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Yes after 4 years in the wilderness, the Aural pOddities show is BACK! Aren’t you lucky…after the last very POP show this is as unpop as it gets, including the mad, bad, sad, and just plain irritating avant-retard latest in car-crash audio.

You’ll feel like you’ve been in an audio trainwreck and will rush to your Kylie CDs for relief after this, but it’s worth reminding yourselves there’s a strange world out there, and people make and made music and audio like this…and the stranger sadistic thing, I really enjoy it all

Note: not all tracks used in this are ‘unlistenable’ nor ‘crap’ – but they are mixed with a specially developed ‘Unbeliev-a-bull-crap-o-sonic’ technique so terribly with other tracks to make them so. So no offence intended – the most crap thing here is me after all

With thanks (blame?) to WFMU’s Beware of the Blog, 365 Days Project, Hotrod’s Run for Cover, Cool and Strange Music Magazine , Lux and Ivy’s Favorites and many more.

Play LOUD to all your enemies (141Mins, 129Mb)

Tacklist:

• I Cut People – optimistdroppings

Kids and Religion Don’t Mix

• Jim & Tammy & Their Friends – Oops! There Comes a Smile
• Aunt Bertha Presents Singtime with Tiny Tot Calvin – A Cowboy For Jesus
• I Cut People – delete jesus
• Bill Carter – Baby Brother
• The Holiday City Hotcha Kitchen Band – Welcome From Holiday City
• Rick McNamara – Are You Hung Up?

Sex in the Shitty

• Byrd E. Bath – Old Fashioned Balls
• FAX Records Special Erotica Series #5 – Nights of Love In Lesbos: Side 1
• Les Baxter – Lust
• The Four Skins – It’s Beginning To Look a Lot Like Syphilis
• Cyrus Sullivan – Sex Worker
• Peter Gault & Amy Rachelle – Cosmic Vagina
• Edith Massey – Big Girls Don’t Cry

Invert Advertorial Interval

• Soul :60
• Cassetteboy – Crapboasts
• I Cut People – A Few Good Product Placements

Food Fight!

• Shakin Jake Woods – Fat Bacon
• Peter Gault & Amy Rachelle – Constipation
• Roger Roger – Sound Industrial 15
• GITAR – His Holy Exalted Donut
• The Readymen – Shortnin Bread
• Johnny Parker – tv commercial
• Peter L. Batsin – How To Make a Tape Recorder
• Helen & Dick Bouchard – At The End Of The Rainbow Is Tweekertown
• Yosemitebear Mountain Giant Double Rainbow
• Helen & Dick Bouchard – Nobody Wears A Frown In Tweekertown

By God It’s Foreign Gibberish!

• bosstones – mope-itty moope
• Unknown – Yoodling
• Charlie Drake – I’ve Lost The End Of My Yodel
• Sheena Scott – Yodelay
• The Credibility Gap – Foreign Novelty Smash
• Mala Fe – Beat It
• Gianko y su Sonido La Limpia – A Heart Alone (chichin!)
• Antonio Eugenio Martinez – Volver Volver
• Leonard Simmons – Somewhere My Love
• Mr. Miller and The Blue Notes – Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter
• Mme St. Onge – Prends-moi (Try Me)
• Graveworm – Holding Out for a Hero (Bonnie Tyler)
• Spike Jones – The Jones Laughing Record

Animals Never Work

• Wevie Stonder – Gypsy Chimp
• Virginia Belmont – Billie – Dick – Duke (Canary Solos)
• Nino Nardini – Waltzing Birds
• Pancho the Parrot Sings! – I Left My Heart In San Francisco
• Forbidden Five – Enchanted Farm
• The Tape-beatles – /o/ for frog
• Vampires’ Sound Incorporation – The Lions and the Cucumber
• Eddie Osbourne – Kitten On The Keys
• Nino Nardini – Doggie Boogie
• The Seven Stooges – I Wanna Be Your Dog

Deaf and Violence

• Frank Perry and the Big Action Sound – I Can Fly
• EXEDEXEX – not didgeridoo fight ???
• Sound 8 – Music For Children’s Activities
• John Oswald – z
• GITAR – no-gitar
• The Tape-beatles – …of rebellion
• Groove Da Praia – Used To Love Her (Guns N Roses)
• Bernard Cribbins – The Hole In The Ground
• dicky doo & the don’ts – flip top box
• John Oswald – case of death [part one. chapters 1-16]
• The Frantics – Werewolf
• GITAR – la_getaway
• Embers – I walked all night
• Naomi Hall – Bride of the Monster
• John Oswald – case of death [part two. chapters 1-9]
• Katie Lee – Repressed Hostility Blues
• Erika Eigen – I Wanna Marry A Light House Keeper
• Topmost – The End

Like some cross-dressing mashup of Minty meets The Presets via Front242 and Depeche Mode (and a faint whiff of Jonny Slut’s band Atomizer or is that just me?) San Francisco’s Ejector are not only rubbered up and bear-friendly (and probably NSFW in this video, but whose work doesnt like greased up wrestlers and techno bears dancing in rubber?) but they seem to be creating an interesting mix of influences here…from the EBN/Cabs early 80′s cutup/terror style video to the style and music. Other tunes are a bit more camp and in your face Bowery style, or just pop – but I prefer the darker EBM sound of this one.

