From Inside The Taint Broiler: NERFBAU/TAKE UP SERPENTS Tour Blog….

•August 9, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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July 27th. Hollywood, CA

Arrive to the venue, the “legendary” Hyperion Tavern, in Hollywood, CA, where the first show is supposed to take place. Odd deal already off the bat, NERFBAU, TAKE UP SERPENTS, and JUSTICE YELDHAM & His Dynamic Ribbon Device, all the way from Australia. We were a bit skeptical froom the beginning as there are NO local acts on the bill (as if LA tournouts aren’t shitty enough even w/ some local hip spazz drum band), here we have a show with three touring bands. Stay Optimistic. Arrive at the Hyperion Tavern to find this sign on the door.

OK, so onto the showcave in Silverlake. Was really looking forward to playing the Hyperion Tavern, as it has been around a while, in many different transformations, most infamously as a daddy leather bar, which still bears it’s battle scars in the war of the gay LA underground scene, in the form on a cum trough that runs underneath the bar. Mmmmmm sticky shoes. Oh well, next time.

We finally get to the ShowCave, and of course, no one really is there. A few people trickle in and NERFBAU begins to set up. After twenty minutes of fighting an awful ground hum, it’s determined that the best course of action is to say fuck it, and subtractively EQ it out. Didn’t really work but the set still sounded pretty good (from behind the speakers). Our very eccentric promoter, Don Bolles, seemed to think it was “beautiful” (cough), was he listening to us? More people showed up as the TAKE UP SERPENTS outfit began their evening actions, with looped howls, tape dirge, acoustic percussion screaming in the hollow wooden room, and dissonant middle eastern radio crackles. A great performance for sure. In and out, NO BS. Justice Yeldham (Australia) was up next, and he did NOT disapoint. Subtle mouth to glass saxaphone/sherman tank textures screamed from the jagged piece of broken glass which he commanded sound wise like a sorcerer. He knew every architectural nuance of the shard (even though he was making the glass fifteen minutes before the set by knocking out a window on some scrap door, and then modifing one of the shards to his liking . Such fucking control, this dude got chops.. Riding the edge of the glass along his lips and then sharp tuen, across face and throat (??????) he summoned hellish and beautiful sounds, textures, and violence. The bloody Aussie bug pressed up forcefully against the glass, was a live Francis Bacon painting coming to life to destroy your visual and aural fields, however his bloody theatrics didn’t come off as contrived, but more incidental of his instrumentation..(Shrug). Aussies are generally pretty up front peeps, so I believe him when he tells me that he doesn’t cut himself on purpose . Must get old having people yell “DO IT, MAN” when your bending shards of glass like tubas across your neck , right? All in all a great show to about 12 people. Hope you come back to the states Mr. Yeldham.
LA hope you stay in LA, you too JW.
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July 29th.
Ok, getting a bit hotter. After walking around Venice beach and fighting through the wall of hip hoppers trying to sell you the “illest beats on the whole boardwalk” for $2 each (which half of them are probally blank) It’s like a headphone swarm of recycled beats with an overdub archeology that makes about as much sense as the Albino Jimi Hendrix in a dress? on rollerskates who rides up and down the boardwalk, giving the same fried, confused, and slightly awkward look every time he passes. Watched the skaters for a whole, watched (and lost) four south American girls who were giggling at us and pointing, I Guess we don;t fit in at muscle beach???
After free vegan cookies (and a sphel) from the Hari Krishna ropers at the temple (haha) we ventured back to Ian BASIDIOMYCOTA’s house, ate some food, and started packing up for the show. Wait it gets good. So much like the first show on the 27th, there is a bit of confusion. We see a different address listed on their website, and about 40 minutes before the show, we get an email stating that the space has moved across the street. OK, interesting and GOOD TO KNOW if the space that you’r playing has moved right? We arrive at the space Vlad! The Retailer and the owner/promoter is very flustered/apologetic etc for the condition of the space, etc. Seems fishy. Start setting up, nobody really shows up. Ian Basidiomycota did a great skwacy/drone/sequenced mosh of a set, which really set the creepy mood of the night. Lourdes and her sister performed as Ebony Cubbie Hole? for some reason, and generaly scared everyoine out of the room, including one (or both) of the guys from NERFBAU. They can get pretty wimpy around girls anyways, especialy girls with lampshades on their heads. Throughout the show, we kept noticing a show going on right across the street (which axctually had a PA system, not just guitar amps, and about 120 people inside/outside, most of who were checking out the BANDS and NOIISE PROJECTS that were playing a SHOW right across the STREET (literally) Seems odd, no? Not really, as we soon found out that the space across the street where all of the people who may have been interested in what was happening at our event, were at another show at the OLD VLAD THE RETAILER. Double booked! What a sleezeball. The promoter would pop over into our show every 30-45 minutes and see if we were “OK” and he said he was going to “organize his old shop”. Right.
TO VLAD THE RETAILER = FUCK YOU!!!!
Oh, and if you (readers) want the rest of the story, email us and we’ll give you the longer, much more bitter, sware word laden account. OK. Fuck LA. Reeally. Mucho thanks to Ian and his family though for letting us crash, eat those amazing grapefruits, etc. Your kindness is appreciated.

