coming up from florida we passed through the land of cheap smokes…the Carolinas…

tired of hearing this and this on the radio we stumbled on this gem of a song from Ludacris:

How Low Can You Go

my question is: Rokhausen, when did you start producing for the Luder?

anyway, we stopped for gas at a place called South of the Border, a weirdo kinda racist Mexico-themed amusement park? complete with cacti and zebras…because zebras live in mexico.

as do flamingoes and gorillas. it’s true. some people in south carolina told me.

we stopped at El Drug Store (i’m not kidding) and bought el racist postcards to send to el friends back home. then got the hell out of there.

so i’ve got a ton of recordings at this point but haven’t had the time to sort through them. i’ve recorded sets in phoenix, richmond, baltimore, lansing, east moline, iowa city, denver, wichita, st. petersburg, st. augustine, (forgot the recorder in chapel hill), and last night in albany (which was a great show, awesome sets from the Spreaders, Century Plants, Bone Parade, Grabass Cowboys, and of course, Marlo Eggplant).

i’ll put them up soon…i just want to listen to them first. anyway, happy valentine’s day from canned fruit.

snap! i gotta get help on this.

will post later, i have a lot i wanted to say before i noticed this…

first off, did you know mr. kool-aid is from nebraska? oh yeah! it’s true! so if you had any doubts about whether nebraska was cooler than kansas…now you know.. nebraska also has more trees.

i learned today that in northeastern colorado there’s farms where they grow tires. no shit.

also, i hear Las Vegas is all up in arms because the president used it as an example of foolish spending yesterday during a speech in New Hampshire. who gives a fuck? it isn’t going to hurt Vegas tourism. why isn’t anyone concerned about this little soundbite from the same speech: that’s how i roll. come on, should our president really be saying things like “that’s how i roll”? (thanks, npr for the soundbite!

i kind of don’t really want to write more now, but i will mention that the show at basement 414 was the most fun we’ve had along the way. everyone was great, but highlights were Dental Work, Xrin Arms, and marlo.

anyway, i guess that’s about all i have for you now. i need to work on some of the recordings i’ve made…soon i’ll have stuff up from Childe Bride, Decapitated Hed, Xrin Arms, Dental Work, and some more of marlo’s stuff of course.

until then, enjoy these awesome Kool-Aid commercials (i like the first one):

kool-aid commercial

Kool-Aid commercial

oh, and this has nothing to do with anything. i got this sample from MST3K a while ago, and have been meaning to put it up in case someone wanted it…i think it was Crow T. Robot: i’m mixing my album, leave me alone

marlo eggplant live @ Windup Space, Baltimore 1-27-10 part 1

marlo eggplant live @ Windup Space, Baltimore 1-27-10 part 2

marlo eggplant live @ Windup Space, Baltimore 1-27-10 part 3

this recording was done with a room mic at the Echo Curio. here’s the tracks:

marlo eggplant live @ Echo Curio, LA 1-18-10 part 1

marlo eggplant live @ Echo Curio, LA 1-18-10 part 2

marlo eggplant live @ Echo Curio, LA 1-18-10 part 3

enjoy. more to come

so, here’s how things have been going.

the tour was supposed to be put on in the spirit of a collab between scotch tapes from canada and marlo’s label/distro Corpus Callosum. the guy who runs scotch tapes was going to come along and play drums for marlo, even though drums are an odd choice to accompany drone. anyway, they practiced together for a minute and he said he was ready to hit the road and play 20+ shows.

the first show was in Seattle with great performances by My Printer Broke and Gohger. scotch tapes dude was supposed to come in quietly six minutes into marlo’s set. he started at one minute in. and got loud. so loud you couldn’t hear marlo at all while he wailed away at a ragged waltz beat. it was terrible. i threw my cigarette at him to try to get him to stop but i guess he was too moved by his awful drumming to notice.

