Rolling 'One Track Per Week' Thread 2014

An attempt at a rolling pan-genre listening thread.

I know we already have a few similar things, and also the '11 Favourite tracks of the moment, fuck' thread, but these either seem to be slowing down or they only get posted in occasionally by the same few posters.

I want to know what you're all listening to. It can be anything, new, old, famous or obscure. Any genre is welcome, but let's keep it to just one track per week per poster (and if you feel like it, it wouldn't hurt to write a couple of lines about what it is/why you like it).

This is Poorsah's (sometimes Poorsay) version of a soca song called 'Hairy Bank'. I have a version by Byron Lee & the Dragonaires which is almost identical. Don't know a lot about Poorsah, but this is catchy as heck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjaaRLlaWG0

This is a good idea! Don't think I've heard anything that's grabbed me so far this week, but will keep this thread in mind when I do.

week = starts on monday?

starts now, comes round again a week from when you posted. Obv this isn't a hard and fast rule, it's just to keep the volume steady and interesting.

someone (ogmor?) played this charming little ditty in the ilxors plug room last night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m56H4E5bZLk

A couple friends in Lisbon started a label that puts out, mostly, a series of 12"s by a cabal of artists who call themselves [Something] Fox because of their love of the Star Fox video game series. I'd read about Marfox on RA before hearing that it was friends who were putting them out. My favourite release of the group is Nigga Fox, who's 12" is enormously sold-out but I managed to snag. The whole 12" is very good but A1 is the best track. The crew uses Fruity Loops because they like grime. I want to figure out how they get their sixteenths roll the way they do. I love this song and have been playing it all year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHdgIke_6KI

hah, i love the fact Marfox et al are paying tribute to the Starfox games. It was renamed Starwing in the UK, which was a real shame I thought.

Really enjoying this track recently:
http://riotsnotdiets.bandcamp.com/track/dog-legs-beast-like-me off a compilation posted on ilm way back in may by (i think!) emil.y

Erase Errata vibes

as i don't have enough time to check all the rolling threads I'd like, I'm going to make a conscious effort to check out everything posted on this thread, assuming it survives more than a week.

that coffee cola song is real fun

I'm up for this, have been away from music for most of the past couple of weeks though.

Ok, this one is kind of cheesy but I like it. Coming soon to a rain-swept montage of separated lovers looking out the window near you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf2OPIJcS5k

kind of obsessed with this song this week. it's too long and the lyrics are dumb-dylan and even mick's vocals don't really work completely but everything else is worth obsessing over. this week, anyway. the drum beat kills me. keith on both acoustic and slide (i think?). nicky's piano which immediately reminds me of my beloved red weather album by leigh stephens (and then i go duh of course leigh was obsessed with this stuff too at the time...)and that damned flutey mellotron by brian which may be one of my fave brian contributions (and one of the last) to a stones song. i love the repetitions. which makes the song not too long for me. it's pretty long. this is some pretty fucked-up drugged-up blues rock. nothing new from me here. just keeps getting stuck in my head. so then i play it again. (and i try not to get stuck in a youtube hole listening to alternate/demo stuff.)(though the instrumental version from the satanic majesties sessions is interesting. and more normal. more of a loose jam. and brian-free.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWFxBqiZya0

I don't think this place has been so bop-happy, but this one is a jam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OobdXhuqmyM

It's all well and good, but the switch at 1:15 really takes it into the stratosphere. Then the dynamic shifts just keep on coming. Makes me fistpump the air, while also a bit sad that I'll never ever be at a party where people would be willing to hear this kind of stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcUNiOtkjCA

Israel 1973.

One Hit Wonder written by the man who is now the most successful Israeli singer - Shlomo Artzi.
sung by Dorit Pen.
wonderful vocals, melody and arrangements.

If the quality will remain as high as these first posts, then this will be my new favorite thread. Some of these are proper earworms. Keep it up, folks. Next week.

co-signed, just finished listening to these and you all have great taste. someone who knows how, could maybe make a spotify and put it at the top of the thread?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzHdo4yxidc

this is a song by afrojack & martin garix called "turn the speakers up". it has a driving beat and a pumping bassline. it is full of energy and literally makes you "turn the speakers up". it has a very memorable melody that will have you humming it along. this song will have you tapping your feet to the rhythm. it has a very memorable drop that will leave you wanting "more and more". this is a classic and could be a number one hit of this year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_ucpTneyJQ&list=UUMjooDa1FSpTZKQW4eJt32A

this band is called Afterthem and their soundcloud says they are 'electro-grunge' but they don't really sound v electro or grunge to me, maybe more like a prog group who tried to go pop/new wave in the early 80s? some of the other songs on their youtube page are more zolo

