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Slinging tuneage like some fried or otherwise soused short-order cook

31 October 2025

Volume: Volume 17 - Bye Bye

Happy Halloween. See you in November.
 
 
Various - Volume 17: Fifth Birthday Bumper Bonanza 2xCD, Volume 17VCD17, December 1996.
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CD1 - 
Alabama 3 – Woke Up This Mornin'    
Elastica – Love like Ours (BBC session)    
Travis – U 16 Girls    
Terrorvision – Conspiracy (Danny Saber remix)
Gallon Drunk – All This & More    
dEUS – The Magic of New Pop Music    
Morphine – Never Live Twice (live)    
Björk – Possibly Maybe (Lucy mix)
Longpigs – On & On (Pass the Snake mix)
Rare – Rollercoaster    
Little Axe – What Have You Got?    
Turn-On – Latin Gloop    
System 7 – Big Sky City
Curve – Test    

CD2 -
Drugstore – Communication Breakdown    
Throwing Muses – Like a Dog    
Elvis Costello – What Do I Do Now?    
The Auteurs – Unsolved Child Murder (original demo version)    
Catatonia – Mickey (BBC acoustic version)    
Cuckoo – More of Me & then Some (original demo version)    
Fruit – Leather Jacket    
Mel McCrory – Here I Am    
The Divine Comedy – Through a Long & Sleepless Night (live studio version)    
Cocteau Twins – Touch Upon Touch    
Geneva – Closer to the Stars    
Fiel Garvie – Risk    
Fringe – I'll Keep it in Mind    
Bettie Serveert – Spine (live acoustic)    
Bill Janovitz –  Red Balloon    
Mindless Drug Hoover – Volume
 
 
 

Pump Up the Volume one last time,

30 October 2025

Volume: Volume Sixteen + it

Various - Volume Sixteen-Copulation Explosion! + it, Volume 16VCD16, June 1996,
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Dubstar – Not so Fast    
Space – Me & You vs the World    
Bawl – Unfinished    
The Candyskins – Europe + Japan    
Northern Uproar – Moods (alternative Electric version)    
Linoleum – She's Sick    
Cradle – Second Nature (French version)
Super Furry Animals – Frisbee (demo version)    
Octopus – I Know Who I Am    
Beck – Thunderpeel
The Cure – Club America (Roxy mix)
Pusherman – Whole    
Baader Meinhof – GSG/29    
Moonshake – Nothing but Time (Julian Standen remix)
Gretschen Hofner– St. Pauli    
The Shave – Crushed Velvet Panties    
Lush – Half & Half    
Edward Ball – Docklands Blues    
DJ Balloon – The Saw Song    
Vic Chesnutt – Flowers on the Wall    
The Afghan Whigs – I Want to Go to Sleep

it (CD maxi single) -
Labradford – The Window    
Heave – Barberskum    
The Pop Group – 3:38    
Mark Stewart – Digital Justice (Adrian Sherwood Dub remix)
Meat Beat Manifesto – Future Worlds (alternative version) 
 
 


Pump Up the Volume,

29 October 2025

In the Black Room with White Curtains by the Trancentral Station

 

Man, I went & opened that Klf'ing door, now a bunchca you mokes are asking for it...

"The Black Room" is a allegedly unfinished unreleased collaboration between the KLF & Extreme Noise Terror. The album was originally intended to be performed in a hardcore techno style, then industrial metal, before settling on a metallic thrash, written & produced by the KLF, performed by Extreme Noise Terror. The album's release was scheduled for late 1991, but was then pushed back to March 1992. In February 1992, both bands were still recording when the KLF stopped their sessions entirely.

When asked if the recordings would ever be released,Jimmy Caulty of the KLF sez:
       "I thought I had the only copy (of the original sessions), but I think another one might have been made."

Well, here you go kiddies... 

 

The KLF & Extreme Noise Terror - The Black Room, Tneflky Records, 2017.
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3 AM Eternal (the Black Room mix)
I'm Fucked
Deep Shit
Bite it Harder
Thirty-Eight
The Black Room
Fuck the Election
Turn Up the Strobe
3 AM Eternal (Christmas Top of the Pops 1991)

 

 

Enjoy the impossible,

The Month of Mauz...Circling the Square

Rounding out Jimmy Cauty’s sphere of music with some of The Orb. 
 



Brought together by their love of ambient music, Dub, soundscapes, & science fiction, Cauty teamed up with musical genius Alex Paterson in 1988 to form the Orb. Paterson had worked as a roadie for Killing Joke during the 80s. He began to be influenced by Chicago house music during the mid-to-late 80s. He joined the A&R department of E.G. Records Ltd., home to Brian Eno himself. Alex & Jimmy Cauty had been recording an album during the turn of 1989-90, but the two split in April 1990 due to Paterson's fear that the Orb had become known more as a The KLF side-project than an original act. While Cauty continued on with the KLF, Paterson went on to create a tremendous catalog of music as the Orb. The group's lineup has shifted over the years, with Alex being the only consistent member. Notable members include Thrash & Thomas Fehlmann. Although never officially a member, Youth (a.k.a. Martin Glover) has been instrumental throughout the group's existence (he co-owned the label WAU! Mr. Modo Recordings with Alex). The two had known each other since they were young, working together since Alex was a roadie for the group Killing Joke, in which Youth played bass.

Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld was originally released as 2xCDs in 1991 by Big Life. This is the 2006 deluxe edition with the added Peel Sessions & Aubrey mixes. 

 

The Orb - The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld 3xCD, Universal Deluxe Edition, 2006.
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CD1: Orbit -
Little Fluffy Clouds (Ambient mix)    
Earth (Gaia)    
Super Nova at the End of the Universe    
Back Side of the Moon    
Spanish Castles in Space
 
 
 

CD2: Ultraworld -
Perpetual Dawn    
Into the Fourth Dimension    
Outlands (album version)
Star 6 & 7 8 9    8:10
A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain that Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld (live) 
 
 
 

CD3: Peel Sessions & Aubrey mixes -
A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain that Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld (Peel Session)    
Perpetual Dawn (Ultrabass II)    
Little Fluffy Clouds (Cumulo Nimbus mix by Pal Joey)
Back Side of the Moon (Under Water Deep Space mix by Steve Hillage)
Outlands (Fountains of Elisha mix by Ready Made)
A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain that Rules from the Centre of he Ultraworld (Aubrey mix Mk 11 by Jimmy Cauty & Dr Alex Paterson)
Spanish Castles in Space (Castles in Goa extended Youth mix)
 
 
 
 
 

Early this month I shared Meat Beat Manifesto joining up with the Orb for a few tunes. Seems like this is the natural place to have come back around to sharing at the close of the month. Round & round it goes... 
 
 
The Orb - ORBsessions Volume One, Malicious Damage MD603, 2005.

Mummie Don't    
Sail    
Yungle    
Chromatik (Orbzone)    
Eurofen    
Sun Of    
73.5 (featuring Martin Paterson)
Steel Horse
Something Like    
Pluto Calling (Twinkle)
 
 
 
 
The Orb - ORBsessions Volume Two, Malicious Damage MD624, 2007.

D.A.D.O.E.S?    
Ralph's Cupboard    
2026    
Shem    
Shem Version    
It's a Small World    
The Giant Bolster    
Ba'albeck    
Jam on Your Honey    
Kidnap    
Angel 4 Matrix
 
 
 

Sweet dreams until another time, dear mauz.

28 October 2025

The Month of Mauz...Japing the Curse of Greyface

 

The Principia Discordia sez: 
      "In the year 1166B.C., a malcontented hunchbrain by the name of Greyface got it into his head that the Universe was as humorless as he, and he began to teach that play was sinful because it contradicted the ways of Serious Order. ‘Look at all the Order about you,’ he said. And from that, he deluded honest men to believe that reality was a straightjacket affair and not the happy romance as men had known it.
       It is not presently understood why men were so gullible at that time, for absolutely no one thought to observe all the Disorder around them and conclude just the opposite. But anyway, Greyface and his followers took the game of playing at life more seriously than they took life itself and were known even to destroy other living beings whose ways of life differed from their own
       The unfortunate result of this is that mankind has since been suffering from a pschological and spiritual imbalance. Imbalance causes frustration, and frustration causes fear. And fear makes a bad trip. Man has been on a bad trip for a long time now.
       It is called THE CURSE OF GRAYFACE.
                                          Hail Eris -><- Kallisti -><- All Hail Discordia"

 



The KLF is a British duo known for their avant-garde music, their controversial sampling, anti-establishment hip-hop sensibility & actions. Their primary goal was to fight the Curse of Greyface.

The KLF was the brainchild of Bill Drummond & Jimmy Cauty. The two were fans of several subversive literary works which became underlying principles for their musical philosophy. They incorporated the Discordian ethos from Principia Discordia written by Greg Hill & Kerry Wendell Thornley, written fnord under the pseudonyms Malaclypse the Younger & Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst. They identified with the chaotic, anti-authoritarian spirit of Discordianism & viewed the Principia Discordia, a foundational text of the Discordian philosophy, as a source of inspiration as well as artistic guidance. They also adhered to similar tenets that originated in the fictional cult novels, the Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson & Robert Shea. The trilogy was devoted to chaos & subversion, exploring themes of conspiracy, Discordianism, & the struggle between order /chaos. The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, one of the duos precursors to the KLF was based on the Trilogy's The JAMs, an anarchistic group that emerged to challenge the Illuminati's quest for world domination. 

 

 



Here are just some of the duos Discordian acts of KAOS:
     At the BRIT Awards on February 12, 1992 the KLF appeared with Extreme Noise Terror. The performance was concluded with a limping, kilted, cigar-chomping Drummond firing blanks from an automatic weapon over the heads of the crowd. They then buried their Brit Award statuette near Stonehenge, symbolizing their disdain for the music industry (the award was reportedly later unearthed by a farmer). They then quit the music business & deleted their entire online fnord catalog. On November 23, 1993 the art installation Money: A Major Body of Cash was revealed, consisting of £1 million in cash nailed to a pine frame. On August 23, 1994, in the back of a boathouse on the Isle of Jura, Drummond & Cauty burned that £1 million, royalties from their music after they had sez FUCK OFF!!! to the music industry. They made a brick from the ashes. 

