Monday Morning Aural Sex
April 2022
Episodes
Monday Apr 25, 2022
Monday Apr 25, 2022
Eff you see kay the what is up, mother-, father-, second-cousin-once-removed-fuckers?! Emo-muthafuckin’-clew to another installment of the All-Star Series, the Free Dominguez Edition! “Free who? Who’s Dominguez, and why does he/she/it need freeing?” you may so unculturedly ask? Free Dominguez is the phenomenal vocalist behind the epic industrial rock act Kidneythieves! She also has a number of albums under her own name, feature appearances on a number of similar artists’ albums, and even a little cameo on the Metal Gear Rising Revengeance soundtrack. Sadly, I think the only track that many people may know of Kidneythieves is Before I’m Dead which played at the end of Queen of the Damned. Good fuckin’ lord, they’re so much more than that. Don’t get me wrong, that’s a flawless fuckin’ track, and it’s from the flawless album Zerøspace, but I’d be willing to bet money that anyone who enjoyed that would find tons more to love in their catalog.
Her solo stuff is more folk/indie rock, so there likely be a bit of a divergence in audience appeal from the Kidneythieves fans. Y’all know me though; I like anything that makes me feel something, and Free Dominguez has had me allll up in my feels countless times through the past two decades that I’ve been a fan. I actually first discovered them on an Alternative Press sampler CD which had S + M (A Love Song) on it. Most likely the radio edit, too. Kind of amusing to think of that track ever being played on terrestrial radio considering the lyrics, “Pound the love out of me, beat the love out of me,” and such. Fantastic song to fuck to, bee tee dubs.
Actually, a good portion of Kidneythieves tracks are prominently featured on my Sexy Time playlist on Spotify. As I recently said on a post of mine on Facebook, that playlist certainly isn’t everything it could be. My Fuckfest podcasts have shitloads more fucktastic stuff on them, and between all the chill-out, synthwave, witch house, goth/industrial and miscellaneous other fuckable music I’ve played on this podcast, shiiiiiiit, that Sexy Time playlist could potentially be days fuckin’ long. I don’t know if any of y’all out there have that kind of stamina, but I sure as fuck do not. Not to say I wouldn’t give it the old college try, but fuck, perhaps I ought to actually get back to talking about Free and Kidneythieves.
Apropos to fucking and Kidneythieves, Zerøspace is actually on in the background of one of my favorite sex tapes I’ve ever made. Truly, the difference between fucking and making love can simply be the music playing during the act, and that album can have you going back and forth seamlessly between the two. Anyway, I got to see Kidneythieves open for KMFDM a bajillion years ago, and I got to have a poster signed by them. I wish I’d enjoyed them then to the degree that I do now, ‘cause I certainly would have had much more to say. That signed poster isn’t even my favorite poster of theirs I own. When Kidneythieves released their EP The Invisible Plan, they had this badass glow-in-the-dark poster with a bunch of circuitry design all over it. Still one of my absolute favorite posters I own overall. If I recall correctly, that EP actually came in a biodegradable sleeve that had flower seeds embedded in it or something. I’m guessing that was the invisible plan? I dunno, but I thought it was a pretty awesome idea.
Speaking of Kidneythieves EPs, y’all most observant of perverts might notice that I only included one track from Phi in the Sky. Fraaaankly, I’m not a huge fan of the remixes on that. They really just didn’t raise the bar on any of the originals, and some were considerable steps down. I dunno. I don’t hate them or anything; I guess it’s just that if there’s something there, I haven’t found it yet, so we only have the one for this edition. Even still, I maintain that the original album version is better, but this one remix has some interesting melodic ideas. Speaking of remixes and such, you’ll definitely notice a number of remixes and variations on here along with the originals. In the cases of all those, I think they’re both absolutely beautiful and worthy of all our attention. I’ve separated the different versions just to keep shit fresh through the course of this edition, but I highly recommend you A/B compare & contrast for yourselves on your streaming service of choice.
As far as features go, I was delightfully surprised to learn that Free had done backing vocals on a couple Zeromancer tracks waaaay back in the day on their album Clone Your Lover. I’ve liked Zeromancer for about as long as I’ve loved Kidneythieves, but of course, there are pertinent differences between like and love. Frankly, the only Zeromancer album I know well enough to converse on it is Eurotrash. I wasn’t nearly as impressed with their other albums, but that’s not their problem. As I said before, if there’s something there, maybe I’m just missing it. That’s a far greater possibility than the music itself having anything wrong with it.
Anyway, Free also guested on a KMFDM track (because of course she did), a Conjure One track (nice), and a Beat Ventriloquists track. KMFDM and Beat Ventriloquists have both done a number of Kidneythieves remixes over the years, all good stuff, and Conjure One is kind of more in line with Free’s solo stuff. All those guest apperances however… meh. They’ve all done better work elsewhere, in my opinion. Again, nothing against Free, nothing against the artists, they just didn’t hit me hard enough to warrant inclusion in this edition. Feel free to check ‘em out yourselves if by some wacky-ass miracle you’re actually curious. Maybe I’ll go back to listen to them again someday and realize how full of shit I was; certainly wouldn’t be the first time.
Lastly, let me just call out a number of especially significant tracks here: Before I’m Dead (obviously), Pretty, Crazy (which was written and popularized by Patsy Cline and Willie Nelson respectively, believe it or not. Not too often you see an industrial rock band covering country tracks, let alone doing it so fuckin’ well), Serene Dream, S + M (A Love Song) (because that’s the first track I heard of theirs), Creature, Dyskrasia, Zerøspace, Silver Line (both the original and Static mix), and K. Those are some of my tippy top favorites right there.
Lastlier, I’d like to mention that once upon a time, Free put out a 5 song EP called Core: A Zone on iTunes, and all the files were m4ps; basically mp3s but with DRM bullshit encoding on them. DRM stands for Digital Rights Management. That means that you’re only allowed to listen to those files using iTunes, and only on certain authorized computers. There are two tracks on there that as far as I know haven’t appeared on any of her other releases, and what’s super shitty is that I haven’t yet been able to get around that DRM to actually be able to listen to them in all the years since I bought it. I think I probably listened to the EP once shortly after I bought it, but haven’t been able to since. To be fair, I haven’t spent a whole lot of time trying, but I shouldn’t fucking have to. All this just to say, fuck DRM. Fuck DRM in its stupid fucking DRMey ass.
All that silly bullshit done did and said, let us commence ze yojne!
01 kidneythieves - Before I’m Dead (from Zerøspace) [00:04:30]
02 kidneythieves - Jude (Be Somebody) (from Trypt0fanatic) [00:09:05]
03 kidneythieves - Taxicab Messiah (from Trickster) [00:12:20]
04 Free Dominguez - A Stranger I Remain (Original Version) (from Metal Gear Rising Revengeance OST (and https://soundcloud.com/the-scp-foundation-ohm)) [00:16:37]
05 Free Dominguez - Questions + Lies (from (.UNEARTH.)) [00:21:56]
06 kidneythieves - S+M (A Love Song) (from Trickster) [00:25:03]
07 kidneythieves - Zerøspace (from Zerøspace) [00:28:35]
08 Free Dominguez - Truth Or A Lie To Believe (from (.UNEARTH.)) [00:32:23]
09 kidneythieves - Fist Up (from The Mend) [00:36:43]
10 Free Dominguez - Calling (from Volcano + The Sea) [00:40:22]
11 kidneythieves - The Invisible Plan (from The Invisible Plan) [00:44:22]
12 kidneythieves - Arsenal (from Zerøspace) [00:48:39]
13 kidneythieves - In Love With A Machine (Beat Ventriloquists Remix) (from In Love With A Machine (Beat Ventriloquists Remix)) [00:53:53]
14 Free Dominguez - Beautiful (from Volcano + The Sea) [00:58:09]
15 kidneythieves - Beg (from Trypt0fanatic) [01:02:33]
16 kidneythieves - Molten (from Zerøspace) [01:06:06]
17 kidneythieves - Black Bullet (from Zerøspace) [01:06:58]
18 Free Dominguez - Silence (from (.UNEARTH.)) [01:11:02]
19 kidneythieves - Creature (from Trickster) [01:14:49]
20 kidneythieves - Never and Me (from The Invisible Plan) [01:19:14]
21 kidneythieves - Dyskrasia (from Zerøspace) [01:23:10]
22 kidneythieves - Freeky People (from Trypt0fanatic) [01:27:31]
23 Free Dominguez - Relief (from Freedoming) [01:31:11]
24 kidneythieves - K (from Trickster) [01:34:37]
25 kidneythieves - Velveteen (from Trypt0fanatic) [01:38:39]
26 Free Dominguez - Corridors (from Volcano + The Sea) [01:42:39]
27 kidneythieves - Layers (from Trickster) [01:46:17]
28 kidneythieves - Dead Girl Walking (from Trypt0fanatic) [01:50:03]
29 Free Dominguez - Back 2 Me (from Freedoming) [01:54:01]
30 Free Dominguez - Indigo Blue (Josh One & Beat Ventriloquists Remix) (from Indigo Blue (Josh One & Beat Ventriloquists Remix)) [01:57:04]
31 kidneythieves - Spank (from Zerøspace) [02:01:16]
32 kidneythieves - Lick U Clean (from Trypt0fanatic) [02:05:35]
33 Free Dominguez - Wolf (KMFDM Remix) (from Wolf / Darkest River Remixes) [02:09:12]
34 kidneythieves - Serene Dream (from Zerøspace) [02:13:23]
35 Free Dominguez - Silver Line (with STATIC mix) (from (.UNEARTH.)) [02:16:53]
36 kidneythieves - Pleasant (from Trickster) [02:21:18]
37 Free Dominguez - Weightless (Alain Johannes Remix) (from Weightless (Alain Johannes Remix)) [02:24:48]
38 kidneythieves - Underneath (from The Invisible Plan) [02:29:28]
39 kidneythieves - Glitter Girl (from Zerøspace) [02:33:58]
40 kidneythieves - Amnzero (from Zerøspace) [02:38:04]
41 Zeromancer - Houses Of Cards (feat. Free Dominguez) (from Clone Your Lover) [02:40:10]
42 Free Dominguez - Wicked Times (from (.UNEARTH.)) [02:44:07]
43 kidneythieves - Migration (from The Mend) [02:48:05]
44 Free Dominguez - Glass Walls (from Indigo Blue) [02:52:16]
45 kidneythieves - Placebo (from Zerøspace) [02:56:58]
46 kidneythieves - Floating Angels (from The Invisible Plan) [03:03:30]
47 kidneythieves - Zerøspace (DJ Merritt & Darren D Remix) (from Phi In The Sky) [03:07:50]
48 kidneythieves - Before I'm Dead (Acoustic) (from Trickstereprocess) [03:14:51]
49 Kidneythieves - Lick U Clean (Beat Ventriloquists Remix) (from Lick U Clean (Beat Ventriloquists Remix)) [03:18:37]
50 Kidneythieves - In Love With a Machine (from The Mend) [03:22:34]
51 Free Dominguez - Indigo Blue (from Indigo Blue) [03:26:36]
52 Free Dominguez - Corridors (Bonus Original Demo w/ STATIC) (from Volcano + The Sea) [03:31:42]
53 kidneythieves - Pretty (from Trickster) [03:35:08]
54 kidneythieves - Crazy (from Zerøspace) [03:40:22]
55 Free Dominguez - Silver Line (from (.UNEARTH.)) [03:43:38]
56 Free Dominguez - That Day (from (.UNEARTH.)) [03:47:37]
57 Free Dominguez - Darkest Rivers (from (.UNEARTH.)) [03:49:03]
58 kidneythieves - Tears On A Page (from Trypt0fanatic) [03:53:37]
59 kidneythieves - Anchor (from Anchor) [03:57:50]
60 Free Dominguez - Recurring Dream (from (.UNEARTH.)) [04:02:04]
61 Free Dominguez - A Stranger I Remain (Maniac Agenda Mix) (from METAL GEAR RISING REVENGEANCE Vocal Tracks Selection) [04:06:16]
62 kidneythieves - The Solution Is in the Trees (from The Mend) [04:08:36]
63 Free Dominguez - Clear (from Volcano + The Sea) [04:12:06]
64 kidneythieves - World for Us (from The Mend) [04:15:19]
Monday Apr 18, 2022
Monday Apr 18, 2022
What's up, motherfuckin' perverts?! Welcome to the Too Much Metal For One Edition… Edition of Monday Morning Aural Sex! I've got a tremendously fucksquisite podcast in store for you all. I wouldn't lie about that, but don't worry, I'll keep lying about PLENTY of other things. I promise. Enjoy, you spectacular fuckwads!
