The Human League - Only After Dark Soft Cell - Frustration Thorax Wach - Die Geheimme Macht Missing Persons - The Blue Eyed Boy Addresses Himself to The Matter at Hand Sun City Girls - Spook Fielded - You Got The World, You Got The Country Zola Jesus - Devil Take You Kangaroo Kourt - Invocations of The Undead
Vlor - Guided Cosey Fanni Tutti & Philippe Petit - Untitled Colin Potter & Phil Mouldycliff - Part 5 Zoviet France - Low Creeper En Halvkokt I Folie - Boffo Hard-Ons (In The Woods) J. Spaceman - Panama
Ensemble Unicorn - A Madre Do Que A Bestia Popol Vuh - Ah! SSAB Songs - SSAB Song (Excerpt)
Maria Zerfall - Der Schnitter Hybryds - The Willing Victim Die Form - Suicide Party Controlled Bleeding & Art Barbeque - Untitled
Chateaux - Reference Man Sun City Girls - CCC Lucrate Milk - Magic Mushrooms Lawrence Welk - Boogie Woogie Soft Cell - Babes In Consumerland Slick Rick - Mona Lisa Thorax Wach - Die Heimlichen Senioren
This DJ set was done with almost entirely vinyl and cassettes (2 CDs) from WZRD's library, after a live collaborative performance under Death Factory's project. The recording of the DJ Set did not work on the very old CD Burner.
Zeni Geva - Desire For Agony WinterKalte - Rebound Effect Vs. Sustainability Thorax-Wach - Tanzaul Loschkalk Attrition - The Redoubt of Light Ono - Danger Christine 23 Onna - Space Hippie Maurizio Bianchi - Sterile Regles (Excerpt) Panicsville - Turn Me On Burden of Friendship - Manic Depression (Live at Exit 12/15/85)
Portion Control - Strapped Down Art Zoyd - Trio Lettre D'Automne (manually warped on the turntable) Bene Gesserit - Wash Your Ideas Renaldo & The Loaf - Is Guava a Donut? Earwig Spectre - Neo Pagan Deity *with* W. Loose - At The Gravesite/Flight (from Night of The Living Dead) *with* Diamanda Galas - Tragoutha Apo Aima Exoun Fonos Sleep Chamber - His Satanic Majesties Art Fiction - Twilight bran (...) pos - Eye of Horus Henry Flynt - Marines Hymn End Result - Devil Dog
Asmus Tietchens - excerpts from "Ptomaine" *with* selections from RRR-500
ohGr - Eyecandy Genevieve Pasquier - Warm Leatherette Esplendor Geometrico - Trybuna Robotnicza II Beau Wanzer - F. U. Klaxons Zyx - Hey You
Sparks - Tryouts for the Human Race The Vanishing - Still Lifes are Failng Tik & Tok - Soulless Sympathetic Heartsteps of Unconcerned Androids The Timelords - Doctorin' The Tardis (Minimal) Crash Course In Science - Mechanical Breakdown Gerry & The Holograms - Gerry & The Holograms
Panicsville - Horseman's Club (excerpt) White Car - S.S.S. Black Devil Disco Club - The Devil In Us Rosemary's Baby - See Woman See Human Zilmrah - Flies Away
Stock, Hausen, & Walkman - Theme for Gas My Monkey Otto Von Schirach - Swollen Gutteral Exlax Haus Arafna - Last Dream of Jesus Subliminal - Play Dead P16.D4 - External Symbols Grunt - Sota Ilman Pelisääntöjä Sewer Goddess - No Shame Burial Hex - A Murder of Dead Crows Content Nullity - GRIEF
Illusion of Safety - Discipline Bruce Lamont - Disgruntled Employer Redrot - Deviant Rancid Hell Spawn - Android Pup Katharsis - Ascent from Ghoulgotha Pyha - Song of The Elderly Winters In Osaka - Caligula In Fragments Death Factory - Incidental (tape warped)
Panicsville + Prurient - The Rubber Baron Frankie & The S.E.M.M. - I Just Want Peace (excerpt) Yakuza - The Blinding (Justin Broadrick Remix) Bone Parade - Mandragora, Death and the maiden Nurse with Wound - The Musty Odour Of Pierced Rectums (excerpt) Handicapper Horns - Side B excerpt from tape on Hanson (HN154)
Locrian - Side B from Greyfield Shrines LP (side ending in a locked groove) ILTH's MUSICK MACHINE - midnight dog, talk talk, ballet motorcycle, grandma, seagull mushroom cloud Rob Michalchuk - excerpt from "Labyrinths" Tarantism - Love Song Of The Hymenoptera Leticia Castaneda - The Careful Steppin' Daisy Schnüffler - Rauschbereich 1 (excerpt)
OTR - The Fred Allen Show - Charlie McCarthy Sues Fred for Slander - 10/28/45
Bull of Heaven - The Chosen Priest & Apostle of Infinite Space (excerpt)
white car
Behind DJ throughout: John Cage - Williams Mix Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention: Lumpy Gravy Part Two Pyha - Appulyi Juan Torres y su Organo Melodico - La Bikina Esplendor Geometrico - Mecanica Luminica Burial Hex - Nightstalking the Unsilent Boneyard
