23 March 2011

An American Band

Ako ste/si rok kritičar ili čovjek koji aktivno prati glazbu i drži do sebe eto benda koji je ful uncool i nemojte si dalje ovo čitati jer će vas slične ljudske izdrkotine popljuvati odmah.
Moj prvi susret s ovim bendom bio je preko lista Rock(rok) koji je izlazio jelte u bivšoj državi i bilo je to ona legendarna rubrika - nešto kao legendarni albumi rok muzike (tako se to tada zvalo) i recenzija ilitiga napis o njihovom prvom albumu On Time. Ja sam mislio da je to uf baš mjuza za mene jer je tamo ako se dobro sjećam bilo riječi o nekakvoj grmljavini. I tako ni 5 ni 6 eto ja nabavio ne taj nego album nakon njega istoimeni dakle Grand Funk Railroad (crveni cover).
Pa, nakon što sam čuo i neke speed metal i hardcore bendove nije meni to grmilo ali sam gušto slušat. Meni to bilo mekano i hm..."elastično" jer je bass bio visoko u miksu, ali to visoko u mixu sam skužio tek kasnije kad sam naučio što je to mix itd. dakle kad mi se percepcija glazbe bespovratno uništila...sad kad raščlanjujem glazbu taj osjećaj slušanja glazbe intuicijom više nije moguć.
Kasnije sam još čuo albume E Pluribus Funk, Survival (moj osobni favorit iako objektivno i nije baš nešto, ali znate ono ima nekih albuma koji svi pljuju a vama je zakon) i ovaj ovdje album koji je zaista zaista dobar. Tko sluša tu neku nazovimo je "gitarsku" glazbu ovaj album će mu dobro sjest, provjereno jer sam par puta dao ljudima da ovo poslušaju i onako na "slijepo" bez da znaju o kome je riječ niko nije pljuvao već dapače guštao.
Toliko od mene, a sada glazba iz našeg studija:

Kolega Tehnikalija:

RCM Hannl 'limited' with "Rotating Brush"
Music Hall MMF 9.1 Turntable
Tonearm: Pro-Ject 9cc evo with Pure Silver Wires
Cartridge: Nagaoka MP-500
Brocksieper Phonomax (Tube Phono PreAmp)
E-MU 0404 external USB 2.0 Audiointerface
Interconnections : Silent Wire NF5
WaveLab 6 recording software
iZotope RX Advanced 1.21 for resampling and dithering

Vacuum cleaning > TT > Brocksieper Phonomax > E-MU 0404 > WaveLab 6 (24/192) > manual click removal >
analyze (no clipping, no DC Bias offset) > converted to 24/96 (16/44.1) with iZotope RX Advanced 1.21
> split into individual Tracks > FLAC encoded (Vers. 1.21)

No silence been removed, please burn gapless to match original tracklayout.

With my vinyl transfers, I try to catch the whole beauty of vinyl records; therefore I don't use any post-processing or any sound improvement. What you get is a clear and flat transfer. For getting a clear sound, I'll do an extended washing of each record with my RCM, which can take up to 30 minutes brushing on each side. Resistant ticks and clicks I try to remove as good as possible, but the priority is not to lose any musical information in the process. Surface noises, as long they are not too high, are left in place. Only on bad pressings or on records recorded at extremely low levels do I use a fade in-/-out. As John Peel said, "Life is full of surface noises." In some cases this means that I have to make a compromise.... The result has to pass my personal quality criteria, which is IMO quite high.

All files are inside the folders.
High resoulution files are marked as 2496, CD-compatible files as 1644.

link
PASS: aksman

22 March 2011

Lossless rips


Planiram ubuduće postati neke zanimljive lossless ripove ilitiga vinile i cd-e transferirane na kompjuter u punom njihovom im sjaju. Fajlovi su veliki ali ih se isplati skinuti i poslušati. Izbor je isključivo moj a fajlovi nađeni na netu negdje/bilo gdje.
Hvala ljudima koji su to marljivo lijepo ripali sa vinila s dobrom opremom i s dobrih ploča.
Smrt plastičnim gramofonima i smrt jeftinim sapphire iglama. Oni su i donijeli smrt vinilu ali saut šel rajz agen!
Neke albume jednostavno ne mogu imat na cd-u, ne ide mi to. Kao da kupim lutku na napuhavanje a želim zitgu pravu ženu. Nije isto i neće moći.
Dobro, znam da sam sick ali ipak ima i gorih od mene vidi ovo:

Pločomanijaci
Pločuljupci
Pločošupci
Pločimačci
Pločoderi
Pločožderi
Pločoperi
Pločonožci

Inače čuo sam da najviše diskofila ima u Pločama...koja ideja za njihovu turističku zajednicu..."Sajam ploča u Pločama" Ko ne dodje pakšu uf haug rgh mgh!

AFRICAN HEAD CHARGE vinyl rips!


Već prije sam postao jedan album od AHC, ali ovo je pravo blago:
5 albuma izripanih sa vinila u lossless formatu. Dakle prava rijetkost, ali i nevjerovatan gušt jer bas ore duboko i trese tebe, sobu, namještaj, susjedov luster i goblene njegove bake (ionako su ružni i imaju premalo pixela).
Pronađeno negdje drugdje na netu kao i obično...(čuvajte se Rusa!)
Hvala Avaxu na udarxu.
A sada za one koje zanimaju pojedinosti i tehnikalije evo ih u svom njihovom sjaju:
African Head Charge - 5 Albums
Drastic Season - Environmental Studies
My Life In A Hole In The Ground - Off The Beaten Track - Songs Of Praise
Vinyl Rip in 24-Bit/96-kHz FLAC tracks Artwork Filesonic 4,2 GB
Reggae, Dub Label: On - U sound 5 LP stereo
E, pazi sad ovo je vrlo bitno: zvuk je nekompresiran i ovo je DVD - AUDIO, ponavljam DVD - AUDIO. Ako želite ovo slušati u nekom "manjkavom" formatu, bježite od ovog posta glavom bez obzira.
- 24bit/96khz vinyl rips of 5 African Head Charge albums:

1 Drastic Season
2 Environmental Studies
3 My Life In A Hole In The Ground
4 Off The Beaten Track
5 Songs Of Praise

The DVD-A has a menu system allowing selecting of each individual album or track on an album for playback.
This DVD-A is only playable in any DVD-A player.
ManWhoCan's vinyl ripped by Euripides.

Rip rig: Nu vidju kakav rig srcetij****m

Vpi HW-17F Record Cleaning Machine,
Heybrook TT2 turntable,
Origin Live! Power supply and DC motor,
Origin Live! modified Rega RB300 Tone Arm,
Lyra Helikon M/C Cartridge,
Denon PMA 8500 Integrated Amplifier (Phono Section Only)
ESI Systems Juli@ Sound Card sampling at 96Khz/32bit.
Measured S/N ratio for this system was -86 dB
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1)
African Head Charge - Drastic Season
On-U Sounds October 1983 (UKLP) ON-U LP27 Recorded - 1983
Electronic, Reggae, Dub, Experimental, Lee Library

Featuring percussion by the one Style Scott; Congos by Bonjo I; produced by Adrian Sherwood. You should already know about African Head
Charge, but for those who don't....

(from Skysaw):
It always seemed that Adrian Sherwood's future-proof labelling of his early eighties On-U Sound albums, as for example - "another 1992 On-U
Sound production", was an affectation at best & mild megalomania at worst. Listening back to that work now the arrogant young producer's
artistic licence can be acknowledged as precociously well founded, especially when applied to the work of the unit known as African Head Charge
(AHC). This virtual band coalesced around the percussion talents of Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah, Bonjo to you & me, subsequent to the demise of
Creation Rebel, a real time band who had been subject to the rigours, disciplines & boredom that recording, rehearsing, touring & playing
inevitably bring.
The "Drastic Season" LP (ON-U LP 27) was originally released on vinyl on the 20th of October 1983. Like its predecessors it was a largely
instrumental affair with little actual dubbing & no detectable vocal samples. However the sound of Sherwood's production had become radically
different with the move to Southern Studios, where state of the art digital studio hardware lived in harmony with the hard edged punk ethic of
the musicians who inhabited the area by night. The first phase of AHC's development was coming to a logical conclusion, as on their future
recorded output we would discover more studio generated ideas & the introduction of more chants & captured vocal & ambient sounds (samples)
whilst Bonjo conversely emerged as the leader of not only a real band, but also a fully-fledged touring outfit.

So this set finds Head Charge very much in mid-stream. Bonjo had not yet carved out his niche as the happy-go-lucky king of the ethno-chant so
beloved by the festival-goers of UK & Europe. The sound of "Drastic Season" is stop-go, at once urgent but searching, wired & speed-fuelled,
some would find the listening experience failing to stop short of the psychotic. The band suffered from not conforming to one particular category
or another, not reggae or new wave & certainly not new romantic! Who would play this on radio? Which promoter would take the risk of presenting
this stuff in live performance before a crowd of innocent & gullible students? Where was this music coming from? The answer was - the mind &
fingers of Adrian Sherwood who regarded the album's studio sessions as...

"...experiments in active frequencies, out of time noises, rhythms within rhythms & endless tape edits (edits on edits) resulting in the ultimate
cut-up & paste job..."

...which, in retrospect, can be seen as an integral learning experience for the then young producer. When "Drastic Season" was originally released
On-U Sound were not in the habit of commissioning sleeve notes for their albums. However, a few sporadic press releases crept out of the On-U
bunker, including this one:

"A high-tech rhythm mix of human, animal & machine sounds, captured on the Southern Studios digital rig by the "wackid' mixer ADRIAN
SHERWOOD, up in sunny Wood Green, "DRASTIC SEASON" features that On-U rugged bass sound. Check it if you're a dancer, a listener, a film
maker, a computer programmer, a human or an animal. Special treats in store for steam locomotive enthusiasts & biologists. You've never heard
such sounds in your life (to quote ESP)."

2)
African Head Charge - Environmental Studies
UKLP: ON-U LP19 September 1982

Drums: Bruce Smith,Ben Bow,A.V.Scott & Mus' Come
Bass: Keith Logan, George Oban & Crocodile
Guitar: Crucial Tony
Keyboards: Fuse, Nick Plytas & Steve Beresford
Percussions: Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah
Melodica: Dr.Pablo
Harp [Chinese]: Kishi Yamamoto
Horns - "Deadly" Headley Bennett , Dave Flash Wright , Steve Beresford
Sounds, Effects - Crocodile

Engineer:Steve Smith
Producer:Adrian Sherwood
Studios:
Recording:Berry Street (London,UK)
Mixing:Berry Street (London,UK)
Mastered By - Kevin Metcalfe


3)
African Head Charge - My Life In A Hole In The Ground
On-U Sound Records 1981 UKLP: ON-U LP13

AFRICAN HEAD CHARGE My Life In A Hole In The Ground (Original 1981 French issue On-U Sound label 9-track vinyl LP.
One of the most revered albums of the post-punk era on Adrian Sherwood's label, largely due to it being an impressive
retort to the collaborative success of Brian Eno & David Byrne's My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts released earlier that year.
Film trivia fans take note, Far Away Chant was used to scary [& surreal!] effect in David Lynch's Wild At Heart. Glossy
picture sleeve ON-ULP13).

This LP my dear visitors is one of the very best On-U Sound
productions as far as I'm concerned. I would call this 'Urban
Ethnic Experimental Dub ina London Sauce', all stirred up to this
magnificent dish by 'Chef' Adrian Sherwood. Close your eyes and
let the music take you on a staggering trip without boundarys.
And again it's from 1981, what a year indeed.

4)
African Head Charge - Off The Beaten Track
On-U Sound Records August 1986 (UKLP and UKCLP) UKLP: ON-U LP40 / UKCLP: ON-U LP40C
Electronic, Dub, Reggae, Lee Library, World Music

Additional Musicians - Skip McDonald, Jah Wobble

5)
African Head Charge - Songs Of Praise
On-U Sound Records November 1990 (UKLP/CD1/CLP) UKLP: ON-U LP50

Personnel:

Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah (percussion),
Prisoner (drums),
Sunny Akpan [aka Sonny Akpan] (congas, percussion),
Crocodile (bass),
Junior Moses (bass),
Bruce Smith (drums),
Charlie Eskimo Fox (drums),
George Oban (bass),
Nick Plytas (keyboards),
Perry Melius (drums),
Tony Phillips (guitar),
Wayne Nunes (bass),
Skip McDonald (guitar, keyboards, backing vocals),
Jah Wobble (bass),
Andy Moses (djembe, percussion).

link list:
http://www.filesonic.com/file/63422145/AHC5x.part01.rar
svaki dan jedan post pametnome dost. meni jedan na mjesec ipo.

