January 2012
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Musica Elettronica Viva "Leave The City" (1970)
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“Musica Elettronica Viva or MEV as they’re sometimes called, were founded by Ivan Coaquette (pre-Spacecraft), and also included his wife, Patricia and Birgit Knabe, as well as various other collaborators along the way. The music we find here is an extremely experimental form of electronic jazz which is not a million miles away from the styles of early German Krautrock...
E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1904-1962
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This centennial edition of E. E. Cumming’s Complete Poems, published in celebration of his birth on October 14, 1894, contains all of the poems published or designated for publication by the poet in his lifetime.
At the time of his death in 1962, E. E. Cummings was, next to Robert Frost, the most widely read poet in America. Combining Thoreau’s controlled ...
Jacques Derrida Essay Collection
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Jacques Derrida Essay Collection 1
Derrida - A Certain Impossible Possibility of Saying the Event
Derrida - A Letter to Peter Eisenman Derrida - Adieu (CI) Derrida - Adieu (PT) Derrida - All Ears - Nietzsche’s Otobiography Derrida - An Idea of Flaubert - Platos Letter Derrida - Archive Fever - A Freudian Impression (D) Derrida - As if It Were...
December 2011
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Bandes Originales Des Films De Jean-Luc Godard
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Tracks 1-4 from “À Bout De Souffle” Tracks 5-10 from “Pierrot Le Fou” Tracks 11-15 from “Alphaville” Tracks 16-19 from “Le Mépris”
1. Martial Solal – Duo 2:23 2 Martial Solal – La Mort 2:08 3 Martial Solal – Poursuite 2:21 4 Martial Solal – Dixieland 2:43 5 Anna Karina – Ma...
The Complete Works of JG Ballard (.mobi)
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Billennium - J. G. Ballard.mobi Cocaine Nights - J. G. Ballard.mobi Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard - J. G. Ballard (active ToC).mobi Concrete Island - J. G. Ballard.mobi Crash - J. G. Ballard.mobi Empire of the Sun - J. G. Ballard.mobi High-Rise - J. G. Ballard.mobi Kindness of Women - J. G. Ballard.mobi Millennium People - J. G. Ballard.mobi Running Wild - J. G. Ballard.mobi...
July 2011
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Everything I Know: The Historic 42-hour Session...
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During the last two weeks of January 1975 Buckminster Fuller gave an extraordinary series of lectures concerning his entire life’s work. These thinking out loud lectures span 42 hours and examine in depth all of Fuller’s major inventions and discoveries from the 1927 Dymaxion...
June 2011
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Serge Gainsbourg - Integrale 20th Anniversary Box...
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CD1: 1. Du Chant A La Lune CD2: 1. No. 2 CD3: 1. L’etonnant Serge Gainsbourg CD4: 1. No. 4 CD5: 1. Confidential CD6: 1. Gainsbourg Percussions CD7: 1. Initials B. B. CD8: 1. Jane Birkin Et Serge Gainsbourg CD9: 1. Historie De Melody Nelson CD10: 1. Vu De L’Exterieur CD11: 1. Rock Around The Bunker CD12: 1. L’homme A Tete De Chou CD13: 1. Aux Armes Et Caetera...
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Angus MacLise / Tony Conrad / Jack Smith - Dreamweapon I & III (Boo-Hooray, 2011)
“Live recordings of Angus MacLise, Tony Conrad, and Jack Smith from the MacLise tape archive. In a silkscreened sleeve. Edition of 500” (Boo-Hooray) Download: Angus MacLise / Tony Conrad / Jack Smith- Dreamweapon I (Boo-Hooray, 2011 *SMRGS-1) Side A: Les Evening Gowns Damnées (December...
Mutant Disco
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Disc 1: 1. Wheel Me Out [Remix Version] - Was (Not Was) 2. Bustin’ Out - Material (feat. Nona Hendryx) 3. Drive My Car - Cristina 4. Annie I’m Not Your Daddy [Remix Version] - Kid Creole & the Coconuts 5. Emile (Night Rate) - Aural Exciters 6. Contort Yourself - James White & the Blacks 7. Funky Stuff - Lizzy Mercier Descloux 8. French Boy - Garçons...
