Outpost Zero Charlie - CHANG TERHUNE
38 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsPodcast of my book TRIBAL MALFUNCTIONS, a cyberpunk novel set in 22nd century Boston. tribal Malfunctions is a story of treason, terrorism and the power of independent trucking! “All because of a god damn pair of shoes...” Aris is a regular guy with a regular life running an autohauler repiarshop servicing the big rigs that run freight across America in tunnels they call the Worm Way. He’s got a loving wife, two kids and a mother in law he’s okay with. But once upon a time he was FuturePop, of the Boston Heavyboys gang and a wanted man. Laying low for the last ten years he’s worked hard to put all the distance he can between him and his past. No one knows who he was or what he did and that’s the way he wants it. Then the MARICORP 4291 hauler shows up with a bad processor. Before he knows it his secret is about to be blown unless he can stop a plot to destroy the city and take over America.
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Episodes
TRIBAL MALFUNCTIONS, EPISODE 18: PARTIAL CONTROL
May 20, 2019 00:15 - 74.9 MBAris leads a rangy crew into a battle to save the city - and the world!
Tribal Malfunctions Ep. 17: Sister Surprise
May 05, 2019 21:31 - 77.7 MBAris has spills the beans to the feds. But someone else swoops in to take them all out.
Tribal Malfunctions Ep. 16B: Denials and Reprisals.
April 21, 2019 21:37 - 63 MBAris descends into the WormWay to gather evidence of Cho's plans but accidentally engages in an unexpected reunion.
TRIBAL MALFUNCTIONS EPISODE 16A: DENIALS & REPRISALS
April 13, 2019 14:45 - 55.9 MBAris watches the news then has a peculiar romantic goodbye at Logan Spaceport. Later he ventures to the glowing crater of the South Shore, Brooktown, Massachusetts, to get some special tools for a deep dive into the WormWay. But will he make it out alive?
Tribal Malfunctions Episode 15: Deep Sluice B.
April 06, 2019 15:12 - 90.2 MBAris and Wendell gather a group together to pull off the impossible: breaking into the hyper secure MindFarm facility to rescue family and friends. But there's a few problems, the least of which are murderous robots,
Tribal Malfunctions Episode 14: Down Here In The Cracks
May 08, 2017 11:35 - 57 minutes - 132 MBAris and Yuki compare notes. Wendell, Aris and TinyTown work out a crazy plan.
Tribal Malfunctions Episode 13: Dungarees
April 25, 2017 12:42 - 56 minutes - 130 MBAris returns from NYC. Lunch with Kosal reveals tribal malfunctions among the police. Meneah drops science on our boy.
TRIBAL MALFUNCTIONS EPISODE 12: CIRLCE LINE
April 03, 2017 11:00 - 29 minutes - 68.1 MBAris and Cho have a chat during an informal tour of New York.
TRIBAL MALFUNCTIONS EPISODE 11: YUKICORP
March 26, 2017 22:04 - 35 minutes - 81.8 MBYuki tells Aris her story. Bonus "Origins of Tribal Malfunctions" epilogue by author Chang Terhune
Tribal Malfunctions Episode 10: Down In The BElly
March 20, 2017 11:00 - 33 minutes - 77.9 MBAris meets Yuki and Terry. Yuki interrogates Aris. Yuki and Aris hatch a plan.
Tribal Malfunctions Episode 9: Tribal Malfunctions
March 13, 2017 11:00 - 1 hour - 158 MBAris goes to NYC. Reunites with hi sister. Attends a sad event. Stick his nose where it doesn't belong.
TRIBAL MALFUNCTIONS EPISODE 8: BIG BLUE HAMMER
February 26, 2017 19:15 - 1 hour - 144 MBAris opens the hauler and Wendell gets annoyed. A faker comes to town. Aris & TinyTown rap about the Mindfarm. And a sad life comes to an end.
TRIBAL MALFUNCTIONS PODCAST EPISODE 7: "THIS BLUE HEAVEN"
February 17, 2017 21:34 - 47 minutes - 108 MBAris wins a major award. Aris & Meneah attend a grand ball and meet some old acquaintances.
Tribal Malfunctions: Episode 6: OCCUPIED TERRITORY
February 08, 2017 00:05 - 39 minutes - 91.9 MBAris returns to the old 'hood and makes a strange discovery; Wendell and Meneah are concerned; Wendell and Aris learn about each other's past in an unusual encounter.
