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First things first: Most of you know who Panda Bear is, but for those who don't, lets just say that he's a member of Animal Collective and three years ago he made a perfect solo record and leave it at that. I was on his Wikipedia page and noticed all the sampling he did while recording this album and thought that highlighting some of these bits & pieces might be fun. Soooo, lets move on to Agnes Montgomery. She's the artist who created the iconic album art for Person Pitch (shown above) as well as these collages, shown below. Agnes is based in Philly and signed, limited edition prints of her work can be purchased for $125 here.

Below are the songs sampled on the album:

Comfy In Nautica features a sample of Geino Yamashirogumi's song Tetsuo.  Geino Yamashirogumi is a Japanese folk collective that has over 70 singers and 100 members at any given time.  The members consist of everyone from businessmen, doctors, students and everyone in between. The song Panda Bear sampled was a number from their commission to create the soundtrack to the movie Akira.  The picture below is taken from Julian Cope's website and shows some of the members performing.

Take Pills, the second song on Person Pitch, contains a sample from Scott Walker's epic ballad, Always Coming Back to You (shown below) as well as The Tornados song, Popeye Twist (shown below that).

Track 3 - Bros - Contains the following samples:

Red Roses and a Sky of Blue by The Tornados

I've Found a Love by Cat Stevens from his album, Matthew & Son

Rub A Dub Dub by The Equals (Listen Here)

Track 4: I'm Not contains a sample from Rose, Liz, Printemps, Verdure by Guillaume de Machaut but performed by Gothic Voices

Track 5: Good Girl / Carrots contains the following samples:

Radio Calcutta #2 from the album Radio India: The Eternal Dream of Sound

Enter the Dragon by Lee Scratch Perry

Ananas Symphonie by Kraftwerk

Track 6: Search for Delicious is named after the book of the same namb by children's author Natalie Babbitt

...and that takes care of that!

French Book Covers is a blog devoted to none other than French Book Covers. Most of them date pre 1950, and the overwhelming majority of them feature girlie / nudie book art. It's run by the same bloke behind Au Carrefour Etrange, which is a good thing. Below are some of my favorites.

||| Centiweed ^^^^ DOOM |v|V|v| GLooM ^^^tttttt^^^ COOL t|t ASS ^^^V^^^ BLoG

Mark Maggiori is a filmmaker, painter & photographer. He's french. He's awesome.

Where you going? Miami, PR, DR, Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, Kingston mon?  Don't matter. Pants be sagging. I saw these numbers on the Reserve Store website and thought they'd look good even at the Atlantic Avenue YMCA, which unfortunately, is where I'll be.

Like any good store they also have vintage books

If these don't suit your fancy, you can always go with the tried and true Birdwell Beach Britches. The company with the best website on the web and the best britches on the planet.

Que the fadeout music........

Feed Your Head has complied a collection of scanned underground papers dealing with psychedelics and mainstream papers that covered them.  The images below are some of the examples featured on the site. These, along with Feed Your Head's "nutshell" explanations of the papers feature the usual suspects - Ginsberg, Leary, McKenna, Heard, Watts, Kesey and handful of the lesser known characters.

Destination Out is a good station to prepare for orbit.  They deal primarily with Free Jazz but also No Wave, Experimental, Films, books, even shoegaze. The experience is a whole lot better if you're wearing a dashiki. Prepare for take off.

For the last some odd months, Chris Alker has been throwing a post punk, no wave, synth wave party at Le Poisson Rouge. This month he welcomes Veronica Vasicka of Minimal Wave / Cititrax.  For those unfamiliar with Veronica, you can watch our profile of her below. For those unfamiliar with Off the Grid, get off your couch and go.