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Club d'Elf
7 months ago

Artist: Club d'ElfAlbum: Live NYC 4/20/2000Track: Bass Beatbox(Note: Abandoned the upload after two tries - sorry. Yellow button this time round.)Club d'Elf is a Boston-based band led by bassist Mike Rivard. They've just released three two-CD live sets---recorded at the Knitting Factory in New York City in 2000, at Vassar College Chapel in 2001 and in Athens, GA, in 2002—on Kufala Records.T.

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Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense and Peppermints
7 months ago

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The son and daughter of the milk
7 months ago

COSAlbum: Postaeolian Train RobberyTrack: Populi Perhaps Strangeby Kurt SchwittersThe world is full of goods trainsThe passengers are cowsAnd milk and butter.And cheese and lovely marmeladeAnd bulls and horses,And cocks and hens.The cow is mother to the milk,And grandma both to cheese and butter.The cheese is cousin to the marmelade.The horse is cousin to the cockThe hen lays eggs.The egg is ...

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There are also sexes fresh as running water...
7 months ago

Album: The Now Sound of the Ray Rivera OrchestraTrack: Sumptin' Like Dat+Making Feet and Handsby Benjamin PéretEye standing up eye lying down eye sittingWhy wander about between two hedges made of stair-rails while the ladders become soft as new-born babesas zouaves who lose their homeland with their shoes Why raise one's arms towards the sky since the sky has drowned itself without rhyme or ..

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Cosmic Tango
8 months ago

Ash Ra Tempel - Cosmic TangoFrom Starring Rosi (1973)Manuel Göttsching (guitar, vocals, bass, piano, mellotron, congas, synthesizer) Rosi (voice, vibraphone, concert harp) Harald Grosskopf (drums) Dieter Dierks (bass, persussion)Kaleidoscope created with Vuvox

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We're so happy we can hardly count
8 months ago

Have a CigarCome in here, Dear boy, have a cigar. You're gonna go far, You're gonna fly high, You're never gonna die, You're gonna make it, if you try; They're gonna love you. Well I've always had a deep respect, And I mean that most sincere. The band is just fantastic, that is really what I think. Oh by the way, which one's Pink? And did we tell you the name of the game, boy? We ca...

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We didn't come all this way just to give up
8 months ago
  • Artist:
    Gil Scott-Heron / Brian Jackson
  • Album:
    Midnight Band: The First Minute of a New Day
  • Track:
    Must Be Something

If you're considering digging into the stack of Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson reissues, this is the place to start. First Minute is one fantastic, seminal album--just bursting with Jackson's serious piano, Bilal Sunni Ali's deluxe woodwinds, and Barnett Williams and Charlie Saunders's relentless percussion. The entire Midnight Band, in fact, positively struts, cajoles, and freaks the funk ...

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The Mars Express
9 months ago

What happened to Beagle 2?The robotic space craft Beagle 2 touched down on mars on Christmas Day 2003, but it never sent back a radio signal to say that it had survived the landing.It may have been destroyed in a crash or had a computer or battery power problem.Scientists tried really hard to contact the probe, but they never found out what went wrong.Beagle 2 travelled to Mars aboard its mothe...

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The other Buddha is better than the real Buddha
11 months ago
  • Artist:
    Henry Miller and David Love Jones
  • Track:
    Siddhartha

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.Henry MillerTrack: Siddhartha | David Love Jones (more lit mixes available at the link)

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The Humblers
11 months ago
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  • Album:
    Comic al Parlance
  • Track:
    Voice of a Generation

"Sir you are not the voice of this generation, of this decade. In fact with all the auto tuning on your records you're barely the voice of your own albums."— Stephen Colbert, in reference to Kanye West saying "I will go down as the voice of this generation."via youwontfindhiminchina

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