[video] Nommo Ogo live in San Diego, 19 July 2014

Couple from Nommo Ogo live at Che Café, San Diego, 19 July 2014.

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

Couple videos of Wolves in the Throne Room from last weekend. The audio is a bit rough- the board feed was almost completely unusable. Too much level, too much clipping. I doctored it up as much as I could, but my room mics ended up being probably 90% of this final mix. Still a decent sound, and perfectly acceptable for these YouTubers.

Now if I could only get some decent light on the band. Jeez, what I would give for a well lit stage. Someday? Please?

[video] Kid 606 live in Los Angeles, 27 June 2014

Track from Kid 606 live in Los Angeles where I recorded and edited all audio and video.

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

Here are a couple videos from Corrections House (members of Neurosis, Eyehategod, Nachtmystium, Yakuza) that I neglected to post at the time I recorded them in early 2014.

Master list of every artist that I've recorded

Not that anybody asked for it, but here's the complete list of every artist that I've recorded over the years. Actually, I most likely have recorded more than those listed here, but in the super early days when I first started recording concerts in the 90s (proper recordings; the cassette bootlegs I did before that don't count), there were probably a few where I didn't keep a copy of the master audio files or the finished mixdown or anything. Artists that I've recorded multiple times are listed only once.

No doubt I still missed some, so if I forgot your band, drop me a note.

Just wanted to compile a list. I'll keep adding to it as new names come along.

(303) 909-1604

∆AIMON

Abelcain

Ad.ver.sary

Ars Dada

The Audacity

Author & Punisher

BAAL

Christoph de Babalon

Babyland

Bad Timing

Todd Barton

Baseck

Bestial Mouths

Black Jeans

Bloodysnowman

Bombardier

Bong-Ra

William Braintree

Branes

Broken Note

Tom Brosseau

Tom Burbank

Buzz Campbell and Hot Rod Lincoln

Cardopusher

Cervello Elettronico

Clock DVA

CNN 666

Cohosh

Company Fuck

Continues

Corrections House

Corvx de Timor

Crowhurst

Cyrus Rex

D²

Daedelus

Death Is Not a Color

Defrag

Dev/Null

Richard Devine

Devo

Dimentia

Diskore

Divtech

DJ Hidden

DJMREX

Djoto

Mike Dobler

Oliver Dodd

Drumatic

Duran Duran Duran

Brian E

Eezir

Electric Company

Encapsulate

Enduser

Eras

Exillon

Eyeless Sight

Fanny

Felt Drawings

FFF

The Flashbulb

Flourescent Grey

Former Ghosts

Fractional

Further Reductions

Christoph Fringeli

Graz

Gross Prophet

Grypt

haujobb

Hecate

Hieroglyphic Being

Steev Hise

Mark Hosler

i*wish*i

I:Gor

Iceburn

Imminent

The Incredible Hexadecibels

Indian Jewelry

Iszoloscope

Izapa

Joy Through Noise

cEvin Key

Kid 606

KK Null

Koonda Holaa

Kush Arora

LA Vamps

Ladyscraper

Loera

Loopgoat

M. Geddas Gengras

Marching Dynamics

The Mattson 2

Medicine

Merzbow

Derek Michael

Ming & Ping

Minion

Moab

Mochipet

Monster X

Ted Nava

Nemeton

Next Life

Nilbog

No Age

Lee Noble / Grant Capes / Derek Rogers

NoiseX

Noize Creator

Nommo Ogo

Not Breathing

O/H

Oake

David Oliphant

P•A•L

Genesis P-Orridge

Gregory Page

Parenthetical Girls

Phthalocyanine

Piles

The Pizarro Brothers

The Punk Group

Quartet Nouveau

Raxyor

The Red Elvises

Reflector

John C. Reilly

Curtis Roads

Rodent516

Roses

S.E.M;I

Otto von Schirach

The Screamin' Primas

Scuzi

Skincage

Sleep Clinic

Somatic Responses

Split Horizon

Spyten

Ssleeperhold

Stab City

Strangeloop

The Striggles

Sunwheel

Damo Suzuki's Network

Tearist

Techdiff

Terminal 11

Thee Source ov Fawnation

This Song Is a Mess But So Am I

The Tleilaxu Music Machine

Tomoroh Hidari

Twin Braids

UteroZZZAAA

Venetian Snares

wAgAwAgA

Wet Mango

Wisp

WMX

Wolves in the Throne Room

Xanopticon

Yellow Then Blue

Youth Code

Zeller

Zola Jesus

Zombieflesheater

Zoogma

Venues

3raum at Arena, Vienna

5 Star Bar, Los Angeles

A38, Budapest

American Comedy Club, San Diego

Area 51, Salt Lake City

ArgeKultur, Salzburg

Basswerks, Los Angeles

Beauty Is Pain, Los Angeles

Berghain, Berlin

Berlin, Los Angeles

The Black Box, Denver

Blue Moon Nights, Los Angeles

Bronson Bar, Los Angeles

Café du Nord, San Francisco

The Canyon, Agoura Hills (Los Angeles)

