Hanging On To An Echo

Let The Power Fall

2012-01-14T20:45:00.000-08:00

Doreen Shafer - Love Me With All Of Your Heart

Phyllis Dillon - Don't Stay Away

Bob & Marcia - Private Number

John Holt - Paragons Medley

Inspirations - Only Yesterday

Music Specialists - Flip

Stranger & Angels - Let The Power Fall

Ken Boothe - Drum Song

Lloyd Charmers - African Zulli

Scotty - Skank In Bed

Lazarus - Bend Down

Calton Coffie - King Kong

Linval Thompson - Kung Fu

Roy Richards - Dead And Wake

Charley Acey - Country Boy

King Tubby - Dub In Need

Burning Spear - Traveling Version

Dennis Brown - Macabee Version

Tommy McCook & Supersonics - Mabrouk

I Roy - How Mean

Upsetters - 3 x 3

Jah Walton - Juice Connection

Willie Williams - Dub It Over

Bunny Wailer - Bide Up

Now Generation - Leaving Version

Congos - Bring The Mackaback

Max Romeo - No Peace

Tapper Zukie - Man Ah Warrior

Dillinger - Race Day

Prince Talis All Stars - Yes I Remember

Stranger & Patsy - Trainline

I Done Done It, Part 1 (Classic 45 Rockers of the Distant Past)

2011-10-21T22:11:00.000-07:00

link eddy combo - man with the golden arm

donoman and the lakettes - do you know

ann cole - each day

jimmy mccracklin - get back

lafayette and the lasabres - free way

frankie brent - hi ho silver

chuck wiley - tear it up

kenny loran - top man

the javalans - come dance with me

pat the cat and his kittens, featuring vic fontaine - little rock special

bob riley - midnight train

jimmy dee and the offbeats - don't cry no more

hugh barrett and the victors - got the bull by the horns

clint miller - bertha lou

the del-mars - snacky poo part one

the blonde bomber - strollie bun

eddie con los shades - tequila rock

bobby tuggle - the $64,000 dollar question

chuck brown - hard times

hound dog taylor - alley music

ervin rucker - done done the slop

chuck higgins featuring johnny watson - motor head baby

johnny little john - kitty o

Boogie In The Dark

2011-09-14T21:19:00.000-07:00

VIP CONNECTION - WEST COAST DRIVE

JOE THOMAS - POLARIZER (SPECIAL DISCO VERSION)

GENE BOYD - THOUGHT OF YOU TODAY

DONNY JOHNSON - BURNING FIRE

NEW - STRANGE ATTITUDE

CRASH CREW - WE WANT TO ROCK

SANGRIA - TO THE BEAT YA'LL

FORRCE - KEEP ON DANCIN' (PHASE II)

JUNIOR BYRON - DANCE TO THE MUSIC (PINKY VELASQUEZ DUB)

DUKE BOOTEE - LIVE WIRE EDIT

CONNIE CASE - GET DOWN

BROTHER TO BROTHER - MONSTER JAM

ALMOST BLIND AND SALEEM - REALLY REALLY THOUGH

DJ MAGIC RAY & UNDEFEATED THREE - UNITY RAP 2

PC CREW - GET FRESH

HILL - SOMETHING SPECIAL

CURTIS HAIRSTON - I WANT YOU

KASHIF - I'VE BEEN MISSIN' YOU

KEVIN MCCORD - SERVIN' IT INST.

FIRST LOVE - PARTY LIGHTS

SPYCE - DO IT ROCK STEADY

SPOOKY - DIGITAL READOUT

Memories of Lake Evelyn

2011-08-05T10:35:00.000-07:00

Part 1

Maybelle Carter Autoharp Lesson (introduction)
Walter & Lola Caldwell - Bright & Morning Star (American Folksong Festival, Kentucky 1934)
Roy Harvey & Leonard Copeland - Lonesome Weary Blues (Columbia 15582-D, 10/22/1929)
Frank Floyd - Fox Chase (Adelphi AD 1023, 1976)
Uncle Dave Macon- Railroadin' & Gamblin' (Bluebird Bb-B8325, 1/26/1938)
Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston - 900 Miles (Folkways, 1940s)
Wise & White - Train Blues (Madison, FL 9/6/1936 rec. Margaret Valiant)
Aunt Molly Jackson - Roll On Buddy (New York City, 1939 rec. Alan Lomax)
Etta Baker - Railroad Bill (Morganton, NC 1956 rec. Diane Hamilton, Liam Clancy, and Paul Clayton)
South Georgia Highballers - Blue Grass Twist (OKeh 45155, 10/5/1927)
Sam McGee - Knoxville Blues (Vocalion 15326, 4/17/1926)
Wade Ward - Chilly Winds (VA 1939 rec. Alan Lomax)
Hobart Smith - Pateroller Song (Saltville, VA 1956 rec. Diane Hamilton, Liam Clancy, and Paul Clayton)
W.E. Bird - Old Granny Hare (Cullowhee, NC 1925 rec. Robert Winslow Gordon)

Part 2

Tobacco auction (excerpt)
"Tex"Jenks Carman - Blackjack David (Rem 329, 1963)
Ray Lunsford - Shelia (Excellent EX-400, 1958)
Jimmie Skinner (feat. Ray Lunsford) - Carroll County Blues (Mercury 71192, 1957)
McCormick Brothers - The Banjo Fling (Hickory, 1959)
Rusty York & Kentucky Mountain Boys - Cindy (Bluegrass Special 603, 1961)
Carl Story - Why Don't You Haul Off & Get Religion? (Starday, 1960)
Fred Starr & His Mountain Boys - My Lord Will Lead Me On (Spin-o-Rama)
Allen & Wakefield - I'm Just Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail (Folkways FA-2408, 1964)
Estill Stewart & The 7 Flat Mountain Boys - I Could Love You All The Time (Arrow 2530A, 1954)
Maggie & Louie - Someone Who Loves Me (Tek 101)
Brewster Brothers - One Little Word (Acme 2025, 8/1960)
Ted Prillaman & The Virginia Ramblers - Death Of Charlie Poole
Gene Carpenter & Ernest Jones - They'll Never Land A Man On The Sun
Jack Anglin, Van Buren "Red" Anglin & Jim Anglin - Southern Whoopie Song (Vocalion 04774, 11/12/1938)
Modern Mountaineers - Moonlight Waters (Bluebird Bb-B7423, 9/18/1937)
Mainer's Mountaineers - Johnson County Blues (King, 1946)
Jack Grant - Sweetheart You Left Me (Swannonoa 001B)
Carolina Ramblers - That Lonesome Valley (Perfect 12818/Melotone 12428, 1932)
Paul Clayton - Bile Them Cabbage Down (Folkways FG 3571, 1962)

Familiar Footsteps

2011-05-21T15:48:00.000-07:00

bobby lee - i was born a loser

herman davis - gotta be loved

tommy hunt - comin' on strong

harvey averne - my dream

jimmy dockett & interlude - they can't break us up

ralph & telecasters - something deep inside

admirations - all for you

larks - i want you (back)

four tees - one more chance

barbara acklin - how can you lose

toby king - first man to die from the blues

gene chandler - familiar footsteps

jimmy gilford - i wanna be your baby

moments - i've got to keep on loving you

danny bell - you were wrong

sequins - it must be love

jimmy holiday - i can't stand it

king floyd - you've been good to me

satisfactions - turn back the tears

natural four - why should we stop now

charles greene - baby oh baby

Futuristic Crazeology

2011-04-23T14:47:00.000-07:00

Jazz And Hot Dance Novelties 1927-1942. Racy themes, outstanding arrangements, some salon, some comedy, a couple of Cliffs, a couple of Elsies. Real class, all the way.

Jack Buchanan - Everything Stops For Tea (Brunswick 02125 1935?-1936)
Barnabas Von Geczy - Puszta (Electrola EG 3458 c.1935)
Chick Bullock & Albert Taylor Orchestra - Carolina (14763-1 Banner 32970 Feb. 2, 1934)
Curtis Mosby & Dixieland Blue-Blowers - In My Dreams (144763-3 Columbia 1191-D Oct. 14, 1927)
Carroll Dickerson & Savoyageurs - Symphonic Touches (400992-B Odeon 193329 (Arg.) July 5, 1928)
Mills Blue Rhythm Band - Futuristic Jungleism (10628-2 Banner 32240 May 12, 1931)
Frankie Half-Pint Jaxon & His Hot Shots - Fifteen Cents (C-607-1 Vocalion 2603 July 29, 1933)
Siegfried Arno With Marek Weber - Wenn Die Elisabeth So Schone Beine Hat (Electrola EG 1937 June 6, 1930)
Elsie & Doris Waters - Coronation Girls (Columbia FB 1169 (Eng.) 1935)
Elsie Carlisle with Ambrose Orchestra - Pul-Leeze Mr. Hemingway (Ob3494-2 Regal-Zonophone MR769 1933)
Monette Moore And Her Swing Shop Boys - Two Old Maids In A Folding Bed (Decca 7161 Feb. 19, 1936)
Katia Morlands con Emil Hot 5 - Loco Por El Hot (Cr3024-2 Regal(E) C8528 c.1936)
Blanche Calloway - Line-A-Jive (Vocalion 3113 Nov. 6, 1935)
Dick Robertson & Ed Lloyd Orchestra - Look What I've Got (13253-1 Banner 32750 April 15, 1933)
Quinteto Saratoga - Parece Mentira (Cr3007-2 Regal (E) C8517 1935-36)
Cliff Bruner - Corrine Corrina (Decca 5350 Feb. 5, 1937)
Cliff Edwards - I'm A Bear (private recording, Oct 25, 1933)
Greta Keller - I'm Gonna Lock My Heart (Brunswick A81859 Sept. 27, 1938)
Orchestre Lanigiro - Drummer Boy (Cz1168 Columbia (Ch) Zz1073 1942)
Original St. Louis Crackerjacks - Lonesome Moments (Decca 7265 Oct. 16, 1936)
Bud Freeman - Craze-O-Logy (W402151-C OKeh 41168 Dec. 3, 1928)
Memphis Jazzers (Cliff Jackson & His Crazy Cats) - The Terror (Grey Gull 1879 Feb. 27, 1930)
Cab Calloway Cotton Club 1931 (exc.)

Courlander's Almanac No.3: Familiar Music in Strange Places

2011-03-20T12:15:00.000-07:00

A radio program from 1956 hosted by ethnomusicologist Harold Courlander, who recorded tons of stuff for Folkways. I've had this record for years, but it was recently released on CD by Smithsonian Folkways, so this will only be here for a little while. It's a real hoot!

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Fresh Brood

2011-03-10T19:02:00.000-08:00

part 1

jim stick revelation
clonzo mays sextet
faith band
contagious
E.W. funktionaire
O.D. levy
juju & the space rangers

part 2

clappers revue
bad news band
captain sky
new
hurt'em bad
bobby demo
osiris
elton white

Bip A Little, Bop a Lot

2011-02-04T19:54:00.000-08:00

PART ONE

ronnie cells & the continentals - chicken
the poets - vowels of love
the el vienos - geraldine
floyd dixon - ooh little girl
joe penny - bip a little, bop a lot
danny zella - wicked ruby
gene summers - nervous
dave rich - rosie let's get cozy
harmonica frank - rock a little baby
brownie mcghee - anna mae
carl newman - twist on guitar
the slades - the waddle

PART TWO

brown brothers - you're right i'm left
hermanos carrion - adios adios amor
jimmy & johnny - what cha doin' to me
tommy hill - i wanta show my baby off
jimmie skinner - where my sweet baby goes
hal goodson & the raiders - who's gonna be the next one honey
arthur crudup - worried bout you baby
roy clark - pink velvet swing
the jaguars - thinking of you
the l'captans - say yes
jacky lee - misery
otis rush - you know my love
bobby tuggle - too late old man
marvin & johnny - ain't that right
hop wilson - chicken stuff

An Island of Sanity (Tiki Party Vol.1)

2010-12-27T15:15:00.000-08:00

spike jones
johnny richards - ochun
king fleming - stand by pt. 2
byron lee (probably?) - dragon's paradise
eddie gomez - cuban mist
mariano merceron - noche en el congo
richard lemos - quiet village
george cates - chant of the jungle
malekowa & the tradewinds - kokohi
the kingpins - ungaua pt. 1
diabolito - the jungle
los zombies de antonio escobar - la pajarera
edmund de luca & trans world symphony orchestra - the trek
dominic frontiere - house of pleasure
hilo hawaiians - akaka falls
luke leilani - swinging palm trees
nick venet - talking surf
billy mure - in a persian market
remo biondi - lament for lana
donald & the delighters - elephant walk
johnny lytle - village caller
eddie greenberg - tu boca
johnny recardo - felitah
lincoln chase - deep in the jungle pt. 2
earle hagen - new interns watusi
sticks evans & the afro-americans - africa laments
kwan-dito's - kwan-dito's theme
arabian nights - night in arabia
kenny kotwitz quartet - adelita

Hot Shit Day

2010-11-30T11:58:00.000-08:00

bad apple - raving beauty
ray pittman - the wanderer
jack rather and the national review - winter of your heart
soul patrol - myra
bob bridgman band - six days on the road
fu's - we're an american band
t. radu - perfect stranger
spooks - scum of the earth
low numbers - shok treetments
legionaire's disease - brainwashing
sky sunlight and the new seeds - universal stars
dimensional sound - shining on
first company - sho is bold
stan hubbs
norty - social injustice
acoma - my long lost friend
bits and pieces - falling away
potters clay - drum solo
masi and cassidy - hot shit day
zip code rapists - listen to the band
uprise - what a way to go

Flavours of Bollywood vol.1

2010-10-25T13:53:00.000-07:00

Presented for your listening pleasure now, a mix of Indian soundtrack music featuring all your fave composers (Kalyanji-Ananji, R.D. Burman, Bappi Lahiri, Shankar Jaikishan, etc.), playback singers (Asha Bhosle, Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammed Rafi, Kishore Kumar, etc.), and movies (Yaadon Ki Baaraat, Satyam Shivam Sundarum, Professor Pyarelal, Jewel Thief, etc.). Sound quality is not so good, all apologies, due to the many less-than-pristine vinyl LPs used, and the fact that some transfers are from cassettes from the discount bin at the local Indian grocery. EQ is overrated, anyway.

The Score Was Six To Nothing (And The Roaches Was Ahead)

2010-09-21T20:22:00.000-07:00

doug anderson - i need someone
ernie tucker - can she give you fever
ray agee - i'm coming home
johnnie morisette - run
lattimore brown - say what
eugene blacknell - jump back
tommy tucker - sittin home alone
ZZ hill - oh darling
lorri rudolph - don't let them tell me
the memos - my type of girl
chuck edwards - bullfight
the bayrons - wild turk
the treniers - doin''em up
lloyd price - hello little girl
elton anderson - i love you
jimmy norman - i don't love you no more
henry clement - so in love with you
bob reed & his band feat.ivory lucky - i'm leaving you
danny brown - standing on the corner
jewel gospel singers - i know the lord will make a way

Spirit Clippings art

2010-09-17T16:28:00.000-07:00

This is the art for a mix swap I just participated in. Lotta 45s, so mostly label pix. Sorry, nothing to listen to here.

