the broken brain

back cover of never released Decaer Pinga 7"

2012-02-02T02:10:00.001-08:00

NYOUKIS & WELCH / MUSCLETUSK / USURPER / NACKT INSECTEN

2012-01-31T23:49:00.000-08:00

Get yr shit oot ma shit presents...

DYLAN NYOUKIS & FRITZ WELCH
These ain't yr regular dunder-hieded lunks! These is special dunder-hieded lunks! Dylan Nyoukis has been skirting the outer limits of audio acceptability since the early 90's with noise/vocal/weirdo groups Prick Decay, Decaer Pinga and Blood Stereo. His output swings from unnervingly free mouth workouts to warped drones to electrical huh without hardly pausing to scratch it's dunted skull bone. Fritz Welch is kinda like an American Dylan Nyoukis seen through eyes full o molten wax and salty tears. Again making unholy use of gob is second nature to this ex-Peeesseye beast who's been busting out everything from subtle percussive nuance to bleak howling menace since swiping Glasgow's improv heart with a deftly calculated immigration maneuver back in '09. Some dork done paired them up! Heaven help us!

MUSCLETUSK
Edinburgh heavyweight noise and clatter crew return after far too long in their dank mushroom dungeon of a practice space. Loudest confusion I ever heard. Loudest and best! Check yr brain at the door, bozo.

NACKT INSECTEN
Recent performances have involved a 10 man noise orchestra, a minimal drone trio, a 5 man percussive shakedown and a solo keyboard blast. This set promises to be none of the above, probably.

+ USURPER!!!
Just confirmed that Edinburgh's furriest small scale improv duo will be making the trek West also. Look at that bill! What is this? 2006???

£5 / 8.30pm

Smegma & Blood Stereo collab LP, hopefully coming in 2012

2012-01-22T08:02:00.000-08:00

Rammel Weekender, Nottingham, March 9-11

2012-01-22T08:00:00.000-08:00

Colour Out Of Space 2011 montage

2011-11-24T04:40:00.001-08:00

AThens, November 26th.

2011-11-24T04:38:00.000-08:00

Cologne

2011-11-24T04:35:00.000-08:00

Maggie Nicols, Dylan Nyoukis, Isabelle Duthoit, Phil Minton in Cologne.

Five Ways To Say 'Wha???'

2011-10-20T14:33:00.000-07:00

BOHMAN / CONSTANCE / NYOUKIS / NYOUKIS / SPICER

Dylan Nyoukis and Karen Constance make up the improv noise duo Blood Stereo. Based in Brighton they are forever busy contributing to a self built scene of collaboration and improvisation that is an unquestionable treasure. For this show they have opted to be joined by their daughter Elkka Reign, London based pioneer of difference Adam Bohman and Daniel Spicer of Brightons free music collective Bolide.

Rotational Poem

2011-10-08T00:26:00.001-07:00

will be performed with Tom Roberts, Dan Spicer and Lewis Major at the Servant Jazz Quarters in Dalston, London, Tuesaday 11th October.

Just Past and Just Around the Corner

2011-08-10T00:41:00.000-07:00

2011-07-24T16:17:00.000-07:00

Mr Drew Cox reviews some Chocolate Monk titles

2011-07-21T22:40:00.001-07:00

2011-07-21T22:38:00.000-07:00

2011-07-21T22:36:00.000-07:00

'Fortune Teller' 6xc20 Boxset on HERMITAGE TAPES

2011-07-21T10:06:00.001-07:00

v/a "Fortune Tellers" 6 x c20 boxset
with tracks by:
Ludo Mich&W.Raveneer
The Haters
Jeph Jerman
Darksmith
IDM theft able
Jazzfinger
Leslie Keffer
Barf Thoth
Dylan Nyoukis
Andrew Coltrane
all cassettes are pro dubbed,housed in a 6 cass. vinyl album
w/ artwork printed in black on silver metallic paper
$35.00 p.p. in the U.S.
$40.00p.p. to Canada
$45.00p.p. to Mexico
$50.00 p.p. thru the rest of the world...
Paypal to: andyclisaf@yahoo.com
contact hermitagetapes: hermitagetapes@yahoo.com
http://hermitagetapes.blogspot.com/

2011-07-15T23:50:00.000-07:00

Sarah Albury, Lewis Major, Daniel Spicer, DYlan Nyoukis, Sharon Gal & Tom Roberts at the My Dance The Skull 'Voice Studies' night at MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, July 14th.

Voice Studies sextet

2011-07-15T03:15:00.001-07:00

2011-07-14T01:23:00.001-07:00

from the desk of Miss Karen Constance

2011-07-08T07:00:00.000-07:00

2011-07-05T08:14:00.001-07:00

with pig

2011-07-05T07:54:00.001-07:00

2011-07-04T04:37:00.000-07:00

sunday karaoke hell, featuring Choc Monk recording artists Dan Spicer (bolide) and Bad Orb.

