MMVIII

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...

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

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

Dutch hiphop production is the future!

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

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

heavy.

Sufjan Stevens

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---

!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...

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?)

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