Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Lactose Files: Episdode 2 DOWNLOAD!

Ladies and... whatevers, here it is, the SECOND LACTOSE FILE EPISODE! Featuring a more heavy bent, check out Mr. Lactose's wares:





Originally aired Late October 2011.

Playlist:
Rusted Shut - Woman, Hot Sex EP
Unholy Crucifix - Beckoning Damnation, 7"
Endless Humiliation - (coupla tracks), My Wife Is Willing LP
Iron Lung - Brutal Supremacy, v/a Brutal Supremeacy 2x7"
Siege - Drop Dead, 12"
Siege - Conform, 12"
Napalm Death - Deceiver, Peel Sessions 12"
 
 

Sunday, May 25, 2014

Catching up with James Curcio: Party at the World's End, the Fallen Cycle and Doing it Yourself

http://fallennation.tumblr.com/ 




In our second Catching Up post, we meet again with James Curcio of Modern Mythology (see everything here: http://www.mythosmedia.net/) and he sketches out a quick note of current projects and struggles. Our interview from two years back on Occupy, Grey Aliens and HooDoo Engine can be found here: http://thermonuclearbar.blogspot.com/p/interviews.html . James is in very interesting period of focus and regrowth, so without further ado...



It's been sometime since TNB listeners have heard directly from you,what have been the high water marks of the last 2 years of writing/research? what are you working on now? where do you see your new projects leading?what's can we look forward to from you in the next few months?


James Curcio: The past two years have been the process of starting over in everything. I developed chronic health and pain issues that are probably going to be with me for the rest of my life. The interesting thing is it's gradually changed my perspective about pretty much everything as well, and a part of that is recognizing what a mad dash I was in to get material out. I partially blame the world we're living in now, there's such an emphasis on cranking out content that the actual quality of that content is rarely even a part of the discussion.

I've been working on building my illustration chops again, as it is seeming more realistic for me to illustrate my own graphic novels than find the right illustrator. That's been an incredibly humbling process also. I think the more you work and develop an eye or ear for things, the further you realize you have to go. That never ends.

I'm wrapping up the task of reworking Party at the Worlds End so it can serve as the first book of the Fallen Cycle- it's a project I've been working on for a decade now, with quite a few false starts, but I think this first installment will be a good one. It opens up the way to tell more tales. All of it is born from the desire to take urban fantasy but give it the consideration of literature.

So that's what I'm up to, and likely to be up to for a very long time. There are many sketchbooks full of notes and concept art for the Fallen Cycle.

Thursday, May 22, 2014

Review: Why I Must Be Careful "Honeycomb" EP

Rev. R4D4
Reviewed 2014-05-22  Why I Must Be Careful - Honeycomb EP

Why I Must Be Careful - two fellas hailing from the pacific northwestern wild land of hipsters AKA Beer-vana AKA Portland. Two tracks of blasting free jazz-ish/spiritual jazz mania and it sounds like these guys did their homework on their out-there-ness. Long fun tracks which you should play if you like it strange. -- Rev. R4D4

Track 1 - (17:43) Opens with a shakuhaci-ish call to prayer and drums punctuating a spiky, but
sometimes flowy rhythm followed by the Rhodes. Calls of what seems like "ENERGY" accentuate
the I'm watching a steam engine explode through a 60 foot LCD screen while on PCP feeling. Driving, funky, falls completely apart and then keeps going. At 6:39 comes in a chant about being "Raised in the House of Power" that you will definitely want to listen to on headphones. Awesome. Ends with a pretty heavy Rhoades riff.


Track 2 - (19:05) A quicker pace, if you can believe even more frantic, beat is more like a continuous drum roll, the RHodes runs a pattern piano has a few bars of a casio-like rhythm then a few bars of odd notes. Stick clicks on different parts of the drum heads and more ferocity. With some tribalish moments this song has many textures to trip out on. PLUS: Cool drum solo and a little quiet breakdown to boot as well. Tasty stuff.

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Saturday, May 17, 2014

EDNA #2: A Redwood City Underground Film



If you haven't had a chance to watch EDNA #2 with your favorite cold beverage in hand, NOW my friends, is the time.

