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Neighborhood Bass Coalition

About Me

STATS: formed in 1996. based in Northern California. known particularly for many guerilla outdoor performances over the years.....................MISSION: to write and record noise, experimental beat and pop musics, build sample libraries, do radio shows, dj mad original and other material, perform wicked live improv and rehearsed sets, do sound design and soundtracks.................................CURRENT RELEASES: SONIDOS DE VERDAD, from (pufendorf.org/nbc), an experimental dub and noise ep, ............. SILVAM FRONDOSAM, CHINCHILLAZILLA, STALWART TINKLER, and the newest lp, set for JAN 2009 release: MUSIC FROM THE CENTER OF NOWHERE............ Drew Dobbs of the NBC will have a cut on the next compilation CD from AURICULAR RECORDS, I believe on Volume 14-? More details to follow when this one is released- it's a really beautiful song!..........DREW also recorded a Christmas CD entitled THE TWELVE SINS OF CHRISTMAS, which saw a limited release in November and December 2008...........A new EP-length (so far) project about talking gorillas in the jungle (not to give too much away) is under way now in November 2008................ NOW in 2009------ along with the ongoing FIELD RECORDINGS programs here in the new rural studio, the new full-length CD for 2009, as yet untitled, is halfway done (in March '09), and 'outtake' tracks that are not gonna make the album lineup will be featured here on MySpace, as they are voted on...............ALSO: be sure and read the Mindwrecker's blog on WFMU's BEWARE OF THE BLOG site, posted every other Saturday (and sometimes EVERY Saturday), where I'll be presenting audio delights of all kinds, most too long for me to put up here. ................ .... the NBC can also currently be heard at these fine locations: (http://compound-eye.org/archive/category/nbc/)............. ..... (http://nootherradio.blogspot.com/2006/06/nor-613-playlist-a nd-audio-archive.html) ...................and at this joint here: .................................You may also enjoy the music of one of my other bands HERE:
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/10/2005
Band Website: http://www.hellosanfrancisco.com/Music/NBC.Cfm
Band Members: Lineups vary, but will almost always include founders: Drew Dobbs (aka: the Mindwrecker, DJ Freshstep, Robo) Rob Wortman (aka: DJ Skippy) Dr. Crystal Mess (aka: Dr. Mess) Zero K (founder of Accidente Feliz Recordings) ALSO VISIT US AT:
Influences: All experimental Hip Hop and Crust Hop outfits, Hardcore Gabber, Insane Angry Jungle Ragga, natural and found sounds, Sun Ra, Mick Harris, Alec Empire, Raymond Scott, Wendy Carlos, Patrick Catani, Sly and Robbie, African Brothers Internantional Band, The Peanuts(in Japan),Ken Nordine, Michael Campbell, Firesign Theatre, Negativland, Kraftwerk,Jean Jacques Perrey, The DKs, Fear, The Slits, Domenic Frontiere, Les Baxter, Martin Denny, SPK, Steinski, Doug Kahn, ORCHID SPANGIAPHORA, John Gullak, Miles Davis, Ishiro Honda, Bernard Herrmann, Silver Apples, Supersister, Dr. Octagon, Power Records, Jim Copp & Ed Brown, T.G., Blurt, Danielle Dax's good records, John Barry, Vic Flick, Lee Hazlewood, Cambodian K7s, cheap East Indian VHS compilations, The Residents(hatred of friends of their lps in the 70s in Missouri), The Louvin Brothers, Stars On 45, Arvo Part, Robert Wyatt, Brian Eno, Disney Records, Coil, Merzbow, DJ Assault, Avenue D, and about 1000 more, but maybe you get the drift.
Sounds Like: Hardcore Psychedelic Jazz Dub, Straight-Up Noise, and Sound Design
Record Label: pufendorf.org, Accidente Feliz Recordings
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

The NBC story: 1996 Up To Now

The compleat story of the Neighborhood Bass Coalition, from it's birth in the Big City Orchestra house/studio, through it's many wild and wooly gigs and releases in the San Francisco area, up to the a...
Posted by on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:49:00 GMT

Spectacular New Art Page On Blogspot and New Site On Ekaweeka.com:

Yikes!  "I've got blisters on me fingers!!" from working on two new websites. I can't help it--- when they offer me loads of server-space for free, I gotta start trying to fill that sh*t up!!Firs...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:27:00 GMT

Three More Hours Of NBC Downloads at:

Please come by and visit our well-stocked audio archives at http://www.hellosanfrancisco.com/Music/NeighborhoodBassCoali tion.Cfm http://www.hellosanfrancisco.com/Music/NBC.Cfm Note also that the pla...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 01:17:00 GMT

NBC shirts and SWAG link:

The NEWLY-UPDATED and re-stocked CAFE PRESS / NBC site is waiting to stimulate your holidog gift-giving impulses with lovely overpriced yet sweet products, some of which are quite usable around the ho...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 01:21:00 GMT

Life Lessons of BELA LUGOSI, on his 123rd

On this, the 123rd anniversary of the birth of Bela Lugosi (thanks to: Bela Lugosi Fans for the reminder!) I am thinking about the work ethic of my favorite Hungarian-American actor, and how his strug...
Posted by on Fri, 21 Oct 2005 10:45:00 GMT

The LINK for the SHIRLEY & SPINOZA radio show

Hola Friends, here is a handy link to that very terrific internet audio program that you should listen to as often as you can, if you can't well then, do like I did and hock everything, buy a better c...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Oct 2005 11:27:00 GMT

Welcome To Our World

Please, if you haven't heard it already, go to http://www.ubu.com/sound/dj_food.html and listen to the (59') piece by DJ FOOD called RAIDING THE 20th CENTURY. It features an old Big City Orchestra ...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:52:00 GMT