Brian Eno - Ambient 1-4

All four Ambient albums from the pioneer of ambient music, Brian Eno. Ambient 1: Music for Airports was indeed made to be played at LaGuardia Airport in New York. Eno took various repeating tape loops and played them at the same time. Because they were all different lengths, with different amounts of silence at the end, the songs evolved on their own over time. Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror was created with fellow ambient musician Harold Budd. Budd would play the piano, experimenting with getting different sounds out of it, while Eno would perform various treatments and effects to the sound as Budd was playing. The entire album is piano-based, with some occasional chimes and synths. Ambient 3: Day of Radiance is by American ambient musician Laraaji, with Eno producing. The first three tracks ("The Dance") are played mostly on a dulcimer, with a few other stringed instruments. The last two ("Meditation") are played on a zither. While Eno is listed as producer, he did a lot of work with treating and manipulating the sounds to the point that they no longer sound like they came from one instrument. He also did a lot of layering of the various parts. Ambient 4: On Land was the last in Eno's Ambient series. It could be considered one of the first dark ambient recordings, though it has some moments that are reminiscent of Ambient 2. Ambient 4 consists of synthesizer notes, long, processed drones, field recordings, and bits of sound left over from the previous Ambient recordings.

So there you go. If you're interested in ambient music, and you haven't heard these, you're really missing out. Not only are they an important chronicle of the birth of ambient music, but they are damn good albums. Each one carries a different mood, and thus, a different purpose. Try listening to them in different places and on different speaker set-ups (normal computer speakers, a nice stereo system with a subwoofer, headphones) if at all possible. There's a lot to be discovered on these recordings.

If these do well, I may upload some of Eno's other ambient albums.


1978 - Ambient 1: Music for Airports
1. 1/1
2. 2/1
3. 1/2
4. 2/2


1980 - Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror
1. First Light
2. Steal Away
3. The Plateaux of Mirror
4. Above Chiangmai
5. An Arc of Doves
6. Not Yet Remembered
7. The Chill Air
8. Among Fields of Crystal
9. Wind in Lonely Fences
10. Failing Light


1980 - Ambient 3: Day of Radiance
1. The Dance #1
2. The Dance #2
3. The Dance #3
4. Meditation #1
5. Meditation #2


1982 - Ambient 4: On Land
1. Lizard Point
2. The Lost Day
3. Tal Coat
4. Shadow
5. Lantern Marsh
6. Unfamiliar Wind (Leeks Hills)
7. A Clearing
8. Dunwich Beach, Autumn, 1960

Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero Leaks

So I guess Nine Inch Nails has a new album coming out in April. I found a CD rip of the first single, "Survivalism", at 320 kbps. There is also another song floating around the Internet called "My Violent Heart". There's a pretty interesting story behind the leak of that song. I guess someone found a USB flash drive in the bathroom at a NIN gig in Lisbon, Portugal. Supposedly, the version I downloaded is a direct copy of the one on the USB flash drive, which is kind of cool. It came with a file called "Phone Message". On the backs of the recent NIN tour shirts, some numbers are a lighter color. When put together, they spell out the US phone number +13102951040. The file is a recording of what you hear when you call that number. There has been some pretty ridiculous advertising for this thing, which you can read about at the wikipedia page for it. This looks like it's going to turn out to be a pretty massive ARG (put on by none other than 42 Entertainment, the people responsible for I Love Bees and the I, Robot ARGs), and the album is going to be a concept album, both of which excite me a lot. I guess I can kiss my life goodbye until this thing drops on April 17.

Now that that's out of the way, I should probably say a little something about the music. Survivalism is pretty decent. Sounds like it probably could've been on a-With-a-Teeth-a. It's got the same minimalistic approach, simple drum pattern, repetitive fuzzy guitar line, miscellaneous percussion during the verses, with a quick build at the chorus, then back to quieter with a little more complexity. Then back and forth between loud and quiet with different variations. Lyrics seem to talk about the dystopian America that the new album will focus on. My Violent Heart is a better track, in my opinion. It's got the same quiet-loud-quiet pattern, but it's more atmospheric. Trent does his spoken-word vocals for the verses, and then kind of yells the chorus. At about 2:45, it goes off into a cool instrumental part with a bunch of variations until the end, similar to Closer.

Anyway, enough of my rambling that no one reads. Here's what you came here for:

1. Survivalism
2. My Violent Heart
3. Phone Message

The complete Buckethead - Part One: Solo Recordings

Here is the complete solo Buckethead discography, minus the extremely rare early Giant Robot demo tape (not Giant Robot NTT, but Buckethead's first solo release... check the Buckethead entry on Wikipedia if you are confused). In the coming days/weeks, I plan on uploading his entire discography, so if any of the 8 people who read this thing have any Death Cube K, Corn Bugs, El Stew, Praxis, Pieces, or Thanatopsis (apart from Anatomize) albums and would be willing to upload them, I would in turn upload any album (or albums, if you up more than one) you like. Any soundtracks he's done would be great as well. And now, here are the albums. Reviews/descriptions may or may not be coming shortly, when I don't have an essay and seven one page papers to write. Also, I noticed that I'm missing track 17 from the Bucketheadland Blueprints album. I'm not sure what the title of it is right now, but Decapitation should be track 18, and everything else after that is also one track higher, obviously. Go here to download track 17. There are a couple other Buckethead things for download in that directory as well, including the Giant Robot NTT album.


1991 - Bucketheadland Blueprints
1. Blueprints Theme
2. Giant Robot vs. Cleopat
3. Wonka in Slaughter Zone
4. Gorey Head Stump & Nosin'
5. Computer Master
6. Chicken for Lunch
7. Sterling Scapula
8. Seaside
9. Let's Go to Wally World
10. Robot Flight
11. Earthling Fools
12. Guts & Eyeballs
13. Haunted Farm
14. The Rack & Alice in Slaughterland
15. Skid's Looking Where
16. Buddy on a Slab & Funeral Time
17. Decapitation
18. Virtual Reality (Part 2)
19. Giant Robot Finale
20. Robotic Chickens
21. Park Theme (Intro)
22. Swamp Boy Square Dance
23. Pirate's Life for Me


1992 - Bucketheadland
Disc 1
1. Intro/Park Theme
2. Giant Robot Interlude
3. Giant Robot Theme
4. Enter Guillatine
5. Giant Robot Vs Guillatine
6. Bucketbots Jig
7. Enter Slipdisc
8. Bansheebot Vs Buckethead
9. Slaughterzone/The Haunted Farm
10. Hook & Pole Gang
11. Cattle Prod
12. Phantom Monk
13. The Rack
14. Nosin'
15. Gorey Head Stump
16. Sterling Scapula
17. Skid's Looking Where
18. Steel Wedge
19. Wonka In Slaughter Zone
20. Nosin' Part 2
21. Diabolic Minds
22. Alice In Slaughterland
23. Bleeding Walls
24. Buddy On A Slab
25. Buddy In The Graveyard
26. Oh Jeez...
27. Funeral Time
28. Computer Master
29. Virtual Reality
30. Home Run Derby Part 1
31. Home Run Derby Part 2
32. Home Run Derby Main Theme
33. I Love My Parents
Disc 2
1. Intro/Park Theme Extension
2. Gullatine Battle
3. Giant Robot Theme
4. Robot Dance
5. Virtual Reality
6. Banshee Bop
7. Baseball Buddy


1994 - Giant Robot
1. Doomride
2. Welcome To Bucketheadland
3. I Come In Peace
4. Buckethead's Toy Store
5. Want Some Slaw?
6. Warweb
7. Aquabot
8. Binge And Grab (Instrumental Version)
9. Pure Imagination
10. Buckethead's Chamber Of Horrors
11. Onions Unleashed
12. Chicken
13. I Love My Parents
14. Buckethead's TV Show
15. Robot Transmission
16. Pirate's Life For Me
17. Post Office Buddy
18. Star Wars
19. Last Train To Bucketheadland


1996 - Day of the Robot
1. Destroyer: Speed Flux Quadrant/Inclusion/Exhaust Release
2. Flying Guillotine
3. Quantum Crash
4. Collision
5. Caution Drop


1998 - Colma
1. Whitewash
2. For Mom
3. Ghost
4. Hills Of Eternity
5. Big Sur Moon
6. Machete
7. Wishing Well
8. Lone Sal Bug
9. Sanctum
10. Wondering
11. Watching The Boats With My Dad
12. Ghost/Part 2
13. Colma


1999 - Monsters and Robots
1. Jump Man
2. Stick Pit
3. The Ballad of Buckethead
4. Sow Thistle
5. Revenge of the Double-Man
6. Night of the Slunk
7. Who Me?
8. Jowls
9. The Shape vs. Buckethead
10. Stun Operator
11. Scapula
12. Nun Chuka Kata


