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Spicy Billybob season 2 promo (circa 2010)
updated
Proper video essay review thing for this album coming soon, this video is not meant to be a comprehensive review AT ALL, just some initial impressions. I very much need to listen more. I also have tons more thoughts on this record I didn't compile for this messy upload, email me or comment below :3
Special thanks:
Zoe
SNIZ
Johnny
Ariel
Kat
Rileigh
BIB
Cronker
No thanks whatsoever:
YouTube for cracking down on MP4 downloaders midway thru production of this
Probably six months ago now, I stumbled upon excellent rapper, DJ, producer, b-boy, and bedroom rocker EDAN. His album Beauty and the Beat is easily a top 50 hip-hop record of all time. Sadly, in his twenty-five years in the game, he's only put out two lyrical albums, a short collab EP and lots of very abstract mixtapes. One day, trolling thru his Discogs page, I found this mysterious recording listed. A live album by excellent Long Island MC and top-tier graffiti artist Oxygen, DJed by Edan and featuring several songs of his both old and totally new!
I searched for months for this CD, finding myself in PM chains with the likes of both Edan and Oxygen, DJ Muggs, and several fans who were in the right place at the right time. A common theme was that no one who owned a copy was willing to part. Not that I blame them. Finally, over vacation in OBX, I tracked down a guy who was at the show himself and got him to sell me his copy.
This tape is really something special. Ox and Edan have some really fantastic chemistry together (and if their previous tape together is to be believed, they'd been rehearsing this set for at least two years). Several new songs from the legend Oxygen (as well as a great rendition of Gone Diggin'), and a great collection of Edan classics, with four totally new routines! Including finally a clean recording of the mysterious Johnny the Fox. Tap in like Bobby Fisher.
Oxygen: Rhymes
EDAN: Cuts and Rhymes
0:00 Idealism ^
3:21 Brilliance ^
5:25 Mic Manipulator *^
8:11 Freestyle *
9:18 Gone Diggin' ^
10:33 33.3 ^
12:03 Syllable Practice *
13:32 U Havin' Fun Yet ^*
16:27 M.C.s Smoke Crack (routine) *^
19:27 Johnny the Fox *
21:58 Don't Do It! *^
25:50 Be Prepared For More *^
30:23 Torture Chamber *^
31:56 Making Planets *
33:20 Monologue *
35:02 I See Colours *
37:46 Mastermind's In Effect ^
^Oxygen vocals
*Edan Vocals
What can I say other than wow? It's still wild to me that I live in the timeline where Pompeii got a flawless 4K rescan and restoration of the 72 and 74 cuts, and that I saw them in theaters!
But are strange things indeed afoot at the circle K? Find out here!!
BGM Used:
Careful with that Axe, Eugene (live Oakland '77)
Childhood's End (live Brussels '72)
More Blues (Montreaux '70)
Thanks:
Johnny (for motivating me to do this)
Zoe
Rileigh
Roger Waters
The Bink Floyd
Cronker
Mom n Dad
2024 was certainly a wild ride, eh? One of the more tumultuous and uncertain years in my life, thankfully though there was a near-constant stream of amazing music coming out! Sure, you've all heard brat and Chromakopia, but in this video I'd like to take you guys through some releases you may not have heard, and still deserve your attention all the same.
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
1:00 Brainorchestra - The Stone Tablet
4:59 CIGARETTE in your Bed - Lost In...
7:51 The Tragic Attic - The Collected Tragic Attic
10:50 Junclassic - Afrocentric Alien
15:12 Joey Valence and Brae - NO HANDS
19:06 Your Old Droog - Movie
24:48 Outro
TRACKLIST
Jazz Spastiks - Norpak
Boards of Canada - Numerator (probably)
Panchiko - Naming Conventions
Masafumi Takada - ( ` 曲 ´ )
FOM - Beat 49/47
DJ Shadow - Blue Sky Revisit
Jazz Spastiks - Unkut Dope
Special thanks:
Zoe
Johnny
Danny
Rileigh
Alyssa
Kat
Jun
Edan
Mom n Dad
Check out:
brainorchestra.bandcamp.com
junclassic.bandcamp.com
cigaretteinyourbed3.bandcamp.com
tragicattic.bandcamp.com
One of my favorite artists on these mixes was a fantastic Filipino producer named Gny. He'd just put out his third tape and I was enamored!! Some digging led me to this one, 2018's Present. It felt so groovy and soulful. Every song was so raw, so honest, so full of heart. Usually without even lyrics. Moreso, I really appreciated the anonymity, it truly is about the music and nothing more with artists like him!
So, here I am, four years later and I've just graduated college. I find myself still living in the same town I spent four years exploring. No, I didn't have the anime-style blossoming of adulthood I was hoping for, but that's okay. Who has time to worry about self-issues when my man Gny is putting out an expanded vinyl pressing of Present! Through that awesome site Qrates no less! I'd always heard good things, but never got a chance to try them out. Not a fan of Vulfpeck, sorry.
Maybe if you know of Qrates, you know how this turned out. May turned to June. Then to July. Before I knew it, the projected shipping date had come and gone. As had Present's fifth anniversary. The Qrates name had been rightfully smeared all across the net, people screaming for their backordered Gizz records. I remember threatening chargebacks to customer service, and even that did nothing. In truth, I didn't want my money back, I wanted my record! I had totally given up hope, but man it sure would be cool.
Well, closing in on the SIXTH anniversary, what else should show up at my door with little fanfare! And DUDE, not to suddenly excuse Qrates for their disappearing act, but WOW this record rules! Sometimes, good things can happen against all odds. Even small things like a record.
Everything will be okay.
0:00 Just Take it Easy and Smile
3:00 Reality Check
5:23 I Hope You'll Be Okay
7:05 Everything Will Be Okay (w/ Liana)
9:25 Stories of Home
12:10 You Know Where to Find Me
14:36 Thank You
15:48 One Step Away (bonus track)
17:08 Here For You (bonus track)
For more amazing music: gnymakeshiphop.bandcamp.com
The concept here is simple, spooky vibes (MOSTLY) all from the past decade. Real music isn't dead, etc. A few songs on here break this ten year rule, and will be starred as such. Shoutout to Ancient Aliens, and Kill Me Mama, which both celebrate their 10th birthday this year, barely making this mix.
Hidden track B10 exclusive to physical copies.
0:00 Erik Nervous - Nutty Buddy (DEVO)
6:08 Beanpole - Pumpkin Picking Time
10:25 Vince Guaraldi - Great Pumpkin Waltz*
13:03 The Humms - Don't Think About Death*
16:50 Lemon Demon - Ancient Aliens (demo)
20:16 Wall of Voodoo - Ring of Fire (live)*
24:32 POWERPLANT - Dungen
28:12 shrimp olympics - well (problems regarding)
30:38 Frog Brigade - Granny's Little Yard Gnome (live)*
35:13 The Humms - Funny Man
39:00 The Humms - Yard Song
41:10 The Seatbelts - Hey Pumpkin Head*
45:14 Boards of Canada - Sixtyten (live)*
50:59 Tim Graffuis - Little Gray Hairs
53:19 Zack Benlan - Nuclear Death
57:05 Gary Supply - BooHoo Heart
1:00:33 Oh Oh Ecstasy - Kill Me, Mama (version)
1:04:37 J. Wraith - Who Ever Won the Human Race?
1:08:18 Boards of Canada - One Very Important Thought*
RIP Belarus
A few months ago, I found this recording broken up over several obscure Japanese language uploads. I had meant to hold this upload until after my Ryo Fukui video dropped, but I've been too busy with work to finish it up, and I felt bad holding back such fantastic music from you all.
This is always the tape I crank up whilst cleaning my apartment on sunny days off.
What a great recording this is, too! Halfway through, Ryo does a fantastic solo piano rendition of Mellow Dream which is just DELICIOUS. Might even beat out the Vidro '77 version for me. According to some obscure liner notes from a late-90s CD, Ryo was known to perform solo much more than with a group after his first two LPs. This wasn't for artistic reasons nearly as much as the simple fact of convenience. Still, it's fascinating to see Ryo bringing elements of his solo DNA into performances with his quartet, especially some twelve years before his mid-90s renaissance as a solo artist, as helped by numerous appearances on Hokkaido TV. Stay tuned.
Tracklist (please help me out):
0:00 Unknown 1
20:04 Unknown 2
33:51 Unknown 3
44:10 Unknown 4
53:55 Unknown 5
1:06:41 Unknown 6
1:23:18 Mellow Dream
1:37:40 Unknown 7
1:48:26 Unknown 8
2:07:05 Confirmation (Parker)
2:19:35 In a Sentimental Mood (Ellington)
2:29:08 Unknown 11
Music used (in order of appearance):
Button Masher - Super Gypsy Woman
Jazz Spastiks - We Don't Play
Polydata - Power Loom
ubOa - Williwawgraphy (live)
Panchiko - Laputa Theme
Jazz Spastiks - Invisible Friend
Special thanks:
Zoe
Johnny
Rileigh
Kir
Kell-Kell
Katie
Chris
Dan
Vin
Olivia
Mom and Dad
I promise my next video will come out sooner than five months from now. Meantime, watch Teekyuu.
0:00 Envelopes Another Day
5:10 Hardcore Pops Are Fun
9:58 Interesting Results
12:51 Revolution's a Lie
16:04 Negativ Ed
18:53 Time 2 Meet Your God
21:40 White Freckles
24:53 Every Night I Die at Miyagis
29:05 Mature Themes
32:25 Put Your Number in my Phone
35:28 Menopause Man
39:41 Another Weekend
44:13 Round and Round
49:34 Lipstick
53:10 Fright Night
56:24 Dreaming
59:44 I Wanna Be a Girl
1:03:28 Only in my Dreams
1:06:43 Dayzed Inn Daydreams
1:12:15 Baby
1:18:13 Life Before Today (!!!)
1:22:33 R U Gonna Look After My Boys?
FLAC Download: drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1Ch8pji9F5UZj-PO3y-R9W5tzNlAyHZwJ
EDF!
Find all of CGR at: youtube.com/@UCh4syoTtvmYlDMeMnwS5dmA
Find Mark's Music at: omegaronin.bandcamp.com
Music in order of use:
Jazz Spastiks - Sabata
Boards of Canada - ATP Track 7
J. Wraith - Who Ever Won The Human Race?
Omega Ronin - Indulge Me With Lasers
Special thanks:
Zoe
Johnny
Christian
Kaleb
Kirstin
Mark Bussler
Les Claypool
Boards of Canada
Some more eagle-eyed viewers of this channel might remember a character named j0rdan. Old friend of mine from Mausspace! j0rdan was a fellow hunter of rarities; he found the Appleasians 2cd among other things!
