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Some classic rave footage. Top one is from the early days of UK hardcore, the others are from Thunderdome in the Netherlands, which is all gabber. You might recognize some of the footage from gifs or use in other videos, because people are pilled out of their heads and moving around like maniacs, has some interviews with DJs and performers as well which is cool.

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Great interview/documentary on Francis Bacon (the painter, not the philosopher).

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[AdamZane]

Not Archive.org, but https://vault.fbi.gov/the-finders

The Finders I think are a familiar subject matter to people in online circles these days, in a post-Epstein world, but have been an infamous topic online for quite some time. A child trafficking quasi-religious group shrouded in mystery, they had only one public encounter with authorities in 1987, then disappeared. Failed investigations, international and CIA connections, playbooks for kidnapping children; all tragic and horrific. Thanks to the Freedom of information act, the FBI's investigative material has been made public I think 3 years ago, with more material being released in recent times. Its incredible to read through, it reads as pure fiction. However, one piece of evidence gathered by agents in one of the Finder's safehouses (along with things both horrific and things with horrific implications) was a religious document called The Ballad of Ballads. Its been my experience with these types of groups that their literature tends to be long-winded, faux-academically minded, and following tracts of logic that can be used by followers. This however is some fucked up pedo-beat poetry, the whole things is threatening.

But yeah last stanza of the poem definitely sounds like allusion to a charismatic magician confidence-man ringleader type that deftly evades capture by being cautious and changing tactics...or maybe I'm just crazy and reading something into an innocent childrens' poem!!

[AdamZane]

Not Archive.org, but something good




Stumbled across these, a bunch of old Pirate station adverts. A lot of these tracks are backed by some solid breaks and jungle, but they all have an amateurish bravado that makes em good to listen to. Glad that something like this was able to be preserved. Raver datelines, Warnings about their illegal broadcasts, kebob ads, its all great to listen to.

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Not Archive.org, but something good




Stumbled across these, a bunch of old Pirate station adverts. A lot of these tracks are backed by some solid breaks and jungle, but they all have an amateurish bravado that makes em good to listen to. Glad that something like this was able to be preserved. Raver datelines, Warnings about their illegal broadcasts, kebob ads, its all great to listen to.

Dope, I'm a fan of the pirate radio archive website, but sadly it doesn't have archives of the two big London channels I'm interested in the most, Dream FM and Kool FM, the big happy hardcore and jungle stations respectively lol.




Brainiacs are probably already familiar with the naïve art of Henry Darger. Apparently a large portion of his written work was transcribed and typed up from his handwritten notebooks in the 70s, the scans of which are available for reading on the Illinois State Library website. The quality is kind of poor on some of these because they were scanned from microfilms (in spite of the inordinate file sizes).

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Le Journal de Spirou is one of the great institutions of the comic medium, one of the oldest comic books, and is still in print today. Franco-Belgian comic book serialization is a bit odd compared to American and Japanese comics, where stories tend to be published in self-contained chapters. In contrast Le Journal de Spirou, Le Journal de Tintin and Pilote all published in a weekly comic book format, but contained multiple stories from several different comics which were serialized at 1-3 (ish) pages per issue. Asterix, Tintin and Lucky Luke et. al were designed to be read in 2 page bursts every week. At the end of a story's serialization it would be published in album format (a big paperback, but sometimes hardcover book), where it could be read in its entirety.

Strangely the comic book run itself would be anthologized as a hardcover book which consisted of several comic books pasted together within the hard binding, as explained here. Really weird stuff. These would not be reprints, but instead either surplus stock that had been set aside for the purpose or unsold issues sent back from the newstands.

A couple of these anthologies are available to flip through on archive.org. There are a few from the early days of Spirou, 1930s-40s when it was drawn by Jijé. The comic, as well as the journal itself, comes into its own once Franquin takes over in the late 40s and early 50s.

Spirou Album:
#2
#3
#8
#12
#13
#16
#42
#62
#71
#72
#73
#80
#81
#113

Not even getting into how odd the eponymous comic Spirou et Fantasio is, in the 50s the cover of Le Journal de Spirou would have a full comic page on the cover. Sometimes it would be half a page sharing real estate with some cover art at the top. Since Franco-Belgian comics are drawn in demi-planches, the entire thing can easily be offset by half a page.



The coloring in Franco-Belgian comic books is arranged in a different way as well, compared to full-color American comics and black and white Japanese comics. The flagship comics would receive four tone printing, and secondary comics would receive two tone (black and red) or just black white. This Gil Jourdan comic was prominent enough to get a page on the cover and full color, but it switches to two-tone on the next page.



As mentioned some cartoonists drew both cartoony and realistically, this comic about Charles de Foucauld is actually drawn by Jijé, the creator and original artist of Spirou.





Mostly it was boys adventure comics, sometimes pure humor like Gaston, either highly cartoony and light or realistically drawn and very verbose. Some cartoonists like Uderzo (Asterix) were capable at both styles.



There are also non-comic pages about the type of things that would be of interest to boys of the 50s and 60s, namely cars and airplanes.

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Leadholder.com
A truly fantastic, now defunct, website I found archived from the early 00s on the history of drafting, specifically different makes and manufactures of leadholders and lead pointers and includes timelines of different companies' designs as well as scans of product catalogs from the early 1900s to the 80s. Astoundingly comprehensive, really must be seen to be believed. Like this incredible chart of leadholders presented alphabetically. There's even a list of different patents.

[AdamZane]

Not Archive.org, but something good




Stumbled across these, a bunch of old Pirate station adverts. A lot of these tracks are backed by some solid breaks and jungle, but they all have an amateurish bravado that makes em good to listen to. Glad that something like this was able to be preserved. Raver datelines, Warnings about their illegal broadcasts, kebob ads, its all great to listen to.

The same label released these big men, definitely worth a listen! Should probably buy them all on tape.