Sunday, 15 May 2022
quote [ Jimmy Carter?s grandson, John Chuldenko, is unlocking White House mysteries. The record collection is an archive of the nation's music taste back in the 70's. ]
Like Jimmy Carter like, electric underwear
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Saturday, 14 May 2022
quote [ The resulting pedal, the Mu-Tron Biphase, provided the foundation for multiple genres. If you put the Biphase over a snare or a hi-hat, out came the recognizable deep-space chk-chk-chk echo of dub reggae. The BiPhase was crucial to generating Lee ?Scratch? Perry?s otherworldly sound. In the ?90s, the most famous user of Mu-Tron Biphase was Billy Corgan. ]
On the magic multi-tone machines of the 70s and their eccentric manipulators.
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Tuesday, 3 May 2022
quote [ A bizarre 2008 children?s album called ?Alien Rap? has been making rounds in ?so-bad-it?s-good? culture. The man who made it is about as weird as you?d think. ]
Volo in alto nello spazio con et alien rap tour
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Sunday, 1 May 2022
quote [ "The Internationale" (French: "L'Internationale", [l???.t??.na.sj?.nal(?)]) is a left-wing anthem. It has been a standard of the socialist movement since the late nineteenth century, when the Second International adopted it as its official anthem. The title arises from the "First International", an alliance of workers which held a congress in 1864. The author of the anthem's lyrics, Eugène Pottier, an anarchist, attended this congress. In turn, the song was later set to an original melody composed by Pierre De Geyter, a Marxist.
It is one of the most universally translated anthems in history. ] Happy May/Labor Day! Oh, wait, this is awkward... Unless you're in the US, in which case it's Loyalty Day, which should probably be raising from red flags in your mind. (And not the good kind.)
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Saturday, 23 April 2022
quote [ A musician comes face to face with military police. ]
Boy, oh boy, I'm glad things aren't like that now. /s
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Monday, 11 April 2022
quote [ Exotic lumber salvaged from a remote forest in Belize is the world?s most coveted tonewood ]
I wish I could be music on a tree
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Friday, 8 April 2022
quote [ My favourite: a band named brouillard, with a single member called brouillard, whose every single album is named brouillard, and of course, so is every single track. ]
technically a database post like the one about names (never assume anything)
Thumb is 1920s drill design study via Clawmarks
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Saturday, 2 April 2022
quote [ Don't you know that it's Quittin' Time? ]
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Tuesday, 29 March 2022
quote [ What does the future sound like? In the early 20th century, one answer rang out from Luigi Russolo?s intonarumori ? lever-operated machines designed to pop, sough, shriek, and shock. Peter Tracy explores the ambitions behind Italian Futurism?s experiments with noise and the sensory, spiritual, and political affinities of this radical new music. ]
My thoughts are cacophonous
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Sunday, 20 March 2022
quote [ This sonic journey written and narrated by David G. Haskell brings us to the beginning of sound and song on planet Earth. ]
Feel the Earth song
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