
An informal interview recorded in October 1974 with a very relaxed Philip K Dick in his home, the television on, his cat screaming and his son Christopher playing in the background. 47 minutes in length...
01 (Intro)If God exists then he's a fake, or more likely a foot!
02 On RAH.
03 Christopher.
04 Self-sacrifice, the person sacrifices himself for another person.
05 On Mussolini.
06 On deciding to write novels.
07 On The Sayings of the Desert Fathers.
08 On Jung.
09 On Schizophrenia.
10 On Vonnegut.
11 (Outro)Animals are innocent.
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Formed in Lansing, Michigan in 1982, this debut LP was recorded in 1984 and released in 1985 on Jello Biafra's Alternative Tentacles label. Wisconsin followed in 1987, also on Alternative Tentacles. The band's trademarks are Doc Dart's excessively whiny voice and their blatantly anti-authoritarian lyrics, often rife with obscure and perverse humor. The band made a point of going beyond the pale in terms of lyrical content, attempting to be as offensive as possible. Their lack of mainstream success likely saved them from substantial legal action and high-profile controversy, the song "Cops for Fertilizer" does not mince words: "So kill the next policeman who gets in your way/ It'll set a good example for the children today". Many of their other songs are similarly harsh, attacking the American government (and America in general), and religion, particularly Christianity in an effort to drive home the point that blind faith in anything, be it patriotism or religion, is bad. Their song "Hinckley had a Vision" even advocated the killing of then President Ronald Reagan. (Wiki and Alternative Tentacles)
You know... for kids! (and Doc Darts laugh.)
(This comes on 'Our Will Be Done' cd along with the 2nd LP Wisconsin (which is available back in the archives) but i separated the two for obvious reasons, well mostly so you'd actually listen to this one on its own.)
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Doc Dart article by Sam McPheeters HERE

Bed room style lo-fi shambolic rawk from Bob Fay (part of Sebadoh, Bakesale era and of course Deluxx Folk Implosion) with Mark Perretta also of DFI. Recorded at various times from 1993 - 1996 onto Bobs walkman and others live by Dean Lozenge. Some great bits and some i hate bits.
"The Forgiveness Towel is a 30 min., multi-faceted offering drawn from a collection of bedroom tapes, live radio broadcast, and an overload of improvisational inspiration. With a one-take wonderment and a no-fuss ethic, Deluxx captures a mayhem wash of emotive moments, recorded live, often in overdrive, sometimes with a reverb soak." (Forced Exposure)
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Early 90's hardcore, invented Gravity Records and the San Diego sound, kinda like the Faith/Void LP but really squished and more abstract. Call it screamo, I wouldn't.
"Members of Heroin went on to bands like Antioch Arrow, Rice, Clikitat Ikatowi, Second Story Window, Holy Molar, and Spacehorse."
wiki
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This 15-track discography of the mighty MEREL features all of their recordings made during their existence from 1990-1994. Featuring a rhythm section who went on to help form New Jersey's brilliant Rye Coalition, Merel played chaotic, abrasive, and quite loud experimental hardcore that separated itself from the norm with its unlikely musical creativity. Fierce vocals lead the way, and they are actually relatively understandable while still being quite aggressively screamed. The band toys with both straight-ahead hardcore and a much more explosive style comparable to a completely untamed Rye Coalition. The experimental tracks are culled mostly from the band's only full-length, while the earlier recordings show the more untamed but straightforward approach. Most of the material is extremely effective, but the eight tracks from the LP are what make this disc really worthwhile. Merel develops their hardcore with no boundaries, and wailing guitars along with unrestrained song structures push the music toward increasingly effective results. All in all, this record is a fitting memorial to a promising if not so well-known group, and their bearing on the music later made in Rye Coalition alone makes it a worthwhile disc. (Peter D'Angelo)
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On the tail of the Rorschach post, another great band from the late 80s. Short-lived and fast, that great buzzsaw guitar sound, no limp sweaty handshakes here.
Precursors of "powerviolence".
(courtesy of deek media)
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"Cleveland, Ohio's Puff Tube is a mixture of art damage, scum rock, tape manipulation and Residents weirdness, really hard to describe, but great fun to listen to. This double 7 came packaged with Scat Records Quarterly (a 62 page zine), a Puff Tube napkin + sticker and a set of Queasy Torpedo Postcards."
