"Tis the Season: Again?

While I like gifts as much as anyone, I have no real love of Christmas. It is the holiday equivalent of Disney World when I am a Bugs Bunny/Warner Bros. kind of guy (it's the Crip V. Bloods of animation.) Saccharine sweet, inescapable, and celebrated early each year. And the music...obnoxious ear worms that linger long into the New Year. But there are bright spots.

One such spot will be the Invincible Czars ar the Wortham Center on Wednesday. They will be doing their version of the Nutcracker Suite.

I had heard about them last year, and now if I can get up in the morning, I can actually see them play.

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Last year's first Christmas post, sounding much the same as this one - Neon Poisoning: Yes To This Nutcracker!

New Tunes for a New Kid

One of the things parents can buy for new kids are electronic devices meant to play lullaby songs or white noise. Some of the soundmakers we have found at various stores make me and the missus cringe. Obnoxious, tinny-sounding kiddy tunes coming from cheap speakers. The idea of living with that kind of annoying noise for baby's sake, no thanks.

Raymond Scott & his 1950s self-built recording studio.
Photo from RaymondScott.com

Playing parental DJ, I've been thinking about what kid-appropriate tunes I have. Last Christmas, I asked for electronic music pioneer Raymond Scott's "Soothing Sounds for Baby." Some of our parents took that as a sign that one was soon on the way. It was just proof that I had strange taste in music. A year later a baby did arrive and Mr. Scott's music has been played for our sweet girl (who approves.)

The purchase of an cheap iPod dock means I need to make Z. a playlist from my music collection. Maybe the electronic noodlings of Casino Versus Japan (who created the song "Untitled" for the Bada Bing! compilation "Soothing Sounds For Raymond"), Goldfrapp's Felt Mountain, the warm, analog covers by Mr. Hopskinson's Computer, and 8-bit video game fans The Hunt for Yoshi. Oh, the strangeness she will be exposed to.

Before she was born, the missus would listen to Puffy Amiyumi. My wife said the music made baby dance inside her like Elaine danced on Seinfield.

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To get a sleepy kid out of bed, Black Rattle's awesome heavy metal versions of Where is Thumpkin? and The Itsy Bisty Spider.

Audio links from comedian Greg Behrendt's site.

Yes To This Nutcracker!

I have a particular dislike of the Christmas holiday. It wasn't due to some childhood holiday gift request never received. It just mainly stems from the double barrel attack of stunning bad traffic around the nearby mall and the inevitable, craptacular Christmas music. The traffic situation will stop only when the shopping feeding frenzy stops. However, when I find good exceptions to the musical offerings, it almost redeems the holiday. The Vandals did a great punk version of "Dance of the Sugerplum Faries," which is a favorite cover of mine.

This year, the Austin-based Invincible Czars released their take on Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite. It kind of sounds like the Secret Chiefs 3 doing Christmas music, which would be a good thing. I may be hunting for this when I go buy the missus some gifts. I really should buy her something.

Some live performances of this release can be heard on a lengthy interview with the band. A short and entertaining video of the band performing can be seen here.

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Free MP3s at Christmas music blog FaLaLaLaLa
Amazon.com: Christmas with the Vandals: Oi to the World!: Music: The Vandals

Gov't Vacation - My Robot Friend

"I went away on a government vacation,
it was the best time that I ever had.
Shipped me back home from a secret location,
my legs came back later in a plastic bag."

I'm just loving the song Robot High School, a sweet synthsation by My Robot Friend. That, and Lily Allen's cover of Mr. Blue Sky. It's a perfect combination of her accent and my love of both ELO and covers in general.

Another Evening With Richard Cheese and Plus More Covers

Saw Mr. Cheese and his band at the Roxy last night. Good times. This show make 10 total that we've seen him and all but this one in Sin City. Definitely a different crowd than the ones in Vegas. As my wife pointed out, unlike the Atlanta show in Vegas you don't have to do much to make the girls dance on stage. Dick seemed to be drinking more then usual. Bought a shirt, it looks like a piano before being opened.


I love his lounge-style covers. Which is why I bummed that I will be missing the Puppini Sisters at the Ferst Center at Georgia Tech. They do Andrew Sisters-style covers of modern toons like Gloria Gainer's "I Will Survive," Blondie's "Heart Of Glass," and "Panic" by The Smiths. I'll be in Houston at the time of their show in Atlanta and then they will be heading back to England. So no chance to see them life anytime soon.

My favorite is their cover of Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights". Their myspace page has a great sounding audio file, but I've posted an okay sounding Youtube video performance so you can see what's going on at G-Tech.

Miscellaneous Things Done in the Last Two Weeks

Went and saw the movie Paprika. Beauty of a movie about the dream and real worlds merging. But for all its artistry, I don't think of it as one of the great animated movies. Extremely good, but not great. For fans of animation and especially Ghost in the Shell.

Saw the self proclaimed "King of Country Western Troubadours" Unknown Hinson at the Earl. He definitely deserve the term "guitar virtuoso."

Did 4th of July with wife and friend on top of a Downtown parking garage.

But by far the best thing I did was attend the AV Geeks collection of bizarre flicks at Eyedrum. Amber emailed me and told me about the fun to be had, and it was the best 5 bucks I've spent in a long time. Strange school and industrial movie gems are curated by Skip Elsheimer. He presented the movies and ran the movie projector. The show that he put together was titled "AV GEEKS Greatest Hits.

"Telezonia (1974) Kids are whisked away by a manchild in white tights, so they can sing about using the telephone. Creepy, but not in the way that you think."

If you got the time this movie is a great example of the full-bore weirdness that is a 70's industrial flick with a budget. Starts rather normally, but don't let that fool you.

"Crash Bang Boom" (1970) 10 min We learn about percussion instruments featuring marching bands, dancing kids and a groovy rock band.

Malakapaladoo Skip Two (1977) 10 min A cute film for kids about using their imagination or a clay-laced, folkmusic opus to hallucinogens? You decide.

Drugs Are Like That (1979) 16 min An attempt to warn kids about the dangers of drugs using Legos and a catchy song to make its point. Anita Bryant narrates!

Shake Hands with Danger (1980) 23 min A truly inspired film that uses a country music song to illustrate the dangers of working on heavy equipment. Some fake gore too!

VD is for Everybody (circa 1970) 30 sec A public service announcement that uses an infectious song to talk about an infectious disease."

All of these are on the AV Geeks' Greatest Hits DVD, which would make a great gift for lovers of the bizarre, fans of 70's fashion and me. It I hadn't spent all the cash I had just to get through the door, I would have grabbed a DVD or two.

You can also check out some of their publicly available movies on archive.org.

Love That Dick: Seeing Richard on the 17th

Richard Cheese. In Atlanta. Going. Happy.

Lounge covers of modern rock, rap and pop songs.

Seen him at least 5 times in Vegas, from big casinos to a hole in the wall. The man puts on a great show. Expect the same this time around.

The New Sound: The Noise in My Head

One of my big regrets having lived in Atlanta all this time is never hitting the Decatur Social Club. The glitchy electro and French dance the kids have been playing always got me interested. But I am old and wasted my young energy decades ago and don't have any to spare now a days.

But it doesn't keep me from filling the iPod with all sorts of hellacious electronic noise. My newest purchase, Teenage Bad Girl's Cocotte off of iTunes. I'm a big fan of the huge, jagged -wave synth sound that's coming out of France. Justice are DJs/band that has that sort of sound. July 10th has them dropping their latest noise attack on the states.

Does It Offend You, Yeah is an unsigned DJ who put out a great DJ mix (downloadable MP3) on London's XFM. Also on my radar is Kissy Sell Out.

But the ones who do it most for me and the ones who I think are going to be around the most are Soulwax. After putting out a perfectly good album (Any Minute Now) that was better than 80% of the stuff released, the boy who are both a band and DJ's remixed the whole album and created a monster that always pleases (Nite Versions).

So I'm older than I ever was and now I'm getting older. But it don't mean I have the "oldies, but moldies" playing on the stereo. I'm hoping the neighbor's complaints will keep me young.

My Music

So, is it any good? Ehh... you tell me.

I had been working on songs for almost a year when the computer suffered a bit technical difficulties. All that music gone, except for a few remaining files. Some songs are more finished then others. Now hosted freely on archive.org (for downloadable MP3s) , I put a few surviving files up for public scrutiny. On the player, select a song to hear.