I think I linked to a playlist rather than an individual track? the track I was trying to link to is called 'pyro' ftr

still spinnin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzgm8H7PcXM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BK-Y4gu2m8

I mentioned this in the summer jamz thread, but this local band has become my new favourite act this summer. They combine trad Brazilian forro to trad Finnish (pre-rock) pop and dance music, with some added reggae and rap flavour. Sounds horrible on paper, and the band members looks like dirty hippies (though the lead singer is really cute - superficial, I know), but the music is quite good, catchy hooks and great arrangements, the shit just works!

http://youtu.be/yH7Os4OlR_0

anticipating SYRO, this track is chock full of 'PHEXIAN delights.

Yeah really enjoying pretty much all of this thread
Personal highlight, probably the Affie Yusuf track - uber relaxing

And the Mr Benn esque video was nice too

does anyone know from where the Mr Benn esque video originates?

A company called "the 29nov films" apparently

its not by them

its from a 1977 film by Frederic Back

http://www.fredericback.com/cineaste/filmographie/taratata/index.en.shtml

thanks saer!

ooooooh skot otm about Jigsaw Puzzle! Total jam!

Frederik B, does a non-dj moondawg version of the money mp3 exist? I think I need one.

I don't really know, I still don't understand the world of mixtape music, but I very much need one as well. DJ Moondawg is kinda the worst. The whole tape is very good, but so weirdly put together. I'm just listening to the video over and over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydAFTdStvhs
This has been on almost constant repeat here. I even made an edited version of it without the intro and outro, so that I can have it on a neverending loop.
Song is of course a cover of an old American standard, from Stina Nordenstam's covers album. The other standout on that album is Purple Rain.

this stuff is killing me this week. i am not a big bill nelson or be bop deluxe fan at all (lord knows, i've tried over the years...) but he was just a kid when he made this and man oh man it is right up my alley.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHKKV4YAXrA

(there is a drum break on one track from this album that i would marry if i could. won't post it though. you can look for it if you want.)

One track per week Scott!

I made a spotify playlist, I'm not 100% sure how to link to it though. If this doesn't work maybe someone who isn't a complete idiot cam try:

http://open.spotify.com/user/ap33/playlist/7rDnFJ8WJnB1lVNBeVHjO3

couldn't find the Afrojack & Martin Garix and Dog Legs tracks, or nostormo's 70s Israeli track

oh i thought it was a week...sorry.

J/K

I'd just thought I'd start a new week every monday, to make it easier to remember.

I've been digging this track a lot, a friend of mine from Minneapolis who's been knocking around various alt-country projects for quite a while, drifting closer to blue eyed soul here. Kind of reminds me of Timmy Thomas' "Why Can't We Live Together."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ1uTusZKrA&feature=youtu.be

Ooh lots to catch up with, currently really enjoying the 6th Borough Project album
Particularly this cosmos-stomping tune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TERInmBTbiw

I've harped on about this on ILM before, but this is taken from Ariel Raminez' Misa Criolla mass which was composed in the early 1960s after the Vatican ruled that masses could be written in vernacular languages other than Latin. It features a lot of traditional folk instruments and singing from South America. The whole mass is very short and worth a listen through, but this is the highlight for me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da9x0ZxtG3k

I just got caught up in this live video so i'm back to listening to Caetano Veloso's O Leaozinho again and again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1WDI3vmbVI

That amazing whistle. Who arranges tracks like that? Weird sparse folk is probably my favorite Veloso, Joia is one of my favorite records. If it had O Leaozinho instead of Help on it, it would compete with being best album ever.

Dammit! This is the original version, with the whistle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW0urIU5vpQ

http://youtu.be/pauHspEM3ls

AFX-Mangle 11 (Circuit Bent V.I.P Mix)

because aphex twin, and this track is monstrous.

i'm flying high! i'm flying high now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLj0D-z_daU#

I'm excited that there is going to be an ilm Eurovision Song Contest poll, though it's going to be several years until it happens so I've been listening to lots of Eurovision this week, still think this might be my favourite (Nina Morato 'Je Suis Un Vrai Garcon', France 1994)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzs60_xLeyA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXn_Ev36QJo

xp That's gotta be one of the finer entries from France in the last 25 years
I did enjoy the Sébastien Tellier and Jessy Matador tracks in recent events

John Surman - Dark Reed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW6Si4dqZBU

ECM jazzman tries his hand at Bohren-style dark jazz (sort of)

that Odetta song Scott shared is amazing! did she record anything else in the same vein?

