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Tape Rip - Music For Millions & Dollars

download it! (vbr mp3)

I think somebody threw the master tapes down the well. Music For Millions & Dollars is currently Music For 34 & Free. Let's get this some more downloads. The second side of the tape is pretty neat.

Demovangelis

I bought this from a guy on the side of the road for $0.99. It came with a hand drawn cover. There are 4 songs and a commentary track that runs about 15 minutes. This is the third release or "gig" from this artist. The artist categorizes himself as Psychedelic Progressive Punk Rock. I would say this is is the epitome of outsider music. Since I know you're stomachs are already aflutter I present to you: Next Generation Epics
by Demovangelis.

I'm hoping to upload the cover art soon.

S.G. Lazarus and Cage

Hmm. These recordings claim to be from the '70's recorded in a rehearsal room at VCU. I don't really believe it. It's a lot of improvised studio noise. Pianos, harmonicas, acoustic guitars. Maybe outsider art? Boombox blues?

LINKS!

Oz Boogie Richmond VA 1974

the following things are single songs:

buggy Trip

Black Cat Moan

here's a link to other things that I don't feel like posting:

archive.org search

More Fanch

Another EP from Halaka's Fanch Taylor. The Air Fields. Four tracks of late night piano improv.

Stream it



D/L - The Air Fields EP

Radio Show

It's a radio show, an old fashioned radio show. Described with all the trimmings below:

"Two-hour show featuring music by self-taught, mentally "ill", or untrained artists, and A SURPRISE PHONE CALL FROM PAT FRITCHEY, the guy who sings the LCVR theme song."

Begins with the host's discussing outsider music, the first track they play is a nice little Daniel Johnston song from the Hi How Are You? album.

more talking! You can do anything you want, you don't even have to follow the map.

gems and horrible music.

next

3 peas in a pod from kalamazoo michigan - goin' outta my head. This doesn't do much for me. Sounds like game show music or maybe something from a dance number on the L. Welk show. I don't even think I'd classify it as outsider music except for maybe the lo-fi production.

IT IS NOT EVEN OVER YET.

I Died - 40 seconds of noise.

I guess I shouldn't sit here a narrate the whole thing for you, but the next thing is Wesley Willis.

so maybe listen?


d/l

stream

Sputnik in Love (This song is very good)

This is. I don't know what this is. It could be good?


Listen:
Download Sputnik album here

Here's the Tourists come to Israel EP. Much more subdued, not as silly or at least this one track I'm hearing isn't. Never mind, the next track is about a very nice cat.


Download ep here

Listen:

What Came Next

This is it. Completely it. Part of what I've been trying to do with this blog is mine archive.org for interesting recordings. This one is it. The group is called what katy did next. This was supposedly recorded in 1985 overnight after breaking into a rehearsal space. The compilation is called somebody pull the chain. It clocks in around 90 minutes. Bits of things pasted together from cassettes.

from archive.org:
this compilation is a collection of recordings from 1985, what katy did next used to break into a rehearsal studio in hull (uk) 100 yards from the humber, play all night long and then leave at 8am in the morning. all the tunes and words are improvised and live. the recording equipment consisted of two microphones and a cassette tape recorder. the compilation was created using copies of the original tapes and two cassette decks. only 3 members of what katy did next are still alive today, 4 are dead, one of the living is lost in scotland.

truth or fiction? I've got no clue, but the music is pretty kick ass and reminds me of some stuff our friends in Halaka have done over the years.

d/l (mp3, 320kbps, 220mb)

That's Irritainment

More Algebrassiere from the horse's lawyer. I once saw a man standing on a street corner but when I looked more closely it wasn't him. I believe Keith may have sent me this in a packet.

The people in here are very definitely orange, with feedbacking on top of ambiance. You'd sort of like to be there, maybe wondering where the bathroom is, what'll happen if you touch that wire, what's going on here, how do I tell him he's got a stain on his shirt. It's christmas, 1978, and you keep forgetting you're in your pajamas.

I would be remiss if I didn't point out that this is a lot of work.

dl (rar, 192kbs mp3)

What I wasn't going to do.

I wasn't going to do this, but this album fits so much. I found it at the peppermint store
where it is described as dark acid folk. I might categorize it as pre-outsider outsider music.
Basically it's british psych/acid/folk but the guitars are out of tune, it's strange, strange, stuff.

Simon Finn - Pass the Distance (1970)
artwork here
d/l

(mp3 .zip 73 mb)

Check out the peppermint store, lots of great stuff.

I found another algebrassiere album today. Literally found it underneath a bookshelf while looking for something else. I'll uploaded it soon.

ITDE Songs

Halaka - ITDE Songs (2006-2007)

The story behind ITDE Songs:

First off, this is terrible. Really terrible. Sometime in 2006 or 2007 a few members of Halaka set out to record some material specifically for Dave X 's It's too Damn Early radio show. These sessions, recorded in a bedroom, living room, or basement, languished in hard disk hell until one of the members decided to "master" them and send them off to Dave X. The sessions are basically a lot of talking around some improvised acoustic "songs" onto which "effects" were added in "post production." The files were then sent to Dave X for download. Mr. X then burnt the files to a cd, but unfortunately there was the dreaded 2 second pause between tracks and the session ran over to a second disc. Never one to be backed in a corner Mr. X played both discs on air concurrently. He may have recorded this, I'm not too sure, but if he did it's probably much more interesting than the source material itself.

