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Grimbeard - Garbage And

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Inspired by Gwilym Wogan’s Daily Refrain, here we have an impromptu EP of grimy surrealist folk.  Five songs produced in five days, resulting in just over eleven minutes of sloppy guitar, swirling background hiss, hastily programmed drums, and occasionally rhyming nonsense from the aptly-named Grimbeard.  Throw your razors away and folk out with your yolk out.

Tracklisting:

1. Beware the Ides of March of Dimes (1:44)
2. 21st Century Laundry Man (2:47)
3. Bigfoot Don’t You Lose My Number (2:08)
4. Bitchcraft (2:29)
5. Mouth Full of Pearls (2:07)

Tags: 8.12.2009, acoustic rock, blues, cleveland, experimental, facial hair reference, freak folk, garbage and, grimbeard, lo-fi, ohio, slinky

Skrow017

Bukkake Earlobe - Is the House Band at Chez Dada

Come one, come all!  Come upon this new noise epic!  Sick, twisted, and three years in the making!  Not necessarily because it’s good, but mostly just because the artist is fucking lazy!  Inside you will find all manner of blasting distortion, screeching feedback, sampled guitar, mangled voice clips, and other naughty words!  So take out your earplugs and step right in!  Free beer!

Tracklisting:

1. Dong Garrote (5:23)
2. Tree Lawn (1:59)
3. Logomachic Poetry (2:13)
4. Wank (0:26)
5. Comatoast (11:16)
6. Werehaus / Goddammit I Said Lunch (2:06)
7. This World is Bullshit (7:39)
8. Letting the Fame Go to Our Heads (1:39)
9. Sh’art (0:58)
10. A Door is a Jar (3:33)
11. Wank Reprise (0:05)
12. Purulent in Yoy’r Own Juce ! (6:47)

Tags: 7.21.2009, bukkake earlobe, cleveland, experimental, free beer, fun and excitement, noise, ohio, rock out with certain parts of your anatomy exposed, wtf the cover's animated

Skrow016

In which we release an EP of noise.

The supplier had this to say about the assortment of audio files that accompanied the lazy art-bullshit (bullshit-art? I can’t decide) excuse for cover art I just said art like five times in one sentence and no I swear I’m not “on something” right now unless maybe sleep deprivation counts as an abusable substance, which it probably should:

“The last Bukkake Earlobe release was some time ago, and I made this one mostly because I’m sick of music.  Random samplesets were loaded into my tracker of choice and then I just mashed my hands across the keyboard for a few seconds.  I bounced the results to Cubase and mangled them as is my wont to do. You know, I was just thinking about how much paisley patterns look like paramecia.  My almost-step-brother’s fiancee was wearing a skirt prominently featuring single-celled organisms today!”

…And we’re back.  Please enjoy some lovely noise at our expense.  My kitchen is on fire.

Tracklisting:

1. Fæx Machina (2:02)
2. Carniv(or)al (1:00)
3. Splatterhorse (1:31)
4. High-Speed Parking Structures (1:46)
5. Planet Funeral (4:16)

Tags: 6.28.2009, bukkake earlobe, cleveland, drugs, hugs, insomnia, milk me, no drugs, noise, ohio, tracker

Skrow015

Cigarettes & Clip-Art - Hole Sections

The crudely-drawn floating head returns as a vengeant stormcloud, curling forth with great malignance to swallow your pathetic unsuspecting city.  Noisy synths rumble and bounce across jagged beats, the occasional slice of guitar flashing briefly in the night sky.  Five chunks of unusual barometric pressure which will make you unsure whether to dance, headbang, or throw yourself on the floor and hallucinate.  We suggest all three, simultaneously if possible.  You may need to use gaffer’s tape to keep those headphones on.  Goodnight, Mr. Moon!

Tracklisting:

1. Section A (3:08)
2. Section C (6:44)
3. Section B (4:58)
4. Section D (1:39)
5. 23rd Orifice (Hole) (24:13)

Tags: 5.5.2009, c&ca, cigarettes & clip-art, cleveland, dance, experimental, hole sections, ohio, squeeeeeek AHH

Skrow013

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The first day of May, 1999.  Cleveland (and very Skrow!-oriented) folk-influenced black metal group One Grisly Day’s performance at a gig dubbed Extremefest, at the famous Peabody’s (the old Peabody’s), is faithfully taped to camcorder and rendered to VHS by… someone.  Someone else entirely (like, the drummer) would later unearth this tape, capture the audio, and humbly request its release here on Skrow!.

Thus, in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of this performance, the long-since-defunct One Grisly Day achieve their Skrow! debut.  As the only recording with this lineup, including two songs never recorded elsewhere, this 24 minute set is a fitting document of the band’s early era (before many lineup changes and the eventual transmogrification into groovecore band Screaming Underwater), complete with blistering guitars, harrowing screams, and production as GR1M, N3KR0 and, dare I say, TR00… as you could ever want it.  Please crank this for posterity.

Tracklisting:

1. Moonscape (5:50)
2. Nero Fiddler (5:34)
3. The Legend of the Weeping Willow (5:57)
4. Ritual (6:10)

Tags: 10th anniversary, 5.3.2009, black metal, cleveland, gr1m, live, n3kr0, ogd, ohio, one grisly day, onemuthafuckin'grislyday, tr00

Skrow011

Ellipse - Abandoned

Continuing in quick succession the spirit of rendering the old as new, today finds us with Ellipse’s Abandoned.  The title of the EP is a double entendre: each of the four pieces is part of a concept that revolves around the departure from Earth in favour of finding home on other heavenly bodies; at the same time, the title refers to the fact that this project was initiated two years ago and was intended to be considerably longer.  These were, in fact, Ellipse’s first attempts at music of an ambient nature, and simply fell to the wayside as the artist progressed away from the new agey style you will find within.

