Alive With Pleasure(?)!

This post is all about bursting through the day with a double, nay... a quadruple barreled shotgun blast*. Wednesday can kiss my ass.

Today's mix is a thick, bloody rock and roll marmalade, with big chunks of gristle, bone, eyes, and crushed up window glass all throughout, evenly spread over the burnt toast of brutal life lessons and human suffering. Ordinary silverware and plates will not be enough to consume, or contain this mix. For your safety, use only asbestos gloves to handle this compilation. You'll need a large number of heavy-duty cloth napkins to clean yourself up, after you partake in this unholy continental breakfast of punishing horror... Also, be sure to keep the number of the poison control center on hand, just in case.

You have been warned. Bon Appétit!


{Thank Your Mother For the Rabbits…}

Deerhoof: 3/2
Registrators: I Call Your Name
Eater: No More (live ’77)
Dwarves: Free Cocaine
Umen: Dig It A Hole
Gasp: Eyes the Tentacle and Arachnid Know
Emperor: Curse You All Men
Erosion: 70th Floor
Rose Rose: Make Good My Escape (To Ichirow)
Voorhees: At My Expense
Black Flag: No Values
Forward: Never Lost Youself
Beguiled: She-Devil Rock
Pagans: Dead End America
Excruciating Terror: Suicide
Agnostic Front: Fight
Heresy: Genocide
Cosmic Psychos: Thank Your Mother for the Rabbits
Slight Slappers: Reflection
Fuckface: Politics of Falsehood
Los Crudos: No Estoy Convencide
Houses in Texas: Destiny of Dead Horses
Bastards: Shit for Brains
Killdozer: One for the People
Ed Gein’s Car: Too Old to Die Young
A Frames: Complication
Les Thugs: Femme Fatale
Dudman: Mass Game
Kitchener: Development
Funeral: Waiting for the Bomb Blast
Dead C: Scarey Nest
Corrupted: Other Side
Cd Crash:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

*a la Phantasm II, also there is no footage that I could easily find of the quad-shotgun in action. So you get single barrel graphics. Sorry!

Some greasy grabass ganked our guardian gargoyle!

The nerve of some people! To take a total stranger's twenty-two pound terrible temple dog is totally toothless! What a jerk! It makes me so mad, I see red! It makes me so mad, I'm all cramped up with anger! It makes me so mad, I put an exclamation point at the end of every sentence! Bastards!

"It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?"

I'm bringing it back on down again. I feel like I have been too hard on y'all, pushing my noisy tastes on y'all and such. This is gonna make it all better. It's quiet at times, raucous at others, but not too raucous. This stuff is all pure funk, jazz, and bebop...brusquely shaken, and infused with some international flavor. Perhaps it is too sleepy for a Monday, or even a Tuesday, but here it is anyway. In your respective faces, everyone! With love, from me.

Fantastic Life!

Bush Taxi Mali-Sanan Korya
Bix Beiderbecke-Blue River
Roger & the Gypsies-Pass the Hatchet pt.1
Alice Coltrane- Turiya and Ramakrishna
The Peps-My Love Looks Good On You
Odell Brown-Raise the Roof
WedeÌ €DJign-Antchi Ene'I
Raymond Scott-Good Air
Boscoe-Money Won't Save You
Kallibris-A2
Gnawa Music of Marrakesh-Toura Toura Tour Kelilah
Bezoz Hawaiian Orchestra-Pame Sti Honolulu
Cousin Leroy-Up the River
Wendy Carlos-William Tell Overture (Abridged)
Clave'-Coca Leaf
Mickey Baker-Do What You Do
Circle-Guarila
Super Soline D'Haiti-Noel
Dirty Three-Last Dance
Ken Nordine-Black
Sweet Violet Boys- They're Burning Down the House I was Brung Up In

Anniversary Time!

Here is a comp I made for my darling girlfriend six years ago, on this very day. It is ever so slightly edited for your enhanced enjoyment. Little did I know, five or so years later, we would be married! How nifty!