19 February 2011

Heavy Heavy Low Low



Another post covering the very few fine EP's from the last year.
This is Hospital Bomber from the band Heavy Heavy Low Low.Makes me wonder what will the album sound like, because this band makes perfect EP's.
Try:bombBOMB!

myspace

Ostario sam, znam. Ne mogu više pratit novu mjuzu, malo što me više diže. Kad sam bio mali svašta me oduševljavalo i dizalo. A onda sam odrastao i sve mi je "flat" 0 bodova. I onda ponekad, ali samo ponekad nešto novo me ujede za srce i ja poskočim (i uhvatim se za leđa/križa). Hospital Bomber je mom srdcu rekao BUM! i ja poskočih. HOP!

31 January 2011

Best of 2010



Here's a no brainer:
Best album of 2010........Backsliders an apostates will burn EP, by The Austerity Program, YEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!


And oh yes, you got to see the promo vid too:
The coolest trio on earth.

04 May 2010

SUN RA un mondo eliocentrico



Sun Ra, un mondo eliocentrico, LRS, 04/2002, musica jazz

1. Fate In A Pleasant Mood
2. Hocus Pocus
3. Dawn
4. Second Star To The Right
5. Discipline 27
6. A Quiet Place In The Universe
7. Space Is The Place - We Travel The Spaceways / Second Stop Is Jupiter / Outer Spaceways Incorporated
8. Yeah Man
9. String Singhs - Discipline 27 / I'll Wait For You

Oh my god! If there was something stranger than Sun Ra, Then humanity should be alarmed a bit '.
Nothing is in perpetual motion like this album And I fear that the Earth will never again be graced by something like that.
Sun Ra was a eccentric screwball who came from Saturn, played a clavinet (A keyboard instrument played by archetypal), field feeding on piles of garbage from George Lucas, dressed as ancient Egyptian, was a fire-eater in his shows, because you do not fucking believe how pure a angel, attended the Rotary Club of Grosseto and often went to dinner at Bill Gates. Sorry, the last two are not true, but Sun Ra himself was a absurd liar ...
This is free-jazz stage more experimental, Using instruments never heard before then to create a'Only to plot music as in its intentions, something alien and at the same time spiritual. Sun RaAmong other things, was also a musician a invented the day music cosmic.
Using electric keyboards under a years after their appearance, Sun Ra quickly pushed the new technology to the extreme limit.
Surprise, intrigue and terror, then, and the fact that Sun Ra believed to have met these extraterrestrial people is really the most normal thing in the middle of everything.
And, among other things, was also a musician ..

Well, I still prefer his rendition of Pink Elephants on Parade, a revorking of an old Disney tune appearing on Stay Awake compilation. He could do all sorts of things in an unique way.
Watch out for a standout track „Dawn“ recorded live in Egypt with some local allstar musitians. This is a real order of the songs and their correct titles. Forget mp3 tags since they are splendidly wrong. This cd is long time out of print and thus I hereby am correcting this injustice.

03 May 2010

Ole Lukkøye


Ole Lukkøye are part of the Russian underground. The band was formed by Boris Bardash and Andrej Lavrinenko in St. Petersburg in 1989. With the release of their second album "Toomze", the band showed the high ambition they aspired to: It's a concoction of British ArtRock, musical influences from all parts of the former Soviet Union and elements of ambient and trance which makes this music so intriguing. The group fuses traditional Russian styles (for example that of the Tuva-region in southern Siberia) with current western rhythms and sounds. The result, a dark and shamanistic psychedelic trance rock with much percussion and many acoustic instruments, opens a door between east and west. Ole Lukkøye knew the early albums of Faust, which found their way into the Russian music scene and acquired a cult following there. Thus the contact was established and after a meeting, the two parties agreed that Ole Lukkøye's fourth album Crystal Crow Bar was to be produced at Faust's studios in the spring of 2000.

