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Moskau Discoby Scanner

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Release date 1 April 2007
12" In Stock £4.00 buy

Following the success of Teenage Wochen in 2006, Scanner follows up his slippery electro trip with Moskau Disko, the warped daughter of a night spent in a digital orgy of Wagnerian creative excess on German label Binemusic, home to modest musical surprises.

Terrorized vocals open the acid slip-disc party ... [more]


On Isolationby various artists [::room40::]

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Release date 15 December 2006
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The concepts of isolation – in social, geographic and virtual settings have spawned various creative investigations over the centuries. Guided by the philosophical premise of social theorists such as Zygmunt Bauman, ::Room40:: and the University Of Tasmania collaborated in the curation of a series of sound artworks, found sound pieces ... [more]


Emitby various artists [::room40::]

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Release date 27 June 2006
CD In Stock £10.00 buy

Emit One, the now much sought after compilation curated by Lawrence English for the one-time test online broadcaster and streaming research facility Emit based at the Queensland University Of Technology in Brisbane City. The edition captures a snapshot of some of the artists involved in the initial broadcasts of the ... [more]


Teenage Wochenby Scanner

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Release date 19 June 2006
12" Limited Stock £4.00 buy

A rare outing on vinyl for two exclusive new Scanner tracks. Teenage Wochen connects folk with an electro beat, sampling voices, acoustic guitar and harmonies to present a spidery, crackling foot tapper, and a melody to take to sleep with you. Autumn Nights dissolves a similar mix of sounds into ... [more]


Messe: Macht des Klangs / Klang der Machtby Scanner

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Release date 21 November 2005
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Commissioned by arts foundation Kunstraume in Leipzig Germany, this collaboration with the Kunstraume Leipzig & Opera Leipzig in the Soviet Pavillion Leipzig explored the notion of power and history through music, dance, light and film.
 
The soundtrack attempted to offer a picture of society through voice and harmony. Following a theme ... [more]


Reason By Heart, Sleep By Twilightby Scanner

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Release date 18 April 2005
CD In Stock £10.00 buy

Bine 2005

"Scanner’s music is both tiny and grand. It is like the delicate movement of a watch spinning through space. Microscopic clicks, wood blocks and everyday sounds are painted over rumbling, dark canvases."
The Guardian Newspaper, London

Scanner is recognised for his sensitivity to sound and space. Through recorded ... [more]


The Radiance Of A Thousand Suns Burst Forth At Onceby Scanner

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Release date 28 February 2005
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Steamin' Soundworks 2005

Commissioned to celebrate the union of Roel & Ellis in marriage in De Rijp, The Netherlands, 04 June 2004.

This is a very special release indeed. Last year (2004) in June, Scanner was invited by an all-time admirer from the Netherlands to perform at his wedding and ... [more]


Hört Scanner T-Shirtby Scanner

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Release date 7 May 2004

A handful of Scanner shirts have been unearthed over at Scanner Mansions...

Bearing the enigmatic slogan "Hört Scanner bevor Scanner Euch hören!" this shirt is a must have for all Scanner fans.

White print ona black, 100% cotton shirt.

Size XL only.


Melatoninby various artists [::room40::]

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Release date 1 April 2004
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Melatonin - meditations on sound in sleep collects together a vital and dynamic selection of today's most inventive sound artists and composers. these artists reflect on how sound is envisaged in their own sleeping lives and how these impressions can be used as an artistic reference point.

During sleep, a process ... [more]


Double Foldby Scanner

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Release date 5 March 2004
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rx-tx 2003

Inspired by the controversial American book of the same title by Nicholson Baker, Double Fold is one extended elastic track focusing on a pulse, 128 beats per minute. The book is an exploration of the dismantling of the greatest archives of our recorded heritage, paper as a resource now ... [more]


The Reception's Fading T-shirtby Scanner

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Release date 1 January 2004

Only 25 of these shirts were ever made and, until recently, it was thought that they were all sold... but a search of the darker recesses of Scanner Corps warehouses has turned up this lone shirt.

