Biography

WARNING: 99% of my mixes were done on headphones only.

Mungo is a music project by a guy named Bill in Virginia. I like to experiment and wish to inspire musicians to create more interesting music. My music-sharing philosophy is to provide my works-in-progress because I may get hit by a bus tomorrow.

Many of these are sketches that serve as memories of motifs, instrument juxtapositions, textures and rhythms I might want to incorporate/refine into more structured pieces. After I update these, I usually leave the earlier versions available to keep comments and allow others the opportunity to listen to the evolution of my musical ideas and read previous listeners' comments. Also, in the case of potential collaborations, less contribution from me in a sketch leaves more space for contribution from collaborators.

My instrument-playing skills are rudimentary: I consider myself more of a sound artist than a performer. Much of my music is abstract, ambient, psychedelic, experimental. I am fond of drones, repetition and distortion.

My listening interests are more varied and include pop, soul, doo wop, hip hop, jazz, blues, folk, funk, electronica, contemporary classical, psychedelic, art rock, post rock, electroacoustic, drone metal, noise, ambient, dub, reggae, punk, new wave, no wave, soundtracks, qawwali, raga, Celtic, fado, gamelan, samba, and other music from around the world.

I prefer instrumentals. More often than not when I hear a singing voice, I don't bother to try to understand the lyrics. I hear the voice more as an instrument than as a conveyer of semantics.

Current personal favorites include
Anaesthetised
Ghost Wharf
Memor
Limits
SunShine of My Dreams
Lobe
Faint
No More
InEvitable
Adapt or Die
Once Around
None Too Soon
UnSettler
Missing
Lamb To The Slaughter
Depth of Character
Hypnagogia
Montaña de la Muerte
Absolution
Clear and Grey
Nerve Ending
The Naught Before

Not all of the Mungo pieces are visible on this page, but if you want a fuller list, here you go.

Death Nougat is the name of a strictly loop-oriented music project by Bill. Death Nougat tracks are identified as collaborations with Mungo in order to get them on the Mungo podcast.

Blog rss

ForSook, ForGone and ForLorn August 21, 2011
Experiment in using the same basic music to create three pieces
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I Can Make You All Famous and Well Known May 11, 2011
Not only famous, but famous AND well known.
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Jazz Rock Fusion October 18, 2010
Inspired by Dr. Elvis's blog entry
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What Happens If I Do This? October 2, 2009
I'm just curious, that's all.
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Music rss

Title Genre Released Plays
Demented (Sketch) Other Feb 20, 2009 488
Don't Mistake Your Hat For A Wife Electronica Nov 10, 2008 786
Prophet of Doom (Sketch) Other Feb 13, 2009 540
Second Shade of Grey Ambient Sep 27, 2009 473
In Zone M (Sketch) Other Feb 21, 2009 281
Hinterlands Other May 9, 2008 917
Even Number (Video Mix) Ambient Jul 13, 2007 934
InGlorious Noise (Video Mix) Industrial Jul 14, 2007 707
InEvitable Ambient Jul 21, 2007 1147
Wanting, Waiting Ambient Sep 17, 2007 1095
Friday Afternoon Electronica Sep 21, 2007 1041
Tuesday Morning Ambient Dec 27, 2007 880
Clerical Error (2007 version) Ambient Dec 20, 2007 437
Purgatory Alternative Dec 20, 2007 442
No More Ambient Mar 7, 2008 1013
Satisfying Fate (Primordial Sketch) Classical Jan 10, 2009 376
Response Ambient Mar 22, 2008 642
Whatcha Gonna Do? (Extended) Alternative Mar 25, 2008 528
Reading is Fundamental Collab Other Mar 29, 2008 909
Apart From Ambient Apr 5, 2008 768
Passage Alternative Apr 5, 2008 947
Arabesk (2008) Ambient Apr 23, 2008 961
Faint Ambient Aug 28, 2010 525
All That Money Can't Buy Ambient Nov 15, 2009 456
CounterPro v1 Other Aug 31, 2012 133
Ante Partum Ambient Oct 12, 2008 774
In Extremis Ambient Oct 11, 2008 842
The Robots Are OK, I Think Electronica Oct 2, 2008 505
Eight (Ritual 0) Ambient Oct 28, 2008 575
She Walked Into My Life (Sketch) Jazz Nov 6, 2008 873
Motherless Child (1924 Version) Spiritual/Gospel Nov 11, 2008 990
The Innocents Cry (Sketch) Industrial Dec 12, 2008 598
Sempiternal Ambient Nov 27, 2008 714
UnTold Ambient Jan 10, 2009 537
Mirage 3 Ambient Mar 20, 2011 281
For Loren (v2) Ambient Dec 20, 2008 612
The Dying Light (Sketch) Ambient Feb 1, 2009 548
Crash (Sketch) Other Jan 5, 2009 337
Crepúsculo (Sketch) World Feb 18, 2009 384
Point of No Return (Sketch) Rock Feb 14, 2009 582
Ghost of 138 (Sketch) Industrial Feb 22, 2009 497
There Not Here (Sketch) Industrial Feb 12, 2009 540
Counterproductive Beliefs (Sketch) Rock Feb 10, 2009 599
ReBirth (Rev 2) Ambient Feb 16, 2009 346
Day or Night Pop Feb 25, 2009 704
I Can Dream (Sketch) Pop Mar 11, 2009 314
Train to Jersey (Sketch) Alternative Mar 9, 2009 812
The Leak Jazz Jun 10, 2009 464
Church of Lost Dreams Ambient May 16, 2009 562
Anchovies Daunt Wolf Ambient Oct 2, 2009 555
Shades of Grey Industrial Sep 29, 2009 536
First Shade of Grey Ambient Sep 27, 2009 472
The Dark Sun (Revised) Industrial Sep 5, 2009 518
darker sun Collab Metal Sep 5, 2009 462
Purify C Ambient Sep 6, 2009 426
Third Shade of Grey Ambient Sep 28, 2009 432
Ghost Wharf (v3) Alternative Nov 6, 2009 650
At First Ambient Oct 22, 2009 645
On Frontage Road Ambient Nov 14, 2009 364
Take The Next Left, Right? (v3) Other Nov 14, 2009 630
Nova Unit Ambient Nov 28, 2009 491
What Tonight Might Bring (v1) Other Nov 29, 2009 566
Memor v1 Ambient Sep 12, 2011 228
Whatcha Gonna Do? (2009) Rock Dec 6, 2009 389
Don't Be Sad (v1) Inspirational Dec 10, 2009 327
UnLoosen (v1) Ska/Reggae/Dub Dec 8, 2009 553
The Time We Take (v1) Ambient Jan 5, 2010 617
Roll Other Oct 8, 2011 189
This Is The Way It Is (v1) Rock Feb 7, 2010 263
UnSettler (v2) Other Nov 5, 2011 231
Banter (v2) Jazz Sep 26, 2011 246
Mirage 2 Ambient Mar 20, 2011 357
