segunda-feira, julho 13, 2015
domingo, junho 14, 2015
domingo, junho 07, 2015
Soul Walking... for more than 4 years
I'm thinking of revamping this blog.
It's been more than 4 years now, since my last post. It's not that I was no longer interested in music but that I no longer had the time to communicate about it in an active way. I only got around it every once in a while and ended up with a mix that I made for friends or to listen to at work or in the train...
After 4 years I realize that I have made quite a lot of mixes in the time between and some are still nice to listen to. I tend to discover them after a while to come to this conclusion.
When I stopped I used Soundcloud as basis but it turns out that they are not so mix-friendly anymore. I've had loads of mixes which I couldn't upload or were removed afterwards.
Now, I'm switching to Mixcloud. As a designer though I tend to fancy Soundcloud more but Mixcloud does the trick.
Enjoy the walk... while it lasts.
It's been more than 4 years now, since my last post. It's not that I was no longer interested in music but that I no longer had the time to communicate about it in an active way. I only got around it every once in a while and ended up with a mix that I made for friends or to listen to at work or in the train...
After 4 years I realize that I have made quite a lot of mixes in the time between and some are still nice to listen to. I tend to discover them after a while to come to this conclusion.
When I stopped I used Soundcloud as basis but it turns out that they are not so mix-friendly anymore. I've had loads of mixes which I couldn't upload or were removed afterwards.
Now, I'm switching to Mixcloud. As a designer though I tend to fancy Soundcloud more but Mixcloud does the trick.
Enjoy the walk... while it lasts.
quinta-feira, dezembro 29, 2011
The Situation is Hopeless but not Serious
1. Matti Hyvönen - Jäi toiset aamulla nukkumaan
2. The Flaming Tunes - Restless mind 1985
3. Hermeto Pascoal e Grupo - Música da Lagoa 1981
4. Connie Francis - Siboney
5. Sylvester - I Need Somebody To Love Tonight 1979
6. Chrisye - Sakura Dalam Pelukan
7. Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Viaticum - A Picture Of Doris Travelling With Boris 2005
8. The Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble feat. Emika - Pretend 2011
9. Portico Quartet – Cittàgazze 2007
10. Les Yeux Noirs - Dobri dien Romale (Tzigane russe chanté) 2010
11. Arthur Russell - Thats Us/Wild Combination
12. The Residents - It's a Man's World 1984
13. The JB's - Theme From King Heroin 1972
14. Uschi Brüning - Hochzeitsnacht 1974
15. Cliff Richard - Ease Along 1979
16. Alessi Brothers - Seabird 1976
17. A música livre de Hermeto Pascoal - Bebê 1973
18. This Heat - Makeshift Swahili 1981
19. Niki & The Dove - Under The Bridges 2011
20. Local Natives - Sun Hands 2009
21. Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Hard-Boiled Babe 1979
22. Metronomy - Holiday 2008
domingo, maio 16, 2010
Lullaby for a Summer Halo
I hope Summer comes soon. Meanwhile something to linger...
Memoryhouse – Lately-Troisieme | Eberhard Schoener and the Secret Society feat. Andy Summers - Signs of Emotion | Piero Umiliani – Tropical River | Popol Vuh – Aguirre I | Tangerine Dream - No Man's Land | Caribou – Sun | Walls – Hang Four | Memory Tapes – Bicycle | Tiefschwarz – Home | Jamie Lidell – It's A Kiss | Gayngs – Crystal Rope | Gayngs – Ride
Flavors of the Month
I hope Summer comes soon. Meanwhile something to linger...
Memoryhouse – Lately-Troisieme | Eberhard Schoener and the Secret Society feat. Andy Summers - Signs of Emotion | Piero Umiliani – Tropical River | Popol Vuh – Aguirre I | Tangerine Dream - No Man's Land | Caribou – Sun | Walls – Hang Four | Memory Tapes – Bicycle | Tiefschwarz – Home | Jamie Lidell – It's A Kiss | Gayngs – Crystal Rope | Gayngs – Ride
Flavors of the Month
terça-feira, março 30, 2010
Nippon Bento
Finally, I’m able to send out of sign of live again. It’s about bloody time but it will only be a short one. I’ve been busy, sick and abroad and now I'm leaving again. Tomorrow I go to Japan for 3 weeks. I was planning to go somewhere else but things turned out differently. Maybe for the best, who knows. I'm really looking forward to it. Maybe I can get my hands on some precious vinyl. Who knows.
Apart from that, something scared the shit out of me. I received my very first Blogger DMCA takedown notification. A post of mine was set on hold until I remove the shameful content. One thing they didn't tell me was what that shameful content was that was alleged to infringe upon the copyrights of others. Have to take a closer look on that one.
Finally, I’m able to send out of sign of live again. It’s about bloody time but it will only be a short one. I’ve been busy, sick and abroad and now I'm leaving again. Tomorrow I go to Japan for 3 weeks. I was planning to go somewhere else but things turned out differently. Maybe for the best, who knows. I'm really looking forward to it. Maybe I can get my hands on some precious vinyl. Who knows.
