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WFMU's On The Download collects MP3s from the fringes once a month: new sounds, obscure audio, found sound, and other sonic stimulants unique to WFMU.
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| December 2004 | ||
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"MOTHERBANGER"
by CHRIS MORRIS
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To celebrate the Pixies reunion tour, someone really shoulda booked British comedy genius Chris Morris to be the opener. This tribute/parody to the Pixies originally comes off a magazine flexi disc from the early 1990s and has the formula down pat. | |
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"LS BUMBLEBEE"
by PETER COOK & DUDLEY MOORE
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When they're weren't being as foul as possible as Derek & Clive, these two were up to no good in other forums. Here's a generous helping of psych-sploitation that is at least as good as "Listen To What the Flower People Say". | |
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"LIVE AT INSTAL 04 EXCERPT 10/04"
by JANDEK
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So after 25 years, the elusive Texan, unseen live or anywhere for that matter, surprised a Glasgow audience (as well as performers Current 93, Vajra, William Basinski and others, who had no idea what was planned) by taking the stage and plugging in for an hour live set backed by pickup band Richard Youngs on bass and Alex Nielsen on drums. As the reverb-soaked stumbling blues began, words has it various audience members asked aloud who this guy was pretending to be Jandek and it was never even directly stated who was actually on stage except "a representative of Corwood Industries (Jandek's label)". No mistaking it by this excerpt. | |
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"HOLIDAY ROAD (LUPICA COEDINE MIX)"
by LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to hear Fleetwood Mac's guitarist do his solo hit from the "Vacation 2" soundtrack, but from outside the door of a gymnasium, and the band was all on downers? We thought you might. Mike Lupica's remix lets your dream become reality. | |
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"SUSSUDIO"
by OL' DIRTY BASTARD
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R.I.P ODB. Taken from an actual hip-hop tribute to Phil Collins out on a European label called "Urban Renewal" (inclduing Kelis and Li'l Kim!) | |
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"MONGOLOID"
by POPCHOR BERLIN
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An a capella take on the Devo classic courtesy of a German vocal group who also include in their repertoire Mudhoney, the Cure, and International Noise Conspiracy. | |
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"DO THEY OWE US A LIVING"
by SOFT PINK TRUTH
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Vicki Bennett's Crass (see review). | |
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"PRANK CALL"
by RUSS MEYER
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An insight to some showbiz wheelings and dealings on the phone from the guy who invented breasts. | |
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by THE KLEPTONES
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Mash-up madness from their short-lived-online "Night At the Hip-Hopera" | |