Label: Folkways Records – FX 6143
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1964
Genre: Non-Music
Style: Field Recording
Incredibly prescient 1960s documentary recordings of a junk yard in Warren, Pennsylvania. Mind-altering sounds out of context, almost like the first noise record ever made? The sounds of everyday reality totally subverted. (NM/VG+)
Tracklist
A1 Acetylene Torch, Cutting Apart An Automobile Engine
A2 Loading Pick-Up Truck By Hand With 400 Lb. Bales Of Aluminum Scrap. Hear Them Slide Along The Truck.
A3 Removing Two Bales At A Time From Truck With Fork-Lift, Inside Warehouse.
A4 Loading Empty Fiber Drums On Pick-up Truck. (Only 15 Lbs. Each, But Noisier Than Above Because Of Metal Rims And Resonace.)
A5 Aluminum Clips Being Dumped From Dump Truck.
Paper Baler.
A6a Hand Truck Brings In Cartons.
A6b Tossing Cartons Into Baler
A6c Breaking Down Large Empty Cartons
A6d Sound Of Baler Starting, Upstairs. Note: Crunch Of Cartons Crushing.
A6e Note Creak Of Cartons After Baler Pressure Stops.
A6f Bringing Up Baler To Load In More.
A6g Baler Again, Now Downstairs At Motor.
A6h Opening Doors, Front And Back.
A6i Putting Stop On Door.
A6j Sliding Wires Through, To Tie Bale Together.
A6k Taking Up Baler Press.
A6l Dumping Out 1700 Lb. Bale Onto Hand Truck.
A6m Rolling Away Hand Truck.
Magnetic Crane.
A7a Magnetic Crane.
A7b Dumping A Load.
A7c Squealing As It Turns.
A8 Steel Saw Cutting Channel Iron In Two Pieces.
Alligator Shear.
B1a Acetylene Torch Cuts Through Wires Holding Metal Sheets Together.
B1b One Of The Wires Pops.
B1c Shear Starts. Clinks Are Cuts, Crashes Tossing Cut Sheets Into Piles Of Scrap.
B1d Starts Cutting Heavy Pipe.
B1e Heavier Pipe.
B1f Heavy Channel Iron.
Burning Out An Old Car.
B2a Burning Out An Old Car.
B2b Windows Crack Out.
B2c Metal Cracking.
B2d Fresh Draft.
B2e Sizzles.
Baling Aluminum Chips In Metal Baler.
B3a Baling Aluminum Chips In Metal Baler.
B3b Metal Drums Of Chips Dropped Onto Metal Stand Next To Baler. (This Continues All Through This.)
B3c First Of Many Hisses As Clips Are Poured Into Baler.
B3d Baler Started. Drums, Baler And Hisses Repeat.
B3e Whistle As Baler Is Completed Baling.
B3f Bale Ejected.
Dump Truck Unloading Sheet Metal Scrap.
B4a Lifting Up Dump Carriage.
B4b Move Truck To Start Sheets Sliding Out.
B4c Removing What Is Left By Hand.
Magnetic Crane Loading Baler With Metal Sheets
B5a Magnetic Crane Loading Baler With Metal Sheets
B5b Drop Into Baler.
B5c Pick Up More Sheets.
B5d Start Baling. Nore Metal Squeals Under Pressure.
B6 Hand Loading Metal Baler With Automobile Doors, Fenders, Steel Drums, Etc., And Baling.
