I used to live in LA 91..92.. sometime about then. I was dirt poor...I used to go to the thrift store and buy 10 cent cassettes so that I could put masking tape over the holes and tape the radio. KXLU had some specialty shows that were really hitting. Blues Hotel, Psychotechnics, Reggae Music Forward, and the subject of this blog post: the Molotov Cocktail Hour...
A quick internet search tells me that Cyrano and Senor Amor are still on the air today-
50's and 60's lounge, exotica, soundtracks, frank's world.
one summer i went through the 20 or so molotov tapes I had and arranged my favorite moments onto a cdr...the tape would often run out before the announcers could run over the tunes, so a lot of the titles are lost to me...some of it is pretty obscure: if you listen to this and can chat off some IDs to me I'd be grateful-...i know there's some yma sumac in their...some perrey and kingsley...there are some good, ridiculous, and ridicuously good tunes on this:
MIX #5:
0:00 "caravan" by ?
2:03 !!!
5:00
6:58
9:01
14:06
16:22 !!!
18:25
21:19
22:30
24:50
26:57 perrey kingsley
29:35 !!!
30:05 !!!
30:24 !!! what melody is this?
32:50
35:19 yma sumac
37:07 "a certain smile" astrud gilberto
38:27
40:00
43:10
(UPDATE 09/10: link is dead on divshare (another vote for soundcloud.com in my book) and the cdr that i made this from has got some skips in it...)
so, where to begin?
the liner notes indicate that this is Fields 44th album...44 albums!!! but, this...this, my friend, is his first time on record as a vocalist! So-how does Irving do at the mike? This album wss kind of a paradox, really. It wasn't so bad that it was good. Know what I mean? Like, the kind of record you love because it annoys people to the height of take that off agony...heh heh hehThere's 4 ok instros and some wah wah on here. I used the allseeing eye of google to track down Irving and apparently he's 90 something years old playing piano 6 nights a week in some NYC restaurant. Here's to you, Irving.... I mean, "fried flying fish" is not exactly "blowin in the wind" but you gave it your best shot, buddy
my rip at 320---once again.... no groove glide
(UPDATE: 09/10: Link is dead and I've lost the file! Still have the record if you are interested in it comment or email me)
one of my last successes with a one take continuous beat matched mix about...shit...three years now. you can
hear me rubbing my sloppy hands all over the platters and I have to EQ away from some train wrecks...but the tunes are all solid. (all vinyl and a pioneer 500)
....i used to need it more faceless and metallic than this. the tribal stuff was my idea of a concession.
The pounding, slamming 4/4 really helped me keep the car on the freeway and now that it's dead I sometimes feel like percussion itself might have ran its course. I'm pretty much west coast now...the tech and the hi-tempo never really had an audience even when it was in fashion elsewhere.
MIX #4:
be patient the first 22 sec are too quiet. (sorrY)
just read that the Electric Daisy Carnival pulled in 40000 on a friday and 90000 on a saturday...what a behemoth...i was there in 99 at the water park and it was one of the most otherworldly things i've ever been to. of course that was less than 10000, all groking out on some: 'I can't believe this is happening' close encounters-type vibe...whole different animal, now. Just hoping the audiences have become big enough to fracture off into more expressive sounds
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big up gridface...whose interview with Hieroglyphic Being whose interview with Hieroglyphic Being really got me to stop and think about what people should expect from music...and the tremendous personal failing on my own part...I'd be interested in knowing which of those Members Only discs is worth tracking down. The only Moss production I own is a Sun God 7" which has a great sound but the composition could use a better edit. I'd also like to get the Sound of Music ep (based on the boomkat sample). any advice from somebody who knows his catalog would be appreciated
other stuff that I wish I had: the King Midas on Hyperdub...some of that Bug stuff was ace and that "Cool Out" track is righteous.
I've been staring at a computer monitor for 20 hours straight. what I've been thinking about, underneath it all, is a sound nearby where no one was reflecting on themselves- but that's nowhere near how it is in the here and now.
couple of great new blogs if you are interested in unmixed dance 12"s: rippedinglasgow and techtech2009 (RIP)...posting some ace out of print techno and house 12"s from the underground masterminds of rave. shed a couple tears, frankly...while a lot of it's too stompy or too crap pressing, there's some real deep genius if you look hard enough
speaking of the golden age of rave, the fabio 10.08.96 that's up on the metalheadz site is tits and a bag a chips...Every record he plays is classic of unique...right after the "groove therapy" beatdown the airy deep "threshold" drops and you are officially done in...
http://ravearchive.com/ has some of the tapes you use to drool over on the pureacid site...been knocking that up left and right
I've ripped one of my favorite tapes for all my anonymous friends out there
MIX #3
Apollo & J Boogie - 2 Styles Fu is a 2X4 jungle mix where the turntabilism really brings a grooving selection to the next level. I've listened to this damn thing 30-40 times and I never get sick of it. one cat mixes and the other scratches and the sum is more than the parts...The other side is lost, it was hip-hop...I got the tracklist somewhere. I remember gang related, congo natty, lil kim and kraftwerk...yeah, really...its good.
if ya wanna download this clicking on the divshare logo should take you to a link
(UPDATE 09/10: link is dead...i think it has to do with not having a unique file name on the divshare servers!!!)
hope sandoval has a new song out...for an album in september...fair, but the chorus could be better...candidness of the vocals is as arresting as ever...which is a nice surprise
Here's a video that I made ten thousand and fourteen years ago. It stars son of chipped tooth to count every grain of sand from a shopping cart versus no parking you will be towed versus the elbow of new, perverted romance- Now we are at last alone and always:
MIX #2:
A mix here from the early days of the cdr...before shuffle and the mp3 player made them as obsolete as the cassette.
I usually like to overlap the tracks on a mix just so someone will go away wanting the original versions. The sound quality on this, however, is a little less than the originals, so I'm letting it go as is...Ridiculous to believe it matters, actually, as it's scarcely likely to see much traffic.
"atxtlx- it takes the physical- ten days o.MP3"
1) arthur lyman from the too well rounded "Taboo" trigger records comp ...i remember listening to the martin denny easter special back on kxlu, eating refried beans out of a can, thumbing the amok books catalog and sacrificing virgins to satan. big up cyrano and dj amour and the molotov cocktail hour...i got a comp i made of their radio show and its going up soon!
2) theme from la dolce vida, obviously. Of course, this was recorded a number of times. This version is from a cassette tape, i think it was called music of nina rota...
3) if anybody knows what the hell this indie j-pop is email me immediately..it was on some comp i played on the radio back in 97 and i took this from a cassette of that show...im zero tolerance for anything remotely twee, but the broken english and the winsome solo on this tear me up everytime i hear this a hundred times since
4) shags inspired drummer going to town here. The band: Smoosh off of their"she like electric" CD. the gimmick was that these girls were, like, six years old when they recorded this, the only good cut on the CD...the reverb and flange carry the track over...
5) bonus cut off of the Big Youth Screaming Target reissue. I like the Dreadlocks Dread and Natty Cultural Dread a little more as LPs, really...If i was trapped on a desert island seventies Jamaican music would be enough to replace everything else...come to think of it... just about Babylonians as far as the eyes can see now...desert island about the sum of it, really
6) i bought the screaming target reissue at the delirious tower fire sale and sold it on ebay for what i paid. when tower died, it was really the end. it never a place to score something exceptionally rare or cheap, but it was reliable. you could go to a foreign city and there were flyers...zines in the rack. above all, it was a place to go when you didn't have anyplace else to go. a poor excuse for public space, but that was the century
7) Village Callers live...Vampisoulreissue. Whoa!!!...If you put this on and people don't dance, drop the fader and go home...seriously. The rest of this lp is good but this segment is in the zone...man did these kids have some heart!!
8)-9) Aztecs Little streets from Back from the Grave 5...Crazy how i can download 1000 garage 45's in the span of the two hours...Of all the people who made this possible, Tim Warren is king- if something was shit, he would call it shit...When garage bangers were expensive and hard to discover, that meant a lot...You bastards are spoiled- when I was a kid, you had to walk ten miles barefoot in the snow for a single garage punk unknowns comp.
8)-10) I think the CD was "chicago harmonica blues"???... Whatever the case, the cuts are: willie foster cryin the blues...blues sunnyland smith highway 61...found this cd in the used record store at Lou's. If you're ever hanging out in the breezy, vacuous san diego wasteland, go spend all of your money at Lou's. Unless you're a trust fund brat on the ken and barbie tip, the beaches north of sd are better as well.
11) appreciate it if you could tell me what this is...i vaguely remember it was some lyrichord battle of the African bands thing
12) Dark Comedy Plankton...fuck is this deep...the city at night for real...every Larkin track has some element that shows imagination but this has got the breadth and the balance...Only Q is better, and that is only just because of the monumental strings drop.
I recorded most all of the live music presented in this blog, in and around Las Vegas NV, and my only criteria for pressing the button was that the band had their own songs and it was cheap to get in. Some of these bands are much better than others, most of them I don't like at all... but you certainly might- since anyone could be reading this, I can't make any presumptions...
The vinyl rips and mixes are more usually things I'd recommend to people. Things that personally amused me.
I myself rarely take the time to comment on things I surf over, but hello is welcome! Of course, this is obviously nothing more than a deranged attempt at wasting time.
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