Dub Ditch Picnic Records

UPCOMING TAPES

2012-01-31T07:06:00.000-08:00

We're getting ready to release a stack of tapes over the next few months... this is what you can look forward to:

DJ Kinetic - Cosmik Freakout Vols. 1 - 3 - 3x 50 min. mixes.

Fletcher Pratt - Dub Sessions Vol. 2

Un - s/t c30

Babysitter/JLK - collab cassette

V/A- New Zealand Underground c60

Reposting Old Episodes

2012-01-29T17:00:00.001-08:00

The takedown of Megaupload wiped out all of the mixes and DDP Radio episodes.

I moved all the episodes over to Mediafire - Let's hope things stay there.

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

Episode 6

Episode 7

Episode 8

Episode 9

Episode 10

Episode 11

Episode 12

Episode 13

Episode 14

Episode 15

Episode 16

Episode 17

Episode 18

Dub Ditch Mono Series

2011-11-15T20:38:00.001-08:00

Stereophonic sound is a fad. It's time to get back to basics.

Dub Ditch Picnic introduces an old new old way of reproducing music... monaural-ly.

If you have trax that sound better coming out of one speaker than two.. send us what you got. We'll smash yr. two channels into one and slam 'em onto a hot dead format so fast your head will spin.

Back To Mono

"Rock over London, rock on, Chicago,"

xoxoxo

Criz

Auntie Dada

2011-11-14T17:17:00.001-08:00

Dub Ditch Picnic Radio Episode #18

2011-11-12T19:16:00.001-08:00

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The KLF - Madrugada Eterna (Chill Out)
Larry Young - Khalid Of Space Part Two - Welcome (Lawrence Of Newark)
Witthüser & Westrupp - Trippo Nova (Trips und Träume)
Family Battlesnake - Side B (Nymphomania)
The Men - Think (Think b/w Gates of Steel)
Los Voltage - I Just Wanna Keep My Eyes Shut (S/T Cassette)
Times New Viking - Skull Versus Wizard (Dig Yourself)
The Herco Pilots - Curry (Jumping At? 2x7")
Velvet Chrome - Miles Away (Anthology)
Bitchin Bajas - Consciousness 1 (Bitchin' Bajas/ Faceplant split)
Giant Claw - I Know I'm Like A Ghost (Midnight Murder)
Man Made Hill + Hobo Expanding Cult Band - Live @ Wyrd Fest MTL 20.06.11

Dub Ditch Picnic Radio Episode # 17

2011-11-06T08:20:00.000-08:00

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Brian Eno - Third Uncle (The BBC Sessions)
Ras G - Black Dusty Radio (Down 2 Earth)
Professor Jay - Nawakilisha (Machozi Jasho Na Damu)
Purling Hiss - The Hoodoo (Lounge Lizards)
Sic Alps - I Know Where the Madness Goes (Live at WFMU)
John Cale - Summer Heat (New York in the 1960s, Vol. 1: Sun Blindness Music)
Master Musicians Of Bukkake - A Mist Of Illnesses (Totem One)
Angus MacLise / Tony Conrad - Early Jams (Dreamweapon III)
Sex Worker - Honeymoon Babylon (Waving Goodbye)
Crispy Ambulance - Bardo Plane (The Plateau Phase)
Muslimgauze - Beirut Transister (Beirut Transister)
Luperci - Excarnation III (Jahator)
Dolphins Into The Future - Dag 20: De Isolatietank (Voyage Shopibo Coast)
Neu!- 6May '72 Part 1 & 2 (Neu! '72 Non-Public Test)
The Men - Shitting With The Shaw (Leave Home)
Sun Ra - The Rose Hue Mansions of the Sun (Voice of the Eternal Tomorrow)

Dub Ditch Picnic Radio Episode # 16

2011-10-19T21:50:00.000-07:00

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Chris Sikelainos - Easy Rider (The American Dreamer Soundtrack)
Hills - Ex Oblivione (Hills)
Scorpion Violente - Christopher Walken (Uberschleiss)
Circuit Rider - Bad Billy(Circuit Rider)
K-Holes - Meat Man (K-Holes)
Dozens - Lazer Consultants (Ultraseamatics)
Prisoners Go Go Band - Fanfare/ Multinational Co./ An Inkling of../ Things To Come/ We All Evaporate/ Bloodice/ Air Raid Shelter/ Special Guest Forgets to Water Himself/ Meatworkers Strike a Light (Live at the Butchery With Special Guests On Fire)
Isle of Sodor - Double Vision (Double Vision)
Cankun - Northern Keys (Jaguar Dance)
School Jerks - Rent Boy (PPDSCEMFOBBT)
School Jerks - Moral Addiction (Control)
Great Society Mind Destroyers - Mystic Warriors (Spirit Smoke)
Flipper - Survivors of the Plague (Live at the Fillmore 1981)
Alms - Annihilation of the Self (Annihilation of the Self)

Dub Ditch Picnic Radio Episode # 15

2011-09-16T21:42:00.000-07:00

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Axemen - Chant No. 9 Dub (Three Virgins)
Microdot - Teepee in the Forest (Lamps Not Amp)
Meercaz - Moving Up At The Speed of Sound (Space Hate)
Mulatu Astatke - Mulatu (Mulatu of Ethiopia)
Magic Beach - Ghost Island (Magic Beach)
TV Ghost - An Absurd Laceration (Mass Dream)
Limbus - Oneway-Trip ( Cosmic Music Experience)
Iceage - Never Return (New Brigade)
Gaseneta - Untitled (Sooner Or Later)
Gilberto Gil - Coragem pre Suportar (Gilberto Gi)
Datatenryu - あぶくの味 (1971)
Ga'an - I Of Infinite Forms Part I (Ga'an)
Ga'an - I Of Infinite Forms Part II (Ga'an)
Death Grips - Culture Shock(Ex-Military Mixtape)
Delta 5 - Delta 5 (Singles and Sessions 1979-1981)
The Durutti Column - Never Known (LC)
Von Himmel - Astronomer (Space Communion)
Bridget Hayden - Thrash Momento (A Siren Blares In An Indifferent Ocean Electronic)
Worker - Die in your sleep and go to hell (Dream Dead)

