A 12″ anti-record fabricated from flattened lager/soft drinks cans and scrap metal played with a modified tonearm featuring a craft knife blade mounted onto a battery contact spring (which provides a nice reverb-like effect). A fun experiment perfect for noise experimentation!
Zebra Mu “Mangled and Smashed” C6
Playing smashed up and reassembled vintage 78 RPM records the right way: with a contact mic’d mangled lager can. Stripped back austere harsh noise, recorded live to cassette with no edits or treatments; letting the lager can do all the talking.
Released on Quagga Curious Sounds in an edition of 16 hand-numbered copies. Available to stream/download via my Bandcamp page, at the time of writing I have several cassette copies left to purchase through the merch page!
Extended One Minute Cork Noticeboard Tape Loop
An experimental tape loop work where the magnetic tape runs over numerous guide rollers mounted onto a cork noticeboard with map pins. Warped/degraded organ music plays (a rendition of Aram Khachaturian’s Sabre Dance) which runs through a Behringer DR600 Digital Reverb and Boss CE-5 Chorus Ensemble pedal to a Marshall MS2 Micro Amp.
The beauty about this loop is the guide rollers can be configured to almost any shape/design within the confines of the noticeboard, as long as the rollers are loose enough to move freely it will run without any issues! If you’re a tape looper I’d recommend giving this a go!
Mangled Lager Can Playing A Smashed Up and Reassembled 78 RPM Record
A mangled Fosters lager can plays a 78 RPM anti-record constructed from an assortment of smashed up shellac record pieces. A contact microphone attached to the can is connected directly to a Marshall MS-2 amplifier with no FX pedals utilised. Lo-fi lager junk noise.
Dial-Up Summer Breeze ‘Low Bandwidth Bikini Line’ CDr
Your late summer treat is here: the sonic equivalent to a tanned and oily Hank Hill playing an R18 version of Encarta Mindmaze on a Kaypro 10 in Hawaii…!
CDr features naff folded colour art work and stickered CDr packaged in a slim jewel case. Released on Quagga Curious Sounds in an edition of 20 hand-numbered copies. It can be purchased through Bandcamp or directly from me:
£4.80 (UK)
£7.10 (Europe)
£7.80 (Worldwide)
PayPal/contact: mike-ridge[AT]hotmail.co.uk
Prices in GBP
Two Recent Zebra Mu Releases
X æ (3.5″ floppy disk, Quagga Curious Sounds) and Wreck 78 (b/card CDr & Anti-Record fragment, Self-Released) are two recent and ultra limited Zebra Mu items which sold out almost immediately after release! Both are now available to download/stream via my Bandcamp page if you didn’t get a chance to pick up a physical copy.
“Microcassette Sessions” CDr
A collection of lo-fi microcassette recordings captured on my trusty Olympus Pearlcorder S600 between May – July 2021! This album features a mix of drone, noise, flexi cut-ups, field recordings, daily life, answering machine messages, wind up music box and on hold music.
B&W folded cover is printed onto light peach paper, each copy includes a paper insert and rubber-stamped stickered CDr. Released on Quagga Curious Sounds in an edition of 25 hand-numbered copies. This can be purchased directly from me via PayPal or through my Bandcamp page!
SOLD OUT
Cut-Up Flexi Disc Collage Played With Two Tones Arms
World’s Longest Noise Compilation – Phase One: Alexandria
More Wretched Scrap Metal a previously unreleased Zebra Mu track appears on WLNC – Phase One: Alexandria released via the Onkyokei netlabel based in Estonia. This is indeed a long and sprawling compilation with lots of artists and tracks to discover, free to download!! >>>
https://onkyokei.bandcamp.com/album/wlnc-phase-one-alexandria
Zebra Mu “Door Stopped” b/card CDr
Three new tracks of manic door stop derived harsh noise and maxed out distortion pedal anguish! Released on Quagga Curious Sounds as a b/card CDr in an edition of 20 hand-numbered copies, it can also be streamed/downloaded via my Bandcamp page!
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