Apart from that, something scared the shit out of me. I received my very first Blogger DMCA takedown notification. A post of mine was set on hold until I remove the shameful content. One thing they didn't tell me was what that shameful content was that was alleged to infringe upon the copyrights of others. Have to take a closer look on that one.
quinta-feira, fevereiro 04, 2010
Entre Bruxelles et Toulouse... Se Trouve Angoulême
1985 bel Muriel Dacq – Tropique (Single Version)
2562 – Moog Dub
2009 The Hickey Underworld – Blonde Fire
Al Kent – Disco Sex - ep edit
Aufgang – Sonar
Aufgang – Barock
Bernard Fevre – Dangerous Mixture
Bullion – Time For Us All To Love
Capracara – King Of The Witches (Rub-N-Tug Re-edit)
Crookers ft Soulwax & Mixhell – We Love Animals (Tons of Friends)
Debby Blackwell – Once You Got Me Going
Delorean – Moonsoon
Dennis Parker – Like An Eagle (Todd Terje Edit)
faze action – Good Lovin’ (instumental mix)
Fela Kuti – Gentleman
Georgia Anne Muldrow – Roses
Gorillaz feat Mos Def & Bobby Womack – Stylo
Han Bennink Trio feat. Qarin Wikström – Parken
John Ozila – Chant and Boogie
Joy Orbison – The Shrew Would Have Cushioned the Blow
Julian Casablancas – 11th Dimension (Extended)
Lindstrom and Prins Thomas – Tirsdagsjam-La
listenlisten – Prologue
listenlisten – Funeral Dirge / Burial Service
Maxime Le Forestier – L'écho des étoiles
Mayer Hawthorne – Just Ain't Gonna Work Out
Mayer Hawthorne – Maybe So, Maybe No
Miami Horror – Make You Mine (Codebreaker remix)
O Children – Dead Disco Dancer (The Golden Filter Remix)
Omni – Disco Socks
Pyrolator – Ein Weihnachtsmann Kommt In Die Disco
Ramon Morris – People Make the World Go Around
Ramon Morris – Sweet Sister Funk
Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars – Living Stone
the XX – Teardrops (Womack&Womack)
Theodorakis & Maria Farantouri – Nuchta tou Sine
Uffie – Pop The Glock (Felix Da Housecat's Pink Enemy Remix)
Vampire Weekend – Diplomat’s Son
Xeper – Carceres Ex Novum
Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=cc05797523f3cb92ab1eab3e9fa335caa4c31e51d4b64972
1985 bel Muriel Dacq – Tropique (Single Version)
2562 – Moog Dub
2009 The Hickey Underworld – Blonde Fire
Al Kent – Disco Sex - ep edit
Aufgang – Sonar
Aufgang – Barock
Bernard Fevre – Dangerous Mixture
Bullion – Time For Us All To Love
Capracara – King Of The Witches (Rub-N-Tug Re-edit)
Crookers ft Soulwax & Mixhell – We Love Animals (Tons of Friends)
Debby Blackwell – Once You Got Me Going
Delorean – Moonsoon
Dennis Parker – Like An Eagle (Todd Terje Edit)
faze action – Good Lovin’ (instumental mix)
Fela Kuti – Gentleman
Georgia Anne Muldrow – Roses
Gorillaz feat Mos Def & Bobby Womack – Stylo
Han Bennink Trio feat. Qarin Wikström – Parken
John Ozila – Chant and Boogie
Joy Orbison – The Shrew Would Have Cushioned the Blow
Julian Casablancas – 11th Dimension (Extended)
Lindstrom and Prins Thomas – Tirsdagsjam-La
listenlisten – Prologue
listenlisten – Funeral Dirge / Burial Service
Maxime Le Forestier – L'écho des étoiles
Mayer Hawthorne – Just Ain't Gonna Work Out
Mayer Hawthorne – Maybe So, Maybe No
Miami Horror – Make You Mine (Codebreaker remix)
O Children – Dead Disco Dancer (The Golden Filter Remix)
Omni – Disco Socks
Pyrolator – Ein Weihnachtsmann Kommt In Die Disco
Ramon Morris – People Make the World Go Around
Ramon Morris – Sweet Sister Funk
Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars – Living Stone
the XX – Teardrops (Womack&Womack)
Theodorakis & Maria Farantouri – Nuchta tou Sine
Uffie – Pop The Glock (Felix Da Housecat's Pink Enemy Remix)
Vampire Weekend – Diplomat’s Son
Xeper – Carceres Ex Novum
Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=cc05797523f3cb92ab1eab3e9fa335caa4c31e51d4b64972
domingo, dezembro 27, 2009
Everything Comes to An End.
It’s raining gifts . Here’s another set of seasonal goodies. Just anything that I came across in the last weeks and which tickled my fancy.
Andy Palacio – Wátina (I Called Out)
Oscar Sulley – Pleco
Vis-A-Vis – Obi Agye Me Dofo
The late Andy Palacio´s master piece Wátina became in 2007 one of the most critically acclaimed recordings of the year. Palacio died in 2008 but thanks to the international success of Wátina there’s a revival of Garifuna music among new generations, in Belize and around the world.
John Rocca – I Want It To Be Real
John Rocca – I Want It To Be Real (Farley's Hot House Piano)
Incogdo – Simply Just A Ventage
Produced by John Rocca. Mixed by Arthur Baker. Released in 1984. plus Farley Jackmaster Funk's really hot piano remix from 1987.
Derrick May ripped I Want It To Be Real entirely for Simply Just A Ventage under the moniker Incogdo, later banned because of this.
Dez Mona – Carry On
Zita Swoon – I Feel Alive In The City
Vitor Hublot – La p'tite gayole 1986
The Violent Husbands – 2010
Local talent, found in the ongoing quest for my belpoop blog, soon to be public and fully operational.
Icasol – Ongou (Dixon edit)
Joseph Nothing – Underground Café
Klaus Schulze – Frank Herbert 1978
Classic track from " X ".
Ryan Shaw – It Gets Better Ryan Shaw – We Don’t Give Up Now Sharon Jones & The Dap-kings – Ain't No Chimneys In The Projects
Free Daptone Xmas gift.
