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Lux and Ivy's Favorites Volume Thirteen (mp3s)

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lux and Ivy's Favorites!!!

Welcome to Volume 13.

Lux_and_Ivys_Favorites_-_Volume_13.zip

Visit Volumes 1-11 here and Volume 12 here.

This is the first Lux and Ivy's Favorites to include artwork. I worked closely with a friend of mine to come up with some cool artwork that would fit in with the theme of the series.

At some point, all of the other volumes will have artwork as well.

This one was a tough one to put together. It just took a lot out of me for some reason. As time goes on, there are less and less L and I interviews, etc to take from.

FROM BRUN POTATIS TO CHOKLAD PAPEGOJA: DESPERATELY SEEKING STOCKHOLM’S SWEET STICKY CENTER - AN ORANGE BRIEF FROM THE SWEDISH AMERICAN FUTURIMAGINEERING INSTITUT

Ed's note:

Welcome, comely and prudent reader, to the debut publication from the Swedish American Futurimagineering Institut (SAFI), our Orange Brief. SAFI is a genuine-fake-maybe-real-but-probably-phony-except-for-real-but-you-never-really-know-these-days-anyway culturobstretrical organization with a life-changing mission: to build bridges of understanding between the American and Scandinavian peoples. And in so doing, heal the universe. To achieve this we use the power of Ultramultiscience, a new way of thinking that fuses multiple disciplines—sound, embalmery, competitive eating—into a gel that, when mixed with bleeding-edge scientificalism, unleashes transformational power not seen since Nutella met Bisquick. Wielded wisely, it can fuel cars-that-go-boomlike engines toward a more pumpkinlier future.

This Orange Brief is a patent-pending hydron-condensed version of the SAFI Orange Paper*, a 200+ lb nectarine of cunt-punching erudition, bursting with scratch-n-sniff pop-ups and double coupons. The design is no laughed-so-hard-you-shat accident: Its brainfeel mirrors its subject matter—strange and familiar, wordy and unreliable, cursory, broad-brush, mythically sextronic. Loosely unarranged, it takes you on a fluid, urinelike journey into insight, contemplation and that feeling of release when the brain freeze abates. It assumes an "asymmetrically interactive" posture; you're thus encouraged to connect its themes to their oft-repeated parallels in convenience store hot dog theory. A "necessary cliché," as it were

Like an artistic masterwork or courtesan selling stew, the Brief will screw each reader individually. But a basic overview of it might help you feel less afraid: Parts I and II pop out of the brassiere of History to feel through the Experiment in blind boob Braille. Part III is your Dark Patchouli Mistress, buttplugging you into the bicycle-rich tumult of modern Stockholm straight from the scribbles of my notebooks. Part IV drives you up the mountain, forces its conclusions on you at Céline-point and grins smugly as you gaze upon the beauty below in the cupcake afterglow of the Acknowledgments.

Behold your adventure, taut and energy-conscious reader. Good reading, and may pumpkin's indecent ambrosia glide down your throat into your soul, filling you with oily orange Ecstasy.

Sounds of Stockholm

Party Like It's 1929

The Antique Phonograph Music Program presents a “party like it’s 1929” gathering with Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks. Monday June 8, 2009 from 8-11pm in the below-ground Club Cache, beneath Sofia’s, in the Hotel Edison 221 W. 46th Street, NYC.

Join MAC and fans of 1920’s & 1930’s big band music for a night of revelry as we dance, dine and drink to the sounds of Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks’ authentic recreations of snappy period tunes. This event will be recorded for broadcast on WFMU’s Antique Phonograph Music Program.

Admission is $15 but mention The Antique Phonograph Music Program and get $5 off. Plus the restaurant has a $15 minimum for food and / or drinks.

It’s the first Antique Phonograph Music Program outing and MAC looks forward to meeting up with friends, fans of his show, antique music and other WFMU enthusiasts.

Link to FACEBOOK event...

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=81762248578&ref=mf

Lux and Ivy's Favorites Volume Twelve - The Lux Interior Memorial Edition - Journey into Outer Space (mp3s)

This is the first LAIF with some liner notes (about the music contained herein). I felt a need to at least tell a bit about the songs etc. This is also the first edition with a title other than LAIF and a volume number. This volume, I felt, should always be remembered as the one that “came out” after Lux’s passing.

Lux_and_Ivys_Favorites_-_Volume_12.zip

While most of it was being compiled, it was being compiled with the knowledge that Lux is no longer with us. It really affected the song choices and their sequencing. It was sort of spooky how everything came together.

I had read the INCREDIBLY STRANGE MUSIC interview again and noticed I missed a song. THE RAVENS – A SIMPLE PRAYER. I can’t believe I missed this song until now. It’s such an amazing song. The last note truly transports you to another world. Plus the sentiment of the song really hit a chord with me around the time I was hearing it (days after Lux’s death).

Before all this I had also received a tape that The Cramps had used as intermission music on some of their tours. The tape, converted to cd, had been labeled as coming from 1986. A lot of the songs on this volume came from that tape. The tape also contained 3 songs or bits of songs from the JIMMIE HASKELL AND HIS ORCHESTRA “COUNTDOWN” LP. I’ve had the album for years and love it to death. The music was used back in the day as music beds for the Mad Daddy’s radio show.

