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  • Formed: 1995, Vienna, Austria
  • Genres: Electronica
  • Representative Albums: "No Backup," "fsck," "Explorers_We"

Biography

Austrian electronic experimentalists Farmer Manual comprise a casual collective of musicians, DJs, computer geeks, and net freaks who count music as only one of a number of ongoing projects. The group's identity is as mysterious as the periodic transmissions from their Vienna studios (which began appearing in 1996), but their releases have managed to capture an international audience for their strident bird-flip to dance-based electronic music convention. Released by labels such as Mego, Ash, and Ash sublabel Tray, titles such as "FM," "fsck," and No Backup (a CD+ title and Mego's first full-length production) have pushed the envelope of musical intelligibility well off the map, spraying burbling, obverse rhythmic structures with blasts of noise and distortion, closely paralleling the approach of Panasonic or more recent Autechre. The group's full-length debut, No Backup, is a collection of drawn-out discombobulations of standard rhythmic and melodic structures, while the 12-inch only "FM" (meant as the vinyl alternative to the CD, but featuring none of the same tracks) contains more than a dozen brief sketches of minimal electro, many ending in lock-grooves (the tracks' bare repetition tend to beg the question of why they bothered with anything beyond a lock in the first place, but...). The group have also dabbled in drum'n'bass-style rhythmic programming (most prominently on their Tray 12-inch "Fsck") and have conducted a number of live Internet broadcasts via their handsome website (at http://www.farmersmanual.co.at). ~ Sean Cooper, All Music Guide
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Farmers Manual

Farmers Manual performing at the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, February 2002
Background information
Also known as farmersmanual
Origin Vienna, Austria
Genres Experimental, Electronic, Extreme Computer Music
Years active 1995–present
Labels Mego, Tray, OR, and more
Associated acts CD Slopper
Gcttcatt
pxp
Martin Ng
Russell Haswell
Website web.fm
Members
Mathias Gmachl
Stefan Possert
Oswald Berthold
Gert Brantner
Nik Gaffney

Farmers Manual is an electronic music and visual art group, founded in Vienna in the beginning of the nineties. The core members of the collective are Mathias Gmachl, Stefan Possert, Oswald Berthold, Gert Brantner and Nik Gaffney. Part of the very lively viennese electronic music scene of the 90s, Farmers Manual were successfully crossing the boundaries between electronic music, live visuals, experimental graphic and web design.

Their CDs, published through avant-garde labels such as Mego, Tray or OR, often contained multimedia content. Their most significant release might be RLA (which stands for "Recent Live Archive"), a DVD released on Mego in 2003, which contains the bands extensive backcatalogue of live concert recordings from 1995-2003, compressed in mp3 format - totalling 3 days and 20 hours of audio content and released under a Copyleft licence.[1].

As visual artists, Farmers Manual have been included in numerous international festivals, such as FCMM (Montreal, 1999), Avanto (Helsinki, 2001), Art+Communication (Riga, 2006) [1].

Contents

Selected Discography

  • (1995) Farmers Manual: Does Not Compute (12", Tray)
  • (1996) Farmers Manual: FM (12", Mego 017)
  • (1997) Farmers Manual: fsck (CD, Tray)
  • (1998) Farmers Manual: Explorers_We (CD, OR)
  • (2000) CD_Slopper: SaskieWoxi (CD, OR)
  • (2001) Gcttcatt: Amperase (CD+, Mego 021)
  • (2002) pxp: while(p){print"."," "x$p++} (CD, Wavetrap)

Note: this album, by Farmers Manual member Oswald Berthold, was awarded an Honorary Mention at Ars Electronica 2002[2].

  • (2003) Farmers Manual: RLA (DVD-Video/ROM, Mego 777)

References

  1. ^ Buttimer, Colin (2003-06-05) ([dead link] – Scholar search), Farmers Manual - RLA (recent live archive) DVD, BBC, http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/release/zcf9/, retrieved 2007-12-26 
  2. ^ "Here was a jutting mass of digitized disturbance that fueled our direct reckoning with destabilized mathematics. (...) Spam data malformations. Direct waveform bitstream. Seizure. Disengage. Smitten." - Hecker, Florian; Herrington, Tony; Humon, Naut (2002) ([dead link] – Scholar search), Prix Ars Electronica 2002 - Jury-Statement, Ars Electronica Archive, http://www.aec.at/en/archives/prix_archive/prixJuryStatement.asp?iProjectID=11720, retrieved 2007-12-26 

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