On the gramophone today :o)
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It's got a great version of Tom Jones' "Help Yourself" .. with lots of wild crazy hammond work from the great Zygmunt himself.
Points off though for his laughable meanderings on his version of Stevie Wonders "My Cherie Amor"
oops, just realised.... I'm taking this way too seriously now
maya
timewasting fool (in every universe)
...he isn't Engelbert Humpferdink's lost cousin, is he now?MarkMark said:
-i love a bit of old kitch tunes...but even with them,there are "good" ones and "bad" ones,or just the slightly in-between/downright odd...
sometimes you get stunned by the lush orchestration/instrumentation, most of the time it's laughably silly or bad taste,i love those camp cod-exotic singers like yma sumac for excample,or faux-ethno music (i.e. tiki, "hula" etc...)
-the fifties was an era of horrendously bad taste,but all the better for it...at least for us who didn't have to live through them...!
MysteryGuest
beyond boring and interesting
MarkMark said:
You can never take this sort of thing too seriously.
MysteryGuest
beyond boring and interesting
Swans - White Light From the Mouth of Infinity
Such brilliant songwriting. Yesterday I saw the CD going for £55 on gemm.com
I'm lucky to have bought the double vinyl pack for £9.50 at the Camden Record and Tape Exchange about 10 years ago. It's superbly wry, mordant, occasionally drolly sarcastic music, but there's a kind of not quite but nearly totally hidden compassion in there that makes it very touching, even if it's a little discomfiting at times due to the sheer rage that's sublimated deep down in there somewhere. 
One of my all-time favourite albums.
Such brilliant songwriting. Yesterday I saw the CD going for £55 on gemm.com
I'm lucky to have bought the double vinyl pack for £9.50 at the Camden Record and Tape Exchange about 10 years ago. It's superbly wry, mordant, occasionally drolly sarcastic music, but there's a kind of not quite but nearly totally hidden compassion in there that makes it very touching, even if it's a little discomfiting at times due to the sheer rage that's sublimated deep down in there somewhere. One of my all-time favourite albums.
citydreams
on the road again
Any chance of you playing some of these tunes at Offline MG?
MysteryGuest
beyond boring and interesting
citydreams said:
Well some of the gentler ones, yes, I hope so!
I've got lots of unusual, but really nice more floaty music... I did mention it about 8 months ago in an offline thread but tbh I've had sooo much random bollocks to sort out in my life since then I haven't been able to address it all properly... but I have thought about it again recently. I promise I'll try to think intelligently about what I could play and have a word with editor soon... 
citydreams
on the road again
MG said:
Ride that nang!
BadlyDrawnGirl
Piano Tuna
'Mary Had A Little Lamb' by Thomas Edison.
Rare as nang, that.
Rare as nang, that.
citydreams
on the road again
On my decks at the moment I have Oi Va Voi's Brother (one side remixed by Heffer) which takes klezmer music to a level I like. And a nice electro dub version of Seasons/Lands that spins through cycles of upbeat and downbeat with lovely fluidity.
An old thread definitely worth a bump! Sadly... nothing here to play my black-plastic on at mine, but there's some lovelies knocking around in the cellar downstairs. If I could I would like to hear my (repressed) 7" copy of the Skinhead Moonstomp. Not special, or particularly rare but it does have that indegafatigablse scratchie scratchness about it. An of course a chorus that goes YEA YEA YEA YEA YEAAAAAA
(and yea - I should have cared for it more too).
(and yea - I should have cared for it more too).
MysteryGuest
beyond boring and interesting
Actually since I started this thread I got a lully David Jackman (Organum) 7" that has a little rubber stamp of a penguin on it, and a beautiful piece of spaced out, souful piano music that sounds all weary, and tired, and deeply accepting of everything, and I sometimes feel very happy indeed that whatever previous stuff in my life led me to cross paths with this beautiful artefact. It's like I've had a sore spot, or an angry itch that I think nobody else has ever felt, and then something comes along that identifies with it, yet soothes it with some kind of compassion-balm.
Some great descriptions MG, i remember back in the day playing stuff like PTV's kondole behind early techno.
I played some vinyl at a party the other week, it's been a while since my last outing so i went for a bit of a mash up that included some Sun rockabilly, a bit of Smiley Culture, Phuture's your only friend, assorted Trojan skankers... Nasty Habits shadow boxing, N-joi live in manchester with a load of Roxanne Shante mixed in... and a bit of Disco's Revenge on the end... it was all a bit messy, and ended with the amp falling off the table, my mate tripping over and cracking a bottle of vodka all over the floor, and me putting my head through a rather paper thin wall...
it all seemed so funny at the time.
