Mannlicher Who?!

Mannlicher Carcano is an experimental, improvisational audio collage group who have been working together since 1987, creating performances, recordings, installations, and radio art. They produce a weekly radio and web-cast, The Mannlicher Carcano Radio Hour. The group has released over 50 cassettes, CDs, CDRs, and vinyl recordings, and archived hundreds of mp3 radio transcriptions.

Mannlicher Carcano is a pirate-radio sound-terrorist musical collective who use improvisational audio collage techniques to control minds. Formed in 1984 by those clandestine cryptonyms "Really Happening"(Los Angeles, CA), "Porter Hall" (Guelph, ON) and "Gogo Godot" (Winnipeg), Mannlicher's Anarchist-Avant-Garde, Post-Punk, Classical-DIY, Plunderphonic, Experimental-Apocalypse, Analog-Acoustic-Pop-Autopsy style is auralgasmic.

"MC creates a musical salad by combining home-made instruments (the Spring-Strung Bass, Ventor, and Cast Aluminum Cello), miscellaneous sound and noise producing vessels and conventional instruments in their ongoing quest to understand and expand...

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REALLY SHREDDING

 

Isolated guitar solo from the May 09th Mannlicher Carcano Radio Hour session.

Bastille Day Special 2007 featuring Ken Cheesy

 Just in time for the UN's International Day for the Abolition of Slavery here's Mannlicher Carcano's Bastille Day Special 2007 featuring Ken Cheesy. Hey this one almost makes sense!

https://archive.org/details/mcrh-july-14-07 

Baithéne mac Brénaind Feast Day Special 2007!

Just in time for the Iceland's Self-Governance Day, here's Mannlicher Carcano's Baithéne mac Brénaind Feast Day Special 2007! 

https://archive.org/details/mcrh-june-09-07 

Guam Liberation Day Special from 2007

 

Just in time for the United Nations Day of Remembrance for All Victims of Chemical Warfare here's Mannlicher Carcano's Guam Liberation Day Special from 2007 featuring Ken Cheesy!
https://archive.org/details/mcrh-july-21

International Women in Engineering Day Special from 2007

 

Just in time for William Tubman's Birthday  here's Mannlicher Carcano's International Women in Engineering Day Special from 2007! 

https://archive.org/details/mcrh-june-23-07 

To tell you more about William Tubman of Liberia, here's Mannlicher Associate Congresswoman Malinda Jackson Parker: 

Grounation Day Special 2007

 

Just in time for Thanksgiving 2025 - Mannlicher Carcano's 2007 Grounation Day Special, unique among MCRH recordings in that it includes zero members of Mannlicher Carcano as participants. How can this be? See if you can solve mystery here!

https://archive.org/details/mannlicher-carcano-grounation-day-2007-abu-ye-abu-ye-abu-ye

Bloomsday 2007

 

Another gem from the vaults: "Mannlicher Carcano Bloomsday 2007" - The Mannlicher Carcano Radio Hour from June 16th of that year, as heard on CFRU-FM - Guelph's Only Alternative! Participants include Really Happening, Porter Hall, Gogo Godot, Herr Schurdt and Pilot K9's TrentRadio Dog Bites Mannlicher Backwash Ensemble. 

https://archive.org/details/mcrh-june-16-07

Highway 62 Revisited

Next up: a cluster of vintage olde time radio shows dating back to 2007. 

Here's Highway 62 Revisited, from May 5th 2007 (as heard on CFRU-FM - Guelph's Only Alternative!) Participants include Really Happening, Porter Hall, Minister Altair-5 and the passengers of the Center for Land Use Interpretation  10th Anniversary Bus Tour.

https://archive.org/details/mannlicher-carcano-highway-62-revisited_202511

 

Just getting back up on the Archive Upload pony with an Xmas special from 9 years ago, featuring a garbled intro with Really Happening, Porter Hall, Kenneth Friendliness (?), Lucky Breaks, Sis Bamboozle, and an AI generated cover that ROCKS! We don't know what all the fuss is about.

https://archive.org/details/mcrh-dec-24-2016

NAISA Radio Dipping into Mannlicher Archives

NAISA (New Adventures in Sound Art) recently started broadcasting archival Mannlicher Carcano Radio Hour transcriptions on their internet radio station NAISA Radio every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday at 4 PM EST (That's 1 PM PST and 10 PM in Groningen). Mon and Tues are rebroadcasts of recent programs, while Weds is a deep dive. From their site:

16:00 (Mon – Wed) – Mannlicher Carcano Radio Hour Archives

NAISA Radio is re-broadcasting past radio shows by Mannlicher Carcano for CHMR in St. John’s, NL. Mannlicher Carcano is an improvisational audio collage and radio art collective that coalesced in the mid-1980’s out of a number of new music, sound art, and post-punk experiments. They have been performing and recording regularly for over 40 years, in spite of not living in the same city for the last 35. Mixing original materials with appropriated sounds, images, objects, and text taken from corporately owned mass culture and the world around them, Mannlicher Carcano re-arranges these found bits and pieces to make them say and suggest things that they never intended to.

