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The Answering Machine Solution

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1.
A Small Good Thing* - Spread The Word 00:30
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A Small Good Thing* - Puppy 00:32
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3.
People Like Us - Excuse Me A Moment (It's Alright) 00:36
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Gregory Whitehead - Hello, Hi, Honey 00:37
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Kingdom Scum - The Subconscious Conversational 00:50
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Kingdom Scum - Witnessing The End Of A Relationship 00:24
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Kingdom Scum - The Ultimate Generic Answering Machine Message 00:38
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Hungry Ghost - One Phone Call 00:33
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Hungry Ghost - Who Shares 00:28
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Brunnen - The Ansaphone Song 00:29
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Marion Van Oijen / Mark Tegefoss / Xavier Martin - Untitled 00:32
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Marion Van Oijen / Mark Tegefoss / Xavier Martin - Untitled 00:31
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Marion Van Oijen / Mark Tegefoss / Xavier Martin - Untitled 00:26
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Marion Van Oijen / Mark Tegefoss / Xavier Martin - Untitled 00:28
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Marion Van Oijen / Mark Tegefoss / Xavier Martin - Untitled 00:26
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Marion Van Oijen / Mark Tegefoss / Xavier Martin - Untitled 00:16
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Zombies Under Stress - Let My Blood Be A Seed Of Freedom 00:20
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18.
Martusciello - STCD 100 00:42
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19.
Leif Elggren - The Kingdom Of Elgaland - Vargaland Outgoing Message 00:26
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Leif Elggren - Shareware For Answering Machine 00:27
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21.
Dominique Petitgand - Merci Chérie 00:45
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22.
Konstruktivits - Untitled 00:24
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Konstruktivits - Untitled 00:38
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Impulse/Jara Discs - Untitled 00:25
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Richard Bone - Untitled 00:29
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Brume - France Telecom 00:35
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Love, Happiness And Prosperity 00:16
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28.
Karl Blake - Hurl Insults 00:34
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Karl Blake - Beauty Spot 00:35
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Sons Of Silence - Silansa 1 00:35
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116 Crew - I Can't Hear You 00:23
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The Disembodied Art Gallery - Flatline 00:36
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Bad Sector - Untitled 00:35
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Ilios - L.Y.M. 10ST 00:30
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Ene - Greeting W/Sound 00:33
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Peter Becker - Above Vivien's 00:35
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Crawl Unit - The Moment Of Your Birth 00:31
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Disaster Area - Prolog 00:35
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39.
Hypostatic Union - Call Me 00:32
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Hypostatic Union - Dial Again 00:37
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Steve Roden / In Be Tween Noise - No Sign Of Any Living Person 00:41
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Automaticity - There's A Call For You 00:30
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PaSc - Not In Gone Out 00:24
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F. Kelly - Dialing From Nowhere 00:34
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F. Kelly - Holethelynepleas 00:30
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Désaccord Majeur - Borl 00:41
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Burkhard/Beins - Steps 00:31
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Jürgen Morgenstern - Pigs 00:36
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Syllyk - Que Cosa? 01:14
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50.
Dawny McCarthy - Ta Na Heiweacha Go Heir Marbh Anois 00:35
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RL36 - Untitled 00:32
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Left Hand Right Hand - Untitled 00:44
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Karl Blake - 87 Storm 00:42
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Karl Blake - R.R. Tune 00:32
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Ultrasound - The Eye... (In The Whole) 03:40
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Brume - The Defective Analogical Answering Machine Of A Sixty-Year-Old-Person's Night Club 00:41
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Dubwize - R-P.I.A. 00:43
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58.
Martusciello - Demos 00:34
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Roel Meelkop - Untitled 00:20
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60.
Circus Of Pain - Rotula 00:31
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61.
Ene - Steve 00:21
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Zombies Under Stress - I've Got A Message For You 00:23
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63.
Symetrics - Untitled 00:39
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64.
Deutsch Nepal - Mixed Messages 00:31
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65.
PaSc - Telephone Pad Two 00:42
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66.
Unknown Artist - Shamanic Songs Of Yemani Upon Installation Of Telephone Equipment 01:47
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By all means, this was supposed to be one-trick pony.
This is a collection of messages for answering machine by the likes of Bad Sector, Deutsch Nepal, Kingdom Scum, Brunnen, Left Hand Right Hand, Brume, Crawl Unit and many others.
But somehow creators of this compilation were able to destroy limitation of concept compilations dealing with extremely short tracks (you know - 60 seconds of this, 30 this secons of this - with rare exceptions its not extremely interesting).
A lot of those tracks are unbelievably funny and retain comic value for quite a long time. There's a variety of tracks ranging from insane preacher conversations with his dog and listeners (A Small Good Thing) to song by answering machine (Brunnen) to subconcious conversations (Kingdom Scum).
Certainly there are few tracks that don't fit into the subject or simply waste space on CD (in particular, Nigel Ayers track - the longest one on this comp). But overall this is very enjoyable one-of-a-kind release, which might not be suitable for constant listening, but might improve overall mood of the listener.

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released December 28, 2020

This CD celebrates the 100th CD release of Staalplaat.

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