Dispatch 54: Psych-Out with New Single "Defines the Time" by SMDS

Dispatch 54: MCL Recording Co is pleased to make available the third SMDS offering titled Defines the Time.  A droning 7 minute psych trance grove that moves and slithers around on the hot desert sand like a snake. A video for the track was also released today.
 The track was recorded by Sammy and Heather at MCL then produced, mixed and mastered by DS at Casa Mar Vista.
 SMDS is the collaboration between Sammy and Heather's Solar Maximum, the dual bass psyche-drone duo and dark experimental sound artist DS Peligro. All are MCL Recording artists and have multiple releases available in digital and limited edition vinyl at the MCL Bandcamp site.
       

                

Dispatch 48: Digital Release for Thao's Sunday by DS Peligro (Vinyl Oct.15th)

Dispatch 48: The MCL Recording Co family is very excited to announce the digital release of the newest record by DS Peligro titled Thao's Sunday (MCL438) at Bandcamp. The album is 11 intellectual wanderings down heady side roads. Reflective and beautiful. From psyche to dub to noise and back around to guitar rock. Simply, purely premium experimentalism.
DS Peligro is a one man show, self composing, performing, producing and releasing his unique brand of experimental no-fi since the early 1970's on west side of L.A. and draws on that long pedigree to create some of the most unique and inspiring experimental music today.

The limited edition vinyl version comes with handprinted jackets and poster insert and will be available on about Oct.15th. This digital version is available at the label's bandcamp page.

Dispatch 47: Solar Maximum Releases New "Black Triagles/ExtraDimensional Love EP"

Dispatch 47: MCL Recording Co is happy to announce the release of the new EP by the ultimate drone lords, Solar Maximum. The EP features 2 heavy droning, yearning tracks. As Bill Boethius in England says about the EP, "what a beautiful contrast - the lightly skipping vocals over the deep lugubrious drones ... and yet the vocal is unsettling to .. opens out to a dark and immense dimension. This sets the mind to endlessly speculate on the black triangles on a subliminal level..."
Check it out for yourselves. Fortified with Poetry by pallasCatfight.

Dispatch 44: We are Now MCL Recording Co.

 Dispatch 44: Introducing our new name, MCL Recording Co. Same great bands, same great label, great new updated name. Contact us at mclrecordingco@gmail.com

Dispatch 36: PallasCatfight/Solar Max Collabo Featured at CaliperMusic Blog Today!

I Know this is All in My Head by palaceCatfight

Dispatch 36: Lots going on these days with MCL artists PallasCatfight and Solar Maximum. They have the featured song at the CaliperMusic Blog today! I Know its all in My Head is the first PCF/SM collaboration track released a few weeks ago thru our soundcloud and Bandcamp pages and features a nice haunting vocal by PallasCatfight over an equally haunting track by Solar Maximum.
 PallasCatfight is essentially Heather Salazar and friends. Heather is also 1/2 of the Solar Maximum duo so she is all over this track! Nice work, H.
 Solar Maximum have been busy as heck these days making lots of great new friends with these international collaborations, releasing ones with DS Peligro in L.A, Trauma in Germany, the Dali of Guitar noise Bill Boethius in England, Mihaly Wulfen in Budapest, Hungary and palaceCatfight right here in-house. All of these can be heard at our bandcamp and souncloud pages. Come by and check them out if you have'nt already, some great stuff there!
 Its always exciting to see our music featured and we are always thankful for the exposure! Thanks Matt!

Sunday Edition vol.3 - Poems, Music and Orbs...thats a nice Sunday!

[For your Sunday afternoon reading and/or viewing pleasure, we present vol.3 of THE SUNDAY EDITION at Music for closetLames. A bit of this, a bit that, maybe art, whatev's. May include contributions from friends, associates, accomplices, not to exclude detractors, and maybe even us sometimes. So, kick back and dig in...]

(Page 1): More prose from the twisted mind and pen of John Middle.

  A precedent a funeral pyre. A lawyers recurring dream... A digital glitsch... Over driven in solid state... A march of skinny pennies... A sonnet sung in machine code... Sodomy and Victories made of ego and boredom. We are RIGHT They are WRONG Sad WORDS (STOLEN from poems and forced into hard labor by Matthew Bender TM) A rainbow scorched black and hideously crooked. Technicalities and leverage. Your child is starving. Mine is anorexic. A future unlimited Cast into irons. blinkered. Simplified. Lobotomized. and writhing. Justice cost an arm and a leg. Clapping now not an option.... hopping mad. That sound? (It's SUCTION>) HEX cast. TORT law. TOXIC MOLD "I OBJECT" perfect DIS-FUNKtion. Injunction. S and M SO HIP it hurts Love distracts RESTRAINT Brown shirt. A submarine became A SUNKEN BOAT. Harmonic distortion. An eye of GOAT.

