wicked tunes from last week

Hi Dev

Eek a mouse has been on my list of things to get for ages, do you think the mouse and the man is the best one to start with?

Anna

Hi Anna, Mouse and the Man is definately a good one...it is really sweet.

Dev

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4. It's on Soul Jazz records (who did 100% Dynamite, etc) but I have forgotten the name, yello cover and has got 'no, no, no' by Dawn Penn on it - a very cool dub reggae, compilation

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Studio One rockers perhaps, though it looks pretty green from here!

'Wa Do Dem' is a classic if you are taken with Mr Hylton's (Eek A Mouse) totally inimitable style.

duncan

Email: djcritchley at hotmail.com

Dev, you truly are becoming a poster boy for the hifi nerd, ill fitting pants brigade, Christian McBride Dear God !! I assume the rest of your choices are in the TOP 30 or whatever its called these days? You'll be talking about musicality and definition next.

Leo Smith.. Rastafari (Sackville)
Anthony Braxton.. For Trio(Arista)
Anthony Braxton.. Duets 1976 (Arista)
Anthony Braxton..Alto Improvisations 1979 (Arista)
Roscoe Mtchell.. Snurdy Mc Gurdy and her dancing Shoes (Nessa)

Art Tatum ... Group Masterpieces (Vols 1-8, A monumental work of genius, solo's next!)(Pablo)

Milt Jackson ...Statements (Impulse)
Milt Jackson .. Plenty, Plenty Soul (Atlantic)
Milt Jackson.. The Jazz Skyline (Savoy)

Truly wonderful, Milt outside MJQ is always marvellous.

New

Anti-Pop Consortium/Shipp..(Thirsty Ear) ( err soft as putty this one)
Roland Ramanan..Shaken (EMANEM) .. Classic Brit Freeeeeeeeeee...

John

"DJ/Rupture - Mad, bad, beats, electronica, and other stuff from Madrid"

His "Minesweeper Suite" CD is also worth checking out.

Matthew

"On the face of it, this was just a guy with three turntables playing his favorite records. But what a selection: eschewing flashy turntable tricks for a seamless blend of music, DJ /Rupture effortlessly mixed the most disparate musics: hip-hop, dub and avant-jazz collided with sounds from around the world, from the inspiring mix of Mahmoud Fadl and J-Boogie, to explosive collisions like Aphasic's spastic blasts undercutting Shinehead's "Rough and Rugged." Every source track was listed in the liner notes, letting the listener follow along and draw his or her own conclusions, and /Rupture's vision is open enough to encourage just that. Though /Rupture is far from the first American to explore world music, he applied no sentimentalism to the African tracks, and no exoticism to the Middle Eastern ones; to further de-romanticize the mix, he knocked it around with wildly dynamic, explosive shifts. This was a world vision that knew where the clubs were, and could handle the local cops, not the vision you get at Starbucks, dreaming about the veldt"

From http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/

Throwing Muses "Throwing Muses" -- New album from original TM line-up. Much hard rocking than late TM albums and probably closest to "The Real Romana". Fantastic.

Kristin Hersh "The Grotto" -- Not just a new TM album but a new solo album from Kristin as well. Much more solo acoustic and emotional in the style of "Hips & Makers" than "Sunny Border Blue". A wonderful emotional album.

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks "Pig Lib" -- New solo from Malkmus is much better than his last if some distance from Pavements best

Jan Jelinek avec The Exposures “La Nouvelle Pauvreté” -- Glitchy laptop noodling in a sort of laid back jazzy style.

Majesticons "Beauty Party" -- Having seen off the Infesticons with enormous platinum shiny beats and a missile equipped Lexus the Majesticons move beyond the Valley of Bling with access to excess. Marvellous.

Aereogramme "Sleep & Release" -- Hard indie rock sort of half way between the Picies and "...And You Will Know Us"

Boyracer "To Get a Better Hold You've Got to Loosen Yr Grip" -- 22 sub 2 minute indie guitar pop gems that sound like thety were recorded for £500 on the drummer's mates 4-track. What moer could you want?

Bikeride "Morning Macumba" -- 60s tinged US indie pop from a bunjch of college kids with a Beach Boys and Arthur Lee infatuation.

The Postal Service "Give Up" -- Debut album from Jimmy Tarambello and Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard following on from their collaboration on the DNTEL album. More poppy and less glitchy than DNTEL and nothing quite as good as "Evan & Chan" but worth it if you liked the previous album.

