JIM O'ROURKE & CHRISTOPH HEEMANN Plastic Palace People Vol. 1 (2011 UK CD album - An album of previously unreleased recordings that go back as far as 1991 when Jim O'Rourke had just graduated from music school and travelled to Aachen, Germany to meet Christoph Heemann, who had just set up his studio there. Both The Elvis Messiahs - Jim's first band from school days - and Christoph's H.N.A.S. were in their final stages, and both collaborators felt the desire to explore different directions, drawing inspiration from their wide ranging musical interests and varying backgrounds. 'Volume One' presents an intense three part journey, a mix of granular synthesis and concrete sounds reshaped and reassembled. More details to follow...)