The Delirious Insomniac Freeform Radio Show has haunted the airwaves of WLUW into the wee hours of dreary Monday Nights for over 2 years. Taking the concept of Freeform and directing it more into the realms of an art form, host Arvo Fingers uses his lengthy experience as a sleepless madman to wield surrealistic songs and sounds into a slithering swath for 4 hours a week. He's guested many times at WZRD-Chicago, cohosted a soul radio show with Eric Lab Rat, booked numbers of otherworldly bands, and sustained long stints of freeform DJ nights at daring bars or clubs, there's definitely a passion for abstruse, difficult music here; what college radio is born from. Presently, "Delirious Insomniac" is now syndicated on RadioKL.Hr in Croatia, with regular international guest contributions from foreign music enthusiasts on the horizon. Arvo also writes music-oriented articles as well as making music alongside some of Chicago's experimental luminaries. For the inauguration of WLUW's DJ Spotlight Series, he dusted off the crate in the attic to bring you selections from the unseen. The request line is 773-508-WLUW or IM to AIM using "wluwonairdj".
Los Iniciados - La Marca De Anubis (DRO)
"La Marca De Anubis" is a 1982 "minimal wave" concept album having something to do with Ancient Egypt. What's interesting is that while they had a more than competent female singer (see track 11), they usually chose to have men sing on this album in a way that most people must assume is just plain goofy. It's hard to tell if this album is satirical or dead serious with song names like "The Man With No Name" and "I Am The Void". Regardless of the aforementioned, there are some pretty eloquent moments, and a fair amount of instrumental interludes that will bring the Residents to mind. Like the Residents, Los Iniciados were a masked performance art band who rotated members frequently and never identified themselves. However, it is assumed that they were mainly comprised as a side project of "El Aviador Dro" a synth punk band that more or less flourished in Spain from 1978-2006.
Best: 8, 11, 12
Profanity: None
1. Obertura 2. La Marca De Anubis 3. La Comitiva Celeste 4. Meritatón y el Nilo 5: Isis y Osiris 6: Resurrección 7. Atlas 8. Mantis Religiosa 9. Ella es intangible (The Man With No Name) 10. El Hombre Sin Nombre 11. Peter Pan 12. Soy El Vacío (I Am The Emptiness/The Void)
Gandalf - S/T (Sundazed)
This album was originally released by Capitol Records, who made the band change their name from "the Rahgoos" to Gandalf in 1967, and then packed the wrong record in their sleeve for the first pressing in 1968. This damaged the outfit's career and, to add insult to injury, they were hardly promoted at all once that botched batch saw recall. While many reviews talk about baroque and classical, I don't get much of that imagery when I listen to this record. There are harpsichords and organs in there but I think of more of a serious, depressing Addams Family character more than some stuffy guy in a powdered wig. What I hear is a delicately reverb-laden mood album that is both melancholy and epic in its reach. There are a few original songs here, but most of this album is made up of covers that all seem to be internalized and made personal, placed in a sequence that is flawless from beginning to end. They cover more than a few songs that were at least 20-25 years old at the time, but give them all a feel which is still timeless to my ears. The beauty of it is that I can't tell which are covers and which are not half the time - a testament to their style and talent.
Here we have an exceptional example of basement mud, 4 track sound-- casio/feedback/guitar fuzz/tape hiss/ upbeat lo-fi drum machine punk, shredded to a degree that baffled pressing plants. Clever keyboard melodies are crammed into hi speed minute long songs about love and ooze. Rancid Hell Spawn is headed by Charlie Chainsaw, who started "Chainsaw" magazine in 1977 with a typewriter that had a broken "N" button. Therein he would publish interviews with unknown punk bands, draw sick cartoons, and reproduce images out of medical books from the '20s. All of Rancid Hell Spawn's records have cut/paste text with incredibly bizarre images, and they are still available through Charlie's imprint, Wrench Records, in existence for more than 20 years. I am under the suspicion that all of the recordings themselves were done by Charlie alone, although the "band" is rumored to be getting back together. "Chainsaw Masochist" is their "personal favorite"... ..."now with more distortion"! I've also included a favorite rare track called "Born Without A Head".
