A big hearty, hand-shake-into a hug to those who supported the Painful Leg Injuries' first live performance last night at NYC's Pussycat Lounge. It takes a good friend to come out to a club at 11pm on a Tuesday and listen to contemplative electronic noise music, knowing that there's strippers one floor down.

Thanks for the support, take care and hopefully you got a little more sleep than I did.

Also, speaking of celebrations, Jonah from the Unevenness of the Moon's Surface celebrates the anniversary of his arrival on planet Earth today. Happy Birthday, buddy.

So on Tuesday, the Painful Leg Injuries perform live for the first time, and thanks in advance to all who plan to come and see us. We've prepared a set that mixes elements from many of our releases and we hope you enjoy it.

Suzanne will be playing her cello and I will be employing a laptop and my sensorlab noise machine aswell as a host of other instruments.

The venue is the Pussycat Lounge and we go on at 11pm on Tuesday the 24th. For directions to the club click here or send me an email.

The Unevenness of the Moon's Surface delivers an espionage piece from his personal life, with a A Tense Day at the Office (correction : last week's podcast was incorrectly titled). El Plan De Aguavodka gives us the brutally cathartic second part of his Interrogation series.

The Painful Leg Injuries wrap up the 13th series with Worst Case Scenario, You Don't Come Back Up. PLI will begin the 14th series, The Domestic Abyss, on November 5th. The Domestic Abyss will be the final series of 2006, a collection pieces made from household items including forks, plates, wind chimes, pots, pans, and of course, the garbage chute.

No new podcasts next week, on November 5th, we return with new podcasts, until then, hope to see you on Tuesday, take care.

As it gets to be three quarters of the way through 2006, I've been thinking about my records of the year, and I figured I tie this into a new list of recommended CD's.


1)Rafael Toral - Space

Until this record, I was not a fan of Toral's work. Not that I hated it, I thought he was bogged down by his influences. It did not surprise me in his recent Wire article he broughtup My Bloody Valentine as I felt he was going for an MBV hybrid with Phill Niblock and La Monte Young influences. But it never quite connected for me. With Space, he's ditched the guitar in favor of homemade electronics and feedback machines. Forging into new sci-fi style territory he explores jazzy and Cage-ian cocepts to an amazing degree, and produces the most interesting, entertaining and unexpected new music so far this year.

2)Wolf Eyes - River Slaughter

There's only a 1000 of these LP's and they are pretty much all gone and the reissue is unlikely, this is Wolf Eyes, and it's shame, as this their masterpiece. Human Animal their new widely available Sub Pop album is very good, but River Slaughter shows them going in an ambitious new direction of ominous ambience and shocking dynamics, proving once again that these guys have more depth than what folk originally thought. Hit ebay, track it down however you can, it's worth it.

3)Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid - The Exchange Sessions Vol 1
4)Girl Talk - Nightripper
5)Scott Walker - The Drift
6)Ryoji Ikeda - Dataplex


7)TV on the Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain

One of many good indie rock records this year. TVOTR finally deliver on their promise taking the best aspects of Talking Heads and Pere Ubu and giving it a wonderful studio realised background.

8)Fe-mail - Blixter Toad

9)The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls In America

The past few weeks has found me playing this on my ipod constantly. I have followed Craig Finn and Tad Kubler all the way back to the Lifter Puller days. The Hold Steady sound nothing like anything else on this list. Classic rock, narrative lyric driven and sung by Craig Finn in style more spoken than Stephen Malkmus. Their sound lands somewhere between early boss (that's right, Springsteen) and The Jim Carroll Band. It's so refreshing to hear a record that's well written and so memorable. Some hardcore Hold Steadyfans might resent the big choruses, but to me, they've wanted to put the big choruses in all along and held back, now, they are not, and you'll see why this band is amazing.

10)Grizzly Bear - Yellow House

GB basically combine the atmospheres that Animal Collective create but keep them more grounded, with the prettiness of Sufjan Stevens without the preciousness. Yellow House is very enjoyable record that show's a major leap foward for Grizzly Bear.

A few days or so after the Erstquake festival, I was riding on the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey and I stopped at a random rest stop. As my wife and I were heading in to get rest stop things, I see fucking Phill Niblock! How weird is that? I mean there's lots of rest stops in Jersey, it's a strange coincidence to see one of my musical heros there, someone who's heavily influenced my work. Anyway, heck of a nice guy, and Phill if you see this, I hope you made to Baltimore in time for your show. Naturally, I had not one Painful Leg Injuries CD to give him, on the moment that the universe handed me.