Mothra No Uta (Song Of Mothra) [Disc 1]
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Title Mothra No Uta (Song Of Mothra) CD Label King Record Co., Ltd. CD Number KICS-2303/4 Music by: The Peanuts (Emi & Yumi Ito) Number of tracks Disc 1: 18 Disc 2: 18 Running time Disc 1: 62:01 Disc 2: 60:52 Number of discs 2 Year of release/manufacture 05-28-1999
Disc 1 contains the “A” sides. Track 18 is from “Mothra”. This...
May 2011
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Morton Feldman, Composing by Numbers: The Graphic...
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Morton Feldman - Edition 9 - Composing by Numbers The Barton Workshop plays graphic scores The Barton Workshop James Fulkerson, director Projection I (1950) (2:56) Taco Kooistra, cello Projection II (1951) (4:43) The Barton Workshop, James Fulkerson, conductor Projection III (1951) (2:01) Philip Corner and Frank Denyer, pianos Projection...
Sun Ra & His Intergalaxtic Arkestra – Second Star...
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Tracklist 1 The Forest Of No Return 5:39 2 Someday My Prince Will Come 7:53 3 Frisco Fog 3:20 4 I’m Wishing 10:18 5 Zip A Dee Doo Dah 7:28 6 Second Star To The Right 9:58 7 High Ho! High Ho! 9:06 8 Whistle While You Work 10:33
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April 2011
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Terry Riley - You're No Good (1968)
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Until 2001, I had always followed the mainstream view: experimental cut-ups, remixes and other manipulations were fairly recent innovations. It all started with Christian Marclay and John Oswald, and that was that. Or it was, until the release of some lost and largely forgotten works by minimalist pioneer Terry Riley. Here’s You’re No Good, a live...
Groupies (documentary, 1970)
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Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis'...
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1. So What - Ast0r 2. Freddie Freeloader - Virt 3. Blue in Green - Sergeeo 4. All Blues - Shnabubula 5. Flamenco Sketches - Disasterpeace
John Asbery - Selected Poems
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37 Haiku The Absence Of A Noble Presence An Additional Poem And I’d Love You To Be In It And Others, Vaguer Presences And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name Another Chain Letter As One Put Drunk Into The Packet-boat As We Know As You Came From The Holy Land As You Know At North Farm At The Inn Bird’s-eye View Of The Tool And Die Co. A Blessing In Disguise Blue...
Walter Benjamin - Illuminations: Essays and...
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Walter Benjamin was one of the most original cultural critics of the twentieth century. Illuminations includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and on Brecht’s Epic Theater. Also included are his penetrating study “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical...
Samuel Beckett - Nohow On
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Roland Barthes - Mythologies [1957] (complete)
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”[Mythologies] illustrates the beautiful generosity of Barthes’s progressive interest in the meaning (his word is signification) of practically everything around him, not only the books and paintings of high art, but also the slogans, trivia, toys, food, and popular rituals (cruises, striptease, eating, wrestling matches) of contemporary life . . . For Barthes, words...
The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard
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First published in 1978, this collection of nineteen of Ballard’s best short stories is as timely and informed as ever. His tales of the human psyche and its relationship to nature and technology, as viewed through a strong microscope, were eerily prescient and now provide greater perspective on our computer-dominated culture. Ballard’s voice and vision have long served...
Ezra Pound - The Cantos
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Like all the other great epics, The Cantos is a story of good and evil, a descent into hell and progress to paradise. Its hundreds of characters fall into three groups: those who enjoy hell and stay there; those who experience a metamorphosis and want to leave; and a few who lead the rest to paradiso terrestre. He began work on it in 1915, but there were several false starts...
March 2011
4 posts
Mick Jagger on File Sharing
BBC: What’s your feeling on technology and music? Jagger: Technology and music have been together since the beginning of recording. [The internet is] just one facet of the technology of music. Music has been aligned with technology for a long time. The model of records and record selling is a very complex subject and quite boring, to be honest. BBC: But your view is valid because you have...
Walter Benjamin Essay Collection
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1940 Survey of French Literature.pdf Central Park.pdf Critique of Violence.pdf Doctrine of the Similar (1933).pdf Eduard Fuchs - Collector and Historian.pdf Goethe - The Reluctant Bourgeois.pdf Goethe’s Elective Affinities.pdf Lichtenberg - A Cross Section.pdf Moscow Diary.pdf On the Concept of History.pdf Paris—Capital of the Nineteenth Century (NLR).pdf Rigorous Study of...
Steve Reich - Writings on Music, 1965-2000
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A unique collection of the composer Steve Reich’s writings on music, from his classic essay from 1968 on “Music as a Gradual Process,” which was the founding call for the development of minimalism, to his work on non-western musics such as the Balinese and African music that contributed to “Drumming” and other well-known compositions. There are...
Beau Hunks Play the Original Music from The Little...
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1. Good Old Days 2. Streamline Susie 3. Teeter-Totter 4. All Together 5. In My Canoe 6. Here Are the Pets 7. Git Dap 8. Prelude 9. Rajah 10. Hot and Dry 11. Early Morning [Aka Illusion] 12. Rhumba Rhythm 13. Standin’ on the Corner 14. Fastie 15. School Room Suite: By Rote 16. School Room Suite: Crabtree [Aka Girl & Stick] 17. School Room Suite: Ezra [Aka Ears]...
February 2011
3 posts
OCTOBER 132 - Spring 2010 - “Andy Warhol: A...
[Warhol Factory crowd, 1977, Photo: Edo Bertoglio]
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Introduction Benjamin H. D. Buchloh October Spring 2010, No. 132: 3–4. Spacious Douglas Crimp October Spring 2010, No. 132: 5–24. Warhol’s Subject? A Response to Douglas Crimp Ewa Lajer-Burcharth October Spring 2010, No. 132: 25–29. Test Subjects Hal Foster October Spring 2010, No. 132: 30–42. “That Screen...
S.C.U.M. Manifesto (1968)
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The SCUM Manifesto is a feminist tract written in 1968 by Valerie Solanas, who shot Andy Warhol. Some authors have argued that the text is a parody of patriarchy and the Freudian theory of femininity, where the word woman is replaced by man. The text contains all the clichés of Freudian psychoanalytical theory: the biological accident, the incomplete sex and “penis...
Robert Fitterman and Vansessa Place - Notes on...
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Robert Fitterman and Vansessa Place
Theory | $12 ($10 direct from UDP) Perfect-bound. 80 pp, 4.5 x 6 in. ISBN 978-1-933254-46-3 Publication Date: 2009 Distribution: SPD Series: Dossier
What is conceptual writing, how does it differ from Conceptual Art, what are some of the dominant forms of conceptualism,where does an impure or hybrid conceptualism fit in, what about the...
January 2011
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Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual...
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Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing Edited by Craig Dworkin & Kenneth Goldsmith Northwestern University Press January 2011 656 pages ISBN 0-8101-2711-3 $45.00 Amazon: http://is.gd/PQgImI Northwestern University Press: http://is.gd/4FMoM2 In much the same way that photography forced painting to move in new...
American Minimal Music: La Monte Young, Terry...
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American Minimal Music: La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass
Wim Mertens
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Title: American Minimal Music.
Author: Wim Mertens.
First Published in Belgium in 1980.
Translated to English by J. Hautekiet.
First English Edition Published by Kahn & Averill in 1983, London, UK.
Published in USA by Pro/Am Music Resources Inc., New York.
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Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond - Michael...