Depth of Character v1 Other Oct 9, 2010 640
In From Out v1 Ambient Jul 24, 2010 312
Slow Rain Glows Ambient Aug 14, 2010 518
SunShine of My Dreams (Sketch) Rock Jul 21, 2010 642
Just So Ambient Sep 5, 2010 452
Quandary (sketch) Other Apr 3, 2011 302
Window Ambient Aug 20, 2010 492
Lobe (sketch) Electronica Sep 16, 2010 566
Awaken Other Mar 8, 2013 134
ReBirth (2010) Ambient Sep 14, 2010 428
Adjusted Other Jun 5, 2011 293
ForSook (v2) Ambient Aug 21, 2011 273
When Time Flies (revised) Electronica Oct 26, 2011 256
Broken (sketch) Other May 7, 2011 265
Broken Memories (sketch) Ambient May 21, 2012 243
Memor v2 Classical Sep 25, 2011 344
ForLorn (v1) Ambient Aug 19, 2011 280
Vigil v1 Other May 7, 2011 259
ForGone (v1) Ambient Aug 19, 2011 254
Octopus Ambulance Other Nov 22, 2011 435
UnAuthorized Other Jun 16, 2011 246
Weave (sketch) Other Jul 27, 2011 311
Snow on Cedar (sketch) Ambient Oct 1, 2011 586
Herald (v2) Other Jul 7, 2011 283
Rumble Other Oct 8, 2011 197
47 Ways to Freak Out (sketch) Rock Nov 13, 2011 273
Wounded Ambient Oct 9, 2011 319
Pulse Other Oct 9, 2011 189
Shine (sketch) Electronica Oct 17, 2011 261
Missing (v2) Electronica Nov 7, 2011 250
Don't Touch That (sketch) Classical Nov 12, 2011 189
Contamine Industrial Aug 26, 2012 189
Belim (excerpt) Other Dec 23, 2011 446
Memory Playback Other Mar 2, 2013 178
Some Pills for You Other Mar 1, 2013 105
En Passant Other Mar 12, 2012 188
New Places, New Faces (sketch) Other May 13, 2012 174
Mesmer (v1) Ambient Jul 7, 2012 211
One Note Ambient Apr 6, 2012 274
Some Thing To You Rock May 28, 2012 190
Number (2012) Ambient Jun 7, 2012 321
Efflux (sketch) Industrial Apr 29, 2012 275
I Like Ice Cream Childrens May 31, 2012 348
Quantum Sleep v1 Ambient Sep 16, 2012 178
Silly Puddy (draft) Comedy Jul 7, 2012 212
CounterPro v2 Classical Sep 1, 2012 164
Inure (v3) Ambient Nov 29, 2012 159
Splendid Deceit Jazz Mar 1, 2013 126
Adapt or Die Rock Mar 1, 2013 116
Be in Love Jazz Mar 2, 2013 114
A New Dawn World Mar 7, 2013 136
Clear and Grey Ambient Sep 29, 2009 620
Absolution Ambient Jun 7, 2009 622
Flicker (revised) Ambient Sep 20, 2009 502
Sponto Afrilia (Sketch) Other Jan 4, 2009 526
Montaña de la Muerte Metal Sep 9, 2007 1054
Hinterlands of Ashburn (video soundtrack) Other Sep 5, 2007 997
Angel Ambient Jan 23, 2008 1062
Leviathan Ambient Apr 20, 2008 959
Bola Stars (Sketch) World Feb 1, 2009 1022
Passage - Music Video Music Videos Jun 12, 2008 1357
(Transmission From) The Ice Cap Ambient Oct 5, 2008 732
NumberebmuN Ambient Nov 24, 2008 513
The Dark Shimmering Ambient Nov 30, 2008 852
El Templo al Anochecer Ambient Nov 27, 2008 604
Unfinished Business (Revised) Ambient Jan 21, 2009 833
Communism (Sketch) Other Feb 16, 2009 440
Something Different (Sketch) Other Feb 8, 2009 387
Relentless Suspension (Sketch) Electronica Feb 11, 2009 855
Breathe Again (Sketch) Ambient Feb 20, 2009 477
Satelliticide (Sketch) Ambient Feb 11, 2009 541
Orange Pillow (Sketch) Jazz Feb 18, 2009 623
Conlon (Star Theatre 1902 Video) Music Videos May 24, 2009 612
Reprieve (Sketch) Ambient May 21, 2009 415
Softly (Sketch) Classical Jul 20, 2009 549
Death Perception (v2) Ambient Sep 21, 2009 417
End of the World Classical Dec 7, 2012 185
Fourth Shade of Grey Ambient Sep 28, 2009 435
Asceticism (v2) Other Nov 2, 2009 473
Eberswalde Delta v1 Blues Dec 21, 2009 510
Knell (Sketch) Ambient Jan 11, 2010 432
Only One (sketch) Ambient Jan 8, 2010 569
ElseWhere (NoWhere Edit 1) Other Feb 8, 2010 290
Affront and Effront (v2) Other Jan 31, 2010 1011
NoWhere (Sketch) Other Feb 7, 2010 243
ReProach (sketch) Other Jul 17, 2010 441
Hypnagogia (v2) Ambient Mar 9, 2010 396
Anaesthetised (v1) Ambient Jan 21, 2013 145
Bad For You Too (v2) Electronica Mar 30, 2010 770
Perpetual Motion (Sketch) Rock Jun 27, 2010 511
Maison de Zombies v1 World Jul 27, 2010 966
What Not To Do (sketch) Ambient Aug 15, 2010 354
Altared States v1 World Sep 5, 2010 431
End The Dream Other Aug 18, 2010 466
A Matter of Time (v2) Other Sep 8, 2010 462
None Too Soon (revised) Ambient May 22, 2011 286
SootheSayer (sketch) Ambient May 4, 2011 342
Option L (v1) Other Nov 16, 2010 479
Mirage 1 Ambient Mar 20, 2011 319
Lip Service (sketch) Other Feb 24, 2011 453
The Naught Before Other Feb 16, 2011 293
House of the Rising Son (2012 MIx) Blues May 6, 2012 206
SunnDazed Memories Other May 8, 2011 282
Fables (rev 1 of Foibles) Ambient Nov 28, 2011 222
Questions Other Oct 15, 2011 203
When Time Flies (sketch) Electronica Oct 25, 2011 420
Once Around Classical Dec 12, 2011 223
Limits (sketch) Other Mar 14, 2012 208
Vertigone v1 Other Feb 25, 2012 224
Night Birds (sketch) Ambient Mar 4, 2012 248
Verticon Ambient Apr 29, 2012 326
Pursuit Rock Mar 1, 2013 154
What Should Never Be Ambient Mar 14, 2013 126
Function of Availability (ReMix) Electronica Oct 21, 2007 858
6 Rituals Ambient Oct 2, 2007 1411
Meditative Blues Ambient Dec 17, 2007 1046
The Waiting Room (Sketch) Ambient Sep 8, 2008 762
RePose World Nov 11, 2008 629
Here Comes Plaything (Sketch) Electronica Feb 9, 2009 487
Conlon (Sketch) Classical Feb 23, 2009 454
Aspiration New Age Jun 8, 2009 468
Nerve Ending Other Dec 6, 2009 2199
Aliendigo Ambient Aug 2, 2010 1631
I'll Best Be On My Way (v2) Other Feb 16, 2011 337
Banter (sketch) Jazz Sep 25, 2011 224
This Is The Way It Is (Final 2011) Rock Nov 1, 2011 321
Juncture (sketch) Electronica May 27, 2012 277
March of the Evil (sketch) Other May 20, 2012 264
Anaesthetised (v2) Ambient Jan 23, 2013 168
So Little Time (v2) Other Mar 3, 2013 86
Come Play with Me Other Mar 4, 2013 201
Broken Angel Ambient Mar 6, 2013 130
Blood on Snow (sketch) Other Feb 2, 2011 440
Glass Forest (Sketch) Ambient May 2, 2010 1605
Sentience (v1) Classical Jun 3, 2010 583
InEvitable (Blood Mix) Ambient Dec 14, 2008 913
Inure (sketch) Other Nov 18, 2012 144
Abandoned Ambient Feb 13, 2011 339
Grave Robbers From Outer Space (v4) Other Feb 8, 2011 554
Cool Spring Night v1 World Mar 27, 2012 365
Inure (v2) Ambient Nov 18, 2012 148
Not Like This Ambient Mar 24, 2013 214
Lemon Drops Other Mar 13, 2011 352
Lamb To The Slaughter (v2) Other Apr 18, 2011 952
What's Yours is Mine Other Mar 5, 2013 156
Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory Other Mar 3, 2013 160
Toma Pimwit Other Mar 10, 2013 163
Go Gently (sketch) Ambient May 8, 2013 127
Fendle Tupa Other Mar 11, 2013 178
Purify A Ambient Sep 6, 2009 463
Off The Map (v2) Ambient May 22, 2013 51

Collaborations

Title Genre Released Plays
15 Seconds of Shame Other Mar 12, 2008 633
Insect Love Electronica Mar 1, 2009 457
Death on Credit Other Sep 24, 2009 498
Mungo's "NUMBer"--mystified Other Aug 24, 2006 1430
Further Demented Other Oct 13, 2006 1601
Bury My Heart with Bended Fork World Feb 26, 2009 480
Yup Other Aug 11, 2007 669
Lost Other Aug 18, 2007 671
I Think That I Am Lost World Mar 9, 2009 422
Not Today, Maybe Tomorrow World Mar 9, 2009 427
A Collection of Knobs Childrens Mar 3, 2009 479
Collision Course Other Sep 24, 2009 458
Funk U Funk Mar 3, 2009 471
Inevitable V4 Classical Mar 21, 2008 964
Jack Palance Folk Mar 30, 2008 599
My Car is Broke Industrial Apr 26, 2008 612
This is Hardcore Punk May 15, 2008 1073
My Car is Not Broke Other May 10, 2008 706
Door of Fish Other May 26, 2008 730
Under The Fridge Ambient Jun 1, 2008 622
Terror of the Daffodils Childrens Jun 2, 2008 611
Line of Fire Other Sep 26, 2009 395
How to Make Love to an iPhone Industrial Jul 11, 2008 608
ingloiuoua Other Sep 8, 2008 560
Toes of Deceit World Sep 17, 2008 539
The Shadow Toes Other Sep 26, 2008 505
Eye Stalker Other Jan 17, 2009 596
Miles Jazz Feb 22, 2009 477
The Loin King Other Jan 17, 2009 725
Sex With Madonna Dance Feb 12, 2009 675
Wash My Brain Other Feb 21, 2009 431
Bite My Lip Other Feb 9, 2009 527
Guilty as Sin Spoken Word Feb 16, 2009 603
Frank Sinatra Pop Feb 12, 2009 451
Apocalypse Soon Other Feb 14, 2009 551
AfroPhysics Other Feb 10, 2009 463
Ever Vigilant Classical Feb 19, 2009 449
Do You Have a Problem With That? Rock Feb 27, 2009 512
Either a Criminal or An Idiot Other Feb 17, 2009 509
Behavioural Problems Jazz Feb 25, 2009 518
Onitsha Electronica Mar 2, 2009 593
Mommy, Please Put Me in a Cage Other Mar 2, 2009 507
My Girl Has Fins World Mar 17, 2009 519
I Don't Want To Mow The Lawn Today Ambient Mar 10, 2009 566
Would You Like Me To Go To Hell? Rock Mar 5, 2009 481
Yanni Vangelis New Age Mar 6, 2009 446
The Whale of London Ambient Mar 6, 2009 490
Suffusion Rules World Mar 7, 2009 766
I Am Not Who I Was Yesterday World Mar 7, 2009 473
Mowed the Lawn Today Other Mar 14, 2009 525
Nonspecific Inferior Abnormalities Inspirational Mar 8, 2009 448
Pierce Your Doodads Dance Mar 11, 2009 545
Without the Possibility of Offending Ambient Mar 14, 2009 606
Frazzled Rock Jun 5, 2009 399
UnLoaded Other Jun 20, 2009 432
Man on a Rack Other Sep 26, 2009 413
Optical Cable Ambient Aug 7, 2009 466
Countdown - Part 2 Other Sep 27, 2009 414
Hitler Had a Girly Skull Dance Sep 30, 2009 430
Spider Electronica Sep 8, 2009 388
Dangerous Games Other Sep 22, 2009 531
The Ten Year Honeymoon Other Sep 23, 2009 389
Countdown - Part 1 Other Sep 27, 2009 470
Sk00l Daze Other Sep 16, 2009 420
Violent Homecoming Other Sep 23, 2009 457
The Ho Chi Min Trail Other Sep 23, 2009 424
The Big Walk Other Sep 25, 2009 459
Like a Duck to Cement Other Oct 6, 2009 418
Cop in the Middle Other Nov 16, 2009 425
Closing Time Holiday Nov 1, 2012 136
I'll Have a Double Industrial Feb 10, 2010 453
