LTJ Bukem: Journey Inwards

This is a 2 disc set from 2000 with 14 tracks. The tracks here are a fusion of drum and bass, downtempo chill out, jazz, Rhodes keys, ambient passages. I read someone label this as, "adult contempoary jungle"? The leadoff track "Journey Inwards" is a mix of breakbeat with jazz elements. Go to about 4 minutes in and groove on the bass! Disc 2 has tracks that go in more of a traditional mid tempo dnb vibe. Check out the track Suspended Space.

tortoise - prepare your coffin

Workin late...

doing some pretty boring data entry stuff. Just a snippet of what's on the ol' iTunes:

The first tape I ever really got into was Weird Al Yankovic "In 3-D". I bought that with my own money.

I think #2 was Sigue Sigue Sputnik (?). An older friend dubbed me a tape. I played that thing to death.

But then my main main, Little Matty Varnish, moved away from Illinois in 7th Grade to Missouri. But he got turned on to some new stuff... My man sent me a tape with "Dead Kennedys" on one side and "Dead Milkmen" on the other side, causing my mom to lament "Donny only listens to music with "dead" in the title!" It was "Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death" on one side and the Dead Milkmen joint was... I don't know, it was the one with "Beach Party Vietnam" and "Bitching Camero".

Dead Kennedys became my main shit in High School. I got real good at drawing the 3-d DK logo. I had all the tapes. I went and saw Jello Biafra speak one time. So last night at the club where my sweet band the Monastics had a gig I heard "Holiday Inn Cambodia" and I thought "I bet I could download that shit at some blog."

One "Captain Crawl" search later I found this cool blog with lots of old school punk 80's kind of stuff. http://auraldamage.blogspot.com/

It also has the entire Dead Kennedys discography. Plus it's "Media Fire" or something and there is no 15 minute wait between downloads.

Get it.

dc

Google Sites + ODEO

I couldn't leave it alone. Using a combination of Google Sites (which you can sign up for free, you can get 100mb of ftp space. That means that you can use the Odeo player that I used in previous posts. This is faster than the below post about making QT movies and uploading to blogger. Once you fill up your 100mb, I think you can sign up for another 100mb. I'm not sure about that, but I am sure that 100mb will get you 30 three minute long 128kb mp3s. The code for the odeo player can be found here > http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/07/embed-mp3-files-into-your-website.html.

Here's the song I uploaded in the demo. Since I live in Holland, I've decided to use a Dutch band called Ro-d-ys. The song is called Unforgettable Girl.

DEMON!stration

Here is the instructional video. It took awhile, but it works, and all the files can be posted on Blogger. I think it's a touch easier than the odeo player solution - unless you have personal webspace with ftp access. This should work whether you are using a Mac or a PC. I had troubles uploading at first. I tried several different methods of encoding, and this is the first one that worked. If you know of a better combination of codecs to use, please let me know.

Here's the movie I posted in the demo. The track is by a band called Elegy. The song is called No Direction, and the compilation is called Kraut! Demons! Kraut! German Psychedelic Underground 1968 - 1976.

I'll be on the lookout for an easier and quicker solution. Let me know if you have ftp space, and I'll post a movie on how I do the Odeo player. Odeo doesn't do you any good unless you have a place to store the mp3.

Rachel's

EJ hooked me up with a couple of albums by Rachel's after I told him I liked "Music for Egon Schiele". I really like these guys, but what the hell do you call this music (and why do I so need to figure that out)? It sounds like classical, and that's what I called it in itunes. I hear them called Post-Rock, but that doesn't sound right, it is strings and piano and much more Bach than Godspeed. Indie-Chamber sounds about right. I don't know how many people on this blog like classical music, I do but it's not genre I know a ton about. But this is really good stuff, very soothing and ambient, but not bland, interesting arrangements, and consistently original.

Random Thoughts

1) JT, how do you get those Odeo music links in your post?

2) Did anybody throw down the 30 day pass for Rapid Share? 16.99 Euros or whatever? Waiting those 45 seconds fucking kills me. And the 15 minutes between. It's like "Lost"... push the button every 300 seconds or whatever it is to keep the download train rolling along.

3) Am i really going to sell all my Sun Ra records on eBay to cover cost of the new Line 6 DL 4 Delay Modulator pedal I just bought? That hurts, yo. But i can go to that blog and download 150 Sun Ra LPs on MP3, so what the hell?!?!

4) Whatever happened to Matt Schwartz?

5) When is the new guy going to post?

6) When is Son of Sharthlagot (or whatever aka DAMON DEE) going to post about his Bali flute music?

That's all. DC OUT!

dc

Warm Music

First batch of good weather here in the midwest, definitely time to get some reggae in the playlist. Last couple of years though I've been leaning towards brazilian music for that summmer vibe. Times being as they are I of course stumbled across this awesome blog of brazilian music. There is more on there than anyone really needs, some older stuff with limited appeal and some album rips of dubious fidelity

(you might be into that). I would reccommend going right for the heavy hitters, staritng with these Jorge Ben Albums:

http://rapidshare.com/files/90534507/tbb1974_Jorge_Ben_A_Tabua_de_Esmeralda.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/226232998/tbb1970_Jorge_Ben_-_For_a_Bruta.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/56044898/tbb_1969Jorge_Ben.rar

These three are everything you want in a Brazilian vibe. Spanning the late 60's early 70's, they have a nice groove balanced between his earlier straight up Bossa Nova type stuff and the Electric funkiness of his Africa Brasil album. They also have some very poppy moments, perhaps a tad too fruity for some of you but they are worthy nonetheless. Two of these have been reissued by Dusty Groove if that is any indicator of their cred.

Reggae/Dub blog?

Anyone find the money reggae/dub blog yet?

www.youandmeonajamboree.blogspot.com is ok. The download links cause an avalanche of pop up windows and shit, and it's in Spanish, but lots of good stuff.

http://youandmeonajamboree.blogspot.com/search/label/Wackies

That is a page with 6 downloads to killer reggae lps on Wackie's label. ACtually, a bunch of files have been removed, but a few good'ns on there.

Here's another with a ton of Upsetters: http://youandmeonajamboree.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Upsetters

Looking out.

dc

Bridges

http://rapidshare.com/files/180507303/Bridges.rar

This is one of my fave albums. A little cheezy at times but i've always liked it. One of my fave Gil Scott Lps.

dc

Laughter

is what I hear when I look at this http://badcoverday.blogspot.com/

MEGA-POST!!!

I enjoy this blog, and I am glad I was asked to contribute. I'm blown away at the rate that you guys consume music. It's very impressive, and I've been trying to check out as many of your recommendations as I can. This post is going to be more of a comment on the past 15 or so posts - or a comment on comments that have been made, but I will also make an addition or two, and I have a few thoughts about classics.

After Don's Sun Ra post, I got all pumped up only to discover that I only have one Sun Ra record in my iTunes (Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy / Art Forms Of Dimensions Tomorrow). It is pretty awesome, but I know that he has a vast catalog, and I thought I had more of it. It must have been on my computer at work (before I quit). I used to work at Wellesley College, and their music library has a great collection that I raided on occasion. You vinyl people would have a nut explosion in their stacks. Seriously, NUT EXPLOSION!!! Anyway, I'll be getting more Sun Ra soon, and your favorites have been noted.

As I write this, I'm listening to the Iggy Pop song on Dark Night of the Soul. I definitely don't think this is the best one on the record, but it reminds me of an advertisement I saw on a bus on a recent trip to London.

Forgive me if I am not insightful enough. My intentions are to add some context to my listening history, and also to illustrate how people's opinions of things change over time. New thoughts? Not so much, but I wanted to talk about a mix that I made once. It consisted of all the George Harrison songs while he was in the Beatles. I don't think that makes this a Beatles post. If it does I am sorry, but all the recent Beatles blog controversy reminded me of my lost George Harrison mix. It wasn't complex, just the GH Beatles songs. I called it By George - hehe. All the songs were in chronological order. If I were to make the mix today I would make a cleverer arrangement of the tunes, but I don't plan on doing that. I made it because George is awesome, and being the #3 song writer in the Beatles must have been pretty hard for him. I bet it bummed him out sometimes, though I've never read anything about George's thoughts on the matter. Maybe it was nice that there was no pressure for him to write a ton of songs. Anyway, George Harrison-Good songs-Nice guitar work.

One band I did read about in high school was The Doors (this is not a Doors post either). I fucking loved them ever since I was a child falling asleep in the car to Riders on the Storm. The swirly mellow keyboards soothed me, and i wasn't really paying attention to the lyrics. I know that sounds corny, but it's a nice memory for me. Also, Lay Down Sally by Eric Clapton brings back nice childhood memories, but I'll spare you the details. On to the point... Around the time the Doors movie came out, John Densmore, The Doors drummer wrote an autobiography that centered around his time in the band. The Doors were signed to Elektra, and John was super into label mates Love. When I read the book I had never heard of Love before. When I finally got around to checking them out, I must say that I didn't like them. I thought they sounded like a bunch of pussies, and I didn't understand why they were considered important or influential. Well, I have since developed an appreciation for them, and I like it more every time I listen. Recently I've listened to Forever Changes several times. I am impressed by its clean precision. The songs are quite complex, but the production is so good that it doesn't sound cluttered or overworked even with the abundance of kind of pussyish orchestration. The lyrics aregood, too. Yeah man. Classic rock.

Dirty Projectors. I dig them. I dig the new record. I dig the last record. Sometimes the guy's vocals are a little intense for me, and I understand why some of y'all aren't feeling it, but I think he and they are pretty awesome. So far I like the new record more, though I feel that the title track off the last record is a better song than any on the new record. That said, I'm really feeling Useful Chamber (track 6) on Bitte Orca. I like the way it changes direction. It moves from section to section, or movement to movement smoothly. I truly enjoy the way the simple drum machine beat gives way to an intensely unmechanical drum explosion during the crazy guitar parts toward the end. Shit man, these guys know what they are doing. It's very engaging. Simply stated, they are sick.
Here's the title track I mentioned above. It's called Rise Above:

PJ Harvey and John Parrish. Marleen calls PJ my girlfriend. I just missed her playing in Amsterdam. It sold out fast, and the cheapest scalped tickets were selling for 80 euros. I've paid more than that in the past, but I wasn't unemployed then. Anyway, TJ River said that the title track "made his boys shrink up" or something like that. Yeah man, I feel you. That's kind of the vibe that the PJ/Parish collaborations have. There was a song on the first one called Taut that had got to be in the running for creepiest song ever. It's scarier than Diamanda Galas, and that shit is scary. I think it's scarier than Careful With That Axe Eugene too. I think her songs (A Woman A Man Walked By/The Crow Knows Where All The Little Children Go, Taut) are creepier because they are personal. Not personal to her, but to the characters in the songs. The obsession with the man's chicken livered parts and her vengeful need to have his ass is dark and scary, but not beyond the realm of belief. Likewise, the odd and seemingly abusive relationship that the woman in Taut talks about is crazy and strange, but it is totally fathomable that there is a person who feels that way. Then there's the creepy way she sings these songs. I love her.
Here is Taut:


here is the one TJ River called a ball shrinker:

I have checked out a bit of the YaHoWa 13 stuff. Last year there was a story about those guys on NPR last year when one of the Source family people wrote a book. It's cool so far, but I haven't listened to much of it yet.

