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VOODOO DANCE DOLL: 1950s/60s Rock'n'Roll Exotica
Bongos in the Congo! Apes in the jungle! Tikis, cannibals, and witch doctors! Grown men making tropical bird calls! Sound familiar? But this ain't no jazzy Martin Denny-style exotica for grown-ups'...
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Bandcamp Is The New Cassette Culture 4
Continuing our survey of new music you can listen to, and in many cases, download for free on Bandcamp.com, we fly off to exotic lands. It is the depths of winter now, so I felt a tropical vacation was...
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Be Stoned! Dig: Zipps
There's 'beat' as in the Beat literary movement that produced beatniks, and poetry read over (usually) jazz music. And there's 'beat' as in the European '60s rock'n'roll-inspired pop. The kooky,...
View ArticleOver Two Hours of Radio Shenanigans
Spacebrother Greg asked me to guest-dj on his "Radio Misteriso" show for the umpteenth time last July, and it is now up for your listening, er, "pleasure"? Along with all the bizarre thrift-store...
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Frank Sidebottom Salutes The Magic Of Freddie Mercury And Queen
The late great surreal nutter in the giant paper mache head (and a puppet sidekick) sings here in his swimmer's clamp nasal tone and unfailingly good humor just what is says on the tin. He recorded a...
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HIT SONGS OF TOMORROW
The Manor Boys are back on-line, by request.Warning! This here's a whole album of song-poems - lyrics that suckers regular folks have paid to have set to music - that might have you questioning your...
View ArticleHELLavision
I could give some background on these videos...but why bother? They won't make any more sense if I did. So I'm just gonna hit you with three of the greatest, most incredibly WTF-iest things I've...
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HANK HILL TEACHES YOU HOW TO PLAY LATIN PERCUSSION
Let's play bongos! On this instructional album, not just bongos, but all kinds of zesty Latin percussion get artfully pounded upon by studio pro Jack Burger. Narrated by someone who sounds like Hank...
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The Brigitte Bardot Show
An extremely rare example of a celebrity who made actual good records, French sex kitten Brigitte Bardot used her alluring personality, and the genius of collaborator Serge Gainsbourgh, to make a...
View ArticleWill Work For Experimental Instruments
By request, two albums of experimental musical instruments have been re-posted. Get yergravikords, whirlies and pyrophones here, and yerorbitones, spoon-harps, and bellowphones here.News flash: I am...
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Coon Songs: The Most Offensive Music EVER?!
While it's still Black History Month, let's explore the outrageously offensive genre of minstrel show/black stereotype musics known as 'coon songs.' Hugely popular during the early decades of sound...
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March Forth, 2015
By request, Phantascist is back on-line.As today is March 4th, let's march forth once again with the Now Sounds of alternative marching/brass bands with a sampler of releases from recent years from...
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The Psample-delic Psounds of Carl Stone's "Four Pieces"
If you think sampling in music means MC Hammer looping "Super Freak," you gotta another think coming: Los Angeles legend Carl Stone has been using custom software to spin complex, beautiful webs out of...
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Music For People Who Really, Really Really Like to Limbo Dance
Does anybody still dance the limbo? You know, you bend over backwards to shimmy under an ever-lowering pole, to the catchy strains of calypso music. Don't know if any actual Caribbean peoples did the...
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We'll Be Right Back After These Brief Messages...
Let's get commercial... Back in 2008 we posted a hilarious radio spot from the conservative religious group Focus on the Family responding to a law passed in Colorado that allowed trans-gendered people...
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HUBBA HUBBA!: The Big Band Beat of Bad Girls and Burlesque
Back up by request: Roky Erickson's kids party, and "Carnival in Paradise."Seeing as how our previous collection of mid-century sleazy-listening music is, by a wide margin, the most popular post of the...
View ArticleHappy Tax Day, America!
Was just gonna re-up both sides of the outsider oddity that is Ah-Ah Allen's "Kick The IRS" single, but why stop there? Behold!A wee Taxday MixAh-Ah Allen - Kick The IRSAh-Ah Allen -Montana I'm So...
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The NOW SOUNDS Of Outsider Music
Had a request to re-up Tony "The Cool Casanova" Fabbri. Sometime after I wrote that post in 2013 I acquired a full-length CD by the man, which I just posted in its' entirety. HIGHLY recommended for...
View ArticleT.V.O.D.: 2015
I have obviously fallen off my new-post-every-few-days schedule, but yes, I'm still alive (and well), and have been receiving your always-appreciated emails, musics, DVDs, etc. There's no shortage of...
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Swim With The Go-Go's (The Guy-Guy Go-Go's, Not The Girl-Girl Go-Go's)
Was quite happy to hear from Roger Yorke of the '60s vocal trio The Go-Go's who sang on the delightful oddity "The Munsters" we posted last year. After pestering the poor guy for information, he most...
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