Dig the trippy The Love Life of the Octopus off of Yo La Tengo's The Sounds of the Sounds of Science. And hey, while you're listening, you might as well check out this awesome collection of Octopus Covers!
Enjoy!
HMK
This is pretty sweet. Man in Space with Sounds was composed by Arthur Attilio Mineo in the early 50s and was played through the sound system in "The Bubbleator", an exhibit that was part of the 1962 Seattle Space Age World's Fair. 
"The Bubbleator" was a 150-passenger spherical clear plastic elevator that moved 2.5 million people through the "World of Tomorrow" displays that promised an easier life ahead and a glimpse of life in the future!
To accompany their journey, the sound system piped in the evocative orchestral and electronic music of Man in Space with Sounds that helped to create a futurist experience for the passengers. How cool is that?
According to Amazon, once the producers of the CD version managed to track down Attilio Mineo to arrange the licensing, it was discovered that the master tapes for Man in Space with Sounds were lost forever. An original 1962 LP, like this one, was used for the recording on the CD. 
This, the original LP, was released in limited quantities on the World's Fair record label around 1962 in two versions; one with a short peice of spoken word introduction before each track and one without the introductions. Neither LP was in stereo.
So what are you waiting for? Transport yourself by listening to this spoken word version, ripped directly from the original vinyl. All in glorious Mono! Grab Man In Space now!
(By the way, this is a 45.3 MB zip file of the entire album, painstakingly ripped from vinyl, just for you plus the original album cover art. As always, these audio files are for research purposes only.)
Enjoy your journey!
Migwell
Dig this nice little 1947 ditty from Jump Blues King Jo Jo Adams. After just one listen to When I'm In My Tea I think you'll agree that this should be a permanent addition to your official Saturday night mix.
Here's a little Jo Jo history:
Born circa 1918, Alabama
Died 27 Februay, 1988, Chicago, Illinois
"I started playing the blues when I saw a man standing on the stage and he was getting big money. He had a red pocket hand'chief around his neck and coveralls and I said, 'That's not the way it's supposed to go'. I introduced color to the stage. My tailor-made tails that were 55 inches long - when I spun around you could shoot dice on them!"
Seldom remembered today among the greats of jump blues, Jo Jo Adams was once quite a celebrity in the 1940s and 1950s Chicago music and entertainment circle. A comedian/singer/dancer/emcee and leader of a successful revue, the few remaining images and film clips we have of the man (for example, his performances from the 1949 William Alexander short "Burlesque In Harlem"), shows a slim, dapper, Cab Calloway-like performer, an impression borne out by his jazzy recordings such as When I'm In My Tea.
Once billed as "The Sepia Frank Sinatra" (more for his build and sartorial elegance than his vocal style), Jo Jo Adams was born in Alabama around 1918. Little is known of his early life, except that he sang with a quartet called the Big Four Jubilee singers, and that he was on Chicago's South Side by 1945, playing venues such as the Ritz Show Lounge, and first recorded in early 1946 with guitarist Freddie Williams' band for Williams' own Melody Lane Record Shop label.
Within a few weeks, Melody Lane had become Hy-Tone Records and the two Adams releases were reissued on the new label. During the summer of 1946, Adams was in Los Angeles, recording for Aladdin Records with the Maxwell Davis All Stars and appearing with Clifford Scott at the Hideaway Club, however, by the end of the year, he was back in Chicago recording for Hy-Tone, this time with veteran guitarist Floyd Smith's Combo (Smith had been famous for his influential 1939 hit Floyd's Guitar Blues recorded with Andy Kirk's Orchestra and had only just left the Kirk band at the time of his Hy-Tone session).
In July 1947, "Doctor Jo Jo" as he was sometimes billed, recorded a four track session for Aristocrat Records with Tom Archia's All Stars, and in early 1948 he was recalled by Archia to sing the wonderful, two-part Cabbage Head - an updating of the ancient British ballad "Our Gudeman"(aka Seven Nights Drunk). Apart from his welcome appearance in the aforementioned musical short "Burlesque In Harlem" - in which he performs the risqué I Like To Hucklebuck before displaying his terpsichorean skill with an exotic dancer - Adams appears to have disappeared from the recording scene for a full four years (he is known to have joined Memphis Slim's Houserockers as a singer briefly in 1950), returning in November 1952 to cut six sides for Art Sheridan's Chance Records with trumpeter Melvin Moore's Orchestra.
