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Topic: weirdest stuff, pleasePosted By: VOTOMS
Subject: weirdest stuff, please
Date Posted: August 13 2013 at 20:50
I'm looking for more bizarre, freak, avant music. Some of my favorite albums are Plague Soundscapes (The Locust) and Civilization Phaze III (Frank Zappa). I like this kind of stuff featuring multiple random notes and fx, bizarre and constant tempo changes. Dissonance and lot of key/organ/moog are perfect fanservice for me too. Please recc me not weird, but the weirdest stuff you know!
Replies: Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: August 13 2013 at 21:01
Scott Johnson
The Blitzoids
The Orthotonics
Posted By: VOTOMS
Date Posted: August 13 2013 at 21:13
Listening to your recc. Thx a lot.
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: August 13 2013 at 21:33
Easy - Scott Walker. The Drift and Bish Bosch should do it. Not prog but do you really care?
Posted By: Smurph
Date Posted: August 13 2013 at 21:52
Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: August 13 2013 at 22:41
Volcano The Bear - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoaC6vUdlBQ&list=PL06AC4DFB9975C901&index=5
This Heat - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgW9YFAZcKI
Nurse With Wound - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbfxNoYxMhI
Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: August 13 2013 at 22:50
VOTOMS wrote:
Listening to your recc. Thx a lot.
Sure thing, hope you liked them.
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: August 13 2013 at 22:56
Amarok
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: August 13 2013 at 23:09
These guys are weird..but in a good way.....too weird and it becomes unlistenable.
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Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: August 13 2013 at 23:09
TheGazzardian wrote:
Volcano The Bear - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoaC6vUdlBQ&list=PL06AC4DFB9975C901&index=5
This Heat - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgW9YFAZcKI
Nurse With Wound - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbfxNoYxMhI
Oh man, you beat me to it. I was going to recommend Nurse With Wound. One of my favorite artists. Volcano the Bear is awesome too.
I assume you already know the Residents? Still one of the weirdest bands ever.
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Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: August 13 2013 at 23:10
And of course ... there is Faust. Gotta know Faust.
Actually it may also be a good idea to check out the Last.fm radio stations of the artists/bands suggested on this thread to learn about other acts.
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: August 13 2013 at 23:31
The wierdest stuff I know would have to be...
Diamonda Galas - Plague Mass
Fantomas - The Directors Cut
Shub Niggurath - Les Morts Vont Vite
and of course, The Flight of the Conchords
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Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: August 13 2013 at 23:38
The.Crimson.King wrote:
and of course, The Flight of the Conchords
... that means he's just jesting.
Posted By: Smurph
Date Posted: August 13 2013 at 23:42
This Heat
(Very weird early 80s)
Pholas dactylus
Weird italian Prog with spoken word and weird passages and such :)
Ebu Gogo (Lucas you will love this band. I promise! I promise twenty times. I know your tastes already. I reccomend their album. "Worlds"
Sleepytime gorilla museum gets that weird
Portal (Australian blackened portal metal. Very dooming. Crazy costumes. Insanely dark and just weird. Watch live videos and see what they are playing. It literally sounds like you're getting swallowed into a portal)
Now this next band deserves to be on pa but they will never do real releases.
http://m.soundcloud.com/403_team_7
Check them out. Like weird cheesy metal that randomly gets super amazing while shifting genres. And it's freaky weird. Just listen to every song on their page and I think you'll enjoy)
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: August 14 2013 at 00:17
Satan Alfa Beel Atem
Posted By: Ambient Hurricanes
Date Posted: August 14 2013 at 00:20
Kayo Dot UneXpect Koenjihyakkei
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: August 14 2013 at 07:36
This may be the strangest band I've heard - Caroliner. (aka Caroliner Rainbow, other variations). This is a live excerpt so the sound isn't as clear as a studio album, but the visuals should also give you an idea as to where these guys were at.
