[audio] Skinny Puppy live in Los Angeles, 2023

 Skinny Puppy’s final show. It’s not a proper recording that I normally do. It’s just a bootleg, but I fixed it up as much as I could. Some details in the liner notes-

https://archive.org/details/Skinny-Puppy-live-in-Los-Angeles-2023

[video] Author & Punisher live in Salt Lake City, 19 May 2022 (full set)

 Shortly after I recorded this one, I posted a couple songs to YT, but never the full show. I finally got off my ass and fixed up the whole thing.

I threw on some ridiculous filters on this one, you may or may not like it. Those first two videos are still up on YT if you want to see what it looked like with normal editing.

Tracklist and more details on the YT page.

[video] The Young Gods live in Moscow 1996 (remastered audio and video)

I remastered the audio so now it sounds amazing, and put some crazy filters on the video so now it looks all trippy. Notes and tracklist on the YT page.

update: moving to Archive.org

So now that both HearThis.at and Mixcloud are charging for additional uploads, I’ve decided to take everything over to Archive.org.

All of the shows that I have posted to HearThis and Mixcloud are still posted there and still available to all. But, I won’t be uploading any new recordings to either of those websites.

I have safety copies of all the shows that I have uploaded over the years, so I am now posting them all as 320mbps mp3s to Archive.org. I don’t have any new recordings to post there yet, but when I do, they’ll go there and nowhere else.

I have uploaded only about 30 shows so far, randomly selected. But I’ll add more every day, until I get all ~175 shows posted.

https://archive.org/details/@anders_albers

[audio] Skinny Puppy live in San Francisco, 8 July 1992

Skinny Puppy live on the Last Rights tour, San Francisco, 1992. Back when they were at the height of their darkest, most nightmarish noisescape industrial style. And of course, back when Dwayne was still alive. RIP Dwayne.

Board tape (stereo! no distortion!) landed in my lap recently. So it sounded pretty great in the first place, but as with everything, it needed some substantial work.

For major reconstructions like this, I’ll go so far as to reverse engineer some group multi-track stems (drums, bass, vocals, synths) to give me more control over everything. Definitely the right choice with this one, as the final mix sounds mind-blowing. Especially after I added in crowd sounds.

Unfortunately, this isn’t the complete show. They opened with Addiction and Love in Vein. Addiction didn’t make it onto the original recording at all, and only the last past of Love in Vein did.

Also, Dirty Tricks was actually the first song of the encore, following Left Handshake. The song they played after Dirty Tricks, Testure, for some reason fades out right in the middle of it in the original recording, so I wasn’t able to use that one, either.

Luckily, I was able to save Dirty Tricks by making it the show intro into The Choke.

All love and respect to cEvin, Nivek, and everybody else involved with the band.

Skinny Puppy

Live at The Warfield

San Francisco, California

8 July 1992

0:00 Dirty Tricks

3:34 The Choke

8:44 brap

10:13 Harsh Stone White

14:31 brap

17:35 Tin Omen

22:07 Worlock

27:31 Knowhere?

32:09 Anger

37:08 brap

40:48 VX Gas Attack

46:25 Second Tooth

50:37 Killing Game

54:46 Circustance

59:24 Left Handshake

(audio) Hitori Tori live on the Internet 2020/2021

Hitori Tori gave us two live performances on the internet, one at the end of 2020, one at the end of 2021.

0:00-1:07:30 is from December 2020, called Suck Puck Breakcorona Xmas Stream, obviously for our good friends at Suck Puck Records.

The last 30 minutes is from December 2021, originally called Live for PRSPCT Records, in collaboration with Murder Channel. I suppose I didn't really have to tack on this one on to the other, but I figured why not.

There's at least one, maybe two songs that are repeated between the two shows. I hope that won't offend you too much.

Both of these are still available on YT last I checked, if you want to see him thrash these songs out live.

ooooo, bad news.

I post all my audio recordings to HearThis.at and Mixcloud. I always preferred HearThis, because it looks a whole lot better, and occasionally, Mixcloud would block certain recordings in the US. HearThis has never blocked any of my uploads.

But now, HearThis has told me that if I want to upload any more audio there, I’ll have to pay to upgrade to some higher tier account.

So you know what that means? Abscheid, sayonara, see you later, HearThis.

Obviously, I’ll still leave up what’s already there, but I won’t post any more there. All new posts will go only on Mixcloud.