His last known release was issued the following year on Al Benson's Parrot label, backed by a small unit headed by drummer Red Saunders and arranged by Sun Ra. Although the recordings were sparse, Adams appeared often in the early 1950s at the Flame Show Bar with his own revue "The Jo Jo Show".
He is listed as being part of a couple of rock 'n' roll revues at the Trianon Ballroom and the Regal Theatre in 1955 and also at a club called Budland in late 1958, and then seems to have vanished into obscurity for the last 30 years of his life (Living Blues reported that he would still occasionally play in his neighbourhood of 64th and Maryland).
He died in Chicago on 27th February 1988.
Thanks to Dave Penny and his Living Blues interview with Jo Jo.
Now where were we...
I understand that you were in need of some fresh background music for this weekend. Do yourself a favor - trash your Bon Jovi, Kenny G and Michael Bolton. This 1957 classic from Pedro Garcia and his Del Prado Orchestra: A Tropical Affair will have you makin' Martinis and doin' something like the Cha Cha in no time flat. (By the way, this is a 33.8 MB zip file of the entire album, painstakingly ripped from vinyl, just for you plus the original album cover art. As always, these audio files are for research purposes only.)
And Yeah, it sounds as good as it looks.
Cheers and have a great weekend,
Migwell
Warning: Adult Mix Not Intended For Children.
It's summer and it's pretty dang hot down here in San Antonio. Here's a mix of some of this summer's official Tiki Room vibes. It's a nice driving compilation as well as a cool little soundtrack for any of your pre or post game nocturnal summer activities.
Enjoy.
1) Where Is My Mind?: Pixies
2) ©SharkThang Tag TBR HMK
3) Beaver Shot: Link Protrudi & The Jaymen
4) Ob-la-di, ob-la-da: Los Norte Americanos
5) Necessito: Some Girls
6) Watermelon Man: Mongo Santamaria
7) That's Nice: Alan Moorhouse
8) Dance Naked Under Palmtrees: Mo' Horizons
9) La Fille La Plus Douce Du Monde: Les Très Bien Ensemble
10) Strip Polka: The Andrews Sisters
11) Pussy: Brazilian Girls
12) Fuck Dub: Tosca
13) Stupid Girl: The Rolling Stones
14) HotLove: Buttercup
15) Butter Of 69: Butter 08
16) He's The Devil But I Love Him So: The Hells
17) Too Drunk To Fuck: Nouvelle Vague
18) Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo: Bloodhound Gang
19) Seduce Me: Gerd
20) ©Totally Bitchin'! Tag: TBR HMK
21) Shallow End: Superchunk
22) Untamed Girls: The Raveonettes
23) Girls Room: Liz Phair
24) Summer Nite: Plasmatics
25) Martini 5-0: The Cocktail Preachers
26) Back 2 The Tiki Room: Tiki Bongo
27) That Summer: Where The Action Is
28) Friday Night, Saturday Morning: The Specials
And as always, comments are always welcome via the handy comments section below.
If you don't have a copy - send my PayPal (hmk@tg-o.com) account 3 Bux for shipping and I'll send you a Hot & Sticky Summer 2006 plus some other fun audio! 
Make it louder,
Migwell
LONDON, England (CNN) Syd Barrett, the eccentric guitarist who founded Pink Floyd but later left the music business to live quietly and somewhat reclusively, has died at the age of 60, according to a spokeswoman for the band.
A spokeswoman for Pink Floyd told the Press Association: "He died very peacefully a couple of days ago. There will be a private family funeral."
The singer and guitarist, born Roger Keith Barrett on January 6, 1946, founded the band in 1965 with Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Richard Wright. (Its name was derived from two American bluesmen, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.)
He wrote many of the early hits for the avant-garde rock band, including the 1967 album "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" and the band's first hit singles, "Arnold Layne" and "See Emily Play."
His songs were odd and charming combinations of childlike lyrics and swirling melodies, often augmented with strange arrangements. The titles alluded to space, the occult and sometimes nonsense: "Astronomy Domine," "Lucifer Sam," "Chapter 24."
Consider some lyrics of "Bike," from "Piper": "I know a mouse, and he hasn't got a house / I don't know why, I call him Gerald / He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse."
