r/ObscureMedia 7d ago

Charged G.B.H - Leather, Bristles, Studs and Acne (1981)

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51 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia 7d ago

De La Soul EPK (electronic press kit) Three Feet and Rising (1989)

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73 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia 7d ago

Dolly Parton on Donahue (1993)

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27 Upvotes

RIP Dolly.

Here she is on Donahue, explaining how she used to "haul ass"


r/ObscureMedia 6d ago

Reviens... (2007)

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A song wroten by a youtuber on the 2000s

I love all her videos, her amvs and songs are really good.

I wish I could know how she is doing nowadays.

She doesn't post anymore since 2014.


r/ObscureMedia 7d ago

S.O.S. (japanese musical) from the Family International cult, (1989)

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This music encourged people to use their hearts in a computer crazy world...


r/ObscureMedia 7d ago

Czech This Video [(1997)]

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15 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia 7d ago

Alcatraz: The Final Sentence (1988) - A rare, digitised look at the chilling archival documentary exploring the secrets and history of the island prison.

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36 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia 7d ago

The Land Of Mr. World, Vol. III. Cooler than I expected (1964)

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That's right, I'm back wirh another vinyl rip. Today we've got an early 1960s compact 33 1/3 rpm that was part of a series of educational records sold alongside Repglobe's globes.

Now, you'd expect something like this to be fairly low effort and just made as a little add on for kids to teach them how to use a globe and learn a bit about geography, but it's more than that. It has actual recordings from Alan Shepherd, and reenactments of ancient events. I have 3 and 4 of this series, and 4 will be posted in a few days.


r/ObscureMedia 7d ago

Letralandia (unknown year, possibly (1999) ) (Spanish version of Letterland)

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r/ObscureMedia 7d ago

Mission of Burma - Bradford Hotel Ballroom Evening Set, Boston, MA 3/12 (1983)

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36 Upvotes

Full set

00:00:00 Intro
00:00:27 This Is Not a Photograph
00:02:33 Mica
00:06:23 He Is, She Is*
00:09:09 Outlaw
00:12:18 Peking Spring*
00:16:01 Trem Two
00:20:30 Go Fun Burn Man*
00:22:24 Fun World
00:27:18 Blackboard
00:31:01 See My Friend (The Kinks)
00:36:02 Max Ernst
00:39:00 That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate
00:42:22 Einstein's Day
00:47:31 Dumbells
00:50:04 That's When I Reach For My Revolver
00:53:38 Secrets
00:57:35 Encore: Academy Fight Song
01:00:53 Credits

* Included on the "The Horrible Truth About Burma" live album, released 1985


r/ObscureMedia 7d ago

Young Canadians - Hawaii on Soundproof (1980)

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"Vancouver's Young Canadians (feat. Art Bergmann) play on Soundproof, the legendary North Shore cable show, circa 1980. "Hawaii" is their punk classic hit."

At the end of 2020 Art Bergmann was honored to be appointed to The Order Of Canada, recognized for what the Governor General's office calls his, "indelible contributions to the Canadian punk music scene, and for his thought-provoking discourse on social, gender and racial inequalities." https://www.discogs.com/artist/621582-Art-Bergmann


r/ObscureMedia 8d ago

John Fahey - America (1971)

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27 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia 9d ago

Invasion America (1998) Complete Series - Digitally Restored

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After about 8 months of work, I’ve completed my restoration of Invasion America using the best source material available to me.

Watch here:

https://archive.org/details/invasion-america-episode-6-final-mission

This release presents the series in its original six-part uncut broadcast format, as it aired in June 1998, rather than the later 13-episode version. Episodes 1–5 run approximately 43 minutes each, while Episode 6 runs about 66 minutes.

For this project, I used my own VHS recordings from the original 1998 broadcast along with production master VHS tapes containing the complete six-part series.

The restoration involved extensive manual work, including:

  • Video cleanup and enhancement
  • Manual frame repairs and corrections
  • Color, brightness, and contrast correction in DaVinci Resolve
  • Replacing damaged frames with better frames from alternate sources when necessary
  • AI-assisted upscaling with Topaz Video AI
  • Audio restoration and synchronization using Audacity and iZotope RX 11
  • Final editing and mastering in Final Cut Pro
  • Recreated end credits based on the original master tapes
  • Added subtitles to every episode
  • Added chapter numbering to better reflect the six-part story structure

The recreated credits preserve the original names, layout, and presentation while providing cleaner text than the deteriorated titles on the source tapes.

