discography

COMMUNICATION LINK
Peter Muscutt � voice, samples, keyboards, mixing/Ken Springall � voice, samples, mixing/
Dominic Jeffrey - voice/Jonathan Green � voice/Adam Tugwood � homemade drums, voice, samples

Mar 1997 (MD) Radio Backbird:
Binaural Sense Deprivation/Radio Backbird (Rowain Road Mix)/I Wanted To Be A Radio Receiver
Arguing About The Rolling Stones/Breaker 1.9. VS Patchman/Broadcasting Off Air/Where You Coming From/All Your Ever/Look Over Your Shoulder Richard Burton/The Wind Is Laughing At Us/All Is Classical At Radio Backbird/Tom Jones (Forty Weeks Until Christmas)/Halt, Motherfucker/
Weather Reports/Start Recording/Post Apocalyptic Unrealised

This was the earliest example of Peter's recordings, a real mish-mash of sounds, CD samples. loops, tape recordings of people, and distorted voices all mixed together using friend Ken Springall's home computer set up. This minidisc includes Johnathan Green, someone Peter and Ken knew from school at the time, providing strange vocal noises and generally playing the whole thing for laughs. Not very listenable but quite experimental. "This album actually had a concept, believe it or not" says Pete, "which was that of a pirate radio station (Radio Backbird) operating in the final moments before an out and out nuclear strike on this country. At the time we were searching for examples of nuclear attack warning broadcasts to play at the end of the album, but...we couldn't". The abrupt end of the album is quite, quite eerie, balanced out by comedy moments such as "The Wind Is Laughing At Us", a three minute section of Ken farting and being replayed over and over again using the sound recorder function on the PC.

Aug 1997 (MD) The Originals
(This recording was never transfered to minidisc, and the original copy has been lost, so the only person to possess a copy of this is Peter's friend Ken Springall, when Pete sent him all three of the Communication Link albums that had been recorded in mid-October 1997).

Oct 1997 (MD) Ethnosense:
Choral Introduction/Ethnosense/Ken, The Numbers/Computer Tape Loops/Who The Fook Is Alice?/VU Meters/Daft Funk (Remix)/Transvestite Europe Express/Ethnosense (Reprise)/Welcome Distortion/Stereo Custard Lightshafts/Duke Nukes �Em/Return To Number/Destructions

More of the same sort of stuff as featured on 'Backbird', but without the concept this time. Stand out tracks here include "Who The Fook Is Alice" - Roy Chubby Brown samples being manipulated by Pete and Ken, and "Daft Funk (Remix)" which bases itself on a sample from 'Da Funk' by Daft Punk. This recording uses frequent slabs of songs by Kraftwerk. It tends to get rather laborious towards the end, especially the 13 minute 'Duke Nukes 'Em', basically sounds of people getting shot and quotes from the game.

Nov 1997 (MD) Pig Rhythm:
Prelude To Greek Choral Laughter/Greek Choral Laughter/Catacombs Of Radio Broadcasting/Metropolis Jam/Jasper Carrott Sketch/Pig Rhythm (Part One)/Dog Song (The First and Second Ones)/Turnstile/Pig Rhythm (Part Two)/Okehampton Sheepbuilder�s Guild

An utterly terrifying collection of noise recorded with Adam Tugwood in Pete's bedroom one sunny afternoon in November. The first two tracks segue, with track one featuring sections of 'Only Fools And Horses' in the background, until Pete has the great (!) idea of playing traditional Greek music alongside it, which forms the basis of track two. "Metropolis Jam" should have you jumping for the fast forward button - Pete playing an out of tune electric guitar and Adam banging on an old lunchbox for three minutes as they attempt to play along with a section of music from the 1926 sci-fi film 'Metropolis'. The Jasper Carrott sketch is merely padding before some extremely long and boring pieces of inconsequential sound (the two 'Dog Song' pieces are just samples from a BBC effects tape recorded in sequence). A Jerky Boys prank phone call sketch appears before a final blast of noise and badly equalised scanning of the radio waves, until mercilessly the recording ends.

NYAH! I AM SCHNAKEY DISCOGRAPHY
Peter Muscutt - voice, samples, sound programming/Nathan Lees - voice, drums

Jun 1998 (MD) Pieces Of Speech: (featuring Jamie McClelland, Graham Walters, Matthew Fisher and Gary Day)
Abandoned School Bank/Strange Period Inbetween Lessons Where Time Is Lost/U2, 29th June 1998, 3.04pm/Banana Shade Of Pink/Music Machine/Sucking Satan�s Pecker/Tired/Summer Songs � Matthew�s Arrival/Football/Club Classics/Put Mike Cosford On (Parts One and Two)/Mutations/I Like That But We�d Best Not Do It/Musical Interlude/Don�t Interrupt Bill (Parts One and Two)/Jamie Goes Home/Hunger Strikes

In contrast to the other recordings made, this was for the majority, a spoken word project. Pete explains: "At lunchtimes, myself and a few other people were responsible for running the school bank, which was something Barclay's set up with our school, and members of the Business Studies course were required to volunteer to run it. Anyway, in what was (probably) an abuse of this time, we borrowed the tape recorder from the resources room and proceeded to make funny tapes of ourselves speaking, which became this recording. Soon this grew to borrowing the tape recorder in lessons and just taping whole hours' of time, but in the end we just used mainly the lunchtime recordings. Some of it is pretty funny, whereas some is personal humour and jokes that only make sense to us". There is a whole load of other spoken word material lying around, under various guises, although the current location of these tapes is unknown. Probably in a box in Pete's loft.