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The Smudge is an audio artist from Wisconsin.
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He is part of a trio that runs the archive.org netlabel Galactic Intolerance Records
 
[http://www.archive.org/details/galactic-intolerance-records]
 
[http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3Agalactic-intolerance-records&sort=-publicdate]
 
  
He has been making sound art since 2001 and has 58 releases to date.
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The Smudge aka Bucko Crooks is a performance artist, sculptor, and noise musician from Milwaukee Wisconsin, USA.  He performs his works in live environments and also records experimental music under various monikers. The Smudge uses a combination of theatrics, recording and playback techniques, and electronic gear in his work.  The moods of these projects range from serious to campy, violent and melancholic to funny and child-like.  He usually performs around the midwestern United States.  In 2010, The Smudge and a few friends began releasing music on the netlabel "Galactic Intolerance Records", and it now sports somewhere around 160 releases online.  In late 2017, The Smudge and several other Milwaukee artists opened an art gallery and DIY studio / venue called "Gold In The Fridge" in St. Francis Wisconsin.  It closed in 2019.
Live Shows Typically last 15-45 min and include laptops, organs and keyboards, pedals, brass, and chromatic percussion.
 
  
The Smudge has been in several bands, and other projects including:
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He began his practice in 2001 with a desktop computer, a blue dog mixer, and two belt drive turntables mixing thrift store tapes and records and recording them to tape, eventually to a PC.  Today, he uses a variety of tools and methods to produce art.  In 2018, The Smudge began developing touch sensitive sculptural instruments called "phonometers" which run piezo contacts into a custom MAX msp patch to augment video and audio playback.  This can be seen in action [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3zBGhYzOyw HERE] projected on a screen during a performance with John Olson and Nate Young at "Gold in The Fridge" in 2019.
  
-The Former Gods
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[[File:Phonometer-5 - Front.jpg|thumb|Phonometer #5]]
-Noisy Furnace
 
-Heirophant
 
-MAMBO!
 
-Anti-Good-Music
 
  
Genres include:   
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The Smudge project has produced experimental music and sound across several genres, often incorporating comedic and tragic elements tied to relational aesthetics and non-traditional Americana.  He lives and works at Fort Sad on the shore of Lake Michigan in Milwaukee Wisconsin with his three cats, Dianne, David, and PepsiCo.  He enjoys French fries, once serving them for everyone during his set at Kansas City Noise Fest 4 at Davey's Uptown Rambler's Club.  He has a tattoo which reads: "Great Set". The Smudge also makes short films and video content, which can be found on his Youtube channel.
Found Sound / lo-fi / no-fi / HNW / Electronica / Techno / Ambient
 
Acid / No wave / Folk and Acoustic Music / Metal / NoiseCore / Breakcore / Speedcore /
 
Funeral Core / Noise / FOAD Noise / Comedy / Analog Noise / Digital Noise / Performance Art
 
House / Drone / Spoken Word / Stand Up / Mud
 
  
An incomplete solo discography is as follows:
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Currently, The Smudge is collaborating in a duo project called "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVmswt25LgA Minnie VanGawker]" with drone and dark-ambient artist C. Vadi.
  
OBEY! (demo)
 
2002
 
0. The Unreal and the diseased
 
1. The Nightmare Begins
 
2. Blood and a blue slushie
 
3. MyDogJus' GotHitBy A Car
 
4. The Rucus
 
5. When it Rained acid and poured glue
 
  
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Brains Go SPLODIE!
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Solo Projects:
2003
 
1. Intro (the word fuck)
 
2. Newhartz and Necrophilia
 
3. The Forest, The Rain, The Axe
 
4. Fight in the Antique Shop (pure noise)
 
5. Smurf Juice (feat. Noisy Furnace)
 
6. The Nightmare Begins Chock fulla Nutz mix
 
  
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The Smudge:
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https://thesmudge.bandcamp.com
  
DJ Smudgey's Greatest Hits (that nobody's ever heard of)
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HNW:
2004
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https://copcorpse.bandcamp.com
disk one: the hits?
 
  
1. Stars That Fall Away (a day in the life of David the Gnome)
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Drone:
2. the unreal and the diseased
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https://goldendrone.bandcamp.com
3. Smurf Juice
 
4. MyDogJus' GotHitBy A Car
 
5. The Haunted House
 
6. A Rabbit and A Wacko (Donnie Darko)
 
7. Drugs and The American Dream
 
8. Badasss?
 
9. Annoying Waterfall (strictly noise)
 
  
disk two: the remixes
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ANW:
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https://hugnoisewall.bandcamp.com
  
1. Nine Inch Nails-Only (lonely only mix)
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Youtube:
2. Calling All (s)AINTS (a marilyn manson mix)
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[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7qQOX94mcMKSFp12B6cHhg Bucko Crooks on Youtube]
3. The Love Doctor ( a cut compilation of 50 cent, John5, Tom Waits, Massive Attack, Portis Head, Black eyed peas, Marilyn Manson, and more)
 
4. Dead Niggers
 
  
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DEAD techno
 
2004
 
1. Autopsy Turvy
 
2. Bath Time
 
3. The Haunted House
 
4. March of the Quadriplegic Bumblebee
 
5. JAZZ
 
6. Duck Hunts and Jazz Cuts
 
7. The Day Brak Hitched a Ride with the Beatles
 
8. kill (DEAD TECHNO)
 
9. Holden's Mixxxer
 
  
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Collaborative Projects:
  
Supper Club of Desolation
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With harsh noise artist Citizen 2-13:
2005
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https://noiseco2-13.bandcamp.com/track/live-at-the-mutiny-in-chicago
1. Anti GoodMusic - Acid Induced Intro
 
2. Sleepy Time
 
3. Destroyed by a Lawnmower
 
4. Mountain Surfing
 
5. Supper Club of Desolation
 
6. Mario Gets the Hiccups
 
7. " untitled"
 
  
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With bedroom pop musician Saint Lewis:
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https://saintlewisandthesmudge.bandcamp.com
  
SMUDGEY : REFLECTIONS
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With ambient artist Four Blood Moons:
2006-2007
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https://glassnoise.bandcamp.com
1. Phantastik Plastik (an introduktion to Destruktion)
 
2. Regret (Space Opera Part One)
 
3. REFLECTIONS
 
4. Kevin Buskager-Plae and Blue (Smudged Mix)
 
5. Dirty Symphony
 
6. Ol' Dusty Rocket (Space Opera Part Two)
 
7. Kevin Buskager-Bukakee! (Lungs Mix)
 
8. SON OF THE DEVIL : THE DRACULA SOUNDTRACK
 
(by kronos Quartet, remixed by Smudgey)
 
9. Lungs on the Blacktop
 
10. Salut Your PorkChop Bluffington
 
  
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With post industrial artist Mommy:
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https://thesmudge.bandcamp.com/album/mommy-the-smudge-live-at-club-garibaldi
  
THEWASTE :: 10000YEARSLATER
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With Apk ♀ ᴎᴇᴛ ☯ Ltd℻ aka Angel Marcloid:
2007-2008
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https://swampcircle.bandcamp.com/album/a-tribute-to-fear-factory
DesertDisc Tracklisting 32.8 min
 
  
1. Crawling Across the Sand 3:06
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With experimental collective Frenia:
2. The Yellow Café 4:50
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https://loopless.bandcamp.com/album/loopia
3. Desert Drunk (Jangle Pocket The Heavy Wino) 5:44
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https://loopless.bandcamp.com/album/frenless
4. Where the Pigs Live 2:59
 
5. Tickets to the ROBOpera 3:08
 
6. The Universe Bites Back 8:02
 
7. Moon or Bust 1:57
 
8. Brazil aka (The Return to Beneath the Planet of the Pigs) 3:04
 
  
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With Noise Rock band Loopless:
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https://loopless.bandcamp.com
  
ForestDisc Tracklisting 26.6 min
 
  
1. Forest Organology 3:44
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Netlabel:
2. The 6-Legged Deathe March of Deadly Death 3:18
 
3. Would you Like A Stuffed Olive Mother Fucker? 3:49
 
4. Lampschade Cascade 2:46
 
5. The Waste Shook Trees Fell Over 1:29
 
6. The Creature 2:37
 
7. 8-Bit Amazon 3:09
 
8. TheWaste10000Later 5:44
 
  
Feature length :: 59.4 min tota
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Galactic Intolerance Records:
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https://archive.org/details/galactic-intolerance-records
  
Pafilo Pafilo
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2009
 
1.Regret
 
2.Space Opera pt1
 
3.Toad stool pigeon
 
4.kid hair blues
 
5.extra ordinary rendition of..
 
