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Wed, 31 October 2007  And with the holidays and everything what the hell.1. Lee Dorsey - Confusion 2. Slim Harpo - Te-ni-nee-ni-nu 3. Page France - A Belly To The Sea 4. Byther Smith - What My Mamma Told Me 5. The Old Ceremony - Hearts Were Made 6. Mavis Staples - This Little Light 7. Howard Roberts - Sack O'Woe 8. Sam Cooke - Another Satruday Night 9. Mason Jennings - Where the sun had been 10. Little Milton - Who's Cheatin' Who 11. Champion Jack Dupree - Louise 12. Led Zeppelin - Dancing Days (Live) 13. Brazilian Girls - Sweatshop 14. James - Fine 15. Thee Headcoats - A Town Named Squaresville 16. Language Of Flowers - Songs About You 17. Charlie Feathers - tongue-tied jill 18. Jens Lekman - Pocketful Of Money 19. Neil Young - Expecting To Fly Image from Kingdom of Loathing Backing tracks: Skeleton Keys - Watch The Fat Man Swing Skip James - Catfish Blues Skwei - NuFruit Tierneys Fugitives - Did You Want To Run Away Six Organs of Admittance - Dark Noontide Plaid - porn coconut co Comments[0] | ||||||||||
Fri, 12 October 2007  It's my birthday so the post needs no introduction blather.1. The Feelies - Big Cheese 2. Uberzone - Satisfaction 3. Supermayer - The Art of Letting Go 4. Animal Collective - Peacebone 5. Jens Lekman - Drive In Bingo 6. Dave Grusin - Gasoline Alley 7. Cherrystones - Crawl Back To Mine 8. Jamie Lidell - Multiply 9. Roosevelt Franklin - Red Pepper pt. 1 10. Tom Brosseau - Committed to Memory 11. Reverend Horton Heat - Psychobilly Freak Out 12. Shack Shakers - Swampblood 13. The National - Fake Empire 14. Six Organs of Admittance - Hazy SF 15. Psapp - King Kong 16. Simian Mobile Disco - Hustler 17. Madvillian - Accordion 18. T Bone Burnett - I'm Going On A Long Journey Never To Return Image From: www.samugliestdog.com Backing Tracks: Fujiya & Miyagi - Collarbone Kelpe Yippee Space Tom Tyler - Drinking Tea From an Empty Cup Papercuts - John Brown Digitalism - Zdarlight Comments[0] | ||||||||||
Fri, 28 September 2007  Johnny Otis - Crazy Country HopThe mustachioed Mr. Otis takes us up with the first track with the rosing jangle rock of a fictional hop party of the rural south. Johnny almost made it into this podcast twice but, unfortunately I pulled the plug on the second track because of skips and blips. Ray Cannon and the Chorals - Mule Skinnerbuy Not sure about the attribution of this track. I pulled it off the radio and got the name from the dj's and now can't find anything about the man - the sadness because this is such a fine track. Band of Horses - Our SwordsA contemporary radio pop ditty from sub-pop's signed folksie creatures list. Dyke and The Blazers - Let a Woman be a Woman I swear the opening rhythm section of this track is the kind of kick ass funk that would later be birthed into the dance floor era's best breakbeat syncopated shake downs. buy Hank Williams - Lost Highway Tony Rivers & the Castaways - Come Back Baby Sadly, out of print Columbia recording. What a lovely blur of mod-ish brit pop, though. Michael Talbott & the Wolf Kings - Passenger I Another track of recent coinage - due they stack up to the classics? All in the eye of the beholder I guess. But still worth a listen. buy Brain Wilson - Vegetables Mr. Wilson is touted as genius by some and here we find the rhythm section provided by people eating carrots. Wicked smart folks. Vince Taylor - Brand New Cadillac This was Vince's big hit. And nothing goes along with vegetables as well as muscle car rock. Iron & Wine - Beneath the BalconyI think I may see them live here this week. Who knows? Oh a tuneful melancholy. Carl Perkins - RestlessAnother artist who is mostly living on compilations now a days though I saw a 45 of four tracks on ebay. Not much good till I get a turntable. Still this piece rumbles about with it's elbows out. I wonder how much rock was inspired by the idea that you could drive somewhere else. Larry Williams - Slow DownI like to think this tidy track could snuggle comfortably with The Door's song of the same subject. Bobby Byrd - Hot Pants ... I\'m Coming, I\'m Coming Oh the funk! I forgot. Bobby is a spicy dish that lists like a ship without regrets. Recently passed away, best of luck with that Karmic Wheel man. Byther Smith - Walked All Night LongByther, what a name! What a threatening display of the blues! Back in the day all blues man packed pieces openly just in case their old lady ever did the tango to another man. Dark days. Bloody Rampage. Septeto Nacional Ignacio Pineiro - el Adois De este Momentomore Sweet damnation I don't know Spanish. But, if I had to guess, this track is about a magic bus. I think that is the chorus. Viva la mass transit! Ann Peebles - Somebody\'s on your caseLots of funk and bad choice in men. Or maybe undedicated paranoia. 'Secret sick days' is a great little bit of euphemism. James Brown - Don\'t Tell a Lie on Me and IFrom the album Hell this is a funk strut piece that nearly, beautifully, almost collapses in it's unraveled paroxysms of constant breakdowns. The Tams - The Greatest LoveThis months crooner is a Pope. If only the papists swang like Charles and his jamming Tams. African Music Machine - Black Water GoldEven a steady solid band can get lost in the shuffle and that is bobbling under phenomenon of the AMM in the funk-o'-verse of the 70's. Hang your head in shame those of you who did not dig on this when it was fresh. The Remains - Hang On SloopyI had always known this song as the pop piece but, and correct me if I'm wrong, the earlier original featured here is an amalgam of proto-punk and a brit pop back burner. Glory, what a song. Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs - Wooly BullyAnd wrapping it all up is the rouser for the mother who danced when she worked. Happy Birthday Mom. Byther Smith - Funky Man Wynonie Harris - I Got a Lyin\' Woman Curtis Mayfield - If I were Only a Child Again Bobby Kuban - The Cheater Buddy Guy - What kind of woman is this Comments[0] | ||||||||||
Thu, 27 September 2007  A brief but rousing little mini-cast cause my day is slow and indie pop is rocking the office headphones Murder by Death - Dead Men and Sinners
The Essex Green - Julia
Franz Ferdinand - Cheating On You
Hot Chip - Plastic
The Olivia Tremor Control - Grass Canons
The Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #2 (Laika)
CHAOS - Grune
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Fri, 14 September 2007  Ahhh - September when the air is cool and New York is less violently antithetical to human existence. To ring in the Calculus course and the Brooklyn Book Festival I bring you another mildly amusing number of songs that I heard in recent car commercials and funeral processions. Am I doing any of this right yet? No. I still make to many mistakes. 1. The Fugs - Skin Flowers
2. Portishead - Stranger (Live)
3. The Hives - I Hate to Say I Told You So
4. The Fiery Furnaces - Navy Nurse
5. They Might Be Giants - First Kiss
6. Acid Casuals - Wa Da Da
7. Devendra Banhart - Long Haired Child
8. Echu Minga - Pueblo Nuevo
9. The Replacements - I Will Dare
10. Brazilian Girls - All We Have
11. Polysics - New Wave Jacket
12. TullyCraft - Fall 4 U
13. Mahala Rai Banda - Romano Dance
14. Sugababes - Red Dress (Caged Baby Remix)
15. Man Man - Push The Eagles Stomach
16. Wolf Parade - You Are a Runner and I Am My Father's Son The British Colombia's indies with a moving tune about the extinction of hedgehogs in the British Isles. 17. Ok Go - Invincible A stupendous lack of exercise machines! Yet the haircuts are brilliant! 18. Grassella Oliphant - Ain't that peculiar Fancy and underrated mid '60s jazz funk brimming with the busted stuttering that breakbeats will one day embrace. How is it that this is unknown? site | buy 19. Tipper - California Rolls Tipper is a smart piece of IDM by British Nu Breaker Dave Tipper. Mostly eclectic sometimes elegant - the pop-ish inflections make the access easy and the chill out warmer and more inviting than some other of the similar sort (nothing against you Amon Tobin, but really). Backing Tracks: Comments[0] | ||||||||||
Fri, 10 August 2007  A weird road trip is soon to ensue and what with the tornadoes and floods, school and work, moving and weddings - the summer wouldn't be complete were it not for the obligatory road trip. The omens do cloud the horizons just last night I was set upon at my window by may cockroaches trying to find their way inside. So spooked was I when one alit upon my head that in a panic my library book (Collected Anthology of Shakespearian Criticism 1945-2000) was lost out the window and into the inaccessible yard of my neighbor three floors below. Why were cockroaches trying to get into my house - seriously weird animal behavior .. . what dark portents. For the occasion of our outing I will share with you the mix cd that shall pilot us north-northwest to the capitol of cool Das Buffalo!