2011-07-03T12:12:00.001-07:00

'Voice Studies' Volumes 1 & 2

2011-07-03T07:23:00.001-07:00

VOICE STUDIES teaser from Tom White on Vimeo.

2011-07-03T07:15:00.000-07:00

Blood Stereo live at WFMU.

2011-07-03T07:05:00.001-07:00

Nyoukis/Robertson/Roberts/Spicer

2011-07-03T07:03:00.000-07:00

Smack Music 7 @ house show

2011-07-03T07:02:00.000-07:00

2011-07-03T06:57:00.000-07:00

Blood Stereo, Bad Orb, Vole & Filthy Eyes at the Cowley Club in Brighton June 8th.

someones dad listening to Dave Miko

2010-04-03T23:46:00.000-07:00

Bohman/Nyoukis/Spicer at Cafe Oto, March 12th

2010-03-25T07:11:00.000-07:00

Core Of The Coalman Speaks

2010-03-25T07:06:00.000-07:00

http://sickoftheradio.com/2010/03/inteview-core-of-the-coalman/

death of The Polly Shang Kuan Band

2009-08-03T01:09:00.000-07:00

Last ever Polly Shang Kuan Band show. Recorded at The Albert in Brighton, July 21st, 2009. Recorded by Captain Sensible.

Nyoukis/Blood Stereo land at UBUWEB

2009-07-08T23:43:00.000-07:00

yes indeed, proud to announce that there is now a whole slew of solo recordings and blood stereo muck from the years 2000-2009 up at the wonderous UBUWEB website,, and if that doesnt wet yr whistle, well hell, there is 100s of hours of other amazing audio and video on the site, so dig in!!!
x
dylan

Aileen Campbell/Phil Minton/Dylan Nyoukis reading from Steve McCaffreys 'Carnival'

2009-03-27T00:15:00.000-07:00

At Instal, Glasgow, 21st March 2009.

Helhesten - Chora - Weirding Vessel - Duncan Harrison Live Sets

2009-02-23T10:49:00.001-08:00

Recorded at Westhill Hall, Brighton, Feb 21st by Ian Murphy

Helhesten

Chora

Weirding Vessel

Duncan Harrison

Ludo Mich & Blood Stereo live in brighton 2008

2009-02-19T09:14:00.001-08:00

2009-02-19T01:50:00.001-08:00

thanks to gregory jacobsen for letting us use his art.

Weirding Vessel choir, live at The Hope, Brighton, Feb 17th '09

2009-02-19T00:45:00.001-08:00

Weirding Vessel is a loose collective of freaks, consisiting of local brighton 'out' music lunks from blood stereo, bolide awkwardstra, polly shang kuan band, jettatura, gryn brvs, here hare here, slow listener and others. this was an 11 piece vocal only hoe down opening for Anla Courtis & Aaron Moore.

Maths Balance Volumes live joint

2009-02-17T01:27:00.000-08:00

house party, Oct 10th 2008 in Emmaus.

Blood Stereo live at The CCA, Glasgow

2009-02-06T01:32:00.000-08:00

22nd november, 2008.

The Lazy Prod 1: Clay & Jameson from Maths Balance Volumes

2009-02-04T00:59:00.001-08:00

Hey you Handsome drips, whats new, you ass deep in snow?
We're from Minnesota, so yeah. Lots of days of -20 Fahrenheit lately. We've been drinking ourselves through winter, it's a great tradition here!

So tell me about the toddler years of MBV? I get alot of folks who think yr a Davenport offshoot. but you were some smoked out college collective right?
We started Maths Balance Volumes in the summer of 2002 in Mankato. It began as just the two of us, but many other people from our town have played with us on and off over the years. For the past few years it's been back to just the two of us mainly. In 2004, Clay met the Davenport crew and eventually joined that band for a while. That's the extent of the connection between bands, we had both been playing for a while at that point, unaware of each other.

So when you played the uk there was only two fo the tribe?
There were supposed to be three of us on that tour, but not everyone could afford to go. We had a great time though, and are excited to be heading back to Europe soon for our upcoming Italian tour! We hope to meet up with Luca from 8mm and finally get a hold of our Sejayno split tape!

and when you toured the new LP.. only you two?
Yes, it was just us in the band, but we toured for most of the time with our friend Weyes Bluhd from Pennsylvania. It was an eastern US tour, 3 1/2 weeks. We did a lot of weird shit: got lost in Pittsburgh trying to find a health food store so Weyes Bluhd could buy some hippie milk (kamfir?), watched Graham Lambkin smash a tape deck, stayed with multiple hostile pederasts at some androgynous club in Missouri, smoked mogwart with Peter Blasser and later saw Sejayno play at the Baltimore Theosophical Society, etc. Then we dropped Weyes Bluhd off and limped our way back to Minnesota.

