{"product_id":"back-to-mono-cd","title":"Back to Mono: CD","description":"\u003cp\u003eBoyd Rice \/ NON announces the release of a new album, Back To Mono, in October 2012. Back To Mono is a return to Boyd Rice’s noise roots, and the first new album since 2002’s Children Of The Black Sun.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHailed as an influence by the likes of Marilyn Manson, Marc Almond and Wes Eisold from Cold Cave, Rice’s contributions are both seismic and unquantifiable. Boyd Rice \/ NON’s first release was what is known as the Black Album (1975). \u003ci\u003e\"When I started to compose and perform noise music in the ‘70s there simply were no other noise groups.\"\u003c\/i\u003e As noise became more commonplace, Rice moved into more subtle and complex recordings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCredited with having developed a pioneering sampler; the ‘Noise Manipulation Unit’ Boyd delved into California’s avant-garde scene in the late 1970s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSays Rice, \u003ci\u003e\"I was doing sample-based music about a decade before the advent of samplers, when everyone else was using bass, guitars, keyboards and drums.  It has been said that I invented the first sampler.  Perhaps I did. At the time I called it the N.M.U. (or noise manipulation unit). It allowed me to essentially sample numerous tracks of noise and mould them into rudimentary rhythms.  This was my principle instrument for a good many years and can be heard on Back to Mono, in the late 70’s archival recordings.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRice was to become the one of the first signings to Miller’s revolutionary Mute label and a 30-year partnership began with the issue of ‘Knife Ladder.’ By including a version of Warm Leatherette on ‘Back To Mono’ Rice has completed his Noise odyssey: \u003ci\u003e\"I bought that single fifteen minutes before meeting Daniel. And that meeting changed my life.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recordstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49974613934322,"sku":"CDSTUMM338","price":1.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0850\/1621\/5794\/files\/SharedImage-32616_1.jpg?v=1787628692","url":"https:\/\/recordstero.shop\/products\/back-to-mono-cd","provider":"recordstero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}