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clitstop

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“Joseph Hammer... and Thomas Dimuzio... put together this ensemble processing super skips and turning everything into drowning tones.”— Swezlex

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3 Day Stubble - around for almost 20 years this band coined the term 'Nerd Rock' making the white race an absurdity with overly out-dated styles of whites and bad dance moves. An even more absurd contrast for them is an attempt at playing funk music, included on this cd.

99 Hooker/with Tom Scandura - 99 Hooker is a jazz slut saxaphonist that uses any excuse to blow his horn as hard as he can and just be super loud and obnoxious. He's been on a bunch other's cds and a few of his own. Tom Scandura was the drummer for the defunct super jazz rock whatever monster: the Molecules.

Aerobics King - Humble jokers somewhere between granny goose and the most abrasive crap on No New York. Just a big fucked up mess mostly.

Alpha-Butts - A duo who plays trick non stop dance tunes with no beat and less dancers. Very modern electronic ensemble avoids all the cliches and dont tire easily as the sounds never seem to lose momentum or dullness.


Barney - This guy is a non stop mad scientist burning his own motherboards and constantly pouring through catalogues getting obscure parts for his 3 theremin porta-block. To look at the intricacies of his wires and knobs can cause confusion and death to weak minds. There is just too much shit.

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Take a sad man stuff him full of junk food and give him a distortion pedal with a keyboard. You got it. This guy with his stories and thick sound has put people in their hankies.

Chris Brown - Chris has worked at Mills College for ages working on electro-acoustic music and electronics. His own stuff is a cut up mess of sharpened changes and animation. His are the fingers that perform the intricated Henry Cowell pieces when needed. Dextrous and amazing to watch. Like frying live fish on each poising feeler finger. John Zorn is always using Chris to boost career needs. Several solo cds are to his credit.

Cokra - The absolute bottom line of DISCO music. A duct tape chick & dick band with a 'dance' beat makes a crazy wild ruckus and SO cool: the end all of all music. Wierd ass Noise keyboards over a fat beat/bass. SEXY!

Commode Minstrels in Bullface - A soundtrack band whose Mexican Dogfight Show/Movie soundtrack is included in part here. They have one lp and a few singles. Live shows are costumer's nightmare with cardboard boxes to citadels and cow-shit top hats.

Deerhoof - Famous from touring and being on the 'Kill Rock Stars' label, they have a slew of releases. This is a live show made when they were a 5 piece ensemble with noise as their middle unpronouncable name. The vocals are in harmony, the music is disharmonic demonology.

Deb Foxxx Hamhoxxx - Viola diva who is self taught and often sought. She has played for Denmark Royalty as well as complete drunken idiots. This is a stab at 'New Wave' as the synth/drum machine player has a collection of vintage goodies. Deb commands the ensemble and dumps her viola tones on the top.

Dr. Oblivious - Might be the best thing LA has going for electronics. This duo has played on freeway overpasses and crappy clubs and are seriously underrated in their home town. The live show at the Clit got them a standing ovation, something that should happen at every show.

Earwicker - I have seen this band evolve from playing medical equipment (alpha wave readers!) to skipping video game cartridges to laptop mixing both. This excerpt is the best of any show they've done. Every show you think they've outdone themselves and they go one more...

Frank Gratkowski - This saxophonist is from Koln Germany and is the only sax player who can make the sound of sea waves hitting pipe and gurgling/burp up through it. His show at the Clitstop was incredible, such sounds were never heard on dry land through a gaddam sax no less!! Incredibly unique and WEIRD sounding.

Fuel For Tongues - His farewell show left blood on the walls. Just intense emotional content. He smashes into his guitar, screams into the pickups and throws himself into anything shorter than himself. Cant really call this metal, mental maybe.

Chlorgeschlect - Berlin's own. People had to turn their heads at this one, the sound was sooooo loud and the vid projector showed fave german scat vids mixed with stick figures on speed. Using degraded MP3 files and Berlin's array of new technology processing equipment for DJs he ruins any good disco party with damaged ears and no-tanze.

Hammer Eye Dimuzio - Joseph Hammer from the incredible So. Cal band Solid Eye and Thomas Dimuzio from RRRecordings (he has about 10 CDs out) put together this ensemble processing super skips and turning everything into drowning tones. A real dark threatening kind of atmosphere was created for this show. Like an underwater air raid or something....

Kit Clayton - Famous overseas, - local hero on the laptop. All sounds were jarring and subtle, smooth and trebly. A total contradiction flavor that left a real metallic non human skin crawling feel in the bones. Messed up and delivered with scientific precision.

Lo Fi Nissans - Japanese nuts who jump around. When talent wouldn't work they a)burned butt on the bbq b)threw giant boobs on the standup drum kit c) played with toys d) did cartwheels. Or all of the above. Rock?! at it's most depraved circus of the brain damage.

