What are you listening to? 2011

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.

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

yeah that tune is freaking classic

scott, go download these mid-1980s ron hardy dj mixes pronto! the sound quality is horrible (sometimes you wonder: is that his dramatic EQing or did the bass just drop out because the recording is so bad?) but they are freaking revelatory

http://www.gridface.com/features/ron_hardy_playlists.html

and to hear phuture's 'acid tracks' in a dj mix in 1987, right after that had come out, mixed into disco! so perfect, to introduce a radical new sound that way, to coax it into peoples' brains...these sets were so different from so many of the monochromatic house sets you hear today--twitchy acid house and big disco and weird pop all blended in incredible ways

i always hope that i'll come across the ron hardy single on trax but i never have. buying one online is cheating. i'll check those mixes out, cheers!

geeta, can you find gail "sky" king and interview her, please? i love her mixes and i'll bet she's got some great stories. listening to her remixes of rob base's "get on the dance floor" right now and luv them.

i just friend requested her on facebook.

one of the only women in the thick of the genius freestyle/edit/remix world of 80's new york. friggin' pioneer.

on the production end, that is.

anyone who had anything to do with the walking away 12 inch belongs on friggin' mount rushmore. fuck a roosevelt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWJz20fzND4

wait roosevelt is on mount rushmore, right?

glad to know that me and ron hardy are both fond of dropping supertramp's cannonball into mixes.

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Teddy is I think.

Oh Gail Sky King dj'd at the Red Parrot in NYC. Heard about that place but never went there.

geeta, can you find gail "sky" king and interview her, please? i love her mixes and i'll bet she's got some great stories. listening to her remixes of rob base's "get on the dance floor" right now and luv them.

i'd love to--but who would print the article, and pay me to do it? that's my problem with long-form music writing these days. i have no end of cool ideas for in-depth interviews and articles, but there are so few magazines left that would publish these pieces

um, wax poetics? nah, not them. hmmm, i dunno. some deejay magazine maybe. they still make those, right?