Clean Kicks (R&Boogie For Summer vol.1)

2010-08-28T10:09:00.000-07:00

Sorry about my laxity, my computer's been a real bitch lately. I put this one together when we had that one brief hot spell last week, but I guess it's always hot somewhere.

redd hott - ecstasy
enchantment - i believe in you
linx - you're lying
pockets - come go with me
game - gotta take your love
d train - keep on
cameron - magic of you
logg - dancing into the stars
vicky d - this beat is mine
raydio - for those who like to groove
numonics - one more try

Don't Let Your Pants Get Uptight: A Disco "Super" Mix

2010-07-03T11:35:00.000-07:00

Esquire Demonstration Record 1944

2010-06-18T09:06:00.000-07:00

Side A

Side B

Meet Mother (A Diamond in the Rough) : A Reading by Mother Hive

2010-06-15T13:34:00.000-07:00

Alfred Janson "Canon for Chamber Orchestra and Magnetic Tape" (1964)

2010-06-05T13:49:00.000-07:00

Ali Srour "Rakset Nelli"

2010-05-24T23:21:00.000-07:00

Henry Cowell "Homage to Iran" (1959)

2010-05-08T11:51:00.000-07:00

Smiley's Comeback Party

2010-04-24T12:56:00.000-07:00

Mostly early-to-mid sixties popular music today. Starts off upbeat but drifts into blues, slow drags, and novelty. Hope you enjoy...

part one

tommy frontera - be mine
bobby comstock & the counts - you can't judge a book
erma franklin - don't wait
karel duba - drummer's dream
chet orr - be satisfied
jimmy lovemaker - soul
troy dodds - the earthquake
kerry adams - i just found love
little hooks - something money can't buy
harold hopkins - glamour girl
veniece - 18 days
frankie brunson - ward 13
mckinley mitchell - no love
sonny knight - besame mucho
beachniks - like stoned
kaiser foil - do the switch

part two

? (life LFLP144) - 1.3
sandra sanger & arulan - ?
torquetts - bacardi
john j. moses - night out
bo dud & johnny twist - i am back
johnny jones - strung out
three flames - honolulu rose
malekowa & the tradewinds - kokohi
nick nastos - jazz banana
four finks - wiki wiki woo
whispering pigg - darlene
lamotta brothers & the virgin islanders - voodoo woman
box & bleacher society - movin' with the giants

melvins tapes

2010-04-10T13:21:00.000-07:00

Cat's Cradle December 18, 1990

Cat's Cradle October 10, 1991

Joy, Hope, and Pleasure

2010-03-27T11:43:00.000-07:00

living truth - freedom bell version
wando - sumida
jon lucien - greater than i
SE rogie - koneh pelawo-beh ngii-jakaw
yaseen mohamed - mahaba maskini
yagnik & sargam - more ghar aye
moroder - leopard tree dream
yukio yung - my favorite ratbag
kliche - international klein blue
bohannon - come & dance with me
bobby moore - anything man 2
first class - sing me & my gemini
milton nascimento - simples
jeffmajors - room 400
loose ends - hanging
rebbie jackson edit
gaston - japanese smurf
HBM
LSR1015 - 2.1
upsetters - 3 x 3
inez brooks - chilling out
candi staton - summertime
yutaka yokokura - the rest of my life

POR LOS LAVAPLATOS DEL MUNDO

2010-03-13T10:45:00.000-08:00

(mostly) cumbia

rosita gomez - dolores
tropical caribe de miguel aguiar - la llave y la cerradura
carlos pickling - el orangutan
luis kalaff - coge lo que te estoy dando
beto villa - ven a buscarme
linda vera - cumbia mulata
jose munoz - el vicioso
los bonanza de rudy calderon - la gorda
los graduados - otro ano
los diablos de valledupar - tambores de nochebuena
anibal velasquez y su conjunto moderno - cinco pa'las doce
los curramberos de guayabal, canta alberto pacheco - la luna y el mar
grupo santurce - ay doctor
jose bedoya - mi canoa
jaime de jesus y su calma boricua - dulce patria mia
pepe olivarez - el desconsolado
los faraones - ven ven
latineers - la secretaria
conjunto tropical caribe - el papelero
los strwk - la suegra
latin breed - ritmo pilon
grupo iragua - la sultana
carlos morales - la burrita
5ta organizacion - la diablilla

She's Too Way Out

2010-02-26T13:32:00.000-08:00

nolan strong & the diablos - my heart will always belong to you
richard berry - good love
doctor feelgood & the interns - mister moonlight
the mascots - lonely rain
the four deuces - WPLJ
georgie young - the sneak
junior wells - stomach ache
june gardner - hammerhead
the nite owls - hip monkey
bowlegs - one more time part 2
JC davis - the splib part 1
the starlets - money hungry
the hollywood jills - he makes me mad
gloria garcia - no puedes extranar
albert collins - whatcha say
JD edwards - hobo
ersel hickey - goin' down that road
rockin r's - crazy baby
move up to chrysler

Fat Laces of 1983

2010-02-12T06:36:00.000-08:00

Dug this one out of the digital attic the other day: a short all-electro megamix I labored over and gave up on a few years ago. Not the smoovest thing you'll ever hear. I recommend dubbing this one to cassette first.

This Classy Joint

2010-01-30T12:39:00.000-08:00

Ok, so I know tepid jazz funk is not a very fashionable sound right now, but I've had a soft spot for it for a long time. All instrumental, all more or less groovy groovers. Jam it at your next dinner party.

johnny pate - you're starting too fast
kenny burrell - burning spear
mikis theodorakis - serpico
freddie robinson - smoking
deodato & donato - nightripper
david newman - foxy brown
charles earland - one for scotty
monk montgomery - little os
baden powell - coisa no
ulysses crockett - resurgence
dave pike - sweet tater pie
silhouettes - red snow
young holt unlimited - bumpin' on young street
morning, noon & night - time
jay dees - ILSP
ran blake - spiral
julian priester - love, love (excerpt)
randy weston - in memory of
mike longo - wyyowa
charlie mariano - F minor happy
gary saracho - sr baker pt. 1
mongo - promised land
steve reid - lions of juda
ron cremisio - RCQ
sky caps - el bote

Disenfranchised Fuzzboxes

2010-01-16T13:23:00.000-08:00

this edition is all about wild and wooly sixties noise, with more than a few pop elements thrown in here and there. i'm copping to having used some reissues (gasp) but those are basically unattainable hotties so whatever.

part 1

x-treems - facts of life (st. louis, MI)
golliwogs - fight fire (el cerrito, CA)
denims - white ship (1966)
chymes - he's not there anymore (L.A.)
the odyssey - little boy, little girl (L.A.)
marauders - since i met you
kavaliers - congregation for anti-flirts, inc. (texas)
moonrakers - i'm allright (L.A.)
rumblers - leave me alone (L.A.)
sir david & his knights - shotgun (texas)
conrad & thee travelin' lights - a la media noche (texas)
vince maloney sect - no good (australia)
the eggy - you're still mine (england 1969)
liverpool 5 - she (england)
beachniks - last night i cried (iowa 1965)
the specktrum - confetti (rhode island 1967)
the sounds - little joe (texas)
the fugs - couldnt get high (NYC 1965)
memphis goons - get off your ass jon jon
acid - the story of LSD (1971 filmstrip)