The Aislers Set "How I Learned to Write Backwards" -- Vaguley folky psychadelic indie pop. Thier best yet but probably for fans only.

Matthew

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Originally posted by Matthew Robinson:
Majesticons "Beauty Party" -- Having seen off the Infesticons with enormous platinum shiny beats and a missile equipped Lexus the Majesticons move beyond the Valley of Bling with access to excess. Marvellous.

Matthew

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I'm still battling with this; there are a few track that make me want to jump around, but then I throw on The Infesticons album, and it beats the Majesticons album to a bloody pulp. I just can't get my head around why he would put so much effort into satire, such that in places it is indistinguishable from its target. As well as the 1st installment from the Infesticons trilogy, 'Welcome to the Afterfuture' is also worth grabbing, as is Sonic Sum - The Sanity Annex (Eric MO and Rob Smith both guest on the Infesticons album, and have the same futuristic funk aesthetic as Mike Ladd).

John, what do you think of APC VS Matthew Shipp? I am really enjoying it, I just wish it was a bit more out there. It doesn't take as many risks as their earlier stuff. Still, I haven't heard any Matthew Shipp before, so I didn't know what to expect. I guess I was hoping for the bastard child of The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady and Tragic Epilogue.

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Anti-Pop Consortium/Shipp..(Thirsty Ear) ( err soft as putty this one)
Roland Ramanan..Shaken (EMANEM) .. Classic Brit Freeeeeeeeeee...

John

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Uncle John,

What's teh Anti Pop Consortium/Matthew Shipp like, I've been meaning to get it - it is namby boy hip hop for the avant garde Islington set or is it alright?

ps. the Other CD I bough was 'Westwood' UK Hip Hop on the TrusttheDJ label. I really like this.

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Originally posted by djc:
[QUOTE] Studio One rockers perhaps, though it looks pretty green from here!

'Wa Do Dem' is a classic if you are taken with Mr Hylton's (Eek A Mouse) totally inimitable style.

duncan

Email: djcritchley at hotmail.com

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Yeah Duncan that's it!!!! I really like it too.

I like a few of the tunes and in fact play it a lot though I know little about hiphop I suspect its namby pamby appealing to us G2 guardian types.

Luckily one of my new junior colleagues is a DJ and I expect to astonish you all with my knowledge of current trends shortly.

Cant DJ Rupture get a truss?

John
Aging Hip Priest

"I just can't get my head around why he would put so much effort into satire, such that in places it is indistinguishable from its target"

I think the point is that there is nothing actually wrong with dancefloor friendly tuneful hip-hop provided its done well -- its just that most of it is done by gun and bling obsessed mysogynistic idiots. The satire avoids and attacks these problems and so allows us uber cool underground hip-hop types to enjoy some good old fashioned tunes without loosing cred

Besides I think its a better album than "Gun Hill Road" which IMHO struggles in comparison with to EL-P, Canibal Ox, Aesop Rock, etc. For sure its fairly lightweight but "Beauty Party" is huge fun.

Matthew

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bastard child of The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady

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I just wanted to say that the above Mingus classic is my favourite album of all time ever.

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Originally posted by Matthew Robinson:
Besides I think its a better album than "Gun Hill Road" which IMHO struggles in comparison with to EL-P, Canibal Ox, Aesop Rock, etc. For sure its fairly lightweight but "Beauty Party" is huge fun.

Matthew

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<Mick Parry mode on> Nothing on Def Jux should be compared to Gun Hill Road!</Spluttering>

Don't get me wrong, El-Ps album is good, if a little derivative, The Cold Vein kicks ass, and whilst Aesop has lost his way since he signed with Def Jux (Labour Days and Daylight don't compare to Float), his is a top emcee. However, they are all playing it straight compare to Mike on form. I have no idea why Mike Ladd hasn't had more coverage - he seems to fall between the two main underground camps. The Anticon posse barely notice him, and whilst El-P et al all guest on his stuff, he gets few mentions on Jukies forums. Vernacular Homicide got pretty weak reviews, which I thought was a shame.

Dev - VS Matthew Shipp is more hardcore than Arrthymia IMO, ie. not one for the Arrested Development fans . I'd recommend it, but Tragic Epilogue and Ends Against The Middle are stronger releases.

Has anyone heard the new Beans album yet?