July 30.San Bernadino, CA
Ok. Pretty grumpy after only a few days in this nut-sac of a part of a state (Southern California) stick shit weather bubbles your brain into the dumbness that plagues this part of the world. Two LA shows, $0 in gas/merch/kind words erc….UGH… but as we’re heading out of LA proper into the Inland Empire, we feel slightly calmer, a better kind of dirty, and little did we know, we’d meet the coolest/most annoying dog ever, and the show would turn out to be pretty good. Samur from Conscious Summary is a real solid dude, and had homemade salsa waiting for us when we got there. The majority of the night was spent roping Comet (the dog) back inside, because every time someone opened the door, that little shit would run out, he was cuuuute tho, a true pain. For all his thanks to us for us keeping his ass safe inside, he decided to drop a big shit right on the Take Up Serpents preyer rug. Classy(ic). Conscious Summary was really good, doing a long mix of peeks and swells with some traditional instrumentation, but made the guitars and basses sound more like earphones into the sewer than 4/4 rock band tools. Good Job. Riververb was the reverb death star with guitars, ski-mask microphones, and death foot switches that resempled the paino keys of the inferno. Slowly building shuttering drones, smashing the audience with hammers of squelch, and then slowly repelling back, and giving time for the air to clear, and then smash again, AGAIN , AGAIN. Great stuff from this seasoned pro!

July 31. San Diego, CA
Ok, Finally getting out of LA, and on the move, Was starting to feel like we were going to be trapped there for the next three weeks, which just may have enduced a mini mass suicide amongst all parties involved. We arrived in San Diiego after almost an hour of circling the campus to find the wonderful eyesore on the UCSD Campus known as the Che Cafe. We kinda hopped on this mixed rock/noise/dance/squirm show the last minute, which featured some ex bay area pats, Nero’s Day At Disneyland, as well as Mincemeet Or Tenspeed and Bubblegum Octopus. This place really does look like the kids from KIDS puked all over this innocent little cafe, and then they started having shows here. Apparently the school has been trying to kick them off campus for the last twenty plus years (ever since they’ve been there) and they keep fighting. The true D.I.Y. sweat spirit. Nerfbau and Take Up Serpents started off the night with short but dynamic sets. The Serpents left one of their operatives back in the greater Los Angeles area to work on alternative missions, but the extra sound space gave them more breathing room for doom. Nerfbau screamed down people’s throats and yelled at the sound guy for “not knowing what the fuck he’s doing” Typical.
MUCHO thanks to Frank M/Riververb for the wonderful hospitality/support/food/soda etc…You are a true lifesaver

Oakland Graffiti Detroit Concrete

•July 27, 2010 • Leave a Comment

OAKLAND GRAFFITI DETROIT CONCRETE mp3!!!!!!!!

Dental Work has been compared to a kitty litter infested heated noise garbage dump with a continuous shamanistic television playing psuedo-religious and italian rape scenes; A sonic chastity blast/flask is administered just before you are served a massive poisoned rat dumpling to aid in mental re-construction. You must wash the canals of your spaghetti-like brain matter in preperation for Dental Work’s mechanical pigeon dildo seance.
High pressure delayed Ouija board manipulations merged with lo-fi , ritualistic AM radio telepathy, unhealthy turntable modification and an array of urethra knives conveniently located within the anal salsa of humanity.”

Dental Work Is Jay Paul Watson.

Gumball Rimpoche “I Had a Dream Last Night” aka???? Decaycast Mix.

