And Bob Andy...

 

Bob Andy was one of the founding members of The Paragons, along with Tyrone Evans & Howard Barrett, with John Holt later joining. Andy left after Holt joined. He worked for Studio One delivering records & songwriting before embarking on a solo career.

In the early 90s he relocated to London, where he worked as a producer & spent long dark nights recording with Mad Professor.

During one of those late dark Voodoo Dub nights, it was revealed to the Mad Professor's third eye that Bob Andys Song Book was intended by the most high, H.I.M. as a Dub book. Thus it was translated & preserved for eternity. 

 

Bob Andy - Bob Andy's Dub Book as Revealed to Mad Professor, I-Anka AV007CD. 1989.
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Mind Jungle Dub    
You Know it Dub    
Tribal War Dub    
Devastation Dub    
Chain Free Dub    
Brothers Faith Dub    
Share it Out Dub    
Rasta Victory Dub    
Dubbing Home

 

 

 

Enjoy it while we can,
NØ

And Pato Banton...

Herein the Mad Professor captures & recaptures the wily Pato in a tremendous race to the fishnet.

For these albums, Mad Professor collaborated with singer Pato Banton, a reggae artist from England, using his lyrics over Mad Prof's Dubbed sounds. Captures is Banton's first album, the first of two albums he recorded with Mad Professor. The second was appropriately named Mad Professor Recaptures Pato Banton.

Mad Professor uses a lot of echoes in this music. He also makes changes to the frequency & pitch of the echo for some really great effects. Although the echoes are added in & the music is heavily Dubbed, most of Pato Banton's singing on the album is left alone. This keeps more of a reggae sound in the music than a lot of other Mad Professor Dub albums.

Mad Professor Captures Pato Banton features the likes of Black Steel, Preacher, Drumtan Ward, Robotiks, Bobby Valentino with Pato toasting & Mad Prof roasting.

 

Mad Professor & Pato Banton - Mad Professor Captures Pato Banton, Ariwa ARILP023, 1985.
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Side A -     
Mad Professor Captures Pato Banton
Gwarn! (Go On)
Nuff Kind of Dread

Side B -
King Step
Give Me Oil
My Opinion

 

 

 

 

Of course Pato smooth-talked his way out of Mad Professors grip. The Prof just bided his time & five years later he would recapute his foil one more time, once more with an incredible posse: Black Steel & Preacher still hard at it, joined up with Vin Gordon & Michael Rose on horns as well as Sandra Cross sharing some vocal duties with Pato.

 

 

Mad Professor & Pato Banton - Mad Professor Recapyures Pato Banton, Ariwa ARICD043, 1990.

Recapured
Riot
Satan
Tek Me Time
Mr. Singh
Worries
Live is One

 

 

 

Enjoy while we can,
NØ

And Lee Scratch Perry...

And... February

Every February I try to have a theme that I carry through the entire month. It began with Black History Month (fuck Trump!!!) & has included Fems of February, Trip-hop February, Synth-pop February, well you get the idea.

This month I am featuring music from an artist that I hold in the highest esteem. Founder & head of Ariwa Studios, producer Neil Joseph Stephen Fraser, the one & only Mad Professor is that man. I have shared his music here more than any other artist (except for the stealth Muslimgauze links) & with the addition of this month, that record will go unchallenged.

Mad Professor has worked with fellow artist around the world, a truly eclectic bunch of collabs. So this month each day will be Mad Professor & somebody new...

 

Starting off the month is the one artist Mad Professor has collaborated with the most often, the two having released more than a dozen albums & a bunch of singles together. This is their first joint. Two mad men in Dub.

 

Lee Perry - Meets the Mad Professor in Dub Chapter One, Angella Records ANG008, 1987.
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Side 1 -
Two Mad Man in Dub
World Peace
Blood of the Dragon
Space Dub
Power Dub

Side 2 -
Noah's Ark
Recornation
The Other Side of Midnight
Mark of the Beast
Hold Yu Corner

 

 

 

Here we go,
NØ

NØ Seal of Approval...Facts, not Fiction

After putting the finishing touches on February's And??? posts, I was pondering what to do next. I basically decided that I needed to address some NSS old business. I had numerous suggestions, name-drops, requests from Frenz of NSS that I had not addressed. Then I wanted to get back to one of my longest running series: Musick that Needed Work now on letter R.

