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CROPPED OUT is a WEEK AWAY!

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We’ve got one week until the first day of this year’s CROPPED OUT festival, beginning next Friday, September 28th (which, coincidentally, is my birthday!), so let’s take a look at this year’s lineup, schedule, and tomfoolery. Firstly, if you haven’t seen this preview video yet, what planet are you from? Well, you better get in your saucer and get here soon! Check it out:

The entire schedule, broken down by venue, is available here: http://croppedoutmusic.com/cropped-out-2012-schedule/. Let’s take a look at each day’s offerings, shall we? Our “picks to click” are in bold:

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28th at the TURNERS CLUB —
Turner Tavern: SHE MIGHT BITE, MICROWAVES, THE SEDIMENT CLUB, TWIN SISTER RADIO, TV GHOST, CHAIN & THE GANG
Scully Alley: DISCO DOOM, GANGLY YOUTH, BUCK GOOTER, LANTERN, EUGENE CHADBOURNE
Phreedom Hall: THE RITCHIE WHITE ORCHESTRA, JANDEK, STREET GNAR, SLUG GUTS

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29th at the TURNERS CLUB —
Turner Tavern: BINARY MARKETING SHOW, CAVE BEARS, GRAY/ZERANG DUO, COOL MEMORIES, SHAVED WOMEN, DAVID LIEBE HART, R. STEVIE MOORE
Scully Alley: WET, KARK, GLOBSTERS, WHITE WALLS, NEW MOTHER NATURE, GUERILLA TOSS, NEIL HAMBURGER
Phreedom Hall: BLACK KASPAR, RAW THUG, CRYS, PC WORSHIP, MERCHANDISE, LIL B
Spooky Beach: ASHCAN ORCHESTRA

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29th at the WORKHORSE BALLROOM —
PAPA M, WOODEN WAND, JOZEF van WISSEM

Wait, you want more? Well, we’ve got more for ya! How about a DOWNLOADABLE MIX of lots of this year’s CROPPED OUT performers, put together by CROPPED OUT homie James Ardery? Sound good? Well here it is! And here’s the tracklist:

1. Jozef van Wissem, “Lux Divinitatis”
2. PC Worship, “Tides”
3. Wooden Wand, “Servant to Blues”
4. CRYS, “Pass on the Third”
5. Shaved Women, “Circles”
6. Eugene Chadbourne, “Wine Me Up”
7. Globsters, “Roll You Up and Smoke You”
8. White Walls, “The Milk of a Lonely Man”
9. Microwaves, “Hammerspace”
10. Lil B, “Still Cookin'”
11. Guerilla Toss, “Breeding Snakes 4 Variety”
12. Buck Gooter, “Consider the Grackles”
13. Merchandise, “Time”
14. Wet, “Wetter than Wet Pt. 2: Pink Pearl”
15. Gangly Youth, “Jangly Youth”
16. The Ritchie White Orchestra, “Matt Says 2”
17. Chain & The Gang, “If Only I Had Your Brain”
18. R. Stevie Moore, “Schoolgirl”
19. Lantern, “Dreammine”
20. The Phantom Family Halo, “Black and White Magic”

It’ll only be up for a limited time, so grab it like it’s hot. Yeah. And enjoy.

Of course, a wealth of information, including tickets, is available at www.croppedoutmusic.com. Don’t miss what promises to be an awesome weekend! And we’ll see you there, by some bonfire, tellin’ jokes or something…

UPDATE, 9/27/2012: CROPPED OUT IS A DAY AWAY!

Some lineup changes to note: DAHM is unfortunately sick, so he will be missing this year’s CROPPED OUT. Get well, Dahm!

In his place are not one but two doozies: 90’s power-violence pioneers SUPPRESSION (from Roanoke, VA) and FAT HISTORY MONTH (from Boston, MA; on Sophomore Lounge).

Lots of food trucks and vendors and whatnot will be there too, so don’t forget the tomfoolery!