I Loves My Baby, My Baby Loves Me-

Dicks-Baby I Love You (live)
Louis Prima-When You're Smilin'/Sheik of Araby
Fred Lane and His Bolophonic Orchestra-I Talk to My Haircut
The Homosexuals-Neutron Lover
Son Mitume- Yo Te Voya Halercase
Little Willie John-I Like to See My Baby
The Jam- All Around the World
The Homosexuals-Hearts in Exile
Buzzcocks-Love You More (live)
Wolfgang Press- That Heat
The Ukrainians- Some Song
DJ Qbert-Wave Twisterz
Damned-Neat Neat Neat
Couch Flambeau-The Zoo is Cool
X-I Don't Wanna Go Out (live)
Wedding Present-Take Me
Wolfgang Press-Swing Like a Baby
Incredible String Band-Creation (part)
Hoagy Charmichael-Doctor, Lawyer and Indian Chief
Flat Duo Jets-My Life, My Love
Unrest-Yes, She is My Skinhead Girl

How Long Have We Been Together?

Happy Dating Anniversary, Honeybee! We have been together for twelve glorious years. This one doesn't count as much because of that whole marriage thingy we did. Or maybe it counts more, I don't know at this point. Twelve Years! Wow! I remember when we took that picture above. We had to get up like an hour before we went to bed or something, to get to the train station by 6:00 A.M. Ha! That sucked, bigtime! But you know what? I loves you ever so much.
I'll stop now. XOXOX

Punks is Hippies.

Ah, misspent youth. It was pretty fun, I must admit. Music was a big part of that. There is a certain something about the music we listen to when we're growing up. That music happens to be hardcore for me, especially the early stuff... that raw energy, the violence, the uncertainty of it all, it really gets me going. This is my classic rock, the soundtrack to my whole life after age 16. I love it. Being a nostalgic person in general, listening to old hardcore takes me on a time warp over the last twenty plus years, because I've never stopped listening to it. Sure, I developed my musical tastes, I enjoy all kinds of music... but there were never any other experiences quite like the ones I had early on, when it was all fresh and new.

I'm almost embarrassed to say it, but I am the same in this way, as any dirt-loving hippie throwback. Instead of Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, and C.C.R., it's Negative Approach, Black Flag, and D.R.I. for me. Vintage tunes from my youth, they are my romanticized musical past. Instead of looking for that one perfect Dead show bootleg online, I look for Flipper demos. It's like listening to the world through rose colored ear plugs. "Remember back then maaan? It was all so coool back then, maaaan." It's the same.

Sorry, I prattle on. As much as I may want to grow my hair out so that I can put flowers in it when I listen to Minor Threat or the Feederz, I just don't (lazy, like a hippie!). I'd like to think that any other similarities I might have with my non-bathing, peace-loving brethren are so superficial that they don't warrant any further examination in this particular forum. Luckily I'd be right, because this is my blog, and I am truly free.

DJ Katastrophik made this mix a very long time ago. I present it to you now. Tracklist is in the comments section.

I must remember to go...

Yes, it has been a long night. No, I'm not gonna post any more music or commentary until I get some sleep. Maybe after lunch, whenever that might be. If you're bored you could go here. I still love this game, after all these years. So simple and great! Check out this little frustrating nugget, also. Oh, that damned cat!

"What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness."

Today I play the anti-DJ. Do the people want to dance? Hell no! They want to get as far away from this music as humanly possible. This is all metal, noise, and heaviness. It is not for when you are in a good mood and want to bop around. No, it's for when you are in a bad mood and need to clear a room. This is not the infamous "Get the Fuck Out" mix that we used to play at the end of the night at my place of employment (that mix once emptied out a full room in 8 seconds, a friend timed it). I am afraid that one is just too much for the likes of you. Some other time, perhaps. This one is a more musical journey than the G.T.F.O. mix. A long, unpleasant, occasionally vicious musical journey through some forbidding sonic frontiers. I was in a great mood and I listened to this twice today, I suppose that makes me some kind of masochist.

