No more Loompanics...

(and it's already been a year...)
Anyone who's had the fortune of receiving the Loompanics catalog in the mail - share a common secret; the knowledge of the existence of unbelievable literature. I'm talking about that ol' non-fiction, DIY, paranormal, geeky, conspiracy, secret agent, spy-tech, mind altering, electronic, fraud, hacking, military, alternative -biology -lifeforms, home-made weapons of mass destruction and how to kill anybody with just about anything, thing... Most of which - highly illegal! But essential literature for any journalist, una-bomber, author, prankster, anarchist, housewife, lone gunman eh well remember the three nerds who assisted Mulder & Scully, and made a conspiracy weekly called "The Lone Gunmen", well those kinda guys... They're all into books such as The Art & Science of Dumpster Diving, Methods of Disguise, Making Crime Pay, Rancho Costa Nada: The Dirt Cheap Desert Homestead, If We Can Keep a Severed Head Alive…, How to Start Your Own Country, Did Jesus Exist?, Practical LSD Manufacture, Combat Knife Throwing, The $51 Fantasy, etc., etc.

Fear not, there will still be sources for unbelievable literature. R.I.P Lo0mpanics.

AK PRESS
AK Press is a worker run book publisher and distributor organized around anarchist principles. All decision-making, including which titles we distribute and what we publish, is made collectively. Our goal is to make available radical books and other materials, titles that are published by independent presses, not the corporate giants, titles with which you can make a positive change in the world.

DELTA PRESS
For more than 20 years Delta Press, Ltd. has been the catalog to turn to for some of the most outrageous and hard to find books anywhere! Its constant goal is to give its readers, (collectors, gun enthusiast, law enforcement agencies, and many others) the best selection of unusual and hard to find books on a variety of informative subjects.

EARTHLIGHT BOOKS
Family owned and operated since 1973, Earthlight Books helped spawn Last Word Books in Olympia, Washington in 2002. We are an extended family of independent counter-culture booksellers bent on subverting dominant paradigms and increasing the burden of awareness through education and enlightenment. Together we collectively spent every dime to our names six times over in 2006 stocking up on Loompanics titles for you, our beloved radical readers. We offer a variety of book-related services, including special orders, rare book searches, appraisals, consignment sales for libraries and defunct publishers, etc. Search Earthlight's online inventory here. Search Last Word's online inventory here. Not all of our titles are available online so contact us at earthlightbooks@gmail.com or 1-866-630-4002 with any questions, requests, etc. We have cases upon cases of select Loompanics titles available for resale as well if any bookstores are interested.

EDEN PRESS
Their unique publications offer practical solutions to many of today's most difficult problems. Over 500 titles "help you help yourself" with immediate answers and ideas you can use for a better life. Books on privacy, new identity, business opportunities, free money, and foreign passports.

FS BOOKS
We offer the best variety in alternative publications. * Marijuana Books * Mushroom Books * Psychedelic Books * Underground Books * Drug Books * Health Books * Marijuana Video's * Marijuana DVD's * Marijuana Magazines * Psychedelic Magazines * Rare & Out-of-Print Books * Discounted Damaged Books. Many books that were carried by Loompanics.

LAISSEZ FAIRE BOOKS
Laissez Faire Books offers the world's best selection of books and tapes on liberty. We carry hundreds of titles, and sell to individuals in over 90 countries. For more than 30 years we have published a monthly "snail-mail" bulletin, which now goes out to tens of thousands of people.

LEHMAN'S
Founded by Jay Lehman in 1955 to serve the local Amish and others without electricity, Lehman's ships old-fashioned, high-quality merchandise all over the world. Homesteaders, environmentalists, missionaries, doctors in developing nations, and others living in areas where there is no power or unreliable power can rely on Lehman's. Man-made disasters, such as the Great Blackout of 2003, as well as natural disasters like Hurricane Isabel are leading people to search for a self-sufficient lifestyle.

NEW FALCON PUBLICATIONS
Features publications on conspiracy theory, transformation, magic, psychology, and health. Offers the works of Crowley and Robert Anton Wilson. Publisher of more than 100 books and tapes on metaphysics, sexuality, astrology, tarot, Golden Dawn, and New Age.

PALADIN PRESS
"Home of the Action Library -- Over 750 titles on personal and financial freedom, self-defense and martial arts, firearms and shooting, police and military science, plus much more. Order a free catalog or browse the Paladin online.

