This blog is dedicated to oddities and rarities I find through travelling always on the lookout for records of a special nature. I created this blog as a counterpart for my other blog Archaic Inventions. Everything that for some reason doesn’t fit in that blog will be presented here. Sometimes I will post very local stuff you can only appreciate if you understand that certain language, for instance a play. Nevertheless those records have great importance. Sometimes because of their high cultural value, sometimes deviancy or because of a what the fuck this cannot exist factor. Expect collage of releases ranging from Latin American music made in Eastern Europe, advertisements, Exotica, Jazz, Folk, Nueva Canción, wacked out easy listening, political oddities, animal sounds and my collection of medical records. Some things will be actually very good musically, other recordings will be utterly weird or cheesy. Some things can’t even be considered music. This blog is a combination between great music I need to rescue from the past not fitting in my other blog and a historical perspective on the vinyl as a medium for sound.
Probably it
will be hard to follow this blog because there will be absolutely no consistency
of styles. However, that is exactly what I intend with this blog. Just see what
comes next and hopefully it causes a smile relating to the greatness or idiocy
we humans were able to create on this planet. Have fun on this transnational express through obscurities of the past!
Thanks for your 2 blogs, Bence - just stumbled over them while on the hunt for an old Harry Spaarnay record - and I found it on "Archaic Inventions" - BEDANKT! :)
ReplyDeleteI like your style and your very personal picks - transnational express through obscurities, I wanna ride along, too :)
I'm especially thrilled by the vinyl-rips of Dutch Avantgarde composers.
Good lucky,
Lucky
Dankjewel! Leuk om te horen!
DeleteI´ve been following your blog too already years ago. That was the first place where I was able to find all the rare Instant Composers Pool records and more!
It's an honor!
Cheers,
Bence
Cheers, Bence - now the old ICP albums are out in a big CD/DVD-box, but to share those old vinyl-rips sure was a big thrill, same with the Claxon's, these are my true loves of Dutch music, Maarten Altena and Guus Janssen and their early ensembles, and Misha Mengelberg forever. :)
DeleteI will link to your blogs from the one I just have, although I'm on a halt right now.
Salut! :)