Attn: New Yorkers!
A last-minute announcement for the world debut of Dave Tompkin's upcoming vocoder opus:
A last-minute announcement for the world debut of Dave Tompkin's upcoming vocoder opus:
HelloI'll be doing a vocoder talk for my book How To Wreck A Nice Beach at the Goethe Institute as part of the Unsound Festival. Goethe is located at 5 E. 3rd at Broadway in the Wyoming Building. It takes place at 5:00, this Saturday, February 6, (also known, in the blizzard immediate, as tomorrow). I apologize for the last minute notice. We've been finishing!I will be showing images from the book and playing vocoder audio clips from the 1930s and The Future, including the years for which we were more or less present.Something To That Effect will include an ad for Silly Willy Toothpaste, "Barnacle Bill," German soccer chants rendered from stadium noise, the last house on Mars going bananas, Cold War drones, seashells powered by unvoiced hiss energy, a song called "You're A Peachtree Freak On Peachtree Street," my Verizon bill, talking castle winds, talking this, talking that, Phil Collins, and, if time allows, a guy with strep throat singing "Candy Girl." Whatever it takes. Bring a snowman, win the Super Bowl.There's a link to the Unsound Festival below, along with a picture of a Rhedosaurus having a word with a light house.DCT
Some more mixes
Via Good Records: a mix of 60s and 70s-era Haitian heat from Captain Planet
Elsewhere on the planet: Mike Simonetti of Italians Do It Better with "Back to Africa," a special mix for the Cosmic Disco site
More wit and scathing insight from Andrew Weatherall, guest DJ-ing with Steve Lamacq
Via Good Records: a mix of 60s and 70s-era Haitian heat from Captain Planet
Elsewhere on the planet: Mike Simonetti of Italians Do It Better with "Back to Africa," a special mix for the Cosmic Disco site
More wit and scathing insight from Andrew Weatherall, guest DJ-ing with Steve Lamacq
(An amazing Madlib/Lootpack moment, spotted on TTLECE)
From Soul Persuasion: more Bay Area soul, jazz, funk, everything
Mallet Rock: some vibraphone, marimba and xylophone jazz gems from McCoy, Hutcherson, Jackson, Tjader et al
John Dwyer of Thee Oh Sees etc with a mix for TFD
Bradford Deerhunter/Atlas Sound with his latest blissed-out Micromix
More "ancient school" and 80s from Mao
For all you UK rap enthusiasts: this mix from Superix on Southern Hospitality
(Available here)
(Available here)
In the days after Katrina, Soulstrut.com, an online "community" (if such a term applies) of record collectors/obsessives, held an auction to benefit the relief efforts in New Orleans. Everyone was supposed to give a prized record up as a humble, modest, symbolic tribute to those who had lost everything, with all profits going to charity. (I got this. I gave up this.) Soulstrut is at it again with "Heatrocks for Haiti," with plenty of great pieces added daily. Also check out Waxidermy, who have a great, super eclectic Heatrocks auction going on as well.
Around the Pacific world in a couple of clicks: over at Discontent, "New Weird Australia" and an indie rock/punk-leaning, television-hating China mixtape. Always great to hear more from the inscrutably named White.
Doc Delay and DJ B. Cause with Jukebox Wizard, a fun hour of remixes and blends (e.g. "Love in This Club" over a loop of "Where Did Our Love Go?"). Survivor over "Crazy"--with a faint whiff of "I Can't Go For That"--is readymade for your next college party.
Two new radio shows from Chairman Mao, one recent-ish, the other old and raer gem-laden.
"In the disco idiom," a charismatic set from the legendary Andrew Weatherall over at Ripped in Glasgow.
The UK's Fat Lace crew got wasted after Manchester United's tragic (but, to be real, deserved) 1-0 defeat at the hands of Leeds United and "laced us" with some random rap records. Plenty of bizarre moments, from the Leeds vs. Manchester rap record battle to a quick reference to "Godfather Don Revie." (Vaguely related: Landon Donovan's letter home to the boys.)
Just as British: "All Black Everything," Southern Hospitality's Afrocentric rap mix.
Recloose's radio show Hit It and Quit It with some real sweet 70s grooves and steppers, including his gorgeous edit of Jeffree's "Love's Gonna Last."
Ed from Shelflife Records with his favorite mellow-to-twee hits of 2009 (link at the bottom)
Prins Thomas live at Robert-Johnson (apparently a club in Frankfurt?). Also at Thizz Face Disco, "Berlin 61-89," a magnificent collection of Berlin Wall-related materials.
1. Mark E Smith of The Fall on why he supports Manchester City. Includes this brilliant anecdote featuring the Icicle Works:
3. Nathaniel Friedman/Bethlehem Shoals of Free Darko on the Jazz Session podcast, tightening his obsessive jazz does not equal basketball argument.
The Fall used to have a team, we'd play university teams before gigs. We played the Icicle Works when we were both in this hotel in London. There were eight or nine in our team, the group and couple of roadies. This guy called Big Dave from Lincolnshire, who was like the fattest lad you've ever seen, went in goal. And they turned up in replica Liverpool kits with "The Icicle Works" on the front and they've got this mock European Cup with them.2. Robert Christgau on Robin Kelley's long-anticipated Thelonious Monk biography, though it's more like Christgau, finally, on his beloved Monk. Long, precise, endearing, peerless.
3. Nathaniel Friedman/Bethlehem Shoals of Free Darko on the Jazz Session podcast, tightening his obsessive jazz does not equal basketball argument.
A fairly entertaining capsule from the heyday of Chicago hip-house, house-rap, club-rap, truly-fast-rap, whatever you want to call it, "it's a thousand ways you can explain it."
1:44 - "A lot of the house artists love the rap," observes Rocky Jones, flasher-costumed boss of DJ International Records.
2:17-2:38 - A dream deferred! And then completely and utterly forgotten.
3:15-3:54 - Splitting hairs, microgenre microskirmish, the very definition of internecine.
4:46-4:48 - It always begins pure, untainted and underground: "You might not hear these songs on the radio..." KC Flightt, self-professed hip-house pioneer, proudly observe.
4:50-4:51 - It always ends with delusion: "In a way it's like jazz," he continues.
5:19-5:21 - "I still try to keep as much rawness as I can," he says, failing miserably.
6:41-6:59 - Over his left shoulder, the judgmental glare of KRS-One.
7:34 - "A lot of people dancing nowadays."
8:00 - "Will Biz Markie have a hip-house record on his next record?"
8:14-8:30 - Twin Hype: underrated in any genre.
Yesterday, on the generally astonishing Zamboni Sountrack: this tape from the night of December 22, 1967 featuring legendary UK DJ Johnnie Walker, alone on the Radio Caroline offshore rig, paying tribute to the recently deceased Otis Redding.
The effectively named OLD SCHOOL HIP HOP TAPES with a treasure chest of XMAS-themed/referencing old school hip-hop tapes
Via Skull Kontrol: Can doing "Silent Night"
Not as timely as the aforementioned, but via TFD: Four Tet's Much Love to the Plastic People mix
The effectively named OLD SCHOOL HIP HOP TAPES with a treasure chest of XMAS-themed/referencing old school hip-hop tapes
Via Skull Kontrol: Can doing "Silent Night"
Not as timely as the aforementioned, but via TFD: Four Tet's Much Love to the Plastic People mix