01 Rollins Band - Liar (from Weight)
02 Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath (from Black Sabbath)
03 Behemoth - Ov Fire And The Void (from Evangelion)
04 Meshuggah - obZen (from obZen)
05 Spineshank - The Height Of Callousness (from The Height Of Callousness)
06 Kittie - Mouthful Of Poison (from Oracle)
07 DragonForce - Fury Of The Storm (from Sonic Firestorm)
08 Strapping Young Lad - Oh My Fucking God (from City)
09 System Of A Down - Suite-Pee (from System Of A Down)
10 Lard - Mate Spawn And Die (from The Last Temptation Of Reid)
11 DevilDriver - Die (And Die Now) (from DevilDriver)
12 Trivium - Pull Harder On The Strings Of Your Martyr (from Ascendancy)
13 Cradle Of Filth - Saffron's Curse (from Midian)
14 The Berzerker - Corporal Jigsaw Quandary (Carcass cover) (from Dissimulate)
15 Abnormality - Visions (from 2007 Demo)
16 BIGdumbFACE - Blood Red Head On Fire (from Duke Lion Fights The Terror!!)
17 E-Town Concrete - 4 The Fame (from Time 2 Shine)
18 Hatebreed - I Will Be Heard (from Perserverance)
19 Pantera - Fucking Hostile (from Vulgar Display Of Power)
20 Damageplan - Fuck You (from New Found Power)
21 Slipknot - Surfacing (from Slipknot)
22 Fear Factory - Christploitation (from Mechanize)
23 Lamb Of God - Omerta (from Ashes Of The Wake)
24 Deftones - Lotion (from Around The Fur)
25 Five Pointe O - Freedom? (from Untitled)
26 Mod Flanders Conspiracy - The Zimbabwe Sea Shanties Of The Swashbuckler (from The Tragic Urn Spill)
27 From Autumn To Ashes - The After Dinner Playback (from The Fiction We Live)
28 Amen - Money Infection (from Death Before Musick)
29 Revolting Cocks - Devil Cock (from Cocked And Loaded)
30 Ministry - Roadhouse Blues (from The Last Sucker)
31 Arch Enemy - End Of The Line (from Anthems Of Rebellion)
32 American Head Charge - Americunt Evolving Into Useless Psychic Garbage (from The War Of Art)
33 Dog Fashion Disco - Mushroom Cult (from Anarchists Of Good Taste)
34 Strong Bad - Trogdor (from Guitar Hero II)
35 GWAR - Fishfuck (from We Kill Everything)
36 The Gerogerigegege - Gynecologist (from Yellow Trash Bazooka 7" EP)
37 Buckethead - The Hand (feat. Maximum Bob & Ani Maldjian) (from Enter The Chicken)
38 The Locust - Twenty-Three Lubed Up Schizophrenics With Delusions Of Grandeur (from Plague Soundscapes)
39 Excrementory Grindfuckers - H.T.L.T.P.T.M.G.T. Cooool Way (from Bitte Nicht Vor Den Gästen!)
Monday Apr 11, 2022
Monday Apr 11, 2022
Up the what is fuck, muthafuckaaas?! Emo-muthafuckin’-clew to The New Blue Gnu Blew the Jiujitsu Ewe Crew Coup to You Who Accrue Zoo Glue in '22 Edition of Monday Morning Aural fuckin’ Sex! Of course you motherfuckers know what’s up by now with these bizarrely-named editions. It’s just new shit! Yes, most of it is brand-spankin’-that-ass new, whether in artist, track, or to this podcast. Not only that, Lord Jesus McFartyfuckpants, we have over 5 fuckin’ hours of it ahead of us, and by “we,” and, “us,” I mean, “I,” and, “me.” ‘Cause come on, me, nobody gives half a fossilized chinchilla turd what shit you’ve been listening to lately. Know what though? These are still some of my favorite kinds of editions I put together, because they’re the most accurate reflections of how music reaches my own tender little earholes. Truthishly, the themed editions are more concessions to my already barely-existent audience than things I just put together for my own pleasure, because (as if it’s not already nakedly fuckin’ evident) I believe variety is the spice of fuckin’ life.
That’s why so many of these jams that are featured in these types of editions end up featured again in themed ones. Most all of them deserve multiple listens, and since I have a pretty strong suspicion that people generally prefer the themed editions, I try to leave room in those for these. Of course there are plenty that I chock full of new shit too, but I digress. This isn’t all just shit I found last night, either. No indeed, I’ve been accumulating new shit ever since the last new shit edition via YouTube, Insta and various stuff sent to me by friends, which I’ll call out a little later. But yeah, believe it or not, Instagram started inundating me in my feed with ads from bands & individual musicians, and most all that I’ve spent the time to check out have definitely been well worthwhile. I’ll mention which ones a little later, too.
Check it out, I even found one of these tracks from a softcore porn video I was watching… for no reason whatsoever. Yeah, many years ago, I downloaded a shitload of videos from a site called Cosplay Erotica. They all have music playing over them, and most of it is just sonic wallpaper from anything I heard, but this one track by DJ Rx actually stood out. So, I stopped… doing absolutely nothing whatsoever specifically so I could Shazam the song, and it turned out that Shazam didn’t have a fuckin’ clue. My next avenue was Googling the lyrics, but even that was a dead end for the most part until I finally stumbled upon the track I was looking for like a half an hour later. What’s fuckin’ stupid to me is that it’s not even the first time I’ve done some shit like that. Any of you fuckin’ filthy-ass perverts remember the songs I discovered through fuckin’ Cock Hero? Yeah, those tracks still have a special place in my cock… I mean heart. Eh, same shit.
To elaborate further on this already mildly uncomfortable topic, this is one of the reasons why going to strip clubs kinda pisses me off. 9 times out of 10, I’ll end up focusing more on the music playing than the booty buffet before me, and the tracks that a girl dances to will typically determine whether I get a dance from her. Listen, I’m mostly disinterested in the whole scene as it is, but if all I’m hearin’ is basic bullshit being played, ain’t no way I’m feelin’ inspired to make it rain on anyone. To this day, I remember dances I got from girls who danced to dubstep, Deftones & A Perfect Circle, Slipknot, etc. More to the point, that takes fuckin’ guts to dance to music that most of the so-called clientele has no idea about, ‘cause I’m pretty confident that I’m not the only one who decides on dances that way. Also, in case I’ve never stated it publicly on this podcast, sex work is most definitely work. Not only are the sex workers I know some of the most fantastic human beings ever to grace the rotting bowels of this miserable society, but they deserve both protection and respect for the crucial services they provide.
Any-fuckin’-way, I should probably move on and talk about the actual fuckin’ music at some point, eh? Let’s see… First of all, shout out to my friend Shy for the David Garrett version of Darude’s classic dance track, “Sandstorm.” Shout out to my friend Bekah too, ‘cause I’m always reminded of her when I think of that song since she hates it so much. Slim to nil chance either one of them will ever see or hear those shout outs, but they’re there just in case. Shout out to Renee (who actually does listen fairly regularly) for the fantastic Royal & the Serpent tracks. I could have sworn I heard of them before, but knowing myself as I do, I definitely would have put them on a podcast long before this one.
Shout out to my roommate Josh too, who inadvertently directed my attention to Brujeria when Brujerizmo was played during Ozark. I heard of them ages ago, but never listened to them ’til then. Also, special shout out to my boy Al, ‘cause we’ve been working on a new Osmium edition for the past two weeks. We’ve actually been conversing, trading notes and such on the various blocks of tracks we’ve assembled, and that’s a format I’ve never done. I used to speak in-between blocks, and my friend Cat chimed in periodically after I’d introduced her, but this is conversational all throughout. I’m really hoping y’all yojne the fuck out of that when I finally finish it, ‘cause it sure has been a pain in the cock working around our individual work schedules and such. We’ve actually got enough compiled for two more Osmium editions, so we’ll see whether the second gets made in the same format or something more streamlined.
Let’s see… what else? Well, the artists I found through Instagram ads and listened to either on YouTube or Spotify are Trench, Ferris Blusa, Cat Breath, ROMES, Kanonenfieber, Maggie Lindemann (I think, and I’m super curious if there’s any relation to Till from Rammstein), Afterdusk, Alice Glass (although I know she was in Crystal Castles and I’m super late to that particular party), The Curse of K.K. Hammond, Railgun, Adimiron, Cranes, Mafia Birdhouse, Bernth, Nowhere Left, Down Again, and (fucking finally) Mad Lollypop. Y’all see this problem I clearly have? I s’pose one could call it a form of FOMO, but I dunno, I don’t really fear missing out on it all; I’m just a super fuckin’ curious person, and obviously, music is one of my greatest passions. Shit, it’s one of the reasons I continue to draw breath on this ridiculous fuckin’ planet, so maybe don’t fuck with it. K? K.
All that said… let me say some fuckin’ more! Don’t fuckin’ worry, I’ll try to speed it up ‘cause this is already gettin’ to be a Tolstoy of a fuckin’ intro. Let’s go top to bottom here. Another flawless fuckin’ remix from Zardonic in this bitch! Yojne the fuck AND the shit out of that one. YONAKA was a delightful random find that Spotify tossed to me based on its similarity to Royal & the Serpent. Y’all see how fuckin’ easy it is to branch out from the shit you know already? I did it there with literally zero effort. Get off the fuckin’ couch music every once in a while or you’re gonna wake up one day with your flesh fuckin’ fused to that motherfucker. Shout out to fuckin’ Nip/Tuck for that one episode. New ††† tracks! Yeah, that’s fuckin’ right! I’m seriously starting to think Chino is King fuckin’ Midas in this bitch, ‘cause everything the man touches is fuckin’ gold. Yo, I found an EDM remix of the fuckin’ GameCube intro. Doesn’t that sound fuckin’ cool? Listen on and find out for your damn selves!
The Kanonenfieber track and the Gareth Emery & Omnia collaboration are about the war in Ukraine, in case y’all might be even moderately curious. The Sigue Sigue Sputnik track isn’t; I know that track from the Ferris Bueller soundtrack, but for whatever reason, I never hunted it down ’til recently. That fuckin’ Converge track? Holy cuntcicles, that track is brutal as 10 fucks on a tricycle built for 2. Pretty sure that shit doesn’t even exist, so just imagine how much brutality is packed in that motherfucker. Access To Arasaka is an IDM artist (as far as I can tell) similar to Cat Breath. IDM (which stands for intelligent dance music… I don’t really know fuckin’ why) is a criminally underrepresented genre on this podcast, and while I’ve played plenty of breakcore, IDM is like breakcore’s more mellow brother or something. I’d classify most of Aphex Twin’s stuff as IDM.
Anyway, moving on… a fuckin’ remix of the Thomas The Tank Engine theme by dj-Jo?! Shit, I’m all the way down. I’ve played plenty of dj-Jo’s jams over the years, especially after his remix of Tokyo Ghoul’s theme song annihilated my ear sphincters. Another CORPSE jam in here for us. Really lovin’ all the stuff I’ve heard from him, and that gruff vocal style overall. I’ve been really lovin’ the screamy hip-hop I’ve been finding lately too, so the more the better. A new Otto Von Schirach track for us all, too! Otto’s a looooong time favorite of mine. I’ve had the pleasure of seeing him perform thrice so far, and every time has been such a treat. The dude is basically his own genre along with another guy named Doormouse, and they’re friends & collaborators. Anyone who’s ever heard my breakcore-themed editions ought to know those two magnificent motherfuckers.
Always lovely to see a new Catnapp jam grace the podcast, as well. I heard of Catnapp when she worked with Otto on a track a few years prior, and I’ve enjoyed pretty much everything I’ve heard from her. Another flawless fuckin’ t+pazolite track here for us. Starting to think about t+pazolite as I think of Chino, being Midas and all. I can’t recall a single mediocre t+pazolite track, so yojne the fuck out of this one and then listen to all the rest of his stuff. There’ll be a test later. That Architects track, Little Wonder? This is basically the orchestral version of the original. Pretty sure the original is one of the first Architects tracks I ever heard, too. Another lovely proggy jam by Animals As Leaders here as well. I think either Al or Shy got me into them. Anyway, much appreciated, because I haven’t heard a bad track yet from them either.
Whoa, Lenny Dee?! Cheezus, I haven’t played much of his stuff at all, but I still love the fuck out of his Industrial Fucking Strength compilations from like 20 years ago. Gabber’s definitely an acquired taste, but I acquired it fast and hard, much like gabber itself. Kinda difficult to listen to a full album of it, but it’s definitely great to get the blood pumpin’. Yo, I have no fucking idea who this Blaze artist is, or what language he’s spittin’, but it’s certainly not Ya Dead Homie. Of course, since Blaze is such a popular artist name, and since Spotify has not yet evolved to a point where they properly separate artists who share a name, there’s a massive catalog there. No idea how many different Blaze’s got lumped in there.
Anyway, another Landon Tewers track here. This time, a tender ballad, which is a great departure from the usual fare. I discovered him through Whipits and Cum Captain, both of which are now woefully absent from his Spotify. I guess he’s ashamed of those tracks now or something. Fair enough, but the dude is definitely interesting. I’ve heard him try out at least three different genres so far, and there’s probably even more I haven’t heard yet. Oh, and the live version of Serj Tankian’s song, “Baby,” I included that primarily because of the speech he gives prior to the song. It’s about love of music and the role of artists, and I whole-heartedly agree. The song’s great and all, but I typically don’t bother listening to live stuff ‘cause so much of it is poorly performed or mixed in one way or another.
Seems like it’s been quite a minute since I played a 生 Conform 死 song, but they’re another group from whom I’ve yet to hear a mediocre track. They’ve definitely got some unique flavor in their style. Shit, a µ-Ziq track too?! Holy fuckin’ lord, I don’t know if I’ve ever played µ-Ziq on this podcast, but I’ve known of him/them for ages. Another excellent IDM offering right there, so yojne if you can hang. Finally (because I’ve seriously gotta wrap this shit the fuck up already), that Michael Franti track at the end makes me feel like the sun’s shining out my asshole, and I’m not even mad about it. Kinda basic, kinda poppy, but I’ve loved all the other Michael Franti stuff I’ve heard, and this one has an important message in it that ought to be delivered regularly to one and all who continue to suffer through this late-stage capitalist hellscape we call a country.
Any-mother-fuckin’-way, that is all. I’m cuttin’ myself off right here, ‘cause I’d like to get to bed at some point before I collapse at the fuckin’ keyboard. Believe me, I could go so much further on and on, but for now, all I must beg of you is that you yojne.
01 Zak Meow, Born I - Born To Rise (Zardonic Remix) (from Born To Rise (Zardonic Remix)) [00:08:59]
02 Trench - Imminent Power Looming (from Encased in Chrome) [00:13:25]
03 YONAKA - Seize the Power (from Seize the Power) [00:15:23]
04 Royal & the Serpent - IM NOT SORRY (from IF I DIED WOULD ANYONE CARE) [00:18:01]
05 Ferris Blusa - The Seventh Day (from Saw Your Worst and I Stayed) [00:20:40]
06 Cat Breath - First Steps on a New World (from Rift) [00:22:11]
07 ††† - Initiation (from Initiation / Protection) [00:25:19]
08 Minnesota - Into The Void (from Into The Void) [00:29:22]
09 VGR - GameCube Intro (from GameCube Intro) [00:33:11]
10 ROMES - Misery's on Its Way (from Misery's on Its Way) [00:36:09]
11 Tantrum Desire - The Arena VIP (from The Flow, Pt. 1) [00:39:07]
12 Caliban - VirUS (feat. Marcus Bischoff of Heaven Shall Burn) (from VirUS (feat. Marcus Bischoff of Heaven Shall Burn)) [00:43:17]
13 Kanonenfieber - Stop The War (from Stop The War) [00:47:08]
14 Giuseppe Ottaviani, Dan Soleil - Hero (from Hero) [00:52:15]
15 Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11 (from 21st Century Boys - The Best Of) [00:56:31]
16 Gareth Emery, Omnia - Unity (from Unity) [01:00:11]
17 Big Gigantic, Kota the Friend - Deja Vu (from Deja Vu) [01:03:04]
18 Meshuggah - Broken Cog (from Immutable) [01:06:18]
19 Maggie Lindemann, Siiickbrain - GASLIGHT! (from PARANOIA) [01:11:51]
20 Afterdusk - Love Is Dead (from Love Is Dead) [01:14:18]
21 Alice Glass - SUFFER IN PEACE (from PREY//IV) [01:18:34]
22 DJ Rx - My Serenity (feat. Jolea) (from http://soundcloud.com/finrg-recordings) [01:20:17]
23 Converge - My Great Devastator (Redux) (from The Poacher Diaries (Redux)) [01:25:56]
24 Access To Arasaka - zproc3.40mc03 (from :_Port) [01:30:49]
25 DRS, T95 - Comme Ci (from Comme Ci) [01:34:24]
26 dj-Jo - Thomas The Tank Engine (Remix) (from Thomas The Tank Engine (Remix)) [01:38:08]
27 Fury Weekend, Voicians - Signals (Kodeseven Remix) (from Signals (Kodeseven Remix)) [01:39:41]
28 CORPSE, OmenXIII - POLTERGEIST! (from POLTERGEIST!) [01:44:12]
29 Otto Von Schirach - Demeng (from Demeng) [01:45:49]
30 Brujeria - Brujerizmo (from Brujerizmo) [01:49:09]
31 ZABO, ARIUS - Death On The Dance Floor (from Death On The Dance Floor) [01:52:58]
32 Lo Key, The R.O.C., Kung Fu Vampire - VILLAINOUS (from VILLAINOUS) [01:56:30]
33 The Curse of K.K. Hammond - Devil's Kin Blues (from Devil's Kin Blues) [02:00:47]
34 Essenger - Plague Doctor (Fury Weekend Remix) (from Plague Doctor (Fury Weekend Remix)) [02:06:43]
35 Parov Stelar - Toxic Lover (from Toxic Lover) [02:10:24]
36 Railgun - No Machine (from No Machine) [02:13:16]
37 Altair Blake - Walking on the Moon (from Walking on the Moon) [02:16:18]
38 Adimiron - Zona del silencio (from Et Liber Eris) [02:18:26]
39 Purrple Cat - Meteorites (from Sea of Stars) [02:24:02]
40 Cranes - Sun And Sky (from Forever (Expanded Edition)) [02:27:02]
41 Mafia Birdhouse - Wilt (from Dweller) [02:30:27]
42 Cat Breath - In the Dark (from Rift) [02:33:10]
43 Bernth - When It Rains, It Pours (from Elevation) [02:37:54]
44 David Garrett - Sandstorm (from Music) [02:45:22]
45 Rob IYF, Al Storm - Nature (from Cover Up’s EP 1) [02:48:31]
46 K15, Lex Amor - Inevitable Winters (from Inevitable Winters) [02:53:27]
47 Catnapp - time on me (from time on me) [02:55:47]
48 Joachim Pastor, Signum - Something You Need (Stereoclip Remix) (from Something You Need (Stereoclip Remix)) [02:58:51]
49 Terror - Boundless Contempt (from Boundless Contempt) [03:05:10]
50 t+pazolite - Tales of Hardstyle (from Tales of Hardstyle) [03:07:12]
51 V O E - Running Blind (from Running Blind) [03:10:45]
52 Oliverse - Turbulence (from Turbulence) [03:15:01]
53 Architects - Little Wonder (Abbey Road Version) (from For Those That Wish To Exist At Abbey Road) [03:18:16]
54 Camo & Krooked - Loa (Fade Black Remix) (from Loa (Fade Black Remix)) [03:21:57]
55 Animals As Leaders - Micro-Aggressions (from Parrhesia) [03:25:50]
56 Ferris Blusa - Freddie Blassie (feat. Hollygrove Mikey) (from Saw Your Worst and I Stayed) [03:29:57]
57 A-Kriv, Decoding Drums, Lenny Dee - Yugo Stern (from Yugo Stern) [03:32:56]
58 Blaze - FRESH (from FRESH) [03:36:17]
59 Mors Principium Est - Pure (from Liberate The Unborn Inhumanity) [03:38:17]
60 G Mo Skee - That Checks Out (from That Checks Out) [03:44:24]
61 Pandrezz, j'san, Epektase - Cristo Redentor (from Chips & Chill) [03:47:22]
62 The Roots - Mellow My Man (from Do You Want More?!!!?!) [03:49:50]
63 Passarella Death Squad - What We Are, You Shall Be (Cruising for Attention) (CLAIR Remix) (from What We Are, You Shall Be) [03:54:30]
64 Balmorhea - Of Hopeful Green Woven (from Of Hopeful Green Woven) [03:58:55]
65 ††† - Protection (from Initiation / Protection) [04:00:48]
66 Flux Pavilion - You & I (feat. Kata Kozma) (MashBit Remix) (from You & I (MashBit Remix)) [04:04:29]
67 Synthion, Kotori - Twin Skies (from Twin Skies) [04:07:44]
68 Alex M.O.R.P.H. - Be As One (feat. Cheryl Barnes) (from Be As One) [04:12:10]
69 Landon Tewers - Maddie's Song (from Maddie's Song) [04:15:37]
70 Arctic Lake - Hesitate (from side by side we lie awake) [04:19:10]
