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OFFICIAL BARBARIC FASHIONS.

Posted on August 15, 2011 2 Comments

Everyone knows that being a Barbarian can be fun. But not everyone knows just how difficult it is to be recognized as one. In fact, most Barbarians are constantly fighting a battle of mistaken identity. And theres no telling what that can lead to. That is why The Barbarian Brothers wear these official barbaric fashions whenever they go pillaging, and now you can to!

Made of a heavyweight cotton blend, these barbaric tanks, tees, sweats and shorts are puff-printed, to give them that really pumped up look and feel. And they’re available in a variety of styles and designs that make them perfect for almost any barbaric outing.

TNUC’s personal Barbarian wardrobe essential: the white, 100% cotton gym shorts with side-seam pockets featuring the Barbarian crest, for $15.00.

Barbaric Fashion Wear. Strap it on….if you think you’re up to the part!

YOU CAN’T STOP THE DISCIPLES.

Posted on August 8, 2011 Leave a Comment

VENICE BEACH, CALIFORNIA:

COLOGNE, GERMANY:

DIRECT QUOTE:

“…as for the TNUC uniform shirt, I hereby promise that this fine and noble garment will exclusively be touched only by my tanned german muscles, Kouros and Azzaro perfume, the seats of my Pontiac Firebird, the benchpress in the gym, gold jewelry and OF COURSE crisp, hot, sweaty and young female teen hardbody flesh by a maximum age of 21!”

– Mike Ballermann

LET LOOSE.

Posted on August 3, 2011 1 Comment

I can think of no better top down, shade tippin’ summer anthem than this Harold Faltermeyer-produced heater from the Fletch soundtrack. ‘Bit By Bit’, by Stephanie Mills, is a heart-pumping dance number with polished, gold-plated production from Harold Faltermeyer. Modern day producers like Chromeo, Diamond Cut and Com Truise should be drooling when they hear glitzy production quality like this. http://www.audiomack.com/song/uncle-tnuc/bit-by-bit

This number goes out to all the people slaving away at their day jobs all summer, breaking their backs for the corporate pigs up in the ivory tower. Same goes for the delinquents and degenerates forced to sit through summer school this season. Hit the download button then throw this one on a blank cassette, drop the top down, turn it up and watch the RPM’s rise right in front of your crystal eyes.

SCIENCE OF THE SEA.

Posted on July 30, 2011 Leave a Comment

Jürgen Müller, b. 1948 in Hamburg, Germany.

Jürgen Müller was a self-taught amateur musician who, while studying oceanic science at the University of Kiel, purchased some electronic instruments and set up a mobile studio on his house boat, docked along the town of Heikendorf, on the North Sea. He held a life-long fascination with the ocean, the expansive and endless inner-space of the deep, where he felt many ecological miracles had yet to be discovered, and which kindled a love for the unknown. This love of all things nautical started early in his youth and eventually led him to study the oceanic sciences.

For one week in 1979 Jürgen took up with a film crew on a mission to document some sea-water toxicity testing that was being performed by a couple of notable biologists, only a few kilometers off the shore. This was to air as a special later to be viewed in universities. Jürgen went to take notes for a course, but soon found himself instead moved by the surroundings more in an artistically inspired sense than a scientific one. He found the mystery and romance of the great seas to be quite moving, and then decided rather abruptly that he would make music to capture this feeling.

Utilizing only a handful of barely-remembered childhood piano lessons, Jürgen set about creating his marine-influenced vignettes with some electronic instruments he had gathered through friends, as well as borrowing some new equipment from a local school’s music department. As a general music lover, earlier in the ’70s he had taken note of several avant garde electronic composers who he felt simultaneously captured a purity of sound and sense of wonder that was lacking in other music. He dreamt of fusing this ideal with the synthetic recreations of nature. In a sense, one could say he stumbled onto an early “new age” aesthetic through pure ignorance and coincidence. Mixing relaxing ambient tones and spooky otherworldly sounds, he came up with a unique approach. After filling several reels of home recordings he held ambitions of becoming a film composer. He decided to start his own publishing company, Neue Wissenschaft, and hoped to compose albums in order to sell as production music to various film companies for use in documentaries and television programs. As he was simultaneously hard at work on his studies to finish school, he had to work on his music in short intervals, and often had to put it aside altogether. As a result, it took several years for him to actually realize his sole full-length recording, ‘Science of the Sea’, the sessions for which began in late 1981, before finishing a year later. Less than 100 copies were pressed, and few of them were even sent out to potential clients. Most copies were eventually given to friends and family.

Jürgen’s musical gamble never quite paid off as he had hoped, and without any outside interest or connections in the music world, he soon abandoned any dreams of a musical existence and instead chose to further his oceanographic career. Remastered from the original tapes by Brad Rose with help from Norman Chambers.

MITCH MURDER.

Posted on July 28, 2011 2 Comments

In the past few years, there’s been an explosion of artists attempting to recreate the sound + vision from our favorite decade. During the latter part of the MySpace explosion, TNUC was a lost in a bevy of cheap, party-store fog and found much of the music sounding pretty generic. Some time passed, and while there were still great projects emerging, many on the other hand started to become stale.

Out of this collective i’m referring to, one man that continued to improve and now reigns victorious is Mitch Murder. After listening to his 2010 full length album, ‘Burning Chrome’, it was clear to me that few can capture the spirit and keep it alive like Mitch. His sound is pure, refreshing and in no way feels “retro”.

Out of all the exquisite tracks from the record, it was Beach Interlude, and its video, that pulled me back into Mitch’s whirling vortex and allowed me to rediscover his music. Watching this video is almost therapeutic. The other reason? The mighty Top Gun celebrates its 25th anniversary with a 70mm screening TONIGHT (Thursday) at the Aero Theater in Santa Monica, CA. There are slim chances in life of you ever having the privledge of catching Maverick, Iceman, Goose, Viper, Slider, Jester, Cougar, Wolfman, Sundown, Merlin, Hollywood, Stinger, Chipper, Kelly McGillis’s eyebrows and a very questionable beach volleyball scene in glorious 70mm print. Be there!