Monophones & Polyrhthyms

" In the year 1166 B.C., a malconented hunchbrain by the name of Greyface, got it into his head that the universe was as humorless as he, & 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. & from that, he deluded honest men to believe that reality was a straightjacket affair & not the happy romance as man had known it.

It is not presently understood why men were so gullible at that particular time, for absolutely no one thought to observe all the disorder around them & conclude just the opposite. But anyway, Greyface & his followers took the game of playing at life more seriously than they took life itself & were known even to destroy other living beings whose ways of life differed from their own.

The unfortunate results of this is that mankind has since been suffering from a psychological & spiritual imbalance. Imbalance causes frustration & frustration causes fear. & fear makes a bad trip. Man has been on a bad trip for a long time now.

It is called THE CURSE OF GREYFACE”
                                      from Conventional Chaos, Principia Discordia, 2nd Edition, page 00042.

Gruad Grayface was a mutant.

Unlike the rest of the herd, his mutation rendered him glabrous (some small remnants of head & facial hair, some crotch & pit).  This visible difference from the other sapiens filled Gruad with hatred.  He set about on a campaign pitting people against one another because of their differences, making them unable to empathize across demographic lines (men & women, black & white, & on & on...).  Gruad believed that if people communicated with each other they would realize that they were natural allies & none of them benefited from Gruad's tyrannical rule.

Acolytes of Gruad have been trying to immanentize this New World Order for centuries. Donald Trump is the lastest Illuminatus Primus attempting to elevate the tenets of Oligarchic supremacy.

The only stumbling block to Gruad's goal is Discord.  The Sacred Chao. Hail Eris. While things seemed well under way for the ascendancy of Trump to the throne of another four years, along comes Covid to throw a monkey(read: hairy sapien)wrench into the plans. But is there more to the story?

In the 1980s & 90s, Steve Jackson Games released the role-playing card game, Illuminati: The Game of Conspiracy. Are the characters, events, & agendas portrayed through the Illuminati card game prophecies or merely a series of strange coincidences  (examples: the Terrorist Nuke card

& the Pentagon card with their future view of the Twin Towers & Pentagon attacks of 9/11;

the man featured on the And Stay Dead! card appears to be Wikileaks’ Julian Assange:

& now the Epidemic card, well, enough said) all years before the portrayed.  Or are we being provided the script for reality Gruad's disciples seek to bring to fruition?

However,  the most unsettling card that bears the unmistakable resemblance to Trump is the Enough is Enough card. Examine the background images of the card & decide for yourselves.

"You have locked yourselves up in cages of fear: and behold, do you now complain that you lack freedom"
                       Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst, K.S.C., Epistle of the Paranoids, The Honest Book of Truth.



but here at Casa Nada...

Was deep into the groove of  ''Tunnel Vision'' when it dawned on me that I haven't posted up any Monophonics here at NSS. Quick remedy. Here goes...

San Francisco Bay Area's Monophonics formed in 2005. Their original & subsequent lineups include guitarist Ian McDonald, keyboardist Colin Brown, saxophonist Alex Baky, trumpeter Ryan Scott, bassists Yuri Whitman & Miles O’Mahony, percussionist Kyle Middlebrooks, & drummer Austin Bohlman.

Monophonics put a 21st Century spin on the heavier, funkier, more psychedelic sounds of late 60s/early 70s soul while also never straying far from a primal Stax style. Each release from Monophonics has shown marked progress from the band. The most significant change to their overall great sound came with the addition of Kelly Finnigan, singer, songwriter, & keyboardist who joined after the first two albums, 2007s Playin & Simple & 2010s Into the Infrasounds.

Monophonics signed to Ubiquity for 2012s In Your Brain. They then went independent with 2015s Sound of Sinning on Transistor Sound. Following a handful of singles for Transistor Sound & Colemine, Monophonics released their fifth album, It's Only Us, on Colemine this year.

