Ghost Wrists Mix Vol. 5: Noise Edition

I’ve been obsessed with noise lately; noise, more noise and experimental shape-shifting noise that oddly sounds like a some rancid bar fight in the dirtiest alley in Harlem, or something like that. I can’t help it – I just throw on my headphones and blast something that is disgustingly jittery and obscenely loud and clean my room.

There’s just something about a fuck load of noise and layering tones and pitches of  that is somewhat calming and exciting to me – the way it shifts and drones on and on is always delightful to hear.

That being said , I’ve dedicated Volume 5 entirely to noise of all sorts: drone, textured experimental, vocal, electronic, etc. You may have noticed a double track entry for Black Dice and well, I’m fucking in love with them now, so deal with it and hopefully you’ll love it too.

Expect LOTS of layering and drone in particular.

Basically, play this little beauty really loud to piss off prude neighbors/boyfriends/girlfriends/parents/roommates.

Track listing is as follows:

01. Untitled 3:38 – Wolf Eyes
02. Urination – Foot Village
03. Blue Bird – Terminal Curl
04. Trip Delay Dude – Black Dice
05. Analpegweinertowbuh – Coil Vs. Venetian Snares
06. Tteema – Tomutonttu
07. Puppy Grill – Volcano The Bear
08. View – Pretentious Assholes
09. Endless Happiness – Black Dice
Enjoy!

Amolvacy – HoHoKus (2006)

I picked HoHoKus on a whim from a record store earlier today PURELY based on it’s beautiful/mysterious packaging and I can tell you that I have not stopped listening to this beauty since.
Front:

Back:

Clear disc!!! So awesome.

If you can imagine Gang Gang Dance being slain by a savage neon tribe in the heart of a Romanian village while reciting spoken word in an almost Prinzhorn-School-of-Dance-manner, then you just might be chipping at the iceberg of mystery that is Amolvacy’s HoHoKus.

HoHoKus comes at you from all directions and pummels you with crashing symbols, handclaps and ritualistic matter-of-fact spoken word/chanting/shrieking/rambling.
I’m not really sure how I’ve never heard of these guys – they’re what the “noise scene” is all about today, yet they’ve not popped up anywhere I’ve looked – until now.

Track listing I think is as follows:

1. They All Played In Amusement Fields
2. Exorcism of Pity
3. The Nobleman’s Fever
4. Thus Spoken on the Cold Night of Thieves
5. Move Along The Concrete Is Warm
6. Fools Dream When They Should Dance
7. Lover Go From Hence
8. Yow Chi Cha Cha
9. Gargantu Pantagruel

Overall, 8/10.

TL:DR, you can experience Amolvacy’s HoHoKus here.

Ghost Wrists Music Mix: Volume 4

Ghost Wrists Music Mix Volume 4
And there shall be obscurity! Here again with another mix, I present a:

mix of  nuwave freeform jazz with a hint of foreign hardcore,  shaken (not stirred) to the beat of minimal electronics with some feel good 70s luvvvvin’ for that extra garnish.

I’m hungry.

The track listing is as follows:

01 Rattle Snake Shake – Wolf Eyes

02 (Stoned Im) Dschungel – Futurologischer Kongress

03 90 åra – Kafka Process

04 Cccan’t You See? – Vicious Pink

05 Classical – Busy Boys

06 I Hate Being In Love – Amy and The Angels

07 Miss Broadway – Glass Candy

08 I Love To Rock – Katie Sweet

09 I Want That Boy – What If Thinking

10 Puzzle Bibop Residents Boom Boom – X-Ray Pop

11 Rome on $5 A Day – Xex

12 Natthund – Dungen

13 You Could Be Born Again – Neighborhood

14 Faces on Fire – Times New Viking

15 New Wave Sucks – Agent 86

Chow down on this little number here

P.S: Sorry for all the lame food references.

Black And White Hillbilly Music

Moonshine, cherry pie,  sexism, segregation and the devil – what isn’t there to love about the 1920s-1930s ‘stars ‘n’ stripes’ hillbilly lifestyle?
To celebrate those good ol’ days where everything was much simpler  I’ve decided to provide a link to Black And White Hillbilly Music, a compilation of obscure ’20s/’30s jail time blues which is perfect for any harmonica loving geek or the plain ol’ interested.

You can expect some extraordinary heartfelt/wailing vocals and bluesy tunes. As far as lyrics go, you can expect cotton pickin’, the devil, eating pie and sly comments about ‘the wife’.
This set comes complete with those tasty vinyl pops and cracks with the odd yodeling here and there.
Great for a trip back in time to segregated America.
You can find this here.
Keep on sipping that moonshine!

