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A recording made in my backyard of a typical magpie carol (a territorial song that a group of magpies will sing together, with one magpie starting the call and the others joining in). The first time is at normal speed, then the call has been timestretched repeatedly, starting with twice the length, then four times, eight and so on, until the recording plays for sixty-four times the original length...

Luffy's Lament by stobiepole

Remix of Andy's track for the twentieth anniversary of World Toilet Day. Go buy it here: https://andras.bandcamp.com/track/worldtoilet-org

Started off as a dub experiment but then one thing suggested another thing and it all went off in a different direction entirely...the photo is from when Kate went to Almeria, where a lot of eurowesterns were filmed.

A quickie...prepared piano and a recording of a 1943 3DB wartime public service announcement kindly given to me by Maurice Austin, from his collection.

I think the first record I ever owned was a K-Tel record called Looney Tunes, which was a collection of old novelty songs, including Charlie Drake's 'My Boomerang Won't Come Back'. I met Rolf Harris on my seventh birthday, when he performed at the Odeon Theatre in my home town Mt Gambier, and since it was my birthday I got to go up on stage and meet the man himself. Weren't they innocent times?

They say never go full Alan Parsons...Masque of the Red Death(COVID-19 Dub) is a musical adaptation of an old recording of Basil Rathbone reading Edgar Allan Poe's story of the same name. It just seemed sort of relevant right now...with special guest Tim Catlin ( http://timcatlin.net/ )on guitar and spooky noises. Listen to it with headphones on...in the dark!

We picked Toki up ten years ago to the day, on January 1, 2010, from an ad in the local Trading Post. If there's something he does most of all, it's sleeping. I think it's natural to wonder what he dreams about so much of the time...

Been working on this for a while...just a dumb joke taken to ridiculous lengths...made in Renoise with an old R-8 Roland drum machine and some obvious samples...

Live dub mix on my new Allen & Heath GL2200 mixer...just some drum and instrument loops in Ableton and some flute that Kate played, run out of the computer then through the mixer and back again. The effects were a Boss RX-100 spring reverb through an Acetone Stereo Phasor, a Boss RE-20 Space Echo and a Moogerfooger ring modulator on the flute. This wasn't my best performance (there were some techn...

Just screwing around with some new plugins.

The Takaqrua-gumi ( http://takaquragumi.com/ ) are a legal yakuza talent agency mainly composed of ex-yakuza members who use their experience to socially beneficial ends. I read about them in an article in the Japan Times (here: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2018/08/15/entertainment-news/made-men-tokyo-based-yakuza-talent-agency-delivers-real-deal/ ). When Kate and I went to Japan in March,...

This is a proof-of-concept piece made in the spirit of a gift to the various kind people who let me record them singing while I was in Japan in March of 2019. In most cases I was (and am) unfamiliar with the original versions and my Japanese is still too poor to understand most of the lyrics. But the idea was to mimic the imperfect processes by which culture is communicated, by making new works fr...

The movie Patrick was a pretty big thing for me when I was a kid. To start with, it starred Sir Robert Helpmann, who had also grown up in Mount Gambier. While he was great in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, seeing him in Patrick was like discovering Vincent Price had once lived next door...Much later on I got to know Everett De Roche, who wrote Patrick. He was a really wonderful fellow and I miss him.

All of the sounds (except for the sampled voices, obviously) were produced by my Suiko ST-50, a weird Japanese instrument from the late eighties or nineties which was presumably designed for classical Japanese musicians to practice with at home. I have never eaten Red Rooster.

This is a musical tribute to the greatest tourist trap ever built - the Murray Bridge Bunyip. When I was a kid my family would pass through Murray Bridge on the way to and from Adelaide, and we'd always stop to put in a twenty cent coin and watch the bunyip do its routine. It would usually be dark, either early in the morning or late at night, and the whole experience would scare the crap out of m...

This track is not an endorsement of Vegemite or the Vegemite lifestyle, which I personally find abhorrent. But the Aeroplane Jelly song is in waltz time, so I couldn't get it to fit. If I drew a Venn diagram that included people familiar with the Vegemite song and those familiar with the works of Wayne Smith, I suspect they would barely overlap. For the ignorant: https://www.clashmusic.com/feature...

Someone asked me for a version of the main track from the album *without* Gerald's vocals for a Resident Advisor mix...so here it is. I'd never listened to it nude before...the whole thing was built around the recitation, much like building a house around the occupants while they go about their daily routines.

My hometown. They say it's a nice place to visit.

Dreaming Dogs 2 by stobiepole

Another bonus track...

A bonus track...

I don't really know what happened here...started off with a well-balanced rhythm built in Xronomorph ( http://www.dynamictonality.com/xronomorph.htm ) then it sort of went wayward...the voice is provided by a Gakken NSX-39 Pocket Miku played with a stylus, just like a stylophone. Nice to finally record some slappy bass stuff too...the fuzz pedal is a Tech21 American Woman, which is terribly under-...

A bonus track...full album details here: https://culturesack.bandcamp.com/album/words-in-order

Gerald Murnane performing Thomas Hardy's poem 'At The Drapers', from the forthcoming album 'Words in Order'. Pre-order the digital album now at https://culturesack.bandcamp.com/album/words-in-order or on vinyl from https://www.readings.com.au/products/25620066/words-in-order