Also check out the Sun City Girls, an avant trio from Arizona. I won't provide a sample because there's no one or two tracks that really represent them - they're all over the map from free form jazz to psych to punk to ambient to pretty straight jazz to.... you get the idea. Plenty to browse on Youtube, and I've reviewed a few of their many albums on PA.
The rest of the album is pretty mainstream though.
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Posted By: VOTOMS
Date Posted: August 14 2013 at 10:28
Thanks for answering me. I know most of the stuff posted here, like The Residents, Fantomas, Nurse With Wound, French TV and moar, but I really found lot of great new music.
Well, I'm asking you about freak music because I'm making avant-garde movies, like this:
I already used Reagan at Bitburg (Zappa) and a lot of French TV tracks from the album Violence of The Amateurs.
I'm working on a list of WEIRDEST music to a perfect soundtrack. So, if you just think you know a track that fits this kind of stoopid stuff, post here!
Posted By: Smurph
Date Posted: August 14 2013 at 11:19
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: August 14 2013 at 11:54
Their albums are nearly impossible to find, unfortunately. They were all released on very limited edition vinyl and have all been out of print forever. If not for the internets, I would never have had a snowball's chance in hell of hearing their music. Or whatever it is they do.
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: August 14 2013 at 12:53
Omoeide Hatoba. Japanese surrealistic group that mixes surfer guitars with RIO, punk and everything under the sun, basically. These guys are insane! In a good way though
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: August 14 2013 at 12:55
Sure there's always this little slice of madness
Widely regarded as one of the most bizarre albums out there.
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- Douglas Adams
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: August 14 2013 at 13:05
How about some Geinoh Yamashirogumi?
This album is in a league of it's own. The scream that starts it all off feels most befitting:
Oh and not to forget the kitschy stylings of the cult album L'etrange Mr Whinster by Horrific Child:
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- Douglas Adams
Posted By: VOTOMS
Date Posted: August 14 2013 at 13:55
Thanks David, great stuff too. btw, I have this cromagnon album, and it sounds to be proto-black metal sometimes, harsh vocals.
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: August 14 2013 at 13:59
It's just weird as hell. It would be though, considering just how many strange chemicals they probably had in them.
Did you hear that Geinoh Yamashirogumi track yet? It is insane, and I absolutely adore it.
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- Douglas Adams
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: August 14 2013 at 14:24
I'm going to be checking out some of these items I don't know later on. I never know when another David-bamsen recommendation will become my new favorite album.
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Posted By: Smurph
Date Posted: August 14 2013 at 14:28
Guldbamsen wrote:
It's just weird as hell. It would be though, considering just how many strange chemicals they probably had in them.
Did you hear that Geinoh Yamashirogumi track yet? It is insane, and I absolutely adore it.
I would love to make music like this someday. But, you gotta learn the rules before you break them.
Why isn't Cro Magnon on progarchives?
Also, this french guy, Horrific Child, the album is based off Les Chants De Maldoror, which I am currently reading. Very very very good book. Insane.
Posted By: mongofa
Date Posted: August 14 2013 at 18:38
Oh, you're talking about the album, I thought you meant the band. The band is dark but not really weird.
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Posted By: Lima96
Date Posted: August 14 2013 at 22:30
Sebkha-Chott. These guys have everything, weird costumes, (sometimes) sing with made up words, define themselves as (according to The Omniscient Wikipedia) as players of "Mekanik Metal Disco (until 2008), Abstract Low Coast Hip Hop | Concrete Violence | AvantPorn Mekanik Metal from 2009, often condensed in: Bizarre AvantPorn Mekanik TheaterCore", their albums are incredibly mad and quirky, constantly change tempos and styles and best of all, the band offers them to be downloaded for free in their Bandcamp page:
Posted By: progrockdeepcuts
Date Posted: August 14 2013 at 23:06
5uu's!
Posted By: mongofa
Date Posted: August 14 2013 at 23:50
Throbbing Gristle!
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Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: August 17 2013 at 07:19
No discussion of weird music is complete without the Boredoms. Try Pop Tatari and Super ae.