Deuter - Offener Himmel I - Gelichzeitig

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsqlbUwodQQ

1970er krautrock newage goodvibes weltmusik

― once a week is ample

I'm loving everything on the afrobeats thread. the posters there are true experts, amazing knowledge. But this track stood out for me as being pretty unique among a genre that is in itself full of variety anyhow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZDS72ov1rU

Track is 'Godwin' by Korede Bello

I'm sure a fair share of you are familiar with this track but I'd forgotten he (mu-Ziq, u -ziq ??) was still making music. Lovely stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGMgwERhfcI

How had I never heard 'Weekend Special' by Brenda & the Big Dudes before?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A16XFxDNVXc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29FT5V0VmUo

This Italian mega-hit from 94 plays a significant role in The Wonders, the delightful film that one the Grand Prix from Cannes last year. Good poptune, great film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYbIl7TOgQc

24 years this week since Soviet indie-punk singer Yanka Dyagileva died (at 24 years old). Can't stop listening to Na Chornii Den'.

^^^ That's really cool. My ex had a copy of "Not Permitted" that we knew nothing about because it was all in Cyrillic. Any idea what album that electric version of "Na Chornii Den" is on?

https://youtu.be/867wjv3WOJY

Tequila fish_Big Loada_Squarepusher

Xp, it's on "Domoi".

Thanks!

Fantastikoi Hxoi - 'Etos 2525'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyIUZgcpTnA

modern krautrock/spacerock composed of samples from old Greek psych LPs. I found this album on some random blog in ≈2010 but I haven't properly listened to it until now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tSYXpq2kW0
I can't get this out of my head recently, have been playing the album frequently and love Autumn Leaves as well, but there is just "something" about love for sale.

That Fantastikoi Hxoi is great! (also weird that it's not transliterated as Echoi or Exoi, unless I'm up meself.)

ILXor, ithappens, posted this the other day on Facebook and I haven't been able to stop listening to it since.

New Musik - This World of Water

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbJIu_na4gY

One of the funner things with foreign films is getting to know cheesy pop songs from other countries. This is from the new Ozon, and is probably a queer anthem in France. It's used that way, anyway. It's catchy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-65kjpU1Qfw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0q-9oCYVIY

Brigit Novik - The Wedding Dance

partner of + collaborator with Robin 'Pop Muzik' Scott, aka M

this is very jaunty! is the melody borrowed from something famous, it seems familiar, but I can't place it?

the verse melody kind of reminds me of Kraftwerk's 'The Model'

Silvania - Pálido final

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzlIA_LTkVY

dubby ambient pop by a Mexican band that started out as a shoegaze act. ymmv.

"Murmuration" - GoGo Penguin. I'm not familiar with modern jazz but a friend hipped me to this and its really lovely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFoJli7qRdc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOArNfHCKqU

The song over the end credits of Pride. Just a great song. 'I never cried / the way I cried over you' is cliché, but earned by 'as I put down the telephone / and the world it carried on' 'Another man has lost friend / I bet he feels the way I do'... The sense of private loss, but that there's just too much loss in the world for anyone else to pay attention.

I can think of few things as horrifying as the aids epidemic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3-ZbN72Itk

this is from a 1981 movie called Vaa Intha Pakkam or Vaa Indha Pakkam, the full soundtrack is on youtube and spotify under the second title (in the UK, anyway)

the soundtrack seems to have been composed by this gentleman as far as I can tell: https://oldmalayalamcinema.wordpress.com/2010/10/13/shyam-my-10-favourites/

Josh White - Told My Cap'n

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b46zlLL88c

he's mostly remembered as a blues/folk revivalist (and I think he gets short shrift for being 'too commercial' or 'too polished' to play the blues, which is nonsense), but this is a great vocal quartet recording from his 1940 LP Chain Gang

wow, that's a lot of surface noise. here's a better upload:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psfcyqHEyD0

Yeah, I've seen A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night. Insane that that soundtrack isn't on spotify, if it's already been released in the US. That is one cool collection of tunes. Have listened to Death all over as well, but that is by White Lies, and no matter how masterful it's used in the film, I'm not going to rep for fucking White Lies. But here's a nice Iranian rock song by a band called Radio Tehran. Their whole album is on spotify, and it's fine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8sI8PUQiqg

Black Blood and the Chocolate Pickles - Mississippi Mud

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfIeZuZnbBY

(haunting rare groove funk)

I like this thread. Here's the spotify playlist for 2015's picks
ILX's One Track Per Week 2015 Thread Spotify Playlist

cheers fct - i've found out so many great tracks through this thread.

https://youtu.be/7AJX4flkK_w

Marc Baron - 1991-2005 (track 1), from Hidden Tapes

great noise record

So Ingrid Bergman. This is quite honestly the track that most reminds me of her. It's what's played in Histoire(s) du Cinema as a celebration of neorealism, a segment that begins with Bergman on the volcano in Stromboli. Her Rossellini-years are where she's at her most artful and brave, so of course her centennial should be celebrated through cheesy Italian schlager.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEFoEgEKQyQ

https://youtu.be/gTRJmfzM5SY
Nicolai Dunger Will Oldham - Last Night I Dreamt of Mississippi

The Angels - I Had a Dream I Lost You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBn8ZiMDhVY

unanthologized girl group gem from 1967

Plumtree - The Game's Over

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9BorH4UBt0

been listening to this nonstop for the past ≈8 years. probably the best band to come out of the '90s Halifax pop-rock scene

8 years / 3'45'' = 1,121,280 spins. I think you are good for the Guinness Book. ;-)

French act from 1984. Super smooth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXjSukyeptA

can we start doing this again?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlUw5nlAXIo

For Sale by Twinkle - this is the b-side to her 1982 cover of I'm A Believer, the first new music she had released since 1975. The music was written by Simon Darlow, who seems to have been an associate of Trevor Horn and wrote songs for The Buggles, Dollar, Toyah and others. somewhere between Kirsty MacColl and Reputation era Dusty Springfield, or maybe something él Records

the single cover is neat as well

https://secondhandsongs.com/picture/168000/original

yeah I found some great stuff in this thread.

Daniel Lanois - Frozen

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TnV6d7yiL0c

Japanese country reggae

I'm surprised The Smiths didn't appropriate that Twinkle photo for one of their sleeves. I listened to her Michael Hannah compilation a few years ago but wasn't too thrilled with it, title track aside. interesting backstory, though:

After dating Brian Jones, Paul and Barry Ryan, and Peter Noone, Twinkle settled with a male model, Michael Hannah. In 1969 she recorded a Motown-style song about him, "Micky", which was produced by Mike d'Abo, but their relationship was tempestuous, and she was admitted to hospital after attempting suicide.

In 1973, Hannah encouraged Twinkle to record new material; but he was killed in the Paris air disaster of 1974. The album, with the title Michael Hannah: The Lost Years, was eventually released in 2003 and told of their relationship. Twinkle married their mutual friend, Graham Rogers, a model who was better known as the Milk Tray Man.

Playgroup - Going Overdrawn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3F-l93vM3A

dub + calypso + Gypsy fiddle + Adrian Sherwood at the controls. this was also used as the backing track for Chantage's 'It's Only Money'. the two Playgroup albums are probably overdue for reevaluation in light of the recent African Head Charge and Missing Brazilians reissues.

https://turkishdc10.wordpress.com/about-2/

January 20, 2015 at 3:16 am

Wes

I believe that I was Michael Hannah possibly in a past life ive had plenty of dreams to indicate him and would like to know more about him and any photos would be great ,and this is why I have a phobia of planes ,vertigo, and very introvert and shy because of what happened in my past life .I was told in my dreams I was a model in a past life who died in a plane crash and the country turkey is also relevant and the date of the crash is close to my d.o.b. Did Michael have any links to Bournemouth because I found my self moving there for a few years like my soul wanted to be there .The 981 plane looks very familiar and stirs up a lot of fear in my soul God bless to all the victims it was a terrible disaster

May 28, 2015 at 11:23 am

michael

i was michael hannah in a past life maybe i will have a child one day and call her twinkle God bless im just a bit upset how God uses tradegy to humble us also so we search for the true God head through Jesus Christ because now i cant even look at the sky without feeling great fear

song from a georgian prison camp at the end of world war i

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mQoBkFm4u0

kind of reminds me of genoese longshoremen's songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zin1bi51w9c

Jim Lawless - Lazing

wistful and slightly eerie instrumental from a compilation on British library music label Bruton Music. they had the most amazing record sleeves:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bruton+music&biw=1600&bih=799&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwil1dqJj-XNAhVBD8AKHdPBDYsQ_AUIBygC&dpr=1

can't get this song out of my head. haunting, heartbreaking burned out folk.. the way he sings 'memories' reminds me of cobain in "come as you are".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzKDK2mMb-w

sorry, i should probably label that: Robert Lester Folsom - "Please Don't Forget Me"

1982 version of "Alasdair Mac Colla" by Aneka (of "Japanese Boy" fame) complete with guitar soloing and Glitter Band/Adam & The Ants style drums

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whcS3c1oatI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZXGGShbEVI