Uke-le-le

Finally, I’m able to send out of sign of live again. It’s about time. I’ve been busy and abroad. Next week I’m out of the country again for a short trip to Italy. This time a private holiday. I really need it. Maybe I can get my hands on some italo disco. Who knows.

When there’s a lot of wind I often wonder where the wind would take me if I was just a leave. Probably somewhere in the gutter :)

Not only my mind keeps wondering off. The wind has brought winter, and the first snow in ages. At the same time it seems like everybody around me is or has been wandering off to distant shores. A friend of mine just came back from a long trip to Israel and Jordan, another one is also leaving next week for a long trip to Capo Verde, an yet another half-nomadic friend is killing time in the south of Spain looking for a job and adventure. I’ve just been talking to a new friend, a deer colleague of mine, who’s brother lives and works in Africa, about both doing something similar.

I’ve got a lot of new music as well but because I always work according to the system ‘last in last out’, a lot of it never makes it to these pages. Like for instance a great compilation of Manu Dibango called 1962… Voyage Anthologique and all three Brownswood Bubblers by Gilles Peterson. I made a quick selection of what has been lying around for a while but still gets airplay on my various means of audioplayin'.

Jamie Woon – Wayfaring Stranger
Grand Union – Wonderful world
Jukes – Something Important
Noir Désir – Le Vent Nous Portera
Loch Lomond – Blue Lead Fence the file was broken so I repaired it
Chad Vangaalen – Willow Tree
Elbow – On A Day Like This
Our Broken Garden – Watermark
Gritos De Guerra – Arrinconamela (Flamenco Soufi music from the film Vengo)
Hurtmold – Telê
Gang Gang Dance – Desert Storm
Alexander Robotnick – C'est La Vie 1987
Spirit Catcher – Voo Doo Knight
John Dahlbëck – Pyramid
Chaim – Carolin
Namito – City Of Gods
Reclick – Agrofunk
The Aggrolites – Pop My Trunk
Alton Ellis – What Does It Take To Win Your For Me
Di Melo – Má-lida

Manu Dibango – Dikalo
Manu Dibango – Lily
Manu Dibango – Wachi Wara
Manu Dibango – Hibiscus
Manu Dibango – O Boso
Manu Dibango – Soul Makossa
Manu Dibango – Big Blow
Manu Dibango – Sun Explosion
Manu Dibango – Qui Est Fou De Qui

Andrea True Connection – More, More, More
Colonel Red – Blue Eye Black
Boomclap Bachelors – Combiner
Middlewood Sessions – Fallback

Knock, Knock! Who's there...

There's a new party concept in Apetown called Fingerspitzengefühl which seems to be right up my alley! Below 125 BPM and the opening night on the 14th of November will feature... an italo tribute with a German name in Belgium.

3 Cheers for Ze United Colors of America

1 down, 9 zillion problems to go...

Private Life

Obama Over The Rainbow
Clare & The Reasons must have done a lot of singing...
Fat Man In The Bathtub
GOP down the drain...
I'm Not Perfect (But I'm Perfect For You) (Larry Levan Right On Time Edit)
Nobody's perfect...

Oh yes, by the way for the yankees out there. The following...

Incan Songbird

One of the greatest voices of our time and indeed of any time, has past away. Yma Sumac died last Saturday. I knew she wasn't that young anymore but it's still a not so pleasant suprise.

"A voice as powerfull as an earthquakes and as soft as a bird song"

My personel favourites Tumpa (Earthquake) and Chuncho,... not exactly lounge.

One woman, many voices. You have to watch the 5 following videos to notice the different voices and the 4 and a half octave range she had, from the lower (the first videos) to the higher (the last videos) notes she could perform.

Jingle Jangle

Things are a bit slow around here lately so that’s why I ‘m trying to deliver two topics at the same time. I’ve been uploading quite a lot of music that I recently gathered around but not everything is ready yet. As often I’ve been busy working but I’ve also been to a lot of concerts. Just right now, this evening, I saw a young band called Those Dancing Days at Trix here in Antwerp. A charming girlsgroup from Sweden where popmusic pours out the watertap it seems and ends up in baby milk. I don’t have another explanation for the amount of pure quality popmusic coming from Sweden.

