On this edition of FrankenCartridge you’ll get to hear a new track, learn what happens when there’s a container leak off the coast of Connecticut, sequencing, and the best place to play Defender.
FrankenCartridge: Can My Home Studio Give Me the Advantage in a Knife Fight?
On this edition of FrankenCartridge you’ll get to hear a new track, learn about Indigo Moms, Vocal Thickening, and how not to go broke setting up your home studio while gaining the advantage in a knife fight.
The June 2024 “Old Timey Radio” Edition of RATYHTL (The Radio Show)
Intro:
Krystal System: “Master and Servant”
Set One:
klack: “Let’s Go To Berlin!”
Crisk.: “Beute”
Assemblage 23: “Love My Way (1998)”
Set Two
Renonce: “Fracasse”
Renonce: “Faille”
Big Black: “Jordan, Minnesota [Explicit]”
Big Black: “The Model”
Set Three
Go Fight: “Give the People What They Want (Pure Pain Mix)”
MVTANT: “Kanashibari”
Dark Chisme: “Lucretia My Reflection”
Set Four
Sebastian Komor from Icon Of Coil and Moonitor & Zombie Girl: “Creepy Crawler”
Gost: “The Prowler”
Live Not On Evil: “SHAKE”
The Faces of Sarah: “…Baby One More Time”
Set Five
Creux Lies: “Renegade – (Pixel Grip Remix)”
DANCE WITH THE DEAD: “Eyes of Madness”
Alien Sex Fiend: “Five to One”
Set Six:
Häxa: “Månen (MONOMORTE Remix)”
All Your Sisters: “Come Feel”
Pineal Ventana: “Shauna Doll”
Collide: “white rabbit”
Set Seven:
Houses of Heaven: “Strange Temptation”
Alcest: “Percées De Lumière”
Kælan Mikla & Bardi Johannsson: “Körkarlen”
Laibach: “Across the Universe”
I Was The Guest On This Week’s Episode of the VHUS Podcast
I was very happy to join host Dirk Marshall to discuss my favorite movies from 1976 though 1982
FrankenCartridge: Spooky Roads, Creepy Choirs, and Haunted Cellos
On this edition of FrankenCartridge you’ll get to hear a new track; learn about at least one Urban Legend; gets some tips about reverb, chorus, and delay; and watch me struggle with two pieces of metal. Good times!
The May 2024 “Demons of the Prairie” Edition of RATYHTL (The Radio Show)
Intro:
The Cassandra Complex: “Mouth of Heaven”
Set One:
Crime of Passing: “Damrak”
Houses of Heaven: “Dissolve The Floor”
Sadness Isolation: “Direct Lines”
Set Two:
HEALTH: “HATEFUL”
Caput Medusae: “Überfan”
Hante.: “Quiet Violence”
Numb.er: “Again”
Set Three:
Rosegarden Funeral Party: “Doorway Ghost”
Lene Lovich: “Ghost Story”
Void Vision: “In 20 Years (Extended Version)”
Set Four:
HUIR: “Vital”
Ego Likeness: “Crossed”
The Vanishing: “Lovesick”
Ritual Howls: “Dark Ceiling In Tennessee”
Set Five:
The Cemetary Girlz: “The Last Kiss”
Velvet Acid Christ: “The Dead (Death Wish Mix)”
TRAITRS: “Sea Howl”
Set Six:
Bestial Mouths: “INNARDS (ACTORS REMIX)”
Shadowplay: “Two Sides”
Corker: “The Cold Air”
Screams For Tina: “Eleven Eleven”
Set Seven:
Ceremony Shadows: “Resistance”
Selofan: “Glassplitter”
ATTRITION: “The Black Maria”
Diamanda Galás: “Let My People Go”
Everything Sounds Better in Edgar Allan Poe’s Basement
A short while back I paid a visit to the Edgar Allan Poe house here in lovely Philadelphia. This visit was prompted by my nephew, Jeff, whom you might know from the cover of the Dead Milkmen’s “If I Had A Gun” Single.
Jeff is nearly forty now, so just let that sink in.
Anyhoooo, while I was there I made sure to record an impulse in in EAP’s basement and…
What’s an impulse?
I’m so glad you asked! An impulse is usually a short percussive sound (I.e. A handclap or a snare hit) that is then imported into a convolution reverb tool such as FL Studio’s “Fruity Convolver“
You then apply this reverb to an instrument or vocal and the convolution reverb applies the properties of the space you recorded the impulse in to the sound and viola! You’re jamming in Poe’s basement. Or you’re jamming with your viola in Poe’s basement. I get confused, so maybe this will help clear things up.
Below is the impulse I recorded in Poe’s basement:
Poe_Basement.wav
Here is a set of drums playing a beat dry – no reverb has been added:
Drums_Dry.mp3
Now, here’s the same set of drums as if they were being played in Poe’s basement:
Drums_Poe_Basement.mp3
I’ll be sure to add the Poe’s Basement impulse to the Free Sounds section of this site along with any other impulses I have in my convolution library – including my own basement.
in the meantime, you can grab the EAP Basement Impulse from the link above.
You’re welcome, America.
Phun Philly Phact: My friend MC Lars, an enthusiastic Poe fan, once tried to jump the fence surrounding the Poe house before Dean Clean and I pulled back to safety,
The April 2024 “Kolchak: The Night Stalker” Edition of RATYHTL (The Radio Show)
Intro:
Kolchak – The Night Stalker – Main Theme
Anja Huwe: “Living In The Forest”
Set One;
Die Sexual: “Need To Sin”
Petrified Entity: “Doomscrolling”
Xmal Deutschland: “Incubus Succubus”
Set two:
Haunt Me: “Bésame”
Ike Yard: “Dancing + Slaving”
The KVB: “Labyrinths”
Dermabrasion: “Goblin Dance”
Set Three:
Notausgang: “Malphas*”
Pixel Grip: “Bet You Do.”
Set Four
Aesthetic Perfection: “No Boys Allowed”
Confines: “Every Day The Warehouse Shook”
New Model Army: “Coming Or Going”
Gibbous Moon: “Ayadda”
Set Five
Them Are Us Too: “Floor”
Assemblage 23: “This House Is Empty [Coldkill Remix]”
La Mverte: “Nigredo feat. JC from Vox Low”
Set Six
Twin Tribes: “Cauldron of Thorns”
Bella Lune: “Perpetuate”
Screamers: “Magazine Love”
Coffin Pricks: “Group Home Haircut”
Set Seven
The Ire: “Bacchic Danse”
Order of the Static Temple: “Shadow and Agony”
Rhino 39: “Marry It (Hell Comes To Your House 1981)”
A Bunch of Dudes in Isolation
Ed Korn (Gentleman Junkie, Element)- bouzouki, oud
Dave Bats (STG, Element) – bass
Tom Coyne (45 Grave, Last Dance)- drums
Brant Showers (∆AIMON, SØLVE) – synths
Rodney Anonymous (Dead Milkmen, 7th Victim) – lyrics/vocals, synths
Nabil Kassem (Gentleman Junkie, Kevorkian Death Cycle)- drums
Violeta Moreno (Vio) – vocals
Steven Archer (Ego Likeness, Stoneburner) – drums
Eric Malcolm Schreeck (Unextraordinary Gentlemen, Bloodpenny) – vocals
Mastered by Paul Roessler
Images from Scott Weaver
The March 2024 “Return To Brigantine Castle” Edition of RATYHTL (The Radio Show)
Intro:
Kælan Mikla: “Nornalagið”
Set One:
The Church: “A Strange Past (Radio Edit)”
Klandestine: “Skepticism”
Hante.: “Hate vs Love”
Set Two:
The Soft Moon: “Become the Lies”
Vlimmer: “Schwimmhand”
The Waning Moon: “The Burning Woods”
THEN COMES SILENCE: “Rise To The Bait”
Set Three:
Sensuous Enemy: “Soar (Moris Blak Mix)”
klack: “Body2Body2Body (Portion Control mix)”
Sour Tongue: “Nebraska”
Set Four:
Filmmaker: “Secrecy”
Constant Smiles: “Space In Your Eyes”
LEATHERS: “Crash”
ULTRA SUNN: “Shake Your Demons”
Set Five:
Black Asteroid: “Ashes and Dust (Extended) feat. ACTORS”
Bestial Mouths: “VAST MURMUR (BROKEN ENGLISH CLUB REMIX)”
40 Octaves Below + Earthed Apparatus: “Invizzion (Live Evil Productions Remix)”
Aura Nox & Christian Kroupa: “Compound Lies*”
Set Six:
Cold Choir: “Runaway (KISS OF THE WHIP) Remix”
Kontravoid: “Reckoning”
Antipole & Paris Alexander: “Perceptions”
Set Seven:
Kill Shelter: “Black String ft. Nate Jespersen”
Cyberaktif: “Locked Away”
Mojo Nixon: “Debbie Gibson is Pregnant with My Two Headed Love Child (Remastered)”
