Retrovirus by Bad Sector
CD Edition of 333 hand-numbered copies. Comes in a four sided digisleeve.
RV01: already appeared on Pressurized Music Ltd. ed. tape. Re-generated in Nov. 2000. Recorded live on modular synth, with no overdub.
RV03: treated vocal fragment by Alejandro Oraa Aguero (1997).
RV04: the basic audio layer was radio-transmitted and recorded in a different location together with background static noise, as a test for a pirate station 1987.
RV05: basic audio layer recorded in 1987, ham radio meteor scatter DX sample added in Nov. 2000.
RV06: recorded in 1987.
RV09: basic audio layer recorded 1988, remixed in Dec. 2000.
RV02-RV03-RV07-RV08-RV10-RV11: basic audio layers were generated using a sort of phasing sequencer, developed on Atari ST platform in 1994 and recorded between 1995 and 1996.
RV12: recorded live in Teatro Continuo (Padova, I) in 1996 using a 20 meters long copper wire played with a bow as an audio signal source.
RV01/RV02: re-mixed in Dec. 2000.
(slightly) remastered in 2021
Tracklist
| 1. | Inoculation | 7:20 |
| 2. | ACGT [../..] | 2:16 |
| 3. | CAGT [Beast Gene] | 3:00 |
| 4. | GCAT [../../] | 2:38 |
| 5. | TCGT [Scatter] | 2:48 |
| 6. | AGCT [:] | 2:56 |
| 7. | GACT [Mutate] | 2:35 |
| 8. | CGAT [.] | 3:04 |
| 9. | TGCT [Biosphere] | 3:00 |
| 10. | ATCG [..] | 2:22 |
| 11. | GTAC [/] | 2:02 |
| 12. | Infection | 6:12 |
Credits
Cover by Andrea Marutti (afe records).
License
All rights reserved.
Bad sector is a musical project created in Tuscany, Italy by Massimo Magrini. Bad Sector's music is considered a mixture of ambient and industrial music, a mix of electronic experimentation and usually dark emotions.