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News from the darkest corners of the
musical universe:
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Tuesday, October 31, 2006 ◦
Click here for an exclusive preview of Eddy de Clercq's Exotica Exhibition, which will be part of the mega record & cd fair on 2 and 3 december in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
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Saturday, October 28, 2006 ◦
CALLING ALL FIENDS, a collection of frightening, damaging and disturbing music conjured up for Halloween, is now available at OddioOverplay.com
http://www.oddiooverplay.com/ears/fiends/
Halloween is meant to be scary, right? Year after year we dust off the old silly novelty records. While they are fun, they not at all frightening. Oddio Overplay put the challenge to musical artists the world over to create Halloween music that is "frightening, damaging and disturbing." No "Monster Mash," instead creepy soundtracks to a fiendish Halloween. They succeeded with CALLING ALL FIENDS, a two hour collection of their original pieces.
featuring: 8m2stereo, [Not] Daniel Johnston (Daniel Johnston on piano), Brian and Harlan, Bureaucratica, Cauhaus, Click Click Click, Grant, Jeffrey Letterly, Lee Rosevere, Lenkei, Limonadiac, Mark Harvey, Mr. Fab and His Bag of Heads, Nigel Simmons, Pharmacom (aka Sascha Mueller), Rain Station, Roymond, Shirley and Spinoza, Splogman (aka Jan Turkenburg), Stealing Orchestra, Sublinear, The DVDs (includes David Baudoin), The Threshold People, The Waiters, Ton Rückert, Urban Inbreed, Weirdomusic, X-Tokyo-River-God.
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Wednesday, October 25, 2006 ◦
Our friend Pastor McPurvis informs us that he has redesigned his site and has begun sharing out-of-print albums again. Check it out for yourself at Our Lady of Perpetual Obsolescence Vinyl Rescue Mission and Orphanage.
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006 ◦
Brilliant site alert: Maiden Wine celebrates the illustrious and often misunderstood musical career of Leonard Nimoy. Here you will find everything you need to know about his music, the producers and arrangers who made it all happen, the "Nimoy-mania" that resulted in thousands of fans attending record signings, and much, much more! The site is jam packed with rare photos, sound clips, video and an original essay that will blow your mind and turn you on to the music of Leonard Nimoy. There's plenty of fun and informative pages that will satisfy the most die hard Nimoy fans and general interest seekers alike. Maiden Wine may singlehandedly redeem the reputation of Leonard Nimoy's magnificent music!
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006 ◦
On Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd December the international pop music event takes place again in the Jaarbeurs Utrecht, The Netherlands: the Mega Record & CD Fair. This biannual show - as always held in conjunction with the Collectors Fair - is renowned as the greatest record fair in the world by DJs, experts, collectors and fans of pop music. Over 500 exhibitors display the collected history of pop music from the past fifty years in the shape of singles, albums, 12-inches, CDs and DVDs. As usual the programme includes live performances, signing sessions and guest deejays. The fanclubs of major rock stars are represented and there are many pop related articles, such as posters, pictures, books and magazines.
The main attraction of the fair remains the gigantic assortment of records on offer. Partly thanks to young people's enthusiasm for deejaying vinyl is totally hot again. There is no fun without vinyl - in pubs, at parties, at home and all kinds of gatherings playing records is a must. The trendiest accessory at the last Mega Fair was the portable record player, to listen to tunes on site before buying.
The fifth Pop & Rock Memorabilia Auction is celebrated with a special selling exhibition, dedicated to the work of Dutch poster-artist Martin Kaye. Between 1972 and 1984, Kaye designed and printed over 1100 posters for concerts in Paradiso of national and international rockbands in editions of 150. Most of them were used for publicity in and around Amsterdam, so very few originals are left. In co-operation with the Martin Kaye Foundation the most beautiful 115 screenprints will be auctioned by sealed bid. At the fair Kaye's complete works will be presented on DVD with a selection of the posters shown on postcards.
The Damned is the focus of the fair's regular pop exhibition, put together by the French rockmagazine Presto. Their first single 'New Rose' came out at the end of 1976. The exhibition offers a near complete overview of all singles, LPs and CDs released world-wide by this punkband, from most European countries to South-Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. Completed by issues on coloured vinyl or rare covers and other memorabilia - such as jackets, pictures and posters.
Regular visitors of Weirdomusic.com will be delighted to know that there will also be a display of around 100 record covers with an exotic theme, selected by Dutch DJ Eddy de Clercq from his private collection.
* update: click here for an exclusive preview!
Mega Record & CD Fair 2006 in the Utrecht Jaarbeurs, the Netherlands.
Saturday, 2nd December from 9 a.m. til 6 p.m. and Sunday, December 3rd from 10 a.m. til 5 p.m. Admittance: 11 euro. For more details phone ARC Productions during office hours at 0031 229 213891, or go to www.recordplanet.nl.
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Monday, October 16, 2006 ◦
Please note: we are currently experiencing some e-mail problems. If you have recently contacted us and you haven't heard back from us, please send your message again to info@wmrecordings.com.
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Tuesday, October 10, 2006 ◦
The brand new Jean-Jacques Perrey (featuring Dana Countryman) CD The Happy Electropop Music Machine is out now! This project is an insanely happy instrumental collection of original tunes which also includes a handful of melodies by other composers. Using classic "Moog" style analog synthesizers, as well as acoustic instruments, the CD is styled to be very retro, and very happy!
Reviews and sound samples can be found here. Ordering info is here.
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Tuesday, October 03, 2006 ◦
Out now on Rykodisc: Brian Eno's 77 Million Paintings. The Limited Edition 77 Million Paintings features an exclusive interview DVD in which Brian Eno discusses his creation of the 77 Million Paintings software, the next evolutionary stage of his exploration into light as an artist's medium and the aesthetic possibilities of "generative software." This program creates a constantly evolving, slowly changing "light painting" on the screen of your computer or TV with a virtually infinite number of variations accompanied by the music of Brian Eno. This deluxe package also includes a 52-page book featuring an extensive essay by Eno.
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