7-8th April 2000
7-8th April 2000 Side A7-8th April 2000 Side B
This week (7 April) MFBGH will be featuring the following CDs: V/A 'Split Series 1-8' (Fat Cat) Dat Politics 'Villiger' (A-Musik) Scanner/David Shea 'Free Chocolate Love' (Quartermass) Stereolab 'Dots and Loops' V/A 'Storm of Drones (Asphodel) Suicide 'Zero Hour' (Live in 1978) Artist, 'Track' Release (Label) 1...Aesop Quartet, 'Egyptian Knights' Wire Tapper 4 (The Wire) 2...Sergev Kuryokhin, 'The Situation of the Asian Proletariat in America' New Music from Central and Eastern Europe (The Wire) 3...Dat Politics, Track #7 Dat Politics (A-Musik) 4...Kimmo Pohjonen, 'Anastaja' Wire Tapper 5 (The Wire) 5...Clive Graham, 'One End of the Time Pad' Wire Tapper 4 (The Wire) 6...David Shea/Scanner, 'Theme from Smootchy Smootchy' Free Chocolate Love (Quartermas) 7...Felix Kubin, 'Bruder Luzifer' Film Musik (A-Musik) 8...Eye, 'Herd Under Social Hypnosis' Politics Can Be Fun (Blatant Propaganda) 9...Muslim Gauze, 'Zahedan' Mazar-I-Sharif (Soleilmoon) 10...Bally Sagoo, 'Choli Ke Peeche' Bollywood Flashback (Columbia) 11...Badmarsh & Shri, 'Gharana' Dancing Drums (Outcaste) 12...Suicide, 'Mr Ray' Zero Hour (Live in NY 78) (Red Star) 13...Suicide, 'Las Vegas Man' Zero Hour (Live in NY 78) (Red Star) 14...Suicide, 'Four Horsemen' Zero Hour (Live in NY 78) (Red Star) 15...Lou Reed, Excerpt from Metal Machine Music Cage/Uncaged (Cramps Records) 16...Swans, 'Where Does a Body End?' The Great Annihilator (Young God Records) 17...M Gira, 'My Birth' The Somniloquist (Young God Records) 18...Darren Copeland, 'Maritime Vision' A Storm of Drones (Sombient) 19...Antimatter, 'Flyback Transformer' A Storm of Drones (Sombient) 20...DJ Spooky, 'In the Valley of Shadows' A Storm of Drones (Sombient) 21...Paul Dolden, 'Veils' (except) A Storm of Drones (Sombient) 22...Public Image, 'Banging the Door' Flowers of Romance (Virgin) 23...MC 900ft Jesus, 'UFOs are Real' Hell with the Lid Off (Netwerk) 24...Jello Biafra, 'Overpopulation & Art' Gage/Uncaged (Cramps Records)
15-16 April 2000
15-16 April 2000 Side A15-16 April 2000 Side B
PANASONIC, 'Kulma' (Blast First/Mute) MIKA VANIO, 'Ydin' (Wavetrap) ARLING & CAMERON "Music for Imaginary Films" (Emperor Norton) Fitting together lots of familiar motifs and vintage touches, their spazzy punchy cheesy horn-punctuated bounce aims a little more for the dancefloor (esp. on '1999 Spacelab'), mixing in jungle beats under dominant horns and theremin. These should give you an idea of what's here: A mock- Hitchcock soundtrack slams stately with thunderous emphasis and steady beats. A disco track appropriates the melody to 'Fly Like an Eagle'. A fake spy-soundtrack/dub theme for a drug-sniffing dog yields a half-smile. Ornamental sitars and tabla glide over a easy pop/country loping song that nearly turns into the "Sesame Street" theme. Somewhere between '70s TV themes, lounge, and disco -- silly, brainless pop with a wink. [RE] COYLE AND SHARPE "Audio Visionaries: Street Pranks and Put Ons" (Thirsty Ear) At first listen, the work of Coyle and Sharpe recalls that of Bob and Ray: tag-team comedy delivered in the driest possible manner, with both partners playing the straight-man role as they conduct a series of outrageous fake interviews with each other. The difference here is that Coyle and Sharpe's outrageous interviews are real, and involve a third, unwitting partner. The pair spent hundreds of hours trawling the streets of San Francisco, microphones in hand, politely confronting the Man In the Street with all kinds of absurd situations. They offer imaginary jobs that resemble medieval tortures, solicit volunteers for bizarre surgeries in the name of market research, and so on. Their delivery is impeccable, lending them such credibility that the elicited responses become the real punchlines, even more surreal than the setups that provoke them. One listens, amazed, at what the Average Guy can take seriously. [AL] URI GELLER "s/t" (Fork Bender, UK) When Rhino Records launched their "Golden Throats: Celebrities Sing!" series in the mid-'80s, they overlooked the prodigious talents of Mr. Geller, whose voice and, uh, 'phrasing' quite nearly rivals his status as 'the world's most celebrated paranormalist'. Growing up in the '70s it was impossible to miss Geller's astounding acts of mental kinesis on television: common keys and metal utensils were bent by the sheer will of his mind before astonished audiences on the "Tonight Show", the "Mike Douglas Show", etc. But clearly his greatest feat of all was securing the contract that resulted in this fascinatingly silly recording. This album originally appeared in the '70s, resulting from poems and song texts where Uri expressed his thoughts and feelings about human beings, life, love and the universe. As a genuinely scary kitsch tour-de-force, this CD is unsurpassed. Marvel at the 'heavy' orchestrations as Uri is accompanied by a cosmic choir! Thrill as he duets with a Karen Carpenter clone! Amaze your friends as Uri lisps his way through not one, but FOUR different language versions of "Mood", the album's mind-bending psychedelic finale! Uri was most recently spotted in the "National Enquirer" preparing to sue the Pokemon juggernaut for naming one of their bad-guy monsters "Ungeller". [JG] Artist, 'Track' Release (Label) 1...Panasonic, 'Teurastamo' Kulma (Blast First) 2...Mika Vaino, 'Vain' Ydin (Wavetrap) 3...Panasonic, 'Hahmo' Kulma (Blast First) 4...Farmers Manual, 'DSP Kill' Touch Sampler.3 (Touch) 5...Stereolab, 'Ticker Tape of the Unconscious' Dots & Loops (Elektra) 6...DJ Spooky, 'Variation on a Freight Theme' Freight Elevator Quartet (Caipirihna) 7...Rehberg & Bauer, 'Opla' Touch Sampler.3 (Touch) 8...Bruce Gilbert, 'Voice' Touch Sampler.3 (Touch) 9...Mika Vaino, Siirtyma' Ydin (Wavetrap) 10...People Like Us, 'Yodel Cuckoo' Hate People Like Us (Soleilmoon) 11...People Like Us, 'Barbed 4 People Like Us' Hate People Like Us (Soleilmoon) 12...People Like Us, 'Keep Going Weewee' Hate People Like Us (Soleilmoon) 13...Antediluvian Rocking Horse, 'The Curious Advance' Music for the Odd Occasion (Psyharmonics) 14...Coyle & Sharpe, 'Three-Ism' Audio Visionaries (Thirsty Ear) 15...Arling & Cameron, '1999 Space Club' Music for Imaginary Films (Emperor Norton) 16...Takako Minekawa, 'Fancy Work Funk' Fun 9 (Emperor Norton) 17...Dat Politics, (untitled track 2) Dat Politics (A-Musik) 18...Gene Moore, 'Carnival of Souls' Carnival of Souls (Birdman) 19...David Shea/Scanner, 'Theme from Moon Landing' Free Chocolate Love (Quartermas) 20...Uri Geller, 'Mood' Uri Geller (Fork Bender) 21...Arling & Cameron, 'Zona Sul' (Coctail Mix) Music for Imaginary Films (Emperor Norton) 22...Coyle & Sharp, 'Maniacs' Audio Visionaries (Thirsty Ear) 23...Uri Geller, 'The Day' Uri Geller (Fork Bender)
6-7 June 2000
6-7 June 2000 Side A6-7 June 2000 Side B
ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION, 'Community Music' EP (London Records) EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN, 'Silence is Sexy' (Mute) Artist, 'Track' Release (Label) 1...Asian Dub Foundation, 'The Judgement' Community Music (FFRR) 2...Mouse on Mars, 'Sehn Sud' Macro Dub Infection II (Gyroscope) 3...Gareth Bowen, 'Bernie Lee' Product of the Environment (Durban Poison) 4...Orbital, 'Plant of the Shapes' 2nd Album (Internal) 5...Lydia Lunch, 'Lydia reads Henry Rollins' Our Fathers Who Aren't In Heaven (Widowspeak) 6...Einsturzende Neubauten, 'Dinysaller' Silence is Sexy (Stumm) 7...Otomo Yoshihide, 'Film maker from Kreuzberg' We Insist? (Sound Factory) 8...Death Cube K, 'Hanging Gallows' Disembodied (Ion) 9...Scanner, 'Rivers & Bridges' Sound for Spaces (Sub Rosa) 10...Asian Dub Foundation, 'Rebel Warrior' Community Music (FFRR) 11...Coyle & Sharpe, 'Cart Procurement' Audio Visionaries (Thirsty Ear) 12...Extended Organ, 'Frankenstein' XOXO (Birdman) 13...Death Ambient, 'Prophesy' Death Ambient (Tzadik) 14...Keiji Haino, 'Even Now, Still I Think' The 21st Century Hard-Y-Guide-Y Man (Tokuma Japan) 15...Fushitsusha, 'The Halation born between you and i who were doomed to appear in form' Gold Blood (Charnel Music) 16...Kimmo Pohjonen, 'Anastaja' Wire Tapper 5 (The Wire) 17...Chasm, 'Phonn' Split Series 1-8 (Split) 18...Ryoji Ikeda, 'C7 Continuum' 0 degrees C (Touch) 19...Kury, 'Nie Martu Sie Janusz' New Music from Central & Eastern Europe (The Wire)
8-9 July 2000
8-9 July 2000 Side A8-9 July 2000 Side B
