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If you like beatniks, Dada, surrealism, and electronic music pioneers, Ubu Web is highly recommended.

http://www.ubu.com/

http://www.ubu.com/sound/index.html

Music, poetry, lectures, and films. Ubu Web is a goldmine of terrific historical documents, music, and video. From today’s leading innovators to ancient experimentalists. Much of it is out of print and available only on Ubu Web.

Download Now…on rare occasions (Alvin Curran, for example), the mp3s don’t last forever, are for some reason deleted or “expired”. They might even vanish from your iTunes playlist (has happened to me).

Download then burn playlists to CD. Now, not later.

To get you started, here are some of my favorite free mp3s offerings:

(0) John Lennon “Radio Play” and “No Bed for Beatle John”

http://www.ubu.com/sound/lennon.html

(1) Vladimir Ussachevsky “Film Music” (one of my favorite electronic/tape/musique concrete albums of all time, it’s perfect like a dream…)

http://www.ubu.com/sound/ussachevsky.html

(2) James Joyce “Ulysses” soundtrack (1967)

http://www.ubu.com/sound/joyce.html

(3) Cornelius Cardew “Piano Music of the 1970s”

http://www.ubu.com/sound/cardew_piano.html

(4) Allen Ginsberg Sings William Blake

http://www.ubu.com/sound/ginsberg.html

(5) Ilhan Mimaroglu

http://www.ubu.com/sound/mimaroglu.html

(6) Nurse With Wound “Shipwreck Radio”

http://www.ubu.com/sound/nww.html

(7) Ake Hodell “220 Volts Buddha”

http://www.ubu.com/sound/hodell.html

(8) Sound Sculptures

http://www.ubu.com/sound/sound_sculptures.html

(9) Jean Dubuffet

http://www.ubu.com/sound/dubuffet.html

(10) Tuli Kupferberg (of the 60s punk band The Fugs) “No Deposit, No Return”

http://www.ubu.com/sound/kupferberg.html

(11) Dieter Roth

http://www.ubu.com/sound/roth.html

(12) Luigi Russolo (1913 – 1921 recordings, the oldest electronic music?)

http://www.ubu.com/sound/russolo_l.html

(13) Lasry-Baschet “The Time Eaters”

http://www.ubu.com/sound/lasry_baschet.html

(14) Alvin Lucier

http://www.ubu.com/sound/lucier.html

(15) Julian Schnabel “Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud” (contemporary painter does Leonard Cohen/Tom Waites/Johnny Cash type music, pretty okay!)

http://www.ubu.com/sound/schnabel.html

(16) Frank Zappa “The Talking Asshole”

http://www.ubu.com/sound/zappa.html

(17) Mauricio Kagel (one of my favorite composers)

http://www.ubu.com/sound/kagel.html

(18) Pauline Oliveros

http://www.ubu.com/sound/oliveros.html

(19) Polish Experimental Radio

http://www.ubu.com/sound/polish.html

(20) Paul McCarthy w/ Violent Onsen Geisha

http://www.ubu.com/sound/mccarthy.html

(21) Patti Smith

http://www.ubu.com/sound/smith.html

(22) Tim Hawkinson “Uber Organ”

http://www.ubu.com/sound/hawkinson.html

(23) Ergo Phizmiz

http://www.ubu.com/sound/phizmiz.html

(24) Cornelius Cardew “Memorial Concert” (another “often-listened to” favorite)

http://www.ubu.com/sound/cardew_memorial.html

(25) Abbie Hoffman

http://www.ubu.com/sound/hoffman.html

(26) Gordon Mumma

http://www.ubu.com/sound/mumma.html

(27) Joseph Beuys

http://www.ubu.com/sound/beuys.html

(28) Ergo Phizmiz “Rhapsody in Glue”

http://ubu.com/sound/plu_rhapsody.html