6.the old man
 
7.blah ay fair
 
8.cat memo (take one)
 
9.cordless bone
 
10.all fuckin winter
 
11.nocturnal throat scrape blues
 
12.shortness of bread
 
13.kidney stone
 
14 railroad face
 
15.mr ducks blues (aka slewd)
 
16.the noise outside my eyes
 
17.bride of autopsy turvy
 
18.the noise outside my eyes
 
19.old dusty rocket (space opera pt2)
 
20.johnny america
 
21.birds make love on the mountain
 
22.tagetmesoda usa
 
 
 
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ICONOCLYSM
 
2009
 
1.The Prognathous Three Enter
 
2.Izzy the Push
 
3.Baby, I've got a Keyboard Now
 
4.Welcome to Donkey Bong Country
 
5.Bossa Super Nova
 
6.A Storm (ode to the heavy handed rain drop)
 
7.Sintendo
 
8.The Rubiayat of Omar Khayyam Parts One Through Seventeen
 
9.Unsaved Part Two
 
 
 
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Funeral Parlor Tricks
 
2009
 
1.Liver Goose
 
2.Beach Bomb
 
3.It Ate Him
 
4.Cordless Bone
 
5.Another Unbearable Drumble
 
6.Hitchin' a Ride
 
7.BlahZayFair
 
8.Bossa Super Nova
 
9.Son of Leaky Faucet
 
10.FPT#1
 
11.I'm on Television?
 
12.Targetmesoda USA
 
13.Real Rural Horror Show
 
14.The Godfather of Ecuador
 
15.Unsaved (part three)
 
16.Supper Club of Desolation
 
17.Cat Memo (take one)
 
 
 
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Beeze n' cues BY : BILLYWARHAUL
 
2009
 
1.Beach Bomb
 
2.Kid Hair Blues
 
3.Whistle N' Watermelon
 
4.Son of Leaky Faucet
 
5.It Ate Him
 
6. Another Unbearable Drumble
 
7.A Summary
 
8.Supper club of Desolation
 
9.Railroad Face
 
10.Roberta's Outlet
 
11.Real Rural Horror show
 
12.The Day the Ink Sank
 
 
 
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UNRELEASED EP
 
Soundeffexandwich 2009
 
 
 
(part one) A Very Brady Conversation
 
(part two) The Coming Endtimes
 
(part three) Doors Stair Cats Drugs
 
4. Mike Patelli Explains It All (paid too much up in this bitch)
 
5. No, Not in Korean
 
 
 
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Bucko Crooks Is on The Loose BY: BUCKOCROOKS
 
2010
 
 
 
1.Long Stems (2:19)
 
2.Meat Market Monday (2:28)
 
3.Down on the Farm (3:48)
 
4.Whistle N' Watermelon (1:57)
 
5.Aw-Haw (In Breakfasts of Green) (4:01)
 
6.Bucko Crooks is on the Loose / Prototype (3:49)
 
7.The Day The Ink Sank (3:09)
 
8.Tu Ay Em (3:27)
 
9.Roberta's Outlet (4:16)
 
10.MALACOSMOS: Tent Caterpillar of the Multiverse (2:27)
 
 
 
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EP
 
A is for ANT :: B is for BIRD
 
2010
 
 
 
1.Something to do With Birds
 
2.16BIT chew toy parts I-V (live at The Wood's Woolen Banana 1994)
 
3.Jupiter and The Baby Show
 
4.The Boneless King
 
 
 
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EP
 
I'm Poison
 
2010
 
 
 
1.Radio Splatter (Dragon Overture) 2:37
 
2.Quick and Deadly Coal 3:31
 
3. Pianoodle Part 3 2:26
 
4. Pianoodle Part 4 3:02
 
 
 
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LP
 
Kool-Aid-O-Scope
 
2010
 
 
 
1.Wink Van Bubble
 
2.Drunk on Sunshine
 
3.Prelude to Pixie Gust
 
4.Pixie Gust (parts 1, 2, and 3)
 
5.Small funk
 
6.We're Gonna Need A Bigger Shark!
 
