7-25-10 - Putting up the first MP3s of DC acoustic archival recordings. Starting with the first cassette tape (of 38] made from 1972 through the years, linked from the song names on the List of DC Songs.

5-20-2010 - Some Weird Eight Track Recordings from 1984

5-18-2010 - Basic tracks with vocals for Seven nuke songs from 1982

5-14-10 - Some Memories on the Making and Promoting of World Suicide

5-12-10 - The Homemade Low Fi Series - Experimental ditties created on a Fostex Four Track Cassette Recorder from May of 1982 to the early spring of 1985.

5-08-10 - Songs recorded with Blaise in 1981 - in the weird, industrial, new wave, electro section. It was Blaise Smith who led me into this experimental, raw, new area of musical madness. See Music Orange studio in SF to see his latest venture.

Also - reorganized the site a bit and redid the layout some today. - dc

5-02-10 - Not Something Else. Recorded in December of 1978. This is the first music recording I ever did in a studio, half in a studio and half in Doug McKechnie's apartment - 17 songs in each group. Twenty were selected for a tape I gave away to friends and family. All are included here.

5-01-10 - Fooled by Everything. In 1980 for pretty much the whole year as I remember it, a group of us gathered regularly at my mate Liz Tuomi's studio and jammed on DC songs. I think we did about 65 of them. I was quite moved that Dave Murray, the musical impresario of Bolinas at the time who did the chorus and musicals, would devote himself to what was basically a long goalless jam session. He was joined by his mate Susan Goldhaber on bass and some percussion. I remember that her father was something like the only symphony Theremin player in the country - in San Diego. Don Armstrong who later became principal of the Bolinas school played harp and teenager Alan Stone played lead guitar - may he rest in peace. My mate Elizabeth Tuomi was on piano. We performed once in downtown Bolinas and sounded terrible as I remember it. We had fun but were lacking in discipline, maybe because of smoking so much pot. In November we made a tape I called Fooled by Everything after the first song - with the band dubbed Duck Soup. I was pretty pleased with it but after this tape I decided it wasn't fair to everyone to keep this up, that we'd gotten out of it what there was to get. I was touched that people were disappointed and wanted to keep going but we had other mountains to climb. I missed them all a lot and love to go back and hear us all together.

4-30-10 - Four Nuke Songs, a demo tape made in August of 1982. After having written a slew of songs on the subject of nuclear weapons, this demo tape was made in the hope of eliciting support for an album. Put into the new Nuke Songs Section.

4-18-10 - Scanned the front and back cover of the 45 rpm single record for World Suicide/Freeze Please and took bits of it out to decorate the site here and there. Now there's the music, the art, the credits, and words to the songs on the World Suicide/Freeze Please page which includes links to World Suicide Club, the WSC 1983 Newsletter and David Cohen's WSC page.

4-17-10 - Defuser was originally a name for music DC did around the theme of nuclear weapons. [See the Nuclear War department of cuke.com's Species Threat section]. Many songs on and around the subject were written. The culmination of this project was a single released in 1982: World Suicide & Freeze Please. More to follow: 45 rpm cover and back, credits, more info and other images, more songs, and a club. These mp3 taken off the record. Go to WS/FP page.

4-16-10 - Listen to Boat of Dreams, a DC music project from 1986

4-12-10 - Now you can listen to the songs from Music for a Comic Book Video. May god have mercy on your soul. It's near the bottom of the Music for a Comic Book Video page.

Also redid the list of all DC songs to get them in rough chronological order with some key dates. Next will be to put in some MP3s of some of the songs.

4-11-10 - Check out the  Music for a Comic Book Video page which now has the art, words to the songs, credits, song list, and a review. More tomorrow.

4-10-10 - Here is a list of songs written by DC - I'm not sure how to proceed. I want to find a way to present them with links to hear them and to read the words and columns for dates written and notes (and some have a number of versions) and presented in some way that's flexible and can be changed, rearranged and so forth. All but a few are recorded. This list is based on the tapes they came from. And all of the songs on those tapes are now in digital form. They're mainly poor quality - I'd just dash em out on an office cassette machine or whatever was handy so I could remember what they sounded like. But sometimes I'd try to do a better job and even have a number recorded with bands and help from skilled friends. Anyway, here's the list. - dc

4-09-10 - When I was searching for other uses of "defuser" on the web,  I noticed a Google link that read A viable Commercial and below it text that read "Defuser: Music for a Comic Book Video LP. This is officially the weirdest album that I have uploaded. This is the virtually unknown self-released follow-up ..."

That stopped me in my cold footsteps because that's an album I made in 1984 and 85. There was a great review and a small dark image of the album cover that expanded when you clicked on it, the names of the songs, and best - the whole thing could be downloaded. I sent a note to <goutroy.blogspot.com> saying how pleased I was to see it there and regardless of what I did he could continue to do so. What blew my mind as much as finding it was seeing when he'd put it up - just a few days earlier! Twenty five years after I made the vinyl album I get ready to put a digital version on the web and someone else had just done it. Serendipity. It's experimental, weird, like he says - and he specializes in weird. It's almost entirely sampled. I called it difficult listening music. There's a lot of art that goes with it. So till I get it up here in more complete form, check out what Goutroy has done with Music for a Comic Book Video.

4-08-10 - Why call the site Defuser Music? When thinking about what to call the site I played with DC Music, DC Songs, Dchad Songs and so forth. The DC ones were all taken but the dchad wasn't. However, looking back on some past music projects I realized that I'd used the name Defuser on several of the best produced ones. It was originally the name I used for music on the subject of nuclear weapons. But it doesn't have to be limited to that. I was also drawn to that because it didn't use my name. I searched for Defuser and found a fictional character - check it out - and thought, well, our universes aren't gonna cross. And I noticed a Defuser.com-cut out emotional abuse. No problem. There was a band named Diffuser in Long Island in the nineties. So for now I think I'll call it Defuser Music.

4-07-10 - Why did I start this site? It's not really my top priority these days but I've written songs since elementary school and I've noticed that I can't shake the desire to archive them and make them or some of them available via the wonderful world of interconnectivity that we have today. I noticed it was bothering me that I had over 1000 songs recorded that were just going to degrade and disappear. They'll do that anyway, something as an archivist that I'm well aware of, but this effort will extend their life a little longer. It's all varying degrees of sand castles. Also it's fun for me and calls forth spirits that have been neglected.

4-06-10. Today, the first day of this site. I see there's a person with the same name in Australia who sells CDs of his music. I, however, live in Sonoma County, California. I'm probably the only David Chadwick here that does music to this extent. But just to make sure, my middle name is Reich. That's also my mother's maiden name. Not sure how to organize this site but for now I'll just link to something that's already on the web, namely Songs for To Find the Girl from Perth. I think I'll now make a comment page where this comment will reside for longer whereas here it will be replaced by something new and timely. Stay tuned.