V/A, Reportage: Spela Själv (Unknown Label)

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My review of the Reportage: Spela Själv bootleg LP ran in this week’s LEO Weekly:

Among many forgotten musical innovations of the 1960s, perhaps the most obscure was that of audience-driven free improvisation. Groups such as Musica Elettronica Viva (consisting of American expatriate composers living in Italy) encouraged attendees at their gigs to become part of the performance, and more “out-there” psychedelic rock groups such as The Red Krayola and Cro-Magnon invited non-musicians to join in. Some of this music is only successful as an experiment in democratization, yet some can be fun to listen to. Reportage: Spela Själv (which translates to “reportage: play yourself”) is such an album. Edited and compiled by Swedish composers Bo Anders Persson (who also played in Trad Gras och Stenar and Parson Sound) and Solvieg Bark, the album consists of many outdoor jams, akin to a rural, Swedish-folk influenced Amon Duul, interspersed with the sounds of children.

Buy it from Fusetron here: http://www.fusetronsound.com/index.php?whomlab=Unknown.

Download it here: http://www.mediafire.com/?ytmmwjgmyv0.

Los Angeles Free Music Society – A Selection

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LAFMS

So, for a lark, let’s say you’re interested in the Los Angeles Free Music Society:

The Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS) has been, since the early 1970s, the banner heading of a loose collective of experimental musicians in Los Angeles, California who were joined by an aesthetic based around radicalism and playfulness. Key players have included Joe Potts, Tom Recchion, Joseph Hammer, John Duncan, Dennis Duck and Rick Potts.

Notable band configurations have included Le Forte Four, Smegma (who relocated to Portland, OR in the early 1980s), Solid Eye, Airway and Doo-Dooettes. Their influence was most immediately felt by Japanese noise musicians like Hanatarash and Incapacitants.

but you don’t know where to start? Okay, read this Byron Coley mini-essay on LAFMS. And you say you can’t afford to buy The Lowest Form of Music, the ten-CD LAFMS box set? Or maybe you’re just lazy and don’t want to download the whole thing? Or can’t find it? Well, luckily for you, we’ve got a really nice two CDR sampler for you available here:

V/A, “Los Angeles Free Music Society – A Selection”

Tracklisting:

Disc One
1. Chip Chapman, “Getting Ahead/Orbit/Painting the Roses Red”
2. Le Forte Four, “Suburban Magic (Chapman)”
3. Le Forte Four, “Rock Saga”
4. Le Forte Four, “Ka-Bella-Binsky Bungo” (excerpt)
5. Le Forte Four, “What Do You Do, Radiator?/The Grocery Store Is My Heaven”
6. Le Forte Four, “Crank Up the Kids”
7. Le Forte Four, “The Very First Song I Ever Wrote”
8. Le Forte Four, “Keep the Point Up/4000 Holes In Blackburn, Lancashire”
9. Le Forte Four, “From the 12 Pages”
10. Le Forte Four, “Tree Shedding Blues”
11. Le Forte Four, “Do the Crow”
12. Le Forte Four, “Internal C.B. Breakage”
13. Le Forte Four, “Dark Skratcher”
14. Airway, “Live at the Lace, Pt 1”
15. Airway, “Live at the Lace, Pt 2”
16. Airway, “Perpendicular Thrust”

Disc Two
1. Fredrik Nilsen, “Insecticide, A Philosophical Didactic”
2. Harold Schroeder, “Silent Rituals”
3. Kevin Laffey, “Berlin Zug und der Dusseldorf Rag”
4. Monitor, “Pet Wedding”
5. Dennis Duck, “One O’Clock Jump”
6. Paul Is Dead, “Crazy”
7. Friends of Leslie, “Freak Show”
8. Tom Recchion, “Jazz 2000 A.D. Part 3”
9. Tom Recchion, “Herself a Cocoon”
10. Tom Recchion, “The Little Green Thing”
11. Human Hands, “Insomnia”
12. Monique et Aviv, “I Am I”
13. Dinosaurs With Horns, “Totally Gone”
14. Doo-dooettes, “Baby”
15. Doo-dooettes, “Dr. Phibes Visits Chicago”
16. Doo-dooettes, “Scrapyard”
17. Rick Potts, “Squirrel-Proof Man”
18. Rick Potts, “Parasitic Twin”
19. Solid Eye, “Ghost Beef”
20. Extended Organ, “Hum Diddle Um Diddle Um”

This collection was curated/compiled by Darren Misner, one of the original Pataphysics Lab founders, for me a few years ago, and I just thought that, at this late date, I should share. Many thanks to Darren for this and many other fine gifts through the years.