Ladies & Gentlemen!
Welcome to HEAVY breathing! Vol. 3
Enter the sonic worlds of electronically stimulated passionate moanings
and groanings, of noisy hyperventilation out of the sampler and orgiastic screams
of unclear origins. So after collecting more than 60 hours of heavy breathing
music over the last seven years, we invite you to a journey into the manifold
worlds of sound sexualization. But what does “sound sexualization” mean? Is
it simply put the heritage of the now legendary and then scandalous French
mega hit “Je t’aime... moi non plus” by Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg? Or are we talking about more? About advanced, or should I
frankly say, so-called artistically valuable transformations of sexual intercourse
into pop music. Erotic sound designs meet blue movies.
Music as a sublime thing meets the explicit and the obscenely real. What is
more pleasurable – the secrets, hidden behind thousands of veils, or pure,
naked flesh? But also in the world of pop, where everything is exposed bigger
than life, all those aspects and perspectives are only separated by a fine
line. We leave this job to the dirty old men who think they will save the world
thru censorship. Our third volume reaches into the artificial world of digital
eroticism and the effects of going cold turkey in the aftermath of the sexual
revolution. Are there really streams of subversive desires and revolutionary
pleasures under the surface of stereotypical gender attributes? But didn’t
those supposedly subversive powers turn into the now mainstream dogma of the
permanent compulsion to be free and enjoy sex? So you may argue that pop music
itself adds more to the problems than offers solutions. Okay, we too ask, how
horny can a music be that blows up moanings and groanings as the codes of sexual
arousal the way marching
music does with trumpet blasts as the codes of martial militarism. Well, let’s
put it this way: Some of the tunes may sound like furniture music for horizontal
dancing, made by artists on the electronic drawing board or the digital assembly
line. Sonic sexploitation between subversiveness and the twilight zones of
mainstream desires.
So stay cool, be hot and relish those pleasures joyfull thru your ears!
Fritz Ostermayer / Didi Neidhart
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01 | JAMES WHITE & THE BLACKS | Stained Sheets
Sex as cold turkey, sex as naked lunch, sex noir over the phone. Imagine this:
a man gets a hot and wet sex call and he finds this kind of intercourse through
the ears “a little bit distasteful”. Or was it just a dream? Would you call
the “Queen of Siam”, Lydia Lunch a.k.a. Stella Rico, that way? James White
with his saxophone, fuelled by the (also haunted) spirits of Albert Ayler,
Lester Young, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, does so on his 1979 release
“Off White”. But what do you expect from New York’s “No Wave” scene of that
time –
a typical male reaction to an offensive and nearly aggressive female sex call?
02 | CHRIS & COSEY | Infectus
Former members of Industrial’s godfather Throbbing Gristle, Chris Carter and
Cosey Fanni Tutti are not only one of the most strangest couples in the history
of pop music. Even with Throbbing Gristle both set new standards in terms of
radical performances (Carter with his seriously meant Abba T-shirt, Cosey with
her past as an ex-porn-actress and performance artist – together with the infamous
Genesis P-Orridge she was also the co-founder of the pre-TG art project COUM
Transmissions). Here we have them as true disciples of the dark side of Giorgio
Moroder/Donna Summer. Complete with mechanical sound sexualization, sadomasochistic
appeal and a groove in leather and lace. A real slick and liquid masterpiece.
Taken from the 1989 record “Trust”, that also included a title called “Percusex”.
03 | SCHAEBEN & VOSS | I Was A Train
And once more we travel the land of heavy breathing by (or better as a) train!
This futuristic and slick tune about sex in a train and/or sex with/as a train
was released by Kompakt Records/Cologne and opens new dimensions in having
an orgasm. This time it’s lust through deconstruction with a nearly bodiless
voice moaning out of a machine. A sampled, cut-up, “unnatural” orgasm for the
modern lovers of queer poststructuralist theories and therefore one of our
heavy breathing jukebox heroes.
04 | LE PEUPLE DE L’HERBE | Sexual Attraction
Hailing from Lyon with kaleidoscopic tunes mixed together from the vaults of
funk, ragga, house, dub, hiphop, drum’n’bass and little slices of tropical
rhythms, this band encounters the regions of electronica and sex with a smooth
and in some ways naïve appeal. You know this kinda stuff with Vaseline on
the eye of the camera. But don’t let it fool you – this tune is from the
“scandalous” French movie from 2000, “Baise-moi” by Virginie Despentes and
Coralie Trinh Thi!
05 | LUIGEE TRADEMARQ | Hush Pup
What is this? Gallic moans and groans like the French have apparently done
it ever since the Marquis de Sade got his first pencil? Yes and no! Because
what sounds on the surface like a typical French porn smack is a funny cross
between reggae, ska and a lotta self-irony. Taken from the “Tripe-Hot” CD on
Rectangle Records/France.
06 | LUIGEE TRADEMARQ | Peep-Show Kebab
Again we surf the sex waves under the sign of the big beat right into “Vampiros
Lesbos” territory! Just imagine WOMEN going into peep shows as customers… If
in doubt, just ask Fritz Ostermayer. For more info check out: http://www.rectangle.org
07 | KEVIN BLECHDOM feat. MOCKY | Love You From The Heart
What would sex be without gender trouble? A male fantasy at its worst. So here
we give you feminist electro clash with an anarchistic punk attitude! Made
by Florida-born performance artist Kristin Erickson. Swinging between some
kinda innocence and drastic agitation, this wild roller-coaster ride from the
“Eat My Heart Out” album (Chicks On Speed Records, 2005) shows again that any
kind of “sexual revolution” has to be a feminist revolution.
