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Description: Exuberance/Ebullience, banter, possibly an interview, context and connection, the familiar, the strange.
Find: Symphonies of Treble, Words Of Expectation, stab, skronk, shimmer, sheen, The New Sound of Now, Ideas for Walls, pleasure, pith, Flutter and Wow, Motorik, cowbells, disco akimbo, at least one Cantankerous Singer, The German Language, shards of glass, Ethiopian Punk, organic, synthetic, sawtooths & squarewaves, Library Riffage, yesterday's recipes, the wrong speed, intentional static, floating, ethereal, time and timelessness.
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| Artist | Track | Album | Label | Year | Comments | Approx. start time |
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Music behind DJ: Lawrence Mason |
Golden Brown
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Take Vibe EP |
Jazz Room Records |
2020 |
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| Gerd Michaelis Chor |
Es Steht Ein Haus In New Orleans
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Stereo Par Excellence: Tausend Takete Tanzmuzik | Amgia (German) | 1969 | The Gerd Michaelis Choir was founded in 1967 as part of the Wolfgang Brandenstein Ensemble. Until 1968 it was assigned to the Friedrichstadtpalast . The vocal ensemble consisted of around eight members; turnover was high. Several singers later became known as solo artists. Not only did they perform Schlager or hit songs, but they also veered towards the political, which is cool. | 0:02:31 (Pop-up) |
| The Bees |
A Minha Menina
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A Minha Menina 7" | We Love You | 2002 | The Bees are an English band from Ventnor on the Isle of Wight. The Bees are an English band from Ventnor on the Isle of Wight. This tune was written by Jorge Ben, but the Os Mutantes version is usually the one most go to...We like this one. | 0:05:50 (Pop-up) |
| Fadoul |
Sid Redad
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Al Zman Saib (Time Is Hard) | Habibi Funk | 2015 | The recordings of Al Zman Saib (“Time is Hard”) date from considerably earlier. Though his backing band The Privileges isn’t explicitly credited here, the cover image to the album art suggests they factored heavily in the music-making. What’s most interesting is how Morrocan soul master Fadoul effortlessly marries the Arabic language to Western funk and rock sounds. | 0:08:30 (Pop-up) |
| Timebox |
Beggin
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Beggin 7" | Decca | 1969 | "Timebox was an English 1960s psychedelic pop band. They formed in October 1965, in Southport, Lancashire. The band turned professional and went to London in October 1966. They were soon working on package tours with The Kinks, The Small Faces, Tommy Quickly, and Lou Christie, as well as having a residency at the Whisky a Go Go. They then added the US singer Richard Henry, and the band changed their name to Timebox, an American term for a prison cell. Signed to Piccadilly Records in February 1967, their debut single, "I'll Always Love You" / "Save Your Love", produced by John Schroeder, was released. Following this, Henry returned to the United States; and drummer Geoff Dean contracted tuberculosis to be replaced by Andy Petre. That April, the instrumental single "Soul Sauce" / "I Wish I Could Jerk Like My Uncle Cyril" was released. Mike Patto then joined the band, and took on a prominent role as vocalist and songwriter. When Petre quit, the drum stool was filled by John Halsey. They recorded two singles for Piccadilly, before signing to Deram in 1967. They recorded five singles for Deram between 1967 and 1969, and appeared on BBC shows such as Noise at Nine, Stuart Henry on Sunday and Jimmy Young. Their only UK Singles Chart entry was with their cover version of The Four Seasons' track, "Beggin'", which was produced by Michael Aldred and peaked at #38 in July 1968. After their last single failed in 1970, Chris Holmes left (he later joined Babe Ruth), and the remaining members Patto, Halsey, Halsall and Griffths continued under the name Patto. The band also appeared in the opening scene of the 1968 film The Big Switch, billed in the opening credits as The Timebox." | 0:11:36 (Pop-up) |
| The Limeys |
Cara-Lyn
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Electric Sugarcube Flashbacks Vol. 2 | AIP | 1983 | Of their six records, half were released in the states, but not this one...likely because the Strangeloves released a version of it just a few months before to a massive flop. It also flopped elsewhere. Too bad, it's a gem! | 0:14:19 (Pop-up) |
| Monks |
Shut Up
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Black Time RE | UMG | 2011 | There was no band like the Monks and there never shall be again. Part concept band, part art project, part political statement, avant garde in their approach, they were sonic Pioneers. | 0:16:37 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: The Moog Machine |
Aquarius/Let The Sun Shine In
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Switched On Rock |
Columbia |
1969 |
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Music behind DJ: The Moog Machine |
You Keep Me Hangin' On
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Switched On Rock |
Columbia |
1969 |
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| The Fall |
Marquis Cha-Cha
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Room To Live | Kamera Records / Castle / Sanctuary | 1982 / 2005 | After the Fall's most successful-to-that-date album Hex Enduction Hour, they returned several months later with a much shorter, somewhat rushed, and seemingly less-laboured 7-song album. Not quite an EP, almost not a full-length. Rumoured to be designed to sabotage the rising popularity of the group, and undermine the comradeship within it. This track is one of the standouts from the album, if not "the" standout. A classic. | 0:25:33 (Pop-up) |
| United Future Organization |
United Future Airlines (Astral Hijack Mix)
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The Rebirth of Cool Phive | Fourth & Broadway / Island | 1995 | Remix – Palm Skin Productions. "United Future Organization (also known as UFO) is a nu-jazz trio made up of Japanese-born Tadashi Yabe (矢部 直, Yabe Tadashi), Toshio Matsuura (松浦 俊夫, Matsuura Toshio) and Frenchman Raphael Sebbag (ラファエル セバーグ)." Toshio Matsuura left the group in 2002. | 0:30:24 (Pop-up) |
| Os Tropies |
Les Chattes Jolies
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Tropicalia! | Self-Released | 2012 | "Os Tropies grew out of the impossibility of travelling back in time. Influenced by the music of the revolutionary tropicália movement of late 1960s Brazil, these six Canadians versed themselves in psychedelic rock and Brazilian popular music in order to imagine what it was like to be a Brazilian music radical in a time of heavy political turmoil and protest song purism. It turns out that even in present day Toronto, there is still plenty to say and plenty of ways to say it: fuzz guitars, theremins, berimbaus, funky orchestral triangles, some sha-la-las, lots of bongo, cowboy swagger, haunted church organs and fraudulent recordings of paranormal activity all make up the palette of sounds that Os Tropies draw upon in the creation of their international-cannibalist-love-affair-of-a-sound, offering up covers of the tropicália numbers that inspire them and originals written in the spirit of irreverent and impassioned musical juxtaposition." ostropies.com | 0:35:46 (Pop-up) |
| Sukia |
Vaseline And Sand
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Contacto Espacial con el Tercer Sexo | Nickelbag | 1996 | "Sukia were an American electronic band, based in Camarillo, California, United States, that featured former child actor Ross Harris, who in the 1970s acted in shows such as CHiPS and the Little House on the Prairie. Formed in the early 1990s, amidst the burgeoning Los Angeles indie music scene, Sukia took their name from the Italian vampire comic book of the same name. Their only released album was Contacto Espacial con el Tercer Sexo (1996), which was produced by the Dust Brothers [2 songs] and Jerry Finn, released on the Dust Brothers label, Nickelbag Records in the United States and through Mo Wax Records in the United Kingdom. Following their dissolution, Sukia have gained a cult following from the release of the above titled album, and also alternate versions of the songs "Gary