PRIVACY ALERT ONLINE
Featuring the syndicated newspaper columns of Vin Suprynowicz, his monthly newsletter, on privacy, liberty, freedom, gun rights, education in America, buying coins and gold, and much more.The Libertarian, Privacy Alert, his books, the Mountain Media Bookstore of books

RONIN PRESS -- Books for Independent Minds
Ronin Publishing is a small press in Berkeley, California, publishing books as tools for personal development, visionary alternatives, and expanded consciousness. Serves the common weal by offering books on personal development, visions, psychedelia and drug laws.

STEVE ARNOLD'S GUN ROOM
Serving your needs for over 25 years. Established in 1976, located in Western Oregon, we have remained committed to your personal privacy. Supplier of lock picking books, videos, and tools; guns; publications; militaria; and much more. Provides tools for professional locksmiths. Includes a list of tools and videos for lock picking.

UNCLE FESTER'S BOOKS
Books and videos from the most dangerous man in America. Since 1985, everybody's favorite Uncle has been writing the books which have defined the field of clandestine chemistry. Uncle Fester says, "My books have been described as the pinnacle of 20th century underground writing, and through them I have transformed this genre."

Back to the Futurists

Musica Futurista: The Art of Noises is a 74 minute collection of music and spoken word from the Italian Futurist movement 1909-1935, including original recordings by Marinetti, Russolo and Balilla Pratella. Get it here!. Original post with tracklisting and info on Direct Waves.


Futura Poesia Sonora; The king of all sound poetry compilations. Released by the legendary Italian Cramps label in 1978 and then again in 1989, now out of print. 5CD(!)

Disc 1 & 2 - Disc 3 & 4 - Disc 5

Original post with tracklists on Direct Waves.

Direct waves is a place dedicated to experimental & avant-garde music that is rare, obscure, or O.O.P.: NWW List, Improv, Kraut, Prog, Psych, Fluxus, Dada, Musique Concret, Sound Poetry, Noise, Classical, Surrealism, Futurism, ...

One hit wonders mp3 extravaganza

216 One hit wonders as standlone mp3's right here

«from 4 Non Blondes to The Tubes»
LINK DISABLED!

Lewis Black,

Lewis Black (wikipedia)

A good portion of Black's political material seems to be aimed at exposing both the comedy and tragedy of staunch conservatism, as well as disbelief at the mystifying combination of thick-headedness and condescending attitude in authority figures. Black seems just as disenchanted with Democrats as Republicans. He is quoted as saying: "You elected Bush, so that's who I'm going to rant about. If you elect Kerry, I'm going to rant about him too. My problem is with...authority!" He decided that the best way to find the next president is to "throw a dart at a map of the United States, go into the jungle, find a monkey, take it on a plane, parachute it out to the location the dart hit, and whoever the first person the monkey touches, that is the new president." He is also quoted as saying "what is the difference between a Democrat and a Republican? A Democrat blows, and a Republican sucks" and "the only thing dumber than a Democrat or a Republican is when these two pricks work together." He has also stated that the way in which bipartisanship works is that "A Republican stands up and says, 'I got a really bad idea!' and then a Democrat stands up and says, '...and I can make it shittier!'"

Luther Burbank Performing Arts Center Blues.zip (74.23 MB)
Rules of Enragement.zip (61.24 MB)
The White Album.zip (69.03 MB)
The Carnegie Hall Performance.zip (172.47MB)
Revolver (EP).zip (25.45 MB)

Thanks to the otr-messageboard. About the above cd's. Borghild recommends "Rules of enragement"

Art of Noise, the ZTT Sessions 83-85 (56 tracks)

...here...

all standalone mp3's

We'll, I'll be dipped in dogshit...

Steven Segal - famous actor, Buddhist, martial artist and... well, the list goes on for some - as for me, well - I'm baffled.
Segal has released a blues album. And has received nice reviews. So, to end the curiosity - here is the link to Songs From The Crystal Cave (link) by mr. Segal. Thanks to Stay Free, for giving us all this Buddhist blues brutality.

Dark Star (1974)

What would you be like after 20 years aboard DARK STAR the spaced-out spaceship. The ultimate cosmic comedy!
See the movie - or selfdestruct like a paranoid bomb...

