Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center - Happy (belated) International Strange Music Day !

Greetings!

Happy belated International Strange Music Day!!  The brainchild of composer/musician Patrick Grant, he of Tilted Axes fame, it took place on 8-24 and in true PTE style, a day (or so) late, but defiinitely not a dollar short as we present a plethora of interesting pieces for you to consider.

Enjoy,

Joel

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8-30-25 PTE Playlist: Happy (belated) International Strange Music Day !

• QB1234 - Patrick Grant - musique du quai Branly (2023 remaster) - Peppergreen Media (2023)


• https://tiltedaxes.bandcamp.com/album/musique-du-quai-branly-2023-remaster 

• STRANGE CHANGES v1: "People, Places, and Things" by Tilted Axes: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars for International Strange Music Day, August 24, 2020 - Peppergreen Media (2020)


• https://tiltedaxes.bandcamp.com/track/strange-changes-2 

• The Blimp / The Old Fart At Play - Capt. Beefheart and the Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica - Reprise (1969)


• https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/captain-beefheart-and-his-magic-band-trout-mask-replica/ 

• where the zeitgeist converges with the metaphysical tapestry of existence - Von Helfenstein - Metaphysics Workouts volumes 1​-​3 - Burnt Seed Records (2024)


• https://vonhelfenstein.bandcamp.com/album/metaphysics-workouts-volumes-1-3 

• Latex - Matmos - quasi-objects - Matador Records (1998)


• https://matmos.bandcamp.com/album/quasi-objects 

• Dad I'm In Jail - Was (Not Was) - What Up Dog? - Chrysalis (1988)

• Bucephalus Bounding Ball - Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy (EP) - Warp Records (1997)


• https://aphextwin.bandcamp.com/album/come-to-daddy 

• The Festival of Death - The Residents - East Side Digital (1979/1987)


• https://meettheresidents.fandom.com/wiki/Eskimo 

• The Most Unwanted Song - Komar & Melamid / Dave Soldier - The People's Choice Music - Needlejuice Records (2019)


• https://needlejuice.bandcamp.com/album/the-peoples-choice-music 
  
  

• Spiderrunes - The Paxton Group w/ Paula Clare - Cablegram-the Dundee Telegrams and Other Communications 1984-1986 - CD Tech (1989)


• https://paxto.bandcamp.com/album/cablegram-the-dundee-telegrams-and-other-communications-1984-1986 

• Sympathy for the Devil - Laibach - Sympathy for the Devil - Mute (1988)


• https://www.laibach.org/discography/sympathy-for-the-devil/ 

• From Beyond The Clouds - Harmolodic Dreamer - Mutated Blossoms - digital release (2025) 


• https://alexkimnoise.bandcamp.com/album/mutated-blossoms 

• The Future Is Behind Us - Squid In Chains - Imagined Realities -  Earsay Music (2024)


• https://earsaymusic.bandcamp.com/album/imagined-realities 

• Femme Endings - Lauren Sarah Hayes -  Embrace - Superpang (2021)


• https://laurensarahhayes.bandcamp.com/album/embrace