559A Weirdos Having Fun

Yeah, Wonderful Weirdo's day is still a few weeks away, so I'm getting these next few mixes out in your hands so you are well prepared.

Maybe it was all those years listening to Vicki Bennett's "Do or DIY" radio show on WFMU.  Maybe its my disdain for pop music.  Bottom line, I love weird things.  The next several playlists highlight some oddball music that usually defies categorization.   This is the stuff I listen to when no one else is around.

00:00  The Tape Beatles - Frog Story

00:28  The Broken Pen1s Orchestra - Introducing a case of mistaken identity

05:47  Renaldo & The Loaf - The Elbow is Taboe

08:35  This Heat - Twilight Furniture

13:35  Zu & Eugene Chadbourne - Everybody needs a Chadbourne (to love)

14:37  If, Bwana - Jungle Horn

16:49  Destroy All Monsters - Noodlin'

18:41  Faust - Party 10

19:44  Stock, Hausen & Walkman - Untitled

22:23  The Residents - Serenade for Missy

25:34  Xiu Xiu - Laura Palmer's Theme (Angelo Badalamenti)

30:25  Hirsche Nicht Aufs Sofa - Silvester-Effekte

33:05  Cassetteboy - Large Father

34:38  The Loop Orchestra - Gam

37:27  The Locust - #99

38:44  Mixed Band Philanthropist - After Having Known Nietzsche and Sworn By Their Mistresses

43:16  John Oswald - Prelude

44:03  Mo Junkie - Teoria e Ufologia

47:03  People Like Us, The Jet Black Hair People & Wobbly - Yodel Bomber

50:46  V/VM - How Deep Is Your Lard? (Bee-Gees)

54:41  Irr. App. (Ext.) - Smelly Tongues (The Residents)

57:21  Rank Sinatra - Take Me On (When Midi Files Collide) (A-Ha)

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558 Regular Girl Fragments Saved Superstar

Not much to say about this one.  More electronic tunes, some DnB, lots of quirky good fun.

00:00  Legion of Green Men - Interim Opuscule #57

01:19  Oneohtrix Point Never & Elizabeth Fraser - Tales from the Trash Stratum

04:18  Miki Nakatani - Superstar (Andrea Parker mix)

09:30  Million Brazilians - Untitled III

11:49  Nodens Ictus - Pigtuft

14:48  Bowery Electric - Saved (readwriteerror mix by Thread)

19:49  Squarepusher - Decathlon Oxide

23:53  Clark - Urgent Jell Hack

27:52  Everything But The Girl - Blame (J Majik VIP remix)

33:50  Amon Tobin - Like Regular Chickens (Dillinja mix)

41:09  The Art of Noise - Art of Love (Remixed by Ils)

47:09  Jacob's Optical Stairway - Fragments of a Lost Language

52:20  Hrvatski - You Didn't Look High Enough

58:08  Christoph de Babalon - The Hunt

63:05  Cliponville OrkEstra - Queens (Yamantaka / Sonic Titan)

66:15  Sun Electric - Shuttle

71:07  Thomas Park with Brian Eno and David Byrne - Dub Me Somebody 2

76:10  Faust - Meer (alternative take)

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557 Covers

A fun set of cover songs that I'd been enjoying lately.  Was a good trip down memory lane hearing these again as I've had most in my collection for quite a while.  The image here is a quilt, which I have an appreciation for the effort and craftsmanship put into them after spending a lot of time talking with the artists at the recent 4-H exhibit at our county fair.  Side note, my daughter took 1st place in her category at the fair and is now headed to the state fair later this month, exciting times for the Mooz household.

