In 1977 Scarfolk Clinic conducted sleep experiments on a local boy known only as 'Patient #249'. He suffered from severe nightmares and developed a rare condition known as 'manifest hypnagogia'.
Symptoms include the physical manifestation of hallucinations that sufferers endure between sleep and waking states. For example, Patient #249 frequently awoke to find, sitting on the end of his bed, a syphilitic, deformed Victorian clown eating trifle and pig's liver pâté. At other times, a confused sewing machine salesman from the Midlands would appear. Patient #249's parents found this inconvenient.
Doctors observed Patient #249 at home and wired his brain to an EEG, which they attached to a Bontempi electric keyboard. They wanted to record what Patient #249's brain was doing and translate it into music. In the recording you'll hear the TV in the background before Patient #249's unconscious brain takes over and he slips into a hypnagogic state.
Scarfolk is a town in North West England that did not progress beyond 1979. Instead, the entire decade of the 1970s loops ad infinitum. Here in Scarfolk, pagan rituals blend seamlessly with science; hauntology is a compulsory subject at school, and everyone must be in bed by 8pm because they are perpetually running a slight fever. "Visit Scarfolk today. Our number one priority is keeping rabies at bay." For more information please reread.
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Showing posts with label electronica. Show all posts
Thursday, 12 September 2013
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
"Dormin Slowly Died with the Radio On" (Scarfolk Records 1974)
From Scarfolk Records 1974.
The debut ambient album from 'Ragle' called "Dormin Slowly Died With The Radio On. Parts 1-82"
This is part 71.
It won 2nd prize at the Scarfolk harvest festival, having lost out to Gary Butters from Scarfolk primary school, class 5, who came 1st with his song "Eagle Eye Action Man."
Ragle was the stage name of Eddie Rumpburn who was the manager of Twazzle's Hardware shop on East Twazzle Parade between 1970 and 1978.
The debut ambient album from 'Ragle' called "Dormin Slowly Died With The Radio On. Parts 1-82"
This is part 71.
It won 2nd prize at the Scarfolk harvest festival, having lost out to Gary Butters from Scarfolk primary school, class 5, who came 1st with his song "Eagle Eye Action Man."
Ragle was the stage name of Eddie Rumpburn who was the manager of Twazzle's Hardware shop on East Twazzle Parade between 1970 and 1978.
Labels:
1970s,
ambient,
electronica,
Hauntology,
library music,
music,
radio,
records,
Scarfolk
Tuesday, 12 February 2013
"A Day at the Seaside" (Scarfolk Music & Audio Library Vol. 1)
Scarfolk Council is proud to announce its musical debut!
Here's "A Day at the Seaside" from the "Scarfolk Music & Audio Library Vol. 1" released in 1973.
Click below on the soundcloud two-channel stereophonic music-centre. No batteries or cables needed. No home taping.
Here's "A Day at the Seaside" from the "Scarfolk Music & Audio Library Vol. 1" released in 1973.
Click below on the soundcloud two-channel stereophonic music-centre. No batteries or cables needed. No home taping.
Labels:
1970s,
ambient,
audio,
drone,
electronica,
Hauntology,
library,
library music,
music,
Scarfolk,
seaside
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