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Various sound effects and samples are played over a looped noise and music bed. A stuttering noise bed. This fades to a buzzing noise, and we hear a woman with an English accent intoning phone instructions as heard on Over the Edge over the years. Don't say hello turns into Don't say Goodbye. Phineas plays various 'hello' samples over this.

We also hear a short post-produced added in very faintly of Casey Kasem saying 'Is Don on the phone?' which is looped from U2. Suicide Man is in there too. More breath commercial samples. Ronald Redball and Al Newport samples are in the mix saying 'hello' as well as hello samples from The Twilight Zone and Monty Python and the Holy Grail. We hear the OTE theme come in. A caller says 'Goodbye?' over and over in the mix. Booper.

Various 'radio' themed song samples are played amidst electronic and reverbed noise. PM-- plays a clip from Primer (2004) movie over the phone. The mix descends into various random noises. This builds to a climax and then ends. The start of a chanting occurs which continues in the next track.

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from The Art of Breathing, released August 12, 2015
Phineas Narco; Wobbly; Puzzling Evidence; Al Newport; Casey Kasem; Negativland; Suicide Man; Ronald Redball; Al Newport; Twilight Zone; Monty Python; Primer (2004);

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The National Cynical Network (NCN) is a long-running, SF Bay Area alternate programming media remix project. It originally consisted of a trio of SF Bay-Area based radio collage artists: Phineas Narco, Ronald Redball and Alexander T. Newport. NCN seeks to play *with* music , using sound, and video media samples in the process of media collage or 'mediage'. ... more

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