fuck i just grabbed a cheap vinyl of rotund for success -- very sick! is this their ecstasy album?
― 不合作的方式 (r1o natsume), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
not entirely sure how you mean that
you could argue it's their most euphoric, although Gigapus vies for that title as well
― "There's no way a Filipino can hold a championship trophy." (HI DERE), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 16:16 (thirteen years ago) link
and they did -not- have a sampler? how did they do this much collage & rhythmic collage with just a delay unit? control voltage & filtering on a 4-track?
Regarding City Slab Horror/Since the Accident era stuff, there's a lot of tape looping going on, if I remember correctly. An American in Paris/Tarzan's Grip/That That Revolves, I remember reading was one long live session of tape loops coming in and out.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 23:10 (thirteen years ago) link
i think tom ellard's first sampler was the ensoniq mirage which came out in 1984. so prior to that it was all tapes
― 不合作的方式 (r1o natsume), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 00:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I figured it out once I heard the epic 25 minute live version of 'Gashing The Old Mae West', which makes it a little clearer. Like a bollywood plunderphonic take on This Heat's '24 Track Tape Loop'.
The Network CD reissue of Since The Accident & the Sevcom Clifford Darling Please Don't Live In The Past comp are my favorites. And that Adenoids box is a lot to digest but has scads of completely addictive little pieces on it.
I'm definitely a Clifford I guess in that they get a lot less interesting once they bought actual samplers and tilt towards industrial pop, I didn't like Come Visit The Big Bigot as much as I thought I was going to, but relistening to Cusine again, that seems like an album where the songs got back into the weirder arrangements from the earlier records. Either way count me in as a big fan, I need to hear some of the more recent albums as well & it's too bad Ellard took down that essay I linked to because it had some of the better critical/theoretical writing on sampling in music that I've read
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 00:48 (thirteen years ago) link
sean - please do make that available as an mp3. i'd like to hear it, even just out of curiosity. i adore 'dead eyes opened'.
Better late than never....?Edgar Lustgarden reading Death on the Crumbles
― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 03:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I used to have Clifford Darling on a casette someone did for me and I lost it, buggeration.
― Gumbercules (Trayce), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 03:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Sean you're a peach!
― we will all be able to tell which is the best (lukas), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 03:47 (thirteen years ago) link
OMG wait, its all on emusic now! Rotund, Clifford,. everything. When the shit did that happen? Gah.
― Gumbercules (Trayce), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 03:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Just listened to "Power Circles" and the tape loops remind me of "Come Out" by Reich, but with music.
― Gumbercules (Trayce), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 03:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Just discovered that Retread, Cuisine/Piscatorial and Gashing the old Mae West are all available for free download at sevcom.com right now - anyone who is wondering about any of these should go check em out!
― Sean Carruthers, Friday, 30 July 2010 00:30 (thirteen years ago) link
An ancient curse sweeps over the land!
Severed Heads once more drag themselves out in a shameless display ... four nights in May in four capital cities. Details follow.
Then a serious concert by Tom Ellard in October.
And watch out in December!
???
― poppagemoose (electricsound), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 04:48 (thirteen years ago) link
!
― poppagemoose (electricsound), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 04:51 (thirteen years ago) link
"four capital cities"
er ... Washington DC? Or maybe he means Sacramento? or Albany? what?
― just woke up (lukas), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 05:08 (thirteen years ago) link
my guess is melb/syd/brisbane/adelaide but you never know
― poppagemoose (electricsound), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 05:09 (thirteen years ago) link
i figured but i thought some whining was in order
― just woke up (lukas), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 05:11 (thirteen years ago) link
considering how pissweakly Simstacular the vids were at the first reunion, the fact that he's talking about nothing except new videos, no mention of musical arrangement or performance, doesn't instil too much excitement tbh ;_;
― Urban Coochie Collective (sic), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 05:29 (thirteen years ago) link
i just closed my eyes iirc
― poppagemoose (electricsound), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 05:32 (thirteen years ago) link
he spent months detailing all the new videos he was making then too
presumably the rest of the performance is just him pressing play on quicktime and then singing over the top, I don't think he rly played anything himself. there was the bloke over on the right hand side though.
― Urban Coochie Collective (sic), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 06:19 (thirteen years ago) link
was worth it for him telling everyone to hang their heads in shame tho
― poppagemoose (electricsound), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 07:02 (thirteen years ago) link
so it turns out this is a support slot for Gary Numan performing The Pleasure Principle in full
― basically just a 2/47 freak out (sic), Sunday, 30 January 2011 22:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah I just spotted that on facebook and almost fell off my chair. Holy sheet!
