Active Listening / The Act of Listening Episode 2

Active Listening / The Act of Listening
Episode 2: Hidden Satanic Messages

  • The Bran Flakes – Praise the Lord / I Am a Groupie – I Don’t Have a Friend
  • Michael Mills – talks about Bow Wow Wow
  • active listening: Bow Wow Wow – Prince of Darkness slowed down ~25%
  • Michael Mills – talks about Led Zeppelin
  • active listening: Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven [in reverse] – IV
  • CBC: The Hour – Backmasking segment (interviews with Jeff Milner and John Vokey)
  • Bob and Doug Mackenzie – Black Holes – Great White North
  • The Waitresses – The Smartest Person I Know [reversed excerpt] – I Could Rule the World if I Could Only Get the Parts
  • Pink Floyd – Empty Spaces [reversed excerpt] – The Wall
  • “Weird Al” Yankovic – Nature Trail to Hell – In 3-D [reversed excerpt]
  • Plasmatics – Coup D’Etat [reversed excerpt]
  • Pastor Gary Greenwald – talks about ELO and Styx
  • Michael Mills – talks about Queen
  • active listening: Queen – Another One Bites the Dust [in reverse] – The Game
  • Michael Mills – talks about The Beatles
  • active listening: The Beatles – Revolution #9 [in reverse] – The White Album
  • CBC: The Hour – Backmasking segment (excerpt #2)
  • G Craige Lewis – talks about Jay-Z – The Truth About Hip-Hop video series
  • active listening: DJ Danger Mouse – Interlude – The Grey Album [in reverse]

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Active Listening / The Act of Listening Episode 1

Active Listening / The Act of Listening
Episode 1: Black Sabbath at 78

  • Doormouse – War Pigs – Freaked Out Mess
  • Snares (aka Venetian Snares) – Black Sabbath – Sabbath Dubs
  • Control-V – Iron Man (Dictionaraoke version)
  • Negativland – track 6 – self-titled
  • Negativland – Seat Bee Sate – Over the Edge v8: Sex Dirt
  • active listening: Black Sabbath – Paranoid album at 78rpm
  • active listening: war pigs cover song amalgam – excepts from Bathory, Cake, Faith No More, Hayseed Dixie, Alice Donut, Rockabye Baby, Opium Jukebox, Alex Skolnik Trio, Butt Acne, Flaming Lips
  • active listening: iron man slowly rusts

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baconhanger live set – 01/13/12

baconhanger played at a hardcore party in chicago last friday which we utterly failed to promote on this site. but at least you can enjoy this recording of his set!

Active Listening / The Act of Listening premieres tonight!

not so long ago, listening to music was a passive activity. you turned on the radio or put a record on the turntable, and you listened while the music played. but now attitudes are changing and listening is becoming increasingly interactive, as more and more people remix the world around them.

each week on Active Listening / The Act of Listening, host stAllio! will feature work by remixers, sound collagists, and others who choose to play their records in ways they weren’t meant to be played—as well as perform active listening experiments in the studio, shining new light on old records by playing them in nonstandard ways.

tune in to Active Listening / The Act of Listening on numbers.fm every sunday night at 9:38 eastern / 8:38 central!

new net radio show: Active Listening / The Act of Listening

stAllio! will be hosting a brand-new net radio show called Active Listening / The Act of Listening starting this weekend. the show takes its name from an essay by john oswald:

As a listener my own preference is the option to experiment. My listening system has a mixer instead of a receiver, an infinitely variable speed turntable, filters, reverse capability, and a pair of ears.

