Chromosome Damage Mk. IV

HELIOS CREED – Planet X (1995)
Thee um… Cowboy Shrimp, er… floating around with his six guns in an unnameable dimension gives a pretty fair indication of what’s in store for thee listener on “Planet X”: An acid-fried journey into the psyche of thee lysergically-inclined Helios Creed. In other words, business as usual. This little opus [...]

Not. Dead. Yet.

LAST EXIT – Headfirst into the Flames: Live in Europe (1993)
So… it’s been six months since I took my sabbatical from all things blog-related. Shit, I can’t be bothered looking at/involving myself with much of anything on thee web. There’s a glaringly obvious reason for this: Most people suck at the internet. Thus, to paraphrase [...]

Gummo OST

I think a heartfelt round of congratulations are in order to thee Harmony Korine/Larry Clark/Vincent Gallo Axis: you’ve proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that American filmmakers who dabble in “existential” cinema are every bit as stupefyingly dull and redundant as their European counterparts. Please, take a bow. Perhaps we should throw Chloe [...]

Dirt May Be Your Santa Claus

MELVINS – Tora Tora Tora (4 x 7-inch bootleg, 1995)
Not a whole lotta need to scribe a damn thing about these gents. Yer either thee type that’d eagerly consume a tape of King Buzzo, Dale Crover and their bassist of the week wrestling with thee beer shits (Coming Soon! With Mike Patton as ‘guest’ flatulence) [...]

Do the Icepick

GEROGERIGEGEGE – Recollections of Primary Masturbation
Welcome to the world of Juntaro Yamanouchi, the gay, cross-dressing noisemonger behind Shinjuku, Tokyo’s Gerogerigegege. The Gero first raised its ugly mug in 1985 with the “Studio & Live” LP, and have ever since released a huge catalog of noise, ambient and uncategorizable works– many of which are high on [...]