2001 - KFC Skin Piles
1. A1
2. A2
3. A3
4. B1


2001 - Somewhere Over the Slaughterhouse
1. Somewhere Over the Slaughterhouse
2. Help Me
3. Pin Bones and Poultry
4. My Sheeetz
5. Day of the Ulcer
6. You Like Headcheese?
7. Burlap Curtain
8. You Like This Face?
9. Wires and Clips
10. Knockingun
11. Conveyor Belt Blues


2002 - Funnel Weaver
1. Blind Centipede
2. Kurtz Temple
3. Covert
4. Death Card
5. R.I.P.
6. Plans Within Plans
7. Eye in the Sky
8. Freezer Burns
9. Sky Drones
10. Operation Gateway
11. Bantam Rising
12. Combat Shadow
13. Azzim's Lectures
14. Channel of Secrets
15. Comet Shower
16. Worm Turns
17. Silhouettes Agianst the Sky
18. Sleeper Agents
19. Recreational Cryonics
20. Blind Sniper (Fred Rogers)
21. Atlantis Found
22. Spider's Web
23. Blue Crystal
24. Reaping the Whirlwind
25. Hills Have Eyes
26. Other Side of Midnight
27. Sea the Hollow Man
28. Unsound Methods
29. Hall of Records
30. Aluminum Clouds
31. Lost Threads
32. Killing Mask
33. Rattlesnake Hill
34. F-4 Phantom
35. Stub Pylons
36. Armour Piercing Projectile
37. Stolen Identities
38. Shriek of Revenge
39. 5-Card Trick
40. Caretaker of Memory
41. Kingdom of Nie
42. Kangaroo Kranes
43. High Seat With the Devil
44. Jessy
45. From the Foxholes
46. (F.L.I.P.)
47. Frozen Head
48. Who Is the Enemy
49. Nappler Radar


2002 - Bermuda Triangle
1. Intro
2. Davy Jones Locker
3. Flight 19
4. Mausoleum Door
5. Sea of Expanding Shapes
6. The Triangle, Pt. 1: Extrakd
7. Bionic Fog
8. Forbidden Zone
9. Telegraph Land of the Crispies
10. Pullin the Heavy
11. Phantom Lights
12. Jabbar on Alcatrazz Avenue
13. Beestro Fowler
14. Splintered Triplet
15. Whatevas
16. Sucked Under
17. Isle of Dead
18. The Triangle, Pt. 2
19. 911


2002 - Electric Tears
1. All in yhe Waiting
2. Sketches of Spain (for Miles)
3. Padmasana
4. Mustang
5. The Way to Heaven
6. Baptism of Solitude
7. Kansas Storm
8. Datura
9. Mantaray
10. Witches on the Heath
11. Angel Monster
12. Electric Tears
13. Spell of the Gypsies


2003 - Bucketheadland 2
1. Welcome
2. Slaughter Zone Entrance
3. The Cobra's Hood
4. Transportation Options
5. Machoto Mirago
6. Slaughter Buddies Outside The Revenge Wedge
7. We Cannot Guarantee Bodily Harm
8. john Merrick-Elephant Man Bones Explosion
9. Taxidermy Tots
10. Bloody Rainbow Spiralling Sherbert Scoop
11. Can You Get Past Albert?
12. Vladimir Pockets' Incredible Bloated Slunk Show
13. The Ballad Of The Inside-Out Face
14. The Battery Cage Brawls (Cage Announcer: The Ghost of Abraham Lincoln/Winner Has To Eat His Way Out)
15. Forris Wheel Apology
16. Can You Help Me?
17. Grimm's Sponsorship
18. Roalistic Coop Replica
19. Frozen Brains Tell No Tales
20. Rooster Landing (1st Movement)/Limo Timo (2nd Movement)
21. Two Pints
22. Health & Safety Advisory
23. Digger's Don
24. One-Way Ticket To Grab Bag Alley
25. Fun For You
26. Carpal Tunnel Tomb Torker
27. Today's Schedule
28. The Corpse Plower
29. Unemployment Blues
30. Slaughter Zone Exit


2004 - Island of Lost Minds
1. Island of Lost Minds
2. Shock Therapy Side Show
3. Dream Darts
4. Vacuum Tube Planet
5. Scull Scrape
6. Ice Pick Through Eyes
7. Four Sided Triangle
8. Korova Binge Bar
9. Bruised Eye Sockets
10. Mud Of The Gutter
11. The Cuckoo Parade
12. Viravax
13. Lobotomizer



2004 - Population Override
1. Unrestrained Growth
2. Too Many Humans
3. Population Override
4. Humans Vanish
5. Cruel Reality of Nature
6. A Day Will Come
7. Earth Heals Herself
8. Clones
9. Super Human
10. ...


