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Stella’s Christmas Groove

Fezboy! — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:50:58 +0000

Too early for Christmas music, but not too early to appreciate downloading a fine Christmas album put out by the folks at Stella Atrois. I warn you it is lots o’ Flash but I was also tell you that this is one of the few times that lots o’ Flash is a good thing. A very good thing.

This is the slinky universe I navigate in my head whilst wandering through this mundane one in which I find myself.

Many thanks to David who pointed toward this in the first place.

Music, glorious music

Fezboy! — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:19:48 +0000

Gentlepersons, fire up your downloaders: History of Electronic / Electroacoustic Music (1937-2001)

It’s back!

Fezboy! — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:45:40 +0000

The fabulous Santastic mix series has released this years compilation: Santastic V: Snow, Man!. Haven’t listened yet, but based on past experience, it will be good.

Our Cornucopia Overfloweth

Fezboy! — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 14:42:31 +0000

Another entry in the Millionaire’s Holiday rebroadcast series. This one come from November 20, 2005. The good? There’s music. The bad? There’s no voice over. Or did I get the good/bad mixed up?

At any rate, here’s what I had to say about this broadcast back then:

Gal Friday joins me in studio for the second consecutive week. Many interesting finds are played. Gal Friday runs the board for half an hour or so. Oh, and someone turned off the tuner that was hooked in to my soundcard before we left for the show, so no live podcast. As a supplicatory gift, I did convert most of the raw files to mp3 and created a pseudo podcast for you enjoyment [ Podcast | Direct MP3 Link ]. You get to miss my velvet fog voice and the brilliant weather analysis of Gal Friday, but, on the other hand, you will get to hear the Erotic Aerobics track.

So, without further ado, here’s the playlist: [songs not included on the podcast have been grayed out]

Artist	Album	Track	Notes
Combustible Edison	I, Swinger	Millionaire’s Holiday	The bumpers before and after, and actually throughout this first set, come from samples off devices built by Mike Walters, a fantastic circuit bender. You can check the coolness out yourself by visiting Mr. E Circuits
Wisbey	Dirty Fan Male	Martin’s First Letter	Off an album of spoken word renditions letters to Page Three girls [nudie pics on page three of a certain British tabloid]. You can hear samples from a few other tracks, learn more about the album, or even order it by visiting Movie Grooves. This was the only sample clean enough to play on air.
Lambchop	Jack’s Tulips	Hickey	“But we’ve already heard this song,” you whine. As my good friend Ponch would say, “Tough maracas.” It just goes so well here and I really love the pathos of this song.
Liminal Lounge	Pre-Set	Hush	I’ve also played this song once or twice before but I cannot remember when. It subsumes the next track too.
The Neo-Futurists	Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind	The Bed Dance	The Neo-Futurists is an improv theater collective in Chicago who have the longest running late night show going. Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind is a series of ever-changing short vingettes and this album is a collection of past pieces. Good stuff on its own but even better when dropped over the top of some nifty electronica such as done here.
The Beta Band	High Fidelity Soundtrack	Dry the Rain	“Watch as I sell five copies of the Beta Band EP,” says Rob Gordon as this song comes over store-play. I suppose it was the subconscious Chicago connection that pulled this song as an obvious follow to the last piece. Anyway, I love this track even if it is a bit poppy for this show.
The B-52′s	Whammy	Work That Skirt	And now Jack Black’s character’s line about the ultimate disposition of good bands who put out subsequent bad albums line comes to my attention as I try to explain this track’s appearance on this show. Dunno, but it seemed right at the time.
The Third Eye Foundation		Urchin Snuffed Candles	Another nifty electronica find with some downloadable tracks. Check out Third Eye Foundation‘s page on Eptonic’s site. I picked this to needle Gal Friday because of her marginally successful spay/neuter operation she undertook when last at the family homestead.
[???]	Organ Grooves [???]	The Hen	It’s a leftover from last week’s bed for the groupie bit. I can’t find the bookmark for the page this came from though. I really need to move to something like del.icio.us to tag these finds.
[???]	[???]	[???]	Even worse, all I know about this track is that it is an except from one of those “check your stereo’s performance” albums.
Jimmy Castor	–	Potential	Cheese funksploitation is the heppest!
Diviniation	10% File Under Burroughs	Divination One	Cooling our way out to the end of a set with this nice slice of pie.
The Real Tuesday Weld	–	Bath Time in Clerkenwell	Fantastico! This is such a good and bouny bit of fun. I feel sort of bad that the folks listening live had to hear us speak over the top of this. You get to hear it unmolested.
Plaid	Double Figure	Twin Home	More chill electronics while we catch our breath heading into the three o’clock hour.
[???]	[???]	[???]	All I know about this track is that it is a Laotian singing a Cambodian song while introducing gratuitious yodelling over a funk track. Beyond that, is there really anything else to know?
The Troublemakers	The Outernational Sound	Chez Roger Boite Funk	Nice funky rifts here.
William Shatner	–	Rocketman	An Internet standard for years now, it still brings tears to my eyes…from LMAO.
Breakestra	The Outernational Sound	Cramp Your Style	Played before, but the sample demands it.
Nnnj	Monkey-Straddle	What’s the Weather Like Tomorrow?	New, nice, and unpronounceable. Exactly what I like.
Thrush Hermit	–	Darling Don’t Worry
John K. Samson	–	One Great City!
A.C. Newman	–	On The Table
Death Cab For Cutie	–	A Lack of Color
–	The Stompers Soundtrack	The Stompers & the Souls	Sweet bed music. I overlayed the track to play it twice. You don’t have the benefit of my speaking to hide this unsubtle mixing.
Pierre Raymoné	Erotic Aerobics	Breathing Warmups	Outrageous accent, non? So good I need a smoke after listening.
AfX	Analord 01	Untitled	Giving us all a chance to catch our breath after that last track.
Tiny Tim & Eleanor Beruchian	You Are What You Eat & What You Eat Is What You Is	I Got You Babe	Rumor has it this is Tiny Tim’s first recording. And if you couldn’t guess, he takes the high parts. Comedy gold!
Utica Club Natural Carbonation Band	–	Utica Club Theme Song	If all commercial jingles were this good, I might consider listening to more commercial radio.
Rosko	You Are What You Eat & What You Eat Is What You Is	Teenage Fair	[insert bemused quip here]
Gordon Thomas	–	Boogie Dancing	Any day now, this guy is going to be a star. He “sings” with such passion.
Stereolab	Margerine Eclipse	La Demeure
John Simon & Peter Yarrow	You Are What You Eat & What You Eat Is What You Is	Beach Music & The Wabe	Don’t really understand it, but that doesn’t keep me from liking it.
John Rydgren	–	Creation for Hippies	God can be cool, dig? All we need to do is package God for the hep set and they’ll toe the Christian line. Or at least that’s John Rydgren’s theory. This is the fruit of that theory in action.
Hayden	–	Woody

