Broke my fucking turntable!

The needle on my USB turntable today decided to break itself off completely. What a pain in the arse. I guess I can just replace it, though I should probably stop being so tight, and splash out on a proper technics deck.

So anyway, before the needle broke, only today I was ripping some vinyl, and it can be downloaded here.

Briefly, it contains:

Sandy Nelson - Bouncy (Funky drums thing)

James Galway - Brian Boru's March (Irish Trad Flute thing)

Tanya Tucker - I've Got Somebody (Country meets electro in the early 80s)

Max Bygraves - You Need Hands (More cheese from the camp crooner)

Henry Mancini - Love Theme For Laura (Badass)

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Catch up soon. Soon as I fix this turntable problem!

Chris Barber, James Last and a Brucie Bonus..

I'm depressed as fuck at the moment so I'll try to keep this brief. 

LINK:

http://www.zshare.net/download/1550191488456de1/

WHATS IN IT?
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Chris Barber - Petite Fleur
Chris Barber - I Can't Give You Anything But Love

Shit cool traditional jazz with that kinda jewish vibe. Appearantly this man was big in the 50s and 60s.

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James Last - Good Night, Ladies (Medley)

Tacky German, moustache wearing, king of the car-boot-sale, James Last does it again with this piece of cheesy brass band shit. Keep an ear out for the break down into a bit of "Mary Had A Little Lamb" around 50 seconds in. Dire, but might enthuse Tijuana fans or suicidal people.

If he does it again, I'm gonna freak out.

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Bruce Forsyth - When I See An Elephant Fly

In Britian, this man is a complete legend. Like James Last, he also sports a moustache, but unlike James Last, he has an extremely large chin, so large in fact that I thought it would be better I didn't post his picture.

This dispicable recording was one of many shit songs on a 1969 British fund raiser LP called "No-one's Gonna Change Our World", which incidentally, saw the first print of "Across The Universe" by The Beatles.

That song, alongside this piece of shit, aswell as Ralf Harris and Spike Milligan.. What the fuck were they thinking?

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LINK:
http://www.zshare.net/download/1550191488456de1/

Mixed Bag of vinyl rips for your MPC, or maybe your MPD.

Recently bought an AKAI MPD-32.
Fucking excellent bit of kit. I would strongly reccommend checking out an MPD with Ableton Live 7.
The combination of Live 7s automatic slicing, and the MPDs pads, means you can get bashing out beats in no time.

Of course, you will need some interesting samples too.

This months zip file is here, and it contains the following rips:

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Firstly, this cheesefest should have been left at the bottom of the basket where I found it, despite its 2 euro price tag.



Max Bygraves - Hello Young Lovers
Complete load of rubbish, though I suspect some cunning samplist could make great use of the cheesy choir at the beginning of the track.

Appearantly this camp retard hosted "Family Fortunes" back in the good old days, and had such hilarious catch phrases as "I've arrived - and to prove it, I'm here!", and the profound "I want to tell you a story" ... sigh..

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The Kids From "Fame" - It's Sonata Mozart
Irresistablly camp eightees pap, with some interesting piano and string parts., not to mention the freaky glam guitar bit, reminiscent of the theme tune to "Tele Addicts", or some of the work by modern artists such as Rob (Robin Coudert), and Ratatat.
Still... abysmal tripe.

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Pope John Paul II - I Come As A Servent
If you meet a guy from Ireland who was born in 1979, there is a good chance his name is John Paul. Appearantly the guy was a big hit with the ladies. Might have been his vool accent, and a voice that begs to be sampled.

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Leroy Holmes And His Orchestra - For A Few Dollars More
Leroy Holmes And His Orchestra - Topkapi
Leroy Holmes And His Orchestra - Viva Maria
Some dude an an orchestra doing some film scores. Fantastic shit your sampler will eat up.

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Lola Flores & Antonio Gonzalez
Anyone with the name Antonio Gonzalez is a cool bastard as far as I'm concerned. Not much else to say about this record. Flamenco.

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Progress - Payday
One of the weirdest records I've ever listened to. Kinda moves between sweet psychadelic folky guitar stuff and mental proggy-ethnic-folk-rock. This tune reminds me of something by Arthur Lees band "Love".
I might post more off this album some time. Really interesting stuff.

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http://www.zshare.net/download/127897756675f1bc/

Interesting Vinyl Rips

Word up. I haven't been around in a while so thought I'd check in to drop some rips.

linky linky
http://www.zshare.net/download/111069209553489c/

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Barbara Mandrell - Husband Stealer
Everyone knows that country music is the sound of the devils farts, but now and then I can tolerate the odd track. This track is like Dolly Parton meets The Eagles. 
I probably shouldn't have bothered really. 

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Franck Pourcel - In The Year 2525 (Evans)
Franck Pourcel - Daydream (Vincent - Van Holem - Mackay)
Chuffed with this record. Instrumental versions of some classic loungey tunes. I'll be keeping my out for more his stuff. These 2 tracks will put a smile on your face. I presume the dude is French!

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Jesse Crawford - Ah, Sweet Mystery Of Life
"The Poet Of The Organ at his Ballad Best..at the MIGHTY WURLITZER". 
First world war kinda vibes here. 
That old wurlitzer organ sound will be usefull to someone I'm sure. 

