Hope I Don’t Bungle This One

Frenz of NSS Richie Muster left a comment on a recent Tricky share praising Tricky's excellence across his varied musickal spectrum. He referenced Mike Patton as another cross-genre genius & asked if I might have anything. 

Richie knows more about music than I ever will & probably has a much deeper library of sounds, so I'm never really sure how rewarding my basic attempt will prove. I do have a smattering of M. Patton to search through. As I remarked in my reply to Richie, I have shared Catherdral of Tears which featured Mike's bass work & Nathaniel Merriweather presents Lovage Avec Michael Patton & Jennifer Charles – Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By, a downtrmpo tour-de-force. 

 

Mike Patton is a singer, songwriter, composer, & multi-instrumentalist born in Eureka, California in 1968. He's probably best known to most as the lead singer of the rock band Faith No More. Previous to that he was lead vocalist for Mr. Bungle as well as in bands Tomahawk, Lovage, Fantômas, The Dillinger Escape Plan, & Peeping Tom among others. He is one of the co-founders of Ipecac Recordings & has worked with noted artists across many genres.

Let's start with Mike's first solo release, recorded & mixed in fine hotel rooms around the world using a TASCAM 4-track Portastudio with producer John Zorn. Not everyone has this one. 

 

Mike Patton - Adult Themes for Voices, Tzadik TZ7015, 1996.
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Wuxiapian    
"I Killed Him Like a Dog...& He Still Laughed"    
Smog    
The Man in the Lower Left Hand Corner of the Photograph    
Robot Sex (Neon)    
Screams of the Asteroid    
Robot Sex (B/W)    
Porno Holocaust    
Inconsolable Widows in Search of Distraction    
"Hurry Up & Kill Me...I'm Cold"    
Man Alone in Steambath    
Guinea Pig 1    
Guinea Pig 2    
Guinea Pig 3    
Guinea Pig 4    
A Woman with the Skin of the Moon    
A Lizard with the Skin of Woman    
Catheter    
"Fix it so the Bruises Don't Show"    
Robot Sex (Watercolors)    
A Ceremony of Senses, an Alibi in the Red Light District    
Butterfly in a Glass Maze    
Pajama Party Horror    
A Leper with the Face of a Baby Girl    
The One Armed Vs. 9 Killers    
Pillow Biter    
Raped on a Bed of Sand    
Violence⁵    
Red Mouth, Black Orgasm    
Wuxiapian Fantastique    
A Smile, a Slap in the Face, a Fart, a Kiss on the Mouth    
Private Lessons on Planet Eros    
"Pneumonia with Complications"    
Orgy in Reverb (10 Kilometers of Lust)

 

 

 

 

This one's rarity come from the fact that it is a Mike Patton self-released bootleg collecting a beautiful variety of musickal creations from Mike's genre-spanning career: experimental; alternative metal; art pop; sound collage; plunderphonics; & groove metal from his solo career to: Sparks; Sepultura; Melvins; Fantômas; Melt Banana & other artists that Mike worked with (the Milk Cult - "Psychoanalytwist" track is from Burn or Bury which I shared here. 

Mike Patton - Collected Psyche, self-released, 2002.

Procura o Cara - Andreas Kisser
Ford Mustang - Mike Patton
Somthing for the Girl With Everything - Sparks
Secrets 4 Sale - Kid 606
Area 877 - Melt Banana
Lookaway - Sepultura
Song Drape 7–1 Come - Mike Patton
GI Joe - Melvins
Music for the Night - Neil Hamburger
She’s Gone Away - David Slusser
Chariot Choogle -  Fantômas
Psychoanalytwist - Milk Cult
Mine - Sepultura
Not Your Girl - Bob Ostertag
Infinito - Tin Hat Trio
This Town Ain’t Big Enough for Both of Us - Sparks
The Waste - Sepultura
The Man in the Blue Slip - Bob Ostertag
Lookaway (Master Vire mix) - Sepultura

 

 

 

 

This one saw limited release & distribution. Along with Mike Patton this one features one of my favaorite avant-garde musickians, Ikue Mori with manic sax-man John Zorn. In fact, John's saxophone is reminiscient of his very early days as the noisy improvisationist of his late-70s youth with splutters, screeches, & abstractions. While this outing is one of the milestones of Patton's avant work, both vocally & electronically, it catches Mori still searching for a signature percussion style before she had settled in on her glitch sample x/y controller techniques. Her triumphant manipulations of drum machines & computer noise are complex & elaborate, providing plenty of spiky counterpoint for Zorn's sax & Patton's vocals.

 

Mike Patton, Ikue Mori, & John Zorn - Hemophiliac 2xCD, Tzadik TZ0001, 2002.

CD 1 -
Skin Eruptions    
Edema    
Stretch Marks    
The Stitch    
Malabsorption    
High Anxiety    
Dizzy Spells
Mood Swing

CD 2 -
Gotu Kola    
Black Kohosh    
The Squaw Vine    
Blessed Thistle    
Silymarin
Red Clover    
Chlorophyll Enemas    
The Black Radish    
Essence of Primrose    
Dong Quai

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