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WAYNE BUTANE:
Imbalanced
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""Wayne Butane is a crazy old bastard who lives in the middle of the desert with Mrs. Butane and five cats" quoth the liner notes to Wayne's new CD-R "Imbalanced," but more importantly (for our purposes), he also lives with the thousands of hours of audio recordings that must have gone into this album. From campy old B-movie trailers, newscasts, and commercials from throughout the decades, to pop songs and TV-show/movie sound bytes,
all manner of sounds are assembled into a vast sonic tapestry of surreal juxtapositions and irreverent, often R-rated jokes.
Running gags abound: Perry Mason keeps requesting Top-40 tunes from the court,
a rude robot recalls favorite TV episodes,
and children's records and religious broadcasts morph into ads for femine hygiene.
As clever and funny as those British culture-vultures Cassetteboy,
but coming from an American frame of reference,
Butane has been creating outrageous sound collages for ages -
his early works were (now out-of-print) home cassettes...." - Mr. Fab, Music For Maniacs
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Wayne Butane: "How
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WAYNE BUTANE:
SUCKS BIGTIME
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Ringing words of endorsement from around the globe:
"Wayne Butane is what the LORD created ears for..." - The Pope, Vatican City
WFMU Radio:
"Thankfully, people like Wayne Butane exist and have a lot of time to take millions of audio snippets
and assemble them into brain-altering rivers of sound gush, that will often leave you chuckling in a most Beavis-and-Butthead-like manner
before it all ends. Pure genius for the short-attention span potty-humor loving gnomes in the audience..." - Special Programs on WFMU
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WAYNE BUTANE:
BACKWASH
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The Very Best of Wayne Butane:
"I've been using soundbytes from both P-Flap & P.C.Hair as electromagnetic assault projectiles over 5-watt CB Radio, to disturb local Michigan Militia communications. Does this stuff ever get under their skin! Friends of Timothy McVeigh are not your fans, apparently..." - anonymous pirate radio broadcaster
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WAYNE BUTANE:
Swipes
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What the illuminati said:
"[Wayne Butane is] the night sky in a bowl of a generic brand of raisin bran, but without the raisins..."
--Reverend Flint - Okieland
"Without a doubt, one of the coolest and most addictive record in years. The listener is literally challenged for over 72 minutes to turn it off. It is impossible, and Wayne Butane knows it..." -- Christ Canterbury -CEO CC Records
"Typically fucking excellent Butane sound-collage - six thousand million
little sources, all cut up and placed in thier proper sequence to create a long, rambling, amazingly detailed narrative with sound effects.
Opening with multiple samples of people talking to or about "Wayne," including Howard Stern saying what a great guy Wayne is and how much he loves him, etc.
It's hard to describe this kind of thing effectively, you just have to hear it. Like Terry Gilliam's animation - bizarre and extremely retarded humor.
My favorite kind. Finally someone is making use of the sample of Michael Jackson saying "my penis, my buttocks and my lower torso."..." -- Ian C. Stewart
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WAYNE BUTANE:
POSTAURICULAR FLAP
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REVIEW:
"The problem with most experimental home recordings is that people hear 'em
and think "I can do that" or just "yuck". The most likely response after
listening to this would be "wow!" or just uncontrollable laughter. Mr "Wayne
Butane" assembles these very listenable and hilarious sound collage tapes
assembled from tiny snippets of pop songs, TV shows, children's records,
radio commercials, political speeches, spoken word recordings, and whatever
else he can get his hands on. The amazing part is how it actually flows from
one snippet to the next. An example is the sound bite "What do you like?"
interposed with Arlo Gutherie's "burnt dead bodies" or Oscar the Grouch's ode
to garbage. Imagine Firesign Theatre, only completely composed of found music
and sound, triple the level of silliness, and you may come close to the work
of Wayne Butane. Highly recommended to anyone who enjoys a good laugh."
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WAYNE BUTANE-
Purloined Chimp Hair
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REVIEW:
"Mr. "Wayne Butane" has a lot of time on his hands- he certainly spent a lot
of it assembling this sound collage tape. Certainly not "music", not quite
art--but a very listenable and funny 50-minute assemblage of snippets from
pop songs, TV shows, spoken word recordings, and whatever else he can get his
hands on. I've listened to a lot of sound collages and while most of them can
be described as "difficult music", this one is certainly easy and fun."
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WAYNE BUTANE-
Seduckted!
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REVIEW:
"Exceed expectations in every way."
--Craig Lashinger, V.P. Materials and Distribution
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WAYNE BUTANE-
Eat Shit and Bark At The Moon
$7.00
DOUBLE LENGTH TAPE!
(Over 90 minutes)
[ no longer available ]
REVIEWS:
"Awesome! Hysterical cut ups. An hour of insane, random crap that'll go
straight to your Beavis and Butthead nerve and do a little dance. I'll never
look at Johnny Mathis or Art Linkletter the same way again. Meticulously
assembled from millions of sources and then reassembled, collage-stylee for
the funniest shit i've heard in ages. Devastatingly fucking funny, I can't
recommend this any more highly. One of the best tapes i've heard in ages."
-Ian C Stewart
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"Wayne Butane assembles these very listenable and hilarious sound collage tape
assembled from tiny snippets of pop songs, TV shows, children's records,
radio commercials, political speeches, spoken word recordings and whatever
else he can get his hands on. The amazing part is that it actually flows from
one snippet to the next. It's kinda like a cross between Firesign Theatre and
John Oswald's Plunderphonics. The familiarity of these snippets makes it all
very compelling, but with such length and depth, it certainly makes for
repeated listenings."
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DEAD MONKEY ARCADE
$4.00
Split 7" with the legendary Wayne Butane on one
side, and Japan's Dum Dum TV on the other.
(Eerie Materials)
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REVIEW:
"My life wasn't changed by Dum Dum TV's wacky and high-pitched sound
manipulations, but the other Eerie single's still totally worth picking up if
only for the similarly conceived but more successful side performed by
Arizona's Wayne Butane. WB's "Dead Monkey Arcade" is another well-executed
"collage" that transcends the mere and often-pretensious "audio art" tag.
Imagine a nonstop, mile-a-minute onslaught of absurd sound snippets, media
bytes, and other samples from TV, movies, and records----all stitched
together in a make-you-laugh, overload-your-senses fashion. The thing that
scares me the most is that there's apparently three fifty-minute Wayne Butane
cassettes of stuff like this and I can't fathom how many hours of pop
culture-absorbing Mr. Butane must have done in the last few years in order to
pull such a thing off. This stuff works for me, but it's also enough to make
me actually want to go and spend the day outside and appropriate some
sunshine and breezy air. See ya."
--Tim Ross
Friction Media
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WAYNE BUTANE-
Pay Before Pumping
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It's pop culture in a blender! NO, wait....that's Mystery Science Theater
3000. This is just more of the same kind of insanity you've come to expect
from Wayne Butane. Losta funny stuff, odd sounds, fart noises, etc.. 70
minutes of fun for all! ( Except Bill Clinton)
REVIEWS:
"Pay Before Pumping is a fucking masterpiece of trash...REAL ART in my book"
-----Mike Tolento
Hamden, CT
"This tape fucking rules! Actually, it more than rules it just completely
rocked my entire existence. I loved it. I shall bow down and worship it's
allmighty coolness. In fact, I want to BE Wayne Butane...or at least hang out
with him. Get the picture? "Pay Before Pumping" was just so damn righteous
that i don't even feel worthy enough to justify it's insanely rad creativity
with my lame ass review. All I know is WAYNE BUTANE is my hero."
--Chrissy Taylor
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