Chilly Reception at the Soiree-

Manticore-Liturgical Desecration
SPK-Ground Zero-Infinity Dose
Ultra-The Golden Shout
Krisiun-Obsession by Evil Force
Espendor Geometrico- La Ciudad de los Heroes Rojos
Gravitar-Blues for Charlie
Anne Gillis- #11 Untitled
Flying Testicle- Romance
Suffocation-Jesus Wept
Bullet in the Head-Jawbone of an Ass
Gravitar-Track2
N.W.W. -Muse
Erkin Koray and Ter-Mor Gorme Garibi
Jim Jones- Guyana Sunset

Several Sailing Scurvy Seadogs Sampling Some Sonic Skullduggery.

I have a large collection of music, from which I like to make these compilations. I obsess about them, probably because I used to be a delivery driver, and I needed something that I could listen to over, and over, and over... ad nauseum. It's important. The good ones kept me calm, which is good in a city where everyone is insane behind the wheel. They also kept me awake, which is good in a city blah blah insane. I make about one of these a week. This is an old habit that I have yet to tire of.

Thanks to technological advances (it was the tape age when I started doing this), I now listen to mix cds in the car, for the most part. Many of them end up unplayably scratched, or even crushed to bits on the floor of my filthy vehicle. This is because, when urge to drive overtakes me, I am both a lazy and brutal driver, like some kind of weresloth behind the wheel. Sometimes comps... just don't make it. As sad as that is, the ones that do make it are, in my opinion, usually pretty decent.

This is a mix that I have been messing around with for a couple of weeks now. I think this might be the version I stick with. I was looking for something less so, music that I could drive around to all afternoon and have it be sort of fun and not so gloomy. I did drive around with a slightly different mix of this for a week or so, and I had no road rage. It brings the fun for me, because it pleases my inner disaffected youth without being all metal or punk. Boy, did I fail on that gloomy part. Oh well, give me some crazy shit to hear and I'm happy.

Little Black Clouds #2.1

A Frames-Skeletons
NickCave y los BadSeeds-Deanna
Brainiac-Choke
The Ex-Burnsome
Boredoms-Super Are You
The Fall-Hotel Blöedel
Coil-Orca Not Lorca
Calle13-Algo con Sentido
DJ RomanPorsche-Blue Monday
Boris-1970
Fasaga-Schwächling
SonicYouth-Rowche Rumble
Country Teasers-I Don't Like People
Faust-Meer
Death in June-Fall Apart
Severed Heads-Spitoon Thud
Jessamine-Your Head's So Small It's Like a Tiny Light
Galaxy500-Temperature's Rising

A New Chapter in Dub.

Well, hello there! I have yet another tasty treat for you and yours. How many years ago did I put this comp together? Did I do it in 2002? 2003? I don't remember. At least five years ago. This mix actually exists (or has existed) in some form on the internet for almost that long. A friend of mine edited it into one track and put it up somewhere, I remember seeing it. To the best of my knowledge, I believe it has disappeared.

I like the dub music. Plain and simple. Long ago, I was once the used music buyer for a beloved local record store that has since passed on. Along with everything else, I bought almost every dub record that came in used from 1995 until 1999 for the store. More often than not, I would immediately turn around and sell these dub records to myself. This is not a HUGE stack of wax, mind you, but it is fairly respectable. A few may have slipped my desperate grasp and actually hit the floor in that time span, but as I was working six days a week mostly, and not much got by me, and I was/am kind of a dick in that way, I'm certain it was only a very few. And the ones that did get away probably weren't very good. Sorry, local dub record collectors...

Anyway, I have weird taste, I guess, and this is the dubbish compilation I made, weirdly, from said collection. Of course it's not all dub, there is a little bit of straight up reggae, some soundtrack music, and a pinch of noise. I've cut most of the dead air out, but I did no other cleanup. It has a bit of that vintage vinyl crackle to it, but that just makes it better in my humble opinion. Quite a few people I know have this already, and they think it's pretty neat. What do you think?

