From GarageBand to Logic for final mastering. Contains sound clips from George A. Romero's 1985 film "Day Of The Dead".

Day Of The Dead

Tory, a Macintosh, and a guitar.  The constants of Dead Pornography over the last quarter century.

Guitarist for Spooky Action At A Distance

Originally intended as a band of sample mixers fixing beats for beat junkies and originally manned by Chris Roach and Marck and Leslie Hardy, "Anti-Melodic Chaotic Audio Assault Technicians" a.k.a. "A.M.C.A.A.T." created a spooky and beautiful combination of found and created rhythms and noise. =========== From microcassette voice recordings of dream retellings over frantic rolling drum fills and punchy dissonant bass slaps to samples of 1930's Italian standards over reverbed drum loops, A.M.C.A.A.T. was poised to create a subgenre of industrial music. Music that sounded like 5 djs mixing at the same b.p.m. but without benefit (or restraint) of musical structure.=========== As things deteriorated in a haze of alcohol induced fueding, the three quickly separated leaving a handful of low quality recordings held by only two members. A.M.C.A.A.T. was on the backburner, in jeopardy of setting off a smoke detector while the chefs slept through it and expired of carbon monixide inhalation. =========== Leslie, refusing to breath the foul air of failure, has set forth to rehearse and refine his primary functions as band member in the early days, beats and sound reinforcment. Advances in electronics, (Mainly, the addition of Macintosh computers as a recording platform. The early recordings were on 4-track cassette.) have allowed for higher-quality recordings and placed the A.M.C.A.A.T. sound randomly throughout cyberspace. The "noise" aspect of the 3-man colaboration has given way to actual melodies, as sparse as they may be, and chaos has given way to order, but A.M.C.A.A.T. is again active. =========== Fusing techno/goth/orchestra/hip-hop and industrial, Leslie is working and awaiting the return of inactive members to the fold. (Kinda like a creepy/weird/fucked-up version of "New Edition" on mind-altering drugs and no desire to sing a single note.) Stay tuned.

Psyrchus Praximus Productions (PPP) are recordings and projects initiated and/or produced by Ted Keylon at The Lab in The Bomb Shelter, Electrical Octopus, South Wing, and Ghost Ship Studios. They generally fall within experimental, noise, rock, loud, electronic, psychedelic, and some acoustic categories and I, Ted, am usually either playing ukulele, drums, bass, vox, assorted noise-makers (Evan Mitchell’s electric suitcase, the Schprong Box (my design), optical air effects, dual oscillating Yamaha Portasound synth, circuit bent HR-16 drum machine, ADHD Glitch Synth circuit, Crank Sturgeon noise boxes, body contact glitch circuit board, metal pipes, automobile radiator, cheap grandfather clock guts, Illy 10 pound coffee cans from Capitol Cafe in Springfield, IL circa 1997, through boutique and indie pedals such as GutterNoize,  Death by Audio, Electro-Faustus, Earthquaker, JHS, and Electro Harmonix, etc. or any combination thereof) recorded on a full spectrum field recorder or Linux DAW (Ardour), otherwise known as The Penguin.

I also collect other local music I find on SoundCloud that is safe to play on FM for my show Tuesday nights at 10pm Chicago Time on WQNA-DB, 'Esoterica' and the local segment at 11:11pm CST, 'Music From the 89th Parallel,' just go to 

http://listen.scbradio.org 

I also do a SoundCloud podcast RSS feed version of 'Esoterica,' that focuses on independent and unsigned experimental music, called 'Esoterica Special Edition': 
http://thespectra.net/podcast 
https://soundcloud.com/ted-keylon/sets/esoterica-special-edition-1

*High quality (HQ) recordings on digital audio workstations (DAW) are indicated as well as *Lo-fi (LF) and all other recordings fall somewhere in the middle. If a track contains many songs or pieces on one file it is labelled as a *Set (SET) and select parts of sets are *cuts (CUT) though not all cuts are indicated as such. Various revisions on HQ recordings on the Penguin indicated with "r1,' 'r2,' and so on.  All recordings are digital source unless otherwise noted. Tracks that are *not radio safe (NRS) are also indicated. *Other People's Projects on SoundCloud (OPP) are identified accordingly on playlists that include them. 

NOTICE: SoundCloud is now encouraging upload of high res files instead of mp3s so I will be selectively upgrading many tracks and they will be indicated with (:AIF) If there is a track you would like me to upgrade right away, let me know.

PPP is the audio part of the Spectra Network and involved with WQNA-DB/SCB's Esoterica program, its local segment, Music From the 89th Parallel, (Local music from Springfield and the surrounding area), and Esoterica Special Edition, the podcast version of the show that focuses on independent and unsigned experimental music.

Projects featured include:

Active-
Noom Yooze - (Trippy Harse Noise)
Blaque Rabitt - (psych rock alter ego of Sweet Bippy)
Shezarr's Folly (combination of projects into a supergroup-sucks up other project's material like a black hole-produces hybrid offspring shown in the name on playlists such as: 'sWEET FOLLy' and 'Shezarr's Meow')
NOXOMUS - (Noise/Harsh Noise)
Dr. Simultaneous Meow - (Noise solo)
Katzen Bippy - (Sweet Bippy making noise)
kow-PANG - (Noise Techno)
The Avant National Guard (tXAXNXGX) - (Noise/Krautrock)
Bass Bippy - (Sweet Bippy with bass)
Sweet Bippy - (Uke Fuzz Post Ho-Down Noise Rock)
Black Ops - (Covert Alt Rock)
Labscape - (Sound Scapes)
Scuba Guru - (Techno Jazz)
Ted Keylon's One Man Band - (Quirky Interpretations)

Inactive-
Crimes Against the Moonlight - (Leonard Cohen Songs)
Hemlock Tea - (Psychedelic Oblivion) now OPP do a search
Phyljesster St'Bone - ((Improv Rainjer Possession))
Lowdmouth Bippy - (Improv Noise Uke/guitar jams)
GNAT - (Techno)
HOt Båg O' DOnuts - (Funky Psychedlic Rock)
The Crybabies (Funky Live Rock)
Space Madness (Experimental Rock/Techno)
The Lonesome Roses - (Dark Swing)
Défense de Fumer - (Improv Grooves)
Toy-bot - (Experimental Lo Fi)

Day Of The Dead

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