What did they bring? In Dutch we have a term for this kind of naïve music: rammelpop. It could be translated into rattle, jingle or jangle pop because the rhythms and melodies wander off into many directions but in the end they land back on all fours like a cat. It’s anything but tight but that doesn’t madder. It all adds to the charm and the youthful spirit.

Their Hit, tasty isn’t it?

The day before that I saw M83 from France and the local band Yuko but the most fond memories are from a concert a while back by My Brightest Diamond and Clare & The Reasons at Le Botanique in Brussels. It was the second time that I saw My Brightest Diamond live but my first pleasant encounter with Claire & The Reasons. Those Reasons turned out to be the backing band or rather strings for the main act as well. They both came to promote a new album and I bought Claire’s album at the venue because I liked the show and I already have both albums by My Brightest Diamond.


Claire sang a coverversion of Somewhere Over The Rainbow with new lyrics which consisted of only one word: Obama. She said or believes that if you repeat something over and over again it becomes true. How lovely :) If you listen to the music and read this quote I think you get a rather accurate picture of what the concert was like: nice, warm, pleasant and beautiful. And so was My Brightest Diamond but luckily she’s not that soft or daft? :) A bit more balanced and focused. Although she stopped the set a couple of times for short intermezzo’s: some magic tricks involving a black top hat and a rabbit. All good fun and still a great voice and performer. Maybe it’s a pitty that she’s not yet a major artist over here that plays in bigger concert halls but on the other hand it’s much nicer to see her in a small venue real close.


My personnel introduction to Shara Worden more than a year ago.

The concert

Claire & The Reason's played a great cover of Tears For Fears Everybody Wants To Rule The World

lalala will follow

Disko Clone Freak

Even though it’s autumn right now the sun is still our welcome guest and warms our chilled and puzzled hearts after last week’s post. Those dancing days aren’t just quite over yet. What’s more, François Kerkovian is coming to town next weekend.

Apart from that Clone records from Holland released a compilation album of rare classic dance cuts from the eighties. You might have guessed already that I’m a bit of a fan of the label, where else would I dig up a track like Los Angeles TF’s Magical Body? Now a couple of them are gathered together on a nice CD. Maybe more will follow. And what’s more the Great Eskimo from Ghent released Cosmic Balearic Beats Vol.1. No explanation needed. A must have if you ask me.

I didn’t find the time or the will to arrange these tracks in a nice logic order for your all overwhelming aural pleasure because I’m carrying these tracks with me for far too long now. I’ve got to get them out of my system. So enjoy them as they are. Make your own mix in your head.

Rex The Dog – I Can See You, Can You See Me (club version)
Trophy – Slowflight
Alexander Robotnick – Obsession For The Disco Freaks
Lovelock – Love Reaction
Little Boots – Stuck on Repeat (Fake Blood remix)
Lovelock – Don't Turn Away (From My Love)
Starflight – Dance To The Beat
Fairmont – Gazebo (Sebastien Léger remix)
In Flagranti – Personal Angst
Kinky Go – Gimme The Love (12 Extended) 1986
Moebius – Born on a Saturday Night
Enzo Avitabile – Black Out (club mix)
Chicano – Off The Wall 1986
Robert Palmer – I Didn't Mean To Turn You On (extended dance mix)
Robert Palmer – I Didn't Mean To Turn You On (dub)
Pointer Sisters – Automatic (12 inch long version)
Ahzz – New York's Moving (12'' Vocal Version)
Jules Tropicana – Come On 1983
Airto Fogo – Satine Dog
Gino Soccio – Dance To Dance (12 inch version)
Davis Import – I'm Glad You're Mine (1978)
Dynasty – I Don't Wanna Be A Freak (longer version) 1979

Jazztronik – Samurai
Plej – Blue
Plej – Lay Of The Land
Plej – Safe Place

Eleanoora Rosenholm – Tammen Varjossa
Eleanoora Rosenholm – Bolly Palkkionmetsästäjä
Lykke Li – I'm Good I'm Gone (Metronomy remix)
Sally Shapiro – Time To Let Go (Lindstrøm Remix)
Mariah – Shinzo No Tobira 1983

Esau Mwamwaya – Kamphopo
Nneka – Suffri
Nina Simone – Everything Must Change
Nina Simone – Here Comes The Sun (François K remix)
Nina Simone – See-line Woman (MAW remix)

Okay – O.K.
Peter Brown – Dance With Me
Zapp – Radio People 1985
Stop – Rendezvous (dub)
Stop – Rendezvous (La Cita) (long version)
Sylvia Striplin – Give Me Your love
Toulouse – Funkysation

ps, you have to wait for a little while because I ran out of bandwith. Next reset Oct 24, 2008, 12:21:09 am local time.

Les Feuilles Mortes

It’s that time of year again. Everything gets kind of gloomy and cold. Days get shorter and darker. The new yellow pages arrive and signal that old ones can hit the sack or that they can serve a better use drying autumn leaves as in the old schooldays. The first sneeze and cuff get a hold of me as my mind wanders off away from hot summer and disco dancing and into a more melancholic mode and musical setting. The stubru radio program Duyster provides an ideal soundtrack for this mental shift.
Above that came the news that not only Norman Whitfield pasted away but that also Marc Moulin died from cancer. I wrote a couple of times about Marc Moulin on these pages and posted a lot his and related music, time after time, above all his output with Dan Lacksman and Michel Moers as Telex.

If you want more background information and extensive amount of music you can check these great links http://sugarplumfairy-joski.blogspot.com/2007/10/placebo.html + http://saltyka.blogspot.com/2008_04_01_archive.html + http://saltyka.blogspot.com/2008/04/telex-part-2-some-solo.html
Here’s just a short list of my favourite Telex tracks and related stuff. Dan Lacksman and Michel Moers both had their share in creating the Telex sound and they are responsible for more wonderful stuff outside the Telex format. For instance Z-Moor-Z. An incredible Moers vehicle produced by Telex. I’m really glad to be able to offer the Razormaid remix of Héros Dynamique and above all Raised by Snakes, by far one of the best Telex tracks. It’s not on any of the remix albums that they released. Razormaid was a magazine back in the days and a anonymous collective of DJ’s and remixers who produced dozens of outstanding independent remixes in the 80’s. Some of them got released on much sought after compilation albums.

Telex – Brainwash
Telex – I Don't Like Music
Telex – L'Amour Toujours
Telex – Raised by Snakes (1984)
Telex – Raised By Snakes (Razormaid extended DJ remix) 1985
Telex – Rendez-Vous Dans l' Espace 76-86

Z-Moor-Z – Héros Dynamique (Razormaid mix)
Van Twist – Hot Wax

Thoth For President

Well, What the heck!... What's going on here? Once again one of my messages dissapeared into thin air.

At least here's the music back for ya.

Lauryn Hill – World Is A Hustle (unreleased demo)
Kanye West – Love Lockdown

YouTube just recently launched an extra channel called The Screening Room which is totally devoted to quality short movies and real moviemakers instead of the usual omnipresent junk debris of wannabe-popstars, snorkeling monkeys and eye-poppin’ mandrills… whatever.

On this new channel you can watch short movies by famous and not yet famous directors as Miranda July (Me and You and Everyone We Know) and Torill Kove (whose The Danish Poet won the Oscar for best animated short movie last year).

As a result of all this, clips on YouTube are now able to be longer than 10 minutes which is meant to tickle the young and talented to produce some short movies.

If I understood it correctly in the near or distant future it's probably going to be possible to see real complete feature movies on YouTube.

Life Is Just A Song And A Dance

Hi there disco brothers and sisters. The weekend is comin’ to an end and what did it bring me? Laundry Day, Opera, a damn cold and all 6 Episodes of Star Wars … A busy weekend so I didn’t catch much sleep.

Laundry Day on Saturday was good, clean cut fun. A bit cold, so that’s probably where I got this sore throat and nasty cuff from or maybe I got it from Conor Oberst himself :-) Luckily it didn’t rain. At least not when I was there. I left before 10 pm so I had an early night but I wasn’t sleepy yet.
Early that day I suddenly had the urge to watch a Star Wars movie. I ended up looking all 6 of them on the same day, just until dawn. I never saw the 3 new episodes so this was a good occasion to finally do so. I still like the old ones best. Thank god for Han Solo. Harrison Ford really saves those movies but unfortunately there’s no equivalent of that character in the new episodes. I must say that the last episode of the prequel isn’t that bad. It’s pretty dark and fits well with the first episode from 1977.



