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NoFest 2013!

NoFest!

NoFest!

NoFest 2013!

The 6th Annual NoFest in Historic St. John’s is August 10th, and BlasphuphmusRadio.com is exited to announce that they will be recording live, in front of an audience for this event.  Be a part of the show!  Witness as we put on our broadcast with discerning listeners in the audience!  See a rare, audio-only spectacle from the comfort of your favorite neighborhood block party.

For this presentation, BlasphuphmusRadio.com will be scored live by none other than The Black Noise Orchestra.  Providing live improvised soundscapes, The Black Noise Orchestra will accompany an audio theater presentation of Journey Into Space: Operation Luna Part 1.  This is a rare opportunity to see radio performed live in front of an audience, among the other incredible guests a part of the 6th Annual NoFest.

August 10th, 2013: The 6th Annual No Fest & BlasphuphmusRadio.com.  A match made in NoPo.  With a rare, public appearance by The Black Noise Orchestra.

We Now Live In The Future… on BlasphuphmusRadio.com.

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Miniature Show Update Alert Alert Alert! (#2)

Man... Or Astro-Man?

Man… Or Astro-Man?

Miniature Show Update Alert Alert Alert! (#2)
(Featuring a quick rundown of recent stuff I’ve seen / done.)

In a new-ish segment to our program, I decided to rundown the rocktacular weekend of amazing music that I got to experience.  Up first: the 17th of May at The Doug Fir, with none other than the incredible Man… Or Astro-Man?   Their show was incredible, and lived up to the quality of performance that they delivered two years ago, when they also dropped by Portland for a sort of “best-of” performance.  This time, they have new material, a new guitar player, and new releases!  This mini-show contains three tracks from their new 7″s releases by Chunklet Industries, that I picked up at the show.  Enjoy!

I also go on to plug the marathon day of radio on the 18th of May, where I appeared in seven out of 8 hours of radio on KPSU.  In that span of time, I managed to cover Ricardo Wang’s What’s This Called?, delivering a two-part audio essay, and ran sound for three bands: Gaytheist, Sweat Lodge & No Bone.  In that time, I got to hang with Tunacan Jones, Jonathon Boober, and Miss Rikki Lee.  During that time, I got to include a number od DJ selections, and ran sound for all the bands.  It was a pretty crazy day, and I had a great time.  Links and posts are forthcoming, but in the meantime I wanted to blab about it, so here you go.

I also close the show with a little solo jam, just me and my pedal.

Short and to the point.  Just like some radio should be.

Enjoy!

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The Night Shift (Episode 015)

The Night Shift

The Night Shift

The Night Shift (Episode 015)

While my mark is probably the smallest on this hour of broadcasting, I was fortunate enough to be there while Miss Rikki busted out an incredible hour of goth rock in this knock-down, drag out version of a show she normally co-hosts with DJ Sabby Tabby.  The Night Shift helps fill the void that is the lack of goth and goth-related things on the radio, and not a moment too soon, I might add.

For this episode, I managed to get a few things that I picked into the rotation, but really, this is a Miss Rikki show, if I ever heard one.  I was quite happy to be a part of it, and very happy to get things sorted for the bands that appear in the hours proceeding it.  As someone who loves to Rock Out With Your Goth Out from time to time, this is the kind of show that is sorely needed.

And now you can hear it.  Enjoy!

Episode 15

01.) Song With No Name * Deadboy & The Elephantmen
02.) Corpse in My Bed * Creature Feature
03.) I Spit Roses * Peter Murphy
04.) I’m Trapped In A Sewer With A Confessed Arsonist!
05.) Closure * Opeth
06.) Monitor * Siouxsie & the Banshees
07.) Tokyo, la Nuit * Lescop
08.) Man With The X-Ray Eyes * Bauhaus
09.) Turn It Off * Drive Like Jehu
10.) Help Me Kill Myself * Digital Leather
11.) Hungry Hand * Scarring Party

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Three Sided Record

Side π Is My Favorite

Side π Is My Favorite

Three Sided Record: “Jonathon Boober” b/w “Austin Rich” b/w “Miss Rikki”
(Featuring a two-hour block of solid DJing, by three complimentary curators of taste.)

