Unlocked Recordings

Revisiting the fun Unlocked Recordings collection at the Internet Archive. The current Music Modernization Act was passed into US law on October 11, 2018. This law helps to preserve and increase public access to early sound recordings.

For more information on this change, see these posts by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Internet Archive, two leading champions of the Internet and information availability for all.

At this time, there are 750 albums from before 1972 in the Unlocked Recordings collection, including artists like Mrs. Miller and Orson Welles, and covering classic pop, old time radio, traditional folk music, and classical performances.

Enjoy spinning some of these classic records you might never have otherwise heard! Cheers to the Internet Archive for bringing these recordings to new ears!

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You can click this collage to see a full-size image of covers of all 750 current albums in Unlocked Recordings collection.

Stoic Meditation Exercises

The ancient stoics really had their acts together. Their self control and introspection made them great leaders. That great classic, the autobiography of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, still inspires and guides readers today to lead better, more rational, and fulfilling lives.

In Exeter, Devonshire, England, a group of university professors, regional therapists, and philosophers gathers to organize methods of introducing stoicism to modern people and incorporating basic stoic principles in daily life. The result of their work is Stoicism Today which encompasses an annual event, website, books, magazine, self-study course, handbook, and more.

Member Dr. Donald Robertson narrates a free set of useful Stoicism audio exercises to help you incorporate Stoicism in your own life.

RECORDING COPYRIGHTS: All Rights Reserved
IMAGE: Bust of emperor Marcus Aurelius from poster of Stoicism Today annual event, Stoic Week
NATIONALITY: Euro: UK: England: Devon
CLASSIFICATIONS: Spoken; Instruction; Philosophy; Self Improvement; Health and Fitness; Meditation
LANGUAGE: Scottish English
FILED UNDER: Digital: Spoken: Nonfiction: Health

Sleep and Relaxation Resources from MIT

It's Sunday. Time to relax and prepare yourself for the coming week. MIT Medical provides a collection of recordings to help you with sleep and relaxation.

Track List

1. Sleep Tips: 5 techniques for better sleep ... 5:36
2. Bedtime: Bedtime Meditation ... 15:21
3. Bedtime: Unwind ... 4:07
4. Bedtime: Rest ... 4:01
5. Daytime: Yoga Nidra (Alternative to a power nap) ... 21:24
6. Mindfulness: Body Scan ... 20:25
7. Mindfulness: Breathing ... 16:09
8. Mindfulness: Yoga ... 23:40
9. Relax: Guided Meditation ... 6:27
10. Relax: Reducing Test Anxiety ... 5:33
11. Revive Yourself: Energizing Breath ... 3:30
12. Introduction and Gentle Yoga ... 17:59
13. Relax: Guided Visualization for Relaxation ... 8:59
14. Progressive Relaxation: Release Muscle Tension ... 11:14
15. Guided Visualization to Enhance Athletic Performance ... 3:57

MUSIC COPYRIGHTS: All Rights Reserved
IMAGE: cover improvised by Oddio Overplay
NATIONALITY: USA: Massachusetts: Cambridge
CLASSIFICATIONS: Spoken; Instruction; Self Improvement; Meditation; Health and Fitness
LANGUAGE: American English
FILED UNDER: Digital: Spoken: Nonfiction: Health
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Health Journeys by Belleruth Naparstek

The meditation selections from Belleruth Naparstek's Health Journeys made available through Kaiser Permanente led us to purchase more.

Finding guided imagery, affirmations, and meditations for things like relaxation, stress reduction, and sleep preparation is fairly easy. Naparstek, being among the pioneers of guided imagery, takes it further by offering you these services for other life difficulties, too.

For instance, she also helps listeners work through allergies, anger, forgiveness, grief, panic attacks and anxiety, and self confidence. Every person can benefit from Belleruth's assistance with those difficulties at some time in life.

Here's hoping you enjoy a peaceful and healthy new week with these Health Journeys recordings.