I checked out the R folder & realized it was rupturing at the seams. I had just been putting broken files in there & never getting back to them. Between the old business & Musick that Needed Work - R, I have more than enough to fill out March.

While I was perusing the contents of R, I came across a release that I had stuck there over twenty years ago & then completely forgotten. When I first purchased it back in 2004, two of the tracks on the CD were completely unplayable but I so loved the rest that I stashed in the Needed Work folder with every intention of replacing the two tracks. There it languished all these years until now. I found a copy on Discogs for $15 & ordered it. I ripped a totally new copy in .wav, then converted it to 320Kbps in Audacity. I decided I couldn't wait until March to share it with you. 

 

For me this has everything going for it. The project was the brainchild of Charlie McGougan & featured vocals by Cheshire Cat (formerly with Leftfield) & Anthony Joseph. Many top-notch artists helped perfect this release:Keith LaBlanc; Adrian Sherwood; Style Scott; Brother Culture; Gaudi; Gregory Isaacs; & more. It has been on heavy rotation here at Casa Nada. It is now one of my top-ten releases. Something about it just clicks with me. Give it a listen. Let me know what you think. 

 

Red Seal - Black Ops, Flow Records FLR0411CD, 2004.
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In a di Battle
Forces of Creation featuring Nick Coplowe (Mutant Hi-Fi) on Chinese banjo
Knowing All Clear featuring Nick Coplowe on guitar
Machine Gun Tommy featuring Keith LaBlanc on drums
Cool Down
Facts Not Fiction
Back One Day featuring Nick Coplowe on guitar
Behold I Come as One featuring Brother Culture on vocals
Voices from Beyond featuring Gaudi on samples & Gregory Isaacs on vocals
Vibration Dub (Forces edit) mixed by Adrian Sherwood
Supernatural featuring Style Scott on drums
Zorushka featuring Irina Mikhailova

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

And Willie Nelson???

This February is going to be And??? month.  I've gathered together projects done by the incomparable Neil Joseph Stephen Fraser, the great Mad Professor. Each day will feature Mad Prof &???

Mad Professor teaming up with a different band or artist each day.

Here's one that I thought about while preparing February shares but it didn't quite fit the criteria. However, I was loath to delete it, so I saved it & I share it with you all now. 

 

Marty Dread, reggae ambassador from Hawaii, has been an opening act on Willie Nelson tours for many years. The two teamed up with Mad Professor to release Peace Works in 2013. Mainly duets with Marty & Willie, many of the tracks contain additional vocals from Mad Professor (1,3,9,11). This is the 2014 mp3 download from Five Corners Music. Mixed by Mad Professor.

 

Marty Dread & Willie Nelson - Peace Works. Five Corners Music, 2014.
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Take No Part featuring Marty Dread, Sly & Robbie, Willie Nelson
Laws of Nature featuring Marty Dread, Willie Nelson
Lend a Hand to the Farmers featuring – Mad Professor, Marty Dread, Willie Nelson
Peaceful Solution featuring Mad Professor, Marty Dread, Willie Nelson
Light This Up featuring Marty Dread, Million 7, Willie Nelson
When the Oil Runs Out featuring Marty Dread, Sly & Robbie
Take No Part (remix) featuring Bluetech, Marty Dread, Willie Nelson
Duet Medley featuring Mad Professor, Marty Dread, Sly & Robbie, Toots Hibbert, Willie Nelson

Enjoy,
NØ

Some Witch(man) Craft

 

Witchman is a solo project of Birmingham, UK native John Roome. Known more for his film soundtracks & TV scores, this is his first full-length. The whole album is wrapped in a dark shroud of Dubby reverb, scattershot breaks, cavernous basslines with ominous sampled vocals & soundbytes.

