28 December 2019

[audio] P·A·L live in Munich, 30 October 2009

P•A•L live at Feierwerk, Munich, 30 October 2009.


Mirrored here-

[audio] Cyrusrex live in Seattle, 7 June 2008

Cyrusrex live at El Corazon, Seattle, 7 June 2008.

This performance hits me as a little bit more on the experimental side of IDM, certainly more so than his album.


Mirrored here-


20 December 2019

[audio] Noisex live in Los Angeles, 24 Sept 2010

Noisex live at Das Bunker, Los Angeles, 24 September 2010.

I think Raoul Noisex was having some problems with his low end synth in this performance. It seems to cut in and out at random spots in multiple songs. Still sounds pretty good.


And that's Das Bunker founder Franck H-Bomb at the end ranting and raving about something. Not quite sure what. I think he's just professing his love for Noisex. Loudly. Right on, Franck, we're all right there with you. We all love Noisex.




Mirrored here-




[audio] bloodysnowman live in San Francisco, 6 Oct 2010

bloodysnowman live at DNA Lounge, San Francisco, 6 October 2010.


Mirrored here-




11 December 2019

[audio] Enduser and Kid 606 live in Budapest, 11 December 2009


For my friends in Budapest.

I post this on the tenth anniversary of this show, first time posting either of these performances.

Enduser and Kid606 live at A38, Budapest, Hungary, 11 December 2009.

Enduser played first, Kid606 second. You can hear during the last song of Enduser's performance, that Miguel 606 soundchecks his computer a couple times.

(0:00) A Trip Down
(2:30) Wisdom 05
(6:55) Not So Distant Drums
(11:19) Switch
(15:23) Manouvre
(18:00) Basement
(21:53) Berlin Dub
(24:49) Shot Gun Anthem
(27:39) Stormbringer (Enduser remix)
(29:59) 2/3
(34:17) 1/3
(38:47) The Catalyst
(43:08) Death Vest 09
(48:05) End of a Beginning (Sublight Version)
(54:30) Remain



Mirrored here- Mirrored here-


Flyer-





09 December 2019

If you hadn’t noticed…


I’m in the process of going through my archive drives and emptying them out onto my live recordings blogs. Recordings that I just never got around to posting in the first place, or recordings that have some sort of technical difficulties or some sort of compromise that dissuaded me from posting it. For some reason I'm finding that many of these recordings don't have the first song, or first half of the first song, or the first two songs. I have no idea how that happens, but I've decided that this won't stop me from posting it now. Or maybe the board feed is in mono, not stereo, which totally bums me out, but I just don't care any more, because they still sound pretty damn good, so those I'll post as well.

Mostly industrial, but a good mix of breakcore and idm and ambient / noise / experimental.

The good news is that I already have about 40 recordings to post, and my plan is to post two per week, so that gets us well into spring 2020.

I post all the audio to HearThis and Mixcloud. In the past, Mixcloud has occasionally prohibited listeners in the US to play my uploads, citing some US copyright law. HearThis has never killed any of my uploads for anybody worldwide, so that might be the more reliable place to listen to them.



And I post everything to my blogs, and everything is mirrored exactly on each of them, so pick your poison.-




I’ll occasionally post updates to my Humorless Productions FB, but not always, so those links above are better places to follow me if you want immediate updates for when I post new audio.


And, I'll occasionally post the original jpg flyers or pictures or artwork to the blog posts, and there's no way to do that on the two sites where I post the actual audio. So if you care about that sorta stuff, make sure to check the blogs as well as the audio sites.

Thanks, Brian.



07 December 2019

[audio] d'Arcangelo live in Vienna, 20 March 2004

d'Arcangelo live at MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, 20 March 2004.



Mirrored here-
 

Tracks-

(0:00)
(4:12)
(8:30)
(11:00)
(15:23)
(17:57)
(21:57)
(26:32)
(31:12)
(35:43)
(39:25)
(41:22)
(46:06)
(52:09)


[audio] Hakuin live in Oakland, 1 June 2019

Hakuin live at SIDEREALº2 at Oakland Secret, Oakland, California, 1 June 2019.


Mirrored here-
 

27 November 2019

[audio] Hecate and Nihil Fist live in Berlin, 27 Nov 2009


For my friends in Berlin. Tenth anniversary of this show, first time posting this.

Hecate and Nihil Fist, live at Cosmic Devastation at Raum 18, Berlin, 27 November 2009.

Even by Hecate's standards, this one was a rather experimental show for her I think.

It was Hecate on electronics and vocals (sounding a whole lot like Nivek Ogre on the Ain't It Dead Yet? recording), and also somebody playing electric contrabass through some effects like distortion, delay, etc..., and there might have been a third person on stage with her. I forget. It was a long time ago.

So this one leans more toward ambient noise doom drone, but it does get a bit rhythm-y in the second half. More industrial than breakcore.

Nihil Fist opened the show and just about blew the doors off the place. Hell ya.

Also playing this night was Christoph da Babalon. I did get a recording of his set as well, but his laptop was having that RAM overrun audio hiccup thing happening every 30 or 40 seconds during his entire performance. So unfortunately, that one I won't be able to post.