The love don’t stop on this eight-hour extravaganza of incredible music happiness, and covering for the Whitechapel Circus this week, we presented three unique blocks of radio that completely capture our own unique personalities as DJs.  For radio nerds, this is an interesting opportunity to see these two hours develop as we transition from one to the other.  All three of have parallel – yet singular – visions of radio and music (and how they combine), and while it is easy enough to tell where one ends and the other begins, as a whole there is a cohesion that is compelling, and really fuckin’ rocks, too.

Kicking things off, Jonathon Boober launches into some of his favorite tunes that have been treating him right in recent months.  His old program, Hogwash Hodgepodge & Musical Detritus, was an incredible show that was well worth your time, and I regularly lament that it is no longer a part of the KPSU line-up.  However, you should check out his TV Show, Please Remain Seated, featuring cutting edge talk, music, art, & performance.  His selections in music are incredible, and any time he is on the decks, you should listen.

Toward the middle of the first hour, he and I start trading off selections in the tradition of great DJ Battles of the past.  This leads into a miniature solo-set, kicking off the top of hour two.  This set gets a little strange, admittedly, but is a good companion piece to the 12 Noon hour from earlier in the day.  I’m quite pleased with the results, and hopefully you’ll enjoy it too.  It’s an experimental Firesign / Folkways mash-up?  Maybe?

Then, toward the second half of the second hour, Miss Rikki jumps in to finish things off, while I start setting up the next two bands who will appear on Closet Radio.  While hosting two programs herself – both of which follow their own complex and thorny paths through goth and punk rock – her interests are quite varied and impressive, and I usually find a few gems I have never heard, coupled with a few moldy oldies that I haven’t heard in ages.

What makes this show interesting (to me) is that we are really just making it up as we go.  None of us had discussed what we were gonna do, and it really develops by the seat of our pants.  This is a kind of radio that is rarely done: whatever your inspiration is at the moment, run with it.  While it’s not for everyone, it is definitely my cup of tea.

Setlist to come.  In the meantime: enjoy!

Three Sided Record

Jonathon Boober
01.) I Hate You * The Monks * Black Monk Time
02.) Some Fool’s Mess * Gallon Drunk
03.) Station To Station * Melvins * Everybody Loves Sausages
04.) Heart Attack & Vine * Nels Cline & Lydia Lunch * New Coat Of Paint: The Songs of Tom Waits
05.) Can’t Stay Long * Ultravox * Systems of Romance

Jonathon Boober & Austin Rich
06.) Pocket Calculator * Kraftwerk * Computer World
07.) Showroom Dummies * Senor Coconut * El Baile Aleman
08.) Golden Hours * Brian Eno * Another Green World
09.) Wooly Bully * Eddie & The Hot Rods
10.) Then She Remembers * The Dream Syndicate * The Days of Wine And Roses
11.) Wild Thing * The Creatures
12.) Blue Cowboy * Greg Sage * Straight Ahead

Sounds of Insects by Austin Rich
13.) Your Empathy [Excerpt] * Greg Sage * Straight Ahead
14.) Suburban Sounds (Crickets and temperature; Crickets chirp at slow speeds) * A.T. Gaul * Sounds of Insects * Folkways Records
15.) Black Sea * Fennesz * Black Sea
16.) Insect Flight (Inside a hornet; pre-flight warm-up; fatigue experiment) * A.T. Gaul * Sounds of Insects * Folkways Records
17.) Perfume For Winter * Fennesz * Black Sea
18.) Insect Flight (Wing-beat vs. load; flight-light experiment; in a hornet nest)
19.) Grey Scale * Fennesz * Black Sea

Godotterdämmerung by Austin Rich
20.) Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him * The Firesign Theater * The Firesign Theater Presents “Waiting For the Electrician or Someone Like Him”
21.) Moving * Rust Ionics * Moving / Pictures LP

Miss Rikki
22.) Persistence of Vision * RPM Orchestra
23.) Prisoner of Love* Ace Cannon * The Moanin’ Sax of Ace Cannon
24.) Alice Wading * Dirty Three
25.) Behind The House * Neko Case
26.) Mother of Earth * DM Bob & The Deficits
27.) She’s Not There * Vanilla Fudge
28.) Fall Apart * Starlings

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Gaytheist, LIVE!

Gaytheist

Gaytheist

Gaytheist, LIVE!
(Featuring a Live Performance by local boys Gaytheist, hosted by Jonathon Boober, engineered by myself, including a short interview near the end, as they promote their new record Hold Me… But Not So Tight, out now on Good To Die Records.)

