ILLEGAL ART

"Girl Talk (aka Gregg Gillis) is back with his 3rd album on Illegal Art. With each release getting closer to his notorious semi-naked live show, Night Ripper is focused less on beat-fuckery and more on bringing heat to the party. It bangs as a continuous mix packed ...
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IA113 | ILLEGAL ART

New project by Jane Dowe of Mille Plateaux fame. "Tired with the arrhythmic splatter of the countless post-Autechre ProTools Pollocks, motionless Oval acolytes and ear-slicing Schematic Records clones, Jane Dowe jerry-rigged her own software to create music that ...
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IA112 | ILLEGAL ART

"Inspired by the enigmatic and surrealistic films of Alejandro Jodorowsky, P. Miles Bryson has masterfully assembled the hidden soundtrack to the filmmaker's psyche. Borrowing liberally from Jodorowsky's films and environmental recordings of downtown Guymas in Mexico, ...
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IA104 | ILLEGAL ART

"Here it is, P. Miles Bryson's 2nd release for Illegal Art. This time the sound source is a giant stack of pop tunes from the 1960s. Many are recognizable as P. Miles carves out an addictive mix where the songs are both altered and preserved. In the end the listener ...
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IA111 | ILLEGAL ART

Comes in a brilliant fabric CD holder. Tracks from Huk Don Phun, Girl Talk, oto, sawako, stAllio, Realistic, jörg piringer, the grassy knoll, B'O'K, ADMacHine, Wobbly, Edward Coli, The Overneath and EVIE SENSATION.
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IA021 | ILLEGAL ART

Made exclusively from movies. Rudjak Manigz "SingKingHeart", Huk Don Phun "3 Kung Fu Pieces", Joseph Hyde "Manic", Andrew Q. Hayleck "Dr. Strangedub", Ed Chang "Cut!", Alien Heat "Illegal Space Kids", Kristine H. Burns "Somewhere...", Realistic "Information Retrieval", ...
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IA002 | ILLEGAL ART

Made entirely from commercials. The Evolution Control Committee "Music for Selling", Office Products "Mount & Do", Roux Partout "#5 (Life Without)", Orange Head "Real CM deep inside Your Life", Pimmon "Sales Pitch '67", Jörg Piringer "The Avalanche", Experts Of ...
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IA003 | ILLEGAL ART

"the second in Illegal Art's unique artist series, Penrose's disturbing album quickly reveals his fascination for colorful sonic alteration. as with all Illegal Art projects American Jingo begins with appropriated samples, but Penrose runs these starting points through ...
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IA102 | ILLEGAL ART

"Another big 'ol mess of headphone sex for those who like their audio entertainment uneasy and dynamic. Realistic's steamy new "Private Moments" ease in and out through a seamless barrage of beat-driven media stimuli. "Private Moments" further perfects the Realistic ...
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IA103 | ILLEGAL ART

"With a receiver in hand, Wobbly captures happy bits of commercial radio and emerges with the new extreme in attention deficit disordered pop. Playful electronic bursts with enough warped groove to keep the kids momentarily humored, Jon Leidecker (aka Wobbly) structures ...
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IA106 | ILLEGAL ART
"George W. Bush meets Public Enemy meets Noam Chomsky and a host of others on this post 9/11 critique of American hypocrisy." (label info) With: George W Bush, Daryl Jarvis, Hilary Charlesworth, Andrew Vincent, Noam Chomsky, John Shovelin, Terry Lane, Phil Cleary, Peter ...
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IA108 | ILLEGAL ART

"Years of MTV crammed into a 12 track hyper-edited epic party album. With all genres covered, this release cuts up endless top 40 sources at a breakneck pace to create the perfect A.D.D. club mix. This album accurately captures the energetic, rowdy, and non-stop fun ...
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IA109 | ILLEGAL ART

"Ryohei Kobayashi's (aka Hot Troche) 2nd album (his debut was on Pink Rabbit/Cha-Bashira in Japan). We fall off our chairs every time we listen to this. Hot Troche is simply the future of Japanese avant-music. Drum machines and samplers programmed at triple speed, ...
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IA110 | ILLEGAL ART