Realistic - Private Moments

REALISTIC - PRIVATE MOMENTS (IA 103)
Realistic's steamy "Private Moments" ease in and out through a seamless barrage of beat-driven media stimuli. "Private Moments" further perfects the Realistic method whereby familiar voices and melodies work to propel the listener through a sometimes eerie and often humorous sequence of audio events. The music is a funhouse of fractured break beats, hyperactive synthesizer patterns, field-recordings, and passionate vocal fragments. Drawing on the anti-copyright ideology, Realistic borrows freely from a variety of sources. disco, classic rock, television, movies, top 40 radio, found sounds and noise all find their way into Realistic's rich post-modern stew.	For more than ten years Realistic's James Towning has worked as an electronic noise-maker, fusing electronic and sampled sounds with spoken word and his own sense of humor. Previously releasing electro-pop under the name Fact TwentyTwo, Towning later explored more abstract instrumental territory with 1998's "Maidenhead" album under the name Realistic. "Maidenhead" was later re-released on Negativland's Seeland label. in 2000 Illegal Art released a collection of remixes of the track "Smells Like Teen Disco" from "Maidenhead". "Private Moments" is the much-anticipated follow-up album to "Maidenhead."	Also available: mp3s of track 4, track 9, track 19 + Flash movie + interview + reviews + Smells Like Teen Disco + Maidenhead Order from the illegal art catalog.