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PS Perkins of Mystic Tape Deck: Lyrics, Guitar, Robot Drums, Slice n Dicer, Salad Spinner, Snuggling Bears, Toenail Creams

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Soundless syllables tumble from clacking keyboards

No breath behind them, no flapping meat of tongue

No hiss of air squirting through saliva moistened glands

Words hurled into the ether, never piercing air

Just a void of space between screen and brain

And endless war, all around us human suffering

Rattling guns spraying hot globs of lethal loathing

Led by lecherous liars, far removed in boardrooms

Rolling across their polished marble floors

In luxurious leather chairs

Sprays of spittle, squabbling over jagged graphs

Submerged in sticky syrups

Selling toenail creams

Stain removers, starchy stiffeners, snuggling bears

Glitter ponies gliding through morning scented meadows

Where the wallet fruit hang ripe, heavy and sweet with sap

Honey dripping from their checkbooks

Self appointed, self anointed deities, hidden dealers of death

Life affirming, fate confirming algorithmic determinations

Bloated words, puffy and gaseous,

Farting out of flaring mouths

Exhaust pipes roaring, belching blackened clouds

The song of industry now ineludible, vibrational prisons

Noxious noise where a hundred years ago there was silence

Murmuring melodies of malodorous murder machines

Something to sell you, something to tell you

Coins to jingle gently in your pocket

As gluttonous gobs drip with drool

Leaving slobbery stains and muddy smears

Ground into the social fabric

By the twisting intemperate heels

Of four thousand dollar shoes

This is an old song, originally written in 1992 or '93 while on a hitchhiking trip through the Nevada desert from Boise to Tucson Arizona. It took my friend and I eight days on the road to travel about 700 miles.

The title is a reference to the two of us standing on opposite sides of the highway, willing to take a ride any direction as long as it got us out of there. It's about desperation, resignation, freedom, harassment, and finding beauty in the midst of extremes.

It is an experience I will personally never forget, and I have written the story once before but it was destroyed when a computer crashed and literally caught on fire before I could print it.

In the last few years I have started to try and tackle writing it again, and I stalled out a bit. Maybe revisiting this song will help inspire me to finish documenting the tale?

You can read what there is of it here: https://twowaythumb.wordpress.com/

Ron and I originally recorded this song with our old band Godzoundz, but it was only ever released on a very limited cassette run. We decided a while back that we should chip away at re-recording these songs and try to give them their due as it was all pretty deep underground back then. So here's the first one of those.

Our basement studio flooded a couple weeks ago and production has been temporarily slowed, so we thought we'd trot out some of these oddities and misfits while we chip away at reworking our studio and getting it put back together. Hope you enjoy!

Atlanta’s “Bog Witch” and Boise’s “Mystic Tape Deck” announce the release of a new collaborative single, “Dogs of Chernobyl” to mark the anniversary of the Chernobyl Disaster.

Following the April 26, 1986 nuclear accident, the City of Pripyat was evacuated. The residents were forced to leave their pets (including domestic dogs) behind.

Nearly 40 years after the accident, the descendants of these dogs are still living in the Exclusion Zone and a study is currently taking place.

Scientists are sampling the DNA of the dogs. Apparently, their DNA is irregular in some interesting ways.

Wendy writes “I couldn’t sleep one night and picked-up my phone to surf when I noticed an article about the radioactive dogs of Chernobyl. Right away it seemed like a song.”

Wendy invited Mystic Tape Deck to collaborate with her in creating the sonic pallet for this song, the proceeds from all sales of which will be donated to the Clean Futures Fund.

The Clean Futures Fund relies upon donations to provide medical supplies, vaccines, and food for the dogs living in the Exclusion Zone.

Donate $1 or more to the Clean Futures Fund via Bandcamp and receive a download of the single:
https://mystictapedeck.bandcamp.com/track/dogs-of-chernobyl

Find out more about the Clean Futures Fund:

https://www.cleanfutures.org/dogs-of-chernobyl/

Wendy DuMond: Lyrics, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals

PS Perkins: Electric Guitars, Bass, mallet snare, cymbal stack, midi

Ron Thomas: Drums, hand drums, shakers

Song by Wendy DuMond


Produced, engineered, and mixed by Mystic Tape Deck

Mastered by Sid Hagan

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VIDEO: https://youtu.be/W8TQxNqow7o

The video pretty much explains everything.