Size XL, 100% cotton, 'Premium T' Fruit of the Loom shirt. Black with a silver ... [more]


Scanner Logo T-Shirtby Scanner

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Release date 1 January 2004

Another rare shirt found languishing in the depest darkest corners of Scanner's store room. A simple design... white 'Scanner' logo on a black shirt. Classy!

100% cotton Fruit Of The Loom 'Premium' shirt in size XL only.


Echo Ricochetby Scanner

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Release date 1 December 2003
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Awesome Arts 2003

The Smarter than Smoking Cre8tive Challenge 2003 took place in 15 communities across Western Australia. In 2003 it involved over 450 children, a dozen Australian artists and one little British guy, Scanner.

Commissioned for the Awesome Festival in Perth, Western Australia, this CD is available exclusively here. A ... [more]


Warhol's Surfacesby Scanner

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Release date 11 August 2003
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Intermedium Records 2003

"Scanner takes the sound as Warhol took the soup; creating a universe where the looping everyday becomes interesting in the blurred domesticity most people see as the very essence of plain, repetitive boredom. Touching upon the fact that it does not matter how famous or ordinary you are: ... [more]


Sprayby Scanner

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Release date 1 June 2003
12" Limited Stock £4.00 buy

Zero G Sounds 2002

A rare vinyl outing from 2003. A return to the classic sound of Lauwarm Instrumentals, side A's 'Spray' is an epic, 10-minute glitchy, pulsing meditation showcasing Scanner's infallible ability to manipulate electronic drones and give them an eerie, captivating pulse. On the flipside, 'Lambertia' truly allows the ... [more]


52 Spacesby Scanner

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Release date 2 October 2002
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Commissioned and produced by The British School at Rome for film director Michelangelo Antonioni's 90th birthday this year, 52 Spaces uses sounds of the city of Rome and elements of The Eclipse (1962) to create a soundtrack of an image of a city suspended in time, anonymous and surreal. A ... [more]


Nemesis: Original Score for Random Dance Companyby Scanner

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Release date 2 October 2002
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Random Dance - resident company of Sadler's Wells London - celebrated its 10th anniversary year with an ambitious new work Nemesis. Exploring the relationship between body, screen and machine - extraterrestrial dance meets reality TV. Having previously written several scores for contemporary dance, Nemesis is the first complete score ... [more]


Lost Without Lightby Scanner

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Release date 1 June 2002
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Underscan Records 2002

The first vinyl release by Scanner for some years, the Lost Without Light EP offers three tracks of contrasting moods. Canton Lathe is an elastic dub fused work, scattering beats into a warm seductive groove, Backwood floats a gracefully melancholic melody over softly humming beats and the ... [more]


Diaryby Scanner

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Release date 1 June 2000
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Sulphur Records 2000

The music on this CD was recorded at live appearances in Montreal, Brussels, Utrecht, New York and Paris at various times between 1996 and 2000, and released in conjunction with a special UK tour. Diary combines cool beats with cinematic atmosphere, adding extracts from telephone conversations, vocal cut ... [more]


Konstantin Raudive: The Voices Of The Deadby various artists [Sub Rosa]

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Release date 12 March 2000
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For many their first introduction to the Raudive Tapes were through William Burroughs fictions and articles. The fact is, these mysterious magnetic tapes, which claim to capture the voices of the dead, and were recorded by the Baltic scientist Konstantin Raudive, are not a fiction but a reality (we are ... [more]


vs. Kompaktby various artists [Sub Rosa]

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Release date 2 November 1999
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A virtual battleground, the versus project presents (friendly) clashes between labels looking for a fight.

A virtual journey through a gallery of electronic pieces: side by side, original tracks and remixes offer in combination a new approach to the Köln-based label Kompakt.