DIRT BACHARACH

RIAA does funny and intelligent mash-up's. I've listened with glee to the airing of some of the tunes on WFMU. And I would like to point out Dont Give Paper Mache (mp3) as one of the many highlights.

Go Here to get all of the 15 Burt Bacharach mashups...

Marx Brothers Extravaganza

Radio/Songs/Interviews/Talk - HERE - thanks to the otr msg-board
Posters/Photos/ - HERE - thanks to Dr. Macro

The incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

Get the popcorn, it's movietime! (link)

Japanese Pixies & Mexican Ramones

Japanese pixies.

Ramomex.


Thanks to
Rock on! and
Stay Free.

Iraq for Sale - The War Profiteers

Trailer (.mov) - Trailer 2 (.mov)
Soldiers lack necessities, contractors profit (.mov)
Halliburton CEO comes clean (.mov)

Today, state-authorities are only interested in making money.
Really, it is their main objective! - Anna Politkovskaya

SEE THE FILM - LOOK BELOW!

Iraq for Sale (1h15mins)

Online Videos by Veoh.com

Andreas Ammer & FM Einheit

FM Einheit is a member of the prestigious German band Einstürzende Neubauten, and his joint collaborations with playwriter Andreas Ammer has resulted in radio-plays, and soundscapes with various texts/lyrics with everything from Roald Amundsen's voyages to the last desperate cries from pilots in airplanes about to crash - accompanied with ambient and techno sounds. My first contact with these two artists was through the production "Deutsche Krieger" [German Warriors]. A CD cover with photos of Hitler, Kaiser Wilhelm and Ulrike Meinhof - well, I just HAD to buy it. Miss Meinhof's voice over 70s disco-beats, does it get any better? The last remaining member of the R.A.F (Rote Armee Fraktion - Baader Meinhof) still in prison (Brigitte Mohnhaupt) will be released the 27th of March this year. You can listen to a NPR radio program about R.A.F here (link). But I digress...

Thanks to the ever excellent Kill Ugly Radio, you can get Deutsche Krieger here. Original post here. More info here.

As my previous post surely made clear, Ubuweb has it all... It has some of the other fascinating Ammer/Einheit CD's.

From Ubuweb I would like to recommend Crashing Aeroplanes - the 1 hour radio play in German (but it has plenty with English as well) with loads of nifty sampling, and eerie "last words" from pilots. It received several prizes, not at least for being a bold attempt to make entertainment out of the most sinister theme you can find; real audio - real death... Might be sickening to many people, it was at least to me!

Full mp3 here (53.37)

Go here to see the available Ammer/Einheit productions on ubuweb. If I dare to say, "Radio Inferno" is great. It was their first cooperation (1993) and is a "pop" version of Dante's Inferno. It features even the late John Peel as "The Radio".

Kurt Schwitters

Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948)

Born in Hanover, Germany, his studies in art were interrupted by WWI. In 1917, he painted his first abstract pictures and in 1918 saw the birth of his famous collage technique "Merz."

During these turbulent years of cultural development, Schwitters met and collaborated with other leading Dadaists such as Arp, Tzara, Hausmann and others. On hearing Hausmann's sound poem "fmsbw"in 1921, he immediately recognized the great potential of Sound Poetry. With great logic and concentration, he built up a totally abstract piece, "Sonata in Urläten." Over the years, the Sonata grew in both size and variations, and realizing that some phonetic notation for the Sonata was essential if it was not to die with him, he finally published his notations as the last number of his Merz magazine in 1932.

According to Schwitters, merz is derived from the name of the Commerzbank; the word is also notably similar to the French word merde, which translated into English as "shit."

A story is told, but untrue, that he attempted to join the network of Dada artists, only to be rejected by the leader of the Berlin movement, Richard Huelsenbeck, on the premise that Schwitters was "too bourgeois" for Dada. A 2005 exposition on Dada at the Centre Georges Pompidou further acknowledged Schwitters as a member of the larger movement by devoting an entire section to the exhibition of some of his work (Ramade 2005).

Die Schwindlinge's version "Kurt Schwitters: What A Beauty/Die Ursonate/Und Andere Lautgedichte" can be found here (megaupload) Thanks to the excellent blog My Wife Of Sennacherib Is Radiosick Queen. Go there if you're into the avant garde, and like "nurse with wound", "whitehouse", "sun city girls", "merzbow" etc...

