big band moog

UPDATE 09/10: links are dead!)

i was having dinner at the silver slipper with a baboon named quartz. we were talking about how everything deliberate belonged to an imaginary world...the cups the forks the spoons. his dad was running telephone wire at a charity for spastics. kids with autism cleaned swimming pools and bent movie actors sold furniture to a double exposure with a hell experience. when I looked down on my plate, there were complementary tickets to dog bone molehill versus golf balls on the moon

much later, i appeared at recess of the mind for the rumble party, free at the thunderbird lounge...three bands took center stage. (apes of wrath, minor suns, skooners: two decent and one less so.) all the awkward from magazines wrote suicide notes and exchanged ink blots. i fell asleep with false teeth and wrote a epitaph to wax figure nostalgia. in other news, the kid from bingo goes to marriage. the six of diamonds called off the minute hand to dive headfirst into the corner pocket.

your cheatin' heart

here's a 7" rip which has a few bits of music that I really use to enjoy. Some of it don't work, like the group with the horns, you have to get into it and cut out the good parts. I used to listen to this on repeat...this, and a six weeks latin america in decline comp----just the flat out present moment at the frontiers of life shortchanged and not even the faintest proximity to careerism and compromise. I'd say that the grindcore, slug and lettuce network is/was fairly well the most genuine culture that I ever caught wind of. Never lived anywhere that had the shows, so I never really had a opportunity to lend my elbow in- that, and other reasons, mainly cowardice and sloth...

the process for annihilation

wadge
the killers
karuma
left in ruins
pre human blasphemy
fuck on the beach
siionin kevat
mahogany
jeanxseberg
arturo

(ain't no clear tracklist on the label or sleeve so it's your guess really)

satan's pimp records

((UPDATE 09/10: link seems to be dead...think it's a file title issue)


speaking of genuine, massive respect to ltj bukem and mc conrad, who recently accomplished the impossible task of touching down in some sterile casino "nightclub" and putting forward some deep soul drum and bass. conrad is far and away the only jungle mc who is solid from start to finish. bukem reminds me of rob hood; there's a sound he's listening to and that vision is going to persist long after all this weeks fashions and players have come, gone, and are long forgotten. he played a little harder and better than the coffee table atmospheric that the start of the century threatened to sweep things into. At it's essence, you get the fusion of effortlessly grooving snares, warm pads and artisan bass.
...Fuck all of completely drunk on Fremont street last night totally sick of every last fucking thing and person in the world and then some...the sound of the human voice makes me want to vomit...just about ready to start sobbing like some tough luck shit lost his only bicycle I walk up to the bar and the guy tells me it is open bar: yes oh yes baby jesus --choir of angels like st peter deciding there's maybe just maybe room for one more... once I'm blind and getting about by touch and feel I get up to some band as close to as loud as it gets. turn out its No Age who i only vaguely knew of. turns out they are fairly good live. thanks, guys

speaking of the vision:


don't think you're ever gonna hear this in the slave pits of las vegas...all the real dancers are fell off and long gone

down the dirt road blues

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). temperatures rising (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 said I couldn't hit it sideways

took this picture at the RATT concert at the hard rock pool last weekend. there's not much to say about a RATT concert in 2009...(or the hard rock pool)...that you can't already imagine. When you live in Vegas, this kind of stuff is free (thank you spyonvegas.com)

Another free metal show this month:
The Mentors at Fire Fox Lounge...

I whipped out my Zoom H4 and got a pretty good sounding recording of their set. Here's the opening number..



Some guy was running around with a video camera and said he was going to put the whole thing up on youtube. I suppose if you are a diehard mentors fan, you should keep checking for it. If you're out there and you want the whole show, i can post it for you. Hopefully, you got something to trade...I caught them in 2007 and they were a lot more abusive and obnoxious. This time around it was late and the crowd was thin...

The H4 is a pretty sweet piece of recorder...I took it to see the Donnas at wasted space, however, and the auto gain didn't compensate for the volume and all I got was distortion...A lot of bands come through vegas and play video poker bars for free, I catch about 3 a week on average...I thought about getting into the habit of having the recorder handy and posting a song or two of whomever I stumble on, but it probably won't happen...

As far as vegas-located bands go, I made this decent recording of one of the better ones, a garage pop raw vocaled trio, the tinglerz

2000 light years from home

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-

http://www.themolotovcocktailhour.com/

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...)

caribbean cream

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)

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transparent radiation

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)



"atxtlx- transparent radiation - it takes .MP3"


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i think this tracklist is pretty much right...

Lars-Klein-vs-Michael-Burkat-The-Ride
Rob-Stow-Climax Mark Williams
Frank Hunter
Joey-Beltram-vs-Technasia-l
Laurent-Garnier Sore Fingers
Jeff-Mills-The-Purpose-Maker
Echoplex-Epicentrum
Archetype-Myths-And-Rituals
James-Ruskin-Definition-Of
Paul-Mac-Four-Candles

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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.