Sonic Youth - Peel Session 88
Peel Session from October 19, 1988 with Sonic Youth covering songs by The Fall (& The Kinks).
1) Rouche Rumble
2) My New House
3) Victoria
4) Psycho Mafia
Sonic Youth - Peel Session 88 > MP3
- via saucerlike
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Internet Archive
I'm sure most people are familiar with the Internet Archive but i'd like to highlight a couple of areas.
The Live Music Archive includes thousands of recordings available for download, it's probably most well known for the Greatful Dead live shows but also includes good live music from Mogwai, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Bardo Pond, Acid Mothers Temple and Explosions In The Sky.
The Prelinger Archives is a database that includes 48,000 "ephemeral" films (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) available to download and are considered public domain.
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Les Rallizes Denudes - Live 77
'The 70's Japanese guitar psych holy grail known as "Live '77" is an echoing, droning, heavy psych jam that will destroy your mind.
Disc one starts off exploring Les Rallizes mellow side, all sensitive and lovely, with "Enter The Mirror", but then soon explodes into sheer amplified overload, with throbbing mantric rhythms and a rough, raw live sound, but really all the fuzz and distortion and grit sounds just right. There's four long tracks on disc one, three long tracks on disc two. By the time the epic 20+ minute "The Last One" on disc two marches into white noise oblivion, you -- and maybe your speakers -- will be fried.' - aquarius records
Disc 1 / mp3
Disc 2 / mp3
Loscil - Stases (drones 2001 - 2005)
Loscil's music features casually drifting drones of subtle movement & gradual transition.
'Stases' is a free ep available on the net-label 'one'.
Check out more Loscil on the Kranky Label
Saturday, May 27, 2006
The Conet Project
Shortwave radio “Numbers Stations” have been used by inteligence agencies to transmit secret messages for over 30 years.
These mysterious stations transmit in many different languages, using male and female voices repeating numbers or code words 24 hours a day.
Little information is known about the origins of these messages.
The Irdial Label released a 4CD set that contains over 150 recordings that span the last 20 years; taken from the private archives of dedicated shortwave radio listeners from around the world. The label has made these recording available for download.
Download the complete Conet Project CD1 & CD2 - here
Download CD3 & CD4 - here
Stream the Conet Project - here
National Public Radio program 'All Things Considered' - link
Switched On: Early Electronic Oddities
Early Electronic Oddities - UK Radio Show MP3
120 Years of Electronic Music - Obsolete.com
a timeline of strange & fantastic electronic gadgetry.
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Norman Mclaren - Dots (1940)
If I find a film dull, I find it infinitely more entertaining to watch the scratches.
-Norman McLaren
National Film Board of Canada
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Chris Mars
Artist statement;
The imagery that is my work stems from the very strong visual and emotional impact of growing up in a family marked by mental illness. My eldest brother "Bill" suffers from schizophrenia. Bill experienced his first pronounced episode at age 16, and was immediately institutionalized. The seemingly medieval hospital visuals etched into my consciousness, along with the trauma of my brother being repeatedly taken from us. The sights, sounds and smells I experienced as a small child visiting him there are prevalent throughout my work.
link
Alejandro Jodorowsky
"El Topo" & "Holy Mountain" are finally supposed to be released on DVD in the US. These mystical, esoteric films will no longer have to be viewed on bootleg or European DVDs.
Until recently, Allen Klein (former manager of the Beatles & Rolling Stones) retained the legal rights, which he allegedly refused to sell or otherwise license for distribution.
No release date has been set, visit these links for more info;
ABKO Films
The Symbol Grows
Monday, May 22, 2006
Sound Portraits
a collection of fascinating audio documentaries that originally aired on National Public Radio.
Prison stories, a NYC flophouse, ghetto life, the Museum of Jurassic Technology, and the lobotomy of a 12 year old child.
link
Emergency Broadcast Network
EBN were a multimedia performance group that remixed video in brilliant ways. They released a video in 1991 and now 15 years later, it's still one of the best examples of audio/video collage.
Founding member Joshua L. Pearson has posted some EBN videos on his website, including some unreleased footage.
link
Sunday, May 21, 2006
U B U W E B - avant garde & experimental films
Ubuweb is a vast and amazing archive of avant garde films & experimental sounds. It includes works by John Cage, Luis Buñuel, William S. Burroughs, the Vienna Aktionists and hundreds more. It's literally one of the best sites on the internet.
link
People Like Us
Audio visual collage artist Vicki Bennett (aka People Like Us) has made her entire back catalog of CD's and performances available for download. She's collaborated with Coil, Matmos and Negativland just to name a few.
link
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