-couplets” as she calls them), this album draws its sources from the likes of Skyhooks, the Pussycat Dolls, and Shakira.  To accompany the frenetic and sometimes-painful breakcore tracks, she intersperses them with pure mash tracks like “Get One Thing Right” (where she simply places J-Lo and Amerie over each other), and ends with an insane live drone track, recorded live at Black Lotus’s “ArseCore”, 2006.  Interwebmegalink-approved.

Tracklist

01 The End of the Universe 6:10
02 Insane 1:07
03 I’m Not American 6:33
04 Get One Thing Right 3:36
05 My BLIPS Don’t Lie 4:05
06 Manbaahtiu 3:00
07 Xtego 3:46
08 Fuck or Shit 1:15
09 Cunt and Dick 4:01
10 Sexylove Skyline 5:19
11 Licksexy Backshots 4:06
12 Losing Up My Buttons 2:22
13 The Drone of the Broken Pop-Mill 5:00

Total time: 50:15

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Track 13 recorded live at ArseCore 2006. Thanks to Cat-Grrl, Xian and the Black Lotus. All rights reversed Buttress O’Kneel, December 2006.

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O’Kneel’s first deliberate foray into the ubiquitous “distorted-and-cut-up-amen-break” genre known as “breakcore”, this album sees her applying it to as many unlikely and inappropriate sources as possible: Radiohead, the Beatles, even Peter Allen.  As well as trying to reinvent breakcore as a pop phenomenon, she simultaneously makes her beats filthier and more jarring, creating what she dubbed “shitcore”.  Not only does this album cover the entire gamut of her shitcore techniques (a style she never fully manages to shake off on any of her albums to follow), but it contains the dancefloor-shaking pop sensation “No Bananas”, as well as four bonus live tracks from her megadistorted “MONO” recordings of 2004.  Interwebmegalink-approved.

Tracklist

01 Don’t Ghanguech with my Heart 3:01
02 These Broken Wings 1:43
03 No Bananas 4:20
04 Paraplegic Android Pt 1 3:35
05 Given Away 2:30
06 Curdled Milk 4:15
07 Baby Baby 0:27
08 If Baby$=”Smile” Then Goto Rio 2:52
09 Paraplegic Android Pt 2 2:20
10 Tomorrow’s Working Standards 5:41
11 Shakescrublick 2:26
12 Eleanor’s Headlights (Sink Beneath the Sun) 5:09
13 MONO 1 6:30
14 MONO 2 5:42
15 MONO 3 5:56
16 MONO 4 15:24

Total time: 1:11:51

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Tracks 1-12 by Buttress O’Kneel, August 2006. Mono bonus tracks performed live April 2004.

References: Black Eyed Peas / Beatles / Gwen Stefani / Cats / Radiohead / Busta Rhymes / Red Hot Chilli Peppers / Kelis / Sean Paul / Jamiroquai / Peter Allen / Captain and Tenille / Tortoise / Missy Elliot / Aphex Twin / TLC / Basement Jaxx / Madonna / and generic breakbeat sample 1 and 2.

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