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While this website no longer offers the exciting possibilities of mass exposure for fledgling artists it did only a year ago, you faithfuls who still manage to find this blog certainly deserve to hear the very latest in contemporary music. Orchestral Colour Records has three new releases this summer, each with a free track available on last.fm. Partake of them!

Aunque last.fm ya no ofrece las emocionantes posibilidades de publicidad masiva para artistas novatos que ofrecía en el pasado reciente, ustedes fieles que consiguen hallar este blog sin duda merecen escuchar lo último de la música contemporánea. Orchestral Colour Records estrena tres novedades este verano, y cada una trae una pista gratis disponible por last.fm. Disfrútenlas!

Nessie & Her Beard - A Baroness
MC Y.T. - Shock 2 Da System
Proton Pigeon - SE Exercise

I didn't buy a single album this year. And I almost didn't steal any music that was released this year, except for That Lucky Old Sun. Revision: I just bought Driven by SK Kom .

Here are my favorite things that I found.

Jim Copp & Ed Brown
Hans Edler
Wayne Smith
Ансамбль В. Мещерина
Haruomi Hosono's solo career
Lecuona Cuban Boys
Sir Lancelot
Mahalia Jackson
Antonio Machin
Wilmoth Houdini
The Roaring Lion
Lord Kitchener
Asher D & Daddy Freddy
Larry Adler
Martin Rev's solo career
Gianni Safred
Prince Buster
Tod Dockstader
Shelley Fabares
Muslimgauze
Roboterwerke
Automat
The Fleetwoods
Umm Kulthum
Orquesta Casino de la Playa
The Peanuts
Sexteto Habañero y Septeto Habañero
Augustus Pablo
Ruby & The Romantics
Korla Pandit

Unless it's from Orchestral Colour Records, the only truly modern force in music today.

Indulge yourself with the decadent new double-single from Team Red and Nessie & Her Beard, available for FREE via Orchestral Colour Records.

Team Red- Sweet Popsicle
Nessie & Her Beard- Semisweet

Radiohead, The Beatles, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Coldplay, Muse, Metallica, Linkin Park, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, The Killers, Nine Inch Nails, Conor Oberst, Meryl Streep

I really do appreciate your attempt to preserve all of Earth's cultures for eternity (although shades of Brainiac make me suspicious of your ultimate goal).

But would it have been so difficult to write down some of the names of the people you recorded?

If I scrobbled them all to "Smithsonian Folkways" it would be like rewarding you for your lameness, and you'd get way too high on my charts.

So for now I'm attributing all these recordings to their producers, but if Henry Cowell starts racing up my charts I'll come after you.

Harold Courlander
Howard Keva Kaufman

so my mother takes it personally that i disapprove of some of the music she listens to. today she asked me if i still liked The Beatles, and i said sure, but i prefer The Beach Boys. she responded, "but the Beatles are more diverse! the Beach Boys just do happy surf songs."

au contraire!

i'm making her a mix to showcase their evolution into the most sophisticated pop band of all time. it is, at the time of my writing this, still in progress because i'm fresh out of CD-Rs.

Surfin'
The Lonely Sea
In My Room
A Young Man is Gone
Don't Worry Baby
All Summer Long
When I Grow Up (To Be A Man)
She Knows Me Too Well
California Girls
Let Him Run Wild
I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
Pet Sounds
Holidays
Heroes And Villains Pt. 1
Cabinessence
Little Pad
Wind Chimes
Fall Breaks and Back to Winter
Diamond Head
Do It Again
Never Learn Not to Love
All I Wanna Do
Cool, Cool Water
Don't Go Near the Water
'Til I Die
Surf's Up

i'd like to include some Love You, but there simply isn't room, and Surf's Up is a nice ending.

because it's free. you're welcome.

Brendan Wheatley: Vox

The Sputnix: The Sputnix

The Volvox Collective: Images of an Aquatic World

Tomi Mendel: Tomi!

The Radium Girls: Space Opera EP, Funbunny 2005

The Storks: My Life as a Golden Swan Demos, In Florence E.P.

Scott Meisburger: Scott!

Peter Hernandez: Changes

Volvox: Volvox

and now, my favorite bands ever:

Radiohead, The Beatles, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Coldplay, Muse, Metallica, Linking Park, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, The Killers, Nine Inch Nails

I've had this profile for so long, and I listen to such an exorbitant amount of music, that I can say the following with great confidence: My top 50 artists represent the greatest musicians of all places and times.

With that out of the way, I'd like to make the observation that over half of these artists are American (or United Statesian, if you prefer). Also, the vast majority of them are white, anglophone, male, presumably heterosexual, and non-Jewish.

Just a thought.

America:

The Beach Boys
Scott Walker
The Residents
Tiny Tim
Laurie Anderson
Devo
Sparks
R. Stevie Moore
Raymond Scott
The Walker Brothers
Bruce Haack
Daniel Johnston
Roy Orbison
Prince
Bernard Herrmann
Del Shannon
The Three Suns
Van Dyke Parks
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
Ferrante & Teicher
Les Baxter
Martin Denny
Jan & Dean
Tim Buckley
The Mills Brothers
Todd Rundgren


England:

David Bowie
Brian Eno
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
The Legendary Pink Dots
Joe Meek
The Human League
Gary Numan
Soft Cell
Kate Bush
Fad Gadget
Japan
Depeche Mode


Germany:

Kraftwerk
Nico
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Klaus Nomi


France:

François de Roubaix
Jean-Michel Jarre
Erik Satie


Italy:

Franco Battiato
Piero Umiliani


Japan:

Yellow Magic Orchestra


Mexico:

Esquivel


Switzerland:

Yello

because the people who listen to them are retarded and scrobble one track each for artists they never bother looking into.

thanks for fucking up the charts for Scott Walker, Neu!, Nico, Mark Mothersbaugh, Bernard Herrmann, Nancy Sinatra, Arthur Lyman, Dick Dale, and a bunch of people i don't care about.

the prime culprits:

The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
The Royal Tenenbaums
OST Kill Bill
Pulp Fiction
Ocean's Eleven

hmm, i wonder if there's any correlation between watching bad movies and being an ignorant, lazy music fan.