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Dunno if this has been posted allready, but recently http://www.woebot.com/ has put up links to some sites with full album mp3s from hard to find albums, usually ripped from vinyl. A huge find, in my opinion.

cole sconiers (dio for president), Sunday, 4 June 2006 11:36 (seventeen years ago) link

shit, man, there's tons more than that.

GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Sunday, 4 June 2006 11:56 (seventeen years ago) link

and by that i mean LET'S ALL POST LINKS SHALL WE?

GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Sunday, 4 June 2006 11:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I see why.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 4 June 2006 12:02 (seventeen years ago) link

And then the chimney spoke.... (psychedelic obscurities)

Chocoreve (psych/garage/60s pop/folk)

ChrisGoesRock's Favourites (70s rock, generally, little quality control)

Garden Of Delights

kosstac mina

The Groovy Fab Workshop

let's make it (outtakes and demo tracks, mostly 60s/70s)

Strange Reaction - The Fun Just Never Ends (punk)

EZHEVIKA FIELDS (prog/art/NWW list-ish stuff lately, check out igra staklenih perli!)

Spsychedelictrip (60s/70s psych rock and pop)

more in a minute.

GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Sunday, 4 June 2006 12:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Cities On Flame With Rock And Roll (60s/70s, mostly japanese and south american)

ProgRock_70´s Invasion (prog, prog, prog)

One of the List is Bending Up (more NWW list-y shit)

Psychedelic Cinnamon

6070Rock (mostly 70s 3rd-stringers - i did like the tyla gang's pub rock though)

Past Tense (60s/70s, some brazilian stuff)

VINIL VELHO (south american semiobscurities)

L.S.D PHONE CALLS (may be defunct)

midastouch (aussie 60s/70s)

timo's psychedelicious blog (psych/prog)

Fight Against The Plutocrats (just started - punk/hardcore stuff)

Time Traveller (60s/70s)

and that's what i've got. plus a couple of metal blogs but those tend to focus on albums you can find just about anywhere - and there's a wide open market for someone to do a good 80s thrash/death/whatever demo/obscurities blog.

GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Sunday, 4 June 2006 12:33 (seventeen years ago) link

egads.

you boys have abso-fucking-lutely made my day.

gracias.

Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Sunday, 4 June 2006 13:44 (seventeen years ago) link

o wow o wow, i just listened to the first track on that Unfolding album from el sabor's first link. i wish i could listen all day. but i can't cuz i gotta work all nite :( another day. thanks, doooood.

scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 4 June 2006 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks for the links, GPTH. These two are my favorites of the woebot selection:

http://voltagecontrolledtechnicolor.blogspot.com/

http://8daysinapril.blogspot.com/

It just sucks you got to wait an hour or so for the next dl on rapidshare. Still, music overload in effect.

cole sconiers (dio for president), Sunday, 4 June 2006 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link

also 8 Days In April has been filling up my Rapidshare quotient pretty quickly.

xpost, cole beat me to it.

sleeve (sleeve), Sunday, 4 June 2006 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

This is the coolest thread I've ever read on ILM.

Shoes say, yeah, no hands clap your good bra. (goodbra), Sunday, 4 June 2006 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Hmmm, this looks enjoyable.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 4 June 2006 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

The perfect enterprise in this vein would be a project to digitize every bit of No Wave + post-No Wave vinyl not currently on CD. E.g., all the Teenage Jesus and Mars I never managed to track down before Thirlwell totally fucked up the CD issues, up through gems like the first Of Cabbages & Kings EP that I haven't been able to replace post crackhead-stealing of it.

Shoes say, yeah, no hands clap your good bra. (goodbra), Sunday, 4 June 2006 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

This would be totally amazing if it wasn't for the fact that rapid share never works for me.

jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Sunday, 4 June 2006 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost: Unless you're thinking of an EP that I don't know about (I'm thinking of the 87 Purge/Sound League EP), the first OCAK EP is included on the CD "Never Too Late" that also includes their 1st album. It's easy to find used.

