for some reason this reminds me of club amorous...

man i fucking miss chemlab.... loved them in the 90's so much.. a buddy of mine was at a concert and Jared put the mic down for him on this tune and he was singing it and it made it to one of the live videos!!!

Wonderfully rough. I always particularly loved the raw vocals and the synths that constantly chased, but could never quite catch themselves.

its great to hear these songs in their raw form.. love it!! please.. MORE!

Man, I've been listening to this song, for way too long (got into Chemlab back in 95).  Nice to hear these gems, even if you guys were doing more smck than music at the time! 
What are you working on these days musically Jared? I heard rumors about new Chemlab stuff at the live shows (wasn't able to make them) and curious about that or anything else you're doing these days.  Enjoy the Enduser collaboration!

Electro Radiovengeance

the sum of... (Vex rmx)

Senses

Flavor: Ritualistic Hanging (The Sun-Dance)

Intermission: A Fire On The Beach

The Scratch.

I saw what I want.
I want what I see.
I see what I fancy.

I smell what I touch.
I touch what I fear.
I fear what I hear.

I hear what I want, 
but don’t want to catch
the sound of a scratch.

I scratch what I see.
When it doesn’t come to me,
but I’m always ready.

To make it always. 
To make it all worthy.
To make it all.
Make it all worthy.

- - - - - - 

The Scratch - credits.

Django Hendrickson: 
vocals and choral backing vox, piano, French horn keyboards, box and chair percussion. 
Marc Plastic Olivier: 
electric guitar, Moog oscillator, analog delay spin, backing vox and vacuum bass, programming.

Café D’Or lyrics: Django and Marc.
Holloway music: Marc and Django.

Production and recording: 
Marc Olivier at Plastic Sound Studios, London, 2013. 

From the forthcoming album “Unknown Sounds”.

Love: 
Uncle Marc, Mummy, Daddy, Elephant, The Black Sheep.

The Scratch -a cappella mix-  (Django and Marc Plastic)

SMP | BPM105 | Tall | 3.39

BlocXsymph

Hard Wired

Mortal

Live Wired

Bio-Mechanic

REPEAT - DELETE: “TDK ULTRA”.

Sound Is A Disease.

Repeat – Delete is the collision Marc Plastic and I make occasionally when we’re not making “other”. It void of maps or fence posts and claims no allegiance to anything. 

Recorded at Marc’s Plastic Studio last week. Completed in about two hours between working on last Prude shreds, possible Machine God ideas and a track for Plastic’s solo record (It will be utterly stellar. He’ll be in NYC in September to finish it off with Daniel Ray and some of the NY Dolls, the fucker.)

TDK ULTRA is an atavistic offshoot from the cancerous pus-filled sac of “Leichenschrei” via TG’s “Violencia (the bullet)”. There’s a semiotic semi-nod to Towers Open Fire and Break Through In Grey Room as well. It’s inspired by a piece I wrote that’s a textual collision of MK Ultra history and a treatise on Brian Eno’s pioneering use of tape loops in the early 1970’s. The texts side-by-side just naturally seemed to want to coalesce, blur themselves together into a re-imagined chimeric muscle-twinge that spreads to the cortex. 

We recorded the text four different ways, from shouting to intimate whispers. Marc then layered and tweaked them aggressively, panning some parts in utterly unpredictable ways. The resultant smear tasted succulent yet reached for more. We’d spent the morning listening to Mother Head Bug’s “Zambodia”, the genius creation of Dave Ouimet who started Cop Shoot Cop then went on to play with Foetus, Swans, Railroad Jerk and countless others. “Zambodia” is classic Lower East Side music from the late 80’s/90’s yet moves further afield than most of the bands they were associated with. They engulfed gypsy music long before it was post-MTV mass pop’d as hep courtesy of the comical Gogol-verse. They absorbed and mutated klezmer, rock, carnival music for the freak shows and children’s rhymes for young lepers. So, as I was standing in the bathroom with Ouimet’s demented creating cycling as smoke in my head, I heard someone in the yards outside using their phone. Old-style, the beeps of the numbers as they were keyed floating a tone and rhythm up to me through the open window. I scuttled insectile back into the studio mumbling some shit to Marc about the melody and rhythm from my fevered imagination and he did what he does so well which is to translate my bizarre creative wrestlings into flesh, strange and bruise-colored flesh. Thus reared the scratchy, gritty oscillating tone that slurs through the second half.