Band's website

Ne Zhdali!




Gloriously wild, shamelessly blending elements of punk, Rock in Opposition, and traditional party music from Russian and Jewish extractions. Exit the mathematical instrumental compositions; these songs scream, shout, and laugh. They tap into the Ex's energy but pair it to the craziness of Palinckx and the Stick Men to cover up the sweet-and-sour feelings of a country freed from communist oppression but unable to fulfill aspirations. The horn section (Vadim Veeremaa and Oleg Davidovitch) plays intentionally out of tune; the rhythm section (Ilya Komarov and Vitaly Redchits) grooves through complex beats and sudden left turns, making them sound logical, almost inevitable. On top of it all, Soybelman sings his songs of surreal love in Russian and occasional Hebrew. Sounds like Melt Banana an Naked City covering beloved Soviet popular songs but in a wild & joyous mood.
Saw them play live twice and both concerts were damn good. I remember that guitar had an amp "Dinamit" (dynamite), of course made in USSR. It did not sound like that you know...

here are a few nice soviet guitars... but I wasn't able to find a picture of the amp anywhere. Anybody?

11 February 2010

Rapeman live Stockholm 1988


This is the best Albini fronted band ever. Full-stop.
Better than Big Black, better than Shellac, and better
than Scratch Acid. On a par with Jesus Lizard.
Final show of their only European tour, with lot of
interruptions, edited out but not entirely. They had some
problems with PA that night so first song is missing since they
started again when the right channel "occurred".
just listen to them play...their guts out.

09 February 2010

Psychic TV: my personal favourites...

Psychic TV were signed to WEA Records and subsequently CBS based on the infamy of Throbbing Gristle. Their first albums Force The Hand Of Chance and Dreams Less Sweet featured high production values, catchy pop songs written by Fergusson (with barbershop quartet vocals arranged by Andrew Pearson), and sound experiments primarily created by Peter Christopherson and Geff Rushton, a.k.a. John Balance. How about that lineup, ha?
Towards the end of this period Fergusson/P-Orridge completed their third proper studio album Allegory and Self: Thee Starlit Mire. It was at this point that Genesis became interested in acid house and techno. Alex Fergusson left and was replaced with techno artist Fred Gianelli.
In 92 Genesis got into rough wheather thanks to a fabricated accusation of satanic abuse, he exiled to California where he got introduced to Larry Thrasher, co-founder of the experimental noise band Thessalonians. This began a new period with Psychic TV returning to its psychedelic pop roots with Thrasher co-producing the critically acclaimed Trip/Reset.Sadly though it didn't last long.
So you might say that I prefer pop to techno? Guilty as charged.

24 January 2010

Hafler Trio


Hafler Trio (or H30, for short) is a project of Andrew McKenzie, who explores various sonic phenomena through his records. Another issue that the project explores is a blurred line between the fact and the faction and various ways of mass manipulation – initially the band claimed that Dr. Edward Moolenbeek was its founder, but he turned out to be a fictitious person. Initially, Hafler Trio included Moolenbeek, McKenzie and Chris Watson from Cabaret Voltaire, but eventually McKenzie became a center of the project.
Hafler Trio debuted in 1984 with “Bang! An Open Letter”, which was supposed to demonstrate that the band was a part of ROBOL, a research organization and worked on issues related to perception with Dr. Robert Spirgeon (all of which, of course, were also fictional).
All Music Guide pointed out that “Bang!” contains different types of material, including harsh ambient music, which H30 would explore in depth later, as well as looped and layered news and radio broadcasts. AMG concluded that “The album’s overall effect is a spectrum of recognition, from overt to subliminal, and the relative brevity of the tracks makes for an overall disorientation, requiring more active listening than the group’s later works.”
I bought this because this is the first project Chris Watson was engaged into after leaving Cabaret Voltaire. It is on the border where music ceases to exist in its original form. There is no melody just sound collages that sometimes have a rhythmic pattern because they are being constantly repeated. I would categorize this as "not quite music but not quite not music"
Latter day singles Wolf Sheep Cabbage - Episode 1 from 2004, Right Here Where You Are Sitting Now from 1996, are ambient, drone, cloudscape sound textures. I have ripped these off vinyl but it is perfect cd music. When put on a repeat it works better, because one listen is not enough.

