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While My Bong Gently Weeps

2026-10-28T11:47:57.919-04:00

Weeping Bong Band is a stoner space psych outfit from Pioneer Valley, Massachusetts. This, the band's eponymous debut, is perfect fodder for higher consciousness excursions & late-night fade outs into the aether. The band consists of Anthony Pasquarosa - guitar, Beverly Ketch - lyrics, Clark Griffin - bass, Pat Gubler - guitar, Wednesday Knudsen - guitar. They are known for their atmospheric instrumentals creating a state of permanent 2AM Grateful Dead improvisations twisted through the soul of Brightblack Morning Light, doused in the blood of John Fahey. They followed up this release with II & then disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

Weeping Bong Band - Weeping Bong Band, Feeding Tube Records FTR313, 2018.
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Side A -
Replay I
Replay II

Side B -
Replay III
Jaume 1

bonus track -
Dream Away

Weirder & weirder,
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Dub is Addictive

2026-10-27T17:14:31.515-04:00

Dub Narcotic Sound System is live touring & studio recording band founded 1993 in Olympia, Washington by Calvin Johnson. Johnson is a guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, music producer, & disc jockey born in Olympia. He was a founding member of the bands Beat Happening & The Go Team as well as Dub Narcotic Sound System. He is also the founder / owner of the influential indie label K Records.

All their releases showcase the group’s style which is a lo-fi fusion of punk, funk, Dub, indie rock, & hip-hop highlighted by Johnson’s deeply droning low & gravely vocals.

Dub Narcotic Sound System - Out of Your Mind, K KLP83, 1998.
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Wicked Bad
Basemess
Teenage Time Bomb
Dub Narcotic's Delight
Sawed Off
Rebel Makes Rhymes
Out of Your Mind
Oslo Calling
Belly Warmer
Shock Mount
Papa's Got a Brand New Burnbag

Weirder & weirder,
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So Just Superman That

2026-10-26T11:43:31.833-04:00

Injury Reserve was a Tempe, Arizona-based rap group formed in 2013 consisting of DJs Ritchie with a T, & Stepa J. Groggs (R.I.P. June 2020) & producer Parker Corey. They released two acclaimed mixtapes Live from the Dentist Office & Floss (recorded in a dentist office belonging to Corey's grandfather).

The group relocated to Los Angeles in 2017. The two original mixtapes were stylistically jazz-rap, but after moving to California, their sound gravitated to a more industrial / glitch style. While recording this album in 2020, Stepa died (age 32). Ritchie & Coery finished the album but as tribute to their deceased bandmate, they stopped using the Injury Reseve name & became By Storm.

Injury Reserve - By the Time I Get to Phoenix, Injury Reserve self-released, 2021.
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Outside
Superman That
SS San Francisco
Footwork in a Forest Fire
Ground Zero
Smoke Don't Clear
Top Picks for You
Wild Wild West
Postpostpartum
Knees
Bye Storm

Weirder & weirder,
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Cheese Legs & All...Forty Years Ago Today

2026-10-25T11:01:50.559-04:00

Gorgonzola Legs was an improv industrial-jazz group from IJmuiden, The Netherlands, active in the 80s. The band consisted of: Jos Van Duijne - guitar; Hessel Veldman - guitar, bass, piano, synthesizers, tapes; Herman Te Loo - soprano & alto saxophone, clarinet, piano, vocals; & Gert Jan Prins - drums, percussion, sampling, keyboards.

This is a live recording recorded at De Bunker in Rotterdam, October 25, 1986 (forty years ago today).

Gorgonzola Legs - Bunker cassette, Exart EA028, 1986.
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Side A -
Fishing Withe Black Cow in the Movies
Have You Seen Me on the Tree Quay

Side B -
Caligari's Call Girls
Three's Crowd / No Gnus is Good Gnus
Honey Swahili Qui Mali Pense

Weirder & weirder,
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Iowa City Fab Four (er...Two)

2026-10-24T12:26:02.682-04:00

I've shared the weirdness of the Tape-Beatles several time before on NSS, here & here.

Well, they're weird as ever. Here's one more from the Plagiarism® gang.Enjoy.

