Retiring this blog: checking all the links, backing up everything I can and moving on...Still gonna stop by every now and then, so if you want to shout out some love, drop me a comment or an email...
I posted the following mix in an earlier incarnation of blogdom...a cop out repeat post, perhaps...But no one is keeping score. A couple of these records are a little played out if you are familiar with the style. If you don't, then it's pretty hitting. I knew the records well, the mixing is fairly tight
MIX#6:
records by:
paperclip people/rick wade/jeff mills/demarkus lewis
movers and shakers/maurizio/charles webster feat. martina topley bird
/infiniti
"125 BPM DETROIT HOUSE pearl mix IOZOZOI m.MP3"
I had one of Ben Sim's Split mixes on in the background the other day and the Seldom Felt "Face Value" track literally cut through the speakers and commenced to throb out a perpendicular groove straight parallel to Joey Beltram's brainpan. (Discogs gives this a nod and a wink towards Lawrie Immersion. Long Live the Stay Up Forever crew) If you can't take this for what it is, I don't want anything to do with you. Timeless. Futurist samples it : HERE
Below, zeke tearing it up in '99 and 2 latin groovers with yma sumac and alfredito. Above, deep blue hiphop and deep space techno diced up with information overload, the living dead, and the kitchen sink!!! The other side of time by azxtlx red
MIX #12...the best and last mix for this incarnation...if you got any love, I'll see you in the next one!!!
*from vampires of dartmore soundtrack *sesselberg *incredible bongo band "let there be drums"
*"caravan" a surf band version.????...
*"do your shing-a-ling"- pijuan y su sexteto *"nena" the Tasaday ????..
*"let me do my thing" ... Los Dinamicos Exciters w/ Ralph Weeks-
*"there was a time" by Six Pack
*from fantastica LP Russ Garcia
* madvillain "shadows of tomorrow"
*evidence/"fuego dm"
* flying lotus "tea leaf dancers" (youtube distortion rip)
* nas "one love "(instro).
* "temperatures rising" (instro) mobb deep
* "heatwave" ruby rats
* african head charge "private armies"
* oval "momentan vr"
* blue daisy "space ex"
* jeff mills from contact special cd
* inigo kennedy "trigonometry"
* k alexi shelby white label with a sticker on it
* enfer boreal "venus 1"
* ??? from one of the cosmic jokers krautrock jams
* the neapolitans "hakusha"
* parliament "red hot mama"
* 2 live crew "mr. mix on the mixx" azxtlx meets ableton sidechain remix
* mr.airplane man "jesus on the mainline"
* archie shepp "euterpe's favorit"
* from sledgehammer dub LP niney the observer
* "this life makes me wonder" delroy wilson
* "ashes to ashes" tangerine dream
* "soul vibrations" dorothy ashby
labored over this for quite sometime- a weeks worth of hours nearly...some of it is records through a mixer, some of it is ableton renderings, and some of it is some sloppy traktor (only a mouse and no cue) If there was anybody reading this, they'd recognize it incorporates some mixes from earlier posts. Time to use your money back guarantee, I suppose ten minutes of a Zeke show 09.29.99 @ chain reaction. not giving a fuck and rocking out for broke. You think you know what rock and roll is? Fuck what you know. Rock and roll jumps out of a pickup truck and beats your ass...I have this whole show if you are interested.
a track each off of these LPs...chinese cha cha by alfredito and virgenes del sol by sumac...the latin spectacular disc is otherwise just ok. the rest of the songs on fuego have actual lyrics, slower tempos and didn't appeal to me, but this is fairly good. is "taki rari" sumac's finest moment? From what I've heard the answer is yes, but suggestions are welcome.
