'Collaaage'

New release by WM Recordings: "... From crappy to inspired, from bad to brilliant: 'Collaaage' is an overview of recordings made by Weirdomusic - and assorted friends - between 1982 and 1991. Randomly put together for a cassette release in 1991, this collage recording now serves as an introduction to various aspects of Weirdomusic's work.
This tape recording is brought to you for historical reasons only. Some selections may or may not turn up on future releases.Please feel free to use selections from this collage for your own compositions!"
Contributors:◦ Marco Kalnenek: keyboards, vocals, percussion◦ Marco Dörenberg: guitars, vocals◦ Paul Joppen: vocals, percussion◦ Jacqueline Joosten: vocals, bass

Find it here. (I'm listening to it right now. And it's adventurous, cool stuff!)
http://www.wmrecordings.com/releases/wm003.htm

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Cover songs deluxe

While we're waiting for copy, right? to get back in business A Best Truth could be our saviour:

• José Feliciano: California Dreamin' (The Mamas & The Papas)
• Collective Soul: Shine (The Moffats)
• Collective Soul: My Sweet Home Chicago (Robert Johnson)
• Mystherius: Sweet Dreams (Eurythmics)
• Kissel: Lomo con Pimientos (MCD d'après MKB)
• MKB: Véndemelo (Judas Priest)
• Operación Mutante: A por tí (Tamara aka Ámbar)
• Operación Mutante: Aserejé (Las Ketchup)
• Operación Mutante: No me llames Manolo llámame Lola (Pastora)
• The String Quartet: Run to the Hills (Iron Maiden)

Not bad. Not bad at all!
Listen here!
http://punio.blogspot.com/2004/11/mp3-versiones-bizarras.html

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Early Japanese Electronic Music

Earlabs: "Concert 20-21 century vol.7: early tape music"

A concert series of Japanese contemporary music after WWII given at Kioi Hall in Tokyo. This issue includes unreleased and rare tape music.

Toshiro Mayuzumi "Works for musique concrete X. Y. Z (1953, earliest musique concrete in Japan)" Makoto Moroi / Toshiro Mayuzumi "Variations on numerical principle of 7 (1956)" - same source of Hiroshi Shiotani's CD "Oto no Hajimari wo Motomete" - Toru Takemitsu "Vocalism A.I", "Ki. Sora. Tori (Tree. Sky. Bird)", "Clap Vocalism" (1956) Yoshio Hasegawa "A musical tale for radio "The World in the Jar (1956)"

I found these recordings through my favourite p2p Soulseek. Soundquality is not very good (direct from an old vinyl) but it fills a gap in the history of electronic music. Mayuzumi shows his interest in films here already, presenting many acoustic scenes. He later scored a lot of movies before dying in 1997. The Moroi - Mayuzumi collaboration is purely electronic. Takemitsu's Vocalism AI is a haunting tape piece which really catches your attention. The others are a bit less expressive. Hashegawa's piece is actually a sort of radioplay which really MUST have been a big inspiration for John Zorn's 'Spillane'." (thanks to Kjell)
http://www.earlabs.org/label/LC/LC010.htm

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Comic books best covers

"The first one displays my favorite covers of 459 french comic books, from 1936 to 2001. The second, the best covers of 512 american comic books from 1938 to 2001."
Very nice! Both of them. (via Exclamation Mark)
http://g.courtial.free.fr/covers/index.htm

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Week 48

Jan Turkenberg is telling us: "One of the last but certainly not least weeks, week 48 is online now: recordings from music students and music school pupils. ... Listen to this bunch of heroes who try to do something different with their spare time than watching soaps on television."

It sure looks exciting, doesn't it!!
http://home.deds.nl/~ggs/48/52.48.html

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Barbara

Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, ...
http://www.geocities.com/soakbear/barbara.htm

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Update! Barbara!

'You've Been Spiked'

Think 1970. Think Lalo Schifrin. Think Piero Piccioni. Think Michael Caine in trenchcoat.
Ok.
Now mix it with an oriental vibe (Ananda Shankar) and some late 70's disco.
Ok.
You've been spiked! And you've got Chris Joss.
Silver's Boogaloo has posted it.
Cool!
http://orchardlounge.blogspot.com/2004/11/youve-been-spiked.html

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Man-Oh-Man!

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Ads from American comic books: Evel Kvievel Towels; The Wonderful World of Amazing Live Sea-Monkeys; 10 "Hitler heads"; Illya pin-up (David McCallum) and the Hypno Coin! All of these found here. More old comic ads can also be found here and there. (via one man safari)
http://www.steveconley.com/comicads.htm

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FaLaLaLaLa

A message from The King of Jingaling:
"'Tis the season...
Santa knows that you've been good little girls and boys and so he has something for you.

I'm proud to announce that FaLaLaLaLa.com is ready for you to come visit.

Before you get too excited, the actual music downloads will still not be posted until next Friday, November 26th.
I'm still fairly traditional and don't like to rush the season too much. The anticipation is part of the joy for me.

While the music is not posted yet, I wanted to give folks some time to poke around. At this point the format of the site is a message board.
I wish that I had more time to really put together a more full site, but work projects and two kids made that tough. So it's going to be pretty basic for now.

In order to view the forum with the music downloads you will need to register for the site. I do this only in the hope of encouraging a sense of community. Once you have registered there is no requirement to post or participate and your information will be kept strictly confidential. But I hope that you decide to stick around and share your love of Christmas music with like-minded folks."
http://www.falalalala.com/

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Russian poster art

«Shield and sword» Rudin B. S., 1968 (In Movie Posters)

"The administration of the Museum of Posters begs to inform you that this site represents to be the biggest collection of Russian posters in Internet. The earnest request is following. Do not litter! Wish you a pleasant review!"
Plakaty.ru (via Eye of the Goof)
http://eng.plakaty.ru/

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Kitsch Itch

Googly Eyed Shell Frog

Kitsch Itch is a public group over at flickr (but you might want to join?) where people share images of fond kitsch items (like Snapatorium shared that cute googly eyed fisher boy above). Or as the group statement sais: "Bring us your kitsch, the tackier, the better!"
http://www.flickr.com/groups/kitsch_itch/

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"Who's gonna get me a beer?"

"... "I need a beer," Marvin said. "Who's gonna get me a beer? I'm gonna get me a beer? I feel like a beer. Hell, I need a beer. Where are my glasses?" He peered around him. "Ever read this book? I got it for Christmas or some goddamn thing. A history of the West. Look here. All these cowboys are wearing chaps. Workingmen, see. Look here Bronco Billy dressed up in the East's conception of the Western hero. See. From a dime novel. That's how authentic a Western we made when we made ‘Monte Walsh.’ Where's that beer? That author, he knows what it was reallylike. Get me a beer." ..."
Roger Ebert "talks" to Lee Marvin 1970. (via MetaFilter)
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041119/ESSAYS/41115001

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Life In The Present according to Michelle Fierro

Michelle is a blogger just like me. And just like me she's very good at it! She runs two blogs: Life In Seattle, is more privatly and more about the real life matters and what goes on in her head; Life In The Present is a delicious link-blog where she sends us out to experience all kinds of beauty, nostalgia or just things that interests her. What interests her you might ask? Well... In the 'About' section she tells us: "Likes: rescuing spiders from bathtub drains, gangster movies, singing to my dog, cheese, bumblebees, produce markets, Beethovan, Bach, rainy days, looking out to sea from the shore, 50's cadillacs, Raymond Carver, Pablo Neruda, 80's new wave, snow falling, The Clash, The Pixies, Brian Eno, Bowie, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Hal Ashby, a really cold pillow, food magazines, guitars, ketel one, church bells, sunsets, Eddie Izzard"
Hm. That is a cool mix of things!
I like her blog. And I sometimes steal links from her (but I do it very smooth and nice). Like this one; and this one; and this one; and this one; and...
Yup. She's good at finding the nicer things residing on the internet!
So, pay Life In The Present a visit. And don't forget to sign her new cool guestmap. The more the merrier!
http://michellefierro.typepad.com/

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New Blog Entry Race

The first one to leave a comment I will blog next. If you don't manage a site I will blog an interview with you!

The contest is open for everyone except the earlier winners: Jolly Roger and Ken Minter.

Ready? Go!

/Z aka Sebastian

Some cool Ephamera

Ephamera (Online Forum). Tons of old stuff to see (and maybe buy...).
Have a look for yourself. But I must recommend Circus Programs from Around the World. Like this cool one here below.

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And this is an interesting find! "An interesting set of 10 matchbox covers issued in Eastern Europe in the 1960's portraying World Leaders includes Nasser, Ben Gurion, Castro, DeGaulle, Tito, Krushchev, Nehru, Mao Tse Tung, Sukarno and John F. Kennedy" (via Bifurcated Rivets)
http://www.the-forum.com/ephemera/index.htm

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Benny Hill being mashed up etc.

The Ultimate Insult has posted 3 GREAT mash up mp3s!
Check 'em out!
http://www.ultimateinsult.net/archives/2004/11/18/the-who-boys/#comments

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Hilda!

Les Toil sais: "It's my pride and joy to introduce to you pin-up art's best kept secret--Hilda! We never even allowed this full-figured gorgeous mirth quake to become a footnote the in annals of American glam art. I'm here to hopefully change all that.
This Summer, while perusing a local antique show, I came across a vintage calendar from 1965. There were three things about it that arrested my cornea immediately and simultaneously. One--it was beautifully illustrated. Two--it featured a gorgeous pin-up girl . And three--that gorgeous pin-up girl was a big beautiful woman."
Here's the gallery. And hey! Some Hilda Memorabilia! (via PLEP)
http://www.lestoil.net/hilda.html

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