Various Artists

Featuring: Iancu Dumitrescu, Conrad Schnitzler, Arcane Device, Charles Cohen, Gen Ken Montgomery, Jörg Thomasius, Morphogenesis, David Prescott

condition (record/cover): EX+ / VG+

Paste-on cover. Numbered edition (this is nr. 195).

A compilation on Generations Unlimited, the American imprint run by David Prescott (later founder of the electroacoustic composer-collective Frog Peak Music) out of the Northeast US across the late Eighties and into the Nineties. Generations Unlimited released a relatively small but consistently rigorous catalogue of experimental-electronic and modern-classical work, including records by Prescott himself, Iancu Dumitrescu, Ana-Maria Avram, and the Romanian spectral-composition school alongside American counterparts.

No Borders positions itself through its title as a programmatic statement about the continuity (rather than separation) of the international experimental-electronic scene: Eastern European spectral composition, American post-industrial electroacoustics, European concrète, and other currents that conventional curatorial practice has tended to separate are here compiled together as belonging to a shared experimental tradition.

This is characteristic of the Generations Unlimited editorial sensibility. Prescott's own 1985 collaboration with Iancu Dumitrescu on the LP Monades / Drumuri had established his interest in the bridge between American and Eastern European experimental music, and the label's compilations extended that interest outward into wider curation. A record for listeners who take the inheritance of post-war experimental composition seriously, rather than one for the noise-first collector.