unfortunately [ rave.ca ] has amended the 7th rule...

it now says:
IN THE INTEREST OF KEEPING A STEADY FLOW OF DRAMA - FIGHTS WILL GO ON WAY LONGER THAN THEY HAVE TO.

the absolute worst I've experienced is biking back to Montreal via the Cartier bridge after work... and, due to all the people heading back to their south shore homes, there sometimes isn't much of a gap to pass people... so I got stuck behind some fuckin' tard in moth-eaten briefs, with his pants down around mid-thigh... pedaling as hard as he can, standing up, on his ratty-old BMX with tiny tires... effectively going nowhere, but succeeding in waving his ass in front of me... at eye level.

I was real happy when I was able to pass that particular stuntman.

I've got a whole heap of her stuff on ISR, IST, Pulsar, Drop Bass Network, Audio Illusion - and a couple of the hand-stamped Cipher releases she put together. Pure sickness... one of the unsung greats.

perhaps when you find the PLUR... the trance will come looking for you.

seeing as I'm opening things up... I figure I'll put together something a bit different... packing a crate of some seriously early ISR/IST cuts (Turbulence, Laura Grabb, Spy) and some positively filthy hard acid (Zekt, Earthworm, Brixton, Walker) to set a nice, dark tone for the evening...

as an added plus... it's the kind of shit that tends to sound awesome when it echoes around in a big space before the masses show up...

I got lots of beer... I think you're in the neighborhood... come by some time...

100% no hugging guaranteed...

homie don't play that.*



*except with consenting bearers of said 'vag'

shit's gonna get stupid...

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tabernoune.

I cunt hear you... I've got an earinfucktion!

the classic...

if I told you that you had a beautiful body... would you hold it against me?

your girlfriend invited me over to her place... and I came inside.

Picnic of Love is pretty special....

pour some out for 'sensitive' Seth Putnam... who passed away recently.

all those Sonny Chiba - Street Fighter films from the 70's...

video of the chaos can be found at: [ beatfreakz.ca ]

some very impressive lists, here...

trying to avoid things that have already been mentioned...
Altered States - academics indulge in hallucinogens and isolation tanks... insanity prevails!

Angel Heart - Robert Deniro, Mickey Rourke and Lisa Bonet - plus some awesome old bluesman cameos!

A Boy & His Dog - Don Johnson and Jason Robards in a no-budget adaptation of a Harlan Ellison book.

Z00: A Zed & Two Naughts - possibly Peter Greenaway's finest moment.

Charade - '60s spy-spoof classic with Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant.

Forbidden Zone - Herve Villachez as the ruler of an alternate dimension + Danny Elfman as Satan... 'nuff said.

Hardware - cameos by Lemmy and Iggy Pop... plus a killer robot designed by Chris Cunningham.

Eyes Without A Face - mesmerizing... dark, twisted and brilliant stuff.

Silent Running - ok - the Joan Baez score sucks, but this remains one of the most visually amazing sci-fi films ever... with an amazingly prescient ecological slant.

Bad Boy Buddy - essential viewing for anyone who loves transgression.

Jesus' Son - junkie cleans up & goes to work with the handicapped... what?

Jefftowne - "The adventures of a 40-year-old, beer-drinking, porno-consuming wrestling fanatic with Down's Syndrome." I'm quoting someone else so you won't think I'm making it all up.

Peeping Tom - the hugely influential proto-slasher film that ruined Michael Powell's career...

The Conversation - one of the most paranoid films ever made.

well... let's hope that it's not the infamous glow stick photo that's getting people hard in the pants.

maybe not every single pre-1980 Leonard Cohen - but a lot of them are quite impressive (and Beautiful Losers is a pretty entertaining and perverse read!)... but Simon Finn is also worth investigating... I think he still lives in Montreal...



some other ideas...

well... at least until the hallucinogens kick in about halfway through...


early 70's psych-folk from Stateside...

...and anything related to the original WickerMan soundtrack...

including those inspired by it...


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Elliot Smith, John Fahey.... and the incredible work of old bluesmen like Bukka White, Mississippi John Hurt and Skip James.

Cutterhead - we're not talking masters and such, we're talking physical stock; in some cases entire label back-catalogs. With the number of distributors shrinking over the past few years, there are only so many places that labels without the means to distributor their wares can turn to in order to service retail outlets, and a single distribution center serving a territory is far from abnormal.

