!!!!!!!!!!BIRDFEEDERS AND ABOVE!!!!!!!!!!!

new rose

2011-12-25T21:12:00.000-08:00

Sunflare: "Gravity Free" by alteredzones

Manga Impact The World of Japanese Animation
Very accessible a to z of random highlights from an enormous universe. good for getting clued in on some new fictions, but by no means an overview. If, like me, you are almost totally ignorant about this stuff and don't care for most of it, you will find a few things to track down.

editor of wired's ESSENTIAL threat level, Poulsen turns a gifted hacker's credit card network into a competent novel. Glenny offers a much weaker book on same milieu. Some interesting tangents about secure communications, but, of itself, the sociology of compulsive credit robbers is really not all that revelatory. The Bamford book, about the NSA/ATandT merger, is well researched, well presented, soberly fascinating.

Catcher 6 Ghostnotez Version by ghostnotez

The book of memories - Ana María Shuaquasi-autobiographical, multi generational tale of 20th century eastern european jews after immigrating to Argentina. details of actual people, sometimes sufficient for just being genuine, like candid crowd scene photography...intermittent ambiguity about the source of the narrator's voice offsets the absence of extraordinary content

Expresa tu Emocion "Volares" by konbanwa azxtlx

Arabesque: Graphic Design from the Arab World and Persia
Some stunning graphics in here. New vista hybrid culture shock 21st century vision. Calligraphy really takes on a new organic dimension with the digital edge graphic design.

Montage and erotic microscope. Signal to station, yet desire and a tophat invariable. He took a picture of each of the employees, printed it and had them write their signature beneath. "What do you need these for?" asked chairman 43. "How will they be used?"

a night in tunisia

2011-12-10T19:32:00.000-08:00

snake photo:thestreetsarecalling.com repro without permission

seeder descent signal interrupt polar methanogen haze by THE CASE FOR MARS

alcoholic planets, love raked over the coals, a fishbowl and concentric crimes, erratic multiplication tables, a branch of light doom, winds of torrential jewelry.

so i went to Holiday Havoc and it was OK- a lot of people there, you could tell they don't get out too much. Middle Class Rut was really loud for just being two guys. it's a drag that most bands big enough to play The Joint are so silly, cause the sound in there is physically in yer chest loud. That shit is good for you. People should be forced to go see concerts like they are forced to go to high school.
Jupiter by Mariska

jah know ya big

2011-04-26T20:44:00.000-07:00

hugo montenegrofrom lady in cement my rip

"Place your bets with the stalagmites in lottery primeval." The advertiser for sunset showed me vision sphereTM. He had an inside deal on life after Jupiter: Its energy drinks & apparel. We were hypnotized; it was machine age arithmetic, your trusted walk in the park was...a tell all tabloid with collector's edition centerfold!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/appellemoinaive/5167869260/in/faves-grundstuck/

chicago bluestars from bluethumb comp my rip

2011 RAVETASTIC goodness from Lone in the You Tube embed below...it loses the way after two and a half minutes but before then it is lofthouse planet e level of goodness...wish someone with C2 skills would take a little bit of the busy out of it and let it build for the dancefloor
A year later, Swan Tablecloth set fire to a wig and exchanged Everyday life with a mechanical seahorse. As the wig smoldered, duet for overseas and ultraviolet took cloud hostages in a call center...The entire swan was called: museum life and subtle glass body. Artificial memory waves rushed across the credit report spirit interface, which disintegrated on the graffiti outskirts. The final vote tally: brand X, an X over the horizon...The wig of gladiator took the whole circus in zero sum frames; a coupon circus

the bridge is over

2011-02-26T22:31:00.000-08:00

this is my 128kps rip of "Lark" from a 12" by Pub on Ampoule...warm dubby house track with lazy summer day ambiance.

this is "sufrir" from Olympia Washington's Weird TV...someone else posted a rip of their 2010 demo cassette and this track, while it doesn't invent the wheel, has a lot of energy. Female fronted, lyrics in espaniol, tearing simple riffs. tape is sold out apparently. there's a you tube vid of them live in a record store but it's not too involved

On return from World Wars 7 and 8, I bartered wax figure photographs with Psychic-for-Hire double feature...The Shock of the New...now billed as...Erotic Memoirs of the Undead.

All that is left for you and I is to auction sock puppets in opening night ceremonies...Because yesterday was my photographic rise to dictatorship: the grand opening of Hotel Nude Idol. Red carpet reenactment courtesy of Post Hypnotic Revolution. AKA Suspended Animation. From which we now broadcast dog bone-star is-born in virtual high definition and holographic subliminal commentary. Because yesterday was your museum disguised as charity...disguised as an eyewitness disguised as scortched earth revisited...

this first album era (sorry, don't have the date) Specials in a kickass sounding run though of Concrete Jungle!

Cuando en una calle oscura la vi caminar...

third stone from the sun

2011-02-04T19:30:00.000-08:00

On Neptune, every minute has its own penny. You can only pay for something at its exact particular moment. I had no friends on Neptune, only acquaintances- We were all immigrants and were all awaiting our papers.

I met Barnacle Bill there. He trained baby seals for Celine Dion and was famous for putting his head in the mouth of a rabbit.

"You might pick up a tuba one day," he told me once, "And discover a melody that will stop a nest of hornets from demolishing everything that you love. No one else needs even to hear it, really. That's the hardest part for most people to understand."

ripped my 10" of this and uploaded it at 128kbps. It's out of print. These cuts have the same ambiance and musicianship as the ethiopiques#4 disc. the compositions are maybe a notch less sublime, but they are still groovy, deep, and utterly unique

Mulatu Astatke soundway, 2005

A1. Emnete A2. Ebo Lala*

B1. Yekitir Tezeta
B2. Asiyo Belema
*featuring Seifu Yohannes

da do run run

2011-01-17T19:17:00.000-08:00

past links are fixed...perhaps i should resume recording and ripping...plunge full waste of time ahead into the most of the moment...to the interstellar indifference of one hand clapping....poised in the disguise of a used car lot...grown over into a jungle with purple clouds and giant prehistoric flies.

by way of evidence, here i am assaulting a dubstep rave with a videocamera

bass gravy 2 daddy mac's 11/24/2010 from matt in las vegas on Vimeo.

nappy dugout

2010-09-15T02:05:00.000-07:00

Retiring this blog: checking all the links, backing up everything I can and moving on...Still gonna stop by every now and then, so if you want to shout out some love, drop me a comment or an email...

I posted the following mix in an earlier incarnation of blogdom...a cop out repeat post, perhaps...But no one is keeping score. A couple of these records are a little played out if you are familiar with the style. If you don't, then it's pretty hitting. I knew the records well, the mixing is fairly tight

MIX#6:

records by:

paperclip people/rick wade/jeff mills/demarkus lewis
movers and shakers/maurizio/charles webster feat. martina topley bird
/infiniti

"125 BPM DETROIT HOUSE pearl mix IOZOZOI m.MP3"
I had one of Ben Sim's Split mixes on in the background the other day and the Seldom Felt "Face Value" track literally cut through the speakers and commenced to throb out a perpendicular groove straight parallel to Joey Beltram's brainpan. (Discogs gives this a nod and a wink towards Lawrie Immersion. Long Live the Stay Up Forever crew) If you can't take this for what it is, I don't want anything to do with you. Timeless. Futurist samples it : HERE

solid gold easy action

2010-06-24T10:20:00.000-07:00

LUCKY CHEATS THE GRIFFIN 062310

HEAD LIKE A KITE BEAUTY BAR 062310

SMOOSH BEAUTY BAR 062310

THIRD DEGREE RIO POOL/VOODOO BEACH 061710

Below you can witness some savagery courtesy of Tunnel of Love...follow THIS LINK to purchase the just released vinyl of their 2002 onslaught: Rockin Rollin Bitches..."greatest punk LP of the last ten years" is no exaggeration! ...The song in this video is O.K...The cuts on their 2002 LP are utterly killing!!!!

the other side of time

2010-06-22T12:08:00.001-07:00

Below, zeke tearing it up in '99 and 2 latin groovers with yma sumac and alfredito. Above, deep blue hiphop and deep space techno diced up with information overload, the living dead, and the kitchen sink!!!
The other side of time by azxtlx red

MIX #12...the best and last mix for this incarnation...if you got any love, I'll see you in the next one!!!

