Acoustic Sound (#92)

Source here. Originally recorded on January 22, 1998.

This one is mislabeled as (#22). Since I pulled these off of tapes in more or less random order, the inconsistencies didn't stick out as much as they do when I'm parsing through them in chronological order. I make changes where I can, but I haven't re-uploaded the changes, so you'll have to suffer through the occasional misstep. If you're reading this in the year 4000, I've probably made the changes before I died, or left instructions in my will about doing so.

My coffeemaker broke this morning, which isn't an issue for me so much as it is for my partner (who as near as I can tell simply doesn't exist before the first cup). I could link this to the show, which always served to perk me up, but the truth of the matter lies in the previous phrase. Collage is made of everything, and can be made into anything.

This anything features long long long stretches of record manipulation, medium to spare record layering, and nice looping. This compressed astonishingly well.

1. Psychedelic Punk Hayride
2. Queasy Hippie Merry Go Round
3. Metropolis Dub
4. Polyrhythmic Bhangra Dub
5. Squishy Analog Sound Effect Storytime
6. Transit Station for Headless Horsemen
7. Kitchen Tantrums of Distinction
8. Endless Disco Break
9. Not a Banjo Solo at All
10. I Meant Something Different When I Asked For "Electronic Music"
11. Let's Have Some Dope Beats
12. Ok, More Dope Beats
13. Sudden Silence
    

Please, sir, I would like some pizza.

In the realm of things we like, this is one of the things we like.

Back to ASCIIs (#86)

Source here. Originally recorded on December 11th, 1997.

I'm not sure why ASCII is pluralized here, but that's what was on the tape. I'm not sure what it means in this context (and I know I've said that many times before). There's nothing remotely computer related on this track, although there's a lot of interweaving vocal and speech parts. Tight loops, and crafty hooks. There's a certain constant throb to the thing that sort of oozes and jostles you all the way.

1. Honk and Clank
2. Churn Churn Churn Churn Churn
3. THX
4. Hiccup Carnival
5. Tuvan Hiccup
6. A moment to groove
7. Diving mask
8. For His Coming
9. One Long Raspberry
10. Sharpen
11. The tiniest whale
12. Bad horror and worse music
13. Hand-cranked piano

Added by IanF-R:

Okay, I give. I thought I was being clever by making a half-pun on "Basics", as in "Back-to-Basics", "Back-to-BASIC (computer language)", etc. Obviously, it was too far-fetched to translate beyond the day I wrote it down.
But really it doesn't make sense with that explanation, either. I had an infatuation in my early computer-years (circa 1984-1987) with ASCII art like you'd find on the BBS art galleries (didn't we all), and my ignorance of the details behind ASCII/ANSI/etc led me to mythologize its importance to everyday life to some extent, that well, still lurks in my memory, I suppose, being I can talk about it today. Grr. Here's the playlist

(Unnumbered) "Humor is Everywhere"

Source here. Originally recorded on December 6th, 1997.

Occasionally the intrepid actors in the show were called in to substitute for other specialty shows on our fair station. This was usually never done more than once, as we'd bring our disease to to their show. This sort of cross-pollination (or contamination) was a favorite thing (of ours) to do.

This was a show Ian subbed for the comedy show on Sunday. All comedic samples were used and no humor was harmed in the making of this show.

1. First in Flight
2. Whoops a profanity
3. Groucho tells a story
4. Banks and Opera
5. Who Governs This Country?
6. PDQ
7. A Lehrer Moment
8. His remarks will be translated into English
9. B.L.O.N.D.E.
10. Stump the Band
11. Three-Part Invention
12. Moog Tigers
13. We Saved All The Laughter to the End