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Wed, 18 July 2007  Hello everybody.Ahh the good times don't last long, not just yet recovered from a summer session of pre-calc (I got me an A, but the calluses betray my efforts for the pains it made of me) and already I find myself again in another class. English this time and good for it. First day out the gate and I've got four poems by Frost to analyze (and no, not a one of them is the eponymous "Two Tramps in Mud Time"). Nevermind I've never done it before - it seems that is the point to this learning endeavor. Also word has come down that a movement of my home to another house is in order. So while I'll be moving about I may, or not, have time to do anything podcast wise. Please be nice and patient with all this. I promise the slapdash haberdashery of these tiny collections will someday revert to the quality curio shop it once so proudly was. Till then; trucker speed and whores! Takako Minekawa - Fantastic Cat Forro In The Dark - I Wish (David Byrne) Dead Milkmen - Methodist Coloring Book Dj Jester - Marwa (off of Filipino Fist) Negatek - Hole in My Head (unreleased demo) Jackie Mittoo - Nature Boy Vic Thrill - Circus of Enlightenment Raking Bomb's - Adaptor Fireballs of Freedom - March of the FOF Arnaud Rodrigues - Murituri Ronnie Ronalde - The Yodeling Whistler Binary Finary - 1998 (From Paul Oakenfold's Tranceport) Paul Van Dyk - Words (For Love) (From Paul Oakenfold's Tranceport) Ludovic Beier (accordéon) & Angelo Debarre - Paris Plage X The Books - Be Good to Them Always The Fall - Faust Banana The Gongs - The Dinosaur Stark Reality - Rocket Ship Dj Jester - Marwa (from Filipino Fist) Patricia Kass - Black Coffee Roger Miller - The Moon is High (and so am I) Agent Simple - Make a Right Comments[0] | ||||||||||
Sat, 30 June 2007  Faster and faster - this podcast goes out to my high score on the last test in Math 206. I do apologize for my priorities but I'm sure you all understand that the podcast takes a back seat to school. And now on with the show.
backing tracks: Elgar - Chanson de Matin Stewart Walker - Cleopatra's Needle Tomatito & Michael Camilo - Spain Intro Herbie Hancock - Fat Mama Ludovic Beier & Angelo Debarre - Dinette image from : http://dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/webdocs/Humor/Choc-faster-Aspirin.html Comments[0] | ||||||||||
Sun, 17 June 2007  Summer is going by quick. I've got little to post but with a bit of music in the mix I hope you won't mind that too much. 1. Juno Reactor - Pistolero 2. Fluke - Absurd 3. Justice - Dance 4. Nicola Conte - Jet Sounds 6. Gionata - Niente di Giovane Dietro Una Droga 7. Amon Tobin - Always 8. Four Tet - No More Mosquitoes 9. Dansbanan 10. Aquasky - Shadow Breaks 11. Batdarrell - Danza 12. Erlend Oye - Every Party 13. Baka Beyond - Rendezvous 14. Pinataland - Velocity 15. Prefuse 73 & the Books - Pagina Siete Image from: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/35/124275318_4f32d6faa3.jpg Backing Track: Tatrai Tibor-Blues, Pierre Bastien - Eggs Air Seas Dust Hill, Medaphors - Place Your Bet, Zombies Ate My Neighbors Neighburger Comments[0] | ||||||||||
Fri, 1 June 2007  Oh Boy and Howdy everybody - Long time since my last podcast and all apologies. You must understand that these times dissertations are cause for desperation and all my education has left me little time for communication. And so I've managed to pull myself together just in time for the monthlies 05. Lets get it on.01. John Lee Hooker - Hard Hearted Woman The always esteem-able and vital, played here because you can never have to much of a good Hooker. 02. Holy Modal Rounders - SynergyA supremely weird song that, I do believe, precedes the "paradigm shift" "synergy" of boardroom culture by a solid two scores worth of years. Take that to the bank you filthy suit bastards. 03. Thee Headcoats - MantrapChrist, I can't shake the feeling that I must have played this one before. Not sure when or where. No matter. Billy Childish led this outfit of misfits in his own personal means of exercising his demons. Hard luck with that as twenty years later he's still trying. 04. Cocorosie - Terrible AngelsFrom La Maison de Mon Rêve, an album I specifically skipped trying to pronounce on the air. 05. Pink Martini - Anna (El Negro Zunbon)One of the best little outfits from P-town still gets respect from the swinging cats down at Carnegie Hall. Pink Martini just came out with a new album too - Hey Eugene! and, best of news, they did it by sticking with the small imprint label Heinz Records. 06. John Mayhill - Mexico CityI can find nothing on this guy - real shame too. Even though he's got some generic vocal belts - the genius is all in the song's parodic tone and the call and response duet. Which makes me curious as to if he was smart enough to do it twice or if this was just a one off fluke. 07. La Piedrera - El Cool DudeThe accordion is the international instrument of honest music. Anyone who has ever tried "ironic" accordion compositions has in fact met their horrible demise the ragged clutches of the squeeze box man's dancing monkey. And rightfully so. 08. Al Caiola - Experiment In TerrorCause nothing says summer like a latin flavored string guitar set based on the idea of Terror. I get all goose pimply when the brass swings into it in the second half. The Horror. 09. Har-You Percussion Group - Feel Me GoodSocial activists, deteriorated youth, and funk. I wonder what happened to these kids. 10. Bango - Motor MaravilhaThe left behind and forgotten of the 60's Brazilian Psychedelic Movement. 11. Barney Bigard Sextet - Sweet Marijuana Brown Recorded in '45 this little ditty came out long after the respectability of jazz was all about the understated background music and had not yet been blown apart by the cool. An interesting time and this song plays more like a crooner than anything else. 12. Contours - Can You Jerk Like Me Soul Singing Motown players - they pushed this onto vinyl in '65. And unlike the Barney Bigard Sextet track it has no intentional subtext. 13. Optiganally Yours - Walk & Chew GumFor those who are curious the Optigan is a little toy record player which played small instrument records to produce sounds. And yes the band is based on this device. 14. Rusty York - TremblinAs a son of a coal miner this bluegrass influenced rockabilly promoter put up a lot of works and has even got a place over at the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. 15. David Karsten Daniels - Jesus and the DevilKeeping the summer spirit alive DKD gets the best of the whatsits on this podcast. Happiness and don't forget to pick up his latest work over on Fat Cat Records. A nice roiling bongo beat propels this stripped down hybrid of blues and soul towards the duets saucy descriptions of the eponymous girl. 16. Lazy Lexi's mystery track! Everybody's talking about the president. But what do they say? 17. Polyphonic Spree - Section 12 (Hold Me Now)June 19th people and the newest albums drops - the Spree is getting militant! Inspirational, like Ana says, these folks give you something to smile about. 18. The Owls - AirOh you've probably heard of them. 19. The Roulettes - JunkThe instrumental modset brings the fury with this keyboard driven powerhouse. Thanks for tuning in everybody - just a heads up. Like I say in the podcast I'm shifting to a bi-monthly format because of time constraints due to summer school. But if anybody wants to submit a guest podcast drop me a line. image from: adamcadre.ac backing tracks: Keisuke Egusa - Summer Samba; April Aloisio - Nica's; Dream; Skatallites - James Bond Theme; Yesterdays New Quintet - Daylight; Yardbirds - Honey In Your Hips. Comments[0] | ||||||||||
Sun, 6 May 2007  Hey everybody,My names Pieter and I've got a horrible crush on the random noise of our musical landscape. 1. Quintronics - Drum Buddy Intro (Reversed and Reverbed & Kick Opener) "Electrical
energy, when closely examined, is in fact more similar in
its complexity to a plant or an animal form than it is to
the mechanical devices or computer machines with which it
is usually associated. It is not necessarily more
complex, but equally microcosmically [sp] complex." - Drum Buddy Island 2. Herbert - Moving Like a Train Herbert is one of the rare agitprop artists in the underground who is beyond convention, this though is a perfectly straightforward piece of soul - of such quality I get bubbly by the second half's panoramic heights. 3. Henrick Schwarz - You Rock, I Rock, We Rock Henrick had a much raved about album last year, DJ Kicks, which was by all means OK. This is a snippet of a live set he played in the promotion of that release. 4. Charles Leonard - Funky Driver on a Funky Bus Unfortunately I could find very little information about this artist, which isn't to say that he's unknown but I think that his story is untold. What I can find seems to hint at a storied history that is familiar to one person at least. This song features the vocals of an actual bus driver, W.C. Stone. I'm not sure if that is the real name as it might be a bit of word play around the idea of shit. No disrespect intended - just ambling thoughts. < I talk too much. The volume of my speech may lead one to suspect I'm an idiot > 5. Mavis Staples - On My Way Long time soul and gospel singer gives us a moving album for our modern world. There is no time imaginable, when meaningful music powerfully spoken is not important to our essential nature as social animals. Liner notes claim the album was Anti-Produced by the Ry Cooder, anti-production my friends, fall in love with it. 6. Life in a Blender - Dead Get Down Life in a Blender is well worth the effort of tracking down and independently verifying, in terms of quality, their varied output. Hmm. They're from Brooklyn! 7. Kaiser Chiefs - Oh My God Yeah, you've heard this before. I just have to share it before it gets totally played out. Thanks to the "Hits in the Car" for turning me on to it. Unfortunately I call them chefs on the voice bit, yep - sorry. 8. Fabulous Entourage - Theme Song Huh.. ..they're from New York too.. .. hmmm. To kick off the accidental study in New York Music; "New York City rockers The Fabulous Entourage serve up an irrepressible blend of throbbing ... " Accidental New York Review takes a back seat for the California blues man whose being putting out disc after disc of hard luck licks since the 80's. 10. Matt & Kim - Verbs Before Nouns Catastrophe New York Showcase continues - and they're from Brooklyn too. These two are awesome. Seriously I wish I had half the joy of life these two have. 11. DAT Politics - Viper Eyes Not from New York - but across the pond and another reason to love France. This is like Matt & Kim, if they replaced the Casio with an industrial strength sampler. Simply wonderful. 12. Hefner - Hymn for the Cigarettes A Peelie band from the late 90's to the turn of the century. These guys are routinely underrated even by the obscurist aficionados (like me) who troll the Peel selections for the rare sounds. 13. Thieves Like Us - Drugs in my Body The impartial declaration of New Yorker Artist due to Habitation, doth define them as members of the City. Yep more New York! Well, they came from Berlin and they are claiming to move to France soon. So that is Ok, they live here right now. 14. Lady Bug Transistor - Here Comes the Rain The incremental catalog of bands that are from around here: Lady Bug is from the Brooklyn too - this is the soft mellow song on this weeks podcast. Enjoy your temporary respite. 15. Soophie Nun Squad - Donkey Call The Little Rock based Punk Group recently called it quits - I don't know how big a following they had from their town, but I want them to know that I really appreciated their talents and that they will be missed. 16. Cocorosie - Noah's Ark The kooky combination of two girls; one from Fort Dodge, Iowa, while the other hails from the Big Island, Hawaii are placed into a crazy Brooklyn art collective. See what happens when they stop acting nice and start acting like artists. Yes; Brooklyn is in New York. Backing tracks: Mala - Digital Mystikz Image credits:Dj Hell - Never be Alone Again OctoProject & Blackmoth Super Rainbow - Psychic Swelling Drum Buddy Index Page - http://www.drumbuddy.com/ Comments[0] | ||||||||||
Sat, 28 April 2007  Another boisterous hour of music to show what little I've accomplished this month with my life. In jest though. Actually this month was exceedingly good in terms of what I've managed to do, school, work, etc are plodding along a staid course and I managed to do enough extracurricular math on the side to test out of math class and into math 206. Thrilling right?So on to the tunes. This month I want to highlight for your listening enjoyment my new favorite obscure band The Godz - a group hailing from NYC their infinitely weird take on music was unable to secure the necessary interest of times and the group has since faded to an odious obscurity. For my part in reviving this tragic tale I hereby swear to play too much of them for anyone who has actual taste in music. Also the last track has a bounty on it - $50 to the first person to name it and the artist. 01. Love - Stephanie Know Who Love is back for another round with this frighteningly paranoid lovers perception of infidelity. Good times! 02. 1910 Fruitgum Company - 1, 2, 3 Red LightSaccharine sweetness oozes around the doughy flesh tinged corners of this nearly unbearable pap. Nothing against the original artists - who as I understand it were actually rather accomplished set musicians later shoe horned by managers into the role of a late 60's easy-pop boy band for the interests of shear greed alone. This track, amazingly, is not the worst they have offer - no that would be the infamous "Simon Says" a song so mundanely trite I had forgotten I'd ever heard it until I listened to it again while doing research for this month. 03. Human Beinz - Nobody but MeSo the sound of easy-pop done right? The Human Beinz and the machine staccato of drums that opens to the loose rising riffs of guitar capped on top by the melodic "No, No, No, No, No" vocals. Jangling it's way into your heart. 04. G.P. Chiti & S. Montori - Desperation and Money (Cindelic Records)60's Italian b-grade movie soundtracks kick just that much ass. 05. Jennifer Gentle - Take My HandAnother Italian act, by God but this one is good and - drum roll - contemporary to myself with an nicely kicking album with American distributor sub pop. 06. Beck - We Dance Alone (acoustic)Recently recorded over at WXPN as a part of NPR backed World Cafe. A good listen to those who doubt song craft of this eclectic musician. 07. The Godz - Lay in the SunOh man it doesn't get any further out than that. The perfect protopunk psychedelic sound. 08. Thee Headcoats - All My Feelings DeniedMan there is a lot of noise going on in here - my apologies to anyone not entirely blinded by the sheer fire of the manic force that is Billy Childish. 09. Johnny Pate - Can't Even Walk in the Park. Johnny Pate, a long lived and ranging career - there is more beneath the surface of this soundtrack than just the glittering funk one might expect. Beginning as a jazz bassist in the thirties by the forties he'd even cut his own Blue Note session. The fifties saw him break the Billboard top 20, playing tuba and setting up arrangements. This lead him to fame and success with Curtis Mayfield and B.B. King and finally landing a gig in Hollywood for the music production of "Shaft in Africa". 10. Meri Wilson - Telephone ManOh shit - the CD BABY strikes again! Meri is still making music and it turns out that the Friendly Staff of CD Baby are pedaling her wares. I didn't find this till it was too late to put in the audio for the month. Apologies and excuses to all involved. 11. Soft Machine w/ Hibuo AnemoneThey once lit the madness of the masses with swirling psychedelic sounds swaths and jazz ornamentation. Now they are just known as the nearly made its and also rans - a shame since they really had something else going on. 12. Cat Empire - Two ShoesThis is the Year of Cat Empire - my prediction is the pods will leverage interest into the band that will then jettison them into the lower hundred of the Billboard and MRM. Did I totally miss them when they came to town? yes. Did my friend Andre actually do PR for the shows and try to get me to go by bringing over CDs and Posters? yep. Do I regret? 13. Nash - Aggregation I regret nothing. Well maybe a little. Damn it all I can't find anything about these guys, a shame as they sound like they really bust out the kicks. Favorite line: "A child is Born / Where's He Born? / In the SUUUUUUUUN!" 14. Moving Sidewalks - 99th FloorFuture ZZTop frontman lays down the Texas tracks and precedes Jimi Hendrix on stage? Hallucinatory terrain surly. 15. Harry Nilsson - 1941Harry claims The Beatles were his fans. Well I guess that makes sense. There is a strong English story telling thread that the two groups share. 16. The Majority - One ThirdThe problem here is not just obscurity but obscurity combined with common search terms. Yes searching for One Third Majority often pulls up references to democratic processes. 17. The Coasters - Down Home GirlA laid back cover with a funk dollop from the one and onlys. 18. Mystery Track - I don't even know. ARGH frustrated by the complete failure of my ability to know who the hell I am listening to - I hereby offer a $50 dollar bounty for the first person who can name this artist and song. Good song too. backing track - Le Fluer da Musique image from: Audiogalaxy (holy shit - Audiogalaxy! I thought they killed you) Comments[0] | ||||||||||
Sat, 21 April 2007  Yes I did call Greenpoint Brooklyn a post-industrial wasteland. And don't think that it isn't. The Toxic Brooklyn series from VBS.tv did an episode on Greenpoint and the Newton canal. Foul stuff. I Wonder why more folk here aren't Enviro's. Maybe they don't know how bad it can get. It's one thing to have pristine wilderness and another to be a Superfund site. There is a lot of gray area in between. Me, I'm writing my congresswoman. Image from VBS.tv Category: general -- posted at: 6:09 PM Comments[0] | ||||||||||
Thu, 19 April 2007  I flaked on the 2ManyDJ's show and all I got to show for it is this wide ranging and reeling falling over selection of Mashups, Bastard Pop, Bootlegs, and plunderphonical audio expositions. I now have a mike and nothing worthwhile to say, as evidenced in this weeks podcast. 1. Pirate Sound System - Selektah Ringtone What a good idea. Mashup ringtones. Not my ringtone, but I'm sure there is someone who really appreciates this. 2. 2ManyDj's - Radio Soulwax MontageA compressed mix with too many sources to cite. 2ManyDJs, the superstars of the modern mashup 3. DNA feat. Suzanne Vega - Tom's DinerYeah, it's been a while since I heard this one. Kind of tough to track down a copy. But thanks goes out to the never forgetful internet for making this possible. 4. Sherpa - Tecnologic PopA not bad piece with a solid usage of Daft Punk - not inspiring but sentimental. 5. Unknown - CaitlinEven though I lost the artist name who did this, which usually means disqualification I had to include it for the looped TMBG horn section. 6. Wisp - Turquoise Tinged PenniesNot a mashup but the near cousin turntablism and so gorgeous it had to be included. 7. Go Home Productions - Flaming Mary Can Out (Run) PrinceThe Run D.M.C. action on this track is thrilling. Go Home has some solid productions and currently have an hour show up that they did with the BBC. Well worth a look. 8. Dj Paul V - Peaches vs. Gary Glitter - Didn't Know The Lips Wanna Be HerAny excuse to play a Peaches track is good enough for me. 9. Jackson and his Computer Band - Teen Beat OceanNot a mashup but the near uncle IDM - while Jackson Computer may not be as brilliant as some other IDM artists. They've got a good way with sample extraction. 10. Dj BC - Einstein on the BeastDJ BC, of Beastles fame, here gets the sound from way out with help from Phillip Glass. 11. The Avalanches - I am a Cuckoo I am horribly enamored with the long time producing but rarely publishing Aussie band The Avalanches. And why because nearly two years ago I saw this video and fell in love: video 12. Jan Turkenburg and Chenard Walcker - 42 "De Sirenes"A nice piece of found sound from to productive plunderphonic disciples. While the 52 weeks project may not have made every track perfect, like this one is, the sonic journey is worth the while of the curious. 13. Hamburglars - Quality, Service, Cleanliness, and ValueAwesome plundering to be found on the high seas of corporate training videos. 14. Thin - Stoopid, Dreemer NightmareMike Curtis put out a couple internet release pieces before leaving the scene. Blue Face being an all around wonderful example of his ability. 15. Yuhzimi - Top of The PopsA small section from a rather awkward compilation of mashups. This snippet is golden. 16. Osymyso - Not Quite FoolOsymyso of anti-art school notoriety brings a nearly spartan vocal section to a rolling boil of British stiff upper lip-ishness. 17. Negativland - Gimme The MermaidThe grand daddys of the sampledeliaca world, this is the audio section of their recent anti-infringement mashup video. 18. kARSTEN pFLUM - Bflonk 03And a lovely little number to take us out on the podcast closer. Image from Catalyst Dances - Heat and Life Comments[0] | ||||||||||
Tue, 17 April 2007  Take a minute to mail your representative to stop the royalty rate increase on internet radio services. Expecting the stations to pay rates even more than comparable broadcasting methods is grossly unfair.At the
request of the Recording Industry Association of America, the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB)
ignored the fact that Internet radio royalties were already double what
satellite radio pays, and multiplied the royalties even further. The
2005 royalty rate was 7/100 of a penny per song streamed; the 2010 rate
will be 19/100 of a penny per song streamed. And for small webcasters
that were able to calculate royalties as a percentage of revenue in
2005 – that option was quashed by the CRB, so small webcasters’
royalties will grow exponentially! ... last year Internet radio listening jumped dramatically, from 45 million listeners per month to 72 million listeners each month. Internet radio is already popular and it is already benefiting thousands of artists who are finding new fans online every day. Thanks for your time and help on this matter. Category: general -- posted at: 9:36 PM Comments[0] | ||||||||||
Mon, 16 April 2007  It might be a ways off from today, but if I don't post it here I doubt I'll recall it otherwise:DJ Food & DK are doing a tour to promote their second collaboration; Now, Listen Again!