But enough nerdtalk. Some music now. Cyber-Soul from a young lady called Janelle Monáe. Is she the new Grace Jones? Grace Jones is still alive and kickin’ so probably not. Still, I like what she does. I posted some music a while ago but the links got lost so here we go again.

Janelle Monáe – Sincerely Jane this song just grows and grows on ya, a real favourite of mine and it addresses some real heavy issues. Check the lyrics
Janelle Monáe – Many Moons
Janelle Monáe – My Favorite Nothing
Janelle Monáe – Time Will Reveal

Left the city, my momma she said don't come back home
These kids round' killin each other, they lost they minds, they gone
They quittin' school, making babies and can barely read
Some gone off to their fall, lord have mercy on them
One, two, three, four, your cousins is round' here sellin' dope
While they're daddies, your uncle is walking round' strung out
Babies with babies, and their tears keep burning, while their dreams go down the drain now

Are we really living or just walking dead now?
Or dreaming of a hope riding the wings of angels
The way we live
The way we die
What a tragedy, I'm so terrified
Day dreamers please wake up, we can't sleep no more
Love don't make no sense, ask your neighbor
The winds have changed; it seems they have abandoned us
The truth hurts, and so does yesterday
What good is love if it burns bright, and explodes in flames
(I thought every little thing had love but uhh)

Are we really living or just walking dead now?
Or dreaming of a hope riding the wings of angels
The way we live
The way we die
What a tragedy, I'm so terrified
Day dreamers please wake up, we can't sleep no more

I've seen them shootin' up funerals in they Sunday clothes
Spending money on spinners but won't pay college loans
And all you gangers and bangers rollin' dice and taking lives, in a smokey dark
Lord have mercy on you
Teacher, teacher please reach those girls in them videos
The little girls just broken Queen, confusing bling for soul
Danger, there's danger when you take off your clothes, all your dreams go down the drain girl

Are we really living or just walking dead now?
Or dreaming of a hope riding the wings of angels
The way we live
The way we die
What a tragedy, I'm so terrified
Day dreamers please wake up, we can't sleep no more

We live and then we die, and we never know the right
So now, now were gone now, on your mark
We live and then we die, and we never touch the sky
So now, now were gone now, on your mark

Five, seven, eight, two, one
It is now time, for you to come home my dear
You've been gone long enough
You must come, you must go

What else have we got? Just random stuff I’m afraid. I didn’t have the time to worry about a mix or the flow of these tracks. Nevertheless great stuff.

The Pointer Sisters – Send Him Back (Pilooski edit)
Shortwave Set – Now 'Til 69 (Aeroplane remix)
Planet Patrol – Play At Your Own Risk
Afrika & The Zulu Kings – The Beach (Long Vocal Version) 1986
Twilight 22 – Electric Kingdom
Key-Matic – Breakin' In Space
Royal Cash – Radioactivity - Let's Jam (1983)
Cheryl Lynn – In The Night (1981)
Espen – Wet sequence (original mix)
¡Forward, Russia! – Nine (Napoleon IIIrd mix)

Mr Snu & Sir Matthew were playing cosmic disco records this Saturday at Laundry Day together with Aeroplane and other usual suspects. On their myspace they have a mix you can download that they made for the 'Disco not Disco' blog. Turned out that I had a couple of the featured songs myself. That’s why uploaded them here instead of the mix. If you have the missing ones feel free to share them…

Mr Snu & Sir Matthew no longer exclusive 'Disco not Disco' mixtape

Mascara – Baja
Metro Area – Atmosphrique
Baricentro – Tittle Tattle (1983)
Richard the Third – Flux Capacitor
Magazine 60 – Don Quichotte 1985
Magazine 60 – Don Quichotte (extended version) 1985
Edgar Winter – Above and Beyond (Instrumental)
Nice & Wild – Diamond Girl 1986
Plej – Borderline (Mock & Toof Remix)
Gino Soccio – Remember (LSB edit)
Master Dance and Boogie – Roll the Joint (Joey Negro re-edit)
Hypnosis – Borhaz (1983)
Magnus International – Kosmetisk
Hot Chip - One Pure Thought
Hot Chip – One Pure Thought (Supermayer Remix)

On Sunday I had some free tickets for a tryout of a new production of Puccini’s Turandot. What better way to chill out on Sunday than a fancy opera, no? Puccini is classic opera but it’s also 20th century music. Turandot was written in the roaring twenties and it has some adventurous melodies and even modern sounds. I like it a lot because of the exotic chinose folks songs and off course for the famous aria Nessun Dorma. It was a pity though that they didn’t play that aria because they only played the first 2 acts as a way of rehearsal. I also don’t know which ending they’re going to use because there are more than one options. Puccini died before he finished it. That’s why they let somebody else write an ending for it based on sketches from Puccini but I don’t think there are a lot of people who find it satisfying. I know I don’t. Berio made another one but I still haven’t heard that one. Maybe I can find one at the library.
From what I’ve heard and can judge, the orchestration was splendid but the singers didn’t really go all the way. Who can blame them. It was a rehearsal but still a bit disappointing. That’s why listened again, afterwards at home, to this live recording I have from 1961.

Turandot, Giacomo Puccini
Live recording, New York, March 4 1961.
Orchestra and Choir of The New York Metropolita
directed by Leopold Stokowski

Turandot ........................... Birgit Nillson
Calaf ............................... Franco Corelli
Liù ....................................... Anna Moffo
Timur ........................... Bonaldo Giaiotti
Ping ................................ Frank Guarrera
Pang .................................... Robert Nagy
Pong ............................. Charles Anthony
Altoum ...................... Alessio De Paolis
Un mandarino ................... Calvin Marsh

01 - ATTO I - Popolo di Pekino!
02 - Padre! Mio padre!
03 - Gira la cote! Gira!
04 - O divina bellezza
05 - Figlio, che fai¿
06 - Fermo! Che fai ¿ T'arresta!
07 - Silenzio, olà!
08 - Non indugiare!
09 - Signore, ascolta!
10 - Non piangere, Liù!
11 - Ah, per l'ultima volta!

12 - ATTO II - Olà, Pang! Olà, Pong!
13 - O Cina, o Cina
14 - Ho una casa nell'Honan
15 - O mondo, pieno di pazzi innamorati!
16 - Gravi, enormi ed imponenti
17 - Un giuramento atroce mi costringe
18 - Diecimila anni al nostro Imperatore!
19 - In questa reggia
20 - Staniero, ascolta!
21 - Guizza al pari di fiamma
22 - Gelo che ti dà foco
23 - Tre enigmi m'hai proposto!

24 - ATTO III - Così comanda Turandot
25 - Nessun dorma!
26 - Tu che guardi le stelle
27 - Principessa divina!
28 - Quel nome!
29 - L'amore¿... Tanto amore
30 - Tu che di gel sei cinta
31 - Liù... bontà!
32 - Principessa di morte¿
33 - Che è mai di me¿
34 - Diecimila anni al nostro Imperatore!

The Many Sides of Conor Oberst
Conor Oberst And The Mystic Valley Band + Sky Larkin

Out go the summer festivals and… in come the club concerts! Last Wednesday was my first after summer concert gig. For starters I had me a very traditional old fashioned 70’s Dylanesk country rock outfit by rock’s boy genius Conor Oberst aka Bright Eyes. He’s presently touring under his own name with The Mystic Valley Band to promoter his latest album.
It was the first time that I actually saw him play live, even though I’m a fan for quite a while now. I really like his voice but I had my doubts if he could deliver it live. Boy, was I wrong. He was a bit sick, a cold and a nasty cuff, but that didn’t affect his voice. He can really run the shivers down your spine, especially in the more quiet acoustic songs.

Listening back to the record, these versions recorded in a studio somewhere down in Mexico are mere shadows of the live versions.

It took them a couple of songs to get into it, but from then on they did a real effort to make it a swell evening, despite of the rockstar's cold. Maybe because he likes the Botanique club in Brussels (he said so).

Cape Canaveral
Danny Callahan
Lenders In The Temple
NYC – Gone, Gone
Milk Thistle

The support act was a young indie band from the UK called Sky Larkin. I checked their myspace page and it really sounded great, but live it sounded a bit plain. The balance was not right. Too much guitar and too little voice as it is often the case with young indie bands. They all like to hide behind a wall of noise. But hey, you’ve got to start somewhere.

