Tony Coulter Presents Tape Hiss: Dead Air Leaks into the ...
2026-04-29·via WFMU's recent playlists
Listener comments!
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4/26 7:15pm
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Hello, all! Today's playlist pic is one of the illustrations that come with a cassette we'll be hearing from today: D.D.A.A.'s "Noise Building Nation."
11:52am
Andrew in Toronto:
Hi there, Tony, and all others who are musically adventurous!
back in the day when i made a cassette of any album i expected to play a lot, or from a borrowed record, i often filled the rest of the tape with whatever wfmu was airing at the time
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1:21pm
Tony Coulter:
Whoever the woman on this tape is, she's not credited ... so it could indeed be Lydia Tomkiw of Algebra Suicide. It does sound like her, for sure.
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1:22pm
Tony Coulter:
And like Cieciel, she was from Illinois.
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1:45pm
Tony Coulter:
I have a lot of industrial/harsh noise/power electronics–type tapes -- but don't often play them here. Perhaps I *should* play more of 'em.
Know what you mean -- I guard my hearing religiously, and avoid live noise shows. (I'm not a fan of wearing earplugs.)
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1:54pm
Yvang:
Agreed! Yes, having to wear earplugs when listening to music is so absurd.
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1:55pm
Tony Coulter:
A programming announcement: I will be doing a fill-in on the "mothership" this Sunday, from 6 to 8 PM, for the show "Why Do We Only Listen to Dead People?" A word of warning, though: I may play some music by dead people.
I have a hearing loss because of noisy concerts and various auditory insults. The problem now is conversations in noisy public places. Even my h’aids don’t always help. Folks no haters or mezzrow live shows.
As I recall, in the '80s nobody wore earplugs. I'm surely paying for it now. And yes, that includes one memorable merzbow gig (circa 1987) in a small venue in DC with bare cinderblock walls...
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2:03pm
Rev. Turnip Druid:
Also not the biggest fan of harsh-noise in a live context but that Stenka Bazin thing was bloody wonderful.
That was indeed noisy, now I can hear myself think (thankfully, I'm listening at work-MsJazz would run for cover if I was listening to this at home...)
Yes, I remember seeing Pussy Galore circa late 87 and it was absolutely punishing on the ears. Loudest gig I think I ever saw (including Swans, MBV etc).
Yes! A friend started to wear ear plugs and when it happened, even though he is ten years younger than me, I felt he was being the old coot. Stupid forever post adolescent ne!
The former Lisa Suckdog and former wife of Costes lives in my area. I was surprised to learn how sweet she actually is! I was freaked out by all that disinhibition in the 80s.
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2:38pm
Yvang:
So here's the link to the discogs page about the cassette which is probably not the cassette we are listening to (but with Didgeridoo in it as well, according to the credits) www.discogs.com...
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2:40pm
Tony Coulter:
Thanks! I just don't know if what I have is an early version of the cassette on Discogs, or a completely different tape.
Listener comments!
: Hello, all! Today's playlist pic is one of the illustrations that come with a cassette we'll be hearing from today: D.D.A.A.'s "Noise Building Nation."
Andrew in Toronto: Hi there, Tony, and all others who are musically adventurous!
Tony Coulter:
↳ Andrew in Toronto @11:52
Early greetings, Andrew!luca: yay hello
Yvang: "Peanut Butter, Peanut Butter!"
Yvang: Hi Tony and fellow hissers! Let's hiss again!
David (in London): Ahoy Tonio and assembled Coultards: Andrew, luca, Yvang, all those yet to arrive.
Yvang: Hi(ss) David!
Tony Coulter: Greetings, gratings, grootings, luca, Yvang, and David!
Rev. Turnip Druid: here for the hisstrionics.
Tony Coulter:
↳ Song: "White Africa" by "MMGK"
That opening track is very DDAA-ish -- and the lead vocalist sounds very much like one of the DDAA members. Guess that's why I'm playing them next!Yvang:
↳ Song: "White Africa" by "MMGK"
This is a mysterious cassette not referenced on the Internet, except there:wfmu.org...Tony Coulter:
↳ Rev. Turnip Druid @12:09
Hiya, Turnip!Tony Coulter:
↳ Yvang @12:10
It is mysterious. Wish I knew more about it and them....David (in London):
↳ Tony Coulter @12:11
Do you know Tony's show? He really knows his onions. You'll like him.David (in London):
↳ Rev. Turnip Druid @12:09
Afternoon Reverend.Tony Coulter:
↳ David (in London) @12:13
I'm a garlic man myself -- but I'll give him a try.chresti 🎾: Hi Tony and forks!
