Ants From Up There

Motherlode is a 1988 compilation album by the hardest working man in show business, James Brown. This collection came about when Brown's music was getting renewed attention through its use as samples in hip-hop. All of the songs were previously unreleased in 1988 except for the two remixes which close the CD. This is a Polydor sureshot.

Star Time is the 1991 box set by American soul singer James Brown. After years of successful reissues and remasters on both sides of the bond, Polygram decided to honor the Godfather of Soul with a box set. It features a number of songs being remastered for the first time plus a small handful of unreleased material, including a few live tracks, covering four different decades of his career. This includes scans of the complete booklet.

Amazon Review by Stuart Jefferson
54 minutes in length approximately. The tracks,from the original analogue tapes,have been remastered. The sound is fairly crisp and open. The booklet contains some good info on the bands,producers,and the era.
This collection does contain some rare West Coast surf music,from the small Titan Records label. This was one of a myriad of small,independent record companies in the late 50's/early 60's that released surf music hoping to cash-in on the surf/instrumental craze (which only lasted a short time),then coming into vogue. Usually the vast numbers of these groups (THE SURFMEN,THE STRANGERS,THE STORMS,THE PLAYBOYS,among others), sold their records only locally,or at best,regionally. Very few of these groups made it to the national level in sales. It's interesting that (the late) Gary Usher (heard here),who was responsible (and famous) for dozens of teen records (both instrumental and vocal),made his first recordings for Titan.

Strange and fascinating tales from Texas, and winner of the 1991 John Simmons Short Fiction Award, by a writer whose work has appeared in the Antioch Review, Kansas Quarterly, and Southwest Review, as well in the anthology New Stories from the South. In ``The Ant Generator,'' a woman dreams she can create electricity by harnessing the energy of ants; in ``Hybrid Wolfdogs,'' an aging real-estate investor commits himself to caring for a pair of mongrel wolves; in ``The Green Balcony,'' a woman remains on her apartment terrace for days, hoping that a vision will tell her how to live her life.

105 tracks charting the british post-punk explosion 1978-1981. A compendium of familiar names, underground oddities and freshly excavated historical nuggets. Buzzcocks! Echo and the bunnymen! The fall! Killing joke! Public image limited! Siouxsie and the banshees! Teardrop explodes! Scritti politti! The cure and many more. Compiled by the team that brought you ‘to the outside of everything’, the ‘c86…’ series, ‘electrical language’, ‘shake the foundations’ and many more in-depth box sets. Featuring band-by-band biographies and detailed sleevenotes by mark paytress. “life’s about as boring as a dole queue” – mark perry.

Bugs are usually so small that we hardly notice them, let alone think of them as living beings. But call upon the magnifying glass, and a shapeless jumble of legs, wings, and antennae suddenly start staring back at us.

The Penguin Cafe Orchestra (PCO) was a collective of performing musicians created by classically trained British guitarist, composer and arranger Simon Jeffes. The Penguin's sound is not easily categorized, but has elements of exuberant folk music and a minimalist aesthetic occasionally reminiscent of composers such as Philip Glass. The Penguin Cafe Orchestra recorded and performed for 24 years until Jeffes died of a brain tumour in 1997.