" Jonny Zchivago's Disco Dystopia": Friday November 13th Edition- The 'Fuck Trump' Special." 2020

Hi Chums ,Here's the November edition of Zchivago's award winning Disco Dystopia radio show.......i'm currently banned from Facebook for wishing a terminal experience on all Trump Supporters,so i have to stick to trusty ol' corrupt Google to promote this Anti-Trump special.(links at the bottom of the page)

Zchivago's Disco Dystopia Playlist : November 13th 2020

The 'Fuck Trump' Special:

1.LIQUIDS – I Killed Donald Trump
2.PRO DEATH CORPS – After Donald Trump
3.NAZI DEATH CAMP – The President Is Dead
4.OI POLLOI – Donald Trump, Fuck You.
5.ANGRY SAMOANS – Stupid Jerk
6.NERVE AGENTS – the Fall Of The All-American
7.BILL FAY – Pictures Of Adolf
8.SONSEED – Jesus Is A Friend Of Mine.
9.SCOUTS OF UZBEKISTAN – Rednecks Are Real.
10.KATINY SLEZKI – Track 4
11.ART PHAG – Golf
12.NEO NEO'S – Hitler Wuz A Natzi
13.ANGRY SAMOANS – They Saved Hitlers Cock
14.UNATURAL AXE – They Saved Hitlers Brain
15.KEVIN COYNE – Nasty
16.SCHIZOID – Whitehouse
17.THE NUB – A Job
18.SWANS – Job
19.MINOY and Donald Trump – Inpatient Angel
20.DEAD NEANDERTHALS – The Bleaching
21.KATHY ACKER – President Bush
22.MEL BROOKS – Hitler Rap

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Bodycocktail - "Toss Me In The Air,I'll Pay!" (ZH27 - Bodycocktail #44) 1997

Bodycocktail's pop odyssey continues with tape number 44 of 177, and counting,albums. Like most of Zan Hoffman's projects, an album consists of one long track on a single side of a C60,and this is no exception.
A horrible 90's synth hammers out a disjointed riff for the first seven minutes, while Zan gives an accurate impression of Stan Ridgeway (that bloke from Wall of Voodoo) in a padded cell at the funny farm. The track devolves from there, into a chaotic mash up of Pop melody and heavily effected noise(provided by Minoy).
One can imagine a Throng (or whatever the collective noun is?) of Pop consumers, hearing this and getting angry,unreasonably fuming! Maybe then they'll understand how it feels for lovers of non-product art to have the rapist manifesto's of Robin Thicke ,or the paedo propaganda of Miley Cyrus inflicted upon them!?
 

Track:

1 "Toss Me in The Air, I'll Pay!" (30:38)

DOWNLOAD then toss yourself in the air HERE!

Minóy\Zannóy - "Caught In The Throat Of The Beast" (ZH27 ‎– 425) 1989

Music from the Rail terminal at the edge of the universe,with indecipherable announcements gasping for air in between the waves of teeth grinding metal fatigue. The speaker system in the infinite waiting room struggles to convey the directions to which we are all heading,be it Oblivion, Hell, Heaven  ,or to repeat it all over again as a Slug. The musical interludes are reminiscent  of  Holgar Czukay's experiments with found radio voices, and the way they disappear beneath the audible range remind one of Gavin Bryars' "The Sinking of the Titanic".
This is my favourite Minóy\Zannóy collaboration, less jet engine in a tunnel with more subtlety and space;allowing the weirdness to breathe.

Track:

1- Caught in the Throat Of The Beast (30:46)

DOWNLOAD a Heimlich manoeuvre on the beast HERE!

Minóy\Zannóy - "Zemzimmazu-kerzanminoy!" (Elavation of Anxiety EOA 11) 1987

Is it me or are all these Minóy\Zannóy tapes starting to sound the same? Is this another jet engine powered vacuum cleaner set to warp 9, sucking all life from a subterranean tunnel system?...well...yes!...But it sounds so fucking good.Its a classic sound,that ranks up there with the Mini-Moog bass, Overdriven Guitar power chords,TR808 handclaps,and Jean Jacques Burnel's fucked up speaker cab. Don't mess with the classics and they'll always serve you well, be it Godzilla's paint stripping scream, Doc Martin's, the Tardis's appearing/disappearing noise (Courtesy of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop), or a cheeky Trilby hat,worn at a jaunty angle.Get the picture?
Track 1, "Zemzimmazu" certainly displays that classic V2 underground test bunker vibe,that is Minóy and Zan Hoffman's default setting. VU meter's well into the red,saturating the cassette tape into a murky soup of rampaging debris,not unlike an audio version of those amateur video's of the Japanese Tsunami.
Track 2,Kerzanminoise,is slightly different;with quite a few minutes of a more ambient approach.Like an ethereal electric milk float in a smaller Hurricane,a few miles from landfall. Then around 9 minutes in, the main storm hits,picking the milk float up and smashing it against the wall of good taste,which collapses letting every enlightened idea ever repressed by accepted 'norms' to come flooding out to infect our children.
Consider yourself infected.

Tracks:

1 - Zemzimmazu (29:39)
2 - Kerzanminoise (29:32)

DOWNLOAD the liberating noise of engine failure HERE!

Minóy/Zannóy - "XYZ Blurs Glad Meat Rags" (ZH27 ‎– 422) 1988

Hoffman remixes Stanley Keith Bowsza,aka Minóy,into a seamless blend of subway station white noise,and dawn chorus of mating electronic frogs.Through the buzzsaw ambience, an Ice Cream van's merry jingle rises and falls below the surface,mourned by a solitary fog horn. A plague of Locusts swarm through the subway tunnels, devouring everything in it's path,candy wrappers,hip-hop rappers(Hooray!), uncleaned crappers and dirty ol' slappers. Take note how the plague of Locusts was referred to as an 'IT'. This is how Humanity will be referred to by the inheritors of this mess in a not too distant future. Unless we realise that we can't eat money,

Track:

1 - XYZ Blurs Glad Meat Rags (30.14)

DOWNLOAD some blurred lines that were actually not stolen from Marvin Gaye HERE!

Minóy\Zannóy - "Fractured Lingere Break You Ears" (Zidsic 995) 1988

How many times have you cried out in pain, "HELP I'VE GOT FRACTURED LINGERIE IN MY EARS", which ultimately lead to your ears becoming broken?
Don't be afraid,because the word in the title is 'Lingere',not 'Lingerie', so you don't have to be too afraid of some torn and dirty underpants,crotchless panties, or 'peek-a-boo' bras coming to break your aural receptors. Instead, we have more reverberated scraping in a tunnel,accompanied by failing  jet engines ,and braking railway engines to break(brake) your ears instead.
Another classic sonic abstraction by the dream team of Outsider-Garde DIY, Hoffman and Bowsza.

Track:

1- "Fractured Lingere Break Your Ears" (31.09)

DOWNLOAD and rip your underpants with excitement HERE!

Minóy\Zannóy -"Cephalic Convergence" (Zidslick) 1988

A more minimal Minóy\Zannóy effort,that starts off like a lost cousin of Czukay/Dammers' (Rolf not Jerry),"Canaxis" album,and transforms into a decidedly unfunky version of "My Life in the bush of Ghosts",which in turn was a 'Funky' "Canaxis.So there squareth the circle.
The subtlety of the ghostly radio voices juxtaposed with the dripping electronics,submerged into the unearthed,or unearthly, electrical humming;makes this particular mail collaboration more effective than the tape saturated noise of most other Minóy\Zannóy thirty minute epics. Leaving the listener with more headspace,hence the title.

Track(s):

1- Cephalic Convergence"

DOWNLOAD cephalically converging head music HERE!

Minóy\Zannóy ‎– "The Decline Of The American Orgasm" (ZH27 ‎– 180) 1989

Based largely on a field recording of someone hammering on some wood,or nailing some wood,or whatever hammer/nail/wood scenario you can imagine, that alludes to uninspiring sexual activity. All this set inside some rush hour underpass.......I said Underpass not under-pants you filthy little monkey. The very act of a car or bus entering a tunnel conjures the most unpleasant pornographic imagery,that it could lead to the decline of most sane peoples libido.
The constant wooosh of traffic through the underpants/underpass could be symbolic of promiscuity among our over-liberated generation.That and the odd submerged animal noise makes this single sided C-60 the avant garde version of Spinal Tap's "Sex farm".
The Hammering could also represent the sound of a black-mailed civil servant building the coffin of a murdered and sodomised orphan. A victim of a British parliamentarian,colluded and encouraged by high ranking police officers and members of the royal family(or Royal family's members?).
Be careful what you say and do,for you too may find Kiddie porn appearing mysteriously on your hard drive,and these very same 'Policemen',knocking on your door,saying; "we have reason to believe that you may have downloaded some illegal material of a sexual nature sir".You'll either end up in prison or working for MI6,or even worse Mossad. 

Track(s):

1 - The Decline Of The American Orgasm (30.45)

If you want a good time? DOWNLOAD HERE!

Minóy\Zannóy ‎– "Mmmazammm" (ZH27 ‎– 181) 1985

We are taken on a journey through a cavernous railway terminus waiting area,into a raging forest fire,fanned by a Antarctic gale. Collapsing brutalist architecture on all sides mask the stifled cries of women and children beneath the rubble of  a nuclear winter; but the speaker system is still issuing instructions that no-one will hear.
This is as accurate an aural reconstruction of thee last days of man on earth as you're likely to hear.If you listen very carefully, one could almost hear the immortal last words of Captain Oates,"I'm just going outside, I may be some time!" Minóy and Zannóy left the safety of the tent sometime ago,and never returned;in Minóy's case he has now left for eternity.

Track(s):

1- Mmmazamm (30.53)

DOWNLOAD the DddddddownnnnnnLoaddddddd HERE!

Minóy\Zannóy ‎– "Zanminoise" (ZH27 ‎– 405) 1985

Whereas previous tapes recently,by Luis Mesa and Minoy have reminded your narrator of the eerie soundtracks from childrens TV of his youth (Namely the Clangers). This single sided C60 collaboration between Zan Hoffman and Minóy sounds more like the end of the Clangers planet.We are taken on a trip past the incinerated music tree,a deserted soup mine,with the irradiated remains of the Soup dragon.The iron Chicken is nothing more than a pool of molten metal,now re-solidified as a formless blackened blob.The Clangers homes themselves show signs of being hastily evacuated,with their belongings scattered in the ensuing panic.
This tape offers little clue as to what caused this mass extinction,just the post apocalyptic wind blowing across empty kids TV scenery. All that's missing is the wonderful voice of the late great Oliver Postage(the voice of my childhood) to describe the emptiness.

Tracks:

1- Zaminoise (31.05)

DOWNLOAD a soundtrack for the kids programme at the end of the world HERE!

Minóy ‎– "Plain Wrap Purgatory" (Sound Of Pig ‎– SOP 96) 1986

Like a slow motion trip through an  impenetrable sea fog,scraping the passing hulls of lost ships,and time-stretched Doppler effected fog horns.The title track lures the listener onto the rocks like an outsider-garde siren in a haunted ocean of white noise.
Track two could be the black box recording of the missing Malaysian Airlines jet that allegedly sunk beneath the waves of the south china seas,lost in the dense fog of track one.
This sick pantomime that we call life,really is a Plain wrap Purgatory; and Minóy captures it perfectly within the constraints of one C60.Those outsiders sure have an objective view of things from their enviable vantage point.

Tracks:

1- Plain Wrap Purgatory (26:48)
2- Flying Overhead (31:24)

DOWNLOAD some purgatory unwrapped HERE!

Minóy ‎– "The Tyranny Of Distance" (Sound Of Pig ‎– SOP 209) 1986

We've already had Luis Mesa's versions of the" Forbidden Planet" soundtrack,so its only fair that Minóy did his own attempt. Except that  Minóy's version is far more towards the "Clangers" end of the spectrum than Mesa's;for which I am most thankful.(NB,as i've said before The Clangers is a strange BBC kids programme from the 70's).
That's restricted to side A anyway.
Side B is two different parties(as in the forced jollity type of Party) recorded from inside a pocket.I've had many voice-mails that sound like this.basically I should have released them as avant garde noise scapes,then I would be as ignored as the late great  Minóy is today. But, he is becoming less ignored by the day,to hopefully become another in the long line of 'famous when dead' innovators of Art.

Tracklist:

A	-The Tyranny Of Distance (29:42)
B	-Tennessee Dance Song Mix (Homage To Prince) (30:59)

DOWNLOAD the distant tyranny of  Minóy HERE!

Minóy ‎– "The Conditions Of Post Modern Male Bonding" (Sound Of Pig ‎– SOP 214) 1986

One of Zan Hoffman's frequent collaborators was the legendary Minóy,who I notice had sound sources contributed to a Zanmerz tape or two. There are many Minóy cassettes to be heard,quite a few on this site(check them out here).
His trademarks are saturated tape to tape collages of mostly non-musical sound sources,mixed up with a lot of his favourite Radio Shack reverb effects,This creates a dense fog of fuzzy noise that shifts and undulates to create something otherworldly and barely in control by its creator.
Side 1 shifts from recreating the ambiance of an underground V2 testing bunker network,during a test;to the sound of the heavy bombers coming to bomb it.
Side 2 is a clash of some hellish railway station tannoy battling with bustling commuters and a near-by marching band pageant. Melting together  like Auchwitz bound cattletrucks accompanied by the Treblinka jewish orchestra.
I just can't stop making world war two references!......but so what,I enjoy it.I find there's an analogy for all areas of life in both War and Football (soccer if you're american).And the former applies to this Minóy release;although as a Leicester City fan this could easily be the soundtrack to our season with its elements of foggy self-destruction,but definitely a tape of two halves.
(note- on side 1,i appear to have recorded an evil microsoft windows 'boing' sound while i was ripping the tape! For this i apologise profusely,although it does seem to fit in with the general concept. At least that's the excuse i'm giving for not ripping it again.Sitting around for 60 minutes while it rips in real time ain't too stimulating!)

Tracklist:

Side A-	The Conditions Of Post Modern Male Bonding (30:00)
Side B-	Dusty Antagonist Awake On The White Steps Of Late Afternoon (28:16)

 
DOWNLOAD some post modern male bonding conditions HERE!

Merzan / Zanmerz ‎– "Hell City And GoGoCrash" (Tonspur Tapes ‎– TT 43 /ZH27 016) 1991

There aren't many artists in the cassette culture universe that Zan Hoffman hasn't collaborated with in his 27 years of sonic exploration; and Merz,or luis Mesa isn't one of them. Under the merged oneness  of Merzan/Zanmerz they combined by sending each other tapes in the post,an extension of the Mail Art umbrella. Essentially,this is basically a Merz track on side A, and Zan Hoffman remixing soundsources from Minoy,Agog,1348,Merz,and himself,to create something unique and extraordinary on side B.
The humour of Zan Hoffman is always to the fore on any of his thousands of releases,and he always has a talent for a funny title or two. Its a whirlpool of unexpected and unconnected sound bytes,swirling in an unstructured soup of effects and mixer manipulation.This has more in common with free jazz than any other experimental musics. Anything goes in the search for the 13th note when Hoffman's in town.

Tracklist:

A	Hell City
B1	She Plays A Mean Car Crash
B2	Gogominoymadreadmetal

"Hell City", composed by Merz in Madrid, 1991.
"She plays a mean car crash", recorded by Zan in Louky. Featuring "no title" (Merz), How loops, Agog viola, John Wiggins (fresh wig), Runzlestirn & Gurglestock.
"Gogominoymadreadmetal" (remixed 11/17/1991), featuring 1348, Merz, Minóy & Anika.