(Page 2): Ramones Live New Years Eve 1977. (Ramones - Its Alive!) My favorite Ramones concert.

(Page 3): Her Majesty thee Spleen...We play for the orbs. Often times at jams we are accompanied by orbs who come out to dance to the hypnotic sounds of the Spleen. This is a fine example of the spectacle. Any thoughts?

Dispatch 29: SMDS Booty-Shakin' with "Sammy daBass" Dirty Single!!

Dispatch 29: The Solar Maximum and DS Peligro collabo SMDS is at it again with a little experimental funkay bizznezzzz! Busting thru genres and the ages, Sammy daBass (the New York Dirty No Soap Mix!) has a funky old school booty-shakin' hip hop feel with a cool modern sound.  DS produced this track straight over the top! Its available for just $1 at our Bandcamp page. Enjoy. Introducing SMDS...we will seeya at da club...

                                   

Dispatch 28: DS Peligro Track Featured at CaliperMusic Blog!

DS Peligro

Dispatch 28: Always nice to announce that Caliper Music has featured another MCL artist as the daily feature on the blog. This time around its experimental sound addict DS Peligro and his track "One Minute Funk" (which actually clocks in at 4:44 but hey, are we splittin hairs here?...). A super quirky track that makes you feel good.
So much more over at his soundcloud page. Headphones on, volume up, enjoy! ...Always on Music for closetLames.

Dispatch 27: MCL Welcomes DS Peligro to the label!

Dispatch 27: We are beyond excited to welcome DS Peligro to the ever-dysfunctional Music for closetLames family! From the moment we made contact via the mysterious ways of the internet (soundcloud in particular) we knew we had found a gem, a kindred spirit.
 A self-described AUDIO ADDICT!!! DS is legit from the start. As a kid in the early 70s he was recording everything from toilet flushes to construction sites to the bass guitar he pulled out of the garbage. And then layering sounds on an old reel-to-reel he salvaged from a fire.
At age 10 his dad gave him a CB Radio which he used to harrass local CBers with his very first radio program  "The Bubba Jones Show." Despite threats and near-constant attempts to triangulate his position, he was never discovered.  Then he moved on to dubbing cassettes and taping them to telephone poles. He was leaving them on the counters at local record stores.
In the early 80s, DS was quickly accepted into the tiny dark underground art scene. He had a 'highly unusual' setup of tape machines, effects units, a cheap synthesizer, and electric bass and one cymbal. His sound was raw, twisted, loud and distorted - so much so that he was often ushered out, and sometimes forcibly ejected from his own performances!
The late 80s were a mash-up of drugs, home recording, confusion, pirate radio (transmitted from his Mazda), and countless failed romances. Since then he's worked doing location sound and restoration for adult films, for radio stations (MARS FM 103.1), tv stations (KCBS, KTLA), and LA Theatre Works,
And he just can't stop! He's still recording!
 So head on over to his soundcloud page and take it all in! The quality and the pace of his output is stunning. Lots to hear. We will be including a couple DS Peligro tracks on our 2016 Music for closetLames sampler along with Her Majesty TheE Spleen, Palace Catfight, closetLames, Leather Pills and Solar Maximum. This year is gonna be hot!

Dispatch 24: Solar Max at Bay Area Band Show

Dispatch 24: Waking up to the sun shining brightly and the birds'a singing, we thought what a cool way to spend this afternoon, heading across the San Francisco bay to record a podcast with Steve O'Sullivan and his Bay Area Band Show, www.thebayareabandshow.com
  We talked about all kinds of stuff from what got us into music to how we make this music, technically speaking. Also touched on a bunch of other things that we have going on with the band, the album and the record label.
 Steve has been a huge fan of music his whole life, and as he was wondering how he could pursue these musical fascinations for himself and his children, his podcast was born. He doesn't play an instrument or sing but he does have the curiosity bug and the love of music. So the connection. The bridge. The Bay Area Band Show. Artists love to talk about ourselves and our projects and Steve loves to listen and learn! A match made in his garage studio. We talked for about an hour then wrapped it up. We are only his third band to come in and chat and he's in the process of putting a few podcasts together before going live on iTunes. We can't wait, Steve!

 He's also interested in talking with anyone about possibly being on his show so if you're interested, hit him up at steve@thebayareabandshow.com, he would dig that!