[audio] Oake live in Los Angeles, 20 March 2015

Oake live at Nuit Noire XI at Jewel’s Catch One, Los Angeles, 20 March 2015.


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[audio] Bong-Ra live in Denver, 18 February 2017

Bong-Ra live at The Black Box, Denver, 18 February 2017.

On the reunion Monsters of Mashup tour.

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[audio] Zoogma live in San Diego, 3 April 2013

Zoogma live at Ruby Room, San Diego, California, 3 April 2013.

First show ever in California for Nashvillian synth-rock collective Zoogma.

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[audio] Baseck vs Diskore live in Los Angeles, 16 March 2012

OG Darkmatter punk kids Baseck vs Diskore live at Blue Moon Nights, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, 16 March 2012.

In this recording, I'm not sure who plays which songs. If I remember correctly, Baseck was playing live, not djing as he sometimes would, whereas Diskore was most likely djing.

There was a power outage from 14:00-18:00. I could have edited that out, but I left it in, just because.

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[audio] Mark Hosler live in Tucson, 17 April 2013

Mark Hosler (of Negativland) live at Plush, Tucson, Arizona, 17 April 2013.

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[audio] Wisp live in San Francisco, 6 November 2009

Wisp live at DNA Lounge, San Francisco, 6 November 2009.

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[audio] Devo live in Napa Valley, 15 January 2012

Devo live at the Uptown Theatre, Napa Valley, California, 15 January 2012.

I was lucky enough to record a bunch of shows for Devo during their California tours of 2011 and 2012. They're a great bunch of guys, they had a great tour crew, and the album that they'd recently released and were touring in support of, Something for Everybody, is an amazing album and is still in high rotation at my house 10 years after its release.

This concert was when Devo was in their hard rock phase, due primarily to Bob1 turning up the distortion knob on his distortion stomp box to maximum. It's not really a sound that suits them I think.

But the good news is that his guitar is buried in the mix more so here than the other Devo recordings I made, and the synths are more prominent as well, which makes for a more pleasing combination. This is my favorite recording that I made of them because of that.

If you want to hear Devo sound like a heavy metal band, go find that abomination of a recording of them at The Observatory in Orange County as recorded by Moshcam. It's all over YT. I have no idea who mixed that recording or why they thought it was a good idea to make Devo sound like Meshuggah.

Personnel on this recording:

Mark Mothersbaugh: vocals, synths, guitar

Bob Mothersbaugh (Bob1): guitar, vocals

Jerry Casale: bass, synths, vocals

Bob Casale (Bob2): guitar, synths

Jeff Freidl: drums

(0:00) Don't Shoot (I'm a Man)

(5:25) Peek-a-Boo!

(8:33) What We Do

(11:47) Goin' Under

(15:26) Fresh

(18:15) That's Good

(22:05) Girl U Want

(25:25) Whip It

(28:20) Planet Earth

(31:15) planetary interlude

(34:00) Satisfaction

(37:30) Secret Agent Man

(41:13) The Uncontrollable Urge

(45:00) Mongoloid

(49:54) Jocko Homo

(55:20) Smart Patrol / Mr. DNA

(1:02:28) Gates of Steel

(1:06:30) Corporate Anthem

(1:07:43) Freedom of Choice

(1:13:25) Beautiful World (with Booji Boy)

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[audio] Famine live in Toronto, 1 March 2006

Famine live at H2-0s at Darkrave, Toronto, 1 March 2006.

Industrial-IDM-breakcore crossover.

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[audio] Crowhurst live in Los Angeles, 23 May 2013

Crowhurst live at Five Star Bar, Los Angeles, 23 May 2013.

I had a video of this entire performance up on YT for a while, but YT killed it for, what else, copyright infringement. Which has me scratching my head, because it's all pretty much improvisational noise with a drummer.

The only thing I can think is that the singer recites a few lines from the 1960s rock song House of the Rising Sun (at about 17:00 in). But it's not like the band is playing the song; the singer is just babbling off the lyrics to more improv noise with a drum beat. Is that why YT killed the video? Do they consider that copyright infringement? Ridiculous.

But what does YT care? You've heard the expression regarding monstrosity companies like Google: 'too big to fail'? Well, Google/YT isn't too big to fail, they're too big to care. There are so many thousands of videos uploaded every minute to YT, what the hell do they care if they kill one of them, even if it is on the flimsiest of justifications?

So, that video is no more. But here's the audio.

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[audio] Zeller live in Los Angeles, 19 March 2015

Zeller live at Berlin, Los Angeles, 19 March 2015.
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One video I shot that night-