Favoriting Tony Coulter: Playlist from August 26, 2014 Favoriting

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I play rhinoceros and psychedelic fork.

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Favoriting August 26, 2014: Tony Coulter Presents Tape Hiss: Live recordings from Skeleton Crew, Débile Menthol, and Reportaż [PLEASE NOTE: "Tape Hiss" shows are not archived.]

Artist Track Album Label Year
The In-Theme  Holger Hiller: Toyshopshoptoy   Favoriting      
 
Skeleton Crew  side A (1982)   Favoriting Live  RecRec  1984 
         
Skeleton Crew  side B (1982)   Favoriting Live  RecRec  1984 
 
Débile Menthol  side A   Favoriting Live en Europe, 1982–84  Unbeirrt eu D  1984 
 
Débile Menthol  side B   Favoriting Live en Europe, 1982–84  Unbeirrt eu D  1984 
 
Reportaż  side A (1983)   Favoriting Stay at Home  A.R.S.  1984 
 
Reportaż  side B (1983)   Favoriting Stay at Home  A.R.S.  1984 
 
Plastic People of the Universe  Slavna Nemesis (1979)   Favoriting Jak Bude Po Smrti  Globus  1998 
Out-Theme  Gelbart: My Favorite Vacation [part of] + Die Trip Computer Die: Airborn [part of]   Favoriting      


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Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:01pm
listener james from westwood:

Whoo! Back in from the deli just as the theme started. Howdy, Tony and all!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:01pm
DCE:

hey fellow rhinoceri!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:01pm
Doug Schulkind:

The Hissing of summer Tapes!
Avatar 12:03pm
Tony Coulter:

Hello all! I am currently experiencing difficulties with the stream -- hopefully they won't be experienced on your end. May make it hard for me to comment today.... (Fingers crossed.)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:04pm
Rich in Washington:

Are you upstreaming without a paddle?
Greetings, Tony, Listener James, DCE, Doug, fellow listeners!
Avatar 12:05pm
Kay:

Incommunicado desifinado
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:07pm
DCE:

did you say Fred Frith was in this group? or did I mishear?
Avatar 12:11pm
Tony Coulter:

Hello again, everybody! Still dealing with problems over here -- hopefully not for much longer.

@ DCE: Yes, Frith was in this group....
Avatar 12:11pm
steve:

hey Tony and friends. 10 seconds in, i like where this is going.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:12pm
Rich in Washington:

This is great. I have woefully little of Skeleton Crew in my collection - mainly on compilations.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:12pm
DCE:

yes, I can hear that now.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:23pm
listener james from westwood:

It's entirely new to me and I'm happy to make its acquaintance!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:25pm
cklequ:

This is reminding me a track on this old Eugene Chadbourne record i used to have on constant rotation.

Come to think of it, Fred Frith may have made an appearance or two on that album.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:26pm
Gary:

Hola, Tapeheads
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:46pm
DCE:

good use of samples
Avatar 12:48pm
Tony Coulter:

OK -- things seem to be calming down on the technical difficulties front. So, greetings again, everyone!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:52pm
DCE:

you mean you got the tape back INTO the cassette, Tony?
Avatar 12:55pm
Tony Coulter:

Yes! It was touch and go, but I managed to jam it in there.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:59pm
listener james from westwood:

There was probably a point at which scattered, shattered CDs overtook strands of discarded tape as the audio detritus one saw while creeping along a highway in heavy traffic. Now it's probably Microsoft Zunes.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:10pm
DCE:

this is really good!
Avatar 1:11pm
Tony Coulter:

@ Listener James: I used to see cassette tape hanging from trees -- can't get that with CDs.
Avatar 1:12pm
Tony Coulter:

@ DCE: Glad you like it! Their two studio albums are well worth seeking out.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:12pm
listener james from westwood:

Tony: Not hardly! Not unless you hang 'em as holiday ornaments!
Avatar 1:24pm
Carmichael:

OK, nice to finally listen to some hiss after a long time gone.
Avatar 1:24pm
Tony Coulter:

Debile Menthol broke up way back in '84, but there were some excellent offshoots that were much more long-lived, like L'Ensemble Rayé and Nimal
Avatar 1:25pm
Tony Coulter:

Heya Carmichael!
  1:27pm
MrFab:

Durn, it's still cutting out on me. Maybe you can re-run this episode, Sir Tony.
Avatar 1:28pm
Carmichael:

Me too, unfortunately.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:28pm
maestroso:

Me three. And in the middle of such an interesting piece.
Avatar 1:29pm
Carmichael:

My iPhone just says "connecting ..."
Avatar 1:29pm
Tony Coulter:

Yikes! Sit tight. I'm crossing fingers left and right....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:29pm
DCE:

yeah, I don't think anything is playing right now, actually
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:30pm
listener james from westwood:

Regular stream for WFMU was also giving me grief when I experimentally tried that, too.
Avatar 1:31pm
Tony Coulter:

I am awaiting word form central command, as the problem doesn't seem to be on my end.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:32pm
Rick from SC:

I can't work in this silence
Avatar 1:32pm
Carmichael:

Could the whole station be down?! No wonder the wind started blowing and kraken filled the skies!
Avatar 1:33pm
Tony Coulter:

Should I whistle a tune?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:33pm
DCE:

PLEASE
  1:34pm
MrFab:

Let's all listen to/comment on Duet For Theremin & Lap Steel til Tony comes back:
http://duetonline.net/samples
Avatar 1:35pm
Tony Coulter:

So no one's hearing anything? The tape is still playing....
Avatar 1:36pm
Tony Coulter:

I'm back!!! (I think.)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:36pm
Rick from SC:

all better now
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:37pm
listener james from westwood:

There we be! Excellent!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:37pm
maestroso:

Yes, it's back.
  1:37pm
MrFab:

Yes! But I had to close the Pop-up and open it again for it to play.
Avatar 1:37pm
Tony Coulter:

Ah, good. I think I will re-air this show at some point nonetheless.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:39pm
Doug Schulkind:

If you re-start your iTunes or pop-up players, the show is still running on the stream.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:40pm
Doug Schulkind:

Whatever problem is occurring, it is station-wide. People lost the audio for Joe Belock's show running over on the Mothership.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:44pm
Rich in Washington:

Yay! You're back!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:45pm
Doug Schulkind:

Our mighty Tech Buddha Jeff Moore is on the case. All praises to the TBJM!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:48pm
listener james from westwood:

Om mani padme TBJM!
Avatar 1:51pm
Tony Coulter:

Funny thing about these lo-fi live recordings -- if you listen to them long enough, the ear adjusts and they start to sound just fine (to moi, at least). That's one reason I decided to play all live recordings today.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:05pm
northguineahills:

@Tony: I just found some crappy mix tapes of mine from the 90s that baked in the sun and probably had drinks spilled on them, and except for the worst examples, they still sound ok by me.
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Tony Coulter:

That'll be my next show: Tapes drenched in soda or maybe cat piss.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:12pm
Rich in Washington:

@Tony: the Missus and I were talking about that very thing: your brain becomes the filter/descrambler of less-than-optimal media. I grew up in a distant, rural area and television reception and sometimes radio was wretched. I have tapes that are virtually unlistenable today but my mind can filter and optimize it internally.
Avatar 2:16pm
Tony Coulter:

The only kind of sound I can't deal with is low-quality mp3's -- they hurt my ears, quite literally. They sort of create unpleasant vibrations in my inner ear. Other than that, I'm good.
  2:16pm
Dean:

The hi-fi/lo-fi theme here makes me think of Ward Marston, who has transcribed from 78s to digital numerous vocal recitals and operas from the turn of the 20th century. I wouldn't characterize the CDs as "hi-fi," but the sound is resplendent, not despite but because of the fidelity to the original media from which they were transcribed.
Avatar 2:23pm
Tony Coulter:

Many of those early 78s seem to capture vocals in a very lifelike way -- orchestras, not so much, maybe.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:23pm
Rich in Washington:

bad analog media doesn't seem to do that but, like you say, bad digital media seems really bad to my ears, too.
I wonder if youngsters who cut their teeth on Napster, etc. feel the same way.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:24pm
Rich in Washington:

Bad, lo-rez MP3s or other digital files give me this weird resonant vibrational feeling in my neckbones. I have no idea why.
Avatar 2:28pm
Tony Coulter:

Neckbones are the tuning forks of the soul, maybe?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:32pm
Doug Schulkind:

The neckbone is connected to the hissbone.
Avatar 2:38pm
Tony Coulter:

Just checked, and the club where this tape was recorded is still in business. So, next time you're in Poznan, remember to check out Nurt.
  2:39pm
Dean:

"Next time you're in Poznan, remember to check out Nurt." If I had a nickel for every time I was given that advice...
Avatar 2:40pm
Tony Coulter:

... you'd be five cents richer?
  2:40pm
Dean:

More cowbell?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:54pm
Ike:

Cool show, at least the parts where the stream wasn't cutting out. (Also had a bit of trouble towards the end of Trouble's show.) Maybe you could rerun those tapes eventually.
Avatar 2:55pm
Tony Coulter:

Hey Ike! I think I will do just that....
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:01pm
listener james from westwood:

Many thanks, Tony, for the Tuesday hissage!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:02pm
northguineahills:

Thanks Tony, another great tape hiss!
Avatar 3:02pm
Tony Coulter:

You're welcome, Sir James!

Many thanks for tuning in, everyone -- see you next time!
Avatar 3:03pm
Tony Coulter:

... and Sir NGH .....
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:05pm
Stanley:

Heh heh.
I was listening all the time!
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