Record Collecting

Here's a pretty obscure tape by Freek Kinkelaar, one half of Beequeen, who last friday played a nice concert in Tilburg. This is from the very early days of his career, when he was called Honeymoon Production, and it's music for an art installation, using animal sounds. Only a handful were made. Not on a discogs.Not for saledownload

You know how whenever anyone brings up the topic of US sonic weapons and music torture, someone always says, “What do they do, just turn on WFMU? Hahahahaha.” No? Maybe you hang out with smarter people than I do. On the other hand, WFMU has always been a leader in the irritainment industry; some of my favorite DJs, people I’ve been listening to for decades, do shows I’ve never been able to listen to all the way through. So I got to wondering—what is on the playlist when our government wants to break the will of its enemies? (“Enemies” being defined in the broadest sense, of course, in that the term has included US citizens minding their own business in their own homes.) Manuel Noriega vs. Van Halen: Noriega was Military Governor of Panama from 1984-89, when elections were held with results he didn’t like. Also, he refused to help Oliver North with the whole Nicaraguan Contra thing. (Noriega had been working with the CIA since the 1950s.) Meanwhile, US troops stationed around the Panama Canal were conducting a series of ludicrously named “operations,” and then a Marine Lieutenant got killed, and then the US invaded, which was condemned as a flagrant violation of international law by the UN. Noriega fled to the Vatican embassy in Panama City, where US troops laid siege in Operation Nifty Package. (I am not kidding about that name.) They stood around outside playing high-volume rock music, specifically the Van Halen song “Panama.” A week later, Noriega surrendered. David Koresh vs. Tibetan Monks: Koresh was the leader of a fringe Christian group called the Branch Dividians, who lived in a compound outside Waco, Texas. The group supported itself by running a retail gun business, and its gun dealers-members were always careful to have the proper paperwork to ensure everything was legal. Because of unsubstantiated rumors of other illegal activities within the compound (e.g., polygamy and statutory rape), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms composed a bogus complaint against the Davidian gun business and obtained a search warrant for the compound. When agents went to serve the warrant, on Sunday, February 28, 1993, things went very wrong: There was shooting, people died, and the FBI took over and began a siege of the compound that lasted until April 19. (For the whole story, see the film Waco: Rules of Engagement [http://www.waco93.com/] or, you know, the Wikipedia article.) During the siege, the FBI tried to “break” Koresh (whom they already considered to be crazy) by playing Tibetan religious chants at night to keep him from sleeping. Various Tibetan groups complained about this use of their sacred music.   The FBI also played Mitch Miller Christmas carols, an Andy Williams album, and Nancy Sinatra.  Gitmo Detainees vs. Bruce Springsteen: In spite of the United Nations and the European Court of Human Rights having banned the use of loud music in interrogations, the US claims it doesn’t cause any “long-term effects,” so they just keep doing it. At Guantanamo Bay (which is in Cuba—how do we have a prison in another country where we don’t even have diplomatic relations?), interrogators followed the protocols of a CIA document that specified, for example, that music “as loud as a jackhammer” could be played for up to two hours while a prisoner lay chained to the floor, naked and defecating on himself. Interrogators believed that “culturally offensive” music was especially effective, so from at least 2003 to 2008 the Gitmo playlist included songs by Metallica, AC/DC, Eminem, Christina Aguilera, and—of course!—Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA.”   Abu Ghraib, et al. vs. Barney the Dinosaur: In addition to what went on/is going on at Gitmo, Amnesty International and the International Red Cross have both documented ongoing torture of prisoners in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan. So has just about everyone else: Starting in 2004, there was

LITTLE FEAT Feats Don't Fail Me Now Rare 80s UK limited edition Nimbus Records Supercut pressing of the 1974 8-track LP, with 'Nimbus England' stamper in the run-out groove, gold embossed picture sleeve. This edition was mastered and pressed exclusively for readers of Practical Hi-Fi magazine & available by mail order only. The sleeve shows minimal shelfwear and the vinyl is in wonderful near 'as new' condition.   THE STAN TRACEY BIG BAND Alice In Jazz Land Rare 1966 UK 8-track mono vinyl LP, Stan's follow-up to the classic Under Milk Wood quartet recording, this time written for a big band featuring many of the leading jazz musicians in Britain of the era, including Ronnie Scott, Bobby Wellins, Tubby Hayes, Kenny Wheeler, Alan Branscombe, and Kenny Baker, the first time Tracey recorded an entire LP of his own arrangements for a group this size, front laminated flipback picture sleeve. Both sleeve & vinyl remain in excellent condition, with the sleeve showing only minor shelfwear & the vinyl showing little sign of play and sounds beautiful. Highly recommended!   BILL HALEY & THE COMETS Live It Up! Rare 1955 UK first issue gold lettering London label 8-track 10" vinyl album, featuring the debut release from Bill and his boys. Make sure your seatbelt is well and truely tightened as you go on a whistle-stop tour of some of the finest pioneering 'teenage' sounds around! Banging, crashing and hollering through classics such as Rocking Chair On The Moon, Rock The Joint and Ten Little Indians in a style which the sleeve clearly states is "not quiteanything for which there is a standard definition". The fully laminated scallop flipback picture sleeve displays only minor 'hints' that this is fast approaching its sixtieth birthday with only light age yellowing and the start of a small seam split to the top edge. The vinyl has clearly been played and as such has few cosmetic marks and will exhibit some surface noise and is graded VG/VG-. This is your chance to grab a respectable copy of this sought-after gem that spawned an entire generation and inspired many decades of artists that came after it!