2004 - The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell
1. Descent of the Damned
2. Spokes for the Wheel of Torment
3. Arc of the Pendulum
4. Fountains of the Forgotten
5. The Treeman
6. Pylegathon
7. Traveling Morgue
8. One Tooth of the Time Train
9. Bedlam's Bluff
10. Beaten with Sledges
11. Woods of Suicides
12. Yellowed Hide
13. Moths to Flame
14. The Ravines of Falsehood
15. The Black Forest
16. Haven of Black Tar Pitch
17. The Escape Wheel


2005 - Enter the Chicken
1. Intro
2. We Are One f. Serj Tankian
3. Botnus f. Efrem Schulz
4. Three Fingers f. Saul Williams
5. Running From the Light f. Ejigayehu "Gigi"Shibabaw and Maura Davis
6. Coma f. Azam Ali
7. Waiting Hare f. Shana Halligan and Serj Tankian
8. Interlude
9. Funbus f. Dirk Rogers and Deith Aazami
10. The Hand f. Maximum Bob and Ani Maldjian
11. Nottingham Lace


2005 - Kaleidoscalp
1. Frankenseuss Laboratories
2. Stunpike And the Jack In the Box Head
3. Musicbox Innards
4. Breakfast Cyborg
5. The Bronze Bat
6. The Last Ride of the Bozomobile
7. Rack Maintenance
8. The Sticker On Hallucinogens
9. Pylon Shift
10. Citadel
11. The Slunk, the Gutter and the Candlestick Maker
12. The Android of Notre Dame
13. She Sells Sea Shells By the Slaughterhouse


2005 - Inbred Mountain
1. In Search of Inbred Mountain – 3:26
2. Johnny Be Slunk – 8:42
3. Lotus Island – 6:33
4. Flock of Slunks – 4:30
5. Advance To the Summit – 6:03
6. Plastination Station – 5:47
7. Escape From Inbred Mountain – 8:21


2006 - The Elephant Man's Alarm Clock
1. Thai Fighter Swarm
2. Final Wars
3. Baseball Furies
4. Elephant Man's Alarm Clock
5. Lurker At the Threshold Part 1 (Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft)
6. Lurker At the Threshold Part 2
7. Lurker At the Threshold Part 3
8. Lurker At the Threshold Part 4
9. Oakridge Cake (Tribute to Kool Keith)
10. Gigan
11. Droid Assembly
12. Bird With A Hole In the Stomach
13. Fizzy Lipton Drinks


2006 - Crime Slunk Scene
1. King James
2. Gory Head Stump 2006 the Pageant of the Slunks
3. The Fairy and the Devil
4. Buddy Berkman's Ballad
5. Mad Monster Party
6. Soothsayer (Dedicated to Aunt Suzie)
7. Col. Austin vs. Col. Sanders aka Red Track Suit
8. We Can Rebuild Him
9. Electronic Slight of Hand
10. Mecha Gigan
11. Slunk Parade aka Freaks in the Black

The complete Genghis Tron

Genghis Tron often gets billed as nothing more than a cybergrind band, which is a shame. A crying one, at that. Yes, there are elements of cybergrind, but there is so much more to their sound. There are entire sections within their songs that range from drum n' bass to ambient to analog dance music to psychedlic rock to post-hardcore. When the band really shines, however, is when they seamlessly merge all those disparate styles into a cohesive whole. Take "Arms" off of the Cloak of Love EP. It starts off with a dance beat, goes almost immediately into a blast of cybergrind interspersed with moments of DnB, into a section of Aphex Twin-type ambient music, another blast of cybergrind, before finally combining elements from all of those styles with a post-hardcore guitar line over everything, all in the course of two and a half minutes. The rest of their music follows suit, throwing vast amounts of musical genres at the listener over the length of a typical pop song, sometimes even less. The closest thing I can compare them to would be Naked City-era John Zorn, only with more musical styles and the ability to combine those styles together rather than just jumping from one to the next. While they may seem a little jarring and difficult at first simply because you never know what they'll throw at you next, given time Genghis Tron may just change the way you listen to and think about music. Just a note: the versions of Rock Candy and Laser Bitch on the Laser Bitch single are different than those on the Cloak of Love EP.