Bear in Heaven – You Do You / El Perro Del Mar – L Is For Love (Low Motion Disco's additional Love remix demo) / Mario Basanov – Do You Remember (6th Borough Dub) / Mario Basanov – Do You Remember (Downtown Party Network remix) / Sonido Martines feat. FeFe – Elsa remix - Los Destellos
America – Ventura Highway / Monsters Of Folk – Dear God (Sincerely M.O.F.) / Liars – Scissor / The New Pornographers – Letter From An Occupant / Gary Burton and Chick Corea – What Game Shall We Play Today / Raffaella Carrà – A far L'amore Comincia Tu
Cindy Mizelle – This Could Be The Night 1984 / 3V – Heart Of The Beat / Touch – Without You (1987) / Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five – Internationally Known (Instrumental)
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=cc05797523f3cb92ab1eab3e9fa335ca673fe92e2bd66750
It’s raining gifts . Here’s another set of seasonal goodies. Just anything that I came across in the last weeks and which tickled my fancy.
Andy Palacio – Wátina (I Called Out)
Oscar Sulley – Pleco
Vis-A-Vis – Obi Agye Me Dofo
The late Andy Palacio´s master piece Wátina became in 2007 one of the most critically acclaimed recordings of the year. Palacio died in 2008 but thanks to the international success of Wátina there’s a revival of Garifuna music among new generations, in Belize and around the world.
John Rocca – I Want It To Be Real
John Rocca – I Want It To Be Real (Farley's Hot House Piano)
Incogdo – Simply Just A Ventage
Produced by John Rocca. Mixed by Arthur Baker. Released in 1984. plus Farley Jackmaster Funk's really hot piano remix from 1987.
Derrick May ripped I Want It To Be Real entirely for Simply Just A Ventage under the moniker Incogdo, later banned because of this.
Dez Mona – Carry On
Zita Swoon – I Feel Alive In The City
Vitor Hublot – La p'tite gayole 1986
The Violent Husbands – 2010
Local talent, found in the ongoing quest for my belpoop blog, soon to be public and fully operational.
Icasol – Ongou (Dixon edit)
Joseph Nothing – Underground Café
Klaus Schulze – Frank Herbert 1978
Classic track from " X ".
Ryan Shaw – It Gets Better Ryan Shaw – We Don’t Give Up Now Sharon Jones & The Dap-kings – Ain't No Chimneys In The Projects
Free Daptone Xmas gift.
Bear in Heaven – You Do You / El Perro Del Mar – L Is For Love (Low Motion Disco's additional Love remix demo) / Mario Basanov – Do You Remember (6th Borough Dub) / Mario Basanov – Do You Remember (Downtown Party Network remix) / Sonido Martines feat. FeFe – Elsa remix - Los Destellos
America – Ventura Highway / Monsters Of Folk – Dear God (Sincerely M.O.F.) / Liars – Scissor / The New Pornographers – Letter From An Occupant / Gary Burton and Chick Corea – What Game Shall We Play Today / Raffaella Carrà – A far L'amore Comincia Tu
Cindy Mizelle – This Could Be The Night 1984 / 3V – Heart Of The Beat / Touch – Without You (1987) / Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five – Internationally Known (Instrumental)
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=cc05797523f3cb92ab1eab3e9fa335ca673fe92e2bd66750
sábado, dezembro 26, 2009
I don't Like Xmas
I’m a bit late but mediafire was experiencing some difficulties yesterday so I couldn’t upload. What I had in mind was a special Xmas gift.
I’m working on a new blog with an overview of Belgian (pop)music worth listening to, also by others who don’t speak any of the local lingo’s. It’s taking me a lot of time and effort, more than I thought it would take, but in the course of doing so, I’m discovering a lot of interesting music I never heard before.
I prepared a kind of best of compilation by Telex, the 80’s synth-popband with Marc Moulin. If you don’t know them, you can picture them as being something in between the Yellow Magic Orchestra and Sparks but then again something totally original and typically Belgian. It’s hard to describe why. maybe it’s easier the other way round. Listening to Telex can give one an insight in what it’s like to be Belgian.
Enjoy and yes sure, a merry to you too.
01 Moskow Diskow (maxi) –Looking for Saint Tropez 1979
02 Quelque Chose a Dire –Looking for Saint Tropez 1979
03 We Are All Getting Old – Neurovision 1980
04 Face A/B – Neurovision 1980
05 En Route Vers De Nouvelles Aventures – Neurovision 1980
06 Brainwash – Sex/Birds and Bees 1981
07 L'amour Toujours – Wonderful World 1984
08 Raised By Snakes – Wonderful World 1984
09 I Don't Like Music – 1984
10 Rendez-Vous Dans l'Espace – Looney Tunes 1988
11 Z-Moor-Z – Heros Dynamique (razormaid mix) – 1986
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=cc05797523f3cb92ab1eab3e9fa335ca862c91855b67045c
(usual map with separate tracks)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/fi1zngqecd3/TELEX_bestof_belpoop.zip
(a zip file with the tracks and CD covers)
I’m a bit late but mediafire was experiencing some difficulties yesterday so I couldn’t upload. What I had in mind was a special Xmas gift.
I’m working on a new blog with an overview of Belgian (pop)music worth listening to, also by others who don’t speak any of the local lingo’s. It’s taking me a lot of time and effort, more than I thought it would take, but in the course of doing so, I’m discovering a lot of interesting music I never heard before.
I prepared a kind of best of compilation by Telex, the 80’s synth-popband with Marc Moulin. If you don’t know them, you can picture them as being something in between the Yellow Magic Orchestra and Sparks but then again something totally original and typically Belgian. It’s hard to describe why. maybe it’s easier the other way round. Listening to Telex can give one an insight in what it’s like to be Belgian.
