"Complete Motown Singles" on Spotify

Stop the presses.  If you are into soul music, check out "The Complete Motown Singles" on Spotify.  It's like 60 CD's worth of amazing remaster mono singles on Motown, sounds amazing, a bunch of rad obscure shit as well as classic hits.

WFMU MEGA POST

What's up bros.  I went to the WFMU Record Fair in NYC a few weeks ago (click above to see the madness).  I just got a new job so I felt it was appropriate to give myself a re-ward and go bonkers.  I just went Friday night for like 2-3 hours.  Some people make a whole weekend out of it.

I'm having such a hard time with Blogger right now but I just don't care... I know this is going to look all fucked up.

All these marketing schemes worked on me:

Here are some of the gems I picked up:

A few sweet solo drum improv out jazz records I spent too much money on, (one is on ESP Disk, tho).  I'll find some samples here.

I spent $20.00 on this Hamza El Din record just to find out it is on Spotify :(  But that's ok, because there was a Jon Appleton record (early electronic musician) on Folkways that I was *this close* to dropping $80.00 on (!), but I came to find out that shit is on Spotify too!  "Jon Appleton – Music for Synclavier and Other Digital Systems: With Jon Appleton, Composer", go check it out, $80.00 worth of music there.

Cecil McBee, Beanie Maupin and co. on Paul Bley's record label from 1977?  Meh, it's pretty good.

A couple Reggae joints. .A couple soul joints.

I went crazy on the electronic/ambient/New Age records, culminating in...

This record from 1984 called "Beam-Scape", hahaha, so cheezy.  But it's doooope, it sounds like Emeralds or something.  It's bad ass.
This is the #1 pick for me.  I got this Steve Tibbetts joint from my boy Record Mike.  Private Press weirdo random record, Side A is really solid guitar soli vibe solo guitar, but then Side B turns into synth nightmare freakout.  This will be showing up on the next Scoobie Brothers joint.In close, I just want to take this opportunity to shout out Midlake "Antiphon" (candidate for best of 2013) and the new White Denim joint as two things I've been meaning to blog about but too lazy to.
Later,
dc

In current rotation:

Long time since my last update.  Here's some stuff I've been checking out:

Bibio - checked out a bunch of his older recordings.  They're all really cool...folky guitars and singing with weird looping elements and electronics.  Pretty much what you'd expect from Bibio, which is awesomeness. Check out "Vignetting the Compost"

Jack Rose - such an amazing guitar player.  Can listen to his stuff all day long, it's always inspired and never gets old.  Check out "Black Dirt Sessions"

Boduf Songs - got a few of his EPs.  Dark, sparse, mopey British doom folk, amazing, as always.  Check out "There Is Something Hanging Above"

The Liars - "Drum's Not Dead" is such an killer album from start to finish.  Love this band more and more all the time.

Papercuts - more mellow, chilled out indy rock a la late '60s San Francisco on "Fading Parade"

Jonwayne - anybody else check out this guy??  It looks like he should be in a dark basement in the midwest somewhere drinking Diet Coke and playing D&D, but he's a sick beat-maker and rapper. He's on Stones Throw right now.

Daniel Johnston - learned a lot about this guy watching a documentary about his life called "The Devil and Daniel Johnston."  He's an amazing songwriter, not an amazingly skilled musician, but a true artist.

The Velvet Underground - because of Lou

Kwaidan - drones, soundscapes, 20 mintue-long songs, pretentious song titles...everything good post-rock should be!

Blasting "Machine Gun" right now in the living room, sounds so good, you guys_____-------

Elliott Smith

Haven't worked my through this whole thing yet, but if you're a fan worth spending some time with. He died 10 years ago this year, I think the anniversary of his stabbing himself in the chest was recent. One of my all-time favorites, for sure.

http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/9246-elliott-smith/

Mountains - Choral

Picked up this 2xLP on Sunday for $10. 

