Text Chronological Anthology
Pre-historic
In 1986, several people happened together and proceeded to jam
in their Philadelphia cave. Not a group of people getting together
for the purpose of fame and fortune, but rather an experiment in
spirit, mind and body. The spontaneous get-togethers are a
strange thing to try n' explain....
The band of minstrels becomes known as the Electric Slugs. As
Electric Slugs leave glistening trails, the organizational side of
the team formed Glistening Trail Records. After some
rites-of-passage,
the Force became stronger... and Glistening Web Communications
Corporation, whose sole purpose is to help mankind, was formed.
Though the history of the world wide web is muddy,
it appears through the murk that Glistening Trail Records was
the first record company to create internet albums. In 1994,
seven albums were released. Their album covers are web addresses.
The music was distributed over the internet, and because of bandwidth
and browser restrictions, made available on
cassette, cd, CDROM, and mini-disc
at low cost or for free.
The concept of the internet album is a bit bizarre... it can change
with the times. The following list contains the original
1994 webpage, as well as the current version:
1994
1995 brought many new information-age music projects, like
Industrial Noize Pollution,
Spontaneous Combustion,
The Soul Receptacles,
Crond and many more... but,
the most interesting development of the year was
the new multimedia team known as Glistening
Flick's Multimedia Movie Making Madhouse
and the corresponding soundtrack
group known as Snake Handling Immortal
Tongue Speakers.
The Ride debuted as the first
"made for the internet" multimedia single. It
continues to be one of the most
requested files.
A conceptual interactive work known as
The Labyrinth was
soon to follow... and the revolution grew strong.
Still, ASCAP and others did not
acknowledge our existence.
Early in the next year, work started on the multimedia project
Yore
Killin' Me and the sound collection called
Smokin' Blue Grass.
Since the amount of memory required to store all
these projects was getting out-of-control, additional CDROM burners
and players were put to work to create a ROM
for on the internet.
Others were catching on to the activity at The
Membrane Domain. Outsiders were welcomed and turned into insiders...
a CDROM Jukebox was turned on...
Pandora's RomBox was born.
The new
components were blended together for storage and distribution purposes
on CDROM Volume I. Then
CDROM Volume II filled up in a hurry.
The additional archives from this period can be seen as
CDROM 3.
The meaning to the archives can be found by exploring
The Paradox of Pandora's
Rombox.
It was time for sum sorta scientifical hypothesis at this point.
So-called "Serious Testing" needed to be documented and
Acoustics of the Chaos Theory came to life.
Volume V contains the details of
the study.
The third project undertaken by Glistening Flicks was unwrapped:
Requiem
for the Living Dead. The songs delving deeper into the
"sound of the sound" and "the harshness of reality"
were put together as an Industrial Noize
Pollution project entitled Caustic
Acoustics. The songs delving deeper into the
"meaning of the sound" and the "beauty of reality" were combined
to form The Snake Handling Immortal Tongue Speakers'
RomBox Paradox... and quite
a Pandora's RomBox it is turning out to be.
CDROM's Volume VII,
CDROM 9 and CDROM
10
continued to offer plenty of sound choices, but also evidenced
the increase in multimedia and newmedia projects. Also of note is the increase
in outside artists that are working with us. Miles
To Oz is a living example of what grew out of one weekend during this time
period.
Finally, after having bits and pieces of Christmas stuff scattered about,
we compiled an Internet
Christmas Album. And, do you know what? It's so fun and wacky that
you might as well make every day Christmas... at least, that is what
the rest of the world seems to think. Each day the Christmas
Album is enjoyed by thousands of people
from around the world.
After years in the laboratory,
S.I.D.D.
finally saw the light of day on New Year's Eve. S.I.D.D. is
interactive.
Ygraine,
mother of King Arthur,
is also the mother of MegaEpix Enormous (a multidimensional multimedia
thingie). The cornerstone of the epic is an impromptu performance of
Pink
Floyd's The Wall. There are plenty of hidden gems, as well.
For instance, we started experimenting with "frames in a frame" video.
The cover of the
Moody
Blue's Voices In The Sky is an
example of combining the frames in a frame with a live soundtrack.
For the Memorial Day Weekend, we hosted the
Concert to Benefit Relief From the Psychedelic Awe Tax.
Over the summer, we worked on Passages
Of The Labyrinth. In the fall,
Instrumental In My Development was
released. By late autumn, the on-line construction of
Double Taxation...
Without Representation? had begun. And, who would of thought
there would be 2 hit singles for the holiday season,
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen and
And, A Happy-hazard New Year.
MPEG (Motion Picture Expert Group). When we came onto the Internet,
our dream was for the day when the average person could download
MP3 sound and MP4 video. That day has come.
Our first project for 1999 was to start organizing our library of mpeg
files. You can click here to find out more.
To Cause A Change turns out to be a
force to reckon with. In fact, the result was the largest
production in our history. The resulting series of extreme experiments
in multimedia has become known as X Spirit Meants.
The extreme videos have gained such a large
audience that it has turned into the Urban Assault website.
Since so many of our dreams have come true, we thought
it to be our responsibility to share our good fortune. The next
Multimedia series turned into a production called
The Dream Actualization Inquiries.
It is an interactive test set-up to help make your dreams come true.
As we approached summer, quite a few singles were released.
Among them were:
The Paradox Of Pandora's RomBox,
Fly Like An Eagle,
Bottomless Pit,
(What's So Funny) 'Bout
Peace, Love & Understanding, and
Amazin' !
For July 4th, a new independent collection was celebrated --
Independence
Day. The project helped to solidify our work with
PoliticalAction.com. As it is our mission
to convey universal messages through music, this marked a milestone for
Glistening Trail Records.
On the subject of universal messages, Narley
Marley started giving "Love & Hate" the world beating. After
years of swimming in the roots of Jamaica, Narley started to
sing out on the experience.
Now
So, what are you waiting for? Come on and open the RomBoxes....
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The Philadelphia Spirit Experiment
Glistening Trail Records
PO Box 994
Blue Bell, PA 19422
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