@@MakeWeirdMusic Excellent ! Hank Hopeless has been my stage name since 1982. I've been making some weird music myself, but My (weird) music can be repeated. I find it interesting that You pinned My initial comment
of course not. tunes are made up of sounds which can't be physically grasped. should brush up on your metaphysics before making such irresponsible conjectures.
In the 21st century, I think that maybe you are my John Peel right now (dj who promoted the rising underground, deceased). I've listened to these lists casually, with excitement and gratitude. I now need to go back to the first one and scan albums from each artist to find me some more deeply loved new favourites. Appreciate it. You're doing great work. I am very grateful. Lots of love
Herman's Bughouse "Round the Bend" reminded me of the Ren & Stimpy theme. Rambunctious but wonderfully refreshing! So awesome! Thanks for putting this up. Absolutely love your channel! Keep up the great work bring obscure/delightful tunes into the light!
I think that Weird Music leaves you with a big grin when you listen to it or make it. The experience of limitless freedom, the opportunity to leave standards behind, discover new things for yourself, expand your horizons. Weird music is perhaps different because the main focus is on sounds and not, as in popular music, sounds are subordinated to singing or danceable rhythms. It's a game with sounds that has a liberating effect and that's why it always makes me smile. A type of antidepressant.
@MakeWeirdMusic Your grin and the word weird drew me to look at your post and was a little disappointed that the algorithm suggested it to me so late. But ultimately I can now enjoy your channel after the fact. Thanks again for what you do! Well, I'm a non-professional sound tinkerer who works and experiments with self-recorded samples, all of which is only published on my smartphone and only on TH-cam, under different project names on my channel. Free to listen and use worldwide. Maybe interesting for you? Smiling greetings th-cam.com/video/4L7zINkbBKw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=KGY3glKDea23pjP3
Severed Heads' "Golden Boy" is quite the trip. It's based around a multi-track tape loop with sounds of racquetballs, basketballs, babies' voices and smashing glass being mixed in and out, with analog synth abuse and guitar (by the late Simon Knuckey of Wet Taxis). For more tape loop wigouts, look for "Rocket Summer" (which is actually a live performance) and "Gashing the Old Mae West".
Wow. Sote caught my attention, along with Avalanche Kaito, then you really dove into my past with Merzbow and Severed Heads. I can't remember the last time I heard someting different from Severed Heads! The whole episode is fantastic.
Old Zappaholic here... At first listen this insane stuff is exciting but many tracks get boring after 10 seconds, when it's just more of the same. Some deliberate dynamic and sound changes would make it a real treat.
The challenge I face is I have to find 1 minute clips of tracks that I think are exciting enough to grab people's attention while also providing enough musical context for people to want to dig in deeper. My job is "done" with these videos. My hope is you'll find something that starts to scratch an itch and you'll do the legwork. All the links are in the video description. There are a lot of songs that take too long to develop into something interesting, or 1 minute just isn't enough. That's the format I've chosen, so I created my own problems haha
A huge chunk of Zappa's music suffered from the same complaint you just made. Digging for the weird but somehow also infectious track is part of the journey. That said I think Apostrophe was the perfect balance for Zappa, though I love the tracks zombie woof and peaches en regalia quite a bit.
what you said at the end (someone randomly going at a point in the video and asking "what is wrong with this person") reminded me of a moment in my life when I was 30 years old (many years ago now). There was a girl I was flirting with (she was 22 or smthng) and just to see her reaction I turned on a Magma tune from the 70s :) Magma surely is not even remotely off the beaten path as the guys here but you know, it's strange enough for a girl who listens to simple pop and rock :) After about quietly listening to it for about a minute or maybe even two, she turned to me with a huge smile and said "Why?" :)) I said "what do you mean with why", she said: "just....why?" :))))
Don't feel bad my fiancee calls the music I listen to "Godawful noisy satanic sounding crap made by drugged out idiots". I've also been pegged as a "weird" sound artist and she also refers to my recordings as "noisy, dark and satanic sounding".... I can't help but find her reactions amusing to say the least.
Severed Heads (mostly Tom Ellard) started off with tape loops and electronics. Then there was the transition in the late 80s and 90s to more of an evil pop sound. And now, I guess it's more ambient. What I love about Severed Heads is that ever stage you get whatever the hell Tom wants to do. It's all weird (maybe not a weird as some of the other stuff), but more than any artist, I find his work the most in my daily playlist.
Thank you for playing Zoogz, a much missed old friend of mine. When I was listening to the first song I was thinking about Zoogz! I wish you would do an entire segment about his vast history.
That was my favourite song in this video. I take it he's passed... Well, I've only just discovered him and will be embarking down this rabbit hole. He's still with us then, in a way, I suppose...
@@MakeWeirdMusic the track "Exploring the Secret of Treating Deaf Mutes" on this album is more than accessible. Tell us you didn't actually listen to the album without telling us.
I got stoned with the musicians from Acid Mothers Temple on Nov 27th of 2002 here in a small nightclub in Padova. I saw them play for 200 people. Here in Italy, every body smokes hash with tobbacco.... I don't. I'm American. I had my pipe and after the show, I asked them if they wanted to smoke some weed... They looked at me and realized I was American... and the guitarist said "Without tobacco?" and I said yes and showed him the pipe. He and the guys were so happy, because theycouldn't bring any weed over in a plane from Japan... no way... and they REALLY REALLY wanted to smoke, because everywhere they played in Italy... everyone smokes it mixed with cigarette and AMT didn't smoke cigarettes, so I smoked a bunch with them... very happy... and left them 2 buds for the road....happier.
Always good to see Merzbow make an appearance. He is an absolute legend in harsh noise music. If you look up almost any picture of him, he's like a demonic entity that likes to hang out with his chickens
What's kind of funny is that a lot of stuff that's only *slightly* more normal has been extremely successful. Primus, Mr. Bungle & Fantomas, Zappa, Acid Bath, butthole surfers, Tom Waits, Kate Bush, Wesley Willis all had very successful careers being *almost* as weird as Zorn, Galas, Zoogz, Merzbow, Togawa etc
This reminds me of the days of fanzines; Factsheet5, and Gajoob. Where people could send cassette tapes and get listened to and reviewed. I'm glad I found this channel. Thanks :)
I think you nailed it when you said I don't know how people put this stuff together... That's the appeal for me, it's the glimpse inside someones soul in a way. Super interesting stuff thanks heaps!
I worked with Daniel Johnston as "Not Daniel Johnston", and I am bound and determined now to team up with Jad Fair under an anagram of "Jad/Ken". Do you think Jandek will mind?
Jandek (pronounced with a hard J) is an intriguing artist. There is a documentary on him called Jandek on Corwood that is fascinating. If you can find it.
This has really opened me up. I lived in an art gallery, studios, for about three years in Denver. While there the curator turned me on to Merzbow which is about the most disjunctive audio you will ever hear. We were both big fans of sonic youth but that’s nothing next to this. No-wave just scratches the surface. At that time there was a kind of “noise music” scene in Denver, 2004-2007. I’m an artist and software engineer and I’ve written some software that generates music. This video has inspired me.
My favourite piece of weird music, at the moment, is the orchestral transcription of Beatles "Revolution 9" performed by the ensemble "Alarm will sound". It is found on the amazing album called "Modernists!"
@MakeWeirdMusic No, shared this for the first time. By the way, thank you for your amazing channel here on TH-cam. I enjoy it every time you publish a new video.
I'm going to try again in recommending Lost Crowns and Let Loving Her Be Everything. Third time lucky? Not cacophonous, not shouty, actually very melodic, it's just that in every turn they defy what is generally musically accepted. More unexpected sharps and flats and non-standard time signatures than you can shake a stick at.
The happy path from my ear holes to my brain must be weird because I did not find the music in this episode that strange. Best Weird music episode so far and the creative talent that is out there is really something special. Keep em coming, we can take it.
Thanks for this video. I am not into new weird music, but I am really into older wierd music such as electronic composers like Eliane Radigue, Francois Bayle, Pauline Oliveros and Roland Kayn. I like the fact that it is devoid of any emotion. They are building stone cold structures.
@@MakeWeirdMusic I didnt know there was a word to indicate that kind of music. Thanks. Your Henry Cow Western Culture video made me curious after HC. So I bought the box. It's awesome.
I like all the artists that you mention but I think that I do not agree that it is devoid of emotion. Eliane Radigue, her Trilogy De La Mort especially, can make me cry. I never heard about Roland Kayn. Thanks for the hint!
Zoog Rift is kind of depicting the thought process (more the lack thereof) that lead to the Bible and other religious doctrines!😮 And it's actually exciting unlike those old rags!😁😆 I have been thoroughly weirded!🤪😜 One of these days I may send you some weird music of my making, but that's a far stretch as I have yet to find the time to lay down some more serious tracks, add I'm a stickler for perfection, and at odds with presentation, as it corresponds to potential listeners and expectable reactions they may have too it, in consideration of how vastly different the psychology of any two people is already within the masses! IOW: Trying to please anyone and everyone, without putting myself and my vision aside.
@@MakeWeirdMusic of course. Saw them two times both in Portland OR. Woormwood & The 30th anniversary tour. I personally dubbed them The Masters of Annoyance.
this is the first video ive seen from your channel and its very exciting! great selection of stuff here! breast fed yak is a supergroup featuring one of the best drummers out of japan, yoshida tatsuya, known mainly for his project Ruins which is like an even more twisted take on magma, legendary stuff really! definitely check out their album hyderomastgroningem if you havent heard it already, i think youd really appreciate it!
This channel is a blast. It took me ten years to find two other musicians who were crazy enough to join me in creating spontaneous improvised music, without keys, time signatures, or even chords. We made ten albums and it was the most intense fun. We were called Free Men, but you won't find us anywhere on the net. 😁
@@MakeWeirdMusic I bet that's fun. I have a Mazda MX5 (called Miata where you are). I also have a 2003 Honda Civic Type R, boy racer special which I drive all the time (I'm 70 🤣). Oh I also have 60+ musical instruments. 😁
Acid Mother Temple... Yep! "Trust Mask Replicants" is too good as a hint to the original, thanks for including, we will check this out. Sote & Avalanche Kaito, King Gong (good name), Venetian Snares & Speedranch, Breast Fed Yak also make for awesome listening experience!
Love your videos, it's like therapy, some things get my attention and I take a deep dive to find out how it resonates with me... I take it and go with it for some time to see where it leaves me and every time it's a great place to be, so thank you for keeping on with this journey of discoveries.
@@sebastianschneider7445 I’m just like you with that. Some of the things I feature I go deep on. Some of it I listen, enjoy, and move on. But I never know what’s really going to happen or what’s going to reach other people. So, I’m glad to be a part of it.
I saw Jandek live a few years ago, or more accurately, I saw a "representative of Corwood industries" (his record label) playing Jandek songs, as that's what he identifies as in interviews and performances as to maintain an air of mystery about his identity. Pretty cool experience as he very rarely plays live and didn't for the first time until more than 20 years after he started releasing music. He was a longtime staple of the experimental genre when I worked in college radio around 2010 and had been personally mailing his albums to the station for years.
This has the energy of hanging out with my hip friends in the nineties, playing tapes and spreading culture. This is where i shall send the "music these days sounds the same" crowd from now
Man, you never let me down! As a musician trapped in the freaking grid for obvious reasons you bring me back to my youth every time. And, as a very long time Resident’s fan you also gave me the great news! Thank you so much, love.
I'm really happy I found your channel; it's so liberating to know there are still people out there who dare to make the music they truly want to. (and need to)
I'm really enjoying your channel. As someone who has always enjoyed experimental, out-of-the-box music over what's typically popular or mainstream, it has felt a bit lonely at times. It's nice to know there are others out there who like it weird.
Family Fodder sounds a lot like a modern take on Eno’s Here Comes the Warm Jets. THe Bill Orcutt Jacob Felix tune was really nice, percussion was top notch, sounded pretty seasoned overall.
Some great selections here, nice work all -- Sote is putting out some of the most vital experimental electronics out there right now; Kink Gong has some amazing releases on Discrepant Records, many of them messing with wild field recordings from farflung corners of the world; Bill Orcutt is an avant guitar legend, having started with noise legends Harry Pussy back in the 80s, but continuing to put out great stuff to this day; "Meta Abuse" is my go-to track on that Venetian Snares x Speedranch album -- straight up sample of "You Give Love a Bad Name" amidst eardrum shredding noise...
Great list! I have that Merzbow and Severed Heads albums at home. Also lots of Venetian Snares albums, but not the one from the video. For the rest, I discovered lots of new bands! It's also very enjoying to see you enjoy yourself! A style that is often overlooked, probably because it's niche, is Neue Deutsche Todeskunst. It's some kind of very theatrical darkwave/industrial that was popular in the European goth scene in the beginning of the nineties. Heritants of 70s and 80s wave, industrial and goth like Einsturzende Neubauten, Coil or The Residents (which all, of course, also are very weird, but everybody already knows them 😊). Listening tips: Das Ich - Gottes Tod (or Kain Und Abel), Goethes Erben - Das Ende, Relatives Menschsein - Verflucht (or Glaube) Stricly musically, (early) Das Ich is the most experimental one. The whole 'Die Propheten' album is a masterpiece.
Thanks Anthony. I had a rare half hour to spare and listened to the entire video. A lot of interesting music in there. My immediate favorite was the Iranian one, simply because I cannot figure it out.
Hey, Bill Orcutt! Probably my favorite modern guitar player, he has such a distinctive voice with the instrument - you know right away it's him playing.
What a great idea to listen to your listeners. I love Weird Music. Thank you for making it available for me. Try out "Get in line" by The Art Ensemble of Chicago
Sote reminded me of Autechre. Try out Acroyear2 from the album LP5. Merzbow is an electronic engineer as well as a ‘noise’ musician. Most of his equipment has been built by himself.
I remember back in the 90s there was a college station out of DavisCA that had a punk show in the evenings. Immediately after the punk show was the Experimental/Noise show and it played shit like Severed Heads and even weirder than that. I would fall asleep to it and had fucked up dreams.
Bruh, the Sote track led me into an amazing find. His track artificial neutrality combines real Persian music and edm perfectly. So ethereal. Edited to add, world's end girlfriend is mind-blowing and one of my new favorite artists, 100 years of choke is devastating.
I was just recommended this video and I have to say HELL YEAH. Right up my alley. I'll be checking out your other videos. I just subbed and thanks for creating this channel.
My eyes lit up and I got a huge smile on my face at every single transition in World's End Girlfriend's Divine Comedy Reverse... that was a really special experience. Thank you for sharing! And thanks to the original sharer as well!
So great to see Jandek on here. As for Old Time Relijun…been a huge fan forever, not a bad album in the discography. Arrington has some solo stuff as well that’s worth your time. Have you ever listened to any U.S. Maple?
Oh, man, some of those are excellent. Big fan of Acid Mothers, Venetian Snares... For other odd stuff, I'm sure Blurt has already been mentioned, I'm a fairly big fan of BulBul (and other Manfred Engelmayr projects), although some of their later stuff is fairly conventional, the early stuff is great. Trost records TR065, TR084 and TR085 in particular are all fabulous.
Very glad you got the Avalanche Kaito recommendation! They feature a Griot from Burkina Fasso and 2 punk musicians from Belgium for a very interesting meeting of minds and music.
None of these gyus could hold a tune if their lives depended on it
I can see why your username is "HankHopeless"
Yeah, but can you tuna fish? Seamen, it ain't breezy
@@MakeWeirdMusic Excellent !
Hank Hopeless has been my stage name since 1982.
I've been making some weird music myself, but My (weird) music can be repeated.
I find it interesting that You pinned My initial comment
Agreed
of course not. tunes are made up of sounds which can't be physically grasped. should brush up on your metaphysics before making such irresponsible conjectures.
It makes me feel warm and fuzzy knowing theres a community of people out there that have similar bizzarre tastes in music that I do.
We do have an actual Club Weird, which you can join for $3/mo. Haha
@@MakeWeirdMusic in my experience, most weird people don’t have $❤
@croiners4166 there are a lot of weird people making good money in tech.
WE OUT HERE
My Tinnitus approves.
The internet serves no higher purpose than connecting us to this music.
@@peterpeirce3928 LOL! Thanks!
@@MakeWeirdMusic Lords of Acid. It's a band
@@stm5578wow ts is impeccable nice taste
This is the only channel I would actually be excited by hearing my stuff played on ❤
Thanks!
Same here, how can I do this,?
In the 21st century, I think that maybe you are my John Peel right now (dj who promoted the rising underground, deceased). I've listened to these lists casually, with excitement and gratitude. I now need to go back to the first one and scan albums from each artist to find me some more deeply loved new favourites.
Appreciate it. You're doing great work. I am very grateful.
Lots of love
Thanks so much. Several people have made this same comment. I'm honored!
Herman's Bughouse "Round the Bend" reminded me of the Ren & Stimpy theme. Rambunctious but wonderfully refreshing! So awesome! Thanks for putting this up. Absolutely love your channel! Keep up the great work bring obscure/delightful tunes into the light!
Oh thank you!
howlin wolf killing floor . ren stempy closing theme
I think that Weird Music leaves you with a big grin when you listen to it or make it. The experience of limitless freedom, the opportunity to leave standards behind, discover new things for yourself, expand your horizons. Weird music is perhaps different because the main focus is on sounds and not, as in popular music, sounds are subordinated to singing or danceable rhythms.
It's a game with sounds that has a liberating effect and that's why it always makes me smile. A type of antidepressant.
Clearly you can see that it brings a smile to my face. And I don't seem to be alone in this experience.
Glad you enjoy it.
@MakeWeirdMusic Your grin and the word weird drew me to look at your post and was a little disappointed that the algorithm suggested it to me so late. But ultimately I can now enjoy your channel after the fact.
Thanks again for what you do!
Well, I'm a non-professional sound tinkerer who works and experiments with self-recorded samples, all of which is only published on my smartphone and only on TH-cam, under different project names on my channel. Free to listen and use worldwide.
Maybe interesting for you?
Smiling greetings
th-cam.com/video/4L7zINkbBKw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=KGY3glKDea23pjP3
This music is so much better than songs in which every other word is “baby!”
Challenge accepted
@@MakeWeirdMusic Hell yeah
*plays Skat Radio from The Neverhood*
yeah by usher
Oh wow! I found my tribe
Welcome!
this is awesome, love hearing new stuff!
Glad you enjoy it! Watch the rest of the palylist, too
Severed Heads' "Golden Boy" is quite the trip. It's based around a multi-track tape loop with sounds of racquetballs, basketballs, babies' voices and smashing glass being mixed in and out, with analog synth abuse and guitar (by the late Simon Knuckey of Wet Taxis). For more tape loop wigouts, look for "Rocket Summer" (which is actually a live performance) and "Gashing the Old Mae West".
Thank you TH-cam algorithm for recommending this channel to me. I, too, make weird music.
Family Fodder reminds me of Cardiacs. And that's high praise
Cardiacs meets Eno
Yup, I agree.
Certainly!
Indeed, except Cardiacs would probably have thrown in a handbrake turn into a different musical style or time signature after a minute.
Came here to say the same.
Wow. Sote caught my attention, along with Avalanche Kaito, then you really dove into my past with Merzbow and Severed Heads. I can't remember the last time I heard someting different from Severed Heads!
The whole episode is fantastic.
Thank you David! Enjoy! Glad you found something new
I saw Merzbow and was expecting some harsh noise sounds that could strip paint... but this was pretty mellow for him!
Old Zappaholic here... At first listen this insane stuff is exciting but many tracks get boring after 10 seconds, when it's just more of the same. Some deliberate dynamic and sound changes would make it a real treat.
The challenge I face is I have to find 1 minute clips of tracks that I think are exciting enough to grab people's attention while also providing enough musical context for people to want to dig in deeper.
My job is "done" with these videos. My hope is you'll find something that starts to scratch an itch and you'll do the legwork. All the links are in the video description.
There are a lot of songs that take too long to develop into something interesting, or 1 minute just isn't enough. That's the format I've chosen, so I created my own problems haha
Zappa has a massive catalog and it is surprising nobody hasn't given you the most perfectly weird Zappa song request for these requirements of yours.
Idk, Zappa gets boring after half a second in his song
A huge chunk of Zappa's music suffered from the same complaint you just made. Digging for the weird but somehow also infectious track is part of the journey. That said I think Apostrophe was the perfect balance for Zappa, though I love the tracks zombie woof and peaches en regalia quite a bit.
Zappa's quote "I make stuff that I like, for the people that like it" comes to mind here
what you said at the end (someone randomly going at a point in the video and asking "what is wrong with this person") reminded me of a moment in my life when I was 30 years old (many years ago now). There was a girl I was flirting with (she was 22 or smthng) and just to see her reaction I turned on a Magma tune from the 70s :) Magma surely is not even remotely off the beaten path as the guys here but you know, it's strange enough for a girl who listens to simple pop and rock :) After about quietly listening to it for about a minute or maybe even two, she turned to me with a huge smile and said "Why?" :))
I said "what do you mean with why", she said: "just....why?" :))))
Great story. My wife asks “why?” all the time. Sometimes I make these videos and ask, too.
Don't feel bad my fiancee calls the music I listen to "Godawful noisy satanic sounding crap made by drugged out idiots". I've also been pegged as a "weird" sound artist and she also refers to my recordings as "noisy, dark and satanic sounding".... I can't help but find her reactions amusing to say the least.
@@Apartment8Records😄😄👍
One of the things that these tracks share is how the music is immediately shocking, impressive, and weirdly hilarious. Great finds as always.
I also noticed a mumber of tracks today that reminded me of early King Crimson in odd ways
Thank you for saying “hilarious,” Eddie. We have to be able to laugh at some of this stuff. Glad you enjoyed.
Half a dozen from your October Playlist are in my favorites now. And will stay there for a while apparently.🤷🎶😎🖖
@@erikmaronde2244 Fantastic! Thank you!
Severed Heads had a top 20 hit in their native Australia.
Dead Eyes Opened
Severed Heads (mostly Tom Ellard) started off with tape loops and electronics. Then there was the transition in the late 80s and 90s to more of an evil pop sound. And now, I guess it's more ambient. What I love about Severed Heads is that ever stage you get whatever the hell Tom wants to do. It's all weird (maybe not a weird as some of the other stuff), but more than any artist, I find his work the most in my daily playlist.
I can tell that you are also a fan of Einsturzende Neubaten. They are a Great Band!
Thank you for playing Zoogz, a much missed old friend of mine.
When I was listening to the first song I was thinking about Zoogz! I wish you would do an entire segment about his vast history.
Maybe we will get around to it. Only so much time.
Maybe we will get around to it. Only so much time.
Zoogz was a CHAMP !!! Loved that guy !
That was my favourite song in this video. I take it he's passed... Well, I've only just discovered him and will be embarking down this rabbit hole. He's still with us then, in a way, I suppose...
Glad to see Severed Heads on this list, their live shows in the late 80s permanently bent my head
I should look into them further.
@@MakeWeirdMusic I'm a big fan. Rotund For Success album is probably the best entry point.
@@MusicMissionaryAll Saint’s Day was a popular 12” on the dance floor. New Order-ish I’d say. Great band live. “Dead Eyes Open” popular 12” from ‘83.
@@OneMountainNineI didn't discover them till the early 90s. Former college DJ friend hooked me up.
@@MakeWeirdMusic the track "Exploring the Secret of Treating Deaf Mutes" on this album is more than accessible. Tell us you didn't actually listen to the album without telling us.
I got stoned with the musicians from Acid Mothers Temple on Nov 27th of 2002 here in a small nightclub in Padova. I saw them play for 200 people. Here in Italy, every body smokes hash with tobbacco....
I don't.
I'm American. I had my pipe and after the show, I asked them if they wanted to smoke some weed...
They looked at me and realized I was American... and the guitarist said "Without tobacco?" and I said yes and showed him the pipe.
He and the guys were so happy, because theycouldn't bring any weed over in a plane from Japan... no way... and they REALLY REALLY wanted to smoke, because everywhere they played in Italy... everyone smokes it mixed with cigarette and AMT didn't smoke cigarettes, so I smoked a bunch with them... very happy... and left them 2 buds for the road....happier.
That story makes perfect sense 😆
Always good to see Merzbow make an appearance. He is an absolute legend in harsh noise music. If you look up almost any picture of him, he's like a demonic entity that likes to hang out with his chickens
I hope I am never described that way 😆
Like others who commented, I’m so pleased that there’s this many people out there with an appetite for these kinds of audio **expressions**. 🌀
What's kind of funny is that a lot of stuff that's only *slightly* more normal has been extremely successful. Primus, Mr. Bungle & Fantomas, Zappa, Acid Bath, butthole surfers, Tom Waits, Kate Bush, Wesley Willis all had very successful careers being *almost* as weird as Zorn, Galas, Zoogz, Merzbow, Togawa etc
Terry Riley's 'Across the Lake of the Ancient World' from Shri Camel is a microtonal mind bender, highly rate it.
I need to get into terry’s music
This reminds me of the days of fanzines; Factsheet5, and Gajoob. Where people could send cassette tapes and get listened to and reviewed. I'm glad I found this channel. Thanks :)
Glad you enjoy it!
I think you nailed it when you said I don't know how people put this stuff together... That's the appeal for me, it's the glimpse inside someones soul in a way. Super interesting stuff thanks heaps!
Exactly!
Now that's what I call queasy listening!
LOL!!
Thanks for featuring Jandek.
I worked with Daniel Johnston as "Not Daniel Johnston", and I am bound and determined now to team up with Jad Fair under an anagram of "Jad/Ken". Do you think Jandek will mind?
Jandek (pronounced with a hard J) is an intriguing artist. There is a documentary on him called Jandek on Corwood that is fascinating. If you can find it.
Jandek is so inspiring to me
Family Fodder reminded me of Cardiacs... not to be ever forgotten...
This has really opened me up. I lived in an art gallery, studios, for about three years in Denver. While there the curator turned me on to Merzbow which is about the most disjunctive audio you will ever hear. We were both big fans of sonic youth but that’s nothing next to this. No-wave just scratches the surface. At that time there was a kind of “noise music” scene in Denver, 2004-2007. I’m an artist and software engineer and I’ve written some software that generates music. This video has inspired me.
I'm always glad to hear we've inspired someone. Thank you!
Merzbow was quite popular in underground circles in the late 90 early 00s
My favourite piece of weird music, at the moment, is the orchestral transcription of Beatles "Revolution 9" performed by the ensemble "Alarm will sound". It is found on the amazing album called "Modernists!"
Have you shared that before? I just checked it out last week. Cool stuff.
@MakeWeirdMusic No, shared this for the first time. By the way, thank you for your amazing channel here on TH-cam. I enjoy it every time you publish a new video.
I'm going to try again in recommending Lost Crowns and Let Loving Her Be Everything. Third time lucky? Not cacophonous, not shouty, actually very melodic, it's just that in every turn they defy what is generally musically accepted. More unexpected sharps and flats and non-standard time signatures than you can shake a stick at.
I will listen to your recommendation
If weird music met fantasy larping. I also have a desire to call for my droogies.
The happy path from my ear holes to my brain must be weird because I did not find the music in this episode that strange. Best Weird music episode so far and the creative talent that is out there is really something special. Keep em coming, we can take it.
To me, "strange" isn't the same as "weird" :)
Glad you like it!
Bughouse has that John Zorn kind of thing
You’re right!!
The first two I thought of are Ron Geesin and John Zorn.
I'm so happy to have found this channel.
I'm so happy you found it, too! Please spread the word
That made me happy! Steve will be happy too. Thanks!
Shout-out to Steve
@31:05 The Brest Fed Yak, kind of sounds like someone had to put a bunch of Jazz musicians in a tumble dyer. They're clean and warm now.
Thanks for this video. I am not into new weird music, but I am really into older wierd music such as electronic composers like Eliane Radigue, Francois Bayle, Pauline Oliveros and Roland Kayn. I like the fact that it is devoid of any emotion. They are building stone cold structures.
Brutalist music
@@MakeWeirdMusic I didnt know there was a word to indicate that kind of music. Thanks. Your Henry Cow Western Culture video made me curious after HC. So I bought the box. It's awesome.
Fantastic! I made up the term based on brutalist architecture, by the way. :)
@@MakeWeirdMusic Musique concrète?
I like all the artists that you mention but I think that I do not agree that it is devoid of emotion. Eliane Radigue, her Trilogy De La Mort especially, can make me cry.
I never heard about Roland Kayn. Thanks for the hint!
That Severed Heads track is dope.
Watching you bob your head enthusiastically to weird shit is part of the reason we all watch. Lol 🙂
I have come to accept that. Maybe I’ll even embrace it someday 😆
Come for the recommendations, stay for the host's charming smile and knowing rhythmic nods
Subscribed! I've found a kindred spirit.
Thanks, you're awesome!
Zoog Rift is kind of depicting the thought process (more the lack thereof) that lead to the Bible and other religious doctrines!😮 And it's actually exciting unlike those old rags!😁😆
I have been thoroughly weirded!🤪😜
One of these days I may send you some weird music of my making, but that's a far stretch as I have yet to find the time to lay down some more serious tracks, add I'm a stickler for perfection, and at odds with presentation, as it corresponds to potential listeners and expectable reactions they may have too it, in consideration of how vastly different the psychology of any two people is already within the masses! IOW: Trying to please anyone and everyone, without putting myself and my vision aside.
Perfection comes with reps and iteration and practice. Release first, get better over time. Don’t worry about it :)
"nurse with wound - thunder perfect mind" :)
Keep up the good work, man!
I'm all in for the weirdness.
This seems like the perfect home for..... The Residents
Yes we have plenty of them on the channel
@@MakeWeirdMusic of course. Saw them two times both in Portland OR. Woormwood & The 30th anniversary tour. I personally dubbed them The Masters of Annoyance.
Thanks for doing this!
You're welcome
this is the first video ive seen from your channel and its very exciting! great selection of stuff here! breast fed yak is a supergroup featuring one of the best drummers out of japan, yoshida tatsuya, known mainly for his project Ruins which is like an even more twisted take on magma, legendary stuff really! definitely check out their album hyderomastgroningem if you havent heard it already, i think youd really appreciate it!
