Excerpts (#5) Frags of #5?

Source here. Originally recorded on June 7th, 1996.

And now we begin to loop around. I've managed to get a few new ones uploaded, but of course they're mixed in with all the others. This would be a problem except for the fact that I've got a spreadsheet (that I'm using as a database), that keeps track of all this.

Of course, I'll make a mistake and I'll be gratified if someone points it out, simply because that means that someone is paying attention.

1. Laugh more every day
2. Trip Hop Nerd Loop
3. Mormon Tabernacle Choir drops a phat beat
4. Too many priests spoil the choir
5. Electric critters with sitars
6. No static at all
7. Merry Go Round Black Hole
8. Laser Organ Attacks
9. That's What I Want
10. The Dutch Company
11. Gamelan Calliope Hurdy Gurdy
12. A moment of disco
13. The Deep House has Termites

Drum (#119)

Source here. Originally recorded on July 30, 1998.

The title should be a clear indication of the content, but just in case...

This one is all about drums. Looped, flanged, layered, distorted in various ways. It's in fact one of the most rhythmical shows I've come across. There are sections that are downright danceable, and plenty that is sort of a hypnotic throbbing.

1. Like a train on the ocean
2. A moment in a Buddhist temple during a funk concert
3. The native village gets its first washing machine and it is already unbalanced
4. My heart has been replaced with superior robot parts
5. Romanian hip-hop includes castinets
6. Steel drum band in the next warehouse
   
7. CLASH OF THE CARNIVALE AND CHINESE NEW YEAR PARADES
8. We were going to play basketball but the floor was made of awesome
9. Martin Denny joins in
10. Working industrial funk plant
11. Nothing like home-made toys
12. We are cleaning the paint off with hammers
13. A good sanding is what it really needed
    

Some More Stuff (You Know) (#116)

Source here. Originally recorded on July 9th. 1998.

This seems to be a long treatise on the effects processor box, which is not, in and of itself, a bad thing. The usual source material gets layered and chopped and screwed and distorted into a dense, fluffy stew. No central theme here except extreme density punctuated by quirky looping.

1. Metal on Springtime
2. Hut, two, hut, two.
3. You've gone through something
4. Kyoto, 2012, on the line
5. Cool feedback, Daddy-O
6. Unsteady Idle
7. Tennis for two
8. Overdrive as commentary on external limitations
9. caw caw caw caw
   
10. Right behind you music!
    
11. I see you soon
    
12. Spin Cycle
13. Retreating Birds and Bells
    

Poetry Slammer (#113)

Source here. Originally recorded June 18, 1998.

Whatever you call it: poetry, word salad, skat, sound poem, what have you; it's all here. An A Capella show of a different type. TKDF was my introduction to Ken Nordine, who is sort of awesome.

Lots of finger snapping recital going on here. The occasional double-bass and bongo makes an appearance. Most languages in a sort of English you might recognize. Coffee shop background effects take away from the reality rather than adding to it. Yodeling. Götterdämmerung.

1. Those with the nose for the news
2. Follow him with faith
3. Perfectly manicured to exclude the poor
4. The bookmarks, the numbers, the pages
5. (a Raymond Scott interlude)
6. They shot my man!
7. A haiku at 11pm
8. Performance mistaken for accolades
9. Layered Violence on the Radio
10. A sickly vein shot with possibilities
11. Thirteen, Right On
12. Get the pie pie pie pie pie pie pie pie
13. He'd get his ass kicked if he did it
    

Cineshow (#111)

Source here. Originally recorded on June 4th, 1998.

Careful observers of the main page for all the recordings will notice that we've almost come to the end of the list. There may be a short hiatus while the remainder of the shows are cataloged and uploaded, but I'll have to see exactly how it all rolls out.

Our Cinematic Wonderland show comes hot on the heels of the storybook wonderland show, at least in this world. A gathering of soundtracks from movies popular and otherwise was used to create this brooding, ethereal show. Where the previous show was a hyperactive fluff of dense sugar foam, this one comes across more like a thick vermouth of adult topics. There is some comedy as well, but the flavor is decidedly more mature.

1. Little child, on a postcard.
2. Nobody important, have you seen The Herald?
3. Transient or Resident?
4. I'm very sorry, sir, can you make us cry?
5. Somebody just complained, turn around
6. Rocky Horror Shortstop
7. I'll make it short, honk honk
8. Family Traditional Scream
9. Spirit in the Sky
10. Junkie Chase in Space
11. Just talking about a mine shaft
12. I am Iron Man
13. That dammed French computer again