00:00  Nick Cave - Running Scared (Roy Orbison)

02:01  Mexrrissey - Estuvo Bien (Suedehead) (Morrissey)

05:39  Iron Horse - Carry On My Wayward Son (Kansas)

09:04  First Aid Kit - Famous Blue Raincoat / Anthem (Live) (Leonard Cohen)

15:03  Codeine - Atmosphere (Joy Division)

19:41  Scarlett Johansson - Town With No Cheer (Tom Waits)

24:28  Dead Boys - Pigs on the Wing (Pink Floyd)

28:09  Antony & The Johnsons - I was young when I left home (Bob Dylan)

33:37  Bonnie Pink - Through the Dark (The Sundays)

37:36  The Ropers - Jumping Someone Else's Train (The Cure)

40:10  Bunnygrunt - Silly Girl (Descendents)

42:27  The Locust - Master and Servant (Depeche Mode)

46:05  Sing-Sing - Sunbathing (Lush)

48:55  Murder By Death - Road to Nowhere (Talking Heads)

53:11  Beautiful Junkyards - Radioactivity (Kraftwerk)

57:28  Fall of Saigon - The Model (Kraftwerk)

60:28  Space Negros - I Wanna Be Your Dog (The Stooges)

63:17  Jah Wobble - Time (Pink Floyd)

77:17  The Dynamics - Seven Nation Army (The White Stripes)

72:25  Richard Cheese - Smoke Two Joints (Toyes)

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556 Snippits mix 3: the bits between the bits

Here it is, volume 3 of my snippit mixes.  Collecting short tracks (generally 1 minute or less) from albums when I was compiling other mixes and dumped them in a folder to be sorted later.  96 tracks took quite an effort to sort and arrange into somewhat of a musical narrative.  Quirky humor, blasts of cacophony, at times peaceful, and some almost resembling songs.  Vol 1 and Vol 2 still available.

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00:00  Pigface - Dialogue

00:05  Fantomas - untitled

00:07  My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult - Acid X-Mas

00:09  People Like Us - Mr Rotovator / Barry Bonker

01:13  The Evolution Control Committee - Hello

01:29  Dr. P. Li. Kahn - Der Gute Ton

01:40  The Rapture - In Finite Clock!

02:09  Iceage - Intro

02:51  Scattertape - Shelving A Tempered String (Intro)

03:51  Legion of Green Men - Time Tunnel

04:03  Edward Ka-Spel - Intermezzo

04:31  Picchio Dal Pozzo - Bofonchia

05:20  Nostalgie Eternelle - Laqueda

06:29  Gang Gang Dance - Interlude (No Known Home)

07:44  Hieroglyphics - Prelude

08:04  Thrones - Hulder Maiden

08:31  Clark - Dew on the Mouth

09:35  Wavves X Cloud Nothings - Untitled II

10:47  Destroy All Monsters - Imagine

10:53  Red Hot Chili Peppers - Higher Ground (Politician mini rap)

11:02  Cassetteboy - Hodeous Krow

11:48  The Horse He's Sick - Musicbox2

12:55  Ninetynine - Manga Girl Cut

14:00  Necromandus - Mogidisimo (reprise)

15:08  Yonderboi - The Severance

15:28  Fuel - Firefly

16:35  The Amorphous Androgynous - Physically I'm Here, Mentally Far, Far Away

17:40  Kid Congo Powers, Julee Cruise & Khan - Julee Sweet Talk

17:48  Wavves X Cloud Nothings - Untitled I

19:03  Howard Finster - Brief Harmonica Interlude

19:26  Calexico - Vinegaroon

20:29  Androo - Overflown Y Dub

20:42  Collections of Colonies of Bees - Fun

21:59  Soft Pink Truth - Lookin Back (Carol Channing)

22:42  Hood - //-

23:20  Matt Howden - Small Dark Spot (from Neptune)

24:10  Mark Van Hoen - Past Glories

24:55  Irr. App. (Ext.) - The Demi-Omadaun's Tale

25:55  Edward Ka-Spel - Prelude for a Splash

26:13  Mark Clifford - Phased Final

27:05  Oku & AK7 - Last Night

27:17  Mort Garson - ESP

28:06  The Legendary Pink Dots - een ogenblik alstubleft

29:24  Outhud - This Just In (Intro)