Dub Ditch Picnic Radio Episode # 14

2011-09-03T09:08:00.000-07:00

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Muslimgauze - Anti Mullah Iranian Enjinnear (Beirut Transister)
Secret Girls - In Hiding (In Hiding)
Joy Division - Transmission (Love Will Tear Us Apart (1980 Martin Hannett Versions)
Hobo Cubes - Mecca d'Orra Dwellers A (Mecca d'Orra Dwellers)
Swans - Cop (Cop/Young God)
Indian Weapons - Ghost (Trance)
Cankun - Congo Mobile Disco (Jaguar Dance)
White Dog- Escape The Mystery II (Escape the Mystery II)
Expo '70 - Hypnotic Brain Cloud Float (Inaudible Bicoastal Trajectory)

More Napkins Remixes

2011-08-30T12:34:00.000-07:00

Tim Hoover - More Napkins (Cadence Weapon Super Computer Mix) by Woven Records

Tim Hoover - Numbers (D'Eon Remix) by Woven Records

Tim Hoover - Numbers (Ohmophobe Remix) by Woven Records

Tim - Napkins - d'Eon - Remix - Awesome!

2011-08-22T21:22:00.000-07:00

TIM HOOVER - Numbers (d'Eon Remix) from Moduli TV on Vimeo.

Dub Ditch Picnic Radio Episode # 13

2011-08-19T09:21:00.000-07:00

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Indian Jewelry - Hello Africa (Free Gold!)
Spires That in the Sunset Rise - I Am Sewn (Spires That in the Sunset Rise)
The Dead C -The Marriage of Reason and Squalor (Operation of the Sonne)
Kuupuu - Pahan Lintu (Lumen Tädhen)
Saåad - Try Everyday to Destroy The World (It Was)
Psychedelic horseshit - French Countryside (Laced)
Swell Maps - International Rescue (International Rescue)
Teenage Panzerkorps - Machine Racists (German Reggae)
Sex Worker - Honeymoon Babylon (Waving Goodbye)
Buchikamashi - Gamble (Dontoyare)
Shiver - Conscience Is A Mutilation (The Taste of Repent)
Pissed Jeans - The L Word (Your Life Is Worth Pissed Jeans)
Rangers - Street Smell (Street Smell/Europe On TV)
White Dog - The Harvestman (The Harvestman)

More Napkins!!

2011-08-15T22:57:00.000-07:00

Tim Hoover - More Napkins (Sampler) by Woven Records

Dub Ditch Picnic Radio Episode # 12

2011-08-05T08:00:00.000-07:00

It's August already? A few short weeks from now 5 new tapes will be kicked out of the DDP nest.

In the meantime - here's Episode #12.

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Parasites of the Western World - Funeral for a Mouse (Parasites of the Western World)
David Stroughton - Saving for a Rainy Day (Transformer)
Stereolab/NWW - Simple Headphone Mind (Simple Headphone Mind)
Stereolab/NWW - Exploding Head Movie (Crumb Duck)
Sunship - Get on the Sunship (Destroyer)
The Fall - Psycho Mafia (Early Fall)
Death Grips - Guillotine (Ex-Military)
Raglani - The Promise of Wood and Water (Of Sirens Born)
SLZR - Drone Party Tonite! (Demon Lain)
Don Robertson - Dawn (Dawn)
Saåad - HIIMVLYYV (Pink Sabbath)
Food Pyramid - Canyon Endless 1974 (New Omni-Directional Healing Techniques )
Sun Araw - Heavy Deeds (Geneva Hits)
Fela Kuti - Upside Down (Upside Down)

New Tapes Coming Up!!!!

2011-07-31T19:32:00.001-07:00

We have 5 new tapes gearing up for Sept.

Tim Hoover - More Napkins c60

Auntie Dada / Preanderthals 2xc30

Velvet Chrome - Anthology c50

Shaker Hymns c20

Here are some samples....

Dub Ditch Picnic Fall Samples by dubditchpicnic

Dub Ditch Picnic Radio Episode # 11

2011-07-22T09:16:00.000-07:00

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Dennis Brown - Wichita Lineman (Super Reggae and Soul Hits 2)
Drive Like Jehu- If It Kills You (Drive Like Jehu)
Professor Jay - Bongo Dar es Salaam (Machozi Jasho Na Dam)
Magic Lantern - Showstopper (Showstopper 7")
Stephen Molyneux - Side II (Cambodian Field Recordings)
Chris Carter - Electro Dub 1 (The Space Between)
White Creeps - White Sleep, Part 1 (White Sleep)
Chris Carter - Electro Dub 2 (The Space Between)
Prince Jammy - Basement Dub (Strictly Dub Reggae)
Tonstartssbandht - Orange Miss You (Now I Am Become)
Dire Wolves - Creator Dub (The Creator Has a Faster Van)
William Basinski - D|P 2.2 (The Disintegration Loops II)
Flipper - Instrumental (Live at the Fillmore 1981)

Dub Ditch Picnic Radio Episode # 10

2011-07-08T16:20:00.000-07:00

Episode 10...

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Suraphon Sombatcharoen - Suai Ching Nong (Truly Beautiful Girl) (Luk Thung: Classic & Obscure 78s from the Thai Countryside)
Clark Hutchinson - Free To Be Stoned (Free To Be Stoned - The Complete Decca Recordings)
X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage Up Yours! (Germfree Adolescents)
Von Himmel - Sunspots (Space Communion)
Buchikamashi - Drink (Dontoyare)
Tueanchai Khwanchit - Mia Thahan Phan Suek (Veteran’s Wife) (Luk Thung: Classic & Obscure 78s from the Thai Countryside)
Dolphins Into The Future - Ho'okena Halawai (Ke Ala Ke Kua)
High Wolf - Snakes Threesome (Split w/ Masaki Nakazawa)
Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue (Killer On The Rampage)
Namphueng Boribun - Nak Kamphra (Orphan Monk) (Luk Thung: Classic & Obscure 78s from the Thai Countryside)
Black Hippies - Wicker House (Wicker House)
KWJAZ - Once In Babylon (KWJAZ)
Derek Rogers - Live at Emo's, Austin, TX 2010.09.30 (Informal Meditations)

Dub Ditch Picnic Radio Episode # 9

2011-06-24T06:49:00.000-07:00

Episode 9!! Summer is almost here!
2 hours of great music... make sure to check Bad Indians' version of Cheree and the great Espers covering my childhood faves BOC! Then it's IceAge! Grouper! Expo 70! Psychedelic Horseshit!

