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Oregon Daily Emerald
Thursday, January 20, 2005
“Thank God, I’m still an atheist. ”
Luis Bunuel | Director
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Sammy Davis Jr., Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass,
Public Enemy, Dan Rather and AC/DC. Separately,
these cultural icons bear little resemblance to one an
other. In the hands of Evolution Control Committee
mastermind Mark Gunderson, tiney become the raw
material for a new and creative form of social com
mentary. Mixing sounds from a wide and disjointed
range of audio material, Gunderson and his collabora
tors have taken the basics of musical sampling and
twisted them into new forms. ECC has courted college
radio successes as well as some pesky, though public
ity-bestowed, lawsuits. Recently, Gunderson took
some time from touring to talk to the Emerald about his
work, his music and his views on the current state of
American copyright laws.
Emerald: Your music is based very heavily on sam
ples. How do you make that interesting in performance?
MG: Excellent question, and one that has been hot on
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■ In my opinion
RYAN NYBURG
BUDGET RACK
Celebrity fixation
exposes greedy nation
I have to admit, I truly delight in the miseries
of the rich and famous. Class warfare, envy,
shadenfreud celebe, call it what you will. I take
few simpler pleasures than that of the humilia
tion and loss of those more popular, talented
and financially endowed than myself. Brad and
Jen break up? Good, screw 'em. Prince Harry
gets a picture of himself dressed as a Nazi
plastered all overthe tabloids? Ha! Stupid up
per-class twit. Britney gets married and
knocked up? Excellent, no more albums for at
least a year or two.
To be honest, I have come to truly despise
these people. It might be odd for me to say
that because I don't personally know any of
them, but then again people fall completely in
NYBURG, page 12
PULSEMUSIC PULSEMUSIC
Jerel, "Jerel": The new four-song, self-titled EP from the Seattle band Jerel takes up the forgotten form of swamp
rock and mixes it together with an eclectic list of influences. Featuring plenty of metal crunch and some chilling bass
work, the band manages to carve some interesting music out of its basic rock lineup by adding banjos, keyboards and
harmonicas for the occasional flavor.
The EP's firsttrack, "Garden Eve," starts things off right with a groovy bass line underpinning some bluesy southern
rock, ft's a sweettrack and a definite pick should the band come by the funds for an album anytime soon. "Jimmy
Maug" adds a nice hard guitar crunch to go along with the distorted vocals—very Alice in Chainy in a Lynyrd Skynyrd
kind of way.
The Skynyrd influence really comes through on the ballad "Underground." It's a little cheesy, but it ends on a nice
note. The follow-up and EP closer, "Heat Her," is a nice finish to a delightful 12 minutes of music. Based on what sounds
like a converted Pink Floyd (sounds a lot like "Money"), the song is a sweet little piece of blues groove.
Overall, this is a fine piece of work. Let's hope the band gets it into their heads to pull out something longer in the near
future. Word on the street is that they will perform atthe Samarai Duck on Feb. 3,
— Ryan Nyburg
INSIDE PULSE
Sam Bond's Garage brings a
wide variety of people together
for its interesting music.
The University's Repertory
Dance Company heads into
its seventh year with style.
Check out this week's edition
of the Emerald's new comic
strip, "Heads Up Penny."
Thursday: Kinnie Star,
Sam Bond's Garage,
9 p.m., $5
Trip-hop
Friday: "Benjamin
Smoke," DIVA, 8 p.m.,
$3 to $5 sliding scale
Documentary about an
underground musician
Saturday: Dirty Digits,
Black Forest,
11 p.m.,free
Rock'n' roll show
Sunday: Jordan
Schnitzer Museum of
Art reopening, Jordan
Schnitzer Museum of
Art, 11 a.m.,free
Reopening featuring Andy
Warhol exhibit
TOP 5 MOVIES
1. "Coach Carter"
2. "Meetthe Fockers"
3. "Racing Stripes"
4. "In Good Company"
5. "Elektra"
NEWYORKTIMES
BEST-SELLERS
1. Dan Brown, "The Da
Vinci Code"
2. Mitch Albom, "The
Five People You Meet in
Heaven"
S.TerryGoodkind,
"Chainfire"
4. Michael Crichton,
"State of Fear"
5. W.E.B. Griffin, "By
Order of the President"
BILLBOARDTOP 5
1. Green Day,
"American Idiot"
2. Eminem, "Encore"
3. Lii' John, "Crunk
Juice"
4. John Legend, "Get
Gifted"
5. Ludacris, "The Red
Light District"