Today my top music recommendation for you is, well... it's another weird one. This band comes from Austin, TX and that is about all I know about them/him. I present Computer Jesus Refrigerator! I could probably track down more info on this musical outfit, but in some ways the mystery is part of the fun. Even the above video is as chaotic and incomprehensible as one could ever hope (the band members even seem to speak in an alien language) though it does confirm one thing for me: these glitch-core freakout songs do appear to be strictly composed and performed largely as they appear on album. That fact was definitely not clear from listening. It just seemed impossible that I could be hearing a live drummer playing in synch with what sounds like a random jumble of digital error sounds. I thought the drums must have been sampled and each track pasted together on the computer, but the proof is in the YouTube. For fans of Neon Hunk, Caroliner, The Locust, and dial-up modems. This might be one of the greatest bands in America. Links and an entire album for listening and download follow...
Some more miscellaneous tracks can be found on the Free Music Archive here.
There is also a Computer Jesus Refrigerator MySpace page.
It appears that the mastermind behind this band has a YouTube Channel here and the videos are pretty wonderful: brief explosions of surrealist rainbow-vomit which I guess qualify as "music videos." In fact, I'll leave you with one of them here...
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