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Grateful Dead - Dark Star (Live/Dead)
Doug Snyder & Bob Thompson - Teenage Emergency (Daily Dance)
Bad Indians - Cheree (Sounds From the Big Room)
Suicide - Ghost Rider (Suicide)
Arian Sample - Earth Army (Arian Sample)
Espers - Flaming Telepaths (The Weed Tree)
Food Pyramid - Last Shuttle To The Red Planet (III)
Iceage - New Brigade (New Brigade)
Grouper - Soul Eraser (A I A : Dream Loss)
Expo '70 - Black Candles (Psychic Funeral)
Psychedelic Horseshit - Revolution Wavers (Laced)
Sleep ∞ Over - Sunspots (Sleep ∞ Over)
Birds of Maya - Heavy on Sunday (Ready to Howl)

Dub Ditch Picnic Radio Episode # 8

2011-06-10T06:58:00.000-07:00

If you are enjoying the bi-weekly installments of Dub Ditch Picnic radio or any of the post or releases we have going on here... please consider buying a tape or a dl... or even a small donation.

Thanks!

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Dylan Ettinger - Lion Of Judah (Lion Of Judah 7'')
Wet Hair - Radiant Lines (Radiant Lines 7'')
The Cosmic Dead - The Slow Death of The Infinite GodheaD (Cozmik Tape I)
Raccoo-Oo-Oon - The Canyons Long Winding Words (Raccoo-Oo-Oon Is Night People)
Hype Williams - Traccia 02/Traccia 04 (S.E.A.L. III)
Mark McGuire - Radio Flyer (A Young Person's Guide to Mark McGuire)
Monopoly Child Star Searchers - Side A excerpt (This Year In Coconuts)
Giant Claw - Parallax Border (Midnight Murder)
LA Vampires featuring Matrix Metals - Berlin Baby (So Unreal)
39 Clocks - You Can't Count the Bombs (It's Zero) (Zoned)
Arcseconds - Astronauts (Arcseconds/Sundrips split cass)
Psychic Handbook - Glimmer Mist (Split w/ Holy Strays c30)
Soft Circle - Earthed (Full Bloom)
Klaus Schulze - Mindphaser (Moondawn)

1st Birthday

2011-06-09T08:25:00.000-07:00

Dub Ditch Picnic is 1 year old today - I'm 40 today btw. This is why the cat. #s all begin with 1971.

We've been able to release some amazing music from some amazing people, programmed 20+ hours of mixes and radio broadcasts, found some of wyld vids on youtube & vimeo, and have dug up the occasional lost gem to share with all of you.

Here's to another weird year!

Criz

Kraut Friday!

2011-06-03T07:32:00.000-07:00

UMFM

2011-05-30T19:48:00.001-07:00

Dub Ditch Picnic Radio is officially on the radio.

Our friends at UMFM 101.5 FM in Winnipeg have offered to broadcast our episodes weekly (Monday night/Tuesday morning from 1 until 3 AM).

You can stream it here.

or you can grab podcasts here.

You can even subscribe!

If you like what we're doing here - please buy a tape or show some support with a donation. Thx!

Dub Ditch Picnic Radio Episode # 7

2011-05-27T06:32:00.000-07:00

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Misner Space - Zoodoo Vortex (Bent Reality)
Sundrips - Wave (Guide)
The People's Temple - Visions of the Sun (Sons of Stone)
Ty Segall - The Slider (Ty Rex)
Tearjerker - On Purpose (Strangers)
Dolphins Into The Future - Neutral Buoyancy (Dolphins Into The Future/Floris Vanhoof Split)
Mark McGuire - Ghosts Around the Tree (A Young Person's Guide to Mark McGuire)
Sundrips - Soft Span II (Arcseconds/Sundrips Split Cass)
Niggas With Guitars - Flashback Infinity (Beyond Crystalline)
Purling Hiss - Walking Down the Street (Record Store Day 2011 Split EP)
Sonic Boom - Scars (Mazes Remixed)
Hills - Death Shall Come (Master Sleeps)
Swell Maps - The Helicopter Spies (Jane From Occupied Europe)
TV Ghost - The Degradation of Flim (Mass Dream)
Tonstartssbandht - Hymn Our Garden (Hymn)
Herbcraft - Road to Agartha (Discovers The Bitter World Of Agartha)
Rangers - Volvo Jungle Mist (Volvo Jungle Mist/Concorde Breakfast)

History of Dub

2011-05-20T03:45:00.000-07:00

Dub Ditch Picnic Radio Episode # 6

2011-05-13T06:20:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the latest episode of Dub Ditch Picnic Radio. As you can see I've changed things up a bit by adding the album titles to all the tracks I'm playing. You can find some of this stuff - if it's still in print - at Eclipse, Tomentosa, Discriminate, and Fusetron. These are the folks I buy from - I trust them and so should you.

Dub Ditch Picnic might be making its way to actual radio land - which means proper streaming of all past and current shows - keep yr. ears/eyes on this site.

About this episode: we start off chill with King Tubby and Burial/T. Yorke - then slam in some OFF! (one of the best/only? punk rock bands I've heard for a really long time).

The end of show flows from the new Afrobeat of Seun Kuti (hell of a live show!!!!) to DDP experimental dub artist Fletcher Pratt to the mind melting psych inferno of Death Comes Along.

Thanks for continuing to check the page out...