71 Serj Tankian & The F.C.C. - Baby (from Live At Leeds) [04:21:44]
72 Nowhere Left - Broken Story (from Broken Story) [04:25:48]
73 Alice Glass - I TRUSTED YOU (from PREY//IV) [04:28:58]
74 Down Again - Can't Make This Right (from Bury the Bones) [04:31:25]
75 Erra - Sol Absentia (from ERRA (Deluxe)) [04:35:45]
76 Mad Lollypop - Nostalgia Gets The Best Of Us Sometimes (from Ever So Enchanting) [04:39:43]
77 eevee, cliffe - till the grave (from dead end) [04:43:59]
78 生 Conform 死 - Help Yourself (from Help Yourself) [04:46:42]
79 Royal & the Serpent - Happier in Hell (from Happier in Hell) [04:50:15]
80 µ-Ziq - Giddy All Over (from Goodbye) [04:53:07]
81 William Black, Thomas Laurent - Only One I Need (feat. HALIENE) (Sunny Lax Remix) (from Only One I Need (Sunny Lax Remix)) [04:55:59]
82 Michael Franti & Spearhead - Brighter Day (from Brighter Day) [05:01:36]
Monday Apr 04, 2022
Monday Apr 04, 2022
The up fuck is what, muthafuckaaaas?! Emoclew to the 2nd installment of the Blues & Jazz Edition of Monday Morning Aural fuckin’ Sex! Boy, I wonder what current events in my life could’ve possibly inspired me to do an edition like this. Real head-scratchin’ shocker right there, right? But yes, tragically, this is only the 2nd one of these I’ve ever done. The last one I did was 6 fuckin’ years ago, and who even remembers any shit that happened back then, amiright? It’s been quite a fuckin’ whirlwind, in my opinion, which is also rooted in facts. Any-fuckin’-way, with the exception of one particularly exceptional Ray Charles favorite of mine, this is all entirely new shit. At least, it’s new to me. Wait, no, because Tom Waits! That’s fuckin’ right! I haven’t played any Tom Waits in goddamn forever, and now here I have a great opportunity to do so considering his earlier stuff is very bluesy. That dude has an absolutely phenomenal catalogue, which is why I made one of my first All-Star Series editions for him wayyyyy back in 2013. Fuck, I don’t even remember who I was back then, but I know I loved Tom Waits.
Moving on, this edition has not only jazz & blues classics, but stuff like jazzy EDM, acid jazz, blues rock, blues piano instrumentals, and I even found one guy called Shook whose genre classification can be described as… Yeah, great stuff right there. Also want to dedicate the Laura Fygi version of La vie en rose to my friend Veida with whom I recently had a brief exchange about various versions of that song. My personal favorite is still the ukulele version done around the end of How I Met Your Mother, but this version is absolutely lovely as well. Of course, this edition has to start off with Billie Holiday, ‘cause she’s a fuckin’ jazz queen and I love her to death and beyond. Speaking of which, though I included her version of Gloomy Sunday on the 1st Blues & Jazz Edition, I’ve opted instead for the Mel Tormé version for this one. Gloomy Sunday, for all those sadly not in the know, is a song that many once believed was cursed due to the number of suicides it allegedly inspired. Certainly not a far leap considering the lyrics, but it still ain’t a fuckin’ curse. Anyway, look up Gloomy Sunday on Wikipedia sometime if you’re interested in learning more.
What else, what else? Oh, I included two different versions of In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning in here. One’s instrumental, one has some magnificent vocals, but neither are the Frank Sinatra version which was the first I ever heard on his album of the same name. Holy fuck, you want to take a trip to Melancholyville? Take a listen to that album. I had no idea Sinatra had ever written (or just performed) such painfully beautiful stuff. That album has a fascinating history behind it, too. Check it out sometime if you’re curious. Also, near the end, there’s a fucksquisite version of a Leonard Cohen song called Dance Me to the End of Love done by a woman named Bria Skonberg. One of my all-time favorites of his, and believe it or not, its original inspiration came from a story about the Holocaust. Leonard Cohen talked about it in a radio interview in the mid-90s. He said there were sometimes string quartets who were forced to perform while people were being tortured and/or killed, and eventually the players themselves met the same fate. Kind of a crazy, dark twist on what many see as a love song, right?
Lastly, and also around the end, the track by Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox called I Only Have Eyes For You… First of all, yes, it is a jazzy version of the old doo-wop hit from many moons ago. Second, I didn’t notice the name of the featured vocalist until I’d already added it to the playlist and was in the process of recording it. That vocalist’s name, you may ask? Sunny Holiday… See, this is the kind of shit I was talking about last week. Shit like this has happened to me countless times where I’m not even looking for it, and suddenly, there it is before my eyes. So, whatever, it’s hardly the most significant example, but it is one of my favorite doo-wop tracks. Bet y’all motherfuckers didn’t even know I got down with doo-wop, but I absolutely do… wop. Hah!
