Just the sort of thing to shake up your winter blues:

transatmospheric.com/site/the-electric-cave/

HANDWITHLEGS return with an 8-track album of new songs, a fuzzy, fucked-up fusion of electronica, bad-ass drums, and distorted vocals, all fed back and forth across a floor of effects pedals. First track ‘NYA’ is arguably one of the finest tunes to have originated from Planet HWL, so give it a spin and see what you think. It’s free to hear and download, and only buttons on itunes.

http://transatmospheric.com/site/crutixy/

For those of you into seriously loud, curiously sinister, and wonderfully weird electronica, check out 10 years of Gingavitis cassettes available to listen to and for free download over at TRANSATMOSPHERIC.

Fasten your seatbelts, it’s the chainsaw-wielding Godfather of Lo-Fi and the man who made this all technologically possible, pulling the computer strings behind The Daydream Generation, Cozy Home Records, Transatmopheric, and many others. Also he makes a beautiful racket himself with projects like HANDWITHLEGS, and again, many others… it’s THE Tim Schram.

1 You can take one record to a desert island for the rest of your life – what would it be?
-It would have to be a mix

2 Who is your favourite artist?
-Justin Broadrick
3 Favourite chord?
-Any

4 Can God invent a rock that he cannot lift?
-Yes, he enjoys toying with us apparently

5 Who did you last vote for in an election?
-Obama
6 Favourite fiction writer?
-Philip K Dick

7 If you could invite 5 people to dinner (dead or alive) who would they be?
-Philip K Dick, Carl Sagan, Arthur C Clark, Isacc Asimov and Jesus

8 What pisses you off?
-Callousness
9 What’s the best song you’ve ever written?
-Couldn’t say

10 One wish – what would it be?
-That the world be invaded by extraterrestrials
11 Favourite band?
-4 way tie between Tom Waits, Gangstarr, the Melvins and Justin Broadrick

12 3 websites worth checking out?
-www.cozyhomerecords.com / www.mixedtape.us / www.doihaveswineflu.org/

13 Posters above your bed when you were a teenager?
-Godflesh/Helmet/Skinny Puppy/Gangstarr/Beck/Dead Kennedys

14 When was the last time you cried with laughter?
-The last time I was visiting Paul Burnout, Arthur Rules & Bobby Rogan were there too. I have pictures

15 If you could learn and play one instrument, what would it be?
-Piano

16 Preferred mode of travel?
-Train

17 Shuffle your iPod – what are the first five songs that play?
1. Mission of Burma – SSL 83 (from The Sound The Speed The Light)
2. Clint Mansell – 3 Year Stretch (from MOON o.s.t)
3. Three Mile Pilot – Year of No Light (from Another Desert, Another Sea)
4. Hal Blaine – Hallucinations (from Psychedelic Percussion)
5. Zach Hill – Dark Art (from Astrological Straits)

18 Snowballs, snowmen, or sledging?
- I assume you mean sledding,
19 Best gig you’ve ever been to?
- Melvins, this past september, as part of my drunken bachelor party

20 What’s the most embarrassing record in your collection?
- Im not embarrassed by any
21 Favourite drink?
-Jameson & Water on the rocks
22 Drug of choice?
- the Weed

23 If you were an animal, what animal would you be?
-And elephant

24 And if you were a colour, what colour would you be?
- #81b176
25 Are you good at any sports?
-No, but I enjoy frisbee

26 Last book you read?
-Podkayne of Mars, Robert Heinlein

27 First thing you think when you get up in the morning?
-”I really wish I didnt have arthritis at 30″

28 Last thing you think when you go to bed?
- Traveling through Space, did I lock the doors?

29 Describe your music in three words?
Creepy, Percussive, Reverb

30 If you could be someone else for a day, who would you be?
-Rush Limbaugh, and I’d kill myself
31 Favourite comedian?
-George Carlin

32 What colour is your front door?
-Green
33 Favourite film?
-Blade Runner

34 A quote that stuck in your head?
-blank

35 Favourite subject at school?
-Architectural Drawing

36 Which actor/actress would play you in a film about your life?
-I truly dont know

37 What music makes you want to dance?
-60 garage rock
38 What should they write on your gravestone?
-”DEAD”

39 How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?
-37

40 When did you first start writing your own songs?
-Age 16

41 What’s the weirdest thing you ever saw?
- http://www.urlesque.com/2009/09/22/glamourpuss-the-enchanting-world-of-kitty-wigs/
42 Favourite smell?
- Popcorn
43 Favourite sound?
- An empty steel dumpster

44 Swings, roundabout, chute, or climbing frame?
- I’m guessing a climbing frame is your way of saying a Jungle Jim?

45 Who is your favourite Beatle?
-Never really listened to them (I know, I know)

46 Point us in the direction of a band one of your friends is in?
-THE REAL FUCKING BURNOUTS www.therealburnouts.com

47 A YouTube video the world should watch?
-Maybe not the world, but my clients: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2a8TRSgzZY

