mixtape #1: october '09

here's a short mix of rad halloween jams:

bobby 'boris' pickett & the cryptkickers - monster mash:




'monster mash' was my ma's first ever 7" single!

screamin' lord sutch and the savages - she's fallen in love with a monster ,man:




misfits - skulls:




mudhoney - halloween:




the cramps - human fly:




sonic youth - halloween:




dead kennedys - halloween:




fuckin' dig it!

artist - album : of montreal - skeletal lamping

this looks so tripped out next to municipal waste. anyways, skeletal lamping came out some time last year. i haven't really listened to them in a couple of years. it's kind of funked out pop music.

here are "beware our nubile miscreants" and "id engager":

artist - album : municipal waste - hazardous mutation

recently i've been getting pretty into thrash. i never had heard of municipal waste before and kind of stumbled upon them yesterday. long story short, they're totally rad. rad. they started around 2001 and are still goin'. 'hazardous waste' was released in 2005 and clocks 15 tracks in around 25 minutes. shit's so fast. anyway, they've got a bunch of gigs listed over at www.myspace.com/municipalwaste and are playin' over at the blender theater in nyc on the 9th of december. tickets are around $50 though. bummer.

here's "unleash the bastards":

artist - album : unseemly girl - abundent daleks

follow up to large monkeys, here's the track listing:

1. Swamp Of The Endless Blizzard
2. Chaos Of The Cheating Wiggle
3. Penguin Of The Phoenix
4. Flashing Tower Of The Satiated Twinkie

get it here

artist - album : unseemly girl - large monkeys

unseemly girl is a collaboration between myself and graham carlow. graham is the drummer of one of my favourite bands david devant and his spirit wife. our debut recording, large monkey, is comprised of three tracks:

1. movable tree (graham - guitar)
2. five horses and a mirror ( graham - guitar : james - drums)
3. italian verse (james - guitar : graham - drums)

it's lo-fi and kind of weird. anyway, it's free and available here, hope you like it:

unseemly girl - large monkeys

artist - album : big l - the big picture

ignore the weird cover, harlem's big l is rad. he only put out one record while he was alive, 'lifestylez ov da poor & dangerous'. 'the big picture' came out one year after he was killed. he has a killer nyc flow and sick beats. if you're into east coast hip-hop and not already into big l, get into him. ''98 freestyle' was live on the radio, that's how good he is, come on.

big l - ebonics:




big l - '98 freestyle (original radio freestyle):

artist - album : television - marquee moon

i think i was 12 when my godfather gave me this record, i also think i left it in the back of my closet for a couple if years in favour of slipknot and lynyrd skynyrd. guess i kind of fucked up. anyway, television where big in the mid 70s new york cbgb's scene alongside talking heads, patti smith, ramones, blondie.... they were weirder than all them though, predominantly post-punk yet 'jazzy'. the same year bassist richard hell put out blank generation with his other band the voidoids, that's also a sick cut.

television - marquee moon:



richard hell and the voidoids - 'blank generation' and 'love comes in spurts' (sorry, volume sucks again):

artist : the syndicats

the syndicats are a lesser known freakbeat band from the mid 60s and they totally kill it. they put out three 7"s on columbia, produced by legend joe meek, and in '94 a couple of tracks surfaced on steve howe's mothballs. you can pick up their tacks if you search them over at http://diveintoyesterday.blogspot.com. their most badass jam is 'what to do', so rad.

check out 'you can't judge a book' and 'howling for my baby' at the beat room in '64:

artist - album : albert ayler - my name is albert ayler

january 14th, 1963 saw saxophonist albert ayler release his third record: my name is alber ayler. though i've never really been down with the sax this album is really sick. it's a down tempo free jazz jam, what are you waitin' for? get into it!

here is a cut from the record, the video has a weird leaky fire hydrant in it: