Hello World!

Due to technical difficulties, things fell into disrepair a bit in November. Getting back on top of the game now! Still hundreds of messages behind, and the poor site needs much love. Thanks for your patience. Good stuff in the works.

Come and Get Your Love

For a limited time, some episodes of the 52 Weeks project will be available. Every week in 2004 Jan Turkenburg in The Netherlands has shared a set of rare recordings not available in stores. These sets are often introduced by the artist him/her/themselve(s), and typically lean towards Dutch culture. It is material the rest of the world otherwise would most likely never hear. It has been a remarkable year!

Nearing the end of the project, Jan is hosting episodes now temporarily available.

Week 21 - Tom Erich and His Orchestra: musical world-tour
[back online for about a week]

In the archive you can see which 52 Week downloads are online at this moment. Only the weeks marked with *** will remain online after the project is finished. Chance of a lifetime for these recordings!

The WIRED CD: Rip. Sample. Mash. Share.

The November issue of Wired magazine with the free to sample CD is out! Artists include Beastie Boys, David Byrne, Gilberto Gil, Thievery Corporation, Le Tigre, Cornelius and many others.

"These musicians are saying that true creativity needs to be open, fluid, and alive. When it comes to copyright, they are pro-choice. Here are 16 songs that encourage people to play with their tunes, not just play them."

- WIRED magazine, November issue (get the CD free with your copy, on newsstands now)

Weirdomusic.com now has a netlabel!

The beloved Weirdomusic.com has just launched a netlabel, WM Recordings. Marco, the operator of Weirdomusic, is assisted by Jan Turkenburg and Ton Ruckert. All three gentlemen are also Comfort Stand recording artists, and each created an Oddio Overplay theme song.

"WM Recordings is a netlabel operating from Heerlen, the Netherlands. WM Recordings brings you music that is a little 'different.' We do not specialize in one style, but instead bring you exciting sounds that you're not likely to find anywhere else. Everything you find on WM Recordings is free, so take as much as you like."

The netlabel opens with two releases. The first is a collection titled WATER, WIND AND SAILS, and is released in conjunction with Turkenburg's 52 Weeks. Week 18 of 52 was a radio program with the sea as its theme. Turkenburg invited listeners to contribute their own musical pieces to create a water CD. The release flows across genres from bluegrass to the avant garde. A track that instantly won my heart was De Zwervende Keien's "Camille's Aquarium," a brief rendition of Camille Saint-Saens's (1835-1921) "Aquarium" from his CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS (1886).

The second release follows along the water theme, as well. It is RAIN by favorite French mixmaster Chenard Walcker. He is a prolific artist and tends to explore in all directions when he undertakes a project. Guessing that this set is in addition to his two tracks on WATER, WIND AND SAILS. When composing a mix for an Oddio Overplay site theme, Walcker also branched out and created an entire CD of additional material.

Super excited and grateful that WM Recordings has sprouted. Here's to it blossoming as the years pass.

Big City Orchestra

The Big City Orchestra Smirky project is coming to a close. All featured mp3's will be taken down after the USA presidential election, Tuesday 2 November 2004. The group is also considering removing projects from the past four years, so be sure to check out their material today, such as the Consumer CD.

Happy Birthday, Comfort Stand!

Comfort Stand celebrates its first birthday today, the one year anniversary of being online, by providing free music and sharing the love. On this glorious occasion, the netlabel's artists have baked a Comfort Cake of fun music. Enjoy!





Oddio Overplay celebrates the Comfort Stand birthday with a collection of nearly 100 birthday tracks from all over the web. Happy Birthday, Comfort Stand!

Munster Beat!

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! It arrives just in time for all the DJs and party hosts to work it into their ghoulish mixes.

WFMU Record Fair

November 5-7, 2004 WFMU Record Fair comes around again!

WFMU's Record Fairs have grown into the stuff of legends, with more wonderful recordings available under one roof than pretty much anywhere else in the world. And from now on, it happens only once a year! That's right, this is your last opportunity until Fall of 2005 to feast on the bounty of more than 200 dealers from across the globe, each one specializing in one or more of the joyously esoteric genres that WFMU's transmitter belts out 24-7.

To wit, if your aural cravings include hard to find Rock, Soul, Experimental, Electronic, Psych, Jazz, Garage, Folk, Minimal Synth, Funk, Latin, Comedy, Country, Spoken Word, Hip Hop, Old Timey, Girl Groups, Hippy Noise, Punk, Breakcore, Electro-Acoustic, Reggae, Pop, Soundtracks or Micronesian Doo Wop, you can't afford to not make an appearance!

And when you're not shopping, you can soak up the sights and sounds of live performances from Isaiah Owens, The Super Karaoke Fun Time Band, and WFMU's own Laura Cantrell! And once again, the A/V Lounge will be back in effect featuring tons of weirdo music videos and more intimate live performances from Alvaro (The Singing Nose), 3Puen, Mumbleboy, plus a screening of the new Ramones documentary, End of the Century! See the complete Record Fair entertainment schedule!

We are organizing an NYC Get-Together loosely based around the WFMU Record Fair. Date, time and location to be determined by invited guests. Contact for more details. See you at the fair!

New Content

Another new page featuring great sites for great sounds. Listen, love and support, y'all.

Ghouls with Attitude

Otis Fodder has done it again! He has prepared a spooktacular Halloween mix of the rare and haunting to put a fright into your holiday. Retrolicious has devilishly provided hosting. The cover art for the 2-CD collection is the bewitching work of Suzanne Baumann, creator of Fridge Magnet Concoctions and head honcho for the art departments of both The 365 Days Project and Comfort Stand Recordings. The web work was left to Oddio Overplay to prepare a ghoulish delight. Visit soon to see what other fiends were involved in this endeavor, as the whole frightful affair turns into a pumpkin after October 31st. Happy Halloween and Happy Listening!

[Internet Explorer recommended for capturing the ghouls]

October Tunes in Overplay

Autumn is upon those of us in the Northern Hemisphere. Tunes in Overplay v.10.04 awaits you with the warm aromas of apple crisp, mulling wine, cinnamon, baking bread and visions of pumpkins and colorful leaves. Here's hoping you get out there and enjoy those Oktoberfests and Harvest Fests, dear friends.

Let's Celebrate!

To celebrate World Vegetarian Day and the Fois Gras Victory in California this week, there is a new selection of super sites posted at Oddio Overplay! Yay! Have a happy day!

Constructus - The Ziggurat

"A cyber fairytale from the mind of Waddy Jones, this unique package set includes hardcover 88 page graphic novel with soundtrack cd, plus a bonus black cd to DOWNLOAD.... They call it ‘boom bam’ - a futuristic blend of hiphop and electronica with hard-hitting beats, cutting-edge electronica, virtuoso scratch solos and the craziest rhymes you ever heard. And that's just the soundtrack to the story. hiphop where no man has gone before... FILE UNDER: far out, man!" - African Dope, the South African label [more info and to purchase]

UPDATE: Although this 2002 album is no longer shared at African Dope, you can still hear this album here. The chameleon Waddy Jones went on to be many more characters, including Max Normal, MaxNormal.TV, and then "Ninja" in parody group Die Antwoord.

The Soul Hut

Soul Sides and Tofu Hut unite their super powers to produce Soul Hut.

New Site Content

Brand new page of fantastic sites and two new recordings.

ndorphin

When was the last time you visited the ndorphin netlabel? Did you know they are now up to 15 releases? Amazing and delicious!

Hurray for free netlabels! Hey, while you are at it, have you visited Comfort Stand recently?

Oddball Auditorium to Go Offline

Heard through Weirdomusic and Rummage through the Crevices that the Oddball Auditorium is scheduled to go offline at the end of this month, September 2004. Sad news, as John really had a special thing there. Hope you get a chance to enjoy it again soon. Full story...

If you have bandwidth available to host the Oddball Auditorium, please contact the OA via the website.

Annetenna - self-titled CD

Annetenna - self-titled CD [2001]
Recorded for Columbia Records, but shelved by the record company. Annetenna made the entire album, including artwork, available for free download.

taste: This Is Not a Love Song - Extraordinary

Only four years late on this one, but perhaps we missed it together? Not a genre we follow perhaps? You probably knew their earlier incarnation, Ednaswap. Betting you do remember their song Torn, as Natalie Imbruglia scored a major hit with her cover. This sound familiar? "I'm all out of faith. This is how I feel. I'm cold and I am shamed lying naked on the floor... You're a little late, I'm already torn." [Annetenna's acoustic version live on Howard Stern Show]

Their Flash site offers the entire CD, artwork and grungy tracks from their Ednaswap CDs. The great fansite operated by Joshua and Jeremy Provost, operators of 727 Records is the place to visit, however, for information. They provide bios, articles, discography, songlist and the likes, including reviews from the good folk of Pathetic Caverns [hi there!]. If you have diffuculties with the zipped CD artwork (because of truncated names all being the same), you can download smaller versions of the art at the fansite.

SquaresCubed

Marc and Chris have a fabulous radio show, SquaresCubed. Every week, they bring you an hour of the finest music legally and freely available on the Internet. Hear the show live or listen to archived shows. Their great playlists are even linked to the artists' source sites. This, friends, is why I love the Internet.
http://www.donutrockcity.com/movtype/squarescubed/

Beautiful CD from Confused Man

The fantastic sofasound netlabel now offers a beautiful downtempo release by Confused Man. Feeling in the most mellow, loving mood tonight, so this is a perfect fit. Downloading it for tomorrow's roadtrip. [stream hi - stream lo]

Thanks to Phlow, the good people who bring you the NetLabel Catalogue for the clue on this one.