Pink Floyd, taken under the wing of Beatles engineer Norman Smith, had early success, but Barrett, suffering from mental problems and heavy drug use, started demonstrating erratic behavior, including catatonia during concerts. He left the band in 1968. He was replaced by David Gilmour, who had joined the band as its fifth member earlier that year.
Barrett put out two noted solo albums, "The Madcap Laughs" and "Barrett," both in 1970.
In 1975, during the recording of Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" album, Barrett showed up unannounced at the studio -- ironically, during the recording of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond," a song about him. He had become overweight and shaved his eyebrows; the other members didn't recognize him at first.
"Wish You Were Here" was dedicated to Barrett.
Much of British psychedelic music was influenced by Barrett, and a number of musicians have credited him, according to Allmusic.com.
Barrett had since lived in anonymity in the eastern English city of Cambridge. According to The Associated Press, he suffered from diabetes.
The spokeswoman said a low-key, private funeral would be held. She did not disclose the cause of death.
Dang Syd, Wish You Were Here.
1) Pictures Of Summer (Die Sexuellen Wünsche Der Deutschen): Jack Arel & Pierre Dutour from Birds Do It Soundtrack 1968
2)Glove Is In The Air: Hess Is More from Luftkastellet 3 2005
3) Sun Stroke: The Bambi Molesters from Dumb Loud Hollow Twang 1997
4) Hot Sun: Joe King Carrasco Y Los Crowned Heads Of Tex Mex from Hot Sun 1999
5) Indian Summer: The Outsiders from Outsider On The Run 2003
6) San Antonio: Willie Nelson from Texas In My Soul 1968
7) Nearly Sunrise The Fireballs from Fireballs 1961
8) La Fille La Plus Douce Du Monde: Les Très Bien Ensemble from Verano Del 99 Compilation 1999
9) Long Haired Country Boy: David Allen Coe from Long Haired Country Boy 1974
10) Strip Polka: The Andrews Sisters from The Best of the Andrews Sisters 1942
11) Back 2 The Tiki Room: Tiki Bongo from Unreleased Tiki Tracks 2005
12) Staring At The Sun: The Fall-Outs from Summertime 2004
13) Alcoholic: The Tah Dahs from Le Fun 2005
14) Summertime: Link Protrudi & The Jaymen from Slow Grind 1992
15) Summer Nite: Plasmatics from Beyond the Valley of 1984 1981
16) Who Needs You: Queen from News Of The World 1977
17) Jolene on the Freeway: Kostars from Klassics with a "K" 1996
18) Dimineata: Shantel from Luftkastellet 3 2005
19) Lady Madonna: Cal Tjader from Cal Tjader Plugs In Live! 1969
20) Good Day Sunshine: The Beatles from Revolver 1966
21) Send Me Nicky: George Duningfrom Cocktail Mix Vol.4 Soundtracks With a Twist! 1958
22) Jump: Aztec Camera from Knife 1984
23) (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction: Michelle Simonal from Bossa Stones 2005
24) Rockaway Beach: Ramones from Rocket To Russia 1977
25) I Live For The Sun: The Surf Punks from My Beach 1977
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Here's the latest video I finished for Sir John Dufilho's solo album. What Are You Waiting For?
It's a big file so it might take a few moments to load.
Want more? Check out JohnDufilho.com.
Buy the album - it's really great!
peace,
Migwell
Feeling lucky? Perhaps Blessed even? I am. And it's all about Gratitude.
Good Times Gone
And You Missed Them
What's Gone Wrong
In Your System
Things They Bounce
Just Like A Spalding
What'd You Think
Did You Miss Your Calling
It's So Free
This Kind Of Feeling
It's Like Life
It's So Appealing
When You've Got So Much To Say
It's Called Gratitude,
And That's Right!
Good Times Gone
But You Feed It
Hate's Grown Strong
You Feel You Need It
Just One Thing
Do You Know
What You Think
That The World Owes You
What's Gonna Set You Free
Look Inside And You'll See
When You've Got So Much To Say
It's Called Gratitude,
And That's Right!
Gratitude from Check Your Head (1992) The Beastie Boys
The HMK iPod Speakers featured in the Cult of iPod Book! Listen to the art: I.F. Irregular Frequency.
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