[V/A] "Early Modulations: Vintage Volts" (Caipirinha) www.caipirinha.com The sequel, or, rather, prequel to Caipirinha's "Modulations" soundtrack, which, as both a film and a recording gave an overview of contemporary electronic music culture. This, too, is an overview, but of early electronic music (covering pieces from 1939-1967). Includes Pierre Schaeffer's 'Etude aux Chemins De Fer', John Cage's 'Imaginary Landscape No. 1' and Morton Subotnick's 'Silver Apples of the Moon'. [V/A] "OHM: Early Gurus of Electronic Music, 1948-1980" (Ellipsis Arts) This collection exposes the history of academic electronics and electroacoustics in all its thoughtful and sometimes contrived glory. The shifts from the academia and the scientific sound studio into loose-limbed extrapolations and sprawling improvisations are documented. Timbre-matching from track to track, there are rhythmic pieces (Hugh LeCaine, Raymond Scott, Reich, etc), fantastical excursions (Tudor, Riley, Oskar Sala, Jean-Claude Risset, Louis and Bebe Barron), experiments with the voice (Charles Dodge, Robert Ashley), the conceptual (LaMonte Young, Maryanne Amacher), and where musique concrete turned into ambient music by the late '70s (Jon Hassell, Alvin Curran). Split between pieces of tape manipulation and electronically-generated sound, the artists (and technicians) here display their tools and how they're used. On the way, they reveal that sometimes the best art comes from limitations in process. Artist, 'Track' Release (Label) 1...Swans, 'Mind Body Light Sound' The Great Annihilator (Invisible) 2...Lydia Lunch, 'Lydia Reads Selby' Our Fathers Who Aren't In Heaven (Widowspeak) 3...Mrs Murgatroid, 'X The Man with the X-Ray Eyes' Through Alien Empires (Japan Overseas) 4...SETI, 'Reverberation' Above Black (Ash International) 5...Kraftwerk, 'Radioactivity' Radioactivity (Capitol) 6...Einsturzende Neubauten, 'Sonnenbarken' Total Eclipse of the Sun (Mute) 7...Coil, 'The Sea Priestess' Astral Disaster (Solar Lodge) 8...MEV, 'Spacecraft' Ohm: Early Gurus of Electronic Music (Ellipsis Arts) 9...John Cage, 'Imaginary Landscape No. 1' 10...Luc Ferrari, 'Tete et Queue du Dragon' Early Modulations: Vintage Volts (Caipirihna) 11...Edgar Varese, 'Poem Electronique' Ohm: Early Gurus of Electronic Music (Ellipsis Arts) 12...Max Mathews, 'Bicycle Built for Two' Early Modulations: Vintage Volts (Caipirihna) 13...Steve Reich, 'Pendulum Music' 14...Alvin Lucier, 'Music on a Long Thin Wire' 15...Morton Sobotnik, 'Silver Apples on the Moon' Ohm: Early Gurus of Electronic Music (Ellipsis Arts) 16...Vittorio Gelmetti, 'Treni D'onda A Modulazione' Early Modulations: Vintage Volts (Caipirihna) 17...Joji Yuasa, 'Projection Esem Plastic for White Noise' Ohm: Early Gurus of Electronic Music (Ellipsis Arts)
22-23 July 2000
22-23 July 2000 Side A22-23 July 2000 Side B
KLANGSTABIL: Gioco Bambino (Plate Lunch, Germany) www.platelunch.com "Gioco Bambino, the recent CD release from the German duo Klangstabil includes 12 tracks of Gameboy electronics that range from simple melodies that could easily be used as themes for childrens' television series, to speedy, crackling, rumbling and noisy tracks. All of these tracks have been recorded directly onto DAT in realtime by using only a Nintendo Gameboy with an additional Gameboy Camera cartridge (which wasn't used to take pictures with, but as a primitive mixing desk) and some simple effects. There are no samples, overdubs, or additional instruments mixed to this recording later -- all you hear are the gameboy sounds recorded directly onto a DAT recorder." [review from www.forcedexposure.com] STEEV HISE "Original" (Illegal Art/Cha Bashira, Japan) www.detritus.net/illegalart In a wobbly, choppy manner, the instigator of "Deconstructing Beck" from a few years ago turns his ear to the reign/stranglehold popular American (and sometimes Canadian) culture has had on, well, culture in general for the past 40 years. Hise's the virtual son of John Oswald and the Tape-Beatles, as fed through CalArts. Covering 1995-1999, his work relies on not the tape edit but the altered CD, with layers of familiarity rather than altered realities. He spins your head with so much recognizability that you're gasping for mental air after a piece whizzes by. Short, poppy cuts of familiar songs are interspersed with longer, ambient works that might just be patchworks of altered guitar solos. Very catchy, even when it's nearly making you vomit from vertigo induced by speed-switching. Includes a nice version of the national anthem made from skipping CDs and decay. [review from www.othermusic.com] Artist, 'Track' Release (Label) 