1 Heavy Music
2 Jazz Cinnamon in my Brain
3 Love Theme from Emergency Peanut
4 Soul Finger
5 Shriek Bum Limbo
6 Circus Freak
7 Midget Tolerance
8 My New Bathrobe
9 Snappin'One
10 Bib Lettuce Breakdown
11 My Baby is a Great Cook!
12 Get Off Me!
13 Chimmy Dimmy
14 Train Train
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Two songs from reknowned sculptor Walter De Maria featuring a tribal drumming pattern and the sounds of nature. The two pieces included were originally recorded in 1964 and 1968; this CD was pressed on the occasion of a later exhibition of De Maria's work. He played the drums on 'Henry Flynt & The Insurections - I Don't Wanna' released on Locust Music and is also known for his Land Art sculpture 'Lightning Field' out in the New Mexican Desert.
Note:
The CD credits "Cricket Music" as track 1, and "Ocean Music" as track 2, but on the recording itself they're in reverse order (Listing below reflects actual recording).
Tracklisting:
1 Ocean Music (1968) (20:29)
2 Cricket Music (1964) (24:34)
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The California dreams that led to death... There's twists, bends, curves, scrapes, and bumps. The atmosphere was simply frustrating and depressing - good! The ending is a shocker of sorts, each track is an unpredictable event that makes your heart beat with more than just suspense, but pure emotion - yes, definitely emotion. I even cried. Twice.
16 Bitch Pile-Up are a fierce 3 piece squall of Heartland (now California) electronics, thick moans, and scraped effects. Having previously performed at such noteworthy festivals as All Tomorrow's Parties, No Fun and Wooden Octopus Skull, 16BPU here presents their first widely available cd. Full color (+ naughty) fold out cover artwork in jewelcase. Limited edition of 1,000. Troniks/Pacrec
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Empire State analogue hardcore, produced by Neil of Mens Recovery Project. Art by Sam McPheeters. Take the elevator to the disagreeable emotions, then follow the signs to "screaming hairy man". Members of DROP DEAD, LIMP WRIST and GHETTO BLASTER.
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BUY OLYMPIA

Second album seeing the death metal influences left behind with more of crust/hardcore sound and way better playing from the 3 dudes from Belgium. 30 tracks of puwa mincecore, an hour and ten long.
(2001 Uxicon CD re-issue)
Songs 1-16 were recorded and mixed between February 1994 and April 1994 at the
Soundshape studios in Arendonk, Belgium.
Songs 17-30 were recorded live on April 17, 1993 at the Jugendhaus Waldpforte
in Mannheim, Germany.
Songs 17 and 21 were previously released as the AG / NYCTOPHOBIC split 7" EP.
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Doom/Drone from Macedônia just recently had a split with the mighty Burmese, check it out... screamahellish.
"Five blistering tracks of negative vibes, tranquilised dirges and anguish. The slow parts of Powerviolence greats of old colliding with the sheer evil of Burning Witch."
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Ive been visiting this site for a while now and it's great if you want to learn more about early blues and folk, plus if you donate some coin you can download some great mixes of super rare and essential tracks. This is a free mix thats been posted there so thought i'd put it up here to point some people there... prewarblues.org
Introduction To The Blues Part One : The Ladies Of The Blues...
tracklist:
01. Hattie Hart - I Let My Daddy Do That (1934)
02. Gertrude ”Ma” Rainey - Black Eye Blues (1928)
03. Lucille Bogan - Shave ‘em Dry (1935)
04. Victoria Spivey - Black Snake Blues (1926)
05. Viola McCoy - I Ain’t Gonna Marry, Ain’t Gonna Settle Down (1924)
06. Clara Smith - Death Letter Blues (1924)
07. Sara Martin - Death Sting Me Blues (1928)
08. Mamie Smith - Crazy Blues (1920)
09. Jessie Derrick - If You’ll Come Back To Hollywood (1926)
10. Bessie Smith - Cemetery Blues (1923)
11. Bessie Tucker - Got Cut All To Pieces (1928)
12. Arizona Dranes - My Soul Is A Witness For The Lord (1926)
13. Gladys Bentley - How Much Can I Stand (1928)
14. Louise Johnson - On the Wall (1930)
15. Memphis Minnie - Nothin’ In Ramblin’ (1940)
16. Sister Rosetta Tharpe - God Don’t Like It (1939)
17. Trixie Smith - You’ve Got To Beat Me To Keep Me (1925)
18. Ozella Jones - I Been a Bad, Bad Girl (Prisoner Blues) (1942)
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Like a hidden relic from the far side of the Harry Smith catalog, these early 1960s recordings are a splendid collection of High lonesome hillbilly fiddle and ukulele instrumentals that are surely Henry Flynt's most articulated statements to date of his honest to god, true to life affinity and love for that dry earth choogaloo upper mountain lower boogaloo foot stomping folk music. Standouts include the acid fried 13th Floor Elevators-ish 'Sky Turned Red' and the 15 plus minute lazy zen epic hum and strum album closer, 'Blue Sky, Highway and Tyme'. No doubt, this is Appalachian bruit driving music bar none.
