“Pirate Cat Radio is a studio, performance space and community asset located at 2781 21st Street, San Francisco. We provide a 24/7 program stream accessible on on the web by individual listeners. See Listen/Live.

Pirate Cat Radio from time to time has been downloaded from the web and transmitted over the air as an extra-legal (unlicensed) service in Los Angeles, in Vancouver B.C., in Berlin, and in San Francisco using 87.9 fm and possibly other frequencies.

The Federal Communications Commission is charged with promoting “the larger and more effective use of radio in the public interest.” Pirate Cat Radio believes that the FCC has failed in that mission by not creating a practical means for local and neighborhood program services like ours to gain access to the air. We have sought licensing in the past and been ignored or turned down. The FCC appears to have no path of access to air, except for parties having millions of dollars to invest. This is wrong.

We do not try to regulate the use and re-use of our program service, and are not able to do so. Pirate Cat Radio will continue to look for ways to obtain legal broadcast authorizations for our service.”

I like pirate cat a lot.  When I first heard they were using some loophole about broadcasting during wartime as a way to transmit their radio station I was immediately intrigued.  They are located on a quiet corner in the Mission district of San Francisco and serve as both a beacon for local arts via radio and as a pretty sweet coffee shop.  It didnt take long for them to write back and show mutual interest by excepting my cds and extending an offer to come in and do a live set on air along with an interview.   If youre in San Francisco or anywhere Im sure it would be worth getting in touch with them, having a listen, or just popping by for a cup of coffee (obviously not so easy if youre not in SF).

Here’s what theyve got to say about the badmammal tapestop ep.

“Badmammal (alias of Chris Matule) is inspired by UK post-punk dance in Tapestop EP, where he pays tribute to the tunes he grew up listening to on his old cassette-playing Walkman. Fusing vintage new wave with contemporary new wave, Badmammal uplifts your dancing blues with “Down And Up”, “Another Bed I Know” and “Sidecar”. “Go On” and “Short Days” equip the EP with a softer ambient sound, reminiscent of The Cure, sans vocals.

Especially repeatable:
2. Down And Up
3. Go On

Sounds like:
The Clean Shaven Grins, Kick Evrything, Doyle & The Fourfathers, The Cure”

and you can grab the radio set plus interview here

Anthony Bourdain visits!

So the lazertits/d-structure party at Submission on friday night was a blast.  i had a lot of fun, met nice people, was with good friends, and the venue was very cool (apparently there’s a lot of all ages punk shows there, smells like beer, cans/bottles/cigarette butts, graffiti and stickers everywhere, and the soundguy’s setup was in a hollowed out van raised up in a loft situation opposite the stage)

-links-

Lazertits

D-Structure

Submission

Here’s my live set from the night, its a mix of all original tunes getting the usual remix treatment with the exception of some Vanity 6 samples at the end

Badmammal – lazertits – tittasticmix by badmammal

available on soundcloud

As you can  imagine the results are mixed.  I get all profits, see where the sales are coming from, and get to interact directly with my fans.  That being said I dont have nearly as much exposure whether it be from lack of clout or lack of advertising money.  I wouldn’t exactly suggest the same to anyone nor would I discourage it.  Maybe it’s a question of what you want to do with your art.  Or if you even view it as such.  Music is very very important to me.  It happens to be my strength but I see it as falling under the greater field of “art” or “creativity”.  It’s pretty much a 50/50 split between its therapeutic effects on me and my desire to provide the world with something abstract to enjoy no matter how small.

So yea, 4 albums and 2 EPs in and I guess Ive never technically made any money from sales but Im proud.   It’s what I work really hard on.  Sometimes it seems like I release albums too quickly for hype to build, to reach the people, and to make it around to all the internet and college radio venues.  Before any of that happens Im planning my next move.  That you can blame on my fear of dying early.  And it it’s not like this gripping day to day fear.  It’s more like dealing with the notion of impermanence.  You can get smashed by a bus, shot, stabbed, have an aneurysm, you just never know.    Wouldn’t it suck for all that work you did to just disappear without reaching its audience? If you happen to come across this post/page/my music for the first time do have a poke around itunes and all those shops.  Ive got several releases and remixes under the badmammal alias as well as The Gimps (a ftp rock project).  Ill also be redoing the online shop soon to incorporate it into our wordpress using paypal.  This way if you’d like to purchase directly from me you can.

also look out for photo prints and t shirts.  gonna start messing about with that stuff once goodluck/badluck finds a bigger apartment.

So Ill be performing at the Lazertits and D-Structure event here in San Francisco at “Submission” (2183 Mission St, San Francisco, CA).  There’s gonna be lazers, booze, live music, and fun people.

“A Murder of Lilies” and “Lurv” will be performing after.

Tittastic

August 27 at 9:00pm

@ Submission

and of course forget to check out the reason behind this event… LAZERTITS!

had to do a quick registration before being able to poke around the webpage some more.

hmm apparently there’s some figs a couple blocks over and a few blocks down from where we live.   whoa, another fig tree on the corner by that cheesy club on broadway!

Alright, Ill have to go looking for figs in my neighborhood.  figs are yum.

visit neighborhood fruit

in other music news goodluck/badluck has adopted a french garage rock outfit consisting of a man (louis putain) and woman (jacqueline leveque) who call themselves Louis XIX.  theyre currently trying to record some tunes for either an EP or full length.  we’ll do our best to get them exposure/signed and if we cant we’ll just do what we always do, self release that ish.

“The first part of this remix project sees Bop, Seba, and Badmammal each transforming Blu Mar Ten tracks into a new and altered state. Washing, rippling rhythms with hints of jungle textures creep into Seba’s fantastic re-work of “Overwhelm”, before being carried away on a tide of sound. Bop strips it back with his usual stark, Slavic style in “Believe Me”, with howling Siberian winds prevailing in the atmospheric intro. Finishing up with “Above Words”, it’s all about the pristine, lacquered beats and gentle easing rhythms of Badmammal’s sombre yet incredibly evocative interpretation. Punctuated by warm harp flourishes, plucking strings and glistening xylophone-like effects, the textured layers are beautifully evocative and bring the EP to a melancholic but intensely satisfying close.”

look out for the next part of the series. sounding very nice

stray remix

kastle remix

klute remix

Pictures and news as soon as it comes

with love
chris

We’ve been working away at our cover version of Madonna’s “borderline”.  We will be releasing it soon for free and hopefully making a video for it in the near future.  The Gimps will also be making a video for the song “why worry?” off of their latest release, The Gimps -EP.  We’ve also been busy pecking away at a full length release. More news and clips soon

Part 1 of the Natural History Remixes is out now on vinyl and mp3 in all good stores.

This release features remixes from Seba, Bop & Badmammal.

Vinyl is extremely limited and usually sells out in the first week, so if you want a copy grab it quick.

The tracklist for part 1 is:

Overwhelm (Seba remix) - Vinyl & digital

Believe Me (Bop remix) - Vinyl & digital

Above Words (Badmammal remix) - digital only

Buy it on vinyl in all good stores including:

Redeye

Juno

Chemical

Breakbeat Science (US)

Buy mp3s in all good stores including:

iTunes

Digital Tunes

Drum & Bass Arena

Juno

Beatport

Trackitdown

OVERWHELM (SEBA REMIX) - Vinyl & digital

BELIEVE ME (BOP REMIX) - Vinyl & digital

ABOVE WORDS (BADMAMMAL REMIX) - Digital only

Info on Part 2 of the Natural History Remixes, (featuring reworkings from Klute, Stray & Kastle), will be coming soon.