Strange Dreams

I had a dream last night that I was feeding a cat that shape-shifted into Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. That was right after I found myself the last man in the world, tasked with the awful responsibility of impregnating many hot, young, fertile babes so as to replenish the planetary population.

Somewhere in there, I discovered an odd book full of newsclippings that had the name Jim Goad listed as “author”.

(Scary Lost Highway whisper)
But it wasn’t Jim Goad.
It…looked like…Jim Goad…
…But it wasn’t Jim Goad.

(Actually the picture in the book that was supposed to be Jim Goad looked nothing like him. It actually looked more like Wally George.)

Any ideas on the meaning of all this?

BTW: Here’s the REAL Jim Goad: Jim Goad Official Website

Quote for the Day

“We completely understand the public’s concern about futuristic robots feeding on the human population, but that is not our mission,” said Harry Schoell, the chief executive of Cyclone Power Technologies, one of the companies behind the machine.

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Audio Ugly 6

Well it took damn near forever to get done, but here it is and it ain’t, a they say, all that bad. Note: Right now it can only be downloaded as a two-side from Archive.org, for LULU has taken a shit on me for some reason.

Anyhoo:

It’s finally finished! The next great installment in the most bizarre compilation of cutting-edge musical insanity yet conceived! Audio Ugly Six is 71 whopping minutes of home recorded punk, metal, noise, experimental, electronic, ambient and inexplicable from sonic artists The Mediocres, Sick To The Back Teeth, AJE, Cranial Drill and Bad Command or File Name, plus such Audio Ugly alumni as Abe Sandoval, Tophopolis Laughing Goo, The FxDx, Rubbish, Mystified, The Soybeans, Extreme Volume Pop, Red Skulll, and Earth Incubator. Certainly one of the greatest Audio Ugly installments ever, this massive compilation of chaotic convergences will destroy the eardrums and assault the soul! 14 artists – 21 tracks!

Trax:
Side A:

1. Sick To The Back Teeth – “Blood from the Mouth”
2. The Mediocres – “I Know a Guy Who Loves to Get High”
3. Red Skulll – “Trash Invasion”
4. Extreme Volume Pop – “God is in His Holy Temple”
5. The Soybeans – “Ox Tongue Baby”
6. The Mediocres – “Track 21″
7. Sick To The Back Teeth – “Surrender”
8. The FxDx – “Heavy Metal Thunder”/”Outer Space Attack”
9. Rubbish – “Black Hawk”

Side B:

10. Mystified – “Hoedown”
11. Bad Command or Filename – “Shitting Out Your Mouth”
12. Cranial Drill – “In My Rocking Chair”
13. AJE – “My Everything”
14. Tophopolis Laughing Goo – “Hellish”/”Lurker”/”painful”/”Terror”/”Torture”
15. Earth Incubator – “You Are The Product”/ “Your Last Days”
16. Extreme Volume Pop – “Field Recordings 1 and 2″
17. Abe Sandoval – “Revelation’s Engaged”

Note: All views expressed by the artists are their own and do not reflect necessarily reflect those of the maker of this compilation.

Download here:Audio Ugly 6

 

Special Thanx to Chris Bennett. Sick to the Back Teeth, and that guy from the Mediocres. Can’t remember the dude’s name right now, as I am really tired.

J.G. Ballard R.I.P

Sad news. Author J.G. Ballard, who wrote the novels Crash and The Atrocity Exhibition, has died. He was 78. His work, a bleak look at a dystopian future as a sort of surreal, Freudian landscape of consumerism and nihilism, was a huge influence on the early industrial/noise scene. He was celebrated in several publications from V.Vale’s groundbreaking Re/Search company. At the heighth of his career, his novel The Empire of the Sun, a semi-autobiographical account of his internment in a Japanese prison camp as a boy during W.W.2, was made into a film by Steven Spielberg. His novel Crash inspired the song “Warm Leatherette” by Daniel Miller, and was made into a controversial movie by David Cronenberg in 1997.

He was a HUGE influence on the author of this blog, both as a writer and musician. The world is a little more empty and meaningless today with the news of his passing. R.I.P James Graham Ballard, Topographer of Dystopia…

Love and napalm, forever…

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Goo Pop

My and my good friend Chris (Tophopolis Laughing Goo) are working on a project together. Below are some excerpts from it.

GooPOP69

Some Stuff I’ve Been Working On

And there’s alot more than this, but I didn’t have the patience to upload everything yesterday.

Here

Let me know what you think. IF you think….

Extreme Volume Pop: “Mokushi”

Some good noise I think. If you hate it, let me know. (It won’t change anything.)

love and napalm,

Tom B.

Download here

(Yes, I am well aware that Maurizio Bianchi has a project named Mokushi, too. I just like the damn word, okay!)

Love and Pop: “Chinese Vocal Breakz”

Chinese Vocal Breakz

Reposted from:Chondritic Sound Forum

Earth Incubator: Final Demo 1 2009 (Russian harsh noise/PE)

what can i say…
listen only at high volume
http://www.sendspace.com/file/5ec7y3
http://www.mediafire.com/?nyb2zj4y1dy

+ EP Version of debut album
http://proc-records.blogspot.com/2009/03/proc266.html

–Earth Incubator

Reposted from: Chondritic Sound Forum

Note to those who contributed to Audio Ugly 5

Audio Ugly 5 has been downloaded almost twice as many times as Audio Ugly 4 now. Nice.

If anyone has anything to contribute to Audio Ugly 6 (home recordings, any genre), just email it as a MP3 OR WAV file to: bbaker765@aol.com. If they are over 10 mbs, you can always send them via rapidshare, evilshare, megaupload etc. and just send me the link to download.

MP3 and WAV file format ONLY. I can’t stress this enough.
Also, make sure I know who you are (your project title) , what your website address is (exact address) , the name of your track, and how you want to be contacted.

Remember: Audio Ugly comp is for HOME recordings (i.e. not in a professional studio) . I think we may have inadvertantly bent that rule once or twice already, but that is the concept behind the comp. Home recordings and amateur recordings ONLY.
However, we accept ALL genres.

love and napalm,

Tom B.