Our IT team believe this is a radio player that will play the NAISA Radio stream:

or you can just go to the source.

Overdue Archival Roundup

 We uploaded a buttload of radio shows right in the middle of the historic hack of late Oct 2024, and it kind of derailed the project. We'll be posting recent shows again shortly, but in the meantime, here are the missing episodes from May - Oct 2024...

The Broken One

 

This is the single pulled from the "Trump Rally Mannlicher Carcano Appropriation" -- it will be added to the deluxe reissue of the legendary LEONARD COHEN'S GREATEST HITS (as played by mannlicher carcano), due to the fact that the Mainstream Media overdubbed Rufus Wainwright's version of Hallelujah onto this section of the original feed, thus retroactively rendering this an inadvertent cover version. Not that we'll be paying any royalties!

Trump Plays Mannlicher Carcano at Rally!

 

This UNCENSORED feed shows that President Trump was in fact utilizing the scientifically verified brain-unwashing effects of Mannlicher Carcano's improvisational audio collage (as heard at Waco, Panama City, Guantanamo Bay, and others) to compensate for the lack of "air conditioning" in the facility. Our invitation to play at the Inaugural ball must be being held up by the Clinton lackeys at The USPS!

Another Intermittently Satisfied Listener!

 

Keeping up with the Mannlichers!

Our most recent broadcast is up on archive.org. Mannlicher blessings upon archive.org! Mannlicher blessings upon CHMR.CA!

Catching up on the ARCHIVE

Hopefully this is the start of something BIG! The first in a new tsunami of material uploaded to archive.org (blessed be their name) to feed the insatiable public appetite for all things Mannlicher. This is the broadcast version of the show from Feb 10, 2024. I'll try to embed it...

 

Hmmm... that seems to only embed the first hour. So here's a link to the page: Mannlicher Carcano Radio Hour Feb 10, 2024

World Premiere Mannlicher Carcano ZODIAC video

Please join us for the premiere of ZODIAC, a "mind-boggling, genre defying" 12-minute video comprising one-minute segments representing a years-worth of Mannlicher Carcano Radio Hour zoom recordings taken from the respective astrological periods -- created for the Wonder Valley Experimental XVI, debuting live on youtube Friday April 5th at 8 PM Pacific Time, 5 AM in Groningen.

UPDATE: Here is the youtube version - the WVEXVI stream is also archived but the link got all funny. I'll add it below though, some great stuff you're not going to see on your tikky tokky ephone myspaces!

WVEXIV archived stream: https://youtu.be/KxcI-fkwAJ4?si=EZnU0UXffqL5otJt&t=10

MC on 45 Deconstructed PODCASTS!

Those of you who seek to understand your place in the Grand Mannlicher Scheme (GMS) should best avoid the latest two-part podcast, an expanded version of the MC on 45 single deconstruction from 2000 -- it will just leave you more confused than when you set out. Which is, come to think of it, the Grand Mannlicher Scheme.

 

The original M.C. on 45 Deconstructed radio program was created for the Radiant Dissonance project, released by the Canadian Society for Independent Radio Production as a multi disc compilation CD set in 2000. 

The Expanded Version of

Mannlicher Carcano's MC on 45 Deconstructed unspools thusly:

Part 1: 0:00 MC on 45, 3:11 Butler Diddit Introduction, 4:30 Really Happening on Radio Announcer sample, 6:34 CBC Thunder Bay excerpt, 7:37 Porter Hall on Radio Announcer sample, 9:33 Thunder Bay Dreamtime remix, 15:40 Butler Diddit on Leave the Room Vera & excerpt, 19:21 Destry Woffls on I’m Making No Noise sample, 20:17 (I'm Making) No Noise excerpt, 21:45 Gogo Godot & Porter Hall on Mr. Yongy Bongy Bo sample, 22:54 Mr. Yongy Bongy Bo excerpt.

Part 2: 0:00 Gogo Godot (and Porter Hall) on Teddy Bear sample 3:52 Teddy Bear (single edit) 10:23 Gogo Godot on Fascist Thing sample + excerpts from Andrew’s Show 13:40 Porter and Gogo on What the Arthur Fuck? Sample 17:11 What the Arthur Fuck? Radio edit 20:58 Really on Naked Branches sample 22:17 Papa Loser on Demonstrating Modern Music sample 22:50 (We’re) Demonstrating Modern Music edit 25:25 Butler Diddit on Don’t Bother, Queen of the Air sample 26:09 Queen of the Air excerpt 30:07 Timmy Donnerwell wraps it up 31:44 It was Tuesday Night (dance remix)

 Mannlicher is trying out the Podbean: here's our first couple whatchamahoozitzes: