Three different buskers encountered in quick succession while wandering through Macclesfield shopping precinct.
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The Happiness Patrol.
Experimental Bollocks, Godawful Noise Music and Intermittent Waffle.
From High Peak, Derbyshire, England.
Friday, 25 May 2012
Monday, 30 April 2012
10 Favourite Albums: #1 "Weird & Wonderful Natural Sounds" (BBC Wildlife Magazine 199?)
Inspired by a recent pub conversation about a previous pub conversation I have decided to do something I promised myself I would never ever use this blog for: That being using it to show the 3 or 4 people who stumble across this thing every month what good taste in music I have...
I found this cassette in Hyde Willow Hospice Shop about 3 years ago, paid my 25p and took it home to languish on the shelf until I bothered playing it a month or so later.
Big mistake.
Like many a British charity shop scavenger (and even after my most recent attempted vinyl cull) I still have literally dozens of BBC LPs, 7"s, Cassettes, CDs and a couple of 12" of variable quality and interest lurking in the, often lesser loved, corners of my collection, heck I even already have the odd BBC wildlife sounds LP (this one, this one and this one for example), but this one is something else.
This is one of the few recordings I own where I can't really make any audio connection between anything else in my collection, sure it's a magazine freebie (cheapie?) but that don't stop it being in my opinion the greatest nature recording album of all time. Yes, even better than the marvelous and rightly famous Smithsonian Folkways: Sounds of North American Frogs LP from 1958.
Of course that is also a problem in that I am piss poor at descriptive writing (I shalt never be no Lester Bangs) and as this album has no Google footprint whatsoever it's impossible for me to find the actual mp3s for your enjoyment. Sorry about that.
However while my next review will come complete with sound and video clips you'll have to make do with me telling you that with tracks averaging out at a hypnotic 1min 20sec (bare in mind many sounds heard are 3 to 5 second cycles) this often very odd album is one to let wash over you.
Lastly the people I was with accused me of being deliberately obscure and arcane for the sake of trying to be different. Bullshit. Just because this was the first album to come to mind when choosing my faves doesn't mean it's necessarily my all time favourite. Having already chosen the other 9 records for this list I can guarantee that most readers will have heard, or at least be aware of, a good 70% of the artists featured.
Next time: My considered defense of "nothing special"
Big mistake.
Like many a British charity shop scavenger (and even after my most recent attempted vinyl cull) I still have literally dozens of BBC LPs, 7"s, Cassettes, CDs and a couple of 12" of variable quality and interest lurking in the, often lesser loved, corners of my collection, heck I even already have the odd BBC wildlife sounds LP (this one, this one and this one for example), but this one is something else.
This is one of the few recordings I own where I can't really make any audio connection between anything else in my collection, sure it's a magazine freebie (cheapie?) but that don't stop it being in my opinion the greatest nature recording album of all time. Yes, even better than the marvelous and rightly famous Smithsonian Folkways: Sounds of North American Frogs LP from 1958.
Of course that is also a problem in that I am piss poor at descriptive writing (I shalt never be no Lester Bangs) and as this album has no Google footprint whatsoever it's impossible for me to find the actual mp3s for your enjoyment. Sorry about that.
However while my next review will come complete with sound and video clips you'll have to make do with me telling you that with tracks averaging out at a hypnotic 1min 20sec (bare in mind many sounds heard are 3 to 5 second cycles) this often very odd album is one to let wash over you.
Lastly the people I was with accused me of being deliberately obscure and arcane for the sake of trying to be different. Bullshit. Just because this was the first album to come to mind when choosing my faves doesn't mean it's necessarily my all time favourite. Having already chosen the other 9 records for this list I can guarantee that most readers will have heard, or at least be aware of, a good 70% of the artists featured.
Next time: My considered defense of "nothing special"
Sunday, 29 April 2012
Another Track Finished
Here's a new track called "The Five Ways (Maccelsfield Road)"
It took me 70 minutes to make last night. It's really stupid and pointless.
Here's a free download.
Enjoy.
Monday, 12 March 2012
Sunday, 29 January 2012
Noises, Chatter and Some Guy Humming Strangely To Himself 1201pm through 1208pm on the Bredbury to Marple Train 22nd January 2012
Pretty much what it says above
Got on this train last week and as soon as I sat down I noticed a strange almost throat singing-esque hum which I took to be a rather pleasant sounding mechanical fault, so I decided to record it on my phone.
After a moment or two I realized that it was actually a guy sat near the front of the carriage intermittently humming to himself. Which was a little odd.
Sorry about the shite sound quality and the fact you can barely hear him.
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Got on this train last week and as soon as I sat down I noticed a strange almost throat singing-esque hum which I took to be a rather pleasant sounding mechanical fault, so I decided to record it on my phone.
After a moment or two I realized that it was actually a guy sat near the front of the carriage intermittently humming to himself. Which was a little odd.
Sorry about the shite sound quality and the fact you can barely hear him.
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Sunday, 1 January 2012
At Last, The Happiness Patrol Release Some Music...
...but it's only a solitary mp3 so don't get to excited.
It's called "The World Ends With a Whimper Not a Bang"
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It's called "The World Ends With a Whimper Not a Bang"
Listen to and Download from the Archive.org
Sunday, 4 December 2011
"Bang Out of Order" by Simon Morris
Unattributed but almost definitely the work of Simon Morris of the brilliant Ceramic Hobs this 24 page booklet is a document of the early 1980's Power Electronics scene and contains both a hilarious and shocking account of the rise and fall of fictional PE band Hitler Rally as well as a potted history of all the scenes major players (and many not so major players) with the odd bit of actual PE ephemera thrown in for good measure.
Having not lived through this period and having only a very limited knowledge of the music, this booklet almost makes me wish I had and certainly makes me long for the pre-Paypal, pre-My Space (remember them?), pre-blog, pre-Sound Cloud days of D-90s and the actual writing and posting of letters and cheques rather than all this "add to basket" bollocks.
Disclaimer 1: Contains (not that kind of) adult content. Reader discretion advised.
Disclaimer 2: Pages 2 and 23 are missing from the zip as they are blank blue cardboard.
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