HLT Productions was a small horror/comedy group from the bowels of Redwood City in the late 80s through the 90s. They created HOURS of short films on their own stock characters and EDNA was certianly one of the memorable ones. These films are a lot of fun and show what teenage minds can think of when they aren't being blasted by the non-stop-ness of 'teh internets'.

From the Internet Archive Page for EDNA:

HLT Productions Presents "EDNA 2" - the bloody, heartwarming tale of a suburbanite Grandma after REVENGE.

Proudly made with Live Video Editing prior to the internet and Adobe programs by HLT Productions, 1993.


 Here she is, Ms. America

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Lactose File: Episode 1 DOWNLOAD!



My friends - We are proud to announce that over the coming weeks all of the TNB's notorious Lactose Files - live aired podcasts/compilations made by West Bay maniac Dan Lactose - are to be released! These were some of the greatest treats of audio bad-assery I was happy to present on the airwaves during the original ThermoNuclear Bar Season of 2011/2012. Enjoy!




Episode 1 Track Listing:

The Spits - Pain (mp3)
Electric Eels - Agitated (7")
Bad Noids - Ticket To Mars (7")
Connoisseur - Weed Slut (Stoned Back To Life CDR)
Timeslave - Weed Whore (mp3)
Cock E.S.P. - 3 songs w/ Raws from Wasteoid (Historia De la Musica Cock CD)
Seeds Of Rape - Keep Waiting (Demo 2011 tape)
Streetwalker - Pine Box (split 7" w/ Catheter)
Isidious Process - Bakbundna (split LP w/ Avfart33)
Bone Sickness - Post Mortem Perversion (7")
Atomicdeath - Forever Black Hell (split CD w/ Bloodstone)


Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Catching up with David Metcalfe: The Skeleton Saint, Napolean Hill and The Message

Hiya TNB faithful. We're a kicking off a new series of posts, Catching Up with the New Adventures of the ThermoNuclear Bar Interviewe Alumni. Starting with our first guest, David Metcalfe (feed over at twitter.com/davidbmetcalfe and the http://theeyelessowl.net/) as he plots out his current trajectory for us. David's always up to something and there's a special Message for listeners that is truly...amaz. -- Rev. R4D4

It's been sometime since TNB listeners have heard directly from you, what has been the high water marks of the last two years of writing and research?

Things have picked up to a feverish pace with the development of the Liminal Analytics: Applied Research Collaborative. We've been collaborating with the critically acclaimed photographer Shannon Taggart (http://www.shannontaggart.com/) to put on a series of talks at The Observatory - Brooklyn which focus on the material aspects of anomalous experiences - these talks have featured leading researchers and scholars including Dr. Stanley Krippner presented on his dream telepathy studies at Maimonides Medical Center, George Hansen gave a two-part talk on the history of psychical research,  and Walter Meyer zu Erpen presented on mediumship development and seance phenomena.

We've also been closely collaborating with Dr. R. Andrew Chesnut, Chair of Catholic Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University and author of Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint, for a project focusing on the development of the devotional tradition centered on Santa Muerte (Saint Death). Our website http://skeletonsaint.com is one of the only English language resources on the tradition, and we continue to be two of the only scholars currently covering her tradition through direct communication with the leaders of her devotional tradition in Mexico DF and around the world.

Another exciting development came when world renowned 'wonder makers' Ferdinando Buscema and Mariano Tomatis used one of the Llullian Wheel models developed by Liminal Analytics in their performance at Boing Boing's Ingenuity event: http://youtu.be/RW7GYxRA2m0

Buscema works with the Fetzer Institute, and Tomatis helped design the museum at Rennes le Chateau, so this was a great opportunity to demonstrate the interconnectivity of 'invisible' culture.

Great! What are you working on now? Where do you see your new projects leading?

At the moment much of my focus is taken up with research into Santa Muerte. I'm taking a very broad perspective, and have found that it overlaps nicely with my investigation into the development and history of psychical research in the 20th century. There are a lot of overlapping themes and figures involved in the development of psychical research and the popularized practical occultism that is apparent in some of the Santa Muerte material. These connections become more apparent when tracking down influences that have been centralized in the tradition. In many ways this all parallels some of the strange interstices I was investigating with Napoleon Hill, which have now found greater expression through a wider net of investigation.


I recently relocated to north Georgia, near Elberton and the Georgia Guidestones. Living in a more rural setting, especially so close to such a raw piece of mysterious Americana has been incredibly inspiring, The ambiance of the region has played a definitive role in my current endeavors.

Another project that I'm really excited about is The Message ( http://the-message.bandcamp.com/ ) - at this early stage, I can't say much about the full purview of the project, but I can say that listening to The Message could change your life.

Very Intriguing, as always. What can we look forward to from you in the next few months?

SkeletonSaint.com is going to be featuring more content from devotees of Santa Muerte and reactions from other scholars who have been traveling in Latin America recently and encountered her growing public presence there. This is an exciting stage for the research, as we've done a lot of commentary on the growth of her tradition, and now its time to focus on the actual living experience of Saint Death as she grows increasingly popular around the globe.

I've been publishing a lot of material on psychical research over the last few years - this has been in large part focused through the Psi in the News series and Limitless Mind sub-site on Reality Sandwich - and I think that this is going to move into more active forms through different venues that can take advantage of the multi-faceted nature of this research.

One of the areas I'm really interested in right now is mediumship, channelling and possession - collaborating with Taggart, who has a long standing relationship to the Spiritualist community through her photography, the Foolish People theater group, who use channeling as part of their practice, as well as interacting more with the Windbridge Research Institute, who focus on mediumship, and the research into Afro-Carribean traditions has immersed me in the topic along so many different angles that it's become really central to my understanding of the human experience.

With the publication of Gabriel D. Roberts' book, The Quest for Gnosis, which features interviews with Rupert Sheldrake, Graham Hancock, Abby Martin, and a number of other leading cultural figures, it seems like there is a more integral vision being developed around these ideas. I make an appearance in the book as well, with an interview on contemplative practices, and in considering the utterly odd mix that comes out when the book is taken as a whole I'm quite intrigued by the implications.

Roberts will be hosting a panel with Sheldrake and Hancock at the upcoming Synchronicity Symposium in Joshua Tree, California, and Hancock will be collaborating with another interviewee from the book, Sacred Geometry International's Randall Carlson, for some of the research that will go into an upcoming book. This all mirrors the kind of experiences that I've had over the last couple of years collaborating with Carlson, Roberts, and various others as we investigate the interesting openings that are coming about in the contemporary culture. It will be fascinating to see where all of this ends up as these relationships deepen and develop.

Ben Chasny, from Six Organs of Admittance, Current 93 and the New Bums, and I were working on an event centering on the contemplative work of David Chaim Smith, but due to some scheduling issues and other difficulties we've had to nix that. Hopefully in the future we can put together something similar that doesn't face the same complications. The idea of creating an immersive contemplative environment of sound and vision is really intriguing - I'm incredibly inspired by the Dark Station/Subtle Listening work that Kim Cascone is doing - and it would be great to see that type of format brought out in as many different ways as possible.


Looking forward to all of that! Thank you, David. Any final shout-outs, tips, wisdom you like to share?

I think my rambling in the previous questions covered all shout outs - as for words of wisdom - always remember "La Muerte es lusta y pareja para todos pues todos vamos a morir." and if you have any further questions Listen to The Message.

***

And there you have it folks, Mr. David Metcalfe on his further explorations into wild and weird world that the TNB likes to cover in as many facets as legal airwaves may allow!   You can listen to our first talk here. Even more background on the incredible piece The Message and which is quickly garnering worldwide attention is here and here

So, by now, you should be desiring to hear The Message (as well you should)....to have some 'magneto-psychic mind-sound' interface of life-changing current applied to whatever quandary you must find an answer too. So, ladies and gentlemen, here's....

http://liminal-analytics.org/2014/04/13/help-support-the-liminal-analytics-applied-research-collaborative/

Thursday, April 17, 2014

The Soundtrack & West Bay Legacy Special - DOWNLOAD!