And to keep it on the track of mashups – just to show you the Depeche Mode influences (they also covered Photographic) bandmember Ricky Terry’s tune Deep is mashed here with Everything Counts, neatly colliding with my own current Depeche Mode mashup obsession

Original CC image by Lord Jim, design by Tim Baker Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 2.0 UK

Whew what HASN’T happened since the last show? New US President -and he’s black. New back pains and colds for Tim – and he’s ill. Yes we can, and No to H8, but not during happy hour or eating your Credit Crunch cereal (you know the one that turns the milk red). A new hope, Episode III, ‘I have a good feeling about this’, but first where’s my money?

This is a dance we do down Johannesburg way (93Mb, 111mins)

Tracklist:

• Miriam Makeba – Pata Pata
• Fosforo – Cumbia De Obama
• San Francisco Mime Troupe – Because you’re Stupid
• Incredible Bongo Band – Bongo 73
• Nan Vasconcelos – Brasil (Luciano Re-Edit)
• Nina Simone – Sinnerman (Felix Remix)
• Fifth Dimension – Let The Sunshine (Solly Bmore Edit)
• Kanye West – Love Lockdown (Solly Remix)
• AC Slater – Poison
• ZZT – Lower State Of Consciousness (Justice remix)
• AC Slater – Jack Got Jacked (Jack Beats Remix)
• DJ Donna Summer – Hoovermore
• Faex – What Poetry
• Ground Shelter (fear)
• The Chambers Brothers – Funky
• Mercury Rev – Senses On Fire (Fujiya & Miyagi Remix)
• Chase & Status – Against All Odds (Ft Kano)
• Chase & Status – Take Me Away
• London Elektricity – This Dark Matter
• Chase & Status – Is It Worth It
• London Elektricity – Outnumbered
• Eric B. and Rakim – Don’t Sweat The Technique
• The Moog Synthesizer with The Camarata Contemporary Chamber Orchestra – Sports et Divertissements – Le Flirt
• Tom Wilson – Lesbian_Seagull
• Gnarls Barkley – Who’s Gonna Save My Soul (Demo Version)
• Rah Band – Is anybody there
• Fleetwood Mac – Silver Springs (Rough & Outtakes)

This is a little dedication going out to those who voted for Prop 8, 2 or 102 in various states. Or those moaning that they don’t like Obama (don’t get me wrong, I do…I wish he was better in a few places but certainly much better than Grumpy McSame) or didn’t vote at all, and are now kvetching about it being the same old same old.

And especially those who think that civil rights are all separate, they won’t fight for yours cos of self-interest or religion and don’t believe that unity and a common front and acceptance of others than them is worth fighting for.

Because You’re Stupid (by the San Francisco Mime Troupe)

Last Thursday we did a special themed gig at the Parkade in Second Life around the music of the Pet Shop Boys. I DJ’d first for 2 hours, then Amanda Shinji aka Ms Cyberpink DJ’d for 2 hours – you can hear her mix here. My set included a real mixture of originals, covers, remixes, mashups, collaborations and even the odd spoof

In this mix I included To Speak is a Sin, one of my coming out songs, as it is as I correctly guessed before Mr Tennant’s coming out, about a gay bar – takes me back to those times!

C.L.I.C.K.I.N.G. we’re clicking (108Mb, 128mins)

Setlist

• Pet Shop Boys – We’re the Pet Shop Boys
• Pet Shop Boys – Love Comes Quickly (Automatic Drum Beat Mix)
• DJ Magnet – Love Comes Running Up That Hill Quickly
• Pet Shop Boys – You Know Where You Went Wrong
• Pet Shop Boys – Two Divided by Zero
• Xam – West End Jump
• Flight Of The Conchords.- Inner City Pressure
• Junobot – What Have I Done To Deserve This
• Pet Shop Boys – Paninaro ’95
• Electronic – Disappointed
• judgedreadfull – don’t drop the washing up
• Yoko Ono – Walking On Thin Ice (Pet Shop Boys Electro Mix)
• Pet Shop Boys – It’s A Sin (DreamTime Mix v2.0)
• Pet Shop Boys – Left To My Own Devices
• Pet Shop Boys – In Private (7″ mix)
• Pet Shop Boys – Sodom (Trentmoller remix)
• Pet Shop Boys – Psychological (alter ego remix)
• Pet Shop Boys – Yesterday, When I Was Mad
• 10000 Spoons – Polyminimal-C
• Pet Shop Boys – Shopping
• Carter USM – Rent (Pet Shop Boys)
• Pet Shop Boys – We All Feel Better In the Dark
• Pet Shop Boys – I Want A Dog
• KLF vs PSB – So Hard
• Pet Shop Boys – DJ Culture
• Pet Shop Boys – How I Learned To Hate Rock ‘n’ Roll
• Pet Shop Boys – Party Song
• Pet Shop Boys – A Red Letter Day
• Pet Shop Boys – Go West
• Pet Shop Boys – To Speak Is A Sin
• Pet Shop Boys – Tall Thin Men (Demo)

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