The Overnightscape Underground

2:12:08 – Frank in NYC talking about many things. More description coming… F1759

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5:13:57 – Here’s a 4-CD box set of amazing music – all combined into a single convenient MP3 file! It’s like a cool little radio station in your pocket with an abundant supply of addictive tunes!

Trash Am Records came about because I think it’s time to start paying more attention to music released under Creative Commons licenses – which allow the music to be downloaded and shared freely, including being able to play the songs on podcasts.

Most of the commercial music we all know and love is shackled under an outdated copyright and music licensing system, which makes it illegal to play on podcasts – or to share the songs with your friends. It really is a sad state of affairs.

So thank goodness so many talented musicians are releasing their songs under Creative Commons! I have been spending a huge amount of time lately on Jamendo.com to find great songs and to sequence them into compilation albums – and the result is Trash Am Records (a completely non-commercial project).

The first four records:

Trash Am #1 – Trash The Airport Meadow
Trash Am #2 – Needed The Tea Am Flimsy’s
Trash Am #3 – Tribal Caffeine Mazes
Trash Am #4 – Billiard Winter Drink

The album titles, cover art, and song sequences are by me. Otherwise, I had nothing to do with the creation of these songs. Please support these artists in any way you can! (I have not contacted the artists telling them they have been included, because the time and energy that would require is beyond the scope of this project, and they have already given permission for this type of non-commercial compilation by using Creative Commons licenses).

I do plan on releasing the albums separately, but for now, enjoy this huge slab of satisfying music. My goal was to create records that I myself would crave and enjoy listening to over and over again – and in that I have succeeded. The music genres included are generally rock, pop, electronic, and eclectic.

I released the first record, Trash The Airport Meadow, on June 9, 2011. I loved it so much I decided to make a sequel – a project which began to take up more and more time and eventually lead to these three additional albums – which I am very excited about. Enjoy!

Frank Edward Nora
October 30,2011

License: Each of the 86 songs in this track are licensed under individual Creative Commons licenses – see below for details. Compiled by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

Update: The albums can be downloaded in traditional format here.

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1:53:18 – Frank in NYC talking about many things. More description coming… F1758

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2:19:30 – Description coming. F1757

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1:17:43 – Description coming. F1756

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2:22:11 – Description coming. F1755

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2:31:50 – Frank’s annual meetup with Roel from The Netherlands (Manny the Mailman couldn’t make it). FAO Schwarz, Apple Store, walk across Central Park, herbal towelette review, Museum of Natural History, Occupy Wall Street, Indian restaurant, Water Taxi to Ikea in Red Hook, Brooklyn, South Street Seaport. F1754

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2:31:50 – Former purity of Smartfood, choice as an illusion of freedom, Amazon App Store free apps, Teavana, rooibos, mate, pu-erh, excessively-flavored teas, Johnnie Walker Double Black, Laphroaig, Lagavulin, hot bus, new Smartfood flavors, Smartfood Movie Theater Butter flavor, video vending machine, Cracker Jacks, Lithos, Xavier Sans, fonts, PB Max, grape Bazooka Joe, Overnightscape meetup tomorrow, Charms lollipops, Pringles and ume riceball for breakfast, cravings, Harry Belafonte line, union protest, Occupy Wall Street, memes, gods at war, Garrick Hagon and Koo Stark in Star Wars, reincarnation, Chipotle, annoying noises, listener comments from the past two months, Smidge Kurdlebaum, Torchwood, The Dark Tower, morphic fields, Garrod, mushroom, struggles, plans, Dale, Manny the Mailman, the earthquake, Wayne, Nightweek concepts, Mark J, Mainframe, The Noise of Art, The Art of Noise, Domo, Death Note, Naruto, Bleach, Carrie Michel, Leanne from South Africa, Randy, Mr. Pibb, baseball, DVR issues, Terra Nova, X Factor, Hungarian X Faktor, The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross, Peep Show, Fringe, Anna Torv, Steve Jobs memorial at the Apple Store, new Grand Central Apple Store in weird energy spot?, surprise visit to the New York Comic Con, heading over to the Javitz, subway, ticket confusion, end of Qwikster, stopping bad plans, walking down 34th Street, The Overnightscape Archive, a cruise ship on the river, lanyard, on the Comic Con show floor, Vampire Freaks, The Prodigy, The Cultyard, impulse buying, object printers, action figures, Capcom, goat girl, dead dolls, Spy vs. Spy, The Doctor Who Store, do I know anyone in Artist Alley?, maids with cat ears, outside, walk to the bus terminal, Hershey Whatchamacallit and Thingamajig, the next thing I see written down will be the title of the show, We’ve Moved!, Yotel, robotic arm, cosmic restructuring, the sidewalk ends, modern art, Chadcast Superlistening, and Condor Shack. F1753

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at TheOvernightscape.com