Friday, April 30, 2010

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
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Apr 30 - 1:29 AM Dwarr Lonely Space Traveller Animals Bizarro Jerry's whacked-out album of the week No
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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
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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
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Apr 30 - 1:10 AM Dwarr That Deadly Night Animals Bizarro Jerry's whacked-out album of the week No
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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
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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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