November 4, 2006 at 12:45 pm
The Fund Drive is going wonderfully! We’re at 35% of our goal! WUUUW!!!! I believe that deserves a good Saturday Morning playlist, dedicated to all of you that have been helping us out.
The Staff thanks you deeply.
+Beatsy Morning
Anima Sound System - Fúj a Szél
Parov Stelar - Chambermaid Swing
Ilhan Ersahin - Ask
+Strolling Around in the Park
The Zutons - Oh Stacey (Look What You´ve Done)
Badly Drawn Boy - Silent Sigh
Arthur Lee - Everybody’s Gotta Live
November 4, 2006 at 11:04 am
Fund drive month continues. First of all thank you everybody who has donated, I am sure Moka is busy building the personalised playlist by now. (haa haa …, have fun Moka.)
Back to business. I think it would be fun as a historical note to see what certain amount of donation can buy in term of consumer electronic gadget. For $48.37, people could by the first transistor radio, TR-1. It was actually listed at $49.95 and at today’s dollar would be around $395.
“Consumer Reports had a one-page review in April, 1955 (p.171). In using phrases such as “toy-like novelty” and “has made use of the transistor’s small size, but…offers no other advantages” in comparing it to tube sets, they rain on an otherwise revolutionary parade. Their comparison of two transistor and one hybrid (a transistor and tube combination) radios in July, 1955 (p.305) panned the TR-1 again. Most listeners would probably agree that the also-ran Raytheon 8-TP (at a whopping $79.95, approximately $550 today) sounded better. With 8 transistors and a larger speaker, it should, and did. But the smaller form factor of radios like the TR-1 was irresistable, and would be here to stay. In time, small radios would supply much of the performance of the larger sets, at least in terms of sensitivity and selectivity, although they would almost always compromise tone quality. Another review, somewhat more favorable, appeared in the same month in Consumers’ Research Bulletin (July, 1955, p.29). ” (more)
Playlist: Something upbeat and fun for weekend morning, mostly courtesy midheaven mailorder site. I made this list for small speaker, so might sounds not as smooth on headphones. but hey… I’ll make headphone list, next, once there is enough money to write a story about expensive headphone. :P So don’t forget to donate people, things ar going fast. Click donate page here.
“Weekend Morning. It was the Golden Age”
Damon & Naomi - The Robot Speaks
Helms - The Kindness of Automatic Doors
Vert - Velocity
Antarctica Absence - Absence
+/- {Plus/Minus} - Let’s Build A Fire
Daedelus - Sundown
Lavender Diamond - You Broke My Heart
see also: history of transistor radio at wiki.
image credit: SR
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November 2, 2006 at 11:25 pm
So I guess everyone knows by now that MdM is homeless… we lack a place in which to upload our songs and call our own. Sad, but true oh faithful readers. I myself would like to apologize for my lack of posting, I´ve been backed up with work all month and haven´t really had any time to use the FTP that is graciously being lended to us.
I belive MdM will back on its feet in no time, but for us to do so, we need your help, yes, YOUR help dear readers. You are the ones that make this blog (and many others for that matter) what it is. I would like to ask for your help so we can get up and running once more, but to do so we need a bit of cash… well… not a ‘bit’ it’s actually quite a quantious sum of money that we cannot spit out on our own account *sigh*… that’s why we would like to ask for your help, any donation will be INMENSLY helpful, ANY amount of money, anything from a cent to a dollar, all will be put into the MdM restoration. If you are interested in cooperating with us please
CLICK HERE.
Anyway… now that I have appealed to your heart into helping us, I’d like to share a bit of music with you all. Last week a VERY good friend of mine discovered this AMAZING band called Nine Rain.
Nine Rain is a multinational band formed by the American Steve Brown, the German Nicolas Klau, the Mexicans José Manuel Aguilera and Alejandro Herrera and Cuban musicians. What truly blew me away from these guys is the way the make the music flow changing the textures from beat to beat. They have a very wordly sound, but they’re actually based in Mexico, so they actually sound from ‘all around’ but keeping deep Mexican roots in the rythms with melodic vitality…. ok ok… enough blabbering, here is a small sample of Nine Rain, enjoy:
Disc 1 - Mexico Woke Up
Nine Rain - Blowfish
Nine Rain - Invisible Man
Nine Rain - Tezcatlipoca
Disc 2 - Rain of Fire
Nine Rain - Guantanamo’s Harpischord
Nine Rain - Lamento
November 2, 2006 at 2:03 pm
First of all I wish to thank reader Oscar for allowing us to host our files for a temporary time while we’re homeless. As this is a loan and I’m very afraid of exhausting Oscar’s bandwith I need to ask of you readers not to hotlink the files on other page and download the files without streaming. Oscar writes some excellent podcasts on the alt stream radio, Enfiltro. Y sigo dandote las gracias, Oscar.