22 January 2010

kings of dub















My favourite dub albums here on display.

Dub combo is a compilation of dub tracks from several Israel Vibration albums. It is the most laid back and the most classical dub of all albums here. Trans-cending.

Drums of defiance is more of a modern album, sort of trip hop meets dub meets african music. The feeling of this album is just great.

Twilight Circus Sound System is the most out-there dub into-infinity album of the three here on display. Chrome of dub. Deep groovy and reverberating into-space album. An endless chain of dub. Did I also mention hand made cover? I did not? No, I did.

best of 2009


Well, it's Jarvis Cocker and his Further Complications. It's way more exciting a record than anything bearing name Pulp. Plus it has signature Albini sound and signature Cocker wit and humor.
Not surpassed by anyone last year. Let's complicate some more this year Jarvis. Don't you get soft on me!

21 January 2010

Cabaret Voltaire - Outer Limits















The Outer Limits is another 1976 demo tape that came to the surface and made it to the Brainwashed CV discography.

Tracklist

A1
Capsules 7:29
A2
Is That Me (Finding Someone At The Door Again?) 4:48
A3
The Single 3:30
A4
Ooraseal 4:22
A5
Loves In Vein 4:30
A6
Dream Sequence 1 2:56
B1
Dream Sequence 2 3:42
B2
Do The Snake 5:59
B3
A Sunday Night In Biot 3:26
B4
She Loves You 8:44

My copy is two songs shorter than the one described on Brainvashed. It lacks Stolen from Spectra and Bedtime Stories.
Sound quality is... well this is a demo. Some of the songs appear on Methodology 1, and some on 1974-1976 album. Some versions do differ but only in length (they were edited because of the tape limitations, see they made these demos on c-60 cassette so they trimmed a song or two to fit on a cassette side.) Other versions seem to have different pitch. Again it is possible that the equipment they used to duplicate these tapes had different speed. But that only makes it all a bit more interesting does it not.
I like their early stuff. The sounds they produced back then show a great deal of creativity because it was not easy back then to create such sounds on equipment they had those days. I think highly of this period. Almost religious about it...

Companyia Electrica Dharma


Companyia Electrica Dharma is a long lived Catalan jazz ethnic rock combo. They have been around for more than 30 years with their first album dating as far as 1975. I've become acquainted with their work through two very different albums from 2000's. First one: Sonada! from 2000 and Llibre Vermell from 2002. Saw them play live 2003 promoting the latter. While Sonada is more upbeat and more Mediterranean and an overall cheerful album, Llibre Vermell is a medieval Mediterranean goth-like album. It's dark and it's all about creating a certain atmosphere, executed first rate . It only goes to prove that these are seasoned musicians each one a master of his own instrument. I was quite excited upon first hearing this record because I have never heard anything like it. The emphasis on their Catalan background is predominant but they also create a feel similar to some neo folk artists such as Death in June or later day Current 93 + The Ape of Naples era Coil.
The bottom line is, I really like this album.

07 January 2010

Bill Laswell City of Light


I bought this mainly because it has some interesting names on the front cover, mainly Coil to be frank, but it apparently is not the track worth buying this cd for. Trilok Gurtu and Tetsu Inoue have done a finer job here. All in all this is a Bill Laswell record. It has his signature sound written all over it and I find it to be a pleasurable listen allthough it is not your every day music you know. It is much more in vein of an other Laswell record which I enjoy very much: Hashisheen : The End Of Law
it also has Hakim Bey on it but it features vocals of Sussan Deyhim, and I'm a big, no, I'm a huge fan of her work.

try city of light first

then buy

11 November 2009

Santa's Little Helper







Shock Therapy was born from the distorted life of Itchy.

born May 30th 1964 - died Nov. 5th 2008
Unusual circumstances shape unusual artists! so also in the
case of the 80's Elektropunk icon Gregory John Mc Cormick,
better known under the artist
name "Itchy" (set on Iggy Pop!).

