Reposts...
By request, the Caribbean awesomess of Raw Spouge.The New Wave Covers For Oldies Lovers collections are back up now too, thanks to a wonderful maniac.
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"Lullabies From Outer-Space": The Casiotone Orchestra of Carton Sonore
An entire 20-track album performed on nothing but the much-maligned keyboards made by Casio (a company that previously had been more famous for manufacturing things like watches) might not sound too...
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I'm Pretty Sure This Blog Posts More Zither Music Than Most...
Gene M., one of our super-swell readers who contributed the lost files of Ruth Welcome's "Zither Magic" album recently, has gifted us with another album called "Zither Magic" that couldn't be more...
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PLEASE ACCEPT THIS FREE GIFT
Aren't ALL gifts 'free'? Isn't that what makes it a gift? Hey, if the advertisers and marketers of the world say it, then it must be true. So here's a goodie-bag of free inter-webular downloads that...
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WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT ANNETTE FUNICELLO
You may have heard that The Queen of the Beach, Annette Funicello, recently died at age 70. And, yes, she was a Mouseketeer on "the Mickey Mouse Club" tv series, and starred in the 'beach party' films...
View ArticleAPRIL IS BAD MUSIC MONTH
Back in the Jurassic era of the internet, the year 2000, L.A. radio personality April Winchell started putting up mp3s of bad/strange/funny music and audio - an early music-blog, if you will. Readers...
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The OTHER Singing Ricin Terrorist
The recent news about the wack-job Elvis (and others) impersonator sending politicians envelopes laced with deadly ricin reminded me of the pioneer of this genre, Robert Alberg. When we wrote about...
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More From The Boston Typewriter Orchestra
We've written about The Boston Typewriter Orchestra a couple of times before, but it's been a few years since we last checked in with them, and, as there is some crazy shit going down in Boss-Town...
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SUPERSHRINK!
Alen Robin, a comic with a droll, very nasal voice, took the Buchanan & Goodman "Flying Saucer" concept - intercutting found recordings with original comedy - and applied it to political speeches....
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Sisqo's "Thong Song" for Music Box And Theremin
I'm sure we all have our own favorites, but my pick for best cover of Sisqo's ubiquitous 1999 hip-hop hit "The Thong Song" for antique-sounding music box and theremin would have to be the one by...
View ArticleTaking Your Re-Post Requests on the Request Line...
UPDATE: the Russian Horny Choir is back. Much thanks and praise to hybridelephant for sending it our way! Which reminds me: he sent me a link to his own band And More, I was listenin' and diggin'...
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SIX ACCORDIONISTS GO RIDING ON A CAROUSEL...
...No, that's not a joke set-up. It really happened on the Santa Monica Pier in 2010. Daniel Corral and his group the Free Reed Conspiracy actually sat on carousel horses that went up 'n' down, up 'n'...
View ArticleTwo More Requests Now Up
Dig it!Nick O'Lodeon - KaleidocosmicorgrigM4M Sampler - From The Sublime...UPDATE: ...and here's two more by request:Zoogz Rift: (Nonentity) Water IIIZoogz Rift: Island Of Living Puke
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L. RON HUBBARD SPLURGES ALL OVER YOU
"Force yourself to smile and you’ll soon stop frowning.Force yourself to laugh and you’ll soon find something to laugh about. Wax enthusiastic and you’ll very soon feel so. A being causes his own...
View ArticleRe-Up Request
http://musicformaniacs.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-first-man-on-moog.htmlUPDATE 5/4/13: Now up by request are RMI Harmonic Synthesizer album, and four from Zoogz Rift: Ipecac, War Zone, and Water II, and...
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JUNK ORCHESTRAS Pt 1: The Gas Tank Orchestra
I haven't been posting anything new lately, cuz I've been trying to re-up albums that were victims of the Great Mediafire/Rapidshare Takedown of 2013 by request. Which I'm happy to do, but I wasn't...
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JUNK ORCHESTRAS Pt 2: A Child's Garden Of Junk
(Now back up: Capt. Beefheart "Clear Spot" instrumental tracks, and the Caribbeana Esoterica of Elmore Stout, and The Lashing Dogs.)"The flipflopaphon – the tromballoony – the springy tuby thingy – the...
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JUNK ORCHESTRAS Pt 3
I'll be guest dj-ing once again this Sunday, 8pm PST on Spacebrother Greg's "Radio Misterioso," bringing up another batch of wild sounds that have mostly not been featured here. Listen live at...
View ArticleI Will NOT Be Appearing On Radio Mistierioso...
...this Sunday nite. Two hours of radio hijinks will be postponed to a later date. But the good news is, thanks to super-swell maniac Phil C., "The Lavender Jungle" comp is back up. And there's some...
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