to top it off he was a sleazoid douchebag so marlo decided to do the rest of the shows by herself and i came along to sell merch and keep her awake through long terrible drives like…kansas.

next up was Eugene, Oregon where she played the New Zone Gallery with I Died, Chefkirk, and Hobbyknife. this was an awesome show. everyone was great. i can only imagine how awful it would have been with those drums. here’s a little bit of marlo’s set:

after a little rest and a trip to Winco, the most awesomest store in the world, we were ready to hit the road again. off to sunny californy…

the san francisco show was at the Luggage Gallery, part of the Outsound Series, which has been running for twenty years or so. it was…arty. there was a guy sleeping in the doorway who the people running the venue didn’t get along with too well. fun! all in all it was a fun night with live stop-motion animation by Multifungi, a great and funny performance by Jesse Boardman Kauppila where we listened to copper plates he engraved while listening to the American Folk Anthology, and a guy talking about how he was famous on the internet for throwing up on television. here’s a little of marlo’s set:

then it was on down to LA for another show at the Echo Curio. i forgot to bring the camera so i didn’t get a vid, but this was a good night with great performances by UV Astronaut, Cephalopods, El Diablos Blancos, Boar, and Swim Ignorant Fire. by the end of the night my ears were slightly broken (i blame Cephalopods, who meant to do an ambient set but got pretty noisy) but i felt better for the experience. we were given a recording of the performance but as of today haven’t checked it out. maybe i’ll post it later.

before we were killed in the stupid ass fashion people drive in LA when it rains we headed out to Phoenix to play the Trunk Space with Magillicuddy and Balloons is Fun. Magillicuddy were weird young performance noisers who i thought were going to set the merch table on fire with their pyrotechnics. Balloons is Fun are an indie pop group that’s kind of a throwback to cutesy 60’s stuff. a fun show, but i gotta say Phoenix is a strange place.

i recorded the Phoenix show on an ipod. marlo doesn’t like it because she couldn’t hear what she was doing but here’s some mp3s…

marlo eggplant live @ the trunk space, phoenix 1-20-10 part one

marlo eggplant live @ the trunk space, phoenix 1-20-10 part two

marlo eggplant live @ the trunk space, phoenix 1-20-10 part three

marlo eggplant live @ the trunk space, phoenix 1-20-10 part four

that night we decided to get a headstart on the long drive east, the next show being in Richmond, VA on this coming monday night. we made it a ways north before the snow started falling. heavily. so we plugged along at 30 being thankful for the rumble strip to tell us where the road was and after a few hours managed to get to Flagstaff where we got a room for the night. in the morning it had snowed another foot but we managed to get on down the interstate before they closed it behind us.

driving through New Mexico we heard this song three times in ten minutes while skipping through the stations:

sean kingston – replay

i’m not saying it’s a good song or anything, but it did help us stay awake until marlo got the idea to start a soul revue with joshua james.

other highlights from the drive include stumbling on kdhx out of st. louis, missouri, and more specifically, the Midnite Rockers show hosted by Ital-K. it was a dub/reggae show and the host was great. he kept turning the music down to sing along and shout things like “STL, can you feel this?!”
i’m trying to get the station to send me a podcast so i can sample him.

anyway, that’s about it so far. tomorrow we’re going down to Richmond, VA, to play with Leah Peah, Velee, and Gross Ghost, then back for a Baltimore show, then Brooklyn…i’ll keep you updated.

i’m working on editing a recording i made on an ipod of the Phoenix show, maybe i’ll upload it tomorrow…

woot! alright. so we got off to a rough start in Seattle with some tube playing drums, but we’re more than making up for it now. Marlo Eggplant solo tour. no lame canadian drummer. the eugene show rocked. tomorrow night she’s playing the Luggage Gallery in San Francisco.

