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Ice Storm 07

2007-12-11T16:31:00.000-06:00

I am in the middle of the worst ice storm in the history of Oklahoma. I have been out of power for 2 days and maybe many more. More to come as always.
Peace and Love, Jake

Random Videos

2007-12-09T18:42:00.000-06:00

This is about the 3 most rando videos I could come up with. No rhyme or reason. Just Gnar-Brah.

The Beastie Boys - The In Sound From Way Out!

2007-12-07T12:18:00.000-06:00

This is just one of those classic albums that people will be listening to for a long time. Instrumental Funky Beastie Boys, Yes Please. I highly recommend giving this one a listen.

"Groove Holmes" – 2:33
"Sabrosa" – 3:30
"Namaste" – 3:59
"Pow" – 2:13
"Son of Neckbone" – 3:22
"In 3's" – 2:22
"Eugene's Lament" – 2:13
"Bobo on the Corner" – 1:13
"Shambala" – 3:15
"Lighten Up" – 2:46
"Ricky's Theme" – 3:44
"Transitions" – 2:32
"Drinkin' Wine" – 4:40

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Jerry Garcia Band - Live At Shoreline 9/1/90

2007-12-06T15:32:00.000-06:00

On September 1, 1990, the Jerry Garcia Band played a particularly poignant kind of show. A Grateful Dead show was originally scheduled for that date, but the Dead's keyboard player, Brent Mydland, had recently died. Rather than cancel the gig, the Jerry Garcia Band stepped in to deliver one of their most heartfelt performances.

HOW SWEET IT IS TO BE LOVED BY YOU
STOP THAT TRAIN
DEAR PRUDENCE
I SHALL BE RELEASED
RUN FOR THE ROSES
MY SISTERS AND BROTHERS
DEAL
I SECOND THAT EMOTION
THINK
AND IT STONED ME
WAITING FOR A MIRACLE
DON'T LET GO
THAT LUCKY OLD SUN (JUST ROLLS AROUND HEAVEN ALL DAY)
TANGLED UP IN BLUE

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Nimbin Mardi Grass

2007-12-06T12:02:00.000-06:00

I know this blog is suppose to be about music but I cant help it. These videos are awesome and all I can say is I really want to move to Nimbin. Enjoy and happy Puffing.

The Doors of Perception - Dope Funk, Psychedelic Soul and Acid Jazz NYC 70-74

2007-12-04T22:34:00.000-06:00

I think the title says it all.

1. Goin' To See My Baby - Fatback Band
2. Matrix - Gillespie, Dizzy
3. Get Some Of This - Madhouse
4. Possibility (Back Home) - Robinson, Wanda
5. Naturally Good - Bartel
6. Rock Steady - Brockington, Julius
7. Heritage Hum - Moody, James
8. Alive - Young, Larry
9. Surrender - Black Ivory
10. Brother On The Run - Wade, Adam & Johnny Pate
11. Consequences Of A Drug Addict Role - Horn, Shirley
12. Fatbackin' - Fatback Band
13. I Can't Get No Higher - Eight Minutes
14. Summer In The City - Bartel
15. I Just Got Know - Brockingtons
16. Stop Me - Johnson, Benny
17. Too Sad To Tell - Taylor, Debbie
18. Life Love And Peace - Exciters
19. Alligator - Gillespie, Dizzy
20. Honeybuns - Rydell, Bobby

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Wes Montogmery - Plays The Blues

2007-12-01T15:09:00.000-06:00

Wes Montgomery's approach to the guitar brought new shades to America's bedrock music: the blues. Montgomery (b. 1925 - d. 1968) eschewed the customary pick in favor of his remarkable right thumb, with which he played the signature octaves that gave his blues an earthtonal quality. It was a vastly appealing sound that, through a series of commercially-geared recordings (plus some flat-out club date smoking with Wynton Kelly's trio or jamming with the perenially poll-winning organist Jimmy Smith) won Montgomery a larger following.

1. West Coast Blues
2. The Thumb
3. Born To Be Blue
4. Unit 7
5. Naptown Blues
6. 'Round Midnight
7. Sun Down
8. Willow Weep For Me
9. Twisted Blues
10. James And Wes
11. Tear It Down

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Sources For Madlib's Shades Of Blue - Untinted

2007-12-01T14:57:00.000-06:00

This is a great introduction to jazz for those who may be brought into the form from Madlib's Shades of Blue. This is the exciting corner of jazz during the mid-late-60s, by some big names if not necessarily the BIG names that even non-jazz fans know. All of these tracks are great selections for this compilation, but Ronnie Foster's "Mystic Brew" stood out most to me. Maybe that's because I hadn't heard it before AND it is a great performance. The Andrew Hill tune, "Illusion", is also a standout. I could list every track as a standout, and Madlib did a good job on the sequencing because every song flows after the next in a sensible manner.

If you are new to jazz, this is a great listen for you to get a sampling of great music from different artists. If you are a sometimes listener, this will probably convince you to buy more albums by the artists included. If you're a long time fan, you may still want this for the couple of songs you don't have, or to have the collection on one disc. It's that good.

1. Shades Of Slim - Gene Harris & The 3 Sounds
2. Distant Land - Donald Byrd
3. Mystic Brew - Ronnie Foster
4. Stormy - Reuben Wilson
5. Please Set Me At Ease - Bobbie Humphrey
6. Stepping Into Tomorrow - Donald Byrd
7. Illusion - Andrew Hill
8. Montara - Bobby Hutcherson
9. Song For My Father - Horace Silver
10. Footprints - Wayne Shorter
11. Peace - Horace Silver
12. Dolphin Dance - Herbie Hancock

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Bonobo - Dial M For Monkey

2007-12-01T14:33:00.000-06:00

Simon Green aka Bonobo is back with nine perfectly formed tracks on a perfectly formed album. No huge, bloated, over-conceptualised rottage for the monkey man. He gets in, does what he has to do, gets out.

From the opener, "Noctuary," with it’s creepy stoned-Hammer feel, through the headnod sitar-funk of "Flutter," on into the Rhodes-meets-Gamelan of "D Song," the first third of the record sets out the tone for what is to follow – all beautfiully melodic and perfectly assembled but with enough of a creeping undertow to stop the music becoming empty or saccharine. "Change Down" is all double bass folk and cut-up drums, "Wayward Bob" is a devilish waltz, while single "Pick Up" is a straight funk ‘n’ flute throw down. "Something For Windy"sounds like a dub of a postman on his rounds, "Nothing Owed" is epic pastoralia, while "Light Pattern" rounds things off with what sounds like the theme to the best TV programme never made.

With all instruments played, sampled and sequenced by Green’s own fair hand, there is a consistency here, both within the tunes and across the record that crate diggers can only dream of. There is real development, the building of moods and feelings, a genuine attempt to make great music which is incidentally computer music. He may make a monkey of himself, but he’s no musical mug…

"Noctuary" – 5:22
"Flutter" – 4:44
"D Song" – 5:19
"Change Down" – 4:33
"Wayward Bob" – 4:39
"Pick Up" – 4:08
"Something for Windy" – 1:11
"Nothing Owed" – 6:16
"Light Pattern" – 5:12

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Groundation - We Free Again

2007-11-30T18:34:00.000-06:00

There are no words that I can write that would even do justice. Listen to this album if you like reggae or music for that matter.

1. Praising
2. Dem Rise
3. Suffer The Right
4. Music Is The Most High
5. Wish Them Well
6. We Free Again
7. Smile
8. Fourth Dimension
9. Feel Jah
10. I
11. II
12.III
13.IV
14.Seventh Seal, The

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Thievery Corporation - The Outernational Sound

2007-11-28T23:54:00.000-06:00

This is hands down my favorite Thievery album. Why you might ask, well its the quadruple powerhouse of Lagos Communique>Sea Groove>Cookin'(version)>Cramp Your Style. It simply doesn't get better than that. Mixing fluidly between afro-beat, reggae, rock, Brazilian, soul, easy listening, electronic and rare library music, Thievery Corporation create a set that takes the listener on a trip of truly global proportions. The Outernational Sound is a seamless recording from many nights of sonic exploration with the turntables and a crate of records. From warehouse parties in Caracas to elegant soires in Honolulu, and root downs in Kingston, Garza and Hilton have played a lot of rare wax for a broad spectrum of listeners. Now, in a one-hour mix CD, the sound system has been mashed up and the whole world can share in Thievery Corporation's Outernational Sound.