Ty Segall is reverby and garagey and retro, but you can tell that it is not old. I found the band on someone's year end best of list. They are raw and I would like to see them live. Don't expect amazing songs. Expect fuzz, reverb, and more reverb with some reverb on it. I don't recommend listening for long periods of time with headphones on. It is better experienced through speakers. Also, I think the album art is very cool.
You're Not Me:

A music blog aggregator that you may find useful- http://totallyfuzzy.blogspot.com/
I don't know what this guy's deal is, but he updates several times a day, every day. I subscribe to the RSS feed, but I find myself ignoring most of the posts because they add up so quickly. You won't be interested in everything, but you will find something on there. Also, look at it over time. It seems to go in cycles. One day there is tons of jazz, and the next could be all grunge.

Thank you for listening/reading/posting.

Not Jazz

Here are a few things I've been checking out that are not jazz:



This is a great album that you can put in the "albums I had on vinyl but then sold like an idiot" category, but the gods of karma have now delivered it to me once agin via this pretty rad garage/psych music blog, http://mza-garage.blogspot.com.

Great late 60's fuzz psych garage jams. Madlib sampled this for "America's Most Blunted" off of the Madvillain LP, and I think the Scoobie Brothers sampled the outro to "Where You Go" on their cult masterpiece the "SB EP".

Anywho, this is fucking killer album. Go get it for free at that blog.



I got this "Japandroids" joint at radiobutt. Meh, if you like No Age or DFA 1979 you might want to get this for a quick listen, but i wouldn't spend money on it. It sounds like a more pussy DFA 1979. It kind of sucks, I guess, but I wanted to shout something out that wasn't jazz.

dc

Azar Lawrence

It seems the blog has taken a decidedly jazzy vibe the past few weeks so here is an album that gets a fair amount of play here at Casa de Bla Blazo.

I remember thinking this was really cheesy when I first got it but its grown on me.

I used to weave this in and out of a lot of ambient mixes I made.

I'm curious to see if Don's heard this....I may have sent you a copy....

Dark Night of the Soul

For once, Monday can kiss my ass and crawl back into its dark, dank buzz-killing hole - my week is officially off to a great start.

Some of you may already be wise to this new project from Danger Mouse and Mark Linkous (Sparklehorse). (It's up on Radiobutt.) The album features interesting, varied production and musical textures from those two gents. Ice that cake with a great lineup featuring Jason Lytle (Grandaddy), James Mercer (Shins), Nina Persson (Cardigans), Vic Chesnutt, Gruff Rhys, Julian Casablancas (Strokes), Wayne Coyne (Flaming Lips), plus heavy, heavy hitters Frank Black and Iggy Pop. It's a peculiar enough mix to raise an eyebrow, but it works beautifully.

In case that's not enough, here's the other side of the story. The album is tied up in legal battles and may never be "officially" released. However, there are a couple versions available through the Dark Night of the Soul website - one being a 100+ page book (featuring David Lynch images) with - get this - a custom blank CD-R. The site says, "Due to an ongoing dispute with EMI, Danger Mouse is unable to include music on the CD without fear of legal entanglement. Therefore, he has included a blank CD-R as an artifact to use however you see fit." Brilliant.

Go get it while you can.

Sun Ra

I'm so overwhelmed by all the stuff out there that it almost makes posting it redundant... I'm sure a lot of you have already found this stuff or have found many other sites as well, but this one deserves a link.

Sun Ra discography (!!!!!!) I didn't count but just did quick estimation and think there are like 150-200 downloads, including the super duper rare, $200 on eBay joints that were put out on Italian label Horo in the 70's.

wow.

This one deserves a shout as well: 45 Herbie Hancock bootlegs.

dc

ANIMAL CRACK BOX

Radiobutt just put up that live Animal Collective set. Supposedly someone paid 4 figures for it on eBay, with proceeds going to a charitable cause.