Think what you want about Sony (I'm no fan of them either), but it's quite possible that PIAS was merely leasing or renting space in a warehouse that was already in the business of music distribution... anyhow, I'm not sure if masters were lost, but losing 30,000 copies of a record that was due to be shipping out that week is a lot for a label to absorb... even if insurance will cover the losses (and there's no guarantee of that), it won't compensate for the lost sales while titles are simply unavailable in a physical format.

it's because of that Mutanté video where he's rockin' Eastern Europe without his shirt, ain't it?

hellfuckyeah!

the masters for pretty much all my old mixtapes are in storage in Winnipeg... but it'd probably be easier to pull the records down off the shelf and re-create it, as I've got both of those here.

this one could get retarded...


two DJs + three mixers + five turntables...

good times... had a blasted - and blasted a few, too...

..and now that it's preserved in video on the internet, I can get rid of this beard!

you can do some really mental shit when you get Serato and Ableton working together...

case in point... samples, tones and all kinds of shit... kind of fuckin' mindblowing.

Original cut - or Walter Hill's new version??

more recent creations can be found here...
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Unicum is pretty great... it kicks off with that herbal aftertaste that Jager has... and leaves a lingering flavor in your mouth that reminds you of the smell of rancid grass clippings.

as I recall it's the Hungarian national drink... and I'm a bit disappointed that it's not available here.

I've had Czech homebrew Slivovice, which likely isn't too far removed from the Romanian variety... I think it upwards of 140 proof... fun stuff... we had a few shots of that at the end of the night and then ended up watching Altered States.

btw - Screwhead... that bumwine site is classic... but has Thunderbird ever been accused of "having the flavor of the inside of a taxi."??

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spruce beer isn't even in remotely the same category as Malort... the only thing I've had that approached it was a home-brew concoction called Satan's Semen - [ www.connexionbizarre.net ] - which is foul, but lacks the all-encompassing bitter aftertaste that refuses to leave your mouth.

how 'bout I remind you every few minutes during the entire road trip to Toronto... that way you'll never forget!

sorry... I actually enjoy the occasional glass of Malort (had some on Sunday night, as a matter of fact)... and I'm not really looking forward to having none left... in fact, I'm already trying to source a fresh bottle via friends in Chicago.

Besides too many of those µ releases are by friends for me to ever consider parting with them.

yeah... you've already had some, but there's still enough to deliver the Malort face to a handful of people!

so... Malort was recently proclaimed to be the World's Worst Liqour...

I've got a bottle - anybody want to try some?

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watch the video... "tastes like a dead orphan's soul"... if that don't tempt you, there must be something wrong with you.

I'm pretty sure that I'm in... unless someone else grabbed the first come part.

btw - how are you getting down there? I'm tempted to check this one out.

very nice line-up... great to see LeFreak is still kicking around... haven't heard from her in a long time... and Blndr is a treat, too... bigup the TO female hardcore massive!

it might help if you posted the date of the party, though.

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a couple of years ago there was talk of doing a fund-raising disc to cover legal costs related to Schizophrenia IV getting shut down... it never panned out, but here's a glimpse of the set I was working on.

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~ 23 minutes of old fashioned, midwest hard acid meltdown... loose, sloppy, filthy and live...
featuring:
Beverly Hills 808303 (Drop Bass Network)
Fresh (Drop Bass Network)
Circuit Breaker (Probe)
DJ Hell (Disko B)
V.C.F. (Magnetic North)
Doormouse (Deadly Systems)
Earthworm (EXperimental)
100% Acidiferous (100% Acidiferous)
New York Terrorist (H2OH)

Clarification here... a George H. Bush appointed Supreme Court judge who tows the line on the sort of liberties the government likes to trample upon - or would like to trample upon in the future... One of the most lasting ways that an administration can leave the stench of their taint on a country for a period that extends well beyond their term is to place guys like Thomas on the Supreme Court.

wait a second... you're quoting Clarence Thomas? The judge who had to fight his way through sexual harassment charges to make it to the Supreme Court... is a supporter of the death penalty, anti-abortion and believes that the fourth amendment's protection against unreasonable search and seizure doesn't apply to police brutality?

...and no one's called you on this?

no wonder this argument isn't over yet.