Wednesday, May 29, 2013

ENDINGS AND BEGINNINGS

Due to some very serious personal and family-related issues that I've been confronting, Mutant Sounds will now be placed on hold for the time being. All the older texts and all links attached to the new and authorized files from the last few months' posts will remain, but Mutant in its current incarnation will cease operations. Instead, what will follow at the (to be determined) time when activities re-start will be a revival of Mutant in an entirely new format as an internet radio show.

Until then, thanks to all of you for all the years of support and patronage.

Eric

91 comments:

  1. Thanks and best wishes!

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  2. looking forward to the future

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  3. We will all continue to follow you both here and on Facebook, Eric, and we will all wish your family well!!

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  4. Thanks for all the shares! Good luck!

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  5. Thanks a lot for all the great music!

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  6. all the best to you
    whatever the future of mutant sounds is, it held an important place in many people's life, and will remain a hopeful memory
    with gratitude
    mow

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  7. I've been a fan since the beginning (before, really- I remember when MS broke off from lost-in-tyme...) Much thanks for the amazing generosity and crazy musical education. This blog has enriched my life.

    My best wishes to you and your family. Be well-

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  8. It's been awesome and one hella ride.Thnx for turning us onto these wonderful sounds.Whatever the future holds...all the best my friends :D

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  9. Thaks a lot and Wish you all the Best!

    And Hope to enjoying your excellent Blog soon.

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  10. Wish you lots of courage! Thank you for the exceptional stuff you introduced us to over the years.

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  11. Thinking about you my friend.
    I do hope you will go through all those troubles.
    Sending you my friendship
    Take care
    Pascal

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  12. Thank you Eric for the years you have put into this blog. I hope that things turn out well for you and your family. I also hope that in the not-too-distant future, the internet can once again be free and the era of the music blog will come back with a vengeance. There is still a wealth of beautiful sounds waiting to be uncovered.
    God bless

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  13. Thanks for you efforts !

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  14. The best to you and your family! Thanks for the wonderful blog

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  15. Thanks so much for everything. So much amazing music over the years. Sincere best wishes to you and your family. I hope everything works out alright.

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  16. Mutant sounds will never die !

    Al the best for you and your family Eric.

    Best regards my friend !

    All the best.

    Bernard.

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  17. I've been reading your blog for a long time! I wish you all the best in your life and I sincerely thank you for all the music you kept enabling discover!

    Greetings!

    Armute

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  18. For what you brought to our ears, you're more than excused. I wish the very best to you, and hope you will get through these hard times

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  19. cool. whatever happens, good luck. and i look forward to whatever future incarnation mutant sounds resurfaces in. thanks for everything.

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  20. Gracias por su inmensa generosidad!
    Los sigo desde el comienzo del blog, inclusive han tenido la generosidad de subir uno de mis humildes trabajos sonoros.
    Un abrazo a la distancia y les deseo lo mejor.
    Gracias otra vez.

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  21. For so many years I have hit my Mutant Sounds bookmark with a keen sense of anticipation about what I would come across. I would impatiently await the download, check out the sounds in all their mutant glory, and if it sounded like my thing (and it so often did) I would burn it and drop it on the player and turn it up. Such fun! I will miss this ritual, knowing that despite there being other good blogs around, I cannot and never will find quite the same flavour and mix anywhere else. As they say, the end of an era, but it has brought so much fascination, joy and weirdness into my life that rather than lament the passing of MS as I have known it, I can only thank the gods and yourselves that it existed at all and for so long. Good luck to you for the future.

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  22. times are hard and friends are few, i scream in pain, brother where are you...

    thank you for your effort, looking forward hearing your internet radio show and wishing you all good in present and future!

    g.

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  23. i wish you the best, your posts have been so important in keeping me from breakdown, i sincerely hope everything will be allright for you

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  24. Mutant Sounds have been a source of inspiration and cultural knowledge!
    Best wishes for the future.
    /Jonas

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  25. You are a beacon for the lost. Thank you.

