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Last Perfect Day |
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Brian Wilson melodies abound (or something)..
Featuring dreamy guitar sample from the Jazz Butcher tune
Rosemary Davies World Of Sound, and a studio drum loop from
Poi Dog Pondering's Frank Orrall.
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Flibberty Jib |
mp3 |
We played a rave billed as Linda McCartney On Tour.. Halloween gig with Whittemore, Bruce (ex-Fuzz Factor) Stevens on guitar. Matt sharp provided beats for this Ken Nordine "cover".
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Trumpette |
mp3 |
We played a rave billed as Linda McCartney On Tour.. Halloween gig with Whittemore Bruce (ex-Fuzz Factor) Stevens on guitar.
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Perpetually Thursday |
mp3 |
We played a rave billed as Linda McCartney On Tour.. Halloween gig with Whittemore Bruce (ex-Fuzz Factor) Stevens on guitar. Me singing a Brady song.
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Orbit | mp3 |
A Big Ballad.
Jessica called it the Radio Tune.
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O Danny Boy | mp3 |
This was the first piece recorded as the Sharp/Whittemore Vergiftung duo.
Yes.. This is indeed a 21 minute piece. All improvised and multitracked
under the influence of drunken inspiration. We think it is still quite
enjoyable for those who appreciate such things.
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Thing | mp3 |
Shamefully vaguely Bruce Hornsby.
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Soon (MBV remix) | mp3 |
Got the new My Bloody Valentine single. Remixed it.
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Lost In Her Head | mp3 |
Country & western disco pop.
Amazing what you can do by bouncing tracks between 2 DAT
machines and overdubbing simultaneously. Recorded in one
evening. Brady sings to a hat stand. Delightful slide-guitar
work by Martin Stebbing.
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Audrey Hepburn | mp3 |
Big Happy Beat-y.
Lyrics by The Belgian Waffles. Tune by Sharp/Whittemore.
Bassline sample from the original Belgian Waffles version. "Grunge" guitar by Roman Candle's Don Baker.
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C'est Bon | mp3 |
Dortmunder beer rules
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Club Entropy | mp3 |
You'll never guess where the string sample came from.
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Girlfriend | mp3 |
No one seems to like this song but me, and I think it rocks.
Brady's hopelessly hopeless vocal stylings crack me up
on this one. The whimpy guitar isn't bad, either.
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Resolution | mp3 |
Ambient, instrumental.
At volume, this one can rip your bowels open. A beautiful,
moody, self-contained dream world. I hope you enjoy it.
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Among The Ruins | mp3 |
Introspective, sensitive guy ballad. I like the reverbed kick that
sounds like a heartbeat.
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I'll Take Vermont | mp3 |
Bowie, or something.
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The Chux Of Luv | mp3 |
From the now infamous National Soil Erosion Sound Laboratory
recording sessions. The payback is in the subtle details.
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Cicero and Devon | mp3 |
A bastardization, years after the fact, of a simple geetar
strumming whimsy. Features the lovely Signals from the
Planet A.M. and a deliberately amateurish jungle drum loop.
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Moon River | mp3 |
Deep experimentation adlib between Whittemore and Sharp.
You've been warned.
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The Sandwichmaker | mp3 |
Brady is lost in the kitchen.
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Shindig Live |
mp3 |
Groovy
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Urgent/Aid | mp3 |
Straight-up tech-disco
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Lake Effect Snow | mp3 |
Swirly
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Actually, It Occurred To Me | mp3 |
Matt Sharp accosts Ms Hollingsworth's answering machine late at night.
Worth waiting around for the end.
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Maggots | mp3 |
Matt Sharp, Jody Long and I try my neighbor's patience.
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So Sue Us | mp3 |
Matt Sharp and I bastardize some samples of the Purdue pacifist band
Icemakers Of The Revolution. This was a limited-edition release
on re-used cassettes that sold for 33 cents (after tax). The Icemakers
were perplexed. As you probably will be.
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Whale | mp3 |
Justified ambient disco epic.
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Why? | mp3 |
Damnit! Outta My Head!
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Filth | mp3 |
Brady crucifies a Black Eg tune.
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Pepto Bismol | mp3 |
Sick, confused
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The Beer Song | mp3 |
Bell-like sounds from playing samples past their range.
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The Beer Song (live) | mp3 |
Opening for (Trade)Mark Gunderson of the Evolution Control Committee (ECC) at the
Acme Art Co. in Columbus Ohio.
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(Dis)Continuity | mp3 |
Matt and I (or was it Jody), probably drunk (see?), improvising on dueling samplers
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Carrie Newcomer (On The Rack) | mp3 |
A 2-second voice sample of Carrie Newcomer, stepped-through veeerrryyy sssslllloooowwwwlllyyyy.
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Darling Nikki | mp3 |
My adopted son Jody sings the Prince song through pitch shifters.
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Pluto | mp3 |
An adaptation of the M, Walking On The Water tune.
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Shindig (original) | mp3 |
Timothy Leary raps to a nice 10-bar loop.
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Stepping Out | mp3 |
My adopted son Jody pretends he has a diva's viking hat on and sings the Joe Jackson song.
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Up Around Devon | mp3 |
Noise. And lots of it.
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Whale (Studio) | mp3 |
A now-wiped version of Whale as recorded onto 2" tape.
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Von Dammerung Revenge | mp3 |
In 1992, Pat Fish was accosting me with Black Eg cassettes,
so I decided to retaliate a bit. This is a massive, 23-minute, 30Meg
free-form composition.
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I've Lost My Hold (live) | mp3 |
28Sep1991, multi-band end-of-summer event sponsored by Von's Records
of West Lafayette, IN. This is a killer Matt Sharp composition,
which completely blew away anything done by the disco fag band which
played after us.
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Pluto (live) | mp3 |
28Sep1991, a live version of Pluto, with Jody mixing his wacky cassettes
and John Davison playing live drums.
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My Funny Valentine (live) | mp3 |
28Sep1991, a John Davison/Matt Sharp arrangement of the classic, based
around a vocal sample of Frank Sinatra. We had technical difficulties
towards the end of this song. I've edited out most of the buzzing but
left in a bit at the tail end for those who like noise. Mmmm.
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My Darling Darjeeling |
mp3 4.0M |
Sheep!
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older encodings, lower quality | ||
Duck |
mp3 |
What can you say? Ha Ha Ha.
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Whale Live |
mp3 |
Justified ambient disco epic.
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Arvo Party |
mp3 |
It ain't pop - Adlib sound collage.
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Brian Counts |
mp3 |
Wilson in full effect
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Polka Dots |
mp3 |
Brady needs a date
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The Gravity Of Sound |
mp3 |
Sweet, confused
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Vergiftung were:
Matt Sharp and their guests - sampled or otherwise. |
My version of LPD is a tad bit different than this one. Brady's inaudible pseudoBrit voc's don't nearly match the quality of the backing trax. (Your niece Sara will be doing the voc's on my take....)
Keep up the good work!
Moe
Cool site
Stumbled accross your site by accident and am happy to start downloading some Vergiftung. I have vaugue and drunken memories of a live Vergiftung show where I played an orange stool and various bits of metal hung by strings with no skill but much passion. It was at a party at the Loach house many, many years ago. Good stuff. Hope all are well.
looking for brady branam. if anyone speaks to him, please tell him krista lane says hi. thanks.
Dear Vergiftung,
Buddy Epsen is dead. Happened last week.
Yes,I am still in contact with the Belgian Waffles. I saw them a few weeks ago in Louisville. They did the Rocket form the Tombs standard NonAlignment Pact plus John Cale's Fear with a sort of Third Uncle(Eno version) vibe plus brand new songs you never heard of.
Embarrassingly,I unsuccessfully tried to establish civilized contact with Indoor Boy. I guess part of being hip is still saying prog is bad. If there is any justice in the world,Don's children will grow up to be rebellious teenagers with Yes and Genesis records blasting away on their stereos. I have noticed there are at least two new bands today that sound like Indoor Boy(of 1996-7): Interpol and Archvisceral Parlour. Interpol is famous. Archvisceral Parlour are not. I would go to a new Indoor Boy concert,but I don't want to get into a fist fight because I may accidentally mention Don sounds almost as good on guitar as Robert Fripp. Its not easy having my own individual musical taste these days.
What type of music are you doing these days?I have been doing some things with samples that you may find interesting. One of my projects will involve abusing technology to construct a Genesis song solely out of Belgian Waffles samples(yes,they hate prog too). Perhaps another will be a hip hop song made out of Indoor Boy bits.(I already consider Indoor Boy to be prog,so it would be pointless to reassemble them back into it). Do you know how I can contact Negativland?
Thank you,
John A Knight
A reunion to end all reunions.
ANY PLANS ON TOURING THE BIBLE BELT THIS SUMMER?
i love david. im sorry you got married, you wank. come visit me,(or did you?) or ill be forced to come visit you,,,,enough said, i hope you are happy, and kiss that cuterthanshit pooch of for me........see you at burningman2003?
David -
Here's a hazy memory from your past. I still
have samples you created for me on my now
aging Ensoniq ASR-10. I think of you and
Vergiftung each time that ancient box comes
alive, and hums the mantra of sixty cycles.
Rob West - Purduevian, now Seattle-ite.
I think you should come back to Lafayette and have a reunion show...a little bitta country, a little bitta rock n roll..a little bit of noisy feedback mingling with bad vocals...
: )
Dear vergiftung(RIP?),
I have been a big fan of the Belgian Waffles for 11 years.I have spoken to your members Don Baker and Brady Branam.Vergiftung has a very intricate history.I find it especially interesting because there have been certain lineups which contained no founding members.What was strange about Don was that he did a Belgian Waffles cover without even having heard of them.Meanwhile he did a king crimson cover(21st schizoid man) with Roman Candles without having heard the original.
I met Don through doing a few shows where my bands(the Bunk and placydil farrakhan) were on the same bill as his band Indoor Boy in 1996.Although I have never played with Don,I have played with his clone.More details later.
I knew Brady because members of a band I was in called Pervdotcom lived with him in 1997.I had the privilege of interviewing him during the great storm of August of 1997.He disappeared shortly afterwards.I am currently living in Brady's hometown.Oh what a giveaway.Ssshhh...
If you vergiftung guys are still alive,write to me.I am interested in the history.I would like to get ahold of the all guitar lineup of vergifung on tape as well as hear live versions of Audrey Hepburn.
johnakni