Anti-Pop Consortium began its set with a vocal-free collage of noisy samples, chirping and whooping electronics, and a wobbly beat.
Faces get doubled, fragmented, collaged.
Occasionally, he collaged images from magazines.
"The Source," based on a libretto by Mark Doten, is a mesmerizing and disquieting collage of vocal, instrumental, and recorded sounds.
AFE told The Huffington Post in a statement that "You & Me" marries Allies For Everyone's anthemic vocal melodies with their collage of various styles of synth and bass music.
It merged sampled beats, a definably British rap style and a stirring soul vocal into a radical musical collage that resonates throughout pop music to this day.
He specializes in twining pas de deux infused with ripe, eroticized emotion and is partial to musical collages; "Constellation" includes vocal music by Handel, Vivaldi, and Strauss, sung onstage by the mezzo-soprano Maya Lahyani to recorded accompaniment, as well as excerpts by Arvo Pärt, the Japanese neo-traditionalist Somei Satoh, and others.
During a band hiatus in the early 1980s, he wrote the score for choreographer Twyla Tharp's The Catherine Wheel (1981) and collaborated with Brian Eno on the album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1981), a groundbreaking collage of rhythmic grooves and vocal samples.
Though filled with offbeat songs, experiments with sound collage, and a spoken word vocal by Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, it contained two "radio friendly" tracks.
Endtroducing..... is opened by "Best Foot Forward", a brief 48-second collage of various hip hop vocal samples, along with instances of scratching.
