This is a pretty much comprehensive discography of releases, both the Lupus Enterprises (Lup) cassettes and DangerMuff Enterproses (DMent) CDRs. The tapes and CDs have been divided up into GREENman, UPhold, and Frequent Mute sections to make things a little easier. If you're interested in getting any of these releases, see the main page!
Some of these releases (including the GREENman/T.U.O.B. split cassette and the "Doomsday Transmission" compilation) are still available through THE CEILING (Jim Dejong's extremely reliable label), and the more recent releases are available from CD Baby.
GREENman Releases
| Ernesto
(cassette, not available) |
90m, early 1993 | LupA | "Savages" from the original 6am "Freak Show" radio program. Found sounds, shortwave noises, skipping records and Revox feedback combine with brief monologues, guest-starring Kevin McClellan. Contains an early, pre-Mindsculpture version of "Sin Is Sin Blood." No longer available, for your own good, but has been restructured as Mute8, "Dog From A Rat's Ear" (see below) |
| Plain Talk About Dogs
(cassette) |
60m, early 1994 | LupB | A collection of overdubbed, primitive tracks featuring guitar by Detlef Burghardt and a teeny-tiny poster. Lo-fi but somewhat catchy songs ("Maui Ukulele On A Boat") and extended noise fests ("The Unsweetened Sugar") reminiscent of Ernesto, but with more restraint. |
| A
Doomsday Transmission
(cassette compilation) |
46m, early 1994 | DDT | A compilation cassette featuring A.E.R, ORPHX, PLASMALAMP, THE INFANT CYCLE, GREENMAN, UNIT 731, THIRD-EYE TRACTOR, and MIND SKELP-CHER. The GREENman track is a 10 minute "running heads" story, only available on this compilation. Comes with a folder containing artwork from every band on the tape. Still available from The Ceiling. |
| None Of Us Ever Die... We're Just Buried Alive!
(cassette, CD-R) |
60m, May 1994 | LupC DMentC | A more coherant tape recorded during a frenetic week with a rented four-track, with guests Eli McIlveen (Spastic Attack Dogs, Fourprint), Neb Rakic (Mindsculpture, AER) and Sheik Sukie Binbay-Purr. Sequencing and melodies, static and panning, all-singing, all-dancing. The CD features unreleased bonus tracks from "Fond Of The Drone," a collaboration with Detlef Burghardt. |
| Split Cassette
(cassette with B-side by TUOB) |
60m, late 1994 | DDT | The 30-minute "L'il Debbil," not otherwise released, which tells the story of Samantha and her (well-documented) hideous crimes against humankind. Still available from The Ceiling. |
| Pleasure Pain Fighting Rose
(cassette) |
60m, early 1995 | LupD | The last cassette recorded in the original "Blackhead/Whitehead bedroom," this one explored (and attempted to excise) the general crappiness of 1994. Finessed and effected by Jim DeJong (The Infant Cycle), containing source materials from Snot Rohmit and some flashbacks to "Die...Alive!" |
| The Grey Yonder
(cassette & CD-R) |
60m, early 1996 (70m CD-R) | LupE
DMentE |
One long, 60-minute distillation of life in the extremely oppressive "Grey Yonder," 6-tracked in the HEART of the nightmare and featuring sources recorded through walls and doors. It ends with an upbeat GYRO launch and the empowering philosophy: "steal the sounds of those who oppress you." |
| Drabbletales
(cassette) |
60m, early 1997 | LupF | This time a tour of "The Radiator House" and the Abbxcess Bedroom, where much of it was recorded and mixed. A more individual-song format with a somewhat cheerful outlook, including covers of Lisa Germano's "My Secret Reason" and Electric Light Orchestra's "Another Heart Breaks." Currently available from The Ceiling. |
| The True Story Of Muffy St. Jacques
(cassette & CD-R) |
60m, early 1998 (70m CD-R) | LupG
DMentG |
A collection of "remixings, reworkings, and rethinkings" of older tracks (including some previously unreleased collaborations with Detlef Burghardt) in an attempt to come closer to truth than ever before. Contains new versions of "Sin Is Sin Blood" (a live Mindsculpture standard), "No Disability" and a 15-minute remix of "On My Way Out," a tribute to the dead. The cassette came with an illustrated booklet. The CD-R contains a mammoth bonus remix of an old Philler track, "Episode 17 of Electric Fuzz." |
| Art
Sickness Two
(cassette compilation) |
90m, early 1998 | AUS0007 | Contained a GREENman track mislabelled "The Sad Story of Muffy St. Jacques," an original song in three segments. Later released (slightly remixed) on Snakes On Ice. Other artists: Phycus, Bennett/Metcalf, Audio Sculpture, Orphx, Mindsculpture, ECE, Scissor, Ultima Futura, AER & Signal 30. |
| Saturn
(cassette & CD-R) |
60m, mid 1998 | DMentH | Two long songs with multiple (and dramatically different) segments. The first is -- for the first time -- the TRUE story of Muffy St. Jacques, and the second a long-overdue tour of the city of Defiance, UPhold's home town. This is the final original GREENman release, and it sums everything up nicely. The cassette and CD-R have different mixes of "My Biggest Fan." Currently available from The Ceiling. |
| Snakes On Ice
(CD-R) |
70m, mid 1999 | DMentJ | A 16 track "greatest hits" compilation, featuring some of the more discreet moments from 1994 to 1998, including compilation appearances, unreleased songs, and remixed/ remastered songs. See ya, GREENman! Currently available from The Ceiling. |
UPhold Releases
| Transexpose
(cassette & CD-R) |
60m, mid 1998 | DMentI | Originally recorded as a "Frequent Mutilation" for CKMS and aired June 29th, 1998. A mutilation of old GREENman sources (and lots of new ones as well), developed as an exploration of crossdressing from one Muffy's point of view. One hour of ideas broken into 11 distinct pieces. Currently available from The Ceiling. |
| Leopard Betty (SW?)
(CD-R) |
20m, late 1999 | DMentK | A six-track single of diverse, dense, frolicky music. Composed entirely on the Macintosh in CKMS' Studio B. Some of the songs appear in different forms on the subsequent Pony Tale CD. |
| Pony Tale
(CD-R) |
70m, early 2001 | DMentL | The first full-length, original UPhold CD, featuring tracks recorded in Abbxcess and the new Amrita-ta-ta, as well as some reworked & tweaked songs from the Leopard Betty CD. Joyous stomping romps, eerie jazzy interludes, and an 18-minute drone weird-out at the end...difficult to follow but well worth the journey, crystal-clear but still human. Currently available from The Ceiling. |
| Bright Blue Jungle (CD-R) | 60m, May 2004 | DMentM | A diabolical consort with savages in jungles, on oceans, and in backrooms all over the (imaginary) world. Alternating beaty songs and ominous sound collages, some of which are heavily remixed versions of Mute tracks from 1999-2002, some of which are brand-spankin' new. How low will Muffy sink in her quest for world muffination? |
| The Afe Sampler #3 (2 x CD-R) | 160m, July 2006 | Two promotional CDs featuring artists on the AFE roster. The exclusive UPhold track "False Memory Syndrome" appears, with artists including The Impossible Flower, Madame P & The Afeman, Aidan Baker, Logoplasm, Sam & Valley, Amon, Two Dead Bodies, Subinterior, De Fabriek, Dronaement, The Infant Cycle, and many more. | |
| Damage (CD-R) | 60m, February 2007 | DMentN | Different kinds of damage, done to yourself and to others, on both an individual and a world scale, everything from the backyard to the telephone to the most minute pieces of sampling and sequencing. A little sad, a little regretful, a lot of work and time and love...in other words, Damage! |
| Our Past Present (Now Then) (2x CD-R) | 45m, April 2007 | afe086mcd | A limited edition, two mini CD-R split release, with one CD featuring The Infant Cycle and the other CD Uphold. Besides presenting two previously-released songs, the UPhold CD also contains a new ten-minute track: "Shut the Fuck Up, Delia / Shut the Fuck Up, Dmitri." Currently available from AFE Records. |
| Roade (CD-R, MP3) | 60m, February 2009 | DMentO | Two extended compositions united by the theme of pedestrian travel. The first, "Road to Avondale," is a summer chill-out walk through the city. The second, "On Your Way Out," is a confused tribute to the recently deceased. Currently available from CDBaby. |
Frequent Mutilations
Frequent "Mutes" are 60 minute compositions made by a revolving
roster of CKMS studio-rats.
| Bernadesto | Late 1999 | MUTE2 | A much-deserved tribute to Bernadette D. Normandy, fantastic rat and good friend, who died in February of 1999. This Mute is mostly comprised of original material and older GREENman sources. |
| FrankenEightyfour | May 2000 | MUTE3 | All of the sources for this Mute were sampled from music videos made in 1984 or earlier, featuring occasional VJ babble (from the long-defunct "Flipside" and "Coca-Cola Countdown") and many instantly recognizable riffs. Thomas Dolby meets Cindy Lauper, meets Duran Duran, meets The Eurythmics, meets The Cars, meets...silly fun and a tongue-in-cheek tribute. |
| Amrita-ta-ta | June 17, 2000 | MUTE4 | "Sensuali." A loose format built around sexy and weird samples from "Thundercrack!" "Roma" and others. Early versions of songs from Pony Tale appear here ("The Dead Horse" and "Feel My Purse," for instance) along with some moments from an incomplete work, "350 files." |
| For Word Or | July 29, 2000 | MUTE5 | Originally intended to be a language/alphabet/idea expose, it became somewhat sidetracked, mainly due to a damaged hand and a demolished house. Long beat-heavy songs about sandwiches, vowels and constipation. Tarzan learns to read. "Serenade For Outpatients #5: Stroke Story" later appeared -- combined with elements from MUTE2 -- on the Pony Tale CD. |
| Mission Control | October 21, 2000 | MUTE6 | Compiled in both the Abbxcess and Amrita-ta-ta studios, but containing sources mysteriously recorded in a local donut shop. It by no means excises 5 years spent working there...but it has helped, and also exposes some of the mundanity of such jobs. Related elements -- "Audrey's Ghost Party" in particular -- are from original sketches for the 12 of 23 project. Special thanks to Nick for nightshift times. |
| God Text | January 13, 2001 | MUTE7 | A search for the voice of God using garbled sources and random ideas, interspersed with relevant dialogues. Thick, heavy, groovy. "The witness and the predicator appear politeness of a higher shipper, who is however still functionally outdated." The listener will be happy to hear God during the last few minutes. |
| Dog From A Rat's Ear | May 5, 2001 | MUTE8 | The long-delayed remake of GREENman's first release, Ernesto. The original tracks have been compressed, remixed and jimmied together, along with other sources from that time which never made it to older tapes because they were too derivative. Contains the first ever GREENman track "Niaps Fo Gnik," never before released. |
| Drosophobia | March, 2002 | MUTE9 | What a downer! A look at unpleasant events from September'01 to March'02, including 9/11, the death of Marc Moreland, and a massive fruit fly infestation. Includes a scruffy cover of Wall Of Voodoo's "Wrong Way To Hollywood." As it stands, this is the "farewell to the Mutes" Mute. |