A Bit of Bodhran When it's Called For

C.W. Vrtacek & Dancing Lessons – Monkey on a Hard Roll,
Leisure Time Records LT3, 1984.
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Side 1 –

202

Lost

Ultra Stress

A Dance for Vance

Stinko the Clown

Side 2 –

It’s Alive

Lucky Strike

Happy Trails

I Remember

America the Beautiful

Wave

Enjoy,

NØ

subfolder cLUTCHY

Always glad to be serving up some CH.  He's Pure Benzoylmethylecgonine Sugar.

Clutchy Hopkins – The Storyteller, Ubiquity URCD267, 2010.
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Tracklist –

Giraffe Crack

Laughing Jockey

No Contact…Contact

Miles Chillin'

Nina

JT Goldfish

Truth Seekin'

Thinkin' of Eva

Light as a Feather

Verbal Headlock

Enjoy,

NØ

Bug Out, Baby

The Bug is the main project for Kevin Martin, a producer who over the years has also been behind a diverse range of projects. He is part of Techno Animal / Ice / God (all with Justin Broadrick of Godflesh / Jesu), King Midas Sound, Razor X Productions (with The Rootsman), Pressure, & Ladybug to name a few.

The Bug - London Zoo, Ninja Tune ZENCD132, 2008.
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Tracklist –

Angry (feat. Tippa Irie)

Murder We (feat. Ricky Ranking)

Skeng (feat. Killa P & Flowdan)

Too Much Pain (feat. Ricky Ranking & Aya)

Insane (feat. Warrior Queen)

Jah War (feat. Flowdan)

Fuckaz (feat. Spaceape)

You & Me (feat. Roger Robinson)

Freak Freak

Warning (feat. Flowdan)

Poison Dart (feat. Warrior Queen)

Judgement (feat. Ricky Ranking)

Enjoy,

NØ

He Played Wire Guitar

I don't know how your abcdetical lists go, but mine goes like this. Bill (Nelson), Bruce (Gilbert), The Bug…all are listed under B. None of that Dylan, Bob stuff. So William S. Burroughs isn't B, he's W. Nothing with 'The' is in T (except The The). It all works out well, especially now. Music for Fruit right after The Banana Splits.

Bruce Gilbert – Music for Fruit, Mute STUMM 77, 1991.
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Side 1 –

Music for Fruit (edited)

Side 2 –

Push

You Might Be Called

Enjoy,

NØ

B is for Bytes & Bits & Banana Splits

The Banana Splits – We’re the Banana Splits, Decca DL75075, 1968.
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Side One –

We’re the Banana Splits

I’m Gonna Find a Cave

This Spot

Doin’ the Banana Split

Toy Piano Melody (instrumental)

Soul

Side Two –

The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)

Wait ‘til Tomorrow

You’re the Lovin’ End

In New Orleans

Two Ton Tessie

Don’t Go Away – Go-Go Girl

Enjoy dessert,

NØ

Don't Be Such a Phag, Art

I decided to brave the Wilds the other day & started going through a folder I have called “Musick that Needs Work”. That means anything from cleaning up the sound to fixing the tags to getting the art work, whatever. So far I’m still in the ‘A’s (where I got the previous post American Taboo). Guess I’ll just keep on in alphawhatical order for a while longer (until boredom sets in or my attention span is maxed).

Now going by the handle Len von Speedcult, Len Puch is a metal fabricator, artist, & a musician. He likes making things & that's what he has done with his life: he has made things.

First he made music, in bands with names like Country Bob & the Bloodfarmers, a psychobilly/cowpunk band from the early 80s. They released one album on the Manster label.

Then he formed Snake-Out. This punk-gore-psychobilly-trash rock outfit created the template for the Detroit Garage sound. Modern-day hipsters might glorify the "old days" of Detroit Garage by name-checking as the "originators" of that scene the Gories. Well, Len produced their first album on his Wanghead with Lips label (he also produced the first album by Nine Pound Hammer).

Snake-Out is: Len Puch – guitar & vocals; Greg Mitchell – bass; & Tim Reagan – drums & yelps.

