Just Loco...

Aloha,

Those Brazilian papal offerings made me think of a couple of tracks that turned up on the M.I.A. & Diplo 'Piracy Funds Terrorism' album. John-Boy, what was that music called in Brazil?

No idea where the vocal comes from on this one:

Baile Funk One - M.I.A. & Diplo

This kind of sound made me think in turn of a reggaeton bootleg that my brother sent me from Chile a few years ago. One of those scenes that were endlessly hyped in UK magazines - it is probably still huge in Puerto Rico...

Rather nicely this one keeps the rotor transport vibe going from Senor Nuttando's post:

El Helicoptero - El Chombo

I decided not to post a track called 'El Baile del Chorizo', but following on from the 'Japonesa' track from the previous post, here's some more dodgy Latino Orientalism:

Chinito - Candiman

Ching, ching, indeed...

Laters,

Thistle-Eye

Funkee

Cheers for the tunes. Here's some Funkee music Brasilian stuff that started in the favela's in Rio about ten years ago. The kids over there go crazy for it.

Mister Jack - Convocar

Think that when it all started they got of lot of ideas from Miami Boogie base.

MC Priscilla Nocetti - Dance minha linda

This ones by the thin people

Os Magrinos - Japonesa


Valarios Interpretes - Megamont

Farofas some kind of corn you put on all your food over there, never was a big fan

Valarios Interpretes - Farofa

E ai e cara.

For his holiness

Johnny wanted to know what dubstep is - here's a small selection, all but the last are from last year's "The Roots of Dubstep" compilation - Nick or whoever please drop in some more.

For the uninitiated, this stuff didn't really make much sense to me either until I had it dripping out of my ears at 3am on Friday...

DJ Abstract - Touch

El-B - Express

Steve Gurley - Hotboys (Dub)

Burial - Wounder

Tom

Weekend Booziness

Some classic booze related hip hop to round the weekend off. Check out the kid on Pass the 40, he's got to be the coolest ten year old ever.

Pass The 40 - Black Sheep

http://download.yousendit.com/C53D1FED224B7DF7

Only When I'm Drunk - The Alkoholiks

http://download.yousendit.com/735C1B2425FF182A

How low can you go?

While my eardrums recalibrate themselves, I'm having a scout around for a few tunes than can compete in the extreme bassline stakes with the tunes we heard during last night's adventures in dubstep. [last night Wadd, Thistle and I found ourselves in Plastic People for FWD - big dubstep night - the kidz listen to weird shit these days]

There's this - Prizna - Fire (featuring Demolition Man) - which has got all the ingredients really - ruff rolling snares, ragga chat, a bassline you could spread on your toast and even a cheeky time-stretch.

This is the kind of silly shit that makes me love jungle so, so much.
Ray Keith - The Chopper (Shy FX remix)

And from the motherland - The Upsetters - Underground

Tom

Celebrity Toon

Hello I am out here, haven't been able to post for a while because my flat mate disappeared with his computer and then I went up north and they don't have computers in Newcaslte. That and have been having trouble getting songs off my ipod, fucking apple.

Here are couple of tracks that I like alot because they are good. Saw the Brand Nubians play this one live in New York, but they were rubbish just going through the motions. What can you do.

Brand Nubians - All For One

Keep trying to post songs I dont have, this one will do.

Arrested Devolpment - Everyday People

My claim to fame this week is that the singer from the Noisettes told me I had nice teeth after I went to their gig. Going out with a dentist is paying off already.

Even better a couple of days later met one of the geeks from Beauty and the Geek, the TV show, in the pub and got him to help me play the quiz machine.

Just ate some cottage cheese that was six weeks past its use by date. Tasted ok better than the fag butt someone had put in my bottle of beer last night.

Crunch 'N' Splash

Besides Wadaldo, anyone out there...

...out there...

...there...

First up, CRUNCH and then a bit of SPLASH. Respectively, 'For The Meek' by Sliver to make you feel about 10 years old, and then 'R.I.P. Groove' by Double 99 to recreate that Lower 6th party vibe. See you down at Ritzy's on Tottenham High Road, no caps, no trainers - I'll be checking the soulful garage.

Laters,

Thistle-Eye

nuggets from 89

EPMD, The Big Payback - 1989 hip hop classic
Kool G Rap and Polo, Poison - ditto
(geeks will recognise Dr Octagon use of sample from first track)

Lord Of The Manor...

As requested, two tunes from the mammoth Analord series, Analord 02, to be precise.

Pissed Up In SE1 - AFX

Bwoon Dub - AFX

Heavy.

Laters,

Thistle-Eye

Great Snares #1

Nuttando will be chortling here, so yes, cap in hand, I start this thread...