Even MORE Kurt Schwitters can be found at the superb Ubuweb (link), a place curated by Kenneth Goldsmith aka Kenny G (known from Wfmu)

Kurt Schwitters’ “Ursonate,” written between 1922 and 1932 was the greatest sound poem of the 20th century. Below the fold, you can find 9 versions of it by sound artists from around the world. Schwitters was primarily known for his Dadaist collages and visual art works, but some feel that the “Ursonate” is the most important and significantly influential work he made. His own legendary recording of his work was lost for years. It finally turned up in an attic in Holland the late ‘80s.

Version 1: Kurt Schwitters’ original version of the “Ursonate”

1. einleitung und erster teil: rondo (21:58)

2. zweiter teil: largo (3:12)

3. dritter teil: scherzo - trio - scherzo (2:24)

4. vierter teil: presto - ablosung - kadenz -schluss (13:36)

Version 2: Canadian sound poet Christian Bök’s version of the “Ursonate” (the fastest version on record)

Christian Bök’s “Ursonate”

Version 3: Jaap Blonk’s first version of the “Ursonate” (1986)

1. Erster teil

2. Rondo allegro largo

4. Scherzo

4. Preto Finale

Version 4: Dutch sound poet Jaap Blonk’s second version of the “Ursonate” (2003)

1. Erster teil

2. Rondo allegro largo

3. Scherzo

4. Presto Finale

5. Cadenza Finale

Version 5: Finnish group Linnunlaulupuu’s version of the “Ursonate” (2005)

Ursonate

Version 6: Japanese sound poet Tomomi Adachi’s variations on the “Ursonate” (2001)

Schwitters Variations

Version 7: French sound poet Sébastien Lespinasse’s version of the “Ursonate” (2003)

Ursonate

Version 8: Ensemble Ordinature’s robot version of the “Ursonate” (undated)

1. Rondo allegro largo

2. Scherzo

3. Preto Finale

Version 9: Canadian composer Christopher Butterfield’s version of the “Ursonate” (undated)

1. Ursonate: Rondo Allegro (22’49")

2. Ursonate: Largo (4’31")

3. Ursonate: Scherzo (2’05")

4. Ursonate: Presto: Finale (13’16")

Pronunciation refers to the manner in which someone utters a word

Ole I'Dole Evenrude - Sayonara (mp3)
More Scandihoovian weirdness here.

Window shopping for US $3,001,501.00

Up for auction (ebay-link) for the first time, the actual window and frame from the shooter’s nest on the 6th floor of the Dallas Texas School Book Depository where Lee Harvey Oswald fired off those fatal shots that took the life of our 35th President of the United States - John F. Kennedy. Here is your opportunity to own a piece of history.

Tomita - Snowflakes are dancing

The source for a thousand sound effects used in radio, snippets in-betweenies, and for general amusements. Snowflakes are dancing contains some of the most prominent renditions of classical music. It is funny, innovative, moogie and did receive great reviews when it was released in 1974. Using a mountain of Moog's finest technology, Tomita turns the familiar impressionist melodies into a futuristic world, with synthesisers and alien voices aplenty. Even people who didn't like synthesizer-music thought this one was an exception. It truly is a gem, and probably the best of Tomita's vast production. Thanks to ABC Radio Nights for providing this prize! RS-link. !!!LINK DEAD!!!

A great animated film! See it here! (1 hr 17 min)

Belleville Rendez-Vous (imbd) (aka The Triplets of Belleville) aka les triplettes de belleville

Perversion For Profit Part I

Anti-pornography film produced by financier Charles Keating, linking pornography to the Communist conspiracy and the decline of Western civilization. PART 2 (link)

Arnold in Alligator 2000

«get ahead with arnold» (mp3)

Felix Kubin

There is a Garden (mp3) Felix Kubin and Coolhaven,
from the album Suppe Für Die Nacht
(Korm Plastics KP 3025), 3.4MB stereo mp3 file.

“I wash my hands in the waters of the toilet/I wash my hands in the waters of your tears/and every time I see you smile/I feel like drowning in the Nile.”

Lullabies blacklisted by the Bush administration.

Written the 2nd of March:

Jon Birge of the New York based Valley Entertainment, says that his company has been listed as one of the companies the Bush administration no longer wants to cooperate with. The reason; Birge's company is the US distributor of "Lullabies From The Axis Of Evil", a Norwegian production in which women from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, North-Korea and Cuba sing lullabies in duet with western artists.

