Charlie Chaplin and Scraps (real name Mut) on the set of 'A Dog's Life', 1918.
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Elizabethan Dance Steps, 2012 by Zerozoxx Binder (ZERO ZOXX INTERNATIONAL) - SL Region: Fumizuki (Protected Land - Park) - Thanks to: A.G.
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The Apple II Demos of Vince 'deater' Weaver (Apple II, 2018 onward)
You can run them in your browser here. Featuring tricks like vapor locking and that old Atari 2600 chestnut, racing the beam. You can find the programmer on Twitter here.
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Photos by Hiroki Nishioka (Japan, 2017)
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Do you love musicals, too? You're in luck. The entire Swedish arena tour of Jesus Christ Superstar from 2014 is on Youtube!
The musical, famously written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice in 1971, was translated into Swedish as early as in 1972 by Swedish poet Britt G. Hallqvist. Agnetha Fältskog from ABBA played Mary Magdalene in the original Swedish stage version.
In 2008, Swedish singer Ola Salo re-translated and starred in a new stage version of the musical, that was played 2008-2009, and then again 2012, and lastly going on tour later in 2014. In 2022, he starred in another Swedish arena tour of JSC, this time as Judas, with singer Peter Jöback, of Broadway fame, playing Jesus. This time, however, the musical was performed in English.
Here you can enjoy the musical in it's entirety, all in Swedish!
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Today's compilation:
Finnischer Tango: Tule Tanssimaan
1998
Tango / Finnish Folk
Wow, you really thought that I wasn't ever going to cover Finnish tango, didn't you? And that's only because you didn't even know that it ever existed in the first place, right? Well, guess what? Finland apparently *really* loves this traditional South American folk dance music. Tango reached the country in 1913 and it's been sewn into their musical fabric ever since, and not as some cute niche, but as one of the nation's most popular genres, overall. You probably wouldn't think tango to be part and parcel of the Finnish soul and experience, but it actually very much has been for multiple generations now.
And tango's unlikely popularity in Finland wasn't the product of some significant South American diaspora either. Some traveling musicians just started playing it there, and by the 40s, it had been developed into a dominant component of the country's very own music charts. Plus, since 1985, there's been a very popular annual tango festival in the town of Seinäjoki too, which is said to draw about 2% of the country's entire population. All pretty fascinating, no?
But this collection of tunes here from the Munich-based Trikont label also isn't your typical Finnish tango CD either—if ever there was such a thing—because, across the many genres and historic scenes that Trikont covers, their specialty is basically what amounts to musical archaeology: they dig *really* deep for those obscure fossils that no one else seems to have really uncovered or brought to light before. And I am someone who is as wet behind the ears as literally anyone can be when it comes to Finnish tango, but if you're someone who considers themselves a bit of a FINtango fiend, then this appears to be some essential listening for you.
Ultimately, for me though, I really don't enjoy listening to much traditional folk music of any kind, and that now includes Finnish tango as well. But if it sounds interesting to you, this thing has tracks on it that span all the way from 1915 up until 1996, so it'll allow you to get a taste of how this uniquely Finnish phenomenon has been developed and shaped over very many years, and with a slate of tracks that don't seem to have been on many people's radar at the time when they were originally recorded too.
No highlights.
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