Best: 2, 4, 7
Profanity: None that I'm aware of
1 Chainsaw Masochist 1:43 2 Android Pup 2:21 3 Cirrhotic Neurotic 1:30 4 Excess Is Never Enough 1:57 5 Dead Today, Hip Hip Hooray 0:54 6 Zombie Girl 1:39 7 My Pet Corpse 1:54 8 Hippie Fat 1:22 9 Stomach Pump Rock 1:17 10 Gobbling Foul 1:08 11 Eat My Cigar 0:49 12 Notting Hill Carnivore 1:46 13 Assassin Bug 1:07 14 Pigsty Of Love 1:43 15 Croydonian Institute Blues 1:51 16 Dripping Off The Wall 1:19 17 Listerine Pissup 1:15 18. Born Without A Head (from "Nothing To Believe In!" comp) 2:10
GA'AN - S/T (From Self-Released Cassette)
Call me quick to categorize, but I'd say that this stuff is heavily influenced by 70s prog rock. I've dabbled in trying to find the goods within that "genre", and I've come up with a lot of lengthy solos on the fringes of disco, among other perfectly fine things. Being that "progressive" is a difficult umbrella to swim under, I wonder if there is some kind of contemporary neo-prog movement flourishing under my radar. Anyhow, GA'AN (featuring members of Oakeater, Fielded, and Panicsville) has distilled what it is that I was looking for, it's not a deductive carrion of derivatives; As far as I'm concerned, they have the market cornered. The tape is like a geiser of complex incantations spewed forth straight from out of the earth. There's no guitar to be found, only a bass and a healthy amount of shimmering synthesizers, sometimes sounding like Tibetan monks or an alien Celesta. Seth Sher traded in the oil drum and the pots and pans of his former band, Coughs, for a conventional drum kit to bang away on, at elaborate time signatures that I will never understand. Lindsay Powell bellows out non-words or muffled cryptology as if she were a one woman choir performing an aria. The whole thing has a battle-worn triumphant vibe to it, like the soundtrack to some lost foreign film set in the desert. Note: "I of Infinite Forms" part one and two only seems to be cut for continuity on their tape release. Part one leaves the listener hanging by itself in my opinion. According to their demo CDR, I'd guess that it is intended to be played in its entirety.
Best: 5, 1, 2
Profanity: None
1. Chasmaeon 2. Living Tribunal 3. I of Infinite Forms Part 1 4. I of Infinite Forms Part II (side B) 5. Servant Eye 6. Vultures of The Horn
Diatric Puds & The Blobettes - Mutant Dinner Party
Diatric Puds & The Blobettes wear buggly-eyed monster masks and zombie make up while they do Franken-fried 60's type shooby dooby horror songs, complete with screams of fright, pitch bent vocals, scary sound effects, and giddy, wiggly synth bass lines. Headed by Count Loachfillet, a well known composer in the globular goblin guts gobbledy gook genre, Puds have become the hip new thing on the mutant scene while maintaining an aura of mystery and intrigue. Their discography is sparse, scattered throughout limited cassette compilations and short-run lathe cut records or CDRs. Everything I've heard thus far is absolutely top-shelf, and with my DJ spotlight entry I asked them to put together a nice delicacy for the listeners of WLUW. All of this is pretty much out of print or as yet unreleased. A soundtrack to your cannibal feast! Note: Track 8 is a cover of Vernon Green & The Phantoms.
