Tags: abc no rio, ahlzagailzehguh, bob bellerue, ccammiss, eid, flyer, grey market, james amoeba, jess coble, joe maraud, last level, mp3, rust worship, self-avoiding walk, video, xnkx
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
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!
[320kbps]
Originally available thru Nursing Home Band’s myspace, this looks to be out of print.
Tags: compilation, mp3, pork lion
This past weekend was an incredibe testament to how far the NYC noise scene has come in the past few years. Just a short time ago, having one killer show in a weekend was reason enough to get excited, but for me, hitting up 5 rock solid shows (okay, one was in western mass.) was a true test to the ears, and a feast to the psyche, one which i was happy to subject myself to.
Among the MVPs of the weekend were my local favs Telecult Powers and Pizza Night honcho, Sam Goldberg, who each respectively utilized the Glasslands sound system to it’s fullest extent to churn my insides into a juicy pile of cosmic slop. Following Sam bringing it hard the next afternoon at Eat Records, the two joined forces for a short, but sweet, collab for Pendu’s Black Mass at Tommmy’s Tavern in Greenpoint.
Without any further ado… I present to you the first in a series I’d like to call “Earbuds”, some of my collection of cassette ‘bootlegs’ of localized noise dudes I think are spiffy. Shows will be stream-only until I can confirm the downloadability of each…
Tags: earbuds, mp3, sam goldberg, telecult powers
It seems whenever I make an attempt to clean this sty I call a home, I stumble upon an overwhelming number of cassettes - hidden gems tucked away in the most mysterious of places, carelessly devoid of any labeling or even a protective case. I mean A LOT. I suppose it comes with the territory and all as an active engineer/archivist and tape label honcho, but each time the playhead hits the leader for the first time, there’s a small spark of magic that hits the air, an aura of uncertainty of what lies ahead mixed with the rush that perhaps your newest uncovered treasure will be the grail of the cutting room floor.
Here’s one such I recently stumbled on which has me all bothered. I can only be certain it’s some early Grasshopper incarnation. No idea as to a date, but likely from mid 2007 before we made a move over to full-time trumpet, while we were first sharpening our teeth as budding guitar/keyboard zoners.
Enjoy.
Grasshopper - White Label Jam #1 [320kbps]
Tags: cassette, grasshopper, mp3
Jellybeans>>>> [320kbps]
A few weeks back, I was going through a stack of unlabeled tapes from high school with Josh and came upon an odd recording from the Maury Povich show featuring a young girl with a rare illness that kept her what i can only describe as “toy”-sized. Despite the uplifting nature of the actual special, and her survival-story, the degradation of the tape over the years had rendered the whole thing horribly disturbing. I assembled this track on four oscillators, guitar, tape delay and that cassette looped this afternoon between tape dubs of the new Pork Lion cassette currently trickling it’s way out to the public.
Andy Says “Relax”>>> [320kbps]
Also recorded this one this afternoon with an sk-1, some oscillators, more tape delay and another unmarked tape from the pile, this one an old home-made relaxation cassette that i believe is the man, the myth, the legend… ‘uncle’ Andrew “Andy” Leonard. Get comfy with this one.
More coming soon!
Remixing the Ying-Yang (sic)
Artist: Beowulf Jones, Pork Lion
For those not in the know, Rapscallionz were a progressive/absurdist Hip-hop duo straight from the heartland of America’s biblebelt, Bloomington, IN. Although shortlived, the impact left by these fine Rap stallions (see how i did that?) still rumbles through churches of the midwest to this day. Consisting of Baked regular Josh Millrod (aka Neil Bolton) and Matt Nowlin (aka Grafik Lequist, Esq.), I had the privilege of recording their debut full-length, Enforcing The Ying-Yang, over the course of a weekend amid their legendary east coast tour during the summer of 2006.
Following their demise, the Baked Beard Company pushed thru a number of ‘tribute’ tracks; an assortment of remixes, covers, and even a fully realized Pork Lion vs. Rapscallionz single (which pending a vocal overdub will hopefully/eventually find it’s way to a lathe 7″ in 2009). What follows were the first two remixes to hit the streets during the winter of 2006, made by what later was to become The Fairy Godmothers.