 



How did this all this crazy revolutionary subversion come about?

Bill Drummond sez
       "It was New Year's Day... 1987. I was at home with my parents, I was going for a walk in the morning, it was, like, bright blue sky, and I thought "I'm going to make a hip-hop record. Who can I make a hip-hop record with?". I wasn't brave enough to go and do it myself, 'cause, although I can play the guitar, and I can knock out a few things on the piano, I knew nothing, personally, about the technology. And, I thought, I knew Jimmy Caulty, I knew he was a like spirit, we share similar tastes and backgrounds in music and things. So I phoned him up that day and said "Let's form a band called The Justified Ancients of Mu-Mu". And he knew exactly, to coin a phrase, "where I was coming from"... Within a week we had recorded our first single."

The Scottish musician Bill Drummond (alias King Boy D) & English musician Jimmy Cauty (alias Rockman Rock) began by releasing hip hop-inspired, sample-heavy records as the JAMs. As the Timelords, they recorded the UK Singles Chart number-one single "Doctorin' the Tardis", while documenting fnord the process of making a hit record in a book The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way). As the KLF, Drummond & Cauty pioneered stadium house (rave music with a pop-rock production & sampled crowd noise). Their 1990 release Chill Out introduced the ambient house genre.

For both Chill Out & Come Down Dawn shared below, I have removed all trsck breaks so that the entire experience is one uninterrupted Drive* for your listening chill-out pleasure. You're welcome.

 

The KLF - Chill Out, KLF Communications JAMSCD5, 1990.
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Brownsville Turnaround on the Tex - Mex Border
Pulling Out of Ricardo & the Dusk is Falling Fast
Six Hours to Louisiana, Black Coffee Going Cold
Dream Time in Lake Jackson
Madrugada Eterna
Justified & Ancient Seems a Long Time Ago
Elvis on the Radio, Steel Guitar in My Soul
3AM Somewhere Out of Beaumont
Witchita Lineman was a Song I Once Heard
Trancentral Lost in My Mind
The Lights of Baton Rouge Pass By
A Melody from a Past Life Keeps Pulling Me Back
Rock Radio into the Nineties & Beyond
Alone Again with the Dawn Coming Up
 
 
 

On 31 December 2020, the release of a series of remastered compilations of the twosome's previously deleted catalog under the collective title Samplecity thru Trancentral was announced on graffiti & posters featuring the KLF logo hung under a railway bridge on Kingsland Road in Shoreditch, East London. 

The 30-minute collection of eight remastered singles Solid State Logik 1 appeared at midnight 1 January 2021.  Solid State Logik 1 includes a previously unreleased version of "3 a.m. Eternal" with British extreme metal band Extreme Noise Terror that was intended for the abandoned KLF album The Black Room (1990–1992). The song was the song the two groups performed live at the 1992 BRIT Awards.
 
 
 
The KLF - Solid State Logik 1, KLF Communications, 2021.

Doctorin' the Tardis - The Timelords
What Time Is Love? (Live at Trancentral)
3 a.m. Eternal (Live at the S.S.L.)
Last Train to Trancentral (Live from the Lost Continent) - The KLF
It's Grim up North - The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu
America: What Time is Love? 
Justified & Ancient (Stand by the JAMs) featuring Tammy Wynette - The KLF
3 a.m. Eternal - The JAMMs vs Extreme Noise Terror
 
 
 

Come Down Dawn (subtitled Brooklyn to Mexico City 1990) is a 2021 reissue of Chill Out. Although released fnord under the The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu moniker, it is nonetheless the KLF. It is the second in the series Samplecity thru Trancentral. The album is a re-edited version of the Chill Out with expired licensed samples from the original release removed in this mix.

*The KLF sez:
     “Come Down Dawn is a Drive by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu.
      A Drive is a journey in the head.
      The Drive took them from the Reverend Doctor Wade’s tabernacle in Brooklyn, New York to the Mesoamerican Pyramids near Mexico City.
      The Drive lasted just over a period of 43 hours.
      The Drive ended as dawn began to break on Sunday the 4th of February 1990

Come Down Dawn by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu is also a pre-mix of Chill Out released by The KLF on the 5th of February 1990.

Come Down Dawn was released the day before Chill Out, but 31 years later."
 
 
 
Thr KLF - Come Down Dawn, KLF Communications, February 4, 2021.

Brooklyn to Atlantic City
Atlantic City to Philadelphia
Philadelphia to Baltimore
Baltimore to Fair Play
Fair Play to North Druid Hills
North Druid Hills to Atlanta
Atlanta to Mobile
Mobile to Houston
Houston to Laredo
Laredo to El Prado
El Prado to San Rafael
San Rafael to Mexico City
 
 
 
 

I decided to end this thing with a compilation I made of various tracks from 7" & 12" singles, CD singles, albums, etc. Just a Klusterfuck of goodness to end things up here. 
 

