Slip-slop...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

T

Ein Freund von mir...

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