Lord Sassafrass - Talking Yardie (Jahtari JTR7-10)

what I've been listening to

Hacker Farm
Ben Vida
Dawn of Midi
Body/Head
Smackos
Steve Hauschildt
M.Geddes Gengras
State River Widening
Oneohtrix Point Never
Darkside

I love Edan...

... and The Poets of Rhythm.

 and this...

 

 FEEL IT! dc

Red, White and Scoob EP

NEW SCOOBIE BROTHERS 



I've been hard at work in the studio with the Scoobie Bros and we have finally wrapped up the new Scoobie Brothers EP.  Check it out.

Red, White and Scoob EP

1:  Tape Sketch 2013
2:  Had a Dream
3:  Cymbaline
4:  Matilda Scoobie
5:  LNA Scoob

Download it at www.thescoobiebrothers.com

I made a video for those guys for the whole 5 song EP, enjoy.

dc

Two Great Mixes

Here are two great mixes by Prefuse 73… one is from last year, collab mix with Zola Jesus (?).  New one is with his boy Teebs a la my last post.

Both are dope and you can download them off the Soundcloud link for your own personal library.

http://www.self-titledmag.com/2013/10/01/needle-exchange-133-an-exclusive-mix-by-prefuse-73-teebs-sons-of-the-morning/

http://www.self-titledmag.com/2011/04/15/download-this-now-a-psych-mixtape-by-prefuse-73-zola-jesus/

Picture above has nothing to do with anything.

Enjoy.

dc

Sons of the Morning

The full, highly anticipated new CD from Sons of the Morning (collab between Prefuse 73 and Teebs) is streaming on this blog.

http://potholesinmyblog.com/stream-sons-of-the-mornings-prefuse-73-teebs-debut-ep-in-its-entirety/

It's good, I like it.

Enjoy, my friends.

dc

New Oneohtrix Point Never

Listened to this a few times, unfortunately missed his record release party in Brooklyn Heights last week. Big fan of Daniel Lopatin and this is one of the rare albums that I plan to buy if it's not Spotify after the release on 10/1.

http://www.npr.org/2013/09/22/224170294/first-listen-oneohtrix-point-never-r-plus-seven?sc=tw&cc=share

JEl

Haven't posted in awhile...sorry y'all.  Been mad busy.
THis is one of my favorite EPs of the month, on heavy rotation lately.
If you like dope beats, you'll like this.

Elvis Costello vs. The Roots

So far so good… Enjoyable, somewhat anonymous songs that I would feel good about putting on when my in-laws are over.  Actually fits the cover perfectly.

I foresee listening to this several times and then never revisiting again, which is not a diss… there is a definite use for "disposable" music like that (see also last Radiohead album, etc.)

It's on Spotify (natch), because this is EXACTLY the kind of thing that Spotify is perfect for.

Enjoy my friends.  

dc

p.s. this is on Blue Note??!

What I'm Listening To RIGHT NOW

Volcano Choir "Repave"

As the resident lame-o/square, I figured it was up to me to listen to this. Well, I'm a sucker for the grandiose (I have a playlist on iTunes named that, featuring such stalwarts as MBV, Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky, et al) and this record is good and grandiose.

Aside from the vocal effects, it sounds as if it was produced in England circa 1972, took a year and half to make, and cost $1 million ('72 bucks). As if they experimented plugging the amps into different outlets to see if the "correct tone" could be located. The musicianship--and I make no apologies for using that term--is amazing. I've never seen Vernon live, but I did catch an Austin City Limits he was on, you could tell the backing band was just killer. Not sure if these are the same guys, but this is good playing.

The lyrics are silly. I find this appropriate for this type of music. You can't hope to say anything so grandiose, so don't fucking try (one reason most of Mogwai's tunes work). Harkening back to my Kanye rant, this is another reason he sucks.

Anyways... hope everyone had a great summer and is going to rock the fall.

Terry Reid

Never Stop Diggin

How has no one noticed that the "Grease" song has a sick ass drum break in it (@2 minute mark)???

I have dibs on it for the new Scoobie Brothers EP that is going to drop shortly.