part 2

samples & campbell
los yorks - mira tu (peru)
tamrons - wild man (NC)
jim tarbutton & memphis sound - the mysterian
sonny flaherty - hey conductor (ohio)
swingin' apolloes - slow down (louisiana)
blue things - orange rooftop of your mind (kansas)
sidewalk surfers - strawberry tuesday (L.A.)
the fire escape - love special delivery (L.A.)
raik's progress - why did you rob us, tank? (fresno, CA)
sounds of tyme - to understand mankind (NC)
the male - you're playing with fire (alabama)
she - outta reach (sacramento, CA)
flower power - you make me high (louisiana)
savage resurrection - thing in e (SF)
parish hall - my eyes are getting heavy (SF)
thorndike pickledish - san francisco bound

prequel to a hasbeen, part two

2009-12-30T18:52:00.001-08:00

T. Cary & W Burt excerpt
Imre Mihaly Bereczky - Kanasztulok-Dallam (recorded in Hungary by Bartok, 1914)
Stuart Dempster - Standing Waves
Kent Carter - Song for Cannonball
Laraaji - Dance #3
Youngs, Wickham-Smith, A Band - Zene
Empire Centrafricain OCORA 101 excerpt
William Stafford - In the Museum
Tod Dockstader - Drone
Bulent Arel - Capriccio for T.V.
Golden Voyage - Crystal Carousel excerpt
buddy dial edit
Baba Ram Dass excerpt
Joaquin Bautista - Flor de Canela (recorded in Michoacan by Henrietta Yurchenko, 1964-5)

prequel to a hasbeen, part one

2009-12-17T06:36:00.000-08:00

Vladimir Ussachevsky - Wireless Fantasy
Quiet Sun - RFD
Biota - Vagabones excerpt
Glaxo Babies - Dahij
bamboo drums (recorded in Tahiti by Mazaire)
Hessian Radio Symphony Orchestra/CPEMS - Synthesis (composed by Otto Leuning)
Edgar Froese - Maroubra Bay excerpt
Vasilisk - Acqua
Mic Holwin - Amon Ra
Alden Ashforth - Sailing to Byzantium
Swami Kriya Ramananda - Devata
Song of the Greek Mountains (PHILIPS PCC613)
rulie garcia/CSM edit
bollywood edit

stay tuned for a part two

Dead Moon, 5/18/1998

2009-12-05T12:51:00.001-08:00

Break My Balloon

2009-11-20T10:37:00.000-08:00

PART ONE

west coast pop art experimental band - break my balloon
caetano veloso - partido alto
mother sunday - midnight in the graveyard
portrait of fun - wages man
los solitarios - que hare hoy
anel y los chavos - warning
COC - green manalishi
wally gonzalez - bagong kabuhayan

PART TWO

sounds of harley - hard ride
wilmer & the dukes - livin' in the USA
granicus - bad talk
ray pittman - come on back
frummox - there you go
sweet wine - things you said
freaky ralph eno & the pointless sisters - eulogy
the motors - phoney heaven
wingate & floyd - empty horn
shawn phillips - moonshine

La Máquina del Tiempo (Sol Latino 2)

2009-11-07T12:48:00.000-08:00

PART ONE

omara portuondo - invitacion
la tribu - para que
antique formula - empece a vivir
tony camargo - franqueza
eddie palmieri - condiciones
los socios del ritmo - jungle ju
willy sanchez - no se que pasa
los destellos - apolo 11
los loud jets - sputnick
los golden jets - 30 60 90
los crazy birds - hanky
knight dreamers - veregua
orquesta hermanos flores - barrigon veregua
chico che - camino chontalpa
los mayans - chicana
la fresa acida - never alone
sama-yoa y los monchis - aguardiente
uno dos tres y fuera - machu picchu

PART TWO

los aragon - sol latino
tony done's hollywood quintet - micaela
celio gonzalez - boogaloo mania
prado - simplemente maria
mendoza - mambo #5
los dinners - mambo borracho
enrique lynch - salsa travolta
tropical playa suave - booty
black sugar - baila
luiz nazareno - que no
fito olivarez - yuca la chica bionica
orq lito barrientos - manuelitos barrios

Windy & Carl live on the radio 1996

2009-10-24T10:05:00.000-07:00

Keep It Tight, Not Tough

2009-09-26T12:41:00.000-07:00

PART ONE

tommy lee & autographs - i know
junior wells - sweet darling think it over
king solomon - ain't it funky ya'll
bobby eaton - we gonna do our thing
vernard johnson - soul metamorphosis
ozz & the sperlings - somebody to love
biggie ratt - escape
el pooks - psychedelic soul pt.2
richard shann - wooly buger pt.1
sugar - main man pt.2
kenny & larry - you and I are through
eddie jackson - memories of a dream
barons - society
dynamic concepts - what you want us to do pt.2
joe bataan - es tu cosa
marky lee - she's looking good
alton ellis - girl i got a date (soul version)

PART TWO

los johnny jets - apretado
bobby williams - boogaloo mardi gras pt.2
gloria soul & cold grits - satisfy my hunger
bebbe & the hitmakers - ooh cha lue
lovelettes - i can't forget about you
swinging bridgettes - secret spy
billy preston - slaughter
inclines - pressure cooker pt.1
brenda devlin - were you ever lonely
jean elias - how long can i go on fooling myself
bobby bland - i'm so tired
bobby powell - peace begins within
hifi white - bulldog pt.2

Tails You Lose (Sophisticated Losers 2)

2009-09-11T13:35:00.000-07:00

chucho avellanet - prisionero
sonny knight - permanently lonely
tammy mcknight - stop these teardrops
james & bobby purify - i don't want to have to wait
mischief makers - outside looking in
swamp rats - mister sad
julie monday - time is running out for me
the unknown? - you could help me ease the pain
los chijuas - dream slave
carlos guzman - before & after
joe bravo - teardrops from my heart
noe & semitones - oh darling
los diablos - ceniza
roberto carlos - querem acaba
bobby reed - i'll find a way
midniters - giving up on love
outsiders - i can't see you anymore
blue notes - goodbye my lover
dave love - baby hard times
mina - runaway
secos & molhados - minha namorada
wando - amor maior
bourbonese qualk - behind closed doors
henry & the tribe - never
melgar brothers - love is blue
dahle scott - one more for the road

Dance Advantage

2009-08-29T11:21:00.000-07:00

Aqui Estoy de Nuevo

2009-08-15T11:13:00.000-07:00

Garfield Park, Harrison & 26th Street, San Francisco, California

conjunto cachana - a bayamon
ray perez - aqui estoy de nuevo
johnny el bravo - celeste
tommy olivencia - trucutu
el gran fellove - goza mi ritmo
johnny ventura feat. luisito marti - odiame
manny corchado feat. tito rodriguez - aprovecha el tiempo
johnny chano martinez - tin marin
jose joaquin rivera - mambo corao
johnny pacheco - sonero
willie rosario - chango ta beni
latin brothers, joe arroyo - las cabanuelas
babo jimenez - amanece
orquesta riviera - macho cimarron
orquesta revolution '70 - guaguanco mayor
lobo y melon - aguanta la guera
conjunto sandumoro - ran kan kan
la conquista - lenguetera
german bas - yo sigo pa'lante
latin dimensions con roberto torres - comparicion
chino y su conjunto melao - jazmin
conjunto africa- guaguanco de la hermandad
rudy caldazo - tumba la cana

Espresso Bongo Jazz Party

2009-07-30T10:40:00.000-07:00

Part A

cannonball adderly
joe harriott - southern horizons
donald byrd - hank's tune
charles mingus & lee konitz - ESP
sam jones - unit 7
ken jones - room 43
teddy charles - lupe garoue
charles bell quartet - happy funky
bennie green - people will say we're in love
panama francis - desdemona's lament
jackie ivory - freddie the freeloader (miles davis)

Part B

sonny stitt - in the bag
jack mcduff - silk'n soul
max roach - drum conversation
rod levitt - jelly man
george shearing quintet & 4 woodwinds - dialogue for two pianos (gary burton)
dollar brand - which way?
stanley cowell - ibn mukhtarr mustapha
piano, drums & gulls (white label 78)
france gall - le coer qui jazze
james booker - big nick
james petrillo
reuben siggers - pause... for the cause

Byrd's Eye View (Transition TRLP 4): Donald Byrd (tp); Hank Mobley (ts) ; Horace Silver (p) ; Doug Watkins (b) ; Art Blakey (d). Cambridge, MA December 2, 1955

Spin It

2009-07-18T09:58:00.000-07:00

another summer dance party mix. just about all electro-electronic-hiphop singles, crudely abutted with frayed denim and spent forties.

