Excerpts (#11)

Source here. Originally recorded on July 19, 1996.

Another one from the random file. This one starts in the deeply ridiculous and does a random walk from there. Much spoken word work here: poetry, chanting, documentary. Environmental, atmospheric, soundtracklike music fiercely backs it up. The second half is less wordy than the first, but more dense and layered.

1. PeePee McDooDoo? Seriously?
2. Drum and Bass and Film Noir
3. Drum Solo with Record Manipulation
4. Weatherman One
5. (muffled laughter)
6. Men have dreamed of landing on our moon
7. 80's Soap Music, Hey, What About Me?
   
8. We have placed everything under a layer of foam
9. Maybe it's just that it's AM radio and we're out in the country now like the KLF or something
10. Caw Caw Caw Kong
11. Monks and Frogs
12. Saxophone Busker in Alien Subway
13. Music Box Winds Down
    

Another video for you.

Angie Dickinson does not take any crap.

Excerpts (#8)

Source here. Originally recorded on June 28th, 1996.

SUPERBOWL SUNDAY. Accolades for the yearly American Football finals pop up in the strangest places, and this place is no exception. However, I simply don't care. I do this to annoy people, and not to profess a deep and abiding love for a "team" (an outmoded abstract concept as they come). Still, the bread and circuses (circii?) beckon; promising scantily clad women advertising disappointingly mundane Internet services, and burly drugged man-children pretending to avoid concussions. One must do as one does.

Enough about that. I should have a twofer this week, as there is a video I'd like to share with you in a later post (maybe around noon? Who knows?). This is another themeless show from the early period.

1. Flute at the moon
2. Bongos and birdsongs
3. Subtle Miami Vice Themes
4. SPLASH (and reprise of the first three)
   
5. Wood Shop Metal Shop
6. FBI Swing Instruction
7. Full Film Noir Treatment
8. I'm a train!
9. Chinese New Year Hovercraft Parade
10. Moderate Rabbit Dragon Roar
11. Meditation on lo-fi bass distortion
12. Movie chase scene with ragtime music
13. And we second line out...
    

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