Colin & Mingo - Gallery

• Entertainment
• Next?!!!
• Swamp King of the World (1983)
• N.A.C.O.F. (Excitement)
• Beful Music
• Green Just Isn't My Colour
• das ist aber nett.
• Born to Laugh at Cabbage Flames
• Strange Places in Unusual Faces
• Melodies
• Corpses on the Loose
• Cha-Chas on 45
• Fandango in Brigantine NJ
• People Talking (Volume I)
• People Talking (Volume II)
• Colour
• Convex Cube
• Hydrant
• Warning to a Teen-Age Girl
• Now this is getting ridiculous.
• Nouveaux Riches
• That's Very Comforting.
• Water Gain
• das ist «suitcase»
• Doctor Evil Eyes Kills His Wife
• Carol Has a Moustache
• Utopian Rush Hour
• Combat for Decency
• Sciatica (1985.1)
• Sciatica (1985.2)
• The Thurm Glupston Show
• Sciatica (1986)
• The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
• The Munich Duck Accident
• Left Hand Drive
• Wild & Violent Sea
• Borrowing Greatness from a Toad
• Swamp King of the World (1987)
• Goofy Music for Spontaneous Human Combustion
• Trove
• Electrosmog
• Spurning
• Dansveisla
• Sporangia
• Исландия
• MKOTW

Paul & Mingo

NUMBER NINE 01 (1983)

This "album" like many of the early ones on this list, consists mainly of recordings of FM radio. The only original material on "Entertainment" of any value is the recordings made by my cousin and me in preparation for making prank phone calls...

Paul & Mingo

NUMBER NINE 02 (1983)

This "album" consists mainly of recordings of FM radio. The rest of the material comprises conversation and ambience in a hotel room at the beach and some recordings at the end of sounds at the beach (including much wind noise).

Mingo, et al.

NUMBER NINE 03 (1983)

This "album" consists mainly of dubs of music from prerecorded audio cassettes. A "best of" compilation of original material makes up the rest. Most of that material (none of it really listenable, if even music...) can be found on "albums" later in the catalog...

Features:

• The Same Thing
• The Shower Scene
• The Skills of P. W. B.
• I Predict
• "You got it"
• Drum Solos
• Thanksgiving Recording

Colin & Mingo, et al.

NUMBER NINE 04 (1983)

This album is the first one in the catalog to feature primarily original recordings--mostly spoken word.

Features:

• No Artificial Colours or Flavours
• The Thurm Glupston Show (Segment 1)
• Fish Stix
• The Same Thing
• I Predict
• Cuts Like a Ginsu Knife
• Knife Talk

Colin & Mingo, et al.

NUMBER NINE 05 (1983)

The nonsense word "Beful" results when "auti" is removed from the word "Beautiful" as was done on the original cover art created partially from cut-up magazines and catalogs.

Features:

• The Thurm Glupston Show (segment 4)
• The Thurm Glupston & Geoff Collens Halloween & Christmas Special

Colin & Mingo, et al.

NUMBER NINE 07 (1983)

Features:

• The Geoff Collens Show
• Geoff Collens Post-Show
• Going mobile... on a "Big Wheel"
• AM radio + electronics =" fun!
• Intercom
• The Thurm Glupston Show (Segment 5)

Colin & Mingo, et al.

NUMBER NINE 08 (1983)

Features:

• The Thurm Glupston Show (segment 3A)
• Behind Thurm's Back
• Lurn with Thurm
• Todd Wimp's Show
• Telephone
• Scott & Greg
• The Geoff Collens Show

Colin & Mingo, et al.

NUMBER NINE 09 (1984)

This "album" consists mainly of recordings of records and FM radio. It's pretty good though :-) Many of the records are played at faster-than-normal speeds and edited together with other songs, played backwards, etc.

Features:

• Colin & Mingo "status report"

(in addition to the recordings noted above)

Paul & Mingo, et al.

NUMBER NINE 10 (1984)

This is another "album" that consists mainly of recordings of records and FM radio. There is some stuff recorded by my cousin & me that's moderately interesting, though. This tape is the first in the catalog to feature duelling Casio VL-Tone and Concertmate-200 mini keyboards. (The Concertmate-200 was Radio Shack's rip-off of the VL-Tone.)

Paul & Mingo, et al.

NUMBER NINE 11 (1983)

This "album" features a mix of FM radio recordings, Casio VL-Tone/Concertmate-200 recordings, and "live action".

Colin & Mingo, et al.

NUMBER NINE 12 (1983)

This "album" features a mix of recordings of records, dubs from other tapes, Casio music, and "live action". Some dubs here that come from tapes that are not considered albums are an early "cover" of After the Fire's "Der Kommissar" by Colin & Mingo (although here it's "Der Betthase"), and recordings from 1981 of "I'm Yoda" and "Rhonda's Birthday" by my cousin and me.

NUMBER NINE 13 (1983)

There's no original material here. There's probably a whole recording of an old comedy album that demonstrated the miracle of stereo; Cookie Monster forwards and backwards; story records edited, played backwards, fast, etc.; Bobby Vinton songs forwards and backwards; Art Mooney & his Orchestra forwards and backwards... and much much more.

Paul & Mingo, et al.

NUMBER NINE 14 (1984)

Back at the beach... a year after recording "Next?!!!" This one's mostly FM radio with some "live action" and TV sound but no "beach ambience" this time.

Colin & Mingo, et al.

NUMBER NINE 15 (1984)

Tape one of the many long sessions necessary to record "People Talking". Also includes a lot of phony British accents and Mingomusic, Colinmusic and TV, radio and records.

Features:

• People Talking

Colin & Mingo, et al.

NUMBER NINE 15 (1984)

Tape two of the many long sessions necessary to record "People Talking". Also includes rhythms, alternate versions of "Cet n'est pas un auto" and Mingomusic.

Features:

• People Talking

Colin & Mingo, et al.

NUMBER NINE 16 (1984)

More fun with the Casio PT-50. In addition to what's listed below, we hear an interpretation of Kraftwerk's "Autobahn" (just a tiny excerpt!), the "Star Wars" theme demo (either built-in or on a cartridge--I don't recall), old records, radio and "Noise & Laughter".

Features:

• Mingomedlies
• different versions of People Talking, including "Leute Sprechen" (in German)
• Colin's Rhythms
• Taps/excerpt from Wagner's Bridal March from Act 3 of Lohengrin
• Hey Joe
• Mingomusic

Colin & Mingo, et al.

NUMBER NINE 17 (1984)

Fun with the Casio MT-68, leaps and bounds more advanced than previous keyboards we worked with. Side one is a hodgepodge of things on the road to figuring out this new equipment. Side two includes "melodies" and new instrumental versions of previously recorded tracks.

Features:

• Abundance (Medley)
• Melody I
• Melody II
• Melody III
• Melody IV
• People Talking (instrumental)
• Cet n'est pas un auto (instrumental)
• Sanitation (instrumental)
• Untitled

Colin & Mingo, et al.

NUMBER NINE 18 (1985)

More fun with the Casio MT-68! This is basically more tape devoted to figuring out the new keyboard. In addition to what's below, there's an attempt to perform the keyboard part from "Jump".

Features:

• 1985
• People Talking
• Beautiful Music
• Sanitation
• Melody IV
• Melody III
• Melody II
• Melody I
• People Talking
• Melody V
• Melody VI
• With Scott & Greg I
• With Scott & Greg II
• With Scott & Greg III
• Melody VIII (later Melody IX)

Colin & Mingo

NUMBER NINE 22 (1985)

Features:

• Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
• Here Comes the Rain Again
• Hungry Like the Wolf

and other cover tunes.

Colin & Mingo

NUMBER NINE 23 (1985)

Features:

• Storytyme Remix

and cover tunes.

Colin & Mingo

NUMBER NINE 25 (1985)

Side one is a trip downtown and back to go to the supermarket. On the way C & M visit a building that is now gone. Side two is a bit of a grab bag, and includes alternate takes of "We Have Mutated" along with what's listed below.

Features:

• Colin & Mingo's Big Adventures in the Big City (including Interviews)
• The Fork Ballad/Sounds of Supper
• A Walk in the Park

Twist & Mingo

NUMBER NINE 29 (1985)

This tape represents the first "serious" musical collaborations. Along with the tracks listed below, there are several untitled selections and "quite a lot of futzing around" at the end of side two.

Features:

• Radioactive
• What is this?
• Run to the Siren
• Up-Beat Down Way
• Bronze Cycle
• Osmosis for Pleasure
• Ode to Trio
• Greensleeves
• Manic-Depressive Obsession
• I Didn't
• Big City Stew (The House is Falling)
• Brainchild Boris
• Bogie's Theme
• Cactus in My Tea
• Weird Reality
• A Somber Crusade
• Not Another Train Song
• Electronic Industrial Mud Swamp

Download or stream audio from Sciatica for free from the Internet Archive.

Cover art reinterpreted by Mingo in 2008 based on his art.

Twist & Mingo

NUMBER NINE 30 (1985)

Includes a continuation of the untitled track that is repeated on side two of the first "Sciatica" tape, then some covers, more untitled collaborative tracks, then ends with Mingo-only instrumental tracks.

• A Walk in the Park (instrumental)
• Forever's End (raw original source) with Cat Hypnotizing Melody

Cover art reinterpreted by Mingo in 2008 based on his original art.

Colin & Mingo, et al.

NUMBER NINE 31 (1985)

By the time, we had stopped counting Thurm "segments". Side one is the Halloween show from 1984 and features the Casio PT-50 prominently. Side two is a year later and features some special musical collaborations.

Features:

• People Talking (live)
• Ce n'est pas un auto (live)
• When the Pencil Hits the Fan
• When She Was My Girlfriend, She Grew Plants on her Head

Twist & Mingo

NUMBER NINE 33 (1986)

New cover art by Mingo in 2008.