Thanks for sharing! Watch the other videos in the playlist
@@MakeWeirdMusic ive been making my way thru them, very cool!
Holy the bughouse one really slaps. Definately weird!
I absolutely love it
Have you heard Mr Bungle?
Of course! I just met Trey Spruance in person a few weeks ago
"Do you read Sutter Cane?" :D
@ nice! They got me into different music when that first album came out it blew my mind. Was doing lsd at the time quite a bit too lol
This channel is a blast. It took me ten years to find two other musicians who were crazy enough to join me in creating spontaneous improvised music, without keys, time signatures, or even chords. We made ten albums and it was the most intense fun. We were called Free Men, but you won't find us anywhere on the net. 😁
@@Everyman777 I love the name. Ever watch The Prisoner?
@@MakeWeirdMusic Yes, I am old enough to remember The Prisoner. I visited Portmeirion, where it was filmed, on my honeymoon. (weird credentials).
@Everyman777 awesome. I have a lotus super 7 with the license plate NUM 6. Haven’t made it to Portmeirion yet.
@@MakeWeirdMusic I bet that's fun. I have a Mazda MX5 (called Miata where you are). I also have a 2003 Honda Civic Type R, boy racer special which I drive all the time (I'm 70 🤣).
Oh I also have 60+ musical instruments. 😁
None of that music seemed weird to me.
God, I hate what I've become.
I thought the same.
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@MakeWeirdMusic fun fact, some people have different ideas of what is weird.
Acid Mother Temple... Yep! "Trust Mask Replicants" is too good as a hint to the original, thanks for including, we will check this out. Sote & Avalanche Kaito, King Gong (good name), Venetian Snares & Speedranch, Breast Fed Yak also make for awesome listening experience!
So glad you enjoyed it!!
This almost has a similar perceptual affect as when Devo and the B52’s first came out more than 45 years ago. They were really weird then!
That’s true. Their early music was out there.
Love your videos, it's like therapy, some things get my attention and I take a deep dive to find out how it resonates with me... I take it and go with it for some time to see where it leaves me and every time it's a great place to be, so thank you for keeping on with this journey of discoveries.
@@sebastianschneider7445 I’m just like you with that. Some of the things I feature I go deep on. Some of it I listen, enjoy, and move on. But I never know what’s really going to happen or what’s going to reach other people. So, I’m glad to be a part of it.
Throbbing Gristle, anyone?
I do need to cover them at some point.
@MakeWeirdMusic While you're at it, how about a Pere Ubu retrospective? One of my favorite bands of all time.
I saw Jandek live a few years ago, or more accurately, I saw a "representative of Corwood industries" (his record label) playing Jandek songs, as that's what he identifies as in interviews and performances as to maintain an air of mystery about his identity. Pretty cool experience as he very rarely plays live and didn't for the first time until more than 20 years after he started releasing music. He was a longtime staple of the experimental genre when I worked in college radio around 2010 and had been personally mailing his albums to the station for years.
I love this comment
This has the energy of hanging out with my hip friends in the nineties, playing tapes and spreading culture.
This is where i shall send the "music these days sounds the same" crowd from now
That's exactly what I'm going for!
great stuff, will be checking out your other videos.
Awesome, thank you!
excellent as always!
Thank you! Cheers!
I really dig outsider music. Always puts a smile on my face. Glad I found you.
Man, you never let me down!
As a musician trapped in the freaking grid for obvious reasons you bring me back to my youth every time.
And, as a very long time Resident’s fan you also gave me the great news!
Thank you so much, love.
Hang out long enough and I will surely disappoint you
I'm really happy I found your channel; it's so liberating to know there are still people out there who dare to make the music they truly want to. (and need to)
The best music sits between what audiences want and what artists need to do for themselves.
Another excellent video. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
How have I never found this channel? I KNOW I've searched the term Weird Music lol
I don't know but I'm glad you're here
First one reminds me of an intro to one of these old Nickelodeon shows
Finally. We can play anything within a microphones reach, on a drum set.
I'm really enjoying your channel. As someone who has always enjoyed experimental, out-of-the-box music over what's typically popular or mainstream, it has felt a bit lonely at times. It's nice to know there are others out there who like it weird.
Thank you! I'm glad you found it
Family Fodder sounds a lot like a modern take on Eno’s Here Comes the Warm Jets. THe Bill Orcutt Jacob Felix tune was really nice, percussion was top notch, sounded pretty seasoned overall.
Some great selections here, nice work all -- Sote is putting out some of the most vital experimental electronics out there right now; Kink Gong has some amazing releases on Discrepant Records, many of them messing with wild field recordings from farflung corners of the world; Bill Orcutt is an avant guitar legend, having started with noise legends Harry Pussy back in the 80s, but continuing to put out great stuff to this day; "Meta Abuse" is my go-to track on that Venetian Snares x Speedranch album -- straight up sample of "You Give Love a Bad Name" amidst eardrum shredding noise...
Merzbow has been around on Century Media and not sure what labels anymore, but they’ve been on majors for the last 30+ years
Discogs has 625 Merzboz releases listed. I have about... three of them, among which the one from the video.
Wow!
Thanks MWM!
Hard to be weirder than Melt Banana. Unless it's Destroy all Monsters...
a lot of this stuff sound like they belong at NYC's The Knitting Factory. John Zorn would be proud.
Yes! And we even played some of thatstuff.
Adult Swim, of cartoon fame, released a very excellent noise compilation called Noise. I highly recommend. Weird but very listenable.
Cool! I had no idea. I love adult swim.
Honestly this would be a really sick soundtrack to a really weird movie.
Agreed
This pleased my earholes immensely. Thank you ❤
You're welcome!
Great list! I have that Merzbow and Severed Heads albums at home. Also lots of Venetian Snares albums, but not the one from the video. For the rest, I discovered lots of new bands! It's also very enjoying to see you enjoy yourself!
A style that is often overlooked, probably because it's niche, is Neue Deutsche Todeskunst. It's some kind of very theatrical darkwave/industrial that was popular in the European goth scene in the beginning of the nineties. Heritants of 70s and 80s wave, industrial and goth like Einsturzende Neubauten, Coil or The Residents (which all, of course, also are very weird, but everybody already knows them 😊).
Listening tips: Das Ich - Gottes Tod (or Kain Und Abel), Goethes Erben - Das Ende, Relatives Menschsein - Verflucht (or Glaube)
Stricly musically, (early) Das Ich is the most experimental one. The whole 'Die Propheten' album is a masterpiece.
Thank you. I will check them out
Thanks Anthony. I had a rare half hour to spare and listened to the entire video. A lot of interesting music in there. My immediate favorite was the Iranian one, simply because I cannot figure it out.
Thank you for investing your time with us. And yeah, that piece stood out to me for that reason. Disorientinf.
Benjamin Herman's Bughouse is definitely a Primus fan.
Gotta be
Hey, Bill Orcutt! Probably my favorite modern guitar player, he has such a distinctive voice with the instrument - you know right away it's him playing.
Thanks for putting these videos together, always find out about some artists that I really enjoy and can listen to more of their stuff ❤️
You're welcome!
What a great idea to listen to your listeners. I love Weird Music. Thank you for making it available for me. Try out "Get in line" by The Art Ensemble of Chicago
Thank you. I will check it out.
I Subscribed Immediately! I could see this being my new favorite Channel!
Thank you
I have about 20 youtube subscriptions at best , yet I was 6 minutes in when I felt compelled to subscribe as a first time viewer today.
I am Ancient and I Love Extremely Weird Music!!!@@-processdrone-
Sote reminded me of Autechre.
Try out Acroyear2 from the album LP5.
Merzbow is an electronic engineer as well as a ‘noise’ musician. Most of his equipment has been built by himself.
Interesting. Thanks for watching.
I remember back in the 90s there was a college station out of DavisCA that had a punk show in the evenings. Immediately after the punk show was the Experimental/Noise show and it played shit like Severed Heads and even weirder than that. I would fall asleep to it and had fucked up dreams.
Oh boy... That is dangerous lol
Bruh, the Sote track led me into an amazing find. His track artificial neutrality combines real Persian music and edm perfectly. So ethereal.
Edited to add, world's end girlfriend is mind-blowing and one of my new favorite artists, 100 years of choke is devastating.
I was just recommended this video and I have to say HELL YEAH. Right up my alley. I'll be checking out your other videos. I just subbed and thanks for creating this channel.
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It's like hearing Cartman from Southpark singing on the last song, great man, hahaha
The antidote to pop mush. Made me smile a lot. Great to hear new experimental stuff. Subscribed.
Awesome! Thank you!
I went to Kink Gong's Bandcamp page and had a quick listen to LISBÕA 29.08.2024. Now that's an album cover. Only hope it didn't steal my soul.
lol. Now I gotta look
thank you. i am so happy to find new things
Glad I could help!
What a great channel!
You have a style of weird music that attracts you, it's not always in my lane but I catch a few tunes from you here and there.
Check out the other playlist videos for more variety.
Nice😊 Found a view very inspiring artists here!😀
My eyes lit up and I got a huge smile on my face at every single transition in World's End Girlfriend's Divine Comedy Reverse... that was a really special experience. Thank you for sharing! And thanks to the original sharer as well!
@@markshark9162 Isn’t it unbelievable? Amazing construction.
Def one of my favorites here
Check out Syd Barrett's two solo albums if you never did (Pink Floyd founder). "The Madcap Laughs" and "Barrett", two gems!!!
Yo i dig the heck outta that first track. It sounds like a Dillinger Escape Plan jazz section that never ends.
So great to see Jandek on here. As for Old Time Relijun…been a huge fan forever, not a bad album in the discography. Arrington has some solo stuff as well that’s worth your time. Have you ever listened to any U.S. Maple?
Have not. I will check it out
Oh, man, some of those are excellent. Big fan of Acid Mothers, Venetian Snares...
For other odd stuff, I'm sure Blurt has already been mentioned, I'm a fairly big fan of BulBul (and other Manfred Engelmayr projects), although some of their later stuff is fairly conventional, the early stuff is great. Trost records TR065, TR084 and TR085 in particular are all fabulous.
Very glad you got the Avalanche Kaito recommendation! They feature a Griot from Burkina Fasso and 2 punk musicians from Belgium for a very interesting meeting of minds and music.