La Machine- Carny 99 CDr (2000) + Fade Out 2001 CDr (2001)

 

Another of the bands/releases that inspired me to start this blog, LA MACHINE was a super stoned dub-rock Six Finger Satellite-orbit project with the core of Rick Pelletier (Six Finger Satellite, Chinese Stars) and Jon Loper (Made In Mexico, latter Six Finger Satellite), with a revolving membership including Shawn Greenlee (Landed, Pleasurehorse, 6FS also) and Dare Matheson (Made in Mexico, Laurels) among others. I saw these guys as a 3 piece in the early 00s with Greenlee playing basslines on the teensy tiny keyboard of a Roland MC-303 "Groovebox", which blew me away.
These guys didn't put out any "official" recordings under the name until 2013's "Phases & Repetitions" on John Dwyer's Castle Face Records, but self-released a series of CDr "LP"s in the early 00s, each with two long tracks of multiple strung-together songs in the format of the A and B sides of a record. Deeply baked dub-punk jams, saturated in echo and sqawking filters, glowing with the unmistakable sound of warehouse reverb.  Throbbing bass and synth over big-room drums, occasional vocals buried in effects, the odd harmonica disruption. Pretty much exactly what you'd expect of a dub-centric project from the parties involved, which I mean in the mostly highly complimentary way.
Amazing stuff that has pretty much disappeared off the face of the earth. No discogs listings, no Youtube tracks. This is why we're here. Download both, get ripped, fade out.

 

DOWNLOAD "CARNY 99"

DOWNLOAD "FADE OUT 2001"

Japanese Karaoke Afterlife Experiment MEGA POST (2003-2005)

Japanese Karaoke Afterlife Experiment. One of the top handful of bands I had in mind when I started this blog, and yet have dicked around and procrastinated about giving JKAE the proper treatment. Top-shelf drums+electronics/guitar masked electrofied spazz noisepunk in the classic early-00s style. Would fit perfectly on Load circa 2002-04 alongside bands like Neon Hunk, Fat Worm of Error, Total Shutdown, etc. Featuring Ren Schofield (Container/God Willing/Form A Log/etc) on drums n stuff, and Charles Lavendier on electronics, keys and guitar, who went on to play mousetronics in the last few tours and album with the White Mice (as well as a ton of other awesome projects).    Fucking fantastic stuff made by old friends during an extremely fertile period in space and time. This post was far too long in coming.

Included in the file are:
-my own rips of their first self-titled CDR (pictured at the top)
as well as the plain no-cover CDR labeled "1st Demo" (pictured at the bottom)
 -a 192kbps rip of their seond self-titled 3" CDR on the incredible Audiobot label, which is the same as the first self-titled CDR above, but minus the into and live tracks and including two additional tracks
-a 256kbps rip of the "Alive in the Electric Kingdom" CDR which features a lot of the same songs but with often vastly different recordings and versions

This is as much a complete discography as I've been able to piece together. There was also a collaborative CDR recorded with Unicorn Hardon and Knifestorm (which I will also be posting up soon), but this seems to be about it otherwise.
Enjoy a classic slice of early-00s Olneyville freak rock genius.

Check out "Laser Express Zone" from the self-titled 2004 CDr!

DOWNLOAD EVERYTHING HERE!!!!!!!! 

And yeah, it's a zip file with 4 other zip files in it. Cry me a river.

2016: I'M BACK.

Oh heeeeeeeeeeeeey.
Sorry for the year+ lapse in posts but I'm back with a vengeance and a ton of amazing rotting obscurities to share. This year has sucked on high gear, so it's time for some spreading of joy. I'm going to do some rebranding and remodeling here, and I think is going to go official with the Providence-centric theme, even if simply because it's what I know best and have the largest resource of.
Expect posts on the regular, starting momentarily with one of the prime bands that inspired me to start this blog. I've got a ton sparkling gems on deck guaranteed to either make or ruin your day.