What are you listening to? 2011

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?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxJS1zkEBGA&feature=related

this rather stunning dittie

Gravitar, ST 37, King Black Acid, Vas Deferens Organization

Listening over the weekend was John Maus, Niggas With Guitars, Tom Zé ('Estudando o Samba'), Shabazz Palaces, David Thomas Broughton, Chad VanGaalen and Comet Gain.

The NWG record is great, one of the most enjoyable drone/ambient type records I've heard this year. The Chad VanGaalen just convinces me more that I'm falling out with "Indie rock". Shabazz Palaces and John Maus = just awesome.

Last few days' worth of discovery

Ramsey Lewis • Mother Nature's Son, Funky Serenity, Solar Wind
Ruby Andrews • Black Ruby
Marlena Shaw • The Spice of Life
Lalomie Washburn • My Music Is Hot
Bobbi Humphrey • Dig This!, Blacks and Blues, Funky Dancer
Esther Phillips • From a Whisper to a Scream, Performance

Yayah Ratnasari and Karawang Group - Break Pong
Peaceful Solutions - Peaceful Solutions
Junkanoo Band - Key West
San Proper - Lost Track of Time
Goldwill - Blush
the 2 Samsimar tracks everyone loves

Visiting my folks today--some old vinyl records i just found in their cellar. this was my soundtrack growing up

'India: Its Music and its People' (the LP says it was sponsored by the United Nations)
'Hare Rama Hare Krishna' (Bollywood film soundtrack circa '71, classic R.D. Burman/Asha Bhosle tunes--what a find!! this LP is a collector's item)
Ravi Shankar - 'Raga Parmeshwari'
'Guide' - Music from the original soundtrack (Bollywood film circa 1965 -- music by S.D. Burman, father of R.D.)
'The Best of India's New Motion Picture Music: 12 Exotic Songs from the Finest Recent Soundtracks' (looks like it's from the 1960s)
'UNESCO Collection: A Musical Anthology of the Orient: India II'
Snoopy and Charlie Brown - 'Flashbeagle' LP (Snoopy's parody of 'Flashdance' circa 1984 -- this was my record from when I was a kid, it rules)

bonus: i found my Apple ][e! will it boot, i wonder?

Lots of Townes Van Zandt, Roberto Carlos, John Hartford, and Los Trio Panchos

whoa, another bonus while looking for old LPs in the cellar: I found a Teddy Ruxpin doll, looks like it still works

this should be an entertaining thing to learn circuit bending on

I picked up the Gun-Shy LP by Screaming Blue Messiahs for a quarter recently, which caused me to dig out my Bikini Red CD and Totally Religious cassette tape. Been playing those constantly for the last 2 weeks. Also, digging Ford & Lopatin.

Destroyer - Streethawk: A Seduction
DJ Quik - Book of David
The Orb - U.F.Orb

Shabazz Palaces and John Maus = just awesome.

OTM. I've spent a lot of time over the last few days with both. Also finally delved into the world of Les Rallizes Denudes, with both '77 Live and Cable Hogue Soundtracks getting some attention over the weekend.

Forma
Model 500 : Deep Space
Ralph Towner : Sound And Shadows
Henry Threadgill : Too Much Sugar For A Dime

ahmad jamal - jamal plays jamal
ian matthews - valley hi
television/talking heads - cbgbs 7/30/76
pink floyd - meddled

shabazz palaces - black up
zomby - natalia's song
flying lotsus's giant 70s soul and disco mix (lover's melt 2)
low - c'mon, drums & guns

'Basskraft: A Bass Tribute to Kraftwerk' (Miami bass tributes to classic Kraftwerk tunes--I forgot I had this! It's great)
Dynamix II - 'Machine Language'
Drexciya - 'Grava 4'

'Basskraft: A Bass Tribute to Kraftwerk' (Miami bass tributes to classic Kraftwerk tunes--I forgot I had this! It's great)

Wow, that I need to hear! I went through a (thankfully) brief, but pretty engrossing, Miami bass phase during my freshman year of high school. A favorite was Return of the Bass That Ate Miami, basically a bunch of tracks by Maggotron under various different names. Lots of Techmaster P.E.B. too. I used to have Have a Very Bass Christmas too.

basically a bunch of tracks by Maggotron

so classic. Maggotron sampled Kraftwerk, too (as did most of the Miami guys), on 'Welcome to the Planet of Bass' I think?

the Maggotron cover of 'Caroline, No' melted my brain so hard the first time i heard it

Dynamix II is probably my all-time favorite act from Miami -- 'Machine Language' is incredible, and 'Color Beats' is pretty good too

The Chad VanGaalen just convinces me more that I'm falling out with "Indie rock"

lol you realize there's dull milquetoast shit like this in every genre right?

listening to some records i bought in brooklyn this weekend, at Academy:

'Shaan' - classic Bollywood film soundtrack circa 1980, i paid $10 for this but it's worth a lot more than that - funk and Moogs etc in a ridiculous gold foil gatefold, so great
Ralph Towner - 'Solstice' (sonic ECM wallpaper circa 1975, beautiful, five bucks)
Fearless Four - 'Problems of the World' (produced by Kurtis Blow circa '83, trippy cover art, $5)
Muzak: Music of the '80s (haha I already have this but I couldn't resist buying it again, $5)
Bobby Konders and the Massive Sounds - house music, 1992, six bucks

a pricey haul for me - i usually pay between $1 to $5 for my vinyl, not $5 to $10, but you know, new york city

Bob Ostertag - Motormouth
Rrose x Bob Ostertag - Motormouth Variations / Primary Evidence
Kit Clayton - Nek Purpalet / Lateral Forces 12"s
Antimatter - Reset
Alice Coltrane - Universal Consciousness
Biber - Rosary Sonatas (Andrew Manze, Richard Egarr)

http://i.imgur.com/zyjvc.jpg

Still on a tear with new music, which feels great given that I was totally out of the game for several years... Recently, I've been loving:

John Maus: Pitiless Censors (it's a compulsion at this point; I listen to this at least once a day)
Morphosis: What Have We Learned (this gets better with every listen; texturally gritty and palpably improvisatory techno)
Hatchback: Zeus and Apollo (self-described "new New Age" that is so gorgeously produced, touches of Balearic, the mellower end of krautrock, synthy spacey stuff, just beautiful)
Massimiliano Pagliara: Focus for Infinity (fantastically well done very reverential and restrained new disco, reminds me of the way I felt when I first heard the Metro Area records years back)
Recloose: Saturday Night Manifesto EP (this is really REALLY good, surprisingly so)
I got a bunch of Robert Palmer LPs for very cheap that have been flooring me as well, especially Clues

Trans Am - Futureworld
Fruit Bats - Tripper
Le Butcherettes - Sin Sin Sin
Born of Osiris - The Discovery
Tommy Keen - Tommy Keene You Hear Me

Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments
Great Plains
New Bomb Turks
the Descendents
John Cale
Guided By Voices

King Crimson
Cave
PG Six
Velvet Underground
Horace Silver
Boston Spaceships

Conrad Schnitzler - Ballet Statique, Rot, Blau, Gelb, Consequenz 3, Conal, Consequenz II, Live Action 77

Tommy Keen - Tommy Keene You Hear Me

-- is this good? it's a best-of right?