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In 1996, This Heat's 1977 Peel Sessions were finally released and demonstrated once again that This Heat were untouchable, effortlessly unfurling a sound equal parts avant pop, krautrock, progrock, musique concrete and a handful of parts that defied easy classification. Every track here a jaw dropping, mind blowing performance. Especially the new version of "Horizontal Hold", one of This Heat's finest moments already, played here with much more verve and vigor and with a sound quality so much clearer, a recording so incredibly hot, that the song is reborn and completely confounds and amazes. The whole session is rhythmically dense, rife with bastardized pop, incredibly complex arrangements all rendered again in such a way that they are emotional and moving, instead of just intellectual musical exercises. And the sound is so crystal clear, that you can hear a band at the top of their game, taking over the BBC studio and using it like they would a second guitar or another drummer. The Peel Sessions also include a handful of songs that never made it onto records proper. All as good as anything on their official releases. (Aquarius Records)
Recorded in 1977 for the John Peel Show at BBC Maida Vale Studios, London.
Originally released in 1996 on These Records as These 10 CD.
Remastered by Charles Bullen, Charles Hayward & un autre clampin qui s'appelle Dominique Brethes at Wolf Studios, Brixton, February 2006.
Studio Album, released in 1996
Track Listings
1. Horizontal Hold (8:28)
2. Not Waving (8:11)
3. The Fall Of Saigon (6:08)
4. Rimp Romp Ramp (6:43)
5. Makeshift (6:18)
6. Sitting (2:22)
7. Basement Boy (2:16)
8. Slither (2:16)
Total Time: 42:42
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INCLUDES:
Bllleeeeaaauuurrrrgghhh! – The record
Son of Bllleeeeaaauuurrrrgghhh!
Bllleeeeaaauuurrrrgghhh! – A music war
Just in time for the holidays: about 165 bands on three seven inches. Almost 20 mins of music! The cream of rock and roll of the 90s. Most bands stop at around 0:23 at most. Includes mega-hit "Don't fuck with the Ghost" by seminal band, Your Mother. Other bands featured:
IMPETIGO, COCOFONIA, EXIT-13, ASSUCK, NUCLEAR ROACH, NEANDERTHAL, INFEST, CITIZENS ARREST, PHELGM, CEMETARIUM, PHOBIA, CROSSED OUT, PATARENI, MELVINS, RINGWORM, FINAL CONFLICT, LACK OF INTEREST, 324, AVULSION, NOOTHGRUSH, SUPPRESSION, SLIGHT SLAPPERS, MELT BANANA, GODSTOMPER, QUADILIACHA, DISASSOCIATE, PALATKA, FLASH GORDON, JAPANESE COMEDY TORTURE HOUR, THE JUDAS ISCARIOT, SCALP-LOCK, ENEMY SOIL, CHARLES BRONSON, REAL REGGAE, MANGE, EGOTISMO, DISNEY VIOLENCE,
TOMSK 7, EXCRUCIATING TERROR, BROTHER INFERIOR, BLACK ARMY JACKET, SWISS ARMY BLANKET, BAD ACID TRIP, BEAST, DEVOID OF FAITH, DESPISE YOU, HARSH, THE MISANTHROPISTS, BASTARD NOISE, DISMAL MARSH GAS, IN, HUMANITY, RASH OF BEATINGS, AS$TROLAND, LOS CRUDOS, THE LOCUST, SOCIETY OF FRIENDS, FANATICS, SENSELESS APOCALYPSE, VILENTLY ILL, AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED, UTTER BASTARD, RESIN, PRETENTIOUS ASSHOLES, LITTLE PRINCESS, ACTION JACKSON, NO LESS, POUND, HATED PRINCIPLES, YOUR MOTHER, GASP, SEVENTH VICTIM, NONE OF YOUR FUCKING BUSINESS, NO THINK, GYGA, DEGRADE and many others. Play fast!!
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"Volahn is the next progression where your physical existence ends and you are a entity of pure kaos. Transcendence of flesh to stars, Black Twilight manifest where art is greater than the artist. 4 years of pushing mind and flesh. The incomprehensible kosmic truth.
Covers adorned in Mayan Blood through Black Twilight bloodletting Kaos ritual."
New project by Volahn from Ashdautas (USA). This album is 4 years in the making and is the second album of the Black Twilight Circle.
Sick hun-xib (thats 'one-man' in Mayan) Black Metal from the dank murk and depression of Long Beach, California about to have a vinyl/cd release on Klaxon Records and touring with Bone Awl (only in the u.s. of course) in May 2009, unless the mass rioting has broken out by then (but maybe that'll be the best time for them to play?)
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I wouldn't call this entertainment, but I guarantee you it's the best 3.5 hours you'll ever invest in your education. This amazing 3.5 hour documentary will teach you the entire history of money and banking, how it works and how the central bankers have robbed the wealth of nations, including our own. You’ll discover how bankers create the illusion that they have all the wealth, and how they get governments, corporations and all of us indebted to them, the primary mechanism they use to control virtually everything. You’ll also learn how they are the primary cause of all inflation, start virtually every war, and how they are engineering a world government and monetary system that they alone control...
The Money Masters - How International Bankers Gained Control of America
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"Good sequel to the "1988-1991" MC - compiling unreleased CB live/reh/studio recordings going from 1992 to early '95. Over 70 tracks in 60 minutes, variating from the older CB Noisecore nihilism to new, more structured tracks written for the ep's coming out those years, showing our attempt to amalgamate extreme Grind rawness w/ the basic features of '80s italian Hardcore. As a matter of fact here you get the first, embryonic versions of tracks like "Italia di merda", "Padroni", "Prospettive limitate" - fated to became some of the most popular hits among diehard CB fans"...
SIDE A:
Rehearsal recorded with camera, summer ‘94
(LINE UP: Giulio - Vocals // Alberto - Guitar // Michele - Drums)
1-Intro 2-September 18th 1993 3-Padroni 4-Ragman 5-Mass media 6-Italia di merda - Interlude
Live in Torino / “EL PASO”, dec. ‘94
(LINE UP: Giulio - Vocals // Alberto - Guitar // X-man - Drums)
1-Intelligence means 2-Bane 3-War spoils 4-More frustrations
Impact + Cripple Bastards release party Live in Casalpusterlengo (Pavia) / Pub “Lenz”, apr. ‘95
(LINE UP: Giulio - Drums + Vocals // Alberto - Guitar)
1-Authority? 2-0:01 3-Asti punx 4-Bore ‘91 5-September 18th 1993 - Interlude
Good sound rehearsal meant to be released on vinyl, 1993
(LINE UP:Giulio - Vocals // Alberto - Guitar // Michele - Drums)
1-Prisons 2-Radije volim 3-Far from my best friends 4-War spoils
Rehearsal 1992 before minitour in Croatia
(LINE UP: Giulio - Drums + Vocals // Alberto - Guitar)
1-Progress on dead masses 2-Too rich to live
Song with drum machine recorded somewhere in Torino, 1992
(LINE UP: Giulio - Vocals // Alberto - Guitar)
1-Miniaturized Eden
Live in Torino / “PRINZ EUGEN”, jul. ‘94
(LINE UP: Giulio - Drums + Vocals // Alberto - Guitar)
1-Useful/Useless 2-Italia di merda 3-War spoils 4-What I thought 5-Without a shadow of justice 6-Self -justice punx 7-Prisons 8-Asti punx 9-September 18th 1993 10-Authority? 11-0:01 12-Peasants 13-Bore ‘91 14-Bane 15-Asti punx 16-S.L.U.T.S - Interlude
Rehearsals 1992 in Torino
(LINE UP: Giulio - Drums // Alberto - Guitar + Vocals)
1-Stimmung (early version) 2-What I thought 3-Ragman (early version) 4-Disagreeable selections 5-What I thought - Interlude
SIDE B:
Professionally recorded rehearsal meant to be released on vinyl Aug. '94
(LINE UP: Giulio - Vocals // Alberto - Guitar // Michele - Drums)
1-Intro 2-Prospettive limitate 3-Danas je dan za lijencine 4-Sexual hysteria 5-September 18th 1993 6-Prejudices & walls 7-Milicija die!!