I played some vinyl at a party the other week, it's been a while since my last outing so i went for a bit of a mash up that included some Sun rockabilly, a bit of Smiley Culture, Phuture's your only friend, assorted Trojan skankers... Nasty Habits shadow boxing, N-joi live in manchester with a load of Roxanne Shante mixed in... and a bit of Disco's Revenge on the end... it was all a bit messy, and ended with the amp falling off the table, my mate tripping over and cracking a bottle of vodka all over the floor, and me putting my head through a rather paper thin wall...
it all seemed so funny at the time.
For a while I was considering buying my own lathe and starting my own cutting room for a living/hobby. Very hard to find the lathes these days....there are still a few in eastern europe but hey get snapped up really quickly.
You can't beat a good bit of vinyl...you get an ace tone (teehee)
You can't beat a good bit of vinyl...you get an ace tone (teehee)
MysteryGuest
beyond boring and interesting
Growing - Vision Swim LP
With absolutely wicked artwork, really hard to describe tho. But there's loads of triangular and square holes cut in the outer sleeve that let you see some of the inner sleeve. Strange glowing, angular artwork that complements the music beautifully. "Only" 1,000 copies but tbh I don't know how many people are into Growing so who knows how long it'll take to sell out.
With absolutely wicked artwork, really hard to describe tho. But there's loads of triangular and square holes cut in the outer sleeve that let you see some of the inner sleeve. Strange glowing, angular artwork that complements the music beautifully. "Only" 1,000 copies but tbh I don't know how many people are into Growing so who knows how long it'll take to sell out.
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Some bizarro stuff from Iannis Xenakis that sounds like my mate and I pissing around on his new Korg last week...
MysteryGuest
beyond boring and interesting
OK, so inspired by killer b's 'ambient' thread I remembered I'd got the first Grouper CD, Way Their Crept. And it's great. By coincidence a few days ago the latest Boomkat mailout featured the splodgy black/white vinyl limited reissue of Grouper's 'Cover the Windows and the Walls' LP in a kind of MUST BUY THIS NOW kind of way. I dithered, and the 100 copies Boomkat had in stock sold out within 2 hours. I checked the record label's website, which said try Keith Fullerton Whitman's Miramoglu site, and - yes! - it was still for sale there. So I got it - £20 inc p&p, took 4 days to arrive from the US (and one of those days was a Sunday).
Then yesterday the miramoglu stock update arrived - apparently this Grouper LP went really quickly there too ("never in my life have i seen such a feeding frenzy"). Now tonight I see a copy's going for £150 on Discogs.
It's fantastic music, the black/white splodgy vinyl looks completely mad, and I feel very, very lucky to have got a copy.
See, you don't get this with your crappy dead-sounding over-processed MP3s, that only exist as an abstraction, a blip, on a computer.
Vinyl will never die!
Then yesterday the miramoglu stock update arrived - apparently this Grouper LP went really quickly there too ("never in my life have i seen such a feeding frenzy"). Now tonight I see a copy's going for £150 on Discogs.
It's fantastic music, the black/white splodgy vinyl looks completely mad, and I feel very, very lucky to have got a copy.
See, you don't get this with your crappy dead-sounding over-processed MP3s, that only exist as an abstraction, a blip, on a computer.
Vinyl will never die!
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MG do you perchance have a copy of this book?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sacred-Bord...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242250036&sr=1-1
I happened to do some work on it.
For no money.
MG do you perchance have a copy of this book?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sacred-Bord...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242250036&sr=1-1
I happened to do some work on it.
For no money.
MysteryGuest
beyond boring and interesting
MG do you perchance have a copy of this book?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sacred-Bord...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242250036&sr=1-1
I happened to do some work on it.
For no money.
Oh dear.
I'm afraid I don't, coz I wanted the edition with the accompanying CD, but those ones have been really expensive 2nd hand for a long time now. Well, at least you did some work on it. Just been listening to an LP by Fear Falls Burning. This is an interesting one, as it's 180gm vinyl, but coloured (silvery grey). Only 349 copies. It's very good luminous numinous radiant guitar fx pedal droneage (with some hacking noises in there at one point). It's on a label called Equation Records who have released some pretty wacky stuff - square 8" singles in editions of 30, that sort of thing.
Sad, anally-retentive fanboy quibble - the sticker with the individual LP number on it was stuck to the outside of the cellowrap, and I had to take it off, thus leaving the record with no trace of its individual number.
I could've just slid a nail down the side to get the record out, but then I wouldn't've been able to open the gatefold sleeve.
