ongo wrote:

here are some of mine


LSD - pseudo documentary on LSD with interviews with Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, Mrs. Aldous Huxley and with "actual" recordings of people tripping on Acid

Sounds of north american frogs - recorded and released in 1958
this is just a right mind fuck of a field recording

The dartmouth Digital synthesizer - One of the best ambient records ever from mid 70's

Pierre henry - Mise en musique du Corticalart - One of the god-fathers of electronic messing around on sonic Variations of acctual brainwaves (this one is hard to listen too , you could go mad )

Music from Mathematics - played by an I.B.M 7090 COMPUTER and digital to sound tranducers in 1961

Mushroom Ceremony of the Mazatec - Now those guys really lost there heads LOLLLLL give me some plz !!!

Luc Ferrari - Hétérozygote / J'ai Été Coupé - By far my favourite prospective 21eme siecle record . When Richie Hawtin was still swimming in his father's balls , this guy was doing the most amaizing minimal music (I guess people called it concrete , Tape mucsic back then )

mp3_God wrote:

A silent record??, it seems like that anyway. I scratched it, so it now make 'glitches', the record is experimental musuk itself! Ha?!? i tend not to buy anything thats too odd and lacking info on sleeve.

o-o
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ongo wrote:

hmm ya thats kind of cool ' glitch' record
Reminds me of Aphex twin's 'sand paper' record ,ouch !!

Abraxas80 wrote:

Thinking Plague - early plague years

KUKL - The Eye

KUKL - Holidays in Europe

Elli Riehl - die Herren des Waldes

ShadowEgo wrote:

Record Industry - Merry X-Mas / Happy New Year

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ongo wrote:

I was playing some Basil Kirchin stuff last night
pretty fucked up !!
Blend of Jazz , Field recordings and autistic children singing

onelittle wrote:

Damn, I want to hear this…



OK, some spooky things that come to mind from my collection.

Mae West — Way Out West
In her 70s, Ms West decided to record a garage rock covers album. The sleeve notes that "her voice is torrid", but this doesn't begin to describe her performance.

Immedia — Snap, Crackle & Pop
A test-tone, mastered as a "non-playing" groove then hand-scored thus making it near impossible to play. Sleeve has a rivet punched into one corner that further scratches the record when it is taken out. Edition of 50. Eats yr stylus - do not play!

Cathy Berbarian — Beatles Arias
Oh, how I want an original copy of this. Pop baroque.

Recordings Of Shortwave Numbers Stations: shortwave radio recordings of numbers stations' secret messages.

Gate 23: international departure lounge announcements at Heathrow airport.

Plays The Popular Classics: the "world's worst orchestra". The orchestra comprised of known musicians playing instruments they had no knowledge of, virtuoso players and people who had never played an instrument in their lives.

The Sounds Of American Doomsday Cults: a recording from 15 Dec 1984 of chants, sermons, invocations and prayers against the evils of rock music. Hear here.



…and any number of releases on the god-like Ash International. For example:

Breakout: recording of a man on death-row; tape smuggled-out of jail.
Runaway Train: recording of the conversation between the driver of a runaway train and his controller, 1948
Life Everlasting, Amen: recording of a life support machine (70 minutes long).
Blind c/w Fragment: illegal recordings of US Airforce manoeuvres in the UK
A Compressed History Of Everything Ever Recorded, Vol. 2: Ubiquitous Eternal Live: an hour long uninterrupted recording of applause. "Spontaneous, improvised, slow crescendo by every audience ever."

ongo wrote:

^^^^^^those Ash international you mention sound 'insane'
got to find those lol !!!

onelittle wrote:

Breakout is still available from Touch, and hey! only £2.00

The rest are long gone, I think. However Ash has mp3s of two of them
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http://www.ashinternational.com/ashmp3/Fragment.mp3

ongo wrote:

Thanks for the links

ongo wrote:

Shit I just listend to the MP3 onelittle left

'The Sounds Of American Doomsday Cults'

fuck that preacher is just a joke

'we call for the jugment of fire onto

herbie hancock , Julio Iglesias , Band Aid ,Kenny Rogers , Duran Duran , David Bowie (pronouced David Buwy) , and Scooby Doo


Just too fucking funny !!!!!!!!!!
guys you have to heare this

onelittle wrote:

:)

It's somewhere on that long thin line between incredibly funny, and slightly disturbing, as these people were/are worryingly for real. Good ol' fundamentalism…

I was just Googling the cult's name, and noticed that someone has uploaded the entire CD…! auto-converted long url - it's well worth a listen, the chanting is mesmerising...

JanetMead wrote:

Some other goodies:

One of the Jandek (hey, does anyone outside North America know about him?) albums has a creepy "Happy Mothers Day" track on it ... all cheap-equipment echos and moans. I no longer have the album, so I can't give exact details, but it's worth seeking out.

Michele Lee, of all people, does a dirge-like rendition of "What The World Needs Now" that sounds like the entire studio was on quaaludes.

I like instructional records, too. I have a 45 that explains, in French, how to apply makeup. Play both sides and you're ready for the day.

Another question: are "song-poems" a uniquely North American concept, too? Like self-published books and exotica albums, the problem is always sorting through the dross, but the gems are out there.

In a similar vein, a great tourist-y thing to do in the 70s and 80s was to sit in on a Nashville recording session. They'd record the same song over and over, with the paying audience contributing the backing vocals each time ... then they'd overdub and overdub, and a few months later they'd mail you a 45 with your own backing vocals, alongside those of hundreds of other people!

If you listen really closely (OK, really really really closely), that's my pre-teenage self you can hear clapping and shouting along on Dale Puckett's "Y'all Come"!

Christopher_Jion wrote:

at this antique store near me I saw this old red 7" that was an echoplex demonstration record!!!
I should've bought it....
maybe it'll still be there.


insted of that I bought an Astro-Com wrist radio from 1959.

JanetMead wrote:

There's that lame old slogan: "the time to buy an antique is when you see it" ... unfortunately, it often happens to be true. :)

But if you decide to go back and it's not there, don't kick yourself too hard!

One good thing about the advent of digital music is, that while specialist used record stores still know their stuff, old records and music paraphernalia have slipped a little on the radar of general-line antiques dealers: the demand is a lot more specialized now. The downside to this is dealers who price anything outside their field too high, just to guard against the chance of selling too cheap. A lot of dealers who take crates of records out of house sales price them all at, say, 3 bucks: too much to pay for "Whipped Cream And Other Delights" but a bargain for some old soundtrack LPs.

The trick I always use, when trying not to worry about paying too much, is to remind myself of records I've gotten for less than they're worth: even if you pay too much for one thing, you're still probably ahead of the game.

The wrist radio sounds cool, though; you should post a pic.

Christopher_Jion wrote:

I just recently saw an old record that was clear and HOLLOW(!)... and came apart in halves and had traditional handkerchifs inside for traditional dancing....


so cool.

I wanna make something like that...
but noise.

type wrote:

here is a few candidates:

http://www.discogs.com/release/610167

http://www.discogs.com/release/644160

http://www.discogs.com/release/607911

felixthadiscocat wrote:

I'd really like to hear a sample of that J.C. Gejl record. Is it listenable?

type wrote:

weel - it's a man blowing in a horn - I dont have any mp3,s ...sorry

type wrote:

not exactly odd or bizarre, but a fine format:
http://www.discogs.com/release/777477

just plain silly:
http://www.discogs.com/release/574804