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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

I have to say I don’t cover the artier/experimental side of mashups and cutup culture as much as I’d like to, but here’s definitely one release to make up for that – the second volume of Motown Meltdown. I loved the first volume ever since I heard it via Vicki People Like Us’s Do or DIY show and played a Blanketship track from it a couple of years ago.

This new volume carries on the humour and ambience of the first, the idea being that you can only use tracks from the Motown Masters Karaoke discs (yes you might have wondered where those many Motown mashups come from, well they released Karaoke discs made of the actual master tracks, that’s how!) and nothing else. The resulting Vol 2. goes from insane brokenbreaks glitch of Vytear to achingly sad tracks from Blanketship, to more hypnagogic drones from Beaks Plinth and manic cutups and loops of T H E M A Y S and Lord Tang. Definitely not Motown as you’ve heard it before!

My choices? Well ‘I Still Hate You…_ Lavender Dreams’ by Blanketship is definitely recommended as well as these two:

Since I Decided to Go by Rokhausen – a manic jive through the Motortown’s back catalogue, humorous and funky and mad. My kind of track – fuck art let’s dance

Qulfus – Three Times Twice – I have several factors for why I choose the music for the blog and podcast, one of them is definitely if it makes me laugh. This is probably some kind of profane sacrilege dissing The Lionel but I love the slowed down re-edit/retake of the Commodore’s ever-green (and admittedly slightly mouldy) classic. Brilliant

If you like download the whole album here.

Despite the weird and cruel nature of the universe atm (look at my twitter or Livejournal if you need to know) I’ve been taking comfort listening to People Like Us’s Do or DIY end of show compilation ‘Awful Fun’ available over at WFMU. Some crazy collages and manic avant-retard action, my fave bit so far is Spike Jones going into Mistabishi via what I think is a V/V/M sick-music style version of Funkytown (?), and then a brief cutup about Goodman and Buchanan getting arrested (presumably over copyright LOL).

Another freebie I’m wading through atm is Ultimate! Ultimate! Ultimate! by DJ Superix which is a mix made of the 160 songs of the legendary Ultimate Breaks and Beats series…nothing to shout about numbers wise compared to say Akira the Don, and slow starting, but when it gets properly going half way through CD1 with the funky tunes you don’t know you know, it certainly has the retro ‘OMG that’s where it’s from’ and ‘OMG I remember that sampled by X’ recognition factor, as well as the classic ur-grooves that still work 20-30+ years later. Includes longer sections of great classics like JB’s Payback and Lowell Fulsom’s Tramp. One for sampling hiphopheads, definitely.

One Hundred and EEEiiiightyyyyy!!!!

Last of the Beatles Podcasts, a bumper edition concentrating on the end of the Beatles, their various followups in mashup and cover form, and John Lennon’s death.

I live near Abbey Road so I just popped out and took these pictures – the ones of the tourists recreating the famous picture (and blocking the traffic in the process) are priceless – including the one below!

Tim you went too far this time…about 2 hours 18 minutes to be exact (138 minutes – EEK! 103Mb)

• The Rutles
• 17 Plombs Pour Peter Les Tubes – Come Together
• The Exterminators – The Beetle-Bomb
• Easy Star All-Stars – With a Little Help from My Friends
• Roy Redmond – Good Day Sunshine
• Wax Audio – Blue Rigby
• Stereo MC’s – Tomorrow Never Knows
• John Peel,John Lennon, Kenny Everett, Malcolm MCdowell – Nostalgia
• Jimmi Jammes – Let A Girl Be
• George Harrison – Pirate Bob
• Keith Lynn & The S.P.M’s & Byron Lee & The Dragonaires – My Sweet Lord
• Go Home Productions – Just Be Good To Paul
• People Like Us – Let Them In
• Ringo Starr with Stevie Nicks – Lay Down Your Arms
• The RIAA Remixes DO or DIY – Lord Only Knows:
• Byron Lee & The Dragonaires – Live And Let Die
• Ferris Bueller’s Day Off – Isms
• Rainbo – John, You Went Too Far This Time
• Yoshida Brothers – Oh, My Love
• Elliott Smith – Jealous Guy
• John Lennon And Kenny Everett – Desert Island Discs
• The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band – Give Booze a Chance
• John Lennon & ATOM – John Lennon-Nobody Told Me (ATOM’s Yin & Yang Mix)
• Yoko Ono – Everyman Everywoman (Basement Jaxx Man 2 Man Mix)
• Mountain Con – Variations on Outkast, The White Strips and John Lennon
• Marianne Faithfull – Working Class Hero (live)
• Wax Audio – God
• The Beatles – John Lennon with Yoko Ono – Interview (Part 2) June 1969
• WFMU – New York, NY Radio / The Night John Lennon Died
• John Lennon with Yoko Ono – Imagine (instrumental)
• team9 vs lennon vs temptations vs morrison – imagine vs ball of confusion vs palestine woman
• rx – imagine…walk on the wild side
• The Kleptones – Imagine The End Of The World
• DJ Earlybird – John Lennon vs the Supremes ‘Baby, imagine Love!’
• Go Home Productions – Imagine The Game
• Lennon – Love (demo)
• John Lennon – Stand By Me (demo?)
• Easy Star All-Stars – A Day in the Life
• Nina Simone – Here Comes The Sun

Back with attack and a very big Mack(intosh), it’s a new Odds and Sodz show with an exclusive from Phil n’ Dog, an exclusive new mashup from me (now released over at AudioPornCentral), and loads of great tunes, in the LONGEST EVAH Radio Clash at over 2 hours…in honour of the mighty mighty WOBCast (well that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it)

What is a Cherry Chopstick anyways? (103Mb,  130Min)

• Phil n’ Dog – Bleeding Rascal (EXCLUSIVE!)
• Negativland – Richard Nixon Died Today (from Thigmotactic)
• Senor Coconut and his Orchestra – Around The World (Rumba) (from Around the World)
• People Like Us – Singin’ In The Shower (via WFMU)
• Fosforo – Desconocido (via WFMU)
• Vampire Weekend – Everywhere (Fleetwood Mac Cover)
• David Byrne and Brian Eno – Strange Overtones (from Everything That Happens Will Happen Today)
• Wally Whyton – Don’t You Push Me Down (from Fred Deakin’s Triptych)
• Joe Meek – Keep Your Sunny Side Up
• Negativland – It’s Not a Critique (from Thigmotactic)
• Senor Coconut and his Orchestra – Moscow Discow (Mambo) (from Around the World)
• Ame – Fiori
• Jonathan and Darlene Edwards – Tiptoe Through The Tulips
• Negativland – Kind Of Grumpy (from Thigmotactic)
• Instamatic – I Kissed a Monster (EXCLUSIVE!) part of Guilty Pleasures – Volume One: We All Kissed A Girl at APC
  
• Finitribe – De Testimony
• Handbook for the Recently Dead – Hell is Other People
• Chase and Status – Indian Dub aka Eastern Jam (from their Radio 1 Essential Mix)
• Braintax – Decade (from Panorama)
• Deman Rockers – Iron Lady (from Ragga Twins Step Out)
• Kid Carpet – Nelson Street Space Invaders (from Ideas And Oh Dears)
• George Michael – Cars And Trains (from Patience)
• Negativland – Basketball Plant (from Thigmotactic)
• Dusty Springfield – Am I The Same Girl
• Soko – I’ll kill her
• Finitribe – Hypnopaedia (from An Unexpected Groovy Treat)
• Air - Alone In Kyoto (from Lost in Translation)
• Finitribe – Mellowman (from An Unexpected Groovy Treat)
• Fleetwood Mac – Save Me a Place (from Tusk)