Monophonics - In Your Brain, Ubiquity URCD299, 2012.

all decryption codes in comments

Looking Ahead
There's a Riot Going On
In Your Brain
Sure is Funky
Deception
All Together
Say You Love Me
They Don't Understand
Mirage
Foolish Love
Thinking Black
Bang Bang
Temptation
Keep Looking Ahead



& now that we've done mono, how about poly...

Polyrhythmics is an 8-piece funk & worldbeat Orchestra comprised of some of Seattle’s finest rhythmic musicians. Their music is heavy on the grooves & dynamic rhythmic interplay.

Libra Stripes is their second full length record. Here the Polyrhythmics are: Ben Bloom - guitar: Nathan Spicer - keyboards; Jason Gray - bass;  Scott Morning- trumpet; Art Brown - saxophone; Elijah Clark - trombone; Grant Schroff - drums; & Lalo Bello - percussion.

Polyrhythmics - Libra Stripes, Kept Records KPT-1001, 2013.

Libra Stripes
Pupusa Strut
Moon cabbage
Chingador
Snake in the Grass
Bobo
Skin the Fat
Retrobotic
Mr. Wasabi Rides Again

Enjoy,
NØ

It’s a No Beach day, Boy

Woke up from a crazy dream.

Seconds after I awoke I could still hear notes wafting in my room from the soundtrack of interrupted dreamland. Pandemic specter code stuck on my lips...Will you come now?

The Cock of God...Phallus Dei

Originally from A Day in the Life of Brian Wilson with vocals by the incomparable John Walker (R.I.P.).

Here are more than a few seconds (spoiler alert:312.6MB)

Variations on a Theme - Takes on Will You Come Now, NØ Comps, 2020.

Will You Come Now? - Phallus Dei (original mix)
Will You Come Now? - Der Blutharsch
Will You Come Now? - Blackhouse (short remix)
Will You Come Now? - Phallus Dei (Vapour remix featuring Bart Maris)
Will You Come Now? - Wicked Messenger
Will You Come Now? - Dyane Donck
Will You Come Now? - Phallus Dei (featuring Aidan Casserly remix)
Will You Come Now? - Burial Hex (Angelic Conversation remix)
Will You Come Now? - Throbbing Wafle
Will You Come Now? - Phallus Dei (Love, with the Tiniest Red Torch remix)
Will You Come Now? - Bohren & der Club of Gore
Will You Come Now? - Blackhouse (longer remix)
Will You Come Now? - Birdmachine
Will You Come Now? - Phallus Dei (another remix)
Will You Come Now? - Strange Attractor
Will You Come Now? - Dissecting Table
Will You Come Now? - Phallus Dei (original remix)

Please, anyone, will you come now?,
NØ

They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar

"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." – William Gibson, Neuromancer.

"Good evening, and welcome to a private showing of four paintings, displayed here for the first time. Each is a collector's item in its own way—not because of any special artistic quality, but because each captures on a canvas, suspended in time and space, a frozen moment of a nightmare." Rod Serling

Eternal Tapestry & Sun Araw - Night Gallery, Thrill Jockey XQJH-1008, 2011.

decryption code in comments

Night Gallery I
Night Gallery II
Night Gallery III
Night Gallery IV

Cool air,
NØ

I Might Be Slow, but not Forgetful

On October 14, 2015 (yes, 2015...you remember back then in the old days), an Unknown (aka Jack Bone) visitor to NSS queried in the comments to a Nash the Slash post Soixant-Neuf:
     "Hey buddy (I guess that's me???) you wouldn't happen to have Nash's soundtrack to Nosferatu?"

Well, I didn't, but I've been looking ever since & finally got a copy. Don't know if Unknown Jack Bone is still looking or will find out that I (finally) replied, but as I love all things NtSlash, here it is.

Released on Nash's own label, Cut-Throat Records ( "Music in a particular vein"), Nosferatu is Nash the Slash's soundtrack recording to the 1922 German silent expresionist horror film Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (translated as Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror; also known as Nosferatu: A Symphony of Terror or simply Nosferatu) directed by F. W. Murnau & starring Max Schreck as the vampire Count Orlok.

