Saturday, September 30, 2006

Lysergic Union: When Worlds Collide



Stumbled across this whilst scouring through my old tape collection! It’s an 11 minute sample from the original 50 minute performance featuring me & Ben lost in psychedelic space on that old classic analogue synthesizer the Jupiter 4 (recorded at Laurel Bank in about 1993 or there about)! Blew my mind finding that one I can tell you (Kiploing this one's dedicated 2U)!

LysergicUnion_RM.mp3

Anal 2 Digital: Drum Machines Ate My Soul



A big horsy high going out to all you despicable fiendish reprobates within & around the Colne Valley Locale! Recently found the courage (thanks to Fotswana) to begin converting all my old analogue cassettes from around 93 - 99 to the digital format (in lieu of a forth coming album aptly named Analogue 2 Digital: Drum Machines Ate My Soul). In this manner I've recently begun re-mastering these appalling quality recordings (with more noise than signal - aren’t cassettes great: not) which is painstaking & slow but worth it I'm sure! In this manner I've managed to salvage the following 4 tracks & over the course of the following week(s) more will likely appear subject to workload! Enjoy dudes/dudettes & max respect to Colne Valey Chaos for providing me with a means of banishing my menkal skeletons!

WontTakeMeAlive_RM.mp3 (Boss 660)
EveryLastDrop_RM.mp3 (Yamaha RY30)
IndivisibleMoment_RM.mp3 (Boss DR5)
Cyax_RM.mp3 (Roland R8)

Vintage Tape from Way Back...

Wow - i've enjoyed finding these little gems below tonight on a knackered old cassette - it's just a shame that so much recorded audio from way back is missing but I found these little snippets earlier:
This is me and my Brother playing on the Atari VCS 2600

atari.mp3


This is Craig Mcevoy making a prank call on his little brother (we made a whole tape of these - god I wish I still had it!)

macky.mp3

This is me with a couple of early experiments of tape dubbing (with a pair of headphones for a mic!)

madmike.mp3

flipster.mp3


I'm inspired to scour more old tapes with greater scrutiny now!

Friday, September 29, 2006

Biostupid Girl

We'd be lost without YouTube here at the Colne Valley Chaos blog. We've put loads of our crap on there. One thing's for certain though - however crap our crap is, there lots more crapper crap to be found. I mean, have you seen those video blogs people put up?

My bird and I particularly enjoy the ouvre of "biostudentgirl" - who manages to post lots and lots without saying anything of consequence whatsoever. You can see the original bint here.

And here's our interpretation:



***UPDATE***

This filthy video upset YouTube so much that they banned it! No kidding. They happily host videoblogs with 15 year olds flashing their norks at the camera, clips showing people being flung across freeways in car crashes and folks being beaten to a bloody pulp in the street - but our video was just too hot for them to handle.

Anyway - we cleverly circumvented that by sticking it on Google. NEEEAAAAH!

Thursday, September 28, 2006

The Road of Kings


Here's the cover of the book I was reading from in 'Conan Adventure'. I remember taking this book into a 'reading class' at junior school and asking the teacher what a whore was as it was a word I didn't understand in the book - she was a little shocked! ;-)

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Conan Adventure



I think 'Conan Adventure' was the first Gibs song that foggy ever let me play the keyboard on. Yes, I know there were earlier times on other songs when I'd interfere with the tempo knob - but this, this was my time to shine!
With no actual musical experience whatsoever, I tinkled and tinkled like a cautious kitten wondering why light reflecting from water through a french window and on to an artex wall was so mesmerising.

Why Conan? Well, Fog had a book about Conan the Barbarian - and with the lack of lyrical inspiration and the sheer feeling of exhaustion after screaming for the last 2 hours on numerous other early Gibs tracks that now don't see the light of day, we decided that reading a book on tape to my dismal efforts on keyboards was all we could muster.

Personally, it's one of may favourites... a timeless classic, although really, created about 19 years ago. (whoah!)

Listen to Conan Adventure

Sunday, September 24, 2006

Kipz' Embarassing Songs Part III

Here's part 3 of Kipz' Most Embarassing songs - this one is written by the man himself. Featuring 2 more NWOBHM classics from Priapus!

For me, Crusader was the last vaguely decent Saxon album. This single was always a favourite, I particularly like the guitar solo, but I murdered it wirh a fuzz tone.

Sailing To America

U.F.O. were the first band I ever saw and it was on the 'Making Contact' tour. This was one of the first songs we did with Priapus, and this is a recording of the first gig we ever did. It was Saul's 18th at Scammandon Water Sailing Club. Wevs always liked the
drums in the intro.

When it's Time to Rock

Saturday, September 23, 2006

Summer Holiday Part 2

Day 2 and the weather was still shite! We decided to go to Buttermere, which is one of my favourite places in the lakes! This vid shows a fairly short climb to a great view and some choice kiploing moments!