Laser Bitch Single
1. Rock Candy
2. Penultimate Just Means Second To Last, You Pretentious Fuck
3. Dance, Laser Bitch


Cloak of Love EP
1. Rock Candy
2. Arms
3. Ride The Steambolt
4. Laser Bitch
5. Sing Disorder


Cape of Hate EP
1. Discomfort 1
2. Rock Candy (Rainbow Jesus Remix)
3. Arms (Dylan Reece Remix)
4. Discomfort 2
5. Ride the Steamboat (Demo)
6. Welcome Home Mother (Destructo Swarmbots Rock Candy Remix)
7. Laser Bitch (Exfoliating Gel Scrub Remix)
8. Discomfort 3


Dead Mountain Mouth
1. The Folding Road
2. Chapels
3. From The Aisle
4. Dead Mountain Mouth
5. White Walls
6. Badlands
7. Greek Beds
8. Asleep On The Forest Floor
9. Warm Woods
10. Lake Of Virgins

Autechre - Anti

Autechre was one of the main bands to create electronic music in the early 90's that wasn't easily accessible and/or written for dance clubs. They're known for their complex rhythmic lines and use of odd time signatures and chord progressions. This particular single was created in response to the British Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 which, in an attepmt to destroy the rave scene, prohibited music that contained "repetitive beats" to be played in a public setting. The first two tracks contain repetitve beats, but the third track has no repetitive beats in the whole thing. While it may seem gimmicky (and really, it is), it also works well, and ends up being one of Autechre's best songs. Lost is also decent, though Djarum falls a little short. Flutter more than makes up for it, however.



1. Lost
2. Djarum
3. Flutter

Nurse With Wound - Livin' Fear of James Last or... Joy in the House of Dada!!!! a Nurse With Wound variety pack

Nurse With Wound is one of the most prolific musical groups ever, though to call them a "musical group" is probably misleading for two reasons:
1. Apart from their first three releases, NWW has been one man, Stephen Stapleton, along with a small collective of people he frequently collaborates with, and
2. Quite often you'd be hard pressed to call what Stapleton does "music", at least in the common sense of the word.

Stapleton is more prone to rampant sonic experimentalism than actual music. Contained on this album alone is everything from typical rock instruments randomly being "played" and then chopped up and processed like crazy ("The Six Buttons of Sex Appeal") to extreme industrial music ("Cold") to Brian Eno-esque ambient music ("Sea Armchair") to an almost normal rock song ("Two Shaves and A Shine" with David Tibet of Current 93 on vocals). Every song presents a different facet of Nurse With Wound, whether dark, scary, comedic, upbeat, relaxing, and pretty much everything in between.

While cramming 27 years and 100+ albums into two and a half hours may seem impossible, this two disc set, compiled, mixed, sequenced, and edited by Stapleton himself, does an honorable job. It may trip up a little in including multiple tracks off a couple albums when there were over a hundred albums to choose from, but the tracks are all so different that had the back of the CD case not listed what album each song was off of, I never would have guessed that some of the tracks were off the same album.

Expect more NWW albums in the future, as I'm only a handful of albums away from having their entire catalogue.



Disc: 1
1. Six Buttons of Sex Appeal [Edit]
2. Dirty Fingernails [Edit]
3. Stick That Chick and Feel My Steel Through Your Last Meal
4. Subterranean Zappa Blues
5. Ag Canadh Thuas Sa Spèir
6. Die, Flip or Go to India
7. Cold [Edit]
8. Strange Play of the Mouth [Edit]
9. Swansong [Edit]
Disc: 2
1. Optical Illusion Pad
2. Sea Armchair
3. Piece of the Sky Is Missing
4. Home Is Where the Heart Is/Monument for Perez Prado
5. Intravenous [Edit]
6. New Dress
7. Yagga Blues
8. Two Shaves and a Shine [Edit]
9. Rock 'N Roll Station [Edit]
10. I Was No Longer His Dominant [Remix]

AFX - Hangable Auto Bulb (2 EPs)

These two EPs, released 8 weeks apart in 1995 and limited to 1000 copies each, mark a significant change in Richard D. James's style from the analogue and ambient sounds of his old releases to the new IDM and Drill n' Bass style he's been working in up until the rebirth of his classic acid style with the Analord series of singles. These two vinyl-only EPs were re-released together on a single CD last October, though the track times differ slightly between the vinyl and CD releases. In case anyone cares, these are the vinyl versions of all the songs. Track two on Hangable Auto Bulb 2, "Arched Maid Via RDJ", is one of my favorite songs ever.



Hangable Auto Bulb EP (1995)

1. Children Talking
2. Hangable Auto Bulb
3. Laughable Butane Bob
4. Bit
5. Custodian Discount
6. Wabby Legs

Hangable Auto Bulb EP.2 (1995)

1. Every Day
2. Arched Maid Via RDJ