The Casbah, San Diego

Che Café, San Diego

Christ Lutheran Church, San Diego

Circus Disco, Los Angeles

Crush Bar, Portland

El Corazon, Seattle

Das Bunker, Los Angeles

Distillery, Leipzig

Dizzy's, San Diego

DNA Lounge, San Francisco

Echoplex, Los Angeles

EKH, Vienna

Feuerwerk, Munich

The Fillmore, San Francisco

FLUK, Vienna

Gilman Street, Berkeley

The Good Hurt, Venice (Los Angeles)

The Griffin, San Diego

Hangar11, Kloten (Zurich)

Helter Skelter, Los Angeles

Hollywood Park, Los Angeles

Humphreys, San Diego

Jewel's Catch One, Los Angeles

Kadan, San Diego

Kapu, Linz

Kava Lounge, San Diego

KXLU, Los Angeles

Lafayette Hotel, San Diego

Lawton Plaza, Los Angeles

Malcolm X Library, San Diego

Medusa Lounge, Los Angeles

Mime School, Los Angeles

MOCA, Los Angeles

Mountain Winery, Saratoga

Nimbus Brewing, Tucson

Normal Heights Methodist Church, San Diego

The Observatory, Santa Ana

Parukarka Bunkr, Prague

Perihelion Arts, Phoenix

Plush, Tucson

Prescott Promenade, San Diego

Raum18, Berlin

El Rey, Los Angeles

Ruby Room, San Diego

Scoundrel's, Las Vegas

The Smell, Los Angeles

Soda Bar, San Diego

Solar Culture, Tucson

Spreckels Organ Pavilion, San Diego

Substance, Torrance

Syntax Physic Opera, Denver

Teatro Fondamenta Nuove, Venice

Til-Two, San Diego

Tin Can Ale House, San Diego

Urban Lounge, Salt Lake City

Uhrturnkasematte, Graz

The Uptown Theatre, Napa

The Vanguard, Los Angeles

Vaudeville, Tucson

Vertigo's, Los Angeles

The Void, San Diego

Die Werft, Korneuburg (Vienna)

Zool, Oakland

plus many nondescript unnamed warehouses throughout Southern California

[audio] Defrag live in Los Angeles, 27 June 2014

I recorded Hymen Records artist Defrag at CELEBRATE EVERYTHING at Complex in Los Angeles, 27 June 2014.

Defrag live in Los Angeles, 27 June 2014 by Humorless Productions on Mixcloud

The Mattson 2 live in San Diego, 28 June 2014

My recording of jazzy surf rock duo The Mattson 2 at the Summer Fun on the 101 festival in Leucadia, California, 28 June 2014-

[audio] Monster X live in Los Angeles, 1 Dec 2012

recording I made of Monster X live in Los Angeles in late 2012

Monster X live in Los Angeles, 1 Dec 2012 by Humorless Productions on Mixcloud

[audio] The Screamin' Primas live in San Diego, 16 July 2013

Swing time with a recording I made of San Diego's preeminent Louis Prima tribute band, The Screamin' Primas.

The Screamin' Primas live in San Diego, 16 July 2013 by Humorless Productions on Mixcloud

The Screamin' Primas FB

Jay Mohr live in San Diego, 3 May 2014

Change of pace- I recorded actor/comedian/talk show host Jay Mohr at The American Comedy Company in San Diego, 3 May 2014.

video I did for Muffwiggler with Baseck

Promotional video I did for Muffwiggler (makers of modular synths with internet store and physical store in Portland, OR.) with LA's 8-bit gameboy turntablism beat-mangling legend Baseck.

compilation of punk/goth/new wave/metal bands in 70s/80s horror movies

OK, so here's that video compilation of bands in horror flicks that I put together. Turned out rather well. I love the wipe style. I remastered every bit of audio, so it sounds extra sharp. The Siouxsie song is from a movie called Out of Control which isn't a horror flick, but I included it anyway.

