Nice tunes

MMVIII

2008-01-20T19:55:00.000Z

aright peeeeps, a jazzified post here..

to start,

a tune from perquisite and pete philly's new(ish) album ‘mystery repeats’.. perquisite and pete philly - mystery repeats the oboe bassline is pretty damn nice, though i haven't made my mind up about the vocals at the end.. the album is pretty well produced but i can't help thinking the stuff perquisite does without pete philly is a whole lot better...checkperquisite and benjamin herman - ornithology to see what you think..

i know ive posted mulatu before and the tune is quite similar to emnete but it's equally as big..mulatu astatke - yegelle tezeta (my own memory)

lastly,

some lo-fi/nu-jazz/jazzy beats and pieces(i never know how best to describe this kinda thing..) mocean worker - brown liquor,a jazz/soul tune i came across yesterday - abram wilson - gonna be alright and a nice little instrumental rework of hey ya! - shaun lee's ping pong orchestra- hey ya

yours,

tommmmywhy

No Longer In Stock...

2007-12-09T18:30:00.001Z

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...

2007-12-07T11:27:00.000Z

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...

2007-12-07T11:00:00.000Z

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...

2007-12-05T10:44:00.000Z

Aloha,

I feel that Coki tune!

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

Laters,

Thistle-Eye.

wakey wakey

2007-12-04T22:45:00.000Z

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

2007-12-03T22:49:00.000Z

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

Slip-slop...

2007-09-27T18:58:00.000Z

Guten abend,

This track, whilst kind of unassuming, has the most mighty bass on it - deep, deep 808 kick drums mixed super low. Sweet. It also seemed suitably seasonal (if I'm running this theme into the ground):

Sun Won't Come Out - Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth

Two years earlier - 1992 - and some raucousness. Sirens, furious scratching, a variation on The Funky Drummer, and relentless delivery.

Officer - The Pharcyde

Now for something completely different. Danish technøremixpøpmeister, but hits the minimal buttøns to keep Nuttall gøing, and some lush cymbal actiøn at three minutes twelve. Courtesy of Nedwin's Spanish mate Laura. Gracias.

Nam Nam - Trentemøller

Laters taters.

Thistle-Eye

(...anyone... anyone?)

Late Nite, Late Nite...

2007-09-13T21:20:00.000Z

Guten Abend,

This came up and surprised me - one of the virtues of shuffling randomly through things:

Anomovieshot - Ganger

I decided to follow it up with something suitable. They have big fans, but I think a fair amount of stuff is patchy, apart from the brilliant Terror Twilight album. Not a duff track...

Blue Hawaiian - Pavement

After this, something completely different was required. Bear with me with this - the music is sick, verging on the putrid, almost lift-muzak, but you need to detatch yourself from the obvious connotations. Go with the lyrics, picture yourself in a silk suit in L.A. in 1980 in some trashy bar, chicks with perms, the odd 'nosebag' moment (to quote Will Self's 'The Book of Dave', a recent great read). Lyrics here.

Glamour Profession - Steely Dan

From that to a cheap slice of 2007 cut-up trashiness casually picked up off an unknown blog like an aural STD just to leave you all feeling slightly abused, abandoned at four in the morning, freshly spilled out of a club, ears hurting from too much treble and not enough bottom end...

Get Up - Trouble & Bass

Laters,

Thistle-Eye

jazzzjam

2007-09-13T19:41:00.000Z

good evening ppl.

heres a jazzy mix i put together a couple months back. sketchie bits here n there but good wholesome tunes i reckon. for those with an mp3 player its a good brisk walking speed i find..

part one - http://download.yousendit.com/9396B821283721AE
part two - http://download.yousendit.com/D486D2386308CB27

hope its to your liking

yours sincerely,

tommywhy

ps.
sorry n.e.d , think i already gave it to you

An Autumnal Beginning...

2007-09-05T16:45:00.000Z

Hallo meinen Freunde,

Bright skies, but cold winds... They talk here of things blowing across Russia from Siberia. I have that slightly melancholic end of summer feeling. Not quite sure how these three tracks capture my mood, but somehow they do.

First up:

Baja - The Trashmen

I'm clearly trying to hold on to that sunny sandy feeling with this one... but something slightly mysterious about that second guitar line that comes in, after the jolly little ditty.

Next, keeping it kind of upbeat, a track from a fantastic Cambodian Cassette Archive compilation. The story behind it was the compiler came across a skip in Oakland outside a public library with a shed-load of Cambodian music on tape that they had junked. There must have been a fairly sizeable local Cambodian community in Oakland for the library to have had a devoted collection. He then went through and cherry-picked some tunes. Hardly any names for these, so it is:

Unknown (Instrumental) - Unknown

Dritte, a bit of moody drone from Seefeel, from their Too Pure days - Stereolab's initial label. This definitely hits that Autumnal button for me.

Meol - Seefeel

Pensively yours,

Thistle-Eye

Thistle-Eye

Take me back to Ethiopia

2007-09-03T20:57:00.000Z

Bought a double CD compilation of Ethiopian music the other day. Whenever I stick it on, I feel the need to exclaim, but I never know whether to exclaim about how good it is, or about how weird it is. Either way, it's definitely good, and definitely weird. Listen to those fucking vocals. Check out those fucking names.

Mahmond Alumed - Era Mela Mela

Mahmoud Ahmed - Aynotché Tèrabu

Muluqèn Mèllèssè - Wètètié Maré

Tèshomé Meteku - Hasabé

Plus, the other day I was complaining about the low standard of the Bjork remixes out there. Here's an exception.

Bjork - Who is It? (Vitalic mix)

[Waddy - Vitalic were behind that weird Polkamatic tune of Thistle's we were listening to in Berlin]

Plus another sweet mix I came across the other day. You'll know the original - this is an improvement.

Blur - Tender (Cornelius remix)

Further to that...

2007-09-02T16:46:00.001Z

Actually, that mix is a bit rubbish... slightly tacky.

T

Ein Freund von mir...

2007-09-02T16:22:00.000Z

Guten Abend,

Lazy, I know, but just to keep anyone left out there happy, here is a mix put together by a friend of a friend:

www.voidfilm.net/renderedobselete.xml

Späters,

Thistle-Eye

Dutch hiphop production is the future!

2007-08-19T11:58:00.000Z

short and sweet.....

i found this remix of Nas- Hope by the dutch collective The Q4 and thought it was pretty dope..
download it from their myspace at http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=70659867

tommywhy

Scratch would approve

2007-07-31T20:11:00.000Z

Onward forward don't step backward. Max Romeo gets some serious treatment (Matty G - One Step)

heavy.

Sufjan Stevens

2007-07-30T21:38:00.001Z

Greetings all - nice to see you again.

Inasmuch as I thought anything about him at all, I used to assume that Sufjan Stevens was one of those ten-a-penny folk revivalist droners. Either that or a Shakin' Stevens tribute act. So imagine my surprise when I downloaded this tune from a rival blog - and found it to be stunningly beautiful -

Sufjan Stevens - Vito's Ordination Song

So I downloaded a few more, and then on hearing tunes like this -

Sufjan Stevens - Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head! (Rebuild! Restore! Reconsider!)
[most of his tunes have irritating names]

was even more surprised to realise that Mr Stevens had obviously been listening to a lot of this guy -

Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians Part 5

Here's a couple more beauties. All these tracks are from the album "Greetings from Michigan - The Great Lake State" - the first in what we are supposed to believe will be a series of 50 albums, one for each US state. He's done Illinois too but I think that's it so far.

Sufjan Stevens - All Good Naysayers, Speak Up! Or Forever Hold Your Peace!
Sufjan Stevens - Holland

---new (old) tunes---

2007-07-28T17:13:00.000Z

!Salom people!

Delighted to see the blog back to life!Unfortunately i cant say i have any particularly new tunes to offer but in order to keep the blog ball rolling (so to speak) here's a few that i feel people might be interested in..

Having been often driven dangerously close to madness by Radio Leeds and Chris Moyles during my sandwich making duties at Opposite cafe in leeds, I eventually managed to get a general switch over of stations to Classic FM (not a regular listener but what else is good on the radio apart from Radio 4?). It was through this switch over that i come across Ludovico Einaudi. Apparantly not really 'classical', but rather 'minimalist,' Ludovico's sound is deep, melodic and kind of cinematic.. see what you think- the tune here is called Oltremare and its from the album Divenirehttp://download.yousendit.com/F33979510AAFF281

next, inspired by the general electronic sound of the blog of recent, here's a mini tune by Vitalic - Polkamatic-http://download.yousendit.com/AFE79ECE01FF4E5D. the fact that it would make a very nice ringtone doesn't take away from its simplistic dopeness...

remaining amongst the electronic sounds, a tune from Prefuse 73's Reads the Books. an album in which the organic sounds of folk/indie band 'The Books' is transformed into the electronic sounds of Prefuse. cant say i listen to it regularly but its definetly worth a check - http://download.yousendit.com/505B01EB33A6F200

Next a tune by The Dining Rooms called Tunnel, http://download.yousendit.com/FA0DF4FD36E6633A . if you like this tune def check 'Destination Moon'..you can listen to it (and other tunes) on their website http://www.thediningrooms.org/FLASH_FILES/index22.htm..

Finally, just to destroy the general theme of the above selection, and to counter the mellow and reflective mood of the post- a tune by the 'Gypo-Hop' outfit KAL from Serbia-

http://download.yousendit.com/5D370521639AC686

pass me the vodka and make room on the dancefloor, im gonna dance like a cossak on speed...

Happy Summer peeps!

tommmmywhy

Mehr Bleep...

2007-07-19T15:33:00.000Z

Aloha Menschen,

With the aim of keeping this show on the road, mehr musik... Some top postings back there. This one will be a little graceless, as my version of Blogger is all in German, and I can't work out how to do the fancy stuff.

Anyway, some more faceless techno bollox:

Eins: http://download.yousendit.com/12EFBDEC4AD65822

Apparently, an architect, producer, musician and composer according to Discogs. Check him.

Zwo: http://download.yousendit.com/C149091D1398377D

From the Basic Channel stable, a German label, but remixed by Carl Craig.

Und Drei: http://download.yousendit.com/E7BD9AB705ABDEAA

Which is just magic. Viel Spass.

Laters,

Thistle-Eye

new tunes (imaginative, non?)

2007-07-18T21:50:00.000Z

Is is there a better hip hop tune that has been made in the last 5 years than Agent Orange by Pharoahe Monch (lame name, good rapper)? This one was around on vinyl in 2003 and has just resurfaced as a bonus track on Pharoahe Monch’s long-delayed new album Desire (hence very annoying 30-seconds of silence at the beginning). A few strong tunes (especially Body Baby) but Agent Orange still the hottest one there. Produced by Taz from SA-RA and full of tight, angry, political lyrics. Somewhere I’ve got a recording of Jehst freestyling over it. Will try and look it out.

On to Bjork. The music at Glastonbury this year wasn’t all that but Bjork’s set was in another league. Made other headliners like Amy Winehouse looks so amateur and unimaginative (and, in Winehouse’s case, pissed. P.s. here’s Pharoahe dropping some lyrics on Rehab). Nuttal already posted a couple of tracks from new Bjork album but this remix of Earth Intruders has been doing my head in.

Lastly, I didn’t want to let Dizzee’s album pass without posting a track. Keep returning to this one (Temptation). Uses Arctic Monkeys on the chorus but manages to make it come over.

Not on the track above, but I’m a sucker for lyrics like the below from the tune he did with Lilly Allen:

Leave me alone or you’ll be sorry,
Beef aint nuttin new to me you wally,
Why don’t you just kick back, be jolly,
Stay at home with a cup of tea, watch Corrie….

Or, in my case, Newsnight. Rock and roll. N

KAAA-BOOOOOOOM!!!! A return to life!

2007-07-12T23:07:00.000Z

[foto: Goodbye my Madrid people!]

