Usenet Posts and Maybe Other Options

Although I am far too poor for premium usenet, I have had, for a couple months, access to someone else’s usenet account that allows sharing across multiple IPs.  I have used it to post lots of DVDs and BDs and am commencing with music now, as well.

For those of you with usenet access, please feel free to make the most of these uploads.

Here is a current dump of nzbs of my music posts, some overlap the DDL links here, some are not yet added to the blog (awaiting editing one of the 2 earlier blog posts or a new article), while some things uploaded to DDL are not yet on usenet.  More updated, and more complete than this folder of NZBs, you’re better off just looking for posts by HOBO at your favorite indexer or pull the headers or w/e.

Even if you cannot afford premium usenet services, and don’t know anyone with a shared account, there are free options out there.  xsusenet used to be very nice.  It is still decent, but has a monthly cap of like 20 – 25 GB.  This shouldn’t be a huge deal for music downloading, and still this is likely one of the best free alternatives.  Occasionally I think I heard they close off new account sign-ups, so try again later and use just4today or others till then.

I am also trying to think of other ways to get the music shared.  Let’s face it: DDL lockers are shit now, and mirroring to new services is not easy anymore, and I have only a crappy home connection to work with.  I would rather get these uploaded a few times to a few different mirrors, and then be done with it. I have stuff currently on my MEGA account, but I also use that for other things, and the day may come I need to delete those things, especially if I actually use this blog more, lossless audio will quickly tap out may available remainder of the 50 GB account (already over half filled with other things I back up). I really don’t want to keep all these audio files on the MEGA account, and if I need the space I expect they will be gone.

I would consider creating torrents, under the premise that I seed once, if people want me left holding the bag perpetually reseeding, I won’t continue making more torrents for me to have to perma-seed.  I have more things to share rather than seeding out every copy of the same things over and over.

Alice Coltrane – Lost Years in Ashram

Alice Coltrane, a great musical and spiritual force, is already a bit obscured and over-shadowed by her late and great husband, but she has 4 albums in particular that are almost unknown, even amongst her fringe-jazz fans.

There have been a few well-written blogs about the Alice Coltrane lost tapes (and 1 CD) done in Ashram, released through Avatar Book Institute.  By this point she had become a spiritual leader, as Swamini A.C. Turiyasangitananda.

For starters, I suggest maybe this blog for a bit more info.  Another well-written blog has some reviews of these 4 albums here.

These are a bit difficult to find.

However, it seems the record must be set straight, regarding just how these were released and how rare they are. It was reported these are (nearly) all cassette-only, or as I had understood before, Glorious Chants was the only one supposedly released to CD, according to some accounts.  On A.C.’s page at Avatar Books you can clearly see that Divine Songs and Infinite Chants are both available on CD — RIGHT NOW!  Even discogs has a total lack of correct information from these years. They only list 3 of the 4 albums at all, and they report that Glorious Chants was the only one with a CD release.

Unfortunately there is no sign of Glorious Chants or Turiya Sings on CD (or cassette), but you bet I will keep an eye out for them everywhere. I may not have the cash, but I will post links here for my complete lack of readership.

I am far too strapped for cash to buy both of these for the $15/ea+ possible shipping, but I hope that someone will make a serious investment in these rare albums and rip them to FLAC in EAC with proper settings — if you need an EAC guide, let me know!  Please share these if you get them.

In the meantime, without further preamble, here they are, the best copies that I have for these rare treats by Alice Coltrane in her most spiritual years, when she shied from the public (she did have her brief return to public performance and notice right before her death):
Alice Coltrane – Infinite Chants
Alice Coltrane – Turiya Sings
Alice Coltrane – Divine Songs
Alice Coltrane – Glorious Chants

I hope that eventually someone will be kind enough to help me get higher quality copies of all of these, but for now, enjoy these lost-to-obscurity albums in any condition you can.

up next: I am contemplating doing a bit on throat singing, but I don’t know that I have enough to share, and probably I have less to say, with all the ethno-musicologists out there that put my limited knowledge to shame.  There is some interesting ways it gets adopted, even outside of the east, but again, my resources are limited.  Perhaps this will go to a backburner.

First Up, Some OSTs

I love music of all types, so I plan to share a variety of music to the musically omnivorous and voracious.

Feel free to make the most of it.

If you want to draw my attention to any music, please share it.

I love film, and other visual media, in addition to music, so what’s not to love about a wonderful film with equally impressive music?
Therefore, let’s start with some OSTs.

First up, the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to Klute, composed by David Small.  I love these 70s films OSTs,.  Alan J. Pakula’s Paranoia Trilogy (Klute, along with All the President’s Men and The Parallax View) has some great moods in all of them.

Klute_Michael_Small_1_of_2.rar
Klute_Michael_Small_2_of_2.rar

I am not positive, but I do believe this FLAC was ripped from a bootleg CD — likely a vinyl drop, as I believe there has been no official CD release.

They were gotten in separate rars (from same place), but judging from the cover/booklet scans the numbering, I think it was paired in a set with All the President’s Men. So grab that, too.

All the President’s Men (rar), composed by David_Shire.

I also think that this lacks any true digitized retail release, so not a bad package for a bootleg CD.

David Shire also composed the masterfully made OST to his at-the-time Brother-in-Law FF Coppola’s The Conversation, which I will share my EAC FLAC rip at some point. I think I have seen more sensibly priced copies since I bought my CD, but in 2007 I paid like $80 for a copy, which is just nuts. I do believe this was the OST that broke him through into Hollywood, no small help from his ex-wife, who I believe was the one that persuaded Francis to give the composer a try.

The remaining OST from the unofficial Pakula Paranoia Trilogy, The Parallax View, I see that it is packaged with another Michael Small OST, in a twin pack of Marathon Man & The Parallax View. I believe this may also be another needle drop bootleg. Just guessing.

The Parallax View OST – Demolition Man OST – Michael Small – ape (split rar parts)

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), also by David Shire has two versions.   One was a promo version with 20 tracks, then the regular CD/LP version which had 11 tracks.

I could really use a good lossless rip of the 20-track promo version if someone has that to share.  I am posting in mp3@320.  The 11-track version is FLAC.

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three OST (1974) – David Shire (mp3@320) – 20 tracks promo.rar

pelham one two three 1974 ost – 11 track cd flac (split rar)

Moving along, to a totally different theme from these 70s gritty thrillers, here is an OST, this time from Katsuhiro Otomo‘s Akira, a masterpiece of anime, animation from Japan, and masterful music by the collective of Geinoh Yamashirogumi was scored for the visual feast. This one isn’t nearly so rare or difficult to track down as some others, but I still want to share, so have at it, while links survive.  This is essential soundtrack music The BD boasts a powerful 24 bit/192 kHz 5.1 TRUE-HD (2.0 AC3 core) audio, obviously more due to the score than sound effects.  I think it still remains the only BD video with such an insanely high quality audio track (there are likely many BD-A titles that feature such audio tracks).

Akira (1).zip
Akira (2).zip

Another anime OST, well sort of.  Haneken Land – Kentaro Haneda‘s “best of” soundtrack pieces. It is in mp3, I have no better version.

Kentaro Haneda – Hane-Ken Land.rar

John Corigliano‘s virtuoso electronic/orchestral outing for the mindbending Ken Russell film Altered States absolutely must make it into your ears.

Altered States OST (1980) John Corigliano – FLAC (multipart rar)

enjoy your new music, these fine examples of OSTs.

I feel the need to come and edit more in later.  I will want to to shoot through the Get Carter soundtrack by Roy Budd.  There are two versions, the original, I believe first only officially released on vinyl (mabe 8 Track or some sort of reels or cassettes, too?), which I believe has a vinyl drop bootleg out there, but I can’t score more than a 320 of that, and then a reissue edition which changed quite a few things, some good some bad.  So it is worth having all this, for fans of rare groove and 70s gritty gangster films with a good score.

I need to score the French Connection OST, if anyone can help me get ahold of a nice lossless copy of that, I would be thrilled.  I will probably get it one way or another.

Off the top I will also try to get up here Superfly!, and Shaft!  I should have digital copies of both (I don’t have my endless crates of vinyl and CDs where I live and no means to get to them).

Probably some more frighteningly cool anime scores, too.  Some of the really wicked cool ones are tough to find the actual OST for, unfortunately.  Hell, owning a DVD copy or even an LD or a VHS cap can be tricky, but that’s for another blog.

Speaking of OSTs, anime, and things I want… ;P I am also looking for FLAC rips (made with EAC!!! if possible) of the 3 Japanese OSTs for the original Votoms TV series. Please share if you have it.

If you are looking to expand your collection of more interesting funk soundtracks, there is a nice list of suggestions here.  No music links are shared, but you can dig around see what comes up.

up next: some Alice Coltrane, from the 4 “Lost” albums done for her Shanti Anantam Ashram (later renamed Sai Anantam Ashram in Chumash Pradesh), released by Avatar Book Institute, 3 of which only made it to cassette. Ironically the 4th one was the toughest to get a copy of, even with a CD release at some point.