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Rarely do I feel like I made something I set out to. I love bands/DJ's like Justice, Soulwax, Whitey, Erol Aklan and other mostly dance-happy, electronic bands. But I haven't made anything that reached their caliber. And probably won't.

The main reason I put the music there is that some of the music I found online is really obscure and/or odd but I like it. But it was put out there to be found. If someone is happy to keep one of these songs as their own, I've done the same as someone did for me. Since I haven't spent any real money, I can't complain. Originally created on Apple's free software, hosted freely at Archive.org and streaming with free code... I can afford that.

And more music will be added in the future as it gets finished.

Cover Tunes; My Love of Musical Blasphemy

A good cover of a song usually finds something new in an original song. Everyone and their mom seemed to cover Radiohead, and often with good results...

Paranoid Android - UMASS Drum Line: gorgeous instrumental
Just - Mark Ronson: Funked up beauty
Radiodread - Reggae covers, I especially like "Karma Police"
and Hard N Phirm's ''Rodeohead" - Blue-grass medley, funny! Audio hosted by a fan, strange interface, worth the listen.

Long ago I grabbed the "Skeet Spirit: The Krunk Tribute to Radiohead" and now it's nowhere to be found. Worth hunting.

A greatly bad cover is all the better in my book. Rod Stewart's "Do You Think I'm Sexy" took a hit from the Revolting Cocks and Those Damn Accordions. Accordian make everything better from The Dead Kennedys (Duckmandu) to Pink Floyd (Polka Floyd).

Copy, Right? has been favorite of mine for introducing me to covers I never would have heard. Most recently found on that site the Monsieur Blumenberg cover of "Can't Get you Out of My Head" by Kylie Minogue. The occasional pop trash makes me all the happier, and this strange loungey/electro cover works fine for me.

And that's what I have to say about covers.

The Christmas Booty: A Partial List

I just started using my Christmas iTunes giftcard. I love music but find myself really reluctant to use any of the credits just waiting to be spent. It's free money, I don't know what the problem is. But I just grabbed my first album, a little known 2002 release by The Squire of Somerton. You don't know him, and that's a shame.

Here are some of the season's other highlights.

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Venture Bros: Season One

Animated adventures of failed super-scientist Doc. Venture, his bodyguard/Swedish murder machine Brock Samson and Doc's charming boys. Also include the mundane details of arch-villainy and costumed aggression. From my sweet wife who likes the show as well.

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Raymond Scott's "Soothing Sounds for Baby" An ambient electronic soundtrack for child development, recorded in 1964. Raymond Scott created much of the music that ended up in Warner Bros cartoons of the 40's and 50's like "Powerhouse" and "Dinner Music For A Pack Of Hungry Cannibals." Just the guy you want influencing your child's young mind.

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Interior Desecration's: Hideous Homes from the Horrible '70s and The Gallery of Regrettable Food by James Lileks. Mean things said about food and decor from the decades before punk rock and after the WW2.

A 1950's pamphlet on "Meat, The Main Course." An irony-free version of the Jame Lileks book. Needs to be scanned and shared online.

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A damn sharp knife for the kitchen. An even more dangerous Cuisinart mandolin.

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There's more, for later...

I'm Glad I'm Older But...

... my birthday just sucked.

Monday was my birthday, and our week-old car coming apart just didn't start my 36th year off to a good start.  With the car out of commission, it meant my sweetie couldn't go shopping.  So, no car, no gifts and no cake. I'm happier being older then I ever was before, but Monday was a type of day that I'm glad doesn't happen offen.

The saga of the car continues to be phone tag between the dealership, State Farm and myself.  I feel like we will be stuck with some of the bill.  That's the way things happen.  When something bad happens, more usually follows.  I don't believe in the "bad things happen in 3's" idea.  Too arbitrary.  I'm just riding this thing out and happy that we had stocked up on beer.

So, until my sense of humor is fully recharged the following mystifying/reassuring lyrics from the Walkmen helps keep things in perspective.  The real beauty of the song is the piano, so give this song a listen (MP3) courtesy of music blog Mars Needs Guitars.