Best: 3, 4, 8
Profanity: None
1. Cutting Room Floor Capers Part 1 2. In Moom's New Lull (w/ Herb Diamante) 3. Ghoul Tide Carols a)the count's invisible powder b) crawlin' right along c) itching powder lip gloss 4. Party of Two (Dinner For One) 5. Asphalt Hymnal 6. Curse of the Haunted Jukebox 7. Cutting Room Floor Capers Part 2 8. Sweet Breeze (featuring Elmer D.) 9. The Weird Watusi Variations
At present time there is an error with the recording of this show that I will see if I can fix later. But you can listen to shards of Collage Radio on the media player below
Stock, Hausen & Walkman - Jumped Up, Little Start People Like Us/Irene Moon/Evolution Control Committee - ABC Radio National, Sydney, Australia Stock, Hausen & Walkman - Untitled from "Hairballs" Value Village People - Somewhere Over The River
Tape-Beatles - Education of The Will Buchanan & Goodman - Flying Saucer Pts 1 & 2 Tape-Beatles - I Can't Help You At All, Sorry Negativland - 180-G, A Big 10-8 Place Pt 2 Wayne Butane - Six Flags Over Auschwitz Tape-Beatles - Man of To-Morrow Orchid Spangiafora - Mondo Stupid
Cassetteboy - Joliver Daniel Steven Crafts - Snake Oil Symphony Pt 1 Value Village People - The Gentle Art of Verbal Abuse Broken Penis Orchestra - Timothy Leary Dreams In His Death Bed
Nurse With Wound - You Walrus Hurt The One You Love Evil Moisture - Danseuses Etoiles Mixed Band Philanthropist - Those Who Kissed Now Wept, Those Who Wept Now Sang The Negative Beatles - Onion Strings (cut short)
Wobbly - Yyyoooooo, Yyooooohhh, Yoooooh, Yyyyyyyyyooooh,Property, Yyyyy, Aaaaaaaahhhh, Yoyoyo C'mon / Ha Ha, Yho Yo, Man Hand In It. Thant Tessman - Super James (from WFMU's The Sixty Second Song Remix Contest) Plunderphonic - Black -/- Brown The Beachles (Clayton Counts) - Don't Talk (Get Better)
Amphibious Gestures - Cataclismic -/- Arachnid Arcade - Hairloom Gang (from Triskaidekaphobia) Burden of Friendship - Excerpt from Now Blood Now Water! Illusion of Safety - Fade 'N Die Different Dentist - Spoiler* -/- Beta Cloud - Wind Blown* -/- To Live and Shave In LA - Ratteschrett (from Triskaidekaphobia) Étant Donnés - Transparent Nature Iannis Xenakis - Kraanerg Section 17 Dave Phillips - Dogs (Schimpfluch Commune Int.) Brion Gysin, W.S.Burroughs*, Stilluppsteypa, Aalfang Mit Pferdekopf - Archive Illusion of Safety - Haydn and the Jets
Tentatively, A Convenience - Sequences Sampled #01 The Books - The Word God Henry Jacobs - Sound For Radio -/- Failures -/- Hello Fatty Jubbo - C'Mon Marianne TODRA Productions - No Commercial Potential in 60 Seconds (from WFMU's The Sixty Second Song Remix Contest) Dave Phillips - Bea (from IIIII) Valerio Cosi - Saxomoog In A Weird Mood -/- SoftServe - SquealBeat (from Triskaidekaphobia)
Merzbow - Mortegage Inc. Batztoutai Gary Kail & Zurich 1916 - Media Saturation Étant Donnés - La Vue A
Christian Marclay - Louis Armstrong John Cage - Williams Mix The Bran Flakes - Can't You Dig The Sunshine Dame Darcy and the Helpless Suckling Whelps - Little Red Riding Hood PDQ Bach - New Horizons in Music Appreciation
Shirley and Spinoza - These Guys Satanic Church Radio - "Moon River" 2/22/06 Broadcast Through a Kester Phone-X Filter Spider Compass Good Crime Band - The Melting Pelecanoididae Sweat Gland Organ Plays "The Book Of Hours Benign Tumor"
Twig Harper - Track 03 from "Music for Higher Dimensional Consciousness"
Ennio Morricone - Stress Infinito (from Spasmo)
Dave Phillips - Side 2 from "They Live"
Sound Collage featuring Dave Phillips' Locked groove, AMK - Hi Fi, RRR-100, Yokomono 3, Buy Me Sue Me, NON - Solitude 7", Loops from John Lennon's "God" and "Medley" from Plastic Ono Band Studio Outtakes, Home Recordings etc.
Michael Esposito & FM Einheit - excerpt from "The Sallie House" Working extensively with EVP's relationship to experimental music, Michael combines EVP with field recording and related frequency tones of research sites to provide an audio-archeological picture of both sides of the veil.