Well, soon after I uploaded my Doldrums cdr, he (apparently inspired) fucking hunted down a dude who owned an original House Arrest and... bought it???
I remember j0rdan told me this a few days ago, and I believed him, but I didn't expect anything to come of it. Lo and behold, here's the rip!
So, it seems like this particular disc is from 2005 (a pencil-drawn ad on the back cover says as much), but the mixing is much barer than the Paw Trax and BBP mixes! Higher and Higher is at its original pitch, and the lead guitar on the title track is less drowned in fuzz than the Paw mix. Also dig the false start on Getting High! (CD glitch?)
Interestingly, this is a mono mix, but not THE mono mix we're familiar with. I suppose Ariel was still using his own burn for the CDs even after signing.
Perhaps on the whole, this isn't as cool as the pre-BBP cassette, or as earthshattering as the Doldrums CDr, but GUYS, we're doing it! I've been saying for years, these CDs are out there, and we're finding them! I hope you all dig, and at the very least, enjoy another listen of House Arrest!
0:00 Hardcore Pops are Fun
4:25 Interesting Results
7:10 West Coast Calamities
11:11 Flying Circles
15:06 Getting High in the Morning
21:52 Helen
26:06 Every Night I Die at Miyagis
30:04 House Arrest
35:08 Alisa
38:09 The People I'm Not
44:13 Almost Waiting
49:01 Oceans of Weep
Bonus Tracks:
54:03 Netherlands
1:03:15 Higher and Higher
Download: drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/10CJzWWM7vbd7-oTEJHuDSx1LPFzHu1HF
Recently. I came to own an original CalArts Doldrums. This copy is pre-Demoboot, Pre-Bobby Pyn, even Pre-Good Kids Make Bad Grownups! This is one of the original copies distributed by Ariel for his final thesis project, which would ultimately get him kicked out. This is the same gen of copy R. Stevie was originally emailed!
I never thought I'd so much as see a picture of one of these. Let alone hold one.
The story of how I came to own it is actually pretty stupid. So, I was at work one day, and I opened a discord message from an old digital penpal. It was a craigslist link, and when I clicked on it, I nearly fainted. The image used as the thumbnail was the seller image. It was sold by the original owner, who stayed in the same house as Ariel for a time. He remembers meeting Ariel a few times, and though he never followed Ari after they parted ways, he really respected this LP. It was unpriced in the listing. I offered the seller $150, and he replied "that sounds correct". A few weeks later, it was in my mailbox, the day after my birthday. I almost lost it to a former AP collaborator, but you'll have to email me to hear the rest of that!
As for this audio, wow. It's an entirely different mix with different endings on The Doldrums, Strange Fires, and Envelopes. Also, it may just be me, but I feel like the guitar is more present. This album works surprisingly well as a tight little EP, APHG distilled to its most prominent features.
I hope you guys enjoy. Dreams do come true.
0:00 Strange Fires
4:08 Among Dreams
8:28 For Kate I Wait
12:50 Haunted Graffiti
16:39 Gray Sunset
20:15 The Doldrums
24:14 Envelopes Another Day
Uncompressed M4A rip: drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1gJfjQEJHPBvxF3Opk040hl2bqQJ3i5cf
And what better way to commemorate this day of appreciation for the American worker than with Guided by Voices? Specifically, this rare, coveted footage of a young GBV hungry to make their mark! This video was shot at the Dayton Riverfest on May 26th, 1986, right around the release of their debut, EP Forever Since Breakfast. This captures the band right before they stopped playing live, with a wildly different lineup. Bob here sports short hair and a plaid button-up, as though he just got off teaching Elementary school. Mitch Mitchell is here on bass looking ever-so 1980s. In place of Tobin Sprout, we see early second guitarist Paul Comstock. We also have early drummer Peyton Eric, someone I never really thought a particularly great drummer, but man is he killing it!
They play 16 songs (sadly the first two not captured), taking us through a cool, angular report of Bob's soul. The four boys really rock here, particularly on tracks like One Drop, She Wants to Know, Sometimes I Cry, and an excellent Dantes cover.
This video is also hilarious to watch. It's very clearly someone's home footage from the show, playing with the camera negative filter a few times throughout, ending with four minutes of static, and taking detours to look at some ridiculously dressed audience members. For what it is, though, the clarity is great and the direction gives us a better look at the band than most pro-shot concert films! (which isn't saying much)
This is a great video, and I'm happy to finally share it with you all. Long live Rockathon! Happy 40th GBV! Here's to 40 years more!
0:00 One Drop (partial)
2:44 She Wants to Know
6:06 Fat and Friendly
8:46 Troopers in the Town
11:04 Like I Do
13:51 Fountain of Youth
17:42 Banners (pollard/comstock)
20:08 About This World
23:54 Ruby Tuesday (rolling stones)
26:18 Sometimes I Cry
29:14 The Other Place
32:38 Can't Get Enough of Your Love (dantes)
35:12 When 2 Hours Seem Like 5
38:39 60 Boats
Anyway, this recording captures the band at a very pivotal and different time. They were just about to stop performing live all together, and Forever Since Breakfast was only three days out from release! This four-man lineup sees a rare Bob on Guitars and Vocals. They play 5/7ths of FSB, several outtakes (including the Proto-Office of Hearts, One Drop), and two cover tunes! It's amazing to think that this quaint little bar band here would soon retreat into the basement and record the music that would blast Lo-Fi into the 90s.
