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Underground Experimental Experience Edition 6: Shane “Bray" Kerr Live May 6th 2025 on WCUW 91.3 FM Worcester, Massachusetts

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  Psychedelic generosity and like come on, who doesn’t love a good live radio broadcast? Especially when that live recording contains Shane “Bray” Kerr on a fascinating assortment of instruments. Listening to this, you may experience woodwind dance party phenomena because of all of the flutes melodica harmonica goodness on this broadcast. There are truly so many sounds to digest on this recording while not overwhelming the listener. I can best describe this as a sound buffet with all-you-can-eat cassette machine sequences with your choice of musical texture.  Sound and audio wizardry is embedded in this album in many instances, which made me all the more happy with the cassette tape concoction that has introduced itself to my ears. If mescaline was a radio broadcast it would be this I’d imagine.  With its outlandish presentation and randomized collection of sounds it’s a fantastic tape and you should definitely get one.  Listen and support here  

Underground Experimental Experience Edition 5: Dome Lettuce’s Not Labeled For Individual Sale

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  Dome Lettuce is a rapper and producer from Western Massachusetts and will engage in disorientation based flow with poignant beats that inspire me to delve into large amounts of library music and jazz. Which is something many such as myself forget to do unless I listen to musicians like Dome Lettice. The greatest part of this album is that the lyricism is also very avant garde approach to rap that is based on growth, flourishment, being cool, herbalism, wordplay, mischief, tomfoolery and many other themes will introduce themselves in this album.  Despite the fun loving nature of Not Labeled For Individual Sale the record has moments of earnestly experimental scenes in the delivery and instrumentals of Dome Lettuce. The music gives the listener a feeling of mutual respect and do it yourself nature of the self-produced recording, production and songwriting all accredited to Dome Lettuce as the one. I sincerely hope this piece provides insight into the masterful project of Dome ...

Underground Experimental Experience Edition 4: Shane Jones Move Aside I Have Discovered the Zeal We Will Use The Will For Real

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  Alarm alarm the single most impressive Casio SKS Music sound adventure has arrived with Shane Jones on “Move aside I Have Discovered the Zeal We Will Use For Real.”   Boisterous beats and alarming loops will encompass you while you delve into this abrasive sound corroboration of keyboard delights. The best part about the album for me is that it is reminiscent of playing Castlevania hooked up to distortion pedals and a spaghetti strainer which I’ve never done but now want to accomplish. Auditory crunching and paddling is prevalent on these recordings and also utilizes looping to interact with the listener in activities such as wondering whats coming from your speaker or maybe nodding in agreement.  I also find everything about this soup to be tasty and delicious! That sentence will generate in your brain if you listen to Move Aside I Have Discovered the Zeal We Will Use For Real. Especially with it’s profound personality the album will become soup, as it always happens w...

Underground Experimental Experience Edition 3: Inside Gs - Earth is Googol

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  Experimental electronic outfit Inside Gs is an avant-garde musical search engine spawned from Boston. In this album you will find yourself immersed in uncanny sound experiments and competing bleep and bloops blanketed together. Listening to Earth is Googol is like the soundtrack of Windows XP screensavers and if Microsoft had a soul.  Inside Gs has an innovative reshaping and dissociating approach to music that I’m appreciative of. Imagine organic culture jamming combined with linear musique-concrete and you’d get to experience Earth is Googol. The synth patches on this album may cause side effects such as: Confusion, delirium, Profound interest in jungle, trying to distinguish words that could or may not be in the recording and excitement.  In an enthralling exchange of rhythms, arrhythmic patterns, dysfunctional melodies and dissonance adjacent to going to three places at once has yet again provided me with enjoyment throughout this record which leaves me on the prowl...

Underground Experimental Experience Edition 2: The Cult Phenomenon of Buttersnakes

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  Buttersnakes has to be one of my favorite outsidercountry-comedy-parody-cult collection of nonsensical songs on my radar in a while. Founded by two longtime Massachusetts psychedelic and outsider musicians, Jeff Unfortunately (or Jeff Gallagher) and Ethan of psychedelic noise band AD.UL.T.  This project really captivated me from the get go with tracks such as “Dump truck blues (Springsteen version)”, “The Brutal Gangland Style Slaying of Tony Rigatoni”, “Fitchburg” and “Fla Keys Tourism Theme”. The unhinged and carefree nature of Buttersnakes will leave most listeners confused but myself and maybe few others completely sold on the slithering delight which is the mysterious partially available catalogue of Buttersnakes.  It feels as if I’m finding obscure deep cuts of 80’s commercials, or maybe walking through audio vintage stores when I tune in to "very snakes vol 1", "snakes alive,” or "acknowledge the snake” on bandcamp  and their cassettes thro ugh seeing their...

Underground Experimental Experience Edition 1: Ben Wetherbee / Suncook Symphony + Deftly Demolition / Solypsis REVIEW

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  Hello readers,  Welcome to my corner to review anything experimental, weird, primitive, revolutionary, boggling, provoking confusing and more. So without further ado, read the first edition of Underground Experimental Experience. Ben Wetherbee / Suncook - Atomic Fiddle If I had to describe Ben Wetherbee’s side of this gem in 3 words I’d go with:  Rhythmic fiddle panic A subtle and intriguing, uneasy feeling is possessive over my brain throughout this entire one-track recording. Truly, atomic fiddle feels like someone’s entire body, psyche, every organ and muscle has been dedicated to composing a solo horror movie soundtrack for 33 minutes. I adamantly enjoyed every second of it. Within the context of the other Ben Wetherbee material I have heard, he’s proven to be extensively versatile and has shown work in bluegrass, freak folk, square dancing, free improvisation, experimental (didn’t see that one coming), and plenty other subgenres and generic brand. What impressed me...