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Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond (Music in the Twentieth Century) By Michael Nyman With a Foreword by Brian Eno
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Number Of Pages: 216
Publication Date: 1999-08-28
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0521653835
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780521653831
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Michael Nyman’s book is a first-hand...
Erik Satie (Reaktion Books - Critical Lives)
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Erik Satie by Mary E. Davis
‘A welcome reassessment of Satie that places him at the hub of radical events’ – Classic fm Magazine ‘[this] slim, yet powerful biography … Mary E. Davis’s fascinating biography adds much to our understanding about this enigmatic yet crucial modernist figure.’ -Modernism/Modernity ‘… a lucid, elegantly...
Alfred Jarry - "Exploits & Opinions of Dr....
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Translated by Simon Watson Taylor, Introduction by Roger Shattuck
ISBN 1-878972-07-3 160 pages, paperback
Jarry is best known as the author of the proto-Dada play Ubu Roi, but this anarchic novel of absurdist philosophy is widely regarded as the central work to his oeuvre. Written in 1898 and refused for publication in the author’s lifetime, Exploits and Opinions of Dr....
Two Books by Marjorie Perloff
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The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound
edited by Marjorie Perloff & Craig Dworkin ”Sound—one of the central elements of poetry—finds itself all but ignored in the current discourse on lyric forms. The essays collected here by Marjorie Perloff and Craig Dworkin break that critical silence to readdress some of the fundamental connections between poetry and...
John Cage In Norway
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CD in 64-page hardcover book with photos, interviews with the musicans and a transcription of Cage’s Q&A at the Oslo Art Academy.
01 First Construction (In Metal).mp3 02 Second Construction.mp3 03 Music For Marcel Duchamp.mp3 04 Third Construction.mp3 05 Branches.mp3
Having received an invitation from Ole Henrik Moe, the Director of the Henie Onstad Art Centre, John...
Vintage Yiddish Vaudeville Novelty Music (MP3)
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01 A Yiddish Leidele.mp3 02 As Much as You Understand.mp3 03 Alein Gezucht Zich Tsures.mp3 04 Jacob Jacobs - Mein Teier Jackalle.mp3 05 Shlimazel.mp3 06 I Li Ke She.mp3 07 Seymour Rexsite - Mirelle.mp3 08 Forgivness.mp3 09 Hotsa Mama.mp3 10 Joe & Paul.mp3 11 Hoddel Mitn Struddel.mp3 12 Where Ther is Thora Thre Is Wisdom.mp3 13 Menashe Skulnik - I’m Not In A Hurryy.mp3...
Nazi Swing Music, 1940-45 (MP3)
The lure of the forbidden can be seen nowhere more clearly than the Parent’s Television Council’s filthy TV page. Here is the organization that has been responsible for generating millions of complaints to the FCC, and they make it possible to watch those delectably decadent moments over and over again.
In the 1930’s the Nazis had the same love/hate relationship with swing ...
36 Versions of The Internationale
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alistair hulett - the internationale.mp3 ani difranco & utah phillips - The Internationale.mp3 black - Die Internationale.mp3 Canciones revolucionarias - internationale.mp3 chinese - internationale.mp3 coro en chino - internationale.mp3 czech - Internationale.mp3 ddr lieder - Die Internationale.mp3 dem morgenrot entgegen - Die Internationale.mp3 deutsch - Die Internationale.mp3...
Jacques Derrida Interviews Ornette Coleman [1997]
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December 2010
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Susan Sontag - On Photography (1977)
On Photography, 1977 (OCR’d PDF, 1.6mb)
In the book, Sontag expresses her views on the history and present-day role of photography in capitalist societies as of the 1970s. Sontag discusses many examples of modern photography. Among these, she contrasts Diane Arbus’s work with that of Depression-era documentary photography commissioned by the Farm Security Administration. She also...
Jean Baudrillard - Selected Writings
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1. The System of Objects. 2. Consumer Society. 3. For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign. 4. The Mirror of Production. 5. Symbolic Exchange and Death. 6. On Seduction. 7. Simulacra and Simulations. 8. Fatal Strategies. 9. The Masses: The Implosion of the Social in the Media. 10. Cool Memories. 11. The Gulf War Did Not Take Place. 12. The...