So, in the spirit of rebirth, here it is.  Don some headphones and turn your gaze heavenward.

Tracklisting:

1. Exodus From a Blue Planet (6:29)
2. The Destitution of Ashen Canyons (6:52)
3. Sunrise Over the Umber Plains (7:05)
4. Golden Cities in the Troposphere (6:08)

Tags: 2.10.2009, abandoned, ambient, celestial bodies, cleveland, ellipse, new age, ohio

Skrow008

Cigarettes & Clip-Art - Tanks for the Mammaries (Cigarettes & Clip-Art remix) / Doin' Dishes (For Sure)

A remix of a remix, and a hot slab of experimental dance comprise this, the first release from the crudely drawn floating head which calls itself Cigarettes & Clip-Art, and also the first “single” release here on Skrow!.

The artist sent me an email with the following in description of the two-part, one-track medley:

“Slopped (literally slopped) together remix of Bukkake Earlobe’s “Tanks for the Mammaries”. It is full of bells and whistles (not literally), and a snare drum that had no business sneaking up behind me.”

I’m not entirely certain how a floating head goes about sending an email, though I would imagine there’s telekinesis involved.  Watch out for that!  Meanwhile, enjoy this.

Tracklisting:

1. Tanks for the Mammaries (Cigarettes & Clip-Art remix) / Doin’ Dishes (For Sure)  (3:43)

Tags: cigarettes & clip-art, cleveland, dance, floating head, noise, ohio, re-remix

Skrow007

Bukkake Earlobe - Cum Poseur

A pile of steaming mass-produced feces destroyed for your listening displeasure, this was actually done awhile back when a certain major label hip hop producer used questionable methods of producing hits and oh wait that’s not going to cut it down much is it well in any event this was sat on for far too long and has unfortunately somewhat lost its relevance.  Fortunately for all of you, dear listeners, the music industry still carries on!  *INTERNET SARCASM*

Please play this in your motor vehicle at high volumes while giving that puerile blonde girl singing along to the R&B hits of perpetuity next to you the finger.  Do this for the sake of mankind.

Tracklisting:

1. Tanks For the Mammaries (3:42)
2. Donkey Kong Would Be Very Displeased (2:44)
3. For Those About to Fuck (3:37)
4. You’re Hideous (5:16)
5. Those With an Oedipus Complex Do Not Comprehend the Proper Application of Dramatic Techniques (5:43)
6. A Brief Analysis of Igneous Strata (10:01)

Tags: 9.22.2008, bukkake earlobe, cleveland, garbage, noise, ohio, pop music, timbaland

Skrow006

Beardslicer - The Miniscule Tavern

Two mysterious madmen provide just over 52 minutes of improvised rock, full of enough joy and pretense to boil your eyeballs. Delicious.

Tracklisting:

1. The Tuning Song, or, Acerbic Fuschia Crayons Envelop Adjacent Cretinous Elephants (4:32)
2. It’s Cold Out Here, or, Oh! That Explains Everything (1:08)
3. Yogurt Backbone and the Lion of Riviera (2:19)
4. You Liken it To… (3:13)
5. …What? (0:59)
6. A Brief Treatise on Experimenting with the Central Nervous System of Ateles fusciceps robustus (0:47)
7. Forward Fists (0:21)
8. Brother Balthasar’s Brilliant Beebeard (1:53)
9. Everybody’s Got the Clap, or, ¡Emleados deben lavarse los manos! (0:14)
10. A Rural Episode (1:04)
11. Steel Peg Philosophy (3:00)
12. Apple (0:39)
13. Yupliezz Rotundra Face (1:36)
14. When I Say “Hip,” You Say “Replacement” (3:05)
15. D.A.G. (Dead Air Generator) (4:28)
16. Neon Guitar Wall Clock (3:10)
17. Spilling Meat, the Fat Glove (0:54)
18. Tell Me About Your Mother (1:49)
19. Complacent Individual  a) Fill  b) Grill  c) Moped (8:33)
20. Troon (1:05)
21. Unusual Cyrillic Patterns (Excessive Punctuation) (4:05)
22. ‘Tussin (1:36)
23. The March of the Diminutive Giants (1:47)

Tags: 8.12.2008, beardslicer, cleveland, experimental, facial hair reference, improv, ohio, rock, woo!

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Bukkake Earlobe - Tapemanipulator

Zounds! Sounds!

Digital deconstructions of old 2-track tape recordings of acoustic guitar by one Allen Thompson. Having been chopped, spliced, mangled, and all the other usual ‘Lobery, they become droning blasts of power noise with a melodic undercurrent. Play it loud and scare your neighbours.

Tracklisting:

1. Rupturing Prunus Serrulata (5:56)
2. Grumble of the Squonks (4:50)
3. Eat a Bowl of Dicks (1:58)
4. Darth Meatl (2:07)
5. Monolithic Dominoes (5:53)

Tags: 2.22.2008, bukkake earlobe, cleveland, deconstruction, drone, experimental, noise, ohio, tape