are an equal-technological anti-poportunity
Copyright 1991 -
2008
are an equal-technological anti-poportunity
Copyright 1991 -
2008
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Last Perfect Day |
mp3 |
Brian Wilson melodies abound (or something)..
Featuring dreamy guitar sample from the Jazz Butcher tune
Rosemary Davies World Of Sound, and a studio drum loop from
Poi Dog Pondering's Frank Orrall.
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| Orbit | mp3 |
A Big Ballad.
Jessica called it the Radio Tune.
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| O Danny Boy |
This was the first piece recorded as the Sharp/Whittemore Vergiftung duo.
Yes.. This is indeed a 21 minute piece. All improvised and multitracked
under the influence of drunken inspiration. We think it is still quite
enjoyable for those who appreciate such things.
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| Lost In Her Head | mp3 |
Country & western disco pop.
Amazing what you can do by bouncing tracks between 2 DAT
machines and overdubbing simultaneously. Recorded in one
evening. Brady sings to a hat stand. Delightful slide-guitar
work by Martin Stebbing.
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| Audrey Hepburn | mp3 |
Big Happy Beat-y.
Lyrics by The Belgian Waffles. Tune by Sharp/Whittemore.
Bassline sample from the original Belgian Waffles version. "Grunge" guitar by Roman Candle's Don Baker.
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| C'est Bon | mp3 |
Dortmunder beer rules
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| Club Entropy | mp3 |
You'll never guess where the string sample came from.
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| Girlfriend | mp3 |
No one seems to like this song but me, and I think it rocks.
Brady's hopelessly hopeless vocal stylings crack me up
on this one. The whimpy guitar isn't bad, either.
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| Resolution | mp3 |
Ambient, instrumental.
Real audio is probably going to gut the bottom end, but
at volume, this one can rip your bowels open. A beautiful,
moody, self-contained dream world. I hope you enjoy it.
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| Among The Ruins | mp3 |
Introspective, sensitive guy ballad. I like the reverbed kick that
sounds like a heartbeat.
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| I'll Take Vermont | mp3 |
Bowie, or something.
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| The Chux Of Luv | mp3 |
From the now infamous National Soil Erosion Sound Laboratory
recording sessions. The payback is in the subtle details.
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| Cicero and Devon | mp3 |
A bastardization, years after the fact, of a simple geetar
strumming whimsy. Features the lovely Signals from the
Planet A.M. and a deliberately amateurish jungle drum loop.
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| Moon River | mp3 |
Deep experimentation adlib between Whittemore and Sharp.
You've been warned.
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The Sandwichmaker | mp3 |
Brady is lost in the kitchen.
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| Lake Effect Snow | mp3 |
Swirly
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| Whale | mp3 |
Justified ambient disco epic.
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| Why? | mp3 |
Damnit! Outta My Head!
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| Filth | mp3 |
Brady crucifies a Black Eg tune.
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| Pepto Bismol | mp3 |
Sick, confused
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| The Beer Song | mp3 |
Bell-like sounds from playing samples past their range.
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| (Dis)Continuity | mp3 |
Matt and I (or was it Jody), probably drunk (see?), improvising on dueling samplers
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| Carrie Newcomer (On The Rack) | mp3 |
A 2-second voice sample of Carrie Newcomer, stepped-through veeerrryyy sssslllloooowwwwlllyyyy.
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| Darling Nikki | mp3 |
My adopted son Jody sings the Prince song through pitch shifters.
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| Pluto | mp3 |
An adaptation of the M, Walking On The Water tune.
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| Shindig (original) | mp3 |
Timothy Leary raps to a nice 10-bar loop.
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| Stepping Out | mp3 |
My adopted son Jody pretends he has a diva's viking hat on and sings the Joe Jackson song.
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| Up Around Devon | mp3 |
Noise. And lots of it.
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| Whale (Studio) | mp3 |
A now-wiped version of Whale as recorded onto 2" tape.
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| Von Dammerung Revenge | mp3 |
In 1992, Pat Fish was accosting me with Black Eg cassettes,
so I decided to retaliate a bit. This is a massive, 23-minute, 30Meg
free-form composition.
