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Some Assembly Required

About Me

"Tape Manipulations, Digital Deconstructions and Turntable Creations"

Some Assembly Required is a weekly audio art show focused on works of appropriation: sample based music and audio art.

The radio program currently airs on two dozen college, community and public radio stations across the US and Canada, and is podcast from the Some Assembly Required Blog .

More information, online at: www.some-assembly-required.net

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/6/2006
Band Website: www.some-assembly-required.net
Band Members: Producer/Host: Jon Nelson
Sounds Like: We play everything from musique concrète, plunderphonics and hip hop turntablists, to mashups, cut-ups and sound collage from every genre.

If the artist is creatively recycling sounds found in the broadcast media, then chances are good you've heard it on Some Assembly Required.

More info online, at www.some-assembly-required.net
Record Label: Unknown Indie
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New Sound Collages at Myspace

I Cut People, David Morneau and RIAA all recently sent in tracks sampling some very familiar source material - on the 10th Anniversary of Some Assembly Required!Check them out in the Myspace Music med...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:18:00 GMT

NPR Interview

February 5, 2009Interview with Some Assembly Required's Jon Nelson on National Public Radio's On Point with Tom Ashbrook.Check out a streaming archive at the show's website HERE.
Posted by on Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:58:00 GMT

Call For Sound Collage Artists: SAR and mnartists.org

Some Assembly Required and mnartists.org announce a Call For Artists...To celebrate Some Assembly Required's Tenth Anniversary, mnartists.org and SAR are teaming up to produce a compilation of 50, fif...
Posted by on Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:18:00 GMT

The Onion Interview

Some Assembly Required in The Onion:Interview: Jon Nelson of Escape MechanismThe local audio-collage artist celebrates 10 years of his radio show Some Assembly Required...Check it out HERE.
Posted by on Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:08:00 GMT

Tenth Anniversary of Some Assembly Required

Last Tuesday marked the passage of a decade of working on this show, and I'd be lying if I said anything less than this: I'm feeling very proud... I know it hasn't become quite the phenomenon I've som...
Posted by on Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:05:00 GMT

WIRED Magazine

The January, 2009 issue of WIRED Magazine mentions both Some Assembly Required and Escape Mechanism... Find out more HERE.
Posted by on Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:07:00 GMT

SAR Q&A X 2007

Happy New Year, everyone. It's finally 2008 and I'm excited to present our year end list at the SAR BLOG. Like the previous year, the intent was to upload a new artist feature each and every week, an...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:46:00 GMT

2007 Festival Of Appropriation

mnartists.org presents:The 2007 Festival Of Appropriation (November 2-30)Soap Factory / Walker Art Center / Kitty Cat KlubThe 2007 Festival Of Appropriation will bring together well over a dozen colla...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:07:00 GMT

NEW album by Lecture On Nothing on Recombinations/Illegal Art

Be sure to visit the Download Club at illegalart.net to check out the latest release from Recombinations: "September 10" by Lecture On Nothing. Recombinations is a sound collage label, founded by Jo...
Posted by on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 02:02:00 GMT

SAR Mashups MIX

Check out this week's podcast to download a DJ MIX of some of my favorite mashups from the upcoming season of Some Assembly Required. This 53 minute mix is a little break as we prepare to begin podcas...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:55:00 GMT