Queens Free Press (http://www.queensfreepress.com/author/jpiazza/)
What could have been a dry and drab account of compression algorithms and legalities is instead an action-packed saga of a dangerous underground organization where anonymity is critical and risk is always high.
As audio formats have risen and fallen from favor, there have always been segments of audiophiles there to fly the flag of their favorite format, and to shun the supposed failures of those they oppose.
This weekend's musical exploration began, and it so often does, with a single catalyst. That agent was the arrival of the latest addition to the much-hailed KLF Recovered & Remastered series, titled The KLF Remix Project (Part One).
For thirty-seven years, Rick Smith and Karl Hyde have been creating their own unique flavor of music, ranging from New Wave to synth pop as Freur and Underworld Mk1, to progressive house experimentalism with their breakthrough self-reinvention on the album, Dubnobasswithmyheadman.