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King Tubby - Dumboo Dub (Herb Dub-Collie Dub)
Burial/Thom Yorke - Ego (Ego / Mirror)
OFF - Panic Attack (First Four EPs)
Golden Retriever - Modal Cloud (Golden Retriever)
The Dawns - In Heat (In Heat / Angel Dust)
Guided by Voices - My Impression Now (Fast Japanese Spin Cycle)
Stellar OM Source - Alpine Architecture (Trilogy Select)
Djin Aquarian and Plastic Crimewave Sound - I'm Gonna Take You Home Again (Live Yod Devotions)
Gläns Över Sjö & Strand - Ohio 4 Maj 1970 (Är Du Lönsam Lille Vän)
Eola - Classic Veracruz (Living)
Peaking Lights - Birds Of Paradise (Wet Hair/Peaking Lights Bored Fortress 7")
Luperci- Shine Like Stars In The World (Jahator)
Meercaz - Space Hate (Space Hate)
Birth - Tropical Depression (Birth)
Secret Pyramid - Permanence (Ghosts)
Seun Kuti and the Egypt 80 - Rise (Form Africa with Fury: Rise)
Fletcher Pratt - Backwoods Dub / Sherwood Dub (Dub Sessions Vol. 1 )
Death Comes Along - Death Death Death (Psychedelic Inferno)

Dark Star

2011-05-08T06:44:00.000-07:00

Say what you will...

I think this is one of the greatest songs ever performed.

Dub Ditch Picnic Radio Episode # 5

2011-04-29T06:52:00.000-07:00

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High Wolf - Your Third Eye Is Supposed To Stay Open (Étoile 3030)
High Wolf - Dream Is Good (Étoile 3030)
Tonetta - $VIRAL$ (777)
Träd Gräs Och Stenar - Gör Som Du Vill (Festen På Gärdet)
Gaseneta - Untitled (Sooner Or Later)
Chrome - Memory Cords Over The Bay (The Visitation)
Kennelmus - 1001 Twice (Folkstone Prism)
Feedtime - We've Gotta Get Out Of This Place (Cooper S)
Eddy Detroit - Evil Dark Face (Immortal Gods)
Ghost - When You're Dead (When You're Dead)
Quiet Evenings - Hollow Earth (Burning Bridges)
Agua Viva - Robot (Aguaviva: 12 Who Sing Of Revolution)
Agua Viva - Rolling Stones (Aguaviva: 12 Who Sing Of Revolution)
Sean McCann - Minted Waters (The Sky Is Filled With Incredible Wishes)
Sic Alps - Occult Display (Napa Asylum)
Lee Noble - Cop Show (No Becoming)
Sarin Smoke - Untitled (It Chars Our Lips Yet Still We Drink)
Great Society Mind Destroyers - Now Riot! (Spirit Smoke)
Fossils - B-side (Flame Disc Revisited)
Sternklang - Krautspoitation (I)
Malibu Wands - Hive (C H D W)

Dub Ditch Picnic Radio Episode # 4

2011-04-15T00:00:00.000-07:00

Ahhhhh..spring is in the air, we've just released some new tapes, and Ep. #4 is here! NOW!

Good Days!

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Wolf Eyes- Untitled (fr. No Matter)
???????? - Space is the Price
Ryan Garbes - Curved in Air
Krautheim - Side B of Mädchen auf der Rennbahn (Currently available on Dub Ditch Picnic)
Teenage Panzerkorps- German Reggae
Sun Araw - Live at Sun Ark Side II
Horrid Red- Reflecting Surface
Horrid Red- Horrid Visions
Gong- The Pot Head Pixies
The Witch - You Better Know
Blank Realm- Trained Creep
Bass Drum of Death- Religious Girls
Terror Bird- We Were Monsters
Oz Brazoes- Modulo Lunar
Magic Lantern- Moon Lagoon Platoon
Moon Duo - Motorcycle, I Love You
Holy Strays - Black Journey
Niggas With Guitars - Prime Time Fixation
White Dog - Prairie Bus Ridership: Vince, Lee, and Me

NEW TAPES!!!!!!!!

2011-04-09T00:18:00.000-07:00

Three New ones!!

1971.008 - Fletcher Pratt - Dub Sessions Vol. 1

1971.009- xNoBBQx_ Live at Louie's

1971.010 - Microdot - Lamps Not Amps

Listen Here

Dub Ditch Picnic Radio Episode # 3

2011-04-01T00:09:00.000-07:00

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Episode #3

d'Eon - Palinopsia (Intro)
Elite Gymnastics - We Don't Dream Anymore
Blue Hawaii - Belize
The People's Temple - Jim Jones
39 Clocks - 78 Soldier Dead
Aster Aweke - Track 8
K- Holes Creatures Of War
Death - Freakin Out
Love Cry Want - Love Cry
Föllakzoid - IV, III, II, I
Sundrips - Basejumping
Low light Situations - Killer In The Rain
Woubeshet Feseha - Track 7
Guru Guru - Der Elektrolurch
Innercity - New Dawn At Amnesia Beach
Akatori Poacher - Side B (split cass w/ Jane Barbe)

Dub Ditch Picnic Radio #2

2011-03-18T00:24:00.000-07:00

Episode #2... I'm thinking these will be popping up every couple of weeks.

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Unknown - Mujahadeen
The Melvins- Sacrifice/ Second Coming/ The Ballad of Dwight Fry
Peaking Lights - Space Primitive track 2
Brainbombs- It's a Burning Hell
George Brigman - Jungle Rot
Bobby Beausoleil And The Freedom Orchestra- Lucifer Rising Part III
Chris & Cosey - Put Yourself In Los Angeles
1000 Homo DJs - Supernaut
Corrosion of Conformity - Positive Outlook
Electric Wizard- Mind Transferral
The Locust- Well I'll Be A Monkey's Uncle
Unknown - The Medina of Sound
Sinking Body - Detail Inside Area Outside Vision
Lightning Beat-man - I Gonna Kill Ya Tonight
Love- A House Is Not A Motel
Black Dice- Kokomo
Sonic's Rendezvous Band- City Slang
Bad Brains- I against I
This Heat- The Fall Of Saigon
Kim Fowley- Night Of The Hunter
Monoshock- Hawkwind Show
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - I Say A Little Prayer
Outerspace - Time Travel
Golden Jooklo Age & Peaking Lights - Love Jam

FEEDTIME

2011-03-14T17:36:00.000-07:00

I love Feedtime.

Sometimes I think they are the only band that Matters.

If I ever play in a band again - I want it to feel like this:

Dub Ditch Picnic Radio #1

2011-03-11T21:47:00.001-08:00

Hey Kids,

Yeah it's been a little while, but we're coming back with some hot treats for you.

