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