The Sounds of Hot Chile

FIESTA EXÓTICA! Sampler

Skulos Surf Power Trio

Los Vibradores

Los Carburadores

2009

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Served by the exotic Ladypuaj. Besos!

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Nice little EP showcasing some of the talent at last weeks Fiesta Exotica show in Santiago, Chile. With this kind of line-up it's sounds like I missed a great one! Have a nice cool libation and listen to the hot sounds of Surf de Chile'.

Salude!

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Tracklist:

1 Skualos Surf Power Trio - Indio Pistolero

2 Skualos Surf Power Trio - Chocota Beach

3 Los Vibradores - El Intrascendente Momento En Que El Hedonista Pensó En Rehacer Su Vida Y Luego Se Arrepintió

4 Los Vibradores - Entre Coagulos De Sangre Y Gritos Desgarradores Nace La Guagua De La Mujer Gallina

5 Los Carburadores - Intro

6 Los Carburadores - Eres Un Rockers

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Get it HERE

Don't Touch That Dial!

Los Straitjackets

Mas alla del Limite

2008

Only @ 128 but well worth the d/l
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Served courtesy of surfmexico. Gracias mi amigo.
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The album called "The Outer Limits", second live album, and album that was done in Mexico and also was distributed only in Mexico ...

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With the cover art by Jorge Alderete http://www.jorgealderete.com/

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Edited by Isotonic Records (2008) http://www.myspace.com/isotonicrecords

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Recorded at the Great American Music Hall San Francisco, California
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"Nothing is happening to your TV. Now we control the transmission. We can make you see anything that our imagination conceives. During the next hour will control everything you see and hear. You are about to experience the vertigo of the mystery expands from the depths of his mind to beyond the limit ... "

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Tracklist:

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1- intro

2- outta gear

3- state fair

4- casbah

5- calhoun surf

6- itchy chicken

7- can you dig it?

8- kawanga

9- university blvd.

10- rockula

11- isn't love grand

12- tempest

13- tailspin

14- pacifica

15- sing sing sing

16- out of limits

17- theme from magnificent 7

18- theme from midnight cowboy

19- batman

20- sleepwalk

21- telstar

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Get it HERE

Another Wasted Friday Night

And I thought I tied on a few in my younger days.....!

Can you just imagin the pounder he's going to have in the morning?

Ouch!!!!

Remember This One?

Space

Spiders (Intercord Edition)

1997

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Heard the tune The Female of The Species in the background of the recent Brit zombie/comedy movie DogHouse. I used to have it somewhere but had to go dig for it in outer space. Still a very cool song.

Review by Alex Henderson
Quirky and often highly clever, Space had one of the most appealing alternative rock releases of 1996 in Spiders -- which grossed some listeners out with a cover depicting tarantulas. This eccentric, risk-taking band (not to be confused with the late-'70s disco group Space) doesn't take itself too seriously, and brings an enjoyably twisted sense of humor to such goofy numbers as "Female of the Species" (an ode to a lover who practices witchcraft), "Mr. Psycho," and "Voodoo Roller." Space's inspirations range from hip-hop to brooding East European folk, which is incorporated with inspired results on "Money" and "Lovechild of the Queen." To be sure, the rockers can be overly self-indulgent, but like Frank Zappa and George Clinton, generally use their eccentricity advantageously. [Intercord reissued the album as a 14-track edition in 1997.]

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Tracklist:

1 Neighbourhood

2 Mister Psycho

3 Female of the Species

4 Money

5 Me & You vs. The World

6 Lovechild of the Queen

7 No-One Understands

8 Voodoo Roller

9 Drop Dead

10 Dark Clouds

11 Major Pager

12 Kill Me

13 Charlie M

14 Growler

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Get it HERE

Sorry To See You Go Soupy

R.I.P. Soupy

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Another individual who left a big impression on my wee younger years, gone.

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Pie-splattered comedian Soupy Sales dies at 83

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DETROIT – Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, has died. He was 83.
Sales died Thursday night at Calvary Hospice in the Bronx, New York, said his former manager and longtime friend, Dave Usher. Sales had many health problems and entered the hospice last week, Usher said.
At the peak of his fame in the 1950s and '60s, Sales was one of the best-known faces in the nation, Usher said.
"If President Eisenhower would have walked down the street, no one would have recognized him as much as Soupy," Usher said.
At the same time, Sales retained an openness to fans that turned every restaurant meal into an endless autograph-signing session, Usher said.
"He was just good to people," said Usher, a former jazz music producer who managed Sales in the 1950s and now owns Detroit-based Marine Pollution Control.
Sales began his TV career in Cincinnati and Cleveland, then moved to Detroit, where he drew a large audience on WXYZ-TV. He moved to Los Angeles in 1961.
The comic's pie-throwing schtick became his trademark, and celebrities lined up to take one on the chin alongside Sales. During the early 1960s, stars such as Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis and Shirley MacLaine received their just desserts side-by-side with the comedian on his television show.
"I'll probably be remembered for the pies, and that's all right," Sales said in a 1985 interview.
Sales was born Milton Supman on Jan. 8, 1926, in Franklinton, N.C., where his was the only Jewish family in town. His parents, owners of a dry-goods store, sold sheets to the Ku Klux Klan. The family later moved to Huntington, W.Va.
His greatest success came in New York with "The Soupy Sales Show" — an ostensible children's show that had little to do with Captain Kangaroo and other kiddie fare. Sales' manic, improvisational style also attracted an older audience that responded to his envelope-pushing antics.
Sales, who was typically clad in a black sweater and oversized bow-tie, was once suspended for a week after telling his legion of tiny listeners to empty their mothers' purse and mail him all the pieces of green paper bearing pictures of the presidents.
The cast of "Saturday Night Live" later paid homage by asking their audience to send in their joints. His influence was also obvious in the Pee-Wee Herman character created by Paul Reubens.
Sales returned from the Navy after World War II and became a $20-a-week reporter at a West Virginia radio station. He jumped to a DJ gig, changed his name to Soupy Heinz and headed for Ohio.
His first pie to the face came in 1951, when the newly christened Soupy Sales was hosting a children's show in Cleveland. In Detroit, Sales' show garnered a national reputation as he honed his act — a barrage of sketches, gags and bad puns that played in the Motor City for seven years.
After moving to Los Angeles, he eventually became a fill-in host on "The Tonight Show."
He moved to New York in 1964 and debuted "The Soupy Sales Show," with co-star puppets White Fang (the meanest dog in the United States) and Black Tooth (the nicest dog in the United States). By the time his Big Apple run ended two years later, Sales had appeared on 5,370 live television programs — the most in the medium's history, he boasted. He had a pair of albums that hit the Billboard Top 10 in 1965; "Do the Mouse" sold 250,000 copies in New York alone.
Sales remained a familiar television face, first as a regular from 1968-75 on the game show "What's My Line?" and later appearing on everything from "The Mike Douglas Show" to "The Love Boat." He played himself in the 1998 movie "Holy Man," which starred Eddie Murphy.
He joined WNBC-AM as a disc jockey in 1985, a stint best remembered because Sales filled the hours between shock jocks Don Imus and Howard Stern.
Sales is survived by his wife, Trudy, and two sons, Hunt and Tony, a pair of musicians who backed David Bowie in the band Tin Machine.

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Always Have Fun!

No Big Thang!

With all of the worry and wringing of hands that has been going on over the last few weeks, the "big purge" on Rapidshare was a mere plink. In total I "lost" 22 files that had not been downloaded in the last 90 days, 99% of which were one shot files that I had done for friends and smaller mail-outs. It was a needed clean-up that I had just not botherd with.

At this time Rapidshare is telling us that as long as a file is active within that 90 day window all is good. With over 725 files up and only loosing 22 I'm feeling pretty damn good about it. It also shows that the majority of the posts, some over 2 1/2 years old, are still being downloaded and enjoyed.

Thanks for checking the archives for buried treasure.

p.s. I did notice that the beginning of the Ultra Lounge series is hitting the 60 day window. If you have missed any of these gems, jump on them soon.

Later

T

What You Get When You Rub 4 Dimes Together

The Dimes

New England EP

2008

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Based on real stories and events born of and around Boston, Massachusetts, this 4-song EP, titled "New England," is rich with texture and an consistent pastoral thread, complete with mandolins, acoustic guitars, stomps, claps, banjos, melodicas and more pop-laden harmonies than you'll know what to do with. The record reveals a glimpse of the latest material from The Dimes, whom are currently working on a new full-length record based of the same themes, due out Summer 2009. The New England EP also contains a special John Lennon cover of Watching the Wheels - a song that is near and dear to Dimes singer-songwriter, Johnny Clay's heart.

Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, The Dimes are a quirky, harmony-driven, indie-pop five-piece with influences and sounds-like comparisons ranging from The Decemberists to Iron and Wine, Spoon, Tom Petty, and even The Beatles.

The band's 2007 debut, The Silent Generation, captured widespread praise and acclaim from SPIN, Magnet, Under the Radar, NPR, The BBC, USA Today, MTV.com and made some rather big waves on music blogs everywhere, both in the United States and in Europe. The album's singles, "Catch Me Jumping" and "Paul Kern Can't Sleep" have been darlings of multiple commercial licenses, including several MTV and NBC shows, and some independent films.

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Tracklist:

1 The Liberator

2 Clara

3 Ballad of Winslow Homer

4 Watching The Wheels

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Get it HERE

Something To Move Your Meat

DJ AldoX
Commercial & Electro Bangers House Mix
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My friend DJ AldoX is at it again.
He's been burning up the airwaves with this new mix on DJ James Leo's "Pure Sessions" radio show this weekend. Put some thump in your rump with a solid hour of these bangin' beats.

Listen and download HERE

Tracklist:

(((((Intro)) Sigue Sigue Sputnik – Rockit Miss USA ((Intro)))))

1. Pepper Mashay - Freeway Of Love (Steely M. & Cary)

2. Laura Izibor – Shine (Digital Dog)

3. Jada – American Cowboy

4. Horny Utd – L.O.I (Mike Candys & Christopher S.)

5. David Guetta – Grrrr

6. Amy Pearson - Butterfingers (Wawa)

7. Muttonheads - Shine Blue (Ermac)

8. Stefy De Cicco Ft. Tom Stone - Keep on Jumpin’ (Elegance)

9. Madonna – Celebration (Felguk)

10. Chipmunk – Oopsy Daisy (Digital Dog)

11. Dizzee Rascal – Holiday (Liam Keegan)

12. Cobra Starship - Good Girls Go Bad (Mike Rizzo)

13. Alexandra Burke ft Flo-Rida – Bad Boys (Moto Blanco)

14. David Jordan - Dont Wanna Hear You Say (Wideboys Stadium)

15. Trilogy - Nobodys Business (7th Heaven)

16. Shanie – Piano In The Dark (7th Heaven)

17. Leggz ft Stephanie– La La La – (BIB Dub)

18. Wayne vs Raindropz - Numb (Alex Gap Tratment)

19. David Guetta ft Will-i am - On The Dancefloor (Extended)

20. Kathy Brown - Turn Me Out (Alex Chief 2009)

21. Taio Cruz - Break My Heart (Cassette Club)

22. Marc Mysterio - Sunshine (Playmaker)

23. Natalie Imbruglia – Want (Shapeshifters)

24. Laidback Luke - My G.O.D

25. Neelix - Disco Decay (Felguk)

26. Ariana - Do You See It (Giuseppe D)

27. Flo Rida & Nelly Furtado - Jump (Chocolate Puma)

((((Outro Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Sex Bomb Boogie Sample))))
Mix Length 1hour @192kbps

The Band Who Would Not Sing

The Charles Napiers

Killing Time

2008

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The Charles Napiers were a 'Mondo Wray' instrumental band that existed from 1991 to 2005. In those 14 years we NEVER played a single vocal number. Can you name any other instrumental band who resisted the temptation of the microphone for that length of time? No, thought not. And other than a couple of regrettable drunken occasions, we never spoke between songs. The reason why? Because there's nothing worse than watching a decent band on stage but having to put up with some tool saying 'This next one's called blah blah blah, hope you like it' or some similar cobblers.