Holy Crap!  Gaytheist!  And I got to record them!  If you don’t already know them, then the metal fan inside of you is frowning furiously, sad that you would deprive him of such excellent music.  I’ve been a fan of these guys since my friend, The Judge, took me to see them at Rontoms.  They so completely blew me away, that I actually went and saw them again – later that same day! – at The People’s Sandwich Shop.  While there are a number of reference points that are completely up my ally, their sound is unique, their style is impeccable, and their songs are miniature metal narratives, complete in the form, and brilliant in their execution.

I’ve been grooving on their new record, Hold Me… But Not So Tight, which comes out on Tuesday, but you can hear them play live selections from it, and a number of their other excellent tunes, in this performance, hosted by Jonathon Boober.  As we attempt to recreate the magic we had during our infamous RABBITS show from way-back-when, we also get a chance to hang out with some stand-up gents. If you like what you hear, then you should check out their series of album release shows, starting with a performance of 22 May 2013 at The White Owl Social Club.  Boober did a fantastic job of holding down the show, and I was really excited to be able to run sound for these guys.  A video of their performance is also forthcoming.

Stay tuned, as this was just a fraction of the radio we did yesterday.  Enjoy!

Gaytheist, LIVE!

01.) Live Performance Part I * Gaytheist * 18 May 2013

Part I

Part I

02.) Rebellious Jukebox * The Fall * Live At The Witch Trials

03.) Live Performance Part II * Gaytheist * 18 May 2013

Part II

Part II

04.) Requiem * Killing Joke * Requiem

05.) Interview * Gaytheist, Jonathon Boober & Austin Rich * 18 May 2013

06.) Secret Island * The Swell Maps * Jane From Occupied Europe

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The Strange Doctor Weird!

The Strange Doctor Weird!

The Strange Doctor Weird!

How’s It Named?: The Strange Doctor Weird!
(Featuring a live, solo performance on KPSU, where I present two short narratives based around the ’40′s radio seriel, The Strange Doctor Weird, as special coverage for Ricardo Wang.)

Covering for Ricardo Wang, I storm the KPSU studios for an audio essay centering around two selections from The Strange Doctor Weird, a radio program from the 1940′s featuring the voice of Maurice Tarplin as the titular character, written by Robert A. Arthur and directed by Jock McGregor.  The program is, in many ways, a sequel to The Mysterious Traveler, a program from which many of the Doctor Weird stories were culled from.  These versions, told in 15 minute segments, appeared on a number of stations as material that could easily fill out an hour or programming, and was most well known as being sponsored by Adam Hats, who could afford their own radio program in those days.

Accompanying these stories is a live performance by me, as I mix and apply effects to sounds made in the studio, as well as the sounds of recorded music by The Black Noise Orchestra and Yellow Crystal Star.  This performance, in many ways, is in preparation for my NoFest appearance coming in August.  I’m really excited about this show, and I need the practice.  So consider this show a “practice” session for that show.

During this show, Tunacan Jones was lurking around in the studio, and he helped influence the direction of this audio essay.  It’s also Part I of a multi-part radio appearance, which is slowly making it’s way to the podcast-o-sphere.  But until then, this humble beginning is available.

Enjoy.

The Strange Doctor Weird!

Part I: Journey Into The Unknown
01.) Excerpt * The Black Noise Orchestra * 20 September 2006
02.) Journey Into The Unknown * The Strange Doctor Weird! * 21 November 1944
03.) Nine Thousand And Second Amaranth Shower [Excerpt] * Yellow Crystal Star * Rainbow Bridge To Nonlocality: Myriad Forms of You

Part II: The Man Who Knew Everything
04.) Excerpt * The Black Noise Orchestra * 27 December 2006
05.) The Man Who Knew Everything * The Strange Doctor Weird! * 20 March 1945
06.) Up Under: Triumph, The Mask Melted Away To Reveal The Way * Yellow Crystal Star * Rainbow Bridge To Nonlocality: Myriad Forms of You

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The Restoration

Cleansing Fire

Cleansing Fire

The Restoration
(Featuring a selection of new-ish things that I’m really grooving on these days, coupled with some old-fashioned audio-essay collages.)

With all that has been happening here in the Lava Lamp Lounge (as part of our 15th Anniversary), there has been little time to produce an old-fashioned radio show, the kind the OG Blasphuphmites used to make in olden times.  (Somewhere around 1991.)  But I promise, we have been brewing up some cool things for you, and this will continue over the summer, as fun stuff that is only in the theoretical stages at this point begin to solidify.  In the meantime, I decided to turn down the lights, put on the headphones, and kick out the jams, motherfuckers.

