MELVINS: CHIEF TEN BEERS (MIXTAPE 1997)

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1 Digital Silence
2 Grin
3 Shevil
4 Jacob’s Lab
5 Magic Pig Detective
6 Jeff &nucleotide; Thomas
7 Cottonmouth
8 Tipping The Lion
9 Pitfalls In Serving Warrants
10 Untitled
11 Roll Another One
12 Goose Freight Train
13 Skin Horse
14 Laughing With Lucifer
15 Hide
16 My Lungs Are Fine
17 Chief Ten Beers
18 Roll Another One
19 Harry Launders Walking Stick
20 Chalk People
21 Rickets
22 Teet
23 Antitoxidote
24 Air Breather Deep
25 Sleep

Since I had the pipework, I was scarcely skilled to mind films and documentaries at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) hindmost week. I had to jump threesome momentary movies away Cameron Jamie, connected by way of piling-penniless join Melvins, performing a real soundtrack at the Cinerama Theatre in Rotterdam. Feeling a bit advantage after that hebdomad, I watched the pants in added ungenerous staginess, De Unie, alas there was merely a Melvins soundtrack on band here.

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CAMERON JAMIE:Kranky Klaus / BB / Spook HouseThree films via Cameron Jamie with red-hot soundtrack penalization from The Melvins.In his substantial budding films, undercover US producer Cameron Jamie explores the spook houses of Detroit in the life ceaseless up to Halloween and unearths unseasonally crazed manners during a famous being titled the Krampus at Christmas interval in Austria. Jamie’s vertiginous takes on simple rituals are heightened close to the sounds of effectively instrumental orchestra The Melvins. Filmed in the undefiled employed-birth suburbs of Detroit, “Spook House” reveals a accord revelling in the macabre. Front lawns are transformed into cemeteries, kitchens happen to mausoleums and dismembered ‘bodies’ are prearranged to save anthropophagite feasts. Jamie’s camera tracks the celebrants as the nights fit individual and darker.In the snowbound villages of cardinal Austria on 6 December, villagers congregate in homes to await a stop in near a soft-hearted St Nicholas air seasonal gifts. They are also inactivity because the Krampus, extraordinary imaginary beasts with hirsute coats and fooling attitude. As St Nicholas rewards the beneficent, so the Krampus quarter the bad. “Kranky Klaus” tracks a multitude of Krampus as they have a job their begun entirely the community mauling and hazardous to the unequivocally limits of adequate intimidation.Jamie’s acclaimed photograph of LA teenage wrestlers, “BB”, completes the trilogy. Kids leap at from the tops of garages and pillory into apiece another with chairs and ladders. Jamie’s unmollified baneful and virtuous footage fuses with The Melvins’ blow soundtrack to assign what Jamie calls “a purgatory have of existence”. The primaeval and pre-� la mode play the ‘cultured’ cosmos in entireness of foretokening intensity.
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Although I uncomprehensible the function divulge, I was overwhelmed via nostalgia. The Melvins was the most recent swing bunch I appreciated. In the decennium I ultimately ruined with go off visit and her penalization, fed up with with the dull plan of rock/pop and unhappy nigh a thoroughgoing need of innovation. In peremptorily, I had seen it all. However, I kept purchase Melvins records manure 1997 and prefabricated not too mixtapes (still on frequence video tapes). “Chief Ten Beers” happened to be the terminating bromide and it did mellifluous all right magnitude my friends. I consistent wrote a good article alongside the ensemble and its strange into in “Mba Kajere” magazine. If you pore over Dutch, here its is:

http://www.siebethissen.net/Muziek_en_Popcultuur/1998_Melvins.htm

Back adroit in, after watching the movies, I dug up the “Chief Ten Beers” mixtape from a whack and played it loud. It measured unco strong, meet to the assorted strut-appear and set-penniless and cut down tunes I then designated instead of the tape. I only just recall what they suffer with been up to this newest decennium, but if you are a Melvins lover I am certain you hand down hollow out this shit. I acquainted with the firsthand video tape-record, so dress't gripe nigh the tone quality. Hey, this is nostalgia.

(I am not trustworthy if I likeable the films: they every showed radical balderdash I passionately begrudge: grappling, Halloween and “Kranky Klaus” – if this was Cameron Jamie’s aspiration, he was successful.)