Nash vividly enhances the dramatic building of suspense & impending doom inherent within Murnau's reinterpretation of the Count Dracula story, capturing the romantic & tragic essence of the tale. Nash primarily uses synthesisers, drum machines, & samplers on this project (along with a haunting Romanian choir) to match the graininess of the deteriorated visuals & the feel of the time period. He superbly spotlights the recurrent themes & motifs within the film, revisiting them in various iterations to develop narrative continuity (particularly for  Nina, variations on Gabriel Urbain Fauré's Requiem [tracks 2, 4, 18, & 30] & Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns' Danse Macabre [tracks 19 & 23]). The soundtrack never overpowers or draws attention away from the screen, but instead moodily adds to the total experience.

Nosferatu has almost certainly had more restored releases than any other silent film. Including all the illegitimate copies of the Atlas version, there are a vast number, likely in excess of a thousand, of cheap home video editions. The original film was 63 minutes, which matches Nash's soundtrack. If you want to try watching the movie sync'd to the music, there are basically five versions:
the 1965 Atlas Film version based on MoMA's print;
Elite version January 2000;
Diamond Entertainment version July 2002 with replacement pipe organ score;
& Madacy versions March 2003
& August 2004.

The Atlas version is a copy of the most complete copy extant, which was obtained by New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1947. That copy is derived from a French print from the late 1930s/early 1940s, in very good condition overall. The French version is a copy of a Czechoslovakian export print from the 1920s that was seized by the Nazis, now lost. The background story of this print has only been unravelled in recent years so many sources still refer to it as a 1926/27  "second French version".  The Czech version had been shipped to the Cinémathèque Française. At the French archive the German intertitles were replaced with French ones, after which the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) got a copy that had been preserved at the Cinémathèque Suisse.

On acquisition, MoMA (in all probability through their then film curator Iris Barry) replaced the latest French intertitles with English ones in anachronistic 1927 Futura font &, as per Nosferatu's first US screenings in 1929, all the character names were reverted to the ones of the original novel: Count Orlok becomes Count Dracula; Ellen & Hutter become Nina & Jonathon Harker; Knock becomes Renfield; etc.

So the intertitles have been translated from the original German into Czech, back into German, then into French, & then finally into English… Yet somehow they still make sense!

So turn down the movie volume (it's a Silent Film, fer Satan's sake), crank up the soundtrack volume, kick back, light up, & enjoy.

Nash's world premiere performance was on Thursday July 13, 2000 at the Grand Theatre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The male choir was recorded live in Brasov Orthodox Cathedral, Romania by Dmitri Vole.

Nash the Slash - Nosferatu, Cut-Throat Records CUT5CD, 2001.

 tracklist -

Murnau's Vision
Nina & Jonathon
Renfield's Scheme
"Don't Worry Nina"
Foreboding Journey
Jonathon Awakes
The Land of Phantoms
"You are Late"
Blood
Letter to Nina
"What a Lovely Throat"
Fear & Premonition
Sense of Menace
The Crypt
Dracula Packs
Rats
Venus Flytraps & Other Vampires
Nina Among the Dunes
Fatal Breath
Renfield's Master
Dracula Unpacks
Nosferatu
The Ship of Horrors
Drum Alarm
The Book of Vampires
Plague
Renfield's Revenge
Nina's Trance
Sacrificing Nina
The Morning Sun

Enjoy,
NØ

I Was Bored...so I Put a Record On

Programmed, performed, produced, written, & mixed by Gudrun Gut with a little help from her friends: Rock Bottom Riser written by Smog & additional vocals by Uta Heller & Matt Elliott; Pleasuretrain & The Wheel co-written by & with additional vocals by Manon P. Duursma; Lsat Night guitar by Dirk Markham; & Last Night, Sweet, & Pleasuretrain re-mixed by Thomas Fehlmann.