48 Cats or dogs?
-Cats
49 If you had to join the circus what would you be?
-A clown drummer
50 Favourite book?
- Childhoods End, Arthur C Clark

51 Have you ever been on TV?
-Yes

52 Have you ever been arrested?
-Yes, 3 times

53 What songs do you (would you) sing at karaoke?
-None. I dislike karaoke

54 Have you ever seen a ghost?
-I dont believe in them

55 How do you like your coffee? Or would you prefer a wee cup of tea?
-A cup of black tea, then an iced coffe

56 Punk or Raver? Mod or Goth? Hippy or Beatnik? If you had to label yourself, what gang would you be in?
-Punk Asshole

57 What’s the worst job you ever had?
- Personal Assistant

58 What’s brown and sticky?
-Glue

59 Do you have any recurring dreams?
-All of my dreams that I can recall are always nightmares

60 How many records have you released and which is your favourite?
-Wow, released or recorded? 19 Albums are available to the public. Probably near 100 recorded

61 Where in the world would you like to go?
-Australia

62 Favourite kind of cloud?
-Sparse ones

63 Favourite line from a song?
- “I got a gun the size of a black hole, I shoot planets” RZA (it’s all about the delivery, not my favorite, but the 1st one that came to mind)

64 What’s the music scene like where you live?
-I live in the country, so there is NO scene, but I work in NYC, so I get my fill of whatever I want

65 Who would make up your dream band? (one singer, one guitarist, one bassist, one drummer, plus one extra)
-All clones of myself, I think we’d work great together
66 Favourite cover art?
-Ministry “Filth Pig” always cracks me up

67 Early bird or night owl?
-Both, depends on the day

68 Which of the seven sins are you?
-None

69 Three words people use to describe you?
-When I asked, I was told “Shut Up”

70 You have ten minutes left to live, what would you do?
-A drink, a smoke and a kiss from my wife

71 Do you support any sports teams?
-Katie Burnouts’ Roller Derby team

71 What do you want for Christmas?
-My garage to be sheet-rocked

72 Favourite track from all the Daydream Generation compilations?
-Kind of cheating, since I played on it, but THE DROWNED COMMITTEE “She Says”

73 Can you cook up a storm in the kitchen?
-If I try

74 What’s the first thing you remember?
-Riding in the back of my mothers chevy nova in 1983, laughing hysterically

75 How do you go about writing a song?
-Most of the time, I record the beats and then make up the rest

76 When you look in the mirror, what do you see?
-An Angel (wink wink)

77 What’s the best advice you were ever given?
-”You can do anything”
78 Do you smoke?
-I am trying to quit, down to one a day…

79 Tell us a joke?
-This is the only joke i ever remember & I’ve told it thousands of times: “A skeleton walks into a bar, he orders a beer, and a mop”

80 Pick a card, any card?
-I dont play cards

81 One question you’ve never been able to answer?
-”What do I smell like?”

82 If you could travel back in time, when and where would you go?
-To see some motherfuckin dinosaurs
83 Favourite philosopher?
-None

84 Do you have any pets?
-A very obese cat named Rejinald, he has AIDS and he like to brush his teeth (seriously, ask Bobby)

85 Ever climbed a mountain?
-Yup

86 What do you do in the real world to pay the rent?
-I am an Interactive Designer at a large media company in NYC

87 Self-diagnosis: any psychiatric disorders?
-Who knows
88 Favourite poet?
-Not a big fan of poetry

89 What wouldn’t you do for a million dollars?
-Kill a baby
90 Adrenalin junky?
-Sometimes

91 What bands have you been in?
-More than 10

92 Favourite board game/computer game?
-Risk

93 What kind of recording set-up do you have? Equipment etc.
- 24″ imac w/ Cubase Studio Pro, Alesis FW 16, akai MPD controller, studiophile B monitors, two drumsets plus triggers, 3 drum machines 12 toy keyboards, a room full of percussion stuff, a bunch of sheet metal, 9 condenser mics, my friends bass & guitars & amps, a 2000 watt PA, 1987 roland JUNO, a tons of stuff really…

94 A character you love from a book or a film?
-Wall-E

95 Who is the sexiest person in the history of the world?
-Who knows

96 If you could genetically fuse two animals together what would they be? And what would it make?
-An elephant & a bat. It would be an elebat.

97 What kind of drunk are you?
-silly & rambunctious
98 What was the first record that really blew your mind?
-Beck, Stereopathetic Soul Manure

99 What are your musical plans for the future?
-To never ever stop playing music

100 Got some websites of your own we can visit?
-Go to www.timschram.com, links to a bunch of my sites are there
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