What's the weirdest music you've ever heard?

[Blagsta]

Sand are pretty cool for weird.

 

[story]

One night someone was sitting in for John Peel, I don't remember who it was. He played a recording of the sound of the sun recorded through a radio telescope.

At first it was just, like, white noise. After a while you could discern the odd blips and skeeters. It became compelling and moreish, rather like when you listen to the sound of the sea.

Not strictly music, I suppose.*

I've never heard it since, but I've never forgotten it.

Oh, and the night I fell asleep listening to John Peel and was woken by the most unholy and terrifying sound. It frightened me out of bed and into a jumpy heap. It was Release The Bats by The Birthday Party. So I went out and bought it the next day.


*ETA I suppose this is a bit like that chap who listened to the whole of one side of the John Lennon Imagine LP which was nothing but the test tone, and reviewed it as compelling and innovative

 

[Dubversion]

i remember first listening to Peel when i was about 10 or 11. He played some weird German thing, then he said he was going to play something of which even the title freaked me out . This sounded like it would be too much, so i switched off and went back to my Thin Lizzy and promised myself I'd give Peel a go in a couple of years

 

[rollinder]

*ETA I suppose this is a bit like that chap who listened to the whole of one side of the John Lennon Imagine LP which was nothing but the test tone, and reviewed it as compelling and innovative

Wasn't it one of John&yokos experimental albums?
eta - that's exactly what I thought of on reading dubs adventures in listening to static

 

[skunkboy69]

don't know about the Peruvian stuff but sounds like you're describing the Tuvan (sp?) throat singers - Tibetan or Mongolian, i think. Much sampled (KLF, Beasties) and totally haunting

YES! Thats what I meant! Everyone should have a listen to it though.

 

[Detroit City]

What's the strangest music you've ever heard?

that Bjork woman

 

[MysteryGuest]

The usual (NWW etc), but also Michel Chion's Requiem from 1972 - classic shock-tactics French style musique concrete. I paid a fiver for it back in 92 - it's now going for £120-140 second hand *chortle*. Also worth checking is Chion's 'On n'Arrete Pas le Regret', which features a movement made entirely out of noises made by babies (and adults pretending to be babies) that's at once completely macabre and totally hilarious. I tuned in to it by chance on a French radio station back in 81, when I was 15 (around the time I also heard Chrome without knowing what it was)... I was just shaking my head, crying with laughter and thinking 'no, oh my gahhhd, no'. Ace. Chion's later stuff is pretty boring tbh, but 'back in the day' he could have quite a way with the whole spooky/funny ambiguity thing. This stuff is just as out there as NWW but Chion's music doesn't have that heavy, cold darkness that characterises NWW - it's much more organic and warm.

 

[lynne8]

Donna Summer..... Not so weird, just awful. That Gregorian chant stuff is weird tho'.

 

[May Kasahara]

Is that the Donna Summer or 'Donna Summer' otherwise known as Jason Forrest?

 

[Orang Utan]

That'll be Donna Summers

 

[stavros]

Of course, "weird" depends on the listener's point of view, but using the "general public's" perception of music I'd probably say the weirdest thing I like is the Venetian Snares, or some of Squarepusher's more hyperactive moments. I love them both though.

 

[Sweaty Betty]

Alphaville..... but i love it!!!!!!

 

[sam/phallocrat]

I don't really know tbh - weird isn't the best term to use. I tend to like music or not like it, rather than be weirded out by it.

That being said, the version of Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring' on the latest Cock Rock Disco free download album is a bit challenging.

 

[dilute micro]

For me it's . It's terrible.

 

[timebomb]

Tesco Spooky Sounds 99p halloween CD.....headfuck

 

[Cheesypoof]

medulla by bjork, love that album.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Stuff like The Native Hipsters or Melt Banana. I love it, but I can see why people would think of their stuff as "weird".

 

[Yetman]

don't know about the Peruvian stuff but sounds like you're describing the Tuvan (sp?) throat singers - Tibetan or Mongolian, i think. Much sampled (KLF, Beasties) and totally haunting

Its Tuvan yeah, I've been trying to do it for ages. Its fucking well hard

MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHwEEEEEEEEEEWOOOOOOOO etc....

I've got a couple of cd's called 'The Strangest Music Ever'......(pt 1 & 2) and they have got some pretty weird tracks on...

 

[Kanda]

Probably something played by Dub

 

[Dubversion]

I've got a couple of cd's called 'The Strangest Music Ever'......(pt 1 & 2) and they have got some pretty weird tracks on...

are they the Dr Demento ones?

 

[Dj TAB]

Zoviet-france are pretty wierd

":Zoviet*France: is an idiosyncratic collective of anonymous postindustrialists, dronologists, and pseudo-ethnomusicologists. Their investigations have taken them into fictional cultures where nothing is easily located and reality often slips into the hypnagogic. Having secluded themselves in Newcastle, England since their inception in 1982, :Zoviet*France: have developed a radical relationship with the cheap technologies of old-fashioned tape recorders, homemade acoustic instruments, primitive looping and sampling devices, and basic dub trickery. From these machines, the collective has crafted a distinctly unique vocabulary of postindustrial sonic hypnosis. Just as :Zoviet*France:'s sound was alchemic reconfigurations of inexpensive technologies, their vinyl packaging literally covered their sounds with aluminum, roofing shingles, and porcelain. "

ta to discogs.com. Shouting at the ground is an excellent album....

 

[Dubversion]

ta to discogs.com. Shouting at the ground is an excellent album....

it is. did you ever try and record it for someone (to tape, i mean).

setting the recording levels for that one was a bugger

 

[Dj TAB]

it is. did you ever try and record it for someone (to tape, i mean).

setting the recording levels for that one was a bugger

yep, and a compressor worked wonders on soft-limit setting!

 

[A Dashing Blade]

Got some recreated anciant greek played on recreated instruments (iyswim) that's a tad "challanging"

 

[Orang Utan]

Iannis Xenakis is very challenging

Here's the mix I mentioned in the OP:
A dronecast by Max Duley
http://www.bleep43recordings.com/mixes/Show63.mp3
Rhodri Daves & Ingar Zach - More Salt than Water
James Blackshaw - Elk with Jade Eyes
The Oroonies - Aradia
AFX - Analogue Bubblebath 3
Danny Kreuztfeldt- Cloud
Anakrid - Memories of Submersion
Susumu Yokota - Daremoshiranai Chiisanakuni
Andrew Read & Anthony Child - Guitar Treatment Part 7
4E - Cannibalism Version 1
Black Light District - Stoned Circular II
Godflesh - Pure II
Freeform - AT (Autechre remix)
Coil - Queens of the Circulating Library
David Bowie - Weeping Wall
Stereolab & Nurse with Wound - Simple Headphone Mind
Anthony Manning - Chromium Nebulae

 

[Pieface]

Something that onemonkey played to me when we were on mushrooms....

It was modern classical.....maybe Japanese......REALLY odd, clattery....I kind of liked it at the time, the sunshine coming in the window was nice

 

[DRINK?]

Mr scruff has always seemed a bit weird to moi

 

[Orang Utan]

Mr scuff has always seemed a bit weird to moi

Mr Scruff? Ha!

 

[Pieface]

Mister Scruff is cutesy rather than weird.

 

[DRINK?]

Mister Scruff is cutesy rather than weird.

I dunno that whale song thing is bizarre if you ask me....