The earliest Fossil Aerosol
Mining Project recordings, made during the mid-1980s, utilized literal “found
sounds” such as fragments of open reel 1/4” tape and 35mm film recovered from
burnt out warehouses and abandoned drive-in theaters. One of the first loops
was made from a fragment of the film “Zombi 2”, cut out of a reel by a sloppy
projectionist. Spliced into a length of leader and run through an old projector
(with no bulb but a convenient audio output), the damaged audio track became
artifact.
Over the years, a number of Fossil Aerosol recordings
were produced using sonic fragments from the zombi film genre of the late Cold
War era. Some of the first pieces were included in the “Cassette Recordings” release,
compiled in 1995. The 2005 “if you enjoyed the dawn of the dead” was composed
almost entirely of damaged and mutated artifacts from Romero’s original zombie
trilogy. “The First 15 Minutes of the Second Sequel” (2007) was composed of
processed fragments from the first 15 minutes of the second unauthorized
Italian sequel to Dawn of the Dead. Fake resurrection, left for dead and
resurrected again.
In 2009, some the older theme-based recordings were revisited.
“Resurrection Remixes”, just released on iTunes, represents a revision of
Fossil Aerosol’s zombi past. A mildewed journey that begins in a dead mall in
1978, passes through a dying Midwestern drive-in theater in 1983, and
ultimately gets lost in translation in the midst of a fake Italian apocalypse.
You can hear a sample here:
