Secret Culture - Original Music from 1989

SECRET CULTURE
EIGHT PROGRESSIVE BANDS FROM BURLINGTON, VERMONT
JANUARY 1989

60-MINUTE CASSETTE TAPE

In my town we have a secret culture. We create it and pass it around amongst ourselves. Here is a portion of it that we are willing to share with you.

-Doctor Tuna

COMMODITY FETISH
San Francisco 6:25
Cop Show #2 2:49
Hallelujah Dance Chorus 2:27
…and Justice for Ollie 3:25

FRIENDS OF DOCTOR MABUSE
She Falls Down 4:00
The Same Things 5:20

BROKEN GENDER
God Loves Me So Much 3:62

ACOUSTIC IATROGENESIS
Wild Thang 7:03

MASKED MEN
Marshall’s Law 4:20 (live)

COMMODITY FETISH & DOCTOR TUNA
Mechanization of Perception 9:35 (live)

THE ABDO-MEN
The Legend of Arthur Damage 3:25
The Churning 2:56

ASTRONAUTS IN GRAVE PERIL
Dream Drums 3:20 (live)


Right click to download, click to listen right away, best on iTunes:
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/secret_culture_8901.mp3

1995-07-05 Alien Mind Screens

William S. Burroughs is inspirational even when he doesn't want to be. A few Burroughs lines laid over music, some other voices, some hints of outer space stuff, some other music and before you know if you have a strange afternoon radio program. That is what this is. Music included: Wiliam Burroughs, Banco de Gaia, T99, Future Sound of London, Producers for Bob, Coil, Schizophrenia, Horizon 222, Locust, Materiale and more.

Right click to download, click to listen, get both parts:
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk950705alienmindscreens1.mp3
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk950705alienmindscreens2.mp3

1995-05-17 System 01

Inspired by the System 01 CD that uses electronic music along with the spoken words of Timothy Leary, I crafted this radio show. Leary says a lot of stuff that I thought only I said, and then all of a sudden there is this CD with him seemingly reading my script. Everything from "infecting the minds of young people with the idea of human freedom" to the "think for yourself" line. Of course, lots of other stuff is also included for listening pleasure, sort of in the light media ecology mode. Music included: Sucking Chest Wound, System 01, Producrs for Bob, My Life in the Thrill Kill Cult, Kode 4, Hilt, Severed Heads, Coil, Orbital, Daisyglow, Hawk, and a lot more. Kind of a lot of my more extreme sample favorites, I especially love that Thrill Kill Cult song, "The Devil does drugs."

Right click to download, click to listen:
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk950517system01.mp3

1995-05-15 Inner Source

This show features all new music in that border zone that separates dance from ambience, but with a big dash of samples thrown in for entertainment. Neer, Joi, Outeractive, Holy Ghost, Duke, Hallucinogen, Juno Reactor, New Order, John Scott, Lhooq, Solid, Cocteau Twins, State of Grace, Solar Quest, Another Green World, and more.

Right click to download, click to listen:
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk950515innersource.mp3

1995-05-10 Gingerbread Man

"Run, run, fast as you can, you can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Man!"

The Residents had a new release and it is an amazing creation. The Gingerbread Man is, according to them, a creature that brings death. This album consists of ten songs, and the first none of them represent individuals at the end of their lives who have had a less than satisfying existence that has been characterized by self-deception. Each song is their story and their testament, wrapped around a little of the G-Man theme.

Bravo for the Residents! After the album I play a bit more from them.

Click to listen, Right click to download:
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk950510gingerbread.mp3

1995-05-03 Pay It All Back

An updated look at the music coming from the On-U label in those days. Lots of great stuff, and something I always really enjoyed. This set did not look at the extensive reggae work of this label, but the more recent non-reggae material. This may be the only label that is suitable for both sides of my weekly radio program.

The music included: Audio Active, Tackhead, Mark Stewart, Strange Parcels, Little Annie, Little Axe, Gary Clail, Forehead Brothers, Maffia, Andy Fairley, and the Timelords.

Right click to download, click to listen:
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk950503payitallback.mp3

1995-04-19 Doctor T Rock

A day of rock and roll on the College of Musical Knowledge. Not the usual stuff, but I do have a taste for it very now and then, and it has certainly left a strong mark on my musical past. A lot of this is "older" stuff (my rock and roll period) but brings back great memories and great feelings and remains, I believe, as strong music.

Music includes: Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, Sleep Chamber, Cream, Bauhaus, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Jefferson Airplane, Jethro Tull, Joy Division, and more.

Click to listen, right click to download, get both parts:
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk950419drtrock1.mp3
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk950419drtrock2.mp3

1995-11-29 Doctor Who 1995

32 years old and still happenin! Even though it was not actively on the air at that time, the Fox movie was about to happen and who would have predicted the success that came in the new century?

This program uses sound effects, audio clips from various videos, songs relating to Doctor Who, and some advntures as well -- mostly from Genesis of the Daleks. Get more information about this story at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/genesisofdaleks/index.shtml

Click to download, right click to save to your hard drive:
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk951129drwho95.mp3

1995-11-08 Celestial Mission

This is a very low-key show, with a lot of instrumentals of a spacey variety. Good for working or reading as it is not too intrusive. Not sure who all the artists are on it, but many of them are unknown to me now, which makes this a sort of lost gem from the CMK universe.

From
http://www.cnes.fr/web/5591-harmonics-in-the-universe.php
Harmonics in the Universe
8 December 2006
The Universe is not uniform, and indeed it never has been, even in its early youth just 300,000 years after the Big Bang. It is as Professor George Smoot predicted and proved through his research based on data from the COBE satellite. In recognition of his work, Professor Smoot has been awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physics.
When the Universe rang
Before the COBE mission, scientists thought that the CMB was a universal thermal radiation field with a temperature of about 3°K, but this theory did not fit observations of the modern Universe.
After 2 years of observations and analyses, George Smoot and his team published a sky map dotted with strange pink and blue patches representing the tiniest temperature variations in the CMB, of the order of 1/100,000th of a degree. Although very subtle, these variations support a model of the Universe that is no longer perfectly uniform and drive a mechanism of gravitational instability which, by causing matter to accrete, gradually leads to the formation of structures like galaxies.

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http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk951108celestialmission.mp3

1995-11-01 Drive Time

A happy collection of beat as well as more symphonic pieces. I am really not sure what the title means, except that the tape is clearly labeled with that name. As far as I can determine the show includes: Alaska, Banco de Gaia, Andy Fairley, Psychic TV, and about eight other groups with sort of techno-symphonic leanings and a spacey twist.

Right click to download, click to listen, get both parts:
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk951101drivetime1.mp3
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk951101drivetime2.mp3

1995-10-18 March of Storm

Some of the more strident of the industrial landscape cuts I had at the time. Almost like a march, but also a lot like the weather. Thus, March of Storm. The storm comes and goes, but the weather goes on and on. No play list here, and a lot of these cuts do not sound familiar to me, although there are a number of Zoviet France songs used.

Right click to download, click to listen, get both parts:
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk951018marchofstorm1.mp3
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk951018marchofstorm2.mp3

1995-10-11 Gaia High

A lot of techno-ambient fun here as I play some of my current (as in October 1995) favorites. Here's to James Lovelock, the Gaia guy, who argued that the planet is actually an organic whole that reacts to and often adapts (not necessarily in ways we like) to changes in the ecology. Music includes: Banco de Gaia, Biosphere, Alaska, DJ Crystal, Air Liquide, Irresistable Force, and a lot more.

The Gaia Hypothesis is explained here, at
http://erg.ucd.ie/arupa/references/gaia.html

What is the hypothesis of Gaia ? Stated simply, the idea is that we may have discovered a living being bigger, more ancient, and more complex than anything from our wildest dreams. That being, called Gaia, is the Earth.
More precisely: that about one billion years after it's formation, our planet was occupied by a meta-life form which began an ongoing process of transforming this planet into its own substance. All the life forms of the planet are part of Gaia. In a way analogous to the myriad different cell colonies which make up our organs and bodies, the life forms of earth in their diversity coevolve and contribute interactively to produce and sustain the optimal conditions for the growth and prosperity not of themselves, but of the larger whole, Gaia. That the very makeup of the atmosphere, seas, and terrestrial crust is the result of radical interventions carried out by Gaia through the evolving diversity of living creatures.

Click to listen, right click to download, get both parts:
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk951011gaiahigh1.mp3
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk951011gaiahigh2.mp3

1995-08-16 Almost as Hot as Hell

A little inspiration from Anton Lavey of the Church of Satan kicks us off, and then we emerge into an acoustic landscape fitting for what was a very hot and humid summer day in Vermont. Music included: James Bernard, MLD, Syzygy, Neuron 9000, Deadstock, LFO, Alaska, Hex, New London School of Electronics, Irresistable Force, and much more.

Click to listen, right click to download:
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk950816.mp3

1996-04-10 Quiet, Please

A celebration of the work of the band Negativland and all who, like them, cut reality into snippets and then reassemble it was a new and amazing whole. This sort of work is called Media Ecology, where the artists harvest interesting media bits, chew them around and then spit them back out into things that I call revealing and even humorous. One is reminded of Burroughs, saying, "When you cut into the present, the future leaks out."