Consisting mostly of new-ish-er stuff that I’ve been grooving on lately, this show is in three parts.  “Ham On Rye” consisted of a collage I threw together, to feature some experimental artists I’ve been getting off on lately.  It had been a while since I did a “smaller” collage like this, and I really had a good time with it.  Hopefully, you’re down as well.  Part II is definately a more “punk” set, and I was really stoked to feature all of these bands, most of which have been on the show, will be on the show, or are friends of the show.  There’s also a mini-collage during the Sweat Lodge track, which I’m rather fond of.  Part III is where I get a little political, but also just throw some Russian Satanic Metal.  Ya know, for fun.

There are so many cool things happening in the next few months, I hardly have time to mention them all.  Don’t forget to pick up a copy of Lost In The Supermarket, our digital compilation that we released at the Blas-Travaganza.  Speaking of: there are some cool things being developed from the media we captured that weekend.  Our next scheduled live broadcast will be happening from NoFest 6 in August, so mark the date, and DO NOT forget to tune in the Saturday, starting at Noon at going until 8 PM, where myself, Johnathon Boober (of Please Remain Seated) and Miss Rikki will be hosting Gaytheist, Sweat Lodge, and No Bone, in addition to a number of DJ sets and other madness.  It will rule, and you will love it.

I’m really proud of this show, so I will now let it speak for itself.

Enjoy!

The Restoration

Part I: Ham On Rye
01.) Second Time Around * Blue Cheer * Vincebus Eruptum
02.) The Uncomfortable Comfortable * Overdose The Katatonic * Absolute Insult
03.) From Ham On Rye (1982) * Charles Bukowski * Uncensored: From The Run With The Hunted Session
04.) Part Four * Death Pact Jass Ensemble * Absolute Insult
05.) Moth To A Flame [Excerpt] * Holy Filament * Year One
06.) Plague of Madness * Moth Hunter * Dust

Part II: Uncool
07.) And Giraffe, Natural Enemies [Excerpt] * OXES * OXES
08.) The Restoration * Gaytheist * Hold Me… But Not So Tight
09.) Protest Protest * /root_DIR * /root_DIR
10.) Weed: It’s Just Like Jesus But Better Because It’s Real * The Thrash-Key Kids * Free Abortions
11.) Circus * Sweat Lodge * Cassette Demo
12.) Uncool * Del Close & John Brent * How to Speak Hip

Part III: Don’t Play With Guns
13.) Autumn Set [Excerpt] * The Black Noise Orchestra * Autumn Set
14.) Interview Excerpts * Ted Nugent & Piers Morgan * 5 February 2013
15.) Don’t Play With Guns * The Black Angels * Indigo Meadow
16.) Люцифер (Lucifer) * Коррозия Металла * Орден Сатаны (Order of Satan)
17.) Side Effects of Being Tired * Unwound * Live In London 12″

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Now Available: Lost In The Supermarket!

Lost In The Supermarket

Lost In The Supermarket

Lost In The Supermarket!

Has that itch to hear something new been scratched?  Do your playlists include Ramones, Merzbow, Screamers, GWAR, & Game Theory?  Are you looking for a reason to tilt your head toward the stereo and say, “Fuck yeah!”  Then look no further.  You are ready to get Lost In The Supermarket.

This collection of 20 artists comes to you from friends of Blasphuphmus Radio.com.  What unites these artists are our unique perspective on a world defined by the economics of the 21st Century.  The collection is an free-association audio essay through the minds and malls of the world we live in.  It also happens to feature a number of incredible artists, like:

The Nervous, The Miss, Josh Jones, The Dead Air Fresheners, Nil Admirari, Moth Hunter, /root_DIR, Honey Vizer, The Immortal Guyve, Sailboats, Pez Abacus, JJCnV, Toggy & The Hogwylds, Dry Cleaners, Ryan Ray, Paco Jones, Library of Congress, Iarvles, The Graves of Gehenna, and Delusions of Parasitosis.

Lost In The Supermarket.  Available at blasphuphmusradio.bandcamp.com.  The first compilation from Blasphuphmus Radio.  Stream the tracks now, and decide for yourself.

This is only just the beginning.