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german electronic musician jan jelineks (best known as the guy behind "farben") label faitiche has recently rediscovered the amazing oeuvre of ursula bogner. great amusing read, on so many levels.

http://www.faitiche.de/catalog1_en.html

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i encourage you to post obscure things from your world. since nma hosts a broad variety of people with sometimes quite unusual interests (dog pimping, weight gain, club-tight clothing), i do look forward to your input, tho this might be a "slower" thread than the "rate your avatar" one.

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Interesting read and I quite like the samples, actually.

Makes me think of Joe Meek, whom most of you will not know either, I reckon.

Meek's most obscure work is "I Hear A New World", an album of electronic craziness which dates back to 1960, the year The Beatles were formed. It was only re-released in 2001 (there were only a handful of old copies known on record, giving it quite a legendary status). IHANW sounds like Aphex Twin with a fifties shimmyshake esthetic woven into the fabric. Ridiculous but nevertheless very innovative and intriguing. And great with a joint.

Joe Meek is not as obscure, though. Just very sphinx-like and filled with riddles. His best known tune is "Telstar" which he recorded with the group The Tornados. 'Cause that's what he did: he wrote a composition and then looked for some young lads or girls to actually perform it and have their faces on the cover of the record. During the fifties he made 30 or 40 hits that way, most of them completely forgotten now. For instance this:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e4JXwd7XMo&feature=related[/youtube]

Other (big) record companies hated his guts (Meek at 00:45):

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar1cuXLU2_M[/youtube]

Everyone knows the "Telstar" tune, I guess. It was the first British Number 1 hit in America:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2ybCjf6ras[/youtube]

The real gem is "I Hear A New World", though. Even Radiohead like it.

Meek was a drug-addict, a homosexual and a bigtime Buddy Holly fan. He killed his landlady (whom he might have had an affair with) and then shot himself with a shotgun.
 
jochem paap, better known under his handle "speedy j", opened up a collaboration on soundcloud. the interesting part for all non-musicians is his approach to the openness of music platforms...

basically EVERYBODY can send in parts; if they "fit", they will be part of his next album PLUS he will share the profits with you. well, it wont be much if you send in just one kickdrum sample... anyway:

on the collab platform he put out some of his unused musical parts, which in itselves are oddly captivating. try the 2nd one, "parts example melody".

<embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="195" src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?playlist=open-collabs-parts-examples" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%" wmode="transparent"> </embed>
 
The avatar pic is something I found in my wonderings. I do not know who she is but she is indeed hot. I am sorry Pope I cannot change the avatar pic as it violates my right to pull it.
 
Some hilareous posts here, some just freaky. The preacher woman reminded me of a bad trip. And that face electrode thingy would make a nice party gimmick if it were conceilable, just activate when you want to get out of some boring conversation.
Or, when you want some mesmerized addicted groupies to never leave your side. Might induce even more bad trips or epilepsia attacks though.


I once came across this pic at work, and gave me some thought... Indeed I would not have invested, living in those days, without knowledge of what they'd accomplish:

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with "obscure" i didnt genuinely mean "as old as the internet and so ubiqitously spread all over it that even my granny has a print-out in her dressing room."
 
not die this thread will.

i stumbled upon an amazingly hypnotic sound called the "shepard tone". basically, its the acoustic equivalence to escher's stairs

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and creates the illusion of an everlasting de- or ascending glissando. its principles are roughly spoken the clever mixing of harmonic tones over time. even super mario 64 incorporated a shepard tone in the ever-ascending stair level.

http://www.netalive.org/tinkering/shepard-effect/
 
Yeah it is, someone posted it in the video games thread on Metal-Archives and I have been playing it constantly. Very addicting game.
 
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoLhLn9hVkE[/youtube]
This is Mike Jittlov's original The Wizard of Speed and Time short which eventually spawned the feature film of the same name. Jittlov specialized in making his own short films by using stop motion and using animation overlays. Trust me when I say that the analog effects still hold up today (the you tube compression does not help). While not for everyone the movie connects several of his short films, a semi-autobiographical underdog plot, and super corny jokes with his breathtaking visual style. The music in the film is also better than in this short. Unfortunately the film is only presently available on VHS unless you look on the intertubes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Speed_and_Time
 
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