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Tiny Fluctuations
Philosopede
Avenging Torpor
2012


Soundtracks to a short film of a short story of a discontinued video game of an unperformed opera of a mutual hallucination of a dusty book of a variation on a theme.

» Eulogy for the Instruments of Control
» Avenging Torpor
» Lower Middleclass Woman
» World in My Eyes (PCP Freakout Mix)
» Tiny Fluctuations at the Door to Eternity
» Old Man's Heart (It All Turns to Shit in the End) (Remix)

Historechtomie
Crepusculous
Historechtomie
2009

Protagonist Thomas Head gets slimed by the whims of eternity in the lubricated arms of a giant prairie squid who is past her prime. An imaginary soundtrack in 3 movements.

» Historechtomie (23.5 min)


Crepusculous
Wet
2008


A moist curriculum of absurdity and transition, influenced by René Daumal, nitrous oxide, and the sensation of impending doom.

"Freaky brain dizzying fun... it just IS."

Tweek the Screed

» Son of Titblister (with Smea)
» Pool of Distant Burdens
» Wet (with Smea)
» Gim-Crack
» A Short Lesson in Guilt
» The Sheep and the Dead




MemCon
Critical Lies
2007


Collected B-sides, remixes, and other oddities from recent MemCon recording sessions, including guest vocals and production from DJ Bosko and Smea.

"... dark and electronic, yet without the overblown pretentiousness of much of the current scene."
— Godsend

» Critical Lies
» The Fuel of the Great Celtic Empire (with DJ Bosko)
» We Are the Vipers (with Smea)
» Diaspora of Self
» Mistrust of the Worthy (with Peter Swayze)






The Membrane Conspiracy
Fly, My Locusts, Fly
2005

BUY Fly, My Locusts, Fly at iTUNES

» Front Cover - Hi-Res
» Back Cover - Hi-Res


The Membrane Conspiracy celebrates the insect's ultimate triumph over humanity, channeled into gothic pagan funk performed by a mob of sneering children armed with broken guitars and acoustic arpeggiators.

"Weird enough to be a worthwhile investment, MC fail to drop themselves into a convenient little pigeon-hole. Surreal yet never overstating the fact, they move between genres like intestinal worms, yet never take too much from any one host-organ."
Metamorphic Journeyman

» Fly, My Locusts, Fly
» I Will Never Die
» Bellacula
» Tentacle Aspects
» We Are Gold and Blood (Instrumental)
» 3
» Sophia
» It's Only Drugs
» I'm Not a Social Retard
» Dream Death (Locust Mix)



Crepusculous
Nouning Pocket
Mounter

2001

Fragments of an electronic mucous symphony. Spasmodic grooves of epic proportions are ruptured by speculative and horrifying narrations.
Witness the soundtrack of Leviathan rising majestically through a slow dialup connection.

"...the weirdest album I have heard in years."
Rubber Monkey

"Fucking gorgeous."
KleverVice

» Qweqwe
» Chin of Change
» Phantom Arm Returns
» Vincent Cray Needle Needle
» Feel the Stinky Communion
» Rusty Spine
» Nouning Pocket Mounter
» Cystemic Agrimony
» Grovelling Thistle
» The Head of the Body (Tuberculosis)
» Sick Caretaker Meets Gout
» Oyle of Wurm
» Like Distant Sheeping
» Mr Diddle Goes to Market




The Membrane Conspiracy
The Myth of the Upstanding Citizen
2000

BUY The Myth of the Upstanding Citizen at iTUNES

» Front Cover - Hi-Res
» Back Cover - Hi-Res


Electronic allegories of failure and delusion embedded in dark psychedelia. Deep sea chants of witches, monks, and dying rockstars surrounded by detuned casios and 808 sambas in the dark night of the soul.

"Blood is being drained from my body by a musical vampire, everything else is unclear, my veins are being exposed to sharp teeth; I am helpless against the forthcoming attack."
Nephilius

» Vomit Up Blood and Die
» Things You Must Not Do
» There's Someone Driving on Bluemound Road
» My 2 Heads Melted Into 1
» I Am the Magma
» Uncle Rasp from Mansfield
» Lockmount
» Save My Soul for the Fire This Time
» Now I Understand



Crepusculous
The Clinician
2000

Horror-movie soundtracks and deep-space brain experiments play out over jagged beats, dense layers of absurdity and surreal vocal narrations. The Clinician portrays a secret laboratory where wobbly basslines and machine-shop samples cackle at the gaping maw of eternal darkness.

"[Crepusculous] combines jagged beats with waves of noise for an unsettling electronic hodgepodge."
— Impact Press

» Cajun Gutwax
» The Clinician
» Resist the Hollow Parambulations
» Sully Thine Visage
» The Fly
» Letters to Rheafurmb
» The Caustic Mortician
» The Ghost of Lefty Carbone
» Moot and Grammatical




The Membrane Conspiracy
Mutual Hallucination Project
2003

Bedroom electronics and song-like structures wrapped around a theory of shared hallucinations. A minor salvation crafted from the wreckage of memory. Psychedelic balladry, dark funk, and chemically enhanced rantings.

"...pre-Loser Beck after suffering massive head trauma vs. Tom Waits gone insane from being stuck in a prison cell for months with nobody to talk to."
Demorama

» Freak Affirmation
» Your Masters Have Forsaken You
» All My Demon Lovers
» Byzantium and America
» Finger
» Faith




The Membrane Conspiracy

Parables of the Lesser Yogis
2002

» Front Cover - Hi-Res
» Back Cover - Hi-Res


Parables of the Lesser Yogis drenches a sad god's melted resin over an eclectic scraping of 21st century paranoia, noodly basslines, and demented pop hooks.
Beautiful palladins and gothic pornstars sleep snugly next to a circus of psychedelic gurus in this a sticky bed of 80s electronics.

» My Pillar of Electric Salt
» You Are Your Own Book Full of Shit
» Wall to Wall Monument of Mercy
» Salve Mentana
» Ache of the Golem
» I Remain Nameless
» Perdurabo



Membrane Codex
Bloodletting the Demon, Frontier Style
1998


Distorted vocals and sparse, dirty grooves abound on this demented testament to drugs, frustration and human weakness. The original 4-track incarnation of MemCon.

"Music for the future, cleaning the soul for cruelty like A Clockwork Orange, the devil is lurking around inside every human being... real, unique, and haunting music."
Nephilius

» Organ Grinder in Space
» Bay No. 36 Attendant
» Shank of the Mother Pig
» Severed Hand in Cairo
» Legions of Expectant Fathers
» Illusion of a Snake
» Bossie Cow
» Twigs of the Inseminite




Crepusculous
Shiney Harp Soundtrack
1998

The 22-minute soundtrack from the 1998 film by Chris Mann. Also features extra hallucinogenic nightmare anthems from the original recording sessions.

» Shiney Harp soundtrack



Tower of Teeth
Vow of Leprosy
1998

An industrial concoction of noisy beats and raspy mountain vocals gnashing at the thick residues of acid trips gone horribly awry.

» Soggy Hole
» What Do You Think You're Doing in There
» I Got Cut
» Vow of Leprosy
» The Social Grace of Sanity



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