Ergo Phizmiz - It's a sin (Pet Shop Boys cover)

We drove to Munich in the car. Bavarian radio was reporting on an English artist who produces music and other art on a massive scale but somehow brilliantly... Ergo Phizmiz
Ergo Phizmiz - Its a sin

This version of "It's a sin" is probably the most brutal version of the song. The extensive use of the crash cymbal, the powerful guitar riffs and the intense vocals. A delicious mixture of noise and art. The soundboard can also be loud - very loud - to the delight of the neighbors, but you really can't hear this version quietly.

Some of his works of art have accompanied me in various playlists over the last few years. Now he has removed some older records from Spotify, which is why the only option here is to visit YouTube to listen to his version of It's a sin. Or you can download the album as an mp3 from freemusicarchive. It's called "dadaphone".

You can find more Ergo Phizmiz on the various music services, but also on various other music portals (Bandcamp, Freemusicarchive). Here is the German translation of the text about him from Freemusicarchive: "Ergo Phizmiz is one of the most prolific artists in the world. Over the past 13 years, he has created a body of work spanning hundreds of hours in theater, songwriting, text, electronic music, collage exhibitions, installations, opera, video and radio plays that has constantly defied categorization and been performed or broadcast around the world. His work has included "The Faust Cycle" (a 15-hour audio adventure); "M: 1000 Year Mix" (a collage of a millennium), the unique operas "Gala", "Gargantua", "The Mourning Show", "UOEIA" and "Fulcanelli's Shoes"; the songwriting albums "Things to Do and Make" and "Eleven Songs"; his cover versions of music by Beyonce, Velvet Underground, Aphex Twin and the Pet Shop Boys; and award-winning radio plays "Disappearing Boxes", "Conversations With Birds", "Paul Klee, a Balloon, the Moon, Music and Me" and "Boojum". 3, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Tete a Tete: The Opera Festival, Deutschlandradiokultur, Channel 4 Television, WDR3, DePlayer, Soundart Radio, WFMU, Resonance FM, Sonic Arts Network, Royal Festival Hall and Tate Modern. Record labels that have released his music include Care in the Community Recordings, UpItUp Records, Touch, Illegal Art, Headphonica, Soleilmoon and Populista. Ergo has been a prominent figure in the Creative Commons music world for almost ten years and has given away huge troves of his online work, which is very popular with video makers internationally (Youtube alone now has over 1500 videos featuring Ergo Phizmiz music). He has also composed film and television music for Vicki Bennett / People Like Us, Christian Marclay and Frankie Boyle. Ergo Phizmiz's work is characterized by restless change and playful play with history, art, music, science and the boundaries between creativity and charlatanism, copyrights and copywrongs, words and music. He lives in Bridport, UK"

So, if you have a lot of time, you can work through this work over the next few years. It's all very worth listening to 😉 

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