Jason Lubyk gives us a listen to his answering machine.

Wes Unruh plays Capital G (Unrest Remix) he mixed that remix.nin.com rejected, explains why it wasn’t accepted, and breaks down the offending (and possibly offensive) samples.

Music in this episode includes:

The Elektrowerx tracks Gentle and Tracer.

233project’s Anunaki, a song about the lizard astronaut men coming back down to reinslave us all.

A lovely community, news and online radio source, gothville.com is a vibrant and active community where, to quote:



GothVille is a collection of darkscene related people who want to share their information from all over the world. It is a small world, but worldwide spread, we thought it would be nice to inform each other what's happening in your region.



Beside our platform to inform hell about your darkness, you can enjoy our Gothic Radio stream by tuning in. We play hits and unknown underground music you've never heard of. Participating is possible for registered users by voting for bands and tracks making the random station better every hour. You can become a DJ yourself, setup calendar warnings, and much more. Just read on and enjoy our darkness...





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For those of you who have just recently joined the chaotic proceedings, I'm posting a new review of an older release. The follks at Avantgarde-Metal.com are running a series of articles on Electro Metal and writer Olivier Côté has written a wonderful review of the Psychosis Ex Machina album posted below. In the player above, you can stream the entire album. The last.fm users among you will be able to add most of the Veil of Thorns and Choronzon albums to your playlists as of now.



Coming up soon is an interview with me given to M. Côté for the site. I'll keep you posted.



The review:

CHORONZON Psychosis Ex Machina Release: 2004 Label: Foamin' Sodomy Records Avantgenre: Noise Orchestration Of Chaos Thrash Duration: 60:10 Origin: USoA Official site: http://www.choronzon.org Review online since: 07.12.2007 / 00:49:41 ......................................................................................................................................................... In 1998, Samoth's Nocturnal Art Records released something of a milestone record that went by without being noticed at all in the underground circles. Choronzon's Magog Agog, a mostly industrial-fed post-black-thrash-heavy psychedelic and nightmarish beast, however, probably surprised the few groups of people that actually had the chance to hear its bizarre malice, to the point where they did like me and followed with great care each of its subsequent musical steps. Well, six years later, P. Emerson Williams launched what I would call one of the most psycho-advanced and noise-demented metal album of the 21st century. I really had to write about this album in relation to our great electro metal celebration, because if you ask me, this is the real thing! First of all, Choronzon isn't simply adding a couple of electronica elements now and then on top of a galloping rock metal band, nor does he recharge in expensive studios his compositions with a typically over-produced industrial, polished and clinical sound, as most actual so-called electro metal bands are doing. On Psychosis Ex Machina, Mr. Williams has found an ensemble sonore which doesn't allow you anymore to distinguish the noisy, EVP-fuelled and feedback noise overall dirt from the sometimes out-there majestic, sometimes spooky black angular guitar riffs. Despite all these abstract definitions that I'm making up here, Choronzon kicks major ass and is always on the edge of catchiness, but in an extraterrestrial fashion I should add. That's why I love how Mr. Williams hasn't sacrified any of the aural rawness aesthetics which are usually linked with old-school metal. His music, as psychedelic and coloured as it is, has real bite, which means that it's got an authentic aggressive attitude and a futuro-retro punk-head archaism. I would say that it is right out of these subtle tensions that his musical boldness is expressing itself with a rarely witnessed power. It can bring out the caveman inside you as much as it can open up your mind to unknown forms of music. One has to mention the multi-layered shamanic vocal techniques that at every turn can easily overwhelm your attention spots. The man is screaming, whispering, singing, crooning, deep-throating, gagging, scratching, breathing, feedbacking, morphing, reciting - often all at the same time! Pretty engulfing, to say the least. Among the album, there are three shorter segments of pure dark ambient music, where it is made clear that this man has been working hard with his alien machines before getting to a musical language as fluent as this one is. I won't settle down for a track-by-track description, since Psychosis Ex Machina is Mr. Williams clearly most diverse and genre-bending effort to me. For example, listening to The Enchanting Dead, with its ear-candy mystical far west cowboy metal groove, is quite a surreal experience I must confess, and it always makes me feel like I'm surrounded by miles and miles of desertic sand dunes, smoking mirages and dead-hot snakes. Asymmetrical Red Chamber, however, sounds like it has been generated by a furious, out of control machine factory whose irresistible penchant for dirge rythms and horror metallic sensory assaults will knock you down. And yet, when you get to Ornamental Crypto-Anarchy, the fifteen minutes vastly epic finale, you are first welcomed, at least for a few minutes, with some of the most felt-through melodic black metal guitar lines you'll ever have the pleasure to hear, only to lay down in the middle part of the song and let yourself be submerged by a much-needed evanescent lull, out of which, one by one, millions of massive ambient drone waves slowly build up to a godspeed climax of sheer, enthralling and grandiloquent post-metal beauty. So if you haven't already, go and get yourself a copy of this high-quality album, turn up the volume and test the limits of metal. I mean, I've been for quite a long time a fan of electronic music of all kinds, but I've never ever heard something like that. Also, both the beautiful and very artistic cover and inside layout have been completely painted and organised by P. Emerson Williams himself, only raising Psychosis Ex Machina to a well-deserved classic status. Will you ever dare enter his world? It's all up to you by now. Olivier Côté TRACKLIST: 01 - Dies-Ease (Wrath) 02 - The Enchanting Dead 03 - Crypt-Analysis 04 - Surge Of Blood 05 - Crossing I - The 30th Aethyr 06 - Asymmetrical Red Chamber 07 - Crossing II - The 29th Aethyr 08 - Justified 09 - Crossing III - The 28th Aethyr 10 - Ornamental Crypto-Anarchy

