Here’s another tune IRMA can’t touch. The artist was never signed, the band has broken up, and the act isn’t (and wasn’t) represented by IRMA or any other such music-restriction-related agency.
Magic Belly’s tune “Ali”.
Back in February 2002, when I first recommended this tune, I said this: “MagicBelly are unsigned. MagicBelly have no CDs out. MagicBelly are unknown. Exclusively on markwrafter.com, hear this Dublin band in action.”
Link is here: http://www.markwrafter.com/hands-off-irma/magicbelly_-_ali.mp3 - Mp3 Format - 3.56mb
Here’s another tune IRMA can’t touch. Permission received from artist to share on May 17th 2007. Thanks Tim.
Neosupervital’s tune “Rachel”. They can be found online at http://www.neosupervital.com, which is actually a site I host via Wrafter.
Back in January 2003, when I first recommended this tune, I said this: “Neosupervital: with Casio guitar and various electronic gizmos, this man’s sound is like none other.”
This particular mp3 is a 2007 update on the 2003 original. Tim asked that I share this version, rather than the predecessor.
Link is here: http://www.markwrafter.com/hands-off-irma/neosupervital_-_rachel.mp3 - Mp3 Format - 3.66mb
Here’s another tune IRMA can’t touch. Permission received from artist’s manager to share on May 16th 2007. Thanks Pat.
cane141’s tune “The Grand Lunar”. They can be found online at http://www.cane141.com, which is actually a site I designed via Wrafter.
Back in March 2002, when I first recommended this tune, I said this: “From Galway, Ireland - the little known but quite excellent cane141. Their album Garden Tiger Moth is worth picking up.”
Link is here: http://www.markwrafter.com/hands-off-irma/cane141_-_the_grand_lunar.mp3 - Mp3 Format - 3.31mb
Here’s another tune IRMA can’t touch. Permission received from artist to share on May 16th 2007. Thanks Dan.
Grantby’s tune “Timber”. He can be found online at http://www.grantby.com, which is actually a site I designed via Wrafter. Grantby, aka Dan Grigson, is also behind the new Red Room Recordings studio on Tottenham Court Rd in London, another site I’m designing actually. (Keep up to date on this on the above Wrafter site.)
Back in October 2003, when I first recommended this tune, I said this: “Came across a sample of this band used on the EgoMedia site two years ago. It took until now to DL the track in question. Great vibes.”
Link is here: http://www.markwrafter.com/hands-off-irma/grantby_-_timber.mp3 - Mp3 Format - 6.90mb
Here’s another tune IRMA can’t touch. Permission received from artist to share on May 15th 2007. Thanks Cormac.
79Cortinaz’s tune “Feather Eggshells”. They can be found online, on their new improved site, at http://www.79cortinaz.com.
Back in May 2004, when I first recommended this, I said this: “Unsigned and Irish - why is that combination always so good? There’s simply so much great music coming out of Ireland right now, it’s hard to keep up with it. Listen to the voice on this track from the fledgling 79Cortinaz.
Link is here: http://www.markwrafter.com/hands-off-irma/79cortinaz_-_feather_eggshells.mp3 - Mp3 Format - 5.81mb
Here’s a tune IRMA can’t touch. Permission received from artist to share on May 14th 2007. Thanks Dave.
Zeppo’s tune “Act V“. They won’t be found online, cos they broke up, alas. Some of that former talent however now goes under the name “The Brad Pitt Light Orchestra”.
Back in August 2002, when I first recommended this, I said this: “Unsigned. Unloved. Unknown. Almost exclusively on markwrafter.com listen to the lilting Act V from Zeppo, a Dublin-based, Limerick-spawned five-piece.”
Link is here: http://www.markwrafter.com/hands-off-irma/zeppo_-_actv.mp3 - Mp3 Format - 3.96mb
I have decided to try and put back together what I can from my former mp3 collection, in such a way that not even IRMA can complain.
When my site was taken-off-air by IRMA in May 2007 I had amassed a collection of 170 recommended tunes, over 34 separate months, spanning November 2001 and June 2006.
I will certainly never make it to 170 IRMA-safe tunes again, but I will try to make a dent in it. And so it begins.