Live in Firenze / “C.P.A.”, feb. ‘95
(LINE UP: Giulio - Vocals // Alberto - Guitar // X-man - Drums)
1-September 18th 1993 2-Nothing on Earth 3-Self-justice punx 4-Dealing with a pressing problem 5-Italia di merda 6-Bane 7-What I thought 8-Mass media 9-Ratings 10-Images of war, images of pain 11-Padroni 12-War spoils - Interlude
Professionally recorded rehearsal, mainly Patareni/Buka covers meant to be featured on the Patareni/Buka tribute comp. CD, Aug. '93
(LINE UP: Giulio - Vocals // Alberto - Guitar // Michele - Drums)
1-Debilana 2-Najduza stvar 3-Ich gehe zur schule 4-Pastete 5-Disagreeable
selections (C.B.) - Interlude
Good sound rehearsal 1993 - Some tracks have been featured on the split 7” with W.B.I.
(LINE UP: Giulio - Vocals // Alberto - Guitar // Michele - Drums)
1-S.L.U.T.S. 2-Vital dreams 3-Frightened/Neglected 4-Without a shadow of justice - Interlude
Live in Asti / Ex-caserma, jun. ‘94. Worst C.B. gig ever!!
(LINE UP: Giulio - Vocals // Alberto - Guitar // Michele - Drums // X-man - Back voice)
1-Spero venga la guerra 2-Bane 3-Troia
Live in Thannhausen (Germany) / “JUGENDTREFF”, oct. ‘93
(LINE UP: Giulio - Drums + Vocals // Alberto - Guitar)
1-Far from my best friends 2-Useful/Useless 3-Prisons 4-War spoils - Outro
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1990...

Kirkwood's been recording for well over 20 years now. In the early 1980s, he formed the Meat Puppets with brother Cris on bass and their friend Derek Bostrom on drums. In 10 albums over about a dozen years, the "Pups" were one of the most influential underground bands. Born out of their desert home in the suburbs of Phoenix, Arizona, the Meat Puppets sound blended disparate elements of country, metal, acid rock and hardcore punk. Their lyrics, most by Curt, drew on imagery from nature and dadaist poetry fueled by cannabis and psychedelics. The brothers sang purposely in close, frequently dissonant harmonies that paid ironic homage to sibling duos that came before. It was a glorious mess, and it inspired bands from Minneapolis to Seattle that later formed the core of the grunge and indie-rock movements of the '90s and beyond. The band imploded in the face of near fame and Cris Kirkwood's heroin addiction in the late '90s. Curt moved to Austin, played in a couple of other short-lived bands, and did a little solo touring with the likes of Jerry Joseph. Momentum picked up when he reunited in Austin with Anderson, who had produced the Pups 1991 major-label debut, Forbidden Places. Snow finds Kirkwood playing mostly acoustic guitars and penning some songs that, while retaining his signature lyrical flourishes, often touch closer to the heart than most anything he's recorded before. The most radio-friendly is the opener. "Golden Lies," carrying the same title as the last Meat Puppets album (also known as Meat Puppets 2.0, since Kirkwood was the only original member), has typical Kirkwood non-sequitur lyrics like "giant spiders are heavenly spies," and a catchy chorus, "Golden swans on the desert / recite golden lies." It's all delivered in Curt's distinctive quavery light baritone over a simply strummed acoustic guitar; pedal steel and piano fills add color.
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(Thanks Spenny!)

Raw as fuck demos with throat-cancer style vocals. Totally underrated (although lauded critically) considering they stood alongside the likes of Burzum, Ildjarn, et al, playing dirty and depressive, misanthropic Black Metal.
Ravn was the side project of Rune Vedaa (who with Olav Berland have been the only consistent members of Forgotten Woods) and was formed in 93 and changed the name (ever so slightly) to Raven after these demos were released. Rumours say that Raven is now a solo band, changed their name to Mengele, and is still making music, but not recording.
(I can't remember if ive posted Forgotten Woods last long player 'Race of Cain', i know the first album 'As the Wolves Gather' is back in the archives but if not go see Attila The Hun and he'll sort you out)
Forgotten Woods s/t demo (1993)
Forgotten Woods - Through the Woods demo (1993)
Ravn - Herskere (1994)
Ravn - Arisk Makt og Ære (1995)
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Rehearsal cassette. All previously released songs except 'Curse, forget me'.
1. Without Hesitation
2. Meaningless Leaning Mess
3. Curse, Forget me
4. Circles of Hair
5. I am Only Alone
6. Pendulum
7. Will to Die
8. Undying Glare
9. Big Decisions
10. Without Hate
11. I Feel Tension
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