Visitation from an Enormous Flabby Head May 7, 2009 Unknown - "Visitations" - from an acetate 78 Ursula Bogner - "Mementuafnahme" - Recordings 1969-1988 Anthony Pateras - "Mutat Theatre 7" - Mutant Theatre Pilvarta Kopilmop - "Blu Blo Bli Ble Bla" - An Der Schonen Blauen Clip from Comedy of Terrors [starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff] Jack Dugonogi - "???" - Piwinica Pod Baranami Jonas Nordwall - "The Hustle" - VA - Organ Grinders Volume 2 Unknown - "Silent George" - 78 Stag Record Ross Bagdasarian - "Gotta Get to Your House" - Best [...]
Stabbin' & Jabberin' April 23, 2009 SF Brownrigg - "Don't Look in the Basement" - video clip Synthesizers Unlimited - "Toytown Carousel" - Electric Bazaar Helen & Dick Bouchard - "Nobody Wears A Frown In Tweekertown" - Introducing the Unique Keyboard Sounds of Helen & Dick Bouchard Luciano Berio - "Fa-Si" - Works for Solo Instruments Unknown Bollywood Movie Ornette Coleman - "Rock the Clock" - Complete Science Fiction Sessions François Dufrêne - "Paris-Stockholm" - Text-Sound Compositions Juan Carlos Calderón - "Vengeance of the Zombies" - Soundtrack Forty Pizza Roll Challenge Douglas Quinn - "Weddel Seals" [...]
Pluck Plink Ding Dong April 9, 2009 Mihari Koshi - "Snoopy" - Toy Box Prent Rogers - "Dry Hole Canyon" - Microtonal Music Toru Takemitsu - "One" - Early Japanese Tape Music The Mighty Accordion Band - "Caravan" - They Said It Couldn't Be Done! Mary Halvorson & Jessica Pavone - "Familiar Spirits" - Prairies Dimossioypalliliko Retire - "I Will Dictate" - Romantische Strasse Arne Nordheim - "Polypoly" - Elecric ??? - "I am a Circus!" - 78 rpm recording Circle - "Composition 6" - Jazz Haus, Hamburg 1971 Old Lady - "Fighting on Bus" - [...]
A Stupefying Futile Conceit March 26, 2009 Joe Hisaishi - "Unit 1" - Robot Carnival OST Huaca - "WW" Blotted Science - "REM" - The Machinations of Dementia Univers Zero - "Vous Le Saurez En Temps Voulu" - Heresy Chris Morris & Peter Cook - "Bears" - Why Bother? Peter Gordon - "I'm Dreaming in the Sun and Dreaming in the Moon" - Star Jaws Sparks - "Get In the Swing" - Indiscreet Chris Morris & Peter Cook - "Guns" - Why Bother? Bobby Conn - "Whitebread" - Rise Up! Demetrio Stratos - "Segmenti Tre" - [...]
Beyond the Behind March 19, 2009 Daniel Steven Crafts - "Brief Interlude: The Telephone Call" - Soap Opera Moog Party Time - "Popcorn" - Moog Party Time Chuck Jones - "Yes/No" - Isolation Studies Pigmeat Markham - "Your Wire's Been Tapped!" - VA - Talkin' Trash: Lookey Dookey Rockwell - "Somebody's Watching Me" Brother Theodore - "Introduction" - Theodore in Stereo Die Marinas - "Fred from Jupiter" - VA - Cabaret Obskur Bruce Haack - "War" - Electric Lucifer Henri Chopin - "Le Soleil est mecanique" - UbuWeb / PennSound Archive Public Image Ltd. - "Track [...]
November 6, 2008: Cake & Polka Podcast #003: Har Har Rar Rar Woo Woo WFMU 91.1fm 90.1fm wfmu.org Listen to this show at http://wfmu.org/listen.m3u?sho w=29118&archive=46178 (MP3 - 128K) Subscribe via ITunes / XML Feed Slava Tsukerman - "Margaret's Apartment" - Liquid Sky Soundtrack Peter B - "Crazy Ass Delusions" - Luteus Fred Frith - "The Boy Beats the Rams" - Gravity Bing Crosby - "The Headless Horseman" - VA - The Haunted House Non Credo - "Snake Oil" - Happy Wretched Family Robert Lawrence & Mark Phillips [...]
October 30, 2008: Cake & Polka Podcast #002: Blessed are the Sick! WFMU 91.1fm 90.1fm wfmu.org Listen to this show at HERE! (MP3 - 128K) Subscribe via ITunes / XML Feed Bernard Herrmann - "Signals" - Outer Space FLIES! - "FLIES!" - from video clip Amoebic Ensemble - "Palindromes" - Amoebiasis The Pussy Pirates - "Dorcas Good" - Eat My Brain, Call It Art Toshiro Mayazumi - "Les oeuvres pour la musique concrete: Z" - Concert 20-21 0th - "Purple Dragon" - Tammy Dick Raaijmakers - "Vier [...]
CAKE & POLKA PARADE WEEKLY PODCAST ON WFMU! Your simmering pimply-faced blob of a host, Fatty Jubbo (Gregory Jacobsen), presents a classy program of children's records, no-wave, noise, prog, 20th century classical avant-garde choral pieces, concrete sound poetry, weird foreign pop and audio debris. Crackpots, incompetents, geniuses... and they speak the gibberish too! To subscribe, head over to the WFMU Podcast page or click here to subscribe via itunes. Playlist for Cake & Polka Parade Podcast 001 [...]