Lowdown - What has to be the Keith Moon of No Wave on drums this keyboard riff powered abrasive mess is glued together from silver helmets with phone cords attached to each member. Fun to watch and real tactful with the starts and stops.

Mike Boner - Exemplifies self abuse and self humiliation coupled with stream of consciousness and self exploration- on stage. One semi man and a guitar and a trunk full of baggage. Thrown out of clubs, parties before performing because he masturbated with food somewhere on the premises.

Moron - One guy and a laptop explore the human mind with the foreconsious to the unconscious. During this show it was hard to tell if I was asleep or awake since the Clit was pitch black until he threw in a loud sound jarring the conscience.

NaUTical AlManac - Sweet hearts of the Chicago 'Ogre Techno' scene, they combine exceptional gestures bordering on mime with staple to the forehead eclectronic. Pioneering idiot s/avante garde they utilize broken toys and keyboards to wicked ends covering them in knobs and buttons. Have an LP out on the Hanson label.

No Neck Blues Band - NYC's darlings of the underground, improv in a key of laid backness. These guys are real serious about what they do but often it's just silly aimless improv. They have a lot of releases. You're under a rock if you don't know about them.

Omnivorous Sensillum - Giant insects play briefcased hand built synthesizers and theremin. The insect heads leave no emotions to be read/ the claw spurs more sounds than a hive of hornets going batty on Rob Moogs sound lab.

Patchcords - Members of National Disgrace and Liquorball started this tribute band to Sammy Hagar. Not being able to listen to one of his songs through revised themselves into super celeb Slammy Windshield and are evolving from there. Lowest common denominator of music barely held together with a bike seat or soup can used as a drum kit.

Rubber O Cement with Karla LaVey - The super computer (7' high & growing) cargo cult band with bizarre fetal tissue costumes (giant baby feet) and abstract eclectronics known as Rubber O Cement team up with super organ player Karla LaVey. Raised in the infamous Satanic LaVey family she's the only LaVey that received organ lessons from Anton or 'pop' as she called him.

Rx fxr Bx - Originally an LA noise rock band (Roses for Bodan) this group has a mangled drum machine and strange synths sounds over a 'group noise' ethic. All instruments are created equal and must sound like a locomotive coupling with a rippling vat of slug shit.

Schematic - This is a freak show with a metal detector as an instrument. The members are eclectic looking, the instruments are archaic, new, found and a cowbrain in a pickle jar with wires coming out! When the drum machine turns on there is a semblance of order, otherwise.......

Slusser - A living god of sound. He works on the audio explosions for movies (top in his class), makes soundtracks, sound effects for movies, builds weird stuff, eats children for breakfast. This legend has so much in his sound library you close your eyes when he's cutting loose and you're convinced he's ending the world.

Spider Compass' Good Crime Band - Revolving around the faulty device known as the Optigon (light organ). This keyboard band makes dancey lounge music picked to death by carrion eating vultures who like nothing more than to tear up any regulated beat with an aimless shredding of cardboard beaks.

SYMPLX - the human genius that made a 12 armed record player that can sew the record also made a strange audio-laser noise maker (theres other stuff too). Sounds that remind one of popcorn popping to the world being chewed up. Complex and Ingenius got together and made this brand of super puzzle.

Tamio Shiraishi - This is ear damage. He doesn't play the sax as much as the membranes of the inner ear warping back and forth and the sounds they make. The only person I've ever experience who made me wince without using the PA at the Clit Stop. The recording here should be at full blast and imagine the show itself being louder if you can.

The Bran...Pos (another plight of medics) - A one man maelstrom of heroic roto-turbine vocals and here/there instruments. Going through a bank of effects he takes you to remote parts of the echo valleys of the Andes where sounds are of insects and yelping animals to the garbage disposal he's cramming your borrowed ears into.

Wicked Witch - A duo who listen to Sabbathesque metal all day then smoke pot, then put on nifty new tuxedos and play for houuuuurs cranking out 100 riffs a day.

Woof Pies - Synth and laptop combo tech teachers from the abstract blurred geometric future. Fetishistic and beyond any bizarre description. Much of the sounds they make are of a correspondence to the education of a future race of cell slabs. Well, go figure.

The Effable Lord Xiadino - When out of a research binge this eccentric fruitloop pulls together collected sounds and presents them to a ClitStop before hrs. show (6-8pm). instigating small discussion groups on what the hell we just heard. His latest kick is the reconfiguration of the piano, and treatment of the piano, and the history of the treatment of the piano, and etc. ad infinitum.

Zeek Sheck - Chicago legend. She has been known to heckle, choke, scream, play laptop, exercise, play harmonica, eat, run robots, rant, play maraca, pound drums, and sing sweet nothings. Each show is completely spontaneous and crazy within the safety of her creep out 'anonymous costumes'. This was the end of a modeling display of the human muscle show she put together.

—Descriptions by Bonnie Banks