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  26. Mutant Sounds is not just a blog,it's music library that should have been supported (not only by its visitors if u know what i mean)and presented as a cultural offering,an archive of the deleted the rare and the obscure,i feel grateful for all the great posts and the things i've learned here,i sincerely thank u very much and i wish u all the best!

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  27. thank u for all the great music and the things i've learnt here,i sincerely thank u and wish u all the best!!!

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  28. Sad to hear that.
    Good luck about everything.
    Take care.

    M.

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  29. Thank you Eric for your dedication! Best wishes to you and your family.

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  30. Bravo to you for all the unselfish acts on your part, too many to count, to bring us music that would otherwise have been left unheard. There has never been any substitute for what you did, and most likely will not be til you return. Our prayers for you and any unfortunate circumstances you have to deal with. Norm

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  31. hope the best for you, whatever the outcome. Your music is heard in the deep mountains of patagonia and we are all very thankful for whwt you've done.Impossible to measure your work.All the best again,man....Diego

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  32. Having bought my first record in the seventies, listened to John Peel from before I was even a teenager and generally kept an eye on what I considered was the most obscure music imaginable, it was somewhat of a shock to discover thanks to blogs like Mutant Sounds that there was a whole universe of music out there that I had no idea existed and I cannot thank you all enough for giving me such joy over the years.

    Here is a quite an appropriate Latin phrase from Neil Gaiman's Sandman (though I think he got it from Heraclitus)...

    "Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit"

    or "Everything changes but nothing is truly lost"... You can see from the comments that Mutant Sounds has touched our lives and we will carry it with us for the rest of our lives in one form or another.

    I wish Eric and the rest of the team "all the best" in the most profound sense possible.

    Kosmikino/Saucer People

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  33. You will be greatly missed.
    Good luck and godspeed.

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  34. Does anyone reading this have the Rolf Schulz - "Klangfeuer" Tambora album and would be willing to send it along my way? Respond here if possible. - z

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  35. I read your farewell only now ! Sad news ! My prayers go to you and your family.

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  36. I would impatiently await the download, check out the sounds in all their mutant glory, and if it sounded like my thing (and it so often did) I would burn it and drop it on the player and turn it up.
    Check here

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  37. One of the best music ever! Thanks for all the great discoveries.

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  38. You can download "Rolf Schulz - Klangfeuer" in Soulseek. Lots of mutant sounds are floating around there.

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  39. thanks for all the efford

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  40. Eric,

    Thank you for making Mutant Sounds the great blog it has been for so many years. Thank you for introducing me to so many brilliant sounds. Thank you for raising the bar, the standard for blogging, and perhaps the sharing of music information in general, is forever set higher.

    Good luck in the future. I look forward to learning about what ever it is you will be doing when your momentum is restored.

    All the best,
    Neil

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  41. Very best wishes, people. Thank you being so extraterrestrial and awesome.

    Have a megaton of love and a cubic kilometre of best wishes.

    Really, I mean it.

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  42. That's terrible news! I only lately found this blog.
    Thank you so much for putting it together, and for sharing this great music. There is such an amazing collection of things here. I appreciate it greatly.
    Thank you again.

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  43. Thanks for the education. Thanks for the great writing. Thanks for the joy. Mutant Sounds has satisfied my appetite for the weird for years. Much love to all involved.

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  44. i already wrote on your facebook page, but i guess you're not officially affiliated with it..?
    however, mutant sounds is one of the great achievments of that thing they call "the internet". thanks a lot for your effort, you all. you're my heroes.
    all the best & lts of strength for the hard times...
    looking forward to your return.

    cristian

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  45. Listening to the music shared on Mutant Sounds has been a highlight of my life for the past couple of years, and I would like to deeply thank you for the tremendous amount of work and care that was put into the site.

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  46. Eric,
    So sorry to hear of the problems. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.

    All the best,
    Annette

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  47. Eternal thanks for all of your selfless efforts here and elsewhere. May it all come back to you soon.