The Tape-beatles - Steal This Lick cassette, SSS Productions SSS30, 1990.
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Side A -
Tension Creek
Hard Times
Stress
New Animal
Right for the Job
/o/ For Frog
Metro / Pulse Logo

Side B -
Desire: Desire / Desire: I Want It
From the Tide or the Wind
We Need More People
Hard Times (Chinese mix)
Beat Repeat

Weirder & weirder,
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Action Painting #98

2026-10-23T17:04:38.126-04:00

V-3 was a lo-fi experimental rock band from Columbus,Ohio in the 1980s-90s led by underground legend Jim Shepard (formerly of Vertical Slit).

The album was released with a hand painted cover with paste on front/back cover slips. It was pressed at a slightly lowered volume level so you may want to crank it up.

V-3 sez:
"We would have just put 'play real loud' on the jacket, but that's simply a cheap ploy from another era..."

Here V-3 is: Jim Shepard - multi-instrumentalist, guitar; Leland Cain - bass; Al “Nudge Squidfish” Martin - songwriter, bass; Sam Brown - multi-instrumentalist, drums; Rudy K. Smith - drums; David Mikula - drums.

Frontman Jim Shepard passed away in the late 1990s shortly after the group's demise, cementing their cult-legend status.

V-3 - Pimpin' in the 90s, Iron Press 2027, 1998.
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Side 1 -
The Amateur Welder
Queen of the Underground
Defective
Car Horn in a Stinger Trap
Please Take Hold
Carnage on the Midway
Your Rival.
Indy Rock 101
You Smoke Ink?

Side 2 -
Contact!
Glam Rock Ray Gun
Talking to S.B.
Super Human 2
Squid Ink
Forever Low Man
Grip Connector
Voices in the Woods
Son of Sam Donaldson (Boom-Box demo excerpt)
Harlem U.F.O. Sighting #128
Bullet Through the Floorboards

Weirder & weirder,
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Living in a TENT

2026-10-22T10:57:35.335-04:00

Electric Noise Twist was Alex Buess, Christoph Fringelt, & Markus Kneubühler.

Alex Buess is a saxophonist, composer, producer. He has collaborated with Peter Brötzmann, Toshinori Kondo, Bill Laswell, Tim Hodgkinson, & many other musicians in the wide field of improvisation, electronics, electro/acoustic music. Buess has written compositions for various contemporary music ensembles & works as a producer / sound engineer.

Christoph Fringeli is responsible for the Vision & Praxis labels. Vision was a label project from Basel, Switzerland, founded by Christoph in 1986 & finished in 1992. The material released by Vision were not limited to cassettes / records but also included printed materials / visuals. These items included fanzines, posters, t-shirts & like the recordings, received catalogue numbers. Vision evolved into Praxis, which was both a label & a record shop for harsh experimental electronic music led by Fringeli based in Berlin (first located in London/UK, then in Berlin/Germany, then in Basel/Switzerland, now again in Berlin/Germany).

Markus Kneubühler plays synthesizers, mostly concentrating on free-Jazz experimental noise.

The three got together to create Electronic Noise Twist as a project for Fringeli’s Vision label.

Here Fringeli plays guitar & provides vocals, Kneubühler plays bass & manipulates tapes, & Buess plays saxophone & drums making wild, crazy Blurt-like jazz/industrial crossover.

Electronic Noise Twist - The Electric Noise Twist, Vision Vision 23, 1989.
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Side One -
My Trigger Fingers Itching
Who the Fuck are You & What are You Doing in My Image Track
Slaughter
Choose Alienation
C.A.Dub

Side Two -
Media Assassin
Twisted Hubbub ‘N’ Din
Synchronise Your Castor Oil Will You?
Tell Laura I Love My Blue Heaven
Time to Squeeze out the Welchers

Weirder & weirder,
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Artificial Material & Plasma Co.

2026-10-21T11:04:49.849-04:00

ADULT. is Nicola Kuperus & Adam Lee Miller. They have been married for 17 years, working together for nearly 20, via their band ADULT. They have released material on their own Ersatz Audio label as well as Thrill Jockey, Ghostly International, Mute, Third Man Records, & Dais Records. Their style is electro-punk, integrating vocals with drum machines, analog synthesizers & electronic/punk elements, uniquely danceable as well as harshly abrasive.

