Handmedown Satellites - Skeletons

Brand-new HMDS thinger, recorded over the last month or so...

Skeletons

Deutsche Wertarbeit - Deutsch Wertarbeit

Sky LP from 1981. Found it on Saltyka after being tipped off by the blurb in Crack In The The Cosmic Egg, as follows:

The name Deutsche Wertarbeit was the working pseudonym for a one-off project by Dorothea Raukes, the lady synth/keyboardist from Streetmark. The LP she made was mostly of a melodic and sequential type of synth music (performed entirely on Korg equipment) with the accent on rhythm and catchy tunes on most tracks, typical of the early-80's.

Just the sort of underwhelming description I've come to expect from that book, behind which fantastic surprises so often hide. Rest assured that Dorothea gets down with some awesomely triumphant cheese-o-tronic aerobics instructor jams, sorta like the theme from Chariots of Fire for the Westworld set!

Deutsche Wertarbeit

Paul's Sad Bastard Chicken Coop, Inc. - Kick It! The Kickball Album

Hell, yes. A sweet treat from my friend Paul Nixon, who kindly supplied the following information:

Two summers ago I made a kickball album called "Kick It!" which ended up being the last thing that Paul's Sad Bastard Chicken Coop, Inc. would record.

It's the truest Bad On Purpose side-project there is. It was the formula for Bad On Purpose: 1. Write a song title, 2. Press record, 3. Repeat, 4. Repeat.

At 10am I had 9 song titles (one for each inning) and by 3pm I had 9 songs written, recorded, mixed and burned to CD-R.

So, thanks to some Casio magic, some stolen Beastie Boys samples and
Tommy Lasorda samples, and special guest Pat kicking out some old school
rhymes, the resulting album was possible.

The tracklisting is as follows:
1st Inning: Kick It!
2nd Inning: Christ Punchers Are Go!
3rd Inning: Kickball Love
4th Inning: Fuck Orange
5th Inning: Shake It Off
6th Inning: Hep Cove
7th Inning: 7th Inning Shotgun
8th Inning: Livin' The Dream
9th Inning: Play Of The Day

Though one song was used in the trailer for the documentary about our league, "Left Field", the scene in the movie that used the song ended up on the cutting room floor.

It's not that good, but it is sort of funny with the right kind of ears.

I made 5-10 copies and distributed them anonymously at kickball games. Like, "here, have this cd". I was hoping it would become this legendary thing and everyone would wonder who did it and then the rumors would start. "I heard he is hung like an ox!", "I heard aliens made it", "I heard he is hung like an alien!", etc.

Then, one Sunday afternoon, a cute girl in kickball shorts would walk up to me, say "I know it was you. I want you to be my husband." and that would be the story of me.

Not the case.

Kick It!

Stitched-Back Foot Airman - Seven Egg-Timing Greats

Continuing the diversion from non-mission statement shares with this mini-LP of highly enjoyable postpunk. Thanks to the deleted blog Feelin' Kinda Froggy for the rip & tipoff.

Seven Egg-Timing Greats

*e* - You Are A Brilliant Flower That Ever Blooms

Elizabeth Hill's second collection of solo recordings. So so good.



my copy had harsh glitchery all over "Meadow Experience" but luckily that track was thrown up here all nice & clean, so I just put it in the .rar instead.

Brilliant Flower

Androids Of Mu - Blood Robots

Oh man. If you've ever wanted to know what Girls At Our Best would sound like jamming with Hawkwind this is for you. Obviously not my rip, but I just had to split up the sides found on Kill Your Pet Puppy because songs like "She is A Boy" and "Bored Housewives" absolutely demand to be put on mix tapes, and I can't find this anywhere else in any format. I can't understand why this is so overlooked. Would love to hear a better rip/actual copy if such a thing exists...

Blood Robots

Paul Yarn Bunkbeds - Poison Socks

An absolute joy, I tell you. Forty little gems of homespun silliness & wonderment.

Poison Socks

hard to pick just a few, but...
Katie's Song
Cut A Potato
I Am So Far Behind

Dan Monaghan - An Ideas cd-r

Yes, this is the blog where "tomorrow" often means "two and a half months from now" or perhaps more!

No real excuses for the absence this time, just the ever-fluctuating motivation levels, I s'pose.



Suddenly I feel like posting again, so for starters please enjoy these gorgeous home recordings by Dan Monaghan, who is/was also in Ears & Eyes. The very kind sort of sound travels that keep me coming back in the wee hours. Bleary-eyed, echo-splashed instrumentals not unlike early Flying Saucer Attack to my ears.

An Ideas

Della Drive & The Dellettes - Live at the Treetop

Many thanks to Paul for this Dellettes set from a Halloween party, 2006. Treetop R.I.P.

Wild!

DeKalb Smells! - Scratch And Sniff Records Compilation cd-r

It really does!



1. Little Headhunter - French Fries
2. Fusco - Gus
3. Pinstripe Mind - (C)old War Fight Song
4. Icarus Syndrome - Erica
5. Della Drive - Cheeseburger Samba
6. Shuffleplay & The Mutations - Potential Energy
7. Justin Bailey - Comfort Rock
8. Handmedown Satellites - You Were Sleeping
9. Horseparts - Breadwinner
10. Window Well - Rain On Parade
11. Candy Sweat - Paperweight
12. Crusher - A British Mile
13. Coin Operated - Slattyak!
14. The Variable Why - I HATE My Computer
15. Things Falling Apart - He Is Cured By Faith Who Is Sick Of Fate
16. Gaslight Gaslight - Untitled
17. Secret People - Battle Of The Clones
18. Hilo - I Got Convoy

Fusco - Fusco EP

I recall stopping in at 7th Street Space one night to find Paul Kim, arms and torso completely wrapped in some sort of packing tape by mischievous, whiskey-drunk bandmates, still managing to successfully record a guitar solo for one of the songs on this EP.

listen to Sea Breaks

Treefrogs - Front Porch Songs C-24

Title says it all, yes?

FRONT PORCH SONGS



Only about the most perfect song ever written
This one's somewhere up there too

Della Drive - Maywood Junk EP

Sweet and sun-soaked EP from the short lived but super-fun first Della Drive band, country stylee.

Maywood Junk



listen to the title track
listen to Curse Of The Kish

Lonely Trailer - I Know What I'm Doing, But You Don't Think So

Amidst all the early-oughts DeKalbiana saturating most recent posts I'd almost forgotten my other semi-conscious agenda for this blog, that being to share a certain amount of under-appreciated music from the collection, especially some hard-to-find tapes.

Lonely Trailer is a Champaign-Urbana band that existed from roughly 1987 to 1996. I started my relentless stalking of the C-U scene just a hair too late, and regret having never gotten to see them to this day. This might be my favorite album of theirs and has alot of great songs that can't be found on the 2 CD retrospective on Mud records.

This post also must be considered topical (cringe) as these guys have regrouped and are playing tomorrow night in Champaign, alongside The Poster Children and The Outnumbered, with, no lie, an after-party set by Bad Flannel, if that means anything to you. A show I would give three of my littler toes without hesitation to be able to attend! Brokeassedness and mandatory weekend shifts be damned. Instead I've found some consolation ripping this crazy tape and listening to Rick and Rose's podcast about the event with some insightful C-U music history.

I Know What I'm Doing But You Don't Think So



Listen to Face
Listen to Ticket On The Titanic
Listen to Judgment

Hilo - Hilo EP plus Live Assortment

Hilo EP



NB: The original cassette copies of the EP featured a particular live version of "Expungents & Leeches/The Witch" (and sometimes other bonus tracks, varying from copy to copy) that i have been unable to track down. (5/24/02, Attic, anyone?) However, the Prodigal Son version of same is almost as sick if not more so, which of brings us to...

Hilo - Live Assortment

For your amusement, a collection culled from handheld-recorded tapes of two different shows. Desptite my efforts these tracks still ended up incurably loud and of course shitty-sounding, (not that i hold much beef with either attribute, but think of the children!) so I would advise adjusting the volume and levels as needed or desired.

1. Starfruit
2. Should I Call You Zeromus?
3. Saturated
4. Adult Swimmers
5. It's
6. Rob Saves Christmas
7. Magic Bullet
8. Hilo Fanfare
9. I'm An Apostrophe

10. Demographically Yours
11. Mint Soda/Tsunami Wave Train
12. Expungents & Leeches/The Witch
13. I Got Convoy

1-9 recorded at the Brain Basement, DeKalb 6/28/2002 by Elizabeth Hill
10-13 recorded at the Prodigal Son, Chicago 9/02/2002 by Paul Kim