Snake-Out – Gollywobblers from Hell, Wanghead Records MA 1018, 1985.
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Side One –

Scary Mary

Tango with the Dead

I Was a Teenage Goiter

I Put a Spell on You (Screamin’ Jay Hawkins cover)

Side Two –

Soultrain

Fudgepacker

Fat Lisa

Floydmaster Stomp

Gruncher

After Snake-Out, Len has been in Elvis Hitler, Detroit Cobras, & The Fuknotz…but my favorite of Len’s bands is Art Phag.

Here's Art Phag's scorcher Gods of Grunge.

Art Phag trio are: John ‘Raz’ Rasmussen – vocals; Len Puch – guitar; & Tim Rounsifer – drums.

Art Phag – Gods of Grunge, Vinyl Drip International SUK 4, 1989.

Side 1 –

Chainsaw

Molly ‘n’ Bobby

A Boy & his Gun

Jungo Luv

High School Sweetheart

Brains

4 Basic Vegabo Groups

Starpeople

Nicolette

Side 2 –

Mexico Death Song

Hava Nagila

Going to Nevada

Lost My Baby in Outer Space

Untitled

Cities

Big Shot

Laughing Lady

Hey People

Speed cults,

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It's a Family Affair

American Taboo was a post-punk/art-wave band from Chicago, IL. having both a detached cold wave feel with quirky discordant spasms radiating & rumbling around. Interesting arrangements & insightful lyrics. Came with something of a press kit which is included, so you can see more info on the band, the songs, & old ‘zine reviews.

AT consisted of: David PurPur – guitar & vocals; Brian Friedler – keyboards & vocals, Barbara Gillies – saxophone; Bob Jones – bass; & David Mahany – drums with various other percussion provided by all.

American Taboo – American Taboo 12” EP, Forbidden Records, 1984.

Side A –

60 Cycles

Anonymous

Side B –

Ritual Breakout

Just don’t get caught,

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The Best of Both Worlds?

This is a re-dub version of the Bullwackie/Perry release Satan Kicked the Bucket recorded in 1988 at Bullwackie's studio in New Jersey ("Ooh La La Dub" was recorded at Perry's resurrected Black Ark studio in Kingston). Having largely given up production work by then, Scratch concentrated on performing & singing in his own unique stream-of-consciousness style over Bullwackie's dub-influenced, more electronic tunes. Satan Kicked the Bucket is a fairly mundane release for both Bullwackie & Perry (compared to Bullwackies releases from the early 80s or Perry’s From the Secret Laboratory with Adrian Sherwood two years later).

In Satan’s Dub is a much better version. It features the Chosen Brothers & has a deeper, darker, funkier vibe with plenty of Perry’s surreal verbal excursions (rough vocals accompanied by grunts, squawks, assorted ranting & raving). Wackies All Stars created a fine groove & Bullwackie let it run more than he manipulated the sound, producing a work surprisingly minimalist in its approach. This re-dub plays to all the highlight of the original without its glaring faults.

Lee "Scratch" Perry Meets Bullwackie ‎– In Satan's Dub,
Reachout International Records RUSCD 8241, 1998.
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Tracklist –

Satan Dub

Come Home Dub

Ooh La La Dub

Upful Dub Fashion

President Dub

Dub Skeem

Strange Dub

Bog Walk Skanking

Undercover Dub

Stop Stop Dub

Moving in Dub

Dub Master

Lee gaan to bed,
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You’ll Be Hungry Again in an Hour

The Teriyakis’ post (Make Mine Veggie Teriyaki) has been getting a lot of downloads, one of the most popular non-Dub posts as of late. Decided to post up some more material by that under-appreciated group.

Since that posting I have been in contact with Hiram Lucke – vocals, guitar, organ (bass organ) & saxophone (amongst other instruments & duties) of the Yakis & his life/band mate Melissa Rodenbeck. After the Teriyakis demise, Hiram & Melissa formed The Harvey Girls band in August of 2003 in Lawrence, Kansas. They have since moved to Portland, OR. Most of their back catalogue is available on their bandcamp site so if you’re not familiar with their music, go give it a listen. If you like what you hear, support them.

I try not to post up music that is currently available from bands. That is their hard-earned livelihood. But Melissa thought it might be great for them to send me a kinda Best of The Harvey Girls sampler to give everyone a taste. I’ll be doing that sometime soon.

HL & MR have been such warm & open folks. It has been a real joy communicating with them. Hiram sent me some Teriyakis that I didn’t have & explained away a few oddities (I’ve owned their Psychics to Sidekicks CD for many years but have always been baffled…six songs listed, but only five songs on the disk??? Hiram straightened that out).

But enough talk…on with the musick!

Teriyakis – Psychics to Sidekicks, Terciopelo, 1998.
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Tracklist –

Weirdo Frontiersman

Defenestração

Toot Decay/Rolodex Member

Pecos on the Prairie

Soil

Teriyakis – Pre-literate:Post-necessary, Terciopelo 004, 2000.

Tracklist –

You Can Hear a Pin Drop

Boobalus Bobalus

Carson Robinson’s Boots

Captain Stuebing

Ride the Fish to Malta

Jukie from Lucke

King Woohoo, Asleep in a Hammock

Rooster Wans to See Choo

Maggots in My Beard

Shush VI

Never Claimed to be a Porn Star

3 Chord Song

Tea Party on the Ceiling

Subterranean Orangutan

Dom

Poopin’ Yo’ P’ants

Fly on Dashboard, Dead

Locust Springs for Country Serf

Dig in,

NØ

I'm Trippin' on LSP Right Now

I couldn’t wait any longer to post up my week-end Dub mix. This mix features Lee Perry. (aka Scratch, the Upsetter, the Super-Ape, Pipecock Jackxon, the Firmament Computer, Inspector Gadget).

I just got my tickets to the Dub Champions Festival with Lee "Scratch" Perry & Subatomic Sound System: 40th Anniversary of Super Ape, Thursday, September 3, 2015 in San Francisco. I'm really psyched (though not so trim).

With “People Funny Boy”, Perry used what may be the first sampling (a baby crying to goad his former boss, Joe Gibbs) & created the style that would become reggae. Along with King Tubby, he was one of the instigators of Dub. He was probably the most prolific producer of all. Perry’s style consisted of improvising his cuts on the fly, whirling like a dervish behind the mixing board, blowing ganja smoke directly onto the tape reels. He would drink tape head cleaner when he ran out of Dragon Stout. By the late 70s Perry was seeing UFOs, kicking out any dreadlocks from Black Ark, & covering the walls with deranged scatological prophecies. In 1979, during a bout of severely eccentric behavior, Perry supposedly trashed & burned his studio & may have wound up briefly in a mental institution.

Perry has given up the demon Alcohol & the Jah ganga (he’s 79 years of age) & lives in Switzerland with his wife Mireille & a couple kids.

He is still recording (two tracks here are from 2014) & performing (Lee Perry & the White Belly Rats, Lee Perry & Dub Is A Weapon, Lee Perry & Dubblestandart; Lee Perry & Subatomic Sound System).

Currently there are two feature length movies about his life & work: Volker Schaner's Vision of Paradise & The Upsetter by filmmakers Ethan Higbee & Adam Bhala Lough.

But enough about LSP. If you’re here now, you already know. I’m just rambling.

LSP - Friday Delight mix

Tracklist –

Super Ape from The Upsetters – Super Ape

Creation Dub, pt. 1 from Lee Perry & the Upsetters – Ape-ology

People Funny Boy from Lee King Perry single

Dub Organizer from The Upsetters 14 Dub – Blackboard Jungle

Dub Revolution, pt 1 from Lee Perry & the Upsetters – Arkology CD1

In These Times Dub from Arkology CD2

Chrome Optimism (with David Lynch) from Nu School of Planet Dub

Creation Dub, pt. 2 (see pt 1)

I Do Voodoo (with Gudrun) from Nu School of Planet Dub

Zion Blood – from The Upsetters – Super Ape

Revelation Dub from The Upsetters – Arkology CD1

Groovy Dub from Lee Perry – Megatron Dub 2

Psycha & Trim from The Upsetters - Return of the Super Ape

Creation Dub, pt. 3 (see pt 1)

Return of the Super Ape from The Upsetters – Return of the Super Ape

I & I Brukout,

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Babylon

Augustus Pablo & the Upsetters - Babylon Police Thief Dub

from Trojan Dub Rarities Box Set CD 1

Keep the Sand Outta the SIM

Africa’s latest renaissance is propelled largely by the indigenous technological transformation brought about by the proliferation of one device, the mundane mobile telephone, which has become a powerful instrument for human advancement.

