The Ear of Dr Les - Get Baxter (DEMO 8,429)

Using gear I dont know how to use.

Bassline and other stuff will be jammed on top of this shit. I dont know what form that will take yet. At the end of the month, whatever its turned into will be added to a video for #Fabuary or whatever nonsense is next.

Max Dembo - Blood Moon (uneventful first Digitakt demo beat attempt, leeching off #Jamuary)

Just a rough mix of the first demo. Overdubs and arrangement still to come.

This Ever-Decaying Meat Suit JT SOAR STUDIO DEMO 1

DJ Rwanda Bill - Tory Scum

DJ Rwanda Bill - Asylum Tweakers

Recorded live, thru a bucket, under an undisclosed war torn location.

The Zygmont Jazz Trio Quartet Ensemble - 701.3 Backing track

Recorded to tape and buried in a grave yard for three weeks, then discarded outside a kebab shop on Croyden High Street until it got a spice habit.

The Zygmont Jazz Trio Quartet Ensemble - 702.8 Backing track.

Backing track awaiting all manner of magic

The Zygmont Jazz Trio Quartet Ensemble - 701.2 Backing track

The Millionth Chimp - A Tight Ten Two

The The - This Is The Day demo 1

Just some of the Wave Bard doing its own thing with a patch. Minimal human involvement. I still need to read the instructions. I just hit the record button and let it play on its own. 2 edits. No other gear, software or effects.

queek barde

Queek Bard 2

Early demo track for The Ear of Dr Yes's album The Road Les Travelled, a collection of remxes of and tracks inspired by the work of Les Baxter.

If you're going to listen to this track, you're going to have to deal with bum notes, half finished parts, unedited takes etc.

Any 'mistakes' you hear in any songs are things I've yet to get round to working on. I dont need them pointing out thanks.

Anyway, I hope Les wouldnt have been too annoyed by this project...

All Hail Les Baxter!

Samples from Helles Belles Original Soundtrack
Vocal samples sourced from archive.org
Piano, bass and guitar by Maximum Dembo
Drums by Bob Hotskins III

Never The Les Early Demo

Early demo tracks for The Ear of Dr Les's album The Road Les Travelled, a collection of remxes of and tracks inspired by the work of Les Baxter.

If you're going to listen to only one track, I'd make it Les Than Zero. You're still going to have to deal with bum notes, half finished parts, unedited takes etc, but by christ is the closest to being a quality 'finished' track!

Any 'mistakes' you hear in any songs are things I've yet to get round to working on. I dont need them pointing out thanks.

Anyway, I hope Les wouldnt have been too annoyed by this project...

All Hail Les Baxter!

Les Than Zero Early Demo

The Zygmont Jazz Trio Quartet Ensemble - Dismissive Identification Brigade

Taken from Zygmont's forthcoming debut album 'The Night Is All Dressed Up For Dreaming'.

Drums - Bob Hotskins III
Trumpet - David Blayze
Clarinet - Howard Mills

Everything else - Maximum O. Dembo

Recorded entirely on location at Smacksalad Studios

Special thanks to Intercourse the Penguin, PhD

Video available at https://youtu.be/caAy_dw77CA

Vocal samples and video sourced from Archive.org

The Zygmont Jazz Trio Quartet Ensemble - Dismissive Identification Brigade

Taken from Zygmont's forthcoming debut album 'The Night Is All Dressed Up For Dreaming'.

Coins, guitars, keys, fields, triangle, mics, cars and trees by Maximum Dembo and David Keye.

Everything else by Maximum Dembo

Recorded entirely on location in, at, and around Smacksalad Studios.

Soft landing courtesy of https://soundcloud.com/more-news-from-nowhere

Special thanks to Intercourse the Penguin, PhD

*Please note: I think a couple of minor changes are on the way for this track. More breathing space is always a good thing.

The Zygmont Jazz Trio Quartet Ensemble - A Photo Of A Photo

The Zygmont Jazz Trio Quartet Ensemble - Onesemble (unfinished demo)

Durangle Durangle - Durangle Squared #3

What was initially considered to be a quickly thrown together late addition to the 'Hambone Instructor' album, but is now destined to stay as this improvised demo take.  Video here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0rA9kCXVEs

The files that made up this work in progress have been forever lost.

Enjoy?

Alacracticism

The Ear of Dr Yes - Beautiful Humans

Lets all just take a step back, re-evaluate what the hell it is we think we're doing, and then leave it the god damn fuck alone.

Another aural dump from the ears undead years..

Mongoloid Porn Inferno

Like a drunk muppet recounting the moors murders.

Bong Chribsby - Violent Nights

The first Les Baxter remix album lies dead in a ditch, corrupted by its own lack of forethought.

So we move forward.

Behold! The first demo from the second Les Baxter remix album, Les is More.

The Ear Of Dr Les - Drink Les, Smoke More

Durangle Durangle - Cuica (demo 4)

The Zygmont Jazz Trio Quartet Ensemble -  Pan Collin's Hemisphering on a Disaster

A work in progress/demo.

Written by Gladdy Montego and Maximum O. Dembo.

Drums by Bob 'fucking' Hotskins III.
Trumpet by David Blazye.
Clarinet by Howard Mills.

Additional production, mixing and programming by Max Dembo.

Recorded live at Smacksalad Studios.

The Zygmont Jazz Trio Quartet Ensemble - Maximal Gladness EDIT 2 WIP

The Zygmont Jazz Trio Quartet Ensemble -  Tiny Waveforms

The Zygmont Jazz Trio Quartet Ensemble - Crandall Symonds Beltwitch Overture

The Zygmont Jazz Trio Quartet Ensemble - Dolemition

Xmas with The Mupples Part 2

Welcome to The Ear.

NOW NEW NEWS! 30.01.21

Our YouTube channel, Smacksalad Productions, is where our finished works are being posted, with videos. Please enjoy a full album by The Subharmoniconist over at YouTube, for free. Thanks! 

Way older news:

A new track from 'The Zygmont Jazz Trio Quartet Ensemble' has been released! Check out Dismissive Identification Brigade.

DOLEMITION IS DONE! We're giving it a little once over but the Zgymont Jazz Trio Quartet Ensemble's contribution to the White Dolemite (https://soundcloud.com/white-dolemite and https://www.facebook.com/WhiteDolemite) compilation album is pretty much done. It just needs a little tinkle, like a new born baby with stage fright, the tiniest dribble of time and 17 months of work is over. Next week, it gets sent to be mastered. 

The Zygmont Jazz Trio Quartet Ensemble had a slight reunion last week. One new album track came out of the session. Thats now a total of 10 beautiful tracks! The album cover is being tirelessly worked. It looks fucking great :)

Older news:

Old The Ear of Dr Yes tracks get a fresh airing! Taken from a taping of a dusty vinyl, these tracks, not heard since 1984, are here for your delectation... Ceefax B Movie - http://dembo.bandcamp.com

The version on Bandcamp has one extra track than the version here on Soundcloud!

The session drummer we hired has finished his work on the new Zygmont single, and the audio is now being polished up to fit our needs. The light at the end of the tunnel gets closer. Stay tuned!

And in case it was missed... Max Dembo has released ambient soundscape "Zygmophobia" to stream or download at http://dembo.bandcamp.com.

Usual blurb: We are currently working on a new ambient jazz noise album with The Zygmont Jazz Trio Quartet Ensemble, a new Ear of Dr Yes album, and a remix album featuring some of the most famous songs of all time, rendered 'unlistenable'*.

Here's what the blurb said when this project had died:

Witness the resurrection. Witness the witless blathering.

Witness the witless.

This was a 3 (or 4) year collaboration between Max Dembo and Dr Yes (depending on who you talk to and what they were on at the time). Years 1 and 2 were very prolific, with an emphasis on quantity over quality that everyone was happy with. Year 3 looked very promising until the unthinkable happened - the emphasis shifted to quality.

Year 3 only produced 3 new tracks and year 4 yielded just one fresh aural vapour. 
Max Dembo spent the next 3 years recovering from the ordeal (memoirs 'The Involuntary Ear' coming soon) and eventually returned with several remixes, a few joint projects and a snail pace of dissatisfaction. That great explorer of the unknown, the hypocratic ape - Dr Yes - was never heard from again...

However, rumours have recently surfaced that The Ear may have unearthed unheard recordings and may be investing reasonable research and development funding in an attempt to declassify these documents into convenient downloadable chunks.

Intercepted messages, leaked and decrypted, periodically appear in the the bio-ether, we will bring them to you APESAP...

*See Steel Pole Bath Tub for metaphorical explanation.

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