You may be asking yourself why I did this. It's a good question, and I don't have a reasonable answer. It's just that I watch so many of these types of movies, and it always strikes me as so funny when a band gets some screen time to play one of their songs with the idea that the music is supposed to be in some way threatening or scary or underground-y or ominous or dangerous or something like that. Obviously, as we're now 30-40 years later, none of this music comes anywhere even remotely close to being scary, so I guess it's just the silly campiness of it that I find funny.

Anyways, enjoy it or not. Here's the tracklist-

(0:00) intro

(2:08) unknown artist 'Revenge' from Deadline (1984)

(5:16) Shadow 'New Years Evil' from New Years Evil (1980)

(7:00) Siouxsie & the Banshees 'Cities in Dust' from Out of Control (1986)

(8:21) Shadow 'untitled blues jam' from New Years Evil (1980)

(8:45) 4 Out of 5 Doctors 'Waiting for Roxanne' from The House on Sorority Row (1983)

(9:33) Tony Coca-Cola and The Roosters 'untitled song' from The Driller Killer (1979)

(13:55) Samson 'Vice Versa' from The Incubus (1982)

(16:14) Made in Japan 'The Cooler' from New Years Evil (1980)

(17:05) Paula Sheppard 'Me and My Rhythm Box' from Liquid Sky (1983)

(20:10) Shadow 'Temper Tantrum' from New Years Evil (1980)

(21:56) Felony 'Gangster Rock' from Graduation Day (1981)

(29:30) Made in Japan 'Dumb Blondes' from New Years Evil (1980)

(30:25) unknown artist 'unknown song' from Horror Hospital (1973)

(32:20) unknown artist 'unknown song' from Savage Streets (1984)

(32:56) Made in Japan 'Bonsai' from New Years Evil (1980)

(33:27) unknown artist 'unknown song' from The Driller Killer (1979)

need some suggestions for scenes of punk/new wave/goth bands in horror movies

I'm starting an absurd video project and could use some input from those of you who are familiar with horror movies of the 70s and 80s. Not specifically limited to those years I guess, but that seems to be the era that featured the most unintentionally ridiculous bands and songs, and that's what I'm after.

This might sound torturous, but I'm putting together a compilation/montage of scenes of new wave/punk/goth bands that perform one (or more!) of their songs in a horror movie of that era. Don't ask me why, because I don't really have a reason.

The first movie that comes to mind is New Year's Evil which features several bands. I have a list of others (below), but nothing too notable. The band in Driller Killer is so awful that I might exclude them, although this compilation is gonna be nothing but awful music, so I might reconsider. Horror Hospital is pretty early (imdb says 1973, but it feels like mid/late 60s), but that band in the opening scene is so un-ironically Spinal Tap-y, that I'll fer sure include that one. Rocky Horror doesn't count. Sorry. Neither does Phantom of the Paradise. Neither does Aylmer singing his showtune in the sink in Brain Damage (shame, I know).

I'm not looking for videos of songs that were written for some horror movie (a la The Ramones' Pet Sematery or The Dickies' Killer Klowns from Outer Space); I'm not looking for horror movies that revolved around a band or a band member (a la Black Roses or Slaughterhouse Rock), unless the band is featured in the movie playing one of their songs. Well-known or nobodies, doesn't matter. Wasn't W.A.S.P. in one? Bonus if there's a dancefloor full of slamming/moshing punk rockers in the scene.

The band in Graduation Day ('81) is exactly what I'm looking for. The movie isn't about the band (Felony, who a couple years later had a giant radio hit with 'The Fanatic'), and none of the band members have any screen time outside of performing their song 'Gangster Rock' which they play at some high school dance/roller skating rink. It's a ridiculous hard rock song and the guys are done up in mascara and studded bracelets and act like they're playing to 15 thousand people. That song will be in there.

I don't think songs from non-horror movies will work. I'm going for what people thought at the time was angry, threatening, underground, scary music. The band in The House on Sorority Row gets some screen time (right at the 30 minute mark), but they play some really safe new wave radio rock at some preppy college dance. Still, they're only on screen for 30 seconds, and they're so dopey/goofy, I might go ahead and include them.