Gudrun Gut - I Put a Record On, Monika Enterprise monika 55, 2007.

decryption code in comments

side 1 -
Move Me - inspired by Buenos Aires
Rock Bottom Riser - inspired by Smog
The Land - inspired by the Field
Cry Easy - inspired by ESG
Girlboogie 6 - inspired by the Boogie
Blätterwald - inspired by New Order

side 2 -
Last Night - inspired by Last Night
Sweet - inspired by Dabrye
Pleasuretrain - inspired by the Blues
The Wheel - inspired by Clouddead
Tip Tip - inspired by Loops

& everything was tip top,
NØ

Remember, It is the Law...the Law of Fives

Been reReading the Illuminatus Trilogy

RAWilson states:
     "I first heard of the 23 enigma from William S Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch, Nova Express, etc. According to Burroughs, he had known a certain Captain Clark, around 1960 in Tangier, who once bragged that he had been sailing 23 years without an accident. That very day, Clark’s ship had an accident that killed him and everybody else aboard. Furthermore, while Burroughs was thinking about this crude example of the irony of the gods that evening, a bulletin on the radio announced the crash of an airliner in Florida, USA. The pilot was another Captain Clark and the flight was Flight 23."

#23

SKIDOO

What man is at ease in his Inn?

Get out.

Wide is the world and cold.

Get out.

Thou hast become an in-itiate.

Get out.

But thou canst not get out by the way thou camest in. The Way out is THE WAY.

Get out.

For OUT is Love and Wisdom and Power.

Get OUT.

If thou hast T already, first get UT.

Then get O.

And so at last get OUT.

                                                                         from The Book of Lies - Aleister Crowley (1912/13)

23 Skidoo - The Gospel Comes to New Guinea 12“ 45 single, Fetish Records FE11, 1981.

The Gospel Comes to New Guinea
Last Words

Alex & Johnny Turnbull, Sam Mills, Fritz Catlin, & Tom Heslop

Now it’s coming to your house,
NØ

M to the A to the S to the K

Put the mask upon the face just to make the next day
Feds be hawkin me
Jokers be stalking me
I walk the streets and camouflage my identity
My posse in the Brooklyn wear the mask
My crew in the Jersey wear the mask
Stick up kids doing boogie woogie wear the mask
Yeah everybody wear the mask but how long will it last

Hunker Down Dub, Now it’s On-U

Well, as of midnight last, "Shelter in Place" is now Cali state mandate.

However, I get to go to work nonetheless, out in the public, working in the pit of it all, the grocery stores. Providing my "essential service" putting out magazines...errrr...essential magazines (People, Cosmopolitan, National Enquirer, etc....you know the "essential" ones...really Essence is the only essential one).

But it's the weekend now. I'm hunkered down, lissenin' to musick...sick...sick, smoking some Kali weed.

The following might be 21st Century AHC, but get real, son...

Bonjo is still the man, Crocodile is still A Maxwell Sherwood, George Oban is still Ras Levi, King Cry Cry is still Prince Far I, & Skip is Skip.

...it doesn't really get any better than this.

African Head Charge - Voodoo of the Godsent, On-U Sound ON-UCD1015, 2011.

decryption code in comments

In "I" Head
The Best Way
Take Heed...& Smoke up Your Collyweed
Stoned Age Man
African Bredda
Mysterious Happenings
This & That & the Other
Undulating
Timpanya
Badman Plan
Dobbyn Joins the Head Charge
God Willing

Enjoy,
NØ

Aunt Jemima's Flapjack Ninja Killers from Hell

20-20 Vision

"So Mr, Mr. DJ

Keep those records playin'

'Cause I'm a-havin' such a good time

Dancin' with my baby"

Many of my NSS friends have been hittin' me with emails..."What's up?" "You still out there?"

Life sometimes just creeps up on us all & makes us do other things.

This blogging shit is like a drug. I had to go cold turkey. Now the longer I'm away from it the less I need the fix, but every so often, in the hour of the wolf...

"The hour between night and dawn. The hour when most people die, when sleep is deepest, when nightmares are most real. It is the hour when the sleepless are haunted by their deepest fears, when ghost and demons are most powerful..."

