oneirophrenia | Ambient Disgust

Originally, this post was going to be titled "Ambient Malaise" because even after finishing one class today (two more to go!) and working my ass off here at the newspaper to get a whole bunch of full-color calendar ads done, I still feel like a blanched sprig of spinach. Bleh. Maybe I'll have the energy when I get home to work on some music or do some graphic design or--gasp!--maybe even write something (I've been lately massaging this really weird, comicbooky idea about an ultra-top-security secret prison in the US whose inmates are there because their humanity is, literally, questionable)...but I'll probably just listen to some Mortiis or Inkubus Sukkubus (one of my old favorite cheesy goth-rock bands) or more of The Killers (surprise surprise) before passing out in my chair with my cat snoring in my lap.

Instead, though, this post is called Ambient Disgust because...well, does anyone remember those three EPs of ambient music I recorded last year around these times? There were three of them, and together they formed the Subterranean Passage Trilogy of spooky, drony, fall-asleep-and-have-horrible-dreams-of-slaughtering-your-ex "noise". I can't remember their individual names at the moment (too tired to dig that far back in my memory), but I still have nearly two hours worth of creepy, Coil-esque nightmarescapes and gritty swamps of low-bit-rate noise lying around waiting to see the sun.

Does anyone actually care if I put these out? They're definitely not my usual type of music (i.e., beat-heavy, skittery, scratchy, itchy, weird, wacky, and sometimes ghey)--and they're definitely not that easy to listen to....After all, I wrote them to prettymuch let the hell out of my head after all the shit went down with The Cuntchuck last year, so they're alternately bleak and cold as an Antarctic mountaintop or boiling with enough timestretched hatred to peel the paint from your walls. Except for the third one, which is basically the "OK, I'm feeling better now" part of the series and sounds a LOT more like stuff from Coil's Musick to Play in the Dark albums--though a little bit weirder and more unstructured.

If so, they're going to be CD-R releases with maybe some interesting or clever packaging...but, regardless, I'll be selling them each for around $3 - $5 apiece, depending on how much it costs me to get the packaging done. I'd only be looking to break more-or-less even on these, because...really, how much of a market is there for suicidal/homicidal/boring/sludgy dark ambient wank-music, anyway? Hell, if all you want to use the CDs for is sampling material for bigger, cooler projects of your own, GREAT! I'll put 'em out just for that.