Archive for the 'mp3' Category

Just in case you find yourself wanting to listen St James Infirmary Blues. A lot.

Archive.org's massive collection of old time radio plays, one of the most obsolete forms of art.

"There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat."

Yes. Yes. Clearly there should be more radio plays, and the Coen Brothers should be directing most of them.

"It's been a long, long time coming"

Flash app to upload, edit and create ringtones from mp3s.

New MacArthur fellow who builds hybrid string/turntable instruments that are sort of like harps or pianos as much as anything else, and some "elemental" turntables powered by different natural phenomena.

Awesome freakout krautrock feedback with piano.

"He's got a lot of love in him."

"There's sap in the trees if you tap 'em."

"I keep my visions to myself / Its only me."

"Yeah, (Yeah), Yeah, (Yeah), Yeah, (Yeah), Yeah, (Yeah), Yeah, (Yeah), Yeah, (Yeah), Yeah, (Yeah), Yeah, (Yeah), Yeah, (Yeah), Yeah, (Yeah), Yeah."

Site for The Quiet American, a traveling field recordist who makes many of his compositions and some of his source material available for download.

Nice quality recording of an ants' nest. (Note - recording is credited to Jana Winderen, though hosted on Chris Watson's site.)

Spoon's recent Daytrotter session includes a cover of Paul Simon's "Peace Like a River." I will be reconciled.

Overwhelming collection of mp3s recorded from old 78s.

"We can both get old fashioned / Do it like they did in '43"

"I was following the pack / all swallowed in their coats / with scarves of red / tied 'round their throats"

"It's just the things you do / You make it true"