Furry Musicians Newsletter Issue Number 64 - 18/07/18
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Fortnightly Furry Musicians Newsletter!
Issue 64 - 18th July 2018
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Hello and welcome to the Furry Musicians Newsletter, where the points don't matter, the matters don't point and I steal all my jokes from the terrible US reboots of much better British TV shows.
My ear broke
Well... not quite. But it is currently not working properly. So much so that I have to pour weird gunk into it which is eating the wax from inside my ear so that opefully I'll be able to hear clearly again and not be in pain. But it's not really doing so brilliantly because now my ears seem to be full of now-liquid gunk and everything feels muffled.
Ode to ruddy joy...
Oh, and naturally, it happened just as I had started to get comfortable in a new and highly exciting musical project which is how most people sell you MLM's but nono, no pyramids here and so now I can't actually work on it. It's highly infuriating, but there we go.
The Marketplace
New Releases
Singles
idiotcanthus has released a single called "Brutal Prominade, Brutal Requisit" under the name "Overwater" from their upcoming album "Cavern Athenaeum", the former of which is now avalible to purchase on Bandcamp
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rascallybandit has released a single called "Pretend" under the name "Sphat-90" which features the vocal tallents of
foxsargeant and is avalible for purchase on Bandcamp.
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Albums
Canis_03 has released an album called “Compositions_02” which is now available for purchase on Bandcamp.
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Musician Commission
JaydenTheThunderWolf is now open for music commissions.
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Draks is now open for music commissions for soundtracks, video games and character themes.
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The Back Page
I'm just gunna share a funny story here. A few many years ago I stumbled upon YouTube rips of old VHS reviews of the Le Mans 24 hour motor race. One of which was covering the 1990 race, made in 1991. Like any video format, it needed musical accomanyment and it was clear the company didn't have much money, but did have a collossal bin of 80's New Wave that it could buy rights to on the cheap.
So, they picked two vaguely automotive sounding pieces of music, "Driver's Seat" by Sniff 'n' The Tears and "Acceleration" by Bill Nelson, who has the distinction of being the second least known of New Wave group ahead only of Sniff 'n' The Tears.
The problem was that "Driver's Seat" had nothing to do with a driver's seat in any capacity and was about divorce and being shot by your wife, and only making this worse, "Acceleration" is also not about the second dervivitive of an objects position in respect to time, or indeed, the first derivitive of it's velocity in respect to time, but is in fact almost certainly also about divorce and being shot by your wife. I can't tell for sure because the wikipedia page for the record has been deleted and Bill Nelson's website is harder to navigate than a dinner with your grandparents.
They might as well have just bought the rights to Phil Collins greatest hits. But what was worse is they removed it for the DVD reissue since the discographies of both Sniff 'n' The Tears and Bill Nelson were no longer basicly open source due to scummy record label trickery, and was now replaced with vagually flirty lift music.
The moral of this story is read any contract you sign before you sign it and get legal advice on it.
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PascalFarful ) or the FA musicians page a note with details or drop a shout on the FA Musicians page! I would add that sending me notes increases your chance of me not losing your message. Plus I’m lonely, please talk to me.
Next Newsletter out on 01/08/2018
The song Acceleration is fairly okay, pretty poppy, a dance thing, though unlike contemporary dance things seemed to use a real drummer as opposed to a machine that was then chopped up for the three varying 12" mixes that were made of it, which made a song that felt slightly too long at 4 minuets feel gargantuanly long and mind-wrenching at nearly 7. But it's not too bad. Just... not really about motor cars hehe~
EDIT: And yes, he was with Bebop Deluxe, who had a reasonably good career and whose song 'Ships in the night' tends to end up on a lot of 70s compilations.
>This must be a Mekuso newsletter :P ..ah no nm