What are you listening to? 2011

bliss - fun (wmot - 1981)

(now THIS is a boogie single you might want for more then five bucks. cuz it rules. bonus points if you get a copy on the rap city label.)

genuine parts - i don't care for you (pizazz - 1987)

(so great. yet another record that people won't be able to buy in my store cuz i love it too much. not that it really matters cuz i could probably put it in my dollar bin and it would sit there for a million years cuz people are lame. freestyle heaven. just wish the dub version was 20 minutes long instead of 4 minutes long. i'm so fucking greedy.)

bo boss - tequila (emergency - 1982)

(everyone needs this for the b-side "hao hao ha tequila". sooooooooooooooo good.)

companion - this is a test (barclay - 1981)

(this is a really strange single. just a weird vibe with all the stops and starts. its almost like its always just getting started for the length of the song! this is for boris midney completists. b-side "i feel delight" is just as strange. production is strange. so, if you like strange dance singles...)

DAF - brothers (illuminated - 1985)

(british pressing. not my fave DAF single. and i love DAF.)

clinton daniel - believe in yourself/love is the key (funk city - 1995)

(not feeling this at all. and i'm always willing to be surprised by mid-90's underground house stuff.)

nights of the round table vol. 1 (gossip records - 1995)

(mid-90's techno EP i can get behind. klm tracks are cool. jose nunez stuff is pretty fierce.)

jason tomi - cry for love (ligosa - 1991)

(i love the Doors sample on this track. it's seamless. not a a LOOK AT ME I'M A DOORS SAMPLE kinda thing, you know? its just another part of the song. works so well.)

alston becket cyrus - nanny revival (cocoa records - 1993)

(calypso house. or something like that. not my bag, really.)

ruffneck - everybody be somebody (maw - 1995)

(the deeper into the 90's you go, the less i dig masters at work-related stuff. hate to admit it. even the bostich sample doesn't move me. just listening to a todd terry single with yet another bostich sample and it hit a lot harder.)

DJ Erick Rincon

good stuff, scott! ha ha, 'disco dracula'! i was thinking there was a boney m connection, and yep, there totally was:

http://discodelivery.blogspot.com/2007/10/disco-delivery-47-hot-blood-disco.html

i've listened to, like, a zillion freestyle singles since i last posted but i think i'll spare everyone.

didn't know about the boney m connection. (that single i was playing isn't really as good as most boney m singles.)

recently:

Nu Sensae- Tea Swamp Park 7"

Pure Hell- Noise Addiction LP (this is the best american punk album of the 70s, i'm convinced)

Limp Wrist- Limp Wrist one-sided 12"

Oasis- shuffling around the stuff from Oasis Collaborating 1 and 2 (this is Omar-S, not Liam and Noel)

PiL- Flowers of Romance LP

i was just listening to a 12", early '80s electro, credited to Central Unit, called 'Computer Music.' does anyone know anything about this? discogs seems to know even less than i do. beautiful cover design (says on the back 'all voices and graphics by Commodore Amiga'). it's good!

listening to lots of mystikal

Vijay Iyer - Historicity

Earlier,
King Crimson - Red, Larks' Tongues in Aspic
the first two tracks from Morrissey - Viva Hate

Beefheart, Safe as Milk

http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/4393/cover_33462032009.jpg

Remmy Ongala - Kershaw Sessions (bloody great - RIP)
Jackie Mittoo - Macka Fat
Augustus Pablo - East of the River Nile
various Rhythm & Sound
Surgeon - Live @ Wax Treatment 2011
Nigeria Special

Doc Scott - Drumz 95 (Nasty Habits rmx)

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

bodies of water- twist again
robbie fulks- 13 hillbilly giants
white denim- d
ethiopiques vol 4
pavement- crooked rain, crooked rain
kompakt total 3

DJ Dolores - Aparelhagem
Funky Nassau: The Compass Point Story
DJ Quik - Book of David
Nas - It Was Written

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3lTGKf9LfT8/TRIqAFkqVFI/AAAAAAAAUjM/Quis5qTeOQ8/s1600/0PParker.jpeg

^^^ Wow at that cover!

Currently checking out the reissue of "Time Code" by the difficult-to-Google Krauthsynth group You. It's great!

the grapes and champagne and candles send it over the top

"produced by patrick cowley"--those are magic words. what a legend.

patrick died before that album came out :(

1982 was a bad year for HIV-related deaths--the trickle was becoming a flood...

cowley's 15-minute version of 'i feel love' is still the definitive one, in my book. also 'megatron man'! etc etc.

i wonder if my good friend rob knew him in the san francisco club scene in the late '70s--i bet he did.

Gobs and gobs of Italo disco.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2153/2218977152_274776db94_o.jpg

hot twang on twang action

love how "bob dylan" somehow includes covers of house of the rising sun, eve of destruction, swing low, sweet chariot, and two lee hazlewood songs. close enough, i guess.

Edward Vesala, Rodina
V/A, Schilling 2011 Schampler
Bill Gould & Jared Blum, The Talking Book
Dave Swarbrick, Swarbrick/ Swarbrick 2/ Smiddyburn
Anthony Phillips,Wise After The event
Toro Y Moi, Underneath The Pine

Boredoms, Chocolate Synthesizer
Boredoms, Super Roots 3
Gravitar, Chinga Su Corazon

Apache Dropout, a lot

The Bongos - Telephoto Lens / Glow in the Dark (massively re-flippable Hoboken powerpop 7")

Fleetwood Mac - Future Games (the song and the album, but mostly the song)

and this awesome old dutch prog track which i thought about posting to the past-expiry rock thread but i forgot my bus pass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjYWQcfdzlo

Jean C. Roche - Whale Songs (attn fans of Douglas Quin's Antarctica: last track is another Whale / Seal chorus, lower-fi but amazing)
Beatriz Ferreyra - La Riviere Des Oiseaux
Huun Huur Tu - Ancestor's Song
Biber - Rosary Sonatas (Manze / Egarr)
Qluster - Fragen (Roedelius is pushing it by calling his new collaboration this)
Hungarian Folk Songs Collected by Zoltán Kodály - Phonograph Cylinders 1912-1917

/Huun Huur Tu - Ancestors Call

^^ really great - the slow songs are spaced, the fast tracks are crazy

Tokyo Jihen - Daihakken

let's give it up for 99 cent vinyl:

love inc - new jack city / r.e.s.p.e.c.t. [classic, obviously...wolfgang voigt should go back to making hard techno]
d-train - walk on by / d-train (dub) / tryin to get over [it's all about the trippy dub versions on side 2--man, 1982 was such an awesome year]
jean-michel jarre - zoolook [so stiff it's funky]
grace jones - do or die [tom moulton biznizz, some great extended breakdowns]
paperclip people - remake (uno) [carl craig's version of e2-e4]

Milton if you want to send me a link for Daihakken I would not mind. I haven't found it yet, but I haven't looked very hard either.

Assuming you havent' already received a hard copy.

Me: cocaine-fueled Colombian salsa (Joe Arroyo) while rushing to get to work.

galaxie 500 - this is our music
john cale - island years
meg baird - dear companion
can - ogam ogat
beethoven

Milton if you want to send me a link for Daihakken I would not mind.

Never mind.

the micronauts - the jag/the jag(speedy j remix) (this is kinda cool! speedy j remix is suitably fucked up but i like the original version better)

the klf - america: what time is love (this sounds so ridiculously huge when you play it on my ridiculously huge speakers)

RA the rugged man - till my heart stops/flipside (ehhhhh, not my kinda thing...)

george g. - he is the one (super duper italo)

rob - musique pour un enfant jouet/la 3eme femme/rodeo 69 (i don't know what the hell this is but i dig it. soundtracksploitation frenchtronica stuff. rob is probably friends with air and phoenix. sounds very cool on vinyl.)

Tokyo Jihen - Dai-hakken

oh man i love this jason ojeda 12 inch! one side is techno steve miller and the other side is techno pearl jam! so great. i knew there must be a way to make eddie vedder sound good.

still trying to figure out if its worth my time to listen to any of these 90's ZYX singles. i haven't a clue. trekker? hanna haze? eurogroove? whigfield? d-stressed? so many of them. maybe siegbran would know.

Tuba Skinny - Six Feet Down
bunch of stuff on shuffle

Scott, listen to Whigfield! You won't regret it.

Now listening : Genesis - Trick Of The Tail
Coming up : Status Quo - Quo
Camel - Mirage
Caravan - If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You

Shabazz Palaces - Shabazz Palaces EP
Shabazz Palaces - Of Light EP
Intronaut - Prehistoricisms
Pearl Jam - Riot Act
The Black Dahlia Murder - Ritual

now playing: the house that trax built comp. "your love" by frankie knuckles is GOD GOD GOD!!

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GOD!

the only album i have loved from start to end was alegrias, the flamenco album of howe gelb. all the rest which was amongst others basically pj harvey, james blake, low and bill callahan was exciting for a short period of time but then it withered away like a baby girl which turned into a hundred year old granny in a second. especially disappointing was the feelies cd. one good song in thirteen? lifeless and samey, music to snore to. they sound dated and old. what happened to their fresh guitar sound? i haven't listened properly to the deerhoof cd yet, maybe there is a positive surprise hiding there. the sonic youth soundtrack was solid but very predictable. i doubt that there is still great music made these days. someone prove me wrong, please.