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  *Ø*  Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine | His Majesty, Emperor Norton I | Joshua Norton Emperor of the United ...
Emperor Norton I was accepted with generous good humour by the citizens of his adopted empire, at least those in California who would allow him to eat, travel and live without payment.
PROTECTOR OF MEXICO, JOSHUA A. In 1934, the remains of Emperor Norton I were transferred, again at the expense of the City of San Francisco, to a gravesite of moderate splendour at Woodlawn Cemetery.
In the religion of Discordianism, Emperor Norton is considered a Saint, Second Class, the highest spiritual honour attainable by an actual (non-fictional) human being.
www.wilsonsalmanac.com /emperor_norton.html   (1250 words)

  
 Joshua A. Norton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Emperor Norton dressed as the Pope at the funeral of the itinerant dog Lazarus.
The telegrams purported to be from Emperor Alexander II of Russia, who congratulated him on his forthcoming marriage to Queen Victoria, and from the President of France, who told him that such a union would be disastrous to world peace, his correspondence with Queen Victoria and 1,098,235 shares of stock in a worthless gold mine.
Norton's funeral was a solemn, mournful and large affair.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emperor_Norton   (2930 words)

  
 Badman Recording Co. - Bands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Most of the tracks were recorded on Emperor Norton's dime - as demos for another record with them.
This was a confusing time for Emperor Norton (now acquired by Ryko)- and these tracks were left floating around for a while with a big question mark on both sides- wondering where they belong.
After time passed, without an answer either way from Emperor Norton, the contract was up and the band owned the tracks.
www.badmanrecordingco.com /buy/default.aspx?productDetail=tiger   (701 words)

  
 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
The amount of commotion that 605 grabbed led to a meeting with their soon to be home, Emperor Norton records, a label based in Southern California.
Once they touched American soil everything changed; they saw that as they exposed their songs to Emperor Norton, under the California rays, their tunes took on a whole other meaning.
Basically we wrote and recorded it in England—were it never ceases to rain and the cold always pinches your skin—, but then we took it out to sunny Los Angeles to mix it,” recounts Hunt.
www.goldenvoice.com /coachella/artists/ladytron.html   (839 words)

  
 Outer Sound: Features = Turntablism
Such is the fate of poor little Emperor Norton Records.
In its short three year existence, Emperor Norton has proven itself to be at the forefront of musical experimentation, and ahead of every technologially musical curve.
Luckily, the folks and acts at Emperor norton are at home and comfortable on the outside, because with this much talent and style, everyone will beggin to join this emperor's kingdom soon enough.
www.outersound.com /features/techno/00-6-emperor.html   (496 words)

  
 indieworkshop.com | music: Felix Da Housecat - Devin Dazzle and the Neon Fever
With 15 tracks at an average of 3-4 minutes each, this is hardly a "dance record", though the structure of the tracks make them more than suitable for the club.
We are lucky to have an artist that can laugh at the trainspotter-friendly and often elitist world of club music and provide us with a catchy pop record.
At the same time, 15 tracks may be a bit ambitious, as some of the unique charm of Felix's ability to write perfectly dancey pop songs sometimes gets lost towards the end of the journey.
www.indieworkshop.com /music.php?id=962   (481 words)

  
 Emperor : MP3 downloads, Discography, Links...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
You Black Emperor' at the Echo Lounge, Sept. 30, 1999, Atlanta, Georgia.
Band formed by several members of Godspeed You Black Emperor, consisting of piano, guitar, vocals, violin and bass.
Emperor song lyrics indexed by album and alphabetically.
cooking.erp-volga.com /music/Emperor.html   (372 words)

  
 List of web sites about Discordianism: Emperor Norton
Emperor Joshua Norton I - An excerpt from the Principia Discordia describing the Emperor.
Emperor Norton - A timeline of Emperor Norton's life.
Emperor Norton Inn - An inn in downtown San Francisco just two blocks from Union Square, named after his Imperatorialness.
www.kub.it /dir/513   (177 words)

  
 Venus Zine: Golden Boy with Miss Kittin
Enter the galaxy of Emperor Norton Records: Their releases are eccentric, danceable, and, most of all, fun.
It pulls the listener in and incites a feeling of completeness; it's groovy and cheerful, but at the same time hits you with a dose of zen that you can only get from a good record.
With a spoken German addition on the track "Campari Soda" and song titles like "Kopfstand" (which roughly translates to "headstand"), Golden Boy and Miss Kittin are your pilots to an exotic world, splashed with foreign ravers and golden melodies.
www.venuszine.com /stories/print/000023.html   (182 words)

