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I’m a Local Government lifer, Musician and Linux dabbler. This is a large and sprawling disorganised mess - a bit like me really. I’m interested in lots of things at the same time but a LOT of music. I’m not really doing this for any particular purpose other than being an old-ish dog learning some new tricks

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Antoine - Les Elucubrations

No health and safety bothers for Antoine

Pierre Antoine Muraccioli (born 4 June 1944), known professionally as Antoine, is a French pop singer, and also a sailor, adventurer, writer, photographer, and filmmaker.

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Joi Lansing - The Silencer

Another Joi Lansing Scopitone. Just beautifully camp!

Scopitone is a type of jukebox featuring a 16 mm film component. Scopitone films were a forerunner of music videos. The 1959 Italian Cinebox/Colorama and Color-Sonics were competing, lesser-known technologies of the time one year before the Scopitone in France

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Joi Lansing - Web of Love

Truly camper than a row of tents.

Joi Lansing was an American model, film and television actress, and nightclub singer. She was noted for her pin-up photos and roles in B-movies, as well as a prominent role in the famous opening “tracking shot” in Orson Welles’ 1958 crime drama Touch of Evil.

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Clinic

Done and Dusted II

Clinic are an English rock band, formed in 1993 in Crosby, Liverpool by frontman Ade Blackburn, guitarist Jonathan Hartley, bassist Brian Campbell and drummer Carl Turney.

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Site Building

Hugo and static sites.

Why I had enough of Ghost and MySql and why static sites work better for me.

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Notes From The Underground - Radical Music From The 20th Century

An almost mind bogglingly diverse compilation from Cherry Red - Things put together that really should not work on paper but it’s like a pychedelic fever dream of Radio 3 late junction meets Jarvis Cocker’s Sunday service and some more.. I’m enjoying this immensely and for £11 for four CDs it’s exceptional value and the kind of utter genius that seems to be Cherry red’s licensing team at the moment. I might sneak into their cellar and sleep there.

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The Roundtable

A uniquely British studio sound combining fantastic funky 60’s pop feel with English medieval instrumentation. Recorded in 1969 studio band The Roundtable featured the Early Music Consort’s David Munrow and Chris Hogwood alongside UK jazzmen including Don Lusher, Kenny Clare and Kenny Baker.

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Radioactivity - Kraftwerk

Kraftwerk - Radioactivity

The joy of finding this in some tiny little backstreet record shop in Tontine Street in Folkestone in the mid 80s. It was a lot harder to find records then (pre-internet). I think I picked up Computerworld in the same shop.

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