DOWNLOAD this car crash of a cassette HERE!

Minóy - "Minóy's Last Post - a tribute" - 1951-2010

To conclude the recent slew of Minóy related goods; I think it proper to hear from the man himself, via the following downloads of a rare interview, and an audio letter he sent to a Al Conroy of Not Half  up there in Canada. They are quite interesting and give a sneaky peek into the reclusive and private world of  Minóy, or Stanley Keith Bowsza. He sounds like quite an eccentric fellow, as one would imagine.

Also check the picture of the last mail/cassette (above) he sent to Zan Hoffman in 1992, explaining why he no longer felt able to continue creating these endless masterpieces.And I quote:

" Minóy Cassetteworks has been permanently terminated. My soul has dried up and blown away. I can no longer feel joy but only constant mental and physical (psychosomatic,so it seems) pain. We are three non-functional people alone in the void of  Minóy mouse, sanctuary became prison.....no exit, now we scream, HELP!"

 He talked the talk and walked the walk did Minóy; He said he was stopping, and he did. Not like that old showbiz cliché of old, the farewell tour and the comeback; for there was to be no comeback. He was never to make another recording or appearance again, probably sinking into a pit of depression from which he was never to surface. That great anti-music was a true reflection of his soul, may it rest in peace.

 The interview is a cassette interview, naturally, where  Minóy answers prepared questions from a letter into his famous sony cassette deck, sort of a mail art interview. Like an underground smash hits type of interview,where he tells us about his favourite equipment and working methods; quite amusing. He does sound like a cross between Brains from Top Cat, Deputy Dawg on helium, and Jinx the cat; basically like a whole lot of cartoon animals shoved in a blender.

LISTEN to the Minóy interview HERE!

Al Conroy: " This audio letter is presented here for all to hear to honour him and the brief time I was in contact with him. "
October 30, 1951 â March 19, 2010

DOWNLOAD  Minóy's audio letter to Al HERE!

Also check out Minoy's new Wiki page, as created by Joseph Nechvatal HERE!

Masters Of The Ungentlemanly Art ‎– "MA»" (ZH27 - 071) 1986

The masters of the ungentlemanly art of tape collage are represented here with a full spectrum of distorted lo-fi muddy noise, buried beneath the surface of an ocean of cheap radio shack effects, momentarily rising to breath revealing its ugly head. Minoy makes a large contribution to the submerged racket, along with several other contributors , mixed together by the notorious Zan Hoffman; which makes an irresistible cocktail of third hand sound. Six tracks seamlessly edited together , that vary from ethereal relaxation, to fuzzy uncomfortable noise-scapes. Definitely something to relax to in the bath , with a couple of scented candles, to help exorcise the demons of the shit that happened today. A process I ,personally, have difficulty doing as I don’t have a bath, and I fucking detest scented candles. So why I’m recommending this action is anyone’s guess?

Tracklist:

A1		Cantonese Polka
A2		I Bet You Have
A3		Has A Severe Lack
A4		That's What I Say
A5		Cancerama
A6		Any Air

DOWNLOAD some ungentlemanly art HERE!

Disco Splendor - "We Shit Art (Disco Splendor sampler 1987/88)" (The Sound Genetic CD-r) 2009

For the lack of cassettes, we bring you a CD-r compilation of Minoy and PBK's collaborative project, the ironically monikered, Disco Splendor.
This is the kind of disco splendor you'd really love to slip on discreetly  to a turntable in one of those brain washing super clubs in Ibiza (come kindly tsunami and sink this evil isle!).
One has to say that one prefers the American take on Industrial noise to what it evolved into in Europe post TG. Its doesn't seem obsessed at all with Nazi's, mass murder, sex crime etc; and doesn't take the easy route of just producing paint stripping decibels of noise, like an ignored child. It seems content to be ignored, and thats my kind of future person. Fuck the cult of personality, and praise the cult of Minoy.

