from recent to older. The last track dates from 2003 and was my first recording as Me, my Thumb and Jack, my then Dogma-style analog approach to sound making. The 2 tracks directly above were a bridge between MMTJ's naked brutalism and a more digital sound, allowing samples and oscillators

Gruppo Infernal - dark ambient & chill

I resampled Ankhtifi's mastertrack "Tibetan Monastery". Hope you enjoy it. 
original track: https://soundcloud.com/ankhtifi/modular-30

Tibetan money's scary [Ankhtifi reworked]

P a b l o presented me this ambient drone titled "lost souls" for me to experiment on. In Belgium we're facing our third covid lockdown in one year. Help organizations worldwide are reporting alarming numbers of domestic violence and abuse due to lockdown. Lost Souls immediately became Trapped Souls in my head. I tried to evoke such disturbing situations through sound. It was an emotional rollercoaster. Anyhow, this is the result.

Gruppo Infernal + P a b l o _ Trapped Souls

when spirits
high and low
come randomly
sound will
level out 
eventually

28/12/2021

Random Spirits

One night while working on another track to honor a lost friend, emotions ran deep and the only way to cope with them was with what you hear on this track. Loop based track with live improvisation. Lament for D wherever he may be

Lament 4 D

somewhat out of my comfort zone but great fun to do. 
Listening in stereo is recommended, in mono if you like it straight up without the whoosh ;)

original track : https://soundcloud.com/user-649412648/heavenly-water-open-collab

Holy Shitshow - Heavenly Water - open collab [Gruppo Infernal version]

In loving memory of Domenico a.k.a. Domenicko – Blissphemy - Arle Quinn 
Many years ago I recorded Domenico's voice - just one verse and chorus he'd written. My experiments back then didn't match and we forgot about it. Covid-19 took away our chance to work together again. I decided to finish the song in his honor. No experiments this time but a ballad, like he would have wanted. On 23/4/2022 Domenico's friends gathered to commemorate him with music, dance and laughter and I was asked to perform the song on stage with Mark Zark on guitar and Emsie Phreddie on bass and, of course, Domenico's voice. We stretched the time between the verses and at the end switched to a largely improvised up-tempo beat so the DJs could take over and get the party going. 
Recorded with a phone by someone in the audience, so don't expect too much. 
And yes, it's something completely different than my other stuff, but I like to think he would have loved this. For you, D

WEIGHTLESS (i.m. D) - Live@Pilar 230422 (plz read description)

the beginnings of a new side project
original track: https://soundcloud.com/mmtj/skrik?si=6d8c83db16d24a7ea57277edf35fe7e6&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Screamer

And now for something completely different...
It was the first warm and sunny day after a long gray period. I was happy and just for a minute I got soft and made this. And that doesn't bother me at all.

On a sunny day

Native

Five-O'clock Fever

Lust smolders in the shadows of the mind and fires up the body. It's impossible to ignore. The thirst for something that refuses to be quenched. Though it rarely leads to peace, we chase it because in its pull, we feel furiously alive

Lust

Niksen is a Dutch/Flemish expression for the art of doing nothing. A deliberate act of setting aside structured tasks and embracing stillness. To be stripped of excess and distraction. Mind wandering isn't aimless—it's a mental playground where ideas grow and imagination thrives. Doing nothing isn't lazy; it's an essential pause, a breath in the rhythm of life. It’s where inspiration whispers and the chaos of the world recedes.

Niksen

Echoes in Distortion: a tribute to the sonic rebels forged in the crackling hum of amps and chaotic rhythms, this song aspires to channel the groundbreaking boldness of early Cabaret Voltaire, the relentless energy of Black Tish, and the brainsickness of The Butthole Surfers. Melodic but unruly, unraveling yet structured—it twists and bends, paying homage to the underground architects who aimed to reshape sound itself.

Echoes in Distortion

"She sat beside him, their shoulders almost touching, yet a canyon of unspoken volumes stretched between them—longing for what could have been and mourning what never was.  Each silence echoed with a thousand words neither dared to speak, the air heavy with the ache of both wanting and withholding.  In the quiet, their hearts told stories their lips never would—have missed chances, of the right words arriving too late, or not at all." 