		1.	International Flight - (with David Snell)
		2.	Ya Me Le - (with The Gimmicks)
		3.	Vai Vai - (with Thunderball)
		4.	Chez Roger Boite Funk - (with Troublemakers)
		5.	3 Play It Cool - (with Crazy Penis)
		6.	Slow Hot Wind - (with Block 16)
		7.	Under My Sensi - (Thievery Corporation remix, with Boozoo Bajou)
		8.	Lagos Communique
		9.	Sea Groove - (with Big Boss Man)
		10.	Cookin' - (with Beatfanatic)
		11.	Cramp Your Style - (with Breakestra)
		12.	Simbarere - (with Antonio Carlos Jocafi)
		13.	Re-return Of The Original Artform - (with Major Force)
		14.	Shall We Dance - (with Karminsky Experience)
		15.	Within You, Without You - (with Alan Lorber Orchestra)
		16.	Mathar - (Discovery Of India mix, with Indian Vibes)
		17.	Tokyo Expo - (with Alan Moorhouse)
		18.	My French Brother - (with The Bobby Hughes Experience)
		19.	Richest Man In Babylon, The - (Groove Corporation remix)
		20.	Better Must Come - (with Delroy Wilson)

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The Motet - Live

2007-11-28T23:52:00.001-06:00

The Motet is a touring powerhouse with a penchant for creating fresh, new and mind-bending ways to fuse musical styles including funk, latin-jazz, R&B, house, West African, Brazilian, New Orleans and Cuban styles. The Motet - LIVE! is the first ever live release from one of the nations most talented live acts. The CD was compiled from professional multi-track recordings from the March 2002 West Coast tour.

1- w.o.w. drums
2- Know Her
3- Sandunga
4- The Archer Or The Arrow
5- Scribbitts
6- Foxploration I
7- Rumba Pa Los Santos
8- Aquelle Esquina
9- Foxploration II
10- Belly
11- s.l.o. drums

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Eliot Lipp - Tacoma Mockingbird

2007-11-28T23:44:00.000-06:00

This shit is hot like the sun. Kangfirmed.

1. Glasspipe
2. Tic Tac
3. Rap Tight
4. Times Four
5. Last Night
6. Check Weight
7. Rhyme War
8. People, The
9. Sex Tape
10. Mashin' On 'Em
11. Spit Rap
12. Vallejo

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Black Star - Black Star

2007-11-28T23:41:00.000-06:00

I highly recommend that hip-hop heads add this lp to their collection, because it is one of the better albums released in the last five years. A far cry from the "money, cash, ho's" aesthetic that continues to dominate the scene, Mos Def and Talib Kwieli bring substance and emotions to their lyrics that define "keepin' it real."

While the album does have a sense of humor ("Children's Story"),it never strays too far from its message of self-awareness and perseverance. The standout tracks are "Redefinition," "K.O.S.," "Brown Skin Lady," and the off-the-chain collaboration with Common, "Respiration." Black Star confirms that there is indeed hope for hip-hop.

1. Intro

2. Astronomy (8th Light)

3. Definition

4. RE: Definition

5. Children's Story

6. Brown Skin Lady

7. B Boys Wil B Boys

8. K.O.S (Determination)

9. Hater Players

10. Yo Yeah

11. Respiration

12. Thieves In The Night

13. Twice Inna Lifetime

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Madlib - Blunted In The Bomb Shelter

2007-11-27T00:16:00.000-06:00

We weren't certain at first whether to call this a hip hop or a reggae set, since it's made up of mighty tracks of burning reggae classics, but selected by West Coast beatmaker extraordinaire Madlib! This is what happens when you let Madlib loose in the Trojan Reggee Vaults and I am sure he was doing plenty of puffing on that day.

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St. Germain - Boulevard

2007-11-27T00:07:00.000-06:00

Chill House. Thats all I can really think about when I hear the name St.Germain. This album really goes a lot of places. It even has a dub track. I really like this album and highly recommend it. Also these tracks are M4a so if you don't use iTunes you might have trouble. Sorry.

1. Deep In It
2. Thank U Mum (4 Everything You Did)
3. Street Scene (4 Shazz)
4. Easy To Remember
5. Sentimental Mood
6. What's New
7. Dub Experience II
8. Forget It

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Yesterdays New Quintet - Yesterdays Universe

2007-11-25T12:14:00.000-06:00

Madlib displays even more virtuosity with his fifth release under the Yesterday's New Quintet moniker. This time around, the Beat Konducta expands his own universe of aliases and jazz-player personas to include the Young Jazz Rebels, the Jazzistics, and Suntouch, among many others. The key to YESTERDAY'S UNIVERSE is spotting the tastes and styles of each alter ego. For example, Jackson Conti has a penchant for Brazilian flavors, the Yesterday's Universe All-Stars go for all-out fusion jam sessions, while Suntouch delivers spaced-out journeys a la Sun Ra. Somewhere amid the schizophrenia, Lib covers Miles Davis's "Bitches Brew" and Donald Smith's "Slave Riot" and collaborates with drummers Karriem Riggins and Mamao of the famed Brazilian group, Azymuth.

01. Otis Jackson Jr Trio - Bitches Brew (M. Davis)
02. The Jahari Massamba Unit featuring Karriem Riggins Trio - Umoja (Unity)
03. Young Jazz Rebels - Slave Riot (D. Smith)
04. The Last Electro-Acoustic Space Jazz & Percussion Ensemble - One for the Monica Lingas Band
05. Kamala Walker and The Soul Tribe - Street Talkin'
06. The Jazzistics - Marcus, Martin & Malcolm
07. Suntouch - Two for Strata East
08. Sound Directions - She's Gonna Stay
09. The Last Electro-Acoustic Space Jazz & Percussion Ensemble - Cold Nights And Rainy Days
10. Otis Jackson Jr Trio - Free Son
11. Jackson Conti - Barumba (L.Eca, Bebeto)
12. Ahmad Miller - Sunny C (California)
13. The Eddie Prince Fusion Band - Mtume's Song
14. Yesterday's Universe All Stars - Vibes from the Tribes Suite (For Phil)
15. Jackson Conti - Upa Neguinho

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Joe McDuphrey Experience - Experience EP

2007-11-22T16:14:00.000-06:00

This is just what the doctor ordered. After watching some Brasil in Time the other day I learned about this album and boy are you in for a treat.This album is Madlib in the style of 70's jazz fusion artist Azymuth. This is about as laid back as it gets. Tasty grooves in the Stones Throw tradition. The set's got all the best feel of recent Stones Throw instrumental work, kind of a stripped-down take on 70s funky jazz styles. Joe McDuphrey plays some monster keys on the set jamming in a mellow way over laid back bass, drums, and sample loops. Produced by Madlib, the whole thing's very much in the feel of work by Yesterday's New Quintet.

1. Experience
2. Fifty Eight
3. Solar Waves
4. Song for Airto
5. Parallel Worlds
6. Tomorrow, Yesterday
7. Flower of Life

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Kruder and Dorfmeister - Satellite Of Love

2007-11-22T12:07:00.000-06:00

This mix is awesome because its not only K and D but its them doing a Drum and Bass Set from somewhere in Germany at a big party.This is not the quintessential Kruder, it dabbles way more into Jungle and Drum n' Bass than their usual down tempo You can also stream this set or you can download it.

Stream or Download Here

Mandrill - Composite Truth

2007-11-22T02:29:00.000-06:00

How about some Thanksgiving funk. Composite Truth is Mandrill's most successful album, commercially as well as artistically. Although the band's sense of freewheeling experimentation had been tempered, its gradual transition to a straight-ahead funk band was made perfect with two of the biggest hits of its career: "Hang Loose" and "Fencewalk." "Hang Loose" is all over the place (in a good way), moving from a grooving funk jam to mid-tempo guitar skronk and back, all part of an impassioned call to peace. "Fencewalk" also had several transitions, with a crooning chorus and an extended middle section powered by heavy brass and a screaming guitar solo. Elsewhere, Mandrill turns in a very convincing impression of a salsa band ("Hágalo"), breaks into killer loose-groove funk ("Don't Mess With People," with a splendidly undecipherable vocal), and stumbles only with the long, rasta-fied San Francisco tribute "Polk Street Carnival," featuring a bass part that would make even a student smirk.
1 Hang Loose
2 Fencewalk
3 Hagalo
4 Don't Mess With People
5 Polk Street Carnival
6 Golden Stone
7 Out With the Boys
8 Moroccan Nights

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DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist - Brain Freeze / Product Placement

2007-11-19T15:55:00.000-06:00

Brainfreeze was recorded by DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist as a practice session for a show in February 1999 at the Future Primitive Soundsession (San Francisco) mixing funk and soul 45's. Initially 1000 copies were made and sold at the shows, and a further 1000 copies were made and distributed to local records stores in California and sold out very quickly. A cease-and-desist letter from 7-11 Convenience stores—the whole artwork and styling was based on their logos and uniforms—meant that they stopped and moved on. The album was then bootlegged and it can now be found in popular record shops.

Side 1

Lamont Johson Quartet - "Thunder Fist"
The Jules Shattner Group - 2001 - "A Soul Odyssey"
Fried Chicken - "Funky DJ"
The Mohawks - "The Champ"
Reuben Bell - "Superjock"
Albert King - "Cold Feet"
Ultimate Force - "I'm Not Playing"
Eddie Bo and Inez Cheatham - "Lover And A Friend"
Mack Rice - "Three People In Love"
The Nu People - "I'd Be Nowhere Today"
Nu-Sound Express Ltd - "Ain't It Good Enough"
Mystic Moods - "Cosmic Sea"
American Gypsy - "Inside Out"
Odetta - Hit Or Miss
The Mar-Keys - "Grab This Thing"
Rusty Bryant - "FireEater"
Simtec and Wylie - "Bootleggin'" (Part 2)
Wilbur Bascomb and The Zodiac - "Just A Groove In 'G'"
Eddie Bo and The Soul Finders - "We're Doin' It (Thang)"
Rufus Thomas - Sophisticated Sissy
The Showmen Inc. - "The Tramp (From Funky Broadway)"
The Original Soul Senders - "Soul Brother Testify "
Rufus Thomas - "Itch and Scratch"
Alvin Cash - "Keep On Dancing (Instrumental")
Lou Courtney - "Hey Joyce"
Bummer radio spot

Side 2

The Singing Principal - "Women's Lib"
Salt - "Hung Up"
The Soul Lifters - "Hot, Funky, and Sweaty"
Frankie Seay and The Soul Riders - "Soul Food"
The Interpretations - "Jason Pew Mosso"
Thunder and Lightning - "Bumpin' Bus Stop"
Billy Garner - "I Got Some"
Pleasure Web - "Music Man"
Gary Byrd - "Soul Travelin' (The G.B.E.)"
Clifton Chenier and Grandpa Gee Gee - "Just Keep On Scratching"
"W" radio spot
Marlena Shaw - "California Soul"
The Vibrettes- "Humpty Dump"
Eddie Bo - "From This Day On"
7-Eleven - "Dance The Slurp"
Kraftwerk - "Numbers"
Flash and The Five - "Flash It To The Beat"
Pearly Queen - "Quit Jivin'"
Tony Alvon and The Belairs - Sexy Coffee Pot
Chuck Mangione - "Hill Where The Lord Hides"
Funka Fize - "No Words"
Schooly D - "Gucci Time"
Jurassic 5 - "Unified Rebelution"
Third Guitar - "Baby Don't Cry"
Don Pierce - "This Funky Thing"
Funka Fize - "Because You're Funky"
The Troubleneck Brothers - "Back To The Hip Hop"
Stu Gardner - "Devil In A Man"
Samson and Delilah - "There's A DJ In Your Town"
Giorgio Moroder - "Tears"
Tim and Bill - "Someone"

Product Placement is the follow up to Brain Freeze and in my opinion is equally good. I think both albums stand out on there own and both need a thorough listen to appreciate.

First Set
Sesame Street (Oscar The Grouch) - "I Got Two"
Little Grady Lewis & Soul Smokers - "Smokin' Soul"
Dennis Coffey - "A Whole Lot Of Love"
LL Cool J - "I Need Love"
Eddie Simpson - "Big Black Funky Slave"
Harold Alexander - "Mama Soul"
Charlie Whitehead - "Let's Do It Again"
Cold Grits - "It's Your Thing"
Backyard Heavies - "Expo '83"
Timmy Thomas - "Sexy Woman"
Kool & The Gang - "N.T."
Freddy Scott - "(You) Got What I Need"
Bobby & James Purify - "I'm Your Puppet"
The Oceanliners - "Funky Pants"
Thunder, Lightning & Rain - "Super Funky Part 1"
James Brown - "Talkin' Loud And Sayin' Nothin'"
??? - "Superstition"
National Fuel Gas Distribution Corporation - "Rappin' With Gas"

Second Set

Lifeforce - "The Freeze"
Earnest Jackson - "Funky Black Man"
Little Buck - "Little Boy Blue"
Dandelion Wine - "Hot Dog"
Nu-Sound Express - "One More Time You All"
The Commodores - "Keep On Dancing"
Gerald Wilson Orchestra - "California Soul"
The Messengers - "California Soul"
The Poets - "Fun Buggy"
Union - "Strike"
The New Seekers - "It's The Real Thing"
Ivor Raymonde Orchestra - "It's The Real Thing"
American Dietary Association Of Mississippi - "The Basic"
Cookie Crew - "Born This Way"
Larry Sanders - "Story Of My Love"
Jessie James - "Move On Out Of My Way"
Yellow Sunshine - "Yellow Sunshine"
Rodney O & Joe Cooley - "Cooley High"
Nairobi And The Awesome Foursome - "Funky Soul Makossa"
Logic Circuit - "Motorcross"
The Outcasts - "Loving You Sometimes"
Gran Am - "Get High"
David McCallum - "House Of Mirrors"

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LTJ Bukem - Journey Inwards

2007-11-18T20:11:00.001-06:00

Definitely, the most progressive and the most various work by Bukem. I'm a huge jazz fan, so I was glad do discover such cuts as 'Journey Inwards', 'Sunrain' and 'Inner Guidance. LTJ Bukem is undoubtedly one of the founding fathers of Drum & Bass, and it shows on his new album, "Journey Inwards". He digresses from the style we are all accustomed to, his flowing intelligent jungle sets, choosing to make a more melodic and soulful album. Every track on "Journey Inwards" has a message of sorts, and his producing abilities are evident with every track. Beats are layered on top of one another and the occasional break in the beat reminds you to come back from the jazzy world he creates. Be warned...this album is VERY chill. If you want hard, intelligent jungle, then get a progression sessions CD, because this is some true ambience.

Disc 1
1. Journey Inwards
2. Watercolours
3. Rhodes To Freedom
4. Our World
5. Undress Your Mind
6. Point Of View
7. Viewpoint

Disc 2
1. Sunrain
2. Deserted Vaults
3. Inner Guidance
4. Close To The Source
5. Suspended Space
6. Unconditional Love
7. Feel What You Feel

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Gotan Project - La Revancha Del Tango

2007-11-18T01:10:00.000-06:00

Released in Europe in 2001, La Revancha Del Tango’s sexy combination of chillout programming and authentic tango music became a lounge favorite and led to massive sales. Lightning struck twice when it was released two years later in the States--the domestic debut attracted the attention of electronic music hipsters, tango freaks, and world music geeks. And rightfully so. The Gotan trio of Philippe Cohen Solal, Christoph H. Müller, and Eduardo Makaroff write the album's strongest material themselves, but their imaginative incorporation of Frank Zappa's "Chunga's Revenge," Gato Barbieri's theme from the movie Last Tango In Paris and, not surprisingly, Astor Piazzolla's "Vuelvo Al Sur" into the Gotan world shows just how broad and inclusive their tastes really are.

01 Queremos Paz
02 Época
03 Chunga's revenge
04 Tríptico
05 Santa María (del Buen Ayre)
06 Una música brutal
07 El capitalismo foráneo
08 Last tango in Paris
09 La del ruso
10 Vuelvo al sur

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Ott - Blumenkraft

2007-11-17T02:33:00.000-06:00

This album is very hard to describe but i will give it a try. For fans of Shpongle and other psy-trace artist's, Ott bombards your face with a huge sonic spiral of sound. From Dub to Middle Eastern influence and beyond. Ott doesn't leave much to the imagination. This is some full frontal electronic music. I was amazed at how much i liked this upon first listen and it keeps on getting better with time. This album is not for the faint of heart and comes highly recommended.

Jack's Cheese and Bread Snack
Somersettler
Splitting the Atom [pick]
Escape from Tulse Hill
Cley Hill [pick]
Billy the Kid Strikes Back
A Load Up at Nunney Catch
Spannered in Pilton
Smoked Glass and Chrome [pick]

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Bonobo - Days To Come

2007-11-16T14:20:00.000-06:00

Ninja Tune rarely disappoints and this album is no exception. I would classify Days To Come as breaks having sex with some jazzy lounge. If that doesn't make sense you might be too far gone. The incredible vocals of Bajka only put this album over the top.

Simon Green aka Bonobo returns with his third album and the kind of quantum leap in quality that very few artists make. “Days To Come” has the feeling of a classic all over – a big, brooding, emotional and uplifting record that you can dance to, do the dishes to, or sit and really study.

Green has always been expert at welding together music dripping with atmosphere, combining his own musical and technical talents in such a way as to make utterly organic-sounding machine music. This is not just a knob-twiddling producer but a multi-instrumentalist at work, who writes, plays and then manipulates almost every note of music he releases. And “Days To Come” shows a new structural awareness growing from this, a feeling for the song form and the gradual build which raises it way above the work of many of his contemporaries and cries out for him to achieve the kind of mainstream success that has talent has long hinted at.

01 Intro
02 Days To Come
03 Between The Lines (feat. Bajka)
04 The Fever
05 Transmission94 (Parts 1 & 2)
06 On Your Marks
07 Hatoa
08 Recurring
09 Nightlite (feat. Bajka)
10 If You Stayed Over (Feat. Fink)
11 Walk In The Sky (feat. Bajka)
12 Ketto

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Tosca - Choclate Elvis Dub's

2007-11-16T02:59:00.000-06:00

Man where to even start on this one. This is the kind of album that you keep going back to again and again. My buddy described one of the breaks as "a new hope for man kind." While that might be a little strong this album is that good. How could it not be incredible with half its genetic makeup coming from Kruder and Dorfmeister. Mainly the Kruder part. Enjoy.

1. Chocolate Elvis - (Babylon To Vienna Voiceover)

		2.	Chocolate Elvis - (Boozoo Bajou Soul Sufferer Version)
		3.	Chocolate Elvis - (Baby Mammoth Version 3)
		4.	Chocolate Elvis - (Rockers Hi-Fi Vocal Version)
		5.	Chocolate Elvis - (Uptight Version)
		6.	Chocolate Elvis - (Au Version)
		7.	Chocolate Elvis - (Bullitnuts Version 2)
		8.	Chocolate Elvis - (Baby Mammoth Version 1 + 2)
		9.	Chocolate Elvis - (Quant Version)
		10.	Chocolate Elvis - (Bullitnuts Version 1)
		11.	Chocolate Elvis - (Baby Mammoth Graceland Dub)

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St.Germain - Tourist

2007-11-15T02:29:00.000-06:00

All I can say is do you like funky house? Well I do and let me say this album is a must hear. Very chill. This is more puff down or come down music than anything. Here is what Blue Note Europe has to say about this album.

"Ludovic Navarre, alias St. Germain, pioneer of the French Touch, the new electronic music in France, has become an indisputable and respected reference on the international music scene. His album Boulevard, released in July 95' has sold over 200,000 copies worldwide and has achieved 'classic' status from DJ's and producers alike. After taking a 5 year recording hiatus, St. Germain is back with the highly anticipated TOURIST, an intriguing collage of jazz for the DJ culture - a mixture of sampled rhythms and live musicians. Special guests include guitarist Ernest Ranglin and percussionist Idrissa Diop."

	1.	Rose Rouge
	2.	Montego Bay Spleen
	3.	So Flute
	4.	Land of...
	5.	Latin Note
	6.	Sure Thing
	7.	Pont des Arts
	8.	La Goutte d'Or
	9.	What You Think About...

