Climbing the Cold White Mountain (Repost)

Here`s an interesting dutch band who blends traditional, acoustic instruments with an acute sense for electronic composition. This Ensemble intends to create fresh and deep atmospheres out of familiar sounds. The result is an eerily journey through partly organic, partly mechanical tonalities. Very clear acoustic sounds, pulsating organic basses and a wider room left for vocals.

If you're lost in the snow, that's the perfect album to hear, and dream on salvation...

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The Soft Tatami (Repost)

Quiet nice latin bossa jap versions, time to enjoy nobby drinks (as the Bird Liquor of Love) and neat cocktails in the red sofa, caressing your barbie doll from the high mountains...

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Vibrating the Electhroat Cords (Repost)

Tuvan traditional music has won itself a special place in the music world. First of all, it is characterised by highly developed art of throat-singing. It is easy to see the relation of it to throatsinging used in Tibetan Buddhism, while some scholars point that this manner of sound creation dates back to the first attempts of mankind to speak. It is these attempts that have become extinct in most of the world but still live on as geografically limited heritage which only regains its legacy in the past few years. It is not that throatsinging survived only in Tuva. In the surrounding Siberian and Central Asian regions and even in Africa there are similar techniques.

However, from large concert halls to remote pastures, throatsinging was a symbol of Tuvan identity from the first half of 20th century at the very latest. But Tuvans boast not only the widespread ability to throatsing. It is also a highly developed art which includes at least 3 major genres (sygyt, khoomei, and kargyraa) and several common subgenres, as well as popular personal styles that become nationally popular due to the modern media like tapes or radio waves, that confer every new development of this art onto the nomadic farmers or local artists throughout the mountanous republic much faster than a celebrated singer is able himself.

This record mixes Tuvan traditional songs and contemporary ways of rhythmic organisation, that are rooted in house, chillout, and ambient music.

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Psycho Asia!! (Repost)

Discover the exotic psycho-beat sounds from the "ancient" 60's Asia. This is the third volume in the Love, Peace & Poetry series. This volume explores obscure garage rock and psychedelic rock bands from Asia, specifically from Hong Kong, Turkey, Korea, Japan, Cambodia, India and Singapore.

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Remembering Summertimes (Repost)

Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed Lady Day by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday was a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. Above all, she was admired all over the world for her deeply personal and intimate approach to singing.
Here's an electronic-based tribute to this goddess of all times; this entry features Billie Holiday recordings culled from her years on Columbia.

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Touching the Ether Waves (Repost)

Many people think of the theremin as cliched electronic effect used in film scores of the 50's and 60's. That is, until they hear the playing of Clara Rockmore.

Rockmore was born in Russia, and showed great musical talent as a child. She played the violin, and by the age of nine, was playing concerts with her concert pianist sister, Nadia. She traveled to New York for a tour, and at this time, she met Leon Theremin, the inventor of the theremin. The theremin is an electronic instrument that can be played without touching it, just by using gestures.When Leon Theremin met Rockmore, he realized that she could make people realize that his design could be used as a real musical instrument. Theremin worked with Rockmore to refine his instrument designs. Rockmore went on to show audiences that the theremin was capable of being used to play the classics. This inspired new compositions specifically for the Theremin. She became a well-known performer, and is considered the greatest theremin player of all time.

She died in 1998, but she left behind a series of recordings that document the sound of the theremin, and her great skill as an electronic music performer.

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Come to the Orgy of the Dead!! (Repost)

Far far away, one of my favorite bands in an oldie record featuring the theremin superstar Lydia Kavina; as you know, the music of Messer Chups combines surf, beats, film samples, scratchy historical recordings, loungey and cartoon sounds from the 50's and 60's. The trashy sci-fi horror sound of Messer Chups is not very common within the context of Russian rock music. The reason for this is the good old cold-war/iron curtain commie agenda.

The majority of Messer Chups' musical and visual aesthetics come from trashy western pop-culture of the past century. This includes horror/sci-fi b-movies from 1930's through 1970's, as well as music such as surf (The Ventures, Dick Dale, Trashmen), big-band lounge (Henry Mancini, Les Baxter, Martin Denny) and rock n' roll of the 60's.

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A Lesson in Seduction (Repost)

"Pure sonic bliss! -Add one part lounge, two parts exotica, some sci-fi spy-fi film music influences and those keen 60's electronic sound effects, then kick it into hyperdrive and soar through the galaxy..." 

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Bouger Les Hanches, Ma Jolie!! (Repost)

Nice French Beat a Go-Go compilation by The Atomic Café record label Panatomic, enjoy it!

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Спутник совершает полет вокруг Земли!! (Repost)

Exotic, playful and full of fantasy and imagination - electronica, lounge and easy listening from Russia. Nostalgic and futuristic sounds, surreal and ironic. Psychedelic electronic sounds to dance, dream and enjoy. The Sputnik is flying again! 

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God is a Moog (Repost)

Moog is a 2004 film by Hans Fjellestad about electronic instrument pioneer Dr. Robert Moog. The film features scenes of Dr. Moog interacting with various musical artists who view Moog as an influential figure in the history of electronic music.

Moog is not a comprehensive history of electronic music nor does it serve as a chronological history of the development of the Moog synthesizer. There is no narration, rather the scenes feature candid conversation and interviews that serve more as a tribute to Moog than a documentary. The film's 2004 release was designed to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Moog Music, Robert Moog's company that was founded as R.A. Moog Co. in 1954.

This soundtrack features original songs by different artists produced on Moog instruments.

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Be afraid of the Revenge Ladies from the Rising Sun... (Repost)

What we have here is a strange record based on old crazy songs of jap ladies doing the kinky thing. Blood, Swords and Tears everywhere!! Forget Kill Bill, here is the truth.

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The Groovy Moogy Scooby-Dooby (Repost)

What happens when you combine a passion for the music of Thelonious Monk with an overriding compulsion for vintage analog synths and a decidedly irreverent streak? You get something on the order of this album easily the most unusual Monk tribute album since Hal Willner's eccentric 1984 all-star project That's the Way I Feel Now.

Armed with an odd arsenal of vintage gear including theremin, vocoder, clavinet and ARP, Moog, Sequential Circuits, Synthi and Buchla synthesizers, Nashville-based producer-arranger Joe "Guido" Welsh joined forces with his longtime friend and collaborator, veteran Chicago-based jazz pianist Steve Million, to form this zany duo. Their self-produced debut recording is a rare hoot for Monk aficionados and neophytes alike. A delightful stuff to taste.

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Honoring the Goddesses (Repost)

Cambodian rock, pop and psychedelia from the 60s & 70s – compiled by the members of Dengue Fever, LA's modern torchbearers of rare prime rock era rarities from Cambodia! It's wonderful stuff – like a lot of the sounds from the pulpy garage rock era Asian underground, most tunes have love female vocals, but the instrumentation varies from raw r&b & kind of moddish influenced sounds, to more psychedelic electric guitar and hazy melodies, bits of funk, and strains that come closer to traditional Cambodian sounds. The tracks were culled for rare cassette tapes, and the sound quality is top notch – kudos to Dengue Fever for getting doing their influences a solid by getting these great tunes out there!

Ros Sereysothea & Pan Ron, we will not forget you...

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Jap-A-Go-Go: beating girls for beating hearts (Repost)

Nice 60's Retro J-Pop Beat A-Go-Go collection of pretty jap girls singing and shaking the hips. That's the kind of chick that monkey loves!!!

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