Africa has been described as the first mobile-only continent. Mobile phones double as computers, payment devices, medical reminders, flashlights, & music players. The mobile phone is being used to preserve & strengthen democracy. The use of this technology for human advancement is much more innovative in Africa than anywhere else in the world.

The mobile phone is now sufficiently powerful & inexpensive, its coverage across most sub-Saharan African countries is so sufficiently extensive, that Africans are able to benefit from a means of communication & a mode of sharing that had largely passed the continent by.

It is now one of the main devices for sharing music from around the continent & around the world. Songs from far-flung locales are swapped via SIM cards on city streets & rural villages. A single cell phone can provide a myriad of music artists from all over Africa.

In 2008, Chris Kirkley went to West Africa to record folk music. "At first I ignored the cell phones because that’s not part of what I was looking for. I wanted to record traditional music. It took me a while to look at the cell phone & be like, it’s the radio, it’s the television, it’s how people are consuming media now."  Here are the results.

Various – Music from Saharan Cellphones, Sahel Sounds 003, 2011.
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Side A –

Group Anmataff – Tinariwen

Yeli Fuzzo – Abandé

Amanar – Alghafiat

Negib Ould Ngainich – Guetna

Papito (featuring Iba One) – Yereyira

Side B –

Mdou Moctar – Tahoultine

Kaba Blon – Moribiyassa

Joskar et Flamzy – Faroter

Bayta Ag Bay – Aicha

Call me,

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Anon Ver. SC3 Lite

Decided to lighten this up. Just went off on one of my unnecessary rants. No need. This is about FUN!

By request.

Secret Chiefs 3 – Zulfikar II & III, Web of Mimicry WoM001, 1998.

Side 1 –

Zulfikar II

Side  2 –

Zulfikar III

Then there is the clear blue 7" vinyl 600 press run The Theatrum of Suprasensory Universe Vol. 1 that the band sold during their 1998 Australian tour (selling the remainder in the US after their return).

Secret Chiefs 3 -  The Theatrum of Suprasensory Universes Vol. 1 7",
Black Hole Records HOLE-021, 1998.

Side A –

Ignition of the Art

If You Want to Love, Taste the Knife

Lighting Effect: Shadow Bereft of a Thick Body

Scene 1: Palace of Putrefaction

Soundtrack: Automatic Lullaby of Death & Rebirth

Scene 2: Palace of Regeneration

Side B –

George →Benson (&) Michael →Hedges (or George Michael / Benson & Hedges)

Kodakotakemitsubishiva [Ko(dak]o[ta)ke(mitsu]bi[shi0va]

Humboldt Hill Mafia:

   Opus Contra Naturum

   Opening of the Matrix

   A Hillbilly’s Violent Love

Enjoy,

NØ

Have Some Dub Stew with The Mysterious Mixer

Wackies Rhythm Force - Jamaica Super Dub Session, Wackies WR 1720, 1983.

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Side A -

Sibles in Dub
Promotion Rock
Jamaica Dub
Super Dub
Bag Man Dub

Side B -

Dub Stew
Hot & Cold
Dub Parade
Summer Dub
Dub Star

Wackies Rhythm Force: Fabian Cooke - guitar, piano, organ, synthesizer, bass, & drums; Jerry Harris - guitar & bass; Owen 'Fox' Stewart - piano & organ; Jerry Johnson - horns; Leroy Sibbles & Clive Hunt - bass; & Ras Menilik Dacosta & Annette Brissette - percussion. Produced & mixed by Lloyd 'Bullwackie' Barnes. Engineered by Douglas Levy & Bullwackie.

Ah sey one,
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My Guilty Pleasure - Blow it out Your Ass

Veruca Salt - Blow it out Your Ass it’s Veruca Salt EP, DGC 22212, 1996.

Side One –

Shimmer like a Girl

I’m Taking Europe with Me

Side Two –

New York Mining Disaster 1996

Disinherit

Louise Post &  Nina Gordon shrieking & strumming, Jim Shapiro groaning & drumming, Steve Lack on bass & that Albini Steverini at the board.

Enjoy (you can pretend you don't, but...),

NØ

Ex Lion Tamer’s Friend (or the AMA Took My Baby Away)

Re-upload by request 08/04/2024

 

Daniel John Riddle is King Black Acid.

