Mr. Meeuw Muzak is no stranger to L'étranger (see shows 355/342), so we invited him to invite a stranger to L'étranger to make it stranger. That stranger is Luke Calzonetti (aka Run Dust), the self same Luke of the 2017 Meeuw Muzak 7" release Luke & Wendy - 'Tony Conrad I/II'.
About Luke Calzonetti: lifted from PR for Run Dust - 'Leisure Village' LP on In Paradisum (2017)
"Run Dust aka Luke Calzonetti is a 36 year old New Yorker living in Germany. Once a fashion model and deranged grindcore singer, Run Dust is now our best and most polyvalent new musical partners this year. After our successful release of his debut LP in March 2015, we started collecting some of his new material pumped out in his typical hyperactive fashion. In a quick minute, we ended up with a whole new album that sounded even more accomplished with the addition of twelve original paintings alongside them – a talent he had kept secret, even if the presence of a man by the name of Albert Oehlen aka Wendy Gondeln on violin (on “Almonster’s Voice”) could have been a hint.
Some days electronic music sounds like a dead language and then Luke sends over tracks and this sensation vanishes. His music is sometimes a bit silly, often very smart, but it’s always activating deeper and incongruous zones of our psyche. Run Dust's music picks a fight with electronic music and knocks around various materials without losing sight of a crucial pulse. Everything goes; from waste-noise to radioactive jingle-esque melodies - always in a precarious equilibrium between outsider art and brutal propaganda."
Playlist
DJ Meeuw
1. Kim Fowley – Bad News From The Underworld
from 'S/T' LP (Lolita, France, 1985)
2. Robert Wyatt - The Animals Film
from 'The Animals Film' LP (Rough Trade, UK, 1982)
3. Pyrolator - Danger Cruising
from 'Inland' LP (Ata Tak, Germany, 1979)
4. Gerrit Hoekema - Werkdag Van Een Arbeider
from 'Contactdisc 1 v/a' LP (Stichting Stopcontact, NL, 1983)
5. Vittore Baroni - Minute Maniac Mambo
from 'Contactdisc 1' v/a LP (Stichting Stopcontact, NL, 1983)
6. Mix-O-Rap – For Thugz
from 12" (People's Potential United, USA, 2015)
7. Günter Müller / Norbert Möslang - excerpt
from 'Vlan_Voilà' LP (cave12, Switzerland, 2017)
Luke Calzonetti
1. Luke Calzonetti - Untitled 357 (Unreleased)
2. Run Dust - Kearafa (Unreleased)
DJ Meeuw
1. Timo van Luijk & Frederik Croene - Naufrage Terrien
from 'Fortune De Mer' LP (La Scie Dorée, BE ,2018)
2. Rezzett - Layla
from 12" (The Trilogy Tapes, UK, 2013)
Luke Calzonetti
1. Run Dust - Observed
from forthcoming 'Banca Nationzale' release
2. Run Dust- Ambitious Merchants
from forthcoming 'Banca Nationzale' release
DJ Meeuw
1. Kevin Drumm, Jérôme Noetinger, Robert Piotrowicz – Wrestling
from 7" (Boccian, Poland , 2011)
“INTERVIEW” with Luke & Meeuw (30 mins)
DJ Meeuw
1. Luke & Wendy - Tony Conrad I
from 7” (Meeuw Muzak, BE, 2017)
2. Benni Bischof & Norbert Möslang - Hai Kein Wal
from LP (Bots, Switzerland, 2013)
3. Willie Burns - Acidapella
from 'Tab of Acid' 12", (The Trilogy Tapes, UK, 2014)
Luke Calzonetti
1. Thomas Felhmann - MorrisLouis
from 'Los Lagos' CD ( Kompakt, Germany, 2018)
2. Hair Stylistics - The Band, and The Music
from 'Pop Bottakuri' CD (Boid, Japan, 2008)
3. Run Dust - The Truant
from 'Leisure Village' LP (In Paradisum, France, 2017)
4. Run Dust - Distant Bloods
from 'Leisure Village' LP (In Paradisum, France, 2017)
Outro
Grace Jones – She’s Lost Control
from 12” (Island Records, UK, 1983)