1...John Oswald, 'Shane' Discosphere (Cuneiform) 2...Alec Empire, 'The Jailhouse Cock that Rocks the Most' Alec Empire V Elvis Presly (El Loco) 3...Scanner V DJ Spooky, 'Journey & Edison' The Quick and the Dead (Sulpher) 4...Martin Tetreault & Otomo Yoshihide, 'Tension' 21 Situations (Dame) 5...Machine for Making Sense, 'The Dissection' Dissecting the Body (Split) 6...John Oswald, 'Field' Discosphere (Cuneiform) 7...Public Works, 'Desire' Music with Sound (Staalplaat) 8...Ape has killed Ape, 'We Want Guns' Mattricide (A True Classic) 9...People Like Us, 'Lycra Rally' (Death in June Remix) Hate People Like Us (Soleilmoon) 10...Stock, Hausen & Walkman, 'Schmink' Oh My Boy (Hot Air) 11...Toshio Matsura, 'Theme from Lupin the 3rd' Readymade Records (Bungalow) 12...Public Works, 'Earlids' Music with Sound (Staalplaat) 13...Klangstabil, 'Un Testardo Rumoroso' Gioco Bambino (Plate Lunch) www.platelunch.de 14...Steev Hise, 'How to Use Borrowed Ideas' Original (Illegal Art) 15...John Oswald, various tracks Kissing Jesus in the Dark 16...Steev Hise, 'Return of the King' Original (Illegal Art) 17...Klangstabil, 'Il Pidocchio Allegro' Gioco Bambino (Plate Lunch) 18...Vladislav Delay, 'Notke' Entain (Mille Plateaux) 19...Iannis Xenakis, 'Hibiki-Hana-Ma' Ohm: Early Gurus of Electronic Music (Ellipsis Arts) 20...Klaus Schulze, 'Melange' Ohm: Early Gurus of Electronic Music (Ellipsis Arts)
25-26 August 2000
25-26 August 200025-26 August 2000
This week (25 August) MFBGH will be featuring: EINSTEURZENDE NEUBAUTEN, 2x4 (ROIR) Originally released in 1984 by the American cassette-only label ROIR, 2x4 was out of circulation for some years before this timely CD reissue - a poor state of affairs considering it's their only full length live document to date. As a compilation recorded at various European concerts between 1980-83, 2x4's noise quality can get rough, but it is nevertheless well-framed, capturing the group during their most elemental phase, when improvisations were the rule and the triumph of the non-musician was complete. Its admixture of noise and quiet captures the Berlin group in all their utter visceral starkness. Quiet is not the first word that comes to mind with EN. And yet it's here in abundance. Certainly there is also plenty of noise to process on tracks like "Fleisch 'Blut Haut' Knochen" and "Sehnsucht (Nie Mehr)", featuring Blixa Bargeld's hellish wailing. But within all this, the momentous rhythms are underpinned by underlying oscillations, a signifier of constant restlessness. Elsewhere scratchy guitars and a dry, whispering rasp of a voice conjure an almost medieval sense of horror. Historically, numerous articles about Neubauten have stressed their version of physical theatre, where bodies have been miked and beaten, while elsewhere they've recorded the sound of someone sawing chunks of meat. These are spectacular strategies, which owe more to a version of sonic actionism a la Hermann Nitsch than is often realised. But the effort gone into "Zum Tier Machen" and "Sehnsucht (Still Stehend)" suggests that these are voices ripped from profundity itself. Indeed, as the latter takes up the momentum of a juggernaut, it bursts the noise barrier into new spaces: haunting pipe sounds, inexplicable tickings and a strange echoing tremulando, like a battery of mutant surfing guitars. After this, "Durstiges Tiere", a song mutated out of a 12" recorded with The Bithday Party's Rowland S Howard, seems tame by comparison. Artist, 'Track' Release (Label) 1...Asian Dub Foundation, 'Assassin' Rafi's Revenge (Slash) 2...Muslim Gauze, 'Sulaymaniyah' Mazar-I-sharif (Soleilmoon) 3...BJ Snowden, 'In Canada' Songs in the Key of Z (Which) 4...Dr Seuss, 'Green Eggs & Ham' Green Eggs & Ham and Other Stories (Buddha) 5...Coyle & Sharpe, 'Eating People at a Death Ritual' The Insane (but Hilarious) Minds of Coyle & Sharpe (Warner Bros) 6...Pilgrimage, 'Kaenko' Microcosmos (Tzadik) 7...Dousidz, 'Seemless' Empties 8...David Shea, 'Ars Nova II' Satyricon (Sub Rosa) 9...Naked City, 'Dead Spot' Torture Garden (Tzadik) 10...Giustino Di Gregorio, 'Progetto Numero 1' Sprut (Tzadik) 11...Einsturzende Neubauten, 'Womb' 2x4 (Roir) 12...Swans, 'Ich sehe die alle in einer neihe' Dieturist Zu (Young God) 13...Throbbing Gristle, 'Hamburger Lady' Entertainment Through Pain (Mute) 14...The Residents, 'Tooth & Claw' Hunters (Milan) 15...David Shea, #5 Prisoner (Sub Rosa) 16...Laurie Anderson, 'The Geographic North Pole' The Ugly One with the Jewels (Warner Bros) 17...John Oswald, 'Shane' Discosphere (Cuneiform) 18...Death Praxis, 'Bum Steer' Mystery (Tzadik) 19...John Zorn, 'Punk Limousine' The Bribe (Tzadik)
