The Cut And Paste Records Podcast #7 is now online.

Hey kids!

Podcast #7 of The Cut And Paste Records Hour is now online, featuring music by
Magik Plastique, Alan Grandy, The Inay, tofu, Don Campu, Silverstream,
Raymond Scott Woolson, The Conet Project, and Hal McGee. And don't forget
my lame attempts at DJ-ing...

To listen to the podcast, and see the playlist, go to: http://cap_records.podomatic.com/.
Or go to the MySpace page at: www.myspace.com/cutandpasterecordspodcast.

Thanks for tuning in!

Ray

Ray Carmen, backup singer.

Hey kids!

My pal Joe LaRose is releasing a solo CD called WELCOME DANGER. I added some Beach Boys-style backup vocals to a track called Moon Goin' Down. Joe played all the instruments on the album except drums, which were played by Tin Huey percussionist Bob Ethington. You can hear Moon Goin' Down plus three more tracks from the album at Joe's MySpace page:

www.myspace.com/booboogrant.

And tell him I sent ya!

DUET YOURSELF remaster now available

The next reissue is my 1990 album DUET YOURSELF, which has been remastered and includes one extra track. DUET contains eleven originals and two cover tunes (Sweet Young Thing and You Just May Be The One, both Monkees tunes). This was my first album-length cassette (all my previous cassettes were eps), and was originally released by the Ooh Ooh Music cassette label in North Canton, OH, which was run by my friends Mike Gonzalez and Julia Devine. The original cover art was horrible (lifted from a magazine ad for a books on tape company). The new cover art features a picture taken by my friend Mike Crooker (of the GGE Records label, who released my early eps) during a photo session for my NOTHING PERSONAL cd, which Crooker also produced, and was being recorded for the Emigre label in Sacramento, CA at the time.

The music, as usual, runs the gamut from power pop to bubblegum, from avant-garde blues to autumnal ballads, from fake industrial noise to fake film music.

This one continues to be a favorite 27 years later...

The track listing is as follows:

1. Passive/Aggressive - 4:11

2. Brand New Boyfriend - 3:37

3. The Weight - 3:24

4. You Just May Be The One - 1:59

5. Why - 4:58

6. Sweet Young Thing - 2:43

7. Love The Hard Way - 3:01

8. Beckoning - 2:44

9. Ode To Jandek - 3:14

10. Summer's Day - 2:37

11. The Fall - 3:07

12. I Know A Secret - 3:23

13. Fast Asleep - 2:07

All songs were written by me and published by Radio Friendly BMI, except

track 4, which was written by Mike Nesmith, and track 6 which was written

by Mike Nesmith, Gerry Goffin and Carol King, and were published by

Screen Gems-EMI Music. All instruments and vocals by moi, and was

recorded at home on an old Fostex four-track cassette deck, with no

mixing board, in 19889-1990. I'm surprised it sounds as good as it does.

Thanks to Mike Crooker, and Rudy at Emigre, as a few key tracks from this

cassette were re-recorded for NOTHING PERSONAL.

It's available for $5.00 postage paid. Send a check or money order payable

to Ray Carmen and send to: Cut And Paste Records, POB 152, Green, OH,

44232, USA. Cash will be sent at your own risk. And please don't make checks

or money orders payable to Cut And Paste Records, since it will only get me

funny looks at the bank, and I'll have to send it back.

More info, including online liner notes, will be posted soon.

Coming soon will be the remixed/remastered version of 1993's BUBBLEGUM BUDDHA.

Lydia Tomkiw, R.I.P.

I found out yesterday afternoon that a friend of mine from several years ago passed away. Her name was Lydia Tomkiw, and she was the lead vocalist for the art pop duo Alegbra Suicide. Her partner in Algebra Suicide was guitarist Don Hedeker.

I met Lydia back in the late 80s/early 90s when I managed (and I use that term loosely LOL) a Kent, OH based band called Indian Rope Burn. IRB's guitarist Mike Crooker produced my NOTHING PERSONAL album for Emigre in 1991. Anyway, IRB opened for Algebra Suicide, and we call got to know Lydia and Don quite well. They were wonderful people and Lydia was a real sweetheart (and Don was a shit-hot guitar player!). I still have my vinyl copy of their album THE SECRET LIKE CRAZY, which Lydia very sweetly signed "To Ray, one who manages well".

After Algebra Suicide broke up, Lydia went on to pursue her poetry, and solo music career (see the cover to her solo CD INCORPORATED above), while Don went on to form other bands, including the Ramones-influenced Bouncing Balls, and The Polkaholics, a rock-n-roll polka band!
WMFU's online blog has a blurb about Lydia here: http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/09/algebra-suicide.html. There is also a video of their signature song, Little Dead Bodies.

Thanks to my friend Mike Crooker for passing this info along to me.

NAIVE ASSUMPTIONS reissue now available

The remaster/reissue of NAIVE ASSUMPTIONS is now available.

NAIVE ASSUMPTIONS is a collection of my first four-track recordings from 1988-1989. It has been issued in various configurations on cassette over the years, and was until recently available on cdr as a two-fer with DUET YOURSELF (which was from 1990). I always felt that listening to both albums back-to-back on the same cdr was a bit much to sit through, so I decided to reissue both NAIVE and DUET as seperate albums with corrected/updated track listings.

The reissue of NAIVE has thirteen tracks (two of which are instrumental mixes), and is packaged in a clear plastic sleeve, with a fold-out color cover, and a lyric sheet insert.

The Cut And Paste Records Podcast#6 is now online

The Cut And Paste Records Podcast#6 is now online, and for this program I had
help from my special guest DJ...my 5-year-old daughter Grace! You can listen
online now at: http://cap_records.podomatic.com.

We played tracks from the follwoing undergournd artists: The Bill Jones Show,
Screaming Popeyes, Cleaners From Venus, Wes Turner, The Kitchen Cynics,
X-Ray-Pop, The Nutley Brass, Mickey Saunders and Dan Susnara, The Dave,
.alkali, Silly Pillows, Ian C. Stewart, Lord Litter, Anton Balsam, Algebra Suicide,
and Magik Plastique.

We hope you'll dig it!

Ray (and Grace)

Forthcoming R. Stevie Moore documentary

My friend R. Stevie Moore is the subject of a fothcoming documentary, and you can watch the trailer for it here:

http://www.current.tv/studio/media/40531391?cpg=vmmA&video=The+Grandfather+of+DIY+Indie+Rock+Tells+All

Contact RSM at http://www.rsteviemoore.com/, and tell him I sent ya!

Velveeta Heartbreak: Don't Forget The Cheese

Michael J. Bowman is back with a brand new best-of compilation for Cut And Paste. It's called Don't Forget The Cheese: MJB '89-'92, and it's being released under his new moniker Velveeta Heartbreak.

When I ran out of his Plastic Memories cdr for my mail-order catalog, I asked MJB to send me some more copies, and instead he compiled this new best of, and it's sweet. These 16 awe-inspiring tracks were recorded at home, and originally released on cassettes. Here's the track listing:

1. Alaska (2:50)

2. Seven Rays (4:34)

3. Psychedelic Afternoon (3:15)

4. Take A Trip (To The Other Side) (2:53)

5. The Apartment (3:09)

6. Walkman (3:42)

7. Dissolving Youth (2:26)

8. Cocktail Time (3:34)

9. Dressed To Kill (4:17)

10. Beach Ball (1:57)

11. The VJ Said (2:54)

12. The Dalai Lama Loves You (2:45)

13. The Rabbit Soldiers (1:52)

14. Sleepytime At Mission Control (2:53)

15. In My Head (3:50)

16. Brighter (2:11)

All songs/sounds/instruments/vocals by MJB, with a little help from Paul Rose, who played guitar on Alaska and In My Head, and Arak, who played bass and acoustic guitar on Take A Trip.

As always, it's $5.00 postage paid from Cut And Paste. Make checks or money orders payable to Ray Carmen and send to: Cut And Paste, POB 152, Green, OH 44232 USA.

For more information on what MJB is up to these days, go to: velveetaheartbreak.blogspot.com.

Cut And Paste Records Podcast to be relayed by Radio Free Canton

The good folks at Radio Free Canton (www.radiofreecanton.net) have agreed to carry my podcast! So, you now have two places to listen to it online, at the original site (http://cap_records.podomatic.com), and at the Radio Free Canton site. It will be relayed Sunday afternoons between 3 and 3:30 or thereabouts. The best thing to do is to log onto their web site, or, if you're in the Canton, OH area, tune in to 90.7 FM.

Special thanks to Frank at RFC for offering to carry my podcast--you rock!!