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oh grt thanks. i already got that Antarctica comp at this ARCive sale.

love this guy, but these rapidshare NWW list in 30 days blogs tend to self-immolate David Koresh style real quick.

― sanskrit, Friday, 2 March 2007 03:27 (nineteen years ago)

I also didn't realize how good that first The The/Matthew Johnson record was.

I'm sure a lot of the psyche stuff is great, but everything in moderation. I can't sit around all day downloading music like some of you.

I've got Antarctica, that thing was one of those super easy to find NYC comp. Funny, I'm going to the Kitchen tomorrow night.

I also have the Norwhich comp, got it at the last WFMU record fair. I'm a big Higsons and especially Farmer's Boys fan. One of the few, it seems at times.

― dan selzer, Friday, 2 March 2007 04:40 (nineteen years ago)

what's The The sound like? a friend's email address is matthewjohnsonisgod@....

― jaxon, Friday, 2 March 2007 05:51 (nineteen years ago)

he changes over time...and I don't know that much. That first release that was posted, that was released as Matthew Johnson, then The The, is a mix of 4-track moody tape loops compared to My Life in the Bush of Ghosts kind of sound with a sort of Robert Rental/Thomas Leer type DIY new wave thing. The next album, Soul Mining was something of a college radio thing, with This is The Day, currently being used in some ad I can't remember, glossier and better songwriting, Leer helps out. Pretty poppy. Then with MindBomb and Infected I'm not sure, though I remember them getting a lot of 120 Minutes airplay. Kind of funky, like industrial pop or something. Next thing I noticed he was bald and doing a hank williams song on top of the Chrysler building.

― dan selzer, Friday, 2 March 2007 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

keeping up with this guy = new external hard drive

i don't know who half these dudes are.

― gbx, Friday, 2 March 2007 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

I'm still tripping off the shub niggurath. like a mix of king crimson's red, miles davis' dark magus, and the residents, but definitely its own thing.

― Edward III, Friday, 2 March 2007 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

my faves:

Takehisa Kosugi

the fucking amazing amos & sara cassette recently posted.

the "obscure DIY singles" series, it's tag horror but you can figure it out while looking at the web page.

Noyes Brothers 2LP and the Object records comp

John Bender

Second Layer

― sleeve, Friday, 2 March 2007 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

I went ahead and grabbed everything and have just been listening to it all as I can. Why not?

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 March 2007 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

That Shub Niggerath is wrecking my mind in a good way. I also grabbed the first Clock DVA cassette that came out on Industrial. It's more free-from than Thirst. Can there be such a thing as a post-punk jam band? I like it.

― leavethecapital, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:10 (nineteen years ago)

Pretty rad to hear live drums on that NEW TG tape. Reminds mere there's still a few unrereleased Industrial Records Tapes...

― sexyDancer, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

Edward -- have you heard SH's Les Morts Vont Vite? It's their better recorded LP from 1986, some of the same tunes as on the cassette, one of my fave records of the 80s.

― Dominique, Friday, 2 March 2007 23:57 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, I've been rocking those back-to-back. the demo is a little rougher + toothier so it gets the cookie, but they're both incredible.

― Edward III, Saturday, 3 March 2007 00:38 (nineteen years ago)

what's the title translate as? the dead are alive? it's been a long time since high school french.

― Edward III, Saturday, 3 March 2007 00:54 (nineteen years ago)

The The = pop equivalent of Foetus, similar vocal inflections/subject matter/hard beats, and although the instrumentation is generally more of the acoustic guitar/synth variety there's a LOT of sonic dickery, tape loops, etc going pn. More than anything, he's got some absolutely stunning tunes. I'd recommend 'Infected', 'Dusk', and above all his 2001 comeback (and WHAT a comeback) 'NakedSelf' to anyone. Although melodic, his songs are just as growly, dark, and melancholy as Tom Waits', except instead of burlesque character study we get political diatribe.

― unfished business, Saturday, 3 March 2007 02:56 (nineteen years ago)

MP3 = BABYLON

― sanskrit, Saturday, 3 March 2007 05:25 (nineteen years ago)

that first Clock DVA tape, White Souls in Black Suits, has been out on an italian label during the 80s/90s on both vinyl and CD (I have the vinyl).

― dan selzer, Saturday, 3 March 2007 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

Would modernist noisers like [Removed Illegal Link]?

― Tim Ellison, Sunday, 4 March 2007 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Would modernist freakout psychedelic new wave prog noisers like the great early '80s Italian group Confusional Quartet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M24LVmWV2zc

― Tim Ellison, Sunday, 4 March 2007 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

HALF REMEMBERED NY NOIZERS COMPENDIUM

don king
crazy hearts
hi sherrifs of blue
sue hanel

there was a NY band circa 1979 called THE THE, toured w/John Cale that summer, I saw the show in A2 w/Destroy All Eardrums can't really remember much except Cale was totally insane & great at that time.

― m coleman, Sunday, 4 March 2007 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

why does the second half of William Sheller - Introit sound so familiar??

― fies, Thursday, 8 March 2007 00:51 (nineteen years ago)

great blog btw ^_^

― fies, Thursday, 8 March 2007 00:51 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not the hugest the The fan, but that Hank Williams covers record is great.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Thursday, 8 March 2007 05:46 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

March / April for me, what are you guys getting

art bears live 79, henry cow live 78
YXIMALLOO
Toru Takemitsu - Eclipse (concrete w/ eastern instruments, spare)
first five Catherine Ribiero albums
Ellen Fullman - Long String Instrument 1985 LP
GAM w/ Schickert
Ralph Lundsten - Fadervar, 1972 - (concrete w/ heavy shades of mid-70's Cluster -- this one was a total surprise)
I.D. Company (w/ Dagmar Krause, 1971)

Things they posted that I'd shout out:
Bayle - Erosphere (the CD version - in the top 5 of my favorite pieces of electronic music ever)
Oscar Sala - Rezonanzen
Robert Ruttman & Steel Cello Ensemble - Bitter Suites
Michael Waisvisz - Crackle
Franco Leprino - Integrati... Disintegrati
Polly Bradfield - Solo Violin Improvisations

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

listening to Luna Park Ensemble now, listened to Frank Fromy this morning

― Dominique, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

the Luna Park Ensemble is good, especially the first track, which was the same one on the 'Welcome to Dreamland' compilation Frith put together in the 80's that got me curious about them -- but I think that first track is my favorite

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Ralph Lundsten really quite good. Fadervar & the 3 LPs post are completely out Cluster / Schnitzler electronic psyche, with one or two confusing moments of James Last 70's orchestral pop for squares. Living a little near Wakhevich, only the electronic freakouts are more sustained and weirder, and the 'song' bits are much less freaky. Almost everything past 78 seems really tame & commercial which is probably why I'm only finding out about these earlier space records now

― Milton Parker, Friday, 27 April 2007 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

ralph lundsten is indeed smarto neato. I urge everyone to download simon steensland's "the zombie hunter" it's like if ruins were vikings it is the vertiginously huge ultra-zeuhl! (oh they have such a terrible habit of posting up things just after i spent 10 years and some pennies tracking the bastards down on cd!)
hajime XXXXX (japanese name can't remember it) is smart too - herky jerky synth / sampler cubist-pop

― bob snoom, Saturday, 28 April 2007 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/1874/zerogravitypw5.jpg

― ☪, Saturday, 28 April 2007 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2007/05/narwal-de-dood-heet-leventape199netherl.html

a must for rapoon/zf fans!

― ☪, Monday, 21 May 2007 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

the whale songs are corny though.

― ☪, Monday, 21 May 2007 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

where was the lundsten love when i started my lundsten thread?

Ralph Lundsten S/D

― scott seward, Monday, 21 May 2007 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

i knew not a thing of lundsten until the mutant sounds posts!
recent hits for me is "paga" by the paga group super zeuhl;
jean phillipe goude - ex weidorje keyboardist doing wiggly zeuhly mahavishnu/radiophonical instrumentalisms;
and the toubabou thing which at least in parts is mean zeuhl funk if a bit daytime tv / cop show.
and had it anyway but the saqqara dogs is the nuts if you ignore a coupla embarrassing tracks. kinda krauty pinkfloydish but punky / middle eastern thing.
and expo - expo is the cat's whiskers!
and "name" - henry kaiser cubistpop beefhearty & strangely shrubsalike.
there's too much !! (no complaint!)

― bob snoom, Monday, 21 May 2007 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

that Paga album has been killing me. It really might as well be another Weidorje record.

― Dominique, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

also, I think at some point mutant sounds posted the goude/oliver cole record from 1975, which I like better than drones. it's maybe jazzier, but I love hearing those guys play. also check out the jacques thollot record they posted the other day -- hopefully they will post cinq hops or resurrgence, but all of them are good chamberish/vaguely zuehlish (or maybe just french) jazz

― Dominique, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

Artemyev record of Synthi 100 things was initially disappointing compared to the ANS synth pieces he made for the Tarkovsky soundtracks, but by the end of the record the cheesy 70's synth epics had grown on me. more sub-Vangelis / Jarre / Tomita than weird drones.

the Francesco Curra is interesting, not sure how many times I'm going to come back to it, but a tightly edited / cut-together suite of noises & tiny song fragments. much stranger than Battiato's Fetus though just as well recorded, some parts like a far more coherent Tazartes.

the two Derome / Lussier (Granules) records definitely have their proggy moments, this is what Skeleton Crew should have been like

other than that, still listening to Catherine Ribiero a lot, especially the 2Bis one

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 08:28 (nineteen years ago)

why does my computer not understand that i already installed a file manager for .rar? :(

― fukasaku tollbooth, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 23:28 (nineteen years ago)

Catherine Ribeiro link?? cant find that shit

― chaki, Thursday, 24 May 2007 01:13 (nineteen years ago)

bob snoom, steensland actually reminds me of thinking plague/5uus/science group stuff a bit

― Dominique, Thursday, 24 May 2007 02:32 (nineteen years ago)

stuffit has no problem with .rar files.

Catherine Ribiero is one of two things I ever actually go back to.

― dan selzer, Thursday, 24 May 2007 03:43 (nineteen years ago)

they posted it, be careful with 'Uaxuctum'

http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2007/06/giacinto-scelsi-quattro-pezzi-per.html

also chaki: check the jan / feb archives for Ribeiro

― Milton Parker, Monday, 4 June 2007 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

you have a link to that dan?

― fukasaku tollbooth, Monday, 4 June 2007 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

wow... mathematique modernes... i've been looking for that for years. (they had a track or two on a comp recently...)

― msp, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 04:02 (nineteen years ago)

circle x record... ooh!
m.

― msp, Monday, 18 June 2007 22:40 (eighteen years ago)

this one's sinking in

http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2007/05/gene-f-steiker-larry-s-chengges.html

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 06:54 (eighteen years ago)

check out Randy Greif too, didn't know of that guy's existence at all. great nww list style weirdo electronix

― rizzx, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2007/08/aeolian-string-ensemble-lassithi.html

u&k, but then i suppose yall have that already

― ☪, Sunday, 2 September 2007 10:14 (eighteen years ago)

i didnt have that! it's awesome

― sleep, Sunday, 2 September 2007 23:38 (eighteen years ago)

more new age for the hillage/carlos/popol vuh fans:

http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2007/08/vandroogenbroeck-joel-meditations-vol-1.html
http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2007/07/joel-vandroogenbroeck-meditations.html

this is very pleasant.

― ☪, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2007/10/planes-stlp1974germany.html

this is also very pleasant.

― ☪, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

this fucking blog.

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

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that Om one is super hot. i was expecting bertoia, it's actually about as different as you can get. and still be brushing metal.

both bobby brown and francisco suffer from hippieitis. maybe it's more weirdo beachcomberitis.

― Manclusion (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 19 December 2008 04:06 (seventeen years ago)

five months pass...

This F/i tape rules, just d/l'd it today.
http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2009/02/fithresholdtape1986franceusa.html

― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 20 May 2009 18:18 (seventeen years ago)

two months pass...

OK this is probably a stupid if not offensive question but can someone list the poppier and/or more rhythmically repulsive (can I get a "funkier?") items on Mutant Sounds?

― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 17:25 (sixteen years ago)

repulsive?

― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 17:33 (sixteen years ago)

i think he's channeling arsenio hall

― jaxon, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 18:02 (sixteen years ago)

The avant-garde is so easily offended.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 20:20 (sixteen years ago)

offended?

― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 20:29 (sixteen years ago)

Alex?

― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 20:34 (sixteen years ago)

sympathy nervous
http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2007/03/sympathy-nervous-stlp1980japanvanity.html

― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 20:37 (sixteen years ago)

"why has this not been reissued? Probably because this world is too busy promoting modern bullshit and modern bullshit artist. The coolest shit in the past, present, and future will always come from the underground."

― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 20:40 (sixteen years ago)

randomize
http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2007/04/randomize-como-se-divertirn-los.html

― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 20:41 (sixteen years ago)

Thanx sexyDancer!

― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 20:45 (sixteen years ago)

don't know about "poppier" but they at least have drum machines

― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 21:01 (sixteen years ago)

For poppier the Henri Texier albums that have been posted recently definitely fit the bill.

― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 21:04 (sixteen years ago)

Don't know about the repulsive beat front though.

― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 21:04 (sixteen years ago)

this has got to be the poppiest record ever posted on mutant sounds

http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2009/01/yapoos-keikakulp1987japan.html

― damo tsu tsuki (r1o natsume), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 22:29 (sixteen years ago)

and it's fucking amazing fyi

― damo tsu tsuki (r1o natsume), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 22:29 (sixteen years ago)

two months pass...

http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2009/08/va-prescription-archive-series-3-6xcdr.html

if you like cluster ii and/or m goettsching, the quad live set is 4 u.

― ☆, Sunday, 18 October 2009 09:43 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

Very good in a scuzzy downtempo depressed kind of way:

http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2010/01/dale-jenkins-undesirable-elements-lp.html

― Zuleika, Thursday, 15 September 2011 20:21 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

ye olde filesharing blog era coming to a close it seems

http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-re-ups-and-downs-of-file-sharing.html

"There's been a reason for the extra long span of time since my last posts went up: I've needed time to weigh my options and determine if this shebang is still worth keeping afloat."

― dmr, Monday, 4 March 2013 02:54 (thirteen years ago)

R.I.P. Mutant Sounds. Definitely a force for good in getting great unheard music to the ears it deserves.

There have to have been at large number of reissues spawned by M.S., no?

― Soundslike, Saturday, 9 March 2013 17:55 (thirteen years ago)

New posts will continue on the roughly bi-monthly schedule that they've been arriving at for some time

it's not the end of the world, he's still going to continue posting new stuff! he's just saying he's no longer going to spend all of his spare time re-upping past files that are casualties in his neverending battle with rapidshare.

― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Saturday, 9 March 2013 18:07 (thirteen years ago)

nope. RIP. http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.it/2013/03/the-end-of-era.html

― dmr, Saturday, 9 March 2013 18:09 (thirteen years ago)

oh. RIP.

― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Saturday, 9 March 2013 18:16 (thirteen years ago)

such an incredible blog

― flopson, Saturday, 9 March 2013 18:19 (thirteen years ago)

now begins true black market mp3 era

ps I will trade 2 white women for the shub niggurath demo

― unprepared guitar (Edward III), Saturday, 9 March 2013 18:23 (thirteen years ago)

Reborn!

http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2013/03/mutant-sounds-reborn.html

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 March 2013 01:40 (thirteen years ago)

Huzzah!

― Fetchboy, Monday, 11 March 2013 01:46 (thirteen years ago)

Interesting move. I hope it works.

― emil.y, Monday, 11 March 2013 15:48 (thirteen years ago)

i feel for the "sharing community". i will say a prayer and hope for the best!

― scott seward, Monday, 11 March 2013 19:25 (thirteen years ago)

five years pass...

Mutant Sounds archive on RYM- Mutant Sounds is new to me so this looks like a real treasure trove:
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/frankdrunk/mutant_sounds_archive__part_1_/

― Neil S, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 10:27 (seven years ago)

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