MCDX3 - Studio C Album Party Decade (USA 2010)

Recommended by none other than Stefan F Walz

(http://vacuumnoise.blogspot.com/).

artist statement:

"My eighth coherent solo release Studio C Album Party Decade is built on the skeleton of my first album Studio from 2007. This album started as a formal compositional project conceived to compare my studio & recording skills of 2007 with my expanded wisdom and expertise in those areas today.

Through many months of recording, re-recording, & manipulating, many of the songs on the album became quite unrecognizable from the songs they were born from and as such, new titles were given as appropriate. Some songs remain shell memories of the originals while others are almost totally new.

It is my hope that this album gives you many decades of interest."

-David McDevitt

Kind of homemade lofi experimental music.

Enjoy!

Also latest album Violet Saliva here.

http://vnrtapes.blogspot.com/

Also check out the VNR facebook here:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Imperial-VNR/127905253903341?ref=ts

MCDX3 - Studio C Album Party Decade

(USA 2010)

(mp3-zip, 10 tracks, 37 min, 69,7 MB)

Get it here or here or here!

The Altered States of the United Snakes (= AS*US) - American Hallucination (program one) + (program two: exiled from ohio) (USA 2009)

AS*US: American Hallucination (program one)

1. Colonial Hills

2. Went Away

3. Funny

4. Fuck You

5. Vegas Sweat

6. The Sunshine Space Explorer

Q: Where exactly are you from?

A: massillon, ohio

Q: Do you want your real names mentioned? If so: What are your real names?

A: (current):

davey highben*stay at home dad.

mat bisaro*father and grad student.

fred phening.(friend to industrial bakers)

adam smith. (Columbus Discount Records)

(has been through the years):

Greg Surrat*drums.guitars.keys.samples.

Lamont Bim Thomas*drums (Bassholes. This Moment in Black History)

Mike McKeegan*guitars.keys.

Chris Kaser*bass

Celeste Bicknell*voice

Kota Kakutani*drums (heavy johnson trio)

Dan Stanley*drums

Tom Derwint*guitars. (lost treasures of the underworld . com)

Adam Fleischer*guitars.keys.(swamp leather)

Dave Le Shock*bass.

with:

Jen Burton & Mark Van Fleet (face place)

Jon Chinn

Jim Shepard (V3)

Mike Rep Hummel.(the Quotas.Ego Summit)

Q: How recorded?

A: radio shack hand held. 2 track reel to reel. 4 track cass. 16. track one inch.

Q: When recorded?

A: 1989-2010

1. My Uncle Wayne 1989-1996 *(massillon, ohio./durham n.c.)

2. My Un*Kill Wayne 1997-2001*(columbus, ohio.)

3. The Hatchlings 2001*(PDX)

4. The United Snakes 2001-2008*(PDX/columbus, ohio.)

5. AS*US (the altered states of the united snakes)*(columbus, ohio.)

Q: Who involved? Who played what?

A: *see blog/ depends on line up.

Q: Any more releases?

A: !992. My Uncle Wayne "down with satan" 60min cass.1989-1992 spilt milk recordings.

1993. My Uncle Wayne "all dressed up with nowhere to go" 60 min. cass. spilt milk recordings

1994. My Uncle Wayne "1994" 30min. cass. spilt milk recordings

1995 My Uncle Wayne "duck kee sessions" unreleased.

1997 My Uncle Wayne " delusions of grandure (sic)" 7inch record. spilt milk recordings. 500 pressed

1999 My Uncle Wayne "Beat Hits" 7inch record. Seldom Scene Records. 500 pressed.

2001 My Uncle Wayne " Delusions of Grandure/Beat Hits" double seven inch. REDRESS RECORDS. 250 pressed

2003 The United Snakes. Executive Suites. cdr single. self released. 100 handmade copies.

2003-2009 The Altered States of the United Snakes.

have given away/sold/bribed into taking 1,279 handmade cdrs of various shapes and sizes.