For those who missed the first Now, Listen - or are unfamiliar with the artists involved, my deepest sympathies. To remedy the situation of this potential obscurity I'll put up a track from the album in the next podcast. And for those who can't wait that long to feel the cold icy chill of solid steel ignite their blue suede dancing shoes; have you heard of the alternative: Fixed brings 2ManyDjs back to Brooklyn:
A wednesday night riot - but you better call the boss this midweek rocker starts late and goes till 4 in the morning. Upside? $12 tickets at the door. Hope to see you there. Category: general -- posted at: 7:57 AM Comments[0] | ||||||||||
Sat, 14 April 2007  A catalyst is substance that speeds up a chemical reaction without being destroyed in the process, more colloquially it is something, a person, event, or anything that propels one to act. And there is no finer introduction to the podcast that is The Yank Sizzler than the twined notions of inspiration and the active instigator that remains undestroyed. Last month I wrote lyrically of the John Peel and how his program had rekindled my fascination in the outer fringe of music. This month I want everyone to hear the podcast that inspired me to make my own. After I had gotten my filthy mitts on the bygone radio programs of Peel's shows I still yearned to find more - such is the nature of musical greed. Once you turn over a rock that has a vein of gold underneath you search the land to find more rocks just like it. Thankfully the modern era has the Internet and my trolling for music turned up Mike's Yank Sizzler. This would have been around episode two or three, showing that even the powerful catalyzing force of the Yank Sizzler was only enough to provoke me to take action over the course of nearly a year. The Yank Sizzler is a popular show - I have no idea what the exact count is, but on episode four Mike admits an audience of 300 and now that the show has exceeded that number by twenty, I can only imagine the billions who tune in every day - foisting love and rolled up wads of twenties to the man who won our hearts. Meanwhile in reality, Mike's site is sparse of comments on the music he shares with us. While part of the curse of our wretched postmodern online culture is the effort we must expend to be heard, the fact that even a show of such great quality exists without a communal bedrock of commentary is unfortunate. Part of the idea behind showcasing other peoples podcasts is to expand the community and make the ties that bind us more and more meaningful by reinforcing the communication that happens between fans. In short I hope that everyone who reads this will strike up a comment or two and engage Mike in a dialogue - his show is worth it. The other part of the idea is expose myself as the fraud I am by giving credit where it is do. Mike's selections are fantastic, and while I kick myself every time he nabs a track before I can post it, I must admit that the mixtapes I've mailed my friends would missing half their tracks if it wasn't for the hot white infusion that the podcast has provided. Last thing - I tried my damndest to include a righteous swath of the excellent ecletic tracks that Mike chooses. Sadly though this was impossible due to both time and space constraints. I picked tracks that I myself felt were great, and invariably my bias has eaten out a part of the raw mix that the actual experience conveys. But for every German Breakcore I couldn't include I was able to smuggle in a small piece of my own personal heaven. That said let's begin the listening experience that is The Yank Sizzler: Mike's Mission Statement 1. The Make Up - Born on the Floor Episode 1 For some indistinct reason this rather rambling piece was sunk its' tinterhooks into me. Even after all the re-listens of Episode 1 this song stills seems full of an odd and restless passion that keeps it fresh each time. 2. Bobby Bare Jr. - Strange Bird Episode 2 3. Caribou - BeesI remember the first time I heard this I was floored by the fantastic push of oddity it exudes in its instrumentation. Peddling as fast as I could to get home and share it with Ana I was breathless as plugged in the iPod and let this song speak for me. Episode 3 4. Jacques Dutronc - "Responsible"Slow gracious builds and an open aural space as large an unspeakable Canadian province with a poor grasp of name recognition. Episode 4 5. Billy Mbowa & The AGS Boys - Jane WagneA song that disproved my girlfriends insistence that the French were worthless. THANKS MUSIC! Episode 5 6. Beta Band - Dry The RainOne of the greatest joys to be had from Mike's podcast is not in the music itself but of his intense connection with the world through the vehicle of music. In our irony shattered landscape any recognition of the visceral forces is an affirmation of life. Episode 6 Another swelling and lilting song? How can I explain this without having to make an excuse for my choice? Oh that's right it has the line in it: If there is something inside that you want to say 7. Woody Guthrie - I Ain't Got a Home In This World AnymoreSay it alright. It will be ok. I will be alright. Episode 7 8. The Black Eyes - DeformativeHave you ever watched the documentary by Scorsese about Bob Dylan and realize half way through that you want the camera to leave Bob and follow Woody? Well I have. Woody, in my opinion was saying something brutal and true - without ripping off Italian Renaissance poets and spouting gibberish. Episode 8 There is a certain stiffness that digs into my neck - a crink that crawls through my brow, and the firing of the anxious nerves of my adolescence still left bare under my armor of maturity, which this song so powerfully evokes. 9. Bearsuit - Steven Fucking Speilberg Episode 9 10. Tapes and Tapes - Sister SisterBearsuit is a national treasure, Mike helped me see the light on this. It is true, too true, in fact as they are not our national treasure. The only solution to this is kidnapping them and like nasty fairies leaving behind some knick knacks and fig newtons so no one notices their absence until it is too late. Episode 10 Somehow a perennial entry on several volumes of mixtapes. My explanation: rolling beats, fevered lyrics and varying levels of absurd braggadocio and absurd vulnerable exposition. 11. The Sonics - Strychnine Episode 11 12. Josh White - Takin' NamesSuch a fundamentally great track I am wondering how this got missed in all those damned rock & roll collections I heard growing up. Also a great showcase of Mike's dry humor. Episode 14 13. Love - Hey JoeA slow and spooky rouser full of that odd world view that is the hallmark of singer songwriters. Practically nihilistic. Episode 16 The passing of Arthur Lee was a sad day. Honestly though, what he left us was a gift few could match. He will be missed and remembered. 14. Gogol Bordello - Start Wearing Purple Episode 17 15. Cleveland Crochet - Drunkard's DreamMike, like most of us falls in love with the bands he plays and rejoices in sharing and talking about them. Gogol is definitely high on the list of the returning favorites who get into the rotation more than most. Not a bad thing at all. Me, I had to include this; he name checks Diogenes (one must wonder if it is the Diogenes of "The Cynic" fame or maybe another of the bunch). Episode 18 16. Kid Koala - cut from Side 1Mike, by including the snippet of Peel, falls into the sacred duty bunch of the preservers. Often a Creole track or two will show up in between the indies and the oldies. As always these are the finest representatives of the sound and ethic of the culture. A culture fast disappearing each new fan Mike turns on only helps the chances of its continuation. Episode 19 Kid Koala, damn you Mike for playing this before I could. On the other hand - the more the merrier. And a solid note to leave the show on. Kid Koala speaks with more passion and eloquence than anyone else who rocks the decks. 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Thu, 5 April 2007  Ana's birthday has come and gone - a more festive time out than she'd thought it would be (still I was hoping for more but as these things go I am always more optimistic than is reasonable). The night began with a re-visit to the Tea Lounge in Park Slope, a gathering and launch off point for the various parties who I had hoped would congregate there before setting off to trip the light retrotastic at the Culture Club. Such was not to be the case - as ominously a Fleetwood Mac CD (Greatest Hits, I do believe) had gotten stuck in an infinite loop and everyone was subjected to two hours of breathless early 80's pap. Due to time constraints Fleetwood Mac will not be represented in this podcast. When complaints were lodged with the staff the music quickly got shuffled around to the likes of Modest Mouse - here freely intrepreted in a nice piece by World Famous Audio Hacker. The highlight of the first phase of the night was the presentation of the video compilation done by our friends back in Portland. A lot of good memories and sad nostalgia got built up and released by this singularly awesome reminiscence. This kernal of solid awesome is represented here by our friends doing a birthday ballad to Ana, a fine little track that is a bit more coherent than anything I've ever done. The fun continued with a surprise visit from super-student Tomohiro. Luckily enough he is a conspicous character, and was quickly besieged by the family of English teachers and their various lessons of puppy and "hanging in there". Tomo is here represented by Hifana a not to be missed breakbeat group that I have featured before. It was due to Tomo that I myself was introduced to their fiery tempo of heavy breaks. Be sure to check out their incredible video over here. When we finally did set out it, wasn't to any high-falutin' Manhattan culture hole, but a half-block down to the Union Hall! A Brooklyn Birthday entirely contained in the space of a football field. Upon entry to the Home of the Park Slope Famous Bocci Ball Courts, we got a the first taste of the retro back pedalling that is a bar playing the Clash's Rock the Casbah. Here to keep the feeling alive I've replaced the original with the mildly modified Rythm Scholars version. The downstairs dance floor was awash with the solid dance tracks of the obscure, which unfortunately I could not find representatives for, such as a track from the Mo'Wax label I couldn't place but know I've heard before, a track from Hot Butter, and many more. Great Fun was had by all and is here represented Blondie's "Heart of Glass", The Beastie Boys "So Whatcha Want", a clip from Grant Stetski, and Belle and Sebastian's "We are the Sleepyheads". Incredibley of those four songs - three were played on the dance floor but the one that was not is actually the most dance dance song of them all. To clarify, yes I shook it like I made it to the intermitentment beats of Belle and Sebastian. Rounding this all out is a bit of primal scream therapy from Aa the tribal electro punk outfit from (drum roll) Brooklyn. Nothing like a soul shattering mournful yelp to express the rightful existential quagmire that are birthdays. Thanks for having another year on Earth with me Babe - we'll try our best to keep this all together. Thanks also to all the well wishers, visitors, guests, dancers, and contributers who helped make it a good night out. 1. World Famous Audio Hacker - Dashboard 2.0 Retouch2
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Wed, 28 March 2007  March is eye donor awareness, womens history, kidney, colorectal cancer, nutrition and, of course, National Noodle Month. More importantly it's Uner's birthday month.While we're shaking it down to 80's music this weekend the Monthlie is still what it is, a recap of the likes for the classic set. Tune in for the next weeklie for the birthday music. Sonny And Cher - The Beat Goes On (Live) Hear that sound? That is the sound of bile. A humor thick enough to cut a prenup, Sonny and Cher do a number. All in fun though. The Monkees - Buy Me a DogJust cheese, pure cheese - but still a great little forgotten pop song that has more pep than purpose. Dale Hawkins - Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Townbuy A powerful and deranged voice for one of the more personal takes on the effects of war. Incredibly Leonard Nimoy took a stab at this track - for the benefit of everyone I could not produce that version though. Trini Lopez - Corazon De Melonbuy Heart of Melon, watermelon. Composed by Burt Bacharach for the movie of the same name - but somehow not included in the theatrical release. The Five Blobs are actually a quintet-dubbed Bernie Nee (or Knee). The Piglets - Johnny ReggaeI believe the vocals on this track were provided by a trio of sex starved British mums. They sound about 40-ish and chucked full of Reggae Fever - yearning for a big hard dance floor number. Dislocation Dance - You Can Tellbuy Claire Torry - Midnight Train Big bold and brassy Torre stutters over the horn inflected sounds of this songbook standard. Incidentally famous for faking an orgasm on Pink Floyd's Great Gig in the Sky. buy Did you know Procol Harum was Douglas Adam's favorite band. Good reason and good taste. If also absurd, to qoute, "rich and fruity." Varetta Dillard - That's Why I Crybuy Born in 30's Harlem and died in 90's Brooklyn, Dillard had the rough hewn vocal growl that made her songs more than just a 50's pop-chart topper. The Small Faces - Hey Girlbuy A great set of musicians who would later trade out the mod set-up of the early UK 60's to become a solid psychedelic out fit. Traffic - House For Everyonebuy 10CC - Worst Band in the World And still a great song. 10cc maybe a drug reference, you ask? Not to worry kids - they actually took their name from the total amount of semen ejaculated by the average male, in metric units because their British like that. The more you know...the more you owe. buy Had a tough time finding any background on these guys. May be a false attribution. Richard Penniman - Ooh! My SoulMichael Liggins & The Super Souls - Loaded to the Gills "I never really thought about how special we
were back then. We had a different style, we really did ...
I didn't realize it then. I just thought, "They did a
good job." Mike Lenaburg, producer Unknown - Unknownbuy Can any one help identify this sterling little track? A near instrumental. Smoosh - Free to StayThat is a very young voice there. This duo hailing from Seattle is managing some nice - if basic songs. The piano line on this is fabulous. buy Frankie's got a huge catalog of not quite great numbers - but this was his only hit. In retrospect it is a good example of a weird rock song - I imagine at the time it was just a great song. Thanks for tuning in. Requests are always wanted - and comments too. Incedentaly I'm none to bright about what month this is so the file name is month04. I'd love to rename it but that function is temporarily unavailable. Stay tuned for further fuckups.Comments[0] | ||||||||||
Mon, 26 March 2007  It's been one of those weekends that make NYC seem like a great place to live. Not that it isn't usually - but honestly it's not (more or less). I guess New York is OK. It all kicks off as a birthday party for a friend. We go out to a place called Le Souk (East side above Houston) a tidy little restaurant with a tiny little dance floor. I'll cut to the chase, on this; thanks to the friend for the birthday party and thanks to all the friends who could make it. I had fun despite the venue. My recommendation to any potential customers - don't go. The DJs sucked, dropping beats, dead air, and trainwrecking when ever they played more than one record at a time. The staff were courteous fuck jobs. Three words, one expletive: red velvet fucking rope. Additionally, unbelievably, a table could only be had if you bought a bottle - a bottle of Absolute costs $200 here. The music started off as Mediterranean Inflected House, then dropped it's pretenses and was just House. Sadly, the DJs were not even able to play House without trainwrecking. Fun is fun and it got late, we headed home and on the train back I saw an indie kid with the Polmo Polpo vinyl "Like Hearts Swelling". Day two found us at the Metropolitan Museum of Art playing a scavenger hunt for clues to reveal the murderer of the curator. I highly suggest this as fun for the people who like fun. So much fun that I must play TMBG. We didn't win but we did get the MC to say "Slick Nipples" to the gathered crowd. Leaving there we're off to the Lower East Side for Indian food. Getting misdirected with the best of intentions, I get to walk by the store front shop of the best revolution in radio EVR! Sadly, I was the only one in the group who knew, loved, and cared. Arriving at the substitute destination - (I will find the name and info later) - the place is six kinds of awesome. Hallucinogenic interior decor, cramped to beat the band, and cheap honest food. And my babe got the birthday treatment by the house with a single candle, mango ice cream, crazy bhangra goa happy birthday song and a light show involving flicking the light switch on and off. (The entirety of the birthday part lasted thirty seconds at most - but will be a lifetime's worth of memories.) Eating out? I recommend this place, five stars. Try to find the Glorious Gold Godzilla hanging from the ceiling. That night we watch "A Scanner Darkly" and are reminded of our tenuous grasp of reality. A funny sad movie - an honest depiction of life as I know it. Sunday morning rolls along and I get a call from old-skooler Shawn, down and out and automobile mobile in LA. Going for the long haul he's getting back into school and graciously grants me two tracks for podcast. Sunday, and we got to go shopping for the professional attire for future potential interviews for certain wayward girls. Is Century21 really a soul sucking commercial monstrosity. Oh yes it is. Nothing makes me yearn for a DIY "up against the wall motherfucker" revolution like shopping in Manhattan. Then we're off to the tutor session at the Barnes and Noble - represented here by the likes of Arcade Fire's No Cars Go, because ever since the Neon Bible came out B&N have been piping in the Fire over the speakers. Inexplicable indie mega hit takes the muzak air waves, B&N cashes in on hip and the world goes around the sun one more time. Wrapping it all up (I've got to get to work and soon). I leave you with the seminal track of Amon Tobin's - Shawns submission on this one. Mind fucking blowing and I'll never forget the first time I heard it way back when in the Rockin Rudy's of Missoula. Thanks Shawn for the blast from the past.