decided to trust the admirable strut label to school me on the italo. a little bit goes a long ways for me- too long as a matter of fact- the comp didn't really turn me out any. except the firefly track which is about as good as say, a solid p&p cut. The build up from 3:45 is prime time floor filler
OLD IRON SIGHTS DIVEBAR 042310
THE REMEDIES YAYO'S TACOS 042210 rocksteady by way of california and ali campbell Recording quality A- RODENTS OF UNUSUAL SIZE DOUBLE DOWN 042310 thrash punk Recording quality B-
COURTESY CALL FREAKING FROG 042410 (fairly energetic pop recording quality B)
SUBSTANCE AREA 702 SKATEPARK 042810 frenetic metal (recording quality B-)
DOPAMINE FLUX BEAUTY BAR 042910 (seven piece soul/funk combo...strong rhythm section and vocal (recording quality B) ORGONE BEAUTY BAR 043910 (ubiquity records...funk revue revivalists (recording quality C+- a little wind noise)
MIX #10
ripped pause tape from 2000
pulled this out of a hatrack the other day...a bunch or records that were new to me in 2000, all across a variety of styles...it's aged fairly well. I can still listen to it straight through without hitting the fast forward button...I got my first mixer in the middle of it so there's a little delay play in the drum and bass section. i was tempted to revise this with some overlaps in ableton ( especially between the first two tracks) but its not worth the time. THIS IS FROM A CASSETTE so the sound quality is fairly well shite. i still have most of these tracks if you get obsessed by any of it and want a rip
smith and selwayon rotation/// unknown- i probably still have this LP somewhere, it was the only good cut/// dj food valves journeyman remix ninja tune hieroglyphics "you never knew" instro/// fast eddie "acid thunder"/// miles davis from bitches outtakes/// adam f "circles"/// 4 hero off parallel universe i think/// dj vadim hachig kazarian from armenia, armenia/// kalyanji and anandji shah "theme from don" bombay the hard way/// rose royce car wash soundtrack/// king tubby///battle axe dub///dub chill out gothic hut/// elizabeth waldo///rites of the pagan///
THE LAZYSTARSFEELGOOD'S 012810 5 piece harder than average pop...ben foldsish vocals...catchy hook
IMAGINE DRAGONS FEELGOOD'S 012810 5 piece pop with some killers' vein eighties influences-
.........................................................................................Flash forward to a seance in which each of us were handcuffed to one another...Harbor Island, you replied. We were listening to a book on tape confessional that allowed each of us to leave rubble and burning ash toppled skyscrapers far behind. We pulled up into the parking lot and quickly walked to your apartment. We were bothered four...five times...by the vagrants who wandered sleeplessly about the grounds..."You need something?"..."You got something?"
"No.I'm OK"
In your room. You wore a t-shirt that was far too big for you- with holes. Your hair is long and highlighted in three subtle shades "Have you seen this?" you asked. It was a video of crystalline tones and cathode green oscilloscope traces. You took some ketamine out of the microwave and opened a can of tuna for the cats prowling about the kitchen floor
working on a mix dvd with psychotronic vid clips against a backdrop of whatever the hell has been pulling my chain, groovewise...This mix is part of that: i had a digital player in one of my inputs but it's a live- in one-take run through. i have to stick it into ableton because the last track came in too hot- hopefully i can tork the EQ and bring it in line. there's some overlap and delay play so if yr looking to own any of these cuts... gonna have to look elsewhere MIX #9:
"caravan" a surf band version. I totally forget how I got this or who did it... "do your shing-a-ling"- pijuan y su sexteto off an andale comp basically the only decent cut on it, sadly "nena" by the Tasaday...not 100% on who laid down this MONSTER of a track... I pulled it off "psychodelicias"a cdr comp "let me do my thing" ... Los Dinamicos Exciters w/ Ralph Weeks- Soundway's first Panama comp a few other O.K. cuts on this but this is the best "there was a time" by Six Pack from the Good God comp which is chock full of party
It slipped off of my mind to say thanks for some fair quality basswork the day before the last holiday: Reid Speed, Tech Itch, and Trace: a party courtesy of Hyperperformance audio...with upwards of fifty that made their way out for the good time...venue was the right mix of classy and funky: Forbes, a china town karaoke bar with a pretty LED wall, cheap drinks, and a come as you are vibe...nice that things can still sort of line up even when all that's left of the world is a torn scrap from a laundry list and three dead flies...
Speaking of dead, I was run over by a bus yesterday. My false teeth apprentice told me that the dead enjoy better vacations than the living, even though the work is the same. Shorty after thinking this over, I caught Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears at Wasted Space. I imagined that it was going to be a Desco kind of thing, but there was a little more spontaneity and irreverence going on. Grooving and well good. Fucking champion actually, in venues that ain't so stiff, I'll bet they turn the place out.
I started this blog to talk about leopards. The recording has its own interests, its own agenda. its own will to survive. What has to happen when real life and recordings are the same? On Tuesday I changed my name to "What Do You Look Forward To?" and rode on a trampoline through a nightmare and a sports book......
.By way of a sound file, today I'm posting a little five song mix of late sixties- early seventies heavy grooving instrumentals- all unearthed or repressed for some recent compilations...Three of these records came to me courtesy of Rex Dart, Pirate Detective, Bargain DJ extraordinaire and a prince among men. If you are in the Double Down on Monday, buy the guy a shot of Jameson. It's like a karma that can save the planet!
I've got traktor a little bit figured out and have pretty much taken Lucifer's hand to walk off into the sunset of the dark side. I dislike most of the mixes I've heard people make with it but that doesn't stop me from playing around with it myself. I'd like to abandon all cultures and all genres and make a kitchen sink cacophony mix with it: sound effects and television show soundtracks from all around the world looped and fragmented into something that is pure disorientation.
MIX #7
evidence/fuego dm . flying lotus/ tea leaf dancers. nas/ one love (instro). temperaturesrising (instro)/ mobb deep
(UPDATE 09/10: this divshare link is dead, but i mixed this mix into mix #12: "the other side of time-" which is one of my best DJ efforts- if not THE best, and is currently hosted on soundcloud
I didn't buy any of these tracks. Actually, I bought a bargain bin promo of the first Mobb cd once, but I found the instro on some blog or another. Pulled the Lotus track from You Tube, which might account for the muddiness of it. All in all, I don't have a job, if that makes it any more wrong or right (as if in the long run any of this matters either way). What's the use of music? Is it a pretext for people to get together and interact? Is your leisure time sufficient recompense for work?
as for leisure time in my area, if you are in las vegas you should check out http://www.devilsnight12.com/ on october 24. I'm too feeble to make it there myself, but there's at least a chance that people will have a good time there. Dubstep DJ King, appearing there, throws a monthly party called Smash which actually has a little bit of soul to it. Like I said, I don't enjoy going out anymore...There might be real fun... real parties left in the world, but their networks are closed to the likes of my pestilence...Attendance is always sparse at the events I think will be good. Here is a decent forum for people who try to make things happen on the model of parties in the past http://www.eternalbeats.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=15
caught some shows... caught the yeah yeah yeahs one night and the bravery another... The bravery: I didn't think I knew who they were, I went because there was free booze and I thought there would be decent looking girls there. Turns out that i knew some of their songs, they played a couple things:("so, that's who plays that song. ") I guess it was OK- it was free. The yeah yeah yeahs were OK as well, a diverse crowd- some of their songs were kind of grooving but there weren't enough rhythms going on to really make you move.
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...)
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.
2 record players and a cd player straight into the computer
untitled- butchwax- butt ugly dirt style breaks LP
soundbites from EBN, Dr. Dooom, and Grabbies cdr
-miko mika. attitude- 666 EP (Post Present Medium, 2007) 12"
-hipshakes. see me coming- shake their hips slovenly 12"
teengenerate- gonna feel alright- sympathy for the record industry 10" fag cop.- automatic kansas- milk and herpes 7"
((NOTE 09/10: link is no longer responding and I may have lost this file...divshare is no soundcloud!!))
A year later, swan tablecloth set fire to a wig and exchanged fashions of sacrifice with a mechanical seahorse. Is that your magazine editor? he asked. The seahorse had no reply. Gestures of failings you knew and loved announcing nosalgia as your epitaph. If you don't murder yourself, you can't expect others to do it for you. Cows admire themselves in the mirror while fucking. Sales tax. A ghost with a glass of wine. If nothing can be forgotten, nothing can be remembered. A dog with the head of a fish.
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.
if thinking is merely plagiarism, progress is mechanically reproducible
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evolution is a function of surprise
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