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MUSIC COPYRIGHTS: All Rights Reserved
IMAGE: an album cover from the series
NATIONALITY: USA: Ohio
CLASSIFICATIONS: Spoken; Instruction; Self Improvement; Meditation; Health and Fitness
LANGUAGE: American English
FILED UNDER: Digital: Spoken: Nonfiction: Health

Bunny Rabbits

A. Bunny Movie and Soundtrack

Big Buck Bunny tells the story of "a giant rabbit with a heart bigger than himself. When one sunny day three rodents rudely harass him, something snaps...."

This animated film was part of a very cool open film project using equally cool open source software and is shared with Creative Commons licensing.

Learn more and get a copy of the film at the official website. Get a copy of the soundtrack at the Free Music Archive.

license film: Creative Commons Attribution

B. Bunny Stories and Songs from Kiddie Records Weekly

Kiddie Records Weekly is a project dedicated to celebrating the golden age of children's records.

This period roughly spanned from the mid-forties through the early fifties and produced a wealth of all-time classics. Many of these recordings were extravagant Hollywood productions featuring big time celebrities and composers. Over time these lost treasures slipped off the radar and it has become our mission to give them a new lease on life by sharing them with today's generation of online listeners.

Along with many Bugs Bunny records, you will find these bunny selections.

C. Netherland Dwarf

The Netherland Dwarf is a particularly adorable, small, fuzzy, and popular breed of house rabbit.

Netherland Dwarf is also a recording artist in Japan who has released a free album of toy piano music titled May The Piper.

license: all rights reserved

D. Bunny Audio Story and Paper Toy

The Velveteen Rabbit: or, How Toys Become Real tells the story of a plush toy rabbit and his quest to become real through the love of a child.

The Velveteen Rabbit was first published in 1922. It was the first children's book written by English-American writer Margery Williams. The book would be her most famous. It has been enjoyed by all generations since it was published. Many movies and animated films have been made about this timeless story.

This production of the classic tale by Margery Williams is brought to you by Kazoomzoom. Janice D. Green, a.k.a. "Grandma Janice", reads it for you. The music was written and performed by zero-project.



license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

This official toy created by gifted illustrator and animator Mr. Fantoccini accompanies the release of our production of the classic tale by Margery Williams.

Erik Satie

Erik Satie was an original, a composer who pushed boundaries and influenced others to do so. Here are traditional and innovative renditions of Satie classics, as well as some readings of Satie's words.

THE TRUE MUSICIAN
by Erik Satie

He grows in wisdom...He is brilliant...He learns to do without
and is prepared to make great sacrifices...enormous sacrifices...
if I may say...His energy is tremendous...
In other words he is prepared for the struggle...and with honesty he shall fight it...

The performance of an Art demands complete self-denial...
...It was not meant as a joke what I just said...about sacrifices...
The Music makes heavy demands upon those who want to
devote themselves in it...This is what I have wanted you to call your attention to...

A true musician must subordinate himself his Art;
...he must place himself above human suffering;
...he must draw courage from within
...and only from within.

:: Various Artists - Satie In White Robes
a compilation of some versions of Satie compositions shared at the FMA

license: varies by track

:: Barbagallo - Plays Satie Barbagallo performs the classics by Erik Satie in Gymnopédies (1888) and Gnossiennes (1890). The latter are the more interesting in this set. Arranged, performed, recorded, and mixed by Carlo Barbagallo. license: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0

:: Chad Crouch: Satie: Rearranged Furniture Music Crouch's own arrangements and performances, especially focused on the piano with some other instrumentation and field recordings. This album includes Satie's Sarabande series.  license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial

:: B.L.Underwood - Tribute to Erik Satie  Underwood performs Satie classics on a Korg Wavestation and Akai S5000 sampler. His version of "Je Tu Veux" is almost ethereal. license: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 UK

:: Pierre Laniau - Erik Satie Pieces Pour Guitare Laniau performs guitar renditions of a broader scope of Satie's work. license: uncertain, assumed all rights reserved      

