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BOVINE LIFE and international friends Broadcast the phenomenon of SOCIAL ELECTRICS. Award winning UK film maker / digital artist Chris Dooks was known for his film work on musicians in Britain - directing documentaries on all sorts of luminaries from SCANNER for The South Bank Show, to tiny bedroom labels in the middle of nowhere. The fuse to his film career was lit and burning brightly in the nineties... However, Chris became ill with a dibilatating disease in 1999 and he put film making on hold and that s where this story should have ended. Never one to give in, give up, or surrender, he got himself a pseudonym BOVINE LIFE - as his hobby of electronic music making was starting to become a bigger deal. The fuse to his music career had been lit ! He used the internet as the conduit for a series of solo excursions and collaborations that eventually formed the result of this fantastically eclectic release from www.bip-hop.com. His exclusive soundclashes with artists such as Köhn, the label Alku and Mego and Plug Research alongside three tracks with Matt Eilliot (formerly the Third Eye Foundation) are included on this 20-track release. There s also solo Bovine workouts and lesser known talents from Puerto Rico, Sweden and California on the disc. Bovine Life has not met any of these collaborators in real life as most of the music was constructed with mp3 dialogues when Chris was fit enough to make it to the keyboard. This is truly protest music ! Protest at being unwell! If you've ever been put on hold, you'll know that the tune they play down the telephone is a waste of telecommunications ! Not so with Chris s modem adventures. Bovine Life has been jamming through the modem, speaking in electronic tongues, secreting sounds that vary from being immersed in amniotic fluid, right through to searing bleeps that would make any nation stand to attention! This enhanced CD also features a six minute film that Chris directed just prior to becoming ill and was unable to market as a consequence. Chris also scored the soundtrack. It s rare that artists are able to straddle more than one discipline, but Bovine Life s output is full of such wonderful variety that we at bip-hop cannot predict where it will explore next!