boom

I'm not sure what to call this 1975 jam from Roy Alton, maybe proto-soca? calypso? Anyways, its a real hot caribbean jam for a gloomy rainy day. Really a great song, thanks to the dude who has been ripping all these 45s.

Roy Alton - Genies Afraid of the Dark [alt link]

boom boom

This remix of Toca's Mircale certainly doesn't have the melodic high that the inpetto remix gives us, but hot dam them Wideboys put some serious bang into this one.

Fragma - Toca's Miralce (Wideboys Remix) [alt link]

bus one

One of my favorite Dilla remixes here. Not sure why I'm posting it, other than it came on the random itunes. Nice mellow jazz touch to the Busabus.

Busta Rhymes - Woo Ha (Jay Dilla Remix) [alt link]

Big Deeon

I been trying to clean up my downloads folder and came up on all the unnamed myspace tracks I've download over the last few months. A lot of trash, but I came across all these nice juked out remixes. I'm 90% sure these all from DJ Deeon.

DJ Deeon - Sexual Eruption Remix [alt link]

DJ Deeon - I Hope It's You [alt link]

DJ Deeon - Lollipop Remix ft. Debo [alt link]

DJ Deeon - Have You Thought About It [alt link]

Goonies

I meant to post this a couple days ago, but forgot.

First up is a hot fucking jam from Douster. Dude did a real nice job cutting up some Vybz with a heavy ass bassline.

Douster - More Gunz [alt link]

As the sun continues to half ass itself on to the scene here in Iowa, I been relying on the reggae to make it through the day.

This is probably the first and last Beatles cover I'll post.
The Mohawks - Let It Be [alt link]

Winston Wright And The Upsetters - Jam 1 [alt link]

Something for the lovers

John Mclean - Can't Hold On [alt link]

Divshare is the most inconsistent file sharing website. Sometimes it is the fastest uploads, the rest of the time it just doesn't upload anything. So, here's a zshare link to a sick ass Funk D'void remix of an Ian Pooley track. Shit gets fucking crazy as it builds up.

Ian Pooley - loopduell (funk d'void - on guard mix)

This is definitely my favorite Jamiroquai track.

Jamiroquai - You Give Me Something

Weirdo Dub

While the impending Raster Norton boxset reissue of Wolfgang Voigt’s monumental GAS series has given many professional music scribes the joy of brushing up on reading material from their favorite German Lit classes, it’s in turn given me a stiff boner in my brain. Confluence, not Kant, is the password here. At what point do the forest and the ocean cease to be seen as different? Hearing GAS’s Modern EP on the NJ domepike two winters back was lifechanging to say the least. Nevermind whatever elements might have been circulating in that vessel; all inhabitants were instantly entranced by the flowing orchestral ocean which soon filled up the cabin, submerging us all. But we were rats of The Abyss, and our spasms soon gave way to liquid muscles.

Wolfgang Voigt liberated the mids from the dominating fours of the lows, making the rhythmelodies of civilization appear hopelessly barbaric (yeah, I said it) next to the lightforce of incomprehensibly radiant harmony. Of course, this feat of Germanic prowess made a few scribes grabbing for their copies of Origins of Totalitarianism and right they were. GAS is a 21st century Leni Riefenstahl resculpting the forms of the past into totalizing moments of the present and future and sweeping everyone up along for the ride. And who's complaining? But fascist music this is not (and how could it be?!), for ultimately it is a means to overcoming that greatest fascist of all: yourself. This is music to surrender to, to open up to and become one with, cuddle with, sleep with.

Alright, here's the aforementioned A side of GAS's modern EP.