plug yr record.
We worked very hard on it, in collaboration with our singer Alena. This is our first vinyl, and we're happy with the results. We had 200 pressed, and have plenty left!
couple of sentences about the 3 monk releases please.
"Cattle Skulls" was a bunch of recordings from around the same time, spliced together all crazy. After it was made, one person who played on it seriously became a neo-nazi, and another knocked up his Juggalo girlfriend and ended up in the mental hospital. "Hospital Dubs" was mainly done by a three person lineup. While making it we were drinking a lot of Robitussin. After it was made, one of the people who played on it converted to Islam and joined the US army! No shit. "Swamp of Inferior Lotion", the third and last of our Chocolate Monk trilogy, is a collection of recordings made over a three-year period, and is intended to be overly long and unlistenable. Nothing insane has happened to the people who played on it yet, but we're hoping!

finally your 'moment of monk'...
Playing "Chocolate Monk Night" at a bar in Boston with Human Hairs, Nackt Insecten, Usurper, Infinity Window and Weyes Bluhd. Nobody showed up, but it was great! We were fortunate to have two excellent breakfasts with the Scots, the second of which was recorded. It's called "Second Breakfast". Look out for it soon, it's great!

phil minto & dylan nyoukis, Battersea Arts Centre, Feb 3rd, 2009

2009-02-04T00:56:00.000-08:00

Dylan Nyoukis & Phil Minton - BAC, London, February 2009 from The Trilogy Tapes on Vimeo.

Thanks to the delightful Will Bankhead of Trilogy Tapes

Nyoukis+Welch=Gong-off

2009-02-02T01:45:00.000-08:00

Fritz Welch & Dylan Nyoukis duo. Fitzherberts Brighon, 22nd July 2007. Was totally psyched to get a chance to perform with Fritz, the mastermind behind Pee In My Face With Surgery and Pee-Ess-Eye etc. Check his and his goons brothers wares at http://www.evolvingear.com/

from the cluttered desk of Miss Karen Constance

2009-01-30T23:46:00.000-08:00

Bohman/Nyoukis/Robertson - scotsmen of mong meet the gentleman of junk

2009-01-30T08:58:00.000-08:00

adam bohman, dylan nyoukis & ali robertson, live at Colour Out Of Space, Brighton. September 5th, 2008. Cheers to Euan for the recording, and Collette for the photo and drunk babble.

HARDLINE ELEPHANTS ~ the mysterious bootleg monk release that never was

2009-01-30T03:02:00.000-08:00

HARDLINE ELEPHANTS "Reptile Acid Tongue"

sweet belgian goof-off/smoked out confuser, that claimed to be choc.187, but never was. a short blast of ear delerium.

blood stereo live in gathamlock, at a day centre for adults with learning disabilities

2009-01-22T07:37:00.000-08:00

2007-12-21T08:15:00.001-08:00

Proceed The Mong Men

2007-12-12T13:31:00.000-08:00

Brain humping lurch and the way out slime all mixed up here in a tasty little 7" stab to yr guts from Sixes & Slither. I grabbed my copy from the monged out goons in person, they were totally smoked out from a 10 hour drive south from Paris to a quaint Pyrennes view. Sixes played his 'sleepy' set that night, and Moerland/Pottinger grew mould in ears. Good times. What you get on this disk is one side of Sixes' sweet white out stylings, mud-caked and demented to get his aural tar bubbling. Slither plough deep into the field with cracked reeds and home-brewed electronics. Dirty fingers and smoke rings lift you out to the coast of confusion. feed animals to man, and feed man to the worms. Pick it up via Tasty Soil.

Maths Balance Volumes = minnesota ear tar

2007-10-29T07:43:00.000-07:00

I know shit about Mankato, Minnesota, I know slightly more about the goon troupe Maths Balance Volumes. Two disks here of the that feeling of late night buzz and whirrrr.. “Circle Path” was recorded right after their second Monk disk “Hospital Dubs from 128 satanical square”, apparently the cover shot is that of a Altar they built right after that disk. You can hear them getting down on this “Circle Path” with some all out free clank, and some pretty nice psych drone guff, there is even some smoked out songs, who the wondrous female singer be?? They are reclaiming the light after the heavy cough syrup sessions of “Hospital Dubs..” on this one.

“Black Husk” is a creepy little weirdo that keeps pawing at me. And i likes it. Recorded slightly after “Circle Path” this has all the feeling of ripe supernatural pickings. Just a fucking great mystery basement vibe on this one. Bunch of short tracks, some all out abstract, others heavy on the melody, mould and riff. And that voice creeps up again. Flows like cattle piss.

please go here and buy their shit.