BEOWULF JONES>>> “National Pie Championchip (Cheeseburgewr & French Fries remix)” (sic) [128kbps]
Rather than switching up the instrumental track like conventional remixers tend to, B. Jones opted to instead sub out the vocal tracks, while leaving the instrumental fully intact. Through tireless use of the AT&T Voice Synthesis Demo and meticulous manual time aligning of the verses over the course of New Year’s Eve 2006, the track was premiered at a party of epic proportions later that night @ Joe’s Arcade.
PORK LION>>> “Buddy Bolden Interlude (blaxploitation dub)” [320kbps]
A heavily ring-modulated butchering of album’s interlude track paired against a vocal hook from an session outtake which has never seen the light of day (though is fully torn a new one on the forthcoming pork lion vs. 7″), topped off with a little dash of Sun-Ra groove.
Tags: beowulf jones, mp3, neil bolton, pork lion, rapscallionz, remix
Waving Genitals and Manuscripts (theoretical c-22, 2007)
Artist: F.B.I. in Beards (Pork Lion)
Full size cover: here
This is the first tape i assembled of my solo improvisations living @ the ol’ 141. I made a few copies on a wobbly deck that wavered like the dickens and sent it to a few folks under the F.B.I. in Beards moniker. As a nominal tribute to Ginsberg’s “Howl,” this was a collection of tracks fittingly inspired by the continued dissolve of the footprint of the once thriving anti-establishment nyc underground. Historical venues giving way to high rise luxury condos, the streets littered by the overpour of name-brand night life, and swanky irony as far as the eye can see; it was a final acknowledgment of an inevitable sellout of what little respect was left.
The One Eyed Shrew That Winks Out of The Womb >>> [320kbps]
Minimal, yet jagged. Four oscillators. buzz buzz buzzin’. The idea of something seemily unchanging, yet in constant evolution; The inability to repeat, only reflect on and imitate in hindsight moving forward.
Jazz or Sex or Soup >>> [320kbps]
A sedate juxtaposition to ‘Shrew’ using one of those Music From Outspace build-it-yourself kits (assembled by Cauchy Riemann).
Ride from Battery to Holy Bronx on Benzedrine >>> [320kbps]
This track dates back a bit to when I first moved into Harlem and had no tv or internet. Living in a prewar building, you sometimes have to learn to make sacrifices. One such i ran into very quickly was the realization that my entire studio had to run out of a single power outlet. While lacking adequate socket multiplicative devices (surges, conditioner, etc.), I recorded this track live with a single ring modulator.
Under The El >>> [320kbps]
My apartment is/was/will always be filled with guitars of all shapes and sizes (and tunings!). This was the fine array of the acoustic ones available during my run of stacked improvisations during spring 07. Some are mine, some are Jims, one is Josh’s.
Tags: cassette, f.b.i. in beards, mp3, pork lion
A while back while I sifting thru the postwar ‘classical’ LP section at Academy I stumbled upon a 3 song compilation of up-and-coming contemporary composers (released in 1966 or so) which featured a then relatively unknown emerging composer named Steve Reich and his new tape phase piece “Come Out”. The record was still shrink-wrapped with a note designating it for intended use on college radio only and it was not to be sold. $3 later, I was the proud owner of possibly Reich’s first release, a wet dream to a private press fanatic and contemporary music fiend like myself.
It was a few days later when I stumbled upon a syndicated rerun of Family Guy just at the right moment to catch Olly’s “It’s Gonna Rain” forecast. I totally nerded out, immediately realizing what I had to do; It was Reich’s first work after all, and arguably one of the most important landmarks in twentieth century composition, how could I not?
I guess it would’ve been more ‘accurate’ for me to attack this project by phasing cassettes, but I instead opted to do the number-crunching and calculate out the number of frames I had to time stretch the sample to sync up in ~1 minute.
Quite frankly, I have a hard time believing I am the first physically associate the two, but here it is none-the-less.
[320kbps]
Tags: cover, mp3, pork lion, steve reich