Jacky Giordano & Various "Timing N.4" TIM 04 Timing 197? Ripped @320K

  Now, my friends, I am going to take some time and share some records from one of my favorite French Library Labels, Timing!  Timing is very similar to Jacky Giordano's Freesound label, maybe because he is heavily featured on these releases, as well as frequent contributer and heavy psych god, Yan Tregger.   Out of the first 7 releases (don't even bother with the 8-16, well maybe 13) this is one of the best.  Jacky Giordano only contributes 2 jams, the rest are by Roger Bourdin,Patric Tarnaud,Marc Chaussin and Gerard Gustin.  Unfortunately for my taste, the whole side A, by Roger Bourdin, is all forgettable flute stuff, which by the way was scaring me when I first heard the record.  Then I flipped the record and with a sigh of relief was transported into Progressive Heaven with, Patric Tarnaud's "Son".   It does have that ridiculous Deep Purple organ pumping but I still love it.  Then Marc Chaussin's, "L'Important" starts in with total Floyd stoniness rolling into a prog funk freakout and those overcompressed drums are killing me!  And what anyone who seeks this record out care about, "How are the Giordano jams"  well Mr. Sherylee does deliver here.  Though not totally badass, "Pink" is an interesting stony trumpet & fuzz guitar, tribal funk tune.  The real treat though is, "Golden Blend".  This is the kind of Giordano jam that will perk even the most boring person out of a stupor.  Oh my lord, that snare drum sound, I wish there was a Giordano preset for snare drums because I would use it, haha.  The record finishes with 2 Gerard Gustin songs.  "Revery In Stereo" does the precious flute & Vibrato Guitar into funk part pretty well as well as "Semiaramis My Love", oh so precious, haha.  By the way if you were wondering if the dope Timing releases were rare, the answer is yes and the word is out so good luck picking one up for less than 100 bucks, especially TIM 001, but you can head over to the Library Music Themes forum and pick up mp3's of most of em.  Enjoy and more to come my rip @320K from my personal collection!   GET IT HERE!

Luciano Michelini "L'Isola Degli Uomini Pesce" OST-1979-Cometa CMT 1009 21

    Wow, just look at this amazing cover art, so dope!  When I first saw this record I was dying to hear it and when I found out it was also released in the USA under the title Screamers, for very cheap prices, I jumped on it.  Now what I didn't realize is that the records do not contain the same songs.  True some of the songs are the same but the Screamers release is missing 2 very standout tracks, "Rito Magico" & "Palude".  So this being the original Italian release on Cometa with only 500 copies ever pressed, far exceeds that of the readily available US release.  Most of the jams are beautiful orchestral adventure type songs, except for the 2 previously mentioned.  Rito Magico, is tribal psych out bliss and Palude sounds like Morricone & Alessandroni jamming with Can!  This record is getting harder and harder to find so don't sleep if you find it or maybe the mighty Death Waltz will step up and reissue it cause it seems right up there alley.  Hope you dig and enjoy my rip @320K from my personal collection.  Thanks, Chris Tillotson                 GET IT HERE!

Broken internet modem, will be back in a couple days!

  Yo, Everyone I know I haven't posted anything in a week or so but it's cause I have a broken modem.  Getting a new one in a couple days, then I will post some more records, I got some pretty rad stuff recently so please stay tuned, I haven't stopped my blog or anything.  Thanks to all of you for reading and supporting me.  Especially thanks to everyone who bought Starving Daughters records too, last week we sold a uncommonly high amount probably due to praising reviews on awesome blogs like active listener.  So yeah, max thanks, I'm glad I can do my part and share MP3's of awesome records but it's all of our part to buy records of stuff we dig, not all records cost hundreds of dollars, some are just the price of beer.  Thanks, Chris Tillotson

Akira Kushida "Space Sheriff Shaider" 1984 Columia CX 7181 My Rip @320K Shigi Shigi!

  Space Sheriff Shaider was a television series that aired from 1984 till 1985 and was the last of the Space Sheriff series.  More Importantly though, this record contains of the best Metal Hero jams ever, "Fushigi Song".  Some super creepy vocals mixed with some dark ass funk.  It also has that chorus synth that always reminds me of Fabio Frizzi's The Beyond Soundtrack.  There are definitely some more dope ass funky jams on here as well and of course, the Cheese. So check out some more Japanese Funk ripped from my own collection @320K.  Thanks, Chris Tillotson
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Guy Boyer & Jean-Yves Guihal "Sport News" 1979 Charles Talar Records 3.001 MY RIP @320K

  Just in time for the Super Bowl tomorrow, I present to you one of my favorite electronic records ever, "Sport News".  This record is just pure synthesized insanity, you get the repetitive arppegiator  jams, the outer space exploration jams and the heavy beats. A big reason I like this record more than other similar records, is that you can hear the real time cuts in his songs like he's doing it all on the fly and that he has real musical chops, just listen to "Formula One", one of the most jaw dropping musical moments I've ever heard.  Oh man the tones of the synths are just impeccable as well,  "Scratch", "Crochet", and "Motorbike Escape" are fine examples of thick synth awesomeness.  So enjoy my rip @320K from my personal collection.  Thanks, Chris Tillotson
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Peter Thomas "Sound Music Album 5" Golden Ring S 5051-23 Psych Masterpiece @320K

  The best thing you can hope for on ebay is that the seller doesn't realize what he has.  Such was the case with this record.  They not only mislabeled it but also priced it the same giveaway price as the other mediocre sound music albums they were offering.  I guess they didn't realize they were possessing one of the absolute rarest and finest psych records to ever come out of library music.  Many of you have already experienced this masterpiece but for those that haven't, Oh snaps, this thing is heavy.  It's all about Side A, every jam is golden, fuzz funk mayhem!  I wonder if he put the octofuzz guitar through his synthesizer, cause that's how it sounds to me, so unique and badass.  "Astral Snow" is so crazy with that sub bass coming out the left channel and that insane bass line, what?  "Spindle"  is one of the funnest experimental funk jams ever.  "Coordinates Meeting" sounds like some gangsta space aliens came to get gnarly.  Many would say Klaus Weiss has the best Golden Ring stuff, but I think this record is Golden Ring's finest moment.  Peter Thomas must have been possessed by an outer space fuzz demon to make this kind of shit.  So enjoy my rip @320K from my personal collection.  Thanks, Chris Tillotson
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Peter Thomas "Electronic Water" Golden Ring A 30 021 RM 197? Rip @320K

  Another rad record by Peter Thomas.  This one sounds a bunch like the "Happy And Crazy Music" releases by Alberto Baldan Bembo & David Perian.  The song that stands out to me though is, "Milky Way" which sounds more like a Jacky Giordano jam or something.  I was really curious to how this record was gonna sound based on the lack of hype around it, but it is thankfully super dope.  As always the production is just amazing and the synth sounds are superb!  Thomas is obviously just having tons of fun in the studio, not going completely into outer space, just writing music for stony dog walks.  My favorite time for music was when psych prog bands first started experimenting with synths, the synths just accompany the arrangements like they're a flute or something.  In the 80's till current. it seems you're either an electronic artist or a band, no in-between.  Peter Thomas does this really well, like all the other moogploitation albums of the time, he's highlighting his new toy around funk and jazz.  Also check the pics from the inner sleeve with all the other Golden Ring releases, super nice.  Enjoy from my personal collection ripped @320K.  Thanks,Chris Tillotson     GET IT HERE!