Klen House Radio #29

A nice mix of cool evening songs to Klen you to sleep, the one and only Klen House Radio is here to provide the tunes. Three Ton Gate is the alias of Scott Putesky, better known as the original guitarist/songwriter for Marilyn Manson, of all things. As a confession, I have to admit I quite like Marilyn Manson's first album, the songs are catchy rock songs, Trent Reznor's production is surprisingly good and I wonder why he never produced any other rock albums, and Scott's guitar playing is really unique, alternately crunchy and slithery. His Three Ton Gate stuff  has the same guitar sound, along with a raggedy DIY production that is pretty damn fun. Black Joe Lewis is about the closest thing to a modern James Brown as I've heard, and damn if it doesn't get your feet moving. It's weird to see a picture of Joe himself and realize that he looks like any typical modern R&B dude, like Usher or something, since his sound is so perfectly retro. Freestlye Kill are a couple dweebs doing what dweebs do best, loud and clattery and likely to annoy most people in the room they hear it...one day I might put up their 83-song debut album, sure to clear a dance floor when you slap it on. Uncle Acid is a new discovery, fantastic late 60s-style hard rock, The Beatles all became degenerates (moreso than they already were) and jointed the Manson Family to record some cracked, crackling slabs of post-Summer-of-Love madness. And finally is a hard-to-find Swans cut, only available on the out-of-print first pressing of their seminal Children of God, it was replaced by a different mix on the later releases. I actually prefer the more acoustic second mix, but this one's got that doomy sound people dig, so give it a spin!

1. Three Ton Gate - Fear Channel
2. Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears - Sugarfoot
3. Cardiacs - The Obvious Identity
4. Bis - Mr. Important
5. Freestyle Kill - The Freestyle Kill Long Song
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6. What Capitalism Was - A Windy Sea
7. Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - I'll Cut You Down
8. Swans - Our Love Lies (1987 mix)

Swing to the left, swing to the right, and download it here!
Three Ton Gate's Soundcloud is updated with cool cuts pretty often.
Cardiacs have stopped touring, but check out their website to follow any developments.
As always, What Capitalism Was offers their whole catalogue for free.
Grab the Uncle Acid album over at Metal Blade, of all places.

Check out Black Joe Lewis for our Klen House Addendum this time: