V/A - War Smash Hits (Sub Rosa, 1996)

Dropped for detonation at an altitude of some 500 meters, the first bomb produced a flash, a nuclear burst of 1/15,000,000 th of a second. A Flash whose glow infiltrated every corner of the buildings all the way to their cellars, leaving its imprint in the stone, whose outward color altered with the fusion of certain mineral elements, while the protected surfaces remained curiously intact. The same was true of clothes and bodies, where kimono patterns tattooed the flesh of victims... If, according to its inventor Nicephore Niepce, photography is but a method of engraving by the action of light, or "photoengraving", where bodies inscribe their traces by the effects of their own luminosity, the nuclear weapon is heir to both the dark rooms of Niepce and Daguerre and to the projector of war. No longer the luminous silhouette beaming from the back of a darken room; but a shadow cast sometimes into Hiroshima's very cellars. The Japanese shadow play is etched no more, as once it was, on the flats of "a shadow theatre", but on the screen... the city's walls.

Paul Virilio, in Logique de la Perception

Track 1: Recorded at Colour Studios, Amsterdam February 1996. Words and voices by people at Refugee Centre Crailo, The Netherlands. Published by Kongenial.
Track 2: Created at Greenpoint Studio, Brooklyn, New York, 1995 
Track 3 - Recorded at Le Laboratoire Central, 1995. Published by Sub Rosa Quantum 
Track 4: Recorded at Studio Pentagon, Ljubljana, Slovenia February-March 1996. Publishing: Public Domain/Mute Song.
Track 4 is actually 21:28 long. The Laibach piece finishes at 5:54, followed by about 7 minutes of silence and then a further 8 ½ minutes of what are presumably field recordings made during the Bosnian War: sounds of people and vehicles moving, talking, gunfire, birdsong, etc.

01 Kong - Earthling
02 Bill Laswell - Black Djinn Trance
03 Silk Saw - Calling N.Y.
04 Laibach - L'Homme Arme

SR 105 CD

Sub Rosa