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: August 18 2013 at 10:45
Hi,
White Noise - Electric Storm in Hell
Brainticket - Cottonwood Hill
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Posted By: VOTOMS
Date Posted: August 19 2013 at 09:09
I'm checking out the bands here that I haven`t tried yet, thank you everybody.
Well,Geinoh Yamashirogumi is not the kind of weird stuff that I will use in the avant videos, but it`s of course the best thing around here!!!
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: August 19 2013 at 10:14
Hey Lucas, I'm glad you're digging that Yamashirogumi track I'm not so sure I understand what you mean in the first part of your post though
Anyway, let's get on with this mother!
For starters, I'd recommend another fantastic Japanese album called Yamataifu from the 70s. Avant jazz rock with loads of jaw dropping turnovers. This music morphs like no other. I've often heard this whilst working out, but I like this kind of stuff while I'm sweating:
Alan Sorrenti! The human bird as my good friend Pierre(The infamous duck) calls him On his debut album, Aria, you'll hear his voice twisting and bending in the most unique way. Coupled together with the Van Damme Generatorish organ gulps, as well as monsieur Jean Luc Ponty joining in on his characteristic violin, the whole album is definitely worth checking out. Here's the first track:
Joakim Skogsberg(hopefully added to PA in the near future). His album Jola Rota is nearly indescribable. Imagine this weird forest hermit talk-humming to himself in a most bizarre way backed up by ambient violin sounds. Approach with caution:
Area's Maledetti is also pretty strange. Now Area were never the mainstream act to begin with, mixing fusion with circus themes and Arabian twists, but on this baby they really do sound like a bunch of lunatics:
Aluk Todolo? French black metal band deciding to play Krautrock. Very unique, and often comes across like some kind of horror flick soundtrack recorded in a dark dusty basement by people experiencing a bad acid trip:
Kräldjursanstalten. Swedish version of Captain Beefheart fuelled by enormous quantities of coffee and general loony bin mentality:
Anima-Sound's Stürmicher Himmel is also quite recommendable, if you're on the search for some Krautrock truly gone fishing. Yodeling, the sound of people falling down ladders, strange harp like guitars and swampy textures:
How about some electric frog synths eh? Lard Free's Acid Framboise:
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- Douglas Adams
Posted By: Smurph
Date Posted: August 19 2013 at 10:16
^just when I start to think I love weird music and know too many bands you always prove me wrong ;)
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: August 19 2013 at 10:30
Oh yeah Luca
How could I forget these guys...?
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- Douglas Adams
Posted By: Polymorphia
Date Posted: August 19 2013 at 10:32
Has anybody suggested this beast yet?
Posted By: VOTOMS
Date Posted: August 19 2013 at 11:12
Smurph wrote:
^just when I start to think I love weird music and know too many bands you always prove me wrong ;)
Me too!!! David got awesome reviews and really knows too much about great music.
Guldbamsen wrote:
I'm not so sure I understand what you mean in the first part of your post though
I think you are talking about the avant movies. Well, I'm trying to use active,noisy,funny&random music in my videos, like this (posting one of my movies again):
Posted By: VOTOMS
Date Posted: August 21 2013 at 19:54
smartpatrol wrote:
I just noticed that my post with DNA was removed. What on earth was wrong with it?
i know, that song was great
Posted By: BarryGlibb
Date Posted: August 22 2013 at 03:30
Dayvenkirq wrote:
Easy - Scott Walker. The Drift and Bish Bosch should do it. Not prog but do you really care?
These...
Bish Bosch even has a real human farting sequence.....presumably Walker had exhausted all other possible wind instruments on previous albums.
Posted By: Stool Man
Date Posted: August 22 2013 at 06:12
HolyMoly wrote:
This may be the strangest band I've heard - Caroliner. (aka Caroliner Rainbow, other variations). This is a live excerpt so the sound isn't as clear as a studio album, but the visuals should also give you an idea as to where these guys were at.
Also check out the Sun City Girls, an avant trio from Arizona. I won't provide a sample because there's no one or two tracks that really represent them - they're all over the map from free form jazz to psych to punk to ambient to pretty straight jazz to.... you get the idea. Plenty to browse on Youtube, and I've reviewed a few of their many albums on PA.
I was also going to suggest Caroliner - 19th Century singing bulls, LPs in boxes crammed with random ephemera, and dayglo everything. Genius above and beyond everything else.
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Posted By: Tzeentchian
Date Posted: September 13 2013 at 13:45
Not exactly prog, but if it's not weird enough, you need to step away from the computer and call an expert psychiatrist (or exorcist):
Should this tickle your fancy, there's more over at https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3AOrganium" rel="nofollow - the Internet Archive .
Posted By: tupan
Date Posted: September 13 2013 at 14:24
Lima96 wrote:
Sebkha-Chott. These guys have everything, weird costumes, (sometimes) sing with made up words, define themselves as (according to The Omniscient Wikipedia) as players of "Mekanik Metal Disco (until 2008), Abstract Low Coast Hip Hop | Concrete Violence | AvantPorn Mekanik Metal from 2009, often condensed in: Bizarre AvantPorn Mekanik TheaterCore", their albums are incredibly mad and quirky, constantly change tempos and styles and best of all, the band offers them to be downloaded for free in their Bandcamp page:
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: October 06 2013 at 03:19
I suggest Le Projet Senecal by BataBeat http://batabeat.bandcamp.com/album/projet-sen-cal" rel="nofollow - http://batabeat.bandcamp.com/album/projet-sen-cal
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: October 06 2013 at 03:27
Japanese freak show Krautfolk experiment Brast Burn with their 1975 release Debon:
The cover art is very telling actually. This album sounds exactly like it looks Welcome to the grainy soil marmalade!
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- Douglas Adams
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: October 06 2013 at 03:35
Ahh what the hell. While I'm at it, I might as well mention the wonderful proto RIO madness of Komintern's Le Bal du Rat Mort. This album is incredible! Something like a French Samla Mammas Manna with baguettes flying and all.
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- Douglas Adams
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: October 06 2013 at 04:26
As avant-prog, I suggest Tigress & The U-Fraidees http://tigressandtheu-fraidees.bandcamp.com/album/no-location" rel="nofollow - http://tigressandtheu-fraidees.bandcamp.com/album/no-location
As psych/space, I suggest In Zaire http://inzaire1.bandcamp.com/album/white-sun-black-sun" rel="nofollow - http://inzaire1.bandcamp.com/album/white-sun-black-sun
Both acts are in Prog Archives.
Posted By: Toaster Mantis
Date Posted: October 06 2013 at 05:12
If you dig Aluk Todolo and feel adventurous, check out German obscurity Alpha Drone. It's a black metal project with Krautrock influence rather than the other way around, with lyrics hovering in the overlap between Buddhist/Hindu esoteric occultism and pulp science-fiction literature. The incredibly weird production also helps.
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Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: October 08 2013 at 05:58
Posted By: VOTOMS
Date Posted: October 08 2013 at 07:37
I'm looking for something in the same vein of Five Percent for Nothing (from Yes). Any suggestions?
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: October 08 2013 at 07:55
I always felt a distinct ELP vibe in that track, so maybe that is where you need to look?
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- Douglas Adams
Posted By: VOTOMS
Date Posted: October 08 2013 at 08:46
That one sounds really different and freak. I haven't got the ELP feeling for that, but ELP is my favorite band, and FPfN is my favorite track from Fragile.
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: October 08 2013 at 09:00
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: October 08 2013 at 09:09
^^ I just decided to try and find that Claudio Milano thing, and was able to stream it on Soundcloud. I already had a Moby Grape album playing, and suddenly realized I was hearing both at the same time. Pretty wild, hearing this stuff with a piano-based blues jam in the background.