Off to Ohio for the weekend. Need to fill my brain with great electronic music if I want to keep sane, or at the very least - gleefully insane. The Orb Aftermath (Bus Mix) From A Distance (Hybrid Mix) Once More... (Mark's Slide Mix) Little Fluffy Clouds (Danny Tenaglia's Detour Mix) The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Underworld turned 20 last year. Feel old, ravers? I have a lot of 123 singles by The [...]
Let's all dance to music made by a tiny bald man. Moby Extreme Ways (Lee Combs Remix) Extreme Ways (John Creamer + Stephane K Remix) In This World (T&F Vs. Moltosugo Club Mix) In This World (ATFC's Southern Fried Vocal) In My Heart (Ferry Corsten Remix) In My Heart (Sean Tyas Misses Twilo Mix) We Are All Made Of Stars (DJ Tiesto's Full Vocal Remix) [...]
The Official Lost Turntable Guide to Ripping Vinyl is coming! It might be a few weeks though, whenever I get going on it I find myself rambling for a bit before I focus. Look for it next week I hope. But you know what you can look for right now? My new blog! I've been doing this blog for about six years now (holy shit!) and while I'm going to keep doing it for as long as I can, I find its format rather limiting sometimes. Recently, I've become fascinated with bands so obscure that I [...]
I've been thinking of putting together a guide of some sorts showing how I record vinyl, would that be something any of you might be interested in? I'm trying to figure out what to focus on. Should I talk about hardware, like what cartridge and turntable to get, or is that bit kind of played out? I feel like people with far more technical know-how than I have covered that topic to death. What about something about how to get the most out of the vinyl you got; a guide to recording beat-up and worn down records? Would anyone [...]
People rarely talk of the Welsh music scene, but a lot of notable acts have come out of Wales, and not just Tom Jones. The Alarm, Hybrid, Attack! Attack!, and Manic Street Preachers are just a few of the amazing bands to emerge from Wales over the years. Bullet for My Valentine is also from Wales, but try not to hold that against the whole country. I'm sure if they would have known then they would have done something to stop them. Back in the 70s, when punk and new wave was exploding all over the [...]
Band'its At Ten O'clock is another 101 release that came out the same year as Live Letters . Unlike that album, this record is a collection of studio cuts and not live records. But it's equally, if not more so, impressive and well worth the listen today. The Scene All People Go Mad You like mod music? These guys sure did. This album came out in 1980, but this song sounds like it was ripped straight out of the late-60s. Great stuff, very [...]
I first posted this album eons ago, and it sounded like complete dogshit. In my ongoing effort to redeem myself for my ceramic needle USB-turntable early days, here it is again, re-recorded with decent equipment. Live Letters - Bands Featured Live at the 101 Club This is a very interesting record, and I wish I knew more about the people who made it. Apparently the 101 Club was a venue in South London in the early 80s, but I don't know for how [...]
A pair of oddities tonight. If you find this stuff boring, don't worry, I'll have some actual music sometime later this week. Data Age Mindscape This track was taken from a flexi-disc, produced by the video game company [...]
I would have included some Was (Not Was) stuff but I have to re-record those and I'm really tired. Wang Chung Let's Go! (Shep's Mix) Let's Go! (Dub Mix) Before I go any further, I think we need to discuss this video for this song. Go ahead and watch it. I'll wait. That was something huh? A while ago I said that Pretty Poison's "Catch Me I'm Falling" was the most 80s shit ever. [...]
I posted this soundtrack eons ago. Back when no one read my blog. Now that next to no one reads my blog, I thought I'd give it another go. The Andromeda Strain Original Electronic Soundtrack The Andromeda Strain is a movie that came out in 1971, based on the Michael Critchon book of the same name. It was directed by Robert Wise, who also directed such classics as West Side Story and The Day The Earth Stood Still . It's a good adaptation of [...]
This album is so weird and obscure that I don't even know what's on it. Do You Remember...? TV Animation Hero This is a Japanese LP from 1983 featuring 16 classic cartoon theme songs from shows like Astro Boy and Tetsujin-28 (AKA Gigantor). It's a pretty awesome record, and not just for the music, it also came with a bunch of sweet swag. There are these great stickers, which I bet [...]