Now available via Bandcamp here: https://mystictapedeck.bandcamp.com/album/bards-of-the-next-revolution

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Strange things have been arriving in plain packages.

A couple weeks ago we received this tape in an unmarked post, we can only guess at who is sending these to us.

Side A is marked "4-12-85 Ashland" and appears to be a recording of a strange presentation and meditation service evidently held in "conference room B of the Holiday Inn and Suites of Ashland Oregon."

We know from our in-house Nazilic historian that The Cloak were doing some pretty intense recruiting seminars up and down the I-5 corridor during the mid 80's and early 90's, we can only assume this is a recording of one of these seminars from someone who attended. Still a lot of conjecture on our part as to the exact nature and source of this recording, but we thought some of our listeners might be deeply interested in hearing it. This was the only thing relevant on the first side, it was apparently taped over, it cuts away in the middle of a home taping of the Scorpions "Animal Magnetism" album.

Wait until you you hear what is on SIDE B!

The faceless, soulless capitalist cabal offers its sincerest condolences and apologies for monetizing life itself, but the apology is hollow and meaningless, falling upon decidedly unsympathetic ears.

How might it sound if our global corporate overlords offered their most lizard-heart-felt apologies for any "inconvenience" their greed and avarice have brought upon our lives? We think it might sound pretty insincere. You know, like a gaslighting apology: "We're sorry you feel that way." There may be an official apology "issued" but culpability is nowhere in sight.

This song started as an innocent and good natured attempt on our part to collaborate with Holy Shitshow @user-649412648 who provided the original piece months ago which inspired this whole crazy chain of events.

Next thing we knew, it was this whole song and the raft had drifted pretty far away from collaboration island in the process. We still used the piece in the song, and we are grateful for HS to be a part of it in the end. We think it made for a great foundation and love the ambiance it provides to the whole song. Riunite on ice, that's nice! https://youtu.be/_onOllDF2GY

We dig Holy Shitshow's music deeply, so please hear the original here and we hope you show some love their direction as well:

https://soundcloud.com/user-649412648/northwestsoutheast-first-wave-open-collab

This track also features some special guests:

On the flute we have Nick Collias

On the saxophone we have @metal-mark Mark Wand

Guitar, ukulele, bass guitar, omnichord, keyboards, melodica, samples, vocals, mix & master, Artwork by PS Perkins

Drums and percussion, mixing assist by R Thomas (@analog-shack)

A showdown with the great white dragon, who has awoken from a thousand years of slumber and is hoarding of all the world’s wealth. Dragons are made to be vanquished but they never go down easily without a fight.

We worked pretty hard on this percussion and drum arrangement.

As I was putting the final touches on the mix I started liking listening to it reduced in various ways.

Here is the whole song reduced (mostly) to just the drum parts.

I left some of the synth stuff in there on this run to give it a little color.

This is a drum take, three floor tom overdubs, various trashy snare sounds both real and manufactured, some triggers, samples, and manually sequenced electronic percussion stuff I wrote on the piano roll in the daw.

Hope you enjoy this, the finished track from our end is coming next.

I have enabled downloads on this in case you want to do something of your own on it. Slice and dice it, chop it up, use parts of it - whatever. It is fairly well on the grid and I think it is 90bpm though I am not entirely certain of that because I forgot to look before I uploaded it lol. Time signatures are weird. 9/4 and 5/4 and 4/4 alternating. If you need something removed just shoot me a message and I will mute whatever track and burn you a new mix even. That's how nice we are.

If you do something with it, please let us know, send us the link, and remember to give attribution to "Mystic Tape Deck."

A revolution is simmering in the underground, but it must be kept quiet. If the plans are discovered it could spell the end of the resistance and perhaps all human life as we know it.

The Shining One names their immortal self “Micaloz” and undergoes many developmental evolutions which resemble the stages of a larger pattern of development found across the various lifeforms of Earth.

Instruments used here:

- washing machine

- can of air duster spray

- mizmar (synth)

- mellotron (synth)

- bone tree/bamboo clackers

- Christmas bell bouncing inside an octagonal hand stretched goat hide drum

- furnace sounds

- large metal bowl with water in it

- miscellaneous digital beeps and bloops

- guitars: electric and acoustic

- bass guitar

- drum kit

- small hand drum

- tambourine

- flute (Nick Collias)

- melodica

- the entire last BARDS album sped up 13x

- digital piano

- Melissa and Doug toy piano

- steel drum

- vocals

- spoken word samples

- Hindi words read by google translate