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The Heliocentrics - Out There

2007-11-14T16:57:00.000-06:00

Up next is the spacey funk of the Heliocentrics. Personally I think it sounds like a mix between The Beastie Boys In sounds From Way Out and Tortoise mixed with some sick drum breaks from the likes of Madlib and YNQ. Malcom Catto's drum work is amazing and I highly recomend giving this a listen. Here is what some others said about this album. “Malcolm Catto’s band turns traditional funk on its head with his syncopated drums tying up ’60s psychedelia and free jazz into chaos-on-the-one.” – URB Magazine "

Four years in the making, The Heliocentrics' debut album is finally complete. Out There is here.

Good luck trying to categorize their music. Led by the relentless drummer Malcolm Catto, the UK collective's objective lays quite a ways beyond what ordinary listeners know or expect. In an alternative galaxy, where the orbits of Hip-Hop, Funk, Jazz, Psychedelic, Electronic, Avante-Garde and Ethnic music all revolve around “The One” – that's where you might find The Heliocentrics.

A listen to a song or two reveals no small influence from the funk universe of James Brown. But there's also the disorienting asymmetry of Sun Ra's music. The cinematic scope of Ennio Morricone. The sublime fusion of David Axelrod. But the Heliocentrics' music isn't retro. It's brand new. And it's timeless. They have well-placed fans in the likes of Madlib (Catto was featured on his Shades of Blue album and on various Yesterdays New Quintet releases) and DJ Shadow (the band backed him on the song “This Time I’m Gonna Do It My Way” from his The Outsider album), who will tell you that this band is really the next shit but that they have the consistency and musicianship that seems to have been lost somewhere in the analog to digital shuffle over the past thirty years.

1. Intro
2. Distant Star
3. Flight 583
4. Once Upon a Time
5. Beyond Repair
6. Sirius B
7. Untitled
8. They Are Among Us - Part 1
9. The Zero Hour
10. Joyride
11. The American Empire
12. Before I Die
13. Intermission
14. Age of the Sun
15. They Are Among Us - Part 2
16. Winter Song
17. A World of Masks
18. Sounds of the East
19. Somewhere Out There
20. Second Chance (K2’s Prayer)
21. Return Journey
22. Sirius A
23. Falling to Earth
24. Outro

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ESL.Remixed

2007-11-14T01:19:00.001-06:00

This is my new blog that I am making to share some music with you guys.
I hope you enjoy it. I have an eclectic music collection and hope to update frequently.

First up is ESL.Remixed
This is a wonderful album by the boys from the Thievery Corporation. I have really been diggin' this album and hope yo do too. Here is a little write up from the peeps at ESL.

A decade after dropping its first single, Thievery Corporation's classic "2001 Spliff Odyssey," ESL Music has reached its 100th release! To celebrate this rare milestone Thievery Corporation and their label mates have invited some of the world's finest musicians, DJs, and producers to remix, reinterpret, and rewind gems old and new from the ESL Music catalogue. What better way to honor the catalogue than through the eyes and ears of friends and international music luminaries like Medeski, Martin & Wood, Beatfanatic, Calexico, Boca 45, Quantic, Fort Knox Five, Shawn Lee and more. This is no static retrospective; this is the next stage in the ever intriguing ESL musical journey.

1. A Gentle Dissolve [Shawn Lee Ping Pong Orchestra Remix]
2. Tamarindio [Thievery Corporation Remix]
3. Supreme Illusion [Nikodemus Remix]
4. Stereo Tonic [Boca 45 Remix]
5. Wrong Alley Street, Pt. 1 [Fort Knox Five Remix]
6. Chick-A-Boom [Chris Joss Remix]
7. Belly Disco [Beatfanatic Remix]
8. The Heart's a Lonley Hunter [Louie Vega Remix]
9. Road to Benares [Bombay Dub Orchestra Remix]
10. Divinorum [Quantic Remix]
11. Exploration [Medeski, Marti & Wood Mix]
12. Boop [Skeewiff Remix]
13. Golden Touch [Connie Price Mix]
14. Diario de Viaje [Calexico Mix]

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