Emergency Broadcast Network

A bit of early 90s sampledelia for you. Situated somewhere after Burroughs/Gysin’s cut-ups and Terminator X’s cut and paste manifestos of sound, there was the Emergency Broadcast Network. I was first introduced to them via the Trance Europe Express 3 compilation and their track “378″.

It’s still astonishingly clever work. The Frank Sinatra piece is downright mind-altering.

The entire video is available in streaming format:

Emergency Broadcast Network-Telecommunication Breakdown

I would have loved to have seen this stuff in a live setting.

A nod also to Coldcut, live and in effect making Boris Yeltsin do a little jig for the audience when I caught them several years ago. Similar video mix stylings.

Thanks to Loki for the reminder.