Out of the Dungeon III

Welcome to Out of the Dungeon, a many part series detailing a decade of NSFTM noise, hip hop, 'n' adventures from top No Sunlite for the Media scholars, historians, fans, 'n' collaborators. Medians share their thoughts on the absolute values of various NSFTM rekkerds, while we provide free audio streaming 'n' hi-quality file purchase of all the albums at our bandcamp page.

Out of the Dungeon III: Shirts 'n' Yearbooks
Cultural Artifacts From the First 4 Years
Tuba time with NSFTM. Note Peter Andre's quotte here as well -
this is a reference to an infamous NSFTM gig with his band in which

Ev simply played "Hot Cross Buns" the entire set.[Everything in the universe is made of one element, which is a note, a single note. Atoms are really vibrations, you know, which are extensions of THE BIG NOTE, everything's one note. Everything, even the ponies - FZ, "Lumpy Gravy"]

A brief glimpse at some of the NSFTM lore from the First 4 W.T. Woodson years. The mentality was in place, as well as the methods, so maybe there haven't been too many changes, just one note. As for the fashions of the era, here we'll let loose some of the old school, not-many-existing shirts with which we tried to bombard the people. Needless to say, none of these designs are still printed, 'n' very rarely do humans own these that still fit.

Originally, there were only 3 NSFTM shirts; they all looked like this.
Ted drew 'em, with this handwriting 'n' thee OG members of the crew got 'em.
This cemented the celebrated NSFTM font 'n' X'ed out O's.
The shirts existed before any recordings or live performances.
The first silk-screened No Sunlite brand tees promoted crew member
Mikey Negrin over his brother Matt Negrin, part of a rival band.

Additionally, Mikey Negrin directed the first No Sunlite foray into film: Revenge of the Father of the Sun, a tale about the sun gone mad, his Father battling him, 'n' the sunflower solution. Due to the "for a school project" nature of the film, much of the sloppiness 'n' bad acting could've been rectified with effort 'r time.

There's also an intensely offbeat soundtrack which was not syncing properly with the movie - though when it is on, it's quite intense. No Sunlite did win the class award for "Best Sound", still, 'n' subjecting the freshmen girls 'n' macho dudes to 20 minutes of feedback made the agony worthwhile.

To counter the Coffeehouse at WT Woodson (which NSFTM never played at, despite rumors)
these sloppy silkscreened shirts advertised our guerilla concert series Tea-House,
a tribute to ODB's death 'n' featuring the obscured noise bands of our scene.

Speaking of Tea House, tapes of the various events were eventually compiled onto a 90 minute behemoth Tea House Sessions mix, with commentary mixed in from play practice, one-take studio jams 'n' many performances of NSFTM live.

Thee most famous of these shows, Tea House 3, Live at Atwell's, was broken up by the cops before NSFTM had finished even opening the concert due to the excessively loud, confrontational 'n' outdoor nature of the performance. You can download here to hear the cops arrive, the beats go wild, Ev scream, 'n' Trippy throw his guitar everwhere.

It was eventually reissued on CD-R, for some reason remaining quite limited even in that form. These Tea Houses would lay the foundation for the first real studio experiments/releases coming in the next year, the Better Than Kollege era, which will be explored thru fan research papers in the upcoming week here on this page.

It'll only get wilder from here...

-Math
Annandale, VA
Oct. 2k9
Still Representing for Frodus 'n' muffins: