Kill Ugly Radio Presents: Thanks for Nothing

Here’s a Thanksgiving blast from Kill Ugly Radio’s past. A bit dated, but aren’t you thankful that Bush isn’t president anymore?

Not quite the mix of angry political stuff and comedy that I’ve been putting together for the last few years and stuffing in the same Crass-like CD sleeve, complete with Gee Vaucher inspired artwork and distributing to like-minded partisans. I’m sick of Dubya jokes, and now that he’s a lame bird, he defies all attempts at parody. Not that he doesn’t make the appearance. Like an uncle that you wish wouldn’t stop by for Thanksgiving supper, yet does- he’s here. But don’t worry, part two is more upbeat- just in time for when the tryptophane kicks in, so does the music.

Playlist:

1. Firesign Theater- $100 Ben
2. William S. Burroughs – Thanksgiving Prayer
3. Doris Day – Que Sera Sera
4. Contemporary Casuals – Thanksgiving
5. Metal Urbaine – Panik
6. Eric Satie – Furniture Music
7. George Bush – My Message Today
8. Noam Chomsky – Why Do They Hate Us?
9. Negativland – The Bottom Line
10. Brian Eno – Variation on Canon D
11. 1984 – Miniluv/The Future
12. Noam Chomsky – Torture
13. Noam Chomsky – Corporate Feeding Frenzy
14. Coldcut – Everything is Under Control
15. Emergency Broadcast Network – Get Down (ver. 1.5)
16. Delkom – Superjack-Delkom
17. End. – To Hell With Everyone
18. Laibach – War (Methods of Prevention Mix)
19. UN – Theme from the Project for the New American Century
20. UN – Wargasm!
21. The Fugs – Nothing
22. The Dicks – Bourgeois Fascist Pig
23. Mike Patton – Porno Holocaust
24. Firesign Theater – Sleep
25. Hawkwind – The Watcher

Dedicated to the memory of Mystery Science Theater’s Turkey Day Marathons, which gave my brother and I something to watch instead of football on Thanksgiving.

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Kill Ugly Thanksgiving.mp3 (60 mins. 54.6 MB)

Show from 11/19/09

Tonight I played a truly random bag’o tracks. The only last minute substitution was a track by Master Musicians of Joujouka, in honor of the passing of their oldest member, Mallim Ali Abdeslam El Attar (he was 100!), after Frank Rynne contacted me this afternoon to tell me of his death. May he be at peace. Unfortunately, I had not one MMoJ CD in my crate or on my laptop and had to play something from the controversial ‘95 reissue of The Pipes of Pan.
Fun show, though. I played some really heavy electronica and some fun percussion-based songs, as well as an album I’ve been looking for for a while – John Somebody by Scott Johnson.

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Playlist
(Artist – Track – Album)
Walter Murch/George Lucas – What’s Wrong – THX-1138 OST
Philip Glass/DJ Spooky – Music in 5ths – Sound Unbound
Master Musicians of Joujouka – Your Eyes Are Like a Cup of Tea – Brian Jones Presents The Pipes of Pan At Jajouka (95 reissue)
Gavin Bryars – Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet (three loops simultaneously)
Robert Fripp – Midnight Blue – Sometimes God Hides
The Pain Teens – Noh Jam – Born in Blood
Alejandro Jodorowski – The Tarot – Holy Mountain
Mothers of Invention – The Chrome-plated Megaphone of Destiny – Lumpy Money
Mothers of Invention – Local Butcher – Lumpy Money
Gadgetto – Threat to Nominal Youth – Gadgetto.com
Carl Crack – What’s Going On? – Black Arc
Venetian Snares – Cheatin’ – Making Orange Things
Ikue Mori – Redeye Skimmer – Class Insecta
David Thomas – Crickets in the Flats – Sound of Sand
Scott Johnson – John Somebody pts. 1-3 – John Somebody
Jim Larrance – Ask Your Doctor – cut-up sound.blogspot.com
Jim Larrance – Ultra 0901 – cut-up sound.blogspot.com
Missing Persons – Destination Unknown – Greatest Hits
Richard Linklater – Crazy woman/”you should stop…” – Slacker
Frank Zappa – Packard Goose/Dale Bozzio’s soliloquy – Joe’s Garage acts II – III
Foetus – Hammer Falls – Gash
Magic Carpathians Project – Dark – Ethnocore 3 VAK
un – Hard-Drive Crash Opera I – IV
Savage Republic – Real Men – Tragic Figures
New Order – Everything’s Gone Green – 12″
Bill Laswell/Otomo Yoshihide/Yoshigaki Yasuhiro – Duck – Soup
Starlight Children’s Chorus – E.T. I Love You – E.T. I Love You