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"'We'Ve Been Had' by the Walkmen

Well I'm a modern guy I don't care much for the go-go
or the retro image I see so often telling me to
keep trying maybe you'll get here someday
keep up the working, ok
I close the book on them right there

I see myself change as the days change over
I hear the songs and the words don't change
I write them out of the book right there

We've been had, you say it's over
Sometimes I'm just happy I'm older
We've been had I know it's over
Somehow it got easy to laugh out loud..."

There are more lyrics, but I like this last line the best.

Richard Cheese, Free Music Hurray & Still Have to Pay for a Car

There are many reasons to love loungestar Richard Cheese, but his "private letter" to soon-to-be-single Britney Spears is just beautiful...

"...Together, Britney, you and I will finally find the kind of marital happiness that only Annette and Warren have known. We'll travel the globe, inspire the masses, make the whole world sing. And, we'll do it on the floor about a hundred times a day. Hey, I'll even drive the car so you can hold the babies on your lap in front of the airbag. "

Just a small sample of one man's love for Britney.

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While cruising my usual collection of MP3 blogs, found out from largehearted boy that Minty Fresh Records is giving away a free EP by french band Prototypes.

I heard them on Georgia State's radio station, and liked them ever since.

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Today was spent looking for a new car to replace the one injured in an accident.  While we thought the process would be like getting root canal, it turned out pretty painless.  The biggest surprise was the salesmen and woman.  No high pressure, polite, and professional.  Remarkably low-key and none of them reeked of desperation.  Which was a welcome change.

The new car will be very unsexy.  Since the insurance company ruled our current car a total loss (but still completely drivable), we had been forced to buy another.

The day we found we needed a replacement car, my sweetie drove by one much like this on Peachtree Industrial and the 285...



I wish.

The Lower the Frequency the Better Your Chances: Tickets on the Radio

I told my friend Vas that I won tickets off the radio to see Nouvelle Vague.  It was 88.5 that was giving the tickets away and he was complaining about some station in the 100's.  Everyone in Atlanta will be calling for tickets on one of those stations. And what great crap they will be giving away (music snob alert!)

Fewer Listeners + Lesser Known Artist = Better Chances

Math so easy G.W.B. could do it.  Anyways, the show was great.  Nouvelle Vague does french-flavored bossa nova covers of Big Black, The Cure, Echo and the Bunnymen, etc...  Lovely singers and great musicians that took what could be a terrible concept and made for extremely good entertainment.

Unfortunately, my sweet wife was nursing a cold and couldn't partake. Hopefully she will be able to join me for Ladytron tomorrow.  Looks to be a sold-out show.

Here's to working hard and enjoying the fruits of my labor.

Friday Night: Harry Merry, Quintron @ The Drunken Unicorn

Now that my wife has finished up her time-consuming dissertation and is a "Dr," we can start having a life of movies, drinking and bands.  Last night that meant going to the Drunken Unicorn to see New Orleans' Mr Quintron and Miss Pussycat.  

Playing last, he threw down something fierce, covered in a sheen of sweat in front of an organ decked out with the grill of a Lincoln.  He gets a huge sound out of his sound system, deep organ swells and analog dance beats from his self-created Drum Buddy.  The second to the last song was "Witch in the Club " (mp3), which was more pop-singly than the rest of his set, but I loved it.  The mp3 sounds good, but Quintron is all about shock-and-awe performance and needs to be seen to hear the songs in their full sonic glory.



The second performer was the most bizarre musical experience that I ever had.  Harry Merry is a one-man keyboard band from Holland.  With his glazed-over confusion at sound check, apparent unfamiliarity with his keyboard stand and bizarre Dutchboy wig and sailor outfit, we couldn't figure out if he was real or performance art.  But his songs, crazed, child-like keyboard romps, were fantastic, bizarrely named ("The Appetite Gets Satisfied Each Bite"), and often too long.  Listen (and download) the indescribable on his myspace page. I'll be curious to see if the pictures I saw taken end up online, here's hoping.

The first band that played were Thee Crucials.  A solid and highly energetic old-school rock band.