Right time to breath life into our blog, so you kids are getting a super-mega-hyper post as i celebrate the return to rainy England!
Enjoy!

Working through to the rowdiness here goes:

First up is this girl Adele who i got put on to today (myspace.com/adelelondon) who has an absurdly wonderful voice. 'Hometown Glory' despite sounding like it was recorded in school assembly is absolute magic- spine-tingly affair, though 'Daydreamer' is the one tipped to be the first single.
Adele- Hometown Glory
Adele- Daydreamer

Following up on the hidden cache of MF Doom that i discovered last time, here are a couple of special blends (volume 1). Basically the instrumentals are off MF Doom tracks and different acapellas are chosen to go on top by our main man- The production on 'Ya Playin Yaself'...[i shake my head] Wooop!
Jeru Da Damaja/MF Doom- Ya Playin Yaself
Nas/MF Doom- One Love

This collaboration is also a big tune, with Hell Razah, Talib Kwelli and Doom under his Viktor Vaughn alias.
Hell Razah, Talib Kweli & Viktor Vaughn- Project Jazz

Continuing on the colaborations theme, we have the Dungeon Family version of Cool Breeze's 'Watch for the Hook'- representing a circa 1999 Southern Allstar team, with Outkast and Goodie Mob featuring. Thrown in is Dungeon Family's 'Follow the Light'.

Cool Breeze- Watch for the Hook
Dungeon Family- Follow the Light

Lang Whitaker from Slamonline put me onto this one, and the video ain't bad:

Moving on we head to the'foul-mouth lyricists for the discotheque, yo' section. Last time i put down a bit of Pase Rock and Spank Rock, this time i introduce the frankly terrible Mickey Avalon.
Basically the deal with this ex-Hollywood Boulevard Gigolo/junkie, and general cracked out brear- (grandparents Holocaust survivors...) is that he is super popular with rebelious and ridiculously wealthy Orange County girls.
Cue video and groupies:

Critics of his album claimed it was made on a casio- this track i feel exemplifies him:
Mickey Avalon- Waiting to Die

ChazOlogy has become a recent resource, and carrying on with the 'foul-mouthed lyricists in the discotheque' section i add Amanda Blank. "Amanda Blank is a brassy, subterranean hip-hop seductress and staggering, firecrack Philly rapper" sayeth TrocaBrahma who are responsable for the some forthcoming events over the 26-29 July. On Friday 27, she is teaming up with the Diplo (!!!) and Os Mutantes at the Forum... am definitely making it down. Anyway here are a couple of tracks:

Amanda Blank- DJ Play that Shit
Ectomorph vs Amanda Blank- Ectospank Blank

Carrying on this mammoth musical deluge are Simian Mobile Disco and Dibaba on a bit more of a rowdier dancing tip.

Simian Mobile Disco- Hustler
Dibaba- The Truth (Anders Ilar Remix)

Finally i end on two corkers, courtesy of Estaw a dutch remixer/producer. The last one is a thumped-up version of Lupe Fiasco's 'Kick Push'. Lupe is quite clearly a bit of a don, and as these tracks show, Estaw is aswell.

Xpress2- Kill 100 Estaw Remix
Lupe Fiasco- Kick Push Estaw Remix

Well thats all kids, i think i exhausted the 100 mb limit on YouSendIt, but in a week you will all be ready to post inspired new discoveries!

Hasta pronto

good vibrations

2007-06-04T21:58:00.000Z

this one came on in the car whilst driving along to pick up surfboards during a pissing wet weekend of supposed surfing in wales (last bank holiday). california beaches felt very far away but the tune felt apt. I can picture all the kids singing it in the school hall.

The Langley Schools Music Project - good vibrations

and I believe my work will be done

2007-06-03T21:54:00.000Z

if james brown hadn't have gone and died, it would have been his birthday last month. and because I haven't really been inspired by any of the new ish I've got, I thought a couple of nuggets were in order. sometimes he's a bit relentlessly funky but I've been feeling these two of late.

never can say goodbye

(yes, bass used by massive attack - I like the mad professor version)

the second one I like partly for the 'and I believe my work will be done' line.
lost someone

beware, either dizzee rascal or a version of the beach boys's 'good vibrations' (sung by a school choir) to follow.

p.s. nuts, I think the tit picture should go now.

waddaldo

Jetzt Geht's Los!

2007-05-23T17:47:00.000Z

Hallo Menschen!

It's been a while, but have finally rustled up a little ADSL in the flat. I'll keep things more or less German.

Erste up, legendary ICA destroyers, virtuoso powertool wielders, and originally from West Berlin:

Einstürzende Neubauten - Three Thoughts (Devil's Sect)

Zweite, sounds German but was born in Chile, but released a lot of material on Tresor Berlin and Mille Plateaux:

Christian Vogel - We Will Find You

Dritte, some spareness from the ~scape label:

Jan Jelinek - They, Them

Bis bald!

Thistle-Eye

Croydon, Reykjavik and Tokyo

2007-05-20T22:05:00.000Z

Have been checking the new dubstep comp on Soul Jazz, courtesy of Waddaldo. As he's too ~~lazy~~ busy to upload anything from it I'll have to (dub)step in... currently loving this dark cut - suits my mood this Sunday evening -

King Midas Sound - Surround Me

Couple of stand-out tracks from the new Bjork album - which disappoints so far but since Homogenic they've all been slow growers so I'm not writing it off yet...

Bjork - Declare Independence
Bjork - Pnuemonia

Finally, Japanese knob-twiddler Cornelius is playing Koko on Wednesday - I'll be there, anyone fancy it?

Cornelius - Free Fall
Cornelius - Music

Tom N

my AK is broken...

2007-05-18T15:29:00.000Z

yoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyo....yo

am likin that bamboos tune..

inspired by the Ol' Dirty Bastard vocals on the mark ronson toxic tune, i hit a few old hiphop tracks and threw together a little rowdy hiphop minimix...

(its pretty old vinyl so i apologise for the crackling..)

http://download.yousendit.com/9FC9B99C3FDD8D25

dusty brain

2007-05-17T19:08:00.000Z

also been under exam pressure, but the end is nearly in sight. so here's a little dose of furious nu-funk to relieve the pressure (despite the titles).

both covers actually. first, texas classic by archie bell and the drells via melbourne outfit, the bamboos
tighten up
and a very sharp take on the masters at work house classic, by yorkshire men, the new mastersounds.
the nervous track

best of luck to the other exam heads out there!

Light at the end of the tunnel

2007-05-10T11:16:00.000Z

Hmm exams, bollocks, make me fell like topping myself.

Suicide is painless - Johnny Mandel

However the end is in sight so spending my time thinking about how I will be celebrating. Either way I'll probably end up dead from an overdose.

Toxic - Mark Ronson fest. Ol' Dirty Bastard & Tiggers

must get back to my books.

Two slices of lamb

2007-05-05T17:54:00.000Z

Bienvenue and welcome to our latest round of newcomers - showing up us grizzly old-timers for the lazy scum we are. So galvanised into action by Nicolas's spiky French house (though sadly not by tommywhy's - missed the expiry date by minutes), here are two sweet cuts from Lambchop's 2002 album Aw C'mon. A friend lent this to me last week and yesterday I got around to listening to it. I can't remember the last time I was grabbed so instantly by an album - the lush but not overwrought production, the laid-back control exercised over the sound, despite the fact that the band comprises about 20 people, all topped off by Kurt Wagner's gruff though tender vocals.

Two tracks in particular stand out. Each Time I Bring It Up It Seems To Bring You Down is a perfect example of what I'm waffling on about above - I'm particularly feeling the strings on this one. Then there's I Hate Candy. Again the strings are killer, but what really gets me on this is the unexpected musical progression of the song - just when you think it's going to descend into easy-listening alt.country wallpaper, there comes that weird, sinister chord structure, building itself up over and over until - another weird modulation that comes out of nowhere. Genius. Anyway, enough crap from me.

Tom N

2007-05-04T14:48:00.000Z

More french tunes, same label, Edbanger records, as Uffie, this is Justice, sounds a lot like Daft Punk :
http://www.yousendit.com/download/WUJiK0dqMGNCSm8wTVE9PQ

a very nice one by DjMehdi:
http://www.yousendit.com/download/WUJiK0dqayszMWswTVE9PQ

to finish, I am sure you all have this one, it is just in case some don't
la ritournelle de Sebastien Tellier :
http://www.yousendit.com/download/WUJiK0d0NEgzMWswTVE9PQ

2007-05-04T14:46:00.000Z

Salut a tous
here is a tune worse knowing if you don't already...Yes it's french, this first one is by Mr Oizo featuring Uffie (of course)

http://download.yousendit.com/63739A77185DF28D

enjoy and excuse my english

SuperSplendidSafeandSound

2007-04-28T17:21:00.000Z

hi there peeps, cheers to notorious N.e.d for the link and thanks to Tom N for the invite too.i am honoured to be a contributor to this very splendid looking blog..

As this is my first entry, and bar the N.e.d, i dunno what tunes peeps are into, ive gone for a bit of a varied selection..

First on the turntable is a dubstep tune from that highly talented croydon based producer Skream. acknowledging the fact that summer is fast approaching i felt it appropriate to pick out the least dark-sided tune, which is happily one of my favourites - Skream-Smiley Face http://download.yousendit.com/5B6D377307780D98 .. turn up them bass eq's

to take a rather large leap away from croydon-based-computer-produced-dubstep, this splendid tune - Mulatu Astatke-Emnete http://download.yousendit.com/D50770395CD356E0 is the sound of ethiopian based-rugged-jazz/ska (at least thats how i see it). mulatu is somewhat of a flagship to the 'Soundway' record label, which is pretty much dedicated to all that is african-funk/jazz/soul.. check it out if the tune is your kinda thing..

Next. another leap. this time toward Argentina for some tango inspired argentinian hiphop! Gotan Project-Mi Confesion http://download.yousendit.com/20E851A52E671F14 Although i am not a spanish speaker, so have no idea what is being said, the second rap on the tune is sick! The album 'Lunatico' is pretty damn good overall too, but its all about the live show (including visuals, live strings, singer, piano, accordian and two djs) which i was lucky enough to see last year, highly recommended

lastly a tune from All Natural, a Chicago based hiphop crew headed by Cap D, who, having reverted to Islam in 2000, continues to include socially and culturally aware themes in many of his raps. this tune is from their debut album, no additives, no preservatives, back in 1998- All Natural-It's OK http://download.yousendit.com/CB06440B3FC5B09C .

thats all folks, hope peeps pick up at least something they like!

peace and cheers

-TommyWhy-

ps. sorry for the apparant failure to get the links to work properly, but it should stil be possible to d/l them..

Woop Woop! [Introduction]

2007-04-04T19:48:00.000Z

A Good Evening to you all; a first post from the Thistle yout.

This delightful chap here is Naeem from Spank Rock: all-round top bad boi and b-more heavyweight. I happened to see him live on his birthday last year in Leeds- it was a rowdy night, and he absolutely 'murked it, even my housemate Laurie was won over. Bump is a big tune, and i think this remix is even better.

Spank Rock- Bump [Switch Remix]

Next we have The Pase Rock, afiliated with Spank Rock (and also in Five Deez), and basically anyone who does a track inspired by Lindsay Lohan exposing herself deserves a lot of money.
'Bang!' is heavy too.

The Pase Rock- Bang!
The Pase Rock- The Revenge of Lindsay Lohan

Worth mentioning the decline of RDJ2- what are you doing son?!

From his new album:
RJD2- You Never Had It

The other day I spent a good afternoon faffing around at Venomous Villains
Suffice to say large scale robbery took place, spurred on my the posts about its impending Doom (pun sort of not intended).
Anyhow it was an educative process:
Daniel Dumile, was originally born in South-East London. Anyway his first appearance was as Zev Love X in KMD ("Kausing Much Damage", and then later, "a postive Kause in a Much Damaged society"- with his lil' bro Subroc (who later got run over and died) and another guy called Onyx The Birthstone Kid...

Anyway they produced some live stuff: these two tracks are bad!
KMD- Constipated Monkey
KMD- What a Nigga Know

After his brother died he disappeared between 1994-1997, before ending up in Atlanta.
And he became reborn, principally, as our man MF Doom.

MF Doom and Zhieru [Laid Out Demo]- My Favourite Ladies

Cool.

Thas all folks...

[Oh and sad to have missed the Decline of Smut tunes! They looked tasty.]

Merry Easter

2007-04-02T15:42:00.000Z

I've always wanted to know who duetted with Jagger on Gimme Shelter and just found out it was Merry Clayton who some bright spark brought into the studio to make the song her own.

Merry Clayton - Gimme Shelter

Bacon Fat

2007-03-29T20:48:00.000Z

Before I get more cusses for not posting, here are 3 that I think are well good.

Went and bought some new hip hop recently and it was well boring. In amongst the selection, however, was a compilation thrust upon me by bloke in shop. On said compilation were these three:

Bacon Fat - Andre Williams
(number 9 on the billboard R&B charts in 1957 no less)

Chicken Walk - Hasil Adkins
(He recorded a whole album devoted to chickens - Poultry in Motion)

Guns of Brixton - Nouvelle Vague (i.e. re-version of Clash)

compil by optimo and espacio, described as 'scottish ex-techno dj and a grungey slackey irishman'. enjoyed it lots.

Thy Kingdom Come

2007-03-29T16:32:00.000Z

First up, a Trick Daddy classic. Slip-N-Slide, Miami, Touche Lucas and the wonderful Cee-Lo, pre-Gnarls Barkley. One for the sun.

Trick Daddy and Cee-Lo - Dro in the Wind

Eugene Mcdaniels gives pure gold samples. Give em back.

Eugene McDaniels - Jagger The Dagger

Or rework it.
Not at his humblest, it's ya boy

Jay Z - Kingdom Come

Yours, loving the smut Nuts, Lukey Champagne

The decline of smut

2007-03-26T22:58:00.000Z

One of the more lamentable aspects of the Bobo dread takeover of Jamaican music - along with bunning fire pon batty bwoy's head, if you please - is the concomitant decline of the smutty reggae tune. There was a slackness arms race in lyrics in the 1990s which crowded out innuendo and insinuation, and not necessarily for the better. For the genre threw up some mighty tunes, in its day, some of which you're about to enjoy.

Max Romeo was the king of this sort of thing. You probably already know his "Wet Dream," banned by the BBC for its lewd content - though Max expressed disbelief, explaining that the lyrics were an innocent reference to a leaky roof.

But even better in my book is "Hole Under Crutches" - a version of "Hole in my Bucket" for a liberated age.

The same tune was reversioned in the dancehall era by Nigger Kojak and Liza, as "Ram It" - a Joe Gibbs/Errol Thompson production, this.

Around the same time, Yellowman was creating the slackness genre. But some of his lyrical wordsmithery was clever and subtle enough to qualify as smut in my book, and this is my post. So here's the wonderful "Breezes."

The spiritual home of innuendo has always been Trinidadian calypso rather than Jamaican reggae, so finally here's a beauty from Lord Creator - a calypsonian who later moved to Jamaica and made his name as a ska vocalist. It's about his Big Bamboo (I've got a much better and less cheesy version of this but only on vinyl, sadly).

Tom

Wet Edges...

2007-03-14T22:10:00.000Z

I'm reminded of the scene in Ferris Bueller's Day Off with the history teacher.

"The Battle of the Somme took place in... anyone? anyone?"

Enough snideness. For any remaining listeners, a Photek tune.

Inspired from a kung fu film or possibly the TV series based on one of the great classical Chinese novels of the same name about a group of 12th century river bandits.

Laters,

Thistle-Eye

Love Action...

2007-03-11T19:02:00.000Z

Aloha,

Love, love, and love again (or not as the case may be):

New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle

LFO - Love Is The Message

and

I'll Never Fall In Love Again - Bobby Gentry

For ages I thought the lyric on the last one was "What do you get when you kiss a guy, you get enough germs to catch pneumonia, after you do, he'll never bone ya". Cockney rhyming slang, I guess...

Laters,

Thistle

Alot of ins, alot of outs

2007-03-09T11:53:00.000Z

Keeping on the film theme, some tracks from a recent classic.

Kenny Rogers - Just Dropped In

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Looking Out My Back Door

Bob Dylan - The Man in Me

Here another one from Kenny with some good advice.

Kenny Rogers - The Gambler

I always confuse him with Paddy Kenny.

rabbit rabbit

2007-03-07T23:47:00.000Z

music that is keeping me from my bed

Labi Siffree , I Got The
fun and games. bringing together chas n dave, who are the session musicians on this, with dre and eminem.

The Rebirth, This Journey In
cosmic class

rest up
S

Monday miscellany

2007-03-05T22:20:00.000Z

It's all got a bit quiet round these parts. I might have to start cracking my Flashing Whip if you lot don't start looking a bit livelier.

A pretty random round-up tonight. From the George Clinton-produced album Freaky Styley comes Red Hot Chili Peppers's Hollywood. And hold your cynical tongues - this comes from the pre-Blood Sugar Sex Magik era when the Chili Peppers still knew how to throw together a delicious groove. Love the horn production on this one.

Back in the 1970s George Clinton invented P-funk - here's a good example: Parliament - Star Child, from the Mothership Connection album.

Thistle wanted Aphex Twin - En Trange to Exit - the closest RDJ gets to happy hardcore.

Lord Finesse (?) duelling with KRS-One - don't know anything about this straight-up oldskool hip hop tune - please enlighten me - but I like it. Lord Finesse and KRS One - No Gimmicks.

Some disco house thing I grabbed from elsewhere - some might find it overproduced but I reckon the various parts fit together perfectly.
Faze Action - In the Trees

And finally, a beautiful number from the great Baaba Maal.
Baaba Maal - Miyaabele.

