Blog: Listening Post - Wired Blogs

Some music becomes samples, some incorporates them and others consist of nothing else but samples. Escape Mechanism , the music project of one Jonathan Nelson, falls into the third category. His music, first appearing on a debut album in '98, consists entirely of found sounds with an emphasis on spoken word samples from Hollywood films. His latest album, Emphasis Added -- the first Escape Mechanism full-length studio release in ten years -- is available online . Nelson's online manifesto sums up his approach fairly succinctly: "Using fragments of sound from the film reels, [...]