NWW List Music For Download

I’ve been delv­ing into the (in)famous Nurse With Wound list over the past few days. Included with NWW’s 1980 debut album, Chance Meet­ing on a Dis­sect­ing Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella, and later expanded, the list com­prises band mem­bers Steven Sta­ple­ton, John Fothergill and Heman Pathak’s favourite artists, 300 or so of them, from the imme­di­ately famil­iar - Can, Faust, Kraftwerk, &tc. - to the utterly obscure.

Over the past few months, William Berger of WFMU’s Beware Of The Blog has been explor­ing the list, pro­vid­ing potted biogra­phies of var­i­ous artists and groups, and illus­trat­ing his posts with MP3s: Adven­tures In The NWW List, Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. And now a weblog, Insect & Indi­vid­ual, has popped up, offer­ing full albums by artists on the list for download.

Get stuck in — there’s a hell of a lot of exper­i­men­tal, excit­ing and down­right pecu­liar music there for the taking.

See also:

• United Dairies, NWW’s record label.
• Audion Magazine’s NWW Guide
• A lengthy inter­view with Stephen Sta­ple­ton, by David Keenan.

Posted at 1pm on 12/02/06 by Jack Mottram to the music category.
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