I fear taking just this one hit...that's how it starts...

I'll probably be back...I'm not that strong...but for now...what I'm doing & what I'm dubbing.

DOING

Various - Welcome Home, NØ Comps, 2020

WH cd1 -

Having a Party - Sam Cooke
Strange Land - The Tear Garden
And Even If I Did - School of Language
Cosmic Slop (Moodyman mix) - Funkadelic
Teardrops on Roads - Jaya Prime
Heartbreak Hotel - Poptone
Divide & Rule - Coldcut & On-U Sound
Lady Day - Johnette Napolitano
Somewhere in the Nowhere - Chrysta Bell & David Lynch
Weight of the World - Witch Prophet
Remember (Walkin’ in the Sand) - The Shangri-Las
Strange World in My Mind - June Tyson & the Sun Ra Arkestra


WH cd2 -

Never Get Ahead - Bobby Conn
This is Not Normal - Negativeland
Time - User’s Atmosphere
Out of Your Mind - Dub Narcotic Sound System
Solitary Man - Kramer with Bill Frisell
Noctournquet - The Mars Volta
Days like This - The Pop Group
Fuck it Up - Dream City Film Club
I’m Not Satisfied - Public Image Ltd.
As the Rush Comes (Radio edit) - Motorcycle
Dying on the Vine - John Cale & Chris Spedding (live)
Rock & Roll Music - Tenpole Tudor

DUBBING

Dub Garden is a relatively new band from Thessaloniki, Greece playing musick that to me is Satori...Dub & Trip-Hop so sweetly blended.

Here Dub Garden is: Victoria - lyrics & vocals; Steve Dickins - guitar; & Katerina Deligianni -bass. Produced & dubbed by Ste Stergios.

Dub Garden - Doctor Wind, Studio 10, 2017.

all decryption codes in comments

Talking
Colors
Doctor Wind
Try More
Late Station
Eye Origins
Free
Open Book
Dub Book

& here Dub Garden is: Victoria - vocals; Bill Raikopoulos - guitar; Dimitra Remidians - keyboards, synthesizer, samples; Marw - bass; Popovic - drums; & Amira Lacrima - backing vocals. Mixing, dubbing & FX by Mitsile.

Dub Garden - Orders, Greece, 2018.

Blues Morning
Just a Man
Horizon
Commands
Find a Way
Running
Point
Orders
Let You Go

See ya later???
NØ

Been lissenin' to Mucho Musick

Formed from the ashes of UK anarcho/reggae outfit Military Surplus (see bonus tracks "Time of the Dispossessed" & "Firepower" included below), Radical Dance Faction or RDF as they were most commonly abbreviated, was founded by Chris Bowsher in Hungerford in 1986. RDF's line-ups were erratic to say the least (with over thirty different people having been part of the band at one time or another). Founder, lyricist & vocalist Chris Bowsher is the only person who has been in every line up of the band.

Bowsher's lyrics are hip/beat poetry, more spoken than sung, with imagery of modern decay & capitalism gone wrong. The style is primarily Dub/reggae/ska. Bowsher is a veteran of the early punk explosion, particularly enamoured of bands such as the Clash & the Ruts who had attempted to bridge the gap between rock & JA sounds. Along with the Levellers, RDF became prime movers in the media-christened 'crust or crusty' movement. Much of their following was comprised largely the dispossessed & homeless, the young & the impoverished, bonded by a political consciousness that has its roots in hippiedom, beatnik romanticism & early 80s anarcho-punk.

Here RDF is: Chris Bowsher - vocals; Linda Goodman - vocals; Phil Astronaut - guitar; Brian Powell & Mark McCarthey - bass; Graham Spey = keyboards; Tim Hill - saxophone; Sid Wobble - harmonica; G.T. Moore - melodica & hand drums; Graham Usher - drums & hand drum; Style Scott - drums with Kay Beckett & Steve Swann - backing vocals.

