Alright Hubski, My music taste is starting to get a little crazy and I'm searching for the most unorthodox stuff I can find. I have yet to run into something that is too weird. what is your favorite weird music? I'm talking stuff that sounds completely strange in one way or another. Some examples I've been listening to lately: Sgure (the only track I could find of his that's streamable, but the album Anulus Pexie was actually considerably harsher and weirder than this) makes harsh electronica with arrhythmic glitches and sometimes samples of people vomiting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN2mSdyCKL0
Dan Deacon, famed collaborator with Animal Collective has some interesting experiments, especially with use of vocals in his album Twacky Cats: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNgNWI-L--s
Holger Hiller made some excellent crazy progressive rock back in 1986 with his album Oben Im Eck. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV42R3XCj8o
Delia Derbyshire and Barry Bermange made a radio collage first broadcast in 1964 using the voices of people recounting their dreams. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMSFSgLbLy8
Tom Dissevelt and Kid Baltan created a brilliant, groundbreaking album of electronic music way back in 1957. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dl-B5YwvLw
Hans Frisch made some crazy psychedelia with Levende Opjekten Sjoo in 1969. Haunting vocals and wide ranging influences. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSy88sWlweA
Enemite is a Chinese dark ambient group whose album Wuyuan has some seriously awesome gutteral vocals. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SvPlLdV8Xg
Praxis is Bill Laswell, Buckethead and Brian Mantia doing crazy fusion stuff and on the album Sacrifist, they brought on Bootsy Collins and Bernie Worrell from P-Funk. Mixes metal, funk hiphop and more with a bunch of very technically skilled and adventurous musicians. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nunD6ZI4Xyc
Sharkula is a staple of the Chicago underground scene. Famous amongst those in the know for selling people albums on the street and being the weird uncle of cloud rap. I recently saw him open for Kool Keith and it was everything I hoped for. He raps stream of consciousness type and is a generally funny cool guy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot3Zru-hBtQ
Death Grips, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Sleep Party People and Flying Lotus are some better known artists I would throw in.
So what about you guys? Favorite weird music? Weirdest favorite music? Something you don't even like but have to respect for how far it goes?
Not sure about "weird", but Ornette Coleman's double quartet album Free Jazz might belong on this list. I find that the only way to listen to it successfully is by lying on my bed and staring at the ceiling.
I do like free jazz a lot, but I never really found it weird or hard to listen to, I guess probably because my dad played a lot of jazz when I was growing up. That's a great album though.
I would really appreciate if Fog and Yoni Wolf would get back together and do another album for Hymie's Basement
There's a good number of those I'm not too familiar with. cLOUDDEAD is great of course; big name in cloud rap.
That Cornelius track is pretty cool. I'll have to check out the album.
The Matmos track is cool. A cool album to check out in that style (but a bit more hyped) is Fuck Piece - The Nam Shub of Enki
U.S. Maple has some cool grooves. So do Religious Knives.
Nadja is really cool. I like the ethereal noisy stuff like Sleep Party People which I mentioned in the OP. A lot of good stuff in that post. Thanks much.
Just checked them out and wow. That's super cool. At some points they almost sound like musique concrete (which is something I probably should have mentioned in the OP) and at others the sound is more folky plucking. Thanks!
Let's get real weird up in here. * The Nihilist Spasm Band is a canadian band that has been made around since the 1960s and makes there own instruments. A few songs: Destroy the Nations, Dog Face Man and here is them on some random Japanese TV show I think talking about their instruments. * Hasil Adkins he made really weird rockabilly. There was a fairly interesting documentary up on youtube about him but it seems to be gone here is a promo from another doc. Songs: She Said, No More Hot Dogs, * There is of course legendary punk rocker gg allin. I've never really listened to his music, but he is a legend in his own bizarre right. * Silver Apples aren't weird by today's standards but Oscillations was very strange by 1968's standards. Moving toward's contemporary. * HEALTH is fairly strange they make pretty aggressive hardcore/noise music. Die Slow
Diamanda Galas does glossolalia-inspired shrieking. Sometimes she does a kind of gospel instead, but that's pretty great too. Author & Punisher makes doom metal with machines he builds.
I really like the vocal style in the first link, but the quality is super low. Is there an album of hers with that style you would recommend? Is that doom metal? I'm sort of confused on what makes some of the modern subgenre distinctions, and always associated doom metal with guys like Electric Wizard. Cool nonetheless. The sound itself sort of gives me an early NIN type of vibe.
The Divine Punishment and Saint of the Pit It's definitely not traditional doom metal, but doom is what he says he has in mind and there's definitely a family resemblance. I've seen him classified as industrial too, and I can see that as well. His bandcamp uses both as tags.I really like the vocal style in the first link, but the quality is super low. Is there an album of hers with that style you would recommend?
Is that doom metal? I'm sort of confused on what makes some of the modern subgenre distinctions, and always associated doom metal with guys like Electric Wizard. Cool nonetheless. The sound itself sort of gives me an early NIN type of vibe.
I'm a fan of outsider music. A couple of favourites are The Shaggs and Daniel Johnston. Daniel Johnston gained some recognition thanks to Kurt Cobain. And the Shaggs were called "better than the Beatles" by Frank Zappa. They were also praised by Kurt Cobain.
I've always thought that the difference between "outsider" and "insider" music has gotten progressively smaller over time. A large component of the original punk movement dealt with the democratization of music, and more recently with lackadaisical rap gaining some degree of popularity as well as production software (particularly auto-tune) becoming both easy to come by and relatively easy to use, it is now very easy to make music that is acceptable, which can become exceptional if accompanied with a powerful message or emotion. Of course "outsider" can also just refer to music that comes from a different tradition or doesn't have a direct link from prior works--something that just sounds different. Speaking of Zappa, he also worked with Captain Beefheart, who was a rather interesting musician.
I'm a giant fan of Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding. Sadly, I have also had to debate whether or not it is music more than once.
Ah. I actually used to listen to a bunch of Venetian Snares. He has some pretty cool percussion throughout his career. I can't really understand not seeing tracks like this as music though; it's percussive in a pretty standard sense, and even melodic. I shudder at what the people you're arguing with would think of harsh noise or industrial.
Great thread! Lots of good music, but wanted to clarify that Dan Deacon is not Deakin of Animal Collective. They're both Baltimore based and have similar sounds, but they intentionally have a deal to have Dan use his full name to make sure there isn't any confusion. Of course there still is, but thought you'd like to know.
Deacon and Deakin are different. Wow that's confusing. Thanks for the heads up.
Reynols - the only physical piece of music I have by Reynols is an 8-track, and it is the only 8-track that I own. Weasel Walter, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Jim O'Rourke, "Tribute to Masayuki Takayanagi" - Brilliant song titles, terrible music by these improv all-stars.