 

 



  

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An album with some P. Emerson contributions is being recognised. This just posted at the Manes blog on Myspace: 

Among the top 20 albums of 2007 says Dagbladet

The newspaper Dagbladet, one of the largest national tabloids here in Norway, has rated our album How the world came to an end among the top 20 Norwegian albums of 2007 as voted by their music/culture journalists. We're at 18, but bloody hell, it came kinda unexpected. You can see the full list here, and there you can also vote for your personal favourites among the artists on their list (Norwegian list on the bottom).

 Old Time Radio Programs.

Classic Sci fi from the early 50's. This is the series that later became X Minus 1.



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Real posts soon to come. Got some research that still needs details and contextualization. Do know I love you.

 

 

This week, On the Media is dedicating the entire show to one of our favorite topics – books. From Oprah's Book Club to the Google Library Project, the way we buy, search, read and even discuss books is changing. And so we begin with a look at some of the forces now tugging at the industry.

One For The Books mp3

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Nineteen-Hundred & Forty-Four through Nineteen-Hundred & Forty-Six

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Available ONLY in Transcribed Syndication. There were NO credentials. Therefore,

ALL CASTS and ALL PRODUCTION, WRITING, DIRECTING staff are unknown to this day.

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G-Spot #18

James Curcio gives us another podcast episode of Postgenre Blues, this time talking about inadequate copyright laws, the media war, remixes and a Microsoft takedown notice sent to the Alterati.net crew.

Wes Unruh gives us a talking to about DIY television, the struggle against media monopoly, and converses on the subject with Freeman.

Joseph Matheny brings us another mini episode of the resurrected Gpod, digging in the archives with the Chicago Underground Industrial Tape Scene.

And Jason Lubyk reads, channels aliens and fucks with your mind.

This shows offering of music:

“Shock The Monkey” originally by Peter Gabriel, remixed by n8ur.

“Daily Grind,” originally from subQtaneous: Some Still Despair In A Prozac Nation, remixed by DJ Doctor Device.

