THREE and GRUMPTRONIX present ANTENNA: BROADCAST ONE

Didn't know what time it was, the lights were low
Some cat was layin' down ( some electric soul…)
Then the loud sound did seem to fade
Came back like a slow voice on a wave of phase
That weren't no D.J. …that was hazy cosmic jive!
Starman - David Bowie

ANTENNA: BROADCAST ONE is a mix inspired by late nights listening to radio when we were teenagers. Conventional wisdom taking hold, we just assumed other cites must have cooler music than we had. So on weekends, we'd stay up late (when airwaves were less cluttered) slowly turning the FM dial thru in-between spaces hoping to catch distant signals bearing perfect beats. There was a certain excitement to hearing unknown mixes of favorite songs, or more likely, songs we’d never heard before! Little did we know that excitement would one day lead to us to lives completely devoted to music. The reception was rarely clear enough, long enough to satisfy. We always hoped for more time, more clarity...more music!! Especially, when it meant being able to hunt down records because of what was caught on tape. Tapes we’d listen to on through the next week, static and all. Eventually, this obsession would lead to the discovery of radio shows in New York, Chicago and Detroit forever changing our tape collections...and lives!

So this mix was recorded in the spirit of those days. Days which unbeknownst to us were the first steps towards our phuture. Days when what we knew and - more importantly - what we didn’t know fueled our curiosity. BROADCAST ONE was transmitted via our imaginations after reminiscing days gone by. Musically we went for the beautiful, the familiar and the strange (even the static sounds surreal). We hope you enjoy the trip as much as we did.

Three and Grumptronix
(recorded circa 1997)

01. Flexitone - Metacognition - Planet E
02. Six Finger Satellite - Hans' Pocketwatch - Sub Pop
03. Sisters Of Mercy - Phantom - Merciful Release
04. Hawke - Vivos en la Muerte - Sunburn
05. Sensorama - Zone 30 (Plaid remix) - Ladomat
06. Repeat - Lilt_a - A13
07. Laika - Breather (Luke Vibert remix) - Too Pure
08. Beat Butchers - Evolver - Pussy Foot
09. Prince - Hot Thing (Junior Vasquez and Justin Strauss Dub) - Paisley Park
10. Kiss Amc - Circles (Francois K dub) - A & M
11. A Guy Called Gerald - Specific Hate - Columbia
12. Afronaught - Special Construction - Afro Art
13. Patrick Cowley - Mutant Man - Megatone
14. New Order - 586 - Factory
15. Flexitone - Metacognition - Planet E