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 Longing for the Past: The 78 RPM era in South-East Asia
A fantastic compilation of classical, popular and folk music from South-East Asia, stemming from the early days of recording to the phasing out of the 78 shellac disc. Incredible variety of music from Indonesia, Malaysia/Singapore, Thailand and the rest of SEA, no sample could do this justice, but it comes with my highest recommendation. Also uploaded the book it comes with, very well-researched and written notes and a wealth of beautiful photographs.
Longing for the Past:
https://mega.co.nz/#!XJERSD7b!2drLSFjInZR0kbDPB3nlaDDbtEyCLPgZ12l65vgoVH8
Book: https://mega.co.nz/#!yQ8gja4L!MFaXhIn92LIUh9tmMhUsOUq48Tw11rUaaQoiANSbBZ0
This goes for everything I post, but this in particular (and p. much anything else from Dust to Digital) is definitely worth buying
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| >> | No.54851495
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 Taj Mahal Travellers - Kuwanichika, Meguro, Tokyo on Sunday, October 16, 1977 3-8 PM
Fantastic bootleg from the Taj Mahal Travellers. These guys are known for their fantastic cosmiche music, incorporating a lot of droning elements into their music, and playing for hours at a time. Unofficial release, so no cover,
https://mega.co.nz/#!uQ9RyZhA!x6vyYM6hqpGEzfdqm1xYVMa5pVVQcnGWzuJWuqMyjuk
>>54851397
Yeah, I think so, my booklet says mastering and restoration @ Sound Mastering in London, so I assume there were some touch-ups after the vinyl transfers were done
>>54851280
Well, not my fault nobody cares about your foot fetishist "experimental jazz" enough to rip it
There's a wishlist function on soulseek and a bounty system on what.cd, don't turn sharethreads into request threads
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 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Sonatas Nos. 4, 10, 11, 12, & 14 (Staier)
>Behind every Mozart solo piano composition is the human voice, and many interpreters understandably build their interpretations from the melody line down. By contrast, fortepianist Andreas Staier generates rhythmic and dramatic momentum by letting his left hand lead, so to speak. His firm, sharply delineated bass lines in the C minor sonata's outer movements and the E-flat sonata's Allegro finale evoke a symphonic rather than operatic aura that proves far more stimulating than Paul Badura-Skoda's equally rigorous yet less vibrant fortepiano traversals. I also applaud Staier's decision to take the E-flat sonata's central Menuets at a brisk one-beat-to-a-bar and especially appreciate his delicious accenting of the Eine Kleine Gigue's dizzying cross-rhythms. Staier uses the gigue to close the unfinished C major Suite K. 399, and offers a convincing completion to the Sarabande that Mozart broke off after six measures. The G major Variations on a theme by Gluck are admirably fluent, straightforward, and free from the archness that Ronald Brautigam sometimes displays.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoeNV2Bl20k
https://mega.co.nz/#!CNw2FICI!KD6Ga9u-3Zbm4ZBEXcye1NM6qF1Xxaz3c9klHBXHnVU
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| >> | No.54853934
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 Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 8 (Maazel, Berliner Philharmoniker)
>Maazel's Berlin Philharmonic Bruckner 8th was always competitive even at full price, but now it's the bargain of the new millenium on a single Seraphim disc. The performance is both strong and tight, with the Berlin brass section giving of their weighty but penetrating best. Maazel not only demonstrates a surprising knack for the ebb and flow of Bruckner's long, sweeping phrases, but he also builds some of the most powerful climaxes you'll ever hear in this music. Maazel's first movement has an almost unbearable intensity, but he then quickly changes the mood for the second movement Scherzo by making it far more jolly than usual. Nor does Maazel drag his feet through the Scherzo's central Trio section, which is often stretched to the breaking point in order to make the most of the harp solos. From there, Maazel gives a knock out performance of Bruckner's most gorgeous Adagio at a near ideal 26 minutes. Rarely has the movment's climax, to say nothing of the final peroration at the end of the symphony ever sounded as convincing as here. In addition, EMI has given us better than usual digital sonics both for the Berlin Philharmonic, and for a work as large and challenging as this one. A true steal at a budget price.