~Prince Jellyfish's Dubd'sco~

Bernard Hermann: God's Lonely Man
African Headcharge: Far Away Chant
Bunny Wailer: Fig Tree
Burning Spear: Black Wa Da Da
Scientist: VooDoo Curse
Evil Moisture: Spatter Gak
King Tubbys: The Easy Dub
Big Youth: Love Jah Jah Children
Rockers Allstars: Revolution Dub
Jackie Mittoo: Henry the Great
Carlton and the Shoes: I've Got Soul
U-Roy: Flashing My Whip
Sugar Minott: Progress Road Dub
N.W.W. Uncertain Nonsense
Augustus Pablo: A P Special
Prince Far I: Put It Out
The Upsetters: Curly Dub
Rockers Meet King Tubbys inna Firehouse
Prince Far I : Plant Up
Linton Kwesi Johnson: Making History
African Headcharge: Stebeni's Theme
David Jackman:Vault
Evil Moisture

Kindling to Stoke the Flames of Humanity.

Well, here we are. Again. This time around I'm going to bring the mellow down on you. By mellow I mean, softer than before...earlier, when it was really loud, that was all cool and shit. But now, it's quiet time. More contemplative. Less scrrrreeeeeech. Still, there are some challenging bits in the mix. I made this in late 2004, so it is a fine, post-election vintage. There is some rock here, because I like the rock (who doesn't?). Otherwise, it seems like I laid the Southern Gothic on pretty thick, as evidenced by the ugly, rough subject matter being strummed so sweetly at you. Murder, suicide, madness, the death of the human race, it all gets touched on in a folksy, down home sort of way.When the Louvin brothers sing about the killing fire raining from the skies, it makes you forget all about the horrible things you did in Knoxville, because now everyone is gonna die. Quick, grab my hand, let's run into the mushroom cloud together!

Kindling-

Howlin' Wolf: Backdoor Man
Flat Duo Jets: Madagascar
Flaming Lips: Mountainside
13th Floor Elevators: I Thought You Should Know
Heavenly Gospel Singers: Mean Old World
Rex: Blue Eyes You're Not
Louvin Brothers: Knoxville Girl
Handsome Family: The Forgotten Lake
Brownie McGee & Sonny Terry: Trouble in Mind
Nick Drake: River Man
The Birthday Party: Several Sins
Curtis & the Melody Cowboys: Mr. Blue
Little Willie John: Love, Life, & Money
The Minutemen: there ain't shit on t.v. tonight
Robert Johnson: Hellhound on My Trail
Coil: Car Rental
Country Teasers: Life is a Rehearsal
Mission of Burma: Execution
King Nawahi's Hawaiians: Hawaii Medley
Roy Newman & His Boys: Devil with the Devil
King Loser: Ten Rays
Louvin Brothers: Great Atomic Power
Mekons: Last Dance
Rev. J. M. Gates , Oh Death Where Is Thy Sting

Ladies and Gentlemen, I Present to You...

...the Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the WORLD...The Country Teasers! Seriously! Well, I like them a lot... and my enthusiasm should transfer to everyone else right? Right? Isn't that how the internet works? It doesn't? Well...that sucks.

In all of my trawling for tunes on the aforementioned internet, lo these last six or eight months, I have yet to come across any Country Teasers stuff other than the odd compilation track. I am here to fix that. This mix is something that I threw together a couple of years ago, a caustic compilation of crunchy, callous crooning and righteous rock and roll.

Their Fall worship is on display, as are their gangsta rap influences. These are distilled, purified at least ten times, dried out and ground into a fine powder. At which point they add whiskey and make a paste out of it. They then bombard the paste with gamma radiation until it makes a sound. This sound. Is it offensive? Maybe. Have I listened to this at least a hundred times? Yes I have.

Feels Like the Third Time.

Here is a picture of a dolly that I sculpted and put together. You enjoy that while I throw together another comp/mix for you. This one is coming in on the ambient side of the noisy coin. Sure there are some really irritating sounds on this thing, but for the most part it's like being unmoored and drifting on a raft made of birch wood and human skin...down a mostly frozen river, full of floating dead rats. No, scratch that. No rats. Let's leave it at the frozen river part. Yeah. Anyway, I gave a cd copy of this to a friend to listen to and he loves it. He plays it loud and then does other stuff while the cd does its thing.

You could do that...be like my friend. You too could be doing your dusting to the dulcet tones of Nazi UFO Commander, taking out the trash with fun fun Funeral Mist, launching your laundry into the Bay of Hopelessness while shuffling along with Sleephead. You get the general idea. Tracklist is below. Make it happen.

Little Black Clouds #1

Les Joyaux De La Princesse:Bei Einbrechender Nacht
Nazi UFO Commander:Retreat
Nueva Germania:Love is Over
Oln-Ba:Employment at Dead God
P Children:Truth Withheld
Severed Heads:Tiny Fingers
Tape Beatles:Green, Blue Beautiful Place/Whole New Animal
Siouxsie and the Banshees: Red Over White
Mort Art:Green Death
Skullflower:Blood Orange
Zr19.84:Embolium
Nurse With Wound:The Lonely Poisonous Mushroom
Opal:Hear the Wind Blow
Black Seas of Infinity:Spacial Exhumation
Birchville Cat Motel:Double Cascade Mini Fantasy
SleepHead:Bay of Hopelessness
Gas:Untitled 1
Funeral Mist:The God Supreme

I had so much fun the first time...

...I'm going to do this again. Just to let the warm happiness flood your senses. Feel that? That's joy. I have here another mix, and I have uploaded it for everyone's listening pleasure. This one is several months old, and pretty rockin', I'd say. Although, my "rockin'" seems to be everyone else's "excruciating", that is why I'm here with you. Caveat emptor. I love noise and hardcore and such. You either want this or you don't .That shitting sound coming out of your speakers? That's music. The tracklist is as follows:

Little Black Clouds # 3

The Cows: Cabin Man
Melt Banana: Too Rough to Scoop
Brainbombs: It's a Burning Hell
Fang: I Wanna Be on T.V.
Stretcheads: Chicken Fish
Hesskhe Yadalanah: Bless Cadaveric Bodies Experiences
Sick Things: Police
The Homosexuals: Walk Before Imitate
The Sound: Coldbeat (Live)
The Swans: Freak
The Swans: Right/Wrong
Shit and Shine: Cunts With Roses (pt.1)
Crossed Out: Vacuum
Prenatal Lust: Entertainment Tonight
Ed Gein's Car: My Life's a Game (live)
Dudman: Fascist Friday
Minutemen: The Punch Line
Rudimentary Peni: When You are a Martian Church
Stickmen With Rayguns: Grave City
Thrown Ups: Person in My Bowel (is sad)
Negative Approach: Pressure
Stretcheads: Long Faced German
Funeral Mist: Bringer of Terror
Boredoms: Acid Police
Missing Foundation: Martyr of the City
Negativland: When They Ring the Golden Bells
Corrupted: Nieve Segundo

Hello, these are for you!

Well, here I am. What's my mission now? Here, have this. This will buy me some time until I figure out where I'm going to go with this thing...this...this blog. Here is a linky, at the end of which is a compilation of music that I made for you last night. Why are you looking at me like that? I am a nice person. Go read the tracklist. It's good, I tell you. Cut me some slack. It is clearly worth ten minutes of your computer's valuable time, or however long it takes your computer to do things...whatever. You'll need to unpack the rar with Winrar or something. I wish I had a window to look out of.

Noise Complaint #1
Tape Beatles: c.-for frog
Boredoms: Star
People Like Us: Barbed Wire 4 People Like Us
Annie Anxiety: Cyanide Tears
p16d4: E & E
Skinny Puppy:Icebreaker
Nazi UFO Commander: Why We Fight
Esplendor Geometrico: Trans Umma
Tape Beatles: Behold a Republic
Missing Foundation: When Right was Wrong
Evolution Control Committee: I Don't Care
Sebadoh: Got It
Pain Teens: Lady of Flame
The National Hardwood Floor...: Looking for a...
Beherit: Hail Satanas
Severed Heads: Oscar's Grind
Gravitar: U.R.R.
Meat Beat Manifesto: Repulsion
The Fall: Couldn't Get Ahead
Assault: Object of the Attack
Spacemen 3: Call the Doctor
Alien Vampires: Neuroleptic Malignant Injection