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| "It's the greatest thing I've ever heard." - Hal Willner, producer, Saturday Night Live
| "Brilliant production... the most interesting album of 1989." - Jens Kohler, Ice
"...the brilliant Canadian 'plunderphonist' John Oswald." | - Robert Everett-Green, Globe & Mail
"So cool, he makes you shudder." | - Toronto's Coolest Musicians, Eye
"...the brilliant brainchild of John Oswald" | - Joel Haertling: Zamizdat
"Absolutely brilliant." | - John Sakamoto: Toronto Sun
"Fucking brilliant." | - Steve Stein: Media , NYC
"Brilliant... Really beautiful." | - Christos Hatzis: composer, Toronto
"Great, great stuff...Wildly humorous...Astonishing virtuosity...Among the most 'original' sounding work I've ever heard- I know of nothing else like it." | - Lloyd Dunn, Photostatic
"It's wild, it's crazy, it's serious, it's fresh, and it's almost impossible to describe." | - Bery, Reargarde
"...a conspicuous virtuosity. Even someone ignorant of the means being used to transform the music couldn't help being impressed by Oswald's technical mastery.... far more intriguing than the originals." | - Robert Everett-Green, Globe & Mail
"John Oswald has achieved the pinnacle of the 1980's cut-and-paste aesthetic. Spectacular Frankenstein monsters. One of the most adventurous and musically rewarding experiments to emerge from the age of digital sampling." | (TOP TEN LIST OF THE '80s) - Derk Richardson, San Francisco Bay Guardian
"Plunderphonics is as mesmerizing and synapse-frying a piece of aural vandalism as has ever been committed." | - Byron Coley, Spin
"Startling... Funny... Thought-provoking." | - Scott Isler, Musician
"Shocking...Totally astounding." | -Morgan Gerard, Graffiti
"Absolutely mesmerizing. Oswald is a talented guy." | (nominated Best Album of 1990) - Jim Aiken,Keyboard
"It's a masterpiece...the best new release in five years." | - John Zorn: composer, NYC
"John Oswald is now something of a legend in both the avant-garde and pop music worlds." | - Mondo 2000
"plundergenius John Oswald." | - Gerry Belanger, Option
"Plunderphonic is my favorite release of the year. This art is more radical in its social and political implications than the introduction of the electric guitar." | - Henry Kaiser, East Bay Express
"Several truly astonishing moments... breathtaking." | - Phillip Perkins, Fun Music
"Startling. [The] year's hippest banned record." | - Richard Gehr, Creem
"Fascinating." | - Kyle Gann, Village Voice
"Astonishing." | - Don Nilson, Kyoto Journal
"...makes John Zorn look like the tortoise to Oswald's hare" | - Bill Reynolds, Metropolis
"manipulations grotesque and gleeful." | - Ted Greenwald, Creem
"The result, after electronic buggering and caressing, is a hilarious masterpiece. I love it. Oswald is a genius." | - Joe Mendelson, Metropolis
"Really choice... I love this stuff." | - Eugene Chadbourne: guitarist, Greensborough NC
"It's beautiful." | - Bill Frisell: guitarist, Hoboken NJ
"It's great." | - Al Kooper: musian/producer, LA
"One of the most brilliant things I've ever heard." | - John Wiggins, HBO,NYC
"Incredible! ...the best record I've heard in years." | - Doug Perry: violist, Toronto
"For the moment, John Oswald is a solo movement, the most exciting school of one in music." | - Milo Miles, Village Voice
"Great! If there was a way I could release this I would in a minute. | - Robert Hurwitz, executive producer, Nonesuch Records
"I've been playing [the Plunderphonics CD] for everyone who will listen and thus far the response has been 100%. They all want copies." | - Phil Perkins: sound designer, SF
"I hope someday to achieve world class noteriety with my music so that John Oswald will deem it popular enough to plunder it." | - M. Joe: songwriter, Toronto
"It's hilarious... The last two pieces are very moving." | - Atom Egoyan: filmmaker, Toronto
"It's great! It's fab! I love it! I've played it for lots of people, whose reactions range from knocked out to completely befuddled. I guess this means you've created a masterpiece (or two or three or four - my favorites keep shifting)." | - Matt Groening: cartoonist. Life In Hell & The Simpsons
"Plunderphonics is recreational savagery... A consistently brilliant record." | - David Toop, London Times
"It tickled me...It's a celebration." | - Bob Krasnow: president, Elektra Records
"The Gravity's Rainbow of recordings. Complex, hilarious, moving and revealing." | - anon., Boston
"Mr. Oswald flew past the level of mere sampling. He has taken sampling fifty times beyond what we've come to expect." | - Brian Robertson: president,Canadian Recording Indusry Ass.
"Personally, I'm most touched by John Oswald's Plunderphonics." | - Boris Khabarovsk: Khabarovsk Music Society,USSR
"The hits keep coming! Thankyou for including me among those sure to admire your music. At any speed I remain yours in admiration," | - Van Dyke Parks: songwriter, LA
"I recently heard a snatch of Plunderphonic at a party and became fascinated..." | - Carle Groome: critic, Ear
"The Well-Tempered Clavier of our time." | - Tom Constanten: ex-Grateful Dead
"Plunderphonic rules!" | - Deidre O'Donahue, KCRW. Los Angeles
"A completely original non-original album from John Oswald." | - Laurie Brown, City-TV,Toronto
"I think Oswald is a great composer. He has maintained a stance as artist provacateur which is unrivaled in the world of music and audio art." | - Charles Amirkhanian, KPFA Berkeley
"The reigning heavyweight champion in tape manipulation is John Oswald." | - Doug Harkness, Vox
"Wild... Brilliant." | - David Fricke: critic, Rolling Stone
"This CD is amazing! " | - David Newgarden, WFMU,New Jersey
"Fabulous! Some of these pieces are closer to the true essense of the original music than anything the originals themselves could possibly produce." | - Bill Grove, CKLN Toronto
"I must say I love the stuff ... and play as much on the radio as I can." | - Steve Barker, BBC Radio Lancashire
"What an experience." | - Marika Partridge, programmer. NPR
"Simultaneously very funny and very courageous." | - Warren Burt. 3MBS, Australia
"A Canadian CD which takes sampling further than ever before..." | - Sounds
"... a fantastic thing" | - Paul Dresher: composer, San Francisco
"Plunderphonicker John Oswald... has been astounding audiences with his technoripoffaudacities." | - KPFA
"Complex wundersample." | - WDR, Germany
"The greatest plunderer of them all, Canada's own John Oswald." | - David Wisdom., CBC
"That's great stuff!" | - Brent Branburry. CBC Brave New Waves
"Plunderphonics is exquisite." | -Ed Osborne: audio artist, Boston
"You may never hear music the same way again." | -Derk Richardson, San Francisco Bay Guardian
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