Radical Dance Faction - Wasteland, Earth Zone EZ-003, 1991.

decryption code in comments

Station X Red Flame
Working Class Hero
Tension Town
Tense (instrumental with surprise WSB)
Sadness
Babylon
Can’t Stand No More
Hope
Next Man in Europe
What the Man Made of Stone

bonus tracks:
 Time of the Dispossessed
Firepower

Enjoy,
NØ

This is Not the Post - This is Philly Soul

So I wasn't sure if the Universe was trying to tell me somethin' or if it was nothin', but dig on this.

In the last five days, I have heard the same song eleven times (odd note - did you know all odd numbers have an 'e' in them)...at the supermarket, in my friend's car, walking down the street last night, coming out of the open window of (a.) a near-by house & (b.) a car in the lane beside me...well, you get the idea.

& it's not a new song. It's from 1969. So what is really going on? I put no value on coincidence & very little on synchronicity, so what's really really going on here.

So "Hey There Lonely Girl" was a one hit wonder…but it turns out that the tune by vocalist extraordinaire Eddie Holman is among the most listened-to songs in the fields of popular & classic R&B music.  His unforgettable falsetto voice & the great tune that he took all the way to #2 on the charts is perhaps the most recognizable urban love song in the English language.  "Hey There Lonely Girl" is the beautiful tune that seems to touch everyone's soul as it emanates from the airwaves or churns from the players of fans.

Eddie's smooth style is reflected by the primary musical influences in his life: Jackie Wilson & Nat King Cole.  These two giants were the key creative muses of Holman's with their endless ability to exude class & style.

However, the biggest stumbling block in the path of Eddie's success was his producer Peter DeAngelis. The two worked together during the early & mid 60s. In 1969 Holman renewed his collaboration with the Philadelphia-based producer DeAngelis.  DeAngelis had built his reputation on his work with 1950s era teen idols such as Frankie Avalon & Fabian. The two turned Eddie's 1970 debut album I Love You into an impressive set of Philly Soul containing not only "Lonely Girl", but other first-rate material such as the title track co-written by Eddie's wife Sheila Holman, "It's All in the Game", & the self-penned "Am I a Loser".

The entire set would have benefited from a couple of more up-tempo numbers but the real drawback stemmed from DeAngelis' heavy handed arrangements & over-the-top orchestration. At least Holman was able to present himself well against the walls of strings & off-putting backing vocalists.

Well, here's to play number twelve

Eddie Holman - Hey There Lonely Girl 7", ABC Records 45-11240, 1969.

Hey There Lonely Girl b/w It's All in the Game

Are ya lonely, girl?
NØ

JyMM Rownil Numbsin Igithad

Various - My Mind is a Jumble Right Now, NØ Comps, 2019

Intro (Whistlin' Pete) - U-Men
Voodoo Man in Dub - Vin Gordon
Story of the Heaviest Bassline Ever - Earl Zinger
Spell - Hot Chip
Picture - Defoe
Juice Party - U-Men
No Big Deal - Poptone
Nothing to Lose, Pt. 1 - Pieces of a Man
Bad Little Woman - U-Men
Adult in the Room - School of Language
Hungry Child - Hot Chip
Blight - U-Men
African Shores - Vin Gordon
Lady Day & John Coltrane (featuring Amp Fiddler) - Pieces of a Man
Ball of Confusion - Poptone
Dig it a Hole - U-Men
A Beautiful Wall - School of Language
Last of the Great Bassline Hunters - Earl Zinger
Spell (Superorganism remix) - Hot Chip
Outro (Dig it a Hole) - U-Men

,yojnE
ØN

Vaping on a Wave

They have these clandestine farmer’s markets around the area. You can get pretty much whatever turns yer crank & with out all the (yes) sir...er...charges. Been getting these full gram cartridges for $10 USD. Right now my poison is Green Crack live extract with Granny Smith terpenes.

Phenomenal elevation, my friends.

Hey, here's an idea. How about listening to some vaporwave!?!?!?

