Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To

The Cows

2006-04-19T10:47:00.000-07:00

Das Cows ya! Another band it took me a few listens to get into, but once I did I was hooked. 90s Amphetamine Reptile band. Click on the picture for "unofficial" information. Click here to hear 3 of my favorite Cows songs. Funny, I was just talking shit about all the people I've met from Minnesota being assholes. Well I've met Shannon, (with The Heroine Sheiks his later band ) and I could see people thinking he was an asshole. He wasn't to me. I'm quite sure he's forgotten my name (like 3 minutes later), but that's fine with me. I've seen Kevin play with The Melvins but I've never met him so I can't say whether or not he's an asshole.
Here's The Sacred Chao:

John Lennon/The Beatles/The Distraction Boys/The Insomniacrobats

2006-04-19T10:43:00.000-07:00

I think they shot the wrong Beatle.Yeah so.... I really like this song.
Here's The Beatles - Hey Bulldog on YouTube:

My life is full of distractions.....
My boss (owner and manager of the Commercial Taphouse)used to do this label called Cryptovision when he lived in NY in the 80s. I'm not sure where you can get stuff from because I'm not sure if he still has all that stuff. Anyway, James (my boss) used to play keyboards for this band called The Distraction Boys,who were on Cryptovision, and man it's pretty smokin' if you like noisey garage rock, which I do (I have my moods). It reminds me of The Oblivions and bands like The Coachwhips in a way, though this little slab came out a bit earlier. It's also live, which in this case means the cymbals are pretty loud and they kinda overpower the keyboards (the reason I wanted to hear this band), but you can still hear them if you listen. Regardless it rocks.You should take a listen to The Distraction Boys - Pay Off The Cops

That's all for today, unless you haven't heard The Insomniacrobats - "That Lady's Face" yet.... in which case check it out, it's the first "song" on their MySpace profile.

The Amoeba Men/The Insomniacrobats/The Intelligence

2006-03-30T00:34:00.000-08:00

Well it's out folks and let me tell ya.... it's smokin'. This CD will scramble your fragile egg-shell mind. For more information visit CNP Records on the world wide web, or check out their myspace profile.
Listen to The Amoeba Men - Knock Yourself Out

This is Heavy Metal. This is the best band in the world. This is The Insomniacrobats.
Listen to The Insomniacrobats - March Out Of Hell

The Intelligence are my favorite new band right now. Oh my god. They are so good.
Listen to The Intelligence - Telephone Wires
You can also wisit their myspace.

The Yes Sirs/Spacemen 3/Anton LaVey/Boyd Rice

2006-03-04T00:19:00.000-08:00

The Yes Sirs is Jason (CNP/The Amoeba Men/Fantastic Wonderfuls/Silver Ninjas/The Bermuda Triangles) on keyboards in Richmond, VA and Adam (ex-PCP Roadblock) on a standup drumset in SF Bay area, California. Adam used to live in Richmond, and sometimes he comes back into town and they have a show together. The LP pictured above should be out on CNP Records in the next couple of months. For now...
Listen to The Yes Sirs - Stigmata Man II mp3
or visit www.myspace.com/cnprecords and listen to "Yello Sno Cone"

It seems about time to give props to the band that we got our blog's title from Spacemen 3. The first time Jason played me this band I guess I just wasn't in the mood, and it bored the hell out of me. After sharing a wall with Jason, and hearing him play Spacemen 3 every day for like a month in '04, I sort of took a liking to them. Apparently they were involved in the same scene as The Jesus And Mary Chain, and I guess that make sense. I like JAMC, but I like Spacemen 3 alot more. Not sure what I think about Spritiualized...., I guess I'll have to set aside time one day to check them out a bit more.
Listen to Spacemen 3 - Come Down Easy mp3

That's Anton LaVey... what a guy... now deceased founder of The Church Of Satan.I keep meaning to be him for Halloween. Yeah, it's a novelty, but it's much more interesting than Will Shatner or Leonard Nemoy any day.
Listen to Anton LaVey - Honolulu Baby mp3
or go here and download the whole "Satan Takes A Holiday" record!
This is Boyd Rice. He's a member of The Church Of Satan, as far as I know.
Listen to Boyd Rice (w/Little Fyodor) - The Blackness mp3
Here's a picture of Anton and Boyd together:

The Amoeba Men / Faust

2006-02-14T15:49:00.000-08:00

THE AMOEBA MEN have a new CD coming out very soon. March 11th to be exact, will be the CD release show so-to-speak at The Nanci Raygun (929 W. Grace,Richmond,VA.) They will be playing with labelmates Hallelujah! (who are in the process of releasing 2 songs as part of a split 7" with Hex Machine(.....peep that shit, their pictures are hysterical) Also on hand are going to be Brooklyners n0 Things (ex-Liars)and Knife Skills. Should be a rocking good show.

check out "Marinating" from the new CD "...let the infection set in" by going to www.myspace.com/theamoebamen

I just discovered Faust about 3 years ago. Their story is very interesting if you ever get to check it out (www.faust-pages.com...tons of free Faust mp3s). They are lumped in with that whole "Krautrock" thing... in fact they have a song called "Krautrock", A lot of their stuff is disjointed and experimental, which is good, but throughout their career they still managed to put out some really listenable rock songs. This being one of them from the record Faust IV (November,1973)

Listen To "Faust - The Sad Skinhead"

Hallelujah! / mix

2005-12-25T21:18:00.000-08:00

These days Hallelujah!
is still working on a batch of recordings from the past summer through
winter ('05), new life breathed into them this year with the addition
of Captain Admiral Joseph David Gavin Esq a.k.a. OREO SpeedGavin (from [man speaking chinese]
and The Damned Human Race) for more info and some downloadable tracks
including "She Blinded Me With Intelligent Design" visit thier myspace page.

You can also check out this batch of songs
to dance away the end of this wonderful and awful year.
bye bye 2005

transition period.

2005-11-20T17:51:00.000-08:00

I am currently internet-less until I can pay off some other bills so, I don't have access to cnprecords.com to update it and add files and whatnot. There are a new Yes Sirs song and the debut track of Bermuda Triangles available for your listening pleasure @www.myspace.com/cnprecords.
Please check it out and look for new CNP mp3s from The Insomniacrobats and HOAX very soon.I've been listening to Death From Above 1979, Swell Maps, the new Quintron LP, and Test-Ic-Icles, quite frequently.

Leper Colony / Chrome

2005-10-25T15:25:00.000-07:00

Sorry for the delay.... stuff...

Leper Colony hailed from the land of Lynchburg, VA.Home to Jerry Falwell and Liberty University. Some of the same people from Seven Hearts. We're friends with these guys because Jason and I come from an equally as degenerate locale and we've known eachother since before Leper Colony. Bands like The Rejected, The Seven Hearts, Escapeman, just to name three. The Members of this band are teaming up again with another Lynchburg native, (last seen in a really good band from the mid-nineties called Eustress Urchin) as I write this... I will most definately grace this blog with one of their new projects as soon I get a copy from them.

Listen to Leper Colony - Narc

Those Lynchburg boys also turned me on to a really great band that I have since not been able to get tired of hearing. The Jesus Lizard gave me my first glimpse of them on a JL compilation called "BANG", the song was called "Chrome" and I didn't realize until later that they were covering two songs from the band CHROME's "Half Machine Lip Moves" LP This led me to more and more stuff by this band, and the more I heard the more I liked. I chose this track because when I first moved to Richmond, I was with Jason and we ran into Mike (from Lynchburg) and went back to Mike's house and he played an old "Target video" by Chrome and this was the song.

It's also on a Ralph Records compilation called "Subterranean Modern" with that one weird band

Listen To Chrome - Meet You In The Subway.

SILVER NINJAS + Mix

2005-10-15T23:26:00.000-07:00

Well first off... Silver Ninjas have declared "Night Wars" in case you
missed it the first time around, here's that hot new head bobbing anthem.

