Monsters v. Everyone (#19)

Original source here. Recorded on September 28th, 1996.

More logistical notes. I finally managed to get the uploading to the Internet Archive working again, and the buffer between what's available and what's been posted is once again on the increase. The feeling of well-being the creates is indescribable except to those similarly afflicted.

The afflictions available in this show are numerous and varied. Monsters v. Everyone stretches the description of "monster" (and, in fact, "everyone" as well) to give you a creeping dread not normally found outside of October. Plenty of chewy backwards masking and airy atmospherics.

1. Trapped in Snow
2. Gasp
3. Bat Power Dive
4. Bell Haven
5. Marco Polo
6. Speaking in Tongues
7. Mammal Attack
8. Sing us a song, you're the Piano Monster
9. Chinese Water Tenure
10. Deep Inside the Haunted Ship
11. Aviary
12. Example 22
13. Bell Haven (reprise)
    

Added by IanF-R:
Link to this show's flowsheet. At some point I might try to OCR these...

Music & Noise (#18)

Source also found here. Recorded September 14th, 1996.

The first one with a title! This is a momentous occasion, best left unmarked although remarked upon.

Or maybe not. I will say that this is the first one I've posted with a title, and hence a theme to the show. This is also a bit short. There are probably others in my ever growing back catalog that have names that were recorded before this.

There's been a question as to what to _do_ with the tapes once I've finished this endeavor. I'm boxing them up and probably will include a printout of the documentation as a guide, but they're too fragile to put in an attic/basement, and yet not worth keeping around for close perusal. The debate rages on! (I've been told disposal is an option, though one I'm going to choose not to exercise)

All this is more logistics than art, and perhaps inherently uninteresting.

1. The Best Meat Tenderizer Ever
2. This one was hard to start
3. Permanent damage to hearing
4. Shaking their whole body
5. Utilitarian music
6. Quiet Products
7. I wear black on the outside
8. Castanets / Pianos
9. Outside, looking in
10. Whoa, dude
11. A Rhodes Piano Was a Bad Choice Here
12. Belt Sander
13. Hamsters

Added by IanF-R:
I wish I had a flowsheet for this show, but it's gone with the tornadoes of time. I know that the pleasant chug-chug-chug machine drone throughout this show is a slowed down tape of myself beating on an aluminum foil take-out pan. Other music incidentally recognizable includes:

• Negativland's Escape From Noise
• Perry & the Redd Foxxe
• Daniel Johnston
• Beck (loser)
• Herbie Hancock's Rockit
• Fudge Tunnel
• Meat Beat Manifesto
• Laurie Anderson's For Electronic Dogs
• Scratch Acid
• Space Streakings

Excerpts #13 HVD

Original source here. Recorded on August 2nd, 1996.

I just went back and corrected a mistake. It's not a serious one, but a minor detail only the dedicated will pick up. I'm not as rigorous about the process as I might lead you to believe, after all. For instance, some of these recordings outro with regular, unadulterated music. Sometimes I catch it, and trim the ends (as it were). Sometimes I miss it and leave it on. The amount of silence at the beginning and end, and in the space where I flip the tape, varies somewhat.

These might uncharitably be called "mistakes", or very charitably be described as "Honor thy error as a hidden intention" The truth is murky and in the interstitials.

1. The neverending riff
2. Someone's at the door, it's harmony robot
3. Not quite the slits, or maybe it is
4. Those darn monkeys
5. Quit messing with the printer
6. BLUES HAMMER
7. More Pounding
8. The crowd goes wild
9. Digesting an analog synthesizer
10. Rain
11. Can't stop the rock
12. Rock has been stopped
13. Inside the TKDF modem
    

Added by IanF-R:
Link the the flowsheet for this show. I have particularly enjoyed hearing this one again--it seems to flow and develop pretty well--and because the flowsheet says "FUN FUN FUN", I have to assume that I enjoyed it then, too.

A brief interlude.

We used to stuff like this all the time on the show, on purpose. You'll hear some of it, once in a while.

Excerpts #12 Stuporbowl Funday

Original source here. Show was performed on July 26, 1996.

A few weeks I'd gotten the rest of the tapes and a big spreadsheet detailing all the audio mayhem that had gone on. This weekend I started bringing them into the computer. CDs are cool because you can pull one in in like 1/8th the time it tales to play it, but tapes and records are real time. It's meditative.

I'm still posting stuff I had little to no part in, but eventually we'll get to stuff with my voice on it, and that's always a shock, to hear me speaking from a decade in the past, trying to sound "cool" on the radio, much like I'm doing here. All is vanity!

1. Clang and Challenge
2. Momentary Latin Jazz Break
3. Wipe out the whole world five times over
4. Sample and Hold
5. Speedbilly
6. 1234123412341234
7. Watch out for the pavement
8. Encounter with space sickness
9. Man, do I hate Zydeco
10. Oonst Oonst Oonst Oonst
11. R2D2 is in the can
    
12. Chewbacca and Han vs. the noise monster
13. John Wms. vs Robt. Wms.
    

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