Wendy Comes To Visit

Fezboy! — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:29:23 +0000

It’s and oldie, but at least it is something, right? Here’s a rebroadcast of the holiday from November 6, 2005. The show marks my one and only encounter with the National Emergency Broadcast System. Some freak storm came barreling up from Kentucky way and blew the heck out of an otherwise normally freaky Saturday night in Flowertown.

But that’s enough for me. Grab it via the podcast or download the file directly off the Holiday desk-side server. Either way, enjoy yourself and the others with whom you elect to bring in to your proximity.

I Like to Rock. I Am an Island.

Fezboy! — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:35:22 +0000

WFMUs Beware of the Blog: David Lee Roth Vocals and NWA in high school

Friggin’ beautiful.

Harmonic Heroics

Fezboy! — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:02:23 +0000

Update: 200801231133

Turns out that I cannae read or I cannae type and have propagated this error across my archive, and now to the Internet at large… Eddy Munson is actually Eddy Manson. The album is still Harmonica and Ping Pong Percussion. You’ll have to change the spelling in your metadata for each file. I’m leaving well enough alone for now because recreating all of the symlinks after changing the file structure of my archive will suck.

Thing have been quiet on the Millionaire’s Holiday front. For Festivus, I received a USB-enabled turntable which has me rabbiting most of my allotted music time digitizing the vast library of schlock I’ve accumulated. This leaves little time for mixing and matching. On the other hand, the quantities of digital music I find myself surrounded in can only lead to good fun, no? In the meantime, I thought I’d share a little goofiness. Despite the album liner notes indicating the legendary prowess of Eddy ~~Munson~~ Manson, there is nothing I’ve been able to find on the Internet to link to. Google and Wikipedia both try to direct me to Eddie Munson. While understandably more famous, if not more talented, that’s not the Eddy we’re looking for.

Nonetheless, Eddy ~~Munson~~ Manson’s Harmonica and Ping Pong Percussion is an album that is chock-a-block with easy listening melody. There is some interesting scoring in a few tracks and this is what makes the album funkular enough for posting.

You can follow the links below to acquire your very own copy of this fine musical offering. Files are encoded in Apple’s “lossless” compression so getting them to work on your machine could prove adventuresome without iTunes installed. If there is hue and cry I’ll transcribe to .wav or something. It’s the file format I’ve settled on for my music archive and it’s easier to symlink into that than manage and store two sets of files if you catch my drift…

Eddy ~~Munson~~ Manson, Harmonica and Ping Pong Percussion

Enjoy!

Hacker Crackdown in Audio

Fezboy! — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:32:15 +0000

Cory Doctorow, god bless his little heart, read all of Bruce Sterling’s The Hacker Crackdown. He even did so aloud. In to a microphone. You can hear the results too. Even as a podcast. And even though it pains me to no end (like he’d ever link to my podcast), here’s Cory’s podcast link.

Almost Famous

Fezboy! — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:33:33 +0000

I know this guy! He’s one of my crew and here’s what he does when not providing the best technical service a late-night help desk employee could provide:

MySpace.com – Koji

I particularly like Boogie Board. It’s skatastic!

A Veritable TV Playland

Fezboy! — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:34:35 +0000

Oh the good times I had with my surrogate parent. Now I can relive some of the magic of my youth. There’s MP3 goodness oozing from every mouse click at TelevisionTunes.com.

A mixer’s delight!