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Telecommunication Breakdown

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| name = Telecommunication Breakdown

| type = Album

| artist = Emergency Broadcast Network

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| released = 1995

| recorded = 1995

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| genre = Electronic

| length = 53:13

| label = TVT

| producer = Jack Dangers

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{{album ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{rating|4.5|5}}{{Cite web | url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/telecommunication-breakdown-mw0000175288 | title=Telecommunication Breakdown - Emergency Broadcast Network | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic | website=AllMusic }}

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Telecommunication Breakdown is an album by Emergency Broadcast Network.{{Cite web|url=https://ew.com/article/1995/08/18/emergency-broadcast-networks-mutated-ads/|title=Emergency Broadcast Network's mutated ads|website=EW.com}}{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/1995/09/beta-8/|title=Meet Your New Playmate|first=Scott|last=Taves| magazine=Wired |date=September 1, 1995|via=www.wired.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-04-12-fi-53922-story.html|title=The Cutting Edge: COMPUTERS / TECHNOLOGY / INNOVATION : It's Truly Techno Pop : 'Enhanced CD' Provides More Than Music|date=April 12, 1995|website=Los Angeles Times}} It was released in 1995 by TVT Records.{{Cite web|url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/emergency-broadcast-network/|title=Emergency Broadcast Network}} The CD includes three video tracks in addition to the audio, and a floppy disc includes an interactive press kit.{{cite magazine|title=EBN Expands the Multimedia Landscape|last=Gillen|first=Marilyn A.|work=Billboard|volume=107|issue=10|date=March 11, 1995|page=60}}

The music was produced by Jack Dangers, as a side project from his group Meat Beat Manifesto. The album features a number of guest performers: Brian Eno on "Homicidal Schizophrenic," with Jamie West-Oram of The Fixx on guitar; Bill Laswell contributed to "Shoot the Mac-10," with Grandmaster Melle Mel rapping."[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r209990|pure_url=yes}} Telecommunication Breakdown > Overview]". Allmusic. Retrieved December 16, 2009.

Critical reception

The New York Times wrote: "Outrageous and aggressive, Breakdown is guaranteed to have you either laughing, dancing or running from the room in terror ... Emergency Broadcast Network has a CD-ROM vision that matches and, to an extent, deepens its sonic attack."{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/19/arts/the-cd-takes-the-leap-into-the-great-beyond-of-visuals.html|title=The CD Takes the Leap Into the Great Beyond of Visuals|first=Ty|last=Burr| newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 19, 1995}}

Track listing

  1. "search" – 0:59
  2. "Electronic Behavior Control System" – 4:33
  3. "go to" – 0:12
  4. "Sexual Orientation" – 3:06
  5. "Station Identification" – 4:40
  6. "Get Down Ver. 2.2" – 3:45
  7. "Shoot the Mac-10" – 4:03
  8. "You Have 5 Seconds to Complete This Section" – 3:06
  9. "Super Zen State (Power Chant No.3)" – 6:50
  10. "State Extension" – 1:15
  11. "interruption" – 0:23
  12. "Dream Induction" – 3:20
  13. "transition" – 0:06
  14. "Electronic Behavior Control System Ver. 2.0" – 2:24
  15. "We Must Have the Facts" – 3:05
  16. "interference" – 0:14
  17. "3:7:8" – 3:43
  18. "Beginning of the End" – 2:45
  19. "Homicidal Schizophrenic (A Lad Insane)" – 4:08
  20. "end of audio program" – 0:45

Video track listing

  1. "Electronic Behavior Control System" - 5:33
  2. "3:7:8" – 3:42
  3. "Homicidal Schizophrenic (A Lad Insane)" – 4:17

References

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Category:1995 albums

Category:Electronic albums by American artists

Category:TVT Records albums

Category:Albums produced by Jack Dangers

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