Enjoy and yes sure, a merry to you too.
01 Moskow Diskow (maxi) –Looking for Saint Tropez 1979
02 Quelque Chose a Dire –Looking for Saint Tropez 1979
03 We Are All Getting Old – Neurovision 1980
04 Face A/B – Neurovision 1980
05 En Route Vers De Nouvelles Aventures – Neurovision 1980
06 Brainwash – Sex/Birds and Bees 1981
07 L'amour Toujours – Wonderful World 1984
08 Raised By Snakes – Wonderful World 1984
09 I Don't Like Music – 1984
10 Rendez-Vous Dans l'Espace – Looney Tunes 1988
11 Z-Moor-Z – Heros Dynamique (razormaid mix) – 1986
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=cc05797523f3cb92ab1eab3e9fa335ca862c91855b67045c
(usual map with separate tracks)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/fi1zngqecd3/TELEX_bestof_belpoop.zip
(a zip file with the tracks and CD covers)
sábado, novembro 07, 2009
sexta-feira, novembro 06, 2009
Cherry Blossoms are still far away in November
Akira Ifukube - Nocturne from The Japanese Rhapsody - Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra & Ryusuke Numajiri
A bunch of friends of mine are making plans to go to Japan together next year and I feel tempted to go along but I already made plans to go to Syria around my birthday. The reason they go is Hanami. Each year in March and April they have a festival in Japan called Hanami (花見) which literally translated means ‘looking at flowers’.
The Sakura or Cherry Blossom flowers only for a short while which over time became a symbol for the fragility and the passing of life itself. The peak of this flowering happens every year at a different moment. In this time of year The TV networks devote a large part of the weather forecast predicting the moment of flowering which is a signal for most Japanese people to go outside for a picnic and enjoy the cherry blossoms and oh yes, a large amount of booze as well.
It's suppose to be the best moment to see Japan. I will skip this time and wait for another more appropriate opportunity. I’m really looking forward to go back to Syria.
This piece of music comes from a CD called Japanese Orchestral Favourites which offers a wide variety of western oriented orchestral music from a number of Japanese composers. I especially liked this nocturne which it’s sad folk-song like theme and extensive viola solos.
Aeroplane October Mix
Simian Mobile Disco - Cruel Intentions (Maurice Fulton Remix)
I’m still waiting for their debut album but meanwhile Aeroplane has an ongoing series of mixes at http://soundcloud.com/. They started in July. So this is number 4.
The tracklist: 1. Simian Mobile Disco : Cruel Intentions (Maurice Fulton Remix) / 2. Ali Love : Diminishing Returns / 3. Ladyhawke : Magic (Donnie Sloan Dub) / 4. Neurotic Drum Band : Robotic Hypnotic Adventure / 5. Cloned In Vatican : Nina (Road To Cagliari) / 6. Unknown / 7. Golden Filter : Thunderbird (Villa Remix) / 8. Royksopp : This Must Be In (The Bloody Sisters Remix) / 9. Toecutter : Best Party Ever (Jordan Lightyear & Jimmy 2 Sox Remix) / 10. Groove Armada : I Wont Kneel. The Maurice Fulton mix is truly sublime so I’ve put it as a separate track in the map.
Lucio Battisti - Dove Arriva Quel Cespuglio 1976
I heard them plugging this track on local radio. Very clearly a big influence on their style.
Natalie Imbruglia – Want
I’m not really a fan of Imbruglia but I can’t get this song out of my head. It’s the first single of a new album and it’s co-written by Cold Martin. It’s not really a great song, a beat and a dance chorus but it’s catchy as hell. So if you want to know what's buggin’ me lately, don’t ask.
Automat - Droid 1978
Retro Grade - Zoid (12 inch mix)
Early instrumental electronic music from Italy, totally built on synthesized sounds and rhythms, it's in the same rank as contemporary works by Kraftwerk, Morodor and Jean Michel Jarre, whose Oxygene was recorded in the same period and released just a few months before this. Automat was a music collective consisting of Romano Musumarra and Claudio Gizzi with Sound Engineer Luciano Torani. The main track Automat on the A side was made by Claudio Gizzi. The B side with three shorter tracks by Musumarra with sounds programmed by Mario Maggi using the "MCS 70" (Memory Controlled Sythesizer). One of these, Droid, was a leading theme on the brazilian Globo TV.
There are a lot of remakes of this song, mainly old Italian versions like Hypnosis. Zoid is a recent remake by Retro Grade. An album project by Serge Santiago and Tom Neville from the UK aiming to create a modern day take on Italo Disco. Just as on their first single MODA they take inspiration from that period between disco and house - the grey zone where synths were first used with disco and when drum machines were used to keep a track in time.
Alvin Queen - Let Us Go Into The House / Eddie Hinton - Concept World / Jimmy Hall - Here I Am / The Noisettes - Never forget you / The Marvelettes - The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game
A Brand - Mad Love Sweet Love 2009
Arthur Russel - In The Light (re edit)
Dam Funk – Toeachizown
Demarkus Lewis - Do Not Attempt To Dance
Fela Kuti - Je Nwi Temi
Florence and the Machine - You Got the Love (XX remix)
Four Tet - Love Cry
Gabor Szabo - Keep Smiling (re-edit)
Jack Penate - Tonight's Today
Jacob Korn - I Like The Sun (Prins Thomas Diskomiks)
Jaga Jazzist - One Armed Bandit (radio edit)
Led Zeppelin - Ramble On
Loleatta Holloway - Hit and Run (re-edit)
Marcus Miller - Lovin' You
Studio - Lifes A Beach (Todd Terje Beach House mix)
The Phenomenal Handclap Band - 15 To 20 (The Glimmers remix)
Vampire Weekend – Horchata
Wanda - I Must Be Dreamin'
Claude Debussy - Danses sacrées et profanes - Annie Lavoisier, harp & Oxalys / Schubert - Adagio from The String Quintet in C, D956 op.163 - Orpheus Strijkkwartet & Pieter Wispelwey - Channel Classics
>>> http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=cc05797523f3cb92ab1eab3e9fa335ca182287f3ae638b6d
domingo, outubro 25, 2009
Essa Una Semana Calor
I’ve just spend a superbly hot ridden sun overloaded week in Sevilla. One word: Heatwave. I left Brussels behind with a meager 2 degrees Celsius to find myself a couple hours later getting struck with 36 degrees, in the shade smack in the face :)
Yours truly feels brand new and fully operational with batteries included this time. So time for an update with another full workout.