Ghost Wrists Mix Volume 3

Finally. I’ve had such little time to be doing anything lately, but, I’ve managed to compile a better and even shinier Ghost Wrists Mix. This mix is quite laid back, again, but I find it more psychedelic than any of the others i’ve produced as of so far. lots of new wave here – you can expect some dialogue in music, some chanting, a dash of minimalist beatz and some worldy stuff.

Tracklisting is as follows:

01 Bra Joe From Kilimanjaro (Terry’s Tune) – Don Cherry
02 La Mer – The Victorian English Gentlemens Club
03 Gypsy Hand – Woods
04 Communist Disco – The Bog People
05 A Dull Life – Ike yard
06 Leh Jani (When I Found Out) – Omar Souleyman
07 How Many Biscuits Can You Eat – Dr. Humprhey Bate and His Possum Hunters
08 Nice Enough For Love – Robbie Basho
09 Come on Feet – Quasimoto
10 Funk Da Esfiha – Bonde Do Role
11 L’Evasion – Images et Avant-Quart
12 The Devil Lives In My Husband’s Body – Pulsallama
13 Track 4 – Fabulous Diamonds
14 You Sexy Thing – Tom Tom Club
15 Flying Turns – Crash Course in Science
16 Smeta Murgarty – Warm Sounds

And you can pick this little gem up from here
Enjoy

Italians Do It Better – After Dark (2007) – Various Artists

Italians Do It Better – After Dark (2007) – Various Artists

I’ve never really been friends with any Italians.
Sure, their culture is…well, cultured. And their food – pasta-y and..pizza? Okay, I know nothing of Italy other than Vespas and spaghetti, but I do know that this compilation by Italians Do It Better featuring a whole bunch of cool, sultry sounding bands (Glass Candy, Farah, Professor Genius, Chromatics, Mirage to name a few).

You can be guaranteed phat-as-dough disco-esque beats fused with a general sexy, retro feel. Did I mention lots of electronic beeps and bops?
Be sure to check Karah‘s “Dancing Girls” – featuring some strange lyrics & lyrics that waft around you like cigarette smoke on a Milan sidewalk.
There, I made a connection between the two. It’s good.
You can get it here
Enjoy!

Ghost Wrists Volume #2

Yo doods.
On the count of moving into a new house with NO internet, I’ve had loads of free time on my hands. I sifted through the stuff I’ve already got and compiled a shiny, brand new playlist.
Luckily for me and you, the internet is now connected and thus I present to you: Ghost Wrists Music Volume 2.

This mix is sort of disco meets new wave meets minimal psych meets raunchy lyrics & phat, badazz beats.
You can get it here
The track listing is as follows:

1. Skateboard – Norma Tracy & Cinderella Kids
2. Howling At The Moon – Ariel Pink
3. Touch – Lori & The Chameleons
4. Ambien Fort – Universal Studios Florida
5. C-h-i-c-k-e-n Spells Chicken – McGee Bros
6. Later Operator – All Girl Summer fun band
7. Reduction – Aterial
8. Peachfuzz – KMD
9. The Arizona Yodeler – The De Zurik Sisters
10. For Want Of – Rites of Spring
11. AllA – Geins’t Nait
12. Dialogue of Wind & Lover – Paul Parrish
13. Eat Sleep – Prinzhorn Dance School
14. Erotic City – Prince
15. Gun In The Sun – Wavves
16. Born Into Magic – Stag Hare
17. Frozen – Not Mean Themselves

Enjoy!

Volume 1 now up!

Well, fellow freaks, I present the very first Ghost Wrists Music mix!
Volume 1 can be obtained here.  Lots of abstraction noize, lo-fi, 50s and 60s, Thai instruments, etc.
Let me know what you guys think and feel free to post any suggestions.

The tracklist is as follows:
1. Daniel Johnston – Walking The Cow
2. Kita Kita – Gospel Lawal
3. Carrots – Panda Bear
4. Ibiza – Coconot
5. Out On the Lone Prairie
6. Black Box Disco – Vortex OST
7. La Booly Boo – Eric Copeland
8. Unknown – Thai Orchestra
9. Bhaktiku – Dara Puspita
10. [Japenese Title] – Man Mikami
11. Indian Rock – The Musical Linn Twins
12. Ribs Out - Fuck Buttons
13. God’s Money [Percussion] – Gang Gang Dance
14. Nun’s Prayer – Sun City Girls
15. 13 Angels Standing Guard ‘Round the Side of Your BEd
16. Her Open Heart – Natural Numbers

Enjoy!

What’s up, music geeks?

Well, here’s my first post. I’m a giant music geek with a passion for the obscure and awesome alike. I intend to provide a weekly/ fortnightly arrangement of freaky, eclectic fucked up beats. My mixes will range from ’70s Bollywood disco, to Japanese electronic symphonies, to psychedelic nu-wave, to in-your-face dirty Discotheque. So hang tight for now and soon enough I’ll be posting some strange, out-of-this-world shit!