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In the years P.D. (Pre-Dangermouse)
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- Sunday 27th May 2007
Hats off to Dangermouse, who’s turned out to be one of the most successful pop producers of recent years. That Beatles thing he rigged up with the Jay-Z accappellas was plenty clever.
However.
Successful and clever as he may be, let’s not run around with the idea that he started the trend of cutting up Beatles tunes for remixing and whatnot, or even that he did it best.
Allow me to hip…
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Cats listening to music
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- Friday 25th May 2007
Has everyone seen this already? I know I saw it myself several months ago, but that was before I had a blog where I could force my taste on the world.
Quite funny. Thanks to Michele and Beth for the…
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Stein reappears on the airwaves, courtesy of WFMU
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- Thursday 24th May 2007
My show, A Rough Mix, will be returning to WFMU for the summer after a 10-year hiatus. If you’re in the NY/NJ metropolitan area, tune your FM receivers to 91.1 FM Thursdays at 7 PM. The show also streams live on the web from WFMU.org, and it’s archived there for later reference. There may be podcasts (I’m confused about this) and I may be able to link to it from this site as well, if not podcast…
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Chuck Jones, with sound effects
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- Wednesday 23rd May 2007
Witty, abstract, and completely psychedelic, Now Hear This is an apparently rare gem from director Chuck Jones of Warner Bros. fame. It’s an altogether stunning combination of gorgeous graphic design and the genius use of sound effects. And, quite possibly, drugs. Sound designer Treg Brown very much in the house.
Thanks to Rich H from WFMU, via Cartoon Brew….
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Break recipe
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- Wednesday 23rd May 2007
The Kitchen Beatbox. Excellent.
“The Electro Ffffffunk Daddy Superstar Break.”…
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Could you make it a little bit more like the demo tape?
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- Tuesday 8th May 2007
The Jackson 5 audition for Motown.
And I don’t care that the sound is beat, and that everyone else in the world has probably seen this already.
(thanks to bernardo for the…
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Back by popular demand
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- Sunday 6th May 2007
My previous Sam Ulano post, the tale of Little Red Rhumbahood, received some positive feedback, so I offer here one of the master’s lesser known gems.
From a rare instructional LP on the art of show drumming – accompanying and punctuating a live variety show with drum kit and various sound effects – Mr. Ulano expounds, sings, whistles… and drums.
Sam Ulano/The Art Of Show…
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Where are the new filmmakers coming from?
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- Sunday 6th May 2007
My friends Henry and Nancy are unchooling their 2 kids, Ray and Ada. Ray and Ada don’t attend school, but aren’t “homeschooled” in the sense of a parent standing in front of a map of the world with a pointer, while the kids sit at little desks in the kitchen and take notes, with homework to do after lunch.
Henry and Nancy serve as facilitators; they help Ray and Ada make sense of the world…
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The original Sunshine Boys
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- Sunday 6th May 2007
In Neil Simon’s screamingly funny film The Sunshine Boys, George Burns and Walter Matthau play the aging vaudeville comedy team Lewis and Clark, whose classic Dr. Kronkite sketch is one of the centerpieces of the production.
Digging through my dusty archives of spoken word and comedy, I turned up the original version of the sketch, performed by Smith and Dale (pictured), the team whose career…
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Ralphie’s Bop City Pt. 7: Letting go
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- Wednesday 2nd May 2007
My plans re: Ralphie’s have solidified somewhat; when I return from this not-so-whirlwind tour in Eire, Germany, and Switzerland, I’ll attempt to put up a separate blog and stash all the Ralphie’s material there, adding to it occasionally until I need an intern or other underpaid person to screen more tapes for posting.
This will likely be the last Ralphie’s audio until I get back. It’s a good…