  
 Stomp
Stomp Distributon is proud to announce the addition of Emperor Norton Records to it's label roster.
Emperor Norton is the home to artists such as Ladytron, Ralph Myrez, Felix Da Housecat and has released soundtracks to films such as Lost In Translation and The Virgin Suicides.
Emperor Norton has been aquired by the Rykodisc Group.
www.stomp.com.au /news.asp?n=75   (79 words)

  
 Emperor Norton Records - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Emperor Norton Records, a now defunkt Los Angeles-based electronica and dance music record label.
Some of the artists in their catalog included Arling and Cameron, Money Mark, Takako Minekawa and The Fantastic Plastic Machine.
The company was named after Joshua A. Norton, a San Francisco citizen noted for proclaiming himself "Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico" in 1859.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emperor_Norton_Records   (141 words)

  
 Ink 19 :: Velma
And then a band like Velma comes along and quells my hatred for Emperor Norton records, just on the basis of their self-absorbed and insular aesthetic.
Cyclique radiates a very healthy disdain of the constraints of pop songwriting, without being too precious, yet still utterly catchy (for aliens).
Emperor Norton Records, 102 Robinson St., Los Angeles, CA 90026; http://www.emperornorton.com
www.ink19.com /issues_F/99_12/wet_ink/music_tz/226_velma.shtml   (287 words)

  
 Variety Is the Spice of Life - Fantastic Plastic Machine
Emperor Norton Records - Fantastic Plastic Machine - This page is on the site of Emperor Norton, FPM's U.S. distributor.
Bungalow Records - Fantastic Plastic Machine - This page is on the site of the German record label Bungalow (the European center of the Happy Charm Fool Dance Music genre), which distributes FPM's releases in Europe.
********* Records) - Before departing for Avex, FPM was on Readymade Records, a label run by Pizzicato Five mastermind Yasuharu Konishi's and distributed by Nippon Columbia.
www.varietyisthespice.com /artists/fpm.html   (309 words)

  
 so you wanna be a rock and roll star?
you may not have heard of Emperor Norton yet, but watch for their debut releases to explode in the Fall.
Sometimes a director asks you to find a song with a specific sound, like a "psychedelic" song or you need to find a song that replaces one that the budget wouldn't allow for.
In these cases I scour my large record and CD collection for something that I think works.
www.lawgirl.com /interview.shtml   (1294 words)

  
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On Friday May 30th at Club Six in San Francisco, art and music collectives will come together to offer their individual expressions of the theme of “reconstruction and revision” while rocking the party with live art, free giveaways, and hot music from a variety of local labels and artists.
Providing the musical score and funky beats is a group of San Francisco’s newest DJ generation offering their spin on the old and the new, from hip hop to house, down tempo to reggae.
Emperor Norton Records will be offering a sneak listen to their latest release from Ralph Myerz and the Jack Herren Band and giving away promotional full-length copies of the new album to attendees.
massiveselector.com /pressrelease/revisionPR052103.doc   (404 words)

  
 Prohibited records - Administrative Records All Departments - All Campuses | 2004
Student access to another student's Student Records or Computer Record is prohibited unless authorised by student written authorisation as stated in Section
Smoking, drinking or eating should be prohibited in records storage areas.
This authorization does not apply to employee records retained by Human All original records in group A are to be sent to Campus Human Resource Services
prohibited.okeysearch.com /?q=prohibited-prohibited-records   (200 words)

  
 Sound Space: Science Fiction Audio Reviews
As a movie, Logan's Sanctuary may be a complete fabrication, but its soundtrack is a bona fide delight.
This CD is actually the second release in Emperor Norton Records' fake soundtrack series.
The first album, which came out in 1999, showcased a bogus blaxploitation movie titled Soul Ecstasy, while a subsequent disc, due out early next year, will "reissue" a Mexican Planet of the Apes score.
www.scifi.com /sfw/issue175/sound.html   (533 words)

  
 zingmagazine 18
The group's second release “Light and Magic” (Emperor Norton/Invicta Hi-Fi) is a collection of missing nostalgic fever.
Their intoxicated electro-beats, frozen angelic automated vocals, rocking baselines, church organ moog trails, and razor sharp synth tunes are not lost from their first release in 2001, “604”.
(The first EP released under Emperor Norton Records, “Commodore Rock”, already put them in the front of electro movement, but they never claimed themselves as part of it).
www.zingmagazine.com /zing18/philip.html   (1494 words)

  
 phaser : order
Phaser 'Sway' LP released February 2003 by Emperor Norton Records.
Phaser 'Sway/Life and Illusion' 10-inch vinyl released October 2002 by Emperor Norton Records.
Includes tracks 'Sway' and 'Life and Illusion' from the 'Sway' LP as well as an acoustic demo version of 'Would You Believe.' OUT OF PRINT.
www.phasermusic.com /html/order.html   (57 words)