Tom

Fruity Flix...

2007-03-04T19:20:00.000Z

Aloha,

Sunday evening is always good for going to the cinema, so a triple bill of great seventies film music...

"I ain't a for-real cowboy, but I am a hell of a stud!"

John Barry - Science Fiction - from Midnight Cowboy.

Lalo Schifrin - Shifting Gears - from Bullitt.

Melvin Van Peebles - C'mon Feet - from Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. The other films are well known, but well worth tracking down this weird film credited with kickstarting the Blaxploitation genre. Cover version spotters, Quasimoto did a great re-version of this track.

Laters,

Thistle-Eye

bleep bleep boom

2007-03-01T20:33:00.000Z

alright then.... how do chaps? glad to be joining the fray.

thought i'd open my account with some pure pirate radio reminiscence.

shut up and dance records produced some of the best hardcore jungle at the beginning of the 90s and whilst the sound faded fast, the ragga twins (Flinty Badman and Deman Rockers) def still cut the mustard as far as i'm concerned.

Shine Eye feat Junior Reid

Wipe the Needle

Just Loco...

2007-02-25T00:15:00.000Z

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

2007-02-21T18:18:00.000Z

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

2007-02-18T22:42:00.000Z

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

2007-02-18T14:45:00.000Z

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?

2007-02-17T11:40:00.000Z

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

2007-02-16T18:12:00.000Z

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

2007-02-16T00:08:00.000Z

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

2007-02-12T23:05:00.000Z

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...

2007-02-07T22:31:00.000Z

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

2007-02-07T22:22:00.000Z

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

2007-02-06T21:34:00.000Z

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...

2007-02-05T22:09:00.000Z

...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?

2007-02-04T22:31:00.000Z

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

2007-02-04T18:03:00.000Z

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

2007-02-03T13:36:00.000Z

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)

2007-02-01T22:46:00.000Z

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

2007-02-01T22:33:00.000Z

benqua - music box

Nas

2007-02-01T22:22:00.000Z

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

"fartin' on the mic..."

2007-01-29T23:05:00.000Z

I've followed the career of the terminally unfashionable Herbaliser ever since seeing - or rather "seeing" as I had taken approximately a million mushrooms - them in a small club in Liverpool with Gilbert in 1997. On most of their albums the best tracks are those featuring Jean Grae - or What What as she used to style herself back then - who apart from anything else had a sweet sense of humour. She's the daughter of South African jazzman Abdullah Ibrahim, and if memory serves is a bit of a braniac - studying for a PhD in something or other at Cornell or somewhere . Here are some highlights -

The Herbaliser featuring What What - Mission Improbable

The Herbaliser featuring What What - Hardcore [this one gives me heap big joke]

The Herbaliser featuring Jean Grae - If You Close Your Eyes

PLUS some more killer Renegade Soundwave for anyone whose tickle was pickled by Thistle's post below. Takes the sine-wave bassline to new levels of chest-rattling.

Renegade Soundwave - The Renegade Priest

Renegade Soundwave - The Man Who Wouldn't Let Wax Wane

Something to brighten up Monday.....

2007-01-29T22:21:00.000Z

Ike and Tina - Bold Soul Sister

Not sure who samples this but it's a very heavy drum beat.

http://www.yousendit.com/download/O64nQDk%2BUTl5TA%3D%3D

And still on a heavy funk them, here's a clasic.

Pleasure Web - Music man Pt 2

http://www.yousendit.com/download/O64aJ842p3l5TA%3D%3D

Billy Joel vs KRS 1

2007-01-29T12:08:00.000Z

Hello to Hardhat and Thistle good to hear from you chaps hope all is well, also hello to everyone else here, I am looking forward to skanking some good music from you all.

If you close your eyes and concentrate really hard you may find that Billy Joel - It's still rock and roll to me and Boogie Down Productions - The bridge is over are the same tune, or am I tripping?

Here's a cover The Incredible Bongo Band - Apache of The Shadows - Apache and was Africa Bambata's signature tune at the beginning of them hippitee hopetee days in.....

Spent last night watching boxing docs. Question is who was the greatest of all time Muhammah Ali or Joe "Brown Bomber" Louis?

Midnight Hour Fierceness...

2007-01-28T23:59:00.000Z

Good morning Posters... some ruggedness from 1988, 1990 and then a 2002 clash of two tunes. All best loud on speakers.

First up, Humanoid - Stakker Humanoid - this lulls you in and then lets rip, before ending in a disorientating acid wig-out. Early incarnation of Future Sound of London. Love those lasers...

Seconds, Thunder - Renegade Soundwave - keep turned up, more rolling bassline and some tacky lounge string orchestra sample whacked on top.

Just desserts, DJ/Rupture mixing up Gregory Whitehead's Ziggurat with Nina Simone's Plain Gold Ring. Eerie stuff and I know a few of you will be feeling the Amen moment. From the Minesweeper Suite mix, which is well worth getting for a ragga/hip-hop/jungle/weirdness mash-up.

Laters,

Thistle-Eye

Vegetarianism: Rappers Take Sides

2007-01-28T13:39:00.000Z

The revolutionary left can't really claim too many hiphop stars as its own, so it's heartening to see that among the few it can claim, the proud "People's Front of Judea/Judean People's Front" tradition (of squabbling about the stuff that really matters) is alive and well:

Dead Prez - Be Healthy

Immortal Technique - Beef and Broccoli

In this debut posting (how am I doing, T.N.?), I also wanted to sing the praises of Jean Grae, who's the star of this Talib Kweli-inspired mixtape. With the commercial future of mixtapes suddenly thrown into doubt, here's a track featuring J.G. that was the standout on an earlier SpitKicker mixtape: Block McCloud feat. Jean Grae - All a Game

Dearly Beloved

2007-01-28T13:19:00.000Z

Thanks for inviting me - mine's a whisky mac.

Here's a classic -

Funky Town - Lipps Inc.

What were they thinking?!

