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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 23h

Bet I still have all those files on a DVD-R or memory stick somewhere, buried under dozens of other sticks and burned discs of impossibly rare pure gold that I've now totally forgotten ever coming across one random weekend in 2009 or something

Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 23h

I remember when this whole thing (every mp3 and every VHS rip) just dropped on somebody's Blogger page one day. Digging into it was like some clandestine artefact from an alternate universe where Chariots Of Fire never existed: except both did coexist in ours, what an incredible guy Vangelis was

Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 23h

A chat with @andyzax.bsky.social reminded me of a real late 1990s artifact, Vangelis's "Tegos Tapes," done for a Greek surgeon as background music for training videos because said surgeon figured just him talking would be boring as shit. 8 hours plus of spacelanes drift!

Vangelis - The Tegos Tapes (1998) : Annum Integrum : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

The Tegos Tapes is an interesting example of an obscure and heretofore unreleased Vangelis soundtrack unknown by many of even his most devoted fans.The...

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 1d

Album cover of Dancing In The Dragon's Jaws by Bruce Cockburn [True North Records, 1979]

Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 1d

I'm somewhat similar. I do wonder in my case though if I'm not so much truly ambidextrous as just stuck with what I've learned when left-handedness was enabled (writing) vs. when it wasn't, or the optimum tools weren't there (so I'm right handed for guitar, scissors, tin openers)

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Ian Beabout @shedsoundsmedia.bsky.social · 1d

Alright, this is it ! The big one !

Frank Zappa's legendary marathon 1978 Halloween performance is finally being released officially. So, whats included ? What are my thoughts ? Tune in and find out !

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWX9...

#frankzappa #halloween #1978 #boxset #universalmusic

Frank Zappa "Halloween 1978" Box Set announced ! The BIG one !

YouTube video by Ian Beabout

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 1d

Gay Neil Kinnock was a charmer, but John Majors was just pure sex in digital parody form

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 1d

domino effect meme. Interacting erotically with a john major parody account > falling deeply in love

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 1d

Teatime viewing: taking a random punt on this. The opening credits theme sounds like the composer wanted to do a mashup of The Big Country and New Chautauqua by Pat Metheny, so there's that so far

Kansas (David Stevens, 1988) with Matt Dillon & Andrew McCarthy

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 1d

RIP John Lodge, this will forever be the most stone cold banger in British psychedelia

The Moody Blues - Ride My See-Saw

YouTube video by Jim Wojtasiewicz

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RRRMMM @strongmisgiving.bsky.social · 1d

Step ladder suggests the likelihood of a Biological ladder

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 1d

CD compilation undated but definitely pre-1992, as Messiaen is still alive on the back cover (I've definitely got Xenakis ones like that too, almost all Górecki etc)

Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 1d

Random shelf picks on a Friday afternoon: lysergic orchestral music, pt. 2

CD cover of an 80s Messiaen compilation on Erato: Couleurs De La Cite Celeste, Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum, L'Ascension performed by Percussions Strasbourg, Romaine Musical/Boulez , ORTF/Constant

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 1d

Pitch: Et Exspecto Resurrectionem arranged for sunn o))) + members of Zeitkratzer

Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 1d

On to doom metal Messiaen now

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 1d

On to doom metal Messiaen now

Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 1d

That 80s crimson CD tray in perfect nick, Philips had style to spare in those days. Look at this thing, #CDFriday heads, awoooga

The Silver Line Classics series from Philips, with sexy crimson tray, retvrn

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 1d

Random shelf picks on a Friday afternoon: lysergic orchestral music, pt. 1

CD cover of Takemitsu: November Steps / Messiaen: Et Exspecto Resurrectionem performed by Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, cond. Bernard Haitink [Philips, 1970]

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 1d

Now playing: need to hold of the others, so so good

CD cover of Bande À Part by Masqualero [ECM 1319]

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 1d

No one can ever have too many CDs :)

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 1d

Happy #CDFriday to the concept of playing solo flute in a natural amphitheatre with some crickets as an ever-present pulse in the background, this has been my favourite discovery in a Discogs order in a while. Time to start buying all those Paul Horn albums I've had on the wantlist forever

CD cover of Echo Canyon by James Newton [Celestial Harmonies, 1984]

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 1d

Loved that Ace Of Diamonds logo growing up, my parents had a few of those

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 1d

Anita, if we went through your search history for the entire period since cohabitation began, I'm not saying we'd definitely find constant searches for 'disadvantages of wicker baskets', 'reasons wicker baskets are bad' and so on, but I'm not saying we wouldn't either

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RRRMMM @strongmisgiving.bsky.social · 1d

Dump him, girl www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

You be the judge: should my boyfriend get rid of his laundry basket?

Anita thinks dirty clothes can go straight in the machine. Jayden believes the laundry hamper serves a purpose. Who’s the basket case? You decide

www.theguardian.com

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 1d

Surely if you want a 'primer' on something, you want to be prYmed for that topic, not bloody prIMMed, that sounds ridiculous

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 2d

BC (news, game shows)
B²C (prestige drama)
B³C (how do you do, fellow kids)
B⁴C (it is Friday teatime and you are so very middle aged, here is the music of your gone world)

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 2d

Viv Stanshall's master of ceremonies/young person's guide to the orchestra schtick always makes me smile, it's pure British camp delivered over this brilliant Reichian pattern that sounds so wonderfully satisfying together

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