An active listener might speed up a piece of music in order to perceive more clearly its macrostructure, or slow it down to hear articulation and detail more precisely. Portions of pieces are juxtaposed for comparison or played simultaneously, tracing “the motifs of the Indian raga Darbar over Senegalese drumming recording in Paris and a background mosaic of frozen moments from an exotic Hollywood orchestration of the 1950′s (a sonic texture like a “Mona Lisa” which in close-up, reveals itself to be made up of tiny reproductions of the Taj Mahal.”)

each week stAllio! will play music and sound art somehow related to this theme (glitch, remix culture, prepared records, etc) as well as do some active listening experiments in-studio, shining new light on old records by playing them in nonstandard ways.

tune in each sunday night at 9:38 pm eastern on http://numbers.fm/! if you’re good, we may even archive old episodes.

bt#36: baconhanger – descensus inferos

baconhanger - descensus inferosbt#36: baconhanger – descensus inferos

release date: january 8, 2012

baconhanger is back with four new tracks of breakcore brutality! descend ever deeper into punishing rhythms and demonic dissonance. the download is free, but what will be the cost to your soul?

download mp3s:

  1. Descensus Inferos
  2. Sacrifice
  3. Malleus Maleficarum
  4. Demon Power

bt#35: dr. butcher m.d. – finis hominis

bt#35: dr. butcher m.d. – finis hominis

release date: december 29, 2011

…END OF YEAR…END OF MAN! Over three long years have passed since he last hexadecimated humanity, but once again the elder of eldritch electricultronics, DR. BUTCHER M.D., rises from his cipherous crypt of dark secrets to issue his indictment against mankind as judge, jury & hexecutioner. He returns armed with sixteen more tales of terror, with sinister sounds spanning from sickadelic breakcorror to haunted hip-hop and other obscure oddities in-between, all thoroughly versed in the arts of psychotronic cinemageddon. OUST THE CADENT & BLESSED BE OBSCURITY!

  1. I. K-ZONES
  2. II. BEAST FROM HAUNTED CAVE
  3. III. ASUBHA PT. 1
  4. IV. DEATH RISES
  5. V. GHOSTHOUSE
  6. VI. MAUSOLEUM
  7. VII. DARKPLACE
  8. VIII. BURIAL GROUND (GRAVES SHALL OPEN)
  9. IX. PROFANE EMESIS
  10. X. CEMENTARIO DEL TERROR
  11. XI. ASUBHA PT. 2
  12. XII. DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK
  13. XIII. DOOMWATCH
  14. XIV. CRYPT OF DARK SECRETS
  15. XV. BRENORITVREZORKRE
  16. XVI. END CREDITS

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stAllio! glitches in front magazine

some of stAllio!’s glitc art was published in the latest issue (#163) of the british magazine front. specifically, he glitched some photos for their feature on dubstep artist joker.

front is a lifestyle magazine that covers music, video games, culture, and—like all british publications—includes photos of nude women (specifically “alt” women with natural busts). you can buy paper copies from their web shop to be shipped anywhere in the world, or if you prefer virtual magazines that can only be viewed using proprietary software, they have that, too. they even have a censored “SFW” digital version for smartphones and tablets, so if you have an ipad and/or want to avoid any risk of seeing an exposed nipple, you’re in luck!

here’s a taste of the first two pages, courtesy of antonio roberts, who nipped on down to the newstand to snap some photos:

stAllio! glitches in front magazine

stAllio! also available to do glitches at parties or glitch your wedding photos.

murkbox – 13 days of horror

bad taste old-schooler murkbox is back with new material as well as new takes on some old tunes:

Murkbox Defined
Murkbox is a highly (even overly) stylized musical project with a very simple premise:
Horror and science fiction themed distorted electronic music…
Ranging from electro-klangers to 4/4 bangers & from twisted glitchy clacks to noisescape soundtracks.
Most songs feature samples from classic horror and sci-fi cinema… some do so ad nauseum.

The Sinister Masterplan
Nightly, one of 12 remastered/remixed classic Murkbox tracks will be released.
Some are live, some are lost rarities, some are once more cannabalized– but all are updated edits.

On the nightfall of December 13th, 2011 a new song will be released:

Disclaimers
The debut timeframes for the original versions of these remixes range from 1996 to 2011.
A myriad of recording technologies and circumstances are represented, so audio quality varies.
All distortion and overdrive present in the music is intentional… even if unpleasant.
[MURKBOX IS NOISE]

the first two days have already been posted: here’s day one and here’s day two. check the murkbox facebook page for the latest!

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