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Everything Sounds Better in Edgar Allan Poe’s Basement

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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)

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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

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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)

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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)”

A Cover of The Dead Boy’s “Caught with the Meat in Your Mouth” (Featuring HEINRICH!)

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Hold you; touch you; feel you tonight: The Re-BGB Experiment is back!

Last time we introduced you to minimal synth outfit Richard Hell and the Voidoids. In this episode you’ll be exposed to the Trip-Hop stylings of the Dead Boys, featuring a guest vocal performance from legendary synth legend native of Berlin (PA) HEINRICH!

Enjoy! (Even though you probably won’t)

Here’s the original version:

The February 2024 “A Slight Whiff of New Wave” Edition of RATYHTL (The Radio Show)

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Dexys Midnight Runners: “Jackie Wilson Said (I’m In Heaven When You Smile)”
Anja Huwe: “Rabenschwarz”
Ladytron: “Destroy Everything You Touch (Vector Lovers Lost Version)”
Roxy Music: “Virginia Plain”
The Soft Moon: “Become The Lies (Phase Fatale Remix)”
Rosegarden Funeral Party: “Wintersong”
Rosegarden Funeral Party: “Another Word (Talk Talk)”
Peter Murphy: “I Spit Roses”
Kill Shelter: ” She´s In Parties (Bauhaus Cover)”
Ghost Twin: “Candle”
Ghost Twin: “Plastic Heart”
Lana Del Rabies: “Mother (MVTANT Remix)”
Sneaker Pimps: “6 Underground”
Midwife: “2020”
Split Enz: “I Got You”
SINE: “From Beyond feat. Leaether Strip”
Messer Chups: “Experiment in Terror”
The B-52’s: “Legal Tender”
P.H.0: “Wu Wuo 無我”
Kontravoid: “For What It Is”
FRACTIONS: “2005”
Elegant Machinery: “Shattered Grounds”
Avi Sakorka: “Close Your Eyes”
Headless Nameless: “Flash in the Dark (No Light Ever)”
yelworC: “The Unrecognized Gods”
Gazelle Twin: “Fear Keeps Us Alive”

A Cover of Richard Hell & the Voidoids’ “Blank Generation”

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Ever since I wrapped up the Re-Blitzed project last summer, I’ve been meaning to start a new experiment in a new place and era. This new project is called “Re-BGB”. I’ll be reimagining some early Punk songs as minimalist synth tunes. It’s not a bad idea – it’s a terrible idea and I plan to run towards this approaching subway train at full speed. Up first: a cover of Richard Hell & the Voidoids’ “Blank Generation”

And here’s the original

I would also like to recommend Richard Hell’s autobiography “I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp”

Metroshock DJ Playlist

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  1. Grendel: Out of My mind
  2. ULTRA SUN: Can You believe it
  3. Stoppenberg: Fearless
  4. Obscenity Trial: Seven Nation Army
  5. Emmon: Like A drum
  6. Mari Kattman: You Can Show Yourself Out
  7. HORSKH: – TURBINE ON
  8. Ego Likeness: Burn Witch Burn (Angelspit Remix)
  9. Shriekback: Nemesis
  10. Carbon 12: Burning Down the House
  11. Echoberyl: Silent Monster (The Other Side of the Mirror)
  12. Ashbury Heights: Dark Clouds Gather Over Vanity Fair
  13. Mildreda: Blame it on the Moon
  14. Echo and the Bunnymen: The Killing Moon

Many thanks to Neska for inviting me down to Metro Baltimore to spin alongside Nicholai & Angel.

January 2024 “If You Don’t Like It, Don’t Look At It” Edition of RATYHTL (The Radio Show)

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HORSKH: “TURBINE ON”
Violet Silhouette: “Strange Wind”
Bootblacks: “Wilderness”
Black Nail Cabaret: “Autogenic”
Kill Shelter: “As Trees Do Fall ft. Bragolin”
Menthüll: “Centuries later”
The Number H: “Hideous Dream”
ULTRA SUNN: “Two Snakes”
Order of the Static Temple: “Dark Sounds Dark Times (Solemn Shapes Remix)”
Rabbit Junk: “UNKNOWN OST [HOSTILE RMX]”
Phase Fatale: “Polystyrene”
Bile: “Submission (2023 Remaster)”
Witch Weather: “Don’t Need”
I Woke Up Chinese: “Lonely night”
Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders: “The Game Of Love”
mind.in.a.box: “I Love 64”
Emmon: “Like a drum (Potochkine Remix)”
LOUISAHHH: “Harder Now (feat. Wax Wings)”
KANGA: “Rehab”
SINE: “Dark Matters”
TR/ST: “Robrash”
Ortrotasce: “Seeing Red”
ACTORS: “Bury Me”
Petrified Entity: “Parallel Lines (Single)”
The Undertaker’s Tapes: “Kneel Before Fake Idols”
Diesel Dudes: “Pumpkin Musles”
Urban Heat: “Like This”