It doesn't matter if the song isn't devoid of dialog. If I can find some way to edit out the dialog and still keep the song intact, I will. But if not, I'll just leave it unedited. The dialog won't make much sense because it'll be totally out of context, but obviously that won't matter at all. I hope the full compilation will be at least 30 minutes. Would be great of it reaches 60 minutes. If I can track down the info (band name, track title, title of the movie), I'll even put in titles in the corner like MTV in the old days.

So far, I have these earmarked-

Deadline

Driller Killer

Graduation Day

Horror Hospital

The House on Sorority Row

New Year's Evil

Savage Streets

No doubt I'm missing some obvious ones, so please, throw 'em at me. If they're not available on dvd, hopefully I'll be able to find a high quality download to use.

[audio] Venetian Snares live in Winnipeg, late 90s

Venetian Snares live at Plug In Gallery, Winnipeg.

OK, so this is another one that I didn't actually record myself. It's a stereo board tape from his early days (late 90s or early 2000s I'd estimate, with tracks from Greg Hates Car Culture, Fuck Canada // Fuck America, as well as some early unreleased stuff) that I found lurking in the deepest, darkest corners of the internet (well, YouTube), but I put in a whole bunch of time and work to remaster it and add some crowd sounds to make it sound like a proper live album.

The source material is a mess, and YouTube's abysmal compression doesn't help matters. But I pumped some life into it, shined it up and made it a whole lot more presentable. No video on the original YouTube; just a static jpeg of some Satanic looking goat thing.

Track times obviously aren't official or anything, but I did the best I could. If any of you can figure out the song titles for the ones that eluded me, throw 'em at me.

Venetian Snares live in Winnipeg, late 90s by Humorless Productions on Mixcloud

No Age 'Fever Dreaming' live in LA, 30 March 2014

Felt like doing another No Age video from KXLU Fest from late last month.

WMX live in Los Angeles, 29 March 2014

WMX live in Los Angeles, 29 March 2014

WMX live at CELEBRATE EVERYTHING at Complex, Los Angeles, 29 March 2014.

WMX usually provides a nice blend of IDM, industrial, breakcore and hard techno, but this night he went all sledgehammer-heavy, 90s style, Ant-Zen / Hands Productions style rhythmic noise. All hardware set, not a laptop to be found.

Joy Through Noise live in Los Angeles, 29 March 2014

Joy Through Noise live at CELEBRATE EVERYTHING, Complex, Los Angeles, 29 March 2014.

IDM industrial drum and bass noise hybrid.

Joy Through Noise live in Los Angeles, 29 March 2014 by Humorless Productions on Mixcloud

Audio recorded, mixed and mastered by Brian Albers at Humorless Productions.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Humorless-Productions/190626074303436?ref=hl

http://www.mixcloud.com/humorlessproductions/

http://humorlessproductions.wordpress.com/

Stereo board mix 

Nady stereo condenser mic for room/audience 

Focusrite Saffire Pro24 preamp/interface 

Presonus Studio One 2 for recording and mixing 

Soundtrack Pro for mastering 

Macbook Pro

finishing up my first batch of original songs

So I'm finally getting around to finishing up the tracks for my debut release. The stereo mixes of the six tracks are done, and now I'm starting on the surround mixes of those same tracks plus a bonus track for the dvd. Aiming for a summer release, pay-what-you-want on Bandcamp. Surround sound .ac3 files will be pay-what-you-want, and I figure the physical dvd with surround mixes will be 5 bucks or so.

In the meantime, I uploaded one of the tracks to my Soundcloud as a teaser. Complete song, and this one is a bit more uptempo than the others. Generally speaking you'd call it martial industrial, orchestral, soundtracky, electronic, gloomy, dark, uneasy listening.

Imagine if In The Nursery teamed up with (Pax Britannica / Goddodin era) Test Dept. with their entire batterie of junkyard percussionists, and they set out to put together an album of the most apocalyptic doom and gloom industrial songs in the vein of In Slaughter Natives, filtered through all the wonderfully noisy digital signal processors of today.

The Audacity live in Los Angeles, 30 March 2014

My recording (all audio and video) of The Audacity, live in Los Angeles, 30 March 2014.

No Age live in Los Angeles, 30 March 2014

I recorded Sub Pop duo and die hard KXLU enthusiasts (also where I worked and hosted my radio shows for 10 years) No Age at the first annual KXLU fest, 30 March 2014.


By the way, outdoor recordings with a strong wind are usually the kiss of death, but I managed to salvage this one and the end result turned out better than I expected.