White Noise - An Electric Storm

I was recently introduced to this band by my good old pal, Joseph from Vendlus Records. I had never heard of it, but he proclaimed that it was right up my alley. Upon some research, I found that everyone from The Orb to Secret Chiefs 3 has claimed White Noise as an influence. Listening to the band's debut album "An Electric Storm" released in 1969 reveals a mix of tape manipulation, folk and psychedelic rock as well as ambient electronics.

This album reminds me of the best moments of The Residents, yet it retains a very 60's feel to it. It is the kind of album that almost everyone can find something of value in. Some of it even reminds me of The Monkees.

Download HERE and read more about it HERE.

A Tribute To Robert Crouse

My friend Ken Gorski sent me an Email the other day with this album attached. Ken is one of the masterminds behind the brilliant plunderphonic cut-up nightmare that is Jam Handy. Ken explained to me that in High School he started making cut up tapes with his best friend Robert Crouse. In 2004, Robert died and Ken spent a sleepless night compiling this album of early works with his friend Robert.

This album portrays two youngsters mainly fooling around, finding their voice as artists in it's infancy, and documents a great friendship. I am honored that Ken wanted me to share this with the world.

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Gnome - Under The Black Moon

Gnome is the creation of Masanori a.k.a. "Wood." Masanori is a Japanese fellow who runs Cosmic Garden Productions aside from maintaining this one-man black metal wonder. Gnome's roots obviously lay with the Norwegian hordes of Darkthrone and Burzum, but Gnome offer some new spices to the recipe as well.

"Under The Black Moon" is Gnome's second demo and it was released in 1996. In 1999 Gnome released a split LP with Nyarlathotep also from Japan, and since then has disappeared, rumor has it, the one-man project dissolved.

Download HERE and more info HERE

V.B.G. - Compilation

V.B.G. stood for Victimized By Gypsies, and it was my first proper band. We were teenagers in Bozeman, Montana and played shows around the Bozeman area for a few years. We were a grindcore/death metal band that worshiped at the feet of Napalm Death, Obituary, Carcass and Pungent Stench.

We released two demos "Staff Infection" and "Auntie Christ" both in 1992. At the time, and in our area especially, death metal was totally unknown, local kids thought we had invented it. Adam Jelinksi and I shared song writing duties, and we each sang on the songs we had written, later, Joe Ulvi joined us on second guitar, and he then started writing as well.

The line up was:
Jason Walton - Bass/vocals
Adam Jelinski - Guitar/Vocals
Ladd Rutherford - Drums
Joe Ulvi - Guitar

Most of our songs had a bit of humor in them, and many didn't have lyrics at all, just rhythmic growls. Here we have both of our demos, and some live tracks. The photo here is all of us except Joe in an art class. Me, with an Entombed "Clandestine" shirt, Adam with a Ramones shirt, and Ladd with an Entombed "Crawl" shirt.

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Renaldo And The Loaf - Songs For Swinging Larvae

This blog has been out of comission for a while. In July I was out of town for a bit, and when I came home my computer didnt work at all, wouldnt even turn on. After weeks of trying to fix it, I had to buy a new one. Well, all my music was saved on an internal hard drive that was IDE, and my new Comp is SATA. So, at any rate, I finally got it solved, and here I am again.

Renaldo And The Loaf were fairly prolific in the 70's and 80's. They are an English duo who used the intruments and materials at hand to make the music they wanted. The result is a bizarre blend of tape manipulation, screeched vocals, acoustic guitars and lots of zaniness. They signed with The Resident's label, Ralph Records later in their career and ended up collaborating with them as well.

"Songs For Swinging Larvae" was their first album, recorded in 1981 and is a beast. Equal parts hysterical, and creepy, and genius. This stuff is just amazing.

Download HERE and info HERE

Visceral Evisceration - Incessant Desire For Palatable Flesh

It used to be, back in the day, that melodic metal was not associated with gore lyrics. It still holds true to a degree, but not as much as it did back in the early '90s. When "Incessant Desire For Paltable Flesh" was released in 1994, it threw that notion on it's ear.

This album is a great melodic doom/death record that not a lot of people know about now, and slipped past a lot of people's radars when it was released as well. The band is from Austria and only has the one album.

More info HERE and download HERE.

Adam Long - Lunchfuck Presents: Racist Pedophile

No time for music today, too damn busy. So here's what's what. Download this cartoon from our friend Adam Long. Damn, this one is funny. Just do it.

Also, check out a new mixtape blog that I contribute to called Blog Bodies HERE.

Download one of Adam's hilarious cartoons HERE.