Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Airbird - We Used To


Pye Corner Audio - November Sequence


بابا الحبيب - معلّم حمّودة


Elton John - Sacrifice


This may be my most sacrificed song.  I heard it two days in a row in two different places in Morocco.  Doogie Houser visited in 1990, left a mix tape behind and eventually that mix tape was put on a constant loop and piped to hundreds of locations throughout the country.

Monday, September 24, 2012

Crap Crap Tone it Down a Little - Don't Slash Know

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Saturday, September 8, 2012

Gate - Have Not


Merchandise - In Nightmare Room


summer jams subway week, i meant to link to the download a few weeks ago: www.obscuresound.com/2012/04/full-album-merchandise-children-of-desire/
They have a week in the area pretty soon, including a night in Allentown with Daughn Gibson, New Brunswick, Bushwick, Manhattan.

Death Grips - The Fever (Aye Aye)


summer jams roller coaster; I assume Death Grips is the hugest hit this summer, fact checkers?

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Merchandise - Become What You Are


You kinda gotta ride this one out for the full effect.

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Monday, August 6, 2012

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Beak> - Ham Green


Jay, I expect you're already on top of this. They have a new album that's equally great. WAIT FOR IT TO GET HEAVY.

Sunday, July 29, 2012

aa ante amalapuram HQ


I can't find out anything about the original, I think it's Tamil, maybe from a film called "Anya?"  I think the Hindi one is a big hit now, from a film called "Maximum" or that's the alternate song title.  There's a real haze around this one.

Flaming Tunes - Restless Mind

Asha Puthli - I Dig Love, What Reason Could I Give?

Saturday, June 23, 2012

Human Instinct - Maiden Voyage


Dug this cd (Burning Up Years)out for the first time in many years tonight. NZ power trio from 1969!

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Suzanne Ciani on David Letterman

Strange intersection of out-there sonics courtesy of Suzanne Ciani (whose Lixiviation comp on Finders Keepers/B-Music is an incredible bit of archeology for synth enthusiasts) and Dave Letterman's pre-hack days. Letterman has always been a cranky old asshole, eh? I respect that he somehow turned this set of personality traits into stacks of money.

Duniya Mein Logon Ko

From the film "Apna Desh," 1972

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Michael Rother - Karussell


Flammende Herzen is giving me nothing but love-vibes this week. My friend Ashley just had a kid this afternoon, so I'm gonna send out a dedication to them. PEACE!

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Ministry

Cockney Rebel

Easy? Qeasy?

The Cleaners From Venus - Night Starvation


This Cleaners From Venus stuff that just got reissued is pretty incredible. Still picking through it all, but it's a goldmine of warped, catchy tuneage. RIYL Swell Maps, the Clean, Tall Dwarfs, the Homosexuals, Fresh & Onlys. "Night Starvation" is the first track off their second cassette, 1982's On Any Normal Monday. Summer's comin', you need some off-kilter pop music, right?

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Nadine Expert


Indochine


Cassavetes/Love Streams/Kinky Reggae


Dino Valente


Colourbox


Human Sexual Response


Hugh Hopper


WNYU

I've been listening to the WNYU "New Afternoon Show" on the drive home from work for a few months.  It's heavy on the underground psych experimental side and pretty great.  This past week I started listening to the live stream (they're not on the air all the time and do a lot of internet only radio) and archives.  There's an app too, which unfortunately only does live stream.
I added some links sections, WYNU is there.

Daughn Gibson

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Sneaky Feelings - Not To Take Sides



One of the straighter moments on the sex-cellent new Flying Nun comp, Time To Go: The Psychedelic Moment 1981–1986.  

Friday, March 2, 2012

Ultraviolet Radio - Together In Stereo

Soundtracks & Head - Rain, Rain, Rain

Jowe Head


I remember when the internet yeilded little or no results for a Jowe Head search; when I'd decided he was the Faust-est Swell Map I dug around for info and discovered only that he had a solo album just after the Swell Maps time but I didn't know the name or if it was actually ever released. Lo these many years later, he's all over the internet and "Pincer Movement" was even reissued. I'm happy I thunk to look for it again. Lands right on top of singsongy postpunk pile.
Also, A few years ago I found his 1994 album "Unhinged" on CD. I don't even remember what it sounds like, I'll revisit soon.

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Hank The Knife & The Jets - Ghost Town

Roky Erickson - Never Say Goodbye

ELECTRIC LUNCH: Red Rider - Lunatic Fringe

Spectrum - All Night Long

A Dick's Picks



I've had Amen Dunes Through Donkey Jaw since last summer, but it really just connected with me in the last week or so. I've been drifting off to sleep to this record mostly, but I swear it's not dull. Reminds me of classic loner-zoner shit like The Madcap Laughs or that old Simon Finn album, but it's no retro homage deal.



I saw Total Control open for Thee Oh Sees back in November, before I got my turntable game together, so I didn't buy the LP from them then (even though they slayed). I was very glad to find it on Friday night. Some of Henge Beat has a minimal synth thing going on, but it's always cut with a punk rock spikiness. They've got a guy from the awesome Eddy Current Suppression Ring, too. Australia rulez.



Dug out this Lansing-Dreiden cd I got from a dollar bin a long time ago. I don't know how these guys slipped through the cracks, because their take on 80's-style synth foppery is pretty great IMHO...

Maryanne Amacher 1989

Awesome soundfacts from otherwordly Maryanne Amacher.  Spatial music, mind music, more.

Monday, February 20, 2012

Alan Vega - Juke Box Babe

Spectrum - Don't Pass Me By


First Youtube comment:
Sonic Boom !! What a beautiful music it is !!
Sonic Boom !! He is a genius at learning music !!

Hits the nail on the head.

Spectrum - How You Satisfy Me

Recent Activity

Thalia picked up some records for me at a Goodwill in Macon yesterday. I might send her out to do this for me more often, because she found some good stuff. She got me a hip-hop compilation from 1985 called Kings of Rap which features Run-DMC, Whodini and the Fat Boys (whose 2 contributions feature the "uh-huh-huh-huh" beatboxin' sound that Adam has been slaying us with for so long):


Stevie Nicks Bella Donna:


Her best find was this cosmic disco album fron 1977 by a French band called Space. This album is pretty choice...



I also picked up some stuff myself instead of letting my personal shopper do it. I replaced my flood-damaged copy of Eno's Another Green World. I also found this reissue of a 1976 private-press album by Eddie Callahan called False Ego that looked pretty intriguing. It's kinda rockin', kinda psych, kinda folk, kinda power pop. Nice West Coast hippy vibes in general. This song's my favorite so far, though it lacks some of the wild synth action which crops up occasionally:

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Albatross - Fleetwood Mac (Rare 5 minute version)


I just watched World on a Wire. This song plays during the end credits. I need to put together a mixtape of super-chill-yet-strangely-dark slide guitar songs a la FM's Albatross, Santos and Johnny's Sleepwalker. That's all I got so far. Any suggestions?