The Manual and The Machine used to be able to practice during the daytime.

Show Tuesday, Oct. 18, The Knockout, SF
Alcoholocaust Presents BRYNN'S BIRTHDAY
- STREET JUSTICE
- THE SMELL
- THE MANUAL & THE MACHINE
- D.J. GOAT LEG Spinning Vinyl
Doors 8:30pm / Show 9:30pm

When we practiced on Sunday, it sounded like this. (18 Mb mp3)

June, 2011
Boiler Maker
tapes, $2
285 Turk St. Apt 301, San Francisco, 94102

01. turn it back on / crucibles (6.4 Mb)
02. past performance predicts / pressure vessel (6.4 Mb)

tMatM is a 2-piece melodic noise band. We live in San Rafael and San Francisco. We hear peacocks on the road sometimes.

Paul Gaffney plays guitar, bass, keys and electronics, and loops them; Dan Gudgel loops drums, noise and electronics, and shouts. vinylpuma@gmail.com

September, 2009.
Just Don't Get the Blues
The kazoo was cheap, but its sound is large.

01. Fucking Promises (5 3/5 Mb)
02. Crosscut Saw (Albert King) (6 1/6 Mb)
03. shoulder-glancing, staying hid (1 1/6 Mb)
04. Good Liquor Gonna Carry Me Down (Big Bill Broonzy) (5 1/2 Mb)

August, 2009.
Industrial Noise Jazz
Saw a lot of folks sleeping in their cars the other night.

01. rizika která chcete pojistit (6 1/4 Mb)
02. i,i insist (6 1/4 Mb)
03. tag overflow (5 Mb)

Not Christmas, Not Not Christmas, 2007
Slayryde
The figs on the abandoned lot went from thick-skinned green knots, to withered brown husks without ever ripening. Some things never have a right moment.

01 Watch Your Back, He's Coming* (4 Mb)
02 Slayryde (3 1/5 Mb)
03 God Bless You, Irving Berlin* (3 3/4 Mb)
04 Precocious Thing* (2 7/10 Mb)
05 Precious Thing* (3 1/10 Mb)
*We didn't write the words to these ones.

March and April, 2007.
Note Volume, Exchange Next.

01. We won't hesitate to use (2 1/2 Mb)
02. the engine tick (2 1/2 Mb)
03. of the slip-disk carousel. (2 1/2 Mb)
04. Five minutes of noise (1/2 Mb)
05. when the torque wrench calls its mattress from a phone booth. (3 Mb)
06. We'll hear the all-clear (2 Mb)
07. and the cricket swarm will learn our lessons for us. (1/2 Mb)

Back when. You probably shouldn't.
Loopermadness

loopermadness 01 (1 1/5 Mb)
loopermadness 02 (7/10 Mb)
loopermadness 03 (1 9/10 Mb)
loopermadness 04 (1 1/2 Mb)
loopermadness 05 (1 1/2 Mb)
loopermadness 06 (1/2 Mb)
loopermadness 07 (9/10 Mb)
loopermadness 08 (2 1/2 Mb)

 

We listen to things. Skinny Puppy, Steely Dan. God Speed You Black Emperor!, Godspell. Tortoise, Fugazi, Mogwai, Phillip Glass, Shellac, Bruce Springsteen, John Cage, The Mountain Goats, Steve Reich, Ministry, Negativland, No Statik, Neon Blud, Same Sex Dictator, Punch, Pins of Light, Rafter, Sandwitches, Sad Horse, Maus Haus, Emily Wells, Robin Williams on Fire, Megadeth, Ministry, John McLaughlin, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, Stockhausen, Ornette Coleman. I was late because the bus I was on took the door off a car just after Fillmore.