Strange Elevations with ASAP by Jason Tavener (Taken from the Guardian, 16th October 2002.) Yo, bum rush the show. Here it is, a groove slightly transformed - just a bit of a break from the norm. I want to go down in musical history. Fresh beats and breaks and cuts that rumble like earthquakes. This is free love. Double Vision. Wind of Change. The Never Ending Story. Push Pineapple, Shake the Tree and Enter Selecta! Those are just some of the things that have been said about the new compilation album presented to the world by A Scholar and A Physician. The CD, of which there are only 100 hand-made copies, was played at a press conference in a top Oxford hotel yesterday afternoon. What happened next can only be described as "one hell of a musical journey." Over the course of approximately fifty-five minutes, an audio onslaught of musical noise swept over the journalist pit like a large brush; sometimes we were in pain through the brittle bristles of the broom; other times we felt the wash of the warm floor dust seep into our veins like the beautiful horse. In between these times we were made to feel nice, rubbish, indifferent, and all those other emotions in between. One particular featured artist used our electronically-controlled chairs to massage us gently through his peaceful melodies. Another revealed a secondary speaker system from under a cloth before drilling into our heads with huurty drumNbass tones. Talking to the people behind this revealed nothing. Usually called A Scholar and A Physician, they are also known as Oli and Sleeve and Stevetronic vs. Oliptimus. Stevetronic, asking to be referred to as Mr. 44.1kHz, attempted to answer my questions but without using sentences I could understand: "It's about A, and about B. It's also about C and F. All the letters, and all the numbers - base 10, binary, hexadecimal, whatever. And it's about feeling things that you can't feel. And not feeling things that you can feel. And feelings." Oliptimus, calling himself Self-Satisfied Customer, added, "Yeah, you can't really describe it. Not in English, anyway. I could describe it to you with a piece of software, but it's only in the beta stage and I doubt you'd be able to comprehend it anyway." Is it music? Is it art? Is it noise? Is it a waste of my time and yours? The only thing that can be said is that it's free - so you might as well have it rather than not. A Scholar and A Physician present the All Content No Meaning Uplifting Album available for free download from this website.