Thomas/Mayer, Jürgen Paape, Dettinger, Freiland, Michael Mayer, and more ... [more]


Lauwarm Instrumentalsby Scanner

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Release date 1 June 1999
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Sulphur Records 1999

This album finds Scanner on striking form - the influence of Dr. Freud and M. Proust sits uneasily with that of Doc Scott and Herr Stockhausen. It sounds like contemporary electronic music embracing it's potential for grand, challenging work. Scanner refuses to let opportunities for evocative, elegiac promptings ... [more]


Spray / Ecoutenmentby Scanner

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Release date 1 June 1999
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Interference Film Festival 1999

An extremely rare 7" 45 single released as part of the Inteference Film Festival in Hollywood in 1999. To accompany an exhibition of radical cinema and urban isolation, this record presents two exclusive works that flicker between a floating itchy rhythmic pulse (Spray) and more acoustically processed ... [more]


Trawlby Scanner

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Release date 1 June 1999
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Chreode Records 1996

Bill Laswell and Mick Harris mixing up Scanner's trademark vocal snatches and sonic manipulations. Both mixes are similar in mood; eerie, dubbed-out, dark beats & ambience, in turns spaciousand claustraphobic. Harris's 'Enter Exit Mix' retains the vocals and drifts between calls on reverbed spinbacks, heavy shakers and foreboding ... [more]


Sound For Spacesby Scanner

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Release date 1 June 1998
CD In Stock £10.00 buy

Sub Rosa 1998

"Sound for Spaces draws strength from its utter simplicity, delivering an evocative collection of incidental music that stands up to the best work of other kindred spirits." - Alternative Press

"This compilation could actually be Scanner's most complete work to date. This is one of those records we always ... [more]


Double Articulationby various artists [Sub Rosa]

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Release date 25 March 1997
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Remix project featuring Main, Scanner, Mouse On Mars, Oval, David Shea and Tobias Hazan.


Folds And Rhizomesby various artists [Sub Rosa]

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Release date 6 February 1996
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A tribute to french philosopher Gilles Deleuze.


Sporeby Scanner

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Release date 1 June 1995
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New Electronica 1995

Held by many to be THE classic Scanner release and now long out of print, this combines the voyeuristic delight of scanned phone calls mixed into dark soundscapes. Many tracks incorporate found cell phone conversations, whilst incorporating static and white noise, various found-sound excerpts, slow, somewhat foreboding melodies, ... [more]


Lo Recordings Vol 1 : Extreme Possibilitiesby various artists [Lo Recordings]

Release date 1 June 1995
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As the title suggests the idea of this album was to present a diverse selection of musical possibilities, an idea which although fairly commonplace now was at the time fairly radical.

Much of the stuff still sounds good, in particular Bedouin Ascent's gentle piano piece, Vibert and Simmond's abstract hip hop, ... [more]


Sulphurby Scanner

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Release date 1 June 1995
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Sub Rosa 1995

"The Scanner series of recordings features the intercepted cellular phone conversations of unsuspecting talkers, edited into minimalist musical settings as if they were instruments. Scanner is a means of mapping the city, where the scanner device itself - a handheld radio receiver - provides an anonymous window into ... [more]



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SCANNER news June 2008

1 June 2008


June 2008

Hello



Greetings from a hot and humid New York City, where I’m currently residing for the week. Exactly 38 minutes into my birthday last week the Phoenix landed on Mars beaming extraordinary pictures back to Earth of another magical place, whilst I spent my celebratory hours shielding from the London rain, with the city suffering from one months worth of rain in just one day.