― Citizen SNPs (Trayce), Sunday, 30 January 2011 23:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Retiring in 2010, SEVERED HEADS will nonetheless come together once again to play at the Sydney show for electro-pioneer Gary Numan, and, prior to that, will give their final live to air performance TONIGHT on NEW WEIRD AUSTRALIA. Over 50 minutes in length, this exclusive SEVERED HEADS set will not be broadcast or performed anywhere else. A little slice of Australian music history tonight on FBi, be sure not to miss it!
streaming on http://www.fbiradio.com/ from 9pm AEST
― Unusatralian (sic), Thursday, 28 April 2011 07:32 (thirteen years ago) link
podcast of ^: http://newweirdaustralia.com/2011/06/nwa-radio-severed-heads-live-to-air-set/
― underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have pwned (sic), Thursday, 16 June 2011 03:26 (twelve years ago) link
awesome--thanks for this!
blasting this at top volume to drown out the loud roar of hockey fans (and riot cops) outside my door
― geeta, Thursday, 16 June 2011 03:35 (twelve years ago) link
Should be interesting: http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=132
― willem, Friday, 25 January 2013 08:04 (eleven years ago) link
!!
― etc, Friday, 25 January 2013 10:13 (eleven years ago) link
inevitable but also sort of depressing to start the podcast with Dead Eyes Opened (which I love unreservedly, btw)
― hot slag (lukas), Friday, 25 January 2013 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
In an alternate universe "Hot With Fleas" is a chart-topping song
― Bel-Air the Fresh Prince, sitting in a chair (DJP), Friday, 25 January 2013 19:21 (eleven years ago) link
RA may have required it (they often meddle with dj podcasts, sending them back to the artist and asking for edits, additions, etc)
― geeta, Friday, 25 January 2013 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
Sounds like the sort of bullshit they’d pull.
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 25 January 2013 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
uh I haven't listened but presumably RA put the music bits into the interview, Ellard didn't play them off his phone between questions
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Saturday, 26 January 2013 03:09 (eleven years ago) link
he should have
― dutch tl;drs (electricsound), Saturday, 26 January 2013 04:43 (eleven years ago) link
as if he keeps Sevs tracks on his own devices
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Saturday, 26 January 2013 04:57 (eleven years ago) link
i can't even begin to imagine what he actually listens to for pleasure
― dutch tl;drs (electricsound), Saturday, 26 January 2013 06:03 (eleven years ago) link
I remember an interview circa 1989 in an alt-industrial magazine where Tom was asked what he likes to listen to. Tom excited said "Madonna, oh and lots of Middle Eastern and Indian soundtracks, pretty much." (paraphrasing)
― ma ck ro ma ck ro (mackro mackro), Sunday, 27 January 2013 05:44 (eleven years ago) link
I...am not complaining.
http://severedheads.bandcamp.com/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
is something different?
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 20:33 (eleven years ago) link
No, it's just everything all in one spot. Again. Which rules.
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
I thought it was always there. It was at some point.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
I thought he was hosting them directly on sevcom.com
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah I think the change is making it newly available this way. And why not?
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 20:49 (eleven years ago) link
I also hadn't realized how many things he'd added to some of these albums; there are tracks on Cuisine I've never even heard of before, for example, because I never looked at what he was offering there because I have the CD
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
these have been on bandcamp for quite a while, though they went up completely without fanfare
― captain snus (electricsound), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
(i got stretcher and since the accident from there may '11)
― captain snus (electricsound), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
Ellard's blog is worth a read. His recent "Five reasons why I’m not an ‘artist’" is great
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 5 July 2013 23:32 (ten years ago) link
And also from his blog, thanks to Dan Selzer for the tipoff:
http://tomellard.com/wp/2013/07/wednesday-night-is-garbage-night-autodidact-edition/
Essentially an overview of Ellard's musical education, what he listened to, how, etc.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 August 2013 05:08 (ten years ago) link
Amazing to read what he was getting and who he was getting it from, concisely. So many favorites and things you wouldn't immediately think, and connections being drawn across all kinds of favorites.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 1 August 2013 14:14 (ten years ago) link
SHINE HEADLIGHTS ON ME
― etc, Thursday, 23 January 2014 08:00 (ten years ago) link
really enjoying Barbara Channel 3, released last month (of course it's "not a SH album")
http://severedheads.bandcamp.com/album/barbara-channel-3
― ugh (lukas), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 00:23 (ten years ago) link