Excerpts #10 Snow Day

Original source here.

Up early on a snow day due to the exquisite quality of the sunlight. We don't get snow here often, and when we do the whole area shuts down. I realize that other places don't have the same experience, so their quality of snow is different; merely a muted version of the usual hustle and bustle. Here it is quiet. Very very quiet. Foot traffic only. Like all the cars got on the mothership and left.

Wildly unlike this track. All crunch and bombast.

1. Full Range Dynamic Sound.
2. Gothic Test Tones
3. We can learn to spell.
4. 240 Flapjacks.
5. Brief Industrial Interlude
6. Metal Metal Metal Metal Poof.
7. Broadcast from the Factory Floor.
8. We're now going live.
9. Can we be like the aliens?
10. On the fringe of our range.
11. We're not U2
12. Punch and Judy and Primus.
13. Deep Dub Outro.
    

Added by IanF-R:
Link to this show's flowsheet

Excerpts #9 - Striding a Hit.

Source accessible here.

This show took place in 1996 on July 5th or 6th. What's funny is that the spreadsheet-as-database I have of the tapes list different dates than are on the tapes themselves. Since the show took place usually at midnight to 2am, or eleven to 1am, or ten until midnight; most of the tapes are dated as if the show took place in the late evening. The info sheet is marked as if the show took place in the early morning. For a minute, I thought I had the wrong tapes, or sheet, or both.

This leaves the sound in a sort of liminal temporal no-space, and makes me wonder that if but for the artifacts that now for you only exist as bits - and therefore completely imaginary anyway - none of this ever really happened. Treat this, then, as an unexpected gift.

1. Skronk traffic jam. Garbage collection
2. Letter of Complaint
   
3. Unauthorized Pyrotechnic Displays
4. Celtic fiddle REAL ART
5. Strauss and Strauss and Strauss and Strauss
6. Mallets and Malice
7. (unintelligible)
8. We Love the Tuvans
9. WE ARE RIGHT INSIDE THE PIANO
10. R2D2 Tuvan Disco
11. Nothing Succeeds like Excess
12. Reverse Attack Percussion
13. Slow Groove Coda
    

Added by IanF-R:
Link to this show's flowsheet. And we still do love the Tuvans.

Excerpts #7

I just got the last stash of tapes this week. I've yet to sort through them, of course, but the latent archivist in me is pleased. I can catalog them all and store them away, maybe burn them all to DVD or store them on a spare hard drive? The possibilities are endless.

The winter season brings a regular heating and cooling cycle to my house, and the differences in air pressure that occur around 66 degrees (I am a cheap bastard), are enough to make a metal tin somewhere in my home office "ping" as the lid flexes back and forth. I don't know which tin, or where it is, mainly because I like the sound and the reason so much that I'm loathe to disturb it.

This tape was recorded in 1996 on June 21st. I only just now realized that I had thirteen description points in the last two entries (really, just now), so I may just keep going with that. Original source here, though the podcast seems to work so maybe that's redundant.

1. Jim was a great sportsman.
2. High speed metal bit. Japanese design.
   
3. A Western Tale.
4. No. Yeah. Whoa. Yes.
5. Push instead of Drag. Some Silence.
6. Space Grind. Space Throb.
7. A Real Country Song.
8. Disco Loop.
9. Electro-Swing with scattered indigestible crunchy bits.
10. Ding Dong.
11. Disassembly is the reverse of these steps.
12. Film Noir.
13. Techno outro.
    

Added by IanF-R:
Link to this show's flowsheet.

Excerpts #6

I just got through a three-day festival (festival? At what point does a series of days of music become a "festival", does it have to do with the number of bands, or days, or both? More research must be done on this) of bands covering other bands, so my perception is rather skewed at the moment. Also I'm tired.

Carry on! This tape was made on 6/14/1996. Also labeled "Excerpts", and while there is no clear theme, I do not consider that to be a detriment. Podcast appears to be working, original source also here.

1. Grateful Dead Industrial Deconstruction
2. Free Jazz with Turntable Manipulation
3. No, I really am a Truck
4. Alvin has trouble with obstinate cellists.
5. Lock groove groove.
6. Music from the ominous part.
7. 80's hip hop diversion.
8. Chuckles and Cowbells
9. Vincent Price: Poetry Fan
10. Swing, interrupted.
11. Wings, fixed and flapping.
12. We are not turntablists.
13. We can't stop the 80's; somebody help us.
    

Added by Ian F-R:
Link to this show's flowsheet. From this one you can get a sense of my musical tastes at the time: noisy, electronic, and varied (Murphy's Law? Shamen? Anthony Braxton?).

Happy New Ear.

It's a new year, but during the old year, I spent a little time with the back catalog of tapes from what seems like eons ago and my trusty antique computer and made these things all computery-file-like. Ian granted me blog access to post them (they are, after all, more than partly his work), so I'll be doing that once a week for the next year (and beyond, until I run out of tapes).

Chronological order, as this prevents discussions of quality, appropriateness, or any other pigeonholing words that occlude more than reveal. I decided on AAC since it's probably a "free enough" format. Uncompressed audio is available upon request.

This tape was made on 5/31/1996, quite possibly before I even became involved. Vague, unconvincing descriptions of possible cuepoints follow.

1. Words that are spoken
   
2. 80's cop show background music
3. More rolling clicks and non-tubular bells
4. Russian murmuring
5. Scottish shoegaze feedback
6. Roughly handled babbling
7. A strident loop
8. Sound affect
9. Rubber spaghetti western
10. Typewriters and bongos
11. Saxophone balloon art
12. Prepared monastery
    
13. Somewhat of a recap

Blog post should also be a podcast, but just in case you want something to press on, the track is also here. All tracks should be available on the Internet Archive here, if you're antsy for stuff before I post it.

Added by IanF-R:
Link to the flowsheet for this show.

Flowsheets were required by the programming department to track what songs, albums, and artists were played from the preferred playlists (weekly recommendations). But the value here may be to identify what sounds or songs were used in each show.

Some shows with stricter themes or more intense mix sessions unfortunately don't have much filled in--it was hard to keep track of what we played when we were constantly changing discs or starting and stopping things. Whereas when we took a break and played a straight musical interlude, it was easier to write that down. Nevertheless I'll add them a) when I have them and b) when they seem to me to add something to the listening experience.