MC fosty & lovin C radioactive
man parish & freeze force BDB
bobby jimmy & the critters
sheila dionne
clientele
girls talking shit juice it
eric G
compression don't bitch
digital emotion
iceman jah
dr. rocx & co. feat kydd fresh
G force ABC
GQ ur the 14 me
sunbelt spin it
soroka gentle touch
northwind tees happy

Since I Been Gone

2009-07-03T14:53:00.000-07:00

Mostly your relatively ancient American folkstyles mish-mashed together here (in honor of our nation's birthday), but framed by some Euro-type things, and of course North Carolina artists are foregrounded heavily as always. To begin with, lawyer and folkie Bascom Lamar Lunsford delivers a lusty and forceful "Hesitation Blues" in Asheville, N.C. for Robert Winslow Gordon on behalf of the feds in 1925. Then do enjoy the fidelity on Rudy Cipolla & David Grisman's "Chinese Carousel" because it's about the only semi-contemporary recording here. Those men did have a way with their mandolins. I bet it wouldn't be too hard to find a cleaner copy of the 78 of D. Halkias' "Minore Tou Halkia", but the story behind my finding this reissue is somewhat unusual: One Saturday a few years ago, I was negotiating the bike rack at a used book sale in Fort Mason, and an old man with a long beard and a sailor's cap was next to me strapping an album of old rembetikas onto the back of his bike, to give to his Armenian wife, apparently. I had totally forgotten about the LP section at the store, and sure enough he left a few volumes in the series behind for me.
Next up, ethnomusicologist Laura Boulton records Yaqui Indians performing "Matachines" for an Easter ceremony in Tlaxcala, Mexico, sometime around 1940, the George Ku Trio offer the tender plaint "Kuu Lei" from 1932, and the Highway QC’s sing "How I Love Jesus" from a rather rough-sounding promo Vee Jay 45 I recently picked up in Washington, DC. Channeling the profane once more, Calvin Johnson thunders through a truly rocking "Unsatisfied Mind" (with drum thwack at its most cardboard boxy) and Eddie Taylor boasts "I’m Gonna Love You," also recording for Vee Jay. A different genre, but you might hear the same lightly swinging rhythm tipping in with Norvin Kelly's Hank-styled "You Can’t Make Me Live With The Blues." I'm pretty sure Carl Belew had a hit on "24 Hour Night" but boy it sure is a dark and sorrowful tune. That's nothing though, compared to Dave Van Ronk's "Hang Me." A dying soldier's tragic fuck-you wrapped up in a petty dream of betterness. Worthy aside: Van Ronk threw rocks at cops at Stonewall. Jimmie's cousin Ernest Rodgers got to make a few sides for Victor in the 20's ; the well-known "Willie The Chimney Sweeper" belongs to the whole Minnie the Moocher/Jerry the Junker body of lurid drug songs and also evokes a whole lot of Barbary Coast hoodoo as well. I'm sure you all know Michael Hurley, who continues to record and tour today. "Lilly Pads" is a just a great old album track, and pretty catchy too.
The Blue Sky Boys, aka Bill & Earl Bolick out of Hickory, N.C., were recruited for an Illinois festival reunion in 1964 by none other than Archie Green (RIP), and "Midnight On The Stormy Deep" is but one of their many old hits rekindled that night. And now a couple of hillbilly tunes struck deep with the spirit: Fred Starr & His Mountain Boys's "Shout & Shine" is from a surprisingly stirring budget label LP, and this version of "There Ain’t No Grave" (a song I've never heard a bad version of) is off a 1961 single by Detroit-area duo by the name of Jimmie Williams & Red Ellis, both of whom had long careers prior to this. Play-party time again, and the mighty Algia Mae Hinton bangs out an "Old Time Buck Dance," mad breaks and all. Next is a record by the Internes. I'm pretty sure they're the Four Internes of Durham, N.C., whose career supposedly began while working as orderlies at Duke Hospital and recorded for King/Federal in the early 50's. "When You Pray" is an uptempo harmony fingersnapper from 1958. No surprises from Brownie McGhee's "My Fault" ; his honest and unassuming manner make the song, and it's really in that Tampa Red/Melrose family vein of solid pop blues.
Les Waldroop's "Watergate Bug" is an obscure record even for him, and what a tangled, weird anachronism it is too. Collecting North Carolina records is even more fun when artists actually name-check places; that's only part of what makes Jack Grant 's "Raleigh Train" such a hoot, but it's a big part. Besides, train songs rule. Now to throw you off the scent, this isn't the Carolinian guitarist Arthur Smith, but the fiddling Arthur Smith Trio of an earlier era; their breakneck "I’m Bound To Ride" of 1935 was later covered by the Stanley Brothers. Not much info on this here National Geographic Music Of The Ozarks record, but I'll be darned if this "Guitar Medley" ain't the jam. Harmonica Frank Floyd presents the familiar "Married Man" descriptive novelty in fine form (I'd buy a bottle or two). As you can hear, he hadn't really mellowed out too much by the 70's.
Sandy & Jeanie Darlington's "When I Die" is simple revival purity, somewhat blemished by the following blue record: pretty sure that Pratt & George Blues Part 2 is from an instantaneous recording from the 1930's or possibly 40's, at any rate early for this kind of aimless funk. Stirring up the kettle a little bit, Radley Gourzong's take on one of the most ur-fiddle tunes ever, "Devil’s Dream," is a field recording from the Caymans, and is from the great compilation Under the Coconut Tree on Original Music. And now we hear some fine Hungarian orchestrated soul from Asszony Lesz A Lanybol with "Levelem, Levelem" and then, also from Hungary, one of Bela Bartok's legendary cylinder recordings. This is of two girls, Battovsky and Zichla, performing "Megjott A Level Fekete Pecsettel," and it is from around 1910.

prog not prog

2009-06-17T06:41:00.000-07:00

adriano celentano / disc jockey
jackie lomax / lavender dream
peddlers / comin' home
equals / skies above
buddy merrill / seventh moon
jukka tolonen / silva the cat
JP goude / les saturnales
message / chessmen
ISB / port of sybaris
earth & fire / wild & exciting
elis regina / corpus
mort stevens /beach trip
mark murphy / they
focus / soft vanilla
fanny / borrowed time
annette peacock / dear bela
maryla rodowicz / gaj
sparks / lady is lingering
poogy tales / yo ya
april group / believe it or not (The Cook & The Singer OST)
10 CC / flying junk

Funhouse Atlantic City

2009-06-06T10:31:00.000-07:00

A white label pressed 10" disc that came from the late father of a friend of mine. He would play this record for the rides in a carnival fun house, I would guess in the 1950's and 60's. Anyway, please accept today's offering as somewhat of a placeholder until i can get another mix together. Mind the gap!