GAS-Heller
GAS-Klang



I don’t know bout u, but I’ve always been very put off by the perennial scenario of a friend or acquaintance wanting to share their art with me. I know that sounds absurd, but I’m a nervous dude and honest at all the wrong time. What do you say when _____ totally sucks, which it often does? I still haven’t figured out an answer, so I was a little nervous when my homie DJ Rezound sent me his band’s, Men and Women new ep via glorious fileshare a few weeks back. Having been woefully underwhelmed by earlier material I had heard, I started prepping my damage control before even listening to the tracks. In the midst of the strategizing, my dome slowly became colonized by the sweet yet offsetting melody of “South America,” lazily hovering over the wreckage of dime store drum machines, guitar feedback, and assorted other sound textures. Needless to say, I was soon totally disarmed and my reservations stood unhinged. But there was more. “Flowing Blood” is exactly that; a fluid, pulsing tribal dance invented by the mole people and popularized by Throbbing Gristle. This is not uplifting music; nor is it a downer. It’s music for the chair surfer, like the cyborg puffing a doobie on the cover of Warp’s Artificial Intelligence comp. There’s no rushing because there’s nowhere to go; like GAS’s immersion tank, Men and Women create environments and situations for the hardy traveler. Hell, “Flowing Blood” is a fucking horror trip down some tropical river, with a nasty anaconda and the viet cong lurking round the corner.

People, we are already in the middle of a movement by freaks for freaks. Weirdo Dub is the name of the game and Men and Women have just unleashed an early touchstone.

Make sure to buy a copy and scoop up the banging Elliot Lipp and Cousin Cole remixes of "South America."

Men and Women-Flowing Blood
Men and Women-South America



Now that our teutonic friends have decided deep house is the new minimal (which never was), I’ve been feeling haunted by Romanthony
and every other single Prescription release. Not being European or an urbanite, I for one have NO IDEA why deep house is hip again, but boy, I’m not complaining. My favorite Richard has always been Wade, not Hawtin, and hey, I like my genres that sound like they are (I’m holding back here, but for you mnml faithful, please listen to some pre-Fizheuer Zieheuer Villalobos and Omar-S and then tell me who the mnml one is, jerks). Okay, I know you need another tirade about minimal misnomers like you need a new wave of blog house, so I digress…

A naysayer the deep is not; lift yourself up, join a choir, and get free(r). This is that chorus of robots leading your brain and buns in a chant of positive thing. Speaking of positive robots, my man over at Solid Goldberger who seems to have cornered the market on all things Daft and French, hipped me to the track that follows below. It’s the former that I imagine brought many to the light of The Wanderer, which if you’ve never heard, well, hypertext your mind up above and prepare to have a MUCH better day. Also, while there, be sure to scoop my new fave guilty pleasure: the filter house track born in infamy, Louis LaRoche’s Love. 17 year olds with Ableton kick out the jams!

So to engage in a bit of blog cannibalism here, I can’t help but snake a guided one from goldfinger (bet no one’s ever called him that!). A jam guaranteed to make you chip the light fantastic, join hands with the Reverend Wright, and pledge allegiance to the United States of KKK. This is one for the soul. And Obama.

Feel it Indiana. Feel it North Carolina.

Romanthony-Da Change (Vocal Vamp Mix)




ADDENDUM: Cool Shit

Still Going Beats In Space Mix--The Boys behind one of my favorite 12s from last year (and who also made me start taking DFA seriously) got a chance to flex their mixing muscles a few weeks back and I'm still digesting this 2.5 hour melange of ripping guitar solos and sexy-ass house. Fantastic stuff and be sure to scope their recent remix of Force of Nature (the only recent remix of theirs I'm really feeling). The date on it is 4/15/08.


Unedited Transcript of Carl Craig's Invisible Jukebox
--I know I'm not the only one who got totally titillated upon seeing Wolfgang Voigt on the cover of May's The Wire, along with a Carl Craig invisible jukebox conducted by the ubiquitous Philip Sherburne. Well, turns out that 7 minute edit is actually a 14 minute monster.

Kaibo Zonshinzu--Who knew there was a Japanese equivalent of Ernst Haeckel? Not this guy. Props to Rachel on the link.

Jump On It

Bobby LaBeat, dude who did that great Tribe remix, broke the internet off with this nice remix of Wiz's Say Yeah. And, guess what? No Alice Deejay!!!

Wiz Khalifa - Say Yeah (Bobby LaBeat Remix) [alt link]



Being in Iowa, the sun just started to come out, and so did the old tunes from Jamaica.  Super soulful jam right here.

Jo Jo and the Fugitives - Fugitive Song     [alt link]



In my book, DJ Technics has the greatest discography of Baltimore club music. Dude has so many tunes to his name - close to 18 hours in my itunes. This track came on random the other day and I been rocking to it a lot lately.

