Last night I came home to a beautiful glowing box from A Giant Fern. The Video Nasties cassettes have arrived! And a whole bunch of awesome pins as well (I’m basically draped in them at this very moment, but they’re yours with an order). The wooden cases are simply to die for, and the jewel cases perfectly capture the darkness and cynicism of the cassette.

Order your copy here! International orders may want to save on shipping and get their copy of AGF.

Video Nasties - Amore e Rabbia (AGF7 c34)

The Portuguese label and friend A Giant Fern has released Video Nasties’ fourth cassette, Amore e Rabbia. 34 minutes of dark distorted Yamaha compositions, exploring the duality of passion and anger within war, politics, and society.

25 black shell copies packaged in a screen-printed wooden case with two small pins of your choice. (8 euros)
25 white shell copies packaged in a jewel-case with one large pin. (5 euros)

Order directly from A Giant Fern. TLWS distro copies coming soon.

I had no plans on posting this since it’s an unofficial/unsolicited video, but if Fusetron posted it and they’re the only distro selling the single, does that make it the official video? A mystery for the ages.

Pick up the B.Y.O.B. 7” at Fusetron. My vinyl rip sounds like a hunk of junk in terms of audio quality.

Scrambled pornography, the unsung hero whose death will never be properly mourned in the battle between the digital age and the analog yesterday, still lives in your CRT. For optimal viewing, keep your thumb on the Jump/Recall button of your remote control, just in case one of your parents decide to walk down the basement stairs. Channel 70 remained snowy and scrambled for a reason. Secrets are rarely revealed so easily.

This video is quite smutty and is not safe for work or family functions.

“The Bookhouse Boys” appears on Les Cousins Dangereux c27 cassette “Jacks”. Copies are available here.

A whole new batch from They Live We Sleep! It’s been a while since the last cassette (the long gone certified jammer that was Acheron), so to make up for lost time, THREE NEW RELEASES. Click on the titles to learn more!

ckettering - Boarding Au Natural & White Life (TLWS011 c30)

Les Cousins Dangereux - Jacks (TLWS012)

Ocular Gymnastics - Vol. 1 (TLWS013)

Our friend over at Moduli TV (AKA our friend over at the great and ever expanding Hobo Cult) has made a video for Ocular Gymnastic’s debut cassette “Vol. 1”. Moduli TV dismantles archair architecture, leaving rubble appropriate for Ocular’s junkyard drumming style.

The video hiatus is over. Videos are coming, and they’re coming for you. Here’s the first video of a new year (so to speak).

Happy New Year’s 12 minute epic made it’s first appearance in an issue of Yeti (issue 11), which was packaged with a CD with a tracklisting whose track length correlated with it’s track number (1 song, 1 minute. 2nd, 2 minutes. 12th, 12 minutes.) An abridged version appears on a 7” released by Crikey! Records, with the killer A-side “Gold Medallion”.

“And… Begin!” is a slow boil, evoking the desire of transformation. Sometimes we dress as something we’re not, walking down the street with our non-others. Source material “Paris is Burning” shares such desire.

Written, produced & performed by Eleanor Logan at The Hospital, Brooklyn NY, 2011. Mixed by Jeremy Scott at The Civil Defense, Brooklyn NY.

Here’s a Video Nasties mixtape made for Slackula Radio.

slackula:

Video Nasties “Healthy Diet Mixtape”

This mixtape was mixed live and improvised. This is the result of marathoning seasons of Oz. I no longer hang out in parks after 11. I walk down the streets with my fists clenched. I close doors when I have conversations. My business is my business. Don’t ask anybody for favours. And don’t do favours for anybody else. When you hear rattling tire chains, I’m nearby.

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?8jhqq177g5qvog7

Tracklisting:

1. The Wire - Bumpy Something
2. Kanye West - Flashing Lights
3. Clipse (feat. Ab-Liva & Roscoe P Coldchain) - Cot Damn
4. The Thing - Awake Nu
5. Damian Bowness - Pen(sieve)
6. Felix - Tiger Stripes
7. Hot Ice - Theme from Friday the 13th Part III
8. Crumb Brothers - Seat in the Kingdom
9. Video Nasties - Splatter Punks Territory

Oh, and a whole new batch of cassettes are coming.

Mixtape taken from the Night Bus set w/ CFCF & JRC (Montreal/Blizzarts/Nov. 10).

Here, above,
cracks in the buldings are filled with battered moonlight.
The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.
It lies at his feet like a circle for a doll to stand on,
and he makes an inverted pin, the point magnetized to the moon.
He does not see the moon; he observes only her vast properties,
feeling the queer light on his hands, neither warm nor cold,
of a temperature impossible to records in thermometers.

This feeling of disconnection existed long before Night Bus, but the existence of Night Bus makes me feel just a little bit more comfortable. Thank you, CFCF and JRC, for allowing me to join in on the celebration.

This mixtape was mixed live. The tracks are as follows:
1. The Black Hole (dialogue)
2. Hype Williams - The Throning
3. Excepter - Rock Stepper
4. Acheron - Broken Ship
5. G-Side - Shots Fired
6. Colin Stetson - Judges
7. Chris Isaak - Wicked Game
8. Kanye West w/ Rick Ross - Devil in a New Dress
9. Clams Casino - Numb
10. The Clipse - Nightmares
11. The Black Hole (dialogue)
12. Video Nasties - The solar system dies of crib death. If that’s what it takes, then okay.

Mediafire.

What with the lethargic summer heat, a failing external hard drive, and no access to editing labs, the production of videos have slowed down. I plan on remedying this. But, in the meantime, here’s something not-so-new! From the out-of-print DVD-R “Please Insert Cassette Vol. 1”, the Video Nasties video for “You Ain’t No Punk You Punk”. This track can be listened to on the first side of Video Nasties’ “No. 3”, which is still available, though limited to only 25 copies.

And, for those who love to be nagged, if you somehow have money leftover from the Suoni Per Il Popolo festival, swing by Sala Rossa tomorrow night for Wyrd MTL! $10! 10 bands! I’ll be doing visuals until my fingerprints fall off! And then I start carjacking!