Undefeated Dolphins, Volume One

2009-05-16T13:58:00.000-07:00

another case of good records mixed poorly. basically a bunch of boogie dancers and synth pop that makes a good soundtrack to the ultra-exclusive private club which is my living room.

love twins
sequence and you know that
midnight wind just came here to dance
empress dying to dance
hydro will make your day tonight
leeves lets do it
barry beam radiohead
pierre paypal
gazebo masterpiece
laser dance
spooky
burning flame

Chunka Bo Bo

2009-04-24T16:17:00.000-07:00

who says the oldies market is dead? here we have a typically unwieldy slew of ancient killers all personally exhumed from their original 45 rpms by yours truly, save one. please do crank it.

part one

the busters - bust out
thornton sisters - watch your step
pete & repeat - but still i do
wilbert harrison - don't drop it
barry darvell - geronimo stomp
the del mingos - young queen chunka bo bo
satan & deciples - mummy's curse
james mills - cobra
the dinks - nina kocka nina
the divots - dry cereal
huelyn duvall - three months to kill
rockin' ronald - cuttin' out
classie ballou - crazy mambo
christine kittrel - i ain't nothing but a fool
chuck danzy - git down

part 2

big bob dougherty - squeezer
the butanes - don't forget
hot tamales - hum double bubble
rudy and oscar martinez - la bamba
willie echols - here comes the night
chuck higgins - here i'm is
earl hooker - chicken
king ivory lee - rockin' in the cocanut top
rose johnson with fats gaines - rough house rose
rollee mcgill - rhythm rockin blues
bill taylor & the cyclones - nelda jane
tomko trio - carol
goyo's cats - mezcal
the wildtones - martian band
sony dupan - looney & goon
silky & the shantungs - fink
the zodiacs - another little darlin'

Hare Brained Schemes

2009-04-11T14:09:00.000-07:00

MOSES & THE IMPOSSIBLE 10
BARIS MANCO
YASOO
YAADON KI BARAAT
QURBANI
POPPY FAMILY
COIL
CHROME
WE BE ECHO
I FORGOT
JOE HICKS
JUAN TORRES
HERMANOS CORTES
HANK MARVIN
DON COOPER
HEATHER BLACK
HARD TIMES
RESURRECTION BAND
ZAPPED

It's All Soul Volume 2

2009-03-27T09:21:00.000-07:00

Part One

Metros – Let’s Groove
Artistics - Get Myself Some Lovin'
Masters Of Soul – Sad Face
Admirations - Don't Leave Me
Van Dykes – What Will I Do
Magicians - Is It All Gone
Esquires – Ain’t Gonna Give It Up
Fantastic Johnny C - New Love
Volumes – Gotta Give Her Love
Bettye Swann - Don't Mess My Mind
Inez & Charlie Foxx - I Got It
Carolyn Franklin - Reality
Dottie Cambridge - He's About A Mover

Part Two

Detroit City Limits - 0.98 + Tax
Little Richard – It Ain’t What You Do
Francine Thomas - I’ll Be There
Ikettes – There Was A Time
London Fogg - Trippin'
Williams & Watson - Substitute
Jean Wells – With My Love & What You Got
Jon Lucien - Pied Pier
Lovemasters – Pushin’ & Pullin’
Casanova 2 – I Was A Fool
Willie Hightower - Because I Love You
Stu Gardner - I Got You
Superlatives - Lonely
Chimes – Beginning Of My Life

Period Peace

2009-03-14T10:24:00.000-07:00

hi. i'll be posting every two weeks, starting last week. this mix we got here is a real mixed bunch but i tried to keep the spirit pretty uniform. electric guitar and organ, seagulls and surf, loner/us versus them mentality. mostly sixties too.

remo biondi- lament for lana
king fleming - stand by pt. 2
charlie ventura - east of suez
sticks evans & afro-americans - africa laments
arabian nights - night in arabia
JP& the turnpikes_ - navajo
ronny underwood - night jet
toni harper - never trust a stranger
caymmi & quarteto em cy - historia de pescadores
cal tjader - curtain call
potters clay - are these your thoughts
charles lloyd - ship excerpt
islanders - king of the surf
monzas - forever walks a drifter
johnny heartsman - lovelorn flame
denny walters - i know i'm losing you
los xochimilcas - mazatlan
los yencas - y la amo
la brigada - nada
gary mcfarout - wine & bread
LA county COPE - sacramento playhouse
charles lamont - before it's over
vietnam war actuality
fawns - wish you were here
chico buarque - ua cheia
carr & kahl - daphne
unknown solo piano (white label 45)
kentfield elementary honor band - its the time of the year
the mustang - acid test

Sophisticated Losers (Bilingual Bittersweet Soul)

2009-02-27T11:43:00.000-08:00

Jose Feliciano - Where Is My Woman
The Vanguards - Somebody Please
The Larks - I Love You
The Montclairs – Baby You Know pt. 2
J.R. Bailey – Everything I Want
Smokey Robinson - I Am
Frank Rodriguez – Eres Tu
Lee Mitchell – Is It You
Sylvester – On Your Way Down
Blue Magic - Spell
Something Easy – I Love You For All Seasons
Royal Jesters - Yo Tengo Un Amor
Primavera – Dulce Y Sensual
The New Variety - Woman
Johnnie Maya - If I Could Love You
Duke Bootee – Slow Down
Jeffmajors - Summertime
Fire Ants Band – Sea Of Love
Patience – This Is All I Can Say
Gary & The Epics - Adios Mi Amor

Music of Our Time Promotional Record

2009-02-20T13:34:00.000-08:00

Side A

Side B

Here are some pictures of another promotional 45 for the label, this time with no narration, only VERY short excerpts (not included):

Stupid Haircuts

2009-02-13T08:07:00.000-08:00

drexciya - electronic warfare
nrbq - rocket number 9
twinkeyz - aliens
the work - cain & abel
pigbag - sunny day
hugh hopper - minipax I
dr nerve - unna
heaters - is this madness
hudson ford - bootleg
can - full moon
jackie lomax - eagle
kayak - mirielle

Bauls of Bengal

2009-02-06T12:03:00.000-08:00

Recorded by hand held tape recorder sometime in the mid-1990's, at a Turkish restaurant in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Needless to say, the fidelity is severely lacking, and the tape cuts off mid-song too. I still think it's a nifty document, as long as you use a little imagination. If you're good, there will be more live tapes.

Funk Music of Black America

2009-01-30T11:37:00.000-08:00

Little Sonny - Funky Broadway
Monguito - Everybody Needs Help
Walter Rhodes – It’s Not What you Do
Yakety Yaks - Soul Night
Tropicals - Mwad’s
Shirlean Williams (actually Nolla Manor) & Tempo’s - Ease It To Me
Concept 9 – No Escape
Camille Bob - 2 weeks 2 days
Tommy Lee & Autographs - Wake Up Young People
4 Tops - My Past just Crossed My Future
Eliminators - Give It Up
Green Berets- We Must Make Things Right
Love for Dollars & Cents - In the Next World
Holy Lights – I’ll Be Satisfied
Music Messengers - Signed Sealed Delivered
Meditation Singers - Get High on The Lord
Mar-keys - Creeper's Funkatrations

Sol Latino

2009-01-23T11:57:00.000-08:00

Spanish-language rock, pop and soul. This is one of my favorite mixes.

Part 1

Amigos de Musica Band
Preludes
Chapala Beach Boys
Blanquita Estrada & Los Rockin' Devils
Los Freddys
Tulio Enrique Leon
La Dominante
Steve Jordan
Chando Orellana
Helio Ardiente

Part 2

Los Moonlights
Apache
Danny Rivera
La Sangre Caliente
Los Amayo
Los Dinamicos
Johnny Ventura
Fruko
Satin Soul
Los Dinners
El Grupo
Augustine Ramirez
Brown Sugar
Afrosound

Livin' For Tonite

2009-01-17T15:30:00.000-08:00

Just whipped this up for a friend of mine. Various flavors of metal (including false, power, death, speed and meta-metals), indiscriminately assembled for maximum bludgeon. It's great for working out!

accept - living for tonight
maltese falcon - metal rush
destruction - reject emotions
mercyful fate - doomed by the living dead
heathen - open the grave
death - born dead
nuclear assault - technology
voivod - helldriver
tony macalpine - wheel of fortune
crimson glory - eternal world
thrust - posers will die
savatage - washed out
hallow's eve - metal merchants
zno white - turn up the pain
champs - thor is like immortal
saxon - eagle has landed

Faded Sunshine

2009-01-09T11:05:00.000-08:00

a short one and an old one, also badly in need of some EQ. happy new year.

Morriconi rodeo (Burglars OST)
Harmonettes love song
I Roy how mean version
Chico Buarque ana de amsterdam
Urbaniak body english
Dynamic Disco papaya
Willie Mitchell breaking point
Koncz Zsuzsa vizsa vonat
Village Crusaders hashishi
Silhouettes hashi baba

TREBLEN BOOTS

2008-12-19T13:36:00.000-08:00

Patrick Cowley - Get A Little
Starflight – Dance To The Beat
Turntable Terror - Scream
Material - Change The Beat
Ray Parker Jr. - N2U2
Baba, Berta & Marta – Polvo De Estrella
Hollywood - Hollywood's Message
Jamnowgen - The Gang Goes To Dub It
Big Youth - Marcus Garvey Dread
I Roy - How Mean Version
Sister Loraine – Loving You
Two Sisters - B-Boys Beware
PBC Crew – PBC Is In The Place
Strictly Business - Nonstop Rockin'
Slimline – Get It Up
Major Lee Vincente - You & Me
Whispers – I Can Make It
The Source feat. Candi Staton – You Got The Love
Autumn – Computer Touch
Bose – Subway

It's All Soul

2008-12-12T12:53:00.000-08:00

Part One

Johnny Jones – Soul Poppin’
Accents – New Girl
Natural 4 - You Did This To Me
Prince Harold – Baby You Got Me
Jimmy Dobbins – Little Miss Perfect
Joe Simon - Just Like Yesterday
Spyder Turner – Hold On I’m Coming
Honey Duo Twins – C’mon Baby
Ernie Washington – Lonesome Shack
Marilyn Brown – Walk On The Wild Side
Five Royales – They Don’t Know
Freddie Scott – Pow City
Willie Hobbs - Gloria
Jr. Wells - It's All Soul

Part Two

Monguito – You Need Help
Rex Garvin - Raw Funky
Homer Banks - 60 Minutes
Willie Mitchell - 30 60 90
Impalas – Whip It On Me
Harvey Averne - Girl
Bobby Holloway - Cornbread, Hog Maw & Chitterlin’s
Gail Anderson - My Turn Now
Willie Parker – Live The Life I Love
Vontastics - You Can Work It Out
Marvels - Forget About That Mess Pt.1
Dimas II – So Much In Love
Magnificent Men – Nobody Treats Me

Don't Play With the Devil (The Devil Don't Play With You)

2008-12-03T16:25:00.000-08:00

(Eastern Recording Co., 1662 7th. St.) sermon excerpt
Sensational Spiritual Uplifters - Heaven Bound Train
Sister OM Terrell – Lord I Want You To Lead Me On
Shirley Ann Lee – Without God
Kansas City Melodyaires – Softly The Night Is Falling
Willie Mae Williams – Don’t Want To Go There
Crowns - Little Flowers Bloom
James Herndon Singers – One Day
Rev. & Mme. EG Robinson – Stay With Me
Watts Community Choir – Keep On Keeping On
Clarence Triplett & The Voices Of Faith Of Kansas City, MO – We Can Make It
Gospel Sounds - Nowhere To Run
Unknown - I Gotta Keep Movin
Mighty Mellotones & Operation Breadbasket – Couldn’t Hear Nobody Pray
Knight Dreamers - No Juegues Con El Diablo
Williams Brothers – Check Yourself
Holy Lights Of Baltimore - You Are My Savior
Teddy Grover & Joy - I Am Determined
The Source Feat. Candi Staton - You Got The Love (House Radio)
(Eastern Recording Co., 1662 7th. St.) Where Could I Go

So one of these doesn’t really belong (can you guess which?), but it's lyric inspired our title, and it's awesome and pretty unknown too. Many of the 45s were purchased recently, other tracks have been long time favorites. All apologies for the condition of the instant-cut disc that opens and closes (go find me a cleaner one, haha). In my eagerness to share new finds, this is more thrown-together than the usual fare, but at least the narrative is a little more clearly stated. As always, hope you enjoy (and please let me know if you do!).

Self-Defeating Prophecy

2008-11-21T12:42:00.000-08:00

PART 1

officer! - boxers versus wrestlers
couch flambeau - satan’s school for girls
willful neglect - deprogrammed
yukio yung - exceedingly deep person
louis paul - misty crystal
milton nascimento - nada sera como
jonee jonee - glas
rheingold - dreiklangs dimensional
suburban lawns - baby
flesheaters - dominoes
the work - fingers & toes

PART 2

the doll - trash
dickies - eve of destruction
wingtip sloat - M31
dave E & the cool marriage counselors - searching through sears
tubeway army - blue eyes
sparks - in the future
spizz energi - mega city three
zeros - beat your heart out
999 - quite disappointing
stains - quit the human race
the dogs - nineteen
korphu - i kant read

PART 3

saxon - street fighting gang
mike hanopol - pinoy blues
budgie - in for the kill
hallow's eve - metal merchants
focus - i need a bathroom

moody in 3d

2008-11-14T13:43:00.000-08:00

Jorge Darden - alone again
Harvey Mandel - fishwalk
Monette Sudler - to be exposed
Black Velvet - come on heart
Harold Celius - that’s what love can do
Jimmy & Eddie - needle in a haystack
Checkmates - i must be dreaming
7th Wonder - ain’t nothing going to break us up
NCCU - superstar
Johnny Guitar Watson - all about you
Lee Bonds - a true love
Gino Washington - what can a man do
Marisa - cadeira vazia

Cobwebs in Your Hair

2008-11-07T13:04:00.000-08:00

PART 1

raudales - scotch on the rocks
benninghoff - supersong
los ovnis - es tiempo que decidas
hudson ford - angels
jay dees - scatter
azteca - a night in nazca
perez prado - love story
usha uthup - aaj sanam mujhe

PART 2

mittoo - wintergreen
black messengers - blame them dub
mekons - another one
count coolout - rhythm rap edit
madam rapper - street talk
alice street gang - hustle edit
sso - tonight’s the night edit
the count - magic drop
leslie demonstration

WEEK END EVERY DAY

2008-11-01T10:39:00.000-07:00

electric eels / cyclotron
broken talent / my god can beat up your god
SCG / bobby sands boogie
cosmetics / twinkie madness
pilgrim state / burning autumn
ludus / my cherry is in sherry
013 / takaisin todellisuuteen
los violadores / viejos pateticos
sado-nation / cut of the cord
SVDB / chain reaction
zero boys / civilizations's dying
GG allin / fuck up
new regime / night sticks
ribsy / collapse
deadly reign / system sucks
no thanks / party's over now
raw power / fuck authority
half japanese / fun again
dead C / bad politics
PHC / sasquatch
purrkur pillnikk / loknir
von brigbi / guodfraebi
ypa-viis / mikkiteline
ville emard blues band / le drum solo
nektar / let it grow
jackie lomax / eagle
the sweet / man from mecca
melvins encore 12.18.90
crimson glory / eternal world
kayak / mirielle
slapp happy / blue eyed william

