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Best in the series!

Philippe Landry | Louisiana | 12/29/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Start here. The others are great to have but this one is the most valuable. Save this one in a house fire."

To Know What Music Is, You Should Know What It Isn't

M. Hori | Urayasu, Chiba Japan | 02/14/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This anthology offers a sometimes painful exploration of sound, yet this experience is a useful one, for among the drones, electric cracklings and Tesla thunderbooms; between the electric drills and the high-speed scratchings of 1000 needles across the longest blackboards in the world; beneath the sinus waves of infra-sound, and swimming high above the aural abbatoirs of the "important" butchers of sinfonnietas, canons, minuets, and symphonies, you might find something of interest in much the same way a lost wanderer in the middle of the desert may clutch at a dipper of warm, cloudy water with trembling hands. Or like a boxer, struck repeatedly by body blows, feeling the final upper-cut as a kind of fuzzy, painless, letting go, you might finally relax into your punished body, and follow the unravelings of consciousness as it falls away into nerve damage and cellular malaise. Whatever mortification you suffer would be worth it, though. Think of what Rimbaud gave up to squat in his own sickness and stare up at the towers in the sky. You might wipe away the drops of blood dangling like ruby ear rings from your lobes and find a better definition of music poised on your lips awaiting the merest articulation when you regain your balance and resume your life."