29:50  Gigabot - Krouter

30:50  DJ Spooky vs The Freight Elevator Quartet - The RCA Mark II Synthesizer

31:37  Michael Mills - Prince

31:45  Aphrodesia - November 5 (part I)

33:01  Viktor Vaughn - Overture

33:35  Jeremy Lubbock - Full Blast Link

33:48  Antipop Consortium - PSA 2

34:42  Typhoon - Intermission

35:47  The Prunes - Intermission pt 6

36:17  Felt - Christina Intro

36:39  Felt - Corey's Interlude

37:19  Genesis - Aisle of Plenty

38:46  Faust - Dr. Schwitters Snippet

39:35  Colin Potter - Quick One

39:55  The Uncluded - Superheroes

40:32  Gesellschaft Zur Emanzipation Des Samples - Hawaiian Machine Chant

41:37  SPASM - John Cage Said

42:47  Download - Lenge T'agn

43:51  Q and Not U - O'No

45:03  Twisted Science - Link One

45:43  Mice Parade - Dub Interlude #1 (Boodley)

46:16  Space Negros - Sweep

46:44  Colin Potter - Vertigo

46:56  Malaria! - Interlude Mensch/Desire

47:25  Download - Papa Papa Mula CWM

48:19  Cock E.S.P. - I lied about your band so I could drink beer for free

48:59  SPASM - If I Cut The Globe

49:17  Nailbomb - Sh!t Pinata

50:25  Buckethead - A3 (KFC Skin Piles)

51:11  People Like Us - I Am Very Happy

51:57  Gas - Vapourware

52:56  Severed Heads - Floopness

54:09  DBPIT - Ambient 1

55:11  Odd Nosdam - Toki 1

56:00  Front 242 - offend

57:23  Reinier Van Houdt - Spiral

58:45  Deerhunter - Tape Hiss Orchid

59:37  Ninetynine - Gamelan

60:00  Acid Bath - Old Skin

61:14  S.A. Slayer - TLO 22 

62:01  Ceremony - Kersed

62:39  Les Joyaux De La Princesse & Regard Extreme - Untitled

62:42  Paavoharju - Vitvalkoinen

64:13  Om Unit - Intro

65:03  Locust - Morning Light

66:22  Spielbergs - Kano GM

66:42  Fugazi - Untitled

67:29  Burial - Untitled

67:56  u-Ziq - 27

68:56  UNKLE - Outro (Mandatory)

69:54  The Residents - Be Kind to U-Web Footed Friends

70:29  Edward Ka-Spel - Lights' Out

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555B A Hazy Shade of Farmsteading

00:00  Nigel Godrich - Sorry I Guess

01:10  Foehn - A Wild Face Pours Words on the Last Beach

05:29  Slow Loris - Too Bad Man

10:16  Hood - Boer Farmstead 

14:54  AMP - Sunflower (Acoustic Version)

17:51  Flying Saucer Attack - At Night 

51:49  Labradford - WR

24:20  Hood - Brances Bare

29:43  Sigur Ros - Svefn-g-englar

38:34  Jessamine - Secret

43:35  Saddar Bazaar - West

48:25  AMP - GreenSky BlueTree

51:09  Main - Flametracer

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555A Remember the Big Sun

This is another old set of files I'd been sitting on (was originally mix 194 in my numbering system).  Focused mostly on lo-fi, ambient, fuzzy shoegaze stuff.  I'm sure there's a name for this genre, though it eludes me now.

00:00  Labradford - V (Harold Budd remix)

05:19  Movietone - Sun Drawing

09:03  Foehn - Pour Vous Timide Voyou

12:57  Bark Psychosis - Big Shot

17:31  Centipede - White

20:59  Possession - For Andrew Gide

23:13  Hood - Fading Hills

27:21  AMP - Remember?

