Weekender: W Rap

Lionel (vocals, perc. and electr.), Benoît (vocals, guitar) and ZZe (synthetizers, guitar) from Ptôse.

The best cover ever of Tom Tom Club's Wordy Rappinghood from 1981 by French electronic band Ptôse on a tape released on their own label.

Ptôse, W Rap (1983)

Exotica Weirdness (Large As Life)

Exotica Weirdness (Sarcelles - Sumatra)

As the Future is nothing but the Obsolete in Reverse

Lost Tapes #03: Albert Marcoeur / This Heat (1982)

This Heat / Albert Marcœur, Untitled (Cassette, Limited Edition), Tago Mago, France, 1982.
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What is That? Frank Zappa discussing Synclavier

Zeuhl Constellation Mixtape

Köhntarkösz, Live at the BBC, London, 1974 by Magma
Mekanik Machine, 1974 by Magma
Soleil D'Ork, 1978, by Jannick Top
Africa Anteria, 1972, by Univeria Zekt
Elohims Voyage, 1978, by Weidorje
Voir et Pouvoir, 1980, by Guy Skornik
Ehn Deiss, 1990, by Offering

Seven Tracks. 70' of Zeuhl Music. Mixing proto-Magma material to para- and post- Magma bands, from Vander related music to legendary tracks that were supposedely played by Magma musicians.

Can be downloaded here.

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"An uncompromising example of old school avant-garde cinema at its most cryptic, enigmatic and inscrutable": Philipe Garrel's Le Bleu des Origines (1979) starring Nico, Zouzou and Jean Seberg.

Lost Tapes #02: Steve Gunn (2007)

Steve Gunn, S/T, CD-R, 2007

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Song to Implore the End of the Winter

Alvarius B & Cerberus Shoal, Ding

Lost Tapes #01: Ilyas Ahmed & Elizabeth Harris Duo (2010)

Ilyas Ahmed & Elizabeth Harris Duo, Live at Aquarius Records Instore, San Francisco, Sunday September 5th, 2010. Initally released on Social Music Record + Tape Club.

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Level Atlas (Spring Mixtape)

 

M.C. Escher, Spheres, 1945

Roberto Cacciapaglia, Skywaves
Between, Devotion
Nuno Canavarro, Cave
Anonymous (Burundi), Akazehe
Piero Piccioni, Echoes
Slowdive, J's Heaven
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Conversations With Myself (excerpt)
Brian Briggs, Aeo
J D Emmanuel, At One Ment
Jahiliyya Fields, White Cabbage
David Borden, Esty Point, Summer 1978
Weather Report, River People
Harry Forbes, Builders 2
Michael Nyman, A Walk Through
Cosmic Analog Ensemble, Fugueur de Jour
Molly Drake, I Remember
Kevin Ayers, Girl on a Swing


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Pardon my French (StopMakingSense for Junior Aspirin Records)

Here is the podcast we recently made for our friends at Junior Aspirin Records, introduced by a text written by Dan Fox and performed by Nathaniel Mellors. It's 150min long and it features Accident Du Travail, Jean-Christophe Averty, Phillippe Besbombes, Roland Bocquet, Francois Bréant, Bertrand Burgalat, Catharsis, Jean Constantin, Vladimir Cosma, Joe Dassin, Jean Dubuffet, Fondation, Brigitte Fontaine & Areski Belkacem, Serge Gainsbourg, Raphael Gimenez et Jean-Jacques Hertz, Alain Goraguer, Pierre Henry & Michel Colombier, Michel Houellebecq, Isidore Isou, Etron Fou Leloublan, Alain Kan, Anna Karina & Philippe Katerine, Maurice Lemaitre, Magma, Albert Marcoeur, Claude Morgan, Musique Noise, Hugues O., Popera Cosmic, François De Roubaix, Henri Salvador, Erik Satie, William Sheller & Annie Girardot, Guy Skornik, Laurence Vanay, Jean-Claude Vannier, Richard Vimal and Barney Wilen.

Full tracklist and podcast download here.

The Futurologist's Lament

Ignatz, (Oh) I Know You

"..And nobody played guitar": Larry Fast's Synergy

Larry Fast on Tour with Peter Gabriel, Old Town Theater, Chicago (1980).


"Larry Fast recorded a series of pioneering synthesizer music albums under the project name Synergy. Some of this work was used as the basis for music in Commodore 64 and Amiga computer games, notably Rob Hubbard's score for the C64 version of Zoids, which was an unofficial cover of Synergy's Ancestors from the 1981 album Audion.
The first album in the series, "Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra"", was released as an LP in 1975. Like the following albums, it exclusively makes use of electronic instruments, mainly synthesizers. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Fast released eight more Synergy LPs on Passport Records, all of which were later re-released on CDs. The 1998 re-release of "Semi-Conductor", a compilation album originally released in 1984, was a remastered version of the original, and contained ten additional tracks. The eleventh album in the series, "Reconstructed Artifacts", was released in 2003, and contained completely new performances of select compositions from the previous albums, using modern digital synthesizers, as well as the new digital recording technologies.
Synergy's first album states "..and nobody played guitar." The second album, Sequencer, says "...and still no guitars." These are rumoured to be a tongue-in-cheek response to statements that appeared on albums by the rock group Queen that they used no synthesizers, which were made to inform listeners who assumed otherwise. Fast's third Synergy album, Cords, states "Finally, guitars...sort of," which references the use of a Russ Hamm Guitar Synthesizer played by Pete Sobel." (From Wikipedia)

Synergy, Legacy (1975)

A Dream within a Dream: Soft Power vol. 6

The Alan Parsons Project, A Dream Within A Dream (Instrumental)
Mike Oldfield, Ommadawn, Pt. 1
Richard Wright, Waves
Foreigner, Spellbinder
UK, Nothing to Lose
Mason & Fenn, Lie for a Lie
The Alan Parsons Project, Stereotomy (Eric Woolfson Guide Vocal)
Foreigner, Tramontane
UK, Carrying no Cross
Richard Wright, Cat Cruise
Mike Oldfield, In High Places

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Ask the Dust (Another Winter Mixtape)

Compiled in Les Cévennes. 

Jack Rose, Sunflower River Blues

John Fahey, What the Sun Said

Gunn-Truscinski Duo, Ocean Parkway

Sandy Bull, Blend II

Cian Nugent, Knots

George Cromarty, Topinambour

Mike Wexler, Glyph

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Undivided Love (Winter Mix)

Paddy McAloon, Orchid 7
Jürgen Müller, Sea Bed Meditation
The Beach Boys, 'Til I Die (Alternative Version)
Michel Moglia, Chant de l'Orgue à Feu
Maggi Payne, Gamelan
Mkwaju Ensemble, Hot Air
Ariel Kalma, Bakafrica
Matti Oiling, Africa
The Keith Tippett Group, Green And Orange Night Park
Ennio Morricone, Uccidete Il Vitello Grasso
Michel Chion, Mondnacht
Giovanni Venosta, Tango But
Jon Brooks, Spanish Moth
Accident du Travail, La Boule

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Exotica Weirdness (Garden Botanum)

Wayne Shorter, Ponta De Areia
Omar El Shariyi, Maliesh Amal
The Vibrents, The Breeze and I
Khmer Rap Boyz, Baeuk Chak

An Owl is an Owl is an Owl

From Chris Marker’s collection Bestiaire aka Petit Bestiaire (1990)