Mirrored here-







Mirrored here-




22 November 2019

[audio] Genesis P-Orridge live in Los Angeles, 17 July 2014


Genesis P-Orridge live at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 17 July 2014.

Genesis came to LA to raise money for a documentary film he was trying to make in Africa. His presentation featured a brief, live musical performance.

Musicians for the first two songs of this recording are Cyrus Rex on electronics, Douglas McCarthy of Nitzer Ebb on vocals, and Los Angeles underground music luminary Baseck on electronics.

Douglas and Cyrus Rex would go on to form Black Line shortly after this performance. I don't know if these first two songs are Black Line songs, or perhaps songs that Cyrus composed as DJMREX, which was his moniker at this time.

Genesis then grabs the mic at about 10 minutes in, and does spoken word for the remaining 10 minutes, while everybody else lays down some lovely noisy synth parts, which I think were largely improvisational.



mirrored here




[audio] David Oliphant live in Tucson, 20 Nov 2010


David Oliphant live at Solar Culture, Tucson, Arizona, 20 November 2010.

Solo performance from David Oliphant here, although you may know him from his work in Maybe Mental, Life Garden or Amnesia Quartet.




or mirrored here




16 November 2019

[audio] Duran Duran Duran live in Los Angeles, 22 Nov 2013


Duran Duran Duran live at CELEBRATE EVERYTHING at Complex, Los Angeles, 22 November 2013.




Or mirrored here-



Here's a video I put together of the big finale-





[audio] cEvin Key dj/live in Los Angeles, 29 March 2014


cEvin Key of Skinny Puppy dj set with Dre Robinson on drum pads and other synth noise makers,  live at CELEBRATE EVERYTHING at Complex, Los Angeles, 29 March 2014.

I’m pretty sure this was just a dj set with no actual live music played. cEvin was on a laptop and Dre had a bunch of stuff working, so I can’t be 100% sure.




or mirrored here-



Here's a picture I took at the show-



22 July 2019

[video] Author & Punisher live in SLC, 15 July 2019


I recorded another crushing set from Author & Punisher, mid July 2019, Salt Lake City.

Full set, 4k, four cameras this time.




15 April 2019

[video] Squarepusher live in London, 26 October 2006



So I posted the audio the other day on Mixcloud and HearThis.

In the description, I wrote about the video. Well, I synced up my newly remastered audio to that video and posted it to YouTube a couple days ago to see how fast they would take it down. Surprisingly, it’s still up.

So I just made it public if you really want to check it out. It’s pretty much not worth watching because it’s so small. But, if nothing else, it’s an excuse for me to get the audio on YouTube for people who prefer to listen to stuff on YT, or who don’t know about my Mixcloud or HearThis pages.



12 April 2019

[audio] Squarepusher live London, 26 October 2006



Squarepusher live at Electric Proms at Electric Ballroom, London, 26 October 2006.

This concert video I believe was originally recorded by the BBC. It was a long time ago. I don't remember fer sure.

The video production was obviously done by a pro crew- multiple cameras, jib/crane shots and tracking shots, glitch editing. Really slick all the way around.

But a couple other things baffled me. First, it was posted super small size- 400 x 224. No doubt they'd originally recorded in 1080, so why post something so ridiculously, unwatchably small?

Second, the audio mix was absolute rubbish, even though it, too, was professionally recorded, with big stereo sound and stereo audience mics, like the way I do it. But whoever mixed it thought it best to drop all of the low end out of the mix so that it sounded like some shitty 1970s transistor radio.

I was reminded of it when one of the songs popped up in my car the other day, which prompted me to do a full remaster of it. Luckily, I still had the original video tucked away in one of my hard drives.

So I grabbed the audio, pumped some healthy low end back into it, and gave it the usual treatment of fixing levels, smoothing out all the rough edges and whatever else it needed. This is the audio you hear here.

Even though the video is ant-sized, I went ahead and re-synced my new audio remaster to the video. I'll try to post it to YouTube, but they're so draconian about copyright issues, I doubt they'll allow it.

Remastered using Ocenaudio and Presonus Studio One 4, with Izotope and FabFilter plug ins, April 2019.

Thanks for listening. Brian.

1. 0:00

2. 5:22

3. 10:29

4. 15:39

5. 19:58

6. 26:07

7. 29:58

8. 34:24

28 January 2019

Zombie theme cover tune




So I've been toying around with Reaper again. Presonus Studio One is still my mainstay workhorse daw, but I just felt like diving into Reaper again.

I've poked around in it before, but never did any substantial work. I don't know if you'd consider a cover song substantial, but I did a cover song. The theme song from Lucio Fulci's classic Zombie from 1979. Original music by Fabio Frizzi.

Hear the original here- 

Of course, I didn't quite make a carbon copy of the tune. I put my own spin on it. I can't say mine is an improvement. But, it was just an experiment, and I think it turned out good enough to be posted.

Although I don't think it would have turned out any differently had I used Studio One. I'm using all the same synths, the same sounds, the same samples, the same loops that I would have used in Studio One.

The dialog sample I use in my version isn't from Zombie. It's creepy Zelda Rubinstein (you'd know her as the super short woman in the original Poltergeist) from a totally bizarre and disturbing movie called Anguish.