Selections including but not limited to: experimental, jazz, reggae, avant garde, punk, funk, electronic music made with field recordings, dub, world, and ambient. Aiming to deliver variety, a lot of new sounds, and a lot of right turns. I hope you enjoy.
A lover of the Hammond b-3, Wurlitzer, I was instantly hooked when I first heard the middle of 'Meet the Zony Mash'. I was already a Wayne Horvitz fan from his playing in Naked City, and hearing him play this completely different (and often funky) music was a thrill. Just like all of his other projects, Zony Mash was a super versatile band, and could cover lots of ground--all of it with a ton of soul and edge. You can find that in any projects that Wayne Horvitz has lead.
A few burners up front, with some softer tunes at back, with an acoustic tune to end.
Frivolous! I first heard his music a few years ago on Andy Vaz's Background Records label. He's a former math teacher (I think) from Canada who left that vocation for a career in homegrown electronic music, aka DIY electronic music. He's special, as he is one of the handful of artists that both my wife and I love.
Given the extremely homemade instruments he uses (for images check out his cool site ) , his music is extremely polished, funky, and fun. He’s released a lot of music over the years…. You can check some of it out at: Background Records Minibar Music
This post brought to you by the letter F, an electromagnetic knife, and Canada.
I just got this compilation, and it's definitely worth checking out. Rough and rugged Nigerian funk, and heavy blends of influence from all over. Here are 4 out of the 20something songs that I especially like. ............ Nigeria, 1970. Highlife, Afro-beat, Rock, Jazz & Native Blues rub shoulders and are turned out at an unprecedented level. New styles meet old styles. Newfound national confidence follows the near break-up of the nation following the Biafran war. New fashions meet old fashions, creating new fusions. 5 years in the making, Soundway present 26 original and previously un-reissued tracks from the time. Obscure A-sides, B-sides & album cuts that have resisted a second look until now.
Soundway records label boss and compiler Miles Cleret spent five years working on this compilation (and the upcoming planned spin-off compilations)– travelling to Nigeria, interviewing musicians, label owners and distributors - tracking down the forgotten sounds of ‘70s Nigeria in dusty warehouses, studios and markets.
(Play It) Jerusalem via NYC download I love New York City for many reasons, one of them being creative music of all sorts. Here's a quick collection of music that is made with a tip of the hat to Jewish musical traditions. It's almost all from NYC (and a lot of it from Zorn related efforts), with the exception of a tune from a few gentiles from northern Vermont.
You'll find some acoustic assembles, an acappella assemble, some electric-acoustic joints, and a solo guitar effort. As always, let me know if you like what you hear
being that foundsound and unfoundsound were launched and nurtured in philadelphia, it’s only appropriate that we give you a new chapter to our “location series” – a compilation of tracks from philly artists entitled philly time! you get a whopping 13 tracks (woohoo!) illustrating the vast diversity that philly artists have to offer. the list of artists ranges from veterans to newcomers. you get deep and lush atmospheric bliss fromscuba (a.k.a. king britt), tweaked-out tech-house insanity from nigel richards, danceable field recording brilliance from unfoundsound’s ownfidget and tleilaxu, harsh and abrasive tech-core from duran duran duran, grime-ish dirty dub from starkey, fun-filled idm-ish tech-house from kilowatts, plus everlasting goodness from pink skull, accidentallyand city rain. you also get some dope remixes! two tracks frommiskate’s zuni ep (foundsound-03) are fiercely reworked by diss0nanceand robmall. plus, jamie morris transforms “goofball” (unfound-01) bysomeone else into a minimal loop-techno gem. yes, indeed. philly will always be home.
I am a big fan of the music of DJ/Rupture , and maybe even a bigger fan of his mixes/radio shows. He's a heavy hitter in both ballparks, and if you aren't familiar, click here .
You can expect: 'new bass and beats plus live guests (musicians, DJs, poets) and an ear for the global south. Cumbia. Dubstep. Gangsta synthetics. Sound-art. Maghrebi. International exclusives. A shantytown unfolds in radiophonic space'.
I woke up from the desert floor hearing the beginning of this exact show. That year the G Spot was very close to center camp, so we rubbed our eyes and walked across the street to catch the rest of the show. In a very busy week filled with fun, chaos, and electronic music, it was nice to catch this live instrumental set. Plus, there's something cool about the juxtaposition of psychedelic surf music on a dried up desert mountain lakebed.
Over the last 10 years or so I have found a small handful of record labels that consistently put out great music, and I usually end up owning all of their music. One of those labels is The Agriculture.
Now, and especially in college, my musical tastes were deeply focused on experimental jazz/free improv music. While I listened to every new type of music I could get a hold of, I was particularly fond of artists who made "new" music--music that did not follow any preconceived guidelines, trends, schemes, or most importantly---record label desires. My music room is scattered with albums by people like Alvin Curran, John Zorn, Christian Marclay, Frank Zappa, Cyro Baptista, David Shea, Derek Bailey, Ikue Mori, Marc Ribot, Ned Rothenberg, Fred Frith, and so on. While it was noise to the vast majority of people I knew, to me, it was soulful and beautiful. Music for music's sake.
My knowledge of electronic music during these years was very limited; Moby, Fatboy Slim and maybe something else. To me, it was simple stuff that I did not care to explore. There was no edge, not enough change, and little creativity--no newness. Around this time I noticed this guy named DJ Olive appearing on various experimental and jazz CD’s I was picking up at the time. I was fascinated with what he was doing with a turntable and a computer in the realm of new music--- improvising with various ensembles, creating clever sounds from an endless amount of possible noises, combining them with the otherworldly sounds of his instrument-playing colleagues. So I checked on what else he had done---and it was all very good to my ears. I realized that a lot of the elements I looked for in good music could be found in electronic music, too. It wasn’t all just a bunch of marginal club music that was played at baseball games in between innings. What I found with the music of DJ Olive, as well as the other artists on the Agriculture, is electronic music with an extremely wide variety of new, worldly sounds, and above all else, music with a lot of creativity and soul. I can’t say enough good things about the music that has come out of The Agriculture—it’s some of the best music out there today, regardless of genre, style, or method of creation. So, the only logical step was for me to get a mix of songs up here for you to enjoy. If you like what you hear, keep tuned to The Agriculture for more new exciting music, and get down with someroof music.
Jellyfish Roll * Lunchbox What's the Weather like tomorrow? * nnnj Aa * QPE Feely Soft * Ladyman Secret Society * David Last Hen Porch Blues *DJ Olive Once Upon * QPE Funky Cortado * DJ Olive Evp broadcast * DJ wally/DJ Willie Ross Rough Muffin * Lunchbox Lush lope * Nnnj end of public space * Nettle Womanizer Dub * Ladyman Chiki * David Last Reptillian Agenda * DJ Wally/DJ Willie Ross at least some knots get untangled * Dj Olive Vaus (DJ Olive remix) * DJ Olive a long beard on a throne * Once 11 Peanut Butter and Jelly * Lunchbox makeout stakeout * David Last
From http://www.harrykleinnetorks.de/: This is now the first release on HarryKleinNetworks where we asked the artists if they like to do a track for us with a Bongo theme. And we are really surprised how many people were interested to be with us on this compilation. This release shows a rich bandwidth of electronic music with very specific interpretations from each artist. Some are more Housy, some Techno but all really into all dance floors over the world. We are sure you will find your track. So, please, get bongolized for this summer. Following artists appear on this release: Dana Ruh (Berlin), Daniel Rajkovic (Berlin), Dario Zenker (Munich), Dawnrock (Munich), Easy Changes (Moscow), Hubble (Berlin), Jacqui & Frank Masters (Geneva), Jorge Savoretti (Rosario), Marco Zenker (Munich), Maresh (Cluj Napoca), Margaret Dygas (Berlin), O.Vince (Montevideo), Ralph Sliwinski (Freiburg), SchoenereWelt! (Munich), Seph (Buenos Aires), Spunky Brewster (Berlin), Step (Torino), Violett (Buenos Aires), von Haugwitz (Graz). For further information´s about he artists – bio, picture, website, please click on the artist name on www.harrykleinnetworks.de.
Here’s some more space age lounge music for your tiki ass. If you are looking for an excuse to put your feet up and sip on a frosty, it’s May Day today---a celebration of many things, especially warm weather. Happy May Day.
(Play It) Don't Eat the Yellow Snow
Here's a fun one for your Friday. This video is done by Asparagus Productions, the same entity who brought you the Fantomas video I posted a few weeks ago.
This post is for my beautiful wife, who loves anything with a tiki or lounge asthetic. There are some great tunes on here, and some really horrible tunes, but all of them have those textbook lounge/tiki sounds. But, perhaps one of the best parts of this release is the cover art! As the biz said, it's spring again, so dust off your tiki shwag and get partying!
From Comfort Stand Recordings: I once heard about an abandoned train station filled with records no one wanted and that image fueled a thousand waking dreams. My vinyl dreams were always daydreams. They played on their own screen and the show ran all day long. Even now, with the vinyl bug in remission, those dreams still linger and lie in wait. I never dreamt about finding records I knew about; I dreamt about records I can only imagine. And there's something about the records discussed on the exotica mailing list that allowed me to believe that almost any record I could imagine, might possibly be hiding at the bottom of a pile somewhere. Unlike at least one of my friends on the exotica list, I've never dreamt about finding a record that doesn't exist. But I have dreamt about records that, by all rights, shouldn't have existed. Records that never should have been made. Shotgun weddings and unlikely juxtapositions where styles and genres mingled and smashed up against each other in inadvisable combinations. And that reminds me of another dream I've been carrying around for a while.
Sometimes I stand in front of my record shelves, thinking about what I want to hear and I wonder what it might sound like if I could treat all the records on the shelves, like musicians in a great mess of a symphony orchestra. What it would be like if I could literally conduct my records. Point to this one and that one, mix them together, have them all playing at once. And I suppose that relates to my dream of finding the perfect cut. The one that embodies everything I love about this music. It's those last two dreams I think about when I listen to the two CD's created by the various musicians who've passed through the exotica mailing list over the years. If I were a musician myself, maybe I'd take all these various dreams and impulses I have, and try to create that perfect cut myself. Short of that though, I've got this collection of music which represents, I assume, analogous dreams on the part of my fellow exotica listers. I suppose I'll never find that perfect cut but the music here will undoubtedly keep those dreams flowing.
Nope, not another beatless album. A timely up as this dude is playing in Cambridge, MA on Wednesday. This EP is the first release from unfoundsound,and it's mad goofy. I like the 1st and last tracks and hope you do as well.
from unfoundsound: unfound01 is an in-house release, with two members of the (un)foundsound crew in action: three tracks by someone else, aka sean o'neal, and a remix by fusiphorm, aka cyhl. the three original pieces come in someone else's now characteristic style, which have seen him release on labels like musik krause, tuning spork, remains, microcosm and of course foundsound: minimal quirkiness, with groovy basslines and a subtle use of field recordings, always with an eye directed at the dancefloor. the title track is revisited by fusiphorm for his production debut, in a remix that deliberately adds an even housier sensibility to the original goofyness.
download As with a lot of my posts, this is best heard with a nice pair of headphones. Here's a free release from Room40 that came out last year.
From Room40.com: The virtual terminal is a freely downloadable companion edition to the Airport Symphony 2CD. It is available from the QMF website.
As Alain De Botton suggests in his book ‘The Art Of Travel’, the act of transit between social, cultural and geographic circumstance is far more than mere bodily movement. Language, architecture, food, gesture, landscape and sound all play a part in travel and ultimately contribute to the sensations of excitement, exoticism, disorientation and even fear that occupy the daily life of the traveller.
At points of departure and arrival on these journeys increasingly lies an airport. Like business hotels across the globe, the airport acts as a uniform presence – rotating gates, the clunk of baggage, the vague chatter of tourist and traveller alike and the occasional interruption of muffled announcements. Vast halls echoing with the shifting of bodies intent on exodus and return.
As Socrates wrote, ‘Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives [sic]’. Indeed, as the choreography of pre-flight checks is conducted following the gentle rock of the plane leaving the air bridge to a soundtrack of gentle pressurised drone and air conditioned hiss, a meditation commences. This moment of consideration is heightened, as the reflected sound of the engines scorching the tarmac surface is vacuumed into the void of open air and as the plane leaves the earth there is (in every traveller no matter how experienced) still a sense of silent awe at the marvels of the physics of flight.
Airport Symphony, commissioned by the Queensland Music Festival and Brisbane Airport Corporation, documents and synthesises the experiences of travel. Each piece represents a personal meditation on aspects of travel in the modern age and suggests ways in which we control, augment and ultimately exists in a time where almost no part of the face of the planet is inaccessible. Each of the pieces features a source recording made in and around Brisbane Airport between March and June 2007 –in a raw form or transformed by processing.
Audio diary entries cataloguing the epic possibilities of flight, aero-passage and human bodies in motion and even at rest.
(Play It) DJ Lab download I've always been partial to music that is either funky or sneaky. When both are accomplished in the same song, it's a rare treat. Case in point with his 2nd track, Spookers Dub. Fun!
from www.31337records.com: We are proud to present you our latest release from DJ Lab one of Copenhagens top DJ’s!- Because of the great competitiveness in his city, Anders Brøndum aka DJ Lab has built a high standard of quality for his sets and prooves technical skills in his own productions which he already put out on labels such as echocord or tic tac toe.
Lab’s style took off as straight up banging minimalism but has developed considerably over the years. Today, his arsenal ranges from Detroit techno over trancey Cologne’ism to minimal house and Dub. As long as it’s quality, it’s playable.
From 1998-2000 he was a regular name in the Roskilde Festival lineup – playing for thousands and thousands of ravers at one of Europe’s largest music festivals.
By 2000 his credentials had brought him a monthly residence on the National Radio of Denmark. From 2004 and onwards, he’s upheld a residence at Copenhagen’s largest club, Vega – and since its opening in January 2005, internationally respected electronic club Culture Box has put Lab on the lineup numerous times.
The 30 something ep is packed with 3 beautiful Dub tracks starting off with “Libra” which was the favorite track of all of us including sean o’neil (someone else) on this ep, followed by “Spookers Dub” which is indeed a little spooky, but really unique and funky. The last track called “third shift” is very hypnotic and is more club oriented than the other tracks. all in all a great ep for everyone who is into minimal and dub!
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Founded in 1997 as a microcasting artist collective in Brooklyn, NY, free103point9's mobile operations made airtime available to community voices, local bands, and most significantly to a group of under-served artists shaping conceptual works specifically for radio transmission. free103point9 established itself as a non-profit in 2002. free103point9 Online Radio is available around the clock and features live weekly programs, special guest segments, selections from free103point9's archives, audio theater, and other forms of radio art. free103point9 Online Radio also features live on-location coverage of performances and events involving artists working in transmission arts. The curated pre-recorded content tracks movements in experimental sound art and fringe music genres such as noise, free jazz, and avant-folk.
(Play It) miskate Here's a fun video courtesy of aesthetic parcel (video), and Miskate (music). The travels of a groovy ladybug, and it's encounter with a dancing jukebox and cowboy ghosts. Good stuff. zuni lullaby
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WFMU's Mudd Up! with DJ/Rupture from 8/13/2008
