Hausu Mountain Podcast

Doug and Max from the experimental record label Hausu Mountain conduct informal interviews with people in our extended community about the work they do either as musicians, record label operators, performers, visual artists, publicists, venue operators and staff, and beyond.

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Episodes

Monday Jul 10, 2023

Episode #2: Zach Robinson

Monday Jul 10, 2023

Doug and Max speak with Zach Robinson (D/A/D, Cobra Kai composer) commemorating the ten year anniversary of D/A/D's release of The Construct (HAUSMO 12 - 2013). https://dadmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-construct
Zach Robinson is an LA based composer and music producer. Zach is most known for co-composing the score to the mega-hit Netflix series Cobra Kai, of which he has scored all five seasons with friend and collaborator Leo Birenberg. Along with Leo, he most recently scored Weird: The Al Yankovic Story starring Daniel Radcliffe, the hit Peacock series Bumper in Berlin based off the Pitch Perfect film franchise, the Netflix limited series, Florida Man, and the upcoming Peacock series Twisted Metal based off the renowned video game franchise.
Zach has multiple musical projects in parallel to his composing career. His 1980's inspired electronic music project, D/A/D, is considered one of the most accomplished in the synthwave genre and has received accolades from Pitchfork and NPR. In 2019, Zach released an EP of rockabilly songs under the band name Ventura Dives.

Tuesday Jun 20, 2023

Episode #1: Wobbly

Tuesday Jun 20, 2023

Doug and Max from Hausu Mountain speak with Jon Leidecker (Wobbly) about his new album "Additional Kids" out now.
San Francisco-based multimedia artist, composer, and improviser Jon Leidecker makes music under the pseudonym Wobbly. He is an active member of both the seminal experimental group Negativland, and with the Thurston Moore Group. Over the course of a varied musical practice that began in the mid-1980s, Wobbly has collaborated with artists including Matmos, Dieter Moebius (Cluster), Jennifer Walshe, Fred Frith, Tim Story, Cheryl E. Leonard, Zeena Parkins, and People Like Us. Leidecker has released recordings on labels like Illegal Art, Important Records, Bureau B, and Tigerbeat6. After contributing extensively to Negativland’s live-mix radio program Over The Edge, spearheaded by the late Don Joyce and broadcast from Berkeley’s KPFA FM, Leidecker inherited the program in 2015.

With one tentacle threaded through the US noise underground and one ear fixed on a worldwide online network of freak-friendly minds, the Hausu Mountain label has pumped a diverse menu of experimental music from its volcanic peak at a steady clip since 2012. Founded in Chicago by musicians and roommates Doug Kaplan (who records as MrDougDoug) and Max Allison (who records as Mukqs), the label originally served as a home for their own projects, including the trio Good Willsmith. As Kaplan and Allison discover new projects from touring the DIY circuit and scraping through the strangest corners of the internet, the label’s wide catalog grows to encompass everything from otherworldly synthesizer composition to frantic beat production in the IDM tradition to strains of free jazz infused with electronics alongside horns or drums – onward through any number of genre-bending mutations you might find in the “???” or “Avant/Noise” bin in your local record store. As much as Hausu Mountain’s releases diverge in terms of style, the label’s aesthetic hinges on the conception of music as a force to both challenge listeners and entertain them in equal measure. Any given release resists stasis, skips at will through disparate musical vocabularies, and leads listeners through dense sonic narratives that defy expectations as each new idea or unpredictable juxtaposition pierces through the cosmic jelly.