ADULT. - Becoming Undone, Dais Records DAIS194, 2022.
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Undoing / Undone
Our Bodies Weren't Wrong
Fools (We Are...)
Normative Sludge
I am Nothing
She's Nice Looking
I, Obediant
Teeth Out Pt. II

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Sweet Celestial Golden Showers

2026-10-20T12:23:28.986-04:00

You might not know the name Efrim Manuel Menuck, but if you wander around here much or like weird music as I do, then you've heard him before now. He's a Canadian musician & composer, playing guitar & synthesizer, singing, writing, & producing. He is one of the founding members of Godspeed You Black Emperor!. He also created Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band as a side project. He is co-owner of the famous Hotel2Tango, a loft space that acts as a practice area, recording studio, & one of the very few non-commercial venues in Montreal capable of accommodating live concerts..

Here's his second solo effort, some sweet weirdness...

Efrim Manuel Menuck - Pissing Stars, Constellation CST129, 2018.
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Black Flags ov Thee Holy Sonne
The State & its Love & Genocide
The Lion-Daggers of Calais
Kills V. Lies
Hart_Kashoggi
A Lamb in the Land of Payday Loans
LxOxVx / Shelter in Place
The Beauty of Children & the War Against the Poor
Pissing Stars

Weirder & weirder,
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Going Back to Warszawa

2026-10-19T10:48:22.573-04:00

Ah Cama-Sotz is the industrial-techno/ritual-tribal/dark ambient project of Belgian electronic music producer/DJ Herman Klapholz.

Active since the early 1990s, the name is inspired by the Mayan bat deity Camazotz. The name reflects Klapholz's themes of darkness, mysticism, & the underworld. The music ranges from haunting cinematic soundscapes to energetic, rhythmic club tracks, often exploring apocalyptic, ritualistic, spiritual concepts. Well known throughout the underground electronic scene, Ah Cama-Sotz creates immersive atmospheres that captivate with a fusion of heavy beats, ritual chants, & eerie ambiances.

Ah Cama-Sotz - Declaration of Innocence, Bats & Cats bc06, 2008.
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When Dreams Collide
Voices from the Dark (Silentium)
Warszawa
Decline of the Roman Empire
Lines are Sacred
Isfahan
Akhirah
Offering | Sacrifice
Declaration of Innocence † Aralim

Weirder & weirder,
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Playing with Death

2026-10-18T09:44:32.584-04:00

David Peel was a legend in his own mind & in the minds of a generation, He died April 6, 2017 at age 74. What a life. His raw, acoustic "street rock" with lyrics about marijuana & "bad cops" appealed mostly to hippies or the culturally disenfranchised. In 1968, Peel was contracted by Elektra Records when he was first discovered. He recorded two albums for the label. His album Have a Marijuana peaked at No. 186 on the Billboard chart.

Peel was rediscovered by John Lennon in 1971 as the early seventies continued its swing towards the youth revolution. Lennon befriended Peel when David was playing with his ragtag hippie band in New York's Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village. Lennon produced The Pope Smokes Dope for Peel. The album was banned in many countries & since has become a cult classic sought by collectors worldwide.

As the acoustic hippie counterculture shifted into the aggressive late-1970s punk movement, Peel adapted his anti-establishment ethos. This release stands as an obscure bridge between 1960s underground fringe-folk (such as The Fugs) & the raw New York punk.

Determinedly low-fi, accompanied by squalling banks of angry guitars & no drums, here Peel ramps up the stoner howl he had been using since the mid-60s into a sneering double-tracked monotone which almost sounds like punk parody,

David, not with the Lower East Side but with The Death-O-Lettes.

David Peel & Death - King of Punk, Orange Records ORA700, 1978.
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Side A -
The Devil’s Prayer
King of Punk
Uptight Manhattan
Marijuana
Murder Burgers
Punk Rock

Side B -
In the Beginning
The Master Race
Who Killed Brian Jones
He's Called a Cop
A Mother Mother F.

