I have become ridiculously fond of the Black Dice and other similar bleep-gizzle-frunzzzz type music. It is completely fantastic if you like weird music made up of random electronic bonking noises and zoinky sounds and general chopped-stirred-and-fried bleep-gleep effects.
At work, we are allowed to listen to streaming ‘net radio, so long as we either listen to it really quietly, or use headphones. When I am doing invoicing or data entry, or coloring in large blocks of PDF documents, I put on “Slacker” radio, and find a station of electronic noises music, as it stimulates various wobbly, knobbly bits of my brain.
My god…the “voop-voop voop” noises in this just make me want to spin around in circles going “Squeeeeeeee!” And the jumbly, choppy beat….and the disjointed chanting. I just get happier and happier and happier as this song goes along until my little pointy head is all like “wheeeee!”
When I was a little girl, I used to have visions of recording “Martian Music,” which to my way of thinking, was songs made up of weird noises melded together into a cohesive form. I used to use my Dad’s tape recorder and record the sound of Mom’s old-school bubble-hood hair-dryer warming up (this video is of the same model hair-dryer), of a beaded-wire centerpiece clattering in the breeze, of myself using a decommissioned bubble pipe as a miniature didgeridoo. If I’d had the technology and know-how, I’d have layered these and other odd sound-effects into song-length conglomerations, and probably annoyed seven shades of shit out of anyone who would listen.
So, here I am grown up now, and find that other people have been making Martian Music which is not unlike the sounds I used to daydream about making into songs.
If anyone can recommend to me some similarly whacked out outer-space music, I’d be just tickled silly over the moon. Fuckin’ A!