They’ve made a nice cover of a QOTS song, I Was A Teenage Handmodel, but they didn’t play it, but they played this one.

Sky Larkin – Molten

Low, Slow Sunday Vibes


Kevin Hewick – Edie: L.A. Swimming Pool
Kaito – Release Your Body
Walter Jones – The Odyssey Sound (Mogg & Naudascher edit)
Nick Chacona – Through The Door (original mix)
Mogg & Naudascher – Moon Unit pt.2
Morgan Geist – Detroit (album version)
Random Factor – Second Principles (original mix)
2020 Soundsystem – Hit The Fan (Greg Wilson edit)
Chicken Lips – 3 Soaps In One (original mix)
Mogg & Naudascher – Moon Unit pt.1
Strangelets – Riot On Planet 10 (Blitz Gramsci remix)
Skatebard – Flexxy
Tocadisco – Morumbi (Solar Heights RMX)
Max Brannslokker – Stropharia

Jamdown Soul System

I had this stuff lying around on the net ready to be posted but I don’t know what to tell about it, except that I really like reggae, especially if it got a lot of soul like these ones.

Bryan Shrowder – Star Trek
Jackie Mittoo – Deeper And Deeper
Richard Ace – Can’t Get Enough
Sounds pretty distorted by I like this lo-fi sound.
The Tamlins – Baltimore
The Eternals – Queen of the Minstrels
In-Crowd – Mango Walk
The Heptones – Message from a Black Man
Junior Marvin – Give Me Your Love
Junior Marvin’s high pitched voice suits this Curtis Mayfield song very well.

Hot Buttered Soul 25.000

Mister hot buttered Soul is no longer… one of my favourite voices and songwriters Isaac Hayes has passed away.

Your average biography of Isaac Hayes goes somethin’ like: autodidact piano playing rookie gets a stint at Stax, with his friend Porter he becomes a successful songwriters duo, gets the change to do some solo work, comes up with a couple of classics and his trademark bling bling style, hits it big time with Shaft, makes some more albums in the seventies that gradually contain more and more disco music instead of his hallmark mix of funk, rap and soul which back then and for some people still today means ultimo the end because of the notion of disco as bad commercial music, so he hits rockbottom, starts acting and in the nineties becomes The love crazed down-to-earth Chef in the Southpark episodes until he decides to quit because they mock his then newly adopted rich person’s fiction lifestyle called Scientology and… dies, the end.

Luckily in reality things are more complex than that. Take for instance the disco music he made. Well, if Isaac Hayes decides to play some disco you can be sure it’s no ordinary dancebeat but a richly orchestrated workout like for instance Disco Connection from 1975.

I was preparing an new upload so I integrated it in the intended-to-be-but-still-not-a-mix.

Closer Musik – Departures
After Love is still a classic and one of Kompakt's shining moments from Dirk Leyers and Matias Aguayo.
Booka shades – Outskirts
From the new album.
In Flagranti – Bipolar
Optimo – Cake And Milk
From The Discerning Dancefloor.
Deastro – Light Powered
An emusic pick. A young guy Randolph Chabot’s debut album Keeper’s. A nice one with this standout track.
Global Communication – 8 07
Yam Yam – Subduction Zone
Los Hermanos – Quetzal
M&H Band – Popcorn 1987

Nice reworking of a classic.
International Music System – Run Away
Marsha Raven – I Like Plastic (12 inch 1982)
Twins – Ballet Dancer
Lime – Angel Eyes (dub mix)
Sparks – Tryouts for the Human Race
From the reissued No. 1 Song in Heaven.
Lime – You’re My Magician
Dance Reaction – Disco Train (12'' Version)
Silver, Platinum & Gold – I Got A Thing (Dim's disco re-edit)