This coupled with the FOOL’S PARADISE interview, where Lux and Ivy talk about space a lot, really set the tone of the volume, thus, the subheading; a journey into space.

Speaking of the Mad Daddy, he makes an appearance (or two?) in this edition as well. Sections of this edition came from a proposed record Lux had worked on to come out based on his hero, Pete “Mad Daddy” Myers. This was years before the eventual Norton Records “WAVY GRAVY” CD release. These bits have never appeared anywhere else that I know of.

Lastly, this edition was locked and ready to go as of today, but then I read the account of Lux’s memorial and had to rework it a little. Originally, the comp ended with Jimmy Scott’s DAY BY DAY, a song mentioned by Ivy in an interview. It’s a fucking beautiful song about love and I thought it would be a great way to end this edition.

But then I read the write up of Lux’s memorial and the fact that “For All We Know” was played there. I thought for a while if I would include it or not, but decided that if this was an aural memorial for Lux (from me), that it should be included for everyone to hear.

I hope everyone likes it and discovers some great music. This volume truly runs the gambit of sounds and I hope it truly can transport you to space too…it totally shows the range of music they listened to, haunting doo wop, exotica, crazy rockabilly, instrumentals, 60’s garage/dance and novelty tunes (you’ll never think of Andy Griffith the same way again!).

Thanks go to Moses Longpiece aka Count ThrillHammer, Rex Doane, Howie Pyro, Mop Top Mike, Dirk Ungawa, and anyone else who helped along the way.

Journey well, Lux.

- Kogar the Swinging Ape

Download the first 11 volumes here!

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Thanks, and pass it on!

Lux and Ivy's Favorites (mp3s)

This is an amazing interview with Lux and Ivy that Rex Doane conducted for his show, Fool's Paradise, back when HOW TO MAKE A MONSTER came out.

Fool's Paradise with Lux & Ivy

This interview is essential for truly understanding the mythos of The Cramps. Yes, The Cramps made amazing music, and amazing contributions to the history of music, but to really get a good idea of where they are coming from, is to listen to the music that inspired them. If you think its all crazy rockabilly, you're wrong.

Now, here are Lux and Ivy's Favorites. Let's start off with a note I put in one of the volumes to give you a background on the series.

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lux and Ivy's Favorites!!!

Ok, I got kind of sick of repeating this story 1000 times. So figured I'd include this in the latest volume. I'm the guy who compiles the Lux and Ivy's Favorites Compilations.

Melodies derived from Stock charts, arranged with Microsoft Songsmith

Did you read that title correct?  You bet your sweet bottom you did!

Melodies derived from Stock Charts, arranged with Songsmith, the Microsoft Composition Tool. By Johannes Kreidler.

Thanks John from Oslo for helping us relax to the sounds of stocks.

Want even more Stock based music in your life?  Listen to your broker, I say, Listen to your broker.

KONICHIWA, STUNTKUNT CLAIREBARE NAIR FOR I-CAN'T-BELIEVE-IT'S-KNOTTED-BUTT-HAIR OVERTANNED UNDERMANNED B9ITCHES WITH STITCHES IN THEY HOT BRITCHES: AN ED SHEPP NEW YEAR FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY TALKING RECTAL WART

You know that time when you were all wanting to make your friend Xtina's Sunday really, really special, and you were like, "I'm going to make her a ten-tiered layer cake with columns and Ed-ible glitter and rhinestones, and it's gonna have color-changing LED lights and rotate 360 degrees and each layer is going to have its own unique theme, and when I present it, a mini-Fergie is going to pop out the middle and perform nose piercings? And it's gonna be like that Lexus commercial that plays every Christmas, only without that algal bloom schmaltz? Remember that?

And how you kept trying to make it, but this wasn't really coming out right and you didn't really plan that out and every time you tried to correct it, new obstacles appeared and then you started to think like, "Shit, we're in a Depression — maybe I oughtta stop metaphorically flicking off SoHo store owners by balking at their 80%-off prices and, like, SERIOUSLY focus on my job?" So that when Sunday finally rolled around, all you had for Xteenerz was a plate of half-underdone, half-burnt cookies that you put too little sugar and too much salt (and banana flavor!) in, but mixed it wrong, so that one bite was like a Matterhorn-size circus peanut and the next was all brackish seawater but mostly it was just charred flour? Remember that? Remember? You do??

Well, um... OK, then. [deep cleansing breath] Happy Sunday, X-teenzlers! [best :/ face here]

West African Finds At The WFMU Record Fair

WFMU was featured today in an article that raves about the last record fair. Written by Egon (Stones Throw records), you can listen to some of the West African LPs he found at the fair.

Thanks Egon!  And thank you to everyone who visited us last year at the fair.  We hope to see you again this year and we especially hope you find and discover music you've been looking for... or happen to stumble upon.

The dates of the next fair are October 23, 24 & 25 2009. At the same old place, 125 West 18th Street in NYC.