•February 18, 2010 • Leave a Comment

GUMBALL RIMPOCHE “I Had A Dream Last Night” Mix. 19:07 {35mb}

Mr. Rimpoche composes 19 minutes of stellar aural frontal lobe circus surgery with voice, samples, and nano-technology. composed for the un-ex-sub-non conscious 29th century intellectual. Die 999 times and be reborn 1000 ..and it gets better every time with this one. This kid’s a star in 2010, no doubt about…Sounds best in a dark cement room with cockroach reverberation flickering your inner ear.. ……These writings were encrypted within the audio file that came from the artists’s hacked computer harddrive,,,,,
“On the night of the last RATSKIN show, I had a very strange and…
mundane dream.

I was at a Lady Gaga concert, enjoying the rediculous pop spectacle,
when she decided to make things a bit more interesting– laying down
on the stage spread-eagle, she exposed her writhing tarantula bush to
the audience. I immediately (as if by instinct) jumped up there and
dove straight in.

After that we were inseperable, each feeding from the others’ bloated
ego like two fat grubs connected asshole to asshole (Ouroboros?) The
sex was blindingly mediocre–filled with knives and empty promises.
We wrote and produced two albums together before our love consumed all
reason and we found ourselves filled with drugs and trapped in a
shithole apartment in Queens. I tried to dump her for a vocoder, but
she wasn’t having it..

The double murder that resulted is still one of the strangest unsolved
cases of all time.”

Hallowskullmirrorcast

•November 5, 2009 • 1 Comment

HALLOWSKULLMIRRORCAST 45mb 33 minutes

DECAYCAST : HallowSkullmirrorCast 20009

HallowSkuLLMirrorCast

HALLOWSKULLMIRRORCAST 45mb 33 minutes

Chrome Genie : Satan’s Mass   :0:28-4:58(recorded in Hell  1776)

Different Dentist : Haunted Door : 5:02-7:20(recorded  @ R.azorW.ireC.ompound 09)

Alienslang : “Waltz with the electric amoeba” or “Looking 4 a Key in the Nightmare house cellar”   :7:21-11:29 (recorded @ Nightmare House VA july 09)

Cerebral Roil   “Fermented Pork Carcass” part 1    :11:30-12:10  (recorded @ Safeway)

Different Dentist:  “Drill Possessionspiria”  12:11-15-51 (recorded @ R.W.C.)

Alienslang : “Summoning the Pheonix”  16:00-28:11 (recorded@ NightmareHouse)

Cerebral Roil : “fermented Pork Carcass”  part 2  28:20-death (recorded carcass on ice in tub overnight the ants attacked and it was breifly a  screaming cloud ant shadow ghost of swine)

In tradition of documenting the collective psyche turning the arceology of spirit and death inside out and all over the streets , dining with ancestors and eating archtypes to march with ghosts and revel in the mischeif,  and continuing documentation of Halloween Music, Decaycast presents HallowSkullmirrorcast.  Ready for installation in Haunted Houses, possesed rooms, diner parties for the dead, seance audio apertif’, Sorority Cocktail parties, or serves as a warm corpse hand to hold on a rainy night, candles and Ouija board not included.

Dr.Decaycast

Loachfillet • Modular Graveyard Sessions, Volume 1

•September 11, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Modular Graveyard Sessions, Volume 1
Total Time: 20:27

Count Loachfillet

Count Loachfillet

The composition you are listening to is an electronic sandwich of aural preparations. It was recorded in November, 2008 as I geared up to perform at the Composers Decomposed Series in Oakland, California. All sounds were played live to tape, processed through a Frac-Rack unit, with additional electronics, tape loops and auxiliary effects piled on at the Loach Crypt. This recording represents Volume one in the Modular Graveyard Series. An ongoing foray into the world of atmospheric experiments, thought tunnels and mental cleansing by way of the Modular Synthesizer. The original output was distributed to a system of four speakers in cardboard tombstones and one stereo public address system. For more information on Loachfillet, visit my blog at: http://wormperil.blogspot.com/2007_04_01_archive.html

TriskaiDECAYaphobia

•August 12, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Here is TriskaiDECAYaphobia :  a sneak peek into the 215+ bands on the Triskaidekaphobia 13000 milliseconds comp on Raskin Records! boasting infinite reshufflability, this is a 4 min 33 second spin of the dice through 13′s.