    -Steve

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  48. thank you mutuant, for your effort and for every single educational post for the last years: myself, so we all really appreciated it.
    farewell, mutant, farewell.

    *Luis

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  49. Hail!
    let's constantly changing links
    http://anti-muzic.blogspot.ru/

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  50. voçes poderiam repostar LASK-S/T, LP, 1982, GERMANY/UK

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  51. hope all well and fine soon

    thanks for all the mutant nodes too

    peace!

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  52. Gracias Eric por toda la música que nos mostraste. Un abrazo y que la Fuerza te acompañe.

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  53. thanx for education .. discovered this one during a search for info bout "moral - and life is" back in 2007.

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  54. Eric, We would like to offer our heartfelt thanks for your work on Mutant Sounds. We are Code BMUS who you featured with glowing and unsolicited praise ("A shockingly great mystery group...") in March 2007. It was because of this blog that we have got back together as a band and as friends - 30 years on. We now have re-released "Strike Now" on Bandcamp: https://codebmus.bandcamp.com/ with more releases of ald and new tunes to come. Thanks again for your help. Good luck with the new venture. Jon, Paul, Russell and Tony.

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  55. I don't know about all of you, but I wanna hear the rest of those BLACKLIGHT BRAILLE albums that are out there. Here's to those poppin' up somewhere on the internet one day.

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  56. Awhile ago I found a guy who owned around 10 blacklight braille LPs and he uploaded them on what.cd

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  57. Anonymous - Are you a member for what.cd? If so, can I get an invite?

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  58. A FREE download of your 2008 post The Moglass - Pallcast can be found on their Bandcamp page .. http://moglass.bandcamp.com/album/pallcast

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  59. EVERYBODY HEAD OVER TO THE SITE musicmp3spb.org You can search TONS of stuff that's been shared here on Mutant Sounds and it's very easy filesharing to download. Some serious treasures are on that site, although some are absent from there as well. Spread the word!

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  60. Oh yeah - No.1 download there: Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

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  61. Was curious to see if anyone here would be interested in sharing their download of MARCEL KANCHE - AIMER L'EUNUQUE AVANT DE GLAUQUER from August of '08..

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  62. thanks for tons of great shares during the years...

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  63. i was a fan of this blog years and years ago when i was young and just starting to become enriched by all kinds of experimental music. in some ways i sort of grew up with this blog. i still check back in on mutant every few months or so...what you guys have done here is really amazing. i hope whatever is going on your life has reached, or is reaching, some sort of positive resolution. we of the online experimental music will not forget this blog! we look forward to your return, whenever that may happen. best wishes to you in the meantime.

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  64. I hope things will turn out okay for you, Erik.

    I haven't checked into mutant sounds for about 6 months I think. So I was sad to see that it has come to an end. It was brilliant while it lasted.

    I discovered so much great music through this blog with my friends. You posts kept me from going insane while I was living in a foreign country with no money left. I want to thank you for all the years of unleashing one musical gene after another. Who knows if those records ever would have seen the light of day if not for this incredible blog. It seems like this blog had been part of my daily routine for years. So I feel some sadness now that it's over.

    For me, in my personal opinion, a great deal died with the closure of megaupload. We had a good run.

    Thanks for the music!

    Viva Mutant-Sounds!

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  65. people miss this blog, man.

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  66. Fabulous clarity with perfect tuning.Thank you very much....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    jmsoundhire.co.uk

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  67. Welp, this is certainly the END of the GAMB (Golden Age of Music Blogs). You were one of the best, Mutant Sounds; I learned a lot and found a few faves here - I'm forever grateful for you and your cohorts hard work over the years and wish you nothing but the best.

    Yours,
    Mars Hottentot

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  68. Hope the site will make through and we can get more news soon. You can find good sample packs here!:
    http://www.lucidsamples.com/36-dj-samples-packs

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  69. A radio show. *yawns*

    Ah, well, with luck this blog will serve as a reference for material that can otherwise be found on SoulSeek.

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  70. Very nice blog. Greetings from Indonesia.

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    A second batch will be out late October.

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