Angry About Bandcamp’s ACLU Donation? Then Delete Your Band’s Account — Decibel Magazine
February 02, 2017 16:18Good call. Maybe they should also tie a rope around a cinder black and then their ankles then throw the cinder block off the tallest bridge they can find into the deepest part of the waters. That way the market can lift them up.
TRIBAL MALFUNCTIONS EPISODE 5: THE HOUSE IS NOT A HOME
January 27, 2017 03:58 - 128 MBAris debriefs the HeavyBoys and reunites with an old friend
TRIBAL MALFUNCTIONS EPISODE 4: INBOUND
January 19, 2017 16:54 - 53 minutes - 123 MBMore trouble with the hauler. Aris makes an introduction and a deal with some freelance eyes.
REJECTAMATED!
January 17, 2017 16:08Been a while since I've had the chance to post one of these. Dear Charles Terhune, Thanks for your query. As to your material I'm afraid I will be passing -- I'm just not drawn strongly enough to the concept of your story to feel that I'd be the right agent for the project. I realize it is difficult to make an assessment from a query; nevertheless please know that I give serious attention to every letter, outline, and writing sample I receive. Sorry I couldn't give you a more positive r...
TRIBAL MALFUNCTIONS: EPISODE 3
January 10, 2017 22:39 - 31 minutes - 74.3 MBYUKICORP 9421 returns. Aris makes a connection.
We Are Not Trump Volume One | We Are Not Trump
January 10, 2017 16:12I cannot tell you how proud I am to be included in this very very very cool compilation All proceeds go to the ACLU. My song is #40 "March of The Deplorables." Guess what it's about? There are soo many good tracks on this it's not even funny. So give it a listen then donate what you can to download your copy. Because we are not Trump's America.
"TRIBAL MALFUNCTIONS: EPISODE 2: AGE OF DRONES"
January 04, 2017 19:58 - 33 minutes - 76.7 MBMeet the Old Man. A day in the life of an autohauler garage owner.
TRIBAL MALFUNCTIONS PODCAST DEBUT EPISODE!!!
December 30, 2016 00:39 - 34 minutes - 77.9 MBThe Ballad of FuturePop
48 YEARS OF EXILE ON EARTH COMPLETED: 52 MORE TO GO.
December 19, 2016 00:08I celebrated my 48th birthday yesterday by watching bad Christmas movies and eating an enormous brunch that lasted me until about 7PM. I plan to spend the next year rewriting my neural cortex, reformatting the hardware and in general upgrading the basic structure. We'll see how that goes. So far, though, I think my new tailored wardrobe is smashing, don't you?
NEW PROTER RICKS!!! FIRST SONGS SINCE 1999
November 01, 2016 15:57Hard to believe Baby Girl was newborn when these guy last released something but holy shit here it is!!!
COMING IN 2017: RUST REMODELED
October 19, 2016 11:00So I guess I can talk about this now. Check it out in early 2017. The remixes so far have been astounding. Looking forward to people hearing what these brilliant musicians did with the tracks from my album LIFE AMONG THE RUST
John Foxx's ambient playlist
October 17, 2016 22:52Of course one of my heroes - John Foxx, former lead singer of Ultravox and a formidable solo artist - comes out with an ambient playlist of his own the same day I post mine. Figures that it's got cool stuff I forgot (Popol Vuh, Aphex Twin. DUH!) and cool stuff I've never heard of before (Elgar, Eric Satie, Benge). Son of a.. Anyway great stuff here.
Numinous Ambient Foundations
October 17, 2016 18:51Much to my surprise and endless pleasure my recent album “Famous Monsters” has met with some very, very strong praise. It’s a reception I’m surprised by because hey, I just thought I was putting out just another damn ambient album. But people really dig it. Who knew? I guess it surprises me so much because I never really considered myself much of a fan of ambient music. I’m familiar with it certainly from it’s origins in the works of Eno and others but never paid it too much attention. I l...
Redside Interview with Me!
October 16, 2016 01:57My pal Christian aka Redside aka Technology Scum aka... uh... Christian interviewed me for his awesome new podcast Redside Interviews. Check it out in full here (it's totally NSFW so don't play it at work or in front of the kids. C'mon! What're you thinking?!): Red Side Interviews - The Electronic Music Podcast RSI #1, Cathode Ray Tube from Component Recordings.
It's Him or Me.
