Tetsuo The Iron Man Sndtrk

KANEEEEEDDDDAAAAAAAA

Lee & I ended up talkin' about Tetsuo the Iron Man, which isn't the best film in the world, but is pretty interesting. (Unless you're Dale, who ended up taking a nap during it.) The soundtrack is pretty awesome -- and so here it is! I done found it on another blog a long time ago -- I think it MIGHT have been Egg City Radio, or perhaps Mutant Sounds (both of which are in the sidebar, and both of which have awesome stuff, so you should check them out). Either way, though -- it's pretty rad, and y'all should check it out, particularly if you like Industrial-Soundin'-Type-Stuffs.

Man Man in a Blue Turban with a Face

download Man Man - The Man in a Blue Turban With A Face
Debut from 2004 (gotta get my hands on their other two) and a good introduction.
I would compare this band to Tom Waits, Neutral Milk Hotel, AND Gogol Bordello, which is high praise indeed.

1. "Against the Peruvian Monster"+
2. "10lb Moustache"+ (video)
3. "Zebra"*
4. "Sarsparillsa"
5. "White Rice, Brown Heart"*
6. "Gold Teeth"
7. "Magic Blood"
8. "The Fog or China"*
9. "I, Manface"+
10. "Man Who Make You Sick"+
11. "Werewolf (On the Hood of Yer Heartbreak)"

+: good
*: my favorite

DEVO - Loud Shots From The Big Spud Gun [Amended]

WE DO LIKE MUSIC

This is a fan-compiled DEVO bootleg of a bunch of rare and weird DEVO songs -- the original was 2 CDs long, and it's got a LOT of cool stuff on it. Luckily, some of the stuff has since been officially released on either Pioneers Who Got Scalped or Recombo DNA (which is COMPLETELY essential for any DEVO fan. Pioneers is somewhat as well, as it's got some bonus tracks and about half of Freedom Of Choice in remastered form, but Recombo is essential. For reals. Go to Rhino Handmade. I don't know if it's sold out), so to get Sharebee to take the download, I deleted that stuff, as it's in much better quality on those real releases anyway. But anyway, though -- this is a pretty cool boot.

It also has "Caoutchouc" on it, as it was thought of for a really long time as a hardcore-era DEVO song, but it turns out it's not. I don't know who did it, unfortunately. It's a real good song, though. I wish I knew who did it, though. I wonder if the rest of their stuff is as good?

Mark Mothersbaugh - Joyeaux Mutato

JINGLE JINGLE JINGLE

For Josh (not the Josh who posts here, but the Josh who could if he so desired), who asked me about this ages ago. It's Mark Mothersbaugh of DEVO's Christmas Record. It's pretty rad. This is the Rhino Handmade edition (real out of print), which is slightly different than the retail version (just normal out of print). I think the retail had a different remix of one of the songs or something. But yes. Here you go!

YAY! (This is the retail cover. The Rhino Handmade cover was red and fuzzy and featured a drawing of Booji Boy receiving a present.)

Anamaguchi - Dawn Metropolis

Their semi-self-published EP!
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Last.fm sez, and I interpolate:

Anamanaguchi is a four-piece group (Peter Berkman (guitar/NES), James DeVito (bass), Luke Silas (drums) and Ary Warnaar (guitar/GameBoy)) from New York City that combines guitars with the thick, electronic tones of a hacked Nintendo Entertainment System. With driving, dynamic and melodic tracks, they focus on creating sounds that seem bigger than their hardware.

Major 8bitpeoples players. Known for amazing visuals and energy at their live shows, which I have missed seeing twice already. It's like you're playing a game except you're dancing.

Tracklist:
1. Blackout City
2. Jetpack Blues
3. Dawn Metropolis
4. Danger Mountain
5. Overarrow
6. Tempest, Teamwork, Triumph (At Sea)
7. Mermaid

DEVO - LIVE: The Mongoloid Years

DEVO!

This one is really out of print, which is sad, because it rules. It's three early DEVO shows; the first few cuts are from Max's Kansas City, and it's shortly before Q came out. The middle one is from a year or two before that, and the last show is really early -- and it's the best; it's with Jungle Jim still on drums, and it's when they opened for Surprise Headliner Sun Ra.... by clearing out the room by enraging the hippies (who were also fucked up on Nitrous provided by the station in big garbage bags). 15 minute Jocko Homo!

The Legendary Pink Dots - The Maria Dimension

Another immersive classic from the back catalog of The Pink Dots. Contains one of their most beautifully tragic ballads: "Belladonna."

The Maria Dimension (1991) [MP3][FLAC]

Tracks
01. Disturbance (5:27)
02. Pennies For Heaven (4:19)
03. Third Secret (4:29)
04. The Grain Kings (8:17)
05. The Ocean Cried 'Blue Murder' (4:03)
06. Bella Donna (4:07)
07. A Space Between (6:33)
08. Evolution (8:55)
09. Cheraderama (5:00)
10. Lilith (4:11)
11. Fourth Secret (3:03)
12. Expresso Noir (3:40)
13. Home (5:33)
14. Crushed Velvet (6:44)

Also check out Plutonium Blonde, their newest album. Their official site is http://legendarypinkdots.org.

The Legendary Pink Dots - Any Day Now

The Legendary Pink Dots are a mythical band that began in London, but relocated to Amsterdam in 1984. They are unique in their own right, melding together classic krautrock influences (mainly Can and Neu!) with Syd Barrett's psychedelic explorations. Newcomers may find their discography of over 50 releases daunting at first. Never fear! Despite the large number of releases, rarely are they ever boring or fall into cliché, and manage to explore new soundscapes with every album. Some of the best stuff they done is in their Amsterdam period. The 1980 - 1984 cassette releases tend to be rougher with poor instrumental/sound quality, but the lyrics and arrangements are well-crafted.

They're still together working on numerous side projects, most famous being Edward Ka-Spel's collaboration with cEvin Key of Skinny Puppy called The Tear Garden.

Here are two classic albums by the Pink Dots. First up is

Any Day Now (1988) [MP3]

Tracks
1. Casting The Runes (5:47)
2. A Strychnine Kiss (3:19)
3. Laguna Beach (2:21)
4. The Gallery (3:30)
5. Neon Mariners (4:46)
6. True Love (3:21)
7. The Peculiar Fun Fair (0:32) 8
8. Waiting For The Cloud (10:18)
9. Cloud Zero (5:48) 10
10. Under Glass (7:06) 11
11. The Light In My Little Girl's Eyes (5:01) 12
12. The Plasma Twins (2:55)

You can't beat the ominous gothic organ in the intro track.

I-F - Mixed Up In Hague Vol. 1 (2000)

Mixed Up on MegaUpload. (Alternate download via BitTorrent.)

I can't stop listening to this mix. Includes rare vinyl remixes from well-known artists such as Giorgio Moroder, Kraftwerk, and Man Parrish (of Klaus Nomi).

Someone else can say it better than I do:

I-f's Mixed Up in the Hague is an excellent dance-history lesson focusing on the electro-disco that's been such an influence on his productions. Wisely avoiding most of the endlessly compiled electro classics ("Planet Rock," "Rockit," "Clear") that tend to bore advanced listeners, I-f instead looks back to the motorized sequencer disco of the late '70s and early '80s with a parade of excellent obscurities. (Featuring track titles but no list of performers is undoubtedly not an oversight but a challenge to potential trainspotters out there.) The more familiar tracks include "Manmade" by Man Parrish, "The Chase" by Giorgio Moroder, a remix (cover?) of Kraftwerk's "Tour de France," "Space Is the Place" by Newcleus, "Problemes d'Amour" by Alexander Robotnick, and "Dirty Talk" by Klein + MBO. The mix is raw and hands-on too, with almost two dozen tracks squeezed into an hour of mixing.

Tracks
01. E.O.G. - Solid Liquid (3:30)
02. Patrick Cowley - Primitive World (1:03)
03. Pluton & Humanoids - World Invaders (4:54)
04. Giorgio Moroder - Chase (5:02)
05. Man Parrish - Manmade (2:34)
06. Jonzun Crew, The - Space Is The Place (3:00)
07. Charlie - Spacer Woman (2:45)
08. Q - The Voice Of Q (2:05)
09. Hipnosis - Blade Runner (End Title) (4:34)
10. Message From Future - Robot Is... (3:59)
11. Alden Tyrell - Love Explosion (5:32)
12. Kraftwerk - Tour De France (François Kevorkian Remix) (1:34)
13. Camaro's Gang - Super Shuffle (1:49)
14. Alexander Robotnick - Problèmes D'Amour (Midnight Version) (2:12)
15. Mr. Flagio - Take A Chance (3:56)
16. Klein & M.B.O. - Dirty Talk (2:34)
17. B.W.H. - Livin' Up (2:03)
18. Doctor's Cat - Feel The Drive (Instrumental) (1:33)
19. Sun La Shan - Catch (1:09)
20. Electronome - Een Drumcomputer En Een Synthesizer III (1:38)
21. Electronome - Influence (4:40)
22. A Number Of Names - Sharevari (Vocal Version) (5:11)

Note about the file: This album is an single MP3 file since standard MP3s aren't terribly good at keeping tracks without gaps. You can play the MP3 file as separate tracks with a player that supports cue sheets for playback like Foobar2000 (Windows) or Cog (Mac OS X). If you still want to split the tracks up to play them in iTunes or whatever, MP3 Trimmer (Mac OS X) or MusiCutter (Windows) are good bets.

Röyksopp - Junior

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This is poppy dancey IDM from Norway, their third LP, featuring vocals from Anneli Drecker, Robyn, Lykke Li, Karin Dreijer (of Fever Ray and The Knife). It comes out March 23. Supposedly it's the less mature of two 2009 releases.

Tracklist:
1 Happy Up Here +
2 The Girl And The Robot *
3 Vision One *
4 This Must Be It + (K.D., the "sequel" to 2005's "What Else Is There")
5 Röyksopp Forever
6 Miss It So Much
7 Tricky Tricky * (K.D., best track)
8 You Don't Have A Clue
9 Silver Cruiser
10 True To Life +
11 It's What I Want *

If any of this sounds interesting download it now, because occasionally blogger's been taking these things down.

The Folkways Collection

Another monstrously huge collection o' music I was made aware of via some silly newsletter to which I subscribe. This one caught my eye because of the particular wonderfulness of the four volume Woody Guthrie set The Asch Recordings, which I splurged on about a year ago and which has gotten an obnoxious amount of play time since. In any case, this is 24 hours of American music of the 20th Century broken out by genre in 1 hour podcasts.

If someone wants to take the time top break it into individual files with proper labels, that would be just dandy!

Copy of how it's described:

The way audio engineer Moses Asch remembered it, it was his sometime collaborator Albert Einstein who told him to create a universal archive of 20th-century sound. And so, in 1948, Asch created Folkways, and set about recording everything under the sun.

“The Folkways Collection” splits the remarkable story of Asch’s label (which was also home to Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, and Pete Seeger, and was transferred to the Smithsonian after his death) into 24 podcasts, each of which features interviews and original recordings from the Folkways archive of 2,000-plus recordings: You’ll hear folk music, children’s music, recordings of frogs, and examples of Allen Ginsberg’s ill-advised forays into the blues. Our favorite episode, No. 23, is dedicated to Phil Ochs — the Greenwich Village folksinger who lived (and died) in Bob Dylan’s shadow.

Link here: http://www.folkways.si.edu/learn_discover/podcasts/folkways.xml

Bill Nelson's Red Noise - Sound On Sound (1979)

Eager Be Bop Deluxe fans following Bill Nelson after he left the group were in for a shock. Gone are the guitar-driven glam/progressive rock solos for robotic anthems dripping in dystopia and irony. The guitar never leaves completely, but it takes backseat to the gurgling and bleeping electronics, synth melodies, blaring sax, and frenzied drumming. You'll never have a dull moment with tracks packed to the brim with odd noises and catchy hooks. The album flies by and before you know it, those 39 minutes are over. Highly recommended if fast-paced new wave with punk leanings (e.g. early Devo and Ultravox!) is your thing.

Revolt into style with Sharebee.

As a bonus, here are the B-sides accompanying the album (vinyl rips only). They have more in common with Quit Dreaming and Love That Whirls than Sound On Sound, however.

Tracks:
01. Don't Touch Me (I'm Electric) (1:50)
02. For Young Moderns (4:24)
03. Stop / Go / Stop (3:09)
04. Furniture Music (3:30)
05. Radar In My Heart (1:36)
06. Stay Young (3:11)
07. Out Of Touch (3:29)
08. A Better Home In The Phantom Zone (4:26)
09. Substitute Flesh (3:28)
10. The Atom Age (3:01)
11. Art / Empire / Industry (2:44)
12. Revolt Into Style (3:23)

Bonus B-Sides
01. Acquitted By Mirrors (4:50)
02. Wonder Toys That Last Forever (3:55)

You may find more Bill Nelson (in his New Romantic phase and beyond) at LA FOLIE DU JOIR. (The Two-Fold Aspect Of Everything is a great out-of-print compilation that captures his '80s period following Sound on Sound.)

Also check out Bill Nelson's own official website. He rarely rests from creating new music, and churns out at least 3 albums per year of varying style (lately more jazz and ambient pieces).

Love Is All

first album, b-sides, covers

tracklist:

Nine Times That Same Song (LP)
1. Talk Talk Talk Talk +
2. Ageing Had Never Been His Friend *
3. Turn The Radio Off
4. Used Goods *
5. Busy Doing Nothing +
6. Make Out Fall Out Make Up +
7. Felt Tip +
8. Spinning and Scratching *
9. Turn the TV Off
10. Trying Too Hard *

Nine Times That Same Song (B-side EP)
1. Lost Thrills
2. Kiss Kiss Kiss (Yoko Ono cover) *
3. Felt Tip (slow version)
4. Motorboat +

Love Is All Play Five Covers: tour EP that came in a free tote bag Other Music gave me because they felt bad they couldn't buy back all my CDs. "We each picked a song with no other member getting a say, recorded live at practice"
1. Lungleg - Kung Fu On The Internet +
2. A Flock Of Seagulls - I Ran
3. Dire Straits - So Far Away
4. Jed Dmochowski - Golly Gosh *
5. Prince - Darling Nikki

I ripped off Wikipedia:
Swedish band Love Is All are composed of Josephine Olausson (vocals, keyboard), Johan Lindwall (bass), Markus Görsch (drums), Fredrik Eriksson (saxophone), and Nicholaus Sparding (guitar/vocals). Olausson, Sparding, and Görsch had previously been members of Girlfriendo. The trio promptly regrouped after that band's demise and added Lindwall, who had recorded in a side project with Olausson and Sparding called Cat Skills. They finally added the missing piece with saxophone player Fredrik Eriksson. While earning many rave reviews from the blogging community for their blend of art punk and indie rock, the band released several singles, one of which made single of the week in NME. The singles were collected on the debut LP Nine Times That Same Song, released by New York-based What's Your Rupture? in late 2005. After much touring through 2006 and 2007, Eriksson left the band and Love Is All continued on as a quartet. A Hundred Things Keep Me Up at Night and the remix album Love Is All Mixed Up arrived in 2008, along with Eriksson's replacement Åke Strömer (saxophone, keyboards).


They sound a bit like an updated, more skilled X-Ray Specs with more personal lyrics. They recently released their second EP, A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night, which I also recommend (it's got a bit better production)
Rev. Me is not so excited about them. But I think they're darn fun.

Tipographica - God Says I Can't Dance

Sharebee Control tower says, "GET ALBUM, breakdown."

Rev. Syung Myung Me is on a Japanese avant-jazz kick, so here's another group in the same vein.

Tsuneo Imahori is most famous for his soundtrack work on Trigun, Cowboy Bebop and various entries in the Gungrave series. But before all that, he played guitar in the eccentric Japanese jazz ensemble Tipographica. Those fans of RIO-type jazz (like Henry Cow and Etron Fou Leloublan) and Frank Zappa in the mid-'70s will feel at home with this. Every song pulls you into its playful unpredictable turns, if harmlessly baffling at times. The Engrish song titles add to the confusion of musical goings on.



















Tracks:
1. Friends
2. Control tower says, "TP-1, break down."
3. a) AM 3:28 Shinjuku b) AM 3:45 Kasumigaseki c) AM 5:02 Berlin --> White-collar worker VS Black rubber man
4. And then Last ship is going
5. MC-500 (Japanese room (We have no ZEN))
6. Laughin' photograph
7. Forest tipographical II

You can find more information (in English) on this album on their other albums at Gnosis2000.net.

Lux and Ivy's Favorites (MP3s)

Received the following on some newsletter to which I subscribe:

The Cramps’ lead singer, Lux Interior, passed away last month. To celebrate his life, the excellent Jersey City radio station WFMU has made 13 hours of his favorite music available for downloading.

Well-known bands like the Kinks and the Stooges are represented — as are Bo Diddley and, oddly, Richard Strauss. But the bulk of the collection’s made up of obscure 45s, novelty songs, garage-band rave-ups: The Collins Kids’ minute-and-a-half-long “Whistle Bait.” The Chips’ “Rubber Biscuit.” Robert Mitchum’s (yes, that Robert Mitchum’s) “Ballad of Thunder Road.” The selections are songs that Lux and his wife, Poison Ivy, named in an interview (and because WFMU’s website can be a bit overwhelming, we recommend the alternate download links provided by Phawker.com). There are 300-plus songs in all — and our favorite by far is the Clovers’ decidedly NSFW reworking of “Dark Town Strutter’s Ball.” The title alone would make Prince blush.

Link here: http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2009/02/lux-and-ivys-favorites-mp3s.html

Otomo Yoshihide & Sachiko M - Filament

MORE BEEEP

This is awesome. This is the aforementioned collaboration project. Again, hyper-minimalist; kinda sounds a little like modem noise, but in an awesome way. There's sort of a Pretentious Dude Cliche that was about how with Jazz, you listen to the notes that AREN'T being played[1], and actually that's really true with this too. Might not be everyone's cup of tea, but it's real good anyway.


[1] "I COULD HAVE STAYED HOME TO DO THAT"

Sachiko M - Sine Wave Solo!

BEEEP

Sachiko M worked a lot with Otomo Yoshihide, and I think she still does. I can't remember if she was a member of Ground Zero, or just a band-friend, as she's on some of that stuff, too. Anyway, her thing is that she plays a blank sampler. It's real minimalist noise stuff, but pretty dang cool. Also check out Filament, which is coming up soon.

Jeremiah Aulwurm - Jimmy Jam!

POOR MISGUIDED FREAK!

My friend Jeremiah made this out of samples of Jimmy James from Newsradio, which is one of the best shows ever don'tchaknow. I asked if I could post this, and he said OK, though he said he should probably do a remix or something. I like it as it is. It's awesome.