(If this video has ads for you, it's a copyright strike, I don't monetize any of my uploads)
Soul Barn (missing)
Never Touch (missing)
0:00 One Drop (cuts in)
2:55 She Wants to Know
6:07 Fat and Friendly
8:46 Troopers in the Town
11:05 Like I Do
13:52 Fountain of Youth
17:42 Banners
20:09 About this World
23:55 Ruby Tuesday (Rolling Stones)
26:18 Sometimes I cry
29:14 The Other Place
32:38 Can't Get Enough of Your Love (The Dantes)
35:12 When Two Hours Seem Like Five
38:39 60 Boats
The music on this tape is so surreal and dreamy! It's got a lot of soul, something unfortunately lacking in lots of DIY music these days, every song puts a smile on my face. You can really tell Luke is making this music from his heart. Song topics range from hatred of DEVO, to heartbreak, to microwaving tinfoil and everything in-between. Luke also reaches more for his Ariel Pink roots, not only polishing-up his Baby cover, but also adding a wonderful See The Girl cover! Four of its 21 tracks are from the Debut EP (Microwave, Devo Sucks, and the aforementioned Baby cover), and the other 17 are brand new and just for you!
So what are you waiting for? Quit reading, and take in this gorgeous, watery dreamscape. Let it wash over your ears, and then go check out Luke's new DIY label (and actual DIY, not "I'm making a run of pressed cassettes just not on Sub Pop" DIY) named Dog Safe Records, who you can find on instagram and buy the EP! Links at the bottom.
0:00 A Dream Turned to Glass
2:15 Take a Rest
8:00 Shadows
11:21 Last Night (I Tried to Find Love Again)
14:09 Giving Up on Me Too Soon
19:01 Ween Listening Party
21:15 You're Not Alone
23:13 All Along
26:57 DEVO Sucks
29:55 I'm Straight, Rita
31:30 Mr. Dog Safe
34:48 Don't Send Me to the Cage
37:24 There They Go
39:58 Microwave
42:15 See the Girl
44:19 When You Look In For Them
47:36 Old Carries the New
49:46 Baby (version)
52:55 Instrumental #1
56:30 Fish (Acoustic)
57:45 Instrumental #2
Dog Safe: instagram.com/dogsaferecords
Luke: instagram.com/lukej.ohnson
0:00 Fish
1:09 Can You Slow Down
3:13 The Sound
7:48 DEVO Sucks
10:31 Tinfoil Among Microwaves
12:45 Baby (D&J Emerson)
Download: fishtankrevival.bandcamp.com/album/fish-tank-revival
I've always loved the holiday season, aside from the presents and family, for dumb introspective art kid reason. I've never really heard any Christmas music, great as it can be, that really reflects that feel. Turns out, all it took was an album that isn't even about Christmas! Shrimp Olympics' 2018 album hot meal is perfect for just what I really love about this season. I hope you all have an amazing 2023! Here's to a brighter tomorrow!
Soundtrack (in order of appearance):
Shrimp Olympics - King Billy (Narrative)
Shrimp Olympics - If Can Be
Shrimp Olympics - Theme From "Hot Meal"
Shrimp Olympics - Gretchen
Shrimp Olympics - In Paris, Carelessly
Shrimp Olympics - Sunflower Suite
Find more music by Shrimp Olympics here: shrimpolympics.bandcamp.com
Lovely NYC walk footage: youtube.com/watch?v=8kG4AvndFbU
In 2019, Synth Punk outfit POWERPLANT rocked the Egg Punk world with the beautiful, bizarre, terrifying LP People in the Sun. They should have, anyway. I remember tastemakers like Harikari and Anti hailing PP as the Next Big Thing, and it just kind of never was. Hell, I listened to it, dug True Love and forgot about it. Man, I wish I hadn't, though, cause this music is something else.
So, fast forward to 2022, and Powerplant teamed up with audio madd scientist Gizzmoix to re-release the album on GBA. I picked it up as soon as I could and was at first disappointed as it was just the album playing. I saw it as a novelty item. Upon a few more listens though (including a fucking SICK walk I took one day with nothing but my DS Lite and Headphones) I realized the album here is blanketed in this absolutely delectable GBA compression, which really fits.
I now see this as the definitive listening experience for this LP. Sorry about the ear-piercing sound in quiet parts, I tried ripping this several times and it was always there.
0:00 Hey Mr Dogman!!
2:47 Snake Eyes
4:59 True Love
8:16 Dungen
11:58 Classic Evil
15:41 exit castle
16:25 In White
19:30 Get In The Trunk
22:03 Take My Money!
25:22 People In The Sun
28:45 In The Garden
32:00 Warm Skin
For more Powerplant: ppowerplant.bandcamp.com
For more albums on fucking Gameboy: gizzmoix.bandcamp.com/merch
FLAC DL: (link coming soon)
7 years ago, I heard Scared Famous/FF for the first time, and it changed the way my brain worked. 5 or 6 years ago on this channel, I promised to do a video on it. 2 years ago, I set out to do just that, feeling overcome with the inability to do this great album justice. This album which I owed so much of my self to. Today, that video is ready. It's changed shape a lot since I started, but it's here.
This video goes out to the fans of this album. It's a celebration of APHG, and as such the soundtracks is all covers, please go check out the musicians who made them. They're all very talented.
