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Born out of VOID Records after a relocation, Happy Puppy launched in 2001, and began releasing CC albums in 2006. The label is home to Lee Rosevere's various musical indulgences, along with music made by other people, like C4, Jason Kaneshiro, Monopole, Logan Whitehurst (rip) and many others.
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happypuppyrecords on 04/22/2012 at 12:00PM
Slipping: Skate's Impact on Egypt
When Brett Wiese Saunders finished filming his documentary Slipping: Skate's Impact on Egypt, he needed a soundtrack for it.. and found it while browsing the FMA.
Unfortunately, a number of songs were perfect for the film but were licensed as non-commercial. Even though his documentary was a commercial venture, artists who had licensed their music as non-commercial, such as Blue Swerver, Good Old Neon, and Learning Music, gave Brett permission for their music to appear in the spirit of creation.
Brett is raising funds through Kickstarter to get his doc released on DVD, paying for production costs and also passing a portion of the funding onto the musicians.
Meanwhile, since the soundtrack was sourced from tracks found on FMA, you can download it for free as a preview:
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happypuppyrecords on 04/10/2012 at 11:00AM
The Many Moods Of Bob Purse
I love collecting song-poems, as does Bob Purse.
Not just song-poems, but Bob is a music collector of the strange, the odd, the outside. And not only has he collected for years, he shares a lot of it on the infamous WFMU Beware The Blog, as well as his own blog, The Wonderful and the Obscure
On the occasion of his 50th birthday, he posted some of his original material on his blog that he had recorded privately over the years. They came from a cassette he originally shared with friends and family back in 1997 called The Many Moods Of Bob.
After hearing Bob's songs, I was very interesting in hearing the rest of the tracks, and I contacted him with the idea of releasing the entire album for free download.
What follows is a truly fantastic DIY album, up there with the likes of R. Stevie Moore, the weird 4-track stuff by Ween, etc. Not only does Bob has a knack for writing off-the-wall tunes, but he's also covered a song-poem, a handful of obscure commercials, and a couple of parodies, recalling my younger-days of hearing this kind of stuff on Dr. Demento ("Bad TV Acting" [mp3] was even played by Dr. D on May 16, 1999).
Time to dim the lights, pour a glass of your favourite beverage and enjoy the Many Moods of Bob Purse!