 

Witchman - Explorimenting Beats, Deviant Records DVNT19CD, 1997.
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Viper Flats    
Amok    
Stone Def    
Hammerhead    
Chemical Noir    
Order of the Dragon    
Post Trauma Blues    
N.Y.23    
No Place like Chrome    
Palace of Angels    
Light at the Edge (reprise)

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Alien Probes

 

For the past few weeks I've been receiving communications from deep space. I'll be listening to my ClipSport lying in bed at night...the hour of the wolf...just waiting for nepenthe to do its thing. Then whatever musick I'm listening to squelches out, then weird white noise static, then a series of alien transmissions from the Planet Dog, sent out back in 1995 but because of the vastness of space & the speed of sound, only arriving here now. They were an oracle. I started recording them on my player & I'll share them now with you...

Various - Transmissions from the Planet Dog 2xCD, Planet Dog 113-2, 1995.
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CD 1 -
Gulf Breeze    
Splitting World    
Abduction    
Implant    
Uforic Undulence - Eat Static    
Heliopolis    
Mafich Arabi    
Qurna (Haj Ali's Birthday mix)
Sheesha - Banco De Gaia

CD 2 -
25th Century    
Oracle    
Cosmic Carrot    
Crystal Oscillations    
Secret Song of the Sea - Timeshard    
Symbol I    
Ionospheric State    
Ultrascope - Children of the Bong

 

 

Do not attempt to adjust the picture,
NØ

My Pants are too Tight

 

I guess I just couldn't pass up the seeming opportunity of 3 pairs for $9.99, so I ordered way too many Executive Slacks. Now after over-indulging at the hoppy holly Daze, they just don't fit. I gifted a few pairs to MrDave at Crazemas. Now I'm dumping the rest of the lot. I could try to sell 'em on Ebate but I'm just too lazy.

Following up their self-titled debut EP that I gifted in December, here she is... 

 

Executive Slacks - Our Lady, Red Music EP009, 1984.
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Side One -
Our Lady    
Man of Christ

Side Two -
I'm Coming (Youth - bass)

bonus track -
Our Lady (Yoof Dub)

 

 

 

 

They followed that one up with a single (co-opting the Nausea cover front & back) containing a remix of a track from Nausea, their first full-length...

 

 

Executive Slacks - In & Out (remix) 12" 45rpm, Fundamental PRAY1, 1985.

Side A -
In & Out (remix)
Side B -
Electric Blues

bonus track - Sexual Witchcraft

 

 

 

In 1986 the Ex Slacks released their last official recording on Fundamental...

 

 

Executive Slacks - Fire & Ice, Fundamental SAVE9, 1986.

Side A -
RJ: Sex God Extraordinaire    
Fire & Ice    
Sludge    
Wide Fields    
The Bush    

Side B -
Say It Isn't So    
Edge In    
Solemn Dilemma    
A Little Lower    
Rock + Roll (Gary Glitter cover)

bonus tracks -
Flowers
The Bus
Man of Christ
I'm Coming

 

 

 

Hope they fit you,
NØ

Release or Unrelease(d)...

 

Trying to clean up around here after the chaos of Crazemas & the insanity of un nuevo año. Realized I had a bunch o' back-up gifts & left-over refreshments. Need to get them outta here.

Gifted Frenz of NSS Aleck some Cop Shoot Cop in December. Had Release & some Peel Sessions & un released goodies left over. Making room in that crowded corner.

On this first one, somehow Interscope conned Cop Shoot Cop into adding a guitarist to a notoriously two bass - no guitar band. It sounds OK but just isn't the CSC I've come to expect. More heavily Foetus/Thirlwell influenced than usual, as well ("Slackjaw" is a riff on "Sick Man" for sure). At least Tod has the balls to start the release off with "Interference". 

 

Cop Shoot Cop - Release, Interscope Records 92424-2, 1994.
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Interference    
It Only Hurts When I Breathe    
Last Legs    
Two at a Time    
Slackjaw    
Lullaby    
Any Day Now    
Swimming in Circles    
Turning Inside Out    
Ambulance Song    
Suckerpunch    
The Divorce    
Money-Drunk

 

 

 

The other left-over is a random batch. A March 24, 1991 Peel Sessions set & some previously unreleased tracks from: Live, Vienna; the final recording sessions; & the movie Johnny Mnemonic. 