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Mon, 19 March 2007  The Inaugural OPPI decided I wanted, in addition to the weeklies and monthlies, something more communal to the general world: an homage show for fellow podcasters while it is unlikely that anyone who visits this backward little page would not know the vastly more popular sites, I'm still rather ignorant of the world so my naivete allows me be ignorant of better sense - even if I know better. This one goes out to John Peel. I want to nominate John Peel as the patron saint of indie music, podcasters, and the overlooked. While Peel never (to my knowledge) had a podcast his singular taste in music, self effacing humor, and influence has left on indelible mark on the music of today. Beginning in the late sixties as a pirate radio broadcaster with his Perfumed Garden show to his death in 2003 he played music that never would have made air time otherwise. Odd and particular tracks, his vast selections always straining for that rare thing of uniqueness. His passion itself often clouded the choices he made since he valued uniqueness over quality. More personally he lit the fire for music under my ass. I came across the 1986 Festive Fifty selection by more accident than anything and immediately knew that at least 40 of the tracks I had never heard and never would have heard without the benefit of his show. And so it goes - music is shared and we all learn a little bit more about the world. Not too long after that I launched into finding out what I was missing in the music of today and quickly abandoned the comfort songs of familiarity for the jagged edge of the unknown. For all the horrible noise I've heard since then I can only blame the musicians and for ever jaw dropping and heart pounding track buried in the mess of it - I can only thank John Peel. 1. Canned Heat - Rollin' and Tumblin' aired on Perfumed Garden, 1967 2. Electric Prunes - Wind Up ToysA nice nice tune and the sign of a quality DJ is when he plays his friends music on the air. aired on Perfumed Garden, 1967 3. Marc Bolan - Hippy GumboWhat an awesome psychedelic pop song - a bit derivative but exceedingly good. Peels two cents perfect zeitgeist. aired on Perfumed Garden, 1967 4. Top Gear Signature TuneHow come I've never heard this? They should distribute this to the high schools with disproportionate drop out rates. After the Perfumed Garden got closed down by the government (it was pirate after all) Peel landed a job doing the Top Gear show for the BBC. I couldn't find much about this period except for his shows signature tune. 5. The Jam - Down in a Tube Station at Midnightaired on Festive 50 (F50) 1979 6. Pigbag - Papa's Got a Brand New PigBagThe Jam, almost exclusively reserved for retro hipsters in Williamsburg nowadays is still a solid band well worth the 30 year hype. aired on F50 1981 7. The Woodentops - Well Well WellRoiling post punk funk with ska elements and the big band sound. Ah lord we need more of this. Favorite - the Fwee whistle. More Fwee Whistle! aired on F50 1985 8. Ironmasters - The Men They Couldn't HangA good driving drum line, elemental vocals, and a Casio keyboard. aired on F50 1985 9. Weather Prophets - Almost PrayedI've got a soft spot for seditious folk songs. Remind me to bust out the Guthrie someday. aired on F50 1986 10. Camper Van Beethoven - Take the Skinheads BowlingAw brit pop - so good so gold. A melancholy song about near religious experience. aired on F50 1986 11. House of Love - Destroy the HeartIt was this song that blew my mind and drove me to worship Peels musical tastes. Such a raucous chorus, what sheer absurdity. Classic: "I had a dream - it was about nothing" aired on F50 1988 12. Stump - Charlton HestonThe sentiment of this song (if not it's execution) is well worth the time to listen to it at least three times. aired on F50 1988 13. Gorkys Zygotic Mynci - If Fingers were XylophonesAnother wonderfully absurd piece - the fact that these folks only ever put out one album and then disbanded due to a lack of commercial interests is a clear sign of the failure of the capitalists system. Now I just have to find a re-issue and build a shrine. aired on F50 1995 A band destined for nothing more than cult obscurity. But why? Their name could never be made into a commodity. 14. Cornershop - 6am Jullander Shereaired on F50 1995 15. White Town - Your WomanMind blowing Indian Pop fusion from Leicester. If demographic change always sounded so good our world would be a lot less hateful. aired on F50 1996 16. Hefner - Alan BeanOh you've heard this one before? Yeah I think it dominated the airwaves for one summer. Wonderful thing. Worth the replay value. aired on F50 2001 17. Detroit Cobras - AlabamallamaFive stars on this - shivers and shakes down spines, feet tapping and head bopping while the refrain reminds and steels us against the troubles of it all. aired on F50 2001 18. The Fall - Theme from Sparta FCRock and Roll baby. aired on F50 2003 19. CLSM - John Peel is Not EnoughThe Fall are insane, 60 some frickin albums each track unhinged in some beautiful way. The shouting of fruits by the background singers on Dr. Faustus is a good example. This song coming near the end of Peel and The Falls decade long friendship is a capstone to the efforts of DJs to play what they love and bands to play what they love. Not harmonious no - but distinct. aired on F50 2003 20. John Peel - TalkingFrom the psychedelic sixties to the hard dance of the 00's - Peel played it all. And what props he was given. aired on Perfumed Garden, 1967 Thanks John. For the miracle. Listen up folks, like CLSM said - John Peel is not enough. It is the duty of each of us to love and cultivate music. Throw it down and seek it out with passion. Play it loud and it fills the yawning emptiness we all have inside our alienated hearts. Play it for a friend and feel the connection of shared experience bridge the gap of our lonely islands of consciousness. Music to share is music to live by. Let's take off the headphones folks - we've all got that one golden track. Get it out there and make Peel proud. Comments[0] | ||||||||||
Sun, 11 March 2007  I've discovered that there might be more music I listen to that I want to post then I can. This week showed that while I was using the monthlies as a main drop off of good tracks not all those tracks could meet the mood that the monthlies was originally created for - hence the weeklies. But the weeklies were originally intended to be brief 15 minute episodes that could, by enterprising individuals be combined into a hour long show at the end of the month. The largess when moved from the monthlies has made the weeklie post swell to a once per month proportion. But I like to think that the slate is clean now and ready for a much more stripped down post next week. Is it possible? meh.Thanks to contributers Craig, Leah and Jay. me - Calcutta (by Aphrodite) - compressed remix A lovely song but my adhd screams that it goes on to long. With all the twitch that I have can I even enjoy trance anymore? Page France - Here's a TelephoneArcade Fire - Neighborhood (Laika), Live @ White Sessions Ana
and I read a piece in the times that made the new album sound
interesting - no I haven't heard it yet. I would have posted the
original but why when this live one is so good. Grant Green - Ain't It Funky NowSo Ana and I did make it out to the TeaLounge
to catch some music. Before the band started the piped in house sound
was mainly Modeski, Martin and Wood knock offs (or the actual MMW who
knows anymore?) and then the first few bars of Ain't It Funky Now came
over the speakers - 10 seconds before it got pulled so that the show
could start. A shame really. Talat - Hasidic MonkListening to what they had on their website made me think it was
klezmer jazz and well worth a shot. But the show veered dangerously close to Miles' Bitches
Brew level of fusion noodling - minus the originality of the concept of
course. We split and I felt betrayed since, as some components of the
show proved, they could have been a great combo of radical Hasidim and
bop; instead of the aimless wandering that was the majority of their
tact.
Danielson - Did I Step on Your Trumpet? Sexy swingy and fun - who hasn't posted this yet?
Antibalas - ObanlaeAn large orchestral Afropop group right
here in Brooklyn? New album coming out and I'm sure there will be a
riotous cd release party.
The Victorian English Gentlemens Club - Ban the GinMaybe the loudest song posted yet - very snot-punk crossed with the indie folk scene. A solid combination.
Frank Freeman - SecurityFrank is a friend going back to the
g.o.d.s in PDX - The member of many oft renamed bands this, I believe,
is his solo piece. Submitted by correspondent Verb.
Eat Tapes - NOSA mystery how I found this and where
more information about who it is can be found. Sorry about that - these
really are the left overs though.
Madness - Baggy TrousersOn loan from Pretending Life Is Like A Song who submitted it to the Contrast Podcast. A great piece that I had to borrow since it does not sound entirely like anything else.
Blackalicious - Side to SideFrom the album The Craft correspondent
Burrell takes this track of a party taken over by rather demanding
women folk. Such are the dangers of the game my youthful rhyme spitting
friends.
Pendulum - Fasten Your SeatbeltForgive me father I have sinned to a
winsome bass kick. In all honesty I was seduced - innocently reading a
myspace page of a raver when I was looking for last weeks tracks when
this started up as the embedded page sounds - when next thing I know
I'm bottomed out on the lower east side blowing the door man to get
into a warehouse. But honestly I feel just awful about the whole thing
now and only include it here to serve as a warning. To the kids.
Palomar - Our HauntTo the kids who wouldn't sell to me 'cause they think I'm a cop - this a warning you little shits. Brooklyn Indie band tours southwest and
release a new album this month. Brooklyn Indie band won't play a show
in New York till their all done touring in the south. Ergo; NYC gets
the south's sloppy seconds from home-town hipsters. Alliteration.
Freiwillige Selbstokontrolle - I Wish I Could Sprechen Sie Deutsch (John Peel Session)Coincidentally I will have more about this next week for I have been INSPIRED.
Beck - Hollow LogRounding it all out I realized that of
the two things i haven't listened to lately that I actually bought the
albums for when albums were physical things you could buy was Beck's
One Foot in the Grave and Violent Femmes first album. The Femmes got to
go into the monthly and Beck gets the weekly - every one is happy
except for me who still feels let down that both these bands quickly
left the sounds they defined in the early era of their careers.
me - Jay vs. Soft Circle "Whirl"It may not be good but it doesn't have to be. I made it. Vocals are from contributer Jay
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Mon, 5 March 2007  Do to limits of space we can only host so much, and podcasts must be taken down after their moment in the sun. Each one is given a lovely apartment in shared space on some damnable CD I put somewhere and golly I don't remember to well anymore.If you would like a copy of the podcast drop a note in the requests page and I'll see what I can do. The following podcasts are in the back forty: Month 01 - January Month 02 - February Category: Pages -- posted at: 9:16 PM Comments[0] | ||||||||||
Mon, 5 March 2007  So I really really enjoyed putting together the sounds for week 10 podcast, and in reflection - I really enjoyed putting together the sounds for the week 9 podcast. Which isn't to say that the Months aren't fun to make - digging through the dust for the sacramental sound is an unrivaled joy. But there is the old and the new, different but equal.I originally started this podcast because I was already putting together mix tape selections of the golden eras of rock n roll, soul, mo-town, funk, jazz and swing. And this is something I'm still dedicated to. But I also want to do another collection that showcases the diverse sounds of everything I like. So I've settled on a schedule that will allow me the freedom for both. A weekly (or bi-weekly) show that hosts the music that I and my newest collaborators find that excites our souls. And then the more rareified form of the monthlies that will feature the exclusive groove that comes from the golden oldies crates. It is a win win for everyone and a solid split right down the middle. Category: general -- posted at: 8:59 PM Comments[0] | ||||||||||
Mon, 5 March 2007  Almost went out to a birthday party, almost went out to a live show at a coffee house, almost went out to the EarFarm gig, and almost went out to a rave. Ana has never gone - so this mix is for her. She still hasn't gone because, as implied above, the almost was the closest realization of the thought to reality. Instead we stayed home and talked all night long. Better than all the other options, if you ask me. But still there is a rhythm inside me that yearns to be expressed in motion and groove on the close perimeter of the bassbin on the dance floor. And so here's the mix. Careful with the speakers on this, some of the levels aren't even so keep aware. Oh, and if you don't like dance music, yeah sorry and pity on you. Track listings:
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Sun, 25 February 2007  Journal Entry: Week09We're going out to dinner with Ana's folks. Get on the A - whoosh out of Brooklyn . We get to this little Cuban place in the village and are treated to a hearty eat and drink session as we hear about the modern dance ballet of Carmen. Packing up and heading out into the cold - we are aimed towards the bar Fat Black Pussy Cat. While shooting some pool we've got a multimedia experience courtesy of one of those wide screen LCD bastard intrusion devices bars are so found of now a days. Besides a lot of music I could have lived without I did get to see the video for the Scissor Sister's "I Don't Want to Dance" which is incredibly good and may I suggest YouTubing that particular piece. I take a break and head to the men's room where I find a delightful little CD hanging out waiting for me to help myself. Hail modern distribution techniques! While there are only 3 of 6 tracks that aren't scratched to oblivion, I find at least one of them tolerable and think it significant that I have not thrown it away yet. Across the street from the juke joint we're at is the Blue Note - I take a peak in and see that it is Ahmad Jamal playing tonight. I swoon but it is not meant to be, we walk on. Seeing the trendy masses yearning to recreate authenticity (but this time with less anguish) at various clubs and bars Ana nearly goes into berserker kill mode over the tragedy of recapturing the village's spirit by capitalist means. Before the slouching towards Bethlehem begins we load up on the A and head back home. Good Night Brooklyn
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Sat, 24 February 2007 A nice day to post my first podcast. Sure earlier this week would have been better - I think it was Tuesday. Tuesday would have been better.But today I'm posting my back catalog - this is from the month of January and is mainly focused on rock n' roll in the 50' to 70's. A little background as to why may help understand the purpose of this focus. I grew up in house of rock n roll - anytime there was work to be done the tunes to toil to would be motown and pre-Beatles tracks. Some how my mom's sense of aesthetic made it through two decades of musical upheaval with only the addition of Janis Joplin to show the passage. Rooted in the primordial four four time, call and response, and songs about high school love my understanding of music was a bit different than those of my classmates. Their parents listened to prog-rock and late seventies rock anthems. They knew power chords - I knew that a girl named Sue ran around with every single guy in town. Growing up in house of re-issued compilations I must have heard the same limited catalog of the greatest hits of every year. Many were spectacular but the fact that the same songs would crop up on every album left a massive yearning for something more diverse. So a while ago I started seeking out the rarities that my mom would like so that a bit of extra music could be added in to the house sounds. This of course developed into an idea for a monthly mix tape which I could send her to lift the mood and keep a connection between us. So I proudly present the Months, a collection of good music that I think most people, not just my mom, ought to hear. Explanations out of the way please enjoy Month01 Category: general -- posted at: 12:36 PM Comments[0] | ||||||||||
Wed, 21 February 2007 Geez, got a lot to get down and quick - first podcast going up this weekend. ahhh I'm all a twitter. What a shame too you all seem like such nice folks. I'll be on a first name basis here, you can call me Pete. I'll be back later with .. . what else more music. Category: general -- posted at: 8:43 PM Comments[0] | ||||||||||