I only listened to little of it but I think you may have to be an AC Super-duper fan to get enjoyment out of it. Or perhaps maybe I'm just losing my hipness with age.

free music

coldplay is giving away a live album:

http://bit.ly/mUVvV
i know dc loves chris martin.

and i ran across this icelandic electronic album quite by accident:

http://www.weirdcore.com/Weirdcore/Weirdcore.html

enjoy... maybe?

Father Yod / Ya Ho Wa 13

I've been checking out the Stigma Rest Room blog Pete shouted out, which is really pretty dope, and I found the collected works of Ya Ho Wa 13.

I heard of Ya Ho Wa 13 but never checked them out because their LPs are so rare and expensive. Lead by Father Yod, Ya Ho Wa features members of The Source Family, a commune (cult?) who lived in the Hollywood Hills in the early 1970s. It's improvisational, psychedelic rock. They recorded after hours of meditation at 3:00-6:00 a.m. in a soundproofed garage that served as the musicians’ studio at the family's communal residence. All of the records with Father Yod’s participation were completely improvised, with no rehearsals or overdubs. Most of the albums were pressed in small runs of only 500 to 1000 copies on the the Higher Key label. They were sold to the general public in Father Yod’s wildly popular vegetarian Source Restaurant for $10 each. Though only nine LPs were produced and released, it is rumored that more than 65 albums were recorded by the group but were lost over the years.

FYI, I stole that shit from Wikipedia. Check out the Father Yod page for more craziness. That is him and his 13 wives above.

Anywho, super rare and expensive, and I just downloaded like 10 LPs, the whole known discography. The blog era is fucking bananas.

dc

P.s. Oh yeah, Schwartz, there is a rare LP of George Harrison singing Indian devotional songs. Check it out.

Stigma Rest Room "Unusual Music Reference Site"

Lots of cool shit here. Lounge, Library, European Soundtrack and lots of Moog shit.
http://stigmarestroom.blogspot.com

Prefuse 73 Mix Tape

EJ came up on this dope mix on Prefuse 73's Website.

From his site it's "31 or so songs, mostly very textural or out takes from that era". It's all ambient shit, not really a "beat" on the whole thing, and it is very, very rad.

Shout to EJ! Holla!

dc

Who's got it?

Of all the stuff on DC's beloved Strata East site, the one thing I find that I want most is the one thing with no active links (well free ones anyway). Does anyone by chance have this Mosaic box and wants to trade some files? It includes both volumes of "Live At Slugs" plus the thing from Japan and some bonus stuff. Oh yeah, I'd also dig "Impact" if you have it. 

Come on now, don't be shy. You know you need more music, I know I've got something you want.......

The Pulp Fusion Series: Cluster Bomb of Funky Goodness

Been meaning to thank Pete for sending me all 9(!) volumes of this series in a DVD trade. I believe I had volume 1 in the pre mp3 era and totally forgot about it, so it's been a pretty great surprise. Needless to say they are all super solid comps of "Ghetto Jazz & Funk Classics", absolutely worthy of their ghetto-riffic cover art. With all the virtual crate digging that's taken over my life this past couple weeks it's nice to let the pros do the work for a bit......

Woah

What up, brodies. Check these out:

1) Strata East Fan Club

Strata East is a "spiritual jazz" record label created by Charles Tolliver in the 70's. All the LPs are consistently dope, and consequently they consistently pull down anywhere between $20-$200 on eBay. Rare.

These fine gentlemen took it upon themselves to put up every Strata East LP on this blog with links to places to download them. Uh... free downloads of every rare Strata East gem I've been coveting on eBay for the last 5 years? Yes, please.

2) Pharaoh's Dance

Here's another gem i found clicking around. It's like myjazzworld but 100 times better with focus on funky jazz, out jazz and spiritual jazz.

Between these two here are just a few of the winners I found:










Those are all certified dope, but that Don Cherry record is especially good.

Oh, and maybe you've also heard that the new Tortoise is on radiobutt, and it's totally fucking awesome?