“This is Aryian Bass,” a mashup megamix, by Johan Ess.

“Legit Honey” from Humpasaur Jones’ Keep It Moist.

An audiobook short from the novel Fallen Nation: Babylon Burning.

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Also On Alterati:

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A Conversation With Adam Gorightly - Jason Lubyk



In the first of this two part conversation with writer Adam Gorightly - author of The Prankster and the Conspiracy and Death Cults among other books - Jason talks with Adam about his trip to Conspiracy Convention 7, potential government infiltration of

conspiracy and paranormal groups and the curious life and origins of James Shelby Downard.



Unquiet Mind - Wes Unruh.



This is a continuation of a series he started three years ago.



The Reruns of Brisco County, jr. - Wes Unruh.



Gunslinger television show starring Bruce Campbell involving science fiction themes. With ongoing plot lines like a time-traveling madman bent on world domination and a mysterious orb that bestows superhuman powers, this show was much more than a flashy update of the Wild Wild West.



Ripple #6 - Ray Carney.



Ray Carney and Ari interview Alexis Marshall of Daughters about their album Hell Songs and touring across fucking Europe.



Altertube:



William S. Burroughs Nike Commercial.



The Three Trials.



Problems with Professor 105.



Torrents:



Richard M. Stallman gives a speech about copyright issues.



The Free Voice of Labour: The Jewish Anarchists.



2012 Timewave zero software - Terrence Mckenna and Peter Meyer.

Hunter S Thompson - Audio Books and Lectures.



Xenakis, Iannis (1922-2001)

Damnatus

Recapitulation

A good sum-up of our awkward situation can be found in two new articles:

BBC News

ars technica

 

Says Director Huan Vu:



With a heavy heart we must announce the end of our project DAMNATUS. All protests, discussions and inquiries could not bring Games Workshop to abandon their position. Furthermore we have been forbidden to reshape the film into a digital comic book, a radio play or any other alternative form. Only if we would take out all Wh40k elements, it would be possible for us to release the film without GW's permission, but this is out of the question for us. One the one hand it was always meant as a Wh40k film and on the other we're lacking the manpower, motivation and energy needed for a complete remodelling of the film.



So we have to accept now that the end has come, and we would like to thank you all for your interest and your support in the last four years. It wasn't meant to be ...



But you can still download the soundtrack.

My, my, my...

 

 

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("Stalker Variations")

Many reading this know who DJ LUCY*FUR is, but I'll let her own words tell the rest:



I live in Scotland and was a DJ and PROMOTER until I became ill with Small Cell Ovarian Cancer which is sadly Uncurable/Terminal.

[My REAL name is Melanie] I like creating my own MIXES, SINGING, Creating MUSIC, Freelance JOURNALISM, PHOTOGRAPHY, and DESIGNING promotional material/fliers, Posters,[& myspace pages ;-)].



Eloquence falls away in the face of something like this, so I'll just pass along the links and the paypal button:



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I WOULD BE EXTREMELY GRATEFUL FOR ANY DONATIONS YOU COULD GIVE

I want to try my hardest to live as long as possible. Thanks so much for your caring and support. xxx

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THERE WILL BE MORE BANNERS TO COME SOON IN DIFFERENT SIZES TO SUIT OTHER FORUMS AND PAGES ETC...

THEY WILL BE POSTED IN MY BLOG ..BANNER PAGE

Late -70's/early -80's is hardly old time radio, but the artform apparently did linger on here and there. The MindWebs show archives came to my attention through a post at Boingboing.



This Lovecraft classic is not in that archive, however. Uncle C333 brings it to you here through stream, ogg vorbis and MP3.

