U.S. Highball

1. The Fugs - Exorcising the Evil Spirits from the Pentagon OCT. 21, 1967 (Field Recording Listen) 2. Lol Coxhill & Morgan Fisher - Slow Music (Ambient Listen) 3. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Palace Of Time (Ambient Listen) 4. Scott Horscroft - 8 Guitars (Guitars Listen) 5. Dickie Landry - Fifteen Saxophones (Saxophones Listen) 6. Asunta - Landscape IV (Ambient Listen) 7. Alan Lamb - Meditation On Spring 8 (Ambient Listen) 8. Anthony Pateras - Chasms (Ambient Listen) 9. Akira Rabelais - 1440 Promp. Parv. 518/2 Wawyn, Or Waueryn, Yn a Myry Totyr, Oscillo (Ambient Listen) 10. Annea Lockwood - Malaman (Vocal Listen) 11. D. Gareth Loy - Blood From A Stone (Computer Music Listen) Notes: Slow music. Start of the 3 hour shows.

1. Noel Kennon & Mark Kaylor - Live Notes: Absolutely killer no-limit jam, straight from the KAOS studio to the air to yr ears. Ben Block helped set this up, and it killed.

1. The Fugs - Exorcising the Evil Spirits from the Pentagon OCT. 21, 1967 (Field Recording Listen) 2. Hidenobu Ito - Dogra Magra (Plunderphonics Listen) 3. Brian Lavell - Ethernity (Electronic, Minimal Listen) 4. Mark Shreeve - Thoughts Of War Part 2 (Electronic Listen) 5. Morton Subotnick - Silver Apples of the Moon (Early Electronic Listen) 6. Jan Jelinek - Lithiummelodie 1 (Ambient Listen) 7. Nobukazu Takemura - Sign (Ambient Listen) Notes: Electronic rhythms

1. The Fugs - Exorcising the Evil Spirits from the Pentagon OCT. 21, 1967 (Field Recording Listen) 2. Harry Partch - Ulysses At The Edge (Contemporary Classical Listen) 3. Scott Johnson - John Somebody Part II (Spoken Word, Guitar Listen) 4. Scott Johnson - John Somebody Part I (Spoken Word, Guitar Listen) 5. Mark Applebaum - Pre-Composition (Spoken Word Listen) 6. Milton Babbitt - Philomel (Contemporary Classical, Tape Music Listen) Notes: All CDs I bought in san diego during a recent road trip.

1. The Fugs - Exorcising the Evil Spirits from the Pentagon OCT. 21, 1967 (Field Recording Listen) 2. Carla Bozulich - Evangelista I (Electronic Listen) 3. Matana Roberts - Come Away (Spoken Word Listen) 4. Ghédalia Tazartès - Un amour si grand qu'il nie son objet (Spoken Word, Tape Music Listen) 5. Meira Asher - Shahid 1 (Electronic, Spoken Word Listen) 6. Jarboe - Lavender Girl (Electronic Listen) 7. Charlemagne Palestine - Cataclisma 3 (Piano Listen) 8. Isengrind - Virgin Rain Frog (Ambient Listen) Notes: Shockingly Intense. First show using The Fugs as an intro track

1. Sigur Rós - Sigur Rós (Ambient Listen) 2. Takehisa Kosugi - Wave Code (Electronic Listen) 3. Henry Flynt - S & M Delerium (Ambient Listen) 4. Susan Alcorn - The Royal Road (Ambient Listen) Notes: Weird transcendence

1. New Favorite - Feel Feel Feel (Horns) 2. Les Percussions de Strasbourg - Varese - Ionisation (Drums Listen) 3. Francois Bayle - L'Oiseau Chanteur (Electronic, Tape Music Listen) 4. Pierre Henry - Apres la Mort 1 (Electronic, Drone Listen) 5. Ivo Malec - Luminetudes (Electronic, Tape Music Listen) 6. Luc Ferrari - Visage V (Electronic, Tape Music Listen) 7. Jean Guillou Requiem - Pour Les Morts De L'espace (Electronic, Tape Music Listen) Notes: PROSPECTIVE 21E SIECLE SPECIAL

1. The Kallikak Family - Guitar I (Guitar Listen) 2. The Kallikak Family - Bells In Bergamo (Bells Listen) 3. Luc Ferrari - 1899 - 12 - 31 05: 30: 00 (Electronic, Noise Listen) 4. Colleen - Please Gamelan Again (Gamelan Listen) 5. Jacqueline Legatt - By Are In Very Nod (Contemporary Classical Listen) 6. Allison Cameron - The Chamber of Statues (Contemporary Classical Listen) 7. Glenn Branca - Dissonance (Guitar Listen) 8. Swans - Annaline (Rock Listen)

1. Aaron Kruse - More Than A Vegetable Stand (Noise) 2. Aaron Kruse - Burn Out Burn Up (Noise) 3. Andrey Dergatchev - Titles (Run) (Electronic, Soundtrack Listen) 4. Metropolis Ensemble, Erik Hall & Sandbox Percussion - Sections 88-90 (Contemporary Classical, Minimal Listen) 5. Alan Licht & Aki Onda - Ship Shape (Noise Listen) 6. Colleen - Les Ondes Silencieuses (Viola da Gamba Listen) 7. Loop 2.4.3 - Dark Matter (Rock Listen) 8. Rhys Chatham - Cadenza (Rock Listen) 9. Bill Orcutt - Unexpectedly heavy (Guitar Listen) 10. Bill Orcutt - Yet always moving (Guitar Listen) Notes: The Aaron Kruse tracks are nowhere online. IIRC the second one has spoken word samples. Erik Hall & the gang had just played at SPSCC, got him to sign my record.

1. Susan Alcorn - Como La Cigarra (Guitar Listen) 2. Fred Frith - Glass C/W Steel (Guitar Listen) 3. Architect's Office - I Chris (Guitar) 4. Meredith Monk - View 2 (Space Listen) 5. Penguin Cafe Orchestra - The Sound of Someone You Love Who's Going Away (Space Listen) 6. The Durutti Column - Finding the Sea (Space Listen) Notes: Space, More Guitar Music. I Chris is nowhere online but its from the Necronomicon 2 cassette comp.

1. Shane Parish - Eutow (Guitar Listen) 2. Alan Licht - Jump (Guitar Listen) 3. James Blackshaw - Why Keep Still? (Guitar Listen) 4. Hayden Pedigo - Looking at the Fish (Guitar Listen) 5. Jim O'Rourke - There's Hell in Hello but More in Goodbye (Guitar Listen) 6. Philip Gayle - Zone (in three parts) (Guitar Listen) 7. Derek Bailey - A (Guitar Listen) Notes: Guitar music theme.

1. Laurie Spiegel - Drums (Electronic, Percussion Listen) 2. Tomaga - Idioma (Electronic, Percussion Listen) 3. Alan Watts - Umdagumsubadu (Percussion, Chanting Listen) 4. No-Neck Blues Band - Back to the O Mind (I'd Rather Not Go) (Percussion, Chanting Listen) 5. Nomad War Machine & Susan Alcorn - Contra Madre (Percussion, Shreddage Listen) 6. Zach Hill and Mick Barr - Wheatfield Paranoia/Molecular Streams (Percussion, Shreddage Listen) 7. Tragic Assembly & Tatsuya Nakatani - Within Life (Percussion, Free Jazz Listen) Notes: Percussion theme, I had recently seen Nakatani live in concert with Arrington De Dionyso, so he was fresh in my mind.

1. J.J. Cale - In Our Time (Rock Listen) 2. The Statesmen - Roo-Buh-Doo-Buh-Doo (Novelty Listen) 3. The Beach Boys - Vegetables (Novelty Listen) 4. Napoleon XIV - I'm in Love with My Little Red Tricycle (Novelty Listen) 5. Wee Willie Shantz - Coo Coo Bird (Novelty Listen) 6. Steve Roden - Milk (Lowercase Listen) 7. Andrew Pekler - The Prepaid Piano (Electroacoustic Listen) 8. Matricide - Warrior Of The 7th Domain (Sludge Listen) 9. Gate - The Vulture (Guitar Listen) 10. Uriel - Soul Thing (Psych Rock Listen) Notes: Very mixed bag. Worth noting that for the first while I wanted US Highball to be equal parts experimental, contemp classical and novelty / real weird psych rock, but eventually my experimental side won over. The Prepaid Piano track is hard to find in full, get in touch if you really want to.

1. Eliane Radigue - Biogenesis (Drone Listen) 2. The Scratch Orchestra - The Great Learning: Paragraph 7 (Improv Listen) 3. Alan Licht - Lonesome Valley (Guitar Listen) 4. This Heat - A New Kind of Water (Guitar, Rock Listen) 5. Rayne - No One Heard Her (Psych Rock Listen) 6. Napoleon XIV - They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! (Novelty Listen) Notes: RIP Eliane Radigue. Scratch Orchestra track prefaced by this interview pulled from ubuweb.