Morgan Fisher (with John White)

ZG Magazine 1981

Something I bought from the Richard Francis estate sale:

A curious little cassette from electronic music genius and New Wave impresario Morgan Fisher (he did the wonderful compilation Miniatures and the not-quite-as-wonderful Miniatures 2 a decade or so later) with composer John White and Gavin Bryars.
Here, Fisher attributes his contribution on side one to ‘The Hybrid Kids‘. His stuff is quirky and odd and is entirely composed of cover versions of other people’s songs, almost all done in a raucous, over-the-top fashion.

John White’s music on side two consists of a piece that was performed live at the Miniatures Launch Party and is much more pastoral and mellow.

This was apparently an offering with a short-run publication called ZG Magazine:

ZG Magazine was a short-lived British magazine that covered recent developments in modern art and music, and a cassette came with each issue. For their third issue they invited Morgan to provide some music and he decided to use material that had been recorded in connection with two of his recent albums. The “Play Loud” side includes demos, remixes and out-takes from “Claws”. “Play Quiet” was a fascinating collage of remixed material from “Slow Music” plus six pieces by The Nordic Reverie Trio, who had performed at the “Miniatures” launch party. The trio’s music was composed by John White (a contemporary classical composer who had made an album for Brian Eno’s Obscure Records label), who also played, and the other two members were Gavin Bryars (now world famous for his lush minimal orchestral music, and a participant in both of the “Miniatures” albums) and Dave Smith.

 

Great New Wave-era fun.

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An Ugly Radio Announcement

Hi folks,
There won’t be any Kill Ugly Radio Adventure Hours for this and next week.
I have been asked to give a presentation on sampling and audio collage at Washington State University and am getting everything prepared for it.

In the meantime, I’m accumulating lots of new and new-to-me music, so you have that to look forward to.
I’ll be back doing my regular slot on the 29th (you can bet it’ll be Halloween/Samhain related) with a new show and I am going to be doing semi-regular slots over at KBOO in the rotating avant garde block on Monday evenings.

I’m also gratified to see that lots of folks seem to be finding the show archives and are listening and downloading. That’s why I do it.

Thanks for stopping by, reading, listening.

Non-Ugly Radio from Sir David Raffin

Raconteur and world’s youngest curmudgeon David Raffin recorded a radio show at KAOS in Olympia and sends it our way as a substitute radio show for y’all that eagerly flip to this site for a new show or subscribe via iTunes.
Here it is.

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Show From 10/16/2009
Host: David Raffin, Hedonist, Heretic, Radical Philologist
Recorded at KAOS, Olympia

Woody Woodpecker Song
Allen Ginsberg – Birdbrain
Talking/ Tilting at Windmills
Art Attacks – Neutron Bomb
Jello Biafra & Mojo Nixon – Love Me, I’m a Liberal
Talking/ Saddle Up!
Anton LeVay – Satan Takes a Holiday
Tiny Tim – Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Bing Crosby – Hot Time in the Town of Berlin
Venus Ray – Voyage to the Moon
Suburban Lawns – Anything
Sponge – Big Big World
Saccharin Trust – Effort To Waste
Peter Ivers – Oo Oo Ee Ee
Talking/ Opera & Pyramid Schemes
Of Montreal – Gallery Piece
NoMeansNo – More ICBMs
Helen Keller – Surfin’ with Steve & Edi Amin
Mission for Christ – Pennies from Hell
Flipper – Ha Ha Ha
Story – Clerks, from Scenic Cesspools
Camper Van Beethoven – Might Makes Right
Lowney’s Chocolates – The By Cracky Beat
Lowney’s Chocolates – Gikki/Gong
Joy and The Boys – Meet Me In Seattle (At The Fair)
Leningrad Cowboys – Happy together
Jerks – Hold My Hand
The Flys – Just For Your Sex
Johnny Whitaker – Friends (Sigmund & The Sea Monsters)
Geza X – Isotope Soap
Talking/ Causality / VooDoo / Freedom
J Church – Tightrope
J Church – Lost In A Silent Stare
Pete Seeger – The Titanic
Talking/ Goodnight
Screeching Weasel – Goodbye To You

I Found a Sound Archive and Playlist

I Found a Sound: A Brief History of Sampling and Appropriation in Music

Show from Monday October 5th, 2009

Dr. Zomb and RefuDJ ManRich present a chronological look at sampling, from it’s roots in Musique Concrete and Avant Garde, to the pioneering lp by Brian Eno and David Byrne, and on to culture jamming artists such as Negativland, John Oswald, Evolution Control Committee, as well as Turntablism in Hip Hop and finally, recent Mashup masterpieces.

Plunder Radio!!!

Fun show. We helped raise a few bucks for KBOO and presented in rough chronological order a somewhat abbreviated overview of sampling and appropriation in music. It’s amazing where the road will lead when you get two DJs in the room with pickings from their respective collections. We ended up continually surprising each other when one record from one of us would dovetail with something in another’s crate, with little or no pre-planning.

Dr. Zomb and I would like to thank all the folks who provided or suggested material, among them DJ Broken Window, Rolf Semprebon, Marc De Gierre, Mssr. Chris Merrick and more…

I would also like to dedicate this show to KBOO’s Papa Dada, the late, great Richard Francis, who blew my teenage mind by playing historic cut-up and tape art music on his show all those years ago.

Listen to part one

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Listen to part two

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Playlist below the fold…

No archive of this week’s show

No recording of tonight’s show (due to a fuck-up by yours truly), which is just as well as technical problems in the studio made it not so swell…

There was a show. It was part two of Musically Speaking. It was ok, but chaos due to a completely fubar air-room made it frustrating and not very fun.
I might reconstruct it as a playlist and upload it later, but probably won’t get around to it because I am busy preparing for an upcoming special on KBOO.

Sorry about that.

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Richard Francis ~ 1948 – 2009

As I started writing this, Richard Francis, host of A Different Nature, was in a medically-induced coma after suffering a heart attack on the eve of his last show.
He didn’t show up before the broadcast, which alarmed those that knew him well; Richard was a meticulous planner and was always early for his shows, often polishing up the details up to the last minute.
When he failed to show up – most of the show being pre-prepared by other participants, no one had to be told that the show must go on while a friend traced his route back to his apartment and finally calling area emergency rooms.
Her worst fears were realized when she learned that he was indeed in Emmanuel Hospital’s ICU, having collapsed in a market.
As of this writing, he’s unresponsive to any stimuli and shows no brain activity.
The plan was to slowly take him out of the coma to assess the damage while his family descended on Portland from the Midwest.

Richard is KBOO’s Dean of Avant-garde and Surrealism. He’s hosted his program of adventurous music since the  early Eighties and each program is carefully planned like a class curriculum. I’ve been fortunate to have listened to it since I’ve been in High School, which is to say well over 20 years.
I feel like I’ve gotten quite an education from Professor Francis. He turned lucky and brave listeners onto Musique Concrète, historical Dada recordings and writings, early electronic music, environmental recordings and so much more.
I remember what an epiphany it was hearing Lucier’s I Am Sitting In A Room on Richard’s show all those years ago and him explaining what it was about and why it was important. It changed my view of art and music forever.
He also curated the 2001 Dada Fest marathon and was Field Marshall for its five-day revival in 2008.  Richard fearlessly led us into much mayhem on that hot summer and I was fortunate to have participated in a few of those events. The atmosphere of surreal creativity was most contagious.
He’s also largely responsible for the considerable collection of Avant-Gard music – both historic and modern – in KBOO’s labyrinthian library. He has an encyclopedic knowledge of strange and experimental music, which he loved sharing with people. When he flies away, it’ll be as if a giant museum burned to the ground.
I can’t imagine KBOO without him.