15 December 2001
15 December 200129 December 2001
29 December 20015 January 2002
5 January 200213-13 January 2002
13-13 January 2002
M U S I C F O R B I G G A M E H U N T I N G 2SER 107.3Fm Friday Nights 1 - 3am Greetings and salutations touchers of the sacred alabaster stone, caress your fingers over it's spherical surface features and marvel at it's poised unknowability for is it not sick.....? Anon, this week on the Hunt your intrepid fulmatory allstars Daktari aka Kimba the White Ghost and Dr KKlarence S. Macabre invite you all to join them apon a journey back in time to Tuesday the 19th of September 2000, for an evening with messirs Balance and Christopherson for a track by track interpretation of Coil's mind warping live performance at the Royal Festival Hall in London attended by the good doctor KKlarence and Jana of the Jungle Beats. Be set for heavy atmospheric turbulance this is no smooth ride and if you got 'em, smoke 'em...... Coil's set list for the evening is > Something Higher Beings Command Amethyst Deceivers(recorded live at the Royal Festival Hall) Titan Arch Blood From the Air I am The Green Child Constant Shallowness Leads To Evil The good doctor KKlarence recommends listening to the second part of the set staring directly into a strobe light set at a frequency of your most esteemed pleasure chanting the mantra Colour Sound Oblivion. Be aware the Hunt may start a little later this week but all fuses will be lit by 1.30. Selah Luther Blissett (RIP)
18-19 January 2002
18-19 January 2002
M U S I C F O R B I G H U N T I N G 2SER 107.3FM Friday nights 1-3am Streamed Live www.2ser.com CRYPTOMUSICAL EXCESS AND DISTRESS Salutations o' turners of the clay pots of doom and despair, hark, news from the skin of the onion, forwarded to us here within the hollow earth by none other that the right Reverend M. Sprong.... Repeat after me...Praise Bob...Praise Bob...Praise Bob... Here's the nose... HASAKE, SYRIA? When archaeologist Edward Whitson joined a Penn State University dig in Hasake last year, he did so to participate in the excavation of a Late Bronze Age settlement rich in pottery shards and clay figurines. Whitson had hoped to determine whether the items contained within the site were primarily Persian or Assyrian in origin. Above: Edward Whitson waits while yet another tortured wraith rises from a dig site in Syria. Instead, he found himself fleeing giant flying demon-cats as he ran through the temple's cavernous halls, jumping from ledge to ledge while locked in a desperate struggle for his life and soul for what seemed like the thousandth time in his 27-year career. "All I wanted to do was study the settlement's remarkably well-preserved kiln," said the 58-year-old Whitson, carefully recoiling the rope he had just used to clamber out of a pit filled with giant rats. "I didn't want to be chased by yet another accursed manifestation of an ancient god-king's wrath." Over the course of his career, Whitson has been frequently lauded by colleagues for his thorough, methodical examinations of ancient peoples. He has also been chased by the snake-bodied ophidian women of Al'lat in Israel, hunted down by Mayan coyote specters manifested out of lost time and shadow in the Yucatan, and hounded by the Arctic-sky-filling Walrus Bone Woman of the early Inuits. "It's true, I've got to stop reading the inscriptions on ancient door seals out loud," Whitson said. "I also need to quit dusting off medallions set into strange sarcophagi, allowing the light to hit them for the first time in centuries. And replacing the jewels that have fallen from the foreheads of ancient frog-deity statues?that's just bad archaeological practice." Whitson added that he hopes one day to excavate an ancient Egyptian monastery or marketplace without hearing the ear-splitting shrieks of the undead while being swarmed by green-glowing carnivorous stink beetles. "I realize I'm entering grounds that are considered sacred to these people," Whitson said. "But that doesn't mean I deserve to be pelted with poison-tipped darts shot