Tracklist:
01 Jacob Osterman - Hardcore Pops
02 Owen Adamcik - Youruineditall
03 Owen Adamcik - GOX2
04 Avalon - functionofyoursoul (excerpt)
05 MAPR - Getting High In The Morning
06 Jack Daddy - Every Night I Die at Miyagi's
07 Jacob Osterman - Brite Lit Blue Skies
08 Jacob Osterman - Life in LA
09 Jacob Laro - The Bottom
10 ZipZapZow - Loverboy
11 New Pollution - Thespian City
12 Xingabus - Birds in my Tree
13 Xingabus - Choose 2 Lose (excerpt)
14 Mark Winter - Spanish Flea (Used WITHOUT permission)
15 Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - May the Music Never Die!
Some images courtesy of SLUGB%UG, others from instagram.com/thelastrealrocknrollscene
Special thanks: Everyone
Life is wild, man.
0:00 Intro
5:11 Part 1 - History
15:32 Part 2 - The Review
18:25 FF
26:51 Scared Famous
34:10 Part 3 - Legacy
37:08 Outro
41:58 Credits
Starting the album, the scratchy, abrasive flutes of "sun song" may take some getting used to, but the song found beneath is fantastic! The ending refrain, "trying my best for you" still randomly pops into my head from time to time four years later! The next few tracks flow into one-another, creating a sort of thematic and musical overture for the album at hand. The tracks "romantic love", a sardonic-yet-saccharinely-sappy love ballad and mission statement "australia" are two certified hits, resonant in their irreverence, but still soulful enough to form a genuine connection.
Side A of the album ends with Tomato Pie, an easy-to-forget, but very fun soft rock tune.
The second side picks up with the all too short "sometimes", an airy, misty-eyed song of longing. Perhaps it's only a coincidence, but the brevity of the "you came into my mind last night" refrain leaves me dearly craving more. It's Austin at his most raw, especially on such an irreverent album, and in anyone else's hands it might seem out of place, but Austin somehow manages to land it. It's a beautiful, poignant moment, and slowly fades out, the emotion washing over us. It quickly brings us back upward, with "alright where am i", "theme from a dream" and "my favorite color", three smooth jazzy pop tunes that wouldn't sound too out of place on any 1972 radio station.
The tracks "wet brain" and "sometimes (reprise)" bring us two guitar-driven tracks for a change, the former being the odd choice of a lead single, and the latter a much more upbeat reworking.
The album ends with its longest, most bittersweet song. The swingin' oddly tropical-flavored Plum is a song about a dying relationship and its consequences. It's a song about times of change, the fear involved, and the casualties of love. It hit me at a sort of perfect time in my life, and in fact what was in hindsight a similar time for the world as a whole. The end of 2019 was a time where everything was looking up, and it felt a change for the better was coming on soon.
0:00 sun song
3:21 i love money (pt. 1)
5:04 the shape of norway to come
7:50 i love money (pt. 2)
8:28 absolutely fantastic style
11:15 romantic love
13:35 frustrated due to
14:51 australia
18:03 now im remember
18:17 tomato pie
21:05 sometimes
23:40 alright where am i
25:06 mellowtron
25:38 theme from a dream
29:06 my favorite color
31:07 wet brain
33:03 sometimes (reprise)
34:19 plum
Buy this album and more at: shrimpolympics.bandcamp.com
Walks into the future
the unknown
caught in cold sweat
a little bit contradicting
when we talk on the phone
stuck in my ways
i know you feel frustrated
but then i
call on you to take my place
so you can wear that ice cream smile on your face
And kill the will to die
im gonna
Call on you to take my place
im telling patrick now to give you my elegant
chimes for all of time
The merchant of dust
what will crime be in the future?
i dont know
sluts for the scatter
why do they matter
they got to go
We killed the president
and im so glad
but then i
call on you to take my place
so you can wear that ice cream smile on your face
And kill the will to die
im gonna
Call on you to take my place
im telling patrick now to give you my elegant
chimes for all of time
chimes for all of time
find something to rhyme
glove crimes glove crimes glove crimes
The infamous, hard to find "soundtrack" tape by Shrimp Olympics wunderkind Austin Lombardo! Truly up there in mystique with Pataphysics' fabled "We Are Eating Slime" tape, and Ariel Pink's "It's Hard To Take A Shit on Mushrooms and Speed", both of which probably don't even exist.
This tape, along with the even more elusive "chopped onions" tape which I'm still tracking down, had some of its more accessible tracks put into the recent Cemetery Saddle EP. It's mostly a collection of Silk Lizard outtakes (most notably, the excellent Glove Crimes), audio experiments and other forays into plunderphonics.
This rip is 1:33:37 (heh), and it's certainly a lot to take in. From the soaring highs of Glove Crimes and the new, fucked up version of Emily, to the audio art of that Norwegian Girls' Choir collage, it's beautifully bizarre, and a treasure to have in my collection.
Listen to Glove Crimes first. Then a few more times on loop. You won't be disappointed.
