The Pyramids - King of Kings

This is for someone that is no longer on this planet; I'm sure he would like it because it sounds a lot like his music. Sun Ra was born on May 22nd and died on May the 30th 79 years later and as much as I don't really care what happens after/before this existence I think I'll/We'll celebrate these dates (as they are around now) in a way that everyone would benefit which is sharing something that he would like and possibly some other drifters as well that come here for a cup of digital tea.

Anyway, enough with the unmusical talk. The Pyramids are a free jazz ensemble that operated mainly during the seventies. This album, released in 1974, was probably at the peak of their creativity. During my research I found out that they released another album last year so it seems they are together again and also their previous three albums that were released in the 70s are now in print again on cd. The music is kinda like Sun Ra and Pharoah Sanders combined, it's mainly melodic with several voyages into free improvisation. As usual with these records there's this really tight and diverse rhythm section and soloists on saxophones, flutes and stuff like that. Afro-big bands I call it. It's well composed, fun to listen and not long enough dammit. The percussion is especially great if I might add.

Check this out if you like Sun Ra and things like that.

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Videos volume 3

Hi.

Nothing to do? Your vibes are getting bad? Here's some youtube stuff. Happy time killing.

Music: 
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor 
Piano Concerto No. 1 (Rachmaninoff) Vivace 1st movement 
Stravinsky - Petrushka (Jansons)
Asakawa Maki - 少年
Schubert - Der Erlkönig
Death "Denial Of Life" (live) 
1 of 2: Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 Op. 38, First movement 
Roy Orbison - In Dreams 
Do Make Say Think - A Tender History In Rust  
Nikolai Lugansky Rachmaninov Prelude Op 23 No. 7 
Seikilos Epitaph - Song of Seikilos 
Muzsikas: Chasid Dances with Cioata  
Jascha Heifetz plays Paganini Caprice No. 24 
Besh o Drom - Tortapapír  
Brahms - piano sonata no. 2 - Mvnt 1 & 2 /Julius Katchen/ 
Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances / with Danubia Orchestra  
Still Alive by Gamer Symphony Orchestra  
M. Ward - The First Time I Ran Away  
BORIS vs The Melvins live 1995  
BORIS live 1995 Orange Amps Wata  
Live on Soundcheck: Colin Stetson 
Thieves Like Us - Shyness
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Gathering Storm HD Live  
Liszt Totentanz  
Dynamite Hack-"Boyz In The Hood"
IS TROPICAL | THE GREEKS 
Star Slinger - Mornin' 
HD Preview - Audio Visual performance. Junichi Akagawa
DyE - Fantasy

Jazz:
Ryo Fukui - Early Summer 
Dancando No Paraiso 
Booker T. & The MG's - Booker-Loo (1968) 
Miles Davis - My Funny Valentine - 1964 
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and Special Guests - Leverkusen Jazz Fest Oct. 9 1989 Complete 
Charles Mingus - Trumpeten in Norway 
BBC Documentary: Sun Ra, Brother From Another Planet  
Gary Giddins- Backstage Interview on Cecil Taylor 
Damir Kukuruzović gipsy swing quartet

Strange or cool things:
Rouge Warrior credits song + lyrics 
Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers 
Lightsaber Fightsaber 
Bro Team Pill: Cricket Revolution  
Left 4 Dead 2: Portal 2 Easter Egg  
Pikamon  
Fenriz - Black Metal University(FULL Video) Part 1 [also, what the hell?] 
The Cinematic Orchestra - Arrival of the Birds clip  
Quantic Dream - KARA tech demo  
Engrish is funny  
"I have 3, PS3's" 
A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors  
Ants - Attenborough: Life in the Undergrowth 
Take On Me by a-ha, North Korean Style  
Saxophonist Colin Stetson in Studio Q 
The scariest video you have ever watched in the name of science 
QuakeCon 2011 - John Carmack Keynote 
Microsoft XBOX 360 Stand Off McCann Erickson NY 2005
History of English (combined) 
RSA Animate - The Divided Brain  
Tarkovsky on Cinema

Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Sunset Mission


Here's something that has seen a lot of rotation on my player recently. Someone on last.fm said that Bohern & der Club Of Gore are Kenny G. for metalheads. This to some extent is true despite how much hate Kenny G. gets. The reason why this is kinda like Kenny G. is because there really is not that much of jazz here yet it is often cited as dark jazz. The chords here are simple, non improvisational and they lack in pretty much everything that is usually associated with jazz (smooth jazz maybe) but that's not really the point of their music anyway. The reason why this would be for metalheads is, I guess, because of its pitch black atmosphere. The cover itself can already give you an idea of how this sounds. It's dark, minimalistic and sombre music for long nightly strolls through an industrial part of the city.

The thing Bohren does best is atmosphere, it envelops you and you can't let it go. The slow pace, the silent keyboards and the saxophone that tears through the dark really fit well together. It does not come as cheesy smooth jazz music for the most part.

If you're looking for some dark and relaxing music look no further.

Midnight stroll.

Krautrock documentary


Check out this BBC documentary about krautrock, it's pretty good/informative.

                                        Youtube link.

Roland Kirk - The Inflated Tear


Jazz had a lot of interesting musicians. Some could play really loud, some could play really fast while some could play really complex and then you had those strange cats that nobody could understand. Roland Kirk was one of those strangers and loners. He was blind but he could play three instruments - at once. Because of this a lot of critics considered him as just a gimmick player.

The Inflated Tear is usually considered his magnum opus that even negative critics liked. I for one think his live albums are far superior but let's start with something that's universally liked (later on I'll share some live albums of course). The album itself contains a lot of blues and bebop but it tends to develop into more modern jazz (modern for 1967 that is) as the tracks go along.

Despite his unique ability there's a fair share of one handed songs which I think is great because it showcases his more technical abilities on each instruments although his dual-triple wielding are where the real show is. The way he plays; it gives this strange atmosphere like no other musician ever achieved. It's just strange and really awesome at the same time.

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Preview of the title track.

Steve Roach - Structures from Silence


Shit, I'm a little late but nevertheless let's get to it.

Ever since I  watched Blade Runner I wanted to find some more of that spacey synth music so eventually I found this little album. Steve Roach experimented with a lot of types of soundscapes so naturally he released quite a lot of things but he usually gets associated with those new age music/movements. You know, that music you listen while meditating and some middle aged guy tells you to open your mind. This means that he has released a lot of cheeky elevator music but he also has quite a few of the good releases.

Structures from Silence is one of the good guys from his discography. It sounds pretty much like being stranded in space on some desolate station eating plastic food, waiting to get impregnated by facehuggers. There are three fairly long tracks that suck you in their respective atmospheres. While monotonous (in a good way) each track is distinct so you don't get always the same thing albeit they all follow a premise of being a slow minimalist piece.

Great music for late nights.

Oh and please take note that this is in flac.

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Ushering a new age of netsphere flying teapots.


Alas it is done. The last file has been uploaded. Naturally it took exponentially longer than I predicted because a lot of malfunctions kinda happened at the same time and a lot of times I had to upload something twice or thrice due to connection failures and so on. Man, my life sure is problematic.

And of course, thanks again to the lovely people that helped me out finding most of the manga that I was missing. You're all great <3

So yeah, I feel like I survived this weird post-apocalyptic world where everyone had a bright colored mohawk haircut, ships collided into buildings and everyone was a body builder. Let's just hope Mediafire does not learn the Hokuto Shin-Ken and my files end up already dead.

Now that this era of Flying Teapot is done I say we can go where we want to. A place where they will never find and we can act like we come from out of this world, leave the real one far behind.

As long as we safely dance. So let's get to some new music and manga, preferably this month!



New uploads coming as soon as they upload.

Status updates

I won't be uploading any movies or animations; unless there's something you really want uploaded again.

Please use the comment section of this post for posting eventual uploads by yourself and I'll copy them from here to their original posts.

Everything is complete!

Thanks to those who helped with missing files!

Things that I'm missing:
Music:
008 Doi - Cars MISSING*
027 Herem - I Pulsa diNura MISSING
045 Grc (Spasm) - Sloboda Narodu MISSING
069 Grom & North & Marhoth - Sovereigns of Northernlands MISSING
070 Sacrilegium & North - Jesienne Szepty MISSING
089 Morbid Angel - Evil Demos MISSING*
113 Charlie And His Orchestra MISSING
114 A Coprophile Obsessed.... MISSING
115 AK-47 - November 13th Split MISSING
116 Capitalist Casualties - Planned Community MISSING
117 Spangle call Lilli line - Spangle call Lilli line MISSING
130 Ni Hao! - Gorgeous MISSING
147 Isaac Shepard - Deep Joy MISSING


Manga that I'm missing:
042 Tsutomu Takahashi - Blue Heaven MISSING
050 Shintaro Kago - Superglue MISSING*
054 Tsutomu Nihei - Winged Armor Suzumega MISSING
072 Katsuhiro Otomo - Visitors MISSING
080 Shintaro Kago - Holy Night MISSING

Things marked with * are things that I'd like to have again, things without the * are things that I don't really miss. Are you shock enough to find them?

It takes about 8 hours to upload 1GB. You're tearing me apart, internet speed.

Here's what we'll do.

 Alright, my exams finished today and now I can focus on this situation so here's what I'll do with Flying Teapot:

a) I'm sticking with mediafire and just like every returning cocaine addict I'll say: "This time it will be different.". I'll be using different codified names for music, manga and movies (and also different accounts for each media). This should cover my ass for a while longer. If I get shot down again; rapidshare it is (until better times come around or I end up in jail).

b) Before I continue with new things I'm going to reupload everything I have (with maybe few exclusions like Boris discography and perhaps movies). This might seem senseless but I've been telling everyone all the time how I'm going to "reupload that, reupload this" and I never did so this is a perfect situation to just upload everything again. Since 2007 I had two hard drive crashes so I lost some of the files that are (were) on the blog. Once I'm done I'll compile a list of missing items in case someone else is willing to share them or point to them on some other blogs.

c) My upload is slow. 4 years of different material will take some time (I don't know how long but hopefully I'll be done in 5 or 6 days). Therefore I'm going to use this opportunity to promote some other great blogs that you are might not aware of and also to pay some respects to the community.

The blogs are in alphabetic order:

 . Adventure-Equation . - are you a fan of Sun Ra? Then you need to check this one out. Interviews, photos, trivia, albums in flac/v0/whatever, bootlegs and everything in between about Sun Ra. Glorious.

A Softly Sleeping Rose - a lot of interesting pop from Japan. Well it's mostly pop but there are some weird stuff as well. Descriptive texts and overall interesting music.

Anime Max - I have no idea what these guys/girls usually write about because I do not understand what they're saying. Despite that they always share great manga or anime releated uploads and videos. Check them out if you're into that sort of stuff.

Archive Scans - The reason I'm not uploading any artbooks is because I always feel I would rip off this guy. Sadly it seems to me that he has some problems with copyright as well. Hopefully he'll resolve it and continue uploading great artbooks and sketchbooks. In the meantime be sure to follow him.

Asian Oldies - If you like enka and other Asian oldies you will be in heaven.

Cephalochromoscope - an old friend of mine and still active for the most part. I'll be always happy to link him. Grindcore and whatever else comes to his mainframe. Much love.

Classics - Classical music motherfucker, do you speak it?

Cosmic Hearse - You probably already know about this one but I'll still link it in case you don't. Excellent underground stuff from a lot of different genres but mainly metal and punk. Updates come once a day and everything is something interesting and much underrated.

Creep Scanner -Lot's of interesting and (to me) obscure stuff. Varies in genre but expect weirdness.

Death Metal Invasion - Used to be all about big releases but now it focuses on small or unsigned bands. Death metal delight.

Dunkelheit - ran by a guy I met way back on The Ultimate Metal forums (I think it was there). Bunch of black metal, not updated very often nowadays but they have a lot of stuff.

Equivoke - I discovered these guys recently and now I'm checking their blog every once in a while. A lot of new releases. Mainly metal but there are other stuff as well that pops up. Quality rips and music. Bitchin' banner.

Forever Cursed - Lots of new extreme music. They started out last year so they have a small following. I think they deserve more.

Fragments Of The Night (Below The Fog) - Another blog ran by a friend of mine. Neofolk, Martial Industrial and all kinds of weird stuff. Quality rips that are mainly his own rips. Rapidshare.

Free Jazz - No links but a lot of exposure given to new free jazz music.

Inconstant Sol - "The emphasis has been on the free/improv/experimental side of jazz, but with excursions into contemporary and classical music, from Europe and beyond." Great site, great people. I've been silently following them for a while now and loving every post they make.

Into A Blue Haze - Exclusively dedicated to live shows of mainly jazz and blues performers. Highly recommended if you like live shows.

L'Ether du Diable - I love this blog and its creator (in a non homoerotic way) although he was fucked up a bit due to megaupload getting shut down. Movies, comics and music from all sorts of genres.

Living Through Noise - Kinda like my blog, except with just music and better.

Oldies But Goldies - Much like the other oldies blog I posted before. It's ran by the same dude as well.

Ominous Blackberries - Lots of strange, obscure and loveable stuff from noise spheres of music.

And that's everyone unless I forgot someone. If I did I'm terribly sorry.

Raoh murdered everyone I uploaded.


Not cool man. I made this account on the day this blog was made. I was sort of attached to it.

Looks like everything I uploaded so far is gone. This whole blog is doing the totentanz while I'm busy failing my exams at college.

A question to fellow Mediafire uploaders: are your links removed if you name them more subtly like DHD7 or something like that (I'd really like to avoid rapidshare if I can because it's a bitch to free users)?