from cavern walls. A simple 'Do Not Enter' sign in hieroglyphics would suffice." A dig in Yalvac, Turkey, is once again disrupted by the occult. Turning to the subject of his latest incident at a dig site in Peru, Whitson maintains he was not at fault for summoning the forces of evil. "I was just idly rearranging flint sickle blades that had already been catalogued. Apparently, I spelled out the true name of a long-dead god-priest," Whitson said. "Can't a man even clean up his work area without inadvertently conjuring up a pack of lightning-breathing ocelots?" Making matters worse, such encounters have had little to no scientific value. "It's always, 'I will drink your soul' or 'I will chew the flesh from your bones' with these hellish apparitions," Whitson said. "When I ask them if that means the ancient Etruscans did, in fact, add copper to their mixing clay to make their urns more sturdy, they don't even seem to hear me." Worn down by nearly three decades of peril, Whitson said he plans to move off the front lines to become a museum curator or in-office researcher. "It's unfortunate," Whitson said. "Nothing quite compares to being out in the field on an actual dig. But the reality is, I'm really starting to hate almost getting killed all the time." ...strange times indeed for Ed Whitson aka "The Curse Magnet", now on to this weeks Hunt, three pieces to churn your bowels... Einsturzede Neubauten's Hamletmaschine - E.N.'s soundtrack to Heiner Muller's play of the same name Ground Zero's Revolutionary Pekingese Opera - Otomo and his gang remix a Chinese Opera from 1960, bloody intense cinemagraphic mind fuck S.E.T.I.'s Light Shift - A mogadon stroking your panicy earlobes, recorded live in Brussells 2000 So sit yourself down, have a mint julip and knaw those nibbles.... Selah Luther Blissett (RIP)
8-9 February 2002
8-9 February 2002
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Salutations tribolites, hold on to your yarbles o' my brothers and
let the krovvy run with your trusty britva into the rot of some stinking
yuppy veltchnik as the trombones and tymps call out all savvy like an azure
sky of purest silk......................o' my brothers.
This week on the Hunt >
S W A N S
PUBLIC CASTRATION IS A GOOD IDEA
A live document from 1986 played in it's entirety of Michael Gira's
ledgendary band recorded live in Europe at the height of their powers.
A relentlessly brutal recording specifically designed to be played at
maximum volume. Not for the faint of heart, this recording can be said to be
as relevant today as then with the rise of the neo fascist scum currently
breeding across the planet.
Sharpen those knives....
Selah
Luther Blissett
16 February 2002
16 February 2002
22-23 February 2002
22-23 February 2002
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Salutations o'vestal virgins of the alabaster ancient old one, this week on
the Hunt Daktari and KKlarence are coughing up a veritable
feast for your regurgitory pleasures, purchased with extreme predjudice on
the Chopping Channel then chewed according to the cyclic
fancies of the unknowable underdwellers and chundered up into your slightly
afraid earlobes.
The nose on the feast, recorded live in the States Wobbly (Jon Leidecker),
the Weatherman (David Wills) , People Like Us (Vicki Bennett)and the Jet
Black Hair People (Peter Conheim) present a plunderiffick meltdown of
humungus proportions presented from the Chopping Channel recorded at the DNA
lounge San Fransisco and from various live to air radio sources in the
States, so smoke 'em if you got 'em....
Selah
Luther Blissett (RIP)
2 March 2002
2 March 2002
9 March 2002
9 March 2002
16-17 March 2002
16-17 March 2002
Pod is a metaphor for escape. An escape pod. On a superficial level, the human desire to escape the confines of this planet. In reality, the urgent need to leave ourselves behind and become new beings.
"Don't reconfigure your consoles. Take hard copies of all your displays. Make sure you protect any data source you have..."
Kraftwerk Dei Mensch Maschine
Trotzdem die Platte toll ist, hier einige Anmerkungen: 1. viel zu teuer hier; gibt's bei anderen on-line Laeden billiger 2. auf der CD ist ein Fehler: bei "Das Modell" an der Stelle "hat hier alle Maenner abgecheckt" ist die stimme ploetzlich zu laut. Dieser Fehler ist auf der Schallplatte nicht zu hoeren!
Kraftwerks classic album The Man Machine in its original release format, sung in German, it features The Model, The Robots and the amazing Neonlights. Du bist ein Roboter
Kosmos: Soundtracks of Eastern Germany's Adventures in Space
Kosmos' collects the music from East German science fiction films and television programs, which while maybe not quite as bizarre as the "Eastern Western", is still an odd combination. In the early seventies, there was a huge interest in producing (and viewing) big Hollywood-style science fiction movies. And as we all remember, Hollywood sci-fi in the seventies was hokey and cheesy and pretty low brow -- and so '70s East German filmmakers, with a fraction of the budget/resources, still did their best to capture that essence, even if they couldn't manage the expensive special effects of a "Star Wars" or "Close Encounters". And while we haven't seen the films, we do have the music, and the music is pretty amazing and completely bizarre! The sounds range from fuzzed out psychedelic rock to Esquivel-esque lounge/exotica to lo-fi electronica, to funky jams, to abstract collages of 'space sounds', to groovy hardrock, to syrupy easy listening and there's even a 'spaced out' version of 'Singing In The Rain'. Squealing and burbling analogue synths, soaring artificial strings, wild flutes, all manner of percussion, hammond organs, 'waka-waka' porn movie guitars, and lush sixties-girl-group harmony vocals augment a pretty standard rock'n'roll set-up of drums, bass, and guitar. Plus they included some special effects sounds and German dialogue from the films. And just like the 'Ein Wigwam' compilations (not to mention the 'Schulmadchen Report'!) these crazy sounds have us desperately trying to track down some of these films.
UFO Crash at Roswell : An Audio Documentary
They are among us, this is the spoken truth, do not go back, everything in the future will work, all disinformation will be exposed, repeat they are among us.
Orbitones, Spoon, Harps and Bellowphones
This is a collection of 16 artists playing their self-made instruments, such as the Pongophone and the Kotar. The styles range from Uakti, four conservatory-trained Brazilian musicians who create symphonies from such instruments as the Aqualung and the Trilobyte, to Leonard Solomon and his Majestic Bellowphone, a one-man show that would be at home in 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.' There are some famous names on this compilation (Tom Waits, Aphex Twin) and for you HBO fans, Stomp even makes an appearance, Peter Whitehead, who also contributes to the CD, and his spoon harp, which consists of a 10-gallon can with a stick driven through its side acting as the neck. The best part is that it uses wooden spoons for tuning keys. Musicaphrenia.
And remember, everytime you masturbate, your god kills a kitten.....
Selah
Luther Blissett(RIP)
23 March 2002
23 March 2002
M U S I C F O R B I G G A M E H U N T I N G
Bad vibrations since 1997
2SER 107.3FM Friday nights 1-3am
live streaming www.2SER.com
Salutations o trepanners of the unknowable inner worlds of the omniverse, the Hunt cometh, the Hunters prepare even as you read, oiling the mighty pith, examining the entrails and anointing the way.
This week the Hunt shall take you on a journey though the bowels of your consciousness, a mezmerik place where you will have no control, Daktari and KKlarence shall control your brain, give yourself to the Hunt, there is no other way, there is no escape, there is no way out of this place we shall take you to.
Once there we shall travel though time, slipping between the moments as they pass leaving the mundane world behind..a real time machine.
Y O U A R E G E T T I N G S L E E P Y
N O W L I S T E N T O M E
L I S T E N T O M E
This week we tip the mighty pith at the Midnight Star Social Club, as fine group of minions as you will ever meet, who give it all for those who need it most. They operate as a collective community centre at 55-57 Parramatta Road at Homebush and they are having an open day this Sunday from 1 til 7
Complete with lunch from Food Not Bombs, Children of Cthulu theatre an art expo and some of Hindi films finest moments. Get on down there and stroke their tentaclesnow listen to melisten to me.
Live wise Jekylswitch are puncturing eardrums down at Club 77 on William St this Saturday with a host of fiends who touch the sick stone most frequently and violently.
Here the nose on the sounds you will listen to
Coil - Time Machines (Eskaton)
Classic album (released early '98) by the trio of Jhon Balance, Drew McDowall & Peter Christopherson. It consists of 4 tracks described as "4 tones to facilitate travel through time". The tracks are names after various psychotropic chemicals and include a special thanks to the psychedelic researchers Ann & Alex Shulgin. As might be suggested, the music is immersive and deeply resonant -- brilliantly developing electronic drones.
Mezmer Ash International
Franz (Freidrich) Anton Mesmer (1734-1815), 'The Wizard of Vienna', was an Austrian Physicist who claimed he could cure diseases by correcting the flow of animal magnetism in his patients' bodies during sance-like group sessions. Mesmer was offered 20,000 livres in Paris in 1778 for his secret, but refused to divulge it.
Contemporaries established a commission to investigate these claims, deducing that any cures were due to the powers of suggestion - his audience at the time were largely from among the rich Parisian bourgeoisie, and apparently highly prone to such influences. Mesmer's claims, however, did initiate serious studies into hypnosis, especially by James Braid (1795?-1860), the originator of the term hypnotism (Hypnos = Greek God of sleep). Braid proved the personal nature of the mesmeric influence, but is little known today.
