Aeon Flux (dir. Peter Chung - Liquid Television shorts 1991-92)

in 1991 and '92, Aeon Flux first appeared as a series of six wordless short films on Liquid Television, Mtv's animated anthology.  Peter Chung's bizarre sci-fi vision was drenched in kinky sexuality and violence, and popped off the screen like nothing else at the time.  The dramatic figures were always contorted into spidery Egon Schiele-style poses, Chung's boldly surrealist style of storytelling always kept the viewer engaged but disorientated, and the animation still crackles with pure electricity 20 years later.  a masterpiece.

later, Aeon Flux evolved into an even stranger thirty minute weekly series on Mtv, complete with dialogue and a wider and more complex storyline, but those episodes do not hold a candle to the initial six short films.

Aeon Flux - Pilot. 01 from muhgre on Vimeo.

Aeon Flux - War. 02 from muhgre on Vimeo.

Aeon Flux - Gravity. 03 from muhgre on Vimeo.

Aeon Flux - Leisure. 04 from muhgre on Vimeo.

Aeon Flux - Mirror. 05 from muhgre on Vimeo.

Aeon Flux - Tide. 06 from muhgre on Vimeo.

Flat Duo Jets

Flat Duo Jets were a peel-the-paint-off-the-walls bloozy rocknroll punk band from Chapel Hill, NC and later Athens, Georgia. Singer/guitarist Dexter Romweber and drummer Chris "Crow" Smith were an anomaly in the 80's and 90's with their rowdy Buddy Holly and Carl Perkins on amphetamines sound, but their music was an obvious influence on the early 2000's garage rock revival that came later, led by The White Stripes and The Black Keys.  Flat Duo Jets had more in common with the North Mississippi blues men of the time,  R.L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough, and later the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion than anything else going on around them.

they were known as an extraordinary live band,  relentless in their search for pure rocknroll goodness.  here are a couple of interesting archival clips that give a glimpse into these performances.




here is a full live performance from '96. the sound quality is acceptable at best, but it's nevertheless a pretty compelling performance



here's a documentary on Dexter Romweber and his journey with the Flat Duo jets and his struggles afterwards.

Melvins - Lysol (1992 Boner Records)

The pinnacle of psychedelic sludge metal.  monolithically heavy, like the churning primordial ooze.  side one opens with the 18 minute epic "Hung Bunny" and "Roman Dog Bird"...  a droning guitar intro slowly evolves and solidifies and transforms into a brain pounding war dance before breaking apart into a warped gas huffin' hallucination...  it's pretty much the heaviest thing ever recorded.  side two takes a left turn with a slowly grinding cover of "Sacrifice" by Flipper,  and an inspired  take on Alice Cooper's "Second Coming/Ballad of Dwight Fry".   "With Teeth" brings things back around to the album's opening drone, but the guitars are different now, the oppressive heaviness has been lifted and the music is actually radiating.  Buzzo is at his most optimistic with the lyric, "I know it's not very evil/ but you've just got to learn to let it go/Sometimes when the heart beats wide you can take it on the doves." in typical Melvins fashion, gravity eventually takes over.  the light beams get sucked into the black hole and the song falls in on its own weight. 

Lysol was recorded in one week in 1992.  King Buzzo - guitar/vocals, Dale Crover - drums, Joe Preston - bass.  they were forced to change the name of the album after Lysol filed a trademark protest, so early pressings were sent out with black tape over the title.  later printings omitted the title.






Lysol begs to be synched up with footage of the Hand of God raining blows down upon humanity's head, so turn the volume down on this and let it roll over you

Soundgarden - Louder Than Live (Live at the Whiskey A Go-Go 1989)

a unique snapshot of a legendary band, Louder Than Live captures Soundgarden on their Louder Than Love tour in 1989.  It was from a very unique time in the band's history, original bassist Hiro Yamamoto had departed just as the ink was drying on Soundgarden's major label contract, and Ben Shepherd had not yet joined to bring them to a whole different level with Badmotorfinger.  this was from the brief Jason Everman era, the guy who had just prior been ejected from Nirvana.  Everman disappeared from the face of the earth after Soundgarden fired him,  and he seemed destined to be nothing more than the answer to a quesion in the Trival Pursuit 90s edition.  Not many people get to be fired from two of the biggest bands in the world.  just recently, tho, this amazing interview popped up with Everman and details his fascinating journey afterwards.  read it HERE.  now. 

Louder Than Live is totally fucking raw.  the music sounds like a goddamn buzz saw, and "I Awake" is most definitely one of the band's highpoints... tripped out gas huffin' heaviness at its finest.

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