Archaic Inventions: New Blog: Archaic Conventions

Wednesday, 30 July 2014

New Blog: Archaic Conventions

Hello everyone ! ! !

I started this blog thinking of putting together something focusing on the best forgotten underground experimental, avant-garde music etc. in existence inspired by all the other great blogs. Though I also liked to share different types of things. It's hard for me to constantly find new material for this blog, but I love to share things. I really enjoy putting effort in all posts so I want to share much more. Now I have finally created the ultimate counterpart to this blog: Archaic Conventions.

This blog is dedicated to oddities and rarities I find through travelling (or staying at home). I'm always on the lookout for records of a special nature. Everything that for some reason doesn’t fit in Archaic Inventions will be presented there. Ofcourse as an obsessive record collector something is fundamentally wrong with you and you look for all types of special and weird releases. Through these mental difficiencies I started to collect medical records, animal sounds, advertisement music and more.

On Archaic Conventions I will post all kinds of records. Sometimes because of their high cultural value, sometimes deviancy or because of a what the fuck this cannot exist factor. Expect a collage of releases ranging from Latin American music made in Eastern Europe, advertisements, Exotica to Jazz, Folk, Nueva Canción, wacked out Easy Listening, political oddities, medical records and beyond. Some things will actually be very good musically, other recordings will be utterly weird or cheesy. Some things can’t even be considered music. The new blog is a combination between great music I need to rescue from the past not suitable for this blog and a historical perspective on vinyl as a medium for sound. There will be no consistency of styles. I aim for one big unusual mosaic of releases from all over the world and just like this blog: none of the material is to be found on the internet and it's out of print for a long time.

The most remarkable songs or recordings of the new blog will also be posted on the Archaic Inventions Youtube Channel so that channel will change its consistency of material, becoming a channel for all kinds of things which shouldn't bother you too much. It might work better anyway by enhancing its versatility.

As for this blog: everything will continue as you're used to. New posts will be up shortly and I just have to hope I won't run out of things. Though I don't mind the slow pace.

Check out the new blog HERE!

Bence - Archaic Inventions

1 comment:

kevinesse30 November 2015 at 14:06
ahh this is great!
ReplyDelete
Replies

Add comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Important!!!

Turn on, tune in, drop out. Today.

The music I offer here is for promotion only. Please look for records or cassettes yourself and support the artist. Always.

None of the music posted here can be found elsewhere on the internet as far as I know. Moreover the music is out of print for a long time. I share the music because I want you to hear it and because it deserves to be saved.

However, if you're an artist and you are not pleased with your music being published here please comment or send a mail and I'll remove the post instantly!

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Mediation meditation:

The views and/or approaches to the music that I present here are primarily of a subjective nature open to endless different perspectives. They are a mix of interpretations: at times aiming at exploring the socio-cultural context surrounding the music, at times an endeavour to present some of the musical facts or to highlight the creative greatness. However this blog does not in any way claim all of this material in the light of self-proclaimed truth, nor tries to find a true form of its representation and not in the least tries to put its material in service of personal gain. This blog hopes to save obscure material, share this content with others and mostly hopes to inspire creative and urgent musical and artistic tendencies and their practices in the present. It also hopes to invoke the unveiling of additional context, knowledge or narrative by anyone that is able to provide new information about the presented material.

All rips are done by myself.

!Attention! I decided to move the d/l links to Mediafire since that seems to work better. Lots of links in the archive are dead or still on Zippyshare. Will try to update one day. Til then just request the re-up of something in the comments.

Music donations welcome: if you have something great and/or weird which has never seen the light of day and that you would like to see posted on the blog, feel free to contact me

Archaic Inventions Youtube Channel

Follow Archaic Inventions on Twitter

Archaic Inventions Soundcloud

Wantlist

Makirush - Petrushka (LP released in 1985 by this highly obscure Mexican Post-Punk band)

Pinja Dzazna (Slovenian Weirdo band)

Hernia Retraction Accordion (Experimental group from Phoenix active between 89-93: Anything)

Murilee Arraiac (There are more cassettes by this experimental home-taping project from California)

Rauschender Beifall (Anything complete by this West-Berlin DIY (post-)punk band from the early 80's)

Sprung Aus Den Wolken - Dossier Süssüres (Cassette release by SADW, Berlin 80's underground)

The Lost Attic - Sturmwaffel C30 & God Kots Black Case C60 (Experimental home-taping project with strong ties to the squatting scene of Groningen, Holland)