And so it goes…
I just received the news from Daniel Flessas that his family and the doctors thought it was in the best interests of Richard’s wishes – given his situation – that he be taken off of life support:

“At about 4 pm today, the family has decided to take Richard off the respirator, and it will be just a matter of time then how long his body will stay alive. The neurologist and others have decided that that the higher function areas of his brain, which made Richard “Richard”, his ability to think, to know, to communicate, what made up his very identity, seems to be not coming back. There is a question of how much time his brain was without oxygen, unconscious at the convenience store, before the response team arrived. But he has not been responsive since then (Monday late afternoon).(…)
But Richard is having some new experience without us, has moved into it now, and has left this one, whether we’re ready or not.”

I’m not and am not sure when I will be. I can only say thank you, Richard, for one hell of an education and for showing me how to bravely plow forward for art.
Peace.
Rich

Show from 7/30/09

Tonight’s show.
Not a lot of pre-planning this week; I’ve been at the beach with the missus, where it was about 20 degrees cooler than up here.
Some beachy ambiences, courtesy of a field recording I made at Rockaway Beach OR and some songs that sometimes run through my head while walking in the surf.

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Playlist (Artist/Track/Album)

Walter Murch – George Lucas – What’s Wrong? THX-1138 OST
Brian Eno – On Some Faraway Beach – Here Come the Warm Jets
Roxy Music – Avalon – Best of Roxy Music
Free Design – Kites Are Fun! – Kites Are Fun!
Passengers – Beach Sequence – Original Soundtracks
Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians – Heaven – Fegmania
Thought Gang – A Real Indication – Fire Walk With Me OST
Billy Holiday – Let’s Dream in the Moonlight – Best of
Friends of Dean Martin – Summertime – Livin’ Lounge
Wax Audio – Pink Jack – Mashed in Plastic
Angelo Badalamenti – Pink Room – Fire Walk With Me OST
Enoch Light and the Light Brigade – Swamp Fire – Dimension 3
The Melody Four – Star Trek – TV? – Mais Oui!
Steve Beresford – Que Sera, Sera – Eleven Songs for Doris Day
The Melody Four – Mash – TV? – Mais Oui!
Steve Beresford – Sentimental Journey – Eleven Songs for Doris Day
Marc Ribot and Henry Grimes – Invocation – Live AMR Jazz Festival 2005
Marc Ribot and Henry Grimes – Landsome Road – Live AMR Jazz Festival 2005
Marc Ribot and Henry Grimes – Spirits – Live AMR Jazz Festival 2005
Go Home Productions – GHP Goes Bananas – www.gohomeproductions.co.uk
Rob Swift – Cheers – Bird Up!
Hal Wilner’s Whoops! I’m an Indian – Salt Peanuts – Bird Up!
Medeski, Martin and Wood – Philly Cheese Blunt – The Dropper
Dan the Automator – Perhaps – Bird Up!
Jim Larrance – God in a Linoleum Roll
The Bran Flakes – I Wonder Where My Grandma Is?- I Have Hands!
The Bran Flakes – Mr and Mrs Footsie – I Have Hands!
Bongwater – The Porpoise Song – Double Bummer
The Beach Boys – Ganz Alle -
The Beatles – Gib Mir Deine Hand – Das Deutsche Album
The Temptations – Mein Geil
The Children’s Starlight Chorus – E.T., I Love You – E.T., I Love You and Other Extra-Terrestrial Songs