Counter Culture 05
Various
Details
2006 2xCD UK Rough Trade VVR1037162
In rounded jewel case
Track Listing
Disc A
  1. Constants Are Changing - Boards Of Canada
  2. Nancy Sings - Jandek
  3. Words For Two - Six Organs Of Admittance
  4. Meadow - Espers
  5. Paper Cuts - The Boy Least Likely To
  6. Direct To Helmet - The Spinto Band
  7. Details Of The War - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
  8. Drive Me Home The Lonely Nights - Serena Maneesh
  9. Slaughtered By The Sun - Modlang
  10. Klutz - King Creosote
  11. It Hurts To See You Dance So Well - The Pipettes
  12. Disco Ball - Ana Da Silva
  13. Contre Temps - Asja Auf Capri
  14. God's Money V - Gang Gang Dance
  15. Celebrity - Matthew Herbert
  16. My Machine - Princess Superstar
  17. Rad - Smoosh
  18. Gang Fight - Streetland Gang Rhythms Band 1
  19. Lufuala Ndonga Edit - Konono No. 1
  20. My Mood Swings It. Elvis Costello - Brodsky Quartet
  21. The Beatles - Daniel Johnston
  22. Cars - Katzenjammers
  23. Dont's - David Shrigley
Disc B
  1. June 15 Edit - Nurse With Wound
  2. The Wild Mountain Thyme - Albert Kuvezin and Yat-Kha
  3. I Feel Space (M.A.N.D.Y. Remix) Edit - Lindstrom
  4. No Sex - Green Velvet
  5. Munchausen - No Bra
  6. Do You Want To (Erol Alkan's Glam Packet) - Franz Ferdinand
  7. Cubis (I Love You) - Data Panik
  8. Small Town Girl - Good Shoes
  9. Circle.Square.Triangle. - Test Icicles
  10. Showroom - Milburn
  11. Speak To Me - CDOASS
  12. Clasp Hands - The Fall
  13. Heard About Your Band - Brakes
  14. Lust In The Movies - The Long Blondes
  15. Counter Stroke - 10LEC6
  16. A+ Cannibal - Death Sentence: PANDA!
  17. Have Love Will Travel - The Thing
  18. The March Of The Big White Barbarians Edit - Jack Too Jack
  19. Station Id / Pearl Snaps - Attack Formation
  20. Attack Form - Snow White
  21. Riff Wraiths - Lightning Bolt
  22. Clara Bow - 50 Foot Wave
  23. Modern Girl - Sleater-Kinney
  24. Untitled - Harry Walker-Wright
Sleeve Notes
Relating to Nurse WIth Wound

Taken from the album 'Shipwreck Radio Volume One' (ICR / United Dairies).
Back in the 15 Century, sailing merchant Pietro Querini shipwrecked his fleet on the Lofoten Islands, north of the Arctic Circle in Northern Norway, and spent a winter surviving the harsh surroundings. A few hundred years later , Steven Stapleton and Colin Potter were shipped to the same place with a bunch of recording equipment. The project came about when we were given the opportunity to think up a sonic project for the Lofoten International Art festival. We decided to invite NWW to the islands bringing no instruments, they were dumped in an apartment in the town of Svolver, and told to get out and make whatever they wanted, sonically, while exploring the islands. Three times a week, their work in progress had to be aired on the local radio station, Lofotenradioen. Lofoten never darkens in summer. The air was saturated with the background reek of drying cod, and the headless fish could be seen everywhere, dangling from huge wooden drying racks all over the island. Explorative walks around the streets of scattered towns revealed strange homemade garden trolls; knotty carved guardians of domesticity that reverberate with a deep and rich pagan history. Every sound you hear is sourced from environments and objects in Lofoten: buildings, ships, harbour-side tackle, local characters encountered during the period of abandonment on the island, marching bands and crowds at the local music festival 'Codstock'. Even the dessicated cod was used as flaky percussion. Shipwreck Radio is a CD documenting some of the material Steven and Colin came up with, and here is a taster. Best enjoyed with woolly socks and a snack of cod jerky. (Anne Hilde Neset and Rob Young)

Written by Stapleton / Potter