This is fun

http://lpcoverlover.com/

And this large collection of mp3s of very old 78s is astonishing (copyright should be expired on most of them, however I think it may have been slashdotted or something as not working for me right now. )

http://78records.cdbpdx.com/ ;

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Hermes says:

The covers are great. And they got me hooked on it. I want to listen to that "listen while you work" for example. Could be difficult to find that somewhere. But I'm gonna try. Thanks for the link.

But the second link doesn't work. Yahoo says "Sorry, unused". 

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ROCKNROLLPIMP says:

groovy!

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Max Load says:

Seems like the 78s collection gone. There were thousands of them.

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Hello

I've been a bit quiet for a bit. I have been reading and listening and reflecting on stuff I've seen on Mog, but not very interactive. Perhaps the disconnection of my Lithuanain music service provider has had an impact. But also a lot of the Mog chums who I used to rely on for pointers to new discoveries have been a bit quiet too. (Good to see Mr Spume back with a vengeance.)

So anyway, here's a song that pops into my head, mainly for the purposes of making a bit of a noise because I find myself alone on a Sunday evening. About which I'm not complaining. And because the drum, and much of the rest of it, kills me.

I've actually been doing a bit of work: not completely unusual. And enjoying it, which isn't  completely usual either; but I've really been having fun with it too! And reading Beckett (Molloy, with others to come.) And sorting out the great American Rail Trip. And then finding out that my landlords are selling up two weeks after I get back from Burning Man. And my woman is mostly absent, if not gone. Still mine (not in a property way, I'm sure you understand), but not much useful if not present. Still, I will be well roughed up on my return home to homelessness and I have a chum whose children would be amused to find a scruffy man living in their excellent dad's giant midlife-crisis shed for a few weeks. (We're talking two sets of patio doors with double glazing, and piano and drum kit. Perhaps I can build him an extension in lieu of rent.)

I have some well chill new headphones. The old ones are nice reference jobs, but a bit light on the bass. The new ones are little Sennheiser noise cancelling things. They make everything sound better and I feel motivated to get back to the synth doodling, perhaps with a bit more focus on subliminal sub-bass things.

Also, being a participatory sort of guy, I am wondering what me and CC2 can do to entertain ourselves and others at the Burn. (Deliberately annoying other people is an option I haven't ruled out.) I have a couple of things up my sleeve, but - Mogwise - I'm thinking about making a nano-disco. Something that will fit comfortably into a manbag. I have most of the technology - although may need to think a bit about lighting and microcosmic use of lasers. I want this to be a moving experience by which only people in the immediate vicinity are touched. You know how every nobhead with a bomobox or sound-on mobiloe phone thinks the rest of the world wants to share their life? Well that's me. But I want to do it properly. In my head, passers-by would be seared to the bone. But just touched would be sufficient.

Where Mog can help me out is on the theme sessions. I'd quite like to work up a little program of events for the nanodisco, and posssibly the most appropriate times for the events. Obviously (as old chums will know) there will be early morning raags - possibly involving me singing and CC2 looking embarassed. But there will have to be a couple of other things. Me and CC2 don't stay up too late, so I think early morning events in places full of tired looking people is the way to go.

Ultimate funk is an obvious theme - and a micro event that will certainly happen even if I am the only one there. And clearly an early morning one, if only to allow me to bother people to who have been grooving all night while I have been doing child care. Nile Rogers, Sly Stone, Parliament and George McCrae will be there. But who else ????

And electronica. Transeurope Express. Something from Neu!. But what else without getting into mindless rave? Or maybe a bit of mindlessness is needed too? Digitalism will be there - whether they like it or not.

And bossa: Is the Stan Getz Ipanema album sufficient?

And reggae: perhaps a problem due to the limitations of a restricting myself manbag size sound system?

Britrock lunch? I'm open to suggestions. Fuck the ecstatic anthems, apart from U2 (who slip through the gate in spite of being tossers). And Zep's Ramble On, which slips through due to the odd clicky drum track.

Jazz and blues I will be playing badly myself, Really. Badly. But I know know better.

Help me out pals. I want to make the best nanomanbag disco in all the world.

Join us. Join us. Join us.

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Lady Miss Ian says:

I think just coming up with the phrase "Nanomanbag Disco" is achievement enough!

You guys are ambitious, Max. I really think anything goes out there on the Playa (as it's called). It a big express yourself-a-thon. Thematically, you could work with the elements around - sand, fire, stars, psychedelic drugs, costumes. Maybe you could bring some good ol' glam rock for people to strut their stuff by torchlight?

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ivylander says:

Nice to see your avatar again. Coupla Nanobagman Disco thoughts:

1. The Drum might be an inetresting way to get some crosscultural action goin'.

2. Instead of bossa nova (and yeah, you need a lot more than Stan Getz - in fact, you may not need him at all), given the Burning Man demographic, tropicalia might be an interesting way to go....

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Max Load says:

Spooky. I just added Tropicalia to my list of things to check out a few days ago.

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