Even now there is very little serious study of hypnosis, which has been sidelined as entertainment for the masses, or a crank cure for psychic damage. Research is desperately needed to study the influence of 'the flicker effect' (induced by watching television and cinema), the new range of 'videodrugs' from Japan, or listening to repetitive sounds recorded at certain frequencies. A thorough investigation is also needed to establish the validity of using Hypnotherapy in the healing process. If hospitals and prison cells in western Europe have adopted the use of colour as a healing tool, then so could medical authorities and establishments use sound. But we need to know more.
The results of any such enquiry promise to be extraordinary.
Test yourself by using this record...observe from within how the mind deals with repetition and boredom by altering the sound - proof positive of active perception. Note that the length of the tracks has been calculated to induce the hypnagogic state. Once placed on the turntable, under no circumstances allow any interruption, or the test will be invalid.
Selah
Luther Blissett (RIP)
30 March 2002
30 March 2002
M U S I C F O R B I G G A M E H U N T I N G
Bad vibrations since 1997
2SER 107.3FM Friday nights 1-3am
live streaming www.2SER.com
Salutations, o touchers of the wire, o voltage controlled oscillations of the lower bandwidths and transformers of the azoth, tis time to thrust the fork in the socket and take a trip into the long waves of electrical discharge.
This week KKlarence brings you hardcore ambience to rattle your trembling earlobes, so leave the whale and seal sounds at the door acolytes of the ether and remember the pygmies will not dance for you this evening, it is now time to enter the lower regions of the radio spectrum to listen to the voices of energy and the sounds of the sun.
Featured pushers of the pulsing prongs will be Disinformation, Din and UBSB, each taking us into acoustic physics of particle accelerations, encrypted data theft, geomagnetic disturbances, space physics and atmospheric-electrical recordings. Featuring the sounds of phenomena produced by electrical and magnetic storms, solar coronal mass ejection, tropical and local lightning, and also featuring contributions from Oubliette, Network South East, Eurostar, the Central Electricity Generating Board and the British Royal Navy.
Disinformation Stargate (Ash International)
Two examples of the cataclysmic effect of magnetic storms induced by surges in solar wind associated with sunspot activity - On 12 Nov 1960 American astronomers detected a huge explosion on the surface of the Sun. Six hours later a gigantic cloud of hydrogen gas, 16 million km across and travelling at 6,400 km/second, collided with the earth. Its effect on the earth's atmosphere was to start worldwide electrical storms and black out all long-distance radio communications for hours. (Jane's Spaceflight Directory, ed. Reginald Turnill, 1988-9) During the small hours of a cold Canadian night, the voltage of Quebec's.
Seconds later the lights went out across the entire province. Some six million people were without electricity for nine hours. Within two days, NASA had lost track of some of its spacecraft and the Northern Lights were glowing in the sky south of London. (Hazel Muir, New Scientist, 3 February 1996).
Disinformation Vs Various Artists Al-Jabr (Ash International)
An album of reconstructions, featuring work by Evan Parker, Tactile, Jim O'Rourke, Simon Fisher Turner, Mechos, Lawrence Casserley, T:un[k] Systems. "AL JABR is based on the albums R&D (Ash # 2.9) and R&D2 (Ash # 9.2), electromagnetic noise recordings by Disinformation. For those not familiar with the Disinformation brand name, this project consists of DJing, publishing and live performance with recordings of unusual electromagnetic (ie radio) noise. On AL-JABR itself, rather than creating antiphonal responses to the original source material, the contributors 'equate' the raw material with their own idiosyncratic input; Lawrence Casserley transforms the rhythmic intricacies of how long data noise into a symphony of crushed and shattered slates; Evan Parker's wailing saxophone complements the pulsating drones of the city's power distribution networks. The noise group Tactile take ultralongwave sub-bass radio noise generated by the TIG welders in sculpture/sound group Oubliette's metal workshop. Jim O'Rourke adds uniquely American humour and a rock 'n' roll analogue of National Grid. Simon Fisher Turner twists broadcast data noise into gorgeous rolling melodies. T:un[k] Systems pitches VLF band radio recordings of interference radiated by electrical storms against pristine lab pure sine waves. Mechos isolates individual lightning strikes and inserts them in a lattice of clicks and low frequency drones, whose deceptive simplicity belies the subtly disorientating effects of their unfolding, twisting rhythms."
UBSB Traceroute (Ash International)
"We created a Unix software agent that sat along a high bandwidth backbone pipe, essentially eavesdropping, gathering data, writing out a sound file of everything it saw... The different tracks represent different states of the network - at different times, and different kinds of data passing by
Fennez, Harding,Rehberg Din (Ash International)
This is a one-sided, limited edition vinyl, recorded live by Fennesz , Harding and Rehberg appearing for the first time together.
A bemused - and very cold - audience witnessed the Austrian pair put to the sword various samples from the MSC Harding Ash International catalogue.
For further reading go to http://www.ashinternational.com/
Listen to the skies
Selah
Luther Blissett(RIP)