This excision may seem like a desultory and not cognate, but there’s so much material that urges for egress from us both, and so much that’s germane in some way or another, that it just feels necessary to uncork it.

......use sub-aural frequency blasts erase memory while playing tape loops of noise or simple repetitive statements simple patients repetitive statements simple repetitive.....

TDK ULTRA

This version of ‘Neurozone’ is an early cassette demo of tracks that emerged as we were writing Burn Out At The Hydrogen Bar. It’s from a collection of random cassette demos of varying quality I’ve unearthed and finally transferred to CD. I’m loosely calling it “Burnt Out (talkin’ shit and shootin’ smack)” ‘cause I’m such a fuckin’ intellectual and that’s really much more of what we ever did than actually write enough music to fill an album. 

Dylan was living in a ground floor apartment on 4th street sometime in the summer of ‘92 when we wrote this jagged little shard. The place was owned by a motorcycle freak whose real name I can’t remember for the life of me, but I used to call him Gear, so Gear he remains. Hidden behind a dented and grumpily resistant steel door that complained when opened, the joint was shockingly miniscule. Its size wasn’t helped by the fact that it was jacked full of strange heaps of machine parts, stacks of tires in corners and drums of oil against the back wall. Its two windows were perpetually curtained leaving the place cast in murky dark. We called it Dog Solitude in tribute. (We had an insane fabricated two-deck card game hybrid of poker, cheating and drinking we played in those days for which we applied the same sobriquet). Husks of motorcycles in different stages of either collapse or reanimation stood on blocks next to the hacked-short insult of a cigarette-burn halo’d couch in what was the main room, skeletal shapes casting skyline shadows across the greasy wooden floor boards. Dylan’s studio was his room, and his room was sweeping enough to accommodate bed and gear but nothing more. I spent a lot of time scrunched up beside the desk knotted in pensweatnotebookinkfever while D scribbled threads of 1’s and 0’s, the two of us passing headphones back and forth as the threads began to knit into something coherent. I dropped rough vocals standing on his bed and trying not to bounce....hehehe. The feel and sound of ‘Neurozone’ was very much infected and inflected by 4th street’s furiously active life. Originally a bay windowed room, the construction of Detox’s space meant that bed and studio essentially elbowed themselves out into the sidewalk, the world outside bleeding into it in a constant stream of street sounds, conversation shards excerpted through the window, sirens keening, radios blaring ballgames and gunshots barking in warm nights, an indecipherable omniverse pouring in in mangled, neon-sputtering spliced configurations. “There’s something moving on the other side, but what it is is not too clear”.

There will be more, but this is for now. This is for fallen friends and those who simply couldn’t go on any more, friends from then and friends from now, the ghosts who haunt my days, your days, our days. 
This is for Jamie Duffy and Craig Albertson and Bobby Ross and for Critter, just to start the list rolling.

Yes, you can download it.




Neurozone - demo

This song is about me leaving Lewes New School (my old school).
I loved my old school, I had fun at my old school and had lots of friends there but my brain needed more feeding, so I went to a new school named Southover. I wrote this song because it was so hard to leave all of my friends and a familiar, comfortable place that I had known for years.  
-Django


Goodbye Lewes New School - Django

music by Marc Plastic and Django Hendrickson.
lyrics by Django Hendrickson and Maja Hendrickson.
main vocals, acoustic guitar, box drums: Django
electric guitar, keys, whisper vocals and soothing chick vox: Plastic
percussion: Elephant
arrangement, engineering, production and stealth: Plastic
recorded and conceived at plastic sound studios, london, 2013, baby.
from the forthcoming album "Unknown Sound".

Neurozone - demo

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