In the tender age of 8 years, his dad put him into a
locked mental clinic, because Itchy was out of norm!
and he only sat there
and watched the
people so strangly observe-calmly.
For Itchy, one of the personal Highlights in his career,
is his late friendship with Charles Bukowski. For his song genius
of the crowd
Itchy took thesame named lyrics of Bukowski,
and his publisher in
america demanded 5000 $
for the unallowed use of other artists thoughts.
After a telephone call between Bukowski and Itchy,
Bukowski visited Itchy and
gave him hispermission to use the
text free of charge.



then, some poetry by Itchy himself:

santa claus is sick
last night he drank too much
its his goddamned nagging wife
mrs. claus is a muther-humpin bitch

santa claus is sick
last night he scr*** a dirty old who**
too f****d up to wear a rubber
now theres a pus***g shanker on his d***

so this christmas itchy is coming
hes gonna s**t on your living room floor
instead of leaving a cheap plastic toy

When I played this song to my wife she said that it
sounded too scary for her taste.
Itchy is no fake, he's the real sh**. You either are
what you claim to be or you are not nor will you ever be.
I myself really like the amount of rage incorporated
into a some sort of mid eastern chant
which closes the first song of the set "The Golden Calf".
This is where I think he that he really means it.
It is a voice of a genuine rage.
He was for real.
Sleep tight, Itchy.


Gimme that cristmass present right now


Fusnota: Nedavno sam čitao knjigu Allice Miller - Drama Djetinjstva koja mi je
otvorila oči na nšto što dugo godina nisam mogao uprijeti prstom: u djetinjstvu
nam se događaju stvari (najčešće ružne) koje nam "serviraju roditelji" a mi
provodimo cijeli život brfaneći ih, trudimo se živjeti život kakav bi oni htjeli
da mi živimo, ili živimo točno onako kako oni ne bi htjeli, kako bilo, sve se vrti
oko njih ali mi to nismo svjesni.
Itchy je bio ljut na svoje roditelje a mrzio je svijet. Njegov bijes je palucao
po svemu oko njega ali nije bio usmjeren ka onima koji su ga stvorili takvog kakav
je bio. Njegov bijes nije bio fokusiran i pročišćavajući nego više sila prirode,
bez kontrole.
Sinead O' Connor je, čini mi se, imala taj moment katarze u
"Fire on Babylon", nakon toga je uslijedilo čuveno kidanje slike Pape, a sada 10-ak
godina nakon toga doznajemo otkuda taj bijes. Ona je vjerovatno bila i sama svjedokom
molestiranja djece pod okriljem crkve i krenula u svoj "boj". No najprije je
kanalizirala svoj bijes i obračunala se s majkom. Nakon toga je krenula dalje.
Sad kad je vidim ovako bucmastu i smirenu, mislim da i nije baš tako luda kako su
je prikazivali u medijima. Borila se za sebe.
Santa Claus kod Itchy-a možda predstavlja oca ali nisam psiholog,
možda su Santa Claus i njegova žena iz pjesme svi naši očevi i majke...




28 October 2009

Skin Yard


Toxic Shock TXLP-15, vinyl issue Spring '88, CD issue spring '92 with two bonus tracks. Was preceded by the single "Stranger/This Lonely Place" (Toxic Shock TX-009). CD also issued in Germany on Musical Tragedies MT-139. 200 copies of the vinyl were purple. The second pressing of the vinyl had the blue and red colors on the cover reversed, just for the hell of it. Recorded by Jack Endino at Reciprocal on the mighty Otari MX-5050 half-inch 8-track. Has been called their best album; definitely their most abrasive.

There is an obvious lack of an outstanding drummer that made all the difference between the first eponymous, and this album. I'm not saying that
Scott McCullum is not a good drummer, only that in comparison to Matt Cameron... well they are not in the same league. I find that there is slightly more filler on this one than on the first album, and I haven't heard any of the subsequent albums.
I always heard a strong Bowie influence in their music, especially in
Ben McMillan's voice, which is a sort of a compliment I guess. I would rate it 3 out of 5. Not bad album at all. Good for listening in a car.