I’m working on another system for previews and downloads on this site. It seems that the old system doesn’t work anymore or at least not as I want it to. Whenever I try to paste in a name tagged link, the complete layout changes and everything becomes unmanageable.
Instead of separate links, I now just ad one link every month to a map named after that month where all the goodies are collected and updated. This way is also easier for me. It takes less precious time which I now can devote to exploring more music and to written side dishes.
24 Carat black – Poverty's Paradise 1973
Second track from an heavily sampled rare groove classic called Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth. Their only one unfortunately. It’s such a versatile and very diverse record. A concept album. Subject: the state of black life in the ghetto in the seventies. A topic and a musical translation which deserves a proper listening instead of mere groove diggin’.
Telex – I don't like music + Alec Mansion – Trop Triste 1982
There’s a Telex link in here. A local band produced by Dan Lacksman who later reappeared as Leopold Nord et Vous with C’est l’amour which sold millions of copies in France and Belgium. One of my favorite oldies. I can’t remember having seen this video clip back then but it’s a nice one.
Au Revoire Simone – Sad Song / Shadows
One of the great concert I’ve seen recently at Le Bota. It was the fourth time that they came to Brussels and they like coming back. A swell show. They sound way better live than on their records. Sometimes the production sounds rather bleak. None of that with the great sound at Le Botanique.
The Fiery Furnaces – Even In The Rain / 'm Going Away /
Another recent concert at Trix. Second time round. This time there weren’t too many people paying a visit. they have a nice new album. More straightforward.
BLK JKS – Lakeside / Molalatladi
Or The Black Jacks. A new band from South Africa that I’m starting to discover. They’re coming to my hometown in December. Reminds me of TV on The Radio set in an African context.
Kano – Can't hold back (your loving) - extended mix 1981 /
Maxi B-side.
Marva Whitney – It's My Thing (You Can't Tell Me Who To Sock It To) Pts 1 & 2
JB.
Mockba Music – Mötet 1984
Popular band in Sweden I’ve been told. Boy, would I like to sample this.
Norah Jones – Chasing Pirates
New Norah Jones song. I couldn’t hear the lyrics well at first and thought the main line runs like ‘My mind’s racing from chasing heartaches’ which sounded nice to me but it’s actually about real live action pirates. Besides that. Am I the only person who thinks ‘Miss You’ from The Rolling Stones after hearing this song?
Soma Holiday – Shake Your Molecules (the neutron dance) 1984
Wave classic from Wave Klassix Volume 3. Don’t know much about this band. Reminds me a bit of Siouxie.
Ganzheit – Marvelous / Independence 1986
I learned about this band through Saltyka And His Friends. A strange unknown band from the UK who made their hard edged ebnergetic proto acid house meets electronic body music in the late 80's. It sounds familiar, like Front 242, very industrial.
They never made an album only a couple of maxi’s.Marvelous but especially Independence are my favorite tracks. It’s sounds like EBM but then again it’s so much more. A mesmerizing hybrid.
Monsters Of Folk - The Sandman, The Brakeman And Me
It seems that supergroups are back, at least in the States. First The Gutter Twins, after that Them Crooked Vultures or Josh Homme, Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones and now Jim James from My Morning Jacket, Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis from Bright Eyes and M. Ward all together in one band.
What does it sound like? 4 of the most well know and versatile representatives of the folk revival working together makes one think about the Traveling Wilburys and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Well, they’re not that great… but that’s of course asking too much, but boy am I glad that when they met while touring they didn’t stick to playing carts to kill time, but made a couple of songs instead. It took them some years to finally lay them down. You can hear well who made which song but the beauty is in the novel combinations. The interplay of instruments, styles and voices. One of my favorite albums this year.
Simian Mobile Disco feat. Beth Ditto – Cruel Intentions
It seems like Beth Ditto is everywhere these days. Sorry for the cheap joke but given her constitution that shouldn’t be too strange.
Rudy – Just Take My Body / White Room 1979
Rudy was the first name of Rudy Trevesi, a multi talented instrumentalist and vocalist fromItaly
‘White Room’ was a disco remake of the famous Cream song. Jacques Fred Petrus liked the concept of creating disco remakes, as he also put out Macho's I'm a man by the Spencer Davis Group.
Haruomi Hosono – Kinu Kaido (silk road) (1976)
Yukihiro Takahashi – Radioactivist 1980
Two members of the Yellow Magic Orchestra and their early solo output.
Andrea True Connection – Party Line
Anna Domino – Rhythm
Artefact – Mae
Blue Night – Turn Me Loose - My Design
Chic – Open Up
Easy Going – Do It Again 1978
Emora – The Clonius
Fela Kuti vs. Kano – I'm an I.T.T.
Glory – Let's Get Nice 1981
Golden Girls – Too Cute (1988)
Jacob Miller & Trinity – I'm Just A Dread
Jay Reatard – Always Wanting More
Joakim – Ad Me
Lindstrøm and Christabelle – Baby Can't Stop (Aeroplane remix)
Modern English – I Melt With You
Moderne – Switch On Bach
Recht Herzlich – 1000 Lüste
The Heavy – How You Like Me Now (solo remix)
The Jonzun Crew – WeAre The Jonzun Crew
Toby King – Mr. Tuff Stuff
Tomasz Stanko Quintet – Grand Central 2009
Turzi – Bogota
UDM – To Please You
Still more Blah Blah comin'
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I’ve just spend a superbly hot ridden sun overloaded week in Sevilla. One word: Heatwave. I left Brussels behind with a meager 2 degrees Celsius to find myself a couple hours later getting struck with 36 degrees, in the shade smack in the face :)
Yours truly feels brand new and fully operational with batteries included this time. So time for an update with another full workout.
I’m working on another system for previews and downloads on this site. It seems that the old system doesn’t work anymore or at least not as I want it to. Whenever I try to paste in a name tagged link, the complete layout changes and everything becomes unmanageable.
Instead of separate links, I now just ad one link every month to a map named after that month where all the goodies are collected and updated. This way is also easier for me. It takes less precious time which I now can devote to exploring more music and to written side dishes.
24 Carat black – Poverty's Paradise 1973
Second track from an heavily sampled rare groove classic called Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth. Their only one unfortunately. It’s such a versatile and very diverse record. A concept album. Subject: the state of black life in the ghetto in the seventies. A topic and a musical translation which deserves a proper listening instead of mere groove diggin’.
Telex – I don't like music + Alec Mansion – Trop Triste 1982
There’s a Telex link in here. A local band produced by Dan Lacksman who later reappeared as Leopold Nord et Vous with C’est l’amour which sold millions of copies in France and Belgium. One of my favorite oldies. I can’t remember having seen this video clip back then but it’s a nice one.
Au Revoire Simone – Sad Song / Shadows
One of the great concert I’ve seen recently at Le Bota. It was the fourth time that they came to Brussels and they like coming back. A swell show. They sound way better live than on their records. Sometimes the production sounds rather bleak. None of that with the great sound at Le Botanique.
The Fiery Furnaces – Even In The Rain / 'm Going Away /
Another recent concert at Trix. Second time round. This time there weren’t too many people paying a visit. they have a nice new album. More straightforward.
BLK JKS – Lakeside / Molalatladi
Or The Black Jacks. A new band from South Africa that I’m starting to discover. They’re coming to my hometown in December. Reminds me of TV on The Radio set in an African context.
Kano – Can't hold back (your loving) - extended mix 1981 /
Maxi B-side.
Marva Whitney – It's My Thing (You Can't Tell Me Who To Sock It To) Pts 1 & 2
JB.
Mockba Music – Mötet 1984
Popular band in Sweden I’ve been told. Boy, would I like to sample this.
Norah Jones – Chasing Pirates
New Norah Jones song. I couldn’t hear the lyrics well at first and thought the main line runs like ‘My mind’s racing from chasing heartaches’ which sounded nice to me but it’s actually about real live action pirates. Besides that. Am I the only person who thinks ‘Miss You’ from The Rolling Stones after hearing this song?
Soma Holiday – Shake Your Molecules (the neutron dance) 1984
Wave classic from Wave Klassix Volume 3. Don’t know much about this band. Reminds me a bit of Siouxie.
Ganzheit – Marvelous / Independence 1986
I learned about this band through Saltyka And His Friends. A strange unknown band from the UK who made their hard edged ebnergetic proto acid house meets electronic body music in the late 80's. It sounds familiar, like Front 242, very industrial.
They never made an album only a couple of maxi’s.Marvelous but especially Independence are my favorite tracks. It’s sounds like EBM but then again it’s so much more. A mesmerizing hybrid.
Monsters Of Folk - The Sandman, The Brakeman And Me
It seems that supergroups are back, at least in the States. First The Gutter Twins, after that Them Crooked Vultures or Josh Homme, Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones and now Jim James from My Morning Jacket, Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis from Bright Eyes and M. Ward all together in one band.
What does it sound like? 4 of the most well know and versatile representatives of the folk revival working together makes one think about the Traveling Wilburys and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Well, they’re not that great… but that’s of course asking too much, but boy am I glad that when they met while touring they didn’t stick to playing carts to kill time, but made a couple of songs instead. It took them some years to finally lay them down. You can hear well who made which song but the beauty is in the novel combinations. The interplay of instruments, styles and voices. One of my favorite albums this year.
Simian Mobile Disco feat. Beth Ditto – Cruel Intentions
It seems like Beth Ditto is everywhere these days. Sorry for the cheap joke but given her constitution that shouldn’t be too strange.
Rudy – Just Take My Body / White Room 1979
Rudy was the first name of Rudy Trevesi, a multi talented instrumentalist and vocalist from
‘White Room’ was a disco remake of the famous Cream song. Jacques Fred Petrus liked the concept of creating disco remakes, as he also put out Macho's I'm a man by the Spencer Davis Group.
Haruomi Hosono – Kinu Kaido (silk road) (1976)
Yukihiro Takahashi – Radioactivist 1980
Two members of the Yellow Magic Orchestra and their early solo output.
Andrea True Connection – Party Line
Anna Domino – Rhythm
Artefact – Mae
Blue Night – Turn Me Loose - My Design
Chic – Open Up
Easy Going – Do It Again 1978
Emora – The Clonius
Fela Kuti vs. Kano – I'm an I.T.T.