*from vampires of dartmore soundtrack
*sesselberg
*incredible bongo band "let there be drums"
*"caravan" a surf band version.????...
*"do your shing-a-ling"- pijuan y su sexteto
*"nena" the Tasaday ????..
*"let me do my thing" ... Los Dinamicos Exciters w/ Ralph Weeks-
*"there was a time" by Six Pack
*from fantastica LP Russ Garcia
* madvillain "shadows of tomorrow"
*evidence/"fuego dm"
* flying lotus "tea leaf dancers" (youtube distortion rip)
* nas "one love "(instro).
* "temperatures rising" (instro) mobb deep
* "heatwave" ruby rats
* african head charge "private armies"
* oval "momentan vr"
* blue daisy "space ex"
* jeff mills from contact special cd
* inigo kennedy "trigonometry"
* k alexi shelby white label with a sticker on it
* enfer boreal "venus 1"
* ??? from one of the cosmic jokers krautrock jams
* the neapolitans "hakusha"
* parliament "red hot mama"
* 2 live crew "mr. mix on the mixx" azxtlx meets ableton sidechain remix
* mr.airplane man "jesus on the mainline"
* archie shepp "euterpe's favorit"
* from sledgehammer dub LP niney the observer
* "this life makes me wonder" delroy wilson
* "ashes to ashes" tangerine dream
* "soul vibrations" dorothy ashby

labored over this for quite sometime- a weeks worth of hours nearly...some of it is records through a mixer, some of it is ableton renderings, and some of it is some sloppy traktor (only a mouse and no cue) If there was anybody reading this, they'd recognize it incorporates some mixes from earlier posts. Time to use your money back guarantee, I suppose
ten minutes of a Zeke show 09.29.99 @ chain reaction. not giving a fuck and rocking out for broke. You think you know what rock and roll is? Fuck what you know. Rock and roll jumps out of a pickup truck and beats your ass...I have this whole show if you are interested.

a track each off of these LPs...chinese cha cha by alfredito and virgenes del sol by sumac...the latin spectacular disc is otherwise just ok. the rest of the songs on fuego have actual lyrics, slower tempos and didn't appeal to me, but this is fairly good. is "taki rari" sumac's finest moment? From what I've heard the answer is yes, but suggestions are welcome.

decided to trust the admirable strut label to school me on the italo. a little bit goes a long ways for me- too long as a matter of fact- the comp didn't really turn me out any. except the firefly track which is about as good as say, a solid p&p cut. The build up from 3:45 is prime time floor filler

your pretty face is going to hell

2010-06-01T20:06:00.000-07:00

Most dedications are added to the start- but now that the rain and the sky and a room full of dirt have all been turned upside down together, you and i can do nothing but forget one another...All of this uselessness is dedicated to the last two women who went searching through the pockets of your corpse, a pair of sexed up lottery addicts who were complete strangers, both to us and one another

INFERNAL RAKET YAYO'S TACOS 050510

ROOFTOP RIDICULE YAYO'S TACOS 050710 delay guitar over a groove; experimental indie outfit (Recording quality C+ little muddy and distorted)

the following track comes from someone else ripping a cassette tape... "SILVER BULLETS" is the name of the musical group. the tape was released in 2009 was limited to 100 but the rip of the whole album shouldn't be too hard to find. it's an enjoyable set of songs...all instrumentals that each manages to successfully cop a different sound from different tradition in global freakout...the track I'm posting here, Il Punto, is a simple guitar riff driven trancer in the vein of some of the more monolithic loop/spaceman 3 material - a formula which never gets dated and could use a lot more practitioners

ONE LESS ZERO DOUBLE DOWN 050710 psychobillyish rock with punk drums and woman vocal Recording quality C

HOSANNAHS BEAUTY BAR 060310 jeff tweedyish vocal, expansive guitar tones, driving tribal drum breakdowns Recording quality B

The brunette had a glass eye from which fortunes were read, but of course, never her own...She had a lisp and a ship leaving port and a dog made of stone. She had never for a single moment thought of happiness, even when it held her hand and spoke to her in words that she could understand. As I decided to leave behind everything that you are able to hear, I wished that she was one of the ones who took pleasure in life. Instead of acting it out because she recognized that she was supposed to. All of those other women are dead...or in love with other planets. Far more courageous and profound.

BRIGHTMILLION BEAUTY BAR 050710 upbeat indie guitar and drums duo with backing tracks Recording quality B

The redhead could only truly be seen from across the room- by affection I meant crime and by beauty I meant a single visit to a foreign land. She was a little bit of both, but in the end, neither. Like the endless line of sleepwalkers who had gone before, she tied a rope around the neck of imagination and kicked it from the balcony. Do you think that rings a little false? Once you identify with your own solitude, you can stop making excuses for others. In the end, I asked the redhead for her name and told her that friendship was the opposite of vanity, although neither of us believed it. Everytime another person reads this ridiculous page, I make another enemy.

windmills of your mind

2010-04-30T10:49:00.000-07:00

OLD IRON SIGHTS DIVEBAR 042310
THE REMEDIES YAYO'S TACOS 042210 rocksteady by way of california and ali campbell Recording quality A-
RODENTS OF UNUSUAL SIZE DOUBLE DOWN 042310 thrash punk Recording quality B-

COURTESY CALL FREAKING FROG 042410 (fairly energetic pop recording quality B)

SUBS T ANCE AREA 702 SKATEPARK 042810 frenetic metal (recording quality B-)

DOPAMINE FLUX BEAUTY BAR 042910 (seven piece soul/funk combo...strong rhythm section and vocal (recording quality B)

ORGONE BEAUTY BAR 043910 (ubiquity records...funk revue revivalists (recording quality C+- a little wind noise)

MIX #10
ripped pause tape from 2000

pulled this out of a hatrack the other day...a bunch or records that were new to me in 2000, all across a variety of styles...it's aged fairly well. I can still listen to it straight through without hitting the fast forward button...I got my first mixer in the middle of it so there's a little delay play in the drum and bass section. i was tempted to revise this with some overlaps in ableton ( especially between the first two tracks) but its not worth the time. THIS IS FROM A CASSETTE so the sound quality is fairly well shite. i still have most of these tracks if you get obsessed by any of it and want a rip

smith and selway on rotation///
unknown- i probably still have this LP somewhere, it was the only good cut///
dj food valves journeyman remix ninja tune
hieroglyphics "you never knew" instro///
fast eddie "acid thunder"///
miles davis from bitches outtakes///
adam f "circles"///
4 hero off parallel universe i think///
dj vadim
hachig kazarian from armenia, armenia///
kalyanji and anandji shah "theme from don" bombay the hard way///
rose royce car wash soundtrack///
king tubby///battle axe dub///dub chill out
gothic hut///
elizabeth waldo///rites of the pagan///

blue suede shoes

2010-04-20T12:59:00.000-07:00

THE NOVELTY ACT THE THUNDERBIRD LOUNGE 041110 moody indie alternative college (recording quality B+)

