Christopher "The Invisible Mugwump" Flakus, Justin "The high-priest of discord and doom", Neat Neat Neat Phillipe, Cyle "Our personal Buddha" Kloos, Michael "Ornette Coleman on acid and playing a trumpet" Lentz...
A special thanks to Golgotha and Kenny Baird AKA McSkinny, who mixed and recorded so many of our tracks!
The ever-growing MgWmP family!
Influences
Isodore Ducasse, Austin Osman Spare, Aleister Crowley, Robert Anton Wilson, Marjorie Cameron, Rosaleen Norton, Anais Nin, Kenneth Anger, Timothy Leary, John Balance, William S. Burroughs
Xiu Xiu, Throbbing Gristle, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Jon Cage, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Phillip Glass, Lamonte Young, Luigi Russolo, Coil, Psychic TV, Thee Majesty, Brian Dall, Can, Ministry, Einstruzende Neubauten, Oval, Current 93, Death in June, Merzbow, Masonna, Hanatarash, Massimo, Prurient, Cock E.S.P, Diamanda Galas, Wolf Eyes, Boredoms, Melt Bannana, The Birthday Party, Sonic Youth, Dat Politics, Cosey Fanni Tutti and Chris Carter, Autopsy, Nurse With Wound, 23 Skidoo, Whitehouse, Laurie Anderson, Wire, Shpongle, 1200 Micrograms, Raja Ram, NON, SPK, Killing Joke, Ultravox!, Lustmord, Pole, Laibach, Aphex Twin, matmos, GOLGOTHA, BETE NOIR, , Brutal Truth, NIN, Vulgar Pigeons, Agathocles, Dhamer, Pretty Little Flower, Crusher, Snails Pace, Verbal Abuse, Nitzer Ebb, Front 242, Laibach, Doom, Amebix, Extreme Noise Terror, Alien Sex Fiend, Ministry, Swans, The Screamers, Suicide, Dead Can Dance, Dissection, Napalm Death, Repulsion, Boris, Sunn O))), Khanate, The Monks, The Screaming Trees, Jim O'Rourke, Massonna, Merzbow, About this Prodcut, Kode 9, Booka Shade, Naked City, Ornette Coleman, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Sharrock, Plutonium Farmers, Electric Wizard, Sonic Youth, Mars, DNA, Reverend Bizarre, Goatsnake, David Tibet, The Threshold House Boys Choir, Matmos, The Sonics, The MC5, Acid Mother's Temple, and the real Earth...
Sounds Like
" When I hear a soprano uttering her vibrant and melodious notes, my eyes are filled with a hidden flame, flashes of pain shoot across them, and the burst of alarm-bell and cannonade resound in my ears. What can be the reason for this deep loathing of everything related to man?"--Comte de Lautreamont
RIP AMANDA LATER, friend and fellow experimenting artist, we will never forget you.
MUGWUMP is noise. We use a variety of instruments and software to come up with a DIY, spontaneous sound, all recent Mugwump songs are improvisations and experiments.
This and all work we do, is dedicated to the memory of Amanda Later.
"Time has a way of softening the edges of raw cultural excitement. It's difficult for us to remember now the fervor we felt at the end of the 20th century for finding strange beauty in the harshest of landscapes. We sought peace in the whispers of the dead...we caged ourselves within walls of mechanized death, surrounded by the well-oiled whirr and clack of weaponry both psychic and physical...and we found empowerment for change in the cries of the tortured and abused, and finally, ultimately, in silences...most of all. For it was only in the gulfs between notes could each of us meet that which we truly feared." -- Tim Thomson in the liner notes for Beast of Dreams, Album of the same name by The Pain Teens
Mugwump would not exist if it were not for the continued inspiration of such visionaries as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Coil, Throbbing Gristle, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Fernando Arrabal, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Luigi Russolo
LOVE IS THE LAW
oh man, this show is gonna be great, ive been working on my setup all morning. im gonna open it as a more traditional noisecore thing, with you on bass (if youre still down), me on my duct taped guitar, a friend of mine on his normal (but equally noisy) guitar, and someone (maybe tyler, if he can make it) drumming. then about halfway through, im gonna switch my guitar out for my contact mic, throw in some pre-recorded noise shit ive never released, and make a feedback loop on this digital reverb box i got. the venues gonna hate it, hahaha.
I still have them but they are on a mini-DV format which my computer, for whatever reason, cannot read the application. I will try to convert this as soon as possible. Sorry...
still down for that set, just let me know when cause i gotta clear some time on my schedule in late april/early may for a bus ride to tulsa for a show. what ever happened to the vids you and synth. took?
im definately down as long as someone can give me a ride, kade from insane lobster cornucopia is down to be apart of my set too if hes not in jail by then, ill see what tyler has to say too
first, if we book another show together, i got the ex-vocalist from insane lobster cornicopia interested in collaborating with me, which would sound great
second, In A Gadda Da Vida by Iron Butterfly is the best song ever made, true noise
nah what happened was he accidentally took too many pills and was in a coma, and couldnt walk for like a year, but now hes in good shape again and they even did a new album (which im currently trying to find to download, its it in the vein of their old material, its 110 songs)
Maybe we can set something up for Red7 or whatever the fuck they call it now. I'm not much for all that booking and promoting garbage though, the regional promoters have fucked us too many times. Maybe us, You, Golgotha, vntitled, and a one more rockstar band like LCB or Hammerwhore or something.
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