Weirder & weirder,
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Pygmies on Ice

2026-10-17T11:48:50.359-04:00

For the 17th I thought 17 Pygmies was apropos...

I've shared 17 Pygmies three times in the past on NSS. Their's is some of my favorite weirdness. I've shared Welcome here, Isabel here, & Jedda here. If you want to read or hear more from this Art rock outfit, my pleasure...

This is CD2 of the 2013 compilation Jedda/Captured. CD1 contains Hatikva & Jedda by the Sea. CD2 is Captured in Ice with five bonus outtakes.

The cover artwork below is from the original Captured In Ice release (the comp cover can be seen at the Jedda link).

17 Pygmies - Captured in Ice & Outtakes, LTM LTMCD2581, 2013.
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Captured in Ice -
Suit of Nails
I Know
Voices
A Thousand Lights
Monday
Chameleon
Icarus
Shade
Autumn Cathedral
The Way
Home Again
The Far Country

Outtakes -
Piano Song
Cheetah Acasia Tree
A Thousand Lights
Monday
Shade

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Blame the Mashed Potentater

2026-10-16T13:28:13.966-04:00

Fat Worm of Error is an avant-rock band from Northampton, Massachusetts. They're well known in the underground noise / improvisation scene. They were instrumental in fostering a regional scene of noise music called Western Mass Noise.

The band lives in a fertile valley in western Massachusetts. They record their own hectic compositions of self-produced high-density music in a wooden shack. They utilize traditional rock instruments as well as homemade electronics & other modified instruments. Semi-regularly FWoE leave the confines of their shack to perform costumed rituals with other local tribes. In their live performances, singer Jess Goddard, engages in primitive pageantry with homemade surrealist costumes.

Fat Worm of Error - Pregnant Babies with Pregnant Babies, Load Records LOAD074, 2006.
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Special Bonus Thing
Let's Fool the Meat to the Hassle Room
Cicadas
Mildew
La Mort Dans la Ville du Bois Vert
Special Bonus Thing (reprise)
Red Melting Plastic Box
Laissez-Faire is for the Birds
Stretch
Brown
20’ X 20’
Petulant Bureaucrats Pummeled with Peanut Butter
Hand of God

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Totally Waq

2026-10-15T11:26:05.327-04:00

WaqWaq Kingdom is a Japanese tribal bass duo, consisting of singer/songwriter Kiki Hitomi (also in King Midas Sound) & Shigeru Ishihara (also bassist for Seefeel). Both are originally from Japan,but met while they lived in the U.K. for over a decade. They are now based in Leipzig / Berlin.

Their genre-bending sound is like a psychedelic stew melding Japanese traditional style Minyo with Jamaican dancehall & spicing it all with Dub, techno, tribal polyrhythms, & Super Nintendo soundtracks. The lyrics & visuals draw deeply upon ancient Shinto mythology & Japanese "Matsuri" festivals. WaqWaq Kingdom's hypnotic shamanic live performances are an intense time warp experience that connect their animistic roots with the latest in urban night life.

WaqWaq Kingdom - Shinsekai, P-Vine Records PCD17765, 2017.
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I Would Like to Let You Go
Blow it Up
Oh it's Good
Koko Says
Love Game
WaqWaq Dream
Step into a World
Bird

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The Snakes of Egypt

2026-10-14T10:24:58.291-04:00

Luciano Talpini Aita is a queer, formerly undocumented comedy writer, actor, filmmaker, & musician based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, he is widely known as a keyboardist & synth player.

Cairo Pythian was a project of Luciano’s while living in Olympia, WA., a hidden masterpiece of depraved synth pop, swimming in New Wave, Industrial, & even pulpy Britpop influences. Here he is aided by Dave Harvey, C. Kiley, Jakes Bailey, J. Wulf, The Baby & Robin Storey. Recorded by Capt. Tripps (Dave Harvey).