PEPPER RABBIT THUNDERBIRD LOUNGE 041110 moody indie alternative college (recording quality B+)
WILLOWZ BEAUTY BAR 041310 rootsy/hipster alternative indie college (recording quality b-)

DONKEY PUNCH DOUBLE DOWN 041710 90s pop punk (recording quality C+)

Sitting on the fifteenth floor parking lot with every other tire blown...blood on your forehead and cracks across the windshield...Your own personal celebrity signing paper cups at the food court. "There's an excess of fine lines these days," he said..."So many fine lines-...for instance, you mother seduced by a raven pretending to be a frog. He clenched her fingers together as she held a stick of butter...When you have your own talk show we will walk on opposite sides of the road..."

dieselboy @ forbes was a pretty big success. a nice sized crowd stayed late into wed night and the vibe of the club, as always, was relaxed and friendly. the drying up of drum and bass forced dieselboy to play the most interesting set I've ever heard from him (and Ive heard a dozen or more). he's given up uninterrupted, monotonous noisy, clattery high hats for detours into electro and dubstep flavors...the tune he opened with was massive. looks like there's a thursday night party called "human experience" @ forbes that is trying to feature DIY culture, whatever the flavor...in the same vein, there was a flyer for "lighting in a bottle" on my car the other day. it's interesting to see how events are trying to avoid appealing to a rigid niche, subculture or scene. i'm tempted to theorize on why that might be the case, but i'm sure it would sound stupid

20 jazz funk greats

2010-04-09T09:17:00.000-07:00

GREG
GINN AND THE TEXAS CORRUGATORS FREAKING FROG 040210 jamband loose improv instrumental 3 piece (Recording quality A)

BIG JESUS DOUBLE DOWN 040710 some birthday party influences (Recording quality A)

YEAR OF T HE DRAGON DOUBLE DOWN 040910 (fishbone alumni...metal riffs and heavy rhythm Recording quality B)

if it wasn't for the end of the world, people would be unable to fall in love- though both are illusions. After the bullfighter gored an obese tourist, yard long margaritas went on sale...the hourglass was turned upside down...the wind began to blow. I thought as if I might be able to come up with another sleight of hand or two even though my social security number had been towed...my wife and kids repossessed...That's not the end of the world, several people said...And even though they are right, I'm the only one who really knows the end of the world -others shouldn't presume to say...

The nice thing about bullfighters is that they always reflect the sun....

The disc above= Jackie Wilson: Soul Galore!!!---there are some party rockers on this...another record I'm trying to sell $10 and a bargain!...the second track is better than the first:

we travel the spaceways

2010-03-30T19:13:00.000-07:00

Dead as the dog you ran over on the way to murder a seagull. An accursed seagull that trotted across your desk with ink on its claws. The both of you bore false witness to seven masks. Seven masks that were a second calender. Which one of these is next, you asked, as if in the corner of an empty room looking into it as hard as you can- Your desperation staring over at the wind from the crack in the floor

THE SCOUNDRELS DIVE BAR 032910 (4 piece stand up bass and rockabilly sympathies...vocal for gwen stefani fans... recording quality A)

COLD BLOODED PERPETRATORS YAYO'S TACOS 032910 (stark, moody three piece with vocals in the jim morrison range Recording quality A-)

TAYLOR LOCKE AND THE ROUGHS BEAUTY BAR 033010
(harder than average pop, with a nice grooving jam at the
bridge Recording quality B)

(band photo credit HERE)

radio ga ga

2010-03-19T12:06:00.000-07:00

BLACK JETTS DOUBLE DOWN 031010 (stones swagger Recording quality C)

PIGASUS BOOMERS 031410 (kind of a "taking care of buisness" rhythm to this...pretty strong lead guitar Recording quality C)

...After the moon disappears, so will the tides... As for Righteous Bob,
--- his portrait is sold on sodapop bottles now...which blow up against the curb with the rest of the centuries' garbage...

I AM THE THIEF BOOMERS 031410 (post-hardcore, fugazi vein anthem energy Recording quality C)
HAPPY CAMPERS BOOMERS 031410 (nineties cali-punk Recording Quality B)
... If you could see the mirror more clearly, you could read all of your bad habits from a calendar of

SINNER SINNERS DOUBLE DOWN 031810 (fairly driving rock 5 piece with guy/girl vocals ...Recording quality B-)

...In "Self Portrait with Car Crash," he struggled with a pregnant woman over an interview left in a mailbox, splintered, incontinent, haunted and despised. Our dialogue is more prophetic than reason, he replied....In the evening, we learned to walk backwards...

last night i had the strangest dream

2010-03-11T14:00:00.001-08:00

Painting a canvas like one commits a crime...This...demur little bird walking past us to get on the elevator a canvas under her arm. And I thought back to the fifth century- we used to be able to sell Happily Ever After on the installment plan. You found the secret blueprints for our relationship in a supermarket tabloid. Your creation myth was that happiness is impossible. I saw a camel crossing Fifth Avenue and the severed head of Chaing-Kai-Shek under the heat lamp in a buffet line. If you are reading this, perhaps we slept together .

Mike monroe and Sami Yaffa of Hanoi ROcks @ Wasted Space This Monday!!!!
VITAMIN OD (drums and guitar guy/girl trading off vocals Recording quality B)

DUDE CITY (drums and quitar duo Recording quality B)

GUNSTAR HEROES (radio friendly blues travellerish Recording quality C)

THE PINES (three piece blues by way of white stripes Recording quality B-)

the difference between falling in love and punched in the nose:
I bought a landslide machine at Woolworths that washed horses for three cents a pound. Music does not belong to me. I once read a book called: "The Joy Of Credentials" but I couldn't find any teen idols in it. Gasoline likes gasoline music....Photographs like photograph music. Goldfish swim. Dogs are for sale. What's is so very god-damned hard for us to accept is that I'm being completely honest with you right now. Cobras and barbed wire descend a volcano.

PEELAnDERZ Mar 25 Double Down Saloon Las Vegas, Nevada.... Red Akaika is my master!!!

ites, green, and gold!!!
"let us play human bowling!!!"

