mike shiflet/pete swanson: bedside/college view

The fifth installment in the label's Required Wreckers series features side?long compositions that borrow as much from the worlds of noise and power electronics that Swanson and Shiflet were affiliated with in the early parts of their careers, as from techno and modern composition. Mike Shiflet's 'Bedside' utilizes disparate sources - guitar, field recordings, abstract electronic textures and white noise - to create a composition that's both warmly pastoral and defamiliar. Pete Swanson's 'College View' documents another example of his recent recordings' attempt to blur the lines between techno, noise, and electronic music. 'College View' drags Detroit dance music into a static field of electricity, and then doubles back again." Includes 12-page booklet; wrapped in letterpressed Required Wreckers band.