The cover image for Dinos Chapman's Luftbobler album

Dinos Chapman records sloppy techno

The elder Chapman brother is set to release an album of Throbbing Gristle-influenced electronica next year

The London record-label-cum-gallery, The Vinyl Factory, has a nice line in artsy LPs. Among its limited-edition offerings are a Noble and Webster box set, a 10" white-vinyl recording of John Currin in conversation with Marc Jacobs, and some Texan bat squeaks caught and preserved on disc by Jeremy Deller.

However, the art world equivalent of a stadium act comes to the label next year, when Dinos Chapman, elder brother in the famous art duo, releases a 13-track album of "Schlampige Musik" or "sloppy music" via Vinyl Factory's VF Editions. Entitled Lufbobler, the album was recorded in Dino's basement and will be available on gatefold vinyl, CD, and digital formats from 25 February 2013.

According to a statement issued by The Vinyl Factory, Luftbobler reflects Dinos' interests in "the industrial pulse of T/G [Throbbing Gristle], wilful experimentation of Stockhausen and the impish playfulness of Squarepusher, but sounds like none of them."

Chapman himself says it is like "a naked mole-rat plucked untimely from its snuggly basement-burrow, on its back, all squirmy, exposed to the sun's dissecting rays."

Want Luftbobler live too? Well, fans of the artist can also visit a site-specific audio-visual installation of Luftbobler at The Vinyl Factory's Soho gallery, from February 27 through to March 4, 2013.

American Pioneers: Ives to Cage and BeyondAlan Rich

Price AUD$19.95 Price CAD$16.95 Price £9.95 Price T14.95 Price USD$14.95

This is the first book to concentrate on the rebellious trend within American music at the turn of the twentieth century. American Pioneers examines Charles Ives, Henry Cowell, John Cage, Carl Ruggles, Edgard Varèse, Harry Patch, Colin McPhee and Lou Harrison, focusing on the peculiarly American quality of their artistic motivation. The pioneering flair of these composers was an act of defiance: Americans throwing off the shackles of European tradition and inventing a new language, seeking to redefine what could or could not be embraced by the term ‘music’.

Specifications:

Format: Paperback
Size: 220 × 156 mm (8 5/8 × 6 1/8 in)
Pages: 240 pp
Illustrations: 80 illustrations
ISBN: 9780714847696

Alan Rich has been a professional music critic on both the east and west coasts of the USA since 1953, with a particular passion for contemporary music. He is currently music critic for LA Weekly, the author of several books and series of interactive music programmes for computers. His most recent book, So I've Heard: Notes of a Migratory Music Critic, was published in 2006 and comprised a collection of reviews, essays and other work ranging from 1964 to the present day.

"Smoothly executed. The chapter on Cage may well be the best introduction to his thought and work in English."—Gramophone

'...Has a subtle but insistently inquiring approach to biography and details of artistic development. Alan Rich sets out the facts on early-20^th-century music with clarity as well as providing a succinct summary of the background of the rise of concert music in the cultured urban classes if the west coast in the 19^th century."—Musical Times

On the 20th Century Composers Series

"As a series, Phaidon's 20th Century Composers has brought remarkable variety and a welter of information, both necessary and delightfully trivial. Intended both for the general reader and for the more enthusiastically musical."—The Scotsman