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I attempted to use my time wisely today.

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Brother can you spare a pre-order?

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ND-10 – Hot Mess – It’s Cool Man, Don’t Worry

In a way it is sort of funny that is has taken us to our 10th physical release before we got around to (re)introducing the world to HOT MESS. You see… if there were no Hot Mess, there wouldn't be a Neon Doom. This little put-putting of a Website/Record Label/Digital Stew originally had a different home and was created as a way to introduce people to the music, art, shows, and sounds of robad pills, Louie Applesauce, and their collaboration.

Some how, when bringing together the intricate breakcore and drum and bass of robad pills with the noise and sound experimentation of Louie Applesauce, Hot Mess found the common ground of house music in all of its forms. From strictly hardware and live instrument tracks to sequencers and studio production, the boys of Hot Mess weaved wildly into whatever idea scattered across their brain.

  As their ideas gained more and more focus, new names and projects started to bubble up and pick apart the splatter output of the original Hot Mess name. With High School Clicks, Muscle Boys, Ghoul Tooth, cauldrone, wizards, Electric Teeth, brrrapture, moth mouth, MOBB CREEP, etc.etc.etc. Hot Mess was reborn again and again and again.

But this collection comes from when the boys were just starting to work together again after a number of years (and a musical lifetime) apart. From 2008-2010 Hot Mess were paving their own path four steps ahead of everyone else. By the time the world caught up… Hot Mess proper was over. These 13 tracks lead you down 77 minutes of hijinks and fun that are sure to keep the party going.

https://www.createspace.com/2077829 - CD- $10 http://soundcloud.com/neondoom/sets/hot-mess-its-cool-man-dont/ - Listen to 3 Tracks Off This Album Right Now!

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http://soundcloud.com/neondoom/sets/danny-brown-remixes-1

ND-19- brrrapture xxx Electric Teeth - Danny Brown Remixes Sometimes when you break apart a duo you can truly hear what both parts bring to the collective whole. As a fun side experiment, brrrapture and Electric Teeth, the two guys behind High School Clicks/Hot Mess/Ghoul Tooth and other Neon Doom mainstays took on a variety of Danny Brown instrumentals from his "XXX" album and the contributions they bring to their duo projects are pushed directly to the forefront of the proceedings, even if unintentionally. With brrrapture you hear dynamic professionalism, tracks that take the idea of the source material and create their own sound that would still perfectly inhabit the world of underground, heavy hitting hip-hop. More than just an imitation; you can see how with just a turn of a sound brrrapture is able to fully inhabit the genre like any of the producers featured on the Danny Brown original. With Electric Teeth you here the sloppy abstractionism of the sound. Like a child happily breaking apart songs into giant puzzle pieces and gleefully throwing them into the air and trying to put them back together however they fall. Like a self sabotage, you can tell Electric Teeth fully understands the genre and what should be done to make it successfully, but that he does not have the patience of interest in accommodating any listener but himself and the people who share his head space. Smashing these production styles together and the perfect balance creating in their duo projects makes perfect sense. It helps that the final product of this EP is also pretty fun to listen to over and over again as well.  

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ND-09 - NRIII - Spat Upon When a band releases three EPs in just as many months it can be kind of hard to find new ways to introduce them to the audience. Luckily, the three EPs from NRIII have been such unique sounds and visions that they sort of define themselves. It is the sound of an artist(s) molting. Growing in real time to advance and explore the different sounds and ideas rattling around in their head to find themselves in a new place at the other side of the tunnel. The last of these growth EPs comes in the form of "Spat Upon", four tracks that seem to bring together the sounds of the first two EPs and bring them into a stunning context. The use of space, broken down and put back together sounds, and even haunting violin show amazing progress from r.reno and r.pitts. If this helps define the direction they are going into for the next full length. Consider me hooked.

Spat Upon - $7.50 4 Tracks. - 21 Minutes https://www.createspace.com/2042684 

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ND-08 - Whimsical Fetus - Instant Instructions for Those Who Follow No Master  The final release in the current batch of Whimsical Fetus reissues and it is one of my favorites. The original Instant Instructions was record in 2002 and consisted of 6-tracks at just over 20-minutes. A lot of them were experiments in sound and space using abused synthesizers and tape loops. Two of the tracks, however, were lost to time and were not able to be included in this release. So what did we here at Neon Doom do? We dug into the archives and found two similarly minded tracks to replace them. One from 2001, which is an 18-minute exercise that would fit right in on an early Conrad Schnitzler album and the other is a 40-minute drone experiment from 2010, which also happens to be the very last recording the band ever performed. (You can listen to this song by going a bit further back on this blog or visiting our soundcloud.) It all equals out to a 72-minute, jam packed synthesizer adventure for the senses.  https://www.createspace.com/2060720  

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ND-07 - Whimsical Fetus - Xibalba https://www.createspace.com/2059797 

Originally recorded in 2005, this improvised recording shows a different side of Whimsical Fetus than the previous physical release "The Leg's Urethra." An assault on the senses, this recording doesn't lose any of the atmosphere WF was known for creating even when the amplifiers were turned all of the way up. This 34-minute recording was influenced and named after the Mayan underworld and carries over the theme throughout its 3 tracks as well as the front cover, which features Vucub-Came (Seven Death), one of the two main lords of Xibalba. This is the perfect introduction for people looking for a more aggressive form of experimental music.

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Whimsical Fetus - The Leg's Urethra ND-06 Physical Release $9 https://www.createspace.com/2058528 Finally available again... and in physical form! Here is what I said about the now unavailable digital re-release from last year...

"Recorded in a garage during a balmy August night in 2003, this improvised performance brought together a lot of the strengths found in the bizarro collective known as “Whimsical Fetus” that usually can’t be captured so easily on recordings. Allow me to muse… I feel that most 100% improvised noise music is a hollow experience that can only be enjoyed by the performers. Over the years, as noise music has become more and more mainstream in the hipster chic communities, I feel that improvised noise music has quickly become a way in which people try to contort their philosophical hodgepodge rhetoric into music as an escape from critics who would be able to more easily judge their ideals when written on paper instead of through the more obtuse use of sound. To me this is the ruin of music in the experimental genre. Music should be able to speak volumes without the need to sit down and muse half thoughts picked up and distorted from other philosophical luminaries. When you listen to a truly great, 100% improvised piece, it shouldn’t sound 100% improvised. It shouldn’t sound like every other 100% improvised piece in a wall of chaotic noise and similar effects spreading ad nauseum so that you can name the exact pedal being used to generate it. Yes, you can use your music as a platform for new ideas, but they shouldn’t be a cover for bullshit terrible pap. The Leg’s Urethra is a performance that stands out of place and time. A work that doesn’t need any legs to stand on but the recorded sounds. Sure, there is plenty of rhetoric and ideas hidden in it, but if you don’t find them through the music, then they either failed at their mission or you just didn’t pick up on them.  ND007- Whimsical Fetus- The Leg’s Urethra (2003)

1.      Hunt the Squeaky Coffee

2.      Strapping Detectives Wrapped in Whimpering Genius

3.      The Boy the Hag Loved

4.      Insecurity Nervous Lice

5.      Eleven Yeti Eating the Judicial Pepper

6.  Telekinetic & Dog-Gone"