This is the first time that the ITDE Songs have been released to the public in all their naked glory. If pile records ever decides to release a cd-r of this performance it would definitely go in the disgard pile.


d/l ( .zip .ogg 102 mb)

Cat Jams

Cat Jams seems to be a net label putting out some kinda of outsider music from somewhere in Missouri. It sure is.

Here's a sampling:

Swamp Fuck - Celtic Guardians (2003)




d/l (vbr mp3 .zip 110 mb)

Ronald Coolbeth

Mr. Ron Sings (?)



Outsider music with vocals recorded over the phone.

d/l (vbr .mp3 5 mb)

autistic achievement

toneblind & colordeaf ( ?)

detuned lo-fi acoustic outsider music. From Texas...maybe? lots of gweetar strumming.

d/l ( vbr .mp3 104 mb)

Algebrassiere

Algebrassiere are/were an experimental noise crust folk improv band from the eastern shore of
Maryland.

Mooning Mardella (2002)



I think this is the title, but it's hard to tell from the artwork. I'm working under the assumption here that this was self released and is out of print. I was given a copy of this album by the band in 2002.

tracks:
1. intro
2. rubic's cube
3. balls in bag
4. local signs
5. whatever happened to meatland?
6. beer is near
7. i hear jesus drinks beer
8. i beat up the green lantern
9. the beltway
10. famous jews and hindus
11. kenny loggins soundtrack
12. like a real crazy night (white-line fever)
13. the armless unicyclist
14. the day is over (for dead grandpas)
15. through the night
16. tommy's mullet
17. summon my sword
18. i luv fun
19. another saturday night
20. fire the d
21. noise pollution
22. soon it will be christmas day (for t.t. boy)
d/l (mp3 .rar 99mb)

Algebrassiere (200?)


this album appears to be self titled, the only info is printed on the cd label. also seems self-released. I was given a copy of this album by a member of the band in 2002.

tracks:
1. Testing
2. Esquire Ascot
3. Cursed By The Fast Food Industry
4. Billy Ripken Suicide Note
5. Delmar
6. Crebs
7. Leonard's Garage Doors
8. Gameshow Champion
9. Handy Dandy
10. Tuff Az Nailz

d/l (mp3 .rar 49 mb)

links coming...

Halaka

Halaka

Our first post here at pile records some Halaka albums for your enjoyment:



Unabridged Dischord (2008)











Link


description from pile records:
Unabridged Discord, this is the sound a caterpillar... nah, we've already done that. In 2004 a splintering bit of Halaka set out to record an album in a weekend. Nothing that hadn't been done before, except the intention here was to call it finished at the end of the weekend. In 2008, it's finished. Mellow and occasionally in-tune with itself, acoustic guitars, dry throats, tired hands, harmony from long after the fact, a chord organ or three here and there, and various scratching, tapes, records, that echo they can't seem to get away from, with Madhog even making an appearance, this is Halaka like Halaka would be if weekends were four years long.
The Voice Over the Intercom Says Hello (2008)











side A Contents May Contain Discontent (.ogg 21 mb)
side B Holiday in Faux Ancient Clothes (.ogg 19 mb)

Two long tracks, improvised drone, samples, mostly instrumental.


A Translucent Gold Statue A Hole (2001)










a review from Splendid:

I don't ask a lot of music, but one of my standing criteria is that I not feel embarrassed about playing it. Translucent made me feel bad for my neighbors, much less myself. Taking ungodly feedback and head-trip lyrics sputtered through cheap filters to a whole new level of impropriety, Halaka hammers out an hour's worth of inscrutable noise passing as rock. No attempts were made to remain in key or carry a tune. Where singing would have sufficed, yelling and howling seemed to be the option of choice. "Comingthroughmydoor" is a paranoia piece that finds the lead singer straddling the line between Soul Coughing's M. Doughty and Seinfeld's Jason Alexander. Halaka spend part of the ten minute-plus runtime of the last track simulating the sound of spanking one another, then laughing uproariously. This must be one of those jokes you had to be there to appreciate. Good thing they go back to yelling soon enough. Faux-hip stylings, such as the album's title, and naming the last two songs on the disc "What You Keep Peeling Off" and "Peeling Off What You Keep" may make the average listener pause, as though there is a wealth of meaning hiding in here somewhere, seeking to be unearthed through repeated listenings. I myself am not about to give in to that line of thinking; my ears hurt after listening to A Translucent Gold Statue, A Hole -- and that alone marks this as one of those rare few discs that will never again see the inside of my CD player.

-- Justin Kownacki

all files are vbr .mp3
1. more than a mirror
2. to pick his bones
3. coming out of the little shells
4. comingthroughmydoor
5. dream in vertigo
6. what you keep peeling off
7. peeling off what you keep

God I am the Lunatic (2000)



all files vbr .mp3

1. Cornerstone Plant
2. The Lunatic
3. Robotface
4. Madswill
5. A Crooked Sparrow
6. Left Believer
7. Homosexual Chocolate Door
8. The Story
9. I Cannot Remember What It Was
10. 10

an acid freak out, melting guitars, a strange concept album about a plant?