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Ready to (Classic) Rock! 2007-05-03 07:56:00 It ain't all drum machines and synthesizers 'round here...Since I don't consider Radiohead to be a quote-unquote "rock band" (You ever hear any stories of Thom Yorke trashing hotel rooms or banging groupies or snorting ants? Me neither! They may be geniuses, but they're pretty much a bunch of boring nerds. They have a freakin' blog for crissakes! That is SO not Rock & Roll!), I consider Led Zeppelin to hold the title of Greatest Rock Band of All Time. And really, it's not even close except for maybe the Stones... and don't even mention the word Beatles in this conversation, or I will smite you - they were the original boy-band until they did a load of drugs and got freaky. Led Zeppelin, now, they were born freaky, and that my friends, makes all the difference. You think Jimmy Page would put up with Yoko Ono's bullshit for more than like 5 seconds? Hell no! He woulda kicked her shrieky ass out the door, erected a bouncy castle in his hotel room, filled the sink with Jac Read more:Classic
Anybody remember Drum & Bass? 2007-05-02 03:31:00 It was pretty popular for a second there, ya know... what with all the drums and... er... bass... and, um... I got no idea where I was going with this bit. So anyhoo, here's one of my fave trax from '96 (yeah... '96... I don't think I'm going to get over how old I am any time soon... this is just getting silly) off a 2-disc mix compy by LTJ Bukem. Actually there were a series of these. Adam F, well, if his website is any indication, is a bit of a wanker. But he came out with a few good tunes, and this is my favorite, probably because it's got MC Conrad on vocals, and damn if that dude doesn't have the most booming voice ever. Brother could make "My Humps" sound ominous...Adam F - F Jam (Vocal Mix)Buy It!I'm hung over. See ya tomorrow.
2 x 4 (Tet) 2007-05-01 17:09:00 Today a couple of collaborations by Mr. Kieran Hebden, better known as Four Tet. First, the one the shuffle picked for me...This album was the first in what has turned into an ongoing series of collaborations between Hebden and veteran Jazz drummer Steve Reid. Reid has a long and impressive resume, hittin' da skins for everyone from Miles Davis to James Brown (you may have heard of them?), so why he wanted to collaborate with this skinny knob-twiddler is quite beyond me :P The results have been pretty interesting, mostly taking the form of free jazz freakouts + electronics, maybe not everyone's cup of tea, but certainly interesting listens. This track more of a straight up jazz number with a thematic horn line, some solos and Hebden squiggling away here and there at his leisure, with Reid keeping a solid rhythmic underpinning... hah! Actually sounds like I know what I'm talking about there, don't it! Goin' all NPR on yo ass!The Steve Reid Ensemble - Which OneBut It!They've
This one's gonna be big... 2007-04-27 17:24:00 Something brand new for ya, for a change!Ben Westbeech is one of the first artists signed to Gilles Peterson's new Brownswood Recordings label, so you know he's got some game. A lot of people are comparing him to Jamiroquai, and I guess I sorta see it, although without the hat... but ya know, I'm over the hat, so I'll vote for Mr. Westbeech. As for the song, well... anthem of the summer anyone?Ben Westbeech - So Good Today I think just maybe...--------------------------And this, well... maybe the mash-up thing has run it's course after all! :PHave a great weekend! Read more:gonna
The Sensory Wave, Manifested In The Hips... Huh? 2007-04-20 17:24:00 Funky and Friday... they go together like bacon and eggs, Laverne and Shirley, stalkers and restraining orders...Another old one here... The Mighty Bop's "La Vague Sensorielle" was one of the very first releases on Bruno Guez's Quango label, from 1995. The Mighty Bop is actually one of the many pseudonyms of that Frenchy pretty boy Bob Sinclar, which is actually a pseudonym, too. (Dude's real name is Christophe Le Friant, if you care... but how weird is that, having a pseudonym that is in itself a normal name? Like if I decided to put out something under the name, I dunno, Greg Johnson or something? WTF?). Anyhoo, this album found Bobby, as his friends call him, collaborating with DJ Cam and Le Funk Mob, so it was kind of a French hip-hop supagroop! Sample-heavy stuff, as the downtempo of the day tended to be...The Mighty Bop - Le VoyageBuy It!Is it just me, or is that sampled guitar line the same one Gang Starr used in "Manifest", just pitched differently? You tell me...Gang Read more:Sensory
Fishbone Is Red Hot! 2007-04-17 17:48:00 This here is the kind of selection that proves that the shuffle truly is random.I have loved Fishbone since, well, since I had hair... and that, my friends, was a long time ago. I think I've seen 'em live more times than any other band, at venues from the Lost Horizon in Syracuse to Dragonfly in Hollywood. Actually, at the Lost Horizon back (cough cough) years ago, Angelo (the singer/sax man) performed maybe the greatest crowd surfing feat I've ever witnessed, hopping off the stage and riding the crowd across the entire length of the club to the bar, grabbing himself a beer and making it all the way back to the stage without spilling a drop... all while the band played an extended jam in the middle of one of the songs. Classic. Fishbone, at the time, was at the height of their powers, playing in support of their classic Truth & Soul album. At the time I'd say they were the best funk band in the world, the best ska band in the world, and one of the best rock bands in the world, Read more:Red Hot
A Slight Distraction 2007-04-15 20:33:00 Happy Monday, although with the fucked up shit that went down at Virgina Tech today... well, maybe a nice tune can serve to take your mind off of it for a second.DJ Morpheus is a Belgian dude, probably most famous for being one of the top guns at the excellent Crammed Discs label and curating the legendary Freezone series of compilations. Every now and then he's put out a mix CD under his own name and, tragically bad cover art aside (seriously though, it looks like a movie poster for a bad buddy movie about a loveable loser and his inanimate sidekick... and another thing, if he's gonna call it In My Bag, why does he have a box? Shouldn't you either get a bag or call it In My Box? These are the things that keep me up at night. I need help), this one here is a real winner, featuring some fantastic mid-tempo funkiness. To wit:Bah Samba - Black Blood (Funky Lowlives Mix)Buy It!Of course, you can pretty much never go wrong with Funky Lowlives and Bah Samba has put out a number of so Read more:Slight
Memories of EEEEEEEEEEaster! 2007-04-08 16:17:00 Actually, you kinda had to be there...Tonegent - Big Chocolate Bunny (of infinite sorrow)
Hello Summer! 2007-05-13 15:33:00 Tonegent Presents "Mistura Do Verao"(Continuous (sorta) DJ Mix (or should I say blend?) - 76:48 - 87.9 mb @ 160 kps - yeah, I know... it's huge. Deal with it :P )TracklistEnjoy! Read more:Hello
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No, Soup for you! 2007-05-11 17:32:00 One of my all-time favorites today...Alphabet Soup are straight-up legends in the Bay Area, and the only live hip-hop band I've ever seen that can come within shouting distance of The Roots. I actually came to know of them completely randomly, though. At the time I was living in Marin County, and one night a bunch of the folks that I worked with at a movie theater decided to go out together. After a harrowing 100mph drive down the twisty part of the 101 to the Golden Gate (thanks to my insane friend Puckett), we ended up at this relatively nondescript club on one of the piers, and the Soup just happened to be the evening's entertainment. I was blown away, and probably went and saw them once a month for the remaining time I lived up there as they gigged constantly. This is the only album they've put out in any kind of wide release (as far as I know), and why they never picked up any kind of following outside of Cali is a mystery to me, especially since the Acid Jazz thing was so
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