6 new tapes are about to hit the streets over at Prairie Fire Tapes and if that wasn't enough, we got at least 3 new Dub Ditch tapes almost ready to go!!

1. Fletcher Pratt - Dub Mixes Vol. 1

2. xNoBBQx - Live at Louie's

3. MicroDot - Lamps not Amps

More on these (pics & samples) in the upcoming weeks... but for now we give you the evolution of the Dub Ditch Picnic mixes - Dub Ditch Picnic Radio - almost 2 hours of total freeformity!!

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xNoBBQx - Side One of Live @ Louie's (Upcoming on DDP)
PIL - Bad Life
Alien City - Information Overload
Auntie Dada - untitled (from a soon to be released DDP split cass w/ Preanderthals)
Ga'an - Living Tribunal
Cave Dudes - Solar Bone
Crispy Ambulance- We Move Through the Plateau Phase
Teenage Panzerkorps - Kill Your Eyes
Ice Age - Total Drench
Datatenryu - Part 4
Rapeman - Trouser Minnow
German Oak - Swastika Rising
White Dog- Resistance 2
The Unholy Two - Harlem-Beirut 1983 (Live)
Syd Barrett - Dark Globe - July 27, 1969 Choral Version - Malcolm Jones 1987 Clean Mix
Horders - Grey Memory
Hamid Al Mou - excerpt of Side B of s/t cassette
Amon Düül II - Phallus De (1969 Munich, Blow up Club)

Thank You Dad

2011-02-02T07:42:00.000-08:00

2011-01-24T13:50:00.000-08:00

‘It’s mostly just weirdo music...’
Prairie Fire Tapes/Dub Ditch Picnic Records operator Chris Jacques talks tapes and his new music project, White Dog
By: Don Beat

"Musically I perform as White Dog right now. It’s mostly improvised electronics and drone. It’s mostly just weirdo music," says Prairie Fire Tapes co-operator/Dub Ditch Picnic Records mogul/music critic/DJ Chris (Criz) Jacques.

"For the upcoming show on Dec. 23 at Freud’s Bathhouse & Diner it’ll be some looped samples — real old school. I may use a tape or portable CD player, and some pedals, then some external synths — a circuit-bent Casio or some of those little Korg boxes that act as touch synths," Jacques says.

"This time I’ll have my son, Magnus join me. He’s a performer. We tried it out once at Mondragon. I set him up with pedals and a microphone. He does his thing. I have a space echo. It affects his voice, and he gets a kick out of it. He thinks it’s hilarious.

"Chris Bryan (Grumble Toy Kaiju Company) is doing his thing too at the show — more like sound art, and No UFOs — Konrad Jandavs — is the headliner. We just released Konrad’s second tape, Mind Control, on Dub Ditch."

Jacques says he and a fellow noise artist started producing cassettes because it was cheap, easy and almost instant.

"Prairie Fire Tapes is pretty much focused on local artists, and it’s a partnership between me, and Cole Peters (Gomeisa), another noise-ician," Jacques explains. "I figured since we’re doing this why not start a label? I was able to source out some high-speed tape duplicators. We started off that label in January with a split tape of our music. He takes care of the art, and I take care of about 70% of sourcing out the music — it’s all harsh noise and drone — plus the production of the tapes, all the retailing, marketing, and all the money losing.

"Because my interests are so varied, I just wanted to have another label that follows the interests of my record collection, so about six months ago I started Dub Ditch Picnic — the name of it was inspired while on a trip to Jamaica."

Since beginning the PF label almost a full year ago, Jacques and Peters have released two-dozen different titles. Toss the seven releases on Jacques’ Dub Ditch offshoot into the mix, and that makes over 30 cassette releases on both labels in under a year — a noteworthy local achievement in my humble opinion.

"Let’s see… on Prairie Fire there’s Cole and I, KKRACKK, Greenhouse and Art Muscle (Antidada) locally, and also P.F. Tranquilizer on Dub Ditch," Jacques says. "I’ve released artists from Germany, the U.S., France and Norway. I’m putting out an Australian band called xNoBBQx, and an hour-long compilation of New Zealand underground artists soon. Then I think in the new year I’m going to look into releasing something on vinyl."

U noise-hungry street beaters can find out more at prairiefiretapes.com and dubditchpicnicrecords.blogspot.com.

As far as the gig at Freud’s is concerned, Jacques says get there early!

"(Freud’s has) been super supportive of everything that we’ve done. I think we’re going to do a mostly improvised set as far as White Dog is concerned," Jacques says.

"Konrad will probably be doing pieces from his cassettes — the sort of techno Kraut rock that people dig. I sent a tape to WFMU (visit wfmu.org for more info) in New Jersey and it made the WFMU Music Director’s Top 10 list for 2010."

Once again, underground tastemakers, appreciators, supporters and listeners are the ones driving this cassette resurgence. And locally PF and Dub Ditch are ahead of the curve. Jacques says the demand for tapes is growing for his biz, and local support has been enthusiastic but limited.

"There are still not a lot of places in media that want to play tapes. I sent digital files of our releases to UMFM, and CD-R recordings to CKUW. It’s a double-edged sword. We tried releasing some CDs, but we only sold about five. With the tapes, initially we were doing 25 to 30 for each release when we started. Now we’re comfortable with runs of between 75 to 150 cassettes.

"We ship them all over the world, mostly to kids who haven’t grown up with these things because they grew up with CDs, and CDs are boring."

Got some local news to bleat? Fire tips to Don at Street Beat! Streetbleep@hotmail.com.

Future Plans and FUNKADELIC

2010-12-20T09:29:00.001-08:00

2010 is closing fast. We've had a good 6 months here are DDP. We have some new releases in the works - probably looking at 4 or 5 titles coming out in March 2011. During that time, the Dub Ditch store and distro page will remain active.

Have a great Holiday and enjoy some Funkadelic clips.

xoxoxox

Criz

RIP Captain Beefheart

2010-12-17T15:26:00.000-08:00

Here's a 1997 BBC doc on the Captain. Narr. by John Peel.

Annoying Dance Party

2010-12-17T12:31:00.000-08:00

Dennis Wilson

2010-12-14T14:24:00.000-08:00

New DDP Store Site

2010-12-10T12:11:00.000-08:00

I'm slowly adding things to the store. Everything should be there by the end of the weekend.

Kinda Fixed

2010-12-07T10:09:00.000-08:00

Okay.. so all the DDP tapes are all in the store now.

I'll be making a brand new page for all the distro items... that'll be up soon.

Whew......

Blarrrrg

2010-12-07T08:01:00.001-08:00

Lost all the Store info today. It's gonna take me a while to get it all back up and running.

If you want to purchase anything, email

dubditchpicnic (atttttttttttt) gggggmail..... com

and we'll get you set up.

Radio Radio

2010-11-22T21:33:00.000-08:00

I'm sending packs of recent Prairie Fire & Dub Ditch Picnic releases to CITR in Vancouver and CKUT in Montreal.

Start pestering DJs to play yr. faves now.

Thx.

xoxox

Criz

p.s. The No UFO's tape is ready for you to buy......

Max

2010-11-20T10:41:00.000-08:00

Dub Ditch Picnic Mix #7 Winter is Here

2010-11-19T17:30:00.001-08:00

You kids are lucky duckies this week... 2 mixes posted almost back 2 back.

This one comes from Mark Wohlgemuth.

Mark performs as Kram Ran as well as 1/2 of Alpha Couple w/ his lovely partner Kristel Jax.

These guys also run a great little gallery called Freud's Bath House & Diner. They've been super supportive of weird music in Winnipeg and we LOVE them for it.

Here's Mark's 1st snow day mix

Poured Out On Snow - An Early Winter Mix

1. Wixel - "Briksdal" (Norway/2009)
2. Tujiko Noriko - "Endless End" (Shojo Toshi/2001)
3. Nuno Canavarro - "Untitled" (track 5) (Plux Quba/1988)
4. Black to Comm - "Musik Fur Alle" (Alphabet 1968/2009)
5. Elizabeth Anka Vajagic - "Around Here" (Stand with the Stillness of this Day/2004)
6. XXL - "Last in the Society" (øSpicchiology?/2007)
7. Richard A. Ingram - "De Montford" (Consolamentum/2010)
8. Labradford - "G" (Mi Media Naranja/1997)
9. Max Richter - "A Sudden Manhattan of the Mind" (24 Postcards in Full Colour/2008)
10. Luciano Cilio - "Primo Quadro 'Della Conoscenza'" (Dell' Universo Assente/1977)
11. Library Tapes - "Feeling for Something Lost (Part 2)" (Feelings For Something Lost/2006)
12. Belong - "I Never Lose. Really Really" (October Language/2006)
13. Sparklehorse + Fennesz - "Goodnight Sweetheart" (In The Fishtank 15/2009)

Dub Ditch Mix #6 Dance Yr. Pants Off

2010-11-17T19:21:00.000-08:00

New Mix - It's all over the place - For good times and bad times.

Get Into It

Robert Fripp - Under Heavy Manners (God Save The Queen/Under Heavy Manners)
Chrome - Firebomb (Third From The Sun)
High Places - On Giving Up (vs. Mankind)
The Ex - Constitutional State (Singles. Period.)
The Lift Boys - Anarchy Village (Anarchy Village / Anarchy Way)
Pre Fix - Underneathica (Underneathica 7'')
Mi Ami - Version (Echononecho)
Tampax - UFO Dictator (Hitler SS/Tampax E.P. 7")
Matrix Metals - L.A. Vampires Beat 6 (L.A. Vampires Instumentals)
WolfCow - Medium Varney (Wolfcesticide)
The Missing Brazilians - Savanna Prance (Warzone)
Matrix Metals - L.A. Vampires Beat 8 (L.A. Vampires Instumentals)
WALSH - Westworld (Smoke Weed About It) 1
Shriekback - Lined Up (Care)

Release Page Updates

2010-11-13T19:39:00.000-08:00

2 new releases being geared up.

1. No UFO's - Mind Control c25. The follow up to the brilliant Soft Coast cassette.

2. Krautheim - Madchen auf der Rennbahn c39. Krautheim = 21st Century Krautrock.

Go to the Releases page to check art and samples.

Some other stuff in the works too... Auntie Dada/Preanderthals 2x Cass and what promises to be a WILD dub jam compilation by Fletcher Pratt.

THEY HATE YOU

2010-11-04T15:29:00.000-07:00

Dub Ditch Mix # 5 - Dark October Night

2010-10-20T18:32:00.000-07:00

The latest in the Dub Ditch series comes from our friend Tom from Vancouver.

He runs the most excellent label VIDKID Tapes.

I recently picked up the Haunted Beard cassette as well as the triple split cass of Shipyards, H.B., and Les Beyond - I heartily endorse both cassettes.

Tom most graciously put together a very DDP friendly mix for you enjoy.

DNLWD

Dark October Night

Shin Joong Hyung & The Donkeys - Shi-Ruh
Thanh Mai - Song Cho Qua Hom Nay
C.A. Quintet - Blow to My Soul
The Cobras - Goodbye
Rotary Connection - Respect
The Fugs - I Want to Know
The Godz - Dirty Windows
Memphis Goons - San Antonio Desert
Peanuts Family - Samba Party
Fugi - I'd Rather be a Blind Man
Captain Beefheart - I'm Glad
Pool-Pah - Winter in April's Eyes
Omega - Idorablo
Leland - Goodbye, My Loneliness
Armand Schaubroeck Steals - I Came To Visit but Decided To Stay
The Jacks - This Road

New Stuff Coming to the Store

2010-10-12T10:06:00.000-07:00

We have some LPs on the way from DNT, and a bunch of cassettes from RRR, Foxy Digitalis, Hobo Cult, and I think some 7"s for Saskatoon's Shooting Guns. I have a new cassette coming out soon on Rainbow Bridge Recordings that will be on the page too.

So much stuff... Always a good time.

Stay tuned for Dub Ditch releases from No UFO's, Krautheim, and Grand Selector.

Be Most Rad

xoxoxo

Criz

Dub Ditch Mix #4 Store Stuff

2010-10-08T16:49:00.000-07:00

This week I grabbed a handful of sound from the store so you can hear what you're missing. Lots of great Canuck underground weirdness. Don't be lazy, don't miss out.