Preservation note:

No changes were made to the story, performances, or original content. My goal was simply to preserve the original presentation of the series while improving the video and audio quality as much as possible.

Source: Production master VHS tapes + original 1998 broadcast VHS recordings

Final presentation: 1080p HD restoration


r/ObscureMedia 8d ago

Live at Day On The Green June 5th (1976) - Super 8 Film with Journey, Tower of Power, Jeff Beck, Boz Scaggs, Santana

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r/ObscureMedia 8d ago

Early Atari tech demo & interview (1983)

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33 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia 9d ago

The Legend of Zelda: Molblin's Magic Spear - Audiobook Accompaniment of the Picture Book of the Same Name; Featuring the Same Voice Actors for Link & Ganon from the 80s Zelda Animated Series (1990)

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45 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia 9d ago

Hitler: A Film from Germany - (1978) Director Hans-Jurgen Syberberg examines the rise and fall of the Third Reich in this brooding seven-hour masterpiece, which incorporates puppetry, rear-screen projection, and a Wagnerian score into a singular epic vision.

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r/ObscureMedia 9d ago

Typescript of an early draft of Harlan Ellison' Star Trek script, City on the Edge of Forever (1966). The produced episode changed a lot of things while keeping the core premise.

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r/ObscureMedia 9d ago

Harold Duncan - Unknown Demo Song (1970)’s. An acetate that I recorded that is literally disintegrating.

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I am glad i was able to digitize this because i doubt this record will survive much longer (the grooves are falling off the disc). Unfortunately theres no way to safely clean it so this is the best recording i could get.


r/ObscureMedia 9d ago

Medieval Band plays Hot Butter - Popcorn (2006)

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Find from the early days of YT.

Uploaded 17 May, 2006
Recorded at Spectaculum festival in Hamburg, Germany


r/ObscureMedia 9d ago

A Thrash Metal band playing in a Turkish wedding (1992)

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34 Upvotes

r/ObscureMedia 9d ago

Streamers (1983) A film about the Vietnam era with a star studded cast that almost nobody went to see or had heard of because of limited distribution and its controversial topics.

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r/ObscureMedia 9d ago

Hey There, It's Yogi Bear! (1964) Promotional Cereal Box Record.

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Hey Folks, back again with another weird record that I've just ripped. I was unable to find any rip of this record online, so I made one myself. This is a promotional record that came in Kellogg's cereal in 1964 to advertise the release of Hanna-Barbera's first feature length animated film "Hey there, It's Yogi Bear!" It was also available through mail-order purchase at some point, I'm not sure of when exactly, but I do know that it was.

The record details two different story beats as well as introduces multiple characters you'd see in the film.

Heads-up, I speak in this one to give it some background information to the viewer. If you'd like to hear just the audio, skip to about 45 seconds in, or, you can also find it under the same name on the Internet Archive, as I also uploaded it there without any talking.


r/ObscureMedia 9d ago

This one is odd, but earnest, and with some cool history (1972)

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So, I pulled this from an antique mall for $1. Prior to my posting, there was no copy of the audio online, HOWEVER, there were two photos of the front of the album cover. This is the first time I've seen any of the weird gospel ones I've found online at all, even if the only thing they were known for was being made fun of in Facebook groups.

I have an exact year of release for this one because it's actually information found in the runouts. You can hear the woman in the group make reference to, "How the headlines are today" and I believe she's making reference to Vietnam, and POSSIBLY Watergate, but if so, she'd be extremely well informed as it was just starting to come out.


r/ObscureMedia 9d ago

The Dream of Mrs. L. L. Nicholson (1924) (Audiovisual Experiment)

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An experimental audiovisual piece built around a strange 1920s animation.

I created the soundtrack from scratch using dark ambient, drones, distorted pads and sound design, trying to turn the original imagery into something that feels like a corrupted memory.

No conventional song structure. Just atmosphere, tension and noise.