Saturday, July 3, 2010

Insanity Sounds (#60)

Source available here. The show was originally broadcast on June 15th, 1997.

This show might have been a planned theme show or just named after the theme appeared spontaneously. It seems to hover around/jab at/scurry under the topic of mental health & illness, and it employs delicate as well as blunt instruments. The overall feel is harried, and you can hear a lot of frantic voices, some heavy effects, and an occasionally violent instability, as well as deja vu à la Catch-22 and excerpts from a psychology radio program.

This is a good example of a long-format show which sticks to the collage-mix with little to no break until the end. It's quite difficult to be so frenzied and confused for a straight 90 minutes. Often times the shows drop into musical interludes, but with this one, you get no such breathers.

  1. Fuzz For Junk/Extended Cyborg Death Scene
  2. A World Insane
  3. A Slide Whistle Sneaks Up & Blows in Your Ear
  4. Cheering Man Takes His Date to a John Zorn Show
  5. Did He Say Dr. Tiger?
  6. Strangled or Strangling
  7. It's the Bomb-ardier, & He's Still All Right
  8. Recipe: Waco Funk-Rock Puree
  9. Happy Place Soundtrack
  10. Twinkling Spasms in Turtle Soup
  11. Talkin' World War Baby Telephone Call Blues
  12. Time Travel in the Seventies/Sound of Blood
  13. Black Belt Coming Down