Any-fuckin’-way, whaddya say we lay by the bay, eat hay, make things out of clay and get underway the ojne-yay?!
01 Billie Holiday - Good Morning Heartache (from The Darkest Pieces of Jazz) [00:04:29]
02 Groove Collective - Whatchugot (from Groove Collective) [00:07:55]
03 Louis Jordan - Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens (from Jack, You're Dead: The Essential Blue Archive) [00:14:30]
04 Ray Charles - Let's Go Get Stoned (from True Genius) [00:17:33]
05 Shawn James - No Blood From A Stone (from A Place In The Unknown) [00:20:24]
06 Gary Clark Jr. - Low Down Rolling Stone (from This Land) [00:24:02]
07 Buddy Guy - Stone Crazy (from I Was Walkin’ Through The Woods) [00:28:19]
08 Tom Waits - Emotional Weather Report (from Nighthawks At The Diner (Remastered)) [00:35:29]
09 Anita O'Day - The Ballad of the Sad Young Men (from The Darkest Pieces of Jazz) [00:39:15]
10 Big Jay McNeely - Nervous Man Nervous (from Nervous) [00:43:36]
11 Helen Humes - Real Fine Daddy (from Dootone Rock ’n’ Rhythm & Blues) [00:46:07]
12 Shook - Milestones (from Spectrum) [00:48:19]
13 Bedford and 7th - No Matter What (from No Matter What) [00:56:41]
14 Dr. Lonnie Smith - It's Changed (from Afrodesia) [00:59:40]
15 Laura Fygi - La vie en rose (from Jazz Love) [01:05:40]
16 LaVern Baker - Love Me Right (from Blues Ballads) [01:09:25]
17 New Jersey Kings - Dream Waves (from Stratosphere Breakdown) [01:11:17]
18 Tom Waits - Pasties And A G-String (At The Two O'Clock Club) (from Small Change (Remastered)) [01:16:05]
19 Arthur Migliazza - Thank You Blues (from Laying It Down) [01:18:32]
20 B.B. King - Blues For Me (from Easy Listening Blues) [01:21:16]
21 Chuck Leavell - Forever Blue (from Forever Blue) [01:24:07]
22 Nicole Henry - Moon River (from Moon River) [01:27:24]
23 B.B. King - Please Send Me Someone To Love (from Confessin’ The Blues) [01:32:25]
24 CMC 3 - Everything To Me (from Everything To Me) [01:34:46]
25 Dan Evans-Parker - Lost in Orbit (from Lost in Orbit) [01:40:07]
26 Ben Webster - In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning (from The Darkest Pieces of Jazz) [01:42:38]
27 Mary Ann Redmond - Georgia (from Live) [01:45:45]
28 Ike Quebec - Blue And Sentimental (Remastered 2007/Rudy Van Gelder Edition) (from Blue And Sentimental (Remastered)) [01:54:54]
29 Tom Waits - Intro To Better Off Without A Wife (from Nighthawks At The Diner (Remastered)) [02:02:18]
30 Tom Waits - Better Off Without A Wife (from Nighthawks At The Diner (Remastered)) [02:05:20]
31 The Aether - Remedy (feat. Devon Rea) (from Remedy) [02:09:18]
32 Eliane Elias - Time Alone (from Dreamer) [02:11:44]
33 Etta James - Do Right Woman, Do Right Man (from Tell Mama The Complete Muscle Shoals Sessions (Remastered Reissue)) [02:18:18]
34 Stevie Ray Vaughan - The Sky Is Crying (1985 Ver.) (from The Sky Is Crying) [02:21:14]
35 Horace Silver Trio - Lonely Woman (Remastered) (from The Darkest Pieces of Jazz) [02:25:48]
36 Tom Waits - The One That Got Away (from Small Change (Remastered)) [02:32:40]
37 The Aether - Oceanside (from Oceanside) [02:36:37]
38 Luca Sestak - Quiet Blues (from Lost in Boogie) [02:39:17]
39 Michael Silverman Blues Piano Trio - Blues Solo Piano (from Blues) [02:42:47]
40 Foster Davies - The Fairies (from The Fairies) [02:44:56]
41 Novo Stella - Feathers (from Feathers) [02:47:54]
42 Tom Waits - Fumblin' With The Blues (from The Heart Of Saturday Night (Remastered)) [02:51:13]
43 Johnny B. Moore - Lonesome Blues (from Lonesome Blues) [02:54:11]
44 Ray Charles - You Don't Know Me (from Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, Vols 1 & 2) [03:01:31]
45 Veronica Lewis - Is You Is My Baby (from Is You Is My Baby) [03:04:42]
46 Live Foyn Friis - You Go to My Head (from Live Sings Sassy) [03:10:09]
47 John Coltrane Quartet - Soul Eyes (from Coltrane (Deluxe Edition - Rudy Van Gelder Remaster)) [03:16:18]
48 Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox - I Only Have Eyes For You (feat. Sunny Holiday) (from I Only Have Eyes For You) [03:21:38]
49 Karen Souza - My One and Only Love (from Ain’t No Sunshine / My One and Only Love) [03:24:45]
50 Bria Skonberg - Dance Me to the End of Love (from With a Twist) [03:29:20]
51 Stacey Kent - In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning (from Tenderly) [03:34:52]
52 Nina Simone - Nobody KnowsYou When You're Down And Out (Live In New York/1965) (from Pastel Blues (Originals)) [03:38:13]
53 Joe Williams - A Man Ain't Supposed to Cry (from The Darkest Pieces of Jazz) [03:40:49]
54 Mel Tormé - Gloomy Sunday (from The Darkest Pieces of Jazz) [03:44:22]