32:18  Flying Saucer Attack - Feedback Song Demo

34:47  Crescent - Superconstellation (Third Eye Foundation)

47:40  Main - Spectra Decay

52:05  Sound Smith - Song 9

55:50  Jessamine - You Have Ugly Talents, Martha

61:25  AMP - Zoe

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554 No God, only Doom!

   I read an article years ago on MetalSucks that touted the 25 best doom metal songs.  Naturally I went about trying to source and compile them into a playlist only to find that I didn't really like all the weird avenues and nuances of the doom metal genre.  Sure I like the big names and the easier to digest groups, but most of that playlist wasn't my cup of tea.   So I sat on this for... well pretty much since I started this blog.  This was originally labeled as my mix #66, and here we are up at 554.  

Over those years I took my time and if I came across a track that fit better with the overall feeling I wanted to express with this playlist I'd add it to the folder, and this could no longer be called a doom metal mix.  Months later I'd review and scrap some tracks and resurrect others.  Eventually I just said screw it, close enough, and I filled in the last few holes to make what is available here.  I would love some recommendations for this genre as I know I'm missing some gems.

00:00  Belzebong - The Bong of Eternal Stench

05:56  Weedeater - Wizard Fight

08:08  Acid Bath - Paegan Love Song

13:29  Green Lung - Call of the Coven

18:11  Viaje a 800 - El Amor Es un Perro del Infierno

22:48  Torche - Rockit

23:53  No Zodiac - Chaos Reigns

26:25  Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today

34:07  Sleep - The Druid

38:57  Earth - High Command

44:30  Isis - Hand of Doom (Black Sabbath)

52:36  Bongripper - Satan

64:06  The Sword - Winter's Wolves

68:37  Amon Amarth - Raise Your Horns

72:57  Celtic Frost - Procreation (of the Wicked)

76:59  Without God - They Rot

84:43  Yob - Original Face

91:42  Disma - Chasm of Oceanus

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553 El-P

  El-Producto, aka Jaime Stuart Meline has been an unrelenting force in rap music for three decades.  I remember getting "Funcrusher Plus" when it came out and being instantly hooked, especially the DJ Premiere remix of "8 Steps to Perfection."  El-P's production work is no joke either, Cannibal Ox made me take notice of that.  Throughout the years my favorite of his works were his guest appearances, many of which are included here along with some productions and remixes.  His career was all leading up to Run The Jewels, which is a like a late career megaton bomb.  Amazing and shows he still has a lot of gas left in the tank.

00:00  Company Flow - Patriotism

05:07  Del tha Funkee Homosapien feat El-P - Offspring

09:25  Hangar 18 feat El-P, Camu Tao, Rob Sonic, Cryptic One & Murs - One Night At The Bar

14:49  ICE - Trapped in 3 Dimensions (El-Producto mix)

17:52  Aesop Rock feat Camu Tao & El-P - Rickety Rackety

22:20  Cannibal Ox feat El-P - Ridiculoid

27:02  DJ Vadim feat El-P & DJ Prometheus - Viagra

29:52  DJ Krush feat Company Flow - Vision of Art

33:59  Roots Manuva - Juggle Tings Proper (Madness, Michrochips & Hi-Tek War mix)

38:33  Push Button Objects feat Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Mr. Lif & DJ Craze - 360 (El-P remix)

42:13  +++ feat El- P - Big Youth

45:14  Techno Animal feat El-P Vastaire Kramer - We Can Build You

49:27  Handsome Boy Modeling School - Megaton B-Boy 2000

54:17  Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs feat El-P - Glib Tongued

57:56  The Mars Volta - Goliath (El-P remix)

61:38  El-P feat The Blue Series Continuum - Get Your Hand Off my Shoulder, Pig

68:10  El-P DBA The Lyrical Punisher & J-Treds - Freestyle (Interlude)

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