Speaking of which, I just posted a Hitori Tori show. I’ll write up a post for that one shortly.

https://www.mixcloud.com/humorlessproductions/

[video] Author & Punisher live in SLC, 19 May 2022

Author & Punisher came through town last month. I recorded the show and fixed up these two videos-

[audio] Enduser live in Graz, 28 January 2005

[audio] Xanopticon live on the internet, 25 April 2010

Xanopticon live webcast. I don't remember if there was any special occasion for this performance, or if any other artists played. But this was the only one I recorded. The webcast was fed in mono, which is a bummer. But I put a reverb on it that has a frequency dependent spread to it, so that gives a little bit of a stereo air to it. All the crowd sounds I grabbed from other recordings. They're not fake; they're just not original to this performance.

[audio] Ruby My Dear live on the internet, 1 June 2021

Ruby My Dear live on rinse.fr, 1 June 2021.

Everything's on the internet these days. I am confident that concerts will happen again someday. Maybe not this year. Hopefully next year. Fingers crossed. Until then, I'll just keep scouring the internet for live performances to fix up and post.

This one went pretty much under the radar when it happened, so I post it here.

I bumped up the super extended sub-bass low end a touch. Fire up the subwoofers and see how you like it.

 

mirrored here-

[audio] Not Breathing with cEvin Key live in Los Angeles, 9 February 2011

Not Breathing with special guest cEvin Key live at the El Rey, Los Angeles, 9 February 2011.

This was when NB opened for Meat Beat Manifesto. Special guest cEvin Key of Skinny Puppy sat in with NB. I couldn't tell you what parts he played or what synths he played, but he was out on stage, jammin' along for the entire performance.

I originally gave this recording to Dave, the main guy in NB, shortly after the concert, and he put it up on Bandcamp for a long time. But I see now that he must have taken it down at some point. But I contacted him and he gave me the OK to put it here on my concert recordings blog, so enjoy.

Mirrored here-

[audio] Merzbow live in Vienna, 18 May 2010

Merzbow live at FLUC, Vienna, 18 May 2010.

I posted this one a long time ago, but recently reworked/remixed it. So I deleted the old version and now we have this better version. This is the tour he did with superstar Hungarian drummer Balázs Pándi.

Mirrored here-

[audio] Winterkälte live in San Francisco, 7 December 2008

Winterkälte live at DNA Lounge, San Francisco, 7 December 2008.

(0:00)

(6:33) Nuclear Free Europe

(11:07)

(18:10) DDT

(22:16)

(28:14)

(34:45)

(41:51)

(50:04) Stop Exxon

(56:23)

(1:01:52)

Mirrored here-

[audio] Raxyor live in Prague, 19 June 2010

Raxyor live at Parukarka Bunkr, Prague, 19 June 2010.

I originally posted this Raxyor recording many years ago. But I was recently listening to it at home or maybe in my car, and heard that the files had been corrupted. I thought it was good opportunity to just start from the beginning and do a full re-work, remix and remaster of the recording.

I'm so much better at it now and have so many more tools at my disposal, that anything I re-do from the old days will sound a whole lot better than my first attempt.

Mirrored here-

[audio] Aphex Twin live in Roskilde, 29 June 1997

So this Aphex Twin recording has been floating around the internet for decades. Live performance (back in the good ol' days when Richard used to actually play live, not just dj) from Roskilde Festival in Denmark in 1997, as broadcast on Swedish National Radio.

I saw a recent post on Dark Circle Room (here, where you can download the original tracks that I used for my remaster- darkcircleroom4.blogspot.com/2...e-festival.html) where it is described as the complete performance as opposed to some other versions that have been around for years.

So I downloaded it. The audio from that original broadcast is really good- stereo board feed combined with stereo audience mics for applause, the same way I do all my recordings. And while it does sound very good, once I popped it into my DAW, I saw and heard that it really needed some help. It had a very weak low end and sounded just kinda lifeless, like it had no spark in it at all.