I'm sorry- I haven't updated this blog in about a year. Isn't that how it always goes? Most of my blogging activity is at WFMU's Beware of the Blog. I disabled most of the directories on here because I haven't been moderating it and my bandwidth is being eaten up by shitty hotlinking FREE MP3! sites. Well, thanks for checking back to see if I'm still alive, maybe I'll make Cake & Polka parade a podcast soon...in the meantime check out my occasional web show on WFMU .
Dave Phillips (Schimpfluch-Gruppe, Ohne, Fear of God) sculpts violent psycho-sexual vignettes through harsh frequencies, base gurgling body sounds and a minute attention to detail as the proceedings slowly clank and rattle towards a culvulsion in a urine puddle. Much like Ruzelstirn & Gurgelstock , Phillips' sounds are rooted in the body and the blurred line of pain and sex. Dave Phillips - Hole/Holy (excerpt) A Collection Of Curses is a compliation of rare and unreleased tracks that form into a whole and outlines an obscured demented narrative. [...]
Borts Minorts! From San Francisco, California! A deranged performance/dance ensemble led by a monobrowed spastic encased in a white hooded unitard. Ridiculous dance moves are enacted on stage with a duo of pretty ladies like a low-budget Xanadu as Mr. Borts Minorts whoops and hollers through a barrage of frenetic cut and paste disco songs. Think Leigh Bowery choreographed by Richard Simmons. Unfortunately, on his Myspace page (where I found this gem), there is no indication of an available CD. Hopefully one will be available soon- as the music is just as [...]
Unknown Chalga - Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker A friend dropped this amazing little dittie into my hands. Unfortunately- I have no idea who it is by...only that it is part of a compilation of Bulgarian Chalga music. I am assuming it is from at least the early eighties given the production and the fact that modern Chalga music is fucking unlistenable. Any Bulgarians out there to shed light on this? Anyway...from wikipedia...a brief definition of Chalga : Chalga is a form of Bulgarian popular music drawing from Balkan folk [...]
False Sacrament was an early 90s band- part of the Very Small Records roster which included other weirdos such as Schlong and Plaid Retina. They managed to sound completely different from any other band of the era by combining element of Black Sabbath, Thrash metal, jazz and early 90s punk without coming off as a pastiche...and they had a fucking fantastic female lead vocalist who could do an alien high trill while also exuding naive punk snottiness. False Sacrament were mostly ignored in their day and disbanded after only releasing a couple singles, compilation [...]
Mother Country Death Rattle was a group that existed around the early to mid-nineties in Chicago...an overlooked gem from the no-wave scene. Their only existing recording is from the CIA Via UFO To Mercury compilation. I don't know anything about them aside from seeing them once (perhaps their last show?) in 1998 at 6Odum in Chicago. Under blaring fluorescent lights, the group comprised of Shriner-uniformed horn players in cartoonish plush monster masks assembled like a geriatric VFW band. If I remember right, there was a player dressed entirely like a plush cob of corn...maybe a carrot. Their sound [...]
I originally found this track on a CD entitled Secret Society Music Of Cameroon . I had raced out to buy the CD after an instructor played me this track in class- I was in awe of the reed horn used...a completely strange and alien sound...just the timbre of it and the odd scale. But I was a bit broke at the time and I returned the CD next day after making a shitty cassette dub and forgetting to write down the track listing and information. Perhaps my memory is foggy of the CD I purchased- [...]
I thought working at a thrift store was going to be a dream come true with the first pickings of all the rare treats that were trucked in. Unfortunately, soon after I started, a policy was enacted where employees could only make purchases on their off hours...the ladies in the back who recieved and priced the daily shipments were hoarding all the fancy clothes and knick-knacks for their 10% discount. A steady flow of records always came in- so many that they had to send a woman around to weed out what she deemed to be unsalable. [...]
No Christmas songs for you, dear reader, as I'm sure you're deluged already. But here is a odd and kinda creepy song that has a roundabout connection to Christmas. The Little Boy And The Old Man was a B Side to the 1950s children's music hit Tell Me A Story by Frankie Laine and Jimmy Boyd. Jimmy Boyd is mainly remembered for I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus . Boyd possessed a cartoon-like kid voice that was both irritatingly cute and slightly ghoulish. Frankie Laine & Jimmy Boyd [...]
I started a new blog called Glamorous Piles . If you don't know already- I am a painter of pretty pictures (above). The new blog will be host to the posting of new work, process threads, various bits I find interesting and more personal, uh, reflections and how it relates to my work. I have tried to keep this blog entirely devoid of any personal information and I find the formal box I put myself in quite restraining. Don't worry! I will still continue the audio trainwreck of Cake & [...]
Here is an old acetate recording of Sweethearts Forever , seemingly moaned by a group of sleep-deprived zombies at a funeral (that always makes a mediocre song so much better!) The end skip is unintentional but works in both mood and meaning. Grab your sweetheart and sit back to enjoy a long life of boring drudgery forever....and ever. ??? - Sweethearts Forever thanks to Daniel Knox for the song identification
The High Voltage Sid Collection is a massive archive of almost every song composed on the Commodore 64- specifically the Sid 6581 chip...there are thousands! For years I have been periodically sifting through the this mountain of chiptunes, plowing through a lot of mediocre crap and converting the gems to MP3s. There is quite an array of C64 musical styles that have passed throughout the years. From the early primitive blink-blonk unfiltered tones playing a loops of familiar classical phrases to the golden years of 85-90 where innovators like Rob [...]
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Monday Music – 28 May 2012
Bison - Quill
