Feb 19, 2012
Szomorú Vasárnap - 1981
Diamanda Galas - Gloomy Sunday
"It is autumn and the leaves are falling
All love has died on earth
The wind is weeping with sorrowful tears
My heart will never hope for a new spring again
My tears and my sorrows are all in vain
People are heartless, greedy and wicked...
Love has died!
The world has come to its end, hope has ceased to have a meaning
Cities are being wiped out, shrapnel is making music
Meadows are coloured red with human blood
There are dead people on the streets everywhere
I will say another quiet prayer:
People are sinners, Lord, they make mistakes...
The world has ended!"
The song was composed by Rezső Seress while living in Paris, in an attempt to become established as a songwriter in late 1932. The original musical composition was a piano melody in C-Minor, with the lyrics being sung over it. Seress wrote the song at the time of the Great Depression and increasing facist influence in the writer's native Hungary, although sources differ as to the degree to which his song was motivated by personal melancholy rather than concerns about the future of the world. The basis of Seress's lyrics is a reproach to the injustices of man, with a prayer to God to have mercy on the modern world and the people who perpetrate evil. There are some suggestions that the words of "Vége a világnak" were in fact not written until World War II itself and not copyrighted until 1946.
Seress initially had difficulty finding a publisher, mainly due to the unusually melancholy nature of the song. One potential publisher stated: "It is not that the song is sad, there is a sort of terrible compelling despair about it. I don't think it would do anyone any good to hear a song like that.."
The song was first recorded, in Hungarian and using Jávor's lyrics, by Pál Kalmár in 1935. His version immediately became popular in Hungary, but became associated with a high number of suicides, reportedly including that of Jávor's ex-fiancee, and several people who jumped into the Danube holding copies of the sheet music. According to some sources, the Hungarian authorities then banned public performances of the song in response.
In January 1968, some 35 years after writing the song, its composer Rezső Seress did commit suicide. He survived jumping out of a window in Budapest, but later in the hospital choked himself to death with a wire.
Feb 18, 2012
Vicious Australian Punk.
Feb 14, 2012
Herman's Rocket - Green Creature 1977
get it HERE
Feb 12, 2012
Mix 31: Horns and Birds and Seagulls and Sh*t
01 He's A Rebel - The Crystals
02 A Woman's Story - Cher
03 Awaiting On You All - George Harrison
04 Black Pearl - Sonny Charles & The Checkmates
05 Don't Go Home With Your Hard On - Leonard Cohen
06 (The Best Part Of) Breakin' Up - The Ronettes
07 Let The Good Times Roll - Judy Henske (prod. Jack Nitzsche)
08 This Could Be The Night - The Modern Folk Quartet
09 (He's Got) The Whole World In His Hands - Dion
10 Every Day I Have To Cry - Ike & Tina Turner
11 Strange Love - Darlene Love
12 The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore - The Walker Brothers (prod. Johnny Franz)
13 Be My Baby - John Lennon
"A compliation of the hits, misses, and copycat songs that sought to engulf you in Phil's wall of sound."
By Sasha Lamb
http://twitter.com/sashalamb
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Jan 30, 2012
Mix 30: Pour Your Body
01 Ray Cappo - 1
02 Dive Sometime
03 Flower - All in Doubt
04 Guided by Voices - Dayton Ohio 19 Something and 5
05 Ups and Downs - Untie Ian
06 The High Violets - Goodnight Goodbye
07 Hygiene - Things to Do
08 Bailter Space - Untied
09 The Boo Radleys - Skyscraper
10 My Dad is Dead - Anti - Socialist
11. Play Dead - Solace
12. Popul Vuh - Der Ruf
13. Psychic TV - The Orchids
14. Earthlings - Nothing
15. Empire - Empire
16. Grant Hart - 2541
by Anthony Pappalardo
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Check out these two projects by Anthony.
Italian Horn
Six song 12” debut from Italian Horn, a solo project of New York City writer Anthony Pappalardo (Radio Silence, Live…Suburbia). Continuing the home recording tradition of My Dad is Dead, East River Pipe and Sebadoh, The Bells Of Spring channels equal parts GBV, Bailterspace and Flying Saucer Attack. …synth and subtle noise intertwine with short strummed songs selected with washed out shoegaze reverb guitar creating direct but layered soundscapes. Cover collage created by Robert Pollard (Guided By Voices) and limited to 300 copies.
Live Suburbia
by Anthony Pappalardo and Max G. Morton
Live Suburbia is a collection of stories and images of the post-1960s subcultures that define America. It’s kids taking their urethane wheels to empty pools; picking British Punk in broad downstrokes and creating Hardcore. Live…Suburbia! is dedicated to denim devils twirling butterfly knives and hasty tags thrown down with Rust-Oleum touch-up paint stolen from your parent’s garage.
Documenting American subculture through images and anecdotes, from the juvenile KISS Army in oil-based face paint to the year punk broke, Live… Suburbia! celebrates the evolution of the teenage explorer. Rushing through years packed with ninjas, spike gauntlets, BMX dirt jumps, seven-ply skateboards, bathroom mohawks, skinheads, the straight edge, basement DJs, graffiti murals behind supermarkets, we finally arrive in the 1990s where it all collides.
Many have contributed to the highlight reel of restless youth and disposable landscapes, with Foreword by The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn and photographs from JJ Gonson, Gail Rush, Rusty Moore, Michael Galinsky, Theresa Kelliher, Ryan Murphy, Justine Demetrick, Casey Chaos, Eva Talmadge and London May and dozens more discovered along the road.
Jan 29, 2012
Jan 22, 2012
"The infamous disturbing scene from the 1985 claymation film The Adventures of Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger. This scene is based on the unfinished novella The Mysterious Stranger, written of course by Mark Twain, who died before completion. Banned from many television stations."
Jan 20, 2012
Jan 16, 2012
BBC Four - Synth Brittania 2009
Documentary following a generation of post-punk musicians who took the synthesiser from the experimental fringes to the centre of the pop stage.
In the late 1970s, small pockets of electronic artists including the Human League, Daniel Miller and Cabaret Volatire were inspired by Kraftwerk and JG Ballard and dreamt of the sound of the future against the backdrop of bleak, high-rise Britain.
The crossover moment came in 1979 when Gary Numan's appearance on Top of the Pops with Tubeway Army's Are Friends Electric heralded the arrival of synthpop. Four lads from Basildon known as Depeche Mode would come to own the new sound whilst post-punk bands like Ultravox, Soft Cell, OMD and Yazoo took the synth out of the pages of the NME and onto the front page of Smash Hits.
By 1983, acts like Pet Shop Boys and New Order were showing that the future of electronic music would lie in dance music.
Contributors include Philip Oakey, Vince Clarke, Martin Gore, Bernard Sumner, Gary Numan and Neil Tennant.
Jan 15, 2012
Mix 29 Digitalis
01. Broncho "Insert Coin"
02. SKYWLKR "Grape Ape
03. Belarisk "Advanced Orbit, Decrepit Realm"
04. Cyclo "id#07"
05. The Last Electro-Acoustic Space Jazz & Percussion Ensemble "Waltz for Woody (For Woody Shaw)"
06. Freddie Gibbs "Let 'Em Burn"
07. Jerry Paper "Everything I Say"*
08. Robbie Basho "Eagle Sails the Blue Diamond Waters"
09. BlackDiscoBall "Silver Monotribes of the Moon"
10. Nova Scotian Arms "Shrine Memory"
11. The New Honey Shade "Kapok"
12. Asha "Pale"*
13. Destroyer "Blue Flower/Blue Flame"
14. Birch Cooper "'I Was a Teacher'"**
15. Oxykitten "Nar Nar Dargarstar"
16. Mondre M.A.N. "Fancy"
*-off upcoming Digitalis Ltd tapes
**-off upcoming Digitalis Ltd L
By Brad Rose
digitalis/foxy digitalis
http://foxydigitalis.com/
https://twitter.com/#!/the_north_sea
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Uranius - The Arrival
Unarius is a non-profit organization founded in 1954 in Los Angeles, California and headquartered in El Cajon, California. The organization purports to advance a new interdimensional science of life based upon fourth dimensional physics principles. Unarius centers exist in Canada, Japan, Nigeria and in various locations in the United States. Membership is unknown.
Unarius is an acronym for Universal Articulate Interdimensional Understanding of Science. The founder, and subsequent "channels" and "sub-channels", have written books filled with channeled dissertations from alleged advanced intelligent beings that exist on higher frequency planes. Over 100 volumes have been published since 1954.
Jan 14, 2012
Folk singer mysteriously disappeared, but not before he was able to record with the legendary Wrecking Crew.
Northern Soul - This England - 1977
Wigan Casino
Wigan Casino was the name of the last incarnation of a Wigan ballroom called the Empress. Local DJ Russ Winstanley and Wigan Casino manager Mike Walker approached lease owner Gerry Marshall to run all-nighters there. Walker brought Winstanley who had a DJ set at the local rugby club to the Casino Club. At 2am in the early hours of Sunday, 23rd September 1973, Wigan Casino opened its doors for its first ever Northern Soul all-nighter, with Winstanley as the DJ. Many famous soul performers performed there, including Jackie Wilson, Edwin Starr and Junior Walker.
Young people from all over the UK regularly made the trek to Wigan Casino to hear the latest Northern Soull artists and to dance. Queues to get in were sometimes five or six people deep, and stretched quite a way up the road. The second dance floor, called Mr. M's, stayed open until 6am and played oldies songs from a variety of DJs. Every all-nighter traditionally ended with three songs that became known as the 3 before 8: "Time Will Pass You By" by Tobi Legend, "Long After Tonight Is Over" byJimmy Radcliffe, and "I'm On My Way" by Dean Parrish. Parrish is still active on the northern soul circuit. Over Four Million people attended the Soul Sessions which also had early sessions every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Wigan Council owned the building and wanted to extend the nearby Civic Centre, but due to running out of cash,it never went ahead. The Club was closed 6th December 1981; that final night of Wigan Casino in its northern soul state was DJ'd by Winstanley, and the 3 before 8 were played three times consecutively at the end of the night. The crowd refused to leave, so according to Winstanley, to "break this spell of hysteria" he picked a 7" at random from his box and played that. This final Wigan Casino song became one of the most famous northern soul songs of all time ,Frank Wilson's"Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)". Annual reunions are held in Wigan and hosted by the original DJs.
The site, as of 2009, is occupied by the Grand Arcade shopping centre, which pays homage to the site with it's Casino Café copying much of this article on it's website.
