Great Corn Weenie Remix Challenge


(Image: Love is a Mix Tape 003 by Flowers and Machinery, more here.)

"Corn Weenie" (aka "Learn How to Speak Hawaiian") is one of the weirdest and most wonderful gems of the '80s underground cassette era. Direct MP3 Link here. WFMU's original blog post about the "found audio art" masterpiece is here. A couple weeks ago, Ken from WFMU announced The Great Corn Weenie Remix Challenge, and it is still under way. Send new remixes to ken@wfmu.org. I read this announcement last week, intending to blog, and am happy to learn they're still accepting submissions. Background:

"Michael Proft, a musician, painter and film projectionist at San Diego's Ken cinema recorded this onto a cassette in the mid-Eighties, although the original purpose of the recording is still a mystery. Proft is exhorting over that track "Tamure" by Charles Mauu & The Royal Polynesians. You can see Proft's paintings here. Please, someone write Michael, let him know the joy and annoyance he has brought to us all and let's sign him up for an exclusive WFMU voiceover contract.

I woke up this morning with a voice singing "CORN WEENIE / REALLY REALLY" in my head, and had to plug in the speakers and play it loud when I first got in to the studio today, to the horror of all others present.

The Great Corn Weenie Remix Challenge (WFMU, thanks John Andrew Walsh!)