Friday, September 22, 2006

Summer Holiday Part 1

Howdy y'all! This is the first part of a video diary documenting a holiday with Kipz, Fog and Rob to the lake district this Summer. After about 3 weeks of baking sunshine the weather turns shite but we decide to go ahead anyway. You are about to witness the cows of castlerigg communing with the stones!

Saturday, September 16, 2006

Dave Nixon - Rewind!

Dave Nixon on the Radio - Remix - Bo Selecta! This is from the same tape as Socksick (i'm really scraping the bottom of the barrel now). It's interesting to note that Kipling quotes this so if you ever here him saying "Are you sure...ure.....ure?" this is where he got it from.... laters!

Dave Nixon Nitrogen Remix 2012

Thursday, September 14, 2006

Socksick


Here's a lost song that I stumbled upon today from Giblets and Cheese' first session.

Socksick

Saturday, September 09, 2006

Mr Spock's Enormous...

This has nothing to do with CVC at all... except that it made me laugh, the lyrics and performance are a bit GWF-ish and I wish I'd done it first. Also, any excuse to get Star Trek onto the blog.

Monday, September 04, 2006

Spider-Man & the Invasion of the Dragon Men

I've just picked up another useless addiction after doing the Rockomic thing - and here is a complete listen and read video that I have unleashed on YouTube. Some CVC heads may recognise the odd sample from this story used in some of my older tracks - indeed, the Hulk MP3 that I posted in the More Chaos Post starts with one.

Invasion of the Dragon-men Part 1


Invasion of the Dragon-men Part 2

Sunday, September 03, 2006

Help Yourself to a Serving of Giblet Broth...

...but don't have too much or you might make yourself sick!

These recordings, fuelled by copious amounts of Mayfield lager and Juvenile filth, took place on Jase's 17th birthday. They were taped on to two promo tapes, one for a french language course and one for a rock and roll hits compilation.


PLEASE NOTE - There is some offensive material on here, heavily influenced by Derek & Clive's Ad Nauseum - you have been warned!

Giblet Broth - Side 1
Giblet Broth - Side 2
Giblet Broth - Side 3
Giblet Broth - Side 4

Spider-Man - A Rockomic!

This is a little vid I made tonight - the Spider-Man album that this is from is significant to certain members of the CVC posse and indeed has been sampled in a few tracks. Stay tuned for part 2...



The following 2 tracks feature samples from the album...

Where Am I? by Jason Hodge, Karl Leonard and Stephen Clements
Deep-Space by 0=2

Saturday, September 02, 2006

Cable Guy

Here's another promo to lure in unsuspecting Jim Carey fans...

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

4-Tracks Revisited: Part 3

picture of fire
April 1998: An old house mate, Bill, had quite a nice collection of music equipment. I can't remember off the top of my head what it was. I think there was an Akai sampler, a really old sampling keyboard and some kind of rack mounted synth. On one particular occassion he went away for the day, but not before letting me know I could go in his room and use his gear.
What a nice guy. Any way, I spent a few hours doing music and then went to my room to play some Tekken. I was well chuffed at the time.

At a slightly later date, all this good will paled in to insignificance when Bill came home after splitting up from his girlfriend, shaved half his head down one side with a Bic razor then proceeded to lock himself in his room, get stoned out of his box and then make a little bonfire on his rug, potentially ending the lives of all 5 tenants in the house.

Thankfully, I heard the spitting and crackling of burning books and birkenstock sandles from behind his door while I was on my way to the bathroom. I alerted the other housemates and we saved Bill's life... Nob. We were all evicted and Bill was admitted to the spin bin.

Here's the track, listen to - House on fire NOW!!!

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Elemental Offspring

Here's a few tracks that appeared on the back of some obscure releases such as Gibs Offshoots and I class 'em as being sort of collaborations between Fog, Spiney and Jussy -- the tracks were done at a time when we were all simultaneously creating music and so the edges became a little blurred...

Forces of Life - Fog with Spiney's beats
Psychic Pathways - Jussy with Spiney Mix
Autumn Garments - Fog and Spiney
Ambience - Fog with Spiney audio elements
Angelic Voices - Fog with some other poor sods stolen drum beats

More Chaos...

Here's some more scraps from the same tape that had Jor-El and the Phil Butler stuff on it...

Hulk
Impossible
Tape Dub
Salad Time
Bunions Overdub

Phil Butler in Dub

When me and Jase were editing the Gibs Video we decided it would be cool to call up a radio talk show and try and get some mentalist samples to use as overdubs on it. After a few herbal cigarettes, Jase called Phil Butler's phone in and proceeded to have a 30 minute conversation about the Poll Tax - we managed to get about 30 seconds of Gibs from it but now the time has come to hear a little more - ladies and gentlemen, Phil Butler in Dub!