No Longer In Stock...

It just caught my attention that bad boy of the early electronic music scene, Karlheinz Stockhausen shuffled off this mortal coil on Friday. James Brown is possibly his musical antithesis, so you are not going to find any trace of a groove here - not particularly easy listening - but when you think that the following track was done in 1958, it does make you wonder if sonically the boundaries haven't really been pushed since then. I caught a performance of some early stuff and the 5:1 (in 1955!) 'Gesang der Jünglinge'. Awesome stuff; he was there in his white trademark safari suit and I even saw the Aphex Twin in the audience in what I remember was a rather natty jumper ("oh get me another shirt, get me another tie, get me another woolly!").

Here goes:

Kontakte (Side II) - Stockhausen

Laters,

Thistle-Eye

Forró...

Further to Nuts' post, the music that he is referring to is called Forró, from North-Eastern Brazil. I have a compilation on tape picked up a few years ago that is subtitled 'music for cleaning ladies and taxi drivers', illustrating who it is supposedly popular with. 

More info obviously here. 

Growing up as a kid, we had another compilation compiled by David Byrne (Talking Heads). The third installment of a series called 'Brazil Classics'. Not quite sure whether it is more nostalgia having grown up with it (we used to play cards to it), but the tunes are pretty strong. 

Here it is.

Laters,

Thistle-Eye

Marking the Passing...

Roll up, roll up. Turn those speakers up for the following.  

Number one. Some German clicking remixed by an American:

Raum 2 Variation (Kit Clayton) - Pole

Spring Heel Jack used to knock out what was termed 'intelligent drum and bass'. What a terrible coinage, but then pushed the boat out with more improv stuff. An epic slab of sound:

Autumn - Spring Heel Jack

And if that wasn't enough, more cinematic presence from the very unknown Unmen. Two producers who vaguely got bundled up in the whole Ambient thing in the early 90s, but actually produced two pretty weird albums. I remember once reading an interview about them borrowing samplers. To think that these machines used to cost the same price as a new car:

Alive With You - Unmen 

This came on the Pod recently as I was cycling back from an industrial estate out near Berlin's Tempelhof airport. This is the airport right in the centre of Berlin, dating from the early 20s, built on land originally belonging to the Knights Templars. The architecture is pure Albert Speer (Hitler's architect) from 1934, part of the plan to transform Berlin into Germania, and has that slab-like monumental quality. Illuminated at night as I cycled past, it kind of fitted. 

Laters,

Thistle-Eye

 

Möller Rice...

Aloha,

I feel that Coki tune!

Will post, but in the meantime, more Möller here.

Laters,

Thistle-Eye.

wakey wakey

To make up for lost time I'll cut the crap and just drop a whole load of tunes I've been feeling lately.

Coki - Spongebob Heard this at FWD a couple of months ago and the crowd went mental... not hard to guess why.

Fridge - Anglepoised Kieran thingy's band before he became Four Tet. This kind of thing often bores me rigid but there's something about the perfectly formed textures in this tune - good winter music - and I don't even mind that it's about 15 mins long

Elmore Judd - Tron Song Particularly for all Ellis/Burghley crew - this is a nice tune that works even better live

The Firm - Phone Tap I'd be looking for this tune ever since Glastonbury 1998 when the Roots dropped it in their set - which I might add was the only good thing about Glasto that fucking miserably wet year. Anyway, always assumed it was a Roots tune but couldn't find it on any of their albums - I had given up looking - then heard this at a party the other day. The Firm are a hip hop supergroup consisting of various rap illuminati I can't remember. But dang if this isn't a killer tune.

Styles P featuring Sizzla - I'm Black Heard this on 1Xtra the other day and then fairly skipped to download it. Lyrics are a bit silly but it's a killer riddim or whatever you call it in hip hop.

Jaime Alem & Nair De Candia - Passara Beautiful tune from Soul Jazz's recent After Tropicalia set - Tom T informed me that this is an example of a particular Brazilian genre but I've forgotten everything else he said about it, including its name.

Brendan Moeller - Jazz Dunno where this came from or who the guy is but it's a sweet sweet sweet piece of minimal techno.

Caribou - Barnowl Know even less about this - just found it on my computer the other day and it appealed to the Krautrocker in me, even though it was apparently made only a couple of years ago.

Over to youse lot...

r-e-s-u-r-r-e-c-t-i-o-n

so basically i feel the blog has been dead for far too long.. so here goes my attempt at resurrection

to kick off, a bit of hiphop..a tune by the elusive 'Clutchy Hopkins'  (try googling him..) and MF Doom - Untitled Track. and a quality Fourtet remix of a Madvillian tune - Great Day

next up on the turntable an old funk/blues tune, Papa Was, Too by Joe Tex...apparently Tex had some pretty major beef with James Brown for not only stealing his wife (minor..), but for stealing his dance moves too..not cool...

James Brown didn't take too kindly to Tex either, and showed it by unloading a few rounds at Tex in a nightclub....someone should have suggested a dance-off

next, im gonna carelessly switch the fader across and stick a bit of german techno/house on, Getting out of Something by a guy called Stimming.. cant say i know much about the german techno/house scene but its a big tune..

lastly, a couple of tunes that have made me smile recently..

one from this french/american, Uffie.. Body Bass

and another one that really has to be heard to be believed...

Macy Gray and ODB doing a unique version of 'dont go breaking my heart'...crucial to any hardcore Wu fan's library...

hope you enjoy....

tommwhy