Vaporwave is a micro-genre of electronic music that emerged in the early 2010s. The style is defined by its appropriation of 1980s & 1990s mood music styles such as smooth jazz, elevator music, R&B, & lounge music. The vaporwave artists typically sample or manipulate tracks via chopped & screwed techniques along with a multitude of other effects.

The vaporwave adherents seem to possess an ambiguous satirical take on consumer capitalism & pop culture. They often tend toward a nostalgic or surrealist engagement with the popular entertainment, technology, & advertising of previous decades. It also incorporates early Internet imagery, late 1990s web design, glitch art, anime, 3D-rendered objects, & cyberpunk tropes in its cover artwork or music videos.

All thanks to 骨架的; (Skeleton)  for bringing a vision to this visceral visible exhalation, this fog, this mist, this steam, this smoke, or noxious gas, all diffused through or suspended in the air...responsible for the familiar processes of cloud formation & condensation...employed to carry out the physical processes of distillation & headspace extraction from a liquid sample.

Various - Vaping on a Wave, NØ Comps, 2019.
all decryption codes in comments

Eccojam A1 - Chuck Person
Smoke - Skeleton
Press Stop Immediately - SAINT PEPSI
Sleep 1 - Skeleton
Talk About It (SAINT PEPSI remix) - Erik Hassle
Silky Sheets - Skeleton
Alm Trees, Wi-Fi--Dream Sushi - James Ferraro
Once Again - Skeleton
Vagabong - SAINT PEPSI
Yeah - Skeleton
Eccojam B3 - Chuck Person
Stay with Me - SAINT PEPSI
90s - Skeleton
Gin City featuring Taøers - SAINT PEPSI
Global Lunch - James Ferraro
Intrusions - Tim Heckler & Daniel Lopatin
Haircut 100 - SAINT PEPSI




There are several releases you might want to follow up with if the Vapors have taken you. Ramona Xavier's (under the nom de musique Macintosh Plus) Floral Shoppe is considered by many as the blueprint for the genre.

Macintosh Plus - Floral Shoppe, Beer on the Rug BOTR009, 2011.

ブート

リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー

花の専門店

ライブラリ

地理 

Eccoと悪寒ダイビング

数学

待機

ピコ

外ギン Aviation 

て 

地帯

"PlunderCorporation+® would like to welcome you to an experience unlike any other.

Earth^2: An experience irresistible to the senses, where you can live out your wildest phantasies, and create entire realities from the most abstract of dreams.

Ev̶ery̢thi͏ng yơu co͡u̢ld ev̧er̸ wa̡n͟t̸."




Here's Bob!!!

b ｌ ａ ｃ ｃ ｌ ｏ ｄ ｇ ｅ - the back wards, good luck hunting since 2017.

earth^2-program-setup-welcome.wav
run_channel_surfer-cursed_walkman-
run_fantasy_program-high-sea-samba-
run_pursue-new-desert
final cigarette
plugin_unknown-zalgo_lives
untitled
sintegration
groovy sundae
stikkerbrusher
eloveator
kloakkenwerfer
open wide the gates

Hit it then git it,
NØ
 

Shut Up

Saw this 4th past, thought it fit in good here.

I was listening to Soul Jazz Records The World of Keith Haring compilation today.

Two song from Haring's fellow NYC artist/friend George Condo's David Thomas (of Pere Ubu) produced single by The Girls ( "Jeffrey, I Hear You" & "The Elephant Man" ). I had previously posted a very popular mega-post Separating the Boys from The Girls which dealt with a plethora of The Girls & The Girls related bands ( Hi-Sheriffs of Blue; Carney, Hild & Kramer; Cul de Sac; & Shut Up).

Shut Up was a crazy twisted synth punked outfit co-founded by The Girls vocalist, keyboard/ synthesizer wizard Robin Amos. At the time I posted StBfTG, I only had two tracks from their album Hell in a Handbasket. In the interim, I acquired the full album, so thought I'd do a little touch-up.