Wistful Thinking

2008-10-25T11:55:00.000-07:00

Sauter- Finegan Orch.
Mess Group- The Beginning (At the Perished Mountaineer's Hotel)
Terry Riley - journey
Tones On Tail - rain
Salon de Musique
Khmensayok (Thailand 1959, rec. Kaufman)
Atrium Musicae de Madrid – hymne au soleil
Kraus & Bird - gnossienne
Columbia University Group for Contemporary Music – yo ko (c. Chou Wen Chung)
Austin Wells – west of eden
John Gavanti
Nicols-Cooper-Leandre
Open Sky – spirit in the sky
Pyramids - reaffirmation
Sonny & Linda Sharrock - gary's step
Beggars Opera -nimbus
Francoise Hardie - il est trop loin
Renderers – I can hear the devil call me
Hedy West - shady grove
Grayson & Oberheim - homage to Bach
JI Ivey - pinball (University of Toronto EMS 1965)
Reuben Siggers – ebb tide

Hostel Takeover

2008-10-16T14:23:00.000-07:00

Part One

airedales - drumsville
kishor kumar & asha bhosle - chor
selcuk alagoz - gecti yolun yarisi
tania maria – fio maravilha
eileen – le parfum des bois
growing society - the red fuzz
telstars – hold tight
what for – gonna destroy that boy
roberto carlos - negro gato
seawind – new orleans

Part Two

association - changes
leaves – lemon princess
fedra y maximiliano – ayer de noche
wendy & bonnie - it’s what’s really happening
recurring love habit - faiola brothers
kim sang hee
los juniors de santa tecla – que puedo hacer sin ti
richard shann - wooly buger part 2
sounds of harley – victo blues
stained glass – scene in between
status quo - when my mind is not live
roger miller – shame bird
acoma - my long lost friend
last mile ramblers - future on ice
castells – two lovers

Violent Squirrels

2008-10-10T10:46:00.000-07:00

Part One

chrome - electric chair
this heat – health & efficiency
twist II
stranglers - do the euro
fatal microbes – violence grows
tuxedomoon - everything you want
asbestos rockpile – police state
joe crow - compulsion
wang chuck & tesheten dorjee - boom boom boom
anand raj – disco TM (Dashat)
afrosound – el regreso de ET
pop group - she is beyond good & evil

Part Two

wally gonzalez – wally’s blues
toiling midgets - preludes
frith & kaiser – objects every day
bourbonese qualk - qualk street
revolutionaries - earthquake
H&L all stars – give me more music
westwood magic
puff tube - boys of summer

Hot Cold Blooded Invertebrates

2008-10-02T11:02:00.000-07:00

In which oldies, string-driven things, blues with a feeling, field recordings (mostly from Virginia and the American Southeast), and a few novelty records about Othering sit together at one table, fiddling with their party favors and wondering who’s going to say what first.

We begin with a portion of Sir Arthur Sullivan’s letter to Thomas Edison, recorded to cylinder in England on October 5th, 1888; truly the beginning of the end. Gary Kail’s “Media Saturation” is early 80’s LA collage damage. “Journey into Space” comes from a friend’s father, who as a carny in Atlantic City would play this record for amusement rides. Vess L. Ossman’s smokin’ ”Smoky Mokes” was cut in 1900. Ossman was the eddie van of his day, and recorded for virtually every label of the time. This tune stuck around for a while, too; I know some western swing bands played it. Although people classify stuff like the Brilliant Quartette’s “Hear Dem Bells” as the vulgar distortion of minstrelsy (and it sort of am), I hear a lot of actual white folk hollering in there too, which therefore makes this c.1896 Berliner an early antecedent to country recording indeed.
Next, Scotch mystic absurdist Ivor Cutler offers some beekeeping advice, followed by a bit of Jim Fassett’s “Symphony of the Birds” and some colonial residue from the Indian film Junoon. Continuing the ethnoforgery, Lincoln Chase throws some real Africa into his “Deep in the Jungle” routine, but is almost outdone by the sheer obtusity of Lou Berrington’s “The Kwela,” whose intended audience one can hardly imagine (the slightly less impenetrable flip’s been comped on Arf Arf).
Moving on, Dick Clair delivers social commentary at its most wry with “Hi, Dad,” an answer record (and not the only one, at that), to Confused Father anthem “Letter to a Teenage Son.” More hammers hit the felt with Hobart Smith, a master of folk musics who recorded prolifically on many instruments. Here he bangs out a simple but deliciously syncopated “Fly Around my Blue-Eyed Girl.” Herschell Brown’s spoons hit too near the horn on “Spanish Rag,” nearly obscuring a fine raga-rag plectrist (whose name, it should be recorded, is L.K. Sentell), and then music hall belter Billy Bennett encourages us to wave our pints in the air and cry along with “Don’t Send my Boy to Prison.”
Then we set a course for Middle Eastern Virginia and the syncopated banjo of John Lawson Tyree: “Hop Along Lou” is an awful good tune to dance off of. Can’t get enough of the Turkish saz-wielding from Sezai Ulukaya: “Kavalla Oyun Havasi” is from a ubiquitous Nonesuch (you probably have it filed). Buddy Sarkisan & Fred Elias’s “Tempo of the Veils” can be classified under “songs from belly dance records that don’t suck,” and Pat y Mary’s “Mustafa” proves that it wasn’t just American ladies that had a thing for sheiks.
Remaining south, Los Diablos Rojos pull out their guitars’n bongos and swing hard on “El Picor,” and Grupo Guitarras Internacionales (who were actually Cubano) follow with a “Danza Campesina” drenched in Folkways realness, and as intricate and delicate as hand cut doilies. On “Hasta Siempre,” Carlos Puebla lays down the suave before brand Buena Vista was everywhere.
Drawing back another iron curtain, Arcady Severny’s heart-wrenching Soviet blues “The Engine Expands,” sounds like it was recorded on an x-ray and subsequently smuggled into an American pressing plant. The Man in Black reminds us about that Cold War thing, but we can quickly forget it with the nourishing wellspring of swamp soul: Big Walter’s bold yet tender “Never Too Old” is maybe one to play over my box of pine. Speaking of eternal flames, check the solo on Guitar Slim’s “Story of My Life.” The amp is weak, but the spirit is willing. And Marvin & Johnny’s “Ain’t That Right?” might sound like decent Diddley beat R&B, but stick around for that polecat tearing out of the hills slobbering all over your damn picnic. Are you sure Slam did it like that? Throwing back further: Munro Moe Jackson’s “Go Away From my Door” was cut for Mercury in 1949 but it’s pre-war as hell, even if judged by the throat singing alone. Incidentally, Ruby Glaze recorded that long ago too, but Big Joe Williams’ guitar brings her back, and Pete Welding was thankfully around to capture it: “Rising Sun, Shine On.” On the other hand, folklorist Lawrence Gellert may have rightly earned the trust of the many black North Carolinian men who sat before his recorder, but its still unpublished who sang “White Folks Ain’t Jesus,” or even when (sometime in the 1930’s or 40’s).
Returning one state north again, where black accordion saw an unexpected survival (I’d be an expert if my record came with the booklet). Clarence Waddy’s “Eve” wheezes and moans like the Arcadians settled in tidewater VA. Meanwhile, Louisianan Lawrence Walker asks (pleads, really) on “What’s The Matter Now?,” Cajun emo at its most raw. And then yet another field recording, this time from the mic of John Storm Roberts, most of whose legacy is egregiously out-of-print at this point. “Mango Time” is Jamaican, from sometime in the 70’s. And finally, Fred Ramsey captured a tragicomic country brass band misfire in Alabama in 1954, and it is there that we leave it.