 

 

Cop Shoot Cop - Peel Sessions & Unreleased, not on a label, 2011.

Coldest Day of the Year
Drop the Bombs
Feel Good
If Tomorrow Never Comes - Peel Sessions

Divorce (unreleased - Live, Vienna)

Get Gone
Transmitter (unreleased - the final recording sessions)

Baby Broke Down (unreleased - Johnny Mnemonic)

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Punky Dread

 

There are a few great compilations of music when punk met Jamaica: Wild Dub-Dread meets Punk Rocker (that I shared here); Time Warp Dub Clash (shared here); Snuffin' in a Babylon; Babylon Breakdown; & more.

If you really want to immerse yourself in this whole scene, I suggest going over to Butterboy's Compilations: K Special - Punky Reggae Party - Two Sevens Clash: Dread Meets Punk Rockers (Updated Improved Remastered Expanded Super Deluxe Edition) here. There are 575 tracks on 36 volumes & the accompanying write-up is top-notch. If you like what you find, leave a comment & tell'em NØ sent you.

This is one of my favorites of the genre..

.

Various - Spiky Dead Issue One: Punky Reggae & Post Punk Dub 1978-1984 2xLP,
Rongorongo RORO LP1, 2013.
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Side A -
Cool Down - The Offs
Who Killed Bruce Lee (version) - Glaxo Babies
Bass Adds Bass - Family Fodder

Side B -
Same Thing Twice - Chantage
Pleasures of the Dance - Ruts DC
Merge - JahScouse
Trapper Aint Got A Bird - Peter & the Test Tube Babies

Side C -
Calling Capitain Nemo - Return of the Panthers
Sommadub - Sir Horatio
More or Less Cut - Red Beat

Side D -
Dangerous Girls – Dangerous Girls
Stay Close to Me - Bad Brains
Animal Space - The Slits

 

 

 

 

So after Dub meets punk, how about Dub meets Club. Here are the first two from the Club meets Dub series from Zip Dog Records.

Zip Dog sez:
     "The next generation of Dub controllers warp trance, techno, ambient, & jungle styles into the weave of Dub reggae. From the Dub Specialists' electro influences & the acid edge of Mudskipper & Dreadzone to Emperor Sly & Dubolition meeting techno at bass camp zero & More Rockers beating the jungle drums - taste all the new Dub flavours here."

 

 

Various - Club Meets Dub V1.0, Zip Dog Records ZD5CD, 1995.

Africa (live version) - Dreadzone    
Get Down Dub - Dub Specialists    
Heavy Dub - I-Shensound    
? - The Outer Space    
Syncro (Moonrock mix) - Emperor Sly    
Bankman - Mudskipper    
Blaah - Dubolition    
Cool Down - The Disciples    
Dubnut (The Rootsman's Third Eye Dubplate mix) - The Woodshed
Oppression Cease - Jungle Neck    
Analogue Jungle - More Rockers    
Ya Loozin It - Dublik Sektor

 

 

 

 

On V2.0, Zip Dog sez:
     "Stronger than ever! Zip Dog brings you the best new Kinetik Dub sounds - deep-bassed reggae infused with the club vibe. Pick the cream of the crop with Dreadzone remixed by Underworld, Phlex (Charlie Hall), Zion Train's riffin' acid hotstepper, Emperor Sly's frontier-push Dub techno, with many other new Dub maestros. Check out buzzing new discoveries Shotgun Rockers & Universal Dubwise..."

 

 

Various - Club Meets Dub V2.0, Zip Dog Records ZD8CD, 1996.