So then I fixed it- pumped some low end back into it, brought some excitement back to the overall sound, did some trickery with the phase and the panning, beefed up the audience sounds a bit.
Roskilde Festival, Roskilde, Denmark, 29 June 1997

0:00 (unknown)

5:55 Bucephalus Bouncing Ball

11:47 To Cure a Weakling Child

17:33 Laughable Butane Bob

23:18 Heliosphan

29:56 Lichen

33:00 Inkey$

35:05 Crappy

40:46 Girl/Boy Song

44:34 Digeridoo

50:46 Come to Daddy
Mirrored here-

[video] Tool 2019-2020 Fear Inoculum Tour multi-cam maxi-cut

I recently finished a relatively major project, and thought I'd let you know about it. It was a hell of a lot of work and took me a hell of a lot of time to do it. Wouldn't have been possible except I have some time these days, now that I'm done with posting concert recordings for the time being, plus this whole work-from-home coronavirus quarantine has me at home a lot with not much to do except find random audio and video projects.

This one is for the Tool fans.

What I did was take a single-camera, full length concert from their recent tour, shot in Denver, which some random person posted to YouTube, and then I found a bunch more videos of the individual songs and used all that footage as b-roll. So it ended up being a multi-cam bootleg of a full Tool show. Plus, I added a couple songs from their latest album, Fear Inoculum, that they didn't play in Denver. So, it ended up being a multi-cam maxi-cut.

I posted it to YouTube, but, even though my video is just a compilation of other videos that are still up on YT, YouTube quickly pulled mine. So unfortunately, it's not viewable anywhere. But, I sent the video over to the super cool people at Dark Circle Room, who posted it on the blog for download.

I’ve posted a bunch of screenshots below. Complete details, tracklist, and of course the download are at the link.

Tool has never put out an official live concert video. Until they do, this is about as close as we’ll get.

And check out everything else DCR has posted. They have hundreds of bootleg audio and video recordings of underground-y rock bands from over the decades (they're HUGE on Sisters of Mercy), VHS rips, contemporary video rips of concerts, and all sorts of associated random stuff.

http://darkcircleroom4.blogspot.com/2020/05/tool-2019-2020-fear-inoculum-tour-multi.html

update May 2020

Ok, that pretty much does it. I've ransacked every hard drive that I had hiding in the closet, and have posted all the concert audio that's worth posting. I've posted more than 50 shows over the past few months that I've recorded over the past 10 or 15 years. All sorts of different styles, and some really amazing performances, so scroll through them and crank it up. And I now have almost 175 recordings posted altogether, so go check out some of the older ones, too. They're no less awesome than any others.

Although, when posting some of those shows to my blogs, I would post the original flyer for the show if I had one available, and sometimes I'd see all these other names on the flyer and say to myself, 'hey, didn't I record all those other people that night? Where the hell is that audio? I wonder if it's worth mixing/mastering and posting.' So maybe I'll sweep through those hard drives again and try to track down any of those recordings. Maybe I can dig up some more music to post.

I might make the effort. Because it's not like I'm recording too many new shows any more. I mean, Salt Lake City doesn't have anything of an electronic music scene in the first place. But now with this coronavirus pandemic grinding everything to a complete standstill, including the entire concert industry, who knows when bands will start touring again, big or small.

And even though I don't consider this any kind of 'Brian Humorless, signing off' type message, I would like to say the biggest thank you in the world to all of the artists over the years who allowed me to record their shows. Such amazing people and such amazing music. I have unending gratitude for every one of you. As well as all the club owners, the soundguys, the promoters, the record label guys, and anybody else who was cool enough to say 'ya man, go ahead, plug in and record and do your thing.'

All the audio is posted here-

hearthis

mixcloud (which blocks some of the shows in the US)

All the video is here-

humorless YT (although I post all sorts of other random stuff there, like my ski videos and other ridiculous stuff)

The blogs where I post all the audios and videos-

wordpress

tumblr

blogspot

ello (yes, I still use ello. I like ello, and many people discover the shows via ello, so I'll continue posting there)

And of course on the FB

brianhumorless@gmail.com

[audio] Christoph de Babalon live in Graz, 23 October 2010

Christoph de Babalon live at Uhrturm Kasematte at Elevate Festival, Graz, Austria, 23 October 2010.
This one gets off to a little bit of a rough start, with some glitchy clicky noises in the first several minutes. But once the music really gets started, they go away or are otherwise unnoticeable.
  Mirrored here-

[audio] Tomoroh Hidari live in Vienna, 15 January 2010

Tomoroh Hidari live at Arena 3 Raum, 15 January 2010.

Tomoroh Hidari graduation party. That's Rachael Hecate giving the introduction and doing her HAIL SATAN! thing.

Mirrored here-