7.Kool-Aid-O-Scope Jones
 
8.All I think About is Pussy
 
9.256 Color Outro
 
 
 
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LP
 
COP FACE
 
2010
 
 
 
1.Cop Face 4:21
 
2.Laser Pig and Oink Sword 1:40
 
3.Space Ship full of Bowling Balls 2:56
 
4.Heart Stood Still 2:06
 
5.Smudge and Dr John Get Drunk 3:05
 
6.The Hard Cop 1:17
 
7.Kicking Down a Door 1:26
 
8.The Smart Cop 2:38
 
9.The Circus Cop 1:19
 
10.Old Earth 4:12
 
 
 
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EP
 
OTTER NOISES VOLUME ONE
 
1.SIDE A 10:37
 
2.SIDE B 7:01
 
 
 
 
 
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EP
 
Three Dudes
 
2010
 
 
 
1.Sir Broses Duke Enters The Arena 2:41
 
2.The Rise and Fall of Solotron and the 3000's 3:24
 
3.Nicely Nicely (Nice Version) 2:21
 
4.Broses Kocks (Elect Him Pope!) 3:28
 
5.The Green Room (Band Chatter and Live Rendition of "If Ya Ain't Got The Money) 5:17
 
6.Nicely Nicely (June Bug Version) 5:01
 
 
 
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LP
 
N1U2M3B4E5R7S
 
2010
 
 
 
1. Seven
 
2. One
 
3. Four
 
4. 8BIT Brutality
 
5. Seven and 1/2
 
6. Five
 
7. Two
 
8. Lightning Bug
 
9. 8BIT Brutality (fast)
 
10. Knee High Grasshopper (Knows How to Play the Piano)
 
11. Eight
 
12. Three
 
13. Six
 
14. 8BIT Brutality (Brutal)
 
 
 
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LP
 
Put On Your Pack and Helmet
 
2010
 
 
 
1. Azerbaijan
 
2. Boa
 
3. ch.2.
 
4. Breakfast
 
5. Chemicals
 
6. I Can't Get From One Side of the Room to the Other
 
7. Mom and Dad
 
8. Eat Snore
 
9. Uh Umm
 
 
 
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LP
 
Nature Said "NO!"
 
2010
 
 
 
1. Panther Piss Again
 
2. Pine Cone Talk
 
3. Passing Out Standing Up
 
4. People Sticks
 
5. Nature Said "NO!" (parts one, two, & three)
 
  a. NO
 
  b. Savana Desert
 
  c. Bottle Whistle / Shut Up
 
6. Tree Talk Via Cellular Telephone
 
7. The Girl FrUm Ipanema
 
8. Dak Digs Bones
 
9. Blood and Soul
 
10. Flower Child Abuse
 
11. Fireworks End Overture
 
 
 
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LP
 
FearFearFear
 
2010
 
 
 
1. Let There Be Funk
 
2. Paint It, Black
 
3. M--- W----
 
4. Favorite One So Far
 
5. Summer Time Satisfaction
 
6. BOOM BOOM BOOM
 
7. Bitches in Sunbeam Blouses
 
8. Disney Razor Vomit
 
9. Light Soaked Shrieks and Yells and Falling Spells
 
10. The Ice Cream Socialist
 
11. HOW?
 
 
 
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LP
 
The Smudge and GUAM    -    ROBOTIC BREAD
 
2010
 
 
 
1. A Dog
 
2. Frogs
 
3. Pocket Rocket
 
4. Booze Snooze
 
5. Little Chute
 
6. Kaukaunarcotic
 
7. Shiny Black Eyes
 
8. 8 Bit Cult
 
9. Bad Remote
 
 
 
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LP
 
Is That Your Vinyl Answer?
 
2010
 
 
 
1. Squid Hammer and Boxer Blood
 
2. Electronic Shut up
 
3. Grandmother's Gong
 
4. Mock Like and Egyptian
 
5. Teleweapon
 
6. Pound as a Sound
 
7. What-The-Smudge-Used-to-Sound-Like-Core
 
8. Suffregette Core
 
9. Sonata For Synth & Whistle in Q Minor
 
10. Reqing Kru
 
11. Melted Wig
 
12. Zinger
 
 
 
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LP
 
Jaguar and Peace
 
2010
 
 
 