Tony Coulter:
↳ chresti 🎾 @12:14
Hey there, chresti!Andrew in Toronto:
↳ Yvang @12:10
Hi there, Yvang!WR: Hello Tony and folks. Will be listening in lurker mode mostly
Andrew in Toronto:
↳ David (in London) @12:13
Hi there, David!coelacanth∅: greetings Tony & hisssstorians
Tony Coulter:
↳ WR @12:16
Hiya, WR!Tony Coulter:
↳ coelacanth∅ @12:17
Greets, coel!David (in London):
↳ chresti 🎾 @12:14
Chrestikins! WR. Coela. Hello you fine groovers all.coelacanth∅:
↳ David (in London) @12:17
Ahoy, David!Andrew in Toronto:
↳ David (in London) @12:17
Hi, David!Andrew in Toronto:
↳ coelacanth∅ @12:18
Mahalo, coel!Andrew in Toronto:
↳ WR @12:16
Greetings, WR!Andrew in Toronto:
↳ Tony Coulter @12:17
Pay attention to the message board!Yvang:
↳ Andrew in Toronto @12:16
Hey Andrew!Tony Coulter:
↳ Andrew in Toronto @12:24
Is there a secret message hidden somewhere?Rev. Turnip Druid: who's manifestin' fruits now?
Olleh: Tonio C! Greetings and to all in the Coulter Room!
Andrew in Toronto:
↳ Tony Coulter @12:27
I don`t believe so.Andrew in Toronto:
↳ Olleh @12:31
Hi there, 0lleh!Tony Coulter:
↳ Olleh @12:31
Hey, hey, Olleh!coelacanth∅:
↳ Andrew in Toronto @12:20
Aloha Andrew!Olleh: Salutations Andrew!
coelacanth∅:
↳ Olleh @12:31
Olá Olleh!Olleh: Huzzah to the Cheery Coela!
Tony Coulter: So many of these tapes -- like the last one -- end really abruptly. Tracks at the end of a side get cut off in the middle.
David (in London):
↳ Olleh @12:35
Hey Olleh.Olleh:
↳ Tony Coulter @12:40
That enhanced the mystery and mystery for me.Yvang:
↳ Song: "Comme Tu Vois" by "D.D.A.A."
www.discogs.com...Tony Coulter:
↳ Yvang @12:41
Thanks for the linkage, Yvang!Olleh:
↳ David (in London) @12:40
Howdy Daona, Mr D!Rev. Turnip Druid:
↳ Tony Coulter @12:40
One was compelled to fill every last second of a tape. Truth.Tony Coulter: Now, this DDAA tape ends tracks properly -- with a giant metallic crash.
chresti 🎾: Davidkins!
Yvang:
↳ Song: "Big Feelings" by "John Cieciel"
He's on discogs but I don't see this tape there www.discogs.com...David (in London):
↳ Song: "Big Feelings" by "John Cieciel"
Can't believe this didn't make the Billboard Hot 100.coelacanth∅:
↳ Rev. Turnip Druid @12:46
back in the day when i made a cassette of any album i expected to play a lot, or from a borrowed record, i often filled the rest of the tape with whatever wfmu was airing at the timecoelacanth∅:
↳ Song: "Big Feelings" by "John Cieciel"
this voice sounds like algebra suicideTony Coulter:
↳ Yvang @1:06
I'm not sure this tape was ever released.Yvang:
↳ Tony Coulter @1:08
Except on your show wfmu.org...Tony Coulter:
↳ Yvang @1:09
Ha! Yes.Tony Coulter:
↳ coelacanth∅ @1:08
Know what you mean.Olleh:
↳ coelacanth∅ @1:08
The Chicago accent is similar.Tony Coulter:
↳ Olleh @1:12
Exactly!Olleh:
↳ Yvang @1:09
Whoa! And a whole mess o Dino!Tony Coulter: Whoever the woman on this tape is, she's not credited ... so it could indeed be Lydia Tomkiw of Algebra Suicide. It does sound like her, for sure.
