Welcome to MU world .... Bitch!

Mu’s music is a lot like what a hyperactive child would sound like if raised on a steady diet of cartoons and acid.

- Alex Barnes

If you have a club and you are unsure who to book, book MU. When MU is done performing, book MU again. Repeat until GRACE JONES shows up. And then book MU again.

- Sasha Frere-Jones

 

Mu is a Sheffield, England-based duo consisting of Baltimore-born producer Maurice Fulton and his wife, Japan-born vocalist Mutsumi Kanamori.

Mutsumi Kanamori fronts it and her voice has all the wrong frequencies. It is an un-melifluous wonder, what some writer described as sounding like a psychotic Korean grocer's wife screaming at a shoplifter. Fulton chops it all up and dumps it back out in blasts of gated afro-cuban diarrhea.

-Posted by Daniel

Nothing short of complete knowledge of Fulton's background, behind aliases like Eddie & the Eggs, Boof, and Hot Sauce, could prepare you for this lunatic jumble of electro-punk, left-field house, and flat-out noise. Lovers of smooth, pure deep-house should duck and cover.
-Andy Kellman

Mu’s story begins 1997, when Mutsumi made good on her dream of making a life for herself outside of her native Japan. “I was thinking New York or London, it was two choices,” she recalls. With easier access to a British visa, Mutsumi soon found herself in London struggling from the pressures of adapting to a new country and a new language.

in 2001 she met the DJ and Producer Maurice Fulton at the nightclub the Electric Chair in nearby Manchester.

 

“He saw me dancing crazy on the dance floor,” Mutsumi recalls of meeting Fulton. “After he finished DJing he came to me and told me: ‘I’m going to make a song about you!’” Mutsumi and Fulton quickly began collaborating musically and recorded Mu’s first single “Let’s Get Sick” in June 2003 which was quickly followed by their debut album Afro Finger and Gel released in September of the same year.
-Alex Barnes


Discography:

Let's Get Sick (12")      2003     Output    
Chair Girl / Let's Get Sick (12")   2003    Tigersushi    
Afro Finger And Gel (CD, Album, Promo, Car)   2003   Tigersushi    
Paris Hilton / We Love Guys Named Luke (12")    2004     Output    
Out Of Breach (Manchester's Revenge) (CD, Album)   2005   Output    

 Mu's catalogue is unfortunately out of print, but you can get a heaping taste of funk damage HERE!

Simultaneously fun and dark, ludicrous and serious... fucked-up and uplifting

— Andy Beta

 

Last Years Nostalgia

The other night I was doing a Google search for somesuchshit ... when I came across these YouTube videos of some friends performances that I attended. It made me hella sentimental for a Brubaker, five shots of tequila and some companionable lines of coke. I miss you fuckin kids!























































* Added for the LULZ. The Boston Boys attack Seattle!














Jacques Cabaret

The Middle East

The Milky Way

The MidWay Cafe

A Boy Scouts Hanbook

In this simulation...

Following the
fluorescence of 
Biostatistical data

Information
in strands
 in strings
with bands
of
light and dark

 interpreting
 form
 inferring
shape

... despite chromosomal
variations...

The glaze
of  the masculine
is
Constructed 
practised
and
 intrinsically 
understood

... at least 80 percent...

 

Today
an american boy
before long
 an american man

Physically strong
Mentally awake
Nourished by diffusion

With guidance
We
could play

Passive cowboy

Absolutely!

Me
in my
 bicurious gym socks

You
flamboyantly mainstream
Aber..Aber..Aber..
Abercrombie Daddy

I know how
to pony

Flesh can only be
understood
as a social text

Dominant positions   
Sperm competition

Age
Race
Class
 Statistics
 and locations

A petri dish
of the possible

Suits
Jeans
T-shirts
Boxers
Socks

Boots
of
   Extreme versatility 

Sniffing for
a walked in sneaker

 Given his
variables

A boy cannot
turn into a man
without
Active intervention

Disciplined practices

 Physical mercantilism

A smooth property
of assets

Touch
Pressure
Vibration

The active
stimulation
of
 genotypes
and odor cues 

Lift
shoulders wide with
risk-taking behavior

Position
the throbbing
      In sweaty hairs      
of mutual sameness

I take care of my body
you should too

A/S/L

What is your location?

There

in ten
in a car
in the park
in the reeds
by the waterfront
by the Hull fish house
amongst leaky pipes and profitable urges

Is your bottom topped?

You
cant
just
be

 understood

 A Man
has to
Earn
has to
 Finalize
has to
Detail
has to
 Up the Contract

has
 lunch to Prove
 everyday

and night

Through the Victory Gardens
the muddy paths
the towering reeds
the urban wild

 with maps
 with flashlights
with compasses
with medicine kits

They will follow
with
pockets full
drawn by
 the scent
of roasting
 street rabbit
and campfire songs

Their 
tongues slide
out and
upward
 forecasting
 positions
in
 the wind
and
 the weather

Radar currents
explode
 in
 Boyfeet and
Emoporn

I know at least
a thousand ways
a clever boy
can survive

This medium
is my haircut

My smell
My walk
My tattoo
This song

This lattice
of
razor cuts
that map
my biome

From
dry and smooth
to
 hairy and moist

I am not

Just

or

Hopeful

I am

in a riot
of skin flora
a slurry of sweat
 an off trail scouts handbook
I write it as I walk

A/S/L

I am----

---------------
----------------------
---------------------------
---------------------------------
---------> here?

 

Splosh Me! The Boston Molasses Disaster!

"Yes, I know, lovely Hayley, have some warm treacle too
Fill your panties with edible muck."
'Father William'
by Gooey Carroll

And there it stood
on its concrete base
the tank
fifty-eight-feet of industry
plates of curved carbon steel
bulging with the product
black-strap molasses
over two million gallons
imported from Cuba
Puerto Rico
The West Indies
to sweeten the rum
to sweeten the beans...
baked in Boston
of course
of course

It was unseasonably warm
in Boston Massachusetts
40 degrees
on the 15th of January
in the year 1919
The laborers of The Purity Distilling Company
sat
on the city wharf
in their short sleeves
by the tank
by the waterfront
eating their five cents
Clark Bars and Goo Goo Clusters

January
the door
of new historical ages
of the first blood of Christ
of the Holy Prepuce swathed
preserved in oil of nard
and placed in a box of alabaster
for the sins of you and yours
for the redemption of man

Fifteen is a triangular number
and a hexagonal number
a pentatope number
the 4th Bell number
It is a composite number
the number of supersingular primes
and miraculous powers








The 15th of January is the date of heroic inevitability
The birth date of
Martin Luther King
Gene Krupa
Harry Hay
Captain 'Don Glen Van Vliet' Beefheart
Charo: María Rosario
Pilar Martínez Molina
Moquiere de les Esperades
Santa Ana Romanguera
y de la Najosa Rasten
and Saint Flit
It is also the date of the deaths of
Brad Renfro
Les Baxter
Rosa Luxemburg
and Junior Wells

Janus Ianuarius with his two faces
looking forward and backward

It happened
January 15th
1919
About and around
12:30
or 12:45...
depending on ones perspective...
On the wharf
of Bostons waterfront
amongst the apartments of Italian
immigrants

SPLOSH
The tank burst!
Bullet machine pop
Steel shrapnel whizzing
around
One could lose two eyes in
the semi-sweet sticky spurt
the brown viscous gush
the molasses tidal wave
25 feet high
60 feet wide
35 miles an hour
The creeping barrage of 20th century
seeping ever forward
in metallic farts
of utility

Of course
of course
the laborers were the first hit
then the poultry slaughterhouse
the horses feeding at the firestation
the children heading for lunch
the homes of the immigrants
the Italian anarchists
The earth moved under them...
it was like being licked by a hundred tongues of syrup
toes curled up to squeeze the grunge around
The warm violent squish across the soles
of their bare naked feet

A tidal surge of goo
rats
chickens and children
screamed down Commercial Street
with no clear path or direction
it retracted and retreated
pulling at skin and clothing
Bodies restricted by the cut
of the dripping material
Sticky filthy clothing
Glazed shirt buttons tight across their chest
Candied trousers squeezing their genitals

Wet socks

soggy potatoes

piss stained union suits

metal scraps and beer barrels

Little Martin Clougherty rode

the surge of debris and ooze

his bed frame a raft

He rode pass

the elevated rail road tracks

devastated

He rode pass

the confectionery hands grasping

for air

He rode pass

the horses

people

and dogs

dying like fruits on flypaper

He rode

right into fireboat 31

tumbling into the mass

syrup filling his mouth

lungs

ears

eyes

seeping into his waist band

clinging to his pajamas

warm stodgy filling coating his balls

dripping thighs and growing puddles

A report from 'The Boston Post' read

"Molasses, waist deep, covered the street and swirled and bubbled under the wreckage.

Here and there struggled a form

whether it was animal or human being was impossible to tell.

Only an upheaval,

a thrashing about

in a sticky mass..."

Even today

after a century of industrial pollution

When your down at Boston harbor

on a hot summer night

and you jump out the car

Because the older gentleman your with

just ejaculated over your brand new Brian Eno t-shirt

The one just after Roxy

about the time of 'Here Come the Warm Jets'

when he was androgynous

The Boston air hits your nose

sickly pungent and semi-sweet

just like an alcohol shit.

-Outtakes-

 

 

Oil-retention enemas can be helpful in patients who are impacted, meaning stool is so large and hard that it is obstructing the colon. An example of an oil-retention enema is a milk-and-molasses enema. Always consult with your health care provider before administering an enema at home.

Prep Time: 5 minutes
Ingredients:

    * 8 oz. warm water
    * 3 oz. powdered milk
    * 4.5 oz. molasses

Preparation:
1. Put water and powdered milk in a plastic jar. Close the jar and shake until fully mixed.

2. Add the molasses and shake the jar again until the mixture appears to have an even color throughout.

3. Pour the mixture into an enema bag. Gently insert the enema tubing into the rectum about 12 inches. Do not force the tube and stop if you meet any resistance. Hold the bag high until all the liquid has been drained into the rectum.

4. Repeat every six hours until good results are achieved.
Milk and Molasses Enema