Deaf Family (????)

A short, sweet and utterly mysterious tape of melodic noise drones. The image says "QUONE" on the side with my copy apparently being 2 of 5, but the Quone label website doesn't even list it. There's also no luck on a google search since typing in "deaf family" only leads to pages upon pages of medial advice. Now that I think about it, this is one I'd actually like some more answers on.

can you solve the mystery?

Live Disasters (2001?)

Excellent mashup of live shenanigans. Sonic Disorder dishes out plastered noise weirdness while Joe Milktoast cocks out with their rock out for the final time. I should really pay closer attention to these guys. Whatever, my loss is your gain. I can only assume this tape is from 2001 at the earliest. Smell The Stench's deleted releases page confirms it exists but doesn't give a release date. Discogs brings up nothing.

from music to horrendous drunken chaos

Jungle Talk (1993)

Easily the worst of these kinds of albums I've ever heard. You know the ones: they sit on kiosks at retail joints or giftshops, playing snippets of waterfalls and bird calls alongside modernized sing-a-longs and rehashed celtic music. Now try sitting through an hour of this shit: you'll especially love listening to the two tracks that sound nearly identical while reading fine print on the inside cover to pass the time. The thing that disturbs me is, why the hell did they include a track called "Turkey Talk"on a freakin' jungle-themed album? Download only if you need an endurance test.

*gobble gobble gobble*

Also, a quick shout out to Confederacy of the Wrong

There's some cool shit there: check it out.

found sound (????)

Nothing much to say here, it's just a found tape of answering machine noises.

enjoy.

DSP (1997) & Kaotic Intentionz (1998)

When I started this blog, I did so with the intent to dig out more information about a few items in my collection that I had no clue about. Now that I'm older I'm content to let such irrelevant factoids slip into obscurity, though this one was a prime example of something I needed to know more about (note the past tense).

From what I can gather, DSP was a rap duo from Madison, WI. They were tightly affiliated with another group called Kaotic Intentionz who had a slightly darker style. I think I exaggerated the tough charm these tapes had when I bought them because I was starved for some good horrorcore. Looking at it now, the instrumentals are annoyingly glitzy and it's clear these guys only wanted enough edge to get street cred while not destroying their chances for mainstream success (spoiler alert: it didn't work).

The reason I'm not saying much about the tapes themselves (other than I can't find them on discogs) is most of the tracks were later put in a "best-of" compilation that I have no real interest in right now. There's a few tracks missing, some new ones and some slightly retitled, though I can't recall any standouts from the tapes other than KI's "Cranium Cracker," which is on the CD anyways. I'd still recommend a listen, if only you are indeed starved for good, let alone anything resembling, horrorcore.

some elevated flava going on right here

what the fuck will you do when kaaay-otic's right beside you?

I Wrote Haikus About Cannibalism In Your Yearbook (200?-2010)

I Wrote Haikus About Cannibalism In Your Yearbook was a screamo band from Antioch California. There was a "discography" LP released by Discos Huelga in 2010 but they were active much earlier. I put "discography" in quotations because when I think "discography," I think of a complete discography, and a complete discography this is not. The band released an 8-song demo sometime in the 2000's with completely different material, only some of which was later reworked into songs on the LP. Personally disappointing to me is the absence of the last track on the 8-song demo on the LP, in it's place a never before heard, lo-fi digital recording of a totally different track. Exacerbating the confusion is the track order: all of IWHACIYY's songs were untitled, referred to by their order on a given album (i.e. untitled 1, untitled 2, etc.) so "untitled #" on the 8-song demo could be completely different from "untitled #" on the LP.

This download is sort of a more complete discography. It includes a tape rip of the LP and the 8-song demo in the same form as I acquired it, from some random blogspot however man years ago. I also included two mp3s I received in an email that appear to be better rips of tracks from the LP, though who knows. This was the era when MySpace was still relevant: shit got lost and misnamed all the time. In a way, it was sort of more mysterious and wonderful that way. I won't go back to ripping low bitrate mp3s with old and probably illegal websites from equally outdated embedded players or anything like that, just sayin'.

these are my hands and through them my soul translates into melodies. i use to touch your face and hair and now all i can feel is metal and wood

The Adventures of Super Pac-Man (1983)

This was one of many "talking story books" put out by Kid Stuff in the 80's. The record came with an actual story book to read along to which also doubled as a coloring book; I acquired it god knows when during my video game collector days and luckily my copy was free of crayon marks or ancient booger stains. This one is pretty bad. I feel like even the target audience would be insulted: the fact they had to invent a character named, I shit you not, "bad weather man" just for this story says all that needs to be. I included scans of all the pages--you're welcome--as well as disc and cover scans. The audio quality is a bit rough though it should be sufficient. I'd say dig out your foot pajamas and grab a box of fruit loops for this one, but getting nostalgic for fucking Super Pac-Man might be a bit desperate. Then again, I wasn't even alive in the 80's so whatever floats your boat I guess.

when you hear the energizer sound, turn the page

Remain-Anon (1986)

As far as I can tell, Remain-Anon was a pop rock band... and that's pretty much all I could find. Nothing comes up on the web and on the tape there's a phone number for some lady who's probably dead now. In terms of style, I'm reminded of bands like Boston or Chicago though there's probably better examples out there. I can imagine the band members standing on a rock for a publicity photo hung on the wall of a dingy basement somewhere, all wearing denim jackets and sporting terribly aged porn 'staches. Nothing here will blow your mind, but it is kind of entertaining for what it is. I'm not sure if this is a single or a demo, or a copy of a demo given the nature of the tape, though this is largely irrelevant. Remain-Anon were understandably forgotten by time; none of those scenarios would surprise me, and evidently the band itself didn't surprise anyone either.

EDIT (10/8/14): I know track 2 is glitched, I'll check my files later but I no longer own the tape, so if that one turns out to be fucked up, then there's nothing I can do.

never gonna rock away from you