COASTWEST UNREST CHEYENNE SALOON 030410 (acoustic guitar, violin, drums Recording quality A-)

lady godiva's operation

2010-03-06T13:48:00.000-08:00

A payday loan from the emperor of Bull_Put_Spread, a brand ambassador in bed with hamsters, a table reservation for syphilitic hairdressers- all of this on the exact traintracks of instantaneous psychic death...This is what you have been promised and This is what you will return for---Yesterday is counting on you- Player's card coupons and Pavlov for mayor notwithstanding ...... In a perpendicular dimension, I'll have some records at the Double Down on Wed...... sidekicking DJ Dave Prophet and the Black Jetts......come on down and squeeze somebodies' lemon

RALLY FOR ONE FREAKING FROG 030310 4 piece j.meyer/d. matthews sensitive guy radio pop

STORY BOOK HEROES THE FARM 030410 borders. barnes and noble coffee shop acoustic (recording quality B+ )

Pete Slovenly and I were talking about some internet jabber that put 7 Seconds at the rock and roll high water mark of Nevada...Ummm: NO- that would be Fred Cole...who is coming to Boomers with a new drummer and his wife Toody on Mar 26- Get down and check this out...if you don't think the unstoppable Coles are inspirationally cool then you are an idiot

mar 17 ...excision and vicious circle...click on flyer for details

STAGNETTI'S COCK THE FARM 030410 two guys w/ guitars tenacious d fans (recording quality B+)

OCEAN CITY DEFINED THE FARM 030410 two acoustics and a percussionist; more j.meyer/d. matthews sensitive guy radio pop (recording quality B)

THIS WEEKS TOP OF THE TITS!!!!!!!!!!>>>>>>

this weekend, the Ty Segall & Mikal Cronin I Wear Black song could be heard faintly warbling out from the cracked skull of the moon. My cousin Enid split it open with a car wash vacuum. After he sold his talk show host to a comatose sock puppet, he stares at me with the eyes of ducks gone south and wets himself with glee. -I'm stealing somebody else's bandwidth to present this here. There are no atoms or molecules in life, only theft

space invaders are smoking grass

2010-02-24T15:51:00.000-08:00

paddle play photo filched from the streets are calling

...Captured Tracks site...just finished drinking a case of shit beer,
my pecker wrapped in tinfoil and hooked up to a 9V battery... my pcp-addled index finger on its way through songs by each and every one of the thirty or so bands that this label has released: Nothing I heard rewrites the Bible, but Captured has gotten behind a few acts who could come out with an Epic tune if time, skill, money, and vibe all came together in the right way...There are some close calls- Check

1)the Cosmetics "Soft Skin",
2)Grass Widow "Tattoo," &
3)the Dum Dum Girls "Hey Sis",

...nobody else on the roster did much for me, but none of it was radio advert dogshit...and the Oh Sees, of course, I think there might be a few songs on Dog Poison that might be better than anything on Help- I'd have to listen to them both a few times to say for sure

speaking of dogshit...Man, is it shit for days out the window with corpses riding the escalators and nowhere near enough left on the credit card to up the dosage!- And now they are trying to use the MRI to make contact to my vegetative sta te...Get lost, you bunch of fucking tossers, your world is full of shit! If you're really feeling compassion for the coma of everyday life, shoot a little heroin into my feedtube!

this guy...piloting for the moons of Jupiter beyond the wheels of steel via multitouch controller DAW developments:

steeplechase - subcycle labs from christian bannister on Vimeo.

MINISTRY OF LOVE BLUE MARTINI 022110 kinda reminds me of that am idol since U been gone song- maybe a little more rocking (recording quality B)

WARNER DRIVE DOUBLE DOWN 022510 appetite for appetite for destruction (recording quality b)

...by the way, I can think of a few people who could possibly read this that I don't like. If this applies to you, I'd like you to remember that I'm still hoping for your painful death in a terrible accident...

punkrock bowling expands to three days...mary anne hobbs in coming to smash...neon reverb festival is in two weeks

...and this...this is pretty hitting; i tried to stay off the MCDE bandwagon for as long as I could, but the cat has finally stepped up to the sum of his influences...the vibes and the play on the vocal line is getting a simple thing exactly right

flowers on the wall

2010-02-17T16:55:00.000-08:00

".........don't tell me...I've nothin to do........."

DOPAMINE FLUX ARUBA SHOWROOM 020610 seven piece soul/funk combo...strong rhythm section and vocal (recording quality C)

NOMO ARUBA SHOWROOM 020610 horncentric collective afrofunk influenced focused playing generous vibe (recording quality C)

PAN DE SAL THUNDERBIRD LOUNGE 020710 laptop percussion and visuals fresh mix of agitprop & twee (recording quality B-)

KID MEETS COUGAR THUNDERBIRD LOUNGE 020710 fairly rocking 2 piece drums vocals and guitars over cyber-ridiculous video and odd-tone samples...(recording quality B)

JAGUAR LOVE THUNDERBIRD LOUNGE 020710 electro duo with quite a screech only got a snippet of this (recording quality a-)

THE KURGANS CHEYENNE SALOON 021110 thrash (recording quality a-)

SWEATER KITTY CHEYENNE SALOON 021110 pop punk vocalist tougher edged rhythm section (recording quality A-)

86 AFTER FREAKING FROG 021210 screamo (recording quality a)

illustration michelle thompson- used (like i use all things, my friends) without permission

DINNER MUSIC OF THE GODS YAYO"S TACOS 021210 power metal and G3 shred very practiced musos
(recording quality A)
BLACK BEANS AND HIPPY LIVER TURKS LOUNGE 021210 jam band vibe but with rhythm focus strong playing 3 peice (recording quality D)

THE QUITTERS DOUBLE DOWN SALOON 021310
hardcore punk (recording quality c)

ULTRAVIOLENT LIGHTS BEAUTY BAR 021710 competent rock swagger...sunset strip post makeup and stardom (recording quality c-)

The only real weather is fog, because it comes in shades. Everything else you have to fight with. The sun disappears behind a cloud. The rain falls all at once. The wind blows and then is just as quickly gone. I remember the girl who could tell you that she loved you the morning after she slept with another man. In his memoirs, Black Iron Bill wrote that he had no conception of betrayal: Who is it that is really ever there? Nothing to home but a bed to shut your eyes on and a key for the door. For my part, I used to misunderstand the word "superstition". Superstitions have their own physics- like the conversation of mass- only when they balance themselves out exactly are you able to tell the future.

I married my corpse because I thought it could tell me the future. It suggested that I go wait in line at a beauty salon so that I could fill out a dozen or more copies of a missing person's report...In a riddle whose last name is music the only word you are not allowed to say is "maybe we should just be friends." The Greeks just had a riot, the French, too. I could tell you that coke tastes better than pepsi but I'm saving all of my anachronisms for the next revolution. It's like no longer believing in bubble gum- bubble gum is just something they put on TV to make you buy interviews with your fans.

"You want to know if I think coke is better than pepsi..." I held out one of my hands- making a gesture like the pope. "...Well... It's a moral choice obviously. I can tell what kind of people you would sleep with when you tell me which soda you drink-it's like...a moral expression of who you are...what kind of world you want to live in..." Behind my sunglasses, I could only see the photographers when the flashbulbs went off.

love theme from spartacus

2010-02-09T14:44:00.000-08:00

THE LAZYSTARS FEELGOOD'S 012810
5 piece harder than average pop...ben foldsish vocals...catchy hook

IMAGINE DRAGONS FEELGOOD'S 012810
5 piece pop with some killers' vein eighties influences-

.........................................................................................Flash forward to a seance in which each of us were handcuffed
to one another...Harbor Island, you replied. We were listening to a book on tape confessional that allowed each of us to leave rubble and burning ash toppled skyscrapers far behind. We pulled up into the parking lot and quickly walked to your apartment. We were bothered four...five times...by the vagrants who wandered sleeplessly about the grounds..."You need something?"..."You got something?"

