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08 January 2025

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
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  1. NØ1/8/25, 2:36 PM

    Adult Themes
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    Collected Psyche
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    Hemophiliac CD1
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  2. FlaccusMUC1/9/25, 2:07 AM

    Thanks a lot, Nate! I never knew what to do with Mike Patton's super diverse output, but I think there must be something there for my tastes, too. So I'm looking forward to checking out these albums. I liked Faith No More when I was much longer, but lost interested a long time ago. I do remember the memorable gig they played in West-Berlin the night the Berlin Wall came down. I was there.

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    1. NØ1/9/25, 2:34 PM

      Vaguely knowing your interests, I'd think you would be a fan of all things Ikue Mori. Her output (from DNA no-wave era onward) seems to be something I'd imagine you quite enjoying. Teamed up with Patton & John Zorn, quite the trio.

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    2. FlaccusMUC1/10/25, 12:36 AM

      Thanks for pointing Ikue Mori out to me. The Hemophiliac CDs are excellent, indeed. I've found two more Ikue Mori albums that you posted before, so that should keep me busy for now.

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    3. NØ1/10/25, 1:17 AM

      If you grabbed the other shares, I might suggest giving Painted Desert a listen. One of my favorite Mori releases with the great Robert Quine & Marc Ribot.

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    4. FlaccusMUC1/11/25, 1:20 AM

      Again, thanks a lot for all this inspiring music. Painted Desert is excellent. If you happen to have any more Ikue Mori, ...

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    5. NØ1/11/25, 2:13 PM

      One you might not have found that I already shared is Death Ambient.
      Death Ambient is Mori, bassist Kato Hideki, & guitarist Fred Frith. Really exceptional material.

      https://nathannothinsez.blogspot.com/2014/03/how-about-some-ambientdeath-ambient.html

      I will get together some of my other Mori favorites (several with Zeena Parkins [Phantom Orchard]) & let you know.

      Thanks, brother.

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    6. FlaccusMUC1/12/25, 1:23 AM

      Absolutely wonderful!

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  3. Richie Muster1/9/25, 5:46 AM

    Holy wow and what tha funk, NØ! I've got such a blush on i don't need to chuck another log on the fire, i'm that warm (it's sub-zero up here in Lancashire). 'Collected Psyche' i didn't have, so i snagged that straight away. Then i thought, 'well, i've only got a low-bitrate cdr of 'Adult Themes' so i need that too; which led me to look in my Patton folder, and there found that my 'Haemophiliac' was low-bitrate too, so i had to have that as well. What a treat. Honestly mate, you've introduced me to so much good music (i'm rediscovering my love of dub, for one), so don't you dare say i know more than you! Stay safe, stay warm.

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  4. Aleck1/10/25, 2:46 PM

    Let me just tell ya, if I had a nickel for every time some disappointed FNM fan returned a copy of Adult Themes to me at Tower Records...well, I'd probably have 50 cents, but the laughs are payment enough alone. MAN, I felt like me and one other person there were the only folks who "got" that record when it came out, and it convinced me that this was a guy worth watching over the long haul - not just limited to FNM (whom I *liked,* but was never rabid over). I never got Collected Psyche, though! Didn't even know it existed! And it looks like it presents a lot of other tributaries branching off the Patton River that I've got to go and explore now, too! Great stuff!!!

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  5. NØ1/10/25, 2:55 PM

    Well, I guess the count fot "getting" Adult Themes has expanded to six or so. The Patton tributaries water a vast array of territory, for sure.

    I used to frequent Tower a great deal but I think I got Adult Themes at Streetlight, which was my number one go-to record store.

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  6. Aleck1/10/25, 4:41 PM

    Ah, I never got to visit Streetlight. I was in the main Seattle store, and then worked out of L.A./Pasadena/West Covina stores. Those were the days! Could get comp'ed tickets to at least half the shows I wanted to catch, and the label reps knew to come to me with any of the "weird" stuff they'd gotten in their promo packages. "Have you caught the new GWAR?" "Didya see Swans are in town?" "Cramps are at the Showbox in October, you want on the list?" "Hey, I got this Chrome box set, you interested?" I would go back in a heartbeat if they were to open back up. Alas.

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    1. NØ1/10/25, 8:16 PM

      I'd take a serving of that GWAR, Swans, Cramps, Chrome anyday. Yeah, the "weird" stuff, that's my middle name...Nathan Weird Stuff Nothin' While I was doing EAT POOP! 'zine I got so many comp'ed tickets that I couldn't make all the gigs, sometimes there were more than one the same night. How cool was being on the guest list?

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  7. Stinky1/11/25, 2:26 PM

    Thanks for these, Nathan! Collected Psyche looks tasty!

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  8. Anonymous1/11/25, 5:20 PM

    Chrome kicks ass in all its formats. Think i've all abuout them but if someone ou there has some rarities very welcome then.
    Having the Chrome Box in physical format was always some kind of a dream.
    Half Machine always an initiatic record.
    Cheers
    Diego

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  9. Aleck1/12/25, 2:55 PM

    The original box? SAME. Unfortunately, it was just the '96 Cleopatra reissue which deletes a bunch o' trax. Chrome were one of my first forays out of the more "traditional" compartments of "alternative." I first caught them as the second half of a Target Video live compilation (which I got because Bauhaus was the main act), and then someone gave me a cassette dub of Alien Soundtracks and Half Machine. Mid-late '80s? I *flipped*. And since then, Creed and Edge have been constant companions. Right around the same time the same folx intro'ed me to the Residents, Sun Ra and Pere Ubu and filled my world with weirder angles than a German Expressionist film.

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    1. Anonymous1/13/25, 10:40 PM

      Similar kind of epiphany feeling.
      But in 80's Argentina.
      You may figure out.
      Two or three copies and dozens of casettes with this crushing sound.
      Edge & co gained a space in our lifetime.
      Not an easy thing.
      Diego

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