I'll House U

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Anthony "Shake" Shakir - Fact Of The Matter
Jill Scott - Slowly Surely (Theo Parrish Edit)
Cassy - Soul Survivor
Bobby Konders - Dub Massai Style (Mark's Mix)
Eddie "Flashin" Fowlkes - Modulator
Cajmere feat. Derrick Carter - Dream States (Dub)
Krimp - Funky Muzik
Chronic Sounds - Evelin's Basement (Main Mix)
Phuture - Rise From Your Grave (London Radio Edit)
Code 6 - Off The Hilltop
N.Y. House'n'Authority - Apt. 1A
Metro - Straphanger
Gemini - Blast Me
Marcellus Pittman - There's Somebody Out There
Blunted Dummies - House For All (S-Man's Deep In The Vibe Edit)

This one's dedicated to the fabulous WRCP blog for providing dope tuneage and dropping some serious knowledge. Go there, it's a place of joy and enlightenment!

Turntablism cat'n'mouse stylee

Oh, Ray...

... we hardly knew ye. This has got to be the most hilarious thing I've come across in the last few days. And I've got to confess that for a split second I was really like, "Wow, who'd have thought that?!?"

Sophia George - Girlie Girlie (12" Mix)

Summer choooooooooooon! Grab it here.

Sound Gallery I

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Christian Marclay - interview & video

A couple of days ago, while peeking around on slsk for some musique concrète badness, I accidentally stumbled upon this fella who was sharing a bunch of articles from Leonardo Music Journal. Never heard of it before, but some of the titles sounded quite intriguing and so I proceeded to nick 'em. Among the bunch was this interesting interview with soundartist/turntablist Christian Marclay. If you don't know what the guy is on about or just want to see him in action, here's a nice mini-doc I found on youtube:

B-Boys Inna Dancehall

Hip-hop's relatively flimsy relationship with reggae is a bit curious, considering that early pioneers like DJ Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash were of Caribbean descent and that hip-hop probably wouldn't even exist without the influence of Jamaica's soundsystem culture (as you can read here and here). Anyway, here's some favourite reggae-fied hip-hop tunes and remixes of dancehall tracks from the early and mid nineties, when that kind of crossover sound was briefly fashionable. Booyaka!

Get it here.

Cutty Ranks - A Who Seh Me Dun (Dynamic Duo Remix)
Born Jamericans - Boom Shak-A-Tak (Dancehall Remix)
Smiff-N-Wessun - Sound Bwoy Buriell
Da Bush Babees - We Run Things (It's Like Dat)
Poor Righteous Teachers - Easy Star
Naughty By Nature - Wickedest Man Alive
Fu-Schnickens - Ring The Alarm
Cutty Ranks - Limb By Limb (Hip-Hop Remix)
Supercat - Ghetto Red Hot (Hip Hop Mix)
Das Efx - Mic Checka
Kenny Dope feat. Screechy Dan - Boomin' In Ya Jeep
Shabba Ranks and KRS-One - The Jam

Africa 100 - The Afrobeat Boxset

Head on over to the excellent What's In My iPod to get this massive 7 cd set of intense, dark, raw, virtuosic and resolutely life-affirming music. It's an unofficial compilation to accompany this feature on Pitchfork by Joe Tangari and - if I understand this right - it was put together and uploaded to BitTorrent sites by the author himself. Now, I don't know too much about Afrobeat, but to me this looks as comprehensive a genre overview as you're ever likely to get. Plus it will have you shuffling those feet and wiggling those buns all summer long.

Juno - Soul Thunder (Vocal Mix)

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Here's a tiny contribution to all the bleepy bassiness (see previous post). R'n'B-ish vocals over ominous sci-fi synths and a heavy sub-bassline: not quite as great as the better known and more stripped down Drillers Mix that's featured on Warp's 10+1 compilation, but still a fine piece of eerie techno-soul.

Bleep & Bass

Talk about coincidence: Just as this write-up and this wicked mix sent me back to listening to LFO's first album, Nightmare On Wax's Aftermath lp and the Warp 10+2 compilation, I discovered that It's Coming Out Of Your Speaker posted the whole Aftermath EP series by Nightmares On Wax plus a couple more early Warp 12inches. Nice!

Carl Craig - Future Days (Bladerunner Mix)

More Carl Craig niceness, since I just stumbled over this track in an iTunes-playlist. All gorgeous, soothing synth washes over a throbbing, warm pulse beat, it's every bit as wonderful and full of a wide-eyed utopian longing as the original. Ooooh, what bliss!

Get it here.

Carl Craig live at Demon Days

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A nice, versatile dj-set recorded for the excellent net radio Sub FM that I snatched off some forum. Also worth checking out: the Invisible Jukebox with His Craigness from The Wire's April issue, as it's a pretty darn fascinating and insightful read.

01. KAITO 'Soul of Heart' [Kompakt]
02. MR.V "Just Dance (Agev Munson Remix) [Vega]
03. AUTOTUNE "Dirty" [Fumakilla]
04. DENNIS FERRER "Transitions" [Defected/King St]
05. JEROME "Boom Bap" [Intacto]
06. LAGOS NAGATO PLAYERS "Traffic" [Ibadan]
07. MARTIN BUTTRICH ' Full Clip" [Planet E]
08. GAISER "Neutral Block" [Minus]
09. FAZE ACTION "In The Tress (C2 Mix) [CDR]
10. MR.G "E.C.G.ED" [Rekids]
11. ROBERT HOOD " School" [Music Man]
12. DYNAM "Tactile"
13. SYNDENHAM/FERRER "Timbuktu (Ame Main Mix)"[Ibadan]

Recorded December 2006 Detroit
Broadcast January 2007

The Tone Generation

This is pretty good:

"Over 10 programmes, artist/musician Ian Helliwell delves into his archive to look at the development of electronic music right across the world in the classic era of analogue technology. Starting in Europe and finishing up in the Southern Hemisphere, he will be playing vintage tracks from celebrated and overlooked composers from each country."

Subscribe to the podcast here, download it here or listen to the show live on Resonance FM.

Julian Cope - Krautrocksampler

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I prefer my Krautrock to actually have fairly little rock in it (read: Neu!, Harmonia, K/Cluster, early Tangerine Dream, some Popol Vuh) and think that the freakout/psych jam bands like Amon Düül I & 2 or Cosmic Jokers are mostly noodly, badly dated crap, so I disagree completely with a lot of Copey's assessments. Still, this is a great overview of German Kosmische Musik and one hell of an entertaining read in a Lester Bangs-gone-acidfried-hippie stylee. Now if only the old nutter would go back to making good music again...

Pdf provided by da missus' brother, Mr. 76ix.

We're Not Quirky, We Are Idiosyncratic!

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Yello - Bimbo (from Solid Pleasure)
Holger Czukay - Movies (from Cool In The Pool)
Battles - Atlas (DJ Koze Remix) (from Atlas EP)
Hot Chip - My Piano (dub) (from My Piano 12")
Sebbo - Beirut Boogie (from Beirut Boogie/Villa Incognito 12")
Crystal Castles - Air War (from Crystal Castles)
YMO - Firecracker (from Yellow Magic Orchestra)
Glissando 70 - Analogue Shantytown (from Glissando 70)
Max Tundra - So Long, Farewell (Max Tundra Remix) (from Max Tundra - Remixes + Interpretations 1998-2005)

Dubstep (Not Dubstep) - Bass Music Faves 2007

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A compilation of dubstep and dubstep related/inspired tunes I threw together a couple of months ago, including Kode9, Mala, Benga, Pinch, Burial, Peverelist, Shackleton, Modeselektor & Thome Yorke, Neil Landstrumm, Boxcutter, The Bug and Jegor Teplow aka Sleeparchive. Thirty massive tracks, all killer no filler!

Hi there!

What you'll get here is basically what the amazingly unsnappy title says: compilation type thingies and short blurbs about my fellow bwoggers, artists, net labels or podcasts, but also youtube finds, single tracks and other music-related stuff that doesn't fit the album blog-format of my main blog. So, uh, enjoy? I hope?