Still looking for the original version ‘cause this is part of a Dimitri from Paris mix.
The Armed Gang – All I Want (Vocal Version-Disco 1982)
Sheila and B. Devotion – Charge Of Plates and Credit Cards
From the Spacer album.
Chaz Jankel – Glad To Know You (Todd Terje Re-edit)
Donna Summer – Love Is In Control
Diana Ross – I’m coming Out (Chic mix)
Vocoder style madness part 1
Wanda Walden – Don't You Want My Lovin' (1981)
Diana Ross – Upside Down (Chic mix)
.ogg files, that’s why the Ross tracks don’t show up in the player.
Diana Ross – My old Piano (Chic mix)
Nicole Willis And The Soul Investigators – Feeling Free
I always like playing this song before I got out to dance and besides that, it blends nicely with the next one… Isaac Hayes – Disco Connection 1975
Wynd Chymes – Baby You’re The One
Michele – Disco Dance (Tom Moulton produced, Patrick Cowley remix)
These are the Breaks!...
Bamboo – Spaceship Crashing
T-Connection – Party Night
Roger Troutman & The Human Body – Freedom (Zapp)
Vocoder style madness part 2
Mid Air – Ease Out
Universal robot Band – Barely Breaking Even (Club Version)
Candido – Dancin' & Prancin'
From the Jango album which also features Thousand Fingered Man.
Organic Grooves – Memory Pool
Dexter Wansel – You Can Be What You Wanna Be
Leroy Hudson – Love The Feeling
Jimmy Bo Horne – I Get Lifted
Daniel Janin et Son Orchestre – Saramina
Eddie Henderson – Inside You
I’ve got a massive load of these and more heavy fusion stuff that I would like to post some day.
Rhythm Heritage – Three Days of The Condor
Larry Graham With Graham Central Station – Star Walk – Tonight
An ace bass player and underappreciated singer. One of my favourite.

Ba Da Bing !


The online musicshop emusic welcomed another free independent label Ba Da Bing, best known for the band Beirut, with a fine album worth of free songs from various bands on the label.

The counter down below is almost hitting 25.000 visitors. That's why I'm offering you this free emusic goodies! They go by the name of Ba Da Bing Records Super Fantastic Oh Boy Fun For Free Sampler.

Elephant Gun – Beirut
Elevator – Devon Williams
Days Without Rain – Patrick Cleandenim
A Fig For Misfortune – Colossal Yes
Stop – Essie Jain
Day For Night – Greg Weeks
Dark Anvil Skies – Adrian Crowley
For All The Headlines – Benjamin Wetherill
I Wait For You – Yume Bitsu
Return To Heaven – Comets On Fire
The Magicians – The Dead C

[warning: nerd alert!]

Sheva's Dance

As a person who tries to follow the way of the Buddha through quantum physics and relativity, the completion of the French/Swiss Large Hadron Collider or LHC from CERN is pretty exciting news.

The first tests on the big particle accelerator are set for today and the ‘Big Bang’ is scheduled for 10 September. Luckily there are other likeminded people out there who feel the same ‘thrill’ and adopt a similar attitude towards this event, so if you like to know what it all means just watch this edutaining rap video from CERN.

If everything goes well and the damn expensive machine actually works, we will see if present theories are right or whether we have start from scratch again. Either way, it will be a big important event and what better way to celebrate this than with some music.

BTW, the awkward combination of songtitles is purely accidental.

Omni feat. Connee Draper – Out Of My Hands
Ago – Stop Your Life 1982
Nexus – Stand Up 1983
Amin Peck – Suicidal 1983
Fra Lippo Lippi – Say Something 1984

You might have noticed that things are a bit slow around here but hey… it’s summer ya know

Meanwhile, while others were walking down the street with people’s heads, I’ve been watching Michelangelo Antonioni’s classic The Passenger again starring Jack Nicholson and Maria Schneider.
A fun asset of DVD reissues are the extras. I watched it with the audio comment of Jack Nicholson giving explanation and background info to the scenes, locations and co-starring actors and Antonioni’s vision. Now I finally know how they did that monumental final shot :-) at least if Jack Nicholson is really telling the truth because his story is pretty mindboggling.

The role Maria Schneider, simply girl (no need for a name but she's studying architecture), plays in the movie gets more confusing and mysteries every time I watch it.

Anyway dEUS made a song about Maria Schneider on their most recent album. I don’t know how the song is related to Maria Schneider’s live but as I recall she vanished for a while, back in the 70’s because she couldn‘t handle the pressure of fame and the impact of that other movie, Last Tango in Paris. Maybe their song, The Architect, apart from a tribute to Buckminster Fuller, is also a tribute to Maria Schneider in The Passenger :-)

dEUS – The Vanishing Of Maria Schneider