Fsck (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Fsck
Type = studio
Artist = Farmers Manual


Released = Start date|1997|8
Recorded =
Genre = Electronica, Glitch
Length = 1:01:24
Label = Tray
Producer =
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://wm07.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:d9frxqqjldke link]
*Vital Weekly (favorable) [http://www.vitalweekly.net/87.html link]
Last album = "No Backup" (1996)
This album = "Fsck" (1997)
Next album = "Explorers_We" (1998)

"Fsck" is the second full-length release by Farmers Manual, published in August 1997 on Tray (a sister-label of Ash International). A 2nd edition was reprinted in 1999 on OR (another sister-label of Ash International).

Album title

The album title refers to a command of the Unix operating system, where fsck stands for file system check ["Stefan Possert: File System Check, it's the UNIX thing when you have a crashed system and you need to repair it." Citation
last = Sjogren
first = Klas
author-link = Klas Sjogren
title = Farmers Manual Interview @ Nature is perverse, Stockholm
publisher=angbase.com
date = 1998-11-29
year = 1998
url = http://www.angbase.com/interviews/farmers_manual.html
accessdate = 2007-12-26 ] - a command used by system administrators if there is believed to be a problem with the file system (the term's tongue-in-cheeck use among the hacker subculture is referenced in the Jargon File). Nevertheless, some critics took the title as a misspelling ["a misspelling like Mego group Farmers Manual album title "fsck" (...) says as much as any manifesto. In fact a misspelling that makes you disbelieve your eyes is an entire manifesto, one compressed and abbreviated, encrypted and delivered under the Trojan Horse of derision and sarcasm." Citation
last = Eshun
first = Kodwo
author-link = Kodwo Eshun
title = Music from the Bedroom Studios - Prix Ars Electronica 99 / Jury-Statement
publisher=Ars Electronica Archive
date = 1999
year = 1999
url = http://www.aec.at/en/archives/prix_archive/prixJuryStatement.asp?iProjectID=2598
accessdate = 2007-12-26 ] .

Reception

"Fsck" was hailed as an "abstract genre abuse", and compared to acts as Pan Sonic, Merzbow or Photek [Citation
last = Cooper
first = Sean
author-link = Sean Cooper
title = Allmusic - fsck
publisher = Allmusic
url = http://wm07.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:d9frxqqjldke
accessdate = 2007-12-26 ] .The album was included in the "top 50 albums of 1997" by British music magazine The Wire [Citation
title = Rewind 1997
journal = The Wire (magazine)
issue = 167
date = January 1998
year = 1998
url = http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/429/
accessdate = 2007-12-26 ] .

Track listing

# "363" - 5:05
# "364" - 1:18
# "365" - 3:51
# "366" - 3:58
# "367 mix" - 1:57
# "368 mix" - 4:57
# "369 fin" - 3:58
# "370 magic leise mix" - 10:15
# "Nuk (mix)" - 1:26
# "371 adv3" - 1:05
# "Frog dies in sunlight.aif" - 3:16
# "I out" - 1:39
# "Klopp01.proc (mono)" - 0:56
# "Loop der.II.proc" - 1:29
# "Untitled" - 5:3716-98. "Inter #001 (Mono)" - "Inter #043 (Mono)" - 0:04
99. "Myself ii" - 5:05

Notes

Track 16 to 98 all have a duration of 4 seconds, and contain nothing but silence, interspersed with occasional digital static. The band's interest in pushing the limits of any given medium will also appear on the subsequent releases, "Explorers_We" and "RLA".

References

External links

* [http://web.fm/releases/index.html Farmers Manual discography] (up to 1998)
* [http://www.discogs.com/release/106658 Album page] on discogs.com