2007-01-26T17:15:00.000Z

Not strictly music but..... My favorites have to be Judy's 16th Birthday and All my Friends are Dead.

Dodgy Album Covers

Dready Dan's Solicitors 171 Grays Inn Road

2007-01-25T23:20:00.000Z

Have finally managed to figure out Tom's rubbish instructions. My sister snogged Russell Brand. Here's a couple to get started.

Smiley Culture - Police Officer

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

Banda De Pifanos De Caruaru - Jackson, O Rei DO Pandiero

If anyone has Cockney Translator or some Son of Dave.......

So how did you guys meet #1

2007-01-25T00:04:00.000Z

Love to know the story behind this collaboration.

Common ft Laetitia Sadier - New Wave

Grand larceny #1

2007-01-25T00:00:00.000Z

Stereolab - Jenny Ondioline—nuttin' more than Neu! - Hallogallo with words.

Spot that sample #1

2007-01-24T23:58:00.000Z

Either of these sound familiar?

Moondog - Bird's Lament

Chicago - Street Player (Paul Raymond re-edit)

Greetings I bring...

2007-01-24T23:51:00.000Z

...to all new nicetunes ragamuffin:

Half Pint - Greetings

As requested by Nick:

The Ethiopians - Engine 54

One for new boy Ben - vintage Upsetter (also see interview in today's Metro):

Jah Lion - Fat Man

Plus a bonus bit of badness that popped up this morning and sweetened up my commute no end. More Max Romeo genius - be sure to listen through to the dub version which kicks in about two thirds of the way in.

Max Romeo - Blood of the Prophet Parts 1 & 2

Late night jazz

2007-01-24T23:41:00.000Z

except probably for most people it'll be mid-afternoon jazz.

First off, this smokin version of My Favourite Things from Coltrane - lengthy but worth every second

John Coltrane - My Favourite Things

Next, a satisfying slice of gypo action from everyone's favourite three-fingered Belgian guitarist

Django Reinhardt - Djangology

Finally, a piano version of Summertime guaranteed to be like no other you've ever heard. Listened to this a million times and it still makes me want to blub.

George Shearing - Summertime

Ding, ding, ding...

2007-01-24T19:25:00.000Z

One more on the reggae train theme:

Train To Skaville - Jackie Mittoo And The Soul Brothers

Hello Tuneblog

2007-01-23T20:14:00.000Z

Well hello everybody! I've made it on the blog.

To celebrate here's a real old timer tune.

Doin' My Time by Flat and Scruggs

Next up blind Sengalese duo Amadou and Miriam - this is from Dimanche a Bamako, produced by Manu Chao but a bit different from their usual flavour I gather. Anyone got any earlier stuff?

And to keep the party going, something from the queens of Township Jazz - Sekusile by the Dark City Sisters

To finish up one for Thistle - but hope everyone else likes it too.

Paloma - Harry Belafonte

2007-01-22T19:33:00.001Z

I might have posted the wrong link.

http://download.yousendit.com/637AF81131B3B817

Liverpool 2 - Chelsea 0

2007-01-22T19:16:00.000Z

Here are two tunes to celebrate a fine footballing weekend all round.

Pigmeat Markham was a stand up comic who made afew records, I recon this could be the first hip hop track ever - 1968!

01 Here Comes The Judge.mp3

And also a bit of Heavy Ike and Tina

12 Bold Soul Sister.mp3

These are my first posts so I hope they work

Just training

2007-01-21T22:47:00.000Z

In hope of enticing the mysterious "iamquentin" out of the shadows, here's a post that follows the template of conceptually linked tunes that Quentin told me he was planning to deploy for his first post here - I won't give away his gameplan but suffice to say it's a bit more interesting than mine - reggae songs about trains. They're all totally sweet though.

Raphael Green with Dr Alimantado - Rasta Train

Big Youth - Train to Rhodesia

The Ethiopians - Train to Glory

Dennis Alcapone - Engine Engine Number Nine

Junior Murvin with Dillinger - Roots Train

PLUS - some weird Appalachian folk business, on the same theme

Elizabeth Cotton - Freight Train

AFC 2 MAN U 1

2007-01-21T21:14:00.000Z

lost my voice. amazing game. pure joy. went flying about 3 rows when the second one went it. hey al, nice work yesterday by the way.

meant to post this one a little while ago. it's off a grimey compilation.

Saw it Comin' - Miss Beats, Wiley, Jammer

and got this yesterday. lyrics not exactly outstanding but liking the beat. album overall it tight

momma i'm sorry - clipse

Early Light Posting

2007-01-21T11:44:00.000Z

Ah, I can see how Nuts felt when no-one was posting. Anyway, it is Sunday, cold, bright sunshine, so a trio for you dug up while fishing for tunes for Hard-Baps:

1. Drunk On Salt Water - Xela

2. Shousetsu - Radicalfashion

Two low-fi-ish numbers, perhaps best consumed quietly late at night when everyone else has gone to bed.

3. Parade - Magazine

Probably not to everyone's taste. Recorded in 1978, Magazine were formed by Howard Devoto, who left the Buzzcocks after their first EP. Also written by bass player, Barry Adamson, who later went onto play for Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds.

Laters,

Thistle-Eye

Weekended...

2007-01-14T21:31:00.000Z

Aloha,

Two fairly tranquil offerings suitable for the end of the weekend. Cheers for coming down yesterday. Good time had by all I reckon and about to crack on with the Nuts CD...

First up, Minotaur Shock, a Bristol lad, who was also in a band called Bronze Age Fox. Funnily enough, I answered a small ad for them when I first started at university there. Nice bunch, but all my gear was up in London, and never really got it together:

Don't Be A Slave To No Computer - Minotaur Shock

Then a bit of a low-key folk number with a horn line worthy of Lalo Schiffrin (probably nicked from some such source):

Calling On - The Memory Band

More info on them here.

Laters,

Thistle-Eye

For Thistle

2007-01-13T13:53:00.000Z

He'll know the tune inside out but nothing else seemed quite right today - plus it's the only Icelandic music I've got and I didn't want to let Nick down. As a bonus, here are some other bona fide Sugarcubes classics - from the days when Bjork was genuinely trying to act like a pixie, wearing her hair in bunches and shit.

Sugarcubes - Birthday (probably their best known tune and the one that got them an NME cover)

Sugarcubes - Fucking in Rhythm and Sorrow (silly but infectious)

Sugarcubes - Motorcrash (my favourite - great lyrics)

Sugarcubes - Deus (Icelandic theology)

springy

2007-01-11T22:00:00.000Z

nebraska: bruce springsteen

you might have this already but in case not... some of his earliest stuff. whole album is amazing.

in the meantime

2007-01-11T21:12:00.000Z

was in middle of sorting out some tunes to post when this started playing on random on my pod. deeep.

pepe bradock deep burnt

p.s. loads of my tunes don't show up when I look in folder where I thought they were all kept. vast majority still there but key bits gone walkabout. they are still there to play but when I look through yousentit dem no deh. ??

And now for something completely different

2007-01-08T23:25:00.000Z

It seems to me that it's impossible to dislike this piece of pure noisemongering. Your mileage may vary.

Butthole Surfers - Goofy's Concern

And then here's a great track from Sparklehorse's first album, 1995's rolls-off-yer-tongue Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot. For some reason I find the line about awakening with spiders on your eyelids moving. Will have to try it out for real one day.

Sparklehorse - Rainmaker

Nick Techno...

2007-01-08T00:12:00.000Z

Just a quick one to say that Wadaldo's first techno post is none other than 'Clear' by Cybotron, circa 1983. Cybotron were Juan Atkins and Richard Davis and also mentioned on Wikipedia is one Jon 5 (who knows what happened to him!). Juan Atkins was also behind Model 500.

Technospodically yours,

Thistle-Eye

Halcyon Daze

2007-01-07T23:56:00.000Z

Nice one chaps - just had a fresh raid for upcoming bus journeys - will get back with thoughts. In return, a couple of back atcha...

First up, back to our old school, with some prime Moving Shadow jungle:

Mr Logic - Cloud 9

Produced by one Gavin Cheung (aka Nookie), an engineer for a lot of Ray Keith tunes.

Going back a little earlier also on Moving Shadow:

Space Cakes - Kaotic Chemistry

North London posse in da place, indeed... Love those stabs. Kaotic Chemistry included Rob Playford on the credits, he of much Goldie production and most famously, Renegade Snares. Was on the bus the other day and a guy had Renegade Snares blaring out of his tinny 'phones. It was most unmistakeable...

Thistle-Eye

Reggae 2, Hip Hop 1

2007-01-06T14:19:00.000Z

No Threat - Hot Milk Riddim ('turn off dem eejut sounds dem'):

http://download.yousendit.com/6FD109940236DE60

It Will Happen Again (familiar riddim, wicked version):

http://download.yousendit.com/B3FEB4C3485284F9

Showbiz and AG (time for some hip hop on this site. shame that this one's cut a bit short. still bad though):

http://download.yousendit.com/42FD32E30D056458

Wadaldo

Lift up their skirties

2006-12-29T21:10:00.000Z

This blog's still in nappies - doesn't even have a proper name yet - and already I feel that some Yellowman is well overdue. Here's a beauty - and pretty much the definition of slackness.

Tom

Yellowman - Shorties

I plan to split

2006-12-29T21:06:00.000Z

A short, joyous and very satisfying nugget of flamenco pop. I think the title translates as "I'm Going to Divide It" - looking forward to the day when I can ask people to correct me in the comments box.

Tom

Estrella Morente, Rosario and Antonio Flores - Lo Voy a Dividir

Could this be the tune that turns you on to rai?

2006-12-29T21:05:00.000Z

I don't know much about this - comes from an impulse purchase I made a couple of years ago. Think it's fucking ace though.

Tom

Cheb Brahim - Ech Hale Nabghik

Los Kraftwerkitos

2006-12-29T20:59:00.000Z

Most of you probably know the story - a few years ago a German DJ called Uwe Schmidt created the Senor Coconut moniker and created an album of easy listening Latin versions of Kraftwerk classics. The result is surprisingly listenable and inventive - perhaps partly because the attention to detail in the production suggests that the guy was actually taking the project seriously. Here's one of the better ones.

Tom

Señor Coconut y Su Conjunto - Showroom Dummies

Could this be the tune that turns you on to soca?

2006-12-29T20:43:00.000Z

Well, strictly speaking this is "rapso" rather than soca - but either way it's a perfectly pitched slice of reality music from Trinidad.

Tom

Brother Resistance - Cyar Take Dat

more detroit

2006-12-28T15:22:00.000Z

http://download.yousendit.com/6671BAC21BC22D2A

http://download.yousendit.com/EDB4DD3062EF7853

isn't this fun. nice one nuts. more detroit type of sound. not sure who the tracks are by. they are on a mix I was given.

burial tune - not from his album

2006-12-28T15:20:00.000Z

got this off warrior dubz. reminds me of some of photek's later stuff.

http://download.yousendit.com/1832C0920874C1DF

I saw Selassie I stretch forth...

2006-12-28T12:27:00.000Z

Max Romeo on unstoppable form with the leftfield producer Glen Adams - I'm yet to meet the (discerning) listener who hasn't been bowled over by this tune.

Tom

Max Romeo with Glen Adams - Jordan River

For Nick II - Two slices of Detroit

2006-12-28T12:23:00.000Z

As requested - two tunes from the Carl Craig Abstract Funk Theory compilation.

Tom

BFC - Galaxy
Rhythim is Rhythim - The Dance

For Nick I - Tai Chi riddim

2006-12-28T12:18:00.000Z

Three versions of the Tai Chi riddim, 2003 - which to these ears is yet to be bettered. Nick wanted Tanya Stephens, but might also enjoy the Cecile side- everyone else should listen to TOK first.

Tom

TOK - Cree
Tanya Stephens - Please Me
Ce'cile - Lift Me Up (& Back Me)