Re: the Woebot list. Don't get me wrong...looks like a lot of neat stuff...in theory. Checked up on one of his "most excellent" links (the one featuring "the complete recorded output of The New York Rock and Roll Ensemble" from a site that's "very thorough") and discovered that it's missing their singles. This may be a picky point, but 1. that's not "complete" and 2. anyone interested enough in the band to want to download five albums is probably interested enough to want the non-album singles, not to mention a more thorough history than a cut 'n' paste from Wiki.

Also (and I don't particularly care much about this, except to the extent that Woebot makes such a big deal about the whole "ripped from vinyl" aspect) 4 of the 5 albums presented are reasonably easily found on CD.

It's just one artist from one blog, but leaves me a little dubious about Woebot's general ability to sort out wheat from chaff. Hopefully other links are a little more as described.

dlp9001 (dlp9001), Sunday, 4 June 2006 21:32 (seventeen years ago) link

...I mean, I really don't care much whether the stuff is commercially available or not, but a few more minutes to find someone from Woebot's list of the best-of-the-best who's sharing the Linda Perhacs album, and without bothering to mention that it's been reissued (recently) on CD not once but twice (2nd time with bonus tracks and better sound). I'd never turn up my nose at free albums, but these sites (again, on quick inspection) look to be somewhat less authoritative/exciting than the Woebot copy would imply.

dlp9001 (dlp9001), Sunday, 4 June 2006 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Well the Linda Perhacs album is available only as an import in the States, so is not "commercially available" for me to go pick up in most stores. The same holds true for the NY R'n'R Ensemble.

I'm sorry that it isn't up to your standards. Maybe you should point the way to those non-album singles, or send me a resonably priced copy of "Parallelograms" instead of moaning and groaning.

It's such a shame that these people who want to share what they love, which is mostly obscure and out-of-print (at least in many parts of the world), don't have anything for you.

EZ Snappin (EZSnappin), Sunday, 4 June 2006 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link

specifically re: Perhacs, US label wild places did an excellent reissue of it. they usually list it new on ebay but don't seem to be listing one right now. but here's another copy on ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/LINDA-PERHACS-Parallelograms-CD-ALBUM-NEW-SEALED_W0QQitemZ4887460322QQcategoryZ58588QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Sunday, 4 June 2006 22:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Kind of expected that'd be a response. I live in the States also and had no problem finding the CDs mentioned for a reasonable price. Last I checked (3 minutes ago), Aquarius Records in CA had the Perhacs album for $15 or so. They do mail order. If they're out, there are plenty of other sources...about five minutes w/Google should do the trick. The non-album NYR&RE singles can be found at GEMM on a regular basis, reasonably cheaply.

Thought I went to sufficient lengths to make it clear that failure to live up to Woebot hype does not equal worthlessness. Must have been wrong.

dlp9001 (dlp9001), Sunday, 4 June 2006 22:43 (seventeen years ago) link

...As for NY R&R Ensemble, here's 4 albums for $40, in the US:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=br_ss_hs/002-7767841-4231267?platform=gurupa&url=index%3Dblended&keywords=new+york+rock+and+roll+ensemble

dlp9001 (dlp9001), Sunday, 4 June 2006 22:49 (seventeen years ago) link

that cosmic travelers album is fucking great!

gear (gear), Sunday, 4 June 2006 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link

it absolutely is.

up through gems like the first Of Cabbages & Kings EP that I haven't been able to replace post crackhead-stealing of it.

ah, man, that's a quality record. i know (as per dlp) it's on CD but i've never seen the cd anywhere.

GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Monday, 5 June 2006 02:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Are there any blogs like this for No Wave or the punk/funk/electro side? Even something closer to Strange Reactions that focused on that hybrid side would be appreciated (I like SR, I'm just more fond of the stuff that borders on New Wave than yet another rare hardcore romp).

js (honestengine), Monday, 5 June 2006 23:21 (seventeen years ago) link

you can get the Linda Perhacs CD from Other Music for 14 bucks! I bought it domestic cheap myself.

Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 5 June 2006 23:30 (seventeen years ago) link

xxpost

I'll second that, mate. Count me in.

I have seen some cool things on www.postpunkjunk.com though, including the Method Actors.

Has-been Hash Brown (Bimble...), Monday, 5 June 2006 23:32 (seventeen years ago) link

it does seem a little disappointing that some of these blogs are full of easily available in print stuff like the velvet underground's live 69 etc. does anyone have anything in particular to recommend from any of them that is genuinely out of print?

toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 06:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I dunno but I've been in Prog/Brasil heaven these past couple of days after dl'ing stuff off these blogs. The Cybotron album is remarkable, as is the Jose Cid. McDonald & Giles. Jorge Ben's "Africa Brasil" has caused me some DNA restructuring. So much great stuff here.

Jay Vee's Return (Manon_69), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Any good italo disco versions of these? I don't know enough about the genre to just start buying things, but I'm curious...

js (honestengine), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link

has anyone bothered with a rapidshare premium account? is everything easy-peasy once you've paid up?

toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 09:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I signed up for a monthly one cos I was having so much hassle downloading through the free version. Dead easy to sign up, and not a single problem with downloading since then.

Tim Rutherford-Johnson (Rambler), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 10:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I've got one, at least until the 15th. It's fairly cheap and pretty worth it, though I'm nowhere near the ceiling for use (which is like 30gb a day).

js (honestengine), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 12:10 (seventeen years ago) link

3 gig a day.. the remainder is added to your next day limit if unused. I think you can bank 15gig in total.

Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Anybody know what kind of format the files with the "rar" extension are?

christoff (christoff), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link

they're compressed, like zipfiles. if you're using windows you need a program called WinRAR.

GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 20:51 (seventeen years ago) link

tx

christoff (christoff), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

four weeks pass...
holy shit

Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 6 July 2006 05:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Does anyone know any good download sites for 60s soul? I've been dying to get hold of the 'Sunshower' album by Thelma Houston for ages, but can't find a copy that isn't going for some ridiculous price on Japanese import.

braveclub (braveclub), Thursday, 6 July 2006 10:39 (seventeen years ago) link

And another: http://knuthulu.blogspot.com/

ewmy (ewmy), Thursday, 6 July 2006 10:53 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, knuthulu is ruling these days. and chrisgoesrock is deleting.

GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Thursday, 6 July 2006 11:06 (seventeen years ago) link

it sucks that these all use rapidshare. i have a problem with my internet connection crapping out, and when that happens,not only do i lose the current download but given RS's rules i can't try another for 60-90 minutes!

Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 7 July 2006 01:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Classical Connection

I will commence to drop a knowledge bomb. (Rock Hardy), Friday, 7 July 2006 01:34 (seventeen years ago) link

wow, that's great. i like the "ragas of morning and night" link.

does anyone know of a mp3 blog that is either in french or specializes in french music?

Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 7 July 2006 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link

http://fillessourires.blogspot.com/ if you like your french fragile and femine... ;)

willem -- (willem), Friday, 7 July 2006 22:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Seriously, that Classical Connection is a great one.

100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Friday, 7 July 2006 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Most of the stuff on the 60s/70s blog -- well, you can still actually buy most of the CDs. Capricorn was selling both Hydra albums. Neither are hard to find. Bang's been selling their catalog on the web for a long time. If he's trying to publicize 60's/70's hard rock that no one can find anymore, he's completely missed the boat. You don't put Ted Nugent's "double live gonzo" at the top, something that's in every BestBuy and is about to get reissued remastered on RockCandy, and earn cred except as an idiot.

Geez, I know, I'll pack my CDs in the .rar archiver and put them on
the web. Woo.

I had high hopes but...

Urnst Kouch (Urnst Kouch), Friday, 7 July 2006 23:55 (seventeen years ago) link

6070rock dude's in brazil. i'm not sure how many bestbuys they have there.

GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Saturday, 8 July 2006 00:26 (seventeen years ago) link

(xxxpost) Thanks for that! Looking forward to the upcoming Air-produced Charlotte Gainsbourg stuff now.

And - yeah - God Punch is right. Cut dude some slack.

Anyone manage to get the Zeppelin concerts from ChrisGoesRock before they disappeared?

