Foreign Lives

It was 2003. I was fresh out of High School and had just moved into my dorm room at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. It was my first time away from all the things that I knew, and to sum it up, it left me in a dark and brooding state of confused ecstasy, misery and joy. Before I left, I had already started my band Meat Over Moscow in 2002 up as a one-man homage to hatred, perversion, misanthropy and noise. My first tracks were nothing more than horrendous noise created by PC microphones, broken karaoke amps, tapes of my first, and ultimately unsuccessful punk band Cold War Crisis and some other terrible Vegas bands whose CD's I ripped and destroyed. I made some 6th Grade-level covers for the CD's I burned in my house on my old Compaq and randomly put them in magazines at Tower Records, on a shelf at Cafe Roma or under the windshield wipers of cars at my High School.

Anyways, in 2003 I found myself isolated from the world I knew, having little friends I liked and felt totally cut off from the rest of the world as I knew it, I put together this little monster as a reaction to my dissolution. This could be why in 2009, I return to my second album (first real one) "Foreign Lives" with a new perspective on isolation. "Lives," an homage to "Alien" soundtrack composer Jerry Goldsmith, is a 51-minute drone-cum-noise exploration of alien worlds, that, more than six years after I made it, still reigns as one of my favorite things I've ever recorded and made. Check this thing out and use it to remember why you are, or always were, alone.

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-A

Korean Psych Music Vol. 2. - Run Way

Run Way is an exploitativly romantic group of late-70s psych rockers who sound like the demon seed of early Deep Purple with a fine helping of Italio and Franco thrown into the mix. Add the melodramatic nature of Hangul, the Korean language, and spice it up with some of the most hauntingly eerie faux-Hammond organs, and you have an absolutely beautiful homage to Korean Psych rock this side of Pyongyang.

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A cool preview from good friend and fellow Noise fucker Lil' Ron Reirson sort-of chronicling and remixing parts of the 2005 noise scene that sort of blew up in Vegas thanks to the help of guys like Ron, Chad Martinez, who now runs an awesome electronic music show, Friday nights at KUNV and of course, perpetual best friend Ian McKenzie. Look hard for cameos by almost all of these people and maybe I'm in there, somewhere.

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Korean Psych Music Vol. 1. - The Key Brothers

A new fun feature. A spattering of the strange Korean music I find around here that I rip and put up for your listening pleasure. The first spattering is a Korean psych rock group known as The Key Brothers. One of the best known and general 'best' of the widely coveted Korean Psych Rock era of the 1970-80s, The Key Brothers' melodramatic psych rock is a bastion of fuzzed out guitars, morose keyboards and the best of Korean wailing rock vocals I've heard thus far. A real musical masterpiece of drama, fuzzed out fun and the best 9-minute cover of 'Love Potion No. 9' you'll ever here. Listen to this when you're feeling the urge to either drop acid and cry about the love you lost, or when you're trying to cook fish. Either way, this album works.

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-A

Erasable Philosophy, Vol. 1.