Glory – Let's Get Nice 1981
Golden Girls – Too Cute (1988)
Jacob Miller & Trinity – I'm Just A Dread
Jay Reatard – Always Wanting More
Joakim – Ad Me
Lindstrøm and Christabelle – Baby Can't Stop (Aeroplane remix)
Modern English – I Melt With You
Moderne – Switch On Bach
Recht Herzlich – 1000 Lüste
The Heavy – How You Like Me Now (solo remix)
The Jonzun Crew – WeAre The Jonzun Crew
Toby King – Mr. Tuff Stuff
Tomasz Stanko Quintet – Grand Central 2009
Turzi – Bogota
UDM – To Please You
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quinta-feira, outubro 22, 2009
September's Here... End of Summer
It falls hard to keep posting on a regular basis. I’m kind of adopting a new lifestyle which involves spending a week abroad every month and it means I have to cramp my work and social life in the remaining 3 weeks. I just spend a week in Prague and in October I’m going to Sevilla. As a result less time for blogging.
Unfortunately/luckily I fell ill in Prague. I’ve got a damn cold again and I’m doing some time indoors dividing my time between my bed and the sofa so I get bored. A good opportunity to post some of the stuff I’ve been collecting for a proper post.
Whenever I fall ill I kinda get nostalgic and start listening to whatever eighties stuff that I have lying around. Davis Sylvian, Heaven 17 und Neue Deutsche Welle as it appears.
What song is better suited than Sylvian’s September from Secrets Of The Beehive. That classic album always reminds me of September. The end of Summer but not really Autumn yet. The time of Indian Summer. The heat is off but those last rays just won’t let go. The nights get longer and colder. The first signs of winter.
The music is acoustically bright and warm but there’s a glance of doom as cold synthesizer sounds color the black backdrop.
I will try to get more active but I can’t force anything. I just do this for fun and I’ve noticed that I’m coming to the end of my Box upload capacity and Blogger is acting strange when using firefox as I presently do. Time to rethink all of it.
David Sylvian – September
Quantic And His Combo Barbaro - The Dreaming Mind part 1
Al Kent Presents The Million Dollar Orchestra - Get It Boy
Al Kent Presents The Million Dollar Orchestra - Rock Freak Boogie
Ananda Shankar – Dancing Drums
Kalyanji Anandji – Theme From Don (edit) One of my favorite Bollywood movies and the place where the Beastie Boys found there groove.
Andreas Dorau und Die Marinas – Einkauf
Vorgruppe – Verkannt Und Verbissen
Hoffnung & Psyche – Das Auto
Human League – Seconds
Lindbæk & Lindstrøm – Aliens In My Pocket Everything Norsk is still pretty prima to me
Yacht – Summer Song
Little Dragon – Looking Glass
Black Devil Disco Club – With Honey Cream Same obscure guy, brand new tracks.
Kerrier District – Let's Dance And Freak AKA Luke Vibert in a fake Italo and Disco mode
Chateau Flight – Welcome
Sorcerer – Dayglow A new sorcerer album. At first sight no new instant classics but I have to let this one grow on me.
Mid Air – Ease Out (original version)
Jupiter Band – Sarah Love (12 inch)
Mel Carter – Love Test
Home Service – Only Men Fall in Love
Strawberry Switchblade – Michael who walks by night Produced by the some guys who used to have a band of their own called Home Service. They made a couple of nice singles. This is my favorite together with one of the few Switchblade songs I still like.
Bombay Bicycle Club – Always Like This
Dirty Projectors – Stillness Is The Move I’m going to see them play live this Saturday. Reminds me that I have to update my concert agenda
Florence And The Machine - Dog Days Are Over
Florence And The Machine – Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) And ‘deze straffe Madam’ is coming next month to La Botanique in Brussels.
Durutti Column – Duet
Andy Williams – The Impossible Dream I drive a Honda you know…
Burt Ward & The Mothers of Invention – Variant 1 (alternate)
Lisa Papineau – Rene Thomas
23 Skidoo – Language
Jah Division – Heart and Soul Dub
Bis – Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division cover)
Atfunk – Sequence 75
Blackjoy – Mercurian (main mix)
Bottin – No Static
Bottin – Theme From St. Mark 30124
Filipsson & Ulysses – Fluffy Amadeus
Kabbala – Voltan Dance
Kotey Extra Band – Daybreak
Mayer Hawthorne – Maybe So Maybe No
New Look – Everything
Rev. Utah Smith – Two Wings If Sunday mass sermon and prayer around my corner were like this I would surely attend.
Ronda – Folana
Shannon – Sex Shooter Can’t help it, still like this song
Stockholm Monsters – Miss Moonlight
The Diaphanoids – Mermaids Of Lunaris (a Blackjoy Disco mix)
The Time And Space Machine – Children Of The Sun
The Wake – Something Outside
Time Zone – The Wildstyle The backside of a Celluloid maxi single with Jimi Hendrix and a rap by Lightnin Rod about Doriella Du Fontaine.
Village People – Don't Go in the Bushes (Horse Meat Disco edit)
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It falls hard to keep posting on a regular basis. I’m kind of adopting a new lifestyle which involves spending a week abroad every month and it means I have to cramp my work and social life in the remaining 3 weeks. I just spend a week in Prague and in October I’m going to Sevilla. As a result less time for blogging.
Unfortunately/luckily I fell ill in Prague. I’ve got a damn cold again and I’m doing some time indoors dividing my time between my bed and the sofa so I get bored. A good opportunity to post some of the stuff I’ve been collecting for a proper post.
Whenever I fall ill I kinda get nostalgic and start listening to whatever eighties stuff that I have lying around. Davis Sylvian, Heaven 17 und Neue Deutsche Welle as it appears.