Jay Vee's Return (Manon_69), Saturday, 8 July 2006 00:31 (seventeen years ago) link

STEADY BOOTLEGGIN'

jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Saturday, 8 July 2006 00:54 (seventeen years ago) link

6070rock dude's in brazil

Brazil or not, it's still feeble. xhuxk to thread, you can download Lou Gramm's Black Sheep!

Urnst Kouch (Urnst Kouch), Saturday, 8 July 2006 01:53 (seventeen years ago) link

http://meinwalkmanistkaputt.blogspot.com/

lots of german stuff

gear (gear), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

what i've tried lately is to search for album titles or artists along with "rapidshare" or "megaupload", sometimes with "blogspot" as well. I've tracked down a few good ones that way.

gear (gear), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link

funkboutique.blogspot.com

"Electro Funk, Rare Grooves, and Library Breaks"

gear (gear), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

http://leblogdepekis.blogspot.com/

Has anyone downloaded from this site? I would never dream of doing anything illegal, but purely out of interest, how do you do it? He provides a number and a name at the end of each post - are these something to do with rapidshare?

"C" (Holey), Thursday, 7 September 2006 11:11 (seventeen years ago) link

i think it goes like this:

rapidshare.de/files/[mysterious number]/[name].zip

GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Thursday, 7 September 2006 11:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Cheers fella!

"C" (Holey), Thursday, 7 September 2006 13:04 (seventeen years ago) link

anybody know any bundling programs like Stuffit for the Mac than can create rar or zip files out of folders? I have received complaints about my sitx files.

sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Thursday, 7 September 2006 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm curious, what is the risk with downloading from rapidshare or megaupload insofar as legal repercussions? i'm not worried, just curious.

gear (gear), Thursday, 7 September 2006 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

depends on whether they record info about the D/L-ers, which d!mead0zen (for example) does not.

sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Thursday, 7 September 2006 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm pretty sure on the Mac you can just choose to "create an archive" of the folder and it creates a zip file of it.

EZ Snappin (EZSnappin), Thursday, 7 September 2006 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

awesome, thanks! right there in the finder.

sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Thursday, 7 September 2006 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I would never dream of doing anything illegal,

sadly you may be on the wrong thread :(

Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 7 September 2006 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Yah well, it's interesting to watch others engaging in illegal activities. ;)

A few reggae sites -

http://rockersradio.blogspot.com/
http://www.phyzion.blogspot.com/
http://theraiz.blogspot.com/

And a good Beatles mashup album -

http://revolved.blogspot.com/


"C" (Holey), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Damn, those reggae sites are quite sick.

mcd (mcd), Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:16 (seventeen years ago) link

To make you even sicker:

http://jahman-i-reggae2.blogspot.com/

"C" (Holey), Sunday, 17 September 2006 07:50 (seventeen years ago) link

http://palestinianlightorchestra.blogspot.com/

jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 21 September 2006 23:17 (seventeen years ago) link

what i've tried lately is to search for album titles or artists along with "rapidshare" or "megaupload", sometimes with "blogspot" as well. I've tracked down a few good ones that way.

-- gear

http://www.shareminer.com/

:|

eh (fandango), Monday, 2 October 2006 08:08 (seventeen years ago) link

three months pass...
holy shit

http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/

sleeve (sleeve), Monday, 29 January 2007 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah. That's a good one.

mcd (mcd), Monday, 29 January 2007 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link


http://mysteryposter.blogspot.com/

some shits so obscure they didn't even make the NWW list. (some not.)

GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link

holy crap that looks good. can anyone vouch for any of those albums (wish he woulda given a bit of description).

i know scott seward's talked about that Chubby Checker psych album

jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 29 January 2007 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link

http://take-off-your-shoes.blogspot.com/

not so much for the nick drake stuff but what's down the page below it

roger goodell (gear), Monday, 29 January 2007 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link

holy shit @ howlin wolf record, been searching for an affordable copy of that for ages.

Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Monday, 29 January 2007 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Anyone know where I might be able to find Trust records? One site had a listing for 80s French metal, but no Trust. The lowest anything of theirs goes for on Amazon is $20, and you can't even get it on eBay.

Jeff Treppel (Heavy Metal Hamster), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 04:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I was really enjoying the albums on Voltage Controlled Technicolor for a while, but now it's gone. Can anyone recommend one that is similar?

Matt Olken (Moodles), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 04:53 (seventeen years ago) link

which one has the howlin wolf?

chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 09:40 (seventeen years ago) link

mysteryposter

jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link

That African Serenades blog is the shit.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link

It really is, Ned. Some of those have been posted over time at http://matsuli.blogspot.com/index.html which is a great thoughtful and diverse African music (mostly) blog. Good stuff. But to have all of the AS volumes in one place is... amazing. Now if I only had 1000 free hours.

mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Meantime, my discovery of the day. Not albums, but as you'll see, that's a minor point.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 February 2007 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link

heh, nice!

GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Friday, 2 February 2007 09:47 (seventeen years ago) link

http://kiwitapes.blogspot.com/

!!!

GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 10:13 (seventeen years ago) link

seven months pass...

Seems like most of the blogs mentioned here are defunct now-- any recent discoveries?

mulla atari, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 21:20 (sixteen years ago) link

http://orgyinrhythm.blogspot.com/2007/04/roger-glenn-reachin.html

this was mentioned i'm sure (not bother to check) but that album is so good and so so rare

deej, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 21:29 (sixteen years ago) link

Orgy in Rhythm = yoga flame for all time

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 21:42 (sixteen years ago) link

I used a bunch of these blogs as sources for the "Vinyl Archaeology" segment of my defunct podcast. Sad to see em go.

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 21:44 (sixteen years ago) link

sweet jesus

http://liveandotherwise.blogspot.com/

super-obscure 70s and 80s heavy metal oddities. i don't even know if anyone's going to care here, but if you do... go check it out. it's nuts.

GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Thursday, 4 October 2007 14:00 (sixteen years ago) link

right now listening to the dwarr album from that blog. "outsider metal," they said, and that's just about right. dude's middle name could've been "tamanend."

GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Thursday, 4 October 2007 14:01 (sixteen years ago) link

three months pass...

anyone been following the CRISIS ON INFINITE BLOGS?

http://prognotfrog.blogspot.com/2008/01/blog-post.html

basically some d-bag who runs a shitty prog label and a shitty prog webstore is going around having blogs shut down because they (the blog) don't have copyright to the material they're posting; neither does he, but that doesn't seem to bother him. so yeah, look for google/blogspot to flip out and start pulling mp3 blogs left and right.

GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 14:09 (sixteen years ago) link

this, coupled with the AT&T "SURE WE'LL FILTER COPYRIGHTED FILES! YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO ASK ONCE!" thing, make me think 2008 is going to be the filespocalypse. democrats will be all too happy to push through some shit-for-brains legislation making it illegal to type the characters m,p, and 3 in sequence. etc.

GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 14:11 (sixteen years ago) link

five months pass...

http://rideyourpony-twighlightzone.blogspot.com

these guys are KILLING IT. 60s garage, 80s garage revival, surf, 60s soul, hillbilly swing, early rock... one of their contributors does a new garage comp (including otherwise unreissued 45s) AND a new 60s soul 45 comp almost every day.

GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Friday, 11 July 2008 15:13 (fifteen years ago) link

The first one has some amazing vintage stuff, including all of "Goodbye to Babylon."
http://eldiablotuntun.blogspot.com
http://rockistory.blogspot.com
http://babakazoo.blogspot.com
http://whatsinmyipod.blogspot.com

Jazzbo, Friday, 11 July 2008 15:24 (fifteen years ago) link

two months pass...

http://experimentaletc.blogspot.com/

sleeve, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 19:57 (fifteen years ago) link

album

Big L rarities
http://biglrarities.blogspot.com/

sleep, Saturday, 18 October 2008 21:22 (fifteen years ago) link

two years pass...

Two glorious blogs:

http://holywarbles.blogspot.com/

http://ghostcapital.blogspot.com/

Zuleika, Friday, 16 September 2011 15:58 (twelve years ago) link

two years pass...

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