DJ Technics - Him Downstairs [alt link]

wztke

I meant to post up a bunch of stoner jams on sunday, but sunday got in the way of all that. Anyways, the only super jam that needed to get posted up here is the fire from Billy Boyo. Super chilled 80s reggae from a teenager.

Billy Boyo - One Spliff A Day [alt link]

Just got some pretty new go-go from PA Palace and these are some of the jams. I don't know if anybody actually downloads any of the go-go I've put up before, so that's why I'm sticking to cover songs, as those should have broader appeal. Two soulja boy jams and the standout shit is I&I (INI?)'s In This Club. Make sure to go to PA Palace and pick up some sets.

TCB - Crank Dat [alt link]

I&I - Soulja Boy Medley [alt link]

I&I - In This Club [alt link]

BUT UH... SHOULDN'T THERE BE SOME KIND OF STRUCTURE?

Totally Funked Up: TRP Dirty Disco Classics, V. 3 of 10

A cornerstone of early 80s NYC punkfunk, Material laid down some murderous disco before turning to production a few years later; they produced a ton of influential traks, including Herbie Hancock's "Rockit"! Check out THIS awesome article by Robert Palmer from the 1981 NY Times for a cool look at Material in their early days.

Ciguri is a completely bouncing affair, cowbells popping off, rumbling tapeloops, gof4ish abstracty guitar smashes, and finally some weird brassy keyboard demonsounds on the break. And the bassline was definitely sampled by Mylo for that Motherfuckers Under the Pressure song a couple years back. The first one I heard, its prolly still my favorite Material track.

Material - Ciguri [alt link]

mtaubpp

I know I say it like once a month now, but I'm gonna try to regain this blog's status as your favorite bloggers favorite blog. It looks like David, Nick, and Eric are behind me on this, especially with those old pictures of those crazy Cleveland kids, you rascals.
Got a bunch of club bangers from all parts of America - Baltimore, DC, VA, LA, and check yesterday's post for some midwest love.

Say Wut! Let's Go!

Say Wut - Go-Time Anthem [alt link]

Y'all don't want no Medium Krames. Dude's killing it on this new Flamin Hotz release. Mostly club remixes of older tunes, like this Willie Hutch joint.

Cobra Krames - Choose You [alt link]



Goldrocc has been killing it lately. You can check out a bunch of shit on that Deep Sang mix I posted a bit ago, and there's a bunch of his tracks floating around elsewhere and on his myspace. This is my favorite. flips Reminisce and adds some dope original vocals to it.

Goldrocc - The Right Way ft. Svelt St [alt link]




Party anthem right here! West coast superstars (wtf Murs? Why aint you rap about them?), Knish Hit Squad, just gave this banger to the public. People should lose their shit to it.

Heavy D - Now That We Found Love (Knish Hit Squad Remix) [alt link]

Classic jam right here.

Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance [alt link]

What is an Assemblage?

I've been making lots of zShare links, so I might as well share them with everyone. Don't have much time for writeups, but most of this stuff isn't new, and presumably isn't news for many readers.

The latest Hyperdub release:

Darkstar - "Need You"

Late-'70s Italo-prog:

Automat - "Automat: The Rise, The Advance, The Genus"

Heavy rotation:

Todd Edwards A.K.A. The Messenger - "So Real"

A Giorgio Moroder production:

Sparks - "The Number One Song in Heaven"

we have ice

Our favorite dudes from the midwest, Tactic put together a nice remix for Lights Went Out. Had a great time when Tactic came to Grinnel a couple weeks ago. People on the coasts should definitely look into booking these guys

Lights Went Out - Lovely Feelin (Tactic Remix) [alt link]

And I did this, I think it sounds pretty good.


John Dahlback vs. Black Box - Down With All (Pop Rawkus Everybody Edit) [alt link]

Freak March

Oh, this interfaced life. Been x'ing and y'ing all over the place lately, structuring my domecile along degree zero. So things are good. And good things need a good theme.
Girl, let me tell you what. I've found it in the cow races and this one'll run you over like a sedated stampede. Excepter, put down your pencils. Leave the space chipmunk vox and gliding arps to the pros, ok? JK!!! Prof Stinson wants you all to get up and open up, wide open, and drop that ass down to the core. "Some pied piper shit up in this piece!" You got that one right, M.

Transllusion-Bump It

Due to my recent 'puter strife, been listening to more mixes than usual on this great web and have found more than a few that'll back you up. Take this Kate Simko set from the WMC a few weeks back. Seeing that we're broadcasting live from a post-Drexciya oceanscape 2day, Ms. Simko, never minding her caucasian persuasion, is bumping quite a soulful micro-electro melodotronica (hehehe) that is as hypnotizing as it is liquefying. Admittedly, I saw her open for The Field--who is godawful live, btw--last summer and she spun a deep house set that was slightly less boring, but just as souless as the headliner. Howevs, with her recent release on Spectral, the fantastic "She Said," lady Kate is someone I'm going to be paying a lot more attention to.

Another week, another quality BIS mix. This time featuring the swiss miss Lexx, who first turned my head with a killer Black Sabath edit featured on ARAWA last year. As my connection is failing to bring up the URL, all I can see is take your digital butts over to Beats In Space and listen to Lexx's humdinger of a mix, which is some seriously sun-kissed Motown bump.

And finally, we come to a DJ I've grown quite smitten with as of late, Eli Verveine, a Swiss DJ who obviously has been at it for longer than she's had a MySpace page. I first caught the fire from a mnmlssg post highlighting her stupendous carebear mix, which is an ideal cross-section removed from the berlin-detroit dubosphere. Flash forward a few, and we've come to a stage we're her mixes have become my daily fourth meal. So if you're surfer along the Omar-S/Rhythm&Sound continuum, treat yourself to some Eli Verveine.

please dont stop the music

Good track for a tuesday. Neon Neon's Myspace

Neon Neon - Trick or Treat (Hot Chip Remix) [alt link]

COWBOYS AND GANGSTERS

This could be some paradise garage shit for all I know, either way its fucking soulful heavy disco with a piano hook to slay yr grandma or goldfish.

Totally Funked Up: TRP Dirty Disco Classics, V. 2 of 10

Gichi Dan - Cowboys and Gangsters

Produced by Kid Creole this funkloop piano explosion, this is the only Gichy track I've ever heard, though this LP apparently exists. Anyone got it? Cowboys and Gangsters popped up on the 1981 Ze records Mutant Disco comp.

NOT WITHOUT MY WIFE

Totally Funked Up: TRP Dirty Disco Classics, V. 1 of 10

Ever since getting back from Tokyo in January, I've been completely off that "new shit," which has left me a) more consistently bumping with that which I've long known and loved b) perplexed when I try and post on this site. I mean, I'm not a format stickler, it's just not my way. And I don't read blogs, at least not right now. But it seems the whole "blog game" is about doing some shit, getting pigeonholed, and then just trying to maintain whatever status you've been awarded. Well, tough tits. I'm tired of trying to figure out "WHAT YOU WANT" because frankly I imagine your internet-dwelling self is something like mine: hedonistic, undiscriminating, and unendingly consumptive in regards to digital intake.

So here's the first of 10 installments of that dirty disco, since it rings so true in spring.

Pigbag were serious. This is off the 1981 mutant masterpiece, Dr Heckyl and Mr Jive. Mainline punkfunk like Konk or ACR, but dirtier, and with the rumble of a fully sauced brass section. Scuzzy sax, horns that screams New Orleans as much as Cheltenham, homies from the Pop Group and the Slits. Basically, it's bubbling, baby.

Pigbag - Getting Up

gold and fear

Gotta love knowing that dudes like Eli Escobar are getting to do shit like this. I dont know the economics of the business, but I'm sure official remixes for Ashlee Simpson is where the cash at. Shit bangs real hard too.

Ashlee Simpson - Outta My Head (Dj Am & Eli Escobar Remix) [alt link]



John Dahlback's new album is fucking insane. Really good tunes all around. Definitely up there with the Falke release for best of 2008. Here's one of my favorites, its the perfect morning jam.

John Dahlback - Down With All [alt link]


This song is fucking awesome.

Mariah Carey ft. Young Jeezy - Side Effects [alt link]