yeah Manhattan Research is great, I actually kinda love that it's full of ads because it really does take you to the 1950s
― frogbs, Thursday, 31 October 2019 22:16 (four years ago) link
Yeah its a really amazing package. I got it when it came out, I was in high school and it completely rearranged my musical brain
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Thursday, 31 October 2019 23:58 (four years ago) link
thanks to this bump I'm listening again to it now, I forgot how weird this stuff was. "Limbo: The Organized Mind" is such a cool track, very much an early Twilight Zone sort of thing
I also liked this thing a lot. "Raymond Scott remixed by DJs" is not exactly the most appealing thing but I believe these are all plunderphonics dudes, pretty much everything you hear is directly from the archives
https://www.raymondscott.net/scottrewired/
― frogbs, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 18:50 (four years ago) link
I attended a NYC Scott tribute show in '97 that featured a Bob Moog lecture/demonstration.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
If you like Powerhouse-era Raymond Scott you should definitely check out the similarly very composed but very swinging John Kirby Sextet. Don Byron put out a disk covering tunes from both called Bug Music back in 1996. These days I prefer Kirby's two-disk Complete Columbia and RCA Victor Recordings, lo-fi though it is.
― screator, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 05:21 (four years ago) link
Thanks for the recommendation, there's some stuff on Spotify and it swings hard. 30s and 40s swing just makes me happy!
Speaking of Spotify, there's some Raymond Scott albums on there that I'm not familiar with - "The Uncollected", "Essential Works", and some other later stuff. Anyone have thoughts on these?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 18:14 (four years ago) link
New and new to streaming and holy fuck this is really really good!The Jingle Workshop: Midcentury Musical Miniatures from 1951 to 1965https://open.spotify.com/album/0UzRKhet8fwxcv8XMxrEJA?si=JyNDSE9VRmOiwWWFrQ_jfw
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 01:52 (four years ago) link
Hangover Dirt!
― file of unknown origin (bendy), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 16:45 (four years ago) link
if somebody don't sample "so good, so fresh, so southern" everybody is sleeping
https://raymondscott.bandcamp.com/track/so-good-so-fresh-so-southern-mel-torm-southern-bread
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 16:58 (four years ago) link