Our first time at the Unicorn was good, the bands were all great and 22 oz. Sapporo cans a bargain. Future music plans include definitely going to Muse, and hopefully seeing Ladytron and Nouvelle Vague at the Variety Playhouse in September.

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Mr. Quintron on Flickr

Mr. Quintron - Wikipedia

Harry Merry on Tocado Records

Thee Crucials on Myspace

I (heart) Music

My love affair with music is one that came about partly due to my hatred of the musical soundtrack to my high school years.  Smalltown (population 1,400) fans of Def Leppard, Skynyrd, Van Halen and Iron Maiden had me searching for a musical oasis.  Instead, angry young Rob discovered Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Severed Heads, Scraping Foetus and Tuxedomoon, amongst others.  While maybe not the best thing to do, my parents let me DJ at a college station at age 13.  WSUC's huge music library introduced me to many a band that I loved, collected, and later left behind.  If none of these bands mentioned live in your mental jukebox, then no worries.  It was the sound of teenage depression and I'm sure Mom and Dad worried that the noise coming from the bedroom would drive me to suicide.  Which was close, but I lacked the nerve.

Forward fast to a happy, healthy v. 35.8 of myself and I still love music.  Now, internet enabled, many an hour has been spent surfing MP3 blogs, adding files to my iTunes library.  I haven't totally embraced the Atlanta local scene, but I do love the occasional Athens/Elephant 6 band that comes from east-of-Atlanta.  Despite the fact that file sharing has actually kept me off peer-to-peer networks, I still find myself making new weekly discoveries via the net.

Simple example, today I was listening to KCRW.  Heard a song that was just gorgeous, the playlist said it was The Bird and the Bee, looked for the song on Hype "discover, listen and buy music discussed on the best mp3 blogs," found it on Loudersoft and voila... I now have their lovely song "I'm A Broken Heart."  And before complaints of stealing come up, I'm buying this one hopefully tomorrow.

So, the internet is great, even when it comes to feeding my need for covers, be it bizarre (Soundtrack to "Grease") or inspired (Matthew's Celebrity Pixies Tribute). Seriously, Pixies fans, check the "Bee-Gees" cover of "Wave of Mutilation."

And Friday, we see Mr. Quintron. Yeah, music!

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Me on Last.fm

Music: Mine, Grant's and Muse's

I've wasted much of the morning using Apple's Garageband program to screw with songs of my own, plus a couple of midis pulled from the internet.  The tunes will never amount to anything significant, but its fun noodling around with them

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Big-time news for an Atlanta stagehand/musician friend of mine.  Grant Davis (pictured above with Arlo Guthrie) just got signed to Sony.  His music is county/rock, he practically lives at Sidelines, and his album is being played on stations out west from what I heard.  This weekend friends will be getting together to bust his chops and ask for money.  

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MUSE!

I never thought that I would be seeing my favorite british rock band in Atlanta, even though they have played here in the past.  But they'll be at the Tabernacle, August 6th.  Is it stupid that the Tabernacle doesn't have a website?  Anyways, the Muse myspace page is streaming the whole album, which I will be listening to once I am done posting this.  British online music site PlayLouder posted that tonight they will be playing a London show.

"Tonight they play their comeback show at Shepherd's Bush Empire, dubbed The Empire Strikes Back Super Massive Concert, it's a gig for fans only... and PlayLouder, who will be popping along to tell you how it goes. PlayLouder that is, not fans. They'd just scream hysterically in your face while their eyeliner runs everywhere. . .       . . .Go on admit it, it's good isn't it. . . "

New album, coming to the ATL, good?... yes it is!

Music that Lives on My Computer: Last.fm

After seeing that Mr. P'body posted some of his musical tastes using his account at Last.fm and some of their tools, I had to do the same.

Artists most played overall:

Click the chart to see the remaining 40 bands that made the top 50.

Songs most recently played this week:

I find that I like Radiohead songs when performed by other groups. The Mark Ronson song is a great cover of their song "Just". The funk-filled song has loads of horn section, great beat and a sweet video (Quicktime Video).

For another great Radiohead cover check out the 2003 MP3 of "Paranoid Android" played by the UMass Front Percussion Ensemble.

For those looking to get exposed to lots of great music, I would highly recommend the Not Your Usual Bollocks podcast.

"NYUB was created to provide on-demand refuge from main-stream radio. NYUB harnesses podcasting technology to bring direct to you, the best independent and unsigned artists from the rock and electronic music genres. It's not your usual bollocks.....because mainstream radio is shit."

Check his site for podcasts, playlists, and band links.

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Neon Poisoning: Back in the Day: Junior High DJ
UMass Drumline 2005
stereogum: Mark's Ronson's "Just": The Bootleg Video

Back in the Day: Junior High DJ

From the time I was 13 until I was 18, I was a summer DJ at WSUC, at SUNY Cortland. Having a broadcast license in 8th grade was cool, and my very loving parents let me DJ from midnight to 2am. I guess it just meant they were happy I wasn't partying like most of the kids.

I was a terrible DJ, but the station's bad luck was my good fortune. Their huge record library saved me from Def Leppard and Iron Maiden (popular in my high school.) Instead, I found Ministry, Pete Shelley from The Buzzcocks and one song from Suicidal Tendencies that I played over and over.



Now, I just found the Punk Rock Orchestra, a 50 piece group that orchestrates punk tunes. They don't have full songs available, but samples are there to be found. Which comes back to Suicidal Tendencies...

...enjoy this little snippet of Institutionalized (MP3) from their sounds page.

My musical tastes have changed and evolved (my Last.fm page) but everytime I hear one of the girl DJ's on WRAS 88.5FM I wish I could be playing tunes on their station. She's so bad on-air that it takes me back to the good old days.

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Also...

NPR Piece on the P.R.O (MP3)

Moog = Vogue @ Eyedrum: Analog Musical Heaven in Atlanta and Online

You may not know the guy but you know his machines. Robert Moog (sounds like vogue) made the electronic machines and keyboards that made groovey analog music possible. From the indie art enclave Eyedrum website and mailing list comes the following info on a Saturday night of Moog-themed events...

"An evening dedicated to the recently departed father of the Moog synthesizer and builder of theremins. Tonight's lineup will feature a screening of the film "Moog" by Han Fjellestad.



Eyedrum will host a Bob Moog tribute on Saturday, September 17. Bob Moog, inventor of the Moog line of synthesizers and builder of theremins died last month. Eyedrum will pay tribute by showing the film "Moog" by Hans Fjellestad. This feature documentary film explores Moog's collaborations with musicians over the years, and his ideas about creativity, design, interactivity and spirituality. The film was shot on location in Asheville, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tokyo and London, featuring appearances by Keith Emerson, Walter Sear, Gershon Kinsgley, Jean-Jacques Perrey & Luke Vibert, Rick Wakeman, DJ Spooky, Herb Deutsch, Bernie Worrell, Pamelia Kurstin, Tino Corp. with Charlie Clouser, Money Mark, Mix Master Mike, and an eclectic mix of performers. This screening will mark the Atlanta premiere of the film.

MOOG [a film by hans fjellestad]

There will also be performances by local Moog enthusiasts (Neil Fried, Don Hassler, Howard Wershil, Zachary Hollback, Chris Swartz, Gene Thompson, William Silbernagel, Scott Burland, Robert Cheatham, Allen Welty Green, Oliver Smith, & Blake Helton) featuring many participants from last year's Theremin Summit, as well as Dennis Palmer and Bob Stagner of Shaking Ray Levis from Chattanooga."

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The Electrical Spectacle put out one of my all-time favorite albums. Analog keyboard instrumentals, real drummer, throwing down fast and grooving slow. The following review does a good job of describing the music of the band. Two of the songs are longer then 8 minutes, and all four are worth the download. MP3's to be found at Electrical Spectacle "Mood Modulation EP". I'd be curious to hear anyone's reaction, and no, I have nothing to do with the band.

Welcome to the Best of New Orleans! Hot Seven 12 31 02

"Like this contagious club concoction, Electrical Spectacle looks to the past for innovation. A study in the vintage keyboard sounds of the '60s and '70s, the Spectacle's retro-futuristic sound is the perfect antithesis to most of what goes on in the organic, roots-obsessed local music scene. The group's massive Moog synthesizer collection sets the tone for electro-effects and the whirring of the theremin. "