A mixture of folk tingled songs, some old/new, released/unreleased records. I’m specially fond and deeply recommend the Benoit Pioulard and Dosh which have been spinning all last month on my stereo and the unmastered song of which seems like a brilliant follow-up album by Paul Duncan. And oi! Aaron Coleman wrote some great reviews with podcast included at almostcool for both Pioulard and Dosh albums, read & listen here and here.
it’s that time of the year - Happy Samhain and Day of the Dead kids.
Van Dyke Parks - Van Dyke Parks
(song cycle, 1968)
Voices of the seven woods - an hour before dawn
(twisted nerve 7″, 2006)
Eric Bachmann - carrboro woman
(to the races, 2006)
Benoit Pioulard - patter
(Precis, 2006)
Dosh - Um, circles & squares (feat. Andrew Bird)
(the lost take, 2006)
Various - fly
(the world is gone, 2006)
Midwinter - the waters of sweet sorrow
(midwinter - 1973)
Larkin Grimm - the last tree
(the last tree, 2006)
Paul Duncan - red eagle
(unreleased, 2006?)
Lesley Duncan - love song
(sing children sing, 1971)
Thank you so much for the donations we’ve received so far. If you wish to contribute and help us keep the motel alive please visit the fund drive page HERE. Thanks everyone for the support, it means so much.
November 2, 2006 at 10:23 am
I’ll make a quick temporary note for fund drive. (no pix. blogger is down again. will make nicer FAQ soon.)
- MdM crews did shell out money on 2 ezarchive accounts. They are useless now.
- MdM bandwith consumption is pretty big. It definitely need something in the range of 1.5TB for regular serving, and more for future projects (unlimited). If anybody know reliable host offering cheaper price, drop an email.
- MdM plans/waits for inspiration to create more fun blog stuff. Movie, place for new indie bands, etc. But these definitely need host
- Blogger.com is getting really fubar.
- no, none of us can spring that much money on our own. And currently there are 4 active posters. (Would you ask sweet Kahlo to shell out money? of course not.)
- There are big advantage of keeping MdM free of ad. We will try to do without ads if possible. Hence fund drive.
Cheers.
Squashed.
November 1, 2006 at 8:10 pm
“IDM-near house, climbing tempo”
01. Solo Andata - Sukieneice (web)
02. Björk - Odd Duck
03. Sheveks Masada - Infiltrated (web)
04. kettel - loveboat (edit by palle)
05. Faux Pas - Hermann’s Hermans (web)
06. Thunderball - Domino coolin mix.13 (web)
Hello everybody,
MdM is doing fund drives so it can have new home, paying for annual contract.
The drive page is here. We are tryng to rais $260 for 2 years contract.
The break down:
Annual website & mp3 hosting costs: $240
Paypal fees: $20
Making Moka smile: $0
Making Kahlo say hi: $0
Stop squashed from making annoying posts: $0 (Moka’s announcement.
image credit: tamjpn
November 1, 2006 at 7:57 pm
Dear readers,
Motel de Moka is currently homeless and we need your help to raise money to pay the hosting bills for our new home. We’d pay them ourselves, but we just can’t do it, so we’re turning to you. For the whole details please visit the Motel de Moka funding drive page.
Also please know that every cent or dollar you donate is useful and every comment left on the blog, email or kind words are all truly appreciated. We are all dedicated music lovers that work hard to please you at the motel and will continue doing it gladly as long as you want us. We exist because of you.
Thanks,
Moka.
Motel de Moka funding drive page.
Queridos lectores,
El Motel de Moka se encuentra sin hogar y necesitamos su ayuda para pagar las cuentas de los servidores de nuestro nuevo hogar. No tenemos el dinero suficiente para pagarlos por nosotros mismos y estamos recurriendo a ustedes. Para mas informacion por favor diriganse a la pagina de donativos del motel de moka. (Disculpen la inconveniencia de que la pagina esta escrita en ingles).
Sepan que cada centavo o dolar que puedan donar es de mucha ayuda y que cada comentario, email o palabras que nos dirigen son muy apreciadas. Todos somos dedicados amantes de la musica y si ustedes nos lo permiten seguiremos aqui complaciendolos dia tras dia en el motel. El motel existe por ustedes.
Muchas gracias,
Moka.
La pagina de donativos del motel de moka.
The Fund Drive is going wonderfully! We’re at 35% of our goal! WUUUW!!!! I believe that deserves a good Saturday Morning playlist, dedicated to all of you that have been helping us out.