New York has offered new friends, retail shopping with a weak ... [read full article]


SCANNER news May 2008

1 May 2008

Scanner Newsletter May 2008
From Silence to Ghosts

Hello

Silence has been uppermost in my mind and body for the last month, since this never-ending alien virus transformed into viral laryngitis, which meant no speaking for 10 days at my doctor’s advice, which of course was near impossible. Ironically it vaguely and aptly returned just in time for me to chair a talk with Brian Eno at the Royal Academy relating to the very ideas of silence and ... [read full article]


SCANNER news April 2008

1 April 2008

From Russia with Love

Hello

The bugs continue to eat away at my health, so I’m back from traveling with another nasty virus, this time delivered fresh from Russia. March took me from a hurricane in Budapest where the windows in the hotel shook, the streets were paved with broken stone and glass and roads were closed due to damage, through Amsterdam, Moscow, St Petersburg and Eindhoven, and back to the rain and cold of London.

Russia was ... [read full article]


SCANNER news March 2008

2 March 2008

Scanner Newsletter March 2008
Travel Bug

Hello

Back to health and the only bug I’m submitting to is the travel bug, with the last month taking me from Amsterdam to Paris, to Berlin and Freiburg, Torino to Stockholm and even Derby and Cambridge in the fair old Great Britain.

The Githead tour on our little Gitmobile across Europe was mighty fun, driving an average of 1000 km a day slipping between city and city, rock and rolling ... [read full article]


SCANNER news January 2008

3 January 2008

Into the New Year

Hello

Welcome to the New Year, the International Year of Planet Earth, the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue and in Australia the Year of the Scout!

2007 closed with ill health for me, an unfortunate accident with a bicycle in the dark left me bruised, cut, limping and still in severe back pain, whilst a nasty flu took hold of me and much of London for the festive period, so I look forward to ... [read full article]


SCANNER news December 2007

1 December 2007

Scanner Newsletter December 2007
Festive Spirits

Hello

This month began in a surreal manner. I was woken up around 05.30 a.m. by loud scraping and scratching noises above me, which suggested that my upstairs neighbours had decided to move their furniture around for breakfast hour. However when I grew tired of the noises I looked out of my window and saw the torso of a man climbing onto my roof. Immediately I telephoned the local Metropolitan Police who ... [read full article]


SCANNER news November 2007

1 November 2007

November 2007

Hello
The clocks moved back in Great Britain, the mornings are brighter, the evenings darker and it’s time to search out gloves and funky hats to keep warm.

With a nasty flu virus catching victims all over Europe I was devoured by a nasty bout for over two weeks this last month, leading to loss of hearing in my left ear. Wondering if my life would now be led in mono and I’d be listening ... [read full article]


SCANNER news October 2007

1 October 2007

Scanner Lloyd Webber Reportage

October 2007

Hello

September began in a grand style with the world premiere of Kirikou & Karabato an extremely enthusiastic sell-out crowd in Lyon France. Watching the enraptured faces of countless children and adults immersed in the world of this little African boy and his adventures with the Sorceress was unforgettable. Hearing my soundtrack accompany live dancing squirrels, a sexy slinky snake man, sinking boats, burning huts and a quest through the underworld, ... [read full article]


SCANNER news September 2007

1 September 2007

Adventures and Escapades

September 2007

Hello

Freshly landed from the beautiful landscape of Kristiansand, Norway. Some months are busy, some are spent traveling from city to city, airport to station, hotel to hotel, but this last month has been an exceptional one.

August began with preparations and recording for Kirikou & Karaba, a musical based on an African folk tale where a newborn boy saves his village by ridding the world of Karaba, the evil sorceress. The original award-winning ... [read full article]


SCANNER news

2 August 2007

Travels in Scannerworld

August 2007

Hello

I write this from Vienna where I’m been on an artist residency at the Museumsquartier, apparently one of the ten largest cultural complexes in the world. Living in a Stanley Kubrick inspired apartment, with pristine white walls, a hidden kitchen and a bed on wheels, it’s a spectacular location, surrounded by gorgeous baroque buildings, the imposing black box of MUMOK, the Kunsthalle Wien, the TanzQuartier, and countless creative offices where busy heads ... [read full article]


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