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Thomas Round And Victoria Elliott - Midsummers Eve
Song Of Norway LP. Based on the music of Edvard Crieg. Featuring a load of old cats I've never heard of. Worth checking out for that Richard Claderman style piano shit. 
God, I'm an ignorant bastard.

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Edmundo Ros - Colonel Bogey
Pretty nauseating latin version of "that song the boyscouts whistle". 
Some interesting sections for sampling though. Alpert/Tijuana fans might like it. 


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All in a 20mb zip file...

linky linky
http://www.zshare.net/download/111069209553489c/

Have fun.

More vocals. Accapella wav samples download.

Sorry about the title! 

I'm just experimenting to see if keywords in the title gets me more hits.

Anyway, more quick vocal hits to download - HERE (zshare, 6mb, 35 x 24bit wav samples)

They've been taken from various old records, old radio shows, and Creative Commons licenced raps. These are the kind of samples every dance music producer needs, especially if you're doing funky breatbeat stuff.

Have fun.



Back soon with a nice collection of stabs (mostly from old funk records) - horns, strings, piano chords etc.

Vinyl From My Neighbours Attic

Instant Karma.

The day after my pretty awful shopping spree in some local charity shops reaped little reward, I bumped into my neighbour Linda while walking the dog. Somehow the topic of records came up and I found out that she has a collection of 200 old records in her attic!

I managed to grab a few. I'll be getting more soon too. 

Some of the records, (like ELO, Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder etc) although classic, weren't obscure enough to validate ripping them for this blog.

Heres the lowdown on whats in the zip file:

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Herb Alpert - Bittersweet Samba
The album from brass guru Herb Alpert is called "Whipped Cream & Other Delights".
The track I've shared here is called Bittersweet Samba and it rocks. 
I think Herb Alperts stuff is some of the most unashamedly happy music in existence.
Gotta love the Tijuana sound.

Circa 1965. 

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Manual And The Music Of The Mountains - Golondrina
Ok, its pretty cheesy, but worth a listen, and possibly sampling. Spanish guitar, strings, harp - classic sound.

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Daryl Hall & John Oates - I Can't Go For That
I think I've heard the little tinkling electric piano part in this 80s tune used in some house songs, but not sure. Not really prime realestate for samplists, but a fucking great song, so I thought I'd throw it in the mix here.

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Also included is some speech samples- extracts from two great old records.

David Frost Presents- Aladdin, - I think this was produced for BBC UK. and a fantastic old (Irish?) Recording on How To Give up Smoking (medidisc 1969).

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I've bundled the whole lot in a zip file.
Download the zip file here (zshare- 26mb)
...and fire up your preferred Audio Editor to get slicing.

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By the way, I haven't forgotten the hits and stabs pack that I promised. I'll sort that out soon. It will be worth waiting for.

Also, I seem to get a lot of hits, but not too many downloads- If you have any requests, suggestions or feedback, do please let me know in the comments!

My local charity shops suck.

Sorry for the delay. I've been pretty busy lately.

Treated myself to a nice new pair of Event TR6 studio monitors. Worth every penny.
Great sound and very powerull considering their size and price.

Also been spending a lot of time sampling some old records and CDs, aswell as tunes from various blogs, and vocals from CCMixter. 
I'll be back here soon with a collection of stabs and loops , mostly from funk and reggae records.

Anyway, a couple of days ago I was in a nearby neighbourhood and discovered they have not one, not two, or even three, but four charity shops, all of which sell records.
Unfortunatly, it's a very trendy little area full of students, so the good records fly out the door.

I picked up a couple of records -- they really aren't worth talking about, but fuck it, I will anyway.

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CWS Manchester Band - Tone Poem "Finlandia"
"MIGHTY BRASS"!!
The cover looked so promising from a sampledudes point of view, but the content was pretty dreary, and the record pretty noisy. Still, theres a few chops worth taking, if you're into that sort of thing. For the record, the tune was originally composed by Silebius.
download mp3 (zshare) 

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Alain Barierre - Qu'Importe 

Some old French dude trying to be Gloria Gaynor. Crap attempt at disco. The rest of the Album is really really awfull late 70s romance crap. I bought it because I love old French stuff and was taking a chance.
Again, you might find a couple of worthwhile cuts, but the asshole hardly stops singing.
There's something about this song that I really hate..
download mp3 (zshare)

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Victor Silvester - Luna Rossa (Blushing Moon)

This is much more accessable. Ballroom tango, lots of transients in the waveform.
This LP was the pick of the bunch, and a bargain for 2 euro. 
I love these kind of records, I can salvage a couple dozen stabs and twists and make a little kit out of it.
download mp3 (zshare)

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So there we have it. Pretty crap stuff there (you should have seen what I left in the baskets!)

If that has you down, download M-Audio's fairly shit "Dope Beatz", the most naive and irrelevant sample disk I've ever heard. If you want to sound like a kid in his bedroom, looping softsynths and drum machines, download this:
http://rapidshare.com/files/80443456/M-Aud...Beatz.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/80445755/M-Aud...Beatz.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/80447301/M-Aud...Beatz.part3.rar

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I promise I'll be in better mood next time, and will have some pre-chopped funky cuts.

One Love.

lol