Liner note states, "A semi-articulate, unharmonious, dense, Non-Homogenious, Poly-rhythmic, Electro-acoustic, Psychedelic record".  Their rendition of "Hey Joe" is worth the price of admission here.

Shut Up is: Robin Amos - vocals & synthesizer; Glenn Jones - guitar; Gilda Brasch - syntesizer; & Gene Thompson - drums.

Shut Up - Hell in a Handbasket, Brasch Music BR101, 1985.

decryption code in comments

Side One -
Intro
All Alone *
Depressions
Thalidomide ^
Stiff Birds
Every *
Pass from View

Side Two -
Hey Joe *
Looking at Dogs
Fear of Sounding Pretty
Outro

* Nathan Shapiro - bass
^ Gilda Brasch - vocals

Enjoy or shut up,
NØ

Final Leg Leg Leg of the Elephant Walk Walk Walk

The final leg of this Elephant Table Album project begun October 7, 2017 (actually hatched from a post All the Usual Suspects six days prior & a fatal comment from one W. -).  It's been really enjoyable, just so many things get in the way or get their own way or...

( re-posted March 3, 2019 )


"When I started on October 7, & Other Galactic Funk I stated: 'that...I hope I can do the other three sides before my short attention span puts the kibosh to this plan. Well, at least, here's Side One..."  "


"I managed to post up the second side the next day Elephant Round-up Side 2. Then my mind took a walk somewhere else. But like this Elephant thaang goin' on, I never forget, even if I wander off for a while."


"Finally, installment three of this crazy-ass project  (Back to the Round-up, March 3, 2019)  that I started October 1, 2017 when I posted The Elephant Table Album (a Compilation of Difficult Music). Then NSS regular W. commented: 'This is a rather fantastic collection of early works from some now well know electronic/experiemntal artists.' which led me to the idea of posting a full album by each band on all four sides of TETA."

Here we go with Final Leg Leg Leg of the Elephant Walk Walk Walk with these suspect devices:  Bourbonese Qualk; Sirius B; New 7th Music; We Be Echo; & Bushido...

Bourbonese Qualk - Laughing Afternoon, Recloose Organisation LOOSE 004, 1983.

all decryption codes in comments

Side 1 -
God with Us
Idiot Pain
Barcelona Telephone Exchange
Freefall
Blood Orange Bargain Day
Behind Closed Doors

Side 2 -
Qualk Street
Hell with the Consequences
Building Jerusalem
Feast of Trumpets
Virgin Ears, Virgin Eyes
Spanner in the works
Mystery Dance

Sirius B - Graphic Madness 7" single, 198?

Side One -
Trauma of the Hunt

Side Two -
Is This the End?

New 7th Music - In a Dream cassette, ADN TAPES 19, 1985

Side A -
Live at the Richmond Brighton
In a Dream
Violin Phase

Side B -
The Bitter Humours of Fermenting Passion Flow
The Circle of Violence
Life Began from Here
Ritual

we*be*echo - Ceza Evi C60 cassette, Cause For Concern CFC 023, 1983.

Side A (really 2)
Sexuality
Punish You
No Going Back
Death Row
A New Day
I'm a Gambler
It was You
Micropenis
Dirty Harry

Side 1 (really B)
Survivalists II
Knechtshaft
This Hour’s Mine
I Want
Got You
Paranoid
House of Punishment
Manson
Kick

Bushido - The Sands of Nakajima, Third Mind Records TMLP 10, 1984.

Side Sunrise -
Rain
If
She Had to Say Yes
Johnny Fez's South Mediterranean Blues (Moroccan Roll)
First Respects (for NS & BV)
Laugh, Clown, Laugh

Side Sunset
Among the Ruins
False Prophets = False Profits (Concrete mix)
San Sebastian
Black August - The Rape of Honour
Calm

Bushido - Deliverance, Third Mind Records TMLP 12, 1985.

Side One -
A Question of Identity
Lament
Intrigue

Side Two -
An Imperial Affair
High Rise
Question of Time

Walk that Elephant Table Walk, y’all.
NØ