Hello again, folks, lots of news to tell you this week. First off, a quick reminder to those in the NYC area, on October 24th the first Painful Leg Injuries live performance will take place at the Pussycat Lounge! Myself (playing a laptop, my Sensorlab feedback machine and host of instruments) and Suzanne (playing her cello) will be performing a host of PLI's material from a large number of releases, so if you are available please come by. We go on at 11, what else do you have to do at 11pm on a Tuesday?

Men In White Coats, our first label comp is now available on Itunes. 45 one minute sound art science experiments, featuring 15 tracks a piece by El Plan De Aguavodka, The Painful Leg Injuries and The Unevenness of the Moon's Surface. Click here to go to launch Itunes.

Also available on Itunes The Painful Leg Injuries' Backwards, Broken and Incorrectly.

The September 29th edition of web radio show Crooked Stylus, featured selections by El Plan De Aguavodka and The Unevenness of the Moon's Surface from Men In White Coats, check them out by clicking here.

Also, our next release, the sophomore full length CD-R by the Painful Leg Injuries, If The Devil's In The Details Than How Many Details Can You Fit Upon A Match? (OKSRNA-005) is due out in mid-November. Two popular tracks of mine from the PLI myspace page "Every Minute Of Everyday Someone's Having An Apocalypse" and "I Did Not Agree With The Prophets" will be on this disc. It'll be the first OKSRNA release to feature a DVD-R with video content for the songs on the CD-R. More details to come, I'll be playing much of the material on the album at my show on the 24th. Also on the way from the Painful Leg Injuries, The Quicker Are The Encumbered, a 3" CD single as part of the acclaimed Lona Records 3" series, check out their site by clicking here. More details on these as they become available.

New OKSRNA artist, Marco Oppedisano, an NYC based avant garde guitarist, electronic musician and electro-acoustic composer will be playing at NYC's the Monkey on October 28th.
Check out Marco's myspace page for more info on will be an amazing performance.

And of course, this week's podcasts. El Plan De Aguavodka returns with an aggressive noise thrust called Interrogation No.1 that sounds more harsh than any EPDA podcast has to this date, awesome. The Unevenness of the Moon's Surface's latest is another demented slow-mo broken tape sax solo, A Tense Day At the Office. In the fifth art of my latest series, The Painful Leg Injuries try to walk a high tension wire with All Things In Proper Proportion.

Until next week.

Our first label comp, Men In White Coats is now
available for digital download at Itunes!
See the links below to launch Itunes.

El Plan De Aguavodka/The Painful Leg Injuries
/The Unevenness Of The Moon's Surface: Men In White Coats


Also available on Itunes-
The Painful Leg Injuries: Backwards, Broken and Incorrectly

El Plan de
Chile Colorado
(as requested by UMS)

Recipe Ingredients:
2 Tbsp flour
2 Tbsp shortening or vegetable oil
2-3 Tbsp New Mexico chile powder
1 can of chicken or beef stock
Minced or dried garlic
Salt

Method:
Heat about 2tbsp of shortening
(you can substitute vegetable oil)
at medium heat in a pan so that the bottom is coated about 1/8 inch.
Add 2tbsp of flour and stir so that it browns lightly and evenly.
Add 2-3 tbsp of chili powder (more if you like) into the pan.
Gradually stir in stock and water (about 1 can each) so that there are no lumps.
Add a pinch of garlic and salt to taste.
Simmer, stirring constantly for about 10-15 minutes.

Ground meat can be added to the chile if you like. You can also serve over a bed of Frito-Lay Fritos with shredded cheese to create the famous "Frito Pie." And really, why wouldn't you?

New podcasts from the Painful Leg Injuries and the Unevenness of the Moon's Surface this week.

PLI's fourth in the latest series Perilous Behavior explores a southern rock noise jam with Nor Do The Wind, The Sun Or The Rain. The latest UMS podcast is anpother time stretched freak out that sounds like a wounded sax solo, An Open Letter to the Demons That Kick It Inside My Dumpster.

El Plan De Aguavodka will return with a new podcast soon. Have a great week.