Madrugada Eterna (Club mix)
Burn the Beat
No More Tears
What Time is Love (The KLF Pure Trance version)
Burn the Beat (Jams Have a Party)
It’s Grim Up North London (Fnord mix)
Burn the Beat (Club mix)
It’s Grim Up North London (Ambient Drone MK7)
What Time is Love (Power remix)
No More Tears (radio edit)
Burn the Beat (Mu Mu mix)
Madrugada Eterna (live)
 
 
 

Miles to go before we sleep,

27 October 2025

Volume: Volume 15

Various - Volume 15-Technology Alert! + it, Volume 15VCD15, January 1996.
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Technology Alert! CD -
John Came (Rhythmicon) - Springs & Magnets Part 2 (Return to Steam)
Life's Addiction – Quiet Storm (demo version)
Solid – Outside
Cocteau Twins – Circling Girl    
Baby Bird – Alan Ladd    
LHOOQ – Vanishing    
The Shamen –  MK2A (Tranquility Bass Dub)
Alabama 3 – Hypo Full of Love (The 12 Step Plan)
Ultramarine – Altered Ego    
New Order – Everything's Gone Green (Advent remix)
Joi – Everybody Say Yeah (Spring Heel Jack remix)
Jock Scot with the Nectarine No. 9 – Thierry Lacroix    
Scheer – Don't Know Why? (demo)    
The Flaming Stars – Bring Me the Rest of Alfredo Garcia    
Mick Harvey – Who's 'In', Who's 'Out'    
State of Grace – Perfect & Wild    
The Wannadies – Let Go Oh Oh    

it CD -
Law One - Better Get Ready
Alien - Sam the Ant Trainer
Bonjour Monsieur Basie - Ambient Jazz Suite No. 2

 


        
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26 October 2025

Volume: Volume 14

Various - Volume 14-Reading ‘95 Special 2xCD, Volume 14VCD14, 1995.
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Teenage Fanclub with Kim Fowley – Festival of Sun Reading '95
Ash – Coasting
Powder – Has Been (demo)
Nilon Bombers – Back Down (demo)
Drugstore – Sugar Sugar
Electrafixion – Sister Pain
Cast – Follow Me Down
Puressence – Half the Way You Were
Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine – This One's for Me
Longpigs – All Hype
Coast – Shag Wild
China Drum – Situation
Smaller – Biscuit Tin (demo)
Heavy Stereo – Sleep Freak (original demo)
The Cardigans – Our Space
Stereolab – Theme from Get Carter
Menswear – Daydreamer (Smashing Student Union mix)

CD 2 -
Little Axe – Out of the Rain & Cold (remix)
Dub War – Original Murder
White Zombie – Electric Head Pt 2-The Ecstasy (Aztec Mummy Super Fly mix)
Monster Magnet – Dopes to Infinity (live)
Babes in Toyland – Handsome & Gretel (live)
dEUS – Morticiachair (live)
Gene – Sleep Well Tonight (live)
Heather Nova – My Fidelity (live)
Scarce – Imagining It (acoustic)
Buffalo Tom – Never Noticed
Scarfo – Eyesore
Echobelly – Natural Animal
Peepshow – Delirious
These Animal Men – False Identification (live)
Prolapse – Move to Limit Slabs (demo)
Delicatessen – Classic Adventure
Skunk Anansie – I Can Dream
Mudhoney – You Give Me the Creeps
Guided by Voices – Snuff Movie (She's Gone)
 
 


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25 October 2025

The Month of Mauz...My Radio is Picking up Morocco

 

Pulse 8 was a project of David Harrow (keyboards, vocals, percussion, synth bass), Jah Wobble (bass, synth bass, vocals, percussion), & Justin Adams (guitar, vocals, percussion). These three chaps would soon morph into Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart

"Radio Morocco" & "Yassassin" originally were featured on the Nation Records (19 All Saints Road, London W11 1HE) compilation Fuse-World Dance Music in 1989. The Pulse 8 12' single was released on Nation Records that same year. The bonus tracks are from the Hidden Gems Nation WAV files issued in 2018 unless otherwise noted. 

"Radio Morocco" is an early example of proto-Goa...

 

Pulse 8 - Radio Morocco, Nation Records NR0002T, 1989.
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Side A -
Radio Morocco (Adrian Sherwood mix)

Side B -
Radio Morocco (Youth mix)
Radio Morocco (Double Dee Techno mix)

bonus tracks -
Yassassin
Radio Morocco (Well Hung Parliament mix)
Radio Morocco (Scarlet Goat mix)[Fairway Records 1994 DJ Techno Mix]
Radio Morocco (Paul Gotel aka DiviDeva mix 1)
Radio Morocco (Paul Gotel aka DiviDeva mix 2)
Radio Morocco (Paul Gotel aka DiviDeva mix 3)

plus the original (from Fuse-World Dance Music, Nation Records NR0001L
David Harrow - Yassassin (Wild Assassin Mix)
Pulse 8 - Radio Morocco (Club mix) by David Harrow, Justin Adams, & Jah Wooble
 
