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"...the first hip-hop album of all time to be comprised of only animal noises"
"Hello, my name is TD Cruze and I am a 20 year old hip-hop producer from Valdosta, Georgia.I thought you'd like to know that I just released the first ever instrumental hip-hop album that contains no...
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LIKE A FOUR-MONTH-OLD SUN RA...
Buster Boris Pocket Naumoff is the youngest son of Troy Naumoff,the grown-up behind the kids noise band Electric Fence, and Troy has recorded baby-boy taking a 14-minute space-jazz organ solo. You can,...
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Avant-Cute: The Caring Babies
The Caring Babies describe themselves as "experimental, electronic" but these absurdly cute, cuddly songs ain't exactly Stockhausen. Tip-off #1: the band name, #2: the teddy bears on the cover. Their...
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SPACE-AGE SANTA
William Shatner! Theremins! Daleks! Annoying child singers! Truly, this is what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown. If we must be subjected to Christmas music every year, at least let's make it...
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GUNS TURNED INTO MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Here's an idea who's time has truly come: a project called "Imagine" in which Mexican artist Pedro Reyes leads a team that takes guns donated from citizens of a county particularly wracked by violence...
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The Conceptual Crank-Call of "Conversations (Revisited)"
As I wrote last year: "Brandon Locher's "Conversations 2012" is a near-20 minute tour de force that does for prank phone calls what "The Velvet Underground & Nico" did for rock 'n' roll, uncovering...
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A STONER'S TRIBUTE TO CARL SAGAN (Milvia Son Records Sampler)
I've passed the 1000 posts mark. And boy are my fingers tired.On to 1001! Milvia Son Records from up in the Bay Area sent me a batch of their vinyl-only goodies, and the first thing you should know...
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More Experimental Music From A 3-Year-Old Girl...
...tho I think she's at least 4 years old by now. Anyway, Stinky Picnic's long-awaited (by me, at least) follow-up to last years' swell "Cockles" has dropped, and it's even more swell. So swell, it is...
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The FLYING DUTCHMAN - ONE-MAN BAND SHOW
How's THAT for an album cover? I think you can see why I picked up this private-press piece of vintage vinyl recently - it truly is a slice of authentic Americana, a peek into un-hip rural backroads...
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By request, the following are back up:- Classic Schlock: a Kitsch-Ass Rock n Roll Mix- Hollywood Stomp - Los Angeles in Song 1920s - 1940s
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THE TOILET BOWL CLEANERS
The Toilet Bowl Cleaners is a guy from Massachusetts. As I wrote last month when I posted "... 2 tracks off their album "Songs About Poop, Puke & Pee." The fact that such an album even exists is...
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BROWN-SKINNED MORMONS A-GO-GO!!
Lamanites? Is that what your kitchen counter is made of? No, silly, Lamanites are the original inhabitants of North America, according to the Book of Mormon, and since Mexicans and Polynesians are...
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By request: the absolute wimpiest versions possible of classic rock hits, "Soft, Safe & Sanitized," is back on-line.
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ZOOGZ TOOZDAY: Early Rarities
Zoogz Toozday is back, for one post - a large collection of early recordings from the late Zappa/Beefheart-inspired bandleader-gone-punk/ comedian/ crank/ mad genius Zoogz Rift. We featured an album of...
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Back up, by request:I'LL TAKE LAS VEGAS: A LOUNGE COMPILATION Plus! Zoogz Rift, "Torment," and "Idiots on the Miniature Golf Course."
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One Of The Most Famous Songs in History is Marxist Propaganda That Involves...
"Oh, the shark bitesWith his teeth, dearAnd he shows thempearly white..."Yeah, you know it, "Mack The Knife", #3 on Billboard's Top 100 Songs ever. You've heard it a million times, from Bobby Darin's...
View ArticleROBOTS PLAY EXOTICA
- You got robots in my gamelan!- You got gamelan in my robots!Two great tastes that go great together: Gamelan Galak Tika (pronounced 'Galactica'?) & Ensemble Robot, from Boston's MIT and UMass,...
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SPRINGTIME FOR MUSSOLINI
Everything's always "Hitler this, Hitler that." What about Mussolini, huh? He was a bloodthirsty dictator, too! And he was Hitler's bud, eventually overthrown and killed by his own Italian countrymen,...
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A Miserable, Depressing Album About Divorce - Happy Valentine's Day!
Bashful Hips is a solo electro band from Colorado whose free download album "Divorce" consists of song after sound-alike song of mid-tempo slightly-distorted synth tunes, all sung in a woeful one-note...
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A Simple Sample-Music Sampler
Making music out of music is common currency now (not so much back when this blog was founded and mashups were regularly featured), so sound-collage music has to really blow my mind to get me to pay...
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