"No.I'm OK"

In your room. You wore a t-shirt that was far too big for you- with holes. Your hair is long and highlighted in three subtle shades "Have you seen this?" you asked. It was a video of crystalline tones and cathode green oscilloscope traces. You took some ketamine out of the microwave and opened a can of tuna for the cats prowling about the kitchen floor

above illustration by johnathan tran

working on a mix dvd with psychotronic vid clips against a backdrop of whatever the hell has been pulling my chain, groovewise...This mix is part of that: i had a digital player in one of my inputs but it's a live- in one-take run through. i have to stick it into ableton because the last track came in too hot- hopefully i can tork the EQ and bring it in line. there's some overlap and delay play so if yr looking to own any of these cuts... gonna have to look elsewhere
MIX #9:

"caravan" a surf band version. I totally forget how I got this or who did it...
"do your shing-a-ling"- pijuan y su sexteto off an andale comp basically the only decent cut on it, sadly
"nena" by the Tasaday...not 100% on who laid down this MONSTER of a track... I pulled it off "psychodelicias"a cdr comp
"let me do my thing" ... Los Dinamicos Exciters w/ Ralph Weeks- Soundway's first Panama comp
a few other O.K. cuts on this but this is the best
"there was a time" by Six Pack from the Good G od comp which is chock full of party

up for the downstroke

2010-01-13T11:37:00.000-08:00

BEFOREHAND FROM THE AFTERLIFE:

2010...I lost a few pages of the calender in the role of a ghoul starring as a valet on loan from a bankrobber: that was my epitaph and my coin in the fountain. But there is another sort of calender, far more exact and dangerous:

...The calender's name is Plaster of Paris. He often appears in the guise of a garage salesman, or a ballet editor, often alluding to obscure degrees from the televisions of Europe. When a thousand ships are launched, the calender will be found advancing parodies of a garage to the most extravagantly flawed pretensions. When cornered, he can divide apples into thirds...If seen, use extreme caution and do not attempt to detain the calender yourself, act naturally and alert some figurehead of higher authority...

THE CLYDESDALE YAYO'S TACOS 010910 acoustic set...alt-country...strong vocals

THE CHOKE DOUBLE DOWN 010910 straight ahead rawk...detroit ghosts and misfit/ramones anthem chorus

CLINTON PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC BUFFALO BILLS 012310 8 minutes of groove on a catfish colllins style riff...belita sings about taking it to the bridge but it keeps chugging

I've been sifting through as many files and programs as one hundred percent of my bandwidth can take in, but I can't say there's too many that bear mentioning. I've had a change to bash around with Native Instrument's Massive, which really is capable of some arresting sounds...

kind of digging the lo-fi reverb and wandering drum rhythm on the Topaz Rags Capricorn LP. Have the people responsible recorded anything better?...

I can count good Dubstep tunes on one hand, but Matty G came through Smash with some downtempo jams with a really deep sound...

I finally made it to the Farm, if they had something that was worth checking out, the space is set up pretty well as far as the stage and sound system...all ages these days =lots of melodramatic band names...

Sometimes you forget not only people and places, but entire ideas. The meanings of ideas as real things. When you can't sell an occasion, it is the real symbol of something. When all occasions are sold, you and I will have died.

hell bent for leather

2010-01-07T01:43:00.000-08:00

All endings are fortunate. Every story ends with its own murder: "What do you do?" "Where are you from?" I went with some crossed out roomrate broker to play virtual golf. The facade of Bar PT: a mortuary for baboons. By then everybody had practiced what they would tell the cameras: "I knew that braining donkeys with a rubber mallet wasn't what I was meant to do with my life!" It was all deja vu and a reenactment at ten paces. The best word she had a handle on was:"Jaded," I really hadn't recognized her from one thousand and twenty six years before- her hair was platinum blonde then and I was better with names.

Believe it or not, it takes a lot of time to write this crap.

imitation elvis just got evicted from the house by the edge of sunset park... my ninety one year old grandmother says hello.

A PACK OF WOLVES YAYO'S TACOS 010310 one guy on vocals and guitar one on drums keyboard backing track

STARSKATE YAYO'S TACOS 010310 guitar bass drums set - 13 minute long hard-metallish freak out with complex song structure

HUNGRY CLOUD ??? THE BUNKHOUSE 010110 5 piece straight ahead pop

On Monday the aquarium froze completely solid. I could see a phone line and the three of spades struck though with a knife into the pooltable. Some gaptoothed Romanian brought her Pelican behind the bar and made my coke dealer and I spaghetti. All the people that had to kill themselves in the morning tried to find a picture of themselves in magazines before leaving.

expressway to your skull

2010-01-04T02:32:00.000-08:00

Went to new years eve eve party at The Box Office- which is to say all of it was out of time for you and I...and even out of space for you, dear reader, looking at this through the telescope of your internet distant world...10 or so bands for as many dollars, a very well run event between two rooms: when one band started
another began...All ages, but very stiff margaritas at charming little mexican restaurant across the way...A Kahlo shrine in the lounge and a gray haired Ranchero DJ with more stories of what was gone than all the discs in his machine

got about fifty minutes of five bands with the recorder, i need some help with the names cause the valium moon was a full blur on the horizon

1 punk by way of hardcore

2 ska band with horns and a few fairly talented players (THE REMEDIES ???)

3 THE LIPSTICK KILLAS- guitar drums keyboard, 80's new wave influenced vocal

4 anthemic punk four piece from canada

4 THE OBJEX

5 MURDER MAJESTY

in dread of the new year...here are four of the deepest cuts I've ever heard from the island: i dropped the bitrate on this because you need to get them from a source much closer than me

1) tappa as inspired as you can get over a horace andy dub
2) i got this off a reggae music forward broadcast...not sure who the vocalist is but the production sounds like perry at the ark- one love if you can clue me in (or even can't)
3) "death trap" by one or another name depending on who presses it...stan rankin t used to run this behind him in an announcement for his kunv show and the flute draws you in every time
4) satta dub from rockers uptown

kites are fun

2009-12-28T14:36:00.000-08:00

The following message came to me buried on the moon...like a little bell you can ring just in case they fasten you in and close it up before it's really over: DJ Rize and I...we were going to see hamburger helper take the stage at green valley station- One of those guest wig affairs in which the lowest common denominator signs an autograph on the season eleven DVD...All at once, without warning, I managed to hijack a tablecloth and pawn my rusted helmet credentials for a bookend in seaweed. The myths of Gods are now the myths of Corporations, but the slavery is the same...

album rip on this post is: "music of the godhead" arranged and conducted circa 1975 by some freak brother going under the name of master wilburn burchette...the liners try to sell this as a meditation backdrop...but the synth lines and the delay guitar all get pretty busy...sometimes a little dull but its worth a go...a couple times i thought of the fripp/eno thing

...and that's Christmas for you but yeah away from the launch pad it got better: we rode out the underpass and got some drinks at the doubledown SWINGSHIFT SIDESHOW ....where a clown took the six of diamonds to his face by way of a staplegun and a married couple ran a skewer through their biceps...shot darts from a blowgun by means of a provocatively talented cooch and ran yard long screws through the nostrils be means of a power drill...big up the sideshow. always wishing that there was more of this sort of thing, just like walking down the street a dead rabbit juggling bowling pins ...in fact wishing the majority

caught a few minutes of the band afterword;

SHOTGUNS AND GASOLINE DOUBLE DOWN SALOON 12/25/09- 90's influenced bar punk group with some fairly energetic drumming

night drive (thru babylon)

2009-12-22T20:12:00.000-08:00

...houseparty of the last toad standing- phoned in as a confessional on the hotline for girls that worked retail, bought action figures of reality television, quoted three rings and a circus when asked about a haircut...If you had any money you would have taken her out and bought her a decent pair of shoes

...have you every worked for us before? she asked. "Yeah, I think so," I said "You sent me to Hotel Satanisyoureternalmaster to put hot dogs in the buns. Don't look that up in the computer because it was ten years ago and i was late..

...and then I showed up at dubstep DOWN N DIRTY @ DROP BAR which was, you know, an odd enough place for anything that you ain't clocked in at or strung out for.
But a lot of people I see over and over again were there and hopefully some of them got paid...some friendly enough guy named chuck b with a couple of pretty good tracks in his laptop...some kid with acne and a nose ring that used to write coffee tables for dead dog revisited. "Whatever happened to that Rico guy that did that Bondi soundhouse showed up one day with a bandage around his neck? Fuck if I know, she said

THEE SWANK BASTARDS- DOUBLE DOWN SALOON- 12/17/09

surf covers of black sabbath and dead kennedys followed by some high speed original mayhem
THE SKOONERS- THUNDERBIRD LOUNGE- 12/21/09

indie pop with above average adrenalin and a few hooky riffs, crowd dug it
LEOPOLD & HIS FICTION- THUNDERBIRD LOUNGE- 12/21/09

seen the light testimonial vocals with some drive and dexterity in the rhythm section

all the above tracks captured with the Zoom H4 at ten paces...i'm also good with balloon animals if you're drunk and don't know any better

Speaking of dubstep, that Martyn Natural Selection 12" was tits but this sebo edit hits every fucking curve...Fashion comes and goes, but the kick drum is the groove. Just make sure every sound is for keeps and there will be a mood and a tune:

the three dimensions of greta

2009-12-16T21:35:00.000-08:00

It slipped off of my mind to say thanks for some fair quality basswork the day before the last holiday: Reid Speed, Tech Itch, and Trace: a party courtesy of Hyperperformance audio...with upwards of fifty that made their way out for the good time...venue was the right mix of classy and funky: Forbes, a china town karaoke bar with a pretty LED wall, cheap drinks, and a come as you are vibe...nice that things can still sort of line up even when all that's left of the world is a torn scrap from a laundry list and three dead flies...

Speaking of dead, I was run over by a bus yesterday. My false teeth apprentice told me that the dead enjoy better vacations than the living, even though the work is the same. Shorty after thinking this over, I caught Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears at Wasted Space. I imagined that it was going to be a Desco kind of thing, but there was a little more spontaneity and irreverence going on. Grooving and well good. Fucking champion actually, in venues that ain't so stiff, I'll bet they turn the place out.

I started this blog to talk about leopards. The recording has its own interests, its own agenda. its own will to survive. What has to happen when real life and recordings are the same? On Tuesday I changed my name to "What Do You Look Forward To?" and rode on a trampoline through a nightmare and a sports book......

.By way of a sound file, today I'm posting a little five song mix of late sixties- early seventies heavy grooving instrumentals- all unearthed or repressed for some recent compilations...Three of these records came to me courtesy of Rex Dart, Pirate Detective, Bargain DJ extraordinaire and a prince among men. If you are in the Double Down on Monday, buy the guy a shot of Jameson. It's like a karma that can save the planet!

MIX #8:

the diplomats ubiquity
porno groove secret stash
rare mod acid jazz
g.i. funk payback
twistin rumble twistin rumble

...If you wanna ride... don´t ride the white horse...

2009-12-07T23:22:00.000-08:00

or the coattails of a ghost...This is the sort of thing they expected for your backstage pass: a parody of bowling alleys on Mars and my cup runneth over. A parody of some secretary on your tombstone and a newspaper repairman handing out missing persons: "My kingdom for a coattail"..."my coattail overfloweth"... that sort of thing...No one knows what the leopard is seeking: the sun at noon or the comforts of fashion. So yeah, it's getting pretty cold out. Pretty fucking cold out.

This weekend I saw: I'm The Rabbit, Asterionella @ yayo taco, Black Cherry Blue @ freaking frog The Inoculators @ double down.... None of them reinvented the wheel. But they were especially good enough for the low, low price of free- had written all their own songs and made an effort at trying to be interesting...which is more than can be said for most...

Here's what the Zoom H4 says about the weekend, I'm still struggling to get the gain right...

ASTERIONELLA FREAKING FROG

THE INOCULATORS DOUBLE DOWN
(this is all kinds of in the red...don't do this with headphones!)

And here's a gift for those of you who are still on the run from the doggcatcher: a few minutes of the dwarves !!! ghent democrazy 1993. low bit rate of a bootleg

"If it was up to me, no one would have anywhere to live. " If I had two nickles to rub together I'd put one in an envelope for Blue Daisy and La Note...I was going to rock this at a little sound we set up in a sushi bar but we shortly got kicked out. The next thing I got asked is some birthday party for the girl who stocks fish sticks in cardboard. I'm not gonna get any further than 2 Live Crew. Call me if you want to show up- it's in some suite or another

big band moog

2009-11-12T11:54:00.000-08:00

UPDATE 09/10: links are dead!)

i was having dinner at the silver slipper with a baboon named quartz. we were talking about how everything deliberate belonged to an imaginary world...the cups the forks the spoons. his dad was running telephone wire at a charity for spastics. kids with autism cleaned swimming pools and bent movie actors sold furniture to a double exposure with a hell experience. when I looked down on my plate, there were complementary tickets to dog bone molehill versus golf balls on the moon

much later, i appeared at recess of the mind for the rumble party, free at the thunderbird lounge...three bands took center stage. (apes of wrath, minor suns, skooners: two decent and one less so.) all the awkward from magazines wrote suicide notes and exchanged ink blots. i fell asleep with false teeth and wrote a epitaph to wax figure nostalgia. in other news, the kid from bingo goes to marriage. the six of diamonds called off the minute hand to dive headfirst into the corner pocket.

your cheatin' heart

2009-11-03T14:55:00.000-08:00

here's a 7" rip which has a few bits of music that I really use to enjoy. Some of it don't work, like the group with the horns, you have to get into it and cut out the good parts. I used to listen to this on repeat...this, and a six weeks latin america in decline comp----just the flat out present moment at the frontiers of life shortchanged and not even the faintest proximity to careerism and compromise. I'd say that the grindcore, slug and lettuce network is/was fairly well the most genuine culture that I ever caught wind of. Never lived anywhere that had the shows, so I never really had a opportunity to lend my elbow in- that, and other reasons, mainly cowardice and sloth...

the process for annihilation

wadge
the killers
karuma
left in ruins
pre human blasphemy
fuck on the beach
siionin kevat
mahogany
jeanxseberg
arturo

(ain't no clear tracklist on the label or sleeve so it's your guess really)

satan's pimp records

((UPDATE 09/10: link seems to be dead...think it's a file title issue)

speaking of genuine, massive respect to ltj bukem and mc conrad, who recently accomplished the impossible task of touching down in some sterile casino "nightclub" and putting forward some deep soul drum and bass. conrad is far and away the only jungle mc who is solid from start to finish. bukem reminds me of rob hood; there's a sound he's listening to and that vision is going to persist long after all this weeks fashions and players have come, gone, and are long forgotten. he played a little harder and better than the coffee table atmospheric that the start of the century threatened to sweep things into. At it's essence, you get the fusion of effortlessly grooving snares, warm pads and artisan bass.
...Fuck all of completely drunk on Fremont street last night totally sick of every last fucking thing and person in the world and then some...the sound of the human voice makes me want to vomit...just about ready to start sobbing like some tough luck shit lost his only bicycle I walk up to the bar and the guy tells me it is open bar: yes oh yes baby jesus --choir of angels like st peter deciding there's maybe just maybe room for one more... once I'm blind and getting about by touch and feel I get up to some band as close to as loud as it gets. turn out its No Age who i only vaguely knew of. turns out they are fairly good live. thanks, guys

speaking of the vision:

don't think you're ever gonna hear this in the slave pits of las vegas...all the real dancers are fell off and long gone

down the dirt road blues

2009-09-23T18:57:00.000-07:00

I've got traktor a little bit figured out and have pretty much taken Lucifer's hand to walk off into the sunset of the dark side. I dislike most of the mixes I've heard people make with it but that doesn't stop me from playing around with it myself. I'd like to abandon all cultures and all genres and make a kitchen sink cacophony mix with it: sound effects and television show soundtracks from all around the world looped and fragmented into something that is pure disorientation.

MIX #7

evidence/fuego dm . flying lotus/ tea leaf dancers. nas/ one love (instro). temperatures rising (instro)/ mobb deep

(UPDATE 09/10: this divshare link is dead, but i mixed this mix into mix #12: "the other side of time-" which is one of my best DJ efforts- if not THE best, and is currently hosted on soundcloud

I didn't buy any of these tracks. Actually, I bought a bargain bin promo of the first Mobb cd once, but I found the instro on some blog or another. Pulled the Lotus track from You Tube, which might account for the muddiness of it. All in all, I don't have a job, if that makes it any more wrong or right (as if in the long run any of this matters either way). What's the use of music? Is it a pretext for people to get together and interact? Is your leisure time sufficient recompense for work?

as for leisure time in my area, if you are in las vegas you should check out http://www.devilsnight12.com/ on october 24. I'm too feeble to make it there myself, but there's at least a chance that people will have a good time there. Dubstep DJ King, appearing there, throws a monthly party called Smash which actually has a little bit of soul to it. Like I said, I don't enjoy going out anymore...There might be real fun... real parties left in the world, but their networks are closed to the likes of my pestilence...Attendance is always sparse at the events I think will be good. Here is a decent forum for people who try to make things happen on the model of parties in the past http://www.eternalbeats.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=15

caught some shows... caught the yeah yeah yeahs one night and the bravery another... The bravery: I didn't think I knew who they were, I went because there was free booze and I thought there would be decent looking girls there. Turns out that i knew some of their songs, they played a couple things:("so, that's who plays that song. ") I guess it was OK- it was free. The yeah yeah yeahs were OK as well, a diverse crowd- some of their songs were kind of grooving but there weren't enough rhythms going on to really make you move.

I said I couldn't hit it sideways

2009-08-01T17:23:00.000-07:00

took this picture at the RATT concert at the hard rock pool last weekend. there's not much to say about a RATT concert in 2009...(or the hard rock pool)...that you can't already imagine. When you live in Vegas, this kind of stuff is free (thank you spyonvegas.com)

Another free metal show this month:
The Mentors at Fire Fox Lounge...

I whipped out my Zoom H4 and got a pretty good sounding recording of their set. Here's the opening number..

Some guy was running around with a video camera and said he was going to put the whole thing up on youtube. I suppose if you are a diehard mentors fan, you should keep checking for it. If you're out there and you want the whole show, i can post it for you. Hopefully, you got something to trade...I caught them in 2007 and they were a lot more abusive and obnoxious. This time around it was late and the crowd was thin...

The H4 is a pretty sweet piece of recorder...I took it to see the Donnas at wasted space, however, and the auto gain didn't compensate for the volume and all I got was distortion...A lot of bands come through vegas and play video poker bars for free, I catch about 3 a week on average...I thought about getting into the habit of having the recorder handy and posting a song or two of whomever I stumble on, but it probably won't happen...

As far as vegas-located bands go, I made this decent recording of one of the better ones, a garage pop raw vocaled trio, the tinglerz

2000 light years from home

2009-07-21T20:52:00.000-07:00

I used to live in LA 91..92.. sometime about then. I was dirt poor...I used to go to the thrift store and buy 10 cent cassettes so that I could put masking tape over the holes and tape the radio. KXLU had some specialty shows that were really hitting. Blues Hotel, Psychotechnics, Reggae Music Forward, and the subject of this blog post: the Molotov Cocktail Hour...

A quick internet search tells me that Cyrano and Senor Amor are still on the air today-

http://www.themolotovcocktailhour.com/

50's and 60's lounge, exotica, soundtracks, frank's world.

one summer i went through the 20 or so molotov tapes I had and arranged my favorite moments onto a cdr...the tape would often run out before the announcers could run over the tunes, so a lot of the titles are lost to me...some of it is pretty obscure: if you listen to this and can chat off some IDs to me I'd be grateful-...i know there's some yma sumac in their...some perrey and kingsley...there are some good, ridiculous, and ridicuously good tunes on this:

MIX #5:

0:00 "caravan" by ?
2:03 !!!
5:00
6:58
9:01
14:06
16:22 !!!
18:25
21:19
22:30
24:50
26:57 perrey kingsley
29:35 !!!
30:05 !!!
30:24 !!! what melody is this?
32:50
35:19 yma sumac
37:07 "a certain smile" astrud gilberto
38:27
40:00
43:10

(UPDATE 09/10: link is dead on divshare (another vote for soundcloud.com in my book) and the cdr that i made this from has got some skips in it...)

caribbean cream

2009-07-15T21:00:00.000-07:00

so, where to begin?
the liner notes indicate that this is Fields 44th album...44 albums!!! but, this...this, my friend, is his first time on record as a vocalist! So-how does Irving do at the mike? This album wss kind of a paradox, really. It wasn't so bad that it was good. Know what I mean? Like, the kind of record you love because it annoys people to the height of take that off agony...heh heh hehThere's 4 ok instros and some wah wah on here. I used the allseeing eye of google to track down Irving and apparently he's 90 something years old playing piano 6 nights a week in some NYC restaurant. Here's to you, Irving.... I mean, "fried flying fish" is not exactly "blowin in the wind" but you gave it your best shot, buddy

my rip at 320---once again.... no groove glide

(UPDATE: 09/10: Link is dead and I've lost the file! Still have the record if you are interested in it comment or email me)

zshare

transparent radiation

2009-07-13T14:24:00.000-07:00

one of my last successes with a one take continuous beat matched mix about...shit...three years now. you can
hear me rubbing my sloppy hands all over the platters and I have to EQ away from some train wrecks...but the tunes are all solid. (all vinyl and a pioneer 500)

....i used to need it more faceless and metallic than this. the tribal stuff was my idea of a concession.

The pounding, slamming 4/4 really helped me keep the car on the freeway and now that it's dead I sometimes feel like percussion itself might have ran its course. I'm pretty much west coast now...the tech and the hi-tempo never really had an audience even when it was in fashion elsewhere.
MIX #4:
be patient the first 22 sec are too quiet. (sorrY)

"atxtlx- transparent radiation - it takes .MP3"

zshare download

i think this tracklist is pretty much right...

Lars-Klein-vs-Michael-Burkat-The-Ride
Rob-Stow-Climax Mark Williams
Frank Hunter
Joey-Beltram-vs-Technasia-l
Laurent-Garnier Sore Fingers
Jeff-Mills-The-Purpose-Maker
Echoplex-Epicentrum
Archetype-Myths-And-Rituals
James-Ruskin-Definition-Of
Paul-Mac-Four-Candles

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just read that the Electric Daisy Carnival pulled in 40000 on a friday and 90000 on a saturday...what a behemoth...i was there in 99 at the water park and it was one of the most otherworldly things i've ever been to. of course that was less than 10000, all groking out on some: 'I can't believe this is happening' close encounters-type vibe...whole different animal, now. Just hoping the audiences have become big enough to fracture off into more expressive sounds

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big up gridface...whose interview with Hieroglyphic Being whose interview with Hieroglyphic Being really got me to stop and think about what people should expect from music...and the tremendous personal failing on my own part...I'd be interested in knowing which of those Members Only discs is worth tracking down. The only Moss production I own is a Sun God 7" which has a great sound but the composition could use a better edit. I'd also like to get the Sound of Music ep (based on the boomkat sample). any advice from somebody who knows his catalog would be appreciated

other stuff that I wish I had: the King Midas on Hyperdub...some of that Bug stuff was ace and that "Cool Out" track is righteous.

my funny valentine

2009-07-09T23:58:00.000-07:00

I've been staring at a computer monitor for 20 hours straight. what I've been thinking about, underneath it all, is a sound nearby where no one was reflecting on themselves- but that's nowhere near how it is in the here and now.

couple of great new blogs if you are interested in unmixed dance 12"s: rippedinglasgow and techtech2009 (RIP)...posting some ace out of print techno and house 12"s from the underground masterminds of rave. shed a couple tears, frankly...while a lot of it's too stompy or too crap pressing, there's some real deep genius if you look hard enough

speaking of the golden age of rave, the fabio 10.08.96 that's up on the metalheadz site is tits and a bag a chips...Every record he plays is classic of unique...right after the "groove therapy" beatdown the airy deep "threshold" drops and you are officially done in...

http://ravearchive.com/ has some of the tapes you use to drool over on the pureacid site...been knocking that up left and right

I've ripped one of my favorite tapes for all my anonymous friends out there

MIX #3

Apollo & J Boogie - 2 Styles Fu is a 2X4 jungle mix where the turntabilism really brings a grooving selection to the next level. I've listened to this damn thing 30-40 times and I never get sick of it. one cat mixes and the other scratches and the sum is more than the parts...The other side is lost, it was hip-hop...I got the tracklist somewhere. I remember gang related, congo natty, lil kim and kraftwerk...yeah, really...its good.

if ya wanna download this clicking on the divshare logo should take you to a link

(UPDATE 09/10: link is dead...i think it has to do with not having a unique file name on the divshare servers!!!)

hope sandoval has a new song out...for an album in september...fair, but the chorus could be better...candidness of the vocals is as arresting as ever...which is a nice surprise

Here's a video that I made ten thousand and fourteen years ago. It stars son of chipped tooth to count every grain of sand from a shopping cart versus no parking you will be towed versus the elbow of new, perverted romance- Now we are at last alone and always:

5 BEGEGEN ][ ENTGEGEN from motivesbeyondreason.net on Vimeo.

ten days out two days in

2009-07-08T12:25:00.000-07:00

MIX #2:
A mix here from the early days of the cdr...before shuffle and the mp3 player made them as obsolete as the cassette.

I usually like to overlap the tracks on a mix just so someone will go away wanting the original versions. The sound quality on this, however, is a little less than the originals, so I'm letting it go as is...Ridiculous to believe it matters, actually, as it's scarcely likely to see much traffic.

"atxtlx- it takes the physical- ten days o.MP3"

1) arthur lyman from the too well rounded "Taboo" trigger records comp ...i remember listening to the martin denny easter special back on kxlu, eating refried beans out of a can, thumbing the amok books catalog and sacrificing virgins to satan. big up cyrano and dj amour and the molotov cocktail hour...i got a comp i made of their radio show and its going up soon!

2) theme from la dolce vida, obviously. Of course, this was recorded a number of times. This version is from a cassette tape, i think it was called music of nina rota...

3) if anybody knows what the hell this indie j-pop is email me immediately..it was on some comp i played on the radio back in 97 and i took this from a cassette of that show...im zero tolerance for anything remotely twee, but the broken english and the winsome solo on this tear me up everytime i hear this a hundred times since

4) shags inspired drummer going to town here. The band: Smoosh off of their"she like electric" CD. the gimmick was that these girls were, like, six years old when they recorded this, the only good cut on the CD...the reverb and flange carry the track over...

5) bonus cut off of the Big Youth Screaming Target reissue. I like the Dreadlocks Dread and Natty Cultural Dread a little more as LPs, really...If i was trapped on a desert island seventies Jamaican music would be enough to replace everything else...come to think of it... just about Babylonians as far as the eyes can see now...desert island about the sum of it, really

6) i bought the screaming target reissue at the delirious tower fire sale and sold it on ebay for what i paid. when tower died, it was really the end. it never a place to score something exceptionally rare or cheap, but it was reliable. you could go to a foreign city and there were flyers...zines in the rack. above all, it was a place to go when you didn't have anyplace else to go. a poor excuse for public space, but that was the century

7) Village Callers live... Vampisoul reissue. Whoa!!!...If you put this on and people don't dance, drop the fader and go home...seriously. The rest of this lp is good but this segment is in the zone...man did these kids have some heart!!

8)-9) Aztecs Little streets from Back from the Grave 5...Crazy how i can download 1000 garage 45's in the span of the two hours...Of all the people who made this possible, Tim Warren is king- if something was shit, he would call it shit...When garage bangers were expensive and hard to discover, that meant a lot...You bastards are spoiled- when I was a kid, you had to walk ten miles barefoot in the snow for a single garage punk unknowns comp.

8)-10) I think the CD was "chicago harmonica blues"???... Whatever the case, the cuts are: willie foster cryin the blues...blues sunnyland smith highway 61...found this cd in the used record store at Lou's. If you're ever hanging out in the breezy, vacuous san diego wasteland, go spend all of your money at Lou's. Unless you're a trust fund brat on the ken and barbie tip, the beaches north of sd are better as well.

11) appreciate it if you could tell me what this is...i vaguely remember it was some lyrichord battle of the African bands thing

12) Dark Comedy Plankton...fuck is this deep...the city at night for real...every Larkin track has some element that shows imagination but this has got the breadth and the balance...Only Q is better, and that is only just because of the monumental strings drop.

you can make it if you try

2009-06-27T15:48:00.000-07:00

MIX #1:

2 record players and a cd player straight into the computer

untitled- butchwax- butt ugly dirt style breaks LP
soundbites from EBN, Dr. Dooom, and Grabbies cdr
-miko mika. attitude- 666 EP (Post Present Medium, 2007) 12"
-hipshakes. see me coming- shake their hips slovenly 12"
teengenerate- gonna feel alright- sympathy for the record industry 10"
fag cop.- automatic kansas- milk and herpes 7"

((NOTE 09/10: link is no longer responding and I may have lost this file...divshare is no soundcloud!!))

A year later, swan tablecloth set fire to a wig and exchanged fashions of sacrifice with a mechanical seahorse. Is that your magazine editor? he asked. The seahorse had no reply. Gestures of failings you knew and loved announcing nosalgia as your epitaph. If you don't murder yourself, you can't expect others to do it for you. Cows admire themselves in the mirror while fucking. Sales tax. A ghost with a glass of wine. If nothing can be forgotten, nothing can be remembered. A dog with the head of a fish.