Track Listing
1. Search
2. Electronic Behavior Control System
3. Go To
4. Sexual Orientation
5. Station Identification
6. Get Down Ver. 2.2
7. Shoot the Mac-10
8. You Have 5 Seconds to Complete This Section
9. Super Zen State (Power Chant No. 3)
10. State Extension
11. Interruption
12. Dream Induction
13. Transition
14. Electronic Behavior Control System Ver. 2.0
15. We Must Have the Facts
16. Interference
17. 3:7:8
18. Beginning of the End
19. Homicidal Schizophrenic (A Lad Insane)
20. End of Audio Program
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Bill Laswell, Brian Eno, Grandmaster Melle Mel | | Producer: | Jack Dangers | | Distributor: | TVT Records (Dist.) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
The CD version of TELECOMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN can be played using either a multimedia equipped computer (for sound and pictures) or an audio CD player. Included is a floppy disc interactive CD booklet.
Emergency Broadcast Network: Joshua Pearson (vocals, programming); Ron O'Donnell (DJ); Gardner Post.
Additional personnel: Grand Master Melle Mel (vocals); Jamie West-Oram (guitar); Brian Eno (keyboards); Jack Dangers (DJ, special effects); Bill Laswell (special effects, bass); Institute Of Technology (special effects).
Samples include "Jungle Boogie" (as performed by Kool & The Gang), "Foxy Lady" (Jimi Hendrix), "Taxi Driver" (Bernard Hernmann) and "Aladdin Sane" (David Bowie).
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Editorial Reviews
Recommended - ...a dizzying collage of memorable snippets of music, a myriad of distorted voices and sheer arse-quaking hip hop/bass/fuzz/noise/punk....[EBN] are the best joke since Devo, but that's not to underestimate their music. Although the EBN idea is bigger than a pop record, content has not been abandoned in favour of style...
Melody Maker (02/17/1996)
This disc owes as much to hip-hop and funk as it does to techno, Negativland and Frank Zappa. All those influences and more are mixed into this complex dish...
Option (09/01/1995)
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