Hover Craft - Zion Train
Blood Rising - Emperor Sly
Bind Us Together (Unity Dub mix) - The Rootsman
Melon - Dublik Sektor
Natural Elements - Universal Dubwise
Return of the Mountain King - Shotgun Rockers
Dog Hair Soup (Dope Dub) - Phlex
Zion Youth (Underworld remix #2) - Dreadzone
Big Aura - Freaky Chakra
Run Dibby Dibby Dub - Iration Steppas Meets Dennis Rootical
(Why Try to Kill a Million) Ants (to Cure Arthritis) - Tribal Drift
Politricks - Armagideon

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Inland Empire Is Burning

Most of you who visit here know my inherent weirdness so it should come as no surprise that David Lynch was one of my favorite film makers. His version of an alternative Americana was second to none. 

I also enjoyed his musickal genus & have shared his musick here before. 

I was quite shaken to hear of his passing. Lynch had to evacuate his home due to the LA wildfires. He had been diagnosed with severe emphysema a few years ago & rarely left his house due to COVID-19 fears. Following the evacuation, his health quickly deteriorated. He died at his daughter's house.

I don't really have more to say at this time, so like many others, I have assembled a montage in his honor. 

 

David Lynch - Beyond the Last Highway, NØ Comps., 2025.

Intro
The Dream Conversation
Ghost of Love
A Good Day Today (Henry Saiz "Diane, it’s 2:38am" remix
Laura’s Dark Boogie
Chrome Optimism (Subatomic Sound System Outerspace War remix)
Distant Train
Dance of the Dream Man (original)
Dark Intro 1
Bad the John Boy
Eraserhead Dance mix (excerpt)
Bad Night
The Big Dream (Venetian Snares remix)
Movin' On
The Final Battle

R.I.P. David,
NØ

Know What He Said?

 

Got a lot of response to the Bruce Gilbert post last month. 

Let's see how fellow-Wirehead Graham Lewis does.

He Said was the name used by Wire member Graham Lewis for his solo releases in the 1980s.

Hail is the debut solo release by Lewis as He Said. It is a new beat classic with guest spots by Brian Eno & Angela Conway. It's a great example of post-punk / new wave's natural transition to synthetic electronics & glossier pop by the mid 80s. Here Lewis layers uniquely expressive crooning over killer rhythm tracks, animated with highly spatialized electronics & intricate dubbing reminiscent of Art of Noise or Kate Bush's inventive sampling as well as Afro-American dance music ala Prince or YMO.

 

He Said - Hail, Mute CDSTUMM29, 1986.
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Pump
Shapes to Escape
Kidnap Yourself
I Fall into Your Arms
Only One I
Com'era Dov'era
Flagwearing
Do You Mean That?
Pump (instrumental)
Pulling 3gs
Pale Feet
Only One i · II
To & Fro

 

 

 

1988s Take Care is an absolute revelation of late 80s synthetic soundcraft & hard grooving art-pop. Think Prince meets Scott Walker with Horse Rotorvator era Coil produced by Adrian Sherwood (with actual guest chops by Keith LeBlanc under the deft handling of Paul Kendall & Daniel Miller of Mute Records fame). Simply an incredible record that has arguably never received its just acclaim. 

 

He Said - Take Care, Mute 32XB-310, 1988.

Watch-Take-Care
A.B.C. Dicks Love
Could You?
Tongue Ties / Screen
Not a Soul
Halfway House
Get Out of that Rain
Hole in the Sky
He Said: She Said
A.B.C. Dicks Love (Soft)
Suzanne
Could You? (Too) 

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

To Infinity & Beyond

 

December I shared some Deadbeat music. That got me delving deeper into his back catalogue. I found this gem with him teamed up with Paul St Hilaire (Tikiman), whose music I alway enjoy.

This is an excellent, diverse reggae & dancehall rooted Dub House centered album from two modern era proponents of the JA sound: Monteith, a disciple of the doctrine handed down from the Blue Mount of Lord Scratch & King Tubby; & St. Hilaire, an undisputed voice of a latter-day generation of reggae vocal stylists.

The two men developed a deep abiding friendship after meeting in Montreal at the premier Micro Mutek event more than a decade earlier. Since meeting, they have occasionally collaborated at performances from Berlin to Tokyo to great acclaim. This is their first album-length venture, a tour de force of Dub music of the highest order. Nearly a year in the making, the template of Deadbeat's Infinity Dub series gets a shot of dreader-than-dread Kingston, JA style. St. Hilaire is at his most militant...poetic, fierce, & flowing. 

 

Deadbeat & Paul St. Hilaire - The Infinity Dub Sessions, BLKRTZ BLKRTZ008, 2014.
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Hold on Strong    
Dopa    
What the Heck Them Expect    
Working Everyday    
Rock of Creation    
Little Darling    
Under Cover    
Peace & Love

 

 

 

Here's a more recent 2x12" blissed-out extravaganza from the pair... 

 

 

Deadbeat & Paul St. Hilaire - Four Quarters of Love & Modern Lash, 

Another Moon AMOON002, 2020.

Side A -

War Games
Side B -

Check What Time It Is    
Side C -        

Mind Control    
Side D -       

Yesterday's Dreams

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Pharaohs & Hawklords

 

Nik Turner, saxophoist extraordinaire, passed away November 2022. He is probably best known to most of you as original member of Hawkwind. In 2018 he teamed up with Martin Glover aka Youth, bassist & founding member of Killing Joke, to create this fantastic space rock opus. 

 

Nik Turner & Youth - Pharaohs from Outer Space, Painted Words Records PWORD3, 2018.
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Side A -
Toltec Flying Pyramid
Nibiru Calling
Junk DNA
7 Cycles Per Second
Heruxuti featuring Adamski

Side B -
Don't Stand Still in the Sky
Magnetron
Asteroid Belt
Psyck Satellites in Sumaria
Pharaohs from Outer Space

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

They Came from a Parallel Universe

 

Parallel Universe is the album that opened the door to what Jungle/D’n’B was capable of in the full-length medium. Marc & Dego of 4 Hero fused their futuristic breakbeat programming, synthesised string-work, experimental sampling with a great knowledge of early Soul-Jazz Fusion to make this classic. 

Parallel Universe is one of the most definitivly influential albums of the early electronica era. It inspired other artists of the genre to follow with concept albums rather than just making 'tracks'. Released in 1994, it is the album that marked the transition from Jungle to Drum & Bass.

This is the 2xCD 2021 reissue.

4 Hero - Parallel Universe 2xCD expanded reissue, 

Reinforced Records RIVET CDLP 042021, 2021.
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CD1 -
Universal Love
No Imitation
Parallel Universe
Talk Around Town
Follow Your Heart (Part One)
Wrinkles in Time
Terraforming
People Always Criticise Us
Follow Your Heart (Part Two)
Shadow Run
Sunspots
Sounds from the Black Hole
Power to Move the Stars
Solar Emissions

CD2 -
In the Shadow (Sundown)
Our Final Hour
Evacuation Plan
Universal Love (single version)
Better Place (original version)
Golden Age (Nu Era version)
Garden of My Mind (original version)
In the Shadow Part III (The Stalker)
Universal Love (Dubstars Internal Affairs mix)
The Paranormal in 4 Forms

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

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

Harder than the Rock

 

Over at RebelRoots, a members-only blog of which I am a part, Reb shared the fantastic film Harder than a Rock featuring the crucial history of The Cimarons, the firstest & baddest reggae band in the UK. Their story is the story of the early days of Sound System culture in the UK, something in which I am deeply immersed.

If you can find the flick, check it out. The film moved me so deeply emotionally & musically. But being me, of course I had to dig out all their Dub tracks I could find. 

Here's what I came up with, some sourced from mid/late 70s 45s with a lot of snap, crackle, & pop. This isn't your traditional nor rootikal Dub, however. This is Dub as only the Mighty Cimarons could create... 

 

The Cimarons - In Dub, NØ Comp., 2025.
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Feel Nice (version)
Dub into Darkness
Oh Mammy Blue (version)
Truly (toast version)
I Man ah Dub
Love & Affection Dub
Talking Blues Dub
Harder than the Rock Dub
Bombs & Guns (version)
Drifting (version)
Dub Me More & More
Rooting (for a Cause) Dubwise
Cool it Dub
Dim the Light Dub
Struggling Man Dub

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Three Albums, 100 Poems...The Poets of Ibiza ireland

 

100 Poems is a project of tunes, remixes, & collaborations, written / produced by musician DJ Mike Wilson from Rathangan, Ireland (just west of Dublin). Electronic, house, psych, prog, blues, downtempo, Dub, sundowners, balearic, & blissed out beats all combine in 100 Poems.

The central idea behind the project was inspired by Irish poet /playwright Seamus Heaney. The music here is the 80s mix tape you had as a teenager with James Brown, Mantronix, The Cure, & Madonna sitting next to the Chieftains, Scott Walker, & Ennio Maricone, wrapped in all the positivity, energy, & vibe from those artists at that time.

Encapsulating what this project is all about, the cover of Everything is Balearic when You Believe is a black & white image of the one street running through Rathangan onward into the distance to a 70s nostalgic postcard of Ibiza...almost mythical. That is the basic philosophy... EVERYTHING is Balearic, when you BELIEVE.

100 Poems - Everything's Balearic when You Believe, self-released, January 2024
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Never Gonna Hide featuring Hyson Green)
Timanfaya
Joyness Magnificent (We'll Find the Light Together)    
No Greater Love     
Imitations featuring TheDeadCanRap
Shine a Light featuring Hyson Green
Paint the Sky in Dreams & Patterns

 

 

 

100 Poems - Everything's Possible when You Balearic, self-released, June 2024.

Gettin' Down with George
Generadora De Rayos (100 Poems remix)
Believe (Everything is Possible)    
Come Love Me Again    
Into the Light
When Night Begins to Shine featuring Hyson Green)
Warm Breeze on Our Face (Like a Hot Summer Sigh)

 

 

 

100 Poems - Balearic as a System of Belief, self-released, September 2024.

In this Cosmos Everything has a Place
Elonna, She Brings the Sun
Song for Claire (Your Life is Your Life)
Come, Hear Me Now
Dubmobalearicswithmybreaksman    
Peace, Love, & Dancing
Until Next Summer

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Another Trick for You All

I have been a disciple of Tricky ever since Maxinquaye & his days with Massive Attack.

I've shared plenty of his mis-adventures in the past. 

 

Here's his latest offering on False Idols under his birth name Adrian Thaws teaming up with musician/producer Michaël Theis. 

 

Theis Thaws - Fifteen Days, False Idols, 2024.
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Frozen Rivers
The Machine featuring Rosa Rocca Serra
Good, & I'm Not featuring Run Red Rambo
Where are You Lately    
Ladybugs featuring Indieclimb & Lucy La Dusk
Monday    
Today is OK featuring Rosa Rocca Serra
Fly to Ceiling featuring Rosa Rocca Serra
Velvet Blue featuring Rosa Rocca Serra

 

Enjoy,
NØ

A New Year, Another Channel

I started off December last with a couple by Another Channel. 

They only released two official CDs. 

This is a compilation (my first of 2025) of a variety of their many other tracks.

Another Channel - Another Challenge, NØ Comp., 2025.
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Badness Dub
Tribute to Shaka
Pressure
Congo
Version of Love
Banana Blues
Nameless Woman
Seek Truth
Mi Zeen Dub
Talk the Truth Crisis Dub

 

 

 

 

Another home run coming from Babe Roots. This duo of Alessandro Verrina & Andrea Perini have worked with Another Channel in the past. They create deep Dub techno influenced heavily by Dub & Sound System culture. These groups have taken Dub techno to an entirely new level of greatness with their tight rootikal stylings.

 

 

Babe Roots - Babe Roots, Linear Movement LMS001, 2017.

this side -

Intro    
Falling featuring Milly James
Jah Nuh Dead featuring Stephanie Wright
Sun is Shining featuring Milly James


other side -
Bless Me featuring Baba Ras
Sufferation Time featuring Kojo Neatness
Peace Love & Unity featuring Baba Ras
Work Hard featuring Kojo Neatness

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