Tracklist:
0:00 Intro
1:04 Glove Crimes (Tape Mix)
4:22 Windom Earle
6:12 Emily (version)
8:38 Iguana Concerto
10:12 I'm 23
14:04 Beers
16:31 Norwegian Girls' Choir Returns
18:10 Like A Rolling Stone
22:33 Proclaimin' My Love
24:06 Shit Balls Hanging From A Bonsai (Feat. Salvador Cresta)
26:28 Untitled Love Duet (w/ Teagan DeVoe)
29:45 Jam With Tolvo
46:46 Ode to Tony S
55:21 No Man's Land (Barrett)
56:53 Merchant of Dust
58:04 Northern Ireland
1:00:30 I Love Sexy Girls
1:15:31 Nessuna Risposta (Feat. Luca Cherubini)/Jam
1:21:25 Dracula is an Idiot
1:23:53 Baby Talk
1:27:14 Straw Man
1:30:12 Ode to Dale C
1:31:22 Prayer/Outro
This tape is not available on Bandcamp, but for more great tunes, head to:
https://ShrimpOlympics.bandcamp.com
I've been curious about this tape for a long time. I've been a fan of Lifeseeker for a while now, and for the longest time had this inkling that they used to be called Donut Productions with a slightly different lineup, but not much beyond that. Well, after some digging, I found a 1995 CD called... $19.95, which reuses half the songs from this tape, and includes another 7 new tracks to form a quasi-album. I heard, after that, that their original tape was called Shady Side of the Donut and it made a big enough splash to interest the likes of Mo' Wax and Grand Royal, but it was nowhere to be found. Lots of asking around, and lots of "Yeah, I'll find that tape and digitize it sometime" was had over the next two years to no avail.
A big breakthrough happened when, at the end of last year, Jimmy Gaunt interviewed Marc about Donut Productions for his Zine "The Shadow Knows" volume 2. Lots of great stuff in that interview, it covers the group's formation as Donut Posse before the name change, their linking up with Mo' Wax, their dissolution due to Marc and DJ Gunga Din's disagreements with J-Squash, and the formation of Lifeseeker. It was a great and gratifying read that also gave some more information on and pictures of this tape. A discogs page was made for it, obnoxiously labelling the tape as "Donut Posse" despite it LITERALLY SAYING DONUT PRODUCTIONS ON THE IMAGE GAAAAAAH! And it was in my wantlist forever. It was one of those things I never actually expected to get, you know? Well sure enough, this summer some guy listed it at $80 saying it was new old stock. I offered 50 and he accepted. I laughed really hard when the package came in a week later and the tape still had a $5.99 sticker on it.
Still, totally elated to have this tape! Aside from the seven never-before heard tracks (starred on this upload), some of the released tracks are different! Donut Pros has a whole extra verse cut off of the final, and Fly the Coop is missing some overdubs (I think???). I'm sure there's more, but I couldn't find them on first listen. Hope you enjoy, and if any Lifeseeker fans exist besides me, I hope this is as mindblowing to you as it was myself.
0:00 Donut Pros
4:44 Why I Laugh
6:55 Frankenstein for President
8:38 HOOKS
14:04 Solve All These God Damn Problems*
16:35 Out the Asylum*
22:10 A Matter of Grip
25:10 Kill Little Feeble Bunnies*
27:30 Bright Side of the Donut*
28:52 Fly the Coop
33:09 Hella Kitty*
34:18 More Music to Get Sick to*
40:49 Intro*
FLAC Download: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Gq7Rfd1vD1Di_cIOxdThyxNS5gcXgx7w?usp=sharing
I have a very personal history with Gary Supply. They were one of my favorites in the 'egg punk' scene for a long while! I always loved their DIY, almost supergroup-esque ethos (being a band of four very different indie musicians all combining their styles) and even interviewed them for my Zine that I never did make a second issue of.
I found out about them in early 2018, when I was recommended an Anti upload of their 2017 tape Gary Goes To Hell. At the time, it was kind of this legendary single tape by this enigmatic band, especially because it had been over a year. A year was an insanely long time in the very fast paced scene back then. Anyways, I fell in love with the tape, so I went to the bandcamp link and was HORRIFIED to find the tape sold out! Aaaaah!
I emailed them like two or three times, and they finally got back to me saying they'd make more and had another album in the works. I'd like to think I played a part in the band waking up from their proverbial slumber. I got in the Gary Goes to Hell tape and waited anxiously for the forthcoming album. It finally released, and god it was incredible (this here tape). I pre-ordered a copy the day it released and got a copy kissed with pink lipstick on Side B. You also may notice the artwork is a misprint, missing "Hollow Bones" (Gotta was a sort-of hidden track).
So like, Gary Supply never made super great dubs of their tapes (well, they were actually way better than most Egg Punk tapes you'd buy at the time, tapes usually dubbed by kids who thought tapes were cool but never actually used them), but still, their dubs were kind of shitty. Gary has always been kinda lo fi, but the tapes even more so. I love it though. This cassette just sounds so warpy and melty, and it makes the deliciously-angsty "Die-Electric" sound even HEAVIER (although the cool keyboard solo in it is barely audible here. Alt mix? Who knows).
Gary Supply would go on to release one more tape, Agit-Pop which was kind of meh. Even at the time, all I could muster to comment on the bandcamp release was "Yay! More Gary!". It's not like, bad, but it's kind of forgettable and is even lower-fidelity, crossing the line of cool and just sounding kinda muddy. After that, the band went on hiatus due to the band's personal lives. They digitally released their rare demotape (in anyone has a copy, please get in touch) and then last year put out an anthology tape which went completely under my radar! I dunno, I guess I just miss these guys, and the egg scene as a whole. So it goes.
