ListenAbility Rating : 8.3 Musings and rumblings from the heart of the internet beast, a cornucopia of visions and exhaltations. In summary, we use the sounds of Charles Mingus from 1962's "Oh Yeah", Passions of a Man was the cut we heard. Then we move onto the Inkxpotter mish mash of talk radio musings on the curses of tecnology that plague th ...…

Listen Ability Rating : If you can make it deep into the freedom that pours forth from the man with the sax you are rewarded with openness on the other side.For this segment of time I have constructed a three part transition that anchors itself firmly in the year 1966. We are at Temple University and listening to one John Coltrane play "Leo." " ...…

Listen Ability Rating: If the sound of acapella voices, beautifully mangled guitars and various ruminations on the occult grabs your fancy than this podcast is for you. This episode starts out with the sounds of Bill Orcutt and Sad News from Korea, this is off of A New Way To Pay Old Debts, released in 2009 and just re released on CD. "It's an ...…

Listen Ability Rating: A wordy set of sounds, audio compounds, a homage to Beefheart... "When we hear sounds we are forever changed...we are never the same..." , K. Stockhausen. ---------Interweaving the audio are the words of John Cage and Karl Heinz Stockhausen and an unknown student asking the question, "Can this souless electronic music, de ...…

Listen Ability Rating: 9.9. The dissonance of times colliding. Mixed and matched often inappropriately. My concept here is a mixing together of cultural artifacts from different time periods. The 50's and it's vision of the future. Tape decks and record players to be bought and sold. Automatic rewind waiting on the horizon. So simple, So conven ...…

Listen Ability Rating: A CSI vs. Soap opera outakes mashup. You decide if he gets to the truth. Soothing to the mind and ears. Delving deeper into meanings beyond fleeting hesitations. There is An Echo , A Stain, from Bjork's Vespertine album. Referring to the sound of a last breath as it moves thru space around the deathbed. An Armchair Travel ...…

Listen Ability Rating: Take one part Glenn Beck, a smattering of frost covered Washington Monuments, and a short history of King of the Luthiers and you've got no idea what I'm talking about. You'll just have to do the prudent thing and listen. In the late summer of 2010 half a million minions assembled to absorb propaganda in it's most rarifie ...…

Listen Ability Rating: Going forward in the endless pursuit of time ... your ears are thus enabled to take an excursion you won't soon remember. Hauntology, Deep Dub, Cut and Paste, in other words. A time machine operational manual is thus written, page one a reassembled version of Orson Welles radio theatre doing a bang up version of the HG We ...…

Listen Ability Rating: Born of controversy and extremely good looks this slumdog is waiting to inhabit your ears. One missing in action. One breath of Maya. One Born free. One Redhead in Distress. One man with a gun. One paranoid driver. One place in the sun. One unruly Ox. One weilding a bone. One shadowy monolith. One horse thats ok. One nake ...…

Listen Ability Rating: I'll give this one a seven because it's July and I wanted to finish this in June. In this oversaturated media whirlwind that we currently survive in, that feeds upon and us and I upon it, I give to you a mix of noise and electricity and the sounds of distant callers wanting to be heard. So go on and listen! Cut one is fro ...…

Listen Ability rating higher than usual due to the power of free association. Should be digestible by many ears over widest possible taste range. Free thinkers unite! This segment involves the power that is Jennifer Stone emanating from a story she wrote, "Now it is today" Not that anyone would recognize it after the mess I just made on my edit ...…

Pentagon Shooter Blues In a twist on the familiar musical form called the blues we journey into the mind of the lone shooter scenario. The voice floating over our intro piece by Isotope 217, "Solaris" off of Utonion Automatic, is one John Patrick Bedell aka " the pentagon shooter". From the words of our protangonist thru John Zorn's "Great Lobb ...…

The rolling sounds of electrifying fetishism bark at our ears. Konono No 1 "Ungudi Wele Wele" They are known to command more respect on international stages than at home. The global audience is ready for this. In the middle Jegog: The Bamboo Gamelan Of Bali "Tabuh Pengawit: Gending Truntungan" (in case you wanted to know.) I thought this mirror ...…