Mr. Stonecipher _ GMBH

TarantismGlacial Remains

Monolith Zero> _    13 second test

No Gods No Masters   _ 13

Sword Heaven <_    Old Town

Teeth Mountain _      13

Skozey Fetisch _    Neon Black Moment Mine

The Insect Explosion  _ Outburst

Praew Iik _  Decolonize your Mind

The Adjective Noun _  Fort Lauderdale is Now

Hagony _ 13 seconds of Cum

Nero’s Day At Disneyland _ Enter Text Find Words

Xdugel  _ Technical Difficulties

Joltthrower  _ No Carbs, No Calories

Hiroshima Rocks Around   _ Bonsai  Bonzai Attack!

A War Amongst The Trees _  Conquered space

Cut-Up Make-Up   _ Deeper Deeper

ASTRO/Hiroshi Hosewega    _ Insect Melancholoy

Uvovu _    Youk Heavy

Dave Phillips _   Scutigera

CD, Limited to 900 (only 200 left!)

215+ plus bands doing 13 second songs, featuring tracks from< MATMOS. VENETIAN SNARES. COCK ESP. RICHARD DEVINE. WHITE MICE. I AM SPOONBENDER. PANICSVILLE. THRONES. SWORD HEAVEN. NO DOCTORS. DAVID SCOTT STONE. EVIL MOISTURE. TO LIVE AND SHAVE IN L.A. TARANTISM. RUBBER O CEMENT. ASTRO. GREENMIST. DAVE PHILLIPS. PIGS IN THE GROUND. SHARKIFACE. ANALOG SUICIDE. NO DOCTORS. LAETITIA SONAMI. WOBBLY. BLEVIN BLECTUM. LOACHFILLET. ANTENNA FARM. and tons more.. ++++ get it from us…

ratskin.org

Deep Fried Radio Static : Deep Fried Decaycast

•February 28, 2008 • Leave a Comment

Here it is, Finally a new Decaycast episode! And this one is special as it is the first in the series of curated episodes, this one features the dark, cryptic, but elegantly crafted textural noisy scapes by Deep Fried Radio Static. Posted in two parts, please enjoy.

Deep Fried Decaycast {Part 1 }
Deep Fried Decaycast {Part 2 }

DECAYCAST #006 Suspiria Goblin vs. Alienslang ::: audio ghosts for installing haunted rooms

•October 31, 2007 • Leave a Comment
HorrorCast : 2nd Annual Halloween Special! Sonic incantations for haunted rooms. 47 mb

AUDIO FOR INSTALLING HAUNTED ROOMZ
AUDIO FOR INSTALLING HAUNTED ROOMZ

On October 20th 2007 Sabreteeth performed before the screening of Dario Argentos’ “SUSPIRIA” at the Clay Theatre in San Francisco. With all the samples of Suspira’s wailing and witchcraft snickerings laying around the digital shop bleeding at their severed time codes…. Alienslang assembles an all Suspiria creep-show for Halloween trick or treat theme music, pumpkin smashing parties and zombie brain devouring buffets.
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–Dr. DecayCast

Decaycast #005: “Sounds, cyborgs, mechanical devices, and resonators” Laetitia Sonami Interview DOWNLOAD NOW

•June 14, 2007 • 1 Comment

Decaycast #005: Studio invasion interview with Laetitia Sonami {56 mb – 192kb mp3}

In the second installment of the Decaycast sound artist studio-invasion interview series, Decaycast sits down with sound artist, performer, composer, teacher, and all around wonder woman Laetitia Sonami. Here is the audio map of the first half of Decaycast’s excavation into the deepest darkest crevices of sound, time, space, toilet plungers, nature, sound abatement, the politics of poverty as art, mechanical devices and the Danube River as told by the artist herself—the file finishes out with a performance by Laetitia on her “Lady’s Glove.”

-Different Dentist

DecayCast #004 NPR Live Mix Available For Download

•April 10, 2007 • Leave a Comment

HERE IT IS…live audio surgery presented through the antannae of neighborhood public radio. Listen to the brand new DecayCast now.

This episode was mixed live on the air on Saturday, March 24th @ Southern Exposure Gallery in the Mission District in San Francisco for neighborhood public radio. Enjoi
ALSO,Please goto npr’s blog and listen to all the other cool stuff that was part of the npr  broadcast that day.

Decaycast #004 : RadioCartLiveSmashMix {MP3}

*show images and transcription coming soon

ALSO,Please goto npr’s blog and listen to all the other cool stuff that happened that very same afternoon