Anyways, here's the tracklist:
0:00 Imthelofiking
0:57 Prosthetic Head
2:12 Fluoride Gland
3:45 Loofah
5:40 Hollow Bones
7:16 Die-Electric
8:56 Boo-Hoo Heart
12:29 Gotta
Anyway, it's now 2022 because Covid timeskipped us all two years, and Chewed Out is still a favorite song of mine. Seriously, if you live in Mid-LI, you've probably heard me screaming along to this song as it blasts out my car stereo. Wonder why my hearing sucks so much, oh well.
So earlier today, I'm just cleaning, and I decide to pop this tape in. I mess around with the bass and trebble settings, and actually made it kind of sound like actual music! So uh yeah, I re-ripped it like that, and here you go.
Download the full re-rip here: drive.google.com/drive/folders/11DLFAK7PZ0IJef1FWZsJyFvjosUmLX6U?usp=sharing
So this set itself isn't too rare on its own. "Weed King" here was a digital bonus track for Get Out Of My Stations (incorrectly dated as 1992), and an (albeit much lower quality) VHS recording of the whole set can be seen on YouTube. The video can be seen here: youtube.com/watch?v=RWLvjiRdWDI
This soundboard, however, had only been heard in Weed King. I've always wanted to hear this AMAZING version of On The Tundra in better quality, but it just wasn't out there. Thanks to an anonymous friend of the channel, though, we've finally got the soundboard! Gosh, it's all so good here! On The Tundra just sounds gorgeous like this, and the band has so much energy. We've got some Propeller classics, a few songs from their then-brand-new album Vampire on Titus, a few B-Sides and even some new songs planned for their double album Instructions to the Rusty Time Machine (which would eventually evolve into Bee Thousand)! Really love the Postal Blowfish here. Apparently at this show, Bob was so blackout drunk that he could barely keep his eyes open. Surely he's made a deal with the devil for such amazing singing and songwriting, even drunk off his ass.
0:00 On the Tundra
3:11 My Impression Now
5:19 Unleased! The Large Hearted Boy
7:09 Shocker in Gloomtown
9:05 Expecting Brainchild
11:32 Break Even
13:53 Queen of Cans and Jars
15:40 Postal Blowfish
17:55 Stabbing a Star
20:10 Weed King
22:39 Lethargy
24:00 Tractor Rape Chain
27:08 Non-Absorbing
29:14 Some Drilling Implied
31:00 Exit Flagger
Some Download Implied: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_ASV_AZrZnkYkzqqukLreuZDhdGLRFPg?usp=sharing
Praise be to PDM, I love it at this speed
Regardless, this is a great record in time for Ariel. Here we see a very early, stripped-down lineup of a proper Haunted Graffiti band, this one with live beatboxing! The first incarnation of the band was formed in January '07, so I can't imagine they'd been around for very long by this point. I wonder if the beatboxing was special for this party. There's a lot of talking between songs from Ariel, something relatively rare for him. It's nice to see him interacting with the audience in such a friendly way. The setlist is really fantastic, a good mix of Worn Copy classics, as well as Doldrums hits, plus a very cool cover of Earth, Wind and Fire. That song was actually the only one I'd uploaded for the longest time, and it used to have a great comment from an ex-girlfriend apologizing for cheating on me.
Big ups to whoever preserved this fantastic moment in such great clarity!
0:00 Intro
3:27 Life in L.A.
9:20 Among Dreams
13:59 Envelopes Another Day
20:38 Trepanated Earth
33:33 The Weekend (Earth and Fire)
37:49 The Drummer
42:51 Alisa
Download: drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B5b2ruj1dc_2Xy1GaUdrZ1Vqblk?resourcekey=0-oCa2BFMQGPDmPCEwcsXhiw
Another treasure I totally forgot to upload (sorry, the last few months kinda killed me for a bit there) until now. The great SLUGBUG D Millar ripped this as per usual, he says it seems to be an aborted early take of Netherlands. It's actually the only true stereo version of it that was available! I remember an old interview where Ariel talks about recording songs sometimes note-by-note, I wonder if this is an example of that process falling apart. Cool shit, and I've got actual videos (plus more uploads to come).
For Emma
This tape is a demo by shortlived 90s Power Pop group Third Eye Butterfly. There's very little info about them around, but looking on discogs they seem to have three other 7"s from '93 to '95 released on this same imprint. Shame they really went nowhere, cause some of this stuff isn't half bad! The tracks "Play With The Rainmaker" and "Where Are We" are my personal favorites. There's some good riffs/songwriting here, and it's a shame to see that they have such little recognition.
0:00 Everything I'm Living For
3:43 Lou Reed
6:29 Teach The World
10:42 Play With The Rainmaker
13:52 Life Is Everywhere
17:49 Clouded Eyes
21:20 Where Are We
The Coneheads, live with LIQUIDS (basically the same live band at that point) at "The Deli" May 9th, 20156. Such a great set, and it's an absolute tragedy that there's been no lossless rip of it up to this point! The Smiling Beat of Life and Pressure on the Brain here are AMAZING, and that Violence is DELICIOUS! So, enjoy the FLAC glory! Sorry the J-card and tape scans are so low resolution.
DOWNLOAD: drive.google.com/folderview?id=1xlD5NkVDlVdDofFikdKJ0ITQ8xpIyqmG
0:00 Smilin' Beat of Life
0:55 'Notha Thang
2:01 Big City Baby
2:48 Violence
4:33 69 (LIQUIDS)
5:23 Dark (LIQUIDS)
6:25 1982
7:03 What's Best
8:04 Pressure on the Brain
9:18 Smilin' Beat of Life (reprise)
10:55 SQUEEZE CHED-HEAD'S POWER MIXX2
This year has been a total rollercoaster for me, and one of the things contributing to that was certainly the loss of mausspace! What better way to excise the past year from all of us than by celebrating its legacy? Here's to 2022 and I love you all!
Special thanks:
Ercolifan2457
P.S. sorry for the ads, the songs got copyright claimed and as a result, ads got put on the video. Beggars can't be choosers, eh?
Setlist:
0:00 Flying Circles
5:05 Helen
10:06 Brite Lit Blue Skies
12:52 L'estat
17:44 Fright Night
21:24 Round and Round
27:04 Beverly Kills
31:15 Witchhunt Suite for WWIII (Part one)
40:41 Witchhunt Suite for WWIII (Part two)
45:25 Oceans of Weep
52:20 One on One
56:05 Getting High in the Morning
The Ariel (Friedman) EP: The Viewbobbola Restoration!
Yea, I just took all the remastered tracks (two of which were never released), and cleaned them up a slight bit/changed them to the speed of the EP. Thought it might be fun!
SPECIAL thanks again to SLUGB%UG! Without him, none of this would have ever happened. Sorry for the ads, not my doing.
0:00 Ariel (Friedman)
4:26 Choose to Lose
7:24 Facts of Destiny (Gomberg/Keyes)
10:21 Fallen Leaves/People Watch Me
12:54 Scratch (Love Like The Deep
Download the FLAC: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1D-Itoj5AKyUoIG9-k7dnvt81BJkAV3C9
Played back in Summer 2016 by Ariel on a WFMU radio show (then subsequently bootlegged by me as "A Heap of Rotting Tapes"), this is the one mystery that never got solved in the remasters. I haven't forgotten.
I remember when SLUGBUG first told me there was a song called "House of Yesterday" on Ods 2, I got super excited, because it sounds like the refrain to this song says "...in the house of yesterday", but alas it was some post punk thing.
Can we summon Ollux Patemax again? He knew Nile Pan was one of the songs before that even got found!
You already know the drill (ain't worth tha overkill, etc etc), this re-rip was provided by our lord and savior SLUGBUG! It's much higher res, has punchier bass, and a better soundstage! Go support SLUGBUG on his bandcamp, he deserves it!
Something big coming October 26th. Get Ready.
Seriously, though, Zack is one of my favorite musicians producing music right now (RIP to the Egg Punk scene), and this minialbum is just so fun! I keep starting and stopping production on a video about Zack, but I think to sum up my thoughts, it just feels so good to have a pure expression of the WEIRD and WACK(y)! The same way that the Eric Andre Show is this unfiltered, concentrated expression of Anarchy, Zack's albums feel like the little slimy gremlin in the back of my soeul clawing out to get me to say some joke that doesn't land.
So yeah, go buy this album, go listen to Zack's music and uh do some other third thing (I always start lists I can't finish)
zackbenlan.bandcamp.com
0:00 Onomatopoeiapanini
0:52 Rama Llama Bam Bam
1:38 Children's Drug Musick From a Foreign Country
2:22 CB2U Intro & First Verse
2:57 Hex a Tonic Doohickey
3:19 CB2U Second Section
3:52 She'll Never Know Pt.1
4:33 CB2U First Chorus
4:53 Every Time
7:37 CB2U Second Verse
8:14 She'll Never Know Pt.2
9:12 CB2U Second Chorus
9:30 Shortness of Breath (Sweet Dreams in Quarantine)
11:50 CB2U Coda
*Not included in this upload are 9 bonus super secret herbs and spices, I assume they'll be purchase-only/disc-only bonusees.
"the concentrated materials in question do(in retrospect) have some kind of potency but as previously instructed: all products require dilution: 3 parts water to every 1 part pickled Zack concentrate should translate into something resembling approaching yer fdarecomendeddailyinntake of chromium, magnesium, yapraq hariseh, and 14 essential radioactive compounds: please cease use and talk to your doctor if you develop a rare but serious skin reaction. ‘Pickled Zack concentrate’ is not recommended for those TAKING MAOIS or undergoing manual electronic stimulation to the brain as a conjunctive treatment for depression, call doctor if you experience mood changes, sadness, depression, or fear. "
-ZLB Research Team
The best part is, this one actually has part 3 in good sound quality!
This cassingle was uploaded to Mark's youtube, unlisted in late 2018, and seemed to disappear off the face of the earth sometime in 2020. After a long, arduous search, I finally found a lead in Erik Nervous! We did some talking, and eventually traded rarities. It is my supreme pleasure to present, forever archived for the enjoyment of internet peoplepunx, Bean Music!
Sorry the image is so low-rez, the thumbnail is all that was saved.
Thank you to the Mark Winter subreddit, as without you all, this would have been forever lost to time!
Trklist (timestamps coming soon):
Alice’s Prompt*/Gaze
Interstellar Oven (Demo)*
Shut In (Demo)*
Looking of a Place
Fridays On The Roof
Rain Washed*
And You Cry
Hammy Whammy/The Pain*
Miserable*
Youth Daze*
Spray Away*
CANDY*
Sun Go Down*
Satisfied Trip*
Parting Ways
Everyone Disappears*
Moment Of Clarity*
Fell In Love With The Dead
Hawaii Drivers’ License