Leisure Cairo flies Into Quinto Listen Ability Rating: " Depends on what you are looking for?" Now that spring is upon us I have concocted my second cast of characters . February and the #2 of the number 10 and a milennium. The track we started with was from Leisure Highs. And it features Blevin Blectum from Blectum from Blechdom & Eugene S. Ro ...…

Listen Ability Rating: Formless and Unforgiving This time the space between podcasts has hit an all time high, but I pledge to those who continue to find me deeply buried in the engines of search, I pledge to you, you 100,000 strong that you will receive one casting of pod each month this year. Lucky You!Amidst the samples of Patti Smith, Jenni ...…

Listen Ability Rating: A cross pollination of my own with the sounds of Mr. OJ Simpson and the curse of literature.So to be brief in a sense I will make it clear that this is not anything you would be interested in hearing. But go ahead and listen anyway. "I got a bullseye on my front and a dollar sign on my back," laments the Juice while we po ...…

Listen Ability Rating: This episode may be more easily digested than a burger at Mickey D's!This time I've decided to create a free flowing mix of sound fom a variety of recordings. The first excerpt that comes into your ears is a snippet from that crazy bagpiper Rufus Harley. His Re-Creation of the Gods gets us locked and loaded with "Nobody k ...…

Listen Ability Rating; This one may prove to be a challenge for those less accustomed to random weirdness but hang on tight and you may have your sonic appetite satiated. (24.3mb/ 17:13)Posted from the trusty and ever present iPhone. This podcast initiates a series of undetermined number, they are titled "Music to live by." These will include e ...…

Listen Ability Rating: Apocalypse on the brain can lead in strange directions. A delicious sampling of 50's inspired hysteria mixed in with unusual musics. (27.4mb, 19:47)This week I have filled in the gaps between my musical selections with snippets from a record titled "If the Bomb Falls". An interesting and completely serious synopsis of wha ...…

Listen Ability Rating: An interesting conversation with a film maker amid my usual smorgasborg of music.This episode intermingles some interesting thoughts from film maker Guillermo Del Toro. He talks about insects, fantasy and reality and other cool stuff.Musically we start with Jonas Braasch off his Global Reflections CD. This Cd features six ...…

Listen Ability Rating: Odd Dj makes mix of sounds with a coincidental letter.Yes there are some new sounds awaiting your ears, hear they are here. Been reading about the Return of Quetzlcoatl, a book by Daniel Pinchbeck. Got me motivated to assemble this mix. First up, after my "intro", we listen to Sonic Youth off of their latest CD Rather Rip ...…

Listen Ability?Another hiatus of unknown origin brings this wrongly dated podcast to your ears. Better later than nevered.First slab o sound we listen to is a piece by Satanicpornocultshop titled Anorexia Gas balloon, this is a tasty little treatise on candy and all the disturbing things in her mind circa 1960s Velvet Underground and beyond.Fol ...…

Listen Ability Rating: Given the approach many of these musicians and artists take, we might say: the instrument as body, the body as instrument.For this sequence of sounds we ventured into the limitless universe that is ubuweb and found a recent "audio response" to an art exhibit at the ICA in Boston. This compilation is called Music Overheard ...…

Listen Ability Rating: Odd droning sounds overlayed with tasty bits of sampled bytes. Have a listen. On this episode we start off with the sounds of "New York, New York" played by a chorus of car horns. Hear it and hum along. But the show really begins with the sounds of Ubique and their sound sculpture titled "neglect of those In between." Ubi ...…

Listen Ability Rating: From a circuit bent chipmunk to avant electro jazz and the indigenious sounds of urban improv this podcast is full of surprises. (22:30, 30.2mb)The first piece that enters our collective ears is from a CD I came across in the Amoeba record store in SF. "Gravikords Whirlies & Pyrophones" is a collection of odd sounds from ...…

Check out the cool sounds of Akron/Family and a bit of video I edited together to meld with the music.New podcast up soon!

Listen Abiliy Rating: This week we have a gamut of sounds from avant electronic to edgy ambient and a dose of lo-fi freedom thrown in for good measure. (30.9mb, 22:20)Gordon Mumma sets us off on our way with "Stressed Space Palindromes" which was created in the time frame 1977-82."I suggest that the most important creative aspect of live-perfor ...…

Listen Ability Rating: A taste of Edan's funky rap, Nobukazu's quirky kitsch, and Blumm's childish moments.From 2005's Beauty and the Beat we listen to a cut itled "Promised Land." With rapid fire rap spilling out apocolyptic futuristic visions Edan gives us a taste of the past to live for. Cut number two is a challenging listen but I am sure m ...…

Listen Ability Rating: Welcome back friends of the Strange! I have prepared a show of electro jazz noise, ambient piano ships, and moon children possessed --- So if your ears are ready to resume then I will give them a jolt of fun!So it is in the resuming that we begin again. What is a few months in the grand schematic of the wiring diagram? Yo ...…

Listen Ability Rating: You are feeling fitter and happier and the crush of improvised hum will suit you just fine. (11.3mb. 9:50)The first piece we are listening to is a little gem from Radiohead titled, "Fitter, Happier." This cut is off of their gazillion selling OK Computer album. Oddly disturbing use of the often mocked "computer as narrato ...…

Listen Ability Rating: Insanity reigns supreme! (24:24, 28mb)As the summer hiatus into the landscape briefly opens up I have prepared a feast of audio delight for your consumption. We start off with the words of EJ Gold read by the Inkxpotter amidst a cacophony of electronic vibration. The piece is title "Corpuscle."For an altogether abrubt seg ...…

Listen Ability Rating: Well it's short and it runs the gamut from comedy to cathedrals of light. (11:56, 13.7mb)For this episode I've thrown in the comedy of Bill Hicks and some squelchy noises by Wolf Eyes. Bill has a few choice words to say about the evolution of ideas. Which also relates to our own ideas about the ever evolving soundscape th ...…

Listen Ability Rating : An extended mix of sound and suicidal rambling. (22:04, 25.3mb)Although I usually play a few pieces of carefully chosen music by other artists to accompany what I have been working on this will not be the case for this episode of Strange Music in Small Doses. The extended mix I have prepared uses samples from a radio doc ...…

Listen Ability Rating: A good introduction to the sounds that my show has to offer. We've got beats, jazzy flavors and, as always, a bit of heavy deconstruction writhing in between. (15:02, 17.3mb)This episode was inspired by a recent live music event where I saw the Kronos Quartet in San Francisco. They did a variety of modern pieces that incl ...…

Listen Ability Rating: Drones, doors, delays and blog blabber. You be the judge. (18.5 mb, 16:05)For this installment I've done away with the overdubs of my intros, extros and other wordless edits. Let the flow dictate and so it shall! The Cleophone gets us started. Strange Music in Small Doses listener Dave sent me a recording of his latest in ...…

Listen Ability Rating: Challenging and yet somehow strangely soothing. (20:28. 23.7 mb) Rolling the show to the go is Sketch Show off of their 2003 CD Loophole, we enjoyed the piece "Chronograph." "Sketch show is a project that has risen from the ashes of the legendary Yellow Magic Orchestra (Haruomi Hososno and Yukihiro Takahashi). "Loophole" ...…

Listen Ability Rating: Rather melodic if I do say so, from avant jazz to oddball rock/pop you will dig this mix. (17:02, 19.6mb) The Lounge Lizards are the ignition for this weeks machine. With "The Magic of Palermo" off of 1987's No Pain for Cakes. The Lounge Lizards emerged from the New York post punk scene of the early 80's. "Initially a ton ...…

Listen Ability Rating: Spin together a radioactive fallout shelter, a trip down the ghost river, and some fun with foil and you'll decipher the sounds in this show. (15:19, 17.6mb) Getting off to the usual odd start we find ourselves in the Negativland. Inhabited by artifacts from all over the planet we segue from a rather suspect "Announcement ...…

