The Noble Theft of Sound

UPDATE: This post was re-uploaded 05/11/2014. Enjoy, NØ. I also added several other post Steel Pole Bath Tub releases by Dale 'Agent Nova' Flattum & Mike 'Bumblebee' Morasky that they released under the Milk Cult banner.

Agent Nova

I’ve posted musick by the great bizarro noise-rockers SteelPole BathTub here before, used to see them all the time in the late 80s/early 90s around San Francisco.

Experimental electronica outfit Novex was actually a spinoff group from SteelPole BathTub.

When the band moved over to Slash after being with Boner/Tupelo for several years, they met resistance with their idea of releasing a cover of The Cars debut album (finally released in 2002 as the SPBT album Unlistenable after a comment made by one of the Slash team). Their label-related hiatus in 1996 turned into a breakup of the band. Bassist Dale Flattum (as Agent Nova) had cut his teeth on electronic music through SPBT's interest in sampling & tape manipulation. He then formed Milk Cult with SPBT guitarist Mike Morasky (Bumblebee). Following the release of their album Project M-13 in 2000, Milk Cult also went on hiatus. At that time Flattum reunited with SPBT drummer Darren Mor-X (Morey) to form Novex. Their first album together, 2001s Kleptophonica, continued the surreal found-sound experiments of Milk Cult, but placed them in a more accessible, song-oriented context.

Novex - Kleptophonica, 0 To 1 Recordings – 002, 2001.
all decryption codes are in comments

Tracks -
Requiem
Mary Gravy
Interlude
Paris Is Burning
Tea Pocket
Joan & Jack & Nina & Steve
The Pharmacist Will Help You Now
Paris Is Still Burning
The Happiest Song In The World
Flavoriffic
Bullit

Milk Cult – Love God, Boner Records BR38-2, 1993.

Tracklist –

Love God – The Original Soundtrack Recording! Of Frank Grows’ “Love God”

Drag Strip Riot Dream Sequence

Tuesday

Relax & Sleep

Looking at the Drowning Man

Clown Party 1

Clown Party 2

Clown Party 3

Clown Party 4

Clown Party 5

Clown Party 6

Milk Cult – Burn or Bury, Priority Records P253914, 1994.

Tracklist –

Psychoanalytwist

The Fuzz Wah Song

Bow Kiness Static

Blue Godzilla

Urine, the Money

Big King Frog

Son of Obituary

Hello Kitty (Meow mix)

Rabbit in the Hole

Sabine

’63 Mercury Meteor ($500)

Milk Cult – C.C. Nova Dispatch, Communion 31, 1994.

Tracklist –

Bus Stations of the Cross

Relax & Sleep

Purgatory, Isolation, & Pinball, pt. 1

Purgatory, Isolation, & Pinball, pt. 2

Purgatory, Isolation, & Pinball, pt. 3

Tuesday, September 3, 1964

Uptight Chevelle

40,000 Volts of Solitude

Bacon Train

The March of Hectors

Witchdoctor Highball

A Shovel Full of Pigeons

Whirlpool Bursting Test

Ignition

Song for Amelia Earhart

Note: SPBT bassist Dale Flattum (aka C.C. Nova) issued this Milk Cult release as a solo project. It is often mistakenly called C.C. Nova – Milk Cult Dispatch (1995) with a different track list, but the information here is taken directly from the CD.

Milk Cult – Project M-13, 0 to 1 Recording 001, 2000.

Tracklist –

Hawaiian Motorcycle Joyride - Act 1

Hawaiian Motorcycle Joyride - Act 2

Ambient Obituary

Donka

Slink-fest

Drug Lord

Martini Boat

Mystery Oasis

Tens & Twenties in a Brown Paper Bag

Paté Pipe Bomb

Biker Party Hole

Funky Fat Tony

Slow Twisting

Network Epilogue

Slow-Twisted

Running the Plates

Detroit Disco Cop

Enjoy,
NØ