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Joseph Hammer... and Thomas Dimuzio... put together this ensemble
processing super skips and turning everything into drowning tones.
Swezlex Swezlex
3 Day Stubble - around for almost 20 years this band coined
the term 'Nerd Rock' making the white race an absurdity with overly out-dated
styles of whites and bad dance moves. An even more absurd contrast for
them is an attempt at playing funk music, included on this cd.
99 Hooker/with Tom Scandura - 99 Hooker is a jazz slut saxaphonist that
uses any excuse to blow his horn as hard as he can and just be super loud
and obnoxious. He's been on a bunch other's cds and a few of his own.
Tom Scandura was the drummer for the defunct super jazz rock whatever
monster: the Molecules.
Aerobics King - Humble jokers somewhere between granny goose and the most
abrasive crap on No New York. Just a big fucked up mess mostly.
Alpha-Butts - A duo who plays trick non stop dance tunes with no beat
and less dancers. Very modern electronic ensemble avoids all the cliches
and dont tire easily as the sounds never seem to lose momentum or dullness.
Barney - This guy is a non stop mad scientist burning his own motherboards
and constantly pouring through catalogues getting obscure parts for his
3 theremin porta-block. To look at the intricacies of his wires and knobs
can cause confusion and death to weak minds. There is just too much shit.
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Take a sad man stuff him full of junk
food and give him a distortion pedal with a keyboard. You got it. This
guy with his stories and thick sound has put people in their hankies.
Chris Brown - Chris has worked at Mills College for ages working on electro-acoustic
music and electronics. His own stuff is a cut up mess of sharpened changes
and animation. His are the fingers that perform the intricated Henry Cowell
pieces when needed. Dextrous and amazing to watch. Like frying live fish
on each poising feeler finger. John Zorn is always using Chris to boost
career needs. Several solo cds are to his credit.
Cokra - The absolute bottom line of DISCO music. A duct tape chick &
dick band with a 'dance' beat makes a crazy wild ruckus and SO cool: the
end all of all music. Wierd ass Noise keyboards over a fat beat/bass.
SEXY!
Commode Minstrels in Bullface - A soundtrack band whose Mexican Dogfight
Show/Movie soundtrack is included in part here. They have one lp and a
few singles. Live shows are costumer's nightmare with cardboard boxes
to citadels and cow-shit top hats.
Deerhoof - Famous from touring and being on the 'Kill Rock Stars' label,
they have a slew of releases. This is a live show made when they were
a 5 piece ensemble with noise as their middle unpronouncable name. The
vocals are in harmony, the music is disharmonic demonology.
Deb Foxxx Hamhoxxx - Viola diva who is self taught and often sought. She
has played for Denmark Royalty as well as complete drunken idiots. This
is a stab at 'New Wave' as the synth/drum machine player has a collection
of vintage goodies. Deb commands the ensemble and dumps her viola tones
on the top.
Dr. Oblivious - Might be the best thing LA has going for electronics.
This duo has played on freeway overpasses and crappy clubs and are seriously
underrated in their home town. The live show at the Clit got them a standing
ovation, something that should happen at every show.
Earwicker - I have seen this band evolve from playing medical equipment
(alpha wave readers!) to skipping video game cartridges to laptop mixing
both. This excerpt is the best of any show they've done. Every show you
think they've outdone themselves and they go one more...
Frank Gratkowski - This saxophonist is from Koln Germany and is the only
sax player who can make the sound of sea waves hitting pipe and gurgling/burp
up through it. His show at the Clitstop was incredible, such sounds were
never heard on dry land through a gaddam sax no less!! Incredibly unique
and WEIRD sounding.
Fuel For Tongues - His farewell show left blood on the walls. Just intense
emotional content. He smashes into his guitar, screams into the pickups
and throws himself into anything shorter than himself. Cant really call
this metal, mental maybe.
Chlorgeschlect - Berlin's own. People had to turn their heads at this
one, the sound was sooooo loud and the vid projector showed fave german
scat vids mixed with stick figures on speed. Using degraded MP3 files
and Berlin's array of new technology processing equipment for DJs he ruins
any good disco party with damaged ears and no-tanze.
Hammer Eye Dimuzio - Joseph Hammer from the incredible So. Cal band Solid
Eye and Thomas Dimuzio from RRRecordings (he has about 10 CDs out) put
together this ensemble processing super skips and turning everything into
drowning tones. A real dark threatening kind of atmosphere was created
for this show. Like an underwater air raid or something....
Kit Clayton - Famous overseas, - local hero on the laptop. All sounds
were jarring and subtle, smooth and trebly. A total contradiction flavor
that left a real metallic non human skin crawling feel in the bones. Messed
up and delivered with scientific precision.
Lo Fi Nissans - Japanese nuts who jump around. When talent wouldn't work
they a)burned butt on the bbq b)threw giant boobs on the standup drum
kit c) played with toys d) did cartwheels. Or all of the above. Rock?!
at it's most depraved circus of the brain damage.