2009-present: The Autistic Theater:

* a blog that features all the music worth sharing from all these years with all those peoples...

the names changed, yet the music was always the same, in spirit anyway...

2010 AS*US "I've been mad for quite some time now" 7inch record. TBA.

Q: How'd you "label" your music?

A: "outsider"

Q: Influences?

A: everything

Q: Website, myspace?

A:

http://autistictheater.blogspot.com

additional links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suckdog

http://mountainsofpaper.blogspot.com

http://wantwishlikedesireexpect.blogspot.com/

http://worldofwumme.blogspot.com/2009/02/my-uncle-wayne-beat-hits.html

http://smashintransistors.blogspot.com/search?q=the+altered+states+of+the+united+snakes

(answered by Davey Highben)

AS*US: American Hallucination (program two: exiled from ohio).

1. All I see is Chrome.

2. Fancy Lines.

3. tongue tied.

4. Phe*nix.

Amazing, hard to describe lofi experimental psych band. Mixture of many different elements and sounds – distorted country rock, noise, sound collages, experimental rock to name just a few. Somehow reminds me of the BUTTHOLE SURFERS...

"American Hallucination (program two: exiled from ohio)" is more in a grungey alternative noise rock style, while "American Hallucination (program one)" could be vaguely described as distorted country rock noise...

Has to be heard to believe!

Enjoy! And check out their website, if you like what you hear; lots of bizarre recordings can be downloaded here for free!

http://thealteredstatesoftheunitedsnakes.wordpress.com/

http://autistictheater.blogspot.com/

http://www.myspace.com/unitedsnakes

AS*US: American Hallucination

(program one and two) (USA 2009)

(mp3-zip, 5 tracks, 34 min, 38,3 MB)

Get 'em both here or here or here!

Karma - Senior Rocker (USA 2008)

KARMA is the brainchild of Zachary Ciulla, who now is living in Austin, TX, and used to live "out near DC". "Senior Rocker" is the first KARMA release in over three years - everything has been self-released so far. In DC. Zachary was in a indie/shoegazer band called CALENDAR (with his friends Geoff and George). - "I was the loudest fucking bass-player, haha. It was part of our sound, though."

"The initial tracks were recorded live, in like, 2 or 3 sessions with my friend Geoff (ex-Calendar drummer) at his basement in Arlington, Virginia. This was in October 2008. I just happened to be in-town visiting, and we decided to make the record right there. We took a super Lo-Fi approach, both out of interest and necessity, recording quickly and using whatever equipment he had laying around. We recorded onto my old TASCAM 8-track cassette-corder, which ate the tape at one point. Actually, we lost most of a song because of that. Anyways, after our time was up, I mastered the results onto another cassette, collecting not only the basic songs, but also outtakes and mangled or slowed-down snippets to use as filler material. That's where three of the tracks come from. Most of the overdubs were recorded back at my apartment in San Marcos, Texas. There I transferred the songs from that tape onto my computer, which is what I used for the rest of the process. The software I used was ACID for overdubbing and mixing, and Sound Forge for mastering. I finished this record on December 31st, 2008, just in time for New Years :) ... I played guitar and sang, Geoff played drums. I overdubbed more guitar and singing later, as well as bass and maybe one or two keyboard tracks back at my apartment. ... The cover is a picture of Geoff's dog, Toby, stoned as usual. Also, this album is dedicated to Geoff's dad, S... W... . We started recording the day after he passed away, it was sort of eerie, but strangely uplifting..." (Z. C.)

Zachary mentions GUIDED BY VOICES as a key influence (as well as MODEST MOUSE), and one can clearly hear that (though in fact I like KARMA's sound better...) An confident and uplifting, if somehow bittersweet and quirky listening experience. Pretty cool homemade lofi stuff, well worth a listen!

Favourite track: "Stilted"

http://www.myspace.com/karmarock Check it out! More free downloadable recordings there!

Karma - Senior Rocker (2008) (minus 2 songs)

(9 tracks (2 cover versions were left out), 29:18 min, 29,3 MB, front cover incl.)

Get it here or here!