 
  

Miles to go before we sleep,

24 October 2025

The Month of Mauz...Swan Song

 

Taking their name from an early Swans EP, The Young Gods are a Swiss avant garde/electronic/industrial rock band formed in 1985 in Fribourg. Current & past members include Franz Treichler (lead vocals), Alain 'Al Comet' Monod & Cesare Pizzi (keyboards), Frank Bagnoud, Use Hiestand, & Bernard Trontin (drums). They are notable for their distinctive sound, in which a sampler is utilized to create the sound of electric guitar & bass guitars, whilst retaining a live drummer & vocalist. They recorded their own guitar& bass tracks then played them back using keyboards for live shows (one of the first bands to do so). Using this technique has allowed their live shows to sound pretty much the same today as they did when they began.

The Young Gods are linked to earlier share JG Thirlwell by their producer Roli Mosiman, a famous drummer & record producer from Thurgau, Switzerland. Roli moved to Ney York City in the early 80s. In 1983 he joined industrial avant garde band Swans as drummer. While working on their second full-length Cop, he met JG Thirlwell (Foetus) who was engineering the album. He collaborated with Thirlwell as Wiseblood, one of JG's side projects. As record producer Mosiman is best known for his work with The The, Hair & Skin Trading Company, New Order, & the Young Gods. He was very influential in the Young Gods direction, sound, & even their name. Rosi died September 15,  2024 in Wrocław, Poland where he had lived since 2021.

Originally released in 1987 as the Young Gods first full-length, this is the 2012 reissue with a second live recording CD also from 1987. 

 

The Young Gods - The Young Gods 2xCD remastered, Two Gentlemen Records TWOGTL018, 2012.
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The Young Gods CD1 -
Nous de la Lune    
Jusqu'au Bout    
À Ciel Ouvert    
Jimmy    
Fais la Mouette    
Percussionne
Feu    
Did You Miss Me
Si Tu Gardes    
The Irrtum Boys    
Envoyé    
Soul Idiot    
C.S.C.L.D.F.
        
Live at Fri-Son 1987 CD2 -     
Nous de la Lune    
Fais la Mouette    
The Irrtum Boys    
Jimmy    
Percussionne    
Did You Miss Me
Sing Sing
Feu    
A Ciel Ouvert    
Envoye    
Soul Idiot    
Jusqu'au Bout
 
 
 
 
The Young Gods - L 'Eau Rouge (Red Water), Play it Again Sam Records USA BIUSCD1029, 1989.

La Fille de la Mort    
Rue des Tempêtes    
L'Eau Rouge    
Charlotte    
Longue Route    
Crier Les Chiens    
Ville Nôtre    
Les Enfants    
L'Amourir    
Pas Mal
 
 
 
 
The Young Gods - T.V. Sky, Play it Again Sam Records BIAS201CD, 1992.

Our House    
Gasoline Man    
T.V. Sky    
Skinflowers    
Dame Chance    
The Night Dance    
She Rains    
Summer Eyes
 
 
 
 
The Young Gods - Only Heaven, Interscope Records 92554-2, 1995.

Outside    
Strangel
Speed of Night
Donnez les Esprits
Moon Revolutions
Kissing the Sun    
The Dreamhouse    
Lointaine    
Gardez les Esprits    
Child in the Tree
 
 
 
 

As a counterpart to Only Heaven, here's an Ambient re-imaging (reimagined using samples & textures from the original release)... 
 
 
The Young Gods - Heaven Deconstruction, Play it Again Sam Records BIAS309CD, 1996.

December    
Aoaçu    
Acid Strangel    
Improper    
Drun    
Riversky    
F    
Borea    
Scories    
Landing    
Messages    
Nano Pata    
Lova    
Light Residues    
Under    
Numière    
Windklang
 
 
 

Miles to go before we sleep,

23 October 2025

Volume: Volume 13

Various - Volume 13-The Lucky Issue, Volume 13VCD13, May 1995.
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Krispy 3 – Listen Up
Whiteout – Polyesther Blues
The Boo Radleys – Reaching Out from Here (Martin Carr demo)    
Animals that Swim – East Street O'Neill    
Juliana Hatfield – Waves
Elcka – Games We Play
Interact – Just Because (demo)
Throwing Muses – Hillbilly    
Kaliphz – Sex, Horror & Violence
Luscious Jackson – Daddy
Tribute to Nothing – Look at Yourself
The Flying Medallions – Vanity Fair
Nova Mob – No Promise Have I Made
Done Lying Down – Bolus
Rosa Mota – Frost Bitten
Edwyn Collins – In a Nutshell
Tindersticks – Tiny Tears
Radiohead – Nice Dream (demo)
Velo Deluxe – Jesus Let Me In
Reverberation – It's All Over
Heather Nova – Maybe an Angel (acoustic version)
 
 

