Experimental Musical Instrument Links - a lot of really great stuff in here. (via Bifurcated Rivets)

Radil India makes electronic Indian instruments. Check out the products and sound samples here. I for one would like all of them.

After extensive hunting years ago, I came to own an IKEA Jerker desk. To this day it's the most useful, awesome and affordable desk I have ever seen. And to top it all off, its name is Jerker. I always thought it was only my friends and I who loved these desks, but apparently not: BEHOLD! THE SHRINE TO THE IKEA JERKER DESK! which includes a lot of Jerker links and pictures.

Joe Jack Talcum presents A Date With the Dead Milkmen demos from 1983:

This was the last of the 'fictional' Dead Milkmen albums and it is where the fictional met the factual. The only 'real' Dead Milkman missing by now was Dean. Four months after its release this tape would serve as initial demos for Dean's first official meeting with Dave and me.

(via The Ultimate Insult)

Remixes for your Monday:

• Dirtbag (violence of surprise mix) by c.layne
• Dirtbag (bandypop mix)
• Borderline (Colvig's 'Tricky bastards like you' mix)

Thanks! The released source for my tracks is available in the extras section.

I have a pretty big interest in text generators. Not to automate creativity (though that would be great if it worked) but to give it a helpful kick in the ass sometimes. So I was excited about Google Poem but the output from it wasn't very interesting. Which made me think again about how the web totally isn't providing the awesome word nerd web app I want.

What I'd like is a page that let you import streams (which ideally could be a webpage, a file you upload, an RSS feed) and uses word pairs or Markov chains or anything else cool to mix them together to varying degrees. (There are more features I'd want after that, but let's start slow.)

The idea isn't new, it's basically just a web implemention of the 1991 DOS program Babble! by Korenthal Associates, with no tiny memory restriction. If you included the RSS ability so people could easily mash up the text on their own and their friends' blogs, I think you'd have the feel-good hit of the summer.

Here are a few text mashup/generating sites I've come across that don't quite do the trick:

• DadaDodo - This one definitely has the right idea and also gives a good overview of the use of cut-ups and generators in art, but the sources are pre-determined. The ANSI C source code is provided but I have no idea what to do with ANSI C code anymore these days.
• The Shannonizer - this one only allows one source of text and the mashup is fixed with your choice of one of eight editors.
• When you run out of words - this one will mash up whatever text you give it, but you're constrained to just one text source.

If anybody knows of any sites that do what I want, please let me know.

I'm a featured artist over there on Mperia today. Did a short interview for them, which I assume you can read there.

I'm liking this here Japanese Death Poetry.

Esperanto Music on the Internet (via Bifurcated Rivets) (What the hell is Esperanto?)

Look And Feel Years Younger (2004 Mix) is a remix I did of Look And Feel Years Younger. All my attempts at making a super crazy remix failed so I was left with just making little changes. Like I hyped up the drums, mixed up the verses a bit, dropped the solo and changed the ending. Then a few other things here and there that I can't remember.

One of my favorite albums as a teenager was In God We Trust Inc. by the Dead Kennedys so I was pretty jazzed when I heard about the The Lost Tapes DVD. I had a chance to watch it last week and it was pretty fascinating. The story goes that the original recording session for In God We Trust Inc. on June 19th, 1981 was lost due to defective tape. They re-recorded the album some time later and that's what actually made it onto the In God We Trust Inc I know and love. They have since rescued a lot of the recordings from the defective tape and from other sources and were video taping the recording session at the time. So this is a pretty good look at what it was like to be in the studio with the Dead Kennedys.

The songs sound more or less identical to the album versions and it's pretty strange to watch the process of recording one of my favorite albums.

Some more sweet remixes and also a video:

• Dirtbag (anesthetic mix)
• Look And Feel Years Younger (Bill Berry mix)
• Look And Feel Years Younger (bandypop mix)

Also Prashant Mullick wrote in about a video he made with my song Making Me Nervous. He wrote in:

I thought I'd let you know of a short video I made with the sound track of your song. Its a first attempt at stitching up photos to make a video. You can find it here.

I've gotta work on it a little to fine tune the beats with the photo transitions. This was just a first attempt at throwing the photos in with the mix of the song.

The Top 10 Most Ridiculous Black Metal Pics Of All Time.

Here's the source for my song Dirtbag (50 MB). Send me what you make with it, post it in the forums, etc. Remixes were kinda sparse for the last source I posted, so hopefully this one will go better.

I've been trying to get away from using the preamps on my Behringer mixer as I've decided they're way weaker and lamer sounding than what I was used to with my old Mackie mixing board. I bought a Presonus Blue Tube on the weekend. It looks like this:

Haven't given it a shot yet, but I sure hope it's good.

Here's a retro industrial fantasy of mine. Ministry and My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult are on tour together. Tour details are here. They're coming to Montreal in October but I think I might be too old and fragile to go.

Catching up on remixes here:

• Look And Feel Years Younger (Wadical Weft Mix)
• Look And Feel Years Younger (Wadical Weft Mix 2)
• Look And Feel Years Younger (Wadical Weft Mix 3)
• Look And Feel Years Younger (SexyMix)

Also the extras section should be all caught up now.

Here's a review of my album I Don't Know What I'm Doing over on Horrorwood BabbleOn. It got 4 and a half jack-o-lanterns out of a possible five jack-o-lanterns, which is my highest number of jack-o-lanterns I've ever been awarded for anything.

It's taken forever and a half, but this weblog seems to be switched to Wordpress now. Huge thanks to Denise for CSS help. There are probably broken things all over the site. If you spot any please let me know. Right now I'm just thankful it's gotten this far.

Also: might be worth updating your RSS URLs. I have forwards in right now but one of the two RSS readers I tried choked on it.

The MP3Blogs Aggregator is an easy way to keep track of a ton of MP3 blogs all in one place. MP3 blogs are pretty cool and are a bit easier to tune into than a radio show for people who are lazy and impatient, like me. They're also how I found out that Steve Burns (formerly the host of Blues Clues) has teamed up with some of the the guys behind the Flaming Lips. (The song Mighty Little Man kicks ass.)