What song is better suited than Sylvian’s September from Secrets Of The Beehive. That classic album always reminds me of September. The end of Summer but not really Autumn yet. The time of Indian Summer. The heat is off but those last rays just won’t let go. The nights get longer and colder. The first signs of winter.
The music is acoustically bright and warm but there’s a glance of doom as cold synthesizer sounds color the black backdrop.
I will try to get more active but I can’t force anything. I just do this for fun and I’ve noticed that I’m coming to the end of my Box upload capacity and Blogger is acting strange when using firefox as I presently do. Time to rethink all of it.
David Sylvian – September
Quantic And His Combo Barbaro - The Dreaming Mind part 1
Al Kent Presents The Million Dollar Orchestra - Get It Boy
Al Kent Presents The Million Dollar Orchestra - Rock Freak Boogie
Ananda Shankar – Dancing Drums
Kalyanji Anandji – Theme From Don (edit) One of my favorite Bollywood movies and the place where the Beastie Boys found there groove.
Andreas Dorau und Die Marinas – Einkauf
Vorgruppe – Verkannt Und Verbissen
Hoffnung & Psyche – Das Auto
Human League – Seconds
Lindbæk & Lindstrøm – Aliens In My Pocket Everything Norsk is still pretty prima to me
Yacht – Summer Song
Little Dragon – Looking Glass
Black Devil Disco Club – With Honey Cream Same obscure guy, brand new tracks.
Kerrier District – Let's Dance And Freak AKA Luke Vibert in a fake Italo and Disco mode
Chateau Flight – Welcome
Sorcerer – Dayglow A new sorcerer album. At first sight no new instant classics but I have to let this one grow on me.
Mid Air – Ease Out (original version)
Jupiter Band – Sarah Love (12 inch)
Mel Carter – Love Test
Home Service – Only Men Fall in Love
Strawberry Switchblade – Michael who walks by night Produced by the some guys who used to have a band of their own called Home Service. They made a couple of nice singles. This is my favorite together with one of the few Switchblade songs I still like.
Bombay Bicycle Club – Always Like This
Dirty Projectors – Stillness Is The Move I’m going to see them play live this Saturday. Reminds me that I have to update my concert agenda
Florence And The Machine - Dog Days Are Over
Florence And The Machine – Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) And ‘deze straffe Madam’ is coming next month to La Botanique in Brussels.
Durutti Column – Duet
Andy Williams – The Impossible Dream I drive a Honda you know…
Burt Ward & The Mothers of Invention – Variant 1 (alternate)
Lisa Papineau – Rene Thomas
23 Skidoo – Language
Jah Division – Heart and Soul Dub
Bis – Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division cover)
Atfunk – Sequence 75
Blackjoy – Mercurian (main mix)
Bottin – No Static
Bottin – Theme From St. Mark 30124
Filipsson & Ulysses – Fluffy Amadeus
Kabbala – Voltan Dance
Kotey Extra Band – Daybreak
Mayer Hawthorne – Maybe So Maybe No
New Look – Everything
Rev. Utah Smith – Two Wings If Sunday mass sermon and prayer around my corner were like this I would surely attend.
Ronda – Folana
Shannon – Sex Shooter Can’t help it, still like this song
Stockholm Monsters – Miss Moonlight
The Diaphanoids – Mermaids Of Lunaris (a Blackjoy Disco mix)
The Time And Space Machine – Children Of The Sun
The Wake – Something Outside
Time Zone – The Wildstyle The backside of a Celluloid maxi single with Jimi Hendrix and a rap by Lightnin Rod about Doriella Du Fontaine.
Village People – Don't Go in the Bushes (Horse Meat Disco edit)
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sábado, agosto 08, 2009
Hot Hot Summer Day
One long period of inactivity went over into another and now it’s the middle of summer. A hot summer day seeking shelter with a cool breeze underneath a full moon.
It’s the first time that I skip a whole month. I spend most of my days outdoors. The remaining time classical music and some books kept me company at home while everybody else went far abroad to seek quiet shelter.
Committing myself to lazy holiday inspired inactivities does not mean that I haven’t paid attention to any music going ‘round. On the contrary really. I scored some great compilations and rare grooves. This time some unmixed gay meat horse disco on Strut, plus the ZE Records Story, Balearica 3 with sounds from the white island and an undiscovered deetour EP that some bloggers put together.
Silvius Leopold Weiss – Allegro from Sonate n° 42 in a, Robert Barto on lute
Reynaldo Hahn – Mon Bel Inconnu by Susan Graham mezzo-soprano + City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra with Yves Abel
Ashkhabad – Aisha
Reading about the Arab conquest made me dream about going to Central and Middle Asia next year.
The Dresden Dolls – Coin-Operated Boy
Lizzy Mercier Descloux – Hard-Boiled Babe (original mix)
Originally a bonustrack for the rerelease of Press Color but I have the original so no need for a rerelease. That’s why I’m glad to find this great track on the new ZE compilation of Strut.
Clark – Rainbow Voodoo
From a nice new Clark album
Clark – Look Into The Heart Now
John Tejada & Arian Leviste – From Empty Words
Mr. Monday – Daybreak (original mix)
Louis – Pink Footpath (original mix)
The Unknown Cases – Masimbabele
The Unknown Cases were an obscure German electronic duo, very similar to DAF. In 1983, they teamed up with African vocalist Reebop Kwaku Baah and unleashed this mighty track on the world.
Tullio de Piscopo – Stop Bajon (Primavera)
Paul McCartney feat. Stevie Wonder – What's That You're Doing
Jasper van't Hof – Hoomba Hoomba (full length version)
Ashley Beedle and Horace Andy – Watch We (Souljazz Orchestra mix)
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