08 | SVEN VÄTH feat. MISS KITTIN | Je t’aime... moi non plus
In 1969 one song changed the world of erotic pop tunes forever. Serge Gainsbourg
and Jane Birkin did their best for the history of heavy breathing. And so did
nearly millions of others. We chose this track from 2002 with German techno
star Sven Väth and the wonderful Miss Kittin from Grenoble, because it sounds
like a 1969 “popcorn” version of the original song, full of innocent electronic
toy gimmicks and funny synthesizer bleeps.
09 | KHAN | 12th Commandment
Explicit porn talk either from a lady on the other side of a porn hot line
or the instruction record you sometimes got with the purchase of a rubber doll
in the seventies (in case the customer didn’t know how to handle his new plastic
partner). Infused with tiny little spooky sounds this tune has something special.
But as Khan (Can Oral) once said: “Everybody knows that our music deals with
sex”. So it’s also no wonder that he worked together with both Lydia Lunch
and Diamanda Galas and contributed one track to the soundtrack of Bruce LaBruce’s
movie “Raspberry Reich”.
10 | DREAMSEQUENCE feat. BLAKE BAXTER | Deeppa
The “prince of techno”, who was already kicking the floor with tunes like “Sexuality”
and “Fuck You Up”, in full effect! Electronic horny-phonic sleaze from Detroit
packed around a fine slice of Barry White’s ultra mega bedroom classic “I’m
in ecstasy when you lay right next to me”. And one of the very few examples
of a really hot and not unconsciously funny breathing action by a male voice/vocalist,
testifying his sexuality.
11 | LOVE T.K.O. | Love Thong
Enter slow motion disco! Enter mellow groove land! And listen to some erotique/exotique
sitar sounds (!) and spacey electronic bleeps deep from the heart of disco
heaven! Again, a woman with a strange French accent is catching our attention.
But does she come out of the ocean or space? Is she Barbarella from Atlantis?
A perfect tune for cruising or just strolling around. And another fine example
of falling into electronic ecstasy while doing it with music machines! Futuristic
love starts here! Released on Howie B.’s Pussyfoot Records Ltd. in 1998.
12 | HYPER CARD | 3 (Backdoor Mix)
It only must have a French tongue... Heavy breathing, groaning and moaning
as music. Is this a real guitar? Yes! But with a bizarre sadomasochistic mystery-thriller
appeal! But why do men who groan and moan in full sexual ecstasy always sound
sound kinda funny? Or is it just that old piece of blues wisdom that says:
Men don’t know, but the little girls understand...
13 | LOS CHICHARRONS | Summer Fever
If the first words of a song are “I’m sexy”, you don’t have to ask for more.
Your body heat will automatically turn subtropical. But you may start wondering
about the melodies Ramon Santana and Morten Varano put together for this tune,
coming from strange places like funky spaghetti western saloons and some weird
science fiction B-movie planets. And what about this strange isola lesbos dancehall
appeal? Is this just a sonic hallucination under the hot summer sun (or sin)?
We don’t know, but we enjoy this psychedelic persuasion.
14 | STEREO MC’s | Stop It! Stop It! Stop It!
Why stop it? Let’s get it on and on and on! But you know, supported by dopey
beats and a special breeze flavor you can only find in the hiphop sound of
Bristol. Time is only relative. So relax and enjoy this funky mantra.
15 | TWINK | Fluid *
Sex after too many psychedelic experiences! Imagine something like liquid West
Coast rock in a state of detoxication taking a swinging journey into Death
Valley. Taken from the 1970 record “Think Pink” by drummer, vocalist Twink
(The Pink Fairies), some kinda missing link between Syd Barrett’s madcap tunes
and the fairy tales of Tyrannosaurus Rex. No wonder because T.Rex’s Steve Peregrin
Took was part of this project but ultimately fired by Marc Bolan after he found
out that his partner was playing with other guys. The song is in fact the product
of a weird free jam (like other songs with titles like “Mexican Grass War”)
building up to a groovy maelstrom until everything falls into the vortex of
pure ecstasy.
16 | SEX ACTS AND ORGIES | First Sexual Touch *
The first exploration of the body as aural sculpture! Not a bad idea. From
now on your hands and your fingers are your best friends! But don’t think
about this tune as having only been made for the ears of male voyeurs. Because
this one has a nearly cosmic message, dealing with the “erogenous zone” as
the direct way to your subconscious (or the other way round). “A hyperreal
state”, as the liner notes say. An “experience”, a – yes! – “trip” and a
“meditation”. A real sexploitation covered as a freaky sixties experience.
17 | TAGAQ | Still
This Inuit folk singer (full name Tanya Tagaq Gillis), who also worked together
with Björk and the Kronos Quartet, shows us a glimpse of the high techniques
of Inuit throat singing. As you may know – sex happens in the mind and therefore
sexual stimulation only thru the voice can give you more than the average
body can offer: it’s imagination off limits (maybe also the general subject
of our collection). An intimate piece for close listening but with a certain
feel of arctic loneliness.
Didi Neidhart
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Thank you very very much: Cpt. Davidopoulos, Didi Neidhart, Andreas Neumeister
Thank you very much: Annie Bräuhauser, Steve Cox, Roderich Fabian, Jakob
Feigl, Martin Fengel, Walter Gröbchen, Erhard Grundl, Jörn Heinecker, Tom Ising,
Tom Kimmig, Wayne Lenniger, Christian Lyra, Sissa Marquardt, Eva Mair, Lisa
Miletic, Fritz Ostermayer, Andrea Posteiner, Nike Rasche, Eduard Rühmann, Manu
Rzytki, Markus Schmölz, Judith Schnaubelt, Bodo Teising, Upstart, Christiane
Wechselberger, Stefan Werner, Ulrike Zöller & all who helped & everyone I forgot...