Seriously, the musical landscape of the 90s didn't have shit on the randomness of the 80s. Kate Bush Alternative Hounds Of Love The Handsome Cabin Boy I'm going to level with you,I don't know what's so "alternative" about this mix of "Hounds Of Love' aside from the fact that it's about 50 seconds longer than the original album version. It has the "do-we-do-do do-we-da-da" and those awesome drums still, so it still kicks ass. The real star here is the B-side, "The Handsome Cabin [...]
I was planning on posting one more Star Wars LP, an audio story called Rebel Mission To Ord Mantell . However, it turns out you can get that right here . Why don't you just do that instead if you're interested in Star Wars? I'm more interested in posting some bloody music tonight. Winter. It sucks doesn't it? If you live in the Midwest (which is reason enough to be depressed), tonight you're probably bracing for your first big winter storm. That's never fun. And I don't know about you, but I've been reading [...]
The Story Of Star Wars Side 1 The Story of Star Wars Side 2 The Story of Return of the Jedi Side 1 The Story of Return of the Jedi Side 2 Ah, abridged movies on LPs, it's amazing how far we would go to relive our favorite movies before the age of VHS isn't it? Both of these albums are pretty impressive in that they manage to condense an entire theatrical film into a 50 [...]
I was going through my massive stacks of vinyl, pulling out anything that I either hadn't recorded before or wanted to re-record. Turns out I have a lot of Star Wars vinyl. It also turns out that almost all of it (maybe all of it, I still have to do some research on one) has never been issued on CD or digitally. If that's not an excuse for a series of themed posts, I don't know what is. So lets get Star Wars Week (I know it's starting on a Friday, shut up) off with a bang. [...]
And now for not long awaited/demanded second half of my Frank Sinatra covers album post. You can find part one here. Mind Over Matter - New York, New York Mind Over Matter was an NYC hardcore punk band that, if their Last.FM bio is anything to be believed, played a major factor in the development of screamo. If I was Mind Over Matter, that's not something I would be bragging about. I like this cover a lot, especially how it injects NYC crime statistics into [...]
The random mid-90s alt-rock compilation; is there any better source for oddball rarities and bizarro obscurities? It's thanks to this trend of "let's package as many bands who we think the kids who like Nirvana might like together and see what happens" we have albums like No Alternative , with Soul Aslyum's awesome take on "Sexual Healing" and that crazy Carpenters tribute record with Sonic Youth's cover of "Superstar." Chairman of the Board , a collection of alt-rock groups taking on standards made famous by Frank Sinatra, doesn't have any classic cuts like those records [...]
How was everyone's holidays? Did you spend them in Toledo? If not, then you did better than I. Actually, during my trip I went to a few good record stores in Columbus and Dayton (I know! Something good in Dayton! Goldfrapp Number 1 (Alan Braxe and Fred Falke Instrumental Remix) I totally thought that said "Fake Instrumental Remix" and I was like "what the fuck is a fake instrumental?" I think I need new glasses. This is an actual, non-fake, instrumental, and one of [...]
I planned on a best/worst of the year list tonight, but something irked me so bad that I had to push that post back a few days. Last week I bought Fac.Dance, a compilation by Strut Records that features many rare and hard-to-find dance tracks from Factory Records. Many of them are out-of-print and have never seen the light of day either digitally or on CD. I should have loved the record, but Strut had to go and fuck it all up. I bought the album on vinyl in a 2LP set, it is also available as [...]
Happy holidaze everyone. I'll (sadly) be out of town all week, which makes recording and posting music hard. My plan is to have two most posts this week though. One will be without music, focusing on my favorite (and least favorite) albums of the year. The other will have awesome dance tracks. Let's hope that all pans out. Tonight: 80s pop! What's a better way to celebrate whatever holiday you pretend to care about in order to get gifts? Art Of Noise Moments In Love (Long Version) [...]
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