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deltasleep's totally vapid halloween mix
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Here's a recording of a lot of things from my record collection that I find to be somewhere between creepy, brilliant, and unlikely. I focused this time on what I refer to as "light psychadelia" -records that feature strange instruments or effects in an otherwise mundane song, and that little bit is just enough to make it all feel strange. The closest this gets to stereotypes you probably hold about psychadelia(and that term is almost entirely meaningless) is the mystic moods orchestra.
You can hear the beginnings of bands like AIR, Bertrand Burgalat, and every other recent imitation thereof. Hopefully these songs will give you as much inspiration and energy as they gave me.
These are genuinely creepy records because they push things like delays and phasers in environments you don't expect to find them. They are used sparingly, and the results almost always catch the listener off guard. To top it off, they are used on a quality of recording thats completely unmatched today. The more I listen to records engineered and produced by people like Enoch Light, Arif Mardin, and Hugo Montenegro, the more I am blown away.
A lot of these songs will require your patience for a moment, but think of it as a crescendo, or a tension building device. Wait for the weird synth passage, trust me. Some of them I admit, are just so effervescent that its creepy- like the ultra rarity among rarities that sounds just like the Free Design singing "Kites are Fun" except its actually Tony Mottola's Warm Wild and Wonderful instrumental version of the song.
Featured on this record in some sort of order are the LPs: Muzak: Stimulus Progression, Mystic Moods Orchestra: Love Token, Switched on Bacharach, Les Baxter: Hell's Belles, Out of This World with the Richard Marino Orchestra, Enoch Light: Charge!, Honky Tonk and Percussion(also known as Will Someone Please Bring a Tuner to the Next Session) Hugo Montenegro: Lover's Collection, Tony Mottola: Warm, Wild, and Wonderful, Enoch Light: Spaced Out.
Luxuriamusic.com says that they have no DJ slots open, I was really bummed. That would be a great way to get my mixes like these streamed. I'll show them, though. I am hoping to do this at least monthly, hopefully way more often.
Enjoy this genuinely haunting and beautiful collection of songs that might have died if I hadn't saved them from the thrift store. One of them, "Enoch Light: Charge" is a bit tattered in one corner because a few stray.40 cal rounds flew through the thrift store front window and through the glassware, through the record bin, and into a computer monitor in the back room. If that bullet had even so much as a slight change in trajectory, you would not be enjoying the first song on this mix.
Was that inches away from this record being lost forever? It's possible.
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09/22/06
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DrexonField
wow, just read the part about the thrift store, dammmzzzzzz. very glad you saved the albums 
09/22/06
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Doron
Awsome downloaded as soon as your blogged came up in my RSS feed
anted to comment, but needed to register which is lame. so
thanks
09/22/06
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Doron
listeing now for the 3 time its great
still waiting for the bangara mix you promised
edited: Sep 22 2006
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zfigz
Thiiiiiiiis time we almost made the pieecies fit...
I love this Delta...thanks for putting the time into making this mix for us.
p.s. I just heard a voice on the mix that said "Thank you for saving us!"
09/23/06
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Fredo
this is frigging phenomenal! This perfectly explains why I have a playlist on my iPod entitled Deltasleep, which is where I store just the most interesting and unusual music I happen to come upon. You have amazing taste, my friend!
09/23/06
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Fredo
Did you ever look into Ernie Kovacs? This music brings his insane show to mind.
09/23/06
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deltasleep
yeah I dug up ernie kovacs and I remembered almost every one of the gags, I must have been exposed to them as a kid- but I don't know how because apparently a lot of his footage was lost- maybe i just saw it mixed into some sort of early Nick at Nite variety programming. My dad and I watched an unbelievable amount of that sort of stupid humor(kovacs, the marx brothers, the three stooges, tex avery,etc.)
I'm so happy that some many other people can see the beauty in music like this. I feel like my record collection gives me access to ancient hidden knowledge. I always felt like possession of that knowledge was the only thing that made my music the way it is. I realize now that thats not the case, and so I am divulging this top secret knowledge bit by bit to my friends. I know that sounds silly. Now I realize that it may make people relate to my music a little more... and at the very least listen to some genuinely good music.
The Beatles weren't the death nell of the large band, and some of the best music ever made happened around the same time as the beatles, but bore no resemblance or influence of them. To listen to that music after listening to rock from the era seems like discovering an entirely different musical history than the one most are comfortable with. And so far as I can tell, music by people like Ferrante and Teicher, Kostelanetz, and Martin Denny seems to have sold almost as well. I guess the difference was the commerciality of the music these people made- so much of it is either a "trend" record(stereorama, a dance craze, or "mood" music) and thus it gets pretty ignored and was despised by the music press.
Sorry to keep doing the endless post gag, I just think about this stuff all the time. I load boxes at work and I think about how many arrangements of "Touch Me in the Morning" I can name.(by the way, its well over 20)
09/23/06
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deltasleep
I am like one of those old people who you can tell are just looking for somebody's ear to talk off.
09/24/06
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sprouts
enjoyable!
disney somewhere, it scared me.
09/24/06
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Raaphorst
I like it although I am 6:40 now... wondering if Gainsbourg is included too..
09/24/06
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frnortnr
well i am pretty excited to listen to this because i am a big fan of that imitation band AIR. ;). and i find it very amusing that your thrift store got shot up- must be showing some colours or something. the first song is way rad-bridge over troubled water is a weird fav of mine so to hear it in this style makes me happy- glad it survived.
i will post later after i have listened all the way through.
09/24/06
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deltasleep
hey I love AIR too, don't get me wrong. Moon Safari was a landmark moment in my life as a listener! I try to operate in much the same way they do: I pick apart things I like about easy listening music and classic country and moog records and mix in what I like about music now and then try and glue it all together.
09/24/06
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bodo
enjoyed it very much, puts a smile one anyone's face
09/25/06
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Locopomo
Mmmm..... lounge music with extra cheese.
09/25/06
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frnortnr
i love this!!!
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