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

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

Mirrored here-

[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.

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[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.
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(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

[audio] Vex'd live in Leipzig, 20 November 2009

Vex'd live at The Distillery, Leipzig, 20 November 2009.

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[audio] Corrections House live in San Diego, 6 January 2014

Corrections House live at Soda Bar, San Diego, 6 January 2014.

Supergroup of underground music nobility-

Mike Ix Williams of EyeHateGod on vocals

Bruce Lamont of Yakuza on saxophone

Sanford Parker of Nachtmystium on drums and electronics

Scott Kelly of Neurosis on guitar

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Couple videos I shot this night-

Hoax the System

Drapes Hung by Jesus

[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)

Mirrored here- The only flyer I could find on the internet is this low res version-

[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-

[audio] O/H live in Los Angeles, 20 March 2015

O/H live at Nuit Noire XI at Jewel's One, Los Angeles, 20 March 2015.

O/H = Rich Oddie of Orphx and Dave Foster of Huren and Teste.


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Video I shot-

[audio] Otto von Schirach live in Budapest, 19 March 2010

Otto von Schirach live at A38, Budapest, 19 March 2010.

With Balázs Pándi on drums/percussion.


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Some pictures here- https://www.a38.hu/en/picture-gallery/otto-von-schirach-volkova-sisters

[audio] Clock DVA live in Denver, 25 September 2016

Clock DVA live at Syntax Physic Opera, Denver, 25 September 2016.


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Here’s a video I shot that night-

[audio] Youth Code live in San Diego, 27 Sept 2013

Youth Code live at The Void, San Diego, 27 Sept 2013.

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Couple videos I made at this show-

[audio] Medicine live in San Diego, 13 September 2013

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Kim Gordon (ex-Sonic Youth) organized a big ol' indie music festival in San Diego for a weekend in the fall of 2013, with all sorts of bands playing in clubs all over town. I recorded indie rock shoegaze legends Medicine at The Void on 13 September.

This show featured lots of technical difficulties. I don't remember what exactly the problems were, but I edited out a couple gaps of no music of two or three or four minutes in the middle of this set. Problems with drums or mics or vocals? I don't remember. And even now, you'll hear guitarist Brad Laner do a four and a half minute improvisational noise thing at about the 26 minute park, because I think the bassist broke a string and had to replace it.

So, not the smoothest show, but at well over an hour, they do manage to play a bunch of tunes.

For me, doing the mixing and mastering of rock bands is much different than electronic music artists. With electronic music, there's no acoustic sound coming off the stage, so it's very easy for me to control, and I usually end up using about 85 or 90% board feed versus 15 or 10% room sound in the final mix.

With rock music, the board feed always sounds super awkward because there's so much acoustic sound coming off stage (drums, guitar amps, bass amps), that the board feed doesn't usually have much more to it than vocals. So, I end up using a whole lot more of the room mics in the final mix with rock bands. It's usually more like 50/50 board feed vs room mics.

Here’s a bunch of videos I made of this performance-

One More https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqnsXhkdQQk

Acura https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGxcVsYx3b4

Officer Dillon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGxcVsYx3b4

Never Click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61tWg0LnMVg