An intern in a mental hospital relates his experience with Joe Slater, an inmate who died at the facilty a few weeks after being confined as a criminally insane murderer. He describes Slater as a "typical denizen of the Catskill Mountain region, who corresponds exactly with the 'white trash' of the South", for whom "laws and morals are nonexistent" and whose "general mental status is probably below that of any other native American people". Although Slater's crime was exceedingly brutal and unprovoked he had an "absurd appearance of harmless stupidity" and the doctors guessed his age at about forty. During the third night of his confinement, Slater had the first of his "attacks". He burst from an uneasy sleep into a frenzy so violent it took four orderlies to strait-jacket him. For nearly fifteen minutes he gave vent to an incredible rant. The words were in the voice and couched in the paltry vocabulary of Joe Slater but the onlookers could construe from the inadequate language a vision of:

green edifices of light, oceans of space, strange music, and shadowy mountains and valleys. But most of all did he dwell upon some mysterious blazing entity that shook and laughed and mocked at him. This vast, vague personality seemed to have done him a terrible wrong and to kill it in triumphant revenge was his paramount desire. In order to reach it...he would soar through abysses of emptiness 'burning' every obstacle that stood in his way.



MindWebs - Beyond the Wall of Sleep MP3

I get the gist of reviews in most European languages, but beyond a few words, the Polish is not the easiest for me to follow. It does help if I sound out the words. (Is there anyone reading this who could tell me the gist of this?) I notice the terms "Bowie on LSD", (I think he was quite a lot), and if „rozzowe” means "Rozzian", it's a term coined that is worth keeping.



They've got tons of cool stuff to look at at bat-cave.pl for you Polish readers. News, reviews, articles, forums, links and more, covering the exciting developments in deathrock, post-punk and goth with a knowlege and passion that should be supported.



Psychedelic postpunk/deathrock with jazzy inclinations... I'll take some o' that.

Veil of Thorns – Cognitive Disonance

Veil of Thorns – Cognitive Disonance 2007 Mythos Media Nazwa kapeli wyjÄ tkowo mylÄ ca bo automatycznie sugeruje rejony gotycko-metalowe, czyli zupełnie nieciekawe. Zdziwienie jest ogromne. Veil of Thorns to psychodeliczny postpunk/deathrock z jazzowymi inklinacjami. Ich najnowszy album to efekt współpracy frontmana P. Emersona Williamsa z muzykami industrialnego subQtaneous i norweskiego Manes według notki grajÄ cego „postblackmetal”. „Cognitive Disonance” ma w sobie posmak narkotycznych odjazdów lat 70-tych, artystycze zacięcie i surowość wczesnych 80-tych. Zespół z zamiłowaniem trzyma się średniego tempa i rozwleka kompozycje (poza pierwszym, najlepszym na płycie, podkręconym „Peripatetic”) co momentami może drażnić słuchaczy przyzwyczajonych do bardziej zwartych dźwięków. Im dalej w las tym więcej teatralnych melodeklamacji, wycia i wokaliz, które mijajÄ się z muzykÄ , dużo jazgoczÄ cych gitar i faktycznie jazzujÄ ca sekcja rytmiczna. W kilku utworach (w tym trzech instrumentalnych – „Surgically Dream Like", "Corrode And Engulf”, „Cognitive Dissonance”) pojawia się wiolonczela, sugerowana jako atut płyty. Dopiero przy siódmym „Languishing In The Rusting Valley” Veil of Thorns pokazuje po raz drugi wściekłe oblicze i jak dla mnie w tego typu kompozycjach wypada najlepiej. Najbliższe porównanie? Muzycznie „rozzowe” Christian Death z wokalnymi odchyłami Valora. Albo David Bowie po LSD. Warto jeszcze zwrócić uwagę na tytuły utworów, może odrobinę infantylne i nadęte ale z pewnościÄ odbiegajÄ ce od standardów. Generalnie zespół trzyma poziom i na pewno ma do zaproponowania dużo więcej niż „Cognitive Disonance”, które w całości trochę męczy. http://www.myspace.com/veilofthorns

I include this surreal web translation for no reason other than the fact that it amuses me:



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