If you like all the rare Memphis rap stuff I post here, you should check this list out:
Bizarro Jerry's Memphis Rap Faves
I made it for the RateYourMusic website, and if you're deep into this shit like I am, it's got some obscurities you might not have heard of. Alternately, if you're just getting into Memphis rap, I think it's a pretty good starting point, since there are also some of the classics.
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Showing posts with label rateyourmusic. Show all posts
Saturday, November 15, 2014
Reader submission: Avant-garde strangeness from the deep web
Got another reader submission the other day, this time from someone who found me on the RateYourMusic website. He sent me a few albums, and a link to his weekly podcast.
He goes by the name of Tunnel Rat, and his music is somewhere in between bizarro Jandek outsider improv and the early chaotic releases of Beck. I'm actually not sure where he's based, but he's had records put out by labels from Florida and Canada. The one on Panama City's Fork and Spoon Records, called Rothko, features free form improvisation on bass, and some very strange spoken word sections. There are also some field recordings and odd samples, giving it a definite vibe of 'bedroom music.'
It's a very short affair, with the longest track being just over three minutes. Despite the amateurish recording quality, Tunnel Rat sounds pretty proficient on the bass, and some of this stuff reminds me of 60's avant-garde jazz. The poetry set to it gives the whole thing a completely different feel, though.
The other release I was sent, which is titled Hide The Syrup Spacemen, is even more avant-garde and strange. This was the one that reminded me of Beck's early sound experiments. Odd in-jokes are combined with distant-sounding field recordings and some spastic mandolin playing. I don't know what to make of it all, but if you were a fan of the Obscuro! radio program, you'll definitely be into this.
His internet podcast is sort of a discussion on experimental and spoken-word music, but it also touches on conspiracy theories, current news events and the benefits of the RateYourMusic website. It's every bit as strange as you'd think it is from hearing the music.
Thanks for the submission, Tunnel Rat, and to everyone else, keep 'em coming!
He goes by the name of Tunnel Rat, and his music is somewhere in between bizarro Jandek outsider improv and the early chaotic releases of Beck. I'm actually not sure where he's based, but he's had records put out by labels from Florida and Canada. The one on Panama City's Fork and Spoon Records, called Rothko, features free form improvisation on bass, and some very strange spoken word sections. There are also some field recordings and odd samples, giving it a definite vibe of 'bedroom music.'
It's a very short affair, with the longest track being just over three minutes. Despite the amateurish recording quality, Tunnel Rat sounds pretty proficient on the bass, and some of this stuff reminds me of 60's avant-garde jazz. The poetry set to it gives the whole thing a completely different feel, though.
The other release I was sent, which is titled Hide The Syrup Spacemen, is even more avant-garde and strange. This was the one that reminded me of Beck's early sound experiments. Odd in-jokes are combined with distant-sounding field recordings and some spastic mandolin playing. I don't know what to make of it all, but if you were a fan of the Obscuro! radio program, you'll definitely be into this.
His internet podcast is sort of a discussion on experimental and spoken-word music, but it also touches on conspiracy theories, current news events and the benefits of the RateYourMusic website. It's every bit as strange as you'd think it is from hearing the music.
Thanks for the submission, Tunnel Rat, and to everyone else, keep 'em coming!
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Bizarro Jerry rates your music...
For those interested, I started doing lists and shit on Rate Your Music.
The one I just did is a 'listener's journey' through hip hop/rap....from my very first rap cassette (Kris Kross' 'Da Bomb') to Lil Ugly Mane and other shit I'm into now.
CHECK IT.
The one I just did is a 'listener's journey' through hip hop/rap....from my very first rap cassette (Kris Kross' 'Da Bomb') to Lil Ugly Mane and other shit I'm into now.
CHECK IT.
Sunday, November 25, 2012
No rules - punk rock
So, I made a Rate Your Music account, and started putting together some lists. I figured since I've got all this crazy music, I might as well share it with others.
This particular list is exactly the same as the one I created on Rate Your Music.
To preface, these are some of (what I think are) the most forward-thinking albums of the original punk rock era. Real experimentation, real dudes, really new ideas. These also happen to be some of my favorite albums...not just in the punk-rock spectrum of music.
Minutemen - 'Double Nickels on the Dime' - punk + avant-funk-Creedence-worship
Husker Du - 'Zen Arcade' - punk + psych-pop
The Secret Syde - 'Hidden Secrets' - punk + surf-psych
Operation Ivy - 'Energy' - punk + ska
Dead Milkmen - 'Big Lizard in My Backyard' - punk + stoner comedy
Rudimentary Peni - 'Death Church' - punk + crazy
Meat Puppets - 'II' - punk + country-psych
Sun City Girls - 'S/T' - punk + middle-eastern
Pere Ubu - 'The Modern Dance' - punk + avant-garde
Wire - 'Pink Flag' - punk + art
Black Flag - 'My War' - punk + sludge-art
NoMeansNo - 'Wrong' - punk + jazz-fusion
Dead Kennedys - 'Frankenchrist' - punk + evil surf
Flipper - 'Album: Generic Flipper' - punk + mean
Dicks - 'Kill From the Heart' - punk + blues
Rudimentary Peni - 'Cacophony' - punk + Lovecraft
Wipers - 'Youth of America' - punk + psych
Big Boys - 'Skinny Elvis' - punk + funk
The Homosexuals - 'The Homosexuals' Record' - punk + art-lo-fi
Kortatu - 'S/T' - punk + ska
Suicidal Tendencies - 'S/T' - punk + skate-metal
Cardiacs - 'The Seaside' - punk + Zappa
The Cure - 'Three Imaginary Boys' - punk + minimal-sad
Butthole Surfers - 'Psychic...Powerless...Another Man's Sac' - punk + noise-experimental-crazy-drugs
The Flesh Eaters - 'A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die' - punk + goth-billy
Bad Brains - 'Rock for Light' - punk + reggae
This particular list is exactly the same as the one I created on Rate Your Music.
To preface, these are some of (what I think are) the most forward-thinking albums of the original punk rock era. Real experimentation, real dudes, really new ideas. These also happen to be some of my favorite albums...not just in the punk-rock spectrum of music.
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