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72 MB de Luxe Audio Soup Kitchen
TafelMuzak Nº 096 von Leonhard Lorek Philipp Steglich Evgenij Dvorkin
Too many cooks spoil the broth – as the plebeian saying goes – and TafelMuzak has three of them. As for the people – Lat. plebs – they are the reason for the current column anyway, and the music it accompanies. But first a word about the opening adage: while working on TafelMuzak N° 96 it was clear from the start that no one should spoil anyone else’s efforts. In practical terms this meant a division of labour according to the following principles: Phillipp Steglich is the cook this time, Leonhard Lorek the coordinator and Evgenij Dvorkin the communicator. Interim compilations were made, and then everything was translated into English by Michael Turnbull the translator. And now to the people. Dearest People, welcome to the year 2010, to our second or third or thirteenth year of crisis – depending on where you start counting. At any rate, things will get worse – this we can all rely on. Add to this the fact that in Copenhagen, during the final days of last year, everyone who had anything to say more or less said that polar melting has the initial purpose of supplying all the swimming pools that were drained as a result of the credit crunch with cheap water in future. And if half the planet becomes a swimming pool we’ll all benefit in the end. Above all the Barbary ducks! Almost half of them drown every year in the cesspit, end up under the wheels of a tractor or collapse between the hooves of a frightened ox. Barbary ducks are said to be the stupidest birds on the farm. But we say this is a malicious slander, because it’s quite possible that their behaviour has nothing to do with stupidity. They’re probably just oversensitive, pitiful fellow creatures willing to put an early end to their meaningless existence – endearing losers, so to speak. Even Barbary ducks would drown in a swimming pool of the dimensions held out for us by climate change. A heavenly prospect for these birds – saved from suicidal gymnastics. And no one need worry about the banks any more, oh no, where Josef Ackermann sees the possibility of Deutsche Bank taking an annual profit of ten million euros from 2011. Who wants to talk of hardship? Who? We do! We want to! We’re talking about it. Everyone pulls together in times of need – legend has it. This, apparently, is where the idea of the soup kitchen comes from. Or at least it was thought up at some point at some such time. Later the urban subcultures dominated by the autonomists occupied the term. In Germany the word for it is Volksküche, and the autonomists gave it an X (Volxküche) and turned it into a ritual: the good guys (self-defined) cooked for the good guys (defined as such and thus taken into the fold by the self-defined good guys). The good guys were usually bad to very bad cooks. But because it was the good guys who cooked, the cooked-for said lovely nosh, sat close together, spooned it down and praised the bad as good, because for the sake of the good the good guys have to tell lies now and then. Such nobility! And then cults were formed. Now, because of things getting bad again, etc., we want to have a go at building on this tradition. Not because we’re romantics or sceptics, but because we’re good. Although with this 96th TafelMuzak we intend to revolutionise the Volxküche. This also means individualising it. Or at least keeping individualisation open as an option. You can eat alone, together or not at all, just as you like. And the accompanying recipe is a recommendation, not an order – that would be too much of a good thing. In the tradition we are about to take up there are a few things to consider. For a start goodness. This we lay claim to. So much to self-definition. Also soup kitchens have to be free, or at least cheap. We want to keep to this too. And we’ll even let the Volxküche keep its silly X. We aren’t spoilsports. That’s the tradition. And now for the revolution! As avowed hedonists we at TafelMuzak are of the opinion that the only people who can do good in the world are people with gusto. Because people with gusto also know how wretchedly an unpalatable world can afflict anyone whose senses are still intact. Feeding oneself isn’t enough. Sitting or standing together with others while feeding oneself isn’t enough. It! Isn’t! Enough! It’s just about enough to get one’s strength up to grumble or throw stones, i.e. to blow off steam. But it isn’t enough to create anything new. And it isn’t enough to regain the vitality you need to keep a protecting hand over what’s dear to you, or defend it if you have to. So we set ourselves the task – and because we’re involved with music we believe we can fulfil it – of making a contribution to the atmosphere of eating and dining. Having reflected on music in 95 columns, we’re now glad to be able to serve some up ourselves. We asked artists from all over the world to lend us, for two months, music that would be suitable to accompany a meal. Then we brought these ingredients together, as in any good cuisine, to make an album that in our opinion contains almost 50 minutes of the choicest table music: 72 MB de Luxe Audio Soup Kitchen! So far, so good. The music had to be – in best Volxküche tradition – for free. To be more exact: it had to be good music for free. And so we went looking for the good guys who’d be willing to dole out the goodies for free, to the world, dear people. One of the few artists on this album who has already appeared in TafelMuzak is Gustav Tutre. Peter Christopherson gave Leonhard an interview a year ago. When Evgenij asked him after a SoiSong concert in Cologne if he’d contribute something to this compilation, the Threshold HouseBoys Choir was added to our collection. Hans Appelqvist – TafelMuzak N° 41, such a long time ago and we still think of him – responded to our request as follows: … you can use the song. It's fine by me and it's not owned by anyone except me. The only policy I have is that if others make money on my music, then I want a piece of that money, but this doesn't seem to be that kind of project. In musical terms Mendelsson were never subject matter for TafelMuzak – conflict of interest. The Mendelsson site was only available as a mother ship or home base for the