Great show this past Wednesday put together by Jeremy @ Impose, featuring Effing, Power Animal, Chaos Majik (new tape on Baked real soon!), Grasshopper, Slasher Risk & Fiasco.
Video courtesy of Todd Pendu
Tags: chaos majik, flyer, grasshopper, video
Just got back from a delightful patriotic afternoon w/ all the usual jerks as part of Baked’s Memorial Potluck Noise BBQ at Tommy’s in Greenpoint. Spectacular sets from all involved – Arcanode, Found Objects, a rather intriguing collab between the FO boyz and Grasshopper, Anthony Saunders and Memorial Gore (Andy of Slasher Risk & Paul of Rust Worship/THD).
Here’s some vidz courtesy of one mister Kevin Jackson, who’ll be sending me some photos for posting in the next day or so… RIGHT KEVIN?!?!?!?!?!
Grasshopper w/ Found Objects @ Tommy’s Tavern 2009.05.25 from Baked Tapes.
Tags: found objects, grasshopper, memorial gore, video
Taken from Foxy Digitalis Thanks Robert!
TELECULT POWERS / BOB BELLERUE “Baked in the Kitchen” c40 (Baked Tapes)
“Baked in the Kitchen” is a collaborative effort from New York experimentalists Telecult Powers and Bob Bellerue. Recorded on a November night in 2008, this tape pulls from that setting and emits a duo of dreary, side-long drone sprawls.
Predominantly featuring use of electronics and feedback, “Baked in the Kitchen” is cold yet radiant. The extraterrestrial glimmers of side A are met with gurgling, low-end clatter, while scrapes of synth spike upwards through the mix. Crunching and rattling, the analog sounds are like memories of long-abandoned industrial blocks– ghosts emerging from long obsolete machinery. The deep drones of side B take on a far more ominous feel than its side A counterpart. It hums like endlessly spinning cogs of a celestial machine adrift in the pitch black space. Jagged chunks of delay and distortion fit together likes pieces of a jigsaw, moving en masse with no particular destination. Telecult Powers and Bellerue work together seamlessly in crafting these excursions, making interesting, subtle movements and never overwhelming.
This is the second straight Baked Tapes release I have reviewed and I am again impressed. The efforts of Telecult Powers and Bob Bellerue have resulted in another slice of Baked Tapes drone that deserves to spend time in the tape deck. Turn out the lights and pop it in at 3 AM. Getting baked in the kitchen beforehand is optional. 8/10 — Robert Oberlander
Tags: baked tapes, bob bellerue, review, telecult powers
To consolidate time between sets, KILT partnered up with Baked friends, Telecult Powers for a tag team, back to back, double header of monstrous audacity.
Here, in it’s glory, for your listening pleasure, are/is the sets, broken in two, as i had to flip my cassette right as Telecult took over:
Tags: bob bellerue, earbuds, kilt, mp3, telecult powers
Well before I started up Baked Tapes back in November of 2007, Josh and I made our first venture into the record makin’ business with Shut Up! I Love You Records. I recently stumbled upon a box of our landmark (and completely under-promoted) compilation Remember The Alamode, featuring exclusive tracks from the likes of Lucky Dragons, Captain Ahab, Nat Baldwin, Narwhalz, Mike Dixon and 15 others (see below).
Anywho, being as though i have like seriously, 150 – 200 of these guys taking up room in my closet, I’ll pretend I have readers and make some sort of blow out sale out of it. $4ppd to bakedtapes[at]gmail will have all these wonderful (and eclectic mix of) tracks delivered right to your door. Real CD, no cdr bullshit. Available in pink, green, red, blue AND yellow!
1. Mas Y Mas – Virginia State Anthem | 2. Thee Moths – //////fragment////// | 3. Rapscallionz – King of The World | 4. Vollmar – Tell The Dirt | 5. Lucky Dragons – All The Best, William | 6. Justin Clifford Rhody – Preparation for a Three-Piece | 7. Nat Baldwin – Look She Said | 8. Specific Pacific – The Last Dime I’ll Ever Spend On You | 9. Tiger Piss – Drippy as Arseholes | 10. OCDJ – Pele Would Never Do That | 11. Sweet Potatoes – Layers | 12. Basilica – Part VII | 13. Captain Ahab – Crunk As Dick | 14. Narwhalz – Rupies Vs. Crystals | 15. Height w/ Bow ‘N Arrow – Did We Do Our Thing? (yes) | 16. Werewolf Unit – Betula Alleghaniensis | 17. Normanoak – Run Away From Home | 18. Mike Dixon – Good Luck Street Smarts | 19. The Encyclopedias – Stretch of Trees | 20. Bad Brother – Trailer Park
Anyway, here’s my contribution to the comp, a lowly blown-out lofi ballad called “The Last Dime I’ll Ever Spend on You (will be for the phone call from prison to your parents to say it was worth it)”, from my ill-fated songwriting project right before my descent into noise, Specific Pacific.
