1988-11-09 Election '88

I found myself in three different roles here. First, I am a citizen of the nation and I care about it. Second, I am a university professor and I teach courses in presidential campaign rhetoric. Third, I have this proto-industrial music radio program. Oh, and of course, the election of 1988 had just happened.

I took music and sounds and mixed them in with candidates and news voices and average voices and unrelated voices with a good mixing of static and random music. Much of the entertainment is provided by George Bush and Mike Dukakis.

It starts with a cut I did with Commodity Fetish called "Angry Speech."

It is all rather sad, really.

Download:
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk881109election88.mp3

1988-08-24 Crystal Shattered

Sound can have an impact. It can shatter, soothe, transmute and a lot more. Come and see how this happens. There are some great liner notes that describe how these sounds operate. Pay attention to the instructions about half way through. Turn it up and tune it in and see what it does to you. 


Music included: Nocturnal Emissions, Lustmord, Bill Kirby's Escherhead, Nurse with Wound, Laibach,  Test Department, Vagina Dentata Organ, Astronauts in Grave Peril, and a lot more. 


Download:
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk880824crystalshattered.mp3

1986-05-07 Agony Mix

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A lot of things that sound just slightly off, even for proto-industrial music. But it is a very interesting and pretty industrial, right up and in to the news by Kathy Biscardi. This will keep you awake. It is a creation in sound that expresses a negative intellectual and emotional reaction to modern industrial society and commodity culture.

Music included: Commodity Fetish, Test Department, Rema Rema, Die Form, Hula, Inner Itch, Swans, Coil, Bill Nelson, Colin Newman, Zoviet France, Muslimgauze, Temple of Psychic Youth, Severed Heads, and a lot more.

Download:
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk860507agonymix.mp3

1988-11-16 Ten Years Since Jonestown

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18 November 1978 Jonestown, Guayana where 915 people die in a mass suicide, many are murdered. All on the orders of the Reverend Jim Jones. I actually give a test at the end of the program.

This is an acoustic creation coming from news reports, radio broadcasts, actual tapes of Jim Jones, movies and reenactments; Psychic TV, AbdoMen, Soviet france, MB and a lot more. Jim Jones tapes from the Library of Congress.

This is one of the most disturbing programs I ever put together.

Download:
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk881116jonestown.mp3

1986-01-15 So Gallantly Screaming

Cover of Edward Ka-Spel

Just a weekly musical experience, a little more of the European alternative type, along with some industrial and some sample rhythms. Good addition of Q. Crisp and Spig for some words. This is a nice acoustic collage and a good example of the kind of thing I was doing week after week.

Playlist included:
Legendary Pink Dots, Edward Ka-Spel, Psychic TV, Nurse with Wound, Eraserhead, Severed Heads, Quentin Crisp, Cabaret Voltaire, Spig, George Melly, P231 Ankh, Sympathy Nervous, Propaganda and a lot more.

Download:
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk860115_so_gallantly_screaming.mp3

1986-08-00 Things Fall Apart

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Industrial sounds and rhythms combine with harsh voices to produce a musical sense of alienation amidst a modern industrial society. Moves from groove to harsh sequences easily. I called it "powerful industrial noise."

Playlist included:
Esplendor Geometrico, Severed Heads, Einsturzende Neubauten, Twenty Committee, Sleep Chamber, Women of the SS, Neozalanda, P16.D4, Psychic TV, Sickness of Snakes, Nocturnal Emissions and a lot more.

Download:
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk86080things_fall_apart.mp3

1994-11-04 Requiem for the Polis

Very discouraged about the political process, but I don't want to be trite about it, so I tried to put something together that was expressive without being a list of complaints. America, America.

Playlist included: Autopsia, Shadow Work, Coil, Psyclones, Residents, Controlled Bleeding, Tape Beatles and a lot more.






Download:
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk941104requiempolis.mp3

1994-10-05 MultiMix

This is a complete noise and sound collage with only occasional and minimal musical backing. Just listening to this is a lot of hard work. I know that isn't much of an endorsement, but it is what it is and I am fairly pleased with it. It is an excellent technical achievement whatever you consider its merits as a form of expression.

As with a visual collage, a Sound Collage is made up of pieces, splices, and overlapping layers, all combined to create an audio piece unique from the source sounds. As with any category defined by its process of creation, pieces that fall under the heading sound collages vary in nature widely, ranging from narrative to ambient. http://www.allmusic.com/explore/style/sound-collage-d11071

Download:
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk941005multimix.mp3

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1994-09-14 Mister Martin

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Some of the great voices here mixed together in a rather appealing way that is fun but with a point. Many different points made here. William S. Burroughs and his character Mr. Martin set the stage for this week's program.

Playlist includes: Everett Dirksen, Crosley Bendix, Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, Bob Dobbs, Negativland, Tape Beatles, Andy Fairley, and more Burroughs.

Download:
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk940914mrmartin.mp3

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1994-08-17 Early Fall

Strictly new techno-ambient music from the time. Very accessible to me today as a techno-ambient listener, or maybe my tastes haven't changed that much. Very few voices here. Love that Deep Space Network!

Playlist included: Timelords, Deep Space Network, Original Rockers, Higher Intelligence Agency, GOL, Groove Corporation, Banco de Gaia, Digital Jesus, APL, and a lot more.

Download:
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk940817earlyfall.mp3

1994-07-20 A Calm Before

This is a pretty groovy and accessible mix. There are some strange spots, of course, but there is a light instrumental theme that seems almost ambient beats and grooves in terms that we would use today (2012).

Playlist included: Space Time Continuum, Grain, Psyfield, WFO, The Grid, Material, Tranquility Base, Future Sound of London, Elements of Trance, Hawk and a lot more.

Download-GET BOTH PARTS
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk940720Acalmbefore.mp3
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk940720Bcalmbefore.mp3

1994-07-13 My Weekly Lecture

I seem to be awfully full of myself here as I introduce this program, stuff about a communication construct to give you something to think about instead of telling you what to think. There is no play list, but it is an interesting and thought provoking voice, sound and music piece once I stop talking. Well worth a toe-tapping listen.

Download:
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk940713weeklylectureup.mp3

1987-06-17 Zen Kitchen

Times I will never forget. I was in a band, we did shows, we had performance pieces, bands came to me for names, and a lot of stuff I am still very proud of.

I was so involved in the music scene then. I was working with Kell Fox and Tom Efinger on the Commodity Fetish project. I will also always love Friends of Doctor Mabuse, Stu Nelson and Bill Kirby at the time. We had some great times and recorded music and did performance pieces that I am still very proud of.

Included: Commodity Fetish live at Machine Culture, a big chunk of the show performed at the Billings Center Theater at the University of Vermont. "My time is up." Cuts included: Commoditization of Labor, Zen Kitchen, Television Communists. Then more music: Hula, Residents, Friends of Doctor Mabuse, Susan Deihim & Richard Horowitz, Zoviet France, Sleep Chamber, Heiner Goebbels, and even more.

Download or listen right away:
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk870617zen_kitchen.mp3

1987-04-13 Party Radio Part One

Friday night, long ago, and I have taken to the airwaves to do Party Radio, a regular sign up spot at WRUV-FM. I have taken this chance to flash some of my favorite new alternative music with a slight celebratory air, if such is possible with proto-industrtial music. Part Two seems to have become lost. Kathy Fors is in the studio helping me select songs as only she can.

Music included: Zazou Bikaye CY1, Fats Comet, Hunting Lodge, Chrome, Coil, Data Bank A, Black Sheep, Quinton Crisp, Tuxedomoon, Randy Greif, William S. Burroughs, Acoustic Iatrogenesis and a whole lot more.

Download or listen right away:
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk870413partyradio1.mp3

1991-12-25 Blackhouse at Christmas

All during this period I absolutely loved the band BLACKHOUSE. They combined an excellent hard edged sound with a message that was distinct and consistent. It was instructive as well as a lot of fun to the ears. Some great hard grooves to be found here.

The band is a strongly Christian one and their music shows that. So, what better to do on Christmas Day 1991 than to feature a proto-industrial kind of music that wishes happy birthday to Jesus? Much respect to Sterling Cross and Ivo Cutler, the members of the band.

Download or listen right away:
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk911225christmascollege.mp3

1987-05-13 Final Examination

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I can only understand so much, and then it all goes blank.

This program takes place at the conclusion of the spring semester at the University of Vermont, and so in some ways this show tries to recognize that. However, it also celebrates local music culture in Burlington, Vermont as we look at the Commodity Fetish live program that took place at UVM entitled on the previous weekend. Then there is a lot more Commodity Fetish music with some other things thrown in for variety.

Music included: Commodity Fetish, plus some Psychic TV.

Download or listen right away:
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk870513finalexam.mp3

1991-05-15 That Kind of Week

It was, indeed, that kind of week, a week with lovely weather but still a lot of things to be sad about. A mixture of harsh and semi-harsh sounds to create a semi-industrial acoustic atmosphere for your desperation in the sun.

Music included:
Nurse with Wound, Muslimgauze, FM Einheit, Zoviet France, Blackhouse, Loaded Angels, Invisible Spike, Negativland, Hafler Trio and a lot more.

Click to listen right away, or download by right clicking:
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk910515that_kind_of_week.mp3

1994-06-29 Dark Tradition

The sweet voice of Adid greets us at the beginning of this program, but it is a dark session after that. Orchestras, metal banging, sad singing, poetry, dire predictions and a lot more. Not dismal, but dark and stuck in the reality of 1994. Who knows, we may still be there! You decide.

Music included: Autopsia, Legendary Pink Dots, Pelican Daughters, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Suzie Bright, Love is Colder than Death, Shadow Work, Damon Edge, Coil, William S. Burroughs, FM Einheit, Psyclones, Nurse with Wound, Frank Chickens and the Residents. 

Two parts, download both or listen right away:

http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk940629darktradition1.mp3

http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk940629darktradition2.mp3

1991-05-08 Jolly Giant

Image via WikipediaDid you know that there is a jolly giant that lives inside of you? This is a powerful and friendly force that can work for you to make your life better. Would you like to get your jolly giant working for you? Well then, listen to this radio program of media ecology and tape clip hits mixed with some raw big beats for an exciting learning experience. Caution, you may develop more than just a jolly giant.

Music included: Producers for Bob, Nubile G & Spurious Whiz, Negativland, Test Dept, Consolidated, Dynamite, Spell, MESH, Steinski & Mass Media, Sucking Chest Wound, Strange Parcels, Loaded Angels, Mark Stewart & Maffia, Invisible Spike, Blackhouse and a lot more.

Download or listen right away:
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk910508jolly_giant.mp3

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1990-12-05 Television

Image by aaron schmidt via FlickrVideodrome and related media paeans made me put together this salute to late 1980's television. There is some really nice stuff here jammed into a rather dissimilar pastiche. I do like taking things from television, then songs from television programs, sounds from movies about television and various types of more or less modern songs about television, and then to weave it alltoether into a mildly toxic gruel for your edification. I liked it quite a bit.

Music included: Videodrome, Beatnigs, Commodity Fetish, John Fechner & City Squad, Negativland, The Tubes, Stuck on TV, Frank Zappa, Front 242, Tackhead, Acoustic Iatrogenesis, Propaganda, and a lot more as well as some repeats.

Download or listen right away:
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk901205television.mp3

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