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For the past couple of weeks I've been digging the Patrick Vian record I downloaded from there. It's got a kind of library music, Sky Records, Heldon sort of thing going on.

Oh and The Feed-Back is killer. It's Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuovo Consonanza in a funky vein. Less like the album they did on Cramps and more like the Gli Occhi Freddi Della Paura soundtrack or something.

walterkranz, Friday, 2 March 2007 02:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I've downloaded a lot of his post-punk comps.

where? are they self curated? searched for a while but can't find links (HI DERE 23 POSTS A DAY). i think i visited his blog a few weeks ago to hear that Toshi Ichiyanagi. how does he find time to digitize all this stuff?

sanskrit, Friday, 2 March 2007 02:29 (seventeen years ago) link

of course i find one right after i post that

http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2007/01/va-pulse-of-new-york-lp-1983-ukus-bands.html

sanskrit, Friday, 2 March 2007 02:30 (seventeen years ago) link

no, that's a minimal synth comp

sanskrit, Friday, 2 March 2007 02:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Here you go:
http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/search?q=east
http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/search?q=Norwich
http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/search?q=antarctica

They're not his own comps, but stuff that came out late 70s early 80s or thereabouts.

leavethecapital, Friday, 2 March 2007 03:05 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

jaxon, Friday, 2 March 2007 05:51 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

MP3 = BABYLON

sanskrit, Saturday, 3 March 2007 05:25 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Would modernist noisers like [Removed Illegal Link]?

Tim Ellison, Sunday, 4 March 2007 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

fies, Thursday, 8 March 2007 00:51 (seventeen years ago) link

great blog btw ^_^

fies, Thursday, 8 March 2007 00:51 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

Dominique, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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

, Saturday, 28 April 2007 18:50 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

the whale songs are corny though.

, Monday, 21 May 2007 12:24 (sixteen years ago) link

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

Ralph Lundsten S/D

scott seward, Monday, 21 May 2007 14:00 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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

Dominique, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:38 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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

fukasaku tollbooth, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 23:28 (sixteen years ago) link

Catherine Ribeiro link?? cant find that shit

chaki, Thursday, 24 May 2007 01:13 (sixteen years ago) link

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

Dominique, Thursday, 24 May 2007 02:32 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

you have a link to that dan?

fukasaku tollbooth, Monday, 4 June 2007 19:12 (sixteen years ago) link

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

m.

msp, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 04:02 (sixteen years ago) link

circle x record... ooh!
m.

msp, Monday, 18 June 2007 22:40 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

great great record. i have the vinyl. but it's 10 songs. dunno why ripper did that

(jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Thursday, 18 December 2008 17:09 (fifteen years ago) link

not sure, i hot the akarma reissue, i'll check at home.

i wouldn't compare it to panda bear as much as i would arthur russell.

moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 18 December 2008 19:16 (fifteen years ago) link

or tim buckley slowed down to -15

(jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Thursday, 18 December 2008 20:29 (fifteen years ago) link

been playing this one a bit: http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2008/11/om-st-lp-1979-france.html

Milton Parker, Thursday, 18 December 2008 20:36 (fifteen years ago) link

which reminds me of the abstract parts of Francisco's 'Cosmic Beam Experience' / Joe Jones 'Solar Music' / Harry Bertoia / & my favorites Peter Warren And Matt Samolis 'Bowed Metal Music'

http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2007/04/francisco-cosmic-beam.html

Milton Parker, Thursday, 18 December 2008 20:45 (fifteen years ago) link

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 (fifteen years ago) link

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 (fourteen years ago) link

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 (fourteen years ago) link

repulsive?

Alex in SF, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 17:33 (fourteen years ago) link

i think he's channeling arsenio hall

jaxon, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 18:02 (fourteen years ago) link

The avant-garde is so easily offended.

Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 20:20 (fourteen years ago) link

offended?

Alex in SF, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link

Alex?

Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link

"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 (fourteen years ago) link

Thanx sexyDancer!

Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 20:45 (fourteen years ago) link

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

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

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

Alex in SF, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 21:04 (fourteen years ago) link

Don't know about the repulsive beat front though.

Alex in SF, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 21:04 (fourteen years ago) link

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 (fourteen years ago) link

and it's fucking amazing fyi

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

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 (fourteen years ago) link

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 (twelve years ago) link

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 (eleven years ago) link

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 (eleven years ago) link

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 (eleven years ago) link

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

dmr, Saturday, 9 March 2013 18:09 (eleven years ago) link

oh. RIP.

:(

( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Saturday, 9 March 2013 18:16 (eleven years ago) link

such an incredible blog

flopson, Saturday, 9 March 2013 18:19 (eleven years ago) link

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 (eleven years ago) link

Reborn!

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

Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 March 2013 01:40 (eleven years ago) link

Huzzah!

Fetchboy, Monday, 11 March 2013 01:46 (eleven years ago) link

Interesting move. I hope it works.

emil.y, Monday, 11 March 2013 15:48 (eleven years ago) link

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

scott seward, Monday, 11 March 2013 19:25 (eleven years ago) link

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 (five years ago) link


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