Some "New", "Old" Found Fancies

Friday, July 10, 2009






One day, some months back, I was researching some new and different audio software, and I came across this link to a website that piqued my interest. It was, (here for your perusal), fascinating, humorous-as-shit, and had a Stick-it-to-the-Man attitude about it. http://goodblimey.com/tunes
Well this got Ole' Angry's creative gerbils whirling around in their wheels so fast the second gerbil just gave up and fell limp, letting the other whiz it around like a fresh cadaver! The interesting aspect, is that somehow my mind reacted as if this were the first time I had heard this sort of thing. Which was totally fallacious! Negativland, The Evolution Control Committee, The Bran Flakes, and People Like Us (to name a few) were all "bands", I use that term extremely loosly, I had been listening to for years! I'll get into that later. I guess the thing that was so much different about the audio available on this site, was I don't recall hearing music done in this way before. I know Hip-Hop/Rap, Industrial, fuck! even some Rock has used sampling! This is different though! Check it out! I guarantee you will find something of interest there. If you like it enough, well he even gives you the info you need to save a file for later listening pleasure! Or to piss off the boss/wife/kids.
So this got my imagination sent into overdrive and I spent the next 56 gazillion hours, not only finding other websites (which I will list), but researching software and gear to be able to pursue this new found hobby. I'm sure my wife was as pleased as punch.
This leads me into the Sociopolitical aspect of all of this!! I'm viewing things that give me a modicum of power over the MegaGlobalCorp's; To be able to fight back insubversive ways, even if it's infinitesimally small!! I know!! Not enough FUCKS, and BRAINS BLEEDING THROUGH PORES you're used to from Angry... Even I have sanguine moments.... This is one of them.
The deeper I dug, the more I was like "Shit Ya'. This is what I need to be doing!" There are groups of people out there that do something called "Droplifting". They make these CD's, mixing and mashing, sound-scaping, etc. from 'found' sources, rip-offs, you name it! They then package this stuff and go to the "Big Box" record stores and put, or drop-lift, their merchandise into the "popular" section! Fucking brilliant!! One can imagine all of the scenarios! Here's the link to that if interested in becoming involved or just want to do some internet rubber-necking.
The Coup de Grace, the fucking Rosetta Stone for all things Recycled Culture, or Social engineering, or just plain being a crafty bastard is this site! USE WISELY ;-)
I don't know if that was ULTRA enough for you, but I will give it the 23rd chromosome missing,
super-swank mongoloid: 12 FINGERS UP!!
Oh!! Also check out Plunderphonics at: http://www.plunderphonics.com/


P.S. I know I said I'd get into the whole Negative Land, E.C.C., thing but I've done enough for one day!! Google 'em!! Or better yet. Use http://www.ixquick.com/. Or some other anonymous
metasearch site. Google is another name for spy/purveyor of info on YOU to sell to others, including any of that 'old' archived email sitting in your Gmail acct. Ever wonder why your storage space keeps growing and growing?! That's another rant for a different day.

LATER, AnGRy BraDy




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