| It's true that they reformulate, with high doses
of deformity, works of others but more than only aesthetic works they provide
an answer. I once read that one of their ambitions was to "give back
to the world the garbage it produces" and today I gather that is what
I understand with respect to many of their works. I do have to confess that
the most frequent reaction that I encountered from other people after they
first witness the "VV/m experience" was disorientation, which
is rather funny considering that the message is emitted from very clear
grounds "To me all I do is make honest audio that I want to make"
writes James Kirby "There's never really been this great plan here
apart from to make what interests me and look for energy from the things
I am doing". This search started in the mid 90s, in Stockport - a village
in the north of England - when James got together with Andrew Macgregor
and started finishing some tracks with an Amiga computer and a somewhat
faulty version of the software Music X. They compiled these tracks under
the name of "Up-link data transmissions" and they established
the label V/Vm Test Records to release them: "In early 1996 instead
of sending any demo's out we figured it would be good to just press something
ourselves and see if we could sell them in shops. Back then there were only
a few labels who we could have approached, unlike today when it seems most
people run labels, so it was never really an option to send audio out to
labels. We pressed the first 12" and it took a year of real hard work
to sell those records to shops direct." |