DNLWD

Secret Pyramid- Permanence
WolfCow- Norman Slash
Cave Dudes - Preyer Temple
Wapstan - Hail Saturn, The God of Time
WolfCow - Strobe Finger
Ghostlight - Harder Shade of Dark
Cave Dudes II - Midnight Viper
WolfCow - I'm Sickle
Under Heaven - Untitled

What We Like

2010-10-06T19:40:00.000-07:00

Duane The Teenage Weirdo

2010-10-05T19:19:00.000-07:00

Duane is The Teenage Weirdo. He makes awesome music. One day soon Dub Ditch Picnic will release his debut cassette. It will be his first step to superstardom.

Eddie Entropy Blots Out The Sun

2010-10-05T14:32:00.000-07:00

I received a note today from a friend of Dub Ditch - David from Eddie Entropy.

They have a new album coming out Oct. 21st on Dark Winter and have a video for "Blot Out The Sun With Sex".

Check It.

Pizza Night

2010-10-01T19:52:00.001-07:00

GIVE UP!!!

2010-09-28T11:12:00.000-07:00

Just recieved a package from Give Up/Horders. Dark dark dark folk/ambient metal - sooo good.

I have copies of the tape and CD on sale in the store. Both are $8 ppd (each) in North America.

If you want one before I get the buttons up on the site email and I'll get you set up.

Samples?? Horders

Dub Ditch Mix #3 - Late Nite Weirdo Noise Sike

2010-09-26T10:00:00.000-07:00

I got invited to do a DJ set at the Nuit Blanche celebrations Sept. 25th in Winnipeg. It was held at Freud's Bath House & Diner under the name "Cvlt Nłgh‡ I: Prłsm Break".

THIS is the mix I threw together. (If you have good ears, you'll catch that I swiped the intro from Greg Davis' great G.D. Mix).

Intro (Bill Graham/The Grateful Dead)
J. Biebz - Usmileambient (edit)
Boredoms - (Arrow Up)
Cruise Family - Forever A-side (edit)

Jim Collins - Jesus
Happy Dragon Band- 3D Free-electronic
Soft Circle - Stones and Trees
Fushitsusha - Magic II
Construction - Fade Out
QOTSA - 18 A.D.
Chrome - Firebomb
Les Rallizes Denudes - Night Of Assassins

The Flaming Lips

2010-09-22T16:27:00.000-07:00

We here at Dub Ditch HQ love The Flaming Lips. It's been that way since ummmm 1987? Maybe even earlier.

Saw the boys play at a small theater in Winnipeg last night and they didn't hold back at all. Total spectacle - total party.

I've had a mixed version of Zaireeka around the offices for a bunch of years now and thought I'd share it and the Soft Bulletin Companion in honor of a great show.

Zaireeka

Soft Bulletin Companion

F.P. Tranquilizer Happenings

2010-09-21T12:35:00.000-07:00

Bill's been busy. When not making rock with the Angry Dragons and MicroDot he still finds time to keep Tranquilizin'.

Here's a submission to the Death In June site. Link

And here's a new 'video'.

Dub Ditch Mix #2 - F.P. Tranquilizer

2010-09-17T11:17:00.000-07:00

The second mix in this series comes from F.P. Tranquilizer a.k.a. Bill Northcott.

Here's some press on the latest F.P. Tranquilizer tape from Fast Forward Weekly

Winnipeg weirdo label Dub Ditch Picnic mailed me a copy of FP Tranquilizer’s Summer Tape, and I’m stoked to pay the favour forward. From the mind of sole member Bill Northcott comes twisted, Ween-style pop songs dipping into glam rock, basement electronics and lo-fi disco. Songs include “I Want to Chop Off Your Head,” “I Wish You Were an Icicle” and organ-drenched opener “Crispy Big Ones,” which could be a chart-topper in an alternate dimension.

Bill and I used to host the Faktory together... we may do more radio in the future.. until then I'll keep posting Bill mixes.

You can Download HERE & find Bill HERE

Dub Ditch Mix #2

BLACK LIPS - leroy faster (Bad Kids 7")
DER BLUTHARSCH - untitled (split 7" w/ Novy Svet)
THE RATS - kids are kids (Intermittent Signals LP)
SALADE DE FRUITS - salade de fruits (Salade De Fruits cassette)
LUBRICATED GOAT - play dead (Sub Pop 7")
AIN SOPH - gulag mon amour (Oktober 3")
THE NECESSARY EVILS - buzzsaw pt. 1 (Buzzsaw 7")
THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS - andromeda suite '98 (The Pre-Millenial Single)
DEATH IN JUNE - peaceful snow (7")
SIGILLUM S - trascendence of desire signals (Boudoir Philosophy)
TELEVISION PERSONALITIES - a memory is better than nothing (A Memory Is Better Than Nothing)
NIKKI SUDDEN - channel steamer (7")
SEX PISTOLS - submission (The Mini Album)
FOSSILS - the golden door (The Golden Door 7")
ANBB - one (Met Marut Handshake)
ANDI SEX GANG - les amants d'un jour (Blind!)
EMERALDS - candy shoppe (7")

Wild Animal Kingdom Pre-Orders

2010-09-15T12:06:00.000-07:00

Heads up!

Just scored a couple copies of the following tapes from Wild Animal Kingdom- they should be here in a week or so. Email if you want to hold a copy

Guided By Guided By Voices Cassette WAK017
GBGBVOLYWA - Intro
Invisible Hand - Non-Absorbing
Chromium Bitch - Tractor Rape Chain
No Demons Here - Wondering Boy Poet/Game of Pricks
Martin Courtney IV - Kicker of Elves/As We Go Up We Go Down -
Andrew Cedermark - A Good Flying Bird
Air Waves - Back To The Lake
Big Troubles - A Big Fan of the Pigpen
Alex Bleeker and Evan Brody - Motor Away
Eternal Summers - A Salty Salute
Pill Wonder - My Valuable Hunting Knife
Hallelujah The Hills - Chicken Blows
FZ - I Am A Scientist
Harpoon Forever - Awful Bliss
Citymouth and Chromium Bitch - They're Not Witches
Fluffy Lumbers - Club Molluska
Dana Jewell - 14 Cheerleader Coldfront

60 Watt Kid - We Come From The Bright Side Cassette WAK011
2012
We Come From The Bright Side
I Can
Golden Travels
Pressure
Take The Pain Away
Waking Up And Finding
Everything's Going To Be OK
I Want To Be Your Friend
Microchip For Dinner
Emotions
Patience
Italian Waves

Brasil Could Be Your Life Cassette WAK009
Casino - Samba Dada
Verano - La Fenetre
Holger - Brand New T-Shirt
Superbug - Summerly Yours
Nancy - Inbox Drama
Supercordas - e o Sol Brillhou Sobre o Verde
Lulina - Subtexto
Bearhug - A Storm, A Night Out
Homiepie - Snow Underwater
Os Gambitos - Dancefloor

100% Unknown Fibers & The Laguna Beach X-Mas Happening 1970

2010-09-12T07:51:00.000-07:00

This is a criminally unknown private press psych LP. I don't know how/where I obtained this stuff, but it is AMAZING!!!! I might do a small run of this as a DDP Christmas gift CDR, but in the meantime, you can grab it now.

If you want to read more, Patrick Lundborg offers an great account of the record and the festival here. There's a bunch of photos there too... just like the ones above.

The George School - Journey of Persephone

2010-09-12T06:41:00.000-07:00

**** I poached all of this ('cept the Music) from the WFMU 365 Days Project Blog

Download

The George School is a Quaker boarding school for ninth through twelfth grade students in Newtown, Pennsylvania... Though the plot as depicted in the liner notes seems relatively innocent - a loose contemporary adaptation of a Greek myth - closer inspection of the lyrics reveals some post-Summer of Love almost-drug-references, like this example (from "High Road"):

Have you seen the man from the moon?
He lives around the corner
Have you seen
He splashed down last June
I remember when he came back home
I looked into his eyes, you should have seen those rolling stones

Or this, from "Bright-Eyed One":

If you wanna see the universe
Discover what is real
Then step aboard my sunshine-mobile
Praise the Queen
Praise the Queen
She makes the grass green

...and so on. Then Director of Theatre Arts and lyricist/composer Robert F. Mandel is the culprit. Though it didn't seem like any of the current faculty had heard of the play (not surprising, given the number of musicals that have most likely been performed there since), a few persistent e-mails to the George School resulted in the two archived photos of the production seen below. The girl in the flannel shirt is Persephone (played by Bonnie Kron), holding the "golden umbrella", though I have no idea what's going on around her. It looks like a bee is attacking from the left, but who are the people next to her? The drones? What's the sculpture in the middle (a honeycomb?), or the net above it? Do these same bees make the honey referred to in "Sweet Honey"? If you look closely behind the sculpture to the left, you can see a (left handed?) guitar neck sticking out. I assume the other photo is the Sun Queen; I especially like the Pennsylvania Dutch styled sun in the background. I wish musicals in my high school had a band as cool as the one on this album - "High Hoppers" finds these teens jamming like it's 1968 instead of 73, with some great bluesy lead guitar & manic drum soloing. "Sweet Honey" is a funk tribute to the country mouse's substance of choice, and the aforementioned "High Road" plows through weird stop/start time signatures in search of consciousness expansion.

The George School exists to this day: http://www.georgeschool.org/
Special thanks to Rebecca J. Wilkinson and Kingdon Swane for the performance photos.

- Jeremy Pisani, http://geocities.com/elefantplatte/

Auntie Dada

2010-09-12T05:55:00.000-07:00

Auntie Dada is the other half of the psychedelic shit-fi free music coin that includes Art Muscle (see the releases page for their No Emulsion tape).

Tavis and Mathew keep cranking out the drug hits here with their 1st 'video'. Enjoy.

DISTRO!!!!!!!!!!!

2010-09-09T16:19:00.000-07:00

Just added the Nu Sensae - Live in Portland cass and White Dog CDR on Wintage.

Keep yr. eyes here for some hot weirdo psych releases on InYrDisk and a cassette and CDR by Horders/Give Up

In the meantime - fix yr. eyes on what I saw at Grumpy's a few weekends ago.

xoxoxox

Criz

Outerspacists

2010-06-17T08:45:00.000-07:00

The next Dub Ditch Picnic Tape is Ready. It will be by the OUTERSPACISTS and it'll be a one sided c-60. It will be awesome.

The Incinerators, Art Muscle, and F.P. Tranquilizer tapes are all still in print and there are some cool OOP releases on the store page too.

Store

2010-06-10T12:09:00.000-07:00

Store is ready.

Releases Page

2010-06-07T21:54:00.000-07:00

Click on the RELEASES button on the right hand side of the page to get descriptions and sounds.

Store page will be ready shortly.

ART!!!!

2010-06-07T11:47:00.001-07:00

Saturday Night

2010-06-05T13:49:00.000-07:00

Tapes are gonna happen fast and furious very very soon... enjoy your Saturday Night.

BAY CITY ROLLERS & ANN MARGERET SATURDAY NIGHT @ Yahoo! Video

New Tapes Almost READY!!

2010-06-04T22:22:00.000-07:00

Late June will have the first 4 DDP tapes on the streetz.

1. The Incinerators - The 90s Wuz Awesome c30

2. Art Muscle - No Emulsion c20

3. The IPS Mega Turd Dub Cassette c30

4. F.P. Tranquillizer - Summer Tape c30

Check back in a bit for images and samples....

In the meantime you can watch this

Hello.

2010-04-08T13:11:00.001-07:00

Hello.

After a few months since launching Prairie Fire Tapes, Cole and I have decided to branch of the main label to indulge some of our musical passions without muddying the waters of PFT. Cole will be the main force at STASIS HNW, while I will be making the jamz here at DDP.

I have a few irons in the fire - first being a resurrection of some soundz from Let's Get Dusted -one of the most amazing Winnipeg bands I have every heard - as well as continuing to release more stuff from T. Walker's no-fi, no wave, scuzz unit Art Muscle.

The demo policy here is very simple - you send it, I'll listen. If I like it - we'll make something happen. If you want to send something send some love here.

More soon.

Criz April 2010