:: Howard Hersh - Selected Writings and Music of Erik Satie [1968] "The selections, which seem to be taken from assorted lectures, essays, and perhaps diary entries are both whimsical and enlightening. Subjects vary from his love for cabbage soup (only surpassed by his love of his mother); a schedule of activities; a list of his preferred diet (only white foods); comments on the education system of France; as well as the admission that he never married for a fear of being cuckold and the belief that no woman could understand him. In the second half of the program we hear Satie’s comments on critics and animals; ruminates on his heritage and lifestyle; as well as a description of the purpose of furniture music. Satie was known to be a bit of an eccentric and these brief insights from his own pen do nothing to disabuse the listener of that impression. The readings are interspersed with unidentified selection of piano music, also by Satie." license: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0    

:: Anna Carol Dudley (soprano) and Nathan Schwartz (piano) - Selected Songs by Erik Satie [1969] Howard Hersh introduces this set of Satie songs "with a sprinkling of Satie’s solo piano music and a song cycle by his friend Claude Debussy included for added seasoning. Although Satie is perhaps best known for his serene works for solo piano as well as his many dramatic works, he also produced a selection of song cycles and cabaret songs. While motivated by the fees such popular songs demanded in turn of the 20th century Paris Satie did not stint on the quality, and his cabaret songs are still as delightful to the ear as when they were first performed in the cafes of the French capital. For this program the performers are Anna Carol Dudley, soprano and Nathan Schwartz, piano." license: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0

Working at Working

Workin' Mix

32 tracks from many genres related to employment, unemployment, retirement

 

genres: western, country, bluegrass, mountain music, downhome, rock, pop, experimental
licenses: Creative Commons licensing; click "i" button on songs in player for individual licenses

Halloween Ear Candy

☠ Selections for a creepy Halloween!

	Psi Corps: Shadow Creatures Creepy Russian ambient EP based on the book CREATURES OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS by Roger Zelazny. Gloomy atmospheric soundscapes.
	Halloween 2011 Exclusive from Superchunk Superchunk likes to give seasonal treats. Get their Misfits cover for free!
	Chinstrap Music - Sounds to Come "Sounds to Come" is the second installment of a series on Chinstrap of music and sound-design cut from public-domain horror and science-fiction films from c.1930-1970...
	Parade of the Damned - WFMU's Beware of the Blog Goofy ghouly greats! Spooky Movies-Roy Clark, Lookout Mountain-Chuck Miller ,Screemin' Meemies-Merv Griffin, Soul Dracula-Hot Blood, Count Yorga Dark Shadows Midnight Monsters Hop-Jack and Jim, Beware-Bill Buchana,n Monster Man-Screaming Lord Sutch, Dinner With Drac-John Zacherle, Rockin' Zombie-Crewnecks, Bo Meets The Monster-B...
	DJ Rozz - Spooky Halloween 2011 Mix DJ Rozz presents a DUBSTEP Halloween-themed mixtape. "Stabs you in the guts and leaves you bleeding for the zombies. Good luck!"
	Tales of the Frightened Spooky! Two Boris Karlof albums shared for Halloween at Kiddie Records Weekly!
	This Plague Of Dreaming This Plague of Dreaming is perhaps the only free netlabel focused on HORROR. Give yourself the willies for free! "... a perfect agony to contend with the intellectual discipline of the awkward and alien sound. This Plague of Dreaming is the flicker of a hand-wound projector replaying last century's October winds backwards in the..."
	Haunted Arcade Mix by PP Roy new spooky Halloween mix by PP Roy at Upitup Records, "Expect a bit of electronics, vintage video games, ghouly synths, disco and even a bit of rave action!"
	Creative Commons Halloween Mix 2011 Irene Rible returns this year with more legal downloads for Halloween culled from the Free Music Archive. "This time around we've got some sinister classical favorites, 8bit Dario Argento film scores, Peter Lorre interpreted via twisted circuit benders, and some frighteningly bad tunes from America's premier mass murdering..."
	Stealing Orchestra - Bu! TAGGED AS: experimental, sampling, spoken word, hip-hop, electronica, sound collage, portugal, fun, horror, stealing orchestra, obscure, ...
	Halloween Mix | GORILLA VS. BEAR Three years of Halloween mixes by Gorilla vs Bear
	Sonic Safari Halloween 2011 Podcast of Oddities Buck Owens & His Buckaroos - (It's A) Monster's Holiday, Rusty Diamond - Skellykins, Ray Sanders - Graveyard Dance, Billy C. Cole - Put The Hearse In Reverse, The Tarantulas - Tarantula, ...
	Dr. Frankenstein - The Cursed Tapes Horror surf! TAGGED AS: surf, rock, horror, dr frankenstein, portugal, rockabilly, ...
	Glass Candy - "Halloween" and more creepy mp3s "Glass Candy's sinister homage [VIDEO] to the John Carpenter classic. A Candy coated gift for all the Ghouls & Goblins in Candyland. Trick Or Treat.... Disorienting walls of synthesizers grasping for their last breath accompanied by Rossini's most disturbing work to date...."
	Lee Rosevere - "Trick Or Treat" "A stormy night pushes you to toward a huge and dark house belonging to the reclusive Dr. Slocum, a mysterious genius who converted a closed asylum into an evil labratory, where he hides from the world with his menage of monsters of science. But the ghosts that haunted the asylum are still there..."
	Martinibomb and the Coconut Monkeyrocket - Munster Beat! Martinibomb and The Coconut Monkeyrocket join forces this scary season to bring you their spin on the theme of the Munsters television show! Yay!
	Zacherle Singles! - WFMU's Beware of the Blog "Zacherle (aka Zacherley) had been a TV horror-film host in ghoul makeup for most of the 1950s and early 60s, and in the early days of FM's popularity he was an innovator of free-form radio...."
	Chiptune Horror compilation from True Chip Till Death True Chip Till Death is a blog showcasing hardware, software, and artists utilizing obsolete console and computer hardware. This compilation features creepy horror tracks from some of those artists.
	Various Artists - Calling All Fiends Oddio Overplay put the challenge to musical artists the world over to create Halloween music that is "frightening, damaging and disturbing." No "Monster Mash," instead creepy soundtracks to a fiendish Halloween. They succeeded with CALLING ALL FIENDS! Some of these pieces will creep you right out of your skin. [creepy soundscapes, rock and dance tunes, fiendish songs]
	Let Me Buy U, Anne Drank Vol. 2 (Halloween Edition) "Screwed, chopped, and mixed by Babe Rainbow Dayton Family - Blood Bath Tommy Wright III ..."
	Endless Hell - yk mix "The seventh installment of my annual Halloween mix is here. Going back to the first entry, Pure Terror, it's obvious that the mixes used to contain a lot more levity than they currently do. Next year I will strive to bring the `fun` back to the Halloween mix but, this year, I've compiled a batch of songs that look to create an atmosphere of doom, gloom, spookiness, terror and just downright crazed...."
	Deadboy Halloween mix 2011 "Our good mate Deadboy put a smile (or was it an evil grin?) on our faces when he sent this over this morning his brand new 2011 Halloween mixtape. If you caught the 2010 edition you'll know what to expect - pure ghoulish vibes to serve as the perfect soundtrack to your Halloween weekend."
	Clinical Archives For Halloween creepout, definitely check out the Clinical Archives. That highly respected label has many releases of dark, ambient works that can give you the shivers! "Clinical Archives is independent netlabel from Moscow (Russia) for eclectic and illogical music..."
	An Aural Halloween Trinity: Scar Stuff, Arch Oboler, Reverend Frost WMFU's Beware of the Blog shares classic kid Halloween records, old time radio horror stories, and Halloween mixes
	LibriVox - Horror Story Collection 001 "We aim to unsettle you a little, to cut through the pink cushion of illusion that shields you from the horrible realities of life. Here are the walking dead, the fetid pools of slime, the howls in the night that you thought you had confined to your more unpleasant dreams."
	Memory Tapes - Walk Me Home (Halloween Mix) The Fader writes, "...darkwave and brooding quarter-goth. On 'Walk Me Home,' a Halloween mix made for Arawa, the art of the creepy toy piano melds faces with the darkest synths, and eerily teases out the creepiness of Italo disco." (Host Arawa shares other Halloween mixes, too.)
	The Horror Compilation from WFMU's Beware of the Blog "As a special Halloween treat, here's a seventy minute long horror music mix I put together for the 2001 WFMU marathon, culled from years of Halloween specials on my Wednesday morning show...."