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let's all load up on music because it is bandcamp friday
February 6, 2026 at 4:00 PM
#albumshuffle Day 443: Various - Street Corner Symphonies: The Complete Story Of Doo Wop 1960 [Bear Family, 2013]

Bear Family's fifteen volume year-by-year breakdown of doo wop/vocal harmony music. The 1960 volume documents the fragmentation & mutation of the sound into soul, girl groups, pop etc.
February 6, 2026 at 2:57 PM
I've been steadily working through Quake Brutalist Jam III maps and yammering over the top of them on youtube. I can't get enough of this mod and the deep well of fabulous maps www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
[Quake] Quake Brutalist Jam III - Casual Brutal Difficulty 100% Runs with Commentary - YouTube
Playthroughs of various maps from Quake Brutalist Jam III on brutal (nightmare) difficulty with me blathering over the top of them talking about whatever com...
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February 6, 2026 at 10:19 AM
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Daily bunny no.3221 is a night owl
February 6, 2026 at 5:03 AM
Who knew dancing on the knife edge of bankruptcy would be so tedious.
February 5, 2026 at 5:15 PM
#albumshuffle Day 442: Theodore Bikel - Sings Yiddish Theatre and Folk Songs [Elektra, 1964]

Sixteen yiddish songs of no small beauty, from the joyous to wistful. I quite like Dem Milners Trern and of course Doina.
February 5, 2026 at 4:49 PM
#albumshuffle Day 441: Pikacyu★Makoto - Galaxilympics [Upset! The Rhythm, 2017]

Master of heavy psychedelic guitar noise Makoto Kawabata working with drummer & vocalist Pika from Afrirampo. The result is spacey, but lacks that heavier/noisy groove from Makoto or the the manic energy from Pika.
February 4, 2026 at 6:48 PM
A little treat: Mid 90s public access TV program that aired in San Francisco that covered noise, industrial and other abrasive music. Performances from The Haters, Killer Bug, MSBR, Macronympha and Big City Orchestra among others. Got to find my DVD drive now...
February 4, 2026 at 4:15 PM
an evening of dial-a-poem
February 3, 2026 at 6:17 PM
#albumshuffle Day 440: Mono Pause - Peeping Through The Listen Hole [Electro Motive Records, 1999]

Album from Oakland experimental rock group featuring Peter Conheim, Mark Gergis (Porest) & pals. Amorphous, straddling performance art with spin offs including southeast asian pop sensation Neung Phak
February 3, 2026 at 4:34 PM
#albumshuffle Day 439: California Dolls - Dragon, Tiger And Escargot [Commune Disc, 2004]

Hard to pin down album from Ami Yoshida & Chihiro Wada. I'm a big fan of Ami Yoshida's work in the Onkyo/EAI field and her unique barely audible kettle-like squealing vocals which feature on a few pieces here.
February 2, 2026 at 8:53 PM
seeing sensible people pushing dovey's eye of the chickenhawk and doing a little vindicated smile.
February 1, 2026 at 8:51 PM
#albumshuffle Day 438: Beausoleil - La Danse De La Vie [Foward, 1993]

come to my house on a sunday and we'll lie on the floor and listen to cajun records
February 1, 2026 at 8:35 PM
#albumshuffle Day 437: Kanako Horichu - Hope [Takuroku, 2020]

Four pieces from an Okinawan artist who sings and plays sanshin. The Darkness has this rich, bass-heavy synth and drum backing that makes me think of muslimgauze for some reason.
January 31, 2026 at 7:10 PM
#albumshuffle Day 436: Various - Two Girls Started to Sing: Bulgarian Village Singing [Rounder, 1990]

Cracking field recordings of traditional folk singing captured from the various villages of south-west Bulgaria between 1978-1988 by Martha Forsyth.
January 30, 2026 at 9:49 PM
what a month
January 30, 2026 at 5:37 PM
#albumshuffle Day 435: Steven Bernstein, Paolo Fresu, Gianluca Petrella & Marcus Rojas - Brass Bang! [Tǔk Music, 2014]

Brass quartet consisting of two American & two Italian musicians playing an eclectic mix of jazz, classical and popular pieces and some of their own more free compositions.
January 29, 2026 at 9:15 PM
#albumshuffle Day 434: The Residents - Brava [Ralph Records, 2010]

Recording from the final leg of the 2001 Icky Flix Live tour to support the release similarly named DVD. Reworkings of songs from a range old projects like Wormwood, Duck Stab, Freak Show, Cube-E and even a Renaldo & the Loaf cover.
January 28, 2026 at 8:49 PM
You know those dreams where you have a ferocious argument with somebody and then wake up not sure if it was real or not.
January 28, 2026 at 10:09 AM
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TWO HAMMERS yellow5.com/pokey
January 27, 2026 at 3:33 PM
#albumshuffle Day 433: Mental Anguish & John Hudak - Multiple Morning Green [Harsh Reality Music, 1988]

Industrial adjacent lo fi experiments with tape loops and electronics. More ambient than noisy. Booming skulls is 22 minutes of random counting between 1 and 6 with buzzing & radio interference.
January 27, 2026 at 3:08 PM
#albumshuffle Day 432: Aubrey Ghent & Friends - Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus [Arhoolie, 1997]

Lap steel pentecostal gospel from Florida. Smooth and soulful as with I am Thine, Oh Lord, There is a Fountain Filled with Blood and How Great Thou Art where he makes it sing like a soloist.
January 26, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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My map for Quake Brutalist Jam III: The Smell of Sunshine.
January 26, 2026 at 4:44 AM
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Daily bunny no.3209 is quite solemn
January 25, 2026 at 5:00 AM
#albumshuffle Day 431: Bernhard Schütz & Reinhold Friedl - Play Robert Schumann: Dichterliebe [Bôłt, 2011]

Odd interpretation of Schumann's song cycle. Friedl, founding member of Zeitkratzer plays piano. Schütz delivers Heine's poetry with an exaggerated, bordering on contrived emotional intensity.
January 25, 2026 at 10:50 AM