Screaming Lord Sutch - Jack The Ripper The Groovie Goolies - One, Two, Three John Zacherle - Hurry, Bury, Baby Gene Moss - Drac The Knife Don Hinson & His Rigamorticians - Riboflavin Flavored, Non Carbonated, Poly Unsaturated Blood Gene Simmons - Haunted House
Count Lorry & The Biters - Frankenstein Stomp Tony & The Monstrosities - Igor's Party Ding and Bat - Hearse on A Safari James Weldon Johnson - Dry Bones Judy Garland - The Purple People Eater Sheldon Allman - Children's Day at The Morgue They're Coming to Get You Trailer
"The Mummy" Radio Spot Bob McFadden - I'm A Mummy Jimmy Castor - The Mummy Hot Blood - Soul Dracula
Whodini - Haunted House of Rock Fresh Prince & DJ Jazzy Jeff - Nightmare on My Street The Fat Boys - Are You Ready For Freddy? Bloodbats - Chillin In The Morgue
William Castle - The Tingler *short screaming sound effects collage* King Horror - Loch Ness Monster Electric Hellfire Club - Bela Lugosi's Dead Gerard McMann - Cry Little Sister Diatric Puds & The Blobettes - Ghoul Tide Carols: a) the Count's Invisible Powder b) Crawlin' Right Along c) Itching Powder Lip Gloss d) Mutant Dinner Music - Party of Two Al Zanino - The Vampire Speaks
The Spits - Spend the Night in a Haunted House Siouxsie & The Banshees - Halloween Ramones - Pet Cemetary Roky Erickson - If You Have Ghosts The Kinks - Wicked Annabella Heinz - Big Fat Spider The Alien Trailer Sebastian Peabody - Grave in the Desert Shakey Todd - The Cool Ghoul Andrew Gold - Spooky Scary Skeletons
Vic Mizzy (RIP) - Lurch's Theme Ferrante & Teicher - The Man From Mars The Spooks - Spook Walks Unknown Artist - I'm A Ghost The Munsters - At Home with The Munsters New Mayfair Dance Orchestra - The Haunted House Panicsville - Paura Nella Citta Dei Morti Viventi (Fear In the City Of the Living Dead Men)
Joseph LoDuca - Ascent/Inflection (from Evil Dead) Gene Moore - Dark Entry (from Carnival of Souls) Trevor Duncan - "Grip of the Law" from Plan 9 from Outer Space Jerry Warren - Main Theme from Teenage Zombies (1959) Human Waste Project - Graverobbers from Mars The Mad Daddy - Stubbily McGonster
Big Bee Kornegay - At The House of Frankenstein Scotty MacGregor & His Spooks - I'm A Monster Don Sullivan - Giant Gila Monster (Laugh, Children, Laugh) The Braineaters Trailer Count Chocula intro Alfred Hitchcock & John Allen- Jimmy Takes Vanishing Lessons Andrew Lles - All Dead (Aversion) Diabolos Rising - Die Elektrischen Vorspiele
Anton Szandor LaVey - Satanic Mass (Excerpt) Disneyland Haunted Mansion Sound Effects Gaylord Carter - Otherworldly Music Mort Garson AKA Lucifer - Incubus (Sound Collage begins featuring:) Kid Stuff Repertory Company - Witchcraft Turmoil In The Toybox - They Play All My Light Rock Favorites
Louise Huebner - Orgies - A Tool of Witchcraft ENDVRA - Left Hand Path of the Dead Hans Grusel - The Mask/Eyes of Satan Hula - untitled A4 from Shadowland Vincent Price - How To Raise The Dead Okkulte Stimmen - Mediale Musik: Recordings Of Unseen Intelligences 1905-2007 Iris Biralli Boraso - Stimme Des Materialisierten Geistes "Hänschen" Wärhend Einer Séance Mit Dem Medium Iris Biralli Boraso Aus Sao Paulo Aleister Crowley - The Call Of The First And Second Aethyr, Enochian Version Various Scary Music Sounds Sun City Girls - Song for A Dead Breath Coil - Broccoli
Big long scary sound collage (warn your cats!)
Behind DJ throughout: Vic Mizzy - Jeepy Creepers Lounge Lizards - Scary Children Elliot Goldenthal - Lestat's Recitative Paul Dunlap - I Was A Teenage Werewolf (Theme Medley) Benjamin Frankel - Curse of the Werewolf Suite Vic Mizzy - Haunted Organ
Old Time Radio - Suspense - The Pit and The Pendulum - Vincent Price
Spook Loops
DJ QBOT was kind enough to kick things off for me before I got there:
Ambassador 21: Fat In Fire The Fiends: The Addams Family Theme Marilyn Manson: This Is Halloween Faith & The Muse: The Unquiet Grave Snog: Hooray! Mx-80: Theme From Halloween Janus: Klotz am Bein Dave Edwards: The Creature From The Black Lagoon
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