1. Jungle Jim (explains the mountain)
 
2. I Think I Clap
 
3. Piano
 
4. An Ant Is Never Late
 
5. Sneakers Blues
 
6. A Dolphin Dies
 
7. Coffee
 
8. Sea Shanty Song
 
9. Dead Dolphin (& The Blues Crew)
 
10. Ferns
 
11. Panther Piss
 
12. Sunglasses Blues Again
 
13. Jungle Jim (gives banana flavored diamonds)
 
14. God Joins in Our Fun
 
 
 
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LP
 
General Smudge and The Steam Powered Sunshine Machine
 
2010
 
 
 
1. Prelude to Golden Glow
 
2. My Morning
 
3. The Nay Sayer
 
4. The Steam Powered Sunshine Machine
 
5. Hymnnnnn
 
6. Orange Slang Smoker
 
7. How NOT To Play the Paino
 
8. Damn Instruments
 
9. Thinking of Women I once Knew Again
 
10. What The River Said
 
 
 
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UNRELEASED LP
 
The Smudge and GUAM  -  Mystic Bliss Wound, Tie Your SHow
 
2010
 
 
 
1. Noobz Boobz
 
2. Bus Suite
 
3. Dope
 
4. Fancy Bread
 
5. God Joins In our Fun
 
6. Mario Undead
 
7. MBWTYS!
 
8. Sun Stains
 
9. The Fucking Fuzz
 
10. Get Me The President!
 
 
 
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LP
 
MR MOUTH ----- MR MOUTH
 
2010
 
 
 
1. Solo Satan
 
2. Reefer
 
3. Stood on Bored Windows
 
4. All Hexed Out
 
5. BlueDahBahDeeBlahBlahBlehBlahDeeBlue
 
6. The Bear's Beard
 
7. Diamond Coat Wore A Sundial Watch In Winter
 
8. Sweet Lover's Love
 
 
 
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EP
 
UNDER THE COVERS
 
 
 
1. Smudge Along The WatchTower
 
2. Paint It, Black
 
3. Runnin' Downa Dream
 
4. Boom Boom Boom
 
5. DA FUNK
 
6. Panther Piss Again
 
7. The Girl FrUm Ipanema
 
 
 
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UNRELEASED LP
 
2010
 
THE SMUDGE AND FRIENDS
 
 
 
1. Calvin
 
2. Coffee at 2:18 AM
 
3. Come on
 
4. Come on 2
 
5. Countries of the World
 
6. Deep Ocean Boogie
 
7. Lift Off
 
8. Low Down Lion
 
9. Metamorphin' time Maggie
 
10. Mini Macaroni Men Melt Mile Maids In May
 
11. Paula Abnormality
 
12. Ray Gun Cunt
 
 
 
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UNRELEASED EP
 
2010
 
The Colors as Music Experiment
 
 
 
1. A Celesta The Colour of Coarse Sand
 
2. Blue
 
3. Green  Duel
 
4. Marmalade
 
5. Slow Silver
 
 
 
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LP
 
Stroke My Genius
 
2010
 
 
 
1. Step one: Assemble the genius
 
2. Taylor and the touch sensitive piano
 
3. Step Four: Japanese King Show
 
4. A cut on my Nut Sack
 
5. Step Two: The Brainstorm
 
6. Paper Moon / Cement Sun
 
7. Big Boop Boin Bink Bop
 
8. IT
 
9. Tuning in Tune
 
10. Step Three: Space Jam
 
11. I gotta Tryst Like a Race horse
 
12. Blitz Last Night and Some Morning Noise
 
 
 
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Double LP
 
LIFT OFF!!!
 
BEST OF SMUDGE AND FRIENDS / STROKE MY GENIUS / THREE DUDES SESSIONS
 
2010
 
 
 
1. LIFT OFF!
 
2. Mini Macaroni Men Melt Milk Maids in May
 
3. The Devil Won't Pay His Rent
 
4. Ray Gun Cunt
 
5. Hair Peace
 
6. A Very Brady Conversation
 
7. A Cut on My Nut Sack
 
8. Metamorphin' Time Maggie
 
9. Big Boop Boin Bink Bop
 
10. Sir Broses Duke Enters The Arena
 
11. Nicely Nicely (Nice Version)
 
12. Tuning In Tune
 
13. Blue
 
14. Blitz Last Night and Some Morning Noise
 
15. Low Down Lion
 
16. Paper Moon / Cement Sun
 
17. I am The Raptor (and studio chatter)
 
18. Coffee Brewing at 2:18 AM
 
19. IT
 
20. Come on 2 (Broses and Nukes)
 
21. The Green Room (studio chatter & Live version of "IF Ya Ain't Got The $")
 
22. Countries of The World
 
23. Step Four: Japanese King Show
 
24. I Gotta Tryst Like A Racehorse
 
25. Broses Knock (elect him pope!)
 
 
 
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LP
 
More Static
 
2010
 
 
 
1. Harry's Laugh Is Wonderful
 
2. Another Squid
 
3. Turquoise Maroon & Thunder
 
4. This is NOT a Noise Track
 
5. Excited Blue Hole
 
6. Vagina Computer
 
 
 
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EP
 
Panic Room For Rent
 
2010
 
 
 
1. 1212 Begins The Cycle Again
 
2. CCLA
 
3. Eric Grassl As A Robot
 
4. Hair Peace
 
5. The Devil Won't Pay His Rent
 
6. Beautiful Trash Heap Of Consequences
 
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LP
 
BANANA!
 
2011
 
 
 
1. Sheepish
 
2. Dirt Nurse Meets Skinfold Man
 
3. Tusk, Drink!
 
4. Catch a Fly!
 
5. Bullshit Jam Session
 
6. Low Down Lion
 
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EP
 
The Gymnopedist
 
2011
 
 
 
1.Part One
 
2.Part Two
 
3.Part Three
 
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LP
 
Hair Due 9th
 
2011
 
 
 
First Suite
 
1. Frontage Road Overture
 
2. Crumble Frog Releationship
 
3. Rebirth Rundown
 
4. Rob a Man Blind
 
5. CNTRL is a Subjective and Constant Art Form
 
6. Frontage Road Exit
 
7. Afterward
 
8. Archibald Cat Figurine Collection (As a Cruthch on a Bridge/Antioch Rumble Tummy)
 
9. Rabbit Attempts Spicy
 
10. Various Drugs
 
11. Satn
 
12. Wavy Imitation Used To Distract
 
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LP
 
Marble Stain (Drunk With A Dress On)
 
2011
 
1. Rainbow Blight
 
2. BigBirdLand
 
3. Here Be Dragons
 
4. The Phat Jazz
 
5. Groove Slug
 
6. Another Day, Another Diamond
 
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Abandoned EP
 
Steel Snake
 
2011
 
 
 
1. Steel Snake
 
2. Dead Dog FreeStyle
 
3. Android Ellington
 
4. This is Important, This Means Something
 
5. Fast Out
 
6. Lava Lamp Womb
 
7. Viper Bale
 
8. Smoke Ring Tail Shake
 
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To Dear, A Print
 
colletion LP
 
2011
 
 
 
1. Anasarca part two possible
 
2. Blue Bird (Charles Bukowski cover)
 
3. I'm on Television
 
4. No, Not in Korean
 
5. Reptile Lung
 
6. Space Cow Funk A Thon
 
7. Space Funk Maybe
 
8. The Elderly and The Ocean
 
9. This World is Bunk and They'll Hate Us Forever
 
10. Well (Captain Beefheart cover)
 
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Are You There God, It's Me, The Smudge
 
LP
 
2011
 
 
 
1. A Dog
 
2. Meat Market Monday
 
3. Blue Bird (charles Bukowski cover)
 
4. Women
 
5. Shine A Claw (That's Me On Your Heart)
 
6. Lightning Bug
 
7. A Pink Cartigan
 
8. Mystic Bliss Wound Tie Your Shoe Meets Nature Said Never (Live at Lukeapatwooza)
 
9. TWO
 
10. Reptile Lung
 
11. String Sewn Inside
 
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The Spoken Bird Sessions
 
EP
 
2011
 
 
 
1. Used Pieceep
 
2. 20 20
 
3. Come On In
 
4. Luke, A Cop, A Lady's Compact
 
5. May 20th 2009
 
6. The Tiwiniky Island Malfunction
 
7. Written As Some Blues
 
8. Monitor
 
9. The Important Parts
 
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Regression and Resignation
 
2011
 
GIR017
 
The Smudge
 
Regression and Resignation
 
 
 
An album of very personal Smudge stuff. Words, music, noise, etc.
 