Tony Coulter: And like Cieciel, she was from Illinois.
Olleh:
↳ Tony Coulter @1:21
Doesn’t sound like her.Tony Coulter:
↳ Olleh @1:28
Well, similar anyway. I wasn't thinking it was her ... but I'd say it is possible.Olleh:
↳ Tony Coulter @1:31
Maybe, but I knew her and met her and I’m not inclined to think it was her.Yvang:
↳ Song: "side A" by "Stenka Bazin"
www.discogs.com...Tony Coulter:
↳ Olleh @1:35
Well, in that case ... you're probably right!Tony Coulter:
↳ Yvang @1:36
Thanks, Yvang! I'm missing the outer cover -- I just have the sandpaper "inner cover."doctorjazz: Hi Tony and folks out there!
Tony Coulter:
↳ doctorjazz @1:39
Hey, hey, Dr. J! You're just in time for the noisy industrial tape.Rev. Turnip Druid: this Stenka is fabulous.
Andrew in Toronto:
↳ doctorjazz @1:39
Greetings, doc!Tony Coulter: I have a lot of industrial/harsh noise/power electronics–type tapes -- but don't often play them here. Perhaps I *should* play more of 'em.
Rev. Turnip Druid:
↳ Tony Coulter @1:45
This one in particular has more going on sonically than a lot of that stuff. 'tis lovely.egould:
↳ Song: "side A" by "Stenka Bazin"
"This next song is from our new album. It's called 'Inside Satan's Colon'!"Andrew in Toronto:
↳ egould @1:47
Hi there, egould!egould:
↳ Andrew in Toronto @1:48
Hi Andrew! I can barely here you over the industrial racket!Tony Coulter:
↳ Rev. Turnip Druid @1:47
True. A lot of harsh noise/power electronics is very generic and just plain boring. This is definitely much better than most of that kind of stuff.Tony Coulter:
↳ egould @1:47
Hiya, egould!egould:
↳ Tony Coulter @1:49
Hi Tony!Yvang:
↳ Tony Coulter @1:45
I enjoy noise music on the radio, not so much live...it's always too heavy as if they try to destroy the audience audition...which they often do.Olleh: Oh c’mon! Any possessed three year old with 6 arms could do this
Tony Coulter:
↳ Yvang @1:50
Know what you mean -- I guard my hearing religiously, and avoid live noise shows. (I'm not a fan of wearing earplugs.)Yvang: Agreed! Yes, having to wear earplugs when listening to music is so absurd.
Tony Coulter: A programming announcement: I will be doing a fill-in on the "mothership" this Sunday, from 6 to 8 PM, for the show "Why Do We Only Listen to Dead People?" A word of warning, though: I may play some music by dead people.
Olleh:
↳ Tony Coulter @1:52
Hi Yvang and egould!Yvang:
↳ Tony Coulter @1:55
Great news! Will you be broadcasting from Jersey City?Tony Coulter: Nope. From the City of Roses (aka Portland).
Yvang:
↳ Olleh @1:55
Hey Olleh I was disappointed that you couldn't do your show last week.Andrew in Toronto:
↳ Tony Coulter @1:55
I`ll write that down in my day book.Yvang: Careful! No swearing and station ID every hour!
Olleh:
↳ Tony Coulter @1:52
I have a hearing loss because of noisy concerts and various auditory insults. The problem now is conversations in noisy public places. Even my h’aids don’t always help. Folks no haters or mezzrow live shows.Tony Coulter:
↳ Yvang @2:00
Damn. I was going to be dissing Beethoven with the foulest language possible.Olleh:
↳ Yvang @1:57
Aw thank you, Yvang! I appreciated the note. Back on track this Thursday!Rev. Turnip Druid:
↳ Olleh @2:01
As I recall, in the '80s nobody wore earplugs. I'm surely paying for it now. And yes, that includes one memorable merzbow gig (circa 1987) in a small venue in DC with bare cinderblock walls...Rev. Turnip Druid: Also not the biggest fan of harsh-noise in a live context but that Stenka Bazin thing was bloody wonderful.
