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Gay Cat Park

ridiculoid — Mon, 03 May 2010 23:55:25 +0000

Past and current concerns collide in almighty GAY ROBOT CAT fashion…

Gay Cat Park I’m A Vocoder (1982)

Play it at home in 5.1 THX HD Miaowmiaow sound

Smells like tween spirit

ridiculoid — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:11:06 +0000

I probably wouldn’t have posted this (ah, yet again not hitting target demographic) except for the fact I was trying to think of a name for a new project and came across some serendipitous tweenage.

I always liked how Flick in all caps looks like FUCK, and so was born CUNT EASTWOOD hur hur. Now, check the webz to see if it’s taken (came up with the excellent Tina Turntables once, only to discover there was already more than one)… not only is there a Cunt Eastwood, he’s apparently already taking over the internet: Children who won’t put up with being created to be killed are synchronously taking immortality aptitude interneted into their own keyboard hands; please help them with my free search manipulation templates http://google-bomb.com/template/.

Hi tween conspiracy!

Anyways, Tweencore is perhaps not so timely, but now you’ve got a new soundtrack to watch all your favourite movies to!

Download Tweencore

Aquadoom

ridiculoid — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:59:50 +0000

For the sake of safety, stay out of the water.

This kind of thing hurts my brain on a lazy Friday afternoon… waaaaay back in 2006, a synchronised swim team called Aquadoom teamed up with Japanther for a one-off show called Dangerous When Wet. With pool monitors as water bouncers… fuck.

Aquadoom feat. Japanther

Hardcore Coronation Street

ridiculoid — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:24:03 +0000

It’s the summer of 2006/07, and two things make us want to start TKS: seeing this bit of breakfast television genius and listening to this (and only this!) industrial-weight audio cartoon for 6 months straight.

Came across this post on Shitmat’s blog last night… from beyond the grave (all of his drives are supposedly named after wrestlers and this one was called The Undertaker!), it’s the 100 best things on Shitmat’s dead hard drive…

Highlights
The Spice Girls

First draft of Grooverider cover

Poo poo poo

Drawing of Lou Carpenter by Katrina

Lyrics for a song I never made
My sound is stuck in the quagmire like a frozen fishfinger with no direction
This scene is too bland i yern for something more grand
pissed
rude
cunt
hate
bordam
in
his life

Burger King techno advert

Me with mini chav

» 100 best things on my dead hard drive

Bonus: Venetian Snares’ Coronation Street ode Abomination Street

Righteous Fists Of Harmony

ridiculoid — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:35:18 +0000

Lush promo feat. Righteous Fists of Harmony from an upcoming Daedelus EP (please somebody make one for Hours Minutes Seconds, favourite track of 2009 right there):

Bonus: More in the category of promo-for-an-EP, and the award goes to…

Debruit’s 2009 3D doozy for Let’s Post Funk…

Bohemian flair

ridiculoid — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:01:43 +0000

Is this the official end-point of this round of psychedelia? Hate (inevitable) shifts from this…

…to this:

Indie spam

ridiculoid — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:30:39 +0000

Ruling! Heh, spam in the genre of indie/experimental (with ‘troll’ sub-genre), received in TKS comments today. Hey Mr., I totally wasn’t insinuating anything!

Hey Mr.
Digital copy of full Opera released on Knife.net today!
Your comments on Mt Sims & Miss PTR seemed a little less than favourable or objective (it is a free country, I know) however perhaps if you’d done a bit of research maybe you would have realised extremely talented Janine Rostock has been performing under the moniker Planningtorock for more than half a decade now (referring to the part about worst name of the year). You say you’re into “weird” stuff so name aside check her out; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4GmMHZrDxs&feature=related

What’s in a nme? A name is what you make of it. It works in this case, no?

You also insinuate a little that it was PTR & MT Sims involvement which lead to the “operatic” sound. How can you be sure when it comes across that you have little knowledge on these two collaborators? For one, Mt Sims is rather punky although experimental but far from operatic and PTR has touches of more screechy/bluesy sounds vocally.

It seems to me Olof is an individual interested in pushing boundaries and realising his own capabilities as a musician and expanding these capabilities with new projects, not wanting to be pigeon holed into a box or genre. I’m sure when the idea presented itself to compose a contemporary “Opera” Olof threw himself at it. Did I mention he is a damn fine Minimal Techno DJ too! Just another facet of this multi talented, music loving individual.

The Opera was a visual masterpiece in my opinion, I managed to catch it in Copenhagen last year… Started off a bit slow but picked up in the second half. If Puccini or Verdi were around today, I’m sure their version of an Opera wouldn’t be far off from what this collaboration between The Knife, Mt Sims & PTR has achieved. Amazing work.

ACCADACCA

ridiculoid — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:51:55 +0000

A bastion of your parent’s/grandparent’s record collections are in Wellington tonight, making for a strangely family-friendly event. I’ve not seen as many black shirts all together since the Destiny Church march in 2004.

Excellent time to post Dan Graham’s 1982 – 84 Rock My Religion. Graham made a lot of work around kids making noise in the suburbs back then (and he’s still amongst it: check Japanther’s Dump The Body In Rikki Lake puppet opera for a flash of Graham as audience member), and here he aligns frantic limb flailing at gigs with the religious revivals of the Shakers.

Warning: contains Art.

Daft Crunk

ridiculoid — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:15:56 +0000

New Duran Duran Duran booty-blend Powerforce mix is “40 minutes of ass shaking lazer booty that causes snakes to crash planes and wizards to learn kung fu” – go gets it!

Plus oldie-but-goodie Assdroids Daft Crunk

Death Metal Rooster

ridiculoid — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:07:25 +0000

Exactly that.

Bonus: Hatebeak: Parrot grindcore.