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DANCING FANTASY.

Posted on June 12, 2014 3 Comments

“In a digital, cool world full of hectic pace, we bring warmth, relaxation and smooth grooves.” – Chris and Curtis of Dancing Fantasy This week I’ve been locked inside the TNUC lair, hypnotized by the sounds of Dancing Fantasy, a German duo who bring that salty and sunwashed sound of our coastal states to your ears. […]

JUNGLE BABE SURVIVAL.

Posted on May 20, 2014 3 Comments

Today – May 20th 2014, marks the 30th anniversary of the day I had to evacuate my cargo plane filled with cocaine-filled faux bananas and was left stranded in the godforsaken jungles of Colombia. Let me back it up for a moment. The cocaine-filled faux bananas were exactly what you’re probably picturing. Actual bananas with […]

MOVING CAMERA (ALT SCORE).

Posted on February 26, 2014 3 Comments

Please stop whatever you’re doing and focus your energy on the following: What you’ve just witnessed is absolutely real. As in, real cameras operated by real people using real film. It was actually a theater trailer produced by the Los Angeles Times made to show off some of the hot moves that camera people use to shoot scenes […]

ENVIRONMENTS.

Posted on January 21, 2014 Leave a Comment

“Totally new concepts in sound” These handsome beauties you’re looking at today are the bulk of a collection called the Environments series, a group of natural sound field recordings released as LPs and cassettes between 1970 – 1979. They range from crickets and bullfrogs in a swamp at dusk to waves crashing on a seashore. If […]

CARPENTER BRUT.

Posted on September 18, 2013 2 Comments

As I type this, we’re smack dab in the middle of September and that means it’s that time of year when TNUC’s thirst for Halloween is at maximum overdrive. Days literally crawl by with the aching desire for EVERYTHING Halloween. As I sit here wanting to infect you disciples with every horror-flavored item and announcement we have in store this season, I […]

WET-HOT-TNUC-SUMMER, PART 2.

Posted on June 24, 2013 5 Comments

You know what time it is. Another summer break approaches and that means heavy dosages of boat drinks, SPF 5000 and salty babes are headed our way. Cancel your piano lessons, abort your summer school requirements and come listen to some tantalizing tunes with TNUC. The following are Uncle T’s top five (5) “bare necessity […]