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Sigh...right...so I was sitting...making the comp...and I kept thinking...man...what would I want the.er...ideal...woman to sound like if I had to describe her musically....and this happened. I feel incredibly fluffy making this and I'll more than likely overcompensate this feeling by making an outlandishly ignorant comp for March. Playlist and shit under the covers. Stop laughing at me. *PBBT!'s SMORGASBORD FEBRUARY 2011 [ DOWNLOAD ]

Emmett presents: "The Waiting Is The Hardest Part" Spring-Summer Megamix 2010 Face A Grandstand - Soul Stage Orchestra Hilly Fields (1892) - Nick Nicely Just For Me - Manfred Mann Skyline - Norman Greenbaum Zoo Gang - Paul McCartney The John Scene - Tigers On Vaseline Face B Morpha Too (rough mix) - Big Star [...]

Give the Drummer Some's Favorite Downloads from the MP3 Blogosphere Consider this week's column an early Mining the Audio Mother's Day present. Sorry, no flowers or breakfast in bed are in the offing, just a feast for the ears in the form of this bouquet of aural appreciation: a dense, evocative library recording that sounds like the soundtrack to a dream of Africa; a riveting set of experimental banjo instrumentals; an earnest Czech pop group poised for stardom; some smoking hot post-bop from the City of Big Shoulders (with a bonus [...]

This song sounds like it could have been an outtake from David Axelrod's Seriously Deep, also released the same year as this hot-steaming-bubbler. Umiliani, a rather prolific Italian soundtrack composer, produced the music for most of Luigi Scattini's erotic-milky dangler-detective movies; Il Corpo was the final, fantastically sleazy film in Scattini's erotic trilogy. ( _Cosmic Cheese ) MP3: Piero Umiliani - Hard Times
Piero Umilani: Mah Nà Mah Nà [ purchase for $125 dollars] The American cultural origin of this familiar tune is definitive. The vivid imagery of the Muppets frames the song as a story, played out between the earnest chorus voices and the smarmy, interrupting lead. It's hard to shake the association, and harder still to see the song as innocently playful as a result. But Italian film composer Piero Umiliani originally wrote the song for a sauna scene [...]

And then, the Earth being small, mankind will migrate into space, and will cross the airless Saharas which separate planet from planet and sun from sun. The Earth will become a Holy Land which will be visited by pilgrims from all the quarters of the Universe. Finally, men will master the forces of Nature; they will become themselves architects of systems, manufacturers of worlds. Winwood Reade, THE MARTYRDOM OF MAN, 1872 Previous Space themed selection . Boneschi & Hays off Barry's Connectors Compilation featuring [...]

One more belated entry for Muppet Covers Week... this should've gone up yesterday, but churning out these daily posts was wearing me out. A quick round-up of last week's posts: Day 1: It's Time to Play the Music... Day 2: The Muppet Movie Day 3: Songs From the Street Day 4: Covers by Muppets & Friends Day 5: The Batman Connection Day 6: Pinball Number [...]

I first learnt about the great Italian soundtrack composer the late Piero Umiliani with the "Musicaelettronica" compilations featuring his proto-electronique synth music. That posthumous compilation was so-so yet it was enough to spark interest in hunting down one of his best soundtrack work, " Cinque Bambole ." A hell of a composer on the seminal Right Tempo/Easy Tempo recordings from Italy, he is most famous for " Mahna Mahna " the famed The Muppet Show piece, but it's kind of a disrespect to his other work which spans more than 100 lps and 45s [...]

1. Piero Umiliani - La Ragazza Fuoristrada (A sophisticated low-key theme by the humorous Umiliani done for the 1971 softcore " La Ragazza Fuoristrada " which starred The Eritrean model/actress Zeudi Araya .) 2. Mayo Thompson - Horses (An Avant-Garde Rock classic by former member of " The Red Crayola " Mayo Thompson , Released in 1969 [...]
Mah-Na-Mah-Na - Piero Umiliani Ariel single, 1969 Mahna, Mahna - Mahna Mahna and the Two Snowths from album THE MUPPET SHOW (Arista 1978) This week, another musical mystery solved. When my sister was in university, she taped a German Sesame Street album off of one of her residence mates, Sesamstrasse . One of the tracks included was [...]