 4-17-2014 Update - You'll have to forgive me for being late to press on this one, but Regurgitated Giblets has this mirrored over at his fine site. I, myself, have been up to....uh, stuff...and plotting how I might get back on the horse again. But I first must find the horse. Big thanks to Giblets and Goatskrot. --Rev.R4D4


Playlist for ThermoNuclear Bar - Soundtrack & West Bay Legacy Special.
Thursday, 17 October 2013  9:30pm - midnight - DJ:REV.R4D4

Ladies & Gents - this is it. The return to a show format that has a life of its own. This is the final Japanese and Italian horror/cop film soundtrack and ultra-rare West Bay KOA special


ArtistTrack
Album/Label
BILLY GREENRACE
STONE
N/A
ENRICO SIMONETTIDRUG'S THEME
GAMMA
N/A
BRUNO CANFORAIL TRUCIDO E LO SBIRRO
IL TRUCIDO E LO SBIRRO
N/A
FRANCO MICALIZZIRUNNING AWAY FROM JERZY
STRIDULUM
N/A
STELVIO CIPRIANILA POLIZIA RINGRAZIA (versione singolo lato A)
LA POLIZIA RINGRAZIA
N/A
STELVIO CIPRIANIMETROPOLIS
INCUBO SULLA CITTA CONTAMINATA
N/A
FRANCO MICALIZZISEQUENCE 11
IL GIUSTIZIERE SFIDA LA CITTA'
N/A
GOBLINZARATOZOM
DAWN OF THE DEAD
N/A
BIXIO, FRIZZI, TEMPERACITTA VIOLENTA
ROMA, L'ALTRA FACCIA DELLA VIOLENZA
N/A
STELVIO CIPRANITHE HOUR OF INFERNAL GAME PART 1
UN OMBRA NELL OMBRA
N/A
CARSON WHITSETTN/A
BONNIE'S KIDS
N/A
FRANCESCO DE MASISEQUENCE 5
FUGA DAL BRONX
N/A
N/ASEQUENCE 1
MAS ALLA DEL TERROR
N/A
ENRICO SIMONETTIMAIN TITLES
I RAGAZZI DELLA ROMA VIOLENTA
N/A
FRANCO MICALIZZISEQUENCE 8
DA CORLEONE A BROOKLYN
N/A
PIPPO CARUSOL'INCUBO E IL SERPENTE
MALADOLESCENZA
N/A
FRANCO CAMPANINOBOILING MUD
FANGO BOLLENTE
N/A
LUIS BACALOVMAIN TITLES
LA POLIZIA E' AL SERVIZIO DEL CITTADINO
N/A
GOBLINSEQUENCE 2
SQUADRA ANTIMAFIA
N/A
CARLO MARIA CORDIOVERSO IL TERRORE 4
ROSSO SANGUE
N/A
LUIS BACALOVMAIN TITLES
LA MALA ORDINA
N/A
FRANCO MICALIZZIHOSPITAL SEQUENCE
STRIDULUM
N/A
DAVE GRUSINMAIN TITLES
3 DAYS OF THE CONDOR
N/A

BILLY GREENGRAVEDIGGERS
STONE
N/A
FRANCO MICALIZZIMAIN TITLES
LA BANDA DEL GOBBO
N/A
STELVIO CIPRIANIMAIN TITLES
UN OMBRA NELL OMBRA
N/A
GUIDO & MAURIZIO DE ANGELISVIOLENT ROME (1st version)
ROMA VIOLENTA
N/A
FRANCO MICALIZZISADNESS THEME
STRIDULUM
N/A
GIANNI MARCHETTISEQUENCE 11
MILANO - IL CLAN DEI CALABRESI
N/A
FABIO FRIZZIOLTRE LA SOGLIA
THE BEYOND
N/A
GOBLINCONNEXION
CONTAMINATION
N/A
CARLO MARIA CORDIOVOCI DAL TERRORE
ROSSO SANGUE
N/A
N/ASEQUENCE 2
MAS ALLA DEL TERROR
N/A
BILLY GREENSTONE
STONE
N/A

n/aTEHKHANA ORIGINAL TILE TRACK
N/A
N/A
SWIRL MIXJESUS
N/A
N/A
ROBERTO DONATI AND FIAMMA MAGLIONEOPENING THEME
MAKE THEM DIE SLOWLY aka CANNIBAL FEROX
N/A
HARRY MANFREDINIJASON LIVES THEME
FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 6
N/A
MARK LINDSAY AND W. MICHAEL LEWISLONE WOLF'S THEME
SHOGUN ASSASSIN
N/A
N/AUNSOLVED MYSTERIES OPENING THEME SONG
N/A
N/A
JOHN WILLIAMSSTAR WARS
SWIRL OF MIX
N/A
JEFF HANNEMANRADIO INTERVIEW 1984
N/A
N/A
SADUSCERTAIN DEATH
ILLUSIONS
N/A
BASTARD SQUADPATH OF VENGEANCE
PATH OF VENGEANCE
N/A
BULLSHIT EXCUSESHANKO'S REVENGE
BARBARIC THRASH DEMOLITION VOLUME 3
N/A
BULLSHIT EXCUSEM.T.V.D.
BARBARIC THRASH DEMOLITION VOLUME 3
N/A
NO-LESSWORLD OF BUBBLES (EARLS REALM)
LESSON 93-98
N/A
AGENTS OF SATANUNHOLY ASCENSION
THE OLD TESTAMENT
N/A
MEAT SHITSPORNOHOLIC
F*CK FRENZY
N/A
MEAT SHITSFICK ME
F*CK FRENZY
N/A
APESHITAPESHIT
N/A
N/A
APESHITRUN AND KILL
N/A
N/A
IMMORTAL FATELINGERING TORTURE
1991 DEMO TAPE
IMMORTAL RECORDS
PLUTOCRACYDV8
FIGHT THE POWER : HERE ARE:
N/A
SHED DWELLAZRED ALERT
4 TRACK ARCHIVER VOL.1 1996-1999
N/A
SHED DWELLAZCASKET BORN SONZ
CHILDREN OF THE WOODS
N/A
HULK ON METHG.G.A.
N/A
N/A
SWIRL OF GOREJONES !
N/A
N/A
HENCHMENOPEN THE BOOK
N/A
N/A
HENCHMENKISS ASS
N/A
N/A
HENCHMENAS I AIM
N/A
N/A
HENCHMENEXORCIST WITH DRUGS (REMIX)








PART 1 : DISC 1 :
http://www.mediafire.com/download/d35jd7pse782739/01%20Track%201.wma


PART 2 : DISC 2 :
http://www.mediafire.com/listen/5tgelv3qs7cs3iw/01%20Track%201(2).wma

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Thursday, January 30, 2014

Review: Brutal Truth/Bastard Noise split

By Rev. R4D4

Reviewed 2014-01-30

Brutal Truth/Bastard Noise split

Flashback to the mid-nineties and you and your scumdog friends are cruising to the Gilman to see some powerviolence and BASTARD NOISE takes the stage, Wood's feedback twiggles make your ears bleed and you realize what you smoked was NOT *just weed as thoughts of civilization's collapse and after hours jack in the box fills your head. But I digress, Brutal Truth joins in on this
outing to make sure you rightly suffer. Any track will take you to necessary dark places. Wish CyThoth was around for this release (RIP) NO FCCS :) -- Rev. R4D4

Disc 1 (CD release) (1-4 Bastard Noise, 5-6 Brutal Truth)

1. (7:28) That out-of-control, classic bee-buzz feedback with guitar drop-z strums, ends with summoning howl
2. (8:09) Much darker, my dear. low ambient start w. the bird chirps calling up unspeakable powers.
Howls of some dammed beast as well.
3. (8:43) back&forth fruit fly soundbed for those brave souls who decide to headphone this, with more mids than last tracks.
4. (7:36) If you could possibly say there are harsher tracks, then, yeah this is it.
Reminds me of angry howler monkeys pissing on an electric fence.
5. (23:56) similar in thematic details to the epic Disc2 first track. But srsly, *wow* on this one too. More sick drums at about 14mins in.
6. (7:03) Perfect ending to the tale. As Method Man said "All in together now". Noise, guitars, drums.

Disc 2 (Vinyl release) (1 Brutal Truth, 2-4 Bastard Noise)

1. (18:18) **EPIC piece. Like some wiretapped conspiracy coming to life, ie, Now. Creepy
and with less high pitch. Cythoth would do the super-position mix on this baby. loose drums
add some movement at about 9min in.
2. (6:35)Heartbeatish bass drum beat, noise, howls and vocals! An epitaph for us all.
3. (5:32) Sweet baby jesus, the panning on this aural attack!!! You took the wrong turn at this galaxy.
4. (4:29) "Frack, Baby, Frack" Hearing pleads bounce of Gilman's grimy walls to read Noam Chomsky.

see airplay and a-file activity http://zookeeper.stanford.edu/index.php?s=byAlbumKey&n=1049273&q=&action=search&session=