There's this Flemish/Dutch expression "het spreekt boekdelen" which means something like "speaking volumes". In Flemish it means saying a lot, not with words but with a look or a gesture, usually in emotionally heavy situations. I wondered how one would put it if these emotions, however very present and clear to all concerned, would not be expressed at all. Hence the title "unspoken volumes".
I was reading about synth architecture then and wondered how an electric piano would sound like if I had to program it with a DX7. So I tried to emulate it using FM synthesis. The "unspoken volumes" theme came to me while messing about on the keyboard. The choir seemed like a fun contradiction to this idea of something unspoken.

unspoken volumes

06/05/2003: birth and first recording of Me, my Thumb and Jack, a then liberating approach to sound creation where the human body acts as an oscillator amplifying the natural 50hz hum. Improvised direct live recordings where mandatory using only analog filters and effects. No editing, no overdubs.

Critical Jack

UnterPitch_Vier Personen auf dem Planet der Affen

Bleached Coffins is a new project using guitars

Cabinet Contraire (tribute to Richard H. Kirk)

new track. less dogmatic. overdubs etc. allowed.

This (There's nothing else to say but...)

This (There's Nothing Else To Say But...)

Nebulae

new track by UnterPitch almost entirely based on sounds created by Me, My Thumb and Jack

In Your Face

UnterPitch ft. Me, My Thumb and Jack - In.Your.Face

it was said to open the doors of perception but in some cases doors were closed permanently.
Original percussive samples courtesy of Atch. 

UnterPitch_The Beauty Of Design

Delphinidae

Old school sampling in a nutshell. Using an Emu E4X dinosaur, best filters I've ever heard, but what do I know. The Emu was horrible to work with, that I do know. Bounced the lot to Ableton

a voce piena

for everyone feeling locked up in lockdown

S K R I K

... where superheroes are called Jane/John Doe

Emergency Room

Drone Syndrome

Open collab with Noxpox (page 5): my version of RL1

Noxpox RL1 [ Gruppo Infernal version ]

This interview really smacked me in the face. I really felt sympathetic to this guy who' s obviously oblivious about the situation. Tried to put me in his shoes and it felt like pure noise. So i tried to emulate the effect of this interview on his state of mind using sound. 
This track is the first born from Me, my Thumb and Jack with UnterPitch and Bleached Coffins. Got tired of determining whether it was a MMTJ track ft. UnterPitch or vice versa. So from now on new tracks will be created under the moniker Gruppo Infernal. This track was recorded using techniques from my different alter egos as a celebration of this new phase in my musical quest. Hope you enjoy.

Ob(li)vious(ly)

the original popped in my ears. I resampled the mastertrack, cut it up, started manipulating every snippet and i had FUN. No other soundsources were used, only the original track, hence "resampled". Hope you enjoy! 

check the original track by Isolierstation here: https://soundcloud.com/djmisserror/der-politische-patient

Isolierstation Der Politische Patient Resampled (c dscrptn)

live in the living = Live recording in my living room

Flies of the Lord

A place for sound freaks lashing out from the dark. 

So there's all kinds of stuff on this page, but after months of schizophrenic debates about who was playing with who and who took the lead while doing it, finally, the decision was made: all my alter egos got together and decided to form a band. From 2020 on new tracks are created under the moniker Gruppo Infernal. Only pure MMTJ tracks will still be named as such. 

Gruppo Infernal still relies on my work as Me, my Thumb and Jack, an ongoing quest for a liberating approach to sound creation where the human body acts as an oscillator amplifying the natural 50hz hum. Direct live recording, improvisations and delay loops only using analog filters and effects. No editing, no overdubs. Gruppo Infernal adds digital treatment to this original sound material. 

UnterPitch was an alter ego using samples & synths.
Bleached Coffins was a one-off project using guitars.

earliest work when I was still a pup:
https://blindsightrecords.bandcamp.com/album/throbbing-flip-out

Gruppo Infernal

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