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Looking for Weird Music

Sirhan Sirhan Solo

07:03 / 14.12.02

I'm looking to find some interesting new music to check out, in the same vein as John Zorn, Raymond Scott, Flying Luttenbachers...whatever you can come up with. Essentially, I'm looking for the perfect soundtrack to a bad drug trip.

rizla mission

14:33 / 15.12.02

For music that completely fails to fit into any musical genre whatsover, try..

Bablicon.

I've got a 7" by them and it brilliant, and sounds absolutely nothing like anything else ever..

Seth

14:45 / 15.12.02

I'd love to be able to help you, but no music sounds weird to me any more. I did go through a phase of wanting to listen to music that I found challenging, as a reaction to being in the crappy pop group I was a part of (don't ask).

Not that I think pop is crap. Far from it.

Where was I going with this? Ah, yeah - I guess I listen to a lot of music that other people have found weird, but it just sounds right to me. So it's kinda hard for me to make recommendations without you being more specific.

Although if you're into Zorn you could do with checking out Ruin's Mandala 2000 on his Tzadik label. It seems like the blueprint for Mr. Bungle, only much, much better.

spidervirus

14:54 / 15.12.02

meat beat manifesto's subliminal sandwich. not so much that it is a "weird ambum" musically, but you can basically listen to both cd's 1 & 2 and have a strange feeling when you are done. i've never done drugs listening to it, but i played it at a party where there were people using all sorts of hallucinogens and they ended up leaving the party very early...
the optigons song "poodle man" which i heard one night on a local station is about a man who breaks into houses and gives his victims mullets. if that song is any inclination towards their body of work you should check out their album.

No star here laces

08:05 / 16.12.02

I may get laughed off the board for this, but the other day I was down at the British Library and listening to the "UK number ones" Jukebox they have set up.

And fuck me if Lonnie Donegan - "Cumberland Gap" isn't one of the most insane things ever committed to vinyl. I listened to it about five times over I was so entranced. 2 minutes of unintelligible gibberish and raucous breakneck music. Sheer brilliance.

illmatic

08:31 / 16.12.02

Exp: Were you in a boy band?

Weird music - anything by Nurse With Wound.

Rollo Kim, on location

10:18 / 16.12.02

Wonderful tape / sample madness:
http://www.peoplelikeus.org/dnload.htm

ugly, secular grooves:
http://www.labcentral.org.uk/tar/products/TAR027.html

silly, experimental, offworld, surreal:
http://www.schvtrn.river7.net/

Surreal, subversive, stoopid, plunderphonical:
http://www.negativland.com/

10:22 / 16.12.02

Nothing sounds more like a bad drug trip than Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paradiso UFO's Electric Heavyland. Come on, even the name sounds like a bad trip

Imagine Henrix's psychedelic freakout sessions, turned up to stupidly distorted levels and played by Japanese noiseniks with no sense of rhythm.

No star here laces

12:32 / 16.12.02

Ooh, I can also heartily recommend the work of DJ /rupture.

A word of warning, this is not weird music in the conventional sense. It's weird music in the sense that it recontextualises familiar tunes, sounds and tropes in a way that turns a lot of the way you see music on its head. In a more descriptive sense, if you imagine that Soulwax did their "too many DJs" thing but used gabba, breaks, glitch and ragga dancehall as the basic building blocks instead of pop, you'd be in the right territory.

His first mix, "Gold teeth thief" is available for download online. The second, "Minesweeper Suite" is in a shop near you, on Kid 606's Tigerbeat6 label.

13:20 / 16.12.02

And don't forget Kid606 too... The Action Packed Mentalist Brings You The Fucking Jams has one particularly stand out track, sticking the body of Get Your Freak On onto the legs of a gabba monster, and letting it run through fields of Eminem, ragga shouting and eighties popsters Aha.

illmatic

13:46 / 16.12.02

Btw, does anyone know the name of a Nurse With Wound track/LP with a sample (possibly from Eraserhead?) of a female voice on it saying "I'm locked out of my apartment" - used to have this on tape but it went walkies a while back. Absolutely amazing, terrifying music.

Matthew Fluxington

15:33 / 16.12.02

It sounds like the Sun City Girls and the Animal Collective (Avey Tare, Panda Bear, The Geologist, etc) might be what you're looking for. I'd look up the Danse Manatee album by Avey Tare, Panda Bear, and The Geologist; and Torch of the Mystics by the Sun City Girls.

I'd imagine that a lot 70s 'krautrock' would be satisfying for you too, stuff like Can's Ege Bamyasi, Faust's IV, and anything by Amon Duul 2 or early Tangerine Dream.

Locust No longer

19:46 / 16.12.02

Check out www.Drimala.com for a great mailorder of weird music. It has a lot of free jazz, and improvised music, with all of the Erstwhile records catalogue which is awesome stuff. Otherwise it's always worthwhile to check out: Axel Dorner (avant garde trumpet player), Saturnalia (a bizarre music collective), PSF records from Japan, FMP records from Germany, and the Atavistic Unheard Music Label. Oh, and the Starfuckers from Italy.

The Return Of Rothkoid

00:26 / 17.12.02

Danse Manatee review.

rizla mission

08:47 / 17.12.02

And fuck me if Lonnie Donegan - "Cumberland Gap" isn't one of the most insane things ever committed to vinyl. I listened to it about five times over I was so entranced. 2 minutes of unintelligible gibberish and raucous breakneck music. Sheer brilliance.

Yes! Double yes in fact. Maybe I've just been brainwashed by John Peel, but Lonnie Donnegan just sounds insanely good..

Very much enjoyed DJ Rupture's set on the radio a few months ago too.. top stuff, although I missed the last bit of it..

Another wierd music rec: Although they're enjoying a fairly high profile at the moment, If you've not heard any before, some of that Anticon / cLOUDEAD type stuff is exceptionally strange..

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