Right click to download, click to listen, make sure to get both parts:
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk960410quietpleaseneglan1.mp3
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk960410quietpleaseneglan2.mp3

1996-02-28 Shivering Mound

An interesting and fairly industrial show. No play list was read, but I can identify parts of it. The first half involves a lot of samples of babies making noises that have been sequenced into sound pieces. The noises babies make have a very interesting and profound influence on people, and those listening are attracted and interested but do not know why because of the way the baby sounds are mixed in. The next half of the show is a more traditional CMK industrial ambient landscape presentation.

Make sure to get both parts 1 & 2.

http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk960228shiveringmound1.mp3
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk960228shiveringmound2.mp3

1996-02-14 Valentine

I am an embarrassment to myself. Enough said.

Rightclick to download, click to listen:
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk960214valentine.mp3

1996-04-03 Answers Come in Dreams

The snow answers come in dreams
from:
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1326817

(idea) by etouffee (2.5 hr) (print) ? 2 C!s Thu Apr 01 2004 at 6:48:43

The snow answers
Come in dreams
Light flakes setting into
Heavy drifts
Fractured landscapes made
Whole and seamless

Footsteps in front of us
Are our own
Small dark holes in milky white

We make our way homeward
Past sentinel light posts
Row houses with rectangle windows filled with yellow light

The snow answers
Windblown murmurs
Come in dreams

Some beats and some grooves. Very prescient music. Music included: DJ Spike, Coil, Air Liquide, Syzygy, DIMO, Banco de Gaia and more.

Right click to download, click to listen:
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk960403answersdreams.mp3

1996-01-24 Spiritual High

Apologies for the noise in the first 30 seconds. I got this CD collection called "Spiritual High" that I have since lost, and it is sad loss. When I listen to the songs from it I really regret its being misplaced, especially the lead song, which has Chrissie Hinds who sang with the pretenders. Lots of other cool songs as well. Music included: Banco de Gaia, Tranquility Base, African Head Charge, Jeffrey Orema, Nusrat ali Khan, Steve Roach, Entrancing Iris, Future Sound of London, Moodswings, the Timelords and more.

Right click to download, click to listen:
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk960124spiritualhigh.mp3

1995-12-13 No Name

One of the best program IDs ever, delivered by that South American vixen Adid opens up a radio program that I apparently forgot to name. And so it shall remain. Some of the music has a beat and some is fairly ambient. There was no play list for this show, but upon listening to it I could identify very few songs, which indicates that many of them came from the new music rack and are not part of my collection, which is always a good thing.

Right click to download, click to listen:
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk951213unnamed.mp3

1995-12-06 Aw Pook is Here

Aw Pook, the Destroyer
by WIlliam S. Burroughs

Itzama, spirit of early mist and showers.
Ixtaub, goddess of ropes and snares.
Ixchel, the spider web, catcher of morning dew.
Zooheekock, virgin fire patroness of infants.
Adziz, the master of cold.
Kockupocket, who works in fire.
Ixtahdoom, she who spits out precious stones.
Ixchunchan, the dangerous one.
Aw Pook, the destroyer.

Hiroshima, 1945, August 6th, 16 minutes past 8 AM.
Who really gave that order?
Answer - Control. The ugly American. The instrument of Control.
Question - If Control's control is absolute, why does Control need to control?
Answer - Control needs time.
Question - Is Control controlled by its need to control?
Answer - Yes
Question - Why does Control need humans, as you call them?
Wait, wait. Time, a landing field. Death needs time like a junkie needs junk.
And what does Death need time for?
The answer is so simple. Death needs time for what it kills to grow in for Aw Pook's sake.
Death needs time for what it kills to grow in for Aw Pook's sweet sake,
you stupid, vulgar, greedy, American death sucker.
Death needs time for what it kills to grow in for Aw Pook's sweet sake,
you stupid, vulgar, greedy, American death sucker.
Like this....

Bryon Gysin has the all purpose nuclear bedtime story.
The all purpose bedtime story, in fact.
Some trillions of years ago a sloppy, dirty giant flicked grease from his fingernails.
One of those gobs of grease is our universe on its way to the floor.
Splat.

Aw Pook is the Aztec god of destruction. He is also a character in the New Adventures of Doctor Who Simulation that I was participating in at the time and finally Aw Pook is a character in a poem by William S. Burroughs, entitled "Aw Pook, the destroyer." This is a ripe setting for the college of musical knowledge session. The presentations included: Test Dept., Grechtikeits Liga, Throbbing Gristle, Hula, Hunting Lodge, Klaus Flouride, William S, Burroughs, Faust, SPK, Controlled Bleeding, Nurse with Wound, Propaganda and a lot more.

The entire reconstruction of the Doctor Who simulation story can be found at
http://www.whosim.org/outpost/recons/dw-path.txt

Right click to download, click to listen:
http://www.uvm.edu/~asnider/listen/cmk951206awpookishere.mp3