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22 October 2025

Volume: Volume Twelve

Various - Volume Twelve-Winter '94, Volume 12VCD12, December 1994.
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Node – Olivine
Spiritualized – Good Times (Pure Phase)
Goya Dress – Foetus
Garbage – Vow
Prolapse – Visa for Violet & Van
Shriek – Girl Meets Girl
Pet Lamb – Son of John Doe
Moby – What Love?
G Love & Special Sauce – Tomorrow Night (live)
Massive Attack – Karma Coma (Mad Professor Bumper Ball Dub)
E.A.R. – Space Theme (Sonic Boom Tribute to John Cage in C, A, G, E)
Laika – Lower than Stars
Ride – Only Now (Jack Rieley US remix)
Catatonia – Dream On
Love Spit Love – Wake Up (acoustic version)
Novocaine – Pond Life
Flinch – Days
Nitzer Ebb – In Decline

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21 October 2025

Volume: Volume Eleven

Various - Volume Eleven - Reading Special, Volume 11VCD11, 1994.
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Drugstore – Super Glider
Primal Scream – Jailbird (At the Hardman Café live)
Sleeper – Pyrotechnician (I Think I Love You)
Senser – Eject (live)
Blaggers ITA – Dairy Thief
Terrorvision – If I Was You
Cypress Hill – Lick a Shot (Baka Boys Vocal Up mix)
Collapsed Lung – Dis MX (The Inspiral Carpets Volumatic mix)
Jale – Stepping Out
dEUS – Violins & Happy Endings
The Wedding Present – Spangle
Scrawl – Good Under Presssure
Helmet – Lord of this World
Dig – Curious George Blues
Manic Street Preachers – PCP (live)
Kitchens of Distinction – Remember Me?
Salad – Man with a Box (demo version)
Shed Seven – Missing Out (acoustic version)
Henry Rollins – Verbal Diary (April 22)
Henry Rollins – Verbal Diary (April 25)
Henry Rollins – Verbal Diary (April 27)
Henry Rollins – Verbal Diary (April 30/ May 2)
Henry Rollins – Verbal Diary (May 4/ May 11)
Henry Rollins – Verbal Diary (May 20/ May 22)
Henry Rollins – Verbal Diary (May 26)
Henry Rollins – Verbal Diary (June 6/ June 7)
Henry Rollins – Verbal Diary (June 12)
Mindless Drug Hoover – Fuck Off 

 

 

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20 October 2025

We Interrupt this Program for a Public Service Announcement

 

When I went to check my blog comments this afternoon I was incredibly elated to see a plethora of comments from the MIA mauz. Go over to the original Weird October share here & read what's going on with Maurizio in the comments section. It is a real eye opener. Then check out a couple of his musical releases for a more intimate introduction to the man & his musick.

First up is the "controversial" album from 2008 featuring: Mauxaum along with Robywan; Craig Organismic Musham; Shiranami; Housemaker: Master Margherita: & Greg Hunter. 

 

Mauxuam - Viceversa, Interchill Records ICHILLCD033, 2008.
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B4 After featuring Greg Hunter
Extended Body (Shiranami - Guitar, Viola & Alan Watts - vocals)
Jahnesh (Divine Cluster version) (Robywan - bass & Organismic Craig Musham - flute)
Stones of Gaza (Robywan - bass)
Where Was I Going? (Housemaker - additional instrumentation)
Viavai (bass - Master Margherita)
Ulezak (Snakebyte remix)
Cloudcycle (Robywan - bass) featuring Greg Hunter
∞-1
Wiggly Things (Alan Watts - vocals)

 

 

 

Next up is a collection of alternative mixes & previously unreleased tracks (apart from ″After B4″ previously released on Future Memories), recorded & mixed between 2005 / 2007, newly remastered.

Wiggly music beyond the grid of the usual tags…slow funky heavy beats layered with intense dark atmospheres & Dubtronic echoes…a free range electronica without boundaries that explores soundscapes off of the map. Uncertain futures, infinite possibilities, a multifaced raw reality escaping scientific glossy reason, there is no right choice & sometime the wrong way brings you to the right place in time….just before the announced apocalypse.

 

Mauxuam - Wiggly Bytes, Bakshish Music shish004, 2010.

Wiggly Bits - Mauxuam
What Was I Doing? - Mauxuam & Housemaker    
After B4 - Mauxuam
Extended Body (Tabberdabber mix) - Mauxuam & Shiranami    
Wiggly Things (The Glitch mix)
Jahnesh (Tower mix) - Mauxuam
What Was I Looking For ? - Mauxuam & Housemaker
 
 
 
 

Nathan sez, now that you know part of the story & have heard some of the music. go over to Mauz' bandcamp page & buy something to help support a struggling musician. I did.

Enjoy,

The Month of Mauz...October Freakatorium



I've shared Keith LeBlanc here many times before, as DJ Spike the other day, his solo work & his numerous excursions with On-U Sound projects (Fats Comet, Tackhead, Dub Syndicte, & more). I shared his ground breaking Malcolm X / No Sell Out Tommy Boy 12" & both his Major Malfuction (sp) / Stranger than Fiction full-lengths here.

Mauz in his request list referenced Freakatorium, which I had not shared, until now. This could easily be a lost Tackhead release.