doctorjazz:
↳ Andrew in Toronto @1:44
Hey Andrew!Yvang:
↳ Tony Coulter @2:01
One of the dirtiest Costes song I heard on your show was during your FCC airwaves time!doctorjazz:
↳ Tony Coulter @1:41
That was indeed noisy, now I can hear myself think (thankfully, I'm listening at work-MsJazz would run for cover if I was listening to this at home...)David (in London):
↳ Rev. Turnip Druid @2:03
Yes, I remember seeing Pussy Galore circa late 87 and it was absolutely punishing on the ears. Loudest gig I think I ever saw (including Swans, MBV etc).Tony Coulter:
↳ Yvang @2:04
Obscenity in foreign languages is fine, even on FMU's terrestrial airwaves. I checked!Olleh:
↳ Rev. Turnip Druid @2:03
Yes! A friend started to wear ear plugs and when it happened, even though he is ten years younger than me, I felt he was being the old coot. Stupid forever post adolescent ne!Yvang:
↳ Song: "This Morning of Wet Streets" by "Darren Copeland ...
www.discogs.com...Tony Coulter:
↳ Yvang @2:08
Thanks, linkmeister!Olleh:
↳ Yvang @2:04
The former Lisa Suckdog and former wife of Costes lives in my area. I was surprised to learn how sweet she actually is! I was freaked out by all that disinhibition in the 80s.Olleh:
↳ doctorjazz @2:04
And heya docjazz!David (in London):
↳ Olleh @2:13
Wow, haven't thought about her in a billion years. Good to know.doctorjazz:
↳ Olleh @2:14
Hi there Olleh!Tony Coulter:
↳ David (in London) @2:15
I used to have a nude photo of Lisa Suckdog (she sent it to a music magazine I was the reviews editor for). Wish I'd kept it....Olleh:
↳ Tony Coulter @2:16
She has lately been traveling to different cities in a revolving dramatization of her adventures. She requests locals to play the various notables!Tony Coulter:
↳ Olleh @2:21
Have you volunteered to play the part of Costes?Olleh:
↳ Tony Coulter @2:24
Haha! I may be questionably sane, but I’m not unquestionably dissolute and insane!David (in London):
↳ Tony Coulter @2:24
Will you be playing GG Allin?Olleh:
↳ David (in London) @2:31
She had recently placed a request for some to be GG Allin!Tony Coulter:
↳ David (in London) @2:31
I'll leave that up to Olleh.Yvang: So here's the link to the discogs page about the cassette which is probably not the cassette we are listening to (but with Didgeridoo in it as well, according to the credits) www.discogs.com...
Tony Coulter: Thanks! I just don't know if what I have is an early version of the cassette on Discogs, or a completely different tape.
Olleh:
↳ Tony Coulter @2:36
Hah! I get enough push back from the missus for leaving my crap all over the house, but that’s just a euphemism for my books, music, and coffee mugs.Tony Coulter: They could have changed the track titles when (if) they reissued the tape a year later. Both tapes have four tracks.
Andrew in Toronto:
↳ Tony Coulter @2:44
What an excellent show!Tony, thanks!
Tony Coulter:
↳ Andrew in Toronto @2:49
Thanks, Andrew!Yvang:
↳ Tony Coulter @2:44
Even them must know that it's a bad idea, commercially, to put out two different works with the same title.Olleh: Tony, Thanks for an always innervating and entertaining show. I have to vamoose. Have a great week everyone!
Tony Coulter:
↳ Olleh @2:51
See you! Guess you have to go learn your lines for the Suckdog extravaganza.Julie: when Tony is done, I'll be right here wfmu.org...
Tony Coulter:
↳ Julie @2:54
Hey, Julie! Hope London was fun!Julie: just what kind of spirit do these people have?
Yvang: Thanks Tony for the hisstravaganza! See you on Sunday for your classical music fill-in!
Julie:
↳ Tony Coulter @2:54
yes!doctorjazz: Thanks Tony!
David (in London): Thanks Tonio.
coelacanth∅: airborne, freeform...
Thanks Tony!