Mustard Relics Industrial Mix(es)

This is one of the coolest animated gifs I have ever run across, wish I remembered where I got it so I could give the creator credit, which I shamefully never do anyway. I guess a big fat, all encompassing, thank you is in order, to those responsible for all the images/gifs I have used over the years.

Bad dreams lately, which has left me a little tired during the day. Nothing wrong with a nap during my lunch hour is there? I don't have those frightful waking up terrified dreams (I'm a horror buff, I find those intriguing), I get more of a kind of weak feeling of inadequacy from my dreams, waking up disappointed in myself. Maybe that says something about how I feel about myself, but in all honesty, when I'm awake I don't really care about that on a day to day basis. My regrets deal more with how I failed to sock a few idiots in the jaw that deserved it over the years. Call it cowardice or call it trying to be diplomatic, my path these past several years is one of minding my own business. I regret not being a better Father to my son and a better partner to the ladies in my life. BUT, there's also plenty I don't regret, unfortunately that's not what I dream about. Maybe it's all the industrial music I've been listening to.

As I've been saying, been on an industrial music kick/quest, educating myself in a genre that I knew very little about, other than SPK and Kraftwerk. Still a little hazy in the art of putting the music into the sub-genres within the broad framework of industrial...dark ambient, power electronics, Japanoise, neofolk, electro-industrial, electronic body music, industrial hip hop, industrial rock, industrial metal, industrial pop, martial industrial, power noise, and witch house.  I guess what they all have in common is some kind of electronic manipulation and composition of sound.  I am most drawn to the rhythmic sounds with a harsh edge and some kind of vocalizations...I didn't stray far from my roots, pretty much early SPK-ish stuff.  Tons of good listening to be found, amazing really, but I had to suffer through lots of shit too. You know thinking about SPK I wanted to share the most essential compilation of their earliest recordings, way out of print and when you can find it for sale it's in the 100's of $$$. Not going to name it, because I don't want the mp3 collectors to get their hands on it from a casual search, but it's 5 LPs worth of some of their best stuff and for those loyal MR friends, YOU NEED THIS!!! (600+ mb so it's a big file, be patient, it's worth it) SPK So in listening to all that Industrial music, maddening after a while, I thought of a few friends who might appreciate a mix, like the old cassette dubbing days, of some of my favorite stuff. What you get is old and new, just under 80 minutes (about 100 mb) a peice so perfect for a CD (in the iPod! age, even those are becoming dated)... from 1976 to 2013. A couple a sites that were very useful in my search (although I probably visited a hundred different sites, which resulted in several vinyl purchases...hint, hint). BB'R666 (mix 3 is almost exclusively from this incredible site, you must go there!) no longer forgotten music The Thing On The Doorstep

Here we go...

Mustard Relics Industrial Mix 1 Mustard Relics Industrial Mix 2 Mustard Relics Industrial Mix 3

ENJOY!!! ... or whatever you do to dark, disturbing music.

Here's a couple of tunes off the mixes that I uploaded to youtube...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b5wCUF1Bc4]

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lbFprkVVFg]

Tyrranicide - Hiding Under White demo cassette

Even the Beatles are celebrating in the streets with the death of the Iron Lady. Hats off to her as so much of what I listened to in the early 80s would not have existed without her.  She was something to bitch about but I'm sure if she hadn't of been there we would have found something else to bitch about.  We're all just bitches.

You know on top of being a burnout, I'm a little mental, or as one of my internet buddies called me, neurotic. I have to state that every once in a while for people who deal with me, like the warning label on a bottle of pills. In this internet age, I'm still getting used to email as a means of communication. I do much better in person, still not great and still mental, but at least I can read tone, facial expressions and body language. When I send out an email, it's like an invitation and if I don't hear back right away, I start second guessing myself. Well why haven't they written back, did I piss them off, am I being a pest, am I asking too much, etc. Then I'm driven, almost forced by cosmic forces to write back and apologize without knowing what I'm apologizing for. I don't take into account that a person has a life full of goings on, and they get to things as they get to it, pretty much like I do. Hmph...mental. I don't think I'll ever get it.

Here's something to get mental over, let every asshole in the world have access to where you're at and what flowers you have planted in the pot out front over at Show My Street. It seems cute, but big brother really is watching you. I'm in the country enough though, that they don't give you a street view, it's just that birdseye, satellite deal. My internet buddy Sean of the famed, yet deceased, Damaging Noise blog (he has experienced my neurosis) turned me onto some classic mid-80s metal (m/) the other day, by a band I had never heard of, thought I'd share their bitchen-ness... Samhain - Plague Of Messiah While on a metal tip (the main band in this post was as metal as it gets), discovered this Russian forum called Metal Area...tons of listening to bands that you would have otherwise never heard of (or maybe you're in the know and I should say that I would never have heard of). Tons of shitty stuff too, but it's worth it to go through and do some listening. Here's some highlights of my wanderings.. Moss - The Bleeding Years Heaving Sun - Solar Flare Blastpoint Blade of the Ripper - Cast Me In The Fire Ahhh, yes, Tyrranicide (the mid 80's bay area one), been searching for this one forever and finally found it at the above site...I only wish I had this cassette. The last band I was in, Grout, had the pleasure of having Ty on bass, who had, several years earlier, been the bass player for Tyrranicide. Our drummer Steve and Ty were from the fabulous town of Pleasanton. I was told back then that Ty had been in the aforementioned band, but that meant nothing to me and until the other day I had never listened to them. Ty was an incredible bass player and a solid human being, never had a bad word to say about anyone. I left Humboldt before he did, and as we all did, he settled down, had a family and last I heard, is a chef in Napa. Tyrranicide is your proto-typical, mid 80's, thrash/speed metal band, with political lyrics and heavy shredability. Nate at the legendary True Punk & Metal blog had the demo up (and I know it gets old saying this) but the link is dead. Of Tyrranicide he says, "they were writing social/political songs, playing with punk bands, while still waving the flag of long hairism." I'll leave it at that and give you a chance to listen... Hiding Under White Summoned To Die Facing Reality Epilogue Cripple's Revenge

 

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NulLhq4JfYU]

Omar Souleyman - Leh Jani

A buddy of mine put this one up on FB and I was completely blown away. Omar Souleyman is the shit. Just love the singing and noodling music, reminds me of the stuff my Mom was listening to in the late 60s, early 70s, going to the Intersection in the Rampart district of LA. Times were different then. Upon reflection, it makes me angry, the religious extremists of the world, the fundamentalists, the religious right, fascist theologians...this is the dilemma of the present and the bane of the future across the world. I love seeing people freely enjoying their music, celebrating, dancing (and I'll be damned if that shoulder dance thing in this vid is not the coolest move ever).

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgRUHIeaKOk]