Category Archives: Now Sound

Bright Lights

Posted on 2013/01/15 by Little Danny

Like AM Radio Dust, its companion volume, Bright Lights is just as much an exploration of lost spaces and places as it is of sound. I hope you enjoy it. Bright Lights  (single MP3 file) Susan Rafey, “The Big Hurt” … Continue reading →

Posted on 2013/01/15 by Little Danny | Posted in Blues, Country, Exotica/Space-Age, Garage Bands, Girl-Groups, Gospel, Instrumentals/Surf, Jazz Obscura, Mixes, Now Sound, R&B/Vocal Groups, Rock 'n' roll, Soul | Leave a comment

AM Radio Dust

Posted on 2012/04/23 by Little Danny

  A new, or new to Office Naps, mix this week. AM Radio Dust was my 2009 contribution to the annual CD mix swap over at the Waxidermy forums, the weird id of contemporary record collecting. AM Radio Dust is … Continue reading →

Posted on 2012/04/23 by Little Danny | Posted in Country, Exotica/Space-Age, Garage Bands, Gospel, Instrumentals/Surf, Mixes, Now Sound, R&B/Vocal Groups, Rock 'n' roll | 10 Comments

The Middle East after hours, part two

Posted on 2010/12/27 by Little Danny

In the first half of the 1960s, when this week’s selections were recorded, exotica hadn’t waned as a commercial or creative force.  And the Arabic world was one peculiar, and significant, branch of the exotica tree.   It was a … Continue reading →

Posted on 2010/12/27 by Little Danny | Posted in Exotica/Space-Age, Instrumentals/Surf, Jazz Obscura, Latin, Now Sound, The Exotica Project | 1 Comment

Office Naps Summer 2010 Psychedelic Pop mix

Posted on 2010/08/23 by Little Danny

The fifth installment of the Office Naps psychedelic pop mix. Sunshine dreams, bad trips, and modern astrology for Today’s Teen. Office Naps Summer 2010 Psychedelic Pop mix Pinnochio & the Puppets, Fusion (7″ 45, Mercury) Jackie & Gayle, Remember (7″ … Continue reading →

Posted on 2010/08/23 by Little Danny | Posted in Garage Bands, Mixes, Now Sound, Psychedelic/Pop | 7 Comments

Office Naps Winter 2008 Psychedelic Pop mix

Posted on 2008/12/29 by Little Danny

The latest version of the psychedelic pop mix, streamlined and scratchier than ever. If anything, people tend to remember the decade for the sitars and sunshine harmonies and fuzzed-out guitars. The reputation is not entirely undeserved. But I am here … Continue reading →

Posted on 2008/12/29 by Little Danny | Posted in Garage Bands, Instrumentals/Surf, Miscellaneous Flotsam, Mixes, Now Sound, Psychedelic/Pop | 11 Comments

Oh, Calcutta!

Posted on 2008/12/22 by Little Danny

Oh! Calcutta! wanted to be provocative in the worst possible way. Released Off Broadway in 1969, the musical revue featured sketches of various sexual neuroses and peccadilloes, and included frontal nudity – only the second major musical after Hair to … Continue reading →

Posted on 2008/12/22 by Little Danny | Posted in Now Sound | 5 Comments

Cinema funky

Posted on 2007/09/24 by Little Danny

Just as its antecedents in the mid-‘60s had their sitar interludes and fuzztone atmospherics, the hipper cinema of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s oozed with wah-wah guitars, jazz basslines and funky backbeats. And why not? Whatever Tinseltown’s machinations, film … Continue reading →

Posted on 2007/09/24 by Little Danny | Posted in Exotica/Space-Age, Jazz Obscura, Latin, Miscellaneous Flotsam, Now Sound, Soul | 7 Comments

Office Naps Middle Eastern Mix

Posted on 2007/07/16 by Little Danny

The third installment of the Office Naps mix, and it’s all over the place. From Turkish wah-wah guitars and ’60s garage ragas to Yusef Lateef’s Mecca-wise wail, it’s Middle Eastern only in the loosest possible sense of the term. If … Continue reading →

Posted on 2007/07/16 by Little Danny | Posted in Exotica/Space-Age, Garage Bands, Jazz Obscura, Latin, Miscellaneous Flotsam, Mixes, Now Sound, Psychedelic/Pop | 15 Comments