Tracklist:

1		Less Is Less	6:59
2		Rad Waste	3:38
3		New Wage 1	10:00
4		Heroing Man (Excerpt)	6:40
5		Suturing The Wound Of Castration With Narrative	8:18
6		Jesus Loves Iranians Too	7:08
7		Labor Day	6:33
8		Never Too Old To Get Hard	3:12
9		Race Music	6:43
10		New Wage 2	6:23
11		More Is More	8:06

DOWNLOAD this shit HERE!

Minóy\Zannóy - "Mr. Chanes Deaf Mix For Jake Hobo" (ZH27 - 411) 1986

This is what those guys hear in their heads, y’know , the ones that cover the walls of their house in aluminium foil to stop their minds being probed? Certain persons have to take serious anti-psychotic medication to stop music like this occurring naturally, this is basically the world music for the 21^stcentury,or even Nu-Folk with telepathy in place of song. It conveys what it feels like to be alive in an increasingly impersonal environment,where ones relationships are formed in isolation via a plasma screen. This is the inescapable cancerous throb of microwaves chopping up your genetic code,and rearranging it as the next mutation in this planets evolution. Or is it the sound of mankind’s last scream before the planet saves itself by bringing forth another mass extinction, like a human immune system would remove a bacterial infection. Either way, the future looks black, and I’m gonna cover my walls with Aluminium foil. “Why won't the voices Sttttttoooooopppppp!!??”

 Maybe because I didn’t press the stop button!?

DOWNLOAD this music for the deaf HERE!

Minóy\Zannóy ‎– "Chicago K-Mart Call : Elevation Of Anxiety Opus No. 45" (ZH27 - 179) 1987

K-mart?.....Isn’t that where American mass shooting psychotics buy all their ammo?

Sure it fucking is! Only in the USA can you go the supermarkets loading this kind of stuff into your shopping cart.

Mmmmm, lets see now, a dozen Twinkies, two for the price of one packs of Corn Dogs, some Oreo’s, oh....and 600 rounds for my AK-47 to express my freedom. A typical American shopping list, guaranteed to kill! Those twinkies and corn dogs are lethal. Here in France, AK-47’s are relatively illegal, and Corn Dogs are definitely forbidden ; punishable by being forced to listen to French Reggae, a fate worse than death believe me!

This one sided C-90 is an attempt to capture the true sound of a K-Mart through the eyes of a shopping cart laden with ammo and all the ingredients to make a Meat Loaf???......Fuck me, do they (americans) have the shittest food on this planet or what?

And after our visit to K-Mart,let’s hang at the Taco Bell, and maybe exercise our cultural right with to a mass shooting?

Rather than go through the hell that a visit to K-Mart, or any other similar consumer temple ,would inevitably lead to,I advise listening to this grinding, scraping classic. Sounding like a close miked shopping trolley with no wheels, being pushed along the aisles of one of these atrocity exhibitions of reasonably priced poisons.

DOWNLOAD some chicago K-Mart ammo HERE!

Minóy\Zannóy - "Monochrome Melodrama" (ZH27 - 294) 1987

Another tumble dryer of found sound and radio shack effects units, fused together like trees from the shores of pre-cambrian oceans to form what they now call diamonds, and we unpopular sound lovers call, a Minoy/Zannoy cassette.

This Monochrome Melodrama of life starts off with a crescendo of vacuum tube vacuousness spiralling in a vortex of effects units and black noise. Which, in a back to front kind of way, tails off into a flock of electronic Starlings gliding home to roost in the electricity pylons carrying the output of an outmoded Nuclear power plant.

There’s something strictly Ante-deluvian about the work of these two characters(Minoy and Hoffman), an ever present feeling of impending doom; like there’s something shadowy just beyond your peripheral vision.......waiting.

Waiting for what, is up to the interpretation of the listener; but as long as you are in a reasonably sound psychological state, one can reach a momentary plateau when all paranoia is cleansed,and life is normal again.But don’t let that fool ya, the Government IS lying to you!

DOWNLOAD this monochrome melodrama HERE!