Showing posts with label Psychic Rally. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Psychic Rally. Show all posts

Monday, 26 September 2022

Psychic Rally (1992) 2C60

 




Nothing to do with the Porridge but, as Discogs describes it, a monthly radio show, which broadcasted more than 60 times between 1989 and 1995 on the alternative non-profit station Radio LoRa in Zurich, Switzerland. Hosted by Joke Lanz and Rudolf Eb.er, Psychic Rally developed new forms of radio techniques, cut-ups, sound recycling and sound manipulation. A flyer sent out in 1992 described it as using 'audio material from all over the world (harsh-noise, weird-and environmental sounds) to create a unique collage to blow the listeners mind to bits,' which seems fair, and here's two hours of it as issued by Statutory Tapes, the joke of which I've only just got now that I've typed it out. Tsk. Tsk.

It's spiritually similar to the RRRadio broadcasts by Due Process in the US, as shared here over previous weeks, and Due Process (or some representative thereof) make a fairly amusing appearance here towards the end of the first tape (which is probably the second tape if the Discogs page is accurate, but never mind). I personally prefer the aforementioned RRRadio which seems to do more in a shorter span of time, but this is certainly worth a listen.

While we're here, Rudolf Eb.er contributes one side to Maledicti, a split album with Awkward Geisha recently issued by Love Earth Music and available as a genuinely gorgeous slab of proper vinyl just like mom used to make from this website. It's probably the greatest thing I've heard by either of them and is massively recommended, so grab a copy while you can.

 
 
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Saturday, 13 August 2022

Due Process - RRRadio 41-55 (1991) 2C60

 

 

I know Due Process from A Person's Guide to Healthy Listening, but that's it. Discogs, which admittedly you could probably look up all by yourself, describes them as featuring Thomas Dimuzio, Ron Lessard (the man behind RRRecords) and John Wiggins, Due Process knows how to crank it out. While they can create a terrific din, the music actually leans a bit in the ambient direction, with lower dynamics and muffled timbres, albeit with a raucous pandemonium of noise just beneath the surface. This tape captures what was apparently their final RRRadio broadcast, RRRadio having been aired once a month through agency of WZBC Boston College Radio and comprising spontaneous live transmission of sound collages with improvisational musical accompaniment. This one additionally features a shitload of presumably prerecorded contributions from Dave Prescott, Floating Concrete Octopus, Franz De Waard, HNAS, Korm Assemblage, PGR, Psychic Rally, Schimpfluch, Black Museum, The Jamie Shalar Band, Uvegraf, Violence + The Sacred, and Etant Donnes; although as you will hear, there didn't seem to be whole lot of point in further dividing the whole up into anything smaller than four sides of tape, so it's more or less a continuous piece. I'm sure it would be massively lazy to compare it to Nurse With Wound, but it's closer to Nurse With Wound than it is to Menudo, and scores highly on the what the fuck will happen next? spectrum.

Noise, musique concrete, weird twanging sounds, speech, tapes - what's not to love?

 
 
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