October 10, 2016 21:21This is what's it's like watching my friends and family this election season... Friends and Family, it’s time you took a stand. It’s me or him. And by him I mean Donald Trump. Because as a kid growing up in a household in Republican Red Connecticut where Pres. Reagan was called Good King Ronnie I get the GOP from my time believing traditional Republican ideals back in the day. But we’re not back in the 80’s. We’re in the 2000’s where it’s a much different world. And after 50 years of h...
10/5/1996 - 10/5/2016: ON 20 YEARS OF MARRIAGE
October 05, 2016 15:59I'm not an easy man to get along with much less be married to for twenty years. At least I’m the first to admit it, though, right? Yes, indeed. I’m short tempered, blustery, prone to long periods of dark brooding in which my silence can be taken as anger and my moody, monosyllabic grunting can be taken as a dislike for the person asking questions. I get depressed sometimes and am prone to pessimism. I don’t like to go out as often as some and I’m extremely and vocally opinionated. I’ve bee...
"Groping for Air" from Famous Monsters
September 26, 2016 23:45Here's another video from my latest album "Famous Monsters." I'll tell you something which is that I love this. It's really cool to pull together a visual component of my music and get to create something entirely influenced by it. I won't reveal my methods but I will say I think I'm getting better at creating a narrative even if it is rather abstract and exprimental. Still I hope you dig it. Keep watching for more from the new album.
FAMOUS MONSTERS is out today!
September 23, 2016 11:00My latest album started as kind of a joke. “Famous Monsters” began as one or two tracks that didn’t really fit in with anything else I was doing at the time. They were both standout and standoffish, not wanting to be paired next to other songs I was working on except for ones exactly like them. So there they were standing off in the corner by themselves, not sulking or glaring but keenly aware of their difference while watching the others like predators at the outer edge of a campfire in th...
Nobody likes to hear about dreams so let me tell you about my dreams of late.
August 03, 2016 15:13I've been having these insane dreams lately. Perhaps it's because I'm on vacation and I'm not recovering from work to get back and rested for work but they're amazing dreams. They're all of huge, empty and open structures either derelict or in some kind of ruin. Monday night I dreamt of two old Colonial or Victorian era houses one big and one small. The small was connected to the big one by a massive iron support structure of some kind that supported it; the iron support was painted in glos...
LAST SPACESHIP TO BROOKLYN Artwork Updated!
August 02, 2016 03:18So I wrote a book called Last Spaceship to Brooklyn. I think it's a damn good book and at least 4 other people agree with me. Sigh. Anyway I tried and tried to convince the artist whose work inspired the story to allow me to pay him to use his artwork as the cover. But he wasn't interested. Guess he's some kind of well fed millionaire artist. I finally got some time to make my own cover out of public domain images and here it is. I think it turned out pretty well and while it's not quite as...
On not so PROFESSIONAL JEALOUSY
August 02, 2016 02:56The excellent writer Delilah Dawson tweeted about how to deal with professional jealousy recently, asking published pro's about how to deal with it. The pro's responded like actual human beings not surprisingly. As much as I wanted to chime in I didn't because the question didn't apply to me. And yet I can relate despite not being a pro. I have at least five friends, three of whom are fellow VP grads, who are experiencing tremendous success right now. Three of them graduated the same ye...
SHOCK THE MONKEY
July 20, 2016 02:28This is such a profoundly weird and powerful song. I think it gets short shrift as an 80's song about monkeys but it's powerful when you really really listen to it. ANd I mean listen. I played it about five times on the way home from work the other night and I just don't get how people can't listen to this and go what the frig. It's so crazy good and weird. Maybe it's because I've got the stems from a while ago when they released them for a remix contest and I've listened to each one separa...
"LIFE AMONG THE RUST" Megapost
July 14, 2016 14:15Upon the release of my album "Life Among The Rust" I did the thing a lot of musicians say they will never do and you should never do: I told all. On Facebook I wrote a series of posts about the album and each of the songs reveling how I wrote them. I've put it all in here for your reading pleasure. Please enjoy. About the title "LIFE AMONG THE RUST" My new album is called “Life Among The Rust” because rust is immortal, always growing, always looming and yet subject to defeat. Rust may grow...
Welcome to the new web thang
July 09, 2016 17:57After a long while of no web presence I'm back. Hold your applause. Herein you will find all things Charles and Chang Terhune related including music and writing stuff, social commentary and pithy insights you'd only get from a superbeing like myself. You're welcome.