Biography
Tom Compagnoni, known otherwise as Wax Audio, is a mashup artist and audio/video producer from Australia.
Between 2004–2007, he released three politically-themed EPs known collectively as The Mashed Media Trilogy: WMD ...and Other Distractions, Mediacracy, and Cut, Paste and Run. These works were created using heavily edited soundbites of media coverage relating to the war in Iraq (and elsewhere), re-contextualized dialogue from Australian, British, and American politicians—as well as countless other sources—all set to various musical styles. The trilogy is a humorous-though-often-disturbing soundscape of our times, as represented by western world leaders and the news media.
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2007 also marked the release of Mashopolos, which is, as Compagnoni put it, "a 10-track mashup/bootleg/bastard-pop/remix album." It was the first of its own trilogy, followed eventually by Mashopolos II: The Mashening in 2009, and Mashopolos III: Mashups for the People in 2012. A followup mashup album (and his most recent to date), Mashphonic, was released in 2015, as was Anthology 1 and Anthology 2, a two-volume set compiling the most popular Wax Audio mashups, as well as some "deep cuts" and personal favorites.
In 2009, Wax Audio also released 9 Countries, an ambient/sound-collage/"documentary" album mixed from the audio of field-recordings extensively captured on MiniDisc and meticulously archived by Compagnoni, recorded on location in Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Tibet, India, Egypt, and Greece, from October 2005–March 2007.
The entire Wax Audio catalogue can be downloaded for free at WaxAudio.com.au
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.