Listenability Rating: Well you need to be comfortable with the mother effer word in this mix of rap, avant noise, folkatronica and general weirdness. (16:42, 19.1 mb) On this version of Strange Music in Small Doses I've felt like talking even less in order to facilitate the flow of audio energy into your waiting earbuds. That being said I'll tr ...…

Listen Ability Rating: One part beef heart, a dash of rag, two pounds nerve snapping Japan psych - rock. Mix thoroughly! (17:36, 20.9mb) Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band give us a jolt of "Electricity" from his 1967 debut album Safe as Milk. BBC DJ John Peel once stated, "If there has ever been such a thing as a genius in the history of pop ...…

Listen Ability Rating: Some heavy sampling, heavy beats, and basterdized Bach! Mixmaster Mike opens up the show with "A Can of Ass Kicks". I pulled this one off of a Wire compilation CD, can't say if it's available elsewhere but it's definitely a kick. One of the premier scratch artists of the day, Mixmaster Mike got his initial itch for vinyl ...…

Listen Ability Rating: As the title suggests the "blues" dominate this episode. Not your standard 12 bar variety though, tonight we've got Tuvan throat singers and primal improv rounding out this collection of sounds. With the blues at the forefront we start off this podcast with a cut from the Genghis Blues soundtrack. This excellent movie chr ...…

Listen Ability Rating: I've been up to a bit of remixing lately as this podcast will show. Nice sounds, aggressive sounds, strange sounds, and Bob sounds. Beginning the show I've mixed together John Zorn, French electronica group aMute and Bob Dylan from way deep in a reverb canyon. This flows for a while until the Art Bears snap us out of it w ...…

Listenability Rating: Well, if you are dreading the annual singing of Auld Lang Syne on New Years eve, then you might like this more creative take on the Scottish favorite from "times gone by." John Fahey begins tonites collection of 30 plus versions of the classic tune, Auld Lang Syne. This version features Fahey's inventive guitar playing, cr ...…

Listenability Rating: If you like Mr.Grinch, Dr.Seuss, and some odd versions of a Christmas classic then you'll like this show. It's Christmas time and so I too fall victim to the cheer, or do I? This week we've got a show full of the Grinch and his nasty vibe. We get it started tonite with Busta Rhymes and Jim Carey doing "Grinch 2000" . Obvio ...…

Listenability Rating: The groove rules in this episodic journey. From out there jazz to an R and B interlude and then back again. I think you'll like this more mellow collection, but beware of the black hole in the center of the podcast. It just may suck you in. Fontanelle sets the pace and the tone for this episode of Strange Music in Small Do ...…

Listenability Rating:: These sounds are a bit more approachable for the new listener of this podcast. Here we have some psychedlic rhythms, some chopped up amazon myths, and a singular voice singing from the heart playing a pretty guitar. Ghost gets us rolling once again on this weekly adventure to the avant extreme We listened to Aramaic Barba ...…

Getting this episode started we have the Akron/Family and their multi-genre piece Moment.This is from their latest CD on Young God Records. The Cd is split between them and the Angels of Light. Two great artists, one great CD. Michael Gira (aka Angels of Light) writes. "A week after an extended US Tour and a few shows in Europe Akron/Family and ...…

Yes, I am aware how long its been since I put one of these podcasts on the air. But there is so much music to create and splice and dice, mix and remix. You know how it goes. First up on this show is a piece off of John Oswalds 2 Disc 69Plunderphonics96 Box set. "Don't" is the name of the piece and we are treated to a sublime mix of Elvis, copi ...…

Listenability Rating: Moderately advanced - if you can get past the abrasive violins, the random assemblage there awaits a funky orchestra at the end. In a modern classical mood we have The Kronos Quartet playing the first movement from composer George Crumb's "Black Angels," a vivdly descriptiive work inspired by the Vietnam war. Composed in 1 ...…