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| I've Lost My Hold (live) | mp3 |
28Sep1991, multi-band end-of-summer event sponsored by Von's Records
of West Lafayette, IN. This is a killer Matt Sharp composition,
which completely blew away anything done by the disco fag band which
played after us.
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| Pluto (live) | mp3 |
28Sep1991, a live version of Pluto, with Jody mixing his wacky cassettes
and John Davison playing live drums.
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| My Funny Valentine (live) | mp3 |
28Sep1991, a John Davison/Matt Sharp arrangement of the classic, based
around a vocal sample of Frank Sinatra. We had technical difficulties
towards the end of this song. I've edited out most of the buzzing but
left in a bit at the tail end for those who like noise. Mmmm.
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| older encodings, lower quality | ||
| Duck |
mpa .83M |
What can you say? Ha Ha Ha.
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Pluto Live |
mp3 |
Old! Ambient!
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Perpetually Thursday Live |
mpa .56M |
Dance. Nice lyrics, too.
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Whale Live |
mpa 2.2M |
Justified ambient disco epic.
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| Urgent/Aid | mp3 |
Straight-up tech-disco
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| My Darling Darjeeling |
mpa 1.1M |
Sheep!
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| Arvo Party |
mpa 2.3M |
It ain't pop - Adlib sound collage.
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| Brian Counts |
mpa 1.1M |
Wilson in full effect
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| Polka Dots |
mpa 1.7M |
Brady needs a date
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| The Gravity Of Sound |
mpa 1.6M |
Sweet, confused
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Shindig Live |
mpa 2.9M |
Groovy
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Matt Sharp and their guests - sampled or otherwise. | |
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Good stuff
Dan Peccia (peccia[at]-remove-earthlink.net or dan[at]-remove-sdri-pdx.org) - Portland , USofA
29Jun2005 10:25 PM (2 years 314 days ago)Stumbled accross your site by accident and am happy to start downloading some Vergiftung. I have vaugue and drunken memories of a live Vergiftung show where I played an orange stool and various bits of metal hung by strings with no skill but much passion. It was at a party at the Loach house many, many years ago. Good stuff. Hope all are well.
brady branam
indyquist[at]-remove-aol.com - indpls, in
4Jun2005 10:02 PM (2 years 339 days ago)looking for brady branam. if anyone speaks to him, please tell him krista lane says hi. thanks.
Buddy Epsen is dead
Johnakni[at]-remove-aol.com - Indianapolis,In
17Jul2003 7:46 PM (4 years 297 days ago)Dear Vergiftung,
Buddy Epsen is dead. Happened last week.
Yes,I am still in contact with the Belgian Waffles. I saw them a few weeks ago in Louisville. They did the Rocket form the Tombs standard NonAlignment Pact plus John Cale's Fear with a sort of Third Uncle(Eno version) vibe plus brand new songs you never heard of.
Embarrassingly,I unsuccessfully tried to establish civilized contact with Indoor Boy. I guess part of being hip is still saying prog is bad. If there is any justice in the world,Don's children will grow up to be rebellious teenagers with Yes and Genesis records blasting away on their stereos. I have noticed there are at least two new bands today that sound like Indoor Boy(of 1996-7): Interpol and Archvisceral Parlour. Interpol is famous. Archvisceral Parlour are not. I would go to a new Indoor Boy concert,but I don't want to get into a fist fight because I may accidentally mention Don sounds almost as good on guitar as Robert Fripp. Its not easy having my own individual musical taste these days.
What type of music are you doing these days?I have been doing some things with samples that you may find interesting. One of my projects will involve abusing technology to construct a Genesis song solely out of Belgian Waffles samples(yes,they hate prog too). Perhaps another will be a hip hop song made out of Indoor Boy bits.(I already consider Indoor Boy to be prog,so it would be pointless to reassemble them back into it). Do you know how I can contact Negativland?
Thank you,
John A Knight
We totally should, dude.
mns[at]-remove-selfreferentiallab.com - raleigh, north cakalak
9Jun2003 8:10 PM (4 years 335 days ago)A reunion to end all reunions.
Plastic Bono Band
janxd[at]-remove-yahoo.com - janxville
26May2003 7:56 AM (4 years 350 days ago)ANY PLANS ON TOURING THE BIBLE BELT THIS SUMMER?
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