Playlist for 4-30-10, featuring Dwarr's 1986 album "Animals"

Duane Warr (aka Dwarr) is a kindly South Carolinian realtor who, in the mid-80's, made a couple drug-fueled, deranged albums in his trailer park home with a rented tape machine. He played all the instruments, and was inspired by heavy, doom-y bands like Black Sabbath (although you'd be hard pressed to compare his records to anything else). Initially, I was going to wait on playing his second album, "Animals" on the program, because I'd gotten in contact with Mr. Warr and bought some other discs off him. Also, he agreed to do an on-air interview at some point. However, it had been months since we talked, so I decided to go for it. Literally the day of the show, he e-mailed to say he'd sent out the discs, but I decided to play the record anyways. There's no such thing as 'too much Dwarr.'

Here are a couple review excerpts on the album in question:

"Duane Warr recorded two albums in the early 80's in South Carolina before going totally over the edge in an Alcohol and drug induced frenzy whilst recording his third (unreleased) album. He "found God" and, according to one source, burned all the remaining Dwarr albums, master tapes, artwork, etc. This is the second (and better) of his two albums and finding a proper description is tough. This is over-the-top psychedelic doom-metal-insanity -- dark, brooding, and totally whacked out. Duane Warr plays all of the instruments on this album which kind of gives the whole thing a slightly off-kilter feel which enhances the madness. The sound is somewhat like a retarded drug-addled attempt at SABBATH with insane guitar solos and excursions into the most depressing, suicidal sounds ever laid to tape. I got this copy from Duane's brother who also (as a high-school-senior) did the DWARR logo (pictured here... sorry for the scanner cutting off the bottom). The two DWARR LP's are truly some of the strangest metal records of all time. They definitely don't sound like anything else, and the guy comes off as clearly disturbed on this release." - popsike.com, record auction reviews

""Animals" is indeed a foaming, rabid ANIMAL of screaming feedback guitars, totally doped out, reverberating vocals and sludgy Doooooohhm-riffing from the fiery depths of the netherworld. It owes plenty to the 60's/70's, like Hendrix, HIGH TIDE, SABBATH, FLOWER TRAVELING BAND, early PENTAGRAM etc (I believe 'Heavy Metal' was the term they used back in those days), but you don't get the impression that Mr. Warr was aiming solely for a "retro" sound when recording this. "Animals" sounds more like it happened out of sheer luck/accident when the man just tried to do the heaviest music he could ever imagine while the means to do so were primitive to say the least. The outrageous cannibalistic cover art must also have raised an eyebrow or 2 back in the days, considering that it came out years before the Death Metal/Gore Core-explosion started numbing our senses." thecorroseum.com, metal album reviews

This is probably one of the freakiest, most intensely cool things I've found and now you finally get to hear it in its entirety.

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Playlist:

Apr 30 - 1:56 AM	Oblachnyj Kraj	Devushka i Vampir	Svobodi Zahoteli		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Apr 30 - 1:53 AM	Potato	dirtfromlongbreakingoflandunderneathyouwatchingasallslipsthroughyourgrasp	777		No		e/d
Apr 30 - 1:46 AM	Danny Ben-Israel	Can't Stand You	The Kathmandu Sessions		No		e/d
Apr 30 - 1:41 AM	Dwarr	Lucky Star	Animals	Bizarro Jerry's whacked-out album of the week	No		e/d
Apr 30 - 1:38 AM	Dwarr	Electric Shock	Animals	Bizarro Jerry's whacked-out album of the week	No		e/d
Apr 30 - 1:37 AM	Dwarr	Heavy Vibrations	Animals	Bizarro Jerry's whacked-out album of the week	No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Apr 30 - 1:34 AM	Dwarr	Time	Animals	Bizarro Jerry's whacked-out album of the week	No		e/d
Apr 30 - 1:29 AM	Dwarr	Lonely Space Traveller	Animals	Bizarro Jerry's whacked-out album of the week	No		e/d
Apr 30 - 1:27 AM	Dwarr	Evil Lures	Animals	Bizarro Jerry's whacked-out album of the week	No		e/d
Apr 30 - 1:24 AM	Dwarr	Just Keep Running	Animals	Bizarro Jerry's whacked-out album of the week	No		e/d
Apr 30 - 1:21 AM	Dwarr	Ghost Lovers	Animals	Bizarro Jerry's whacked-out album of the week	No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Apr 30 - 1:17 AM	Dwarr	Chocolate Mescaline	Animals	Bizarro Jerry's whacked-out album of the week	No		e/d
Apr 30 - 1:13 AM	Dwarr	Are You Real	Animals	Bizarro Jerry's whacked-out album of the week	No		e/d
Apr 30 - 1:10 AM	Dwarr	That Deadly Night	Animals	Bizarro Jerry's whacked-out album of the week	No		e/d
Apr 30 - 1:07 AM	Dwarr	Cannabinol - The Function	Animals	Bizarro Jerry's whacked-out album of the week	No		e/d
Apr 30 - 1:04 AM	Dwarr	Animals	Animals	Bizarro Jerry's whacked-out album of the week	No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Apr 30 - 12:57 AM	Mark Melanson	Ants	Haunted Hearse		No		e/d
Apr 30 - 12:52 AM	JW Farquhar	The Formal Female, Part 2	The Formal Female		No		e/d
Apr 30 - 12:50 AM	David Peel and Death	Marijuana	King of Punk	requestical	Yes		e/d
Apr 30 - 12:45 AM	Cosmic Sounds of Gandharva	Stab in the Dark	Energy		No		e/d
Apr 30 - 12:40 AM	Concrete Rubber Band	Wicked	Risen Savior		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Apr 30 - 12:33 AM	Katie Lee	Stay as Sick as You Are	Songs of Couch and Consultation		No		e/d
Apr 30 - 12:33 AM	The Stinky Puffs	Pizza Break	A Little Tiny Smelly Bit of...		No		e/d
Apr 30 - 12:27 AM	Lamborghini Crystal	Cry, Cry, Cry	Alien Microwave		No		e/d
Apr 30 - 12:19 AM	Mark Tucker	Attractive	In the Sack		No		e/d
Apr 30 - 12:14 AM	Speed, Glue and Shinki	Red Doll	S/T		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d
Apr 30 - 12:08 AM	Michael Yonkers Band	Puppeting	Microminiature Love		No		e/d
Apr 30 - 12:01 AM	T. Omar	I'm Only Nine	33 rpm single		No	Bizarro Jerry	e/d

Tracklist for Dwarr's "Animals":

1. Animals
2. Cannabinol - The Function
3. That Deadly Night
4. Are You Real
5. Chocolate Mescaline
6. Ghost Lovers
7. Just Keep Running
8. Evil Lures
9. Lonely Space Traveller
10. Time
11. Heavy Vibrations
12. Electric Shock
13. Lucky Star

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