Riddle was born on a hippie commune in the 1960s. He doesn't know the exact date. He grew up in the company of rockers. His mother's boyfriend worked for the Grateful Dead, Neil Young, Santana, & the Allman Brothers. Riddle moved to Portland from San Francisco in the late 80s. He became known in the local rock scene as both a nine-year employee of the infamous rock venue Satyricon & as the bassist of the experimental industrial/noise tribal alt-rock band Hitting Birth.

 Hitting Birth – Fast of the Thirst Free Years, Tim/Kerr Records, 1992.

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Tracklist –

Mayberry LSDNA

Same 18

GNMI

Fire (skit)

Pharaohs, Priests, & Pimps

Earth (live)

Happy Just to be Again

Why Hates All (Planet Fuck Turn it Up)

Air (live)

Smack

Love Me

Water (live)

Hitting Birth started out playing found materials in open-mic music cabarets. In their first appearances, Riddle & David Parks adopted the shopping cart as their central instrument. Later they morphed into a crazed rhythm & scream factory. Their live shows were ecstatic wildly unpredictable events with multiple drummers, strange stage props, & above-mentioned screaming. Translating this live chaos into studio albums was a hard row.

The band has said about their attempts: "although we never were able to capture in the recording studio what we could do live…..we had fun trying."

All that being said, IMO both of these releases, the earlier on the great Tim/Kerr label & the Freest are both most worthy.

Hitting Birth – Feel the Freest, Will Records WiL3637-2CD, 1995.

Tracklist –

Metatron

David

Drive On

We Are All

Jabar

Pie

AMA

WWW

Forwards that are Backwards

The X-Sword Swallower

Blueskin

The Birth

Fever Dream

Riddle began recording music under the name King Black Acid as a high school student in the late 1980s but it wasn’t until the early 90s that Daniel found his voice in KBA. He also switched from bass to guitar as weapon of choice. King Black Acid is Riddle’s persona to channel his musical muse more than an actual band. All King Black Acid material is written by Riddle, who sings & plays guitar during live shows but who plays a variety of other instruments in his own recording studio, Mazinga Studio, where he produces the releases under the name King Black Acid.

There have been numerous iterations of KBA: the Electric Chair Band; the Womb Star Orchestra; the Starseed Transmission; the 144,000 Piece Acid Army; or the Sacred Heart. Each variation has featured guitar-fueled, effects-heavy sonic free-for-alls. They are known for ethereal, melancholy grooves with a hypnotic rock sound. My personal favorites are from the Womb Star era.

"Think Away" is GAWDHED!

King Black Acid & the Womb Star Orchestra – Sunlit EP, Cavity Search34, 1996.

Tracklist –

Some Things Must be Believed to be Seen

Headfull

Think Away

Womb Star Orchestra: Daniel Riddle - guitar & vocals; Roger Campos – guitar; Melinda DiCillo – keyboards; & Scott Adamo - drums with Joseph Trump – percussion. WSO had a different bassist on each studio recording…on Sunlit EP it is Mitch Brown & on Royal Subjects it is Steve Dorris.

Where Hitting Birth haunt a domain similar to SteelPole BathTub, King Black Acid live in the spacey, neo-psychedelic guitar-land similar to Mercury Rev.

King Black & the Womb Star Orchestra – Royal Subjects, Cavity Search 38, 1997.

Tracklist –

60 Cycles Numb

Grand Mal Pleasure

Call Me on the Headphones

Only Wine will Tell

Passing Through the Photon Belt

144 Thousand Member Acid Army (I, II, III)

Exit Ground Level, Pt. 1

Royal Subjects

Starseed Transmission: Daniel Riddle – guitar & vocals; Sarah Mayfield – guitar; Erick 'Star Wars' Alley & Bobek Djeyfroudi – bass; Pete Ficht – keyboards; & Scott Adamo – drums.

King Black Acid & the Starseed Transmission – Loves a Long Song,
Cavity Search CSR48, 2000.

Tracklist –

Butterfly Bomber

Kiss the Beast

Into the Sun

School Blood

I’ve Heard You’re Still Alive

Colorado (Wherever it is You Are)

Born to Sleep

Gentle Collapse (Feels Good)

Here's also a couple bonus tracks, KBA & the Sacred Heart doing their version of Elton John's "Bennie & the Jets" live at Doug Fir in Portland 2008 & KBA covering Bowie’s "Always Crashingin the Same Car" from 2013.

 

Enjoy,

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