WWALT Brotherhood... somebody tip me off to some new shit please!

dc

Eric Copeland's "joke in the hole"

a current favorite_____-----------

What I'm LIstening To Right Now

DONATO DOZZY PLAYS BEE MASK

Feeling this.  Will actually buy it, perhaps?  When it comes out in September...



There are some other Donato Dozzy joints on Spotify, kind of dancey but good.

dc

Scoobie Brothers Promo

Shout out to Richard Barclay.

dc

Next Up

Talkin' 'bout the drums.....Sheeeeeeeit.

Talkin' 'bout the ghetto....

These kind of $0.50 scores make the collecting game fun.  Sheeeeeit!!

OK, this is more like what am I transfering today....

Some smoothed out corn on the cizzob type shit.

Don't get that twisted.

Real talk.

The track on this one is A2 - Space Invadors (sic) - which is a 4+ minute drum solo with some synth effects.

NEW SCOOBIE BROS VIDEO OH SNAP!!!

"WONTON SCOOB"... feel it. dc

Couple Good Ones...

Tony Allen "Black Voices"



I guess I was aware of this Tony Allen album (drummer for Fela)… I've seen that cover… but never checked it out.  It's awesome, throw it on if you have an afrobeat itch you need scratched.


Bass Drum of Death



If you like retro garage a la Ty Segall, Bass Drum of Death is pretty awesome.  I'm feeling "GB City" better than their other one.

Later dudes.

dc

BNLX "LP"

So... kind of slow summer thus far at work. Ergo I'm going to single-handedly attempt to inject some life into this blog.

BNLX is a "band" the mostly, I think, is comprised of Ed Ackerson. He's a long-time Minneapolis engineer/producer/musician. His band Polara put out a couple of records (maybe more?), one of which is an absolute stunner (if you like the noise pop deal): "Polara."

This new band is him and his wife. I think this record is pretty great. It makes no pretense to breaking new ground. It's just nice a noisy and sugar sweet.

www.bnlx2day.com

Kanye West -- Yeezus

A little background...

I have never heard (knowingly) a Kanye West song prior to listening to this record. I chose to listen to this one because I was so annoyed by the following sentence in the Pitchfork review: "These are the immeasurably lofty stakes Kanye deals in on Yeezus, his sixth solo album." That sentence followed a rhapsodic paragraph about the "I Am God" song on the record.

Okay, yes, I know, pitchfork, say no more. But there are NO immeasurably lofty stakes in ANY piece of pop music whether or not you like the artist. There are none in Bob Dylan, none in Nina Simone, none in The Clash... I could go on, but let's be real, immeasurably lofty stakes are not for the music/fashion/theater/film etc. worlds.

This is, of course, not to say that music can't be important, maybe even very important to individuals, but immeasurable stakes? Nah.

But I was intrigued, so I went on Google Play and gave it a listen. I listened to the whole thing (yeah me!). I'm trying to parse my reaction. Is this the inevitable old guy distaste for the new? The inexorable gap between me and "the kids"? Whatever it is: this record is awful. I can't imagine listening to it at home in the dark with headphones, I can't imagine listening to it while I clean my bathrooms, I can't imagine listening to it in the car, I can't imagine listening to it in a bar. I will not, can not, listen to it again.

The lyrics... oh man... these are the lyrics of Edward Snowden. The drop out who thinks he's smarter than everyone else. These are lyrics that portend to say a lot but really say very very little. (As an aside: he must have a very very small vocabulary, I can't imagine having an intelligent conversation with him). I like my musicians smart and dumb, so long as their honest about either. He's honest about neither. Rap music, for me, needs really really interesting words (hence my dismal feelings to Tyler the Creator). These aren't good words. They aren't interesting. They are pedantically "controversial."

The music... meh. Okay, he's processed what's going on over the last 5-10 years admirably. Good for you dude. It's boring and grating (a terrible combination). I found the production hard on the ears as well. Over-compressed (par for the course, I know), but really fatiguing. No depth.

I'm open to hearing rebuttals. I'm no hip-hop scholar, so maybe I'm missing some intricacy--but that would cause another argument from me.