"Lullabies From The Axis Of Evil" produced in 2004 in Norway by "Kirkelig Kulturverksted" includes artists such as Nina Hagen, Rickie Lee Jones, Lila Downs, Rim Banna, Annisette, Eva Dahlgren and Kari Bremnes. The CD has sold 10.000 copies in USA since the release, and has received nice reviews in both The Washington Post and The Independent.

MP3's from the CD (192kbps) from the Valley Entertainment web-site:
Lalolalo - Don't you worry my child Kulsoom Syed Ghulam, Afghanistan / Lila Downs, Mexico/USA (MP3)
Peace song Halla Bassam, Iraq / Sevara Nazarkhan, Uzbekistan (MP3)
Stars are rising Sun Ju Lee, North Korea / Eddi Reader, Scotland (MP3)

Ref: Norwegian Broadcasting Corp + Vårt Land

Update Thursday the 8th:
This story is unfortunately the result of poor journalistic work, where one journalist refer to another - until all is a blur of nonsense and hearsey. The real outcome of this "story" is free advertising combined with a kick in the presidents balls...

Motelli Skronkle

Neil Gaiman - MirrorMask

Helena, a 15-year-old girl in a family of circus entertainers, often wishes she could run off and join real life. After a fight with her parents about her future plans, her mother falls quite ill and Helena is convinced that it is all her fault. On the eve of her mother's major surgery, she dreams that she is in a strange world with two opposing queens, bizarre creatures, and masked inhabitants. All is not well in this new world - the white queen has fallen ill and can only be restored by the MirrorMask, and it's up to Helena to find it. But as her adventures continue, she begins to wonder whether she's in a dream, or something far more sinister.
Audiobook: here. About the author. Thanks again to the OTR-Messageboard.

Fahrenheit-451

David Calcutt's dramatisation of Ray Bradbury's classic story of a world ruled by a vast multimedia corporation, in which firemen are employed not to fight fires but to burn books.

Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian soft science fiction novel

Spliff - Radio Show

After "backing" Nina Hagen on "Nina Hagen Band" and "Unbehagen" Spliff were fed up with Nina. She wanted to do "her own thing" and have more "artistic control" and the band split with the lady. The Spliff Radio Show was the first release after Nina left. It became obvious that "the Queen of PunkRock" owed much of her fame to the brilliant backing band. Spliff was never regarded as a true Krautrock band - I guess they had too much of a "pop" appeal, but the members all had background in various legendary KR-bands, such as Lokomotiv Kreutzberg.
Radio Show (1980), is hilarious - it is somewhat of a record industry spoof. Totally over-produced. Packed with kitsch sarcasm, SRS really tried to bite off the hand that fed them; CBS. Or at least it seemed so. It is difficult to describe the album, it has elements of pop-rock, synth-rock, disco, prog-rock and krautrock. All with tongue in cheek. Enjoy this gem! Part1 and part2. pass: mercury. Thanks to this place, for sharing this moment in history. (go there for even more spliff)

Lyrics Producers:

WE ARE PRODUCERS
Turning all the knobs that move the music scene
WE ARE PRODUCERS
Cleaning all the tapes erasing what's obscene

We are the engineers
we call ourselves producers
Making records doing sounds
we're really the inducers
Take control ot music's Soul
we twist and bend to fit the trend
Compressor's in and reverb's out
we change the mix without a doubt

WE ARE PRODUCERS . . . . etc.

We'll route the drums in 1 and 2
then we take an FRQ
DDL with ABC
THD sounds good to me
Cut the bass and keyboards out
leave guitar but not so loud
An echo here an echo there
harmonizing everywhere

WE ARE PRODUCERS . . . . etc.

First class technics in our hand
––––––––––––––––?–––schwitz!
To get a hit is only luck
cause what we do's a filthy fire truck
We don't care about energy
the future will be warm
Overkill capacities
in our nuclear mixing board
mixing board
mixing board
Bang! bang! bang! bang! bang! bang! bang!

Now, will I go to Hell?

If there is a Hell, who would you like to see in it?
	Dimmu Borghild
	George Bush jr
	Vladimir Putin
	Dave Lesar
	William Shatner
	Paris Hilton
	Gene Simmons
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