Cairo Pythian - Touched, Katorga Works KW037, 2015.
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Side A -
The World is Mine, Too
Touched
Yesterday's Makeup
Asexual Cake
Gone Fishin'
Come Be with Me
Ruckman's Boogie

Side B -
Down for the Crown
My Pal Renfield
Forbidden Days
Playboy Blues: Laced Again
Terrible Thing

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The Thrash Jazz Assassins

2026-10-13T12:11:21.745-04:00

Naked City was an avant-garde music group led by saxophonist / composer John Zorn active primarily in New York City from 1988 to 1993. Naked City was Zorns idea of a "composition workshop" to test the limits of composition (& improvisation) in a traditional rock band lineup. Their music incorporated elements of jazz, surf, progressive rock, classical, heavy metal, grindcore, punk rock, & other genres. The band performed an aggressive mix of soundtrack themes, bluesy hard bop, speedy hardcore rock, squealing free jazz & metallic funk, jump-cutting micro-collages of hardcore, country, sleazy jazz, covers of John Barry & Ornette Coleman, brief abstract tussles, the whole gamut of musical styles crammed into two or three minute bursts.

This is John Zorn's infamous "versatile" band, & although they could play most any style of music, the majority of their songs are noisy & complex. They've taken everything aggressive about jazz & heavy metal, blended it together, tightened it.

They played live for several years before they recorded their first self-titled album under the Naked City name. After its 1990 release, Zorn wanted to release a full record of "hardcore miniatures" (a minute or less) but Nonesuch showed no interest in it. They did however bankroll the project allowing Zorn to license it to Shimmy Disc & Earache.

John sez:
"Basically, the first Naked City record (their first album on Nonesuch) came out, right. In the middle of it are about ten songs that are really short and hard. I said I wanted to do a record of 40 of those pieces, cause I was really interested in the compression and compactness of form that that music gets to. The guys at Nonesuch were not interested. If I wanted to do that, I better take it somewhere else. So what I managed to do was get them to bankroll the whole thing, and then I licensed it to Earache and Shimmy for basically no money and no royalties. So they are just putting this stuff out that Nonesuch bankrolled."

Naked City is: John Zorn - alto saxophone, vocals; Yamatsuka Eye - guest vocals; Bill Frisell - guitar; Wayne Horvitz - keyboards; Fred Frith - bass; & Joey Baron - drums.

Naked City - Torture Garden, Shimmy Disc SHIMMY039, 1990.
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Blood is Thin
Demon Sanctuary
Thrash Jazz Assassin
Dead Spot
Bonehead
Speedball
Blood Duster
Pile Driver
Shangkuan Ling-Feng
Numbskull
Perfume of a Critic's Burning Flesh
Jazz Snob Eat Shit
The Prestidigitator
No Reason to Believe
Hellraiser
Torture Garden
Slan
Hammerhead
The Ways of Pain
The Noose
Sack of Shit
Blunt Instrument
Osaka Bondage
Igneous Ejaculation
Shallow Grave
Ujaku
Kaoru
Dead Dread
Billy Liar
Victims of Torture
Speedfreaks
New Jersey Scum Swamp
S & M Sniper
Pigfucker
Cairo Chop Shop
Fuck the Facts
Obeah Man
Facelifter
N.Y. Flat Top Box
Whiplash
The Blade
Gob of Spit

Enjoy (if you dare).
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ASMR

2026-10-12T11:29:56.945-04:00

Bobby Milan Krlic (Yorkshire, England born now residing in Silver Lake, CA) is known by his stage name The Haxan Cloak. He is a British composer, artist, music producer, & musician. He has released an EP, two full-lengths, & a single 27minute live recording as the Haxan Cloak. The second LP, Excavation, was released in 2013. It has a more electronic feel than his previous EP & self-titled, using samples & heavy bass, along with distorted field recordings made by Krlic.

