John Frusciante - Renoise Tracks (& other free stuff)

John F has uploaded a bunch of unreleased stuff to Bandcamp, all for free / nyop download. The 'Renoise Tracks 2009-2011' collection has some pretty good stuff on it, mixture of breaksy IDM and his usual melancholy melodies.

4-Track Guitar Music is a bunch of lo-fi instrumentals recorded to 4-track (obviously), some nice beatwork on them, almost like his '90s stuff with a 707.

Medre is pretty crazy acid stuff plus guitar.

Sect in Sgt is an utterly nuts 21 minute soundscape, everything from super-fast drill breaks to acid rock samples, not sure I've ever heard anything quite like it.

I'm hoping eventually he'll be accepted as a proper IDM musician rather than "that rock guy who does electronic stuff now". Some of this is amazing.

https://jfdirectlyfromjf.bandcamp.com

good look man. imo he was rhcp's only saving grace. have really dug most of his solo stuff (as long as he doesn't sing).

the vsnares influence is strong in some of these renoise tracks

His Trickfinger s/t release was also recently made available on the acid test/absurd recordings bandcamp page:

https://absurdrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/trickfinger-s-t

fuck yeah! can't wait to listen to these

crap... he sings a little. not enough to completely ruin it tho

I like his bad singing

He's an amazing singer and I fucking hate RHCP. The Will to Death is my fave non-electronic album probably.

he's an amzing singer also, yes

https://jfdirectlyfromjf.bandcamp.com/track/medre

love this one. reminds of last step a bit

Sweet, always up for more Frusciante. He really was the best part of RHCP, the chemistry he had with Flea was great. Haven't bothered listening to any RHCP since he left, and probably won't.

medre riffs kind of remind me of ratatat w/more acid

Only had time to listen to the first two tracks but this is fucking sweet. Will return.

Interesting, will check!

Listened to renoise tracks album and sect in sgt both excellent! will have to grab the other stuff as well now

it... sounds like random rock noises with some carbon copy of vsnares/ snares pooped out some demo tapes during speed dealers moms sessions and sampled from that? I know amen break but singular scope 85 definitely is the exact same processed amen from dear poet/simpleton

sry i just hate when rock music people try to appropriate electronic music stuff... go back to appropriating black people

no but seriously I'm pretty sure you could do a double blind pepsi taste test with one track by a rock musician trying to do srs electronic music and one by a 90's warp musician and there is a discernable difference... the rock one tastes like triscuits while the warp one is like mangosteens made of god

on second hand if this is what it's like to be culturally appropriated it feels quite icky

*has strong opinion on something*

*awaits angry mob*

The fact it sounds different to the usual "lets sound like 90s warp" is what makes this interesting to me.

Fair enough if you dont like it but kinda get the impression you might have made your mind up about this before even giving it a proper listen

This has been my favourite electronic work from Johnny boy. It just works.

This is surprisingly good.

Last I heard he was making some of the worst music ever on like 6 MC-202's - this is really quite a step up. Thanks for the link!

Enjoying the Renoise album right now! Fuckin' Motiern 58 is euphoric! JF is definitely a capable IDMer, possibly even moreso than Thom Yorke, though less idiosyncratic.

6 Culminate sounds exactly like Lay All Your Love On Me by Abba hahaha.

No bad thing really.

  On 11/29/2015 at 1:03 AM, Ragnar said:

*has strong opinion on something*

 

*awaits angry mob*

hehe, thanks for doing the heavy lifting. But the kids like what they like, maybe the association with vsnares has something to do with it.

I like it, I couldn't give a shit if he's just a brown belt as opposed to a blackbelt 4th dan IDMer.