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A bit of an obscure LP this I picked up at the boot sale this week. Made for the evn more obscure Sunrise label in 1984. An American ,Bill Zorn, teamed up with a comedian Jon Benns to form Bill & Benns back in the 70's but they passed me by I must admit. The Lp though is a bit of a curates egg - some great tracks and some that are not so great!Bill Zorn seems to have gone back to the states in the 90's and joined The Limelighters. This is from their website -"Bill was born in May, 1948. In 1970, after studying music and drama at Arizona State University, Bill earned a place with The New Christy Minstrels where he performed, directed and toured from Viet Nam to the White House (twice) for four years. A contact of Bill's from hosting a TV talk show was a then unknown singer, Kenny Rogers. Rogers told Bill there was an opening upcoming in the New Christy Minstrels. Bill informs us, "I replaced a guy named Byron Walls, who wrote one of Glen Yarbrough's signature songs, "Grandma's Letter." This was maybe the fourth generation of the group by that time, and I stayed with them for four years as their musical director. My brother was also in the group, and it was a great experience for us."Then he became a banjo-playing full member of The Kingston Trio for three years. Bill says, "It was three years of full throttled, non-stop fun - like a Mardi Gras that never ends. But it was also lots and lots of travel and after a time I had to admit to myself that I just couldn't keep up with the pace. Remember, I had just come off of four years of the same with the Christy's. Every fiber of me was exhausted. I finally had to say to myself it's stay in the group and die, so I decided to take up my brother on his offer come have a good rest at this place in England."Bill's move to England in 1977 didn't stop him from performing, and while there he recorded a hit single with his brother called "Car '67." He has also had his share of television acting, voice-over work, and comedy, gained by teaming up with British comedian Jon Benns to form the successful duo "Bill and Benns" in England. In 1995, while still in England, Bill produced a Glenn Yarbrough album called Chantyman."Tracks are as follows - 1. Wake Up 2. Conversation Piece 3. Billboards 4. Prune Pit Jackson 5. Luang Prabang 6. Oh Lord, When I DieBill & Benns - Side One

Having completed the vinyl that I had digitized, it's time to return to cassettes, perhaps the format I love best. Someone asked me wether I had this, and I did have it, also as a MP3, but maybe it was time to do a fresh rip, in 320 kbps. This is it. Quite a well-known compilation: six hours of music with a fine cast of players.infodownload

Library music LP found at car boot on Sunday for a quid. Has apparently been used numerous times for mixes - Aphex Twin in particular used the track "Evil At Play". Other intriguing tune titles are Wonderment Chord, Voices From The Other Side, Attack and Kill, Satanic Rites and Raw Nerves."Founded in 1810 as a music publisher and piano manufacturer. In 1941 Chappell & Co. formed the recording company Chappell Recorded Music, which focused on library music."Tracks are as follows -1. Slimey Creatures2. Attack & Kill3. Rejected Wife4. Oh For The Wings Of A Dove5. Darkness & Light6. CarefreeChappell AV Series - Voices

MIKE OLDFIELD Tubular Bells 1973 UK first press black & white 'two virgins & dragon' label LP, the classic instrumental work fom Oldfield, and the first to be released on Virgin. The heavyweight fully laminated sleeve shows minimal shelfwear andthe vinyl is flawless. This album took over a year to catch on, so these first early pressings are becoming ever more desirable, especially in such beautiful condition as this!   THE BEATLES Please Please Me Rare 1970 UK issue of the 1963 14-track stereo LP on the two boxed EMI logo label with 'Gramophone Co' perimeter text, front laminated flipback picture sleeve WITHOUT 'stereo' logo on the front of the sleeve.The sleeve shows minimal shelfwear & the vinyl looks barely played.   JUICY LUCY Who Do You Love 1969 UK wide centred 'A' label demonstration 7" for the single release, with release date of 6.2.70 on the label, also featuring Walking Down The Hiughway, Vertigo company die cut paper sleeve. The vinyl is strictly graded VG-/VG, it has obviously been played a few times and has noticeable surface marks, but plays without a problem with only the odd pop or crackle. A respectable copy of this hard to find pressing.

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