Listening to this record in the middle of the night, alone with couple of candles is really immersive. For long stretches, you'll strain to hear anything at all. To get the most out of those quiet passages, where waveforms crackle like static electricity in an anechoic chamber, the album needs to be heard loud, very loud which only makes the periodic eruptions of bass & percussion that much louder. Excavation proceeds less like a musical work than a series of dream fragments: pensive tri-tone drones, rustling sub-rhythms, animalistic yowls, short-circuit sizzle, rattling sheets of metal, heavy-lidded pedal tones, cricket chatter, hiccupping EVP phonemes, church bells, & moments of aching silence, all spun together according to a logic that feels intuitive, pre-linguistic, sub-subconsciousness. This is 100% ASMR, bass head fuckery,

An autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) is a tingling sensation, a pleasant form of paresthesia that usually begins on the scalp then moves down the back of the neck & upper spine. ASMR has been compared with synesthesia. ASMR is a subjective experience of "low-grade euphoria" characterized by "a combination of positive feelings with a distinct static-like tingling sensation on the skin". It is most commonly triggered by specific auditory or visual stimuli. The sensation itself is often informally referred to as "tingles".

Tingle this...

The Haxan Cloak - Excavation, Tri Angle TRIANGLE18CD, 2013.
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Consumed
Excavation (Part 1)
Excavation (Part 2)
Mara
Miste
The Mirror Reflecting (Part 1)
The Mirror Reflecting (Part 2)
Dieu
The Drop

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Death to All Infidels

2026-10-11T12:09:36.980-04:00

Shared some Temple of Bon Matin here. At the time I alluded to the fact that this band was WEIRD.

Enough sez.

Temple of Bon Matin - Infidel, Spirit of Orr SO38, 2004.
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Sunrise-Slick (Louisville)
Gunnison
Sky Defect
Way Past Why (Baltimore)
Jupiter Beach
Breedlove
36 BM (DC)
Haole (San Francisco)
World Cherry

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Any Old Tom, Dick, & Harry

2026-10-10T10:53:10.330-04:00

Edward Tudor-Pole always was something of a clever Dick - naming Tenpole Tudor's debut album Eddie, Old Bob, Dick, & Gary after the expression 'any old Tom, Dick, & Harry'. Bob, of course, being guitarist Bob Kingston, Dick Crippen the band's bass player, Gary Long the drummer.

But the story of this album begins with another clever Dick: Malcolm McLaren. When filming his mockumentary The Great Rock & Roll Swindle about the Sex Pistols in early-mid 1978 the band he had nurtured into chaos & notoriety was dead in all but name. With Johnny Rotten gone AWOL McLaren needed a singer pronto. Auditions were planned with Edward Tudor-Pole impressing McLaren most. Even though rehearsals with Tudor-Pole, Paul Cook, Steve Jones, & stand-in bass player Andy Allen took place, the whole thing imploded when Vicious found himself in an American jail, accused of murdering his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. Vicious subsequently overdosed on heroin a& died. The End. With the Pistols no more, Tudor-Pole formed Tenpole Tudor with Kingston, Crippen, & Long who knew each other from The Visitors, a band in which Tudor-Pole had briefly guested as vocalist. The name Tenpole Tudor derived from a previous McLaren-brainwave rechristening Tudor-Pole to Ten Pole Tudor.

The album was released in 1980, sold moderately well, then disappeared off the musical radar. Then something interesting happened: Tenpole Tudor's 1981 single "Swords of a Thousand Men" peaked at #6. Keen to cash in, a clever Stiff Dick simply added "Swords of a Thousand Men" as opening track to the original Eddie, Old Bob, Dick, & Gary, remixed a couple of other tracks, put a new cover on it...lo & behold, a hit album peaking in May 1981 at #44 in the UK charts!

Tenpole Tudor - Eddie, Old Bob, Dick, & Gary, Stiff Records SEEZ31, 1981.
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Side A -

Swords of a Thousand Men
Go Wilder
I Wish
Header Now
There are Boys
Wunderbar

Side B -
3 Bells in a Row
Tell Me More
Judy Annual
I Can't Sleep
Anticipation
What Else Can I Do
Confessions

Weirder & weirder,
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Rimming Elvis the Andrew Weatherall Way

2026-10-09T10:52:54.932-04:00

One day Josie Jones arrives unnanounced at the One Little Indian offices in London. She tells label boss Derek Birket that she wants a deal for her new single.

"Let's hear it then," he sez.

Instead of playing him a demo, she reads out, in a dour northern accent, her 'imperfect list'. Birket is blown away by the words, & decides to take a punt, offering her a tiny recording budget

A few weeks later, she returns with the masters. To everyone's amazement, not only is the track kinda amazing, but it is recorded by Robin Gutherie of Cocteau Twins & Pete Wylie with Andrew Weatherall remixes already arranged...