Jessica Simpson Is Like Crack Cocaine Other Mar 20, 2010 1252
Monkey Azz Debt Other May 12, 2011 333
19 Minutes of White Noise Other Aug 24, 2010 437
Electronicanistas (Won't Let Me Go) Other Jun 4, 2011 280
Why the Lung Face, Mummy? Electronica Nov 19, 2012 176
Frequency Nodulation Electronica May 25, 2012 225
I Like Ice Cream {Ice Cream Baby} Ambient Jun 2, 2012 784
The Wake: Pathe'tique One: Perennial(Mungo Production) Electronica Jul 5, 2012 316
Ssenisub Dehsinifer (featuring Mungo) Other Apr 1, 2006 1324
Bad Potato Punk Feb 27, 2009 2046
They Are Trying To Get Me Other Oct 10, 2007 573
Now You Say I Need My Meds Other Dec 27, 2007 687
Tower of Meat Other Dec 14, 2008 497
Ned's Nasty Habit Comedy Feb 15, 2009 474
The And Electronica Aug 13, 2008 711
All Will Die Childrens Sep 14, 2008 595
Toe of the Screaming Shrew Rock Sep 21, 2008 668
How Many Theories of Gravity are There? World Feb 26, 2009 488
Kiss My Tentacles Electronica Mar 1, 2009 506
Traitor Inside Your Skull Other Feb 20, 2009 446
Bologme Blues Feb 28, 2009 871
Decapitated Limbs Other Feb 17, 2009 860
Hieronymous Borsch Classical Feb 18, 2009 580
Your Clothing is Insulting Other Feb 24, 2009 527
What's Goldie Hawn Doing in My Soup? Electronica Mar 4, 2009 641
Musique Asphalte Industrial Mar 8, 2009 454
InAppropriate Electronica Mar 10, 2009 464
Merry Christmas and Then Holiday Mar 8, 2009 440
Requiem for an Informer Other Sep 23, 2009 443
Free iSlate Industrial Jan 5, 2010 634
Free iPads Electronica Jan 28, 2010 650
That's Nice, Dear Inspirational Feb 9, 2010 434
Having The Time of Your Wife Comedy Mar 29, 2010 408
How About That Other Sep 6, 2010 443
Mom Knows Best Other Aug 24, 2011 335
My Pal Food Food Other Aug 4, 2012 218
Lactating Frogs Industrial May 7, 2012 249
Remember, Fruits Are Vegetables Too Other Apr 3, 2013 86
Remote Goat Killing - The Video Music Videos Aug 12, 2007 1391
Wanting, Waiting II Ambient Sep 23, 2007 1211
Bone Grinder Punk Dec 19, 2007 689
Your Future's All Used Up Other Apr 6, 2008 711
Fillet Du Nez Other Jan 28, 2009 458
One Wife, Hard-Boiled, and a Couple of Au Pairs, Lightly Buttered Comedy Feb 11, 2009 574
Bucket of Love Industrial Feb 8, 2009 596
Jessica Simpson is the Anti-Christ Alternative Mar 11, 2009 1202
Police Story - Season 1 Other Sep 21, 2009 839
My Love is Like a Cardboard Box of Anchovies Other Sep 7, 2009 766
Slow Boy Other Sep 22, 2009 541
Chain of Command Other Sep 27, 2009 498
How About This Other Sep 6, 2010 430
Ernest Borgnine Other May 7, 2012 385
Remote Goat Killing Other Aug 12, 2007 813
Just Say Yes Other Apr 22, 2010 745
Go With The Toe Inspirational Oct 12, 2008 601
Your Inner Face Shall Ooze Dragon Drop Comedy Jul 7, 2010 1860
Honey, I Found Your Sister Jazz Dec 18, 2007 906
Hinterlands of Ashburn Other Jan 1, 2008 1204
Repressed Memories of My Fallopian Tube Trauma Jazz Mar 4, 2009 1448
Bananas are a Good Source of Potassium Other Sep 7, 2009 1574
Tara Reid Needs a Spanking Punk Dec 19, 2007 1867