Check out her myspace page for the most up to date list of shows.

also, dig this super nice piece out dear friend Joshua wrote about the tour on his blog…

here’s a little of the video i took of the eugene show…

as the tour goes i’ll upload more pics/vids, let y’all know how we’re doing…i might start a folder in my flickr account for it, we’ll see. anyway, check the schedule and hopefully we’ll see you somewhere along the road…

blockhead – expiration date
docdirkwertIII – radio won’t play my jam remix
colonel kwai – i was kaiser bill’s batmodulator
rokhausen – the men from n
nestrogen – ode to the primordial stromatolites
los rakas – no dicen na
don augusto – track04
dino felipe – sundecker
dj 0.000001 – we all fall down
foxdye – navigating geography part 1
foxdye – navigating geography part 2
suntra – when i first met you in the supermarket
cdr – amane
katechontiko – il regalo futurista
9ba$$sex – kamidamasi! (dov rastamix)
nettle – unciviliz (hrvatski’s alternate mix)
anti-kati – amen to salsa
sulumi – lo-bit music starts new day
cardopusher – i’m going to rave your ass up like an accident
8cylinder – planeteater
kid stuff repertory – same old song (lyrics)
rorikiller – jeeej!
soggylene royal – poignee de porte
polygon lobster jetpack – boredom for two
stunt rock – things that turn into the exact opposite of what you want
balkan beat box – baharim (outro)
buttress o’kneel – the orinoco grind
r. kelly – ignition (remix)
prince allah – bucket bottom
nero – starkey + john wiese
pangenitor – hippityflap
mano negra – super chango
chem7 – chopped up chopin
jaga jazzist – reminders (dat politics’ “cha cha laxist” mix)
red sovine – colorado kool-aid
dead j – children magic
cow’p – dollars fleet
skyfish – weed bowl jungle
dj100000000 – oshirase
ove-naxx – long long wrong time ago
dj scotch egg – live @ monster of mashup tour, cardiff may05
greypetcat – cerebral broadcasting
cdatakill – interference
laskfar vortok – [build 0.1.4.9] illuminati decapitation deception

it was a fun show. i didn’t put it together til about an hour before we had to start broadcasting but i think it was a good set, a little lowkey maybe. i guess maybe i should’ve done a “top things canned fruit played way too often in 2010″ or “stuff i got super into this year” show but i didn’t think of it til i had the set together. oh well. i think that stuff is represented here anyway…8bit…cdr…scotch egg…suntra…etc.

stay tuned, who knows what we’ll get into next year…maybe i’ll get back to doing setlists with links and mp3s…

once i noticed canned fruit would be rebroadcast on the day of christmas eve i put this mix together…enjoy.

dogwater – spooky christmix

here’s the playlist:

devnull – christmas themed horror movie from the 80’s
captain ahab – friday the 13th part 3 theme
butthole surfers – graveyard (live)
atom & his package – minds playin’ tricks on me
geto boys – minds playin’ tricks on me
cdr – the horror (remix)
vincent price – somewhere over the rainbow
mr. fab & his bag o’ heads – skeleton crew on the graveyard shift
the five blobs – the blob
akira ifukube – horror of the water tank
amityville horror theme
halloween theme
ray parker jr. – ghostbusters theme
bobby “boris” picket & the crypt-kickers – monster mash
devnull – 3006
duran duran duran – psycho killer
neil norman & his cosmic orchestra – twilight zone theme
nick cave & the bad seeds – red right hand
screaming lord sutch – murder in the graveyard
billy strange – the munsters theme
dj jazzy jeff & the fresh prince – nightmare on my street
danny elfman – edward scissorhands introduction (titles)
danny elfman – beetlejuice main titles
edward grieg – in the hall of the mountain king
carl orff – o fortuna
gerard mcmann – cry little sister (theme from lost boys)
dj bc – haunted house of mash ups

also, there’s a bunch of samples from the movie “M” thrown in here and there, and a little from “Barton Fink”.

yikes! have a creepy holiday!

friday night at le voyeur in olympia. be there homiez