Ultra Swank: Looking back

Happy new year! First post of 2008, let's make it a rather good one. Hope that you have truly enjoyed reading my posts about lifestyle and design adventures from another time. Not forgetting my custom compilations especially made for and released through this blog. I have received such good response and praises for all of them and that is what keeps me going. Just knowing that I can make someone happy by sharing what I like best. I know that a lot of you are anxious for me to release more compilations and rest assure, I still got some tricks up my sleeve. I am working on two new compilations, that will be digging deeper into areas not fully explored here yet. Something different, something swizzle cool. Something for everyone in the family.

If you got photos or any other material of things from the past that you will think fit the direction this blog is going in, please feel free to get in touch with me. I will mostly likely create a accessible form soon so that you can contact me easily, without me having to deal with all the spam I would get otherwise. More on that in a later post.

Thank you all for your continued support and amazing comments!

Swank just got Swankier

As you might have noticed, some things has changed here at Ultra Swank. Felt that a design update was long overdue, seeing that the blog has looked the same for over two years. So said and done here is the new, improved, better, bigger and even more swizzle cool version of Ultra Swank! Since it [...]

The shape of things to come

I will resume the normal Ultra Swank postings soon with more lifestyle and design adventures. Just need the time to gather and sort some new material first. If you have any interesting postcards or anything similar that you would like to share, do what one of my readers did, send it to me and I [...]

Shaft and Future Compilations

For those of you who have tried downloading Shaft: Shut Your Mouth! lately it seems that the file hasn’t been working very well. So today I have uploaded a new copy of it so you can enjoy the compilation again! Also for those who are wondering about future compilations, yes there are two more in [...]

timburton

Thank you for all the great amazing compilation expecially retro shopping is like gettin in a time machine and goin back in the 60's. Please go on and happy new year!!
Anonymous

wouzld you mind to reupload "voices from a photograph"?

I also love the other compilations. midnight martinis runs on heavy rotation ;)
Chris

'Voices from a Photograph' is still there to be downloaded. Check the download links again.
Anonymous

yeah, it worked. thanks a lot. heave not seen the link at all, but, found it!!!
Anonymous

Thanks for the SWIZZLE reference.

Charles aka Lee

telstarlounge.blogspot.com
Tom

This is the time for me, to say a BIG BIG thank you!!!

Your compilations are finest pieces of work. Also the artwork looks like a professional made it. Just can't believe that no back-covers exist. Your cd's just deserve it to be put in the shelf where all the others (original) cd's belong. So if you made back-covers for them please, please upload them, that would be just awesome. And if really no covers exist, maybe you can create some?

Anyway a big big thank you again, for all these wonderful compilations. :)
Chris

Thank you Lee and Tom! I am afraid there are no back-covers for the compilations for a couple of reasons. First of all I want to share my musical taste with people who have similar taste or for people to discover. I don't make any money on them and don't plan to do so either. Making back-covers would most likely make them find their way to Ebay where they will be sold by dubious users. But thank you for your inquiry.
Anonymous

Chris has actually inspired me to make collections for my friends for various occasions. The making of the covers each time is a lot of fun. I'm afraid my collections are a lot more pedestrian than Chris', but I have loads of fun nevertheless.

Charles of the Telstar Lounge
Anonymous

Some stuff that I could never imagine would be good, is actually very good. I never would have considered listening without your comps, e.g. the evocatively titled "Voices from a Photograph." Thank you!
bunny

I hope that "voices from a photograph vol. 2" is one of the tricks you got up your sleeve.
Anyways, everything you upload is always amazing. Thanks for sharing :)
Chris

Voices Vol. 2 is not what I am planing at the moment. But that might surface some day in the future too.
mrquizzical

Just wanted to add my "thanks" for all of the hard work that went into these amazing compilations. Thanks again!!!
Crea Family

Thanks for the great website and music! Im now a regular visitor. I cant help but see a connection between you site and the tiki culture and lounge music, other favorites of mine. Are you aware of these internet radio stations?
http://www.luxuriamusic.com/index.phtml
and
Soma Lounge
http://160.79.128.242:8500

also, here is a good tiki website:
http://www.tikiroom.com/tikicentral/bb/index.php

Keep up the good work!

Mark
Minneapolis
Anonymous

Thank you for all your work and great research in making this far corner of forgotten American ( and European ) culture and ignored music.

I raced through your site and downloaded most everything before someone got mad and declared it illegal!

Now I'll go through again at a more leisuely pace and take in the culture. Thanks again!

Bob Pinto

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Ultra Swank takes you back in time into the kitsch, chic and swank living of the 50s, 60s and the 70s. We mainly focus on the design, architecture and the lifestyle of the happy-go-lucky and space-age-living mentality of that era – but also on the music and movies that takes you back to happier times. Ultra Swank is run by Chris, a Swede born in the wrong decade that currently resides in Barcelona. Read more

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