ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> </body> </html> <b>Big City Orchestra</b> Musical Box CD-R (Ubuibi.Org)<br> <br> BOC, I mean, BCO is an uber prolific outfit of noiseniks and pretention vendors jerking each other off under the auspices of being a experimental noise collective that releases records more often than most old people get to shit. Well intentioned as they may very well be (so were the Nazis) there's a reason why these gasbags are so prolific. Its because they will release anything, no matter how flat-out lousy or better left on the shelf (or better still, chained to a radiator in the basement) without battin an eye. The proof is in the pudding, 'cause this lazy, unremarkable and unmemorable ambient noise disc sounds like something that any dipstick with Garage Band could come up with in a single unproductive afternoon. I suppose some people will find these generic drones "soothing," but you know what else is soothing? Total silence, which is far preferable (and cheaper) then Musical Box. This album was "limited" to an edition of 250 copies, now only 249, because I threw my copy in the fucking trash. According to the half-assed, ugly packaging, the captains of the S.S. Shitmobile are the CEO of the snooze patrol, BCO vet Cliff Neighbors, joined by "Dark Muse" (because the name "Fucking Clown" was already taken), Daevid Allen (who can go fueck himsaelf) from Gong, who refuses to spell his naeme correctly and refuses to release anything worthwhile since the 70's, some person called Das, and Ninah Pixie. All I know about Ninah Pixie is that she compiled a waste of time/three disc compilation entitled  Woman Take Back The Noise , A tedious shitpile released to point out the gender discrepancy in the noise scene. Here's where Pixie and I differ; Pixie thought the lack of the fairer sex in the noise scene was an alarming injustice that warranted documentation, whereas I think the lack of woman in the noise scene is a credit to their gender; much the same way the lack of black drivers on the NASCAR circuit is a credit to black people everywhere. Pixie named the first disc of her three disc set  Oronauta after crackpot idiot Wilhelm Reich's pet theory - that the Universe is powered by an conveniently invisible energy called orgone. Orgone was bullshit of such a fantastic proportions that the Food And Drug Administration had to issue Reich an injunction and then arrest him, just to get him to shut the fuck up. Wilhelm was a delusional arrogant loudmouthed fraud whose ridiculous theories were endorsed by people with no scientific experience, such as overrated proto-hippie windbag Jack Kerouac and misogynist human skeleton William S. Burroughs. If I wanted to check the validity of a scientific theory, I d consult a scientist. If I wanted to ask someone what its like to get drunk and shoot your common law wife in the forehead, what it is like to appear in a U2 video, or what its like to be a writer when 99% of your fans are barely literate softskulls that haven t actually read your books, I d look up Burroughs. Think I m alone in thinking that Reich was full of shit? That I can't understand Reich's subtle & nuanced work? Is that it? Well, there's a very qualified person that also thought Reich was a lying sack of shit. You know who that was? ALBERT EINSTEIN. Reich's "accomplishments" are glorified by a particularly annoying and very stupid portion of the public that overshadows the far more admirable accomplishment of actual scientists. Fuck Wilhelm Reich, fuck people that take his intellectually invalid horseshit seriously, and fuck this crappy album. Do yourself a favor and ignore this pompous, boring, art-school bullshit.