MySpace Odyssey in TafelMuzak N° 85 – in which we came upon Gustav Tutre, by the way. But for this project the band is quadruply involved: Norbert Grandl – who was kind enough to mix the sampler – fulfilled a musical childhood dream with his Latin version of the International at 59 BPM, exactly half the classical acid tempo. Evgenij and Leonhard threw 6 aspirins into the mix, and Michael Turnbull is one of the voices on Totius Orbis Laboratorum Hymnus. Michael hasn’t only translated this column, by the way – his definition of Volxküche also contributed to the state of this text. Now that the name of MySpace has been dropped: the planet we live on will surely suffer a similar fate to this virtual platform, which is rapidly drowning. On MySpace you can observe the consequences of neglect in fast motion. Unfortunately, tangible reality doesn’t allow us to get away with as much as virtual reality usually does. MySpace virtuality was really lively for a while. We got to know Yourai there, which has been a tremendous pleasure, and also Mr K aka Burning boat to Spica. It was thanks to him that Evgenij received some very chic underpants from Jettone Films – only available in a limited edition, because they were specially designed for an actor in Wong Kar-Wai’s film Happy Together. So there you go: Evgenij was responsible for communication. That pays off. His communication with Hardy Küster sometimes goes on for nights on end on ICQ. The home of the NBI_Orchester is Berlin, so we can see, hear and touch them, and with the 77th TafelMuzak they were given the only column that announced a concert. This was immediately cancelled. Also based in Berlin is boy in a suitcase, who along with rue23 provided the track from Codex Alimentarius. We’ve never seen each other in this city. Perhaps our time will come at the TafelMuzak reading on 5 January. Last autumn Evgenij went to London for the day for an interview with the photographer Ruth Bayer. Late at night he ended up in the Horse Hospital, where David Knight and Stephen Thrower were having a UnicaZürn release party – a wild one! Evgenij brought back Jack Sorrow, with the voice of Danielle Dax. His journalistic debut had been a year before with an interview with Othon. Evgenij had been in quite high spirits at the time, and now we can close our collection of audio delicacies with a high-spirited piece by Othon & Tomasini. And because we’re the good guys we also know Ceven Knowles, on whose Unbekanntes Sektorformat this sampler will be stationed for free downloading until 28 February. A toast to the Volxküche and all soup kitchens! The link can be found below this text in the “label” category. Ceven himself opens the album in his capacity as nevec red with Cm7. So much, in brief, for the music. If you don’t open the compilation with iTunes, it can happen that only the titles are shown, not the artists. But never mind, apart from the music the file also contains a list of the artists’ names and the links to their websites in the order they appear on the album. If you prefer the classical CD, there’s also a cover, because the tracks were uploaded at a resolution that makes it possible to convert them into ordinary audio files. If you listen to the compilation with the Last.fm Scrobbler, you might like to tag the pieces as “audio delicacies”. We’ll be interested to see how long it takes for some of them to end up in this new category. TafelMuzak is now a well-frequented web column – we just don’t know by whom. It’s regularly accessed, for example, by someone who uses a server in the Seychelles. In short: we’d love to get a few reactions from readers and listeners at info@tafelmuzak.de and then enjoy them, while dining perhaps, with 72 MB de Luxe Audio Soup Kitchen. Tuesday, 5 January 2010 > Monarch > Skalitzerstr. 134 > 10999 Berlin > U-Bahn Kottbusser Tor > 8.30 pm > at the first Verbrecherversammlung of the new year Verbrecher Verlag presents TafelMuzak de Luxe, read and recounted by Leonhard Lorek, Philipp Steglich and Evgenij Dvorkin.
Künstler: 72 MB de Luxe Audio Soup Kitchen http://www.myspace.com/tafelmuzak
Album: TafelMuzak Nº 96
Label: TafelMuzak http://unbekanntessektorformat.com/tafel-muzak/
Vertrieb: Unbekanntes Sektorformat
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Recipe Tea-smoked Barbary duck Ingredients 2 breasts of Barbary duck Salad oil Wok with grid and lid (or similar) powerful réchaud or camping burner (optional) Aluminium foil Rub: 1 tbsp. Sichuan pepper 1 tbsp. black pepper 2 tbsp. coarse sea salt 1 tsp. five-spice powder Smoking: 100g rice 100g sugar 50g jasmine tea in leaves dried orange peel (1 orange) Sauce: 4 tbsp. sesame-seed oil 1 tbsp. cayenne pepper (or chilli remnants) 1 tsp. sesame seeds
Zubereitung
Preparation Cut a diamond pattern into the skin of the duck breasts. Briefly toast the two types of pepper in a frying pan and grind them together with the salt and five-spice powder. Rub into the breasts and leave to work in – cool, ideally overnight. Line a wok with aluminium foil. Blend the rice and sugar, put into wok. Scatter the tea and orange peel on top. Lay the breasts on the grid in the wok and cover with the lid. Outdoors if possible: heat the wok over a high flame/temperature on a stove, réchaud or camping burner until thick smoke occurs. Reduce temperature and smoke the breasts for approx. 30 minutes. Turn after half the time. Smoking with tea produces much more harmonious nuances of flavour than woodchips. The smoked breasts can be kept for up to two days if refrigerated. Carefully toast the sesame seeds in a small pan, work in the cayenne pepper and add the sesame oil. Sauté the breasts – initially on the skin side – in a little oil. 8-10 minutes should do. Then let them draw for a few minutes under aluminium foil. Finely cut diagonally against the grain. Arrange on pre-warmed plates and garnish with the sesame oil. Bon chance! The Chinese like to add to the cooking process by steaming the breasts before – or sometimes after – the smoking. I couldn’t detect any improvement in flavour through this, and it makes a lot more work – and fun. You can of course prepare a whole duck or parts of one in this way, or even spring chickens. Serve with lambs lettuce, orange filets and leaves of black basil, or Chinese spring-onion pancakes. Also delicious: potato straw!