Track 8 is a blues jam with "The Former Gods"
 
 
 
Cover Art by: Bucko Crooks and William Mueller SNR
 
 
 
proper tracks listing
 
 
 
1willy's wound
 
2other people's couches
 
3forcing myself to fall out of love with you so that you can fall in love with him
 
4heart heart heat
 
5liars
 
6lo fi null solution
 
7when i miss you, this is what my tear ducts sound like
 
8velvet circles (feat. The Former Gods)
 
9covet
 
10the tale of the man that loved too much
 
 
 
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Sounds From Uncertain Times
 
EP 2011
 
part one
 
part two
 
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GIR018
 
TheSmudge-Exactly What You Want To Hear
 
2011 LP
 
 
 
Proper Track Listing:
 
1.Sexual Conditioning / Air Conditioning 1:20
 
2.A Very Complete Report On Sharp Item Number Seventy-Three (RATS) 1:42
 
3.Killer 3:48
 
4.Hunan 1 Chinese Food 3:29
 
5.Deadly 4:40
 
6.Shine a Paw 1:04
 
7.Gnash And Jump 2:34
 
8.Pleasing Grapple 9:07
 
9.Milwaukee 14:11
 

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The Smudge aka Bucko Crooks is a performance artist, sculptor, and noise musician from Milwaukee Wisconsin, USA. He performs his works in live environments and also records experimental music under various monikers. The Smudge uses a combination of theatrics, recording and playback techniques, and electronic gear in his work. The moods of these projects range from serious to campy, violent and melancholic to funny and child-like. He usually performs around the midwestern United States. In 2010, The Smudge and a few friends began releasing music on the netlabel "Galactic Intolerance Records", and it now sports somewhere around 160 releases online. In late 2017, The Smudge and several other Milwaukee artists opened an art gallery and DIY studio / venue called "Gold In The Fridge" in St. Francis Wisconsin. It closed in 2019.

He began his practice in 2001 with a desktop computer, a blue dog mixer, and two belt drive turntables mixing thrift store tapes and records and recording them to tape, eventually to a PC. Today, he uses a variety of tools and methods to produce art. In 2018, The Smudge began developing touch sensitive sculptural instruments called "phonometers" which run piezo contacts into a custom MAX msp patch to augment video and audio playback. This can be seen in action HERE projected on a screen during a performance with John Olson and Nate Young at "Gold in The Fridge" in 2019.

Phonometer #5

The Smudge project has produced experimental music and sound across several genres, often incorporating comedic and tragic elements tied to relational aesthetics and non-traditional Americana. He lives and works at Fort Sad on the shore of Lake Michigan in Milwaukee Wisconsin with his three cats, Dianne, David, and PepsiCo. He enjoys French fries, once serving them for everyone during his set at Kansas City Noise Fest 4 at Davey's Uptown Rambler's Club. He has a tattoo which reads: "Great Set". The Smudge also makes short films and video content, which can be found on his Youtube channel.

Currently, The Smudge is collaborating in a duo project called "Minnie VanGawker" with drone and dark-ambient artist C. Vadi.


Solo Projects:

The Smudge: https://thesmudge.bandcamp.com

HNW: https://copcorpse.bandcamp.com

Drone: https://goldendrone.bandcamp.com

ANW: https://hugnoisewall.bandcamp.com

Youtube: Bucko Crooks on Youtube


Collaborative Projects:

With harsh noise artist Citizen 2-13: https://noiseco2-13.bandcamp.com/track/live-at-the-mutiny-in-chicago

With bedroom pop musician Saint Lewis: https://saintlewisandthesmudge.bandcamp.com

With ambient artist Four Blood Moons: https://glassnoise.bandcamp.com

With post industrial artist Mommy: https://thesmudge.bandcamp.com/album/mommy-the-smudge-live-at-club-garibaldi

With Apk ♀ ᴎᴇᴛ ☯ Ltd℻ aka Angel Marcloid: https://swampcircle.bandcamp.com/album/a-tribute-to-fear-factory

With experimental collective Frenia: https://loopless.bandcamp.com/album/loopia https://loopless.bandcamp.com/album/frenless

With Noise Rock band Loopless: https://loopless.bandcamp.com


Netlabel:

Galactic Intolerance Records: https://archive.org/details/galactic-intolerance-records