Conversing with John Cage
Conversing With Cage (ed. Richard Kostelanetz) [2.2mb PDF]
This book is a collection of interviews with John Cage, the late avant garde composer who was one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. The interviews span nearly a half century and give a cogent idea of Cage’s thought on music, art, education, politics, and social revision.
If you are curious about why a...
Walter Benjamin - The Arcades Project
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The Passagenwerk or Arcades Project was an unfinished lifelong project of philosopher Walter Benjamin, an enormous collection of writings on the city life of Paris in the 19th century, especially concerned with the iron-and-glass covered “arcades” (known in French as Passages couverts de Paris). Benjamin’s Project, which many scholars[who?]...
Ezra Pound - World War II Radio Broadcast Screeds...
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“You let in the Jew and the Jew rotted your empire, and you yourselves out-jewed the Jew. Your allies in your victimized holdings are the bunyah, you stand for NOTHING but usury.” More here.
November 2010
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Harold Pinter BBC Radio Plays
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Moonlight (UK, 2001) BBC Radio with Harold Pinter A Slight Ache (UK, 2001) BBC Radio with Harold PInter Last to Go (UK, 1964) BBC Radio with Harold Pinter The Birthday Party (UK, 1970) BBC Radio No Man’s Land (UK, 1978) Caedmon Audio with John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Micheal Kitchen, Terence Rigby based on the original stage version directed by Peter Hall Betrayal (UK, 1990)...
Samuel Beckett BBC Radio Plays
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1. A Piece of Monologue (UK, 1986) BBC Radio Cast: Ronald Pickup 2. Cascando (UK, 1964) BBC Radio Directed by: Donald McWhinnie Cast: Denys Hawthorne, Patrick Magee Music composed by Marcel Mihalovici 3. Cascando (Ireland, 1991) RTE Radio Directed by: William Styles Cast: Bosco Hogan, Frank O’Dwyer Music by Gerard Victory 4. Embers (UK, 1959) BBC Radio Directed by: Donald...
Queer To The Core!: Queer Rock From The Vaults!
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Queer To The Core!: Queer Rock From The Vaults!
1. B. Bubba: “I’d Rather Fight Than Swish” 2. B. Bubba: “I’d Rather Swish Than Fight” 3. Teddy & Darrel: “I’m Hungry” 4. Teddy & Darrel: “Wild Thing” 5. Teddy & Darrel: “Gary Ghoul Boy” 6. Teddy & Darrel: “Little Red Riding...
Queer Noises 1961-1978
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Compiled by: Jon Savage
“Featuring classics by Sylvester, the Kinks, and the Ramones alongside little known discoveries by Chris Robison, the Miracles and Curt Boettcher, Queer Noises tells the hidden history of gay pop music. Beginning in 1961 with drag queens and camp records on tiny labels, the compilation passes through mid sixties’ pop, early seventies’...
Henryk Górecki - Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 ("Symphony...
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# Performer: Dawn Upshaw # Orchestra: London Sinfonietta # Conductor: David Zinman # Composer: Henryk Gorecki
This album, which catapulted Polish composer Henryk Gorecki to into the international spotlight, takes texts born in pain and turns them into statements of affirmation through the use of music that ebbs and flows in mystic minimalism. The clear voice of soprano Dawn...
78 RPM For Adults Only!
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78 RPM For Adults Only! A newsgroup find, ripped apparently from someone’s personal collection. Anonymous: Biltmore Anonymous: Constable Anonymous: Country Trip Anonymous: Decinitions Pt. 1 Anonymous: Decinitions Pt. 2 Anonymous: Down On the Farm Ruff & Ready: Feelum Hotel Ben Light: Her Man Of War Anonymous: Just Plain Nuts Anonymous: King Solomon Anonymous: Little Red...