Long live production geekism...

Eric B & Rakim - Microphone Fiend

(Just in case you're wondering, it doesn't kick in until the end of the tune).

Laters,

Thistle-Eye

Links 'n' loons

I've stuck a few links to other MP3 blogs on the right-hand side - all recommended.

And here are some Adam and the Ants tunes worth checking. I once saw Adam Ant in a greasy spoon in Camden, drinking tea. A few years later he was being banged up for waving a gun around. I have no idea if the two events were connected.

Adam and the Ants - Catholic Day

Adam and the Ants - Young Parisians

Adam and the Ants - Goody Two Shoes

Faceless Techno Bollocks...

...was an oft-heard charge levelled at techno producers. Up for consideration, two pretty obscure outfits and one slightly better known.

Parallax - Pressure of Speech

I caught Pressure of Speech supporting Orbital at Brixton Academy around 1994/1995. The main guy Mickey Mann worked in a psychiatric ward. Two albums and that was it. Both claustrophobic and talking of scary music (NIN vs. AFX), not always comfortable listening.

Love Under Water (Reprise) - Unmen

Two albums and that was it, too for Unmen. I came across them first on a Volume compilation (anyone else remember them?) with a great track that I put on many compilations. I dug up their albums this year, and some pretty good stuff too. Apparently, they were pretty broke and only ever had a borrowed sampler. That said what now costs £250 today, cost around £3000 back then... "cheap sampling technology killed electronic music, discuss".

Cut - Seefeel

Better known grace of having been signed briefly to Warp, originally on Too Pure (Stereolab had a few singles on TP). Seefeel were an essentially a shoe-gazing guitar band who crossed over, but played as a band rather than bedroom producers.

More klang than squelch with these tunes here, but will hunt down some good Acid soon.

Laters,

Thistle-Eye

YouSendIt...or not?

Aloha,

Sunday night is a fine time for catching up with tunes, but has anyone else had problems getting anything out of YouSendIt?

Hopefully, it'll be sorted tomorrow...

Tunelessly yours,

Thistle-Eye

Apocalypse Now ...and Then

Now we have the impending catastrophe of global warming to fret about, cold-war era nuclear paranoia seems like ancient history. If you like your apocalyptic terror the old-fashioned way, though, here's a trio of tracks to help you get back in the pre-1989 groove. Dig out Raymond Briggs' "When the Wind Blows" too, perhaps, to help deepen the mood.

Black Sabbath - War Pigs
From the superlative Paranoid. Ozzy dusts off the hoary old truism that civilians are "just like pawns" for the warmongers - and then, as if he's only just learnt the rules, and fears there might be other games in which pawns call all the shots -- lamely adds "in chess".

Leonard Nimoy - A Visit to a Sad Planet
What a twist this tale has.

The Sons of the Pioneers - Old Man Atom
"When Einstein's scared, brother you'd better be scared." Indeed. From this fabulous collection that I picked up in Fopp for a fiver.

(What's the reason for this post? I'm excited because I'm waiting for this awesome-looking 6-CD box set to land in the mail, which might prompt another post on this subject next week. You lucky people.)

Aphexoterica

Scour around the interweb for the Aphex Twin and all sorts of weird shit turns up. So by special request, here is some of the stuff that's wound up on my hard drive - most of it probably churned out by some kid in his bedroom in Staffordshire, trying to clamber aboard the Richard D James bandwagon with a bit of dishonest ID3 tagging - well it worked.

But first, a quick message to anyone who ain't posted in the last week:
Aphex Twin - Come On You Slags

Here's some junglising that sounds like no AFX I've ever heard
Aphex Twin - Outside Kick Ass Violin Solo

This is a gorgeous swirly synthy eight-minuter - sounds like it might date from the Analogue Bubblebath era - with early examples of those bouncy distorted rhythms that would come to dominate in later years
Aphex Twin - Maximim Electronica

This is a remix of a Nice Inch Nails tune. Extremely frightening music.
Aphex Twin - At the Heart of It All

Very silly but give it a chance - I'm really feeling those Faithless-style stabs that kick in around the one-minute mark. Almost certainly nothing to do with RDJ.
Aphex Twin - Hot Buttered Popcorn (techno mix)

As for the rest - the titles say it all really

Aphex Twin - Power Pill Pacman

Aphex Twin - R2D2

Aphex Twin - Super Mario Brothers Theme

Aphex Twin - Techno Tetris

Nass (not like the last one)

these three tunes not to be listened to in succession.
I think this is beautiful. Nass el Ghinwane - Ya Sah (thistle it might even have come from you originally)

silly bass

benqua - music box

Nas

purple (from The Lost Tapes). It never made any of his proper albums but I reckon it's one of his finest.