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.