this folkways "sounds of steam locomotives" lp is beating the shit out of almost every drone record i have heard

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oh-kaaaayyyy.
I think the best part is that this one is VOLUME FIVE, meaning there are still AT LEAST FOUR VOLUMES!!&!@

there are few things i love more than the folkways science series --also search: fog horns, junkyards, frogs of north america.

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Sunday, 29 October 2006 04:20 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds of the OFFICE is a personal fave. but yeah, they all rule

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 29 October 2006 07:16 (nineteen years ago)

I love train records. I have a bunch, atlthough strangely I never picked up any of the volumes of the Folkways series. most of mine are on off-labels like "Audio Fidelity" and what-not ...

another huge thing is hot-rod records. There are literally millions of those fuckers. i.e. "Sounds of the Hot Rod". "Sounds of the Talledega Speedway", "Sounds of Daytona Speedway with and without the Restrictor Plate", etc. it's a beautiful thing

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 29 October 2006 07:20 (nineteen years ago)

i have several bird field recordings with owl tracks. i am still looking for an all owl platter.

― manute lol (sanskrit), Monday, 30 October 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

big fan of north american frogs

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

MIKE THIS IS ONLY TANGENTIALLY RELATED BUT DO U LOVE THE TRACK "NITE OWL" BY TONY ALLEN?

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

haha, love it (got it once off slsk). dont know why i was downloading doo wop!

― manute lol (sanskrit), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

Scorsese kick?

― manute lol (sanskrit), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

i don't get your film references.
i'm ignorant.

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

this is weird b/c a fahey song just came on (my computerworld) that starts with train whistling! (a raga called pat) train sounds = awesome.

ooh, owls - i need that too - and records of industrial workplaces, like the sound of welding and bandsaws and chains of machines clinking

― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

i was downloading a shit ton of doo wop trying to find something like Rubber Biscuit by The Chips (its in Mean streets)

― manute lol (sanskrit), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

pics + sample mp3s:
http://waxidermy.com/category/folkways/

― manute lol (sanskrit), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

some of those "sounds of the jungle"-type comps were recorded in a shower

― PETE SMITH!!!! (plsmith), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

HOW DID THEY GET A WHOLE JUNGLE INTO THE SHOWER?

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

BEST THING ABOUT ELEPHANTS IS THEY'LL WORK FOR PEANUTS

― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

i worked there for a summer, and "sounds of the office" was this huge awesome joke in the mailroom.

― PETE SMITH!!!! (plsmith), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

SEARCH: The Planet Pimp "Sounds of..." series:

Sounds of the American Fast Food Restaurants, Vol. 1 (Planet Pimp Records 18; seven-inch, 1997, "french-fried golden vinyl")
Sounds of the International Airport Restrooms (Planet Pimp 25; seven-inch, 1997)
Sounds of San Francisco Adult Bookstores (Planet Pimp 28; seven-inch, 1998)

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.markprindle.com/golding.htm

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

dude, tree frog records rule!

ive got a cople great collections of streetsounds (paris, jerusalem, nyc)...whiich i goddamn love...theres...maybe i do need to go to the record fair and buy more crap like this...

or maybe not

now, lemme see ifi can dig up this old site with lots of field recordings...

― bb (bbrz), Monday, 30 October 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

CROSS-REFERENCE WITH ZING THREAD
http://www.folkways.si.edu/search/AlbumDetails.aspx?ID=1244

― manute lol (sanskrit), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

"Sounds of Daytona Speedway with and without the Restrictor Plate"

wow, think I need to hear this!

― H2-H4 (H2-H4), Monday, 30 October 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds of the American Fast Food Restaurants, Vol. 1 (Planet Pimp Records 18; seven-inch, 1997, "french-fried golden vinyl")

i have this! but black vinyl : /

also have:
hot rods and dragsters in hi-fi
and
sound effects vol. 4 (feat. boeing 707, lion roaring, cash registers, missiles, children, tropical birds, young elephant growling, air hammer)

― am0n (am0n), Monday, 30 October 2006 23:19 (nineteen years ago)

not fways but this:

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/4858/6a1wl4.jpg

betters some of black dices' lesser recordings

― manute lol (sanskrit), Thursday, 2 November 2006 03:00 (nineteen years ago)

i have a tape called "gentle persuasion: sounds and songs of the humpback whales". same thing ?¿

just dug that out along with "equator" by bernie krause, which is him playing ambient synth washes over african field recordings (liner notes namedrop pierre schaefer lol)

― am0n (am0n), Thursday, 2 November 2006 03:12 (nineteen years ago)

The Folkways morse code album is outstanding

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 2 November 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

i want to meet a woman who sounds like the Norfolk & Western 4-6-6-4/2-8-8-2 when she comes.

― calvin johnson has ruined rock for an entire generation (orion), Sunday, 5 November 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

The Folkways morse code album is outstanding

is it anything like this?

http://www.showandtellmusic.com/2006/04/e_a_rasmussen.html
http://www.showandtellmusic.com/mp3s/fewfaves/tesla_morse.mp3

― manute lol (sanskrit), Sunday, 5 November 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

"Transmitted at 15 w.p.m."

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 5 November 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

does anyone listen to the folkways podcast? it's more about... folky stuff... but it's pretty good, 24 nice little 1-hour radio documentaries about the label and its artists

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 6 November 2006 00:35 (nineteen years ago)

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