What a world, what a world!

dc

Two new Tortoise tracks

Sound like a whole new direction...

http://www.mbvmusic.com/new-tortoise-mp3-high-class-slim-came-floatin-in/8854

Other side of the coin...

There is A LOT of absolute crap on myjazzworld, straight up.

You have to dig to find the gems, just like in real life.

dc

www.captaincrawl.com

Music blog search engine I found, works pretty well.

YOOOOOoooooooo

listening to the first track off the new Black Moth Super Rainbow...holy shit! It's amazing. (It's called Eating Us...it's posted on the Radiobutt blog.)
It's the perfect blend of late '60s psych and modern production. Yeah! Old school analog sounds, modern arrangements and structures. Spacey string section, too? BMSR wins again!

quick update...

i'm in the same boat as a lot of people on the blog; i have a ton of new stuff and i've been doing my best to sift through it. i have GB after GB of music that needs to get listened to, and i'm trying to give everything a fair shake. having said that, here's the new new that's passed through my eardrums lately:

THUMBS UP!
Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (still don't like it as much as David Gilmour-era Floyd, though)
Clues (good, well-written rock)
Liars (innovative weirdo rock)
Erik Satie (piano compositions)
James Blackshaw (ambient, spacey, open tuning guitar)
Merriweather Post Pavilion (Animal Collective...bizzarre electro-pop?)
Kaki King (bare-bones acoustic arrangements)
Nels Cline New Monastery (crazy, at times aggressive jazz, amazing sounds, amazing musicians)
Fifths Of Seven (mellow, stark, extremely well-arranged compositions, chamber rock)
Black Moth Super Rainbow (synth-laden psychedelic vocoder pop?)
Mountains (ambient soundscapes, acoustic guitar, laptop, very minimalistic)



THUMBS DOWN!
The Tallest Man On Earth (a little too backwoods for my taste)
Slint (nice ideas but they sound dated and too repetitive)
Dirty Projectors (can't stand the singing)
The Hold Steady (for fuck's sake! the shit you can apparently get away with these days...)
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs (suicide-inducing)
Lil Wayne (gave him a listen, he really cannot rap...sorry. i've heard illler flows from swine flu victims)
Band Of Bees (left me flat, on the side of the road, with sad ears)
Larval (just because you write mopey instrumental music doesn't mean it's good post-rock)
Dan Deacon (blah)
Super Furry Animals (not really into rock/pop/dance club unless you're Depeche Mode)

Phil Upchurch Stone Classics

http://rapidshare.com/files/99485559/Darkness_1.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/99480968/Darkness_2.zip

http://rapidshare.com/files/99487964/Lovin__Feeling.zip

Another one....

http://ghostfinger-digginthecrates.blogspot.com/

These blogs are blowing my mind. I downloaded like 15 albums so far today.

dc

Another sweet blog

http://oufarkhan.blogspot.com/

tons of good stuff

Boduf Songs and Bonnie "Prince" Billy

Two albums for the dark, late night, bourbon-sipping hours. I don't know much about Boduf Songs, but I think I got this album--"How Shadows Chase the Balance"--from Radiobutt. It reminds me of Crescent, this guy sings in that kind of hushed whisper way, but he has more melodic range to his voice. I like the first line of the first song, "all of my heroes died the same day..."

I also really like BPB's "Master and Everyone". Been kind of going through his pretty large body of work over time and this is the one that has stuck most with me, the most consistent, dark, beautiful. But I also like "I see a darkness", great title.

The Mothers - Just Another Band From L.A.

A jones for early Frank fulfilled. The harmonies by Flo and Eddie, particulalrly on 'Call Any Vegetable,' are worth the price of admission. The second incarnation of the Mothers, this album lacks the Dadaism that characterized the early Mothers, but is a delicious treat nonetheless. Featuring blistering guitar by Frank (on "Dog Breath"), searing commentary on La La Land and the epic "Billy The Mountain." Rockin'