Don't miss "NW2 (A New Night)":LINK.
You will be blinded by the illumination of their power to annoy you while making you dance at the same time.
You will be utterly confused.
Some other stuff:

The Insomniacrobats - Not Like Your Picture
Most recently recorded Insomniacrobats song. More @www.myspace.com/theinsomniacrobats/.
Men's Recovery Project - Egyptian Assassin
I sort of liked Born Against, but I loved me some MRP.
Wrangler Brutes were good too, and short lived. That's good sometimes. To leave people wanting more is good.
Math - ??
I got this Math song a long time ago. Math included Mr.Quintron before he broke out on his own. I lost the song titles to about 10 songs that I have on an old CDR(I've since converted these).The first person to tell me the song title I will send you something nice. If you know the title of the record it's on, I will give you two nice things. And If you know where a cd or record is I may have to send you money.(We'll talk)
I feel really bad for this 9th Ward New Orleans artist and all at the Rhinestone Records camp.(as well as ALL people dealing with disasters on this planet) Check the link for his update as of October 13th.
The Minutemen - Nature Without Man
...it follows the theme here a bit. I got The Minutemen - "My First Bells" cassette in 1997, and I played it until I broke it... or sold it. What an idiot...
The Kinks - Dead End Street
This song is the first song on the soundtrack of my life.
Wipers - Alien boy
The Wipers are another one of those bands, I wonder why it took so long for me to get into them. I don't like all of their stuff, but the songs I do like, I like a lot, and this is one of them.
Link Wray - Hidden Charms
Link Wray... My first real listen to a whole Link Wray CD was in New Orleans in August of 2001. He's not from there, but I associate him with that place, especially because of the lyrics to another song by Link called "Soul Train".... "Get on that soul train, down here in New Orleans, goes cross the U.S.A., to hear what the people say." Unfortunately I haven't converted that song yet, so here's a differant one, that is a pretty rockin' tune as well.
(posted by Bill)

Suppression/Sockeye

2005-10-08T01:36:00.001-07:00

Suppression, once reluctantly part of a genre that was tagged "Power Violence", have since moved on, only to be compared to Death From Above 1979, and that band from Rhode Island that starts with an L. They sound like neither. They DO make you want to jerk about like a fish out of water. Watch: Suppression - Release The Piranha (wmv). Awesome video for this song from their LP of the same name. AVAILABLE NOW ON CNP RECORDS!!! Much thanks to Joey Fitchett for producing this and much thanks to Joe Lagey for compressing it so that YOU the music fan can download and watch it.
Look for this in the winter on the upcoming CNP Records DVD.

Sockeye...what can you say about Sockeye? With song titles like "Mater Blower" (a song about sodomizing a vegetable in someone's garden late at night.) or "Facial Disc" (with the chorus being "I just wanna jizz on your facial disc...ooohoooh"...I mean come on,... jizzing on an owl...) "Steve Albini Fucked Pac-Man" ,"Boy With Breast Implants", "A Pizza With Ulysses S. Grant On It".... the list goes on and on. The song I chose for this post is "Buttfuque Yr Face" from the band's "Retards Hiss Past My Window" LP (pictured above) This band severely warped our world view in the early to mid-nineties and has driven away many potential mates as well.It continues to crack me the hell up when I'm in a not so good mood. Everything happens for a reason I suppose...even this wacky band of gents from Ohio. I believe you can write to Food Fortunata (He was the lead singer and he's also done a lot of other weird outsider type stuff) and find out how you can hear lots more Sockeye, if you posses such a juvenile sense of humor as we do.

HOAX / Pere Ubu

2005-09-30T01:28:00.000-07:00

These freaky dudes asked Jason and I to be on our label, it was at a show at a place called Wildcats in Richmond. Their artwork is vibrant and colorful, as well as this band. Matt plays keys for HOAX and is also a part of Team 8.Joe plays guitar and does some really cool pictures and gifs for us here at CNP Records lately. Go download Junkie and know that you are humming a different tune than all the other pinks. I don't know what their drummer does outside of HoAx. I'll be sure to ask him next time I see him.

I know you know these two records are really really good.
Listen to Pere Ubu - Heart Of Darkness from Terminal Tower.
Buy these records!

[man speaking chinese] / COUCH

2005-09-24T14:49:00.000-07:00

My thoughts are turned towards the Gulf Coast and the people there, it's hard not to think about places you've been, or people you know. I am reminded as I am about to go play a show with Hallelujah! that our new member (shut up) Joe was once in another band called [man speaking chinese] with Dave who moved with Stephanie to Texas. I'm sure since they are in Dallas they are fairing better than alot of places closer to shore. I more worry about how they are dealing with the social changes that will undoubtedly be headed their way, and all of our ways as well in the coming months (or perhaps years). [man speaking chinese] turned out to be one of my favorite bands of 2005 I think, simply because they didn't really choose to have a band really, they were just some people who jammed together and liked to record themselves, but they ended up playing some really cool live shows with us, and we became good friends. "Docu-rock" is it's best discription with some really cool slide shows and filmwork. They sorta have a Neu! type of sound. Anyhow...
check out [man speaking chinese] - our last tsunami you can hear more by going to www.myspace.com/manspeakingchinese

Couch were Marlin Magas (from Magas, and Lake Of Dracula) and Mr. Velocity Hopkins
(Prehensile Monkey Tailed Skink, 25 Suaves).

Listen to Couch - New Friends 99

The Insomniacrobats / Fanny

2005-09-22T10:57:00.000-07:00

The Insomniacrobats got booted off myspace, because some people had the password and said some things that weren't very nice about other people. So we had to start the profile all over, but with differant songs than the old profile, so please go here, and listen.(you can download the tracks if you like.) If you have a myspace account add them as your friend. Thanks.

Well, I don't know a whole lot about this band other than they are all female and from the early 70s. If you want to know more go here.
Mattress Fox turned me on to them and they are good. Listen to Fanny - Solid Gold

THE BUNNY RABBITS/GONG

2005-09-19T14:12:00.000-07:00

The Bunny Rabbits have a new CDR available. Recorded at The Etching Tin in Richmond, VA. Listen to the Bunny Rabbits - Stephanie's Hair

I can't believe it took me so long to discover this band. I think I remember Matt Frith (R.I.P.) trying to tell me how good this band was and I think I remember hearing some of it when I went over to his house.Matt Frith was a druggie, he died a druggie.He was the atypical hippie, but then he was more than that.The guy was well read on what he was getting into, and he would talk all day about it if you let him.Sometimes it got on my nerves, but then sometimes I let him and he would turn me on to Gong and Can and Hawkwind.That was quite a few years back, and I never paid attention to it then, I guess I'm just now catching up really.If you'd like to know more about the history of this freaked out band you can go here.Listen to Gong - The Pothead Pixies

JUGGERNAUT

2005-09-17T10:00:00.000-07:00

This is the first song I remember hearing by them on a compilation that Jason got from this other guy, about 10 years ago, it's a different mix than the one I remember (which I have on an old mix tape tucked away somewhere), but still pretty good.
Juggernaut - World Of The L.S.D. User. This would go good as the soundtrack to those British Troops being tested on with acid. With the volume turned down of course. Enjoy.

Partyman/DJ Renaldo/The Yes Sirs

2005-09-16T19:55:00.000-07:00

Ok I think I got it.... Here's a track by Partyman called Dirty Breakfast... and one by DJ Renaldo titled The Fiscal Year Fandango. Also for your enjoyment is a new track by the two man trio, hailing from two sides of the continent The Yes Sirs with a song about Hong Kong actress Carrie Ng titled simply Ng. On a non label related note....
Juggernaut the european hardcore techno band from the seemingly now defunct Ruffneck Records (Amsterdam) are really good. I don't really like that stuff usually. I can't find any links worth a damn that relate to them. If you find a site that does, please contact me (Bill) at wbp1973@yahoo.com Thanks.

How Do I Begin?

2005-09-16T19:01:00.000-07:00

Ninnies and Twits! Welcome to the first CNP Records Blog. What can I say?Jason has been at this label thing for a good 15 years almost (or more) and he's put out some pretty cool stuff. Let's see what's up next..... Partyman and DJ Renaldo split cdr!! Oh my goodness. I'll have some mp3s up for you very soon (as soon as I figure out what I'm doing here) of these two computer music maestros who have dopplegangers that play drums in Darkest Hour and Battlemaster. The tide is turning. Yo Joe.