Lowdown - What has to be the Keith Moon of No Wave on drums this keyboard
riff powered abrasive mess is glued together from silver helmets with
phone cords attached to each member. Fun to watch and real tactful with
the starts and stops.
Mike Boner - Exemplifies self abuse and self humiliation coupled with
stream of consciousness and self exploration- on stage. One semi man and
a guitar and a trunk full of baggage. Thrown out of clubs, parties before
performing because he masturbated with food somewhere on the premises.
Moron - One guy and a laptop explore the human mind with the foreconsious
to the unconscious. During this show it was hard to tell if I was asleep
or awake since the Clit was pitch black until he threw in a loud sound
jarring the conscience.
NaUTical AlManac - Sweet hearts of the Chicago 'Ogre Techno' scene, they
combine exceptional gestures bordering on mime with staple to the forehead
eclectronic. Pioneering idiot s/avante garde they utilize broken toys
and keyboards to wicked ends covering them in knobs and buttons. Have
an LP out on the Hanson label.
No Neck Blues Band - NYC's darlings of the underground, improv in a key
of laid backness. These guys are real serious about what they do but often
it's just silly aimless improv. They have a lot of releases. You're under
a rock if you don't know about them.
Omnivorous Sensillum - Giant insects play briefcased hand built synthesizers
and theremin. The insect heads leave no emotions to be read/ the claw
spurs more sounds than a hive of hornets going batty on Rob Moogs sound
lab.
Patchcords - Members of National Disgrace and Liquorball started this
tribute band to Sammy Hagar. Not being able to listen to one of his songs
through revised themselves into super celeb Slammy Windshield and are
evolving from there. Lowest common denominator of music barely held together
with a bike seat or soup can used as a drum kit.
Rubber O Cement with Karla LaVey - The super computer (7' high & growing)
cargo cult band with bizarre fetal tissue costumes (giant baby feet) and
abstract eclectronics known as Rubber O Cement team up with super organ
player Karla LaVey. Raised in the infamous Satanic LaVey family she's
the only LaVey that received organ lessons from Anton or 'pop' as she
called him.
Rx fxr Bx - Originally an LA noise rock band (Roses for Bodan) this group
has a mangled drum machine and strange synths sounds over a 'group noise'
ethic. All instruments are created equal and must sound like a locomotive
coupling with a rippling vat of slug shit.
Schematic - This is a freak show with a metal detector as an instrument.
The members are eclectic looking, the instruments are archaic, new, found
and a cowbrain in a pickle jar with wires coming out! When the drum machine
turns on there is a semblance of order, otherwise.......
Slusser - A living god of sound. He works on the audio explosions for
movies (top in his class), makes soundtracks, sound effects for movies,
builds weird stuff, eats children for breakfast. This legend has so much
in his sound library you close your eyes when he's cutting loose and you're
convinced he's ending the world.
Spider Compass' Good Crime Band - Revolving around the faulty device known
as the Optigon (light organ). This keyboard band makes dancey lounge music
picked to death by carrion eating vultures who like nothing more than
to tear up any regulated beat with an aimless shredding of cardboard beaks.
SYMPLX - the human genius that made a 12 armed record player that can
sew the record also made a strange audio-laser noise maker (theres other
stuff too). Sounds that remind one of popcorn popping to the world being
chewed up. Complex and Ingenius got together and made this brand of super
puzzle.
Tamio Shiraishi - This is ear damage. He doesn't play the sax as much
as the membranes of the inner ear warping back and forth and the sounds
they make. The only person I've ever experience who made me wince without
using the PA at the Clit Stop. The recording here should be at full blast
and imagine the show itself being louder if you can.
The Bran...Pos (another plight of medics) - A one man maelstrom of heroic
roto-turbine vocals and here/there instruments. Going through a bank of
effects he takes you to remote parts of the echo valleys of the Andes
where sounds are of insects and yelping animals to the garbage disposal
he's cramming your borrowed ears into.
Wicked Witch - A duo who listen to Sabbathesque metal all day then smoke
pot, then put on nifty new tuxedos and play for houuuuurs cranking out
100 riffs a day.
Woof Pies - Synth and laptop combo tech teachers from the abstract blurred
geometric future. Fetishistic and beyond any bizarre description. Much
of the sounds they make are of a correspondence to the education of a
future race of cell slabs. Well, go figure.
The Effable Lord Xiadino - When out of a research binge this eccentric
fruitloop pulls together collected sounds and presents them to a ClitStop
before hrs. show (6-8pm). instigating small discussion groups on what
the hell we just heard. His latest kick is the reconfiguration of the
piano, and treatment of the piano, and the history of the treatment of
the piano, and etc. ad infinitum.
Zeek Sheck - Chicago legend. She has been known to heckle, choke, scream,
play laptop, exercise, play harmonica, eat, run robots, rant, play maraca,
pound drums, and sing sweet nothings. Each show is completely spontaneous
and crazy within the safety of her creep out 'anonymous costumes'. This
was the end of a modeling display of the human muscle show she put together.
Descriptions by Bonnie Banks
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