Pretty cool downbeat psych rock from Indonesia that reminds me of a heavier Traffic. Lots of jazz keys and direct input guitar solos. I guess it also sounds a little like SRC.
This one's always stuck in the back of my head. B-side isn't spectacular but damn 'Voodoo' is wild. Low voiced dudes growling over a stomping funk rock track that seems....vaguely racist somehow? Maybe overtly racist? Also the lyrics are fucking weird and don't make much sense, are they in third person? Wth? Either way it's super catchy, like something Yello would've come up with if they existed a decade earlier.
Don't know what this is or why I have it, but somebody is probably looking for it. Doesn't seem to really exist anywhere in full that I can find.
4 super long, super sloppy psych jams very informed by 70's improv stuff (see 'Song for Syd.') The outro is spoken word over some real noisy space synths.
Apparently we're retroactively calling this type of music 'doomcore' which I guess is fine. It's slow-to-mid-paced hardcore techno/gabber with a lot of doom and gloom. This, along with the Rat of Doom EP, are two of my favs. Also worth checking out is the 'Selected Classics' comp by The Mover.
Finally found this in a pile of old CDs and junk...I used to go see this band at the community center when I was very young. I don't know what's in the water, but my tiny town had at least three super confrontational bands that blended Black Flag-style hardcore with grunge. These guys were the tightest musicians for sure, and some of these tracks still slap. I'll never get tired of hearing 'I DON'T NEED YOUR FUCKIN RULES' lol.
I misplaced the tracklist, so I'm going to just guess. It should be noted that the ska song ('Rudy Can't You Wait') was probably written about one of my friends.
I'll fill in the other tracks if I find the list.
Tracklist:
This is a really, really weird and unsettling recording. It's some kind of PTSD coping exercise, and I'm pretty sure it's the only record ever released by the Armed Forces Radio and Television Services.
Not sure if it's actual veterans on the album, but it's mostly extremely harrowing spoken word pieces set to sometimes restrained, sometimes atonal orchestral music.
Five Star Hotel is one of my favorite current producers. Her music is I guess EDM trap? But that's really not doing it justice...there's a lot of influence from harsh noise, goth, industrial, and body horror cinema. 'Gray Data' is the classic album, but she's since moved onto noisier material with harsh vocals. I think because the current sound is so far removed from her old work, a lot of it has either been taken down or is just lost to time.
This is a mixtape (I think) that I spent months trying to track down. It's got a very distorted, bitcrushed sound and a vague dystopian theme running through it. Some of these recordings were reworked for her full-lengths (I think one of them is on 'Outlands?') but the mix flows really nice as a single piece.
Please support her other projects if you like this one! She has a deluxe version of 'Gray Data' up w/ extra tracks...get it now bc it could always disappear...
So these guys have kinda vanished from the internet. Conspiracy theorist boom-bap alien rap collective from LA. This is one of their harder-to-find releases (the most popular being 'Shape Shifters Was Here') and also one of the weirdest. All the tracks are super long, barely have anything resembling a hook and the beats are noisy and lo-fi. Some of these dudes have serious skills and interesting flows...Awol One and Radioinactive came the closest to blowing up.
No idea where this came from or if I ever even played it on the radio program, but it rocks hard. Started listening to some tracks and couldn't stop. It's just kinda generic hard rock/pre-metal stuff but the riffs hit and it's a lot of fun.
Apparently they are from Germany and have some other recordings, too.
The theme this time around is basically digging through all my endless hard drives of random music from years and years of collecting shit, and finding stuff I have no idea about. I'm also trying to find things that are at risk of being lost to time (i.e. things that aren't on YT yet lol.)
First up, a couple comps courtesy of the Music for Maniacs blog (linked in sidebar.) They have consistently uploaded some of the weirdest shit on the web, but a lot of the older links are down.
I had no idea what this even was until I did a little research. It's basically two volumes of novelty rap from the 80's and early 90's, when everybody thought rap was a 'fad' and all the white record exec lames pumped out tracks like 'Rappin' Rodney' and 'The Presidents Rap' (the latter is actually on a DJ Screw tape where it slaaaaps.)
Some of these tracks are made by 'legitimate' rappers...like Bobby Jimmy and the Critters, which is a pseudonym of Arabian Prince from NWA.
I'm posted up w/ a broken ankle so I'm gonna unload some rare music for the first time since 2016. Obviously I've accumulated a ton since then. My interests have shifted a lot, but this will always be a place to find super out there shit.
As the title says, comment any requests on this post...anything where the links don't work since I've went thru like 3 or 4 filesharing sites over the duration of this blog. Also anything you wanna hear in full and think I might have, based on podcasts or individual tracks or whatever.
For now, here are a few artists I've been digging recently whose work you should check out (and pay for)
Jak3 the Trashman - Outsider to the max. His music has shifted from bizarre collages of half-finished ideas to brilliantly hazy concept pieces, sort of like a less pretentious, more focused James Ferraro. I love his early albums like 'Hellworld,' they turn phonk/Memphis revival into surrealist art. His newest stuff feel like what Modest Mouse would have made in the early 90's on a steady diet of Esham, ambient dNb and Motocross.
Ratscanner (aka Wheeler aka Slerk aka Deadzone) - Another producer who took ideas from Soundcloud phonk and made it his own world. I can't think of better music for a toxic, smog-ridden post-pandemic world. Instead of proper albums or beat tapes, he releases music in 15-20 min chunks of beats with recurring ideas and melodies, complete with bizarre artwork influenced by early PC games. I'm pretty partial to 'Ghost Brain' and 'Grifter's Path.'
Bloody Fist Records - 90's/00's hardcore techno label from Australia. If I had found this music in HS, I probably would've abandoned rock music altogether. Although all the artists have their own sound, it's basically like lo-fi, nihilist Prodigy with power electronics aesthetics and a really mean sense of humor. Some of the best and craziest EDM out there.
Delroy Edwards - Ron Perlman's son makes really sick lo-fi house music on old analog equipment. This is the timeline I was supposed to be in for sure.
Chain Reaction - Ok, so some of this might be hard to actually find and 'pay for' and I certainly...borrowed some of it. But it's all good! Super minimalist ambient techno that really puts ya in a place.
Cerberus Click - Producer collective that shifts from Memphis-influenced ambient-rap to power electronics and soundscapes to blissed-out dance tracks, sometimes with vocalists, sometimes fully instrumental. 'Ana Massacre' is the hit but 'Demo (Full Tape Rip)' is maybe the best representation of their current sound.
Dealers of God - Super weird outsider rap/psytrance/new age wildness from Australia. They have a really strange sense of humor and a really strange set of influences.
That's it for now...'real' posts w/ download links coming soon.