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Tracklist:

01. Harry Sledge [Toe Rag 1994]
02. Moon Over Shoreditch [Toe Rag 1994]
03. Blue Onions [Toe Rag 1994]
04. Don Juan [Toe Rag 1994]
05. Sultan Of Sentiment [Toe Rag 1994]
06. Eight Minus One [Toe Rag 1995]
07. Things've Changed Round Here [Toe Rag 1995]
08. Rianna Scipio Theme [Toe Rag 1994]
09. The Green Ray [Toe Rag 1996]
10. Dragnet [Toe Rag 1996]
11. Full Inch Of Tongue [Toe Rag 1995]
12. Bounds Green City Limits [Toe Rag 1995]
13. Faceful Of Pasta [Toe Rag 1996]
14. The Missing Link [Toe Rag 1995]

15. The Sinister IV [Pathway 1998]
16. Fucked Up Fords [Pathway 1998]

17. The Jap Spy [Pathway 1998]
18. Eat Lead [Pathway 1998]

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Get it HERE

Back With The Black Angels

The Black Angels

Directions To See A Ghost

2008

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Review by Stewart Mason
Name yourselves after one of the Velvet Underground's most aggressively amelodic songs and package your second album in an op art burnt orange and chartreuse freakout and you'd better be able to deliver the psych-drone goods. What's most impressive about the Black Angels' Directions to See a Ghost is that not only does the Austin-based sextet deliver like few bands have been able to manage since Spacemen 3 split -- see the dark, doomy "Science Killer" and the epic 16-minute closer "Snake in the Grass" for details -- but the group also leavens its heaviness with a functioning knowledge of pop hooks and how to deploy them: as a result, songs like "You in Color" and "You on the Run" not only buzz and howl in a manner suitable for nodding along, they're also unexpectedly catchy in a style reminiscent of Love or the Doors. The sitar-laced two-chord stomp of "Never/Ever" sits comfortably alongside the post-punky desperation of "Doves," testament to the variety of sounds and moods the Black Angels squeeze out of their chosen idiom. This is the sort of psychedelia that space rockers and Nuggets fans alike can come together over.

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Tracklist:

1 You on the Run

2 Doves

3 Science Killer

4 Mission District

5 18 Years

6 Deer-Ree-Shee

7 Never/Ever

8 Vikings

9 You in Color

10 The Return

11 Snake in the Grass

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Get it HERE

Echo Of Dub

Dub Syndicate

Echomania

1994

Only @ 128 but still kickin'

Review by Rick Anderson
This disc finds Dub Syndicate back to full strength. Thanks to an all-too-brief distribution arrangement with Restless Records in the U.S., this is one On-U title that should be relatively easy to find in the States, and it will make a fine introduction for newcomers to the band's strange but wonderful art. Drummer "Style" Scott and bassist "Flabba" Holt keep everyone together with monstrous reggae riddims, while Adrian Sherwood tears things up around them from his perch at the mixing board. Lee "Scratch" Perry makes a couple of hilarious cameo appearances, in one case sentencing all "heads of government" to "poverty and famine and hardship and bad luck." When guitarist Skip McDonald sings, you can hear echoes of his past work with Tackhead and intimations of what will come with Strange Parcels. Everywhere the rhythms are airtight and relentlessly propulsive. One song manages to quote successfully the American gospel standard "Walking in Jerusalem Just Like John." A rare and wonderful recording.

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Tracklist:

1 Roots Commandment

2 Dubbing Psycho Thriller

3 Dubaddisababa

4 Walking Jerusalem

5 No No

6 '93 Struggle

7 2001 Love

8 What Happened ?

9 Green Stick

10 Rock Back

11 Echomania

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Get it HERE

Dub Out To Your Hearts Content

Dub Anthology

4 CD Set

2007

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French only four CD set filled with massive Dub experiments by some of the greatest names in the genre including Lee Perry, Mad Professor, Roots Manuva, Sugar Minott and more. This set contains four separate discs, each featuring 15 tracks: Dub Roots, International Dub, French Scene and Nouvelle Scene. This set also features Dub from Scientist, Tosca, High Tone, Zenzile, Ez3kiel, Fedayi Pacha, Casuality and Jah Mason.

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Tracklist:

1. Cassava Piece - Augusto Pablo

2. Hungry Belly Dub - King Tubby

3. Baby I Love You So - Jacob Miller

4. Goldmine - The Revolutionaires

5. Dub Of Gold - Sly & Robbie

6. Tell Me Why - Horace Andy

7. Jah Marley - The Abyssinians

8. President In Dub - U Brown

9. Slavery Dub - Skin Flesh & Bones

10. Lying Girl Dub - Leroy Sibbles & Roots Radics

11. Half Dub - Dennis Brown

12. Let Go The Dread - Sugar Minott

13. Realise - Glen Brown

14. Get Up, Stand Up Dub - The Wailers

15. Bird In Hand - Lee Perry & The Upsetters

16. Asian Dub Foundation - Jericho

17. Roots Manuva - Witness Dub

18. Bush Chemist - East Of Jaro

19. Rhythm & Sound - Mango Drive

20. Junkyard Productions - Sister Let Him Go

21. Alpha & Omega - Rastafari (From Watch And Pray)

22. Iration Steppas - Wat Dem A Go When Di Right Time Come Dub

23. Dr. Isral - Survivor

24. Oku Onuoara - Sun Dub (Solar Dub)

25. Funki Porcini - Dubble

26. Burnt Friedman & The Nu Dub Players - Worldwide Watchdog Peepshow

27. Lotek Hi-Fi - Different Style

28. Twilight Circus Ft. Ranking Joe - Don't Follow Babylon

29. Thievery Corporation - The Outernationalist

30. Tosca - Annanas (G-Corporation Dub)

31. High Tone - Bad Weather

32. Zenzile Ft. Jamika - Smell The Roses

33. Improvisators Dub Meets The Disciples - Bass-Batt

34. Ez3kiel Ft. Anglique Wilkie - Phantom Land

35. Kanka Ft. MC Oliva - A Ticket To Die?

36. Yosh Ft. Sonia Gomez - Sacar El Tigre

37. Hybrid Sound System - L'Uzure

38. Pilah Ft. Leeroy Green (Dub Addict) - Conscious Man

39. Lbe Radiant Dub System - Seaboard Costline

40. Brain Damage Ft. Giovani Mark - Embolism

41. DJ Twelve - In Trouble

42. Dubphonic - Galactic Sushi Man

43. Lab - Crystal Krill Killer

44. Junior Cony Meets Shanti D. & Mister Irie - No More A Dat

45. GG Project - Step Around GG Mix

46. Dubmatix - Champion Sound

47. Bauchklang - Barking News (DJ Vadim Mix)

48. L'oeuf Raide - Vu La TV

49. Nucleus Roots - Dub Rule

50. X-Echo - Listen Dis!

51. Noiseshaper Ft. Ari Up

52. Lena - A Troll's Trail

53. Fedayi Pacha - Yallah, Cowboy !

54. Roots Massacre Ft. The Pilgrim (Dub Addict) - In Our Dub

55. Casualty - Military Intervention

56. Tcha K Fdrateur - Magnum Bass

57. Dynamics - Music (Dub Edit), The

58. Prezident Brown - Glory Dub

59. Molecule Ft. Zigzag - Babygirl

60. Iota - Perdu

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Tech Talk

Got to get one of these. I ran across this pic doing a browse for USB hubs. Who would have thought someone would go to this extreme!

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What’s a modern computer user to do? You’ve got your thumb drives, your backup drives, your joystick, your drink warmer, your drink cooler, your USB humping dog, your USB blow-up doll, and a hundred other things littering your desk. And even the best motherboards only come with 10 or 15 USB ports. If only there were some way to plug in all of these things at once, in some sort of… hub. Brother, your prayers are answered at last! With this 49-port powered USB hub, you can live it up and never worry about unplugging anything ever again.

Hard To OutDraw This Gunslinger

Eric Sardinas

Rockpalast Crossroads DVD

DVD 720x480 VOB 6856 kbps 25 fps

Aspect ratio: 16:9 MP3 192 kpbs 4.09 GB

-I' ve posted some of Eric Sardinas' tunes before. After finding this DVD had to share it. I saw him again several months ago and he puts on an energenic, high powered show. If you get the chance, see him live. Until then you'll just have to watch this again and again!

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What is Rockpalast? It is the famous German rock music TV show which broadcasts live to viewing audience of millions all over Europe. With legions of corporate-fueled, musical puppets littering our stages and airways, originality has become virtually extinct within the landscape of today's popular music. Fortunately there's Eric Sardinas. His unique sound and honest delivery are breathing life back into the lungs of a stale industry on the verge of collapse. Sardinas is both a welcome reminder of the finest unfiltered music from an era bygone, as well as, a glimpse into a future realm of infinite sonic liberty. He's a courageous trailblazer who's constant repudiating routine limits and challenging all genre inherent boundaries with his wild innovations. So, if you find yourself understandably lost and aimlessly drifting through a sad sea of musical mediocrity ... find Eric Sardinas.

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Eric Sardinas - vocals, guitar.

Levell Price - bass, backing vocals.

Patrick Caccia - drums, backing vocals.
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Worried Mind Blues

Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning

Jelly Jam

Hellhound On My Trail

I Can't Be Satisfied

Find My Heart

Ride

Texola

8 Goin' South

As The Crow Flies

Down In The Bottom

If You Don't Love Me

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Get it HERE

You are d/l a text document with the list of links. Best bet is to use something like JDownloader for this type of file. http://jdownloader.org/

Last Chance

Like most bloggers who utilize Rapidshare, effective October 20th all links that have not been accessed in over 90 days will be removed. This is being done due to the fact that I have over the 25 GB limit in stored files. I don't think this is a bad thing at all. Using the BETA File Manageer I ran a listing of downloaded files in inverse order. There will be very little lost. This will mainly provide a much needed housecleaning.

Some of the items that do seem to be underaccessed lately are The Surf Coasters collection. They all have been hevily downloaded in the past but little in the last 90 days.
Get 'em while you can!

Take a peek at the archives. There are over 700 files there for your listening pleasure.

Don't be a lagger!

Beat Club '68

The Beat Club

Rock Archives

Jahresende '68

44:22 min

With 3% Recovery

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Very hip for the time, music show in Germany. More to come if response is good.

***This video is NOT "The Story of Beat Club". It's a segment of the Rock Archive editions covering November and December 1968****

It's the only decent artwork I could find.

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Beat-Club - musical program left into ether of German television from 1965 until 1972. The idea of the creation of Bit- club belongs to Gerhard Augustin and Mike To [lekebushu]. Premier showing took place on September 25, 1965. German television worker Wilhelm [Veben] opened show by these words: “Good day, dear bit- friends! Time came! Through several seconds of [nachnetsya] the first show on the German television, made specially for you. However, concerning those I will give gentlemen whom it does not please Bit- music, we hope for their understanding: this is [layv]- show for the young people. And so we take off…”
The earliest episodes were the actually living appearances of musicians and were removed simply before the brick wall… by 67 on rear [pllane] showed the names of [isponiteley], sound and picture were well synchronized and on the scene they danced the girl “Of go-Go-Girl”

The Easybeats - Goot Times

Spooky Tooth - The Weight

Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues

Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich - The Wreck of The Antoinette

The Bee Gees - Got To Get A Message To You

The Hollies - Listen To Me

Barry Ryan - Eloise

The Equals - Softly Softly

Manfred Mann - Fox On The Run

Joe Cocker - I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends

The Marmalade - Ob-la-di, Ob -la-da

The Beach Boys - Bluebirds Over The Mountains

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Get it HERE, HERE and HERE

More From Those Wacky O.C. Dudes

The Ziggens

Rusty Never Sleeps

1998

VBR w 3% Recovery

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Biography
Known for their eccentric, goofy, humorous way of blending punk and surf rock (sometimes with a definite country influence), the Ziggens aren't a major name in the rock world but have enjoyed a small cult following since the early '90s. The Ziggens have always been based in Orange County, CA, just south of Los Angeles -- a logical place for artists who are into surf rock -- and the four-man band has a long list of influences from different musical eras. Clearly, they're into '60s surf favorites like the Ventures, Jan & Dean, and the Beach Boys -- they've even been compared to Annette Funicello -- but they're hardly an exact replica of artists from the Lyndon Johnson years; their sound also owes a lot to old-school punk bands of the '70s and '80s. The Ziggens (who like to describe their quirky approach as "cowpunksurfabilly") have never been known for taking themselves too seriously; they obviously identify with punk's more fun and lighthearted side, which means that they have more in common with the Ramones and the Dickies than with militant, angrily sociopolitical agitators like the Sex Pistols, the Dead Kennedys, the Clash, and early T.S.O.L. (before T.S.O.L. got away from left-wing politics and reinvented themselves as a heavy metal band along the lines of AC/DC, Accept, and Dokken). Think of the Ramones performing "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker" and "Rockaway Beach" or the Dickies pounding out the nutty "You Drive Me Ape, You Big Gorilla" -- that's the type of wacky, absurdist punk that has had a major impact on the Ziggens. And when the Orange County residents incorporate country influences, one is reminded of rockabilly and classic honky tonk rather than slick, glossy country-pop or countrypolitan -- in other words, they sound like they've more likely to listen to Buck Owens, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, or Merle Haggard than Kathy Mattea or Trisha Yearwood. After their formation in 1990, the Ziggens provided several albums in the '90s and early 2000s and recorded for the Skunk and Cornerstone labels. In 2003, Cornerstone released a best-of collection titled Greatest Zits: 1990-2003, which spanned 13 years and contained a variety of material that the Ziggens had selected themselves. The Ziggens' lineup has included head honcho/founder Bert Susanka, aka Bert Ziggen, on lead vocals and rhythm guitar, Jon Poutney, aka Jon Ziggen, on bass, Dickie Ziggen on lead guitar, and Brad Conyers, aka Brad Ziggen, on drums and background vocals. ~ Alex Henderson, All Music Guide

Tracklist:

1 Ride the Wild Surf 

2 Call It Quits

3 Barefoot on Hot Cement

4 On the Way

5 Gilligan

6 Couldn't Get a Date

7 Dandruff

8 When I Die

9 Bin Loop Baby Pt. II

10 Dickie Built a Halfpipe

11 Go Wild at the Beach

12 Buttermilk

13 Ed Gein

14 I'm Tryin'

15 Carry Your Cross

16 Females

17 High School Love

18 I Hit My Head (On the Corner of a Kitchen Cabinet)

19 Outside

20 Mississippi

21 End of the Summer

22 The Lottery Song

23 Sue Got the Flu

24 Gravel Song

25 Memphis

26 All the Fun That We Missed

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Get it HERE

Los Pegajosos - Antropofagia

Courtesy of the mysterious Charles Vine.

Los Pegajosos en El Fusil Parte II

Do You Follow?

Wanted to welcome the new folks who joined as followers over the last couple of weeks

ariel

Psycho Boy

Frank Black

Good to have you along for the ride.

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"Following" is one of the easiest ways to keep up with all of the quirky sites that you just can't do without each day.

And it don't cost a thing!

Hop "on board"

October Swells

Surfer

October 2009

PDF

Get it HERE