Humorless Productions: March 2020

30 March 2020

[audio] wAgAwAgA live in Prague, 19 June 2010

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

Mirrored here-

25 March 2020

[audio] Moab live in San Diego, 7 December 2013

Moab live at The Casbah, San Diego, 7 December 2013.

http://www.moabband.com/

https://www.facebook.com/moabband

http://moab1969.bandcamp.com/

http://www.last.fm/music/Moab

Andrew Giacumakis, vocals and guitar

Erik Herzog, drums

Joe Fuentes, bass

Mirrored here-

One video here-

22 March 2020

[audio] Scrap.EDX live in San Francisco, 3 February 2008

Scrap.EDX live at DNA Lounge, San Francisco, 3 February 2008.

Mirrored here-

[audio and video] Wolves in the Throne Room live in San Diego, 19 July 2014

Wolves in the Throne Room live at Ché Café at UCSD, San Diego, California, 19 July 2014.

Mirrored here-

I don't think this is the complete show. Their songs tend to be very long, and I think they only played three this night, and I think I missed the first one. Still, the second and third songs go for more than 30 minutes, so I thought it was worth posting.

I think what happened was this-

Ché Café is just a small room on the campus of UC San Diego, and is student-run. At the time of this recording (I think they've since closed down), they had some very old equipment, and the main mixing board didn't have any way for me to record except to use the headphone jack. It had no RCA outs, no 1/8" group outs, no XLR outs, no nothing except some outputs to get the signal to the main PA speakers. That's not ideal, but I've used the headphone jack plenty of times before and I can get perfectly useable audio that way, but I would never do that without asking the person mixing the show if it was OK if I took that output, meaning that the mix engineer wouldn't be able to listen on headphones.

So, that's what I did, and no doubt the mixer guy said 'ya, no problem, I won't need headphones, I'll just listen to the PA.'

And of course, once the show starts, he realizes that he, in fact, does need them, so he doesn't even hesitate to unplug my cable so he can listen and mix the show on headphones. It's little consolation, but at least he set the mix during the first song and then plugged my cable back in for the second and third songs.

I video’d both songs. View them here-

21 March 2020

[audio] Mr. Unruly live in Oakland, 1 June 2019

Mr. Unruly live at Oakland Secret, Oakland, 1 June 2019.

Mirrored here-

17 March 2020

[audio] Continues live in Los Angeles, 30 January 2014

Continues live at Complex, Los Angeles, 30 January 2014.

https://mattress.bandcamp.com/music

https://www.facebook.com/Continues-140361789324344/

You might know Dan from the legendary Californian scrapyard industrial junk punk band Babyland. Following the demise of Babyland, Dan went on to form Continues.

As one of the two people in Babyland, you'd expect that some of the sounds from Babyland would carry over to Continues. You wouldn't be totally wrong on that account. However, Continues takes a wholly more melodic approach to electronic music than Babyland, with a much heavier hand on the lush string synths and more tuneful melodies.

Dan obviously has a healthy love for the synthpop bands of the 80s and many of the post-punk and synth bands of the 80s and 90s and beyond, and he very much wears his love of those bands and those sounds on his sleeve in Continues.

Mirrored here-

[audio] Frontline Assembly live in San Francisco, 6 June 2006

Frontline Assembly live at DNA Lounge, San Francisco, 6 June 2006.

On the Artificial Soldier tour.
Mirrored here-

(0:00) Buried Alive

(7:32) ?

(13:04) Dead Planet

(18:57) Bio-Mechanic

(24:20) Maniacal

(31:34) Backlash

(37:42) Millennium

(44:17) Prophecy

(50:51) Unleashed

(56:19) Plasticity

(1:06:19) Gun

(1:12:34) Mindphaser

(1:19:14) outro noise