No sample of this performance.
https://mega.co.nz/#!3cohATqI!xYMxy2Rgv1Kzt364M9tccyVeoDDuUDgVMZLSt9e4NP8
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| >> | No.54854136
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 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Clarinet Concerto & Quintet (N. Marriner, A. Marriner, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields)
>The Clarinet Quintet (K 581, 1789) and Clarinet Concerto (K 622, 1791) are two of Mozart’s finest scores. Those who enjoy Sir Neville Marriner’s way with music of the Classical period should relish this disc. Employing modern instruments, Sir Neville’s London-based orchestra plays with verve and skill. The chamber ensemble—Kenneth Sillito and Harvey de Souza, violins; Robert Smissen, viola; and Stephen Orton, cello—blend beautifully with the smooth elegance and rich tones of Andrew Marriner’s clarinet. Sillito’s fine work is especially valuable, because the score of the Quintet gives almost as many solo and leading-voice passages to the first violin as to the clarinet. Played over stereo equipment, these are the best-sounding performances of these pieces that have come my way; over SACD equipment, the sound is even better. PentaTone Classics further characterizes this as an 80/50 Anniversary Album, Sir Neville turning 80 this year and son Andrew turning 50 in 2004. The rich, warm recording was achieved in the Henry Wood Hall, May 31–June 2, 2004
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPjtRSgg2fg
https://mega.co.nz/#!WIBBjIzL!Cv5ixCMI-69t5aKez4BsgKn0QLKIQHryIn__NooBnjY
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 J.S. Bach - Mass in B minor (Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan)
>This performance of the B minor Mass has everything: great playing, sensational singing from the soloists and chorus, ideal pacing, and a powerful feeling for the character of each movement as well as for the architecture of the whole massive musical edifice. Although Suzuki uses relatively small forces (18 singers, 11 strings), he never compromises the grandeur of such movements as the Sanctus, the opening of the Gloria, or the Credo's final Et expecto--and the concluding Dona nobis pacem must be accounted one of the most satisfying ever recorded. Taken a touch slower than the Gratias, whose music it shares, Suzuki's conception has a rhetorical splendor that caps the performance like the dome on a cathedral. BIS's engineers wisely put a good bit of space around the players, which allows the big choruses to fill the room while giving just the right prominence to the trumpets and drums. The result, whether in stereo or multichannel formats, gives the music tremendous physicality and impact. Make no mistake, this is one of the great versions of Bach's masterpiece.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idsdL12wBro&list=PLQbgyQZ2H8xCAhDrcH0X3KzeKJoDoA-zu
https://mega.co.nz/#!GMowlYiT!v5e96hlwTPc6Qvo27HZNq__H1CZt0O2QM5cxkz3uFdw
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 Ludwig van Beethoven - Violin Sonatas Nos. 3, 5, & 9 (Gilels, Kogan)
>Some have dismissed Kogan as a bland technician, conceding that his technical wizardry’s worthy to be mentioned in the same breath as Heifetz’s and Milstein’s but insisting that he didn’t project the same kind of individuality. Those detractors might do well to listen to him playing Beethoven violin sonatas with Gilels. Although the earlier works (and even the “Kreutzer” itself) may be designated as sonatas for piano and violin, Kogan holds the stage as though he were playing the Violin Concerto. Yet Gilels swells in stature to such a magnitude that he simply can’t be overwhelmed. Engineering alone could never have accounted for this effect. Sometimes, as in the “Spring” Sonata and in the “Kreutzer” Sonata’s theme and variations, the close miking gives the impression that the duo never relaxes; and there may be some truth in that observation. But the “Kreutzer” ’s final adrenaline-drenched cadence having arrived, there’s little temptation to quibble. Anne-Sophie Mutter tried to introduce a novel, strongly personal view of Beethoven (in both the sonatas and the Concerto) and produced instead a reflection that many will not find cogent. David Oistrakh’s performances of the work that I’ve heard, though profoundly and powerfully conceived, don’t generate Kogan and Gilels’s crackling voltage. Among the great violinists of the preceding generation, perhaps Francescatti came closest to the sheer energy of these readings. But even after the effects of the unusually close recording and the potentiating effect of the live audience (which must have inspired both Kogan and Gilels) have been filtered out, the residual supercharge could light a city for a year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC7qA9NRBNo
https://mega.co.nz/#!zUI2XbiI!nHG79YggV58DSj3Fip8EUTUri7xnhCBVX6zMbEhmFj8
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 Just made this copypasta, throw it in every sharethread and hopefully it will save us all some trouble. Lemme know if there's something else I could add.
BEFORE YOU REQUEST:
>> /mu/?task=search&ghost=yes&search_text=mega|zippy|media
>type in what you want before the "mega|zippy|media" in the search bar
http://filetram.com/
>search for what you want. cant find your album by name? try the initials instead, e.g. system of a down toxicity ---> soad t / soadt / soad toxicity etc
https://duckduckgo.com/
>doesn't remove many of the results based on DMCA like google, also doesn't track you. e.g. [album] rar, [album] blogspot download, [album] download free, etc
All of this is assuming you can't torrent for whatever reason like uni, ISP. Only after exhausting these options should you request, and when you request you should fucking share an album anyways, dickhead.
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