Howl in the Typewriter is a solo music project from the warped genius of Stan Batcow over in Blackpool. I have known Stan for something like thirty years. One of his tracks in particular, Close, was always a firm favourite, and one of the first releases from his label, Pumf! Records, that I ever bought. While going through a series of you tube videos that Stan sent me, over at: https://www.youtube.com/user/PumfRecords I found myself best by the Creative Muse and decided to make a video remix, based on Close. The version of Close here is is the 7" Unextended Treemix version, from the Pumf flexidisc, Bedrooms and Knobsticks released in 1987. Images are a collage of happy childhood memories and disturbing scenes from Stan's own stomping ground of Blackpool. Enjoy!
The original idea for Tales of Bad Acid, was to develop a long mix based on intensely edited samples. However, the lures of the Creative Muse soon fell upon the ruined Plankton Brain, and before long a series of four different extended mixes, each one loosely based around a long core sample which was extensively edited and modulated and then mixed down with other choice audio goodness. All of these mixes are available on the Jonny Plankton Mixcloud site (over at https://www.mixcloud.com/JonnyPlankton ) as well as on this here blog. So here we go:
Tales of Bad Acid One: Mozart and Fingernails A long mix based on carious samples ranging from distorted and timestretched synth sequences, woven together with meticulously edited samples from TV crime series, radio shows and field recordings. The whole thing was mixed and assembled into a complex multi-layered mix to take your mind somewhere else entirely. The title and cover artwork is based on an oblique reference from the final sample.
Tales of Bad Acid Two: A Spoonful of Sugar A long mix based on songs and snippets from a film from my childhood - no clues here folks, other than you will probably recognise it if you look at the cover image long enough! Al of this audio then filtered and modulated in with masses of reverb and other weird and wonderful effects, and then mixed down with a series of drones and timestretched samples. A Mix to take you to places far beyond.
Tales of Bad Acid Three: Oddball Odd The idea for this mix was to work with a series of decidedly different audio samples - being the entire "Never Mind the Testicles" album by those Nasty Gender Rifles types, mixed and modulated into its own backing track - pretty soon, however, the backing track being a live mix of eastern world music, gongs and flutes, coupled with my own modular electronics - took over, and all that was left of the Punk Types was a series timestretched drones woven into the mix. Still very intense stuff however!
Tales of Bad Acid Four: Never Mined Working on the premise that any kind of audio source can be mixed and mutated into something else entirely, this one is based on the entire album from those awfully nice Punk Rock types, edited and modulated into a series of drones. This was then mixed into a strange - even for a Plankton - loop made from found ghostly voices picked up during a video found on YT of a flashlight display in a deserted gold mine in America. To top it off, extra samples of whispers and motion sickness inducing binaural beats were worked in to complete the mix. Altogether the mix evolved into something dark and uncomfortable, but compelling and beautiful.
The Creative Juices are surely flowing from Conny Plankton at the moment. This time round, we have got a new audio track, based on a series of multilayered lopops , mixed into a video of images slected by the ruined Plankton Brain and guaranteed to sizzle what is left of your optic nerve!