Mailorder: $15.00 postpaid inside the U.S. through Paypal (this is a bit more than the other CDs, but this one is also the most rare and hard-to-find of their CDs)
try: toxic shock


Silverfish


Cockeye is a collection of some early ep's by the Silverfish often described as british Butthole Surfers fronted by a woman. Lesley Rankine, later went on to form excellent Ruby, but that was a whole different type of music. This was originally released on Wiija records in UK, but in US it was out on Touch & go. I think it describes what Silverfish were all about. Noisy, nasty, weird, funny, aggressive, energetic. Made to be played really loud.

try:
The eye of the cock
buy:
amazon

10 October 2009

Mojo Nixon for free on Amazon!


dig dis!

Complete Mojo for free on Amazon but only for a limited period of time. If you don't mind leaving your name & adress & pretty much everything else.
It works only if you are an US citizen, the rest of us get something like this:

We are sorry...
    We could not process your order. The sale of MP3 Downloads is currently available only to US customers located in the 48 contiguous states, Alaska, Hawaii, and the District of Columbia.

    We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
Well, you have been warned. I have been burned.

If you don't got Mojo Nixon/ Then your store could use some fixin. (Dead Milkmen)

I had Unlimited Everything on a cassette and wore it out. My personal favorites were Elvis is Everywhere, Burn Your Money, Amsterdam Dogshit Blues and Stuffin' Martha's Muffin.
Nowdays I think of him as one of the greatest names in economics. His songs aimed against banks and money are true philosophical jewels of modern economic theory and hold a timeless value.

I Hate Banks
by Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper

I hate banks...
I just can't stand 'em.
Gimme a shovel & man I'll plant 'em.
Six feet under thats where they belong...
I hate banks is the name of this song.
I think I'll rob myself one or two...
Yeah I hate banks, yeah, how 'bout you?

Well...lend me a nickel & lend me a dime,
repossess my house any old time.
Financial institutions think they're so high faluting...
Just a bunch of fruits in three piece suits,
trying to steal all my loot.
Things are smelling pretty rank,
We must be near a stinking bank.
Smells worse than Rockefellars feet,
Wall Street can eat my meat.

Yeah throw the moneylenders out of the temple;
I hate banks its just that simple.
Royal Crown Palm Ade Tin,
is a the best thing to keep your money in.
Mason jar is okay too,
if you see a bank well you know what to do.

Now, lemme tell you people something...
The only banks I like, well, I like Ernie Banks alright.
And I like the banks of the Mississippi River...
Yeah, and I like banks of fender twin reverb...
Electric guitar amplifiers behind me, raging on the stages...

Well,when I walk in they treat me like a dog;
want to hit them in the head with a doo-doo log.
Republicans, one and all...
Their talleywhackers are mighty small.
Stealing from the poor gonna give to the rich...
Wanna make the bank president twitch in a ditch.

Yeah, see that teller with the blue hair,
giving me the evil-eye stare.
Won't cash my check don't like my ID...
got the security guard after me.
If I was E. F. Sloane,
I'd say the Dow Jones can suck my bone.
Yeah.

Everybody say the three magic words!
I want you to help me say the words!
I want you to repeat after me!
I HATE BANKS!
Can't stand 'em!
I HATE BANKS!
Don't Like 'em!
I HATE BANKS!
Bunch of Foo-Foo's!
I HATE BANKS!
Contrary like a big zit!

I hate banks...
I just can't stand 'em.
Gimme a shovel & man I'll plant 'em.
Six feet under thats where they belong...
I hate banks is the name of this song.
I think I'll rob myself one or two...
Yeah I hate banks, yeah, how 'bout you?

Now lemme tell you something...
I'm not real fond of the PHONE COMPANY either!
You know?
Yeah, and I don't like the cable TV company.
You know why I don't like the cable TV company?
Cause they just be sucking that stuff right out the sky!
THEY don't have to pay nuttin for it!
I just get me one of them bootleg cable boxes,
and get me one of them climb the pole and stick the thing in...
I ain't gonna pay for it!
NOOOOO!!!!"