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Here’s the official blurb from 2006:
“Remember The Alamode (or Remem’er The Alamode as we affectionately call it) is a mixtape of old friends, new friends and the people we look up to. Jumping continents and genres like a skipping record, this 20 track testament to an extreme case of musical A.D.D. is a volatile crash course in mismatched scenes–ranging from hiphop to grindcore noise, singer/songwriter to gameboy dance freakouts and just about everything in between. A little something for everybody or rather, everything for anyone. Almost all of the tunes included here are exclusive to this compilation, from a terrifying hardcore crunk track by Captain Ahab (winners of the Snakes on a Plane Soundtrack Contest), to a pensive electric lullaby by Lucky Dragons; the floating harmonies and upright bass drones of Nat Baldwin (of the Dirty Projectors) to all out glitchy folk tunes by Thee Moths and Tiger Piss from the UK. Even an iconoclastic Virginia anthem by Mas Y Mas and an old school rap tune by Height and Bow ‘N Arrow find good company amongst the 20 artists featured here. Hand assembled, stamped and numbered. 500 copies, CD.”
Tags: compilation, specific pacific, su!ily
Grasshopper – Kindertotenlieder c40
Highlighting some of the more abrasive tones of the NYC trumpet duo, Kindertotenlieder acts as a conduit between earlier brass psychedelic zoners and their more recent live orchestral assaults. Super metal lettering by Cherlyn Russo. Printed on vellum. Ltd. 50
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Fluorescent Vibes – The Weight of the Clouds c30
Materializing as naturally as condensation on the side of a glass, this Ridgewood trio (now duo) compromised of members of Arcanode and Miami Beach approach near-weightlessness with this aptly titled magnetic offering. Never has a title so much so represented the vision and execution of a tape more unequivocally. Artwork by Tiana Femano, Ashley Purciello, and Diana Hutyk from the book “weep music + tainted love”. Ltd. 60
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Fossils – Magnetic Minds c30 (vol. 1)
The highly speculated missing piece of the puzzle that alongside volumes 2 (Myiasis) and 3 (MJC) constitute an unfiltered trilogy of Payne and co. (here alongside Daniel Farr of The Living Stump) at their finest, laid direct to tape, during the dominant months of winter, as only Fossils can. Ltd. 40
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Pork Lion – Contact High c26
A piece for 4 guitars, more reminiscent of a quartet of chainsaws cutting through the cement foundation of an abandoned factory with overtones floating down empty hallways and stagnant stairwells while the grinding of the remodeling below rumbles through the night. On the flip, another work for multiple guitars, the quartet seemingly hit a watermain, flooding the basement gradually, while both machinery and bodies float lifeless, suspended in the murky mixture as exposed electrical wires sputter out until consumed as well. Ltd. 24
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Nonhorse “Pink Light” c60
Slasher Risk “Corporate Jobs” c7 (~5 left)
TwistyCat “Bore Hole” c50 (~5 left)
Grasshopper “Dads Against Vietnam” c50 (~2 left)
Telecult Powers/Bob Bellerue collab “Baked In The Kitchen” c40 (~2 left)
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Tags: baked tapes, cassette, fluorescent vibes, fossils, grasshopper, pork lion
A few years back, I applied for a production position at Sirius. I don’t need to get into the details, but in the later rounds of interviewing i was given some assignments. Here is one of the two radio spots that resulted. This was for an ad for the airings of the original Twilight Zone radio episodes, of which the only stipulation was it contain the station ID and the ‘de de de de’ jingle.
Rather than doing the whole thing “inside the box” as often is done in such cases, I was forced to rethink my approach as the time line given for turn around actually coincided with a weekend trip to I had planned and ultimately a departure from my main rig. Using a borrowed M-Box and a laptop, I utilized the limited number of elements I had at my disposal. Aside from the mac-speak text fed by old transcripts i found online and the debut of my thriftstore diamond in the rough Lowrey organ, the unsung meat of the track is an old AM radio and a field recording of a live performance of a microphone-induced feedback piece created thru the sound system inside a 2008 Ford Mustang I did during my visit.
Tags: commercial
Originally intended for a John Coltrane noise tribute compilation (yeah, you might want to reread that again) that i think got scratched, Return to the Cosmic Uterus was a jam inspired by J.C.’s ‘Central Park West’ (spot the head being played in these four and a half minutes, it’s there a few times!!) and features mixed instrumentation of EVI, trumpet, oscillators, theremin, drum machine and roor thru minimal electronics. It was later repurposed for Nursing Home Record’s second volume of the ‘Every Day is Halloween’ compilation series (aptly titled “Every Day Is Halloween Volume II“) and appears alongside such acts as Xdugef, Josh Lay, and Sick to the Back Teeth among others. 21 tracks in all, clocking in at just under 80 minutes, decked out in super campy halloween sFx-esque packaging no less!
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Originally available thru Nursing Home Band’s myspace, this looks to be out of print.
Tags: compilation, mp3, pork lion