  
 CD Baby: CALL AND RESPONSE: Tiger Teeth
In November of 2004, we get to take a step back to experience a time when Call and Response were in between the twee sound of their debut and the matured radiance of their recent full length.
You could praise individual moments ('Trapped under ice' is a bittersweet frostflower that blooms into radiance) but it's the overall weave, the daydreamy drift, that impresses.
This is a forty-minute swoon of a record: dive into it."
cdbaby.com /cd/callresponse2   (677 words)

  
 Outer Sound: Features
In an environment that always strives for definitions, Emperor Norton records, home to Takako Minekawa and Arling and Cameron, cultivates an indefinable kingdom all its own.
Part one of a two part series explains what turntablism is, and what it means to the rest of the music world, through an exploration of the aesthetics of one ofthe most important crews in the genre, The X-ecutioners.
One might hesitate to call nothing records "altruistic", but regardless, the commercial success of popularity-contest-winners like Marilyn Manson and NIN allows them to bring Warp Records' bumper crop of UK electronic talent over to the States.
www.outersound.com /features/techno/index.html   (228 words)

  
 Up Records: Ten Years of Fabulous Independent Music
Keyboard melody on 4 by Dave Wilson, recorded at
Vocals on 4, 8, 11 recorded and mixed at Flora Ave Studios
Vocals on 6 recorded at the Slab Cottage and mixed at John
www.uprecords.com /discography/080   (176 words)

  
 Takako Minekawa
Where Recubed's artists were apparently suggested by Emperor Norton with TM's approval, this remix CD's artist rouster originated with TM and Polystar.
So while she needed to independently have her first tracks recorded as a solo artist she was far from unknown as an ex-member of L<->R and she eventually signed with their parent label.
Its just like a recording made to learn touch typing but adds a groove spins alongside-- odd, and perplexing but worth a listen.
artcontext.com /music/artskool/jem/tm.html   (2274 words)

  
 village voice > music > Arling & Cameron All-In; Arling & Cameron Music for Imaginary Films by Frank Kogan
But they felt that electronic dance music was ultimately too cold.
So they began putting on Easy Tune parties, playing old records, old soul, old pop, '60s easy listening.
Emperor Norton, 102 Robinson Street, Los Angeles, CA 90026.
www.villagevoice.com /issues/0009/kogan.shtml   (1219 words)

  
 filter magazine - news
The London-based Rykodisc label has announced that Emperor Norton Records will be joining the team.
House workhorse Felix da Housecat, UK group Ladytron and Norwegian sensations Ralph Myerz & The Jack Herren Band are all in-house members of Emperor Norton.
Thus far, Rykodisc has released two Emperor Norton-affiliated records: Felix Da Housecat’s Devin Dazzle & The Neon Fever and LA group Midnight Movies’s debut album.
www.filter-mag.com /news/interior.1626.html   (184 words)

  
 Pepe Deluxe : Super Sound reviewed by L'entrepot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
DJ Slow, Ja-jazz en James Spectrum, of Pepe Deluxé lijken met 'Super Sound te dingen naar een vast plaatsje op James Lavelles 'Mo Wax'.
Pepe Deluxé has well listened to what happened around them and used all these influences to create an adventurous record.
A powerful but sober (dance-) song is created with sampled vocals and a smooth hip-hop beat.
users.skynet.be /entrepot/rev/p/pepe.html   (533 words)

  
 The Shrubbery -- March 1999   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Even though I don’t understand most of what’s being said, I can’t help but bop my head from side to side and imagine myself traipsing down the Champs Elysses straight out of a Truffaut film.
Emperor Norton Records seem to be duking it out with Chicago’s Minty Fresh label over who has the cutest pop bands on their roster.
Home to bands like The Fantastic Plastic Machine and Arling & Cameron, they’ve built up a reputation for fun pop.
www.theshrubbery.com /0399/music1.html   (335 words)

  
 El Baile Alemán
The US issance comes with a rectangular fl [print] on white sleeve sticker affixed.
AMCT-4459 / AKASHIC RECORDS 034 / FGM 0
Comes with a standard obi-strip, and has a transparent disc inlay tray, allowing an additional picture sleeve to be visible beneath it.
music.hyperreal.org /artists/atom_heart/releases/ElBaile.html   (122 words)

  
 NPR : From My Bloody Valentine to 'Lost in Translation'
But My Bloody Valentine stopped recording in 1997, and Kevin Shields went into near-seclusion.
Shields recently spoke with NPR's Alex Chadwick about what he's been up to since My Bloody Valentine stopped recording, and how he got involved in writing music for films.
Shields says he was eager to play live again with Primal Scream, after languishing in studios for years trying to complete an album with My Bloody Valentine.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1431220   (451 words)

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