It's jaw-dropping weirdness, especially in its original beatless version - a list of evildoers & nastiness spat out in a vitriolic Scouse accent over a dark ambient drone.

"Adolf Hitler. the dentist. Terry & June. fucking bastard Thatcher. Scouse impersonator. silly pathetic girlies. silly pathetic woman. macho dickhead. Bonnie Langford. neighbours. lost keys. phoney friend. ungrateful accusing mate. the Royal family. Stock Aitken & Waterman. smiling Judas. heartbreaking lying friend. Myra Hindley. acid rain. stinking rich female in furs. disloyal lover. wife & child beater. drunken abuser. racist. bully. The Sun newspaper. AIDS inventor. Leon Brittan. all nonsense. massive massive oilslick. Jimmy Tarbuck. loneliness. cancer. hunger. greed. gut wrenching disappointment. evil gossiping fashion bastard. tasteless a&r wanker. hard cold fish. overdraft like a mountain. the Jimmy Swaggart show. the Tory invention of the non-working class. poll tax. commie bashers. mister Jesse Helms. Hillsborough. weird british judges. apartheid. John Lennon's murder. anyone's murder. the breakdown of the NHS. the death of the rain forest. Heysel stadium. rednecks. rape. homelessness. the all-American way. Clause 28. Tiananmen Square. sexual harrassment. Nelson Mandela's imprisonment. Nancy's term. Ronnie's term. miscarriage. where were you?"

Big Hard Excellent Fish - Imperfect List, One Little Indian 41TP7CD, 1990.
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Imperfect List 1
Imperfect List 2
Imperfect List 3
Imperfect List 4

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Defy All Robots

2026-10-08T11:20:26.185-04:00

I've posted up various other music releases that were created to alter ones reality, to be aurally psychoactive.

Here's another dose.

Yoshifumi Kawahara was born in 1961 in Fukuoka, Japan. He died in Cambodia in 2012. He has been called 'the Jon Hassell of Japan'.

Taking the stage name Henry, Kawahara was a composer of avant-garde music that was an eclectic blend of experimental electronics, exotica, & new age music. He referred to his music as "cyber-occult". He was active in the Japanese cyber-occult underground of the 1990s, a scene linked with technologies such as 3D (binaural) recordings, brain machines, sound chairs, computer graphics, & digital compact discs.

These tracks, produced 1990-95, include a series of recordings described as "Parallel Data Sounds" & "Sound LSD", a new language system that speaks directly to the cerebrum using frequency components that are not perceived by the conscious mind, reflecting Kawahara's interest in concepts such as astrology, love mantras, & astral projection.

Also here are two pieces featuring dolphin sounds & human brainwave feedback, as well as pieces from a recording unit called H Music De-perception (HMD) & a group called Xiaoyun.

Here the original 2-CD set is augmented by a special bonus CD & includes a .pdf of the Koki Emura booklet.

Henry Kawahara - Cybernetic Defiance & Orgasm: Other Sides of...,
EM Records EM1205TCD, 2022.
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Disc-1: Music for Multimedia -
Feel Strange
Beyond Armageddon
69 with B-Dog
Love Moonlight
The Old Man at the Goagajan Woods
St. Valentine Day
Love Dance
Mercury Power

Disc-2: Co-Producton Works -
enDOLPHIN (Water Sonic version)
Sleeping Besides the Beast
Minami-kaze #4
Start on a Journey
Sim Sex
Morning
Neuro Dancer
Sweet Dreams
Still Life
Synethesia
Dolphin Dreams (Deep Relax mix)
Dolphinic Meditation (enDOLPHIN)

Disc-3: Special Bonus Disc -
Dance of Electronic Neuron Circuits (Third mix)
Destination of Endorphins)
Yorokobi-No-Koe
Nicea 'N Bark
Children in the Museum
Nanp ū (first 1992 version)
[Java] Dance #2. "Relaxed"
Sing an Anklungs (edit)
Eco-Location (Stargazer version)
Sound LSD #.Ss05/7.83hz (for radio mix)
Start on a Journey)
Primitive Love (Genshi No Ai delayed version)
In My Relationship with You, I Think About Myself on the Bed) (Panpot version)

Weirder & weirder,
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You Might Get a Sunburn in This Water

2026-10-07T10:24:20.069-04:00

Here's some experimental lo-fi acoustic rock from Brooklyn, NYC consisting of guitarist/multi-instrumentalist/vocalist/sound technician Brian Sullivan, drum/percussionist Chris Shields & guitarist/tape manipulator KHF (Patric Cole). United Waters started late 2009 as an evolution of Sullivan's intense noise background into muffled, subterranean, melodic outsider songwriting. At times they remind me of a certain-era Sun City Girls???

The sound of United Waters is rock 'n' roll submerged. The New York trio's music is as H20-logged as their name implies, woozily off-speed, as if they've been playing in the deep end so long their notes & beats have contracted a case of the bends. That sounds like a formula for a downer of an album, but actually submerging United Waters' songs in a claustrophobic pool makes them more engaging. The way the wiry guitar lines creep toward the surface, the way Brian Sullivan's doubled moans rise from the buried tunes like ghosts, beckons you to dive deep for more.

United Waters - Sunburner, Bathetic Records bath083, 2014.
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Side A -
Blue Weaver
Turn on Your Century
Satellite Decisions
Sunburner

Side B -
Our Beat
Archers
The Reach
Out of Flight

Weirder & weirder.
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Never a Dull Moment

2026-10-06T15:09:25.368-04:00

Dull Schicksal was a Rotterdam, Netherlands based band active from 1984 to 1997.

They played punky Avantgarde experimental art rock noise. Lukas Simonis started the group as a lo-fi pop band whose main influences were Swell Maps, TV Personalities, & Red Krayola. They soon morphed into a loose musical collective & experimental playground for many Dutch underground musicians.
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Here Dull is: Lukas Simonis - guitar, piano, vocals; Ronald Kreper - bass, organ, tapes; Frans Friederich - trumpet, tuba, vocals, tapes; & Bart Vos - drums, percussion.

Dull Schicksal - They Saved Hitler's Brain, ADM ADM16975, 1990.
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Dreigroscheneissler
Cruelty Asks for Delivery
Dogstabber
Definition of Reduction
God Took Away My Yesterdays Part 1
Pleading Not Guilty
Bad Reunion Diary
Hot Sausage Diary
God Took Away Part Three
Experimental Jolly Joe
Herban Olla Vogalas

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Vicious Virus

2026-10-05T11:20:05.853-04:00

This release from Virus Cycle (Johnny Virum) is the first of 4 EPs in the Tetralogy of Horror series. It was originally available as a free download from Bluntface Records. On this release, Johnny is joined by Otto Kinzel, owner of Bluntface, on bass. This is some weird Industrial goth metal.

Virus Cycle - Tetralogy of Horror: Act 1, Bluntface Records, 2013.
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Dreams in the Witch House
At Night
Gods & Monsters

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Got an Owner’s Manual for that Jaloppy?

2026-10-04T12:00:01.170-04:00

Jaloppy was asically an experimental rock/avant-garde music rat-rod thrown together by Dallas, Texan J. Bone Cro (J. Scott Sutton) & Austin, Texan Wes Cummings.

Mutant Sounds sez:
"An array of funhouse mirror inversions and candy coated manias arranged like a series of exquisite corpses and extruded during one furious and compressed 20 hour episode of weed and caffeine fueled malarky. Jaloppy was developed as an extension of Matt Castille's production work on two LP's of loner psych weirdity by his one-time roommate J. Bone Cro. Owner's Manual is the aptly monikered vehicle of jerry-rigged absurdist overhaul and de/re-construction of J. & his bandmate's source material."

Jaloppy - Owner’s Manual, Womb Tunes Records, 1997.
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Side A -
Take Yer Clothes Off
Carnival 2.49
Misty Mountain High

Side B -
Watch My Wheels Go Weeee!
Worms
Laced Whiskey Bottle
Afro Wah - Sheen

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