 

Keith LeBlanc - Freakatorium, Blanc Records BLC 16CD, 1999.
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Scream    
Freaktime    
When Bugs Come Out    
A-Levels (Michael Mondiser - bass)
Here to Go (William S. Burroughs - vocal samples)    
Mars Car    
Big Time    
New Frontier    
Uncut Funk    
NooM    
In Between the Cracks    
Play What You Want (instrumental version)    
Freak Dub (Adrian Sherwood remix)
 
 
 

Miles to go before we sleep,

19 October 2025

The Month of Mauz...What Happens in Vega Stays in Vega

 

Alan Vega is best known as being half of the electronic duo Suicide, but he had an extensive solo career. Mauz in his requests asked for some of those. I had just been listening to Alan Vega's 2021 release After Dark (recorded at Renegade Studios , NYC in 2015). Thought I'd give this a go.

On his website at the time, Henry Rollins announced the July 16, 2016 death of Alan Vega. Rollins sez:        "Vega died peacefully in his sleep at age 78". 

In 2012 Vega had suffered a stroke that limited his mobility. He concentrated more on his visual artwork after that. However, he continued to work on his music. After only sending in vocal contributions to pre-recorded instrumentals for several years, Alan wanted to get back in a live studio environment. Thus the After Dark sessions.

Since Sacred Bones, Futurismo, Digging Diamonds & Real Gone Music (to name a few) have reopened the Vega vault & have released the long-lost (mid 90s) Mutator album as well as many other Vega reissues, I wasn't sure what to share. I was going to share his self-titled first release but realized it is available all over the web, so I settled on Collision Drive, Deuce Avenue, & Dujang Prang.

1981s Collision Drive is Vega sophomore solo release. It continues to explore the fractured rockabilly identity he had established in his debut self-titled work. Good place to start... 

 

Alan Vega - Collision Drive, Celluloid CEL 5001, 1981.
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Side A -
Magdalena 82
Be Bop A Lula
Outlaw
Raver
Ghost Rider
I Believe

Side B -
Magdalena 83
Rebel
Viet Vet

 

 

 

In the mid-80s Vega had signed with Elektra Records at the prompting of long-time fan Ric Ocasek, but corporate relations had soured so much that during production for 1985's Just a Million Dreams Elektra had attempted to remove Vega from his own studio sessions..By the early to mid-90s, Vega had teamed up with the Universal Music Group French label Musidisc for a series of four albums. They were more experimental / electronic than his earlier solo works.

This CD version contains tracks "Sugee" & "No Tomorrow" not available on the vinyl. I've added an additional bonus track "Wacko Warrior" for a lucky 13. 

 

Alan Vega - Deuce Avenue, Musidisc CD 105582, 1990.

Body Bop Jive    
Sneaker Gun Fire    
Jab Gee    
Bad Scene    
La La Bola    
Deuce Avenue    
Faster Blaster    
Sugee (non-vinyl track)
Sweet Sweet Money    
Love On    
No Tomorrow (non-vinyl track)    
Future Sex
bonus track -
Wacko Warrior
 
 
 
 

For his last release on Musidisc, 1995s Dujang Prang, Vega was rocking a much more industrial electronic style.
 
 
Alan Vega - Dujang Prang, Musidisc CD 118132, 1995.

Dujang Prang    
Hammered    
Cheenaroka    
Saturn Drive 2 (Subtalk)    
Jaxson Gnome    
Life Ain't Life    
Flowers, Candles, Crucifixes    
Big Daddy Stat's Livin' on Tron    
Sacrifice    
The Kiss
 
 
 

Mission accomplished,

18 October 2025

The Month of Mauz...Spike le Blanc

 

Keith LeBlanc was an American drummer & record producer most known as a member of Little Axe & Tackhead. Keith started out as a session drummer with Sugarhill Records in the early 1980s. He formed the Sugar Hill House Band along with Skip 'Little Axe' McDonald - guitar & Doug Wimbish - bass, working with The Sugarhill Gang on songs like ''Rapper's Delight'' & Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five on ''The Message''.

His record Malcolm X No Sell Out on Tommy Boy Records 1983 was one of the early examples of a sampling record. He moved to England & helped creating the sound of funk noise giants Tackhead with Wimbish, McDonald, & British Dub producer Adrian Sherwood. He became known as one of the most innovative drummers / programmers in music.

In addition to his work as member of the legendary On-U Sound posse, LeBlanc continued to experiment with new sounds using his own Blanc Records as a base from which to release pioneering albums, pushing musical boundaries to the extreme.

Keith died on April 4, 2024. Here are three of his releases under the nom de musique DJ Spike...

 

 

DJ Spike - Tasteless Cuts, Blanco Records blc 1cd, 1989.
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Baby Bye (Bim Sherman - vocals)
Gaps in Space (David Harrow - keyboards & Wendall Brookes - saxophone)
Mr President    
Spike Part One (David Harrow - keyboards)
MPB One-O-Five (David Harrow - keyboards)
German (David Harrow - vocals)
Designer Drugs (David Harrow - keyboards)
Stick Out
 
 
 
 
 
DJ Spike - Invisible Spike, Blanc Records blc 3cd, 1991.

Outer Land (Part One)    
Spikes Groove    
Tick of Time    
Micro Chip (Mike McEvoy - ketboards)
Eat This Dub (MC Det - vocals)
Invisible (Andy Fairley - vcals & Doug Wimbish - bass)
C.A.B. (Skip McDonald - guitar)
No Means No (Skip McDonald - guitar & Doug Wimbish - bass)
Unsanity (Doug Wimbish - bass)
Outer Land (Part Two)
 
 
 
 
 
DJ Spike - Spike Global 2000, Blanc Records blc cd9, 1993.

Tunes (Part 01)    
Stomping    
Interference    
Tunes (Part 02)    
Beat Goes On (Andy Fairley - vocals)
Audio    
Flight    
Mad Movement    
Global 2000    
SOS    
Change (Andy Fairley - vocals)
Story of Violence    
The Mark    
String Thang
 
 
 

Hoping you see these, mauz.

17 October 2025

Volume: Volume Ten

Various - Volume Ten, 10VCD10, July 1994.
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AR Kane – Deep Blue Breath (London mix)
Disco Inferno – Second Language (demo)
Scarce – Naked Freak Shadow
Gene – To See the Lights
High Llamas – Might as Well be Dumbo
Pulp – Joyriders
Tiny Monroe – Cream Bun (acoustic version)
Echobelly – Fake
Gigolo Aunts – They Don't Know
Lush – Tinkerbell
Tricky – You Don't
Credit to the Nation – Come Dancing
Loop Guru – La Boheme
Trans-Global Underground – Khan
Transcendental Love Machine – Revolvalution
Insides – Tikky (remix)
Oracle – The Sweetest Place
Peter Perrett's The One – Daughter
 
 
 

Pump Up the Volume,

16 October 2025

Volume: Volume Nine

Various - Volume Nine, Volume 9VCD9, March 1994.
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Mark Lanegan – Wheels
Morphine – Sharks Patrol These Waters
That Dog – One Summer Night
Buffalo Tom – Soda Jerk (live)
Paul Weller – Black Sheep Boy
Madder Rose – Roland Navigator
Sonic Youth – Doctor's Orders (Thurston vocal)
Wagon Christ – Gas Fish
Pressure of Speech – Emile
Spooky – Aqualung Dub (remix)
The Divine Comedy - Life's What You Make It
The Cranberries – How (live)
Tindersticks – Her (new version)
Kristin Hersh – Close Your Eyes (demo)
Jah Wobble – Whisky Priests
Fun-Da-Mental – New World Order
Rub Ultra – Suspend
Blessed Ethel – Daisy
Compulsion – Top of the World

 

 

Pump Up the Volume,

15 October 2025

Volume Volume Eight

Various - Volume Eight, Volume 8VCD8, September 1993.
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Autechre – Lanx 3
Curve – Low & Behold
Underworld –    Why Why Why? (remix)
The Wonder Stuff – Swell (Mad remix)
B12 – Scriptures
Butthole Surfers – Who Was in My Room Last Night? (Tate or Tot mix)
Higher Intelligence Agency – Delta (live at Oscillate)
Juno Reactor – Laughing Gas (Ambivalent remix)
James – Skin Diving 1-3-4 (Markus Drars remix)
Global Communication – Sublime Creation (original version)
Sun Electric – Love 2 Love
The Fall – War
The Afghan Whigs – Little Girl Blue
Submarine – Pollen
Elastica – S.O.F.T.
Come – City of Fun
Sultans of Ping FC – Curse (Monitor mix)
Mindless Drug Hoover – The Reefer Song
 
 
 

Pump Up the Volume,

14 October 2025

The Month of Mauz...In Paradise with Wevvers

 

Continuing onward, paying tribute to a lost genius, here is another one from Andrew's solo career & two by the Sabres..



Here's a rocker from Andrew to start off this share... 

 

Andrew Weatherall - A Pox on the Pioneers, Rotters Golf Club RGCCD017, 2009.
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Fail We May, Sail We Must    
Privately Electrified    
Miss Rule    
Selective Walking    
Liar with Wings    
Let's Do the 7 Again    
A Pox on the Pioneers    
All the Little Things (That Make Life Worth Living)    
Built Back Higher
Walk of Shame 
 
The Sabres of Paradise - Sabresonic, Warp Records WARP CD16, 1993.

Still Fighting    
Smokebelch I    
Clock Factory    
Ano Electro (Andante)    
R.S.D.    
Inter-Lergen-Ten-ko    
Ano Electro (Allegro)    
Smokebelch II (Beatless mix)
 
 
 
 

When I shared some Richard Sen in March this year, I showed some of his graffiti art that was used as a cover for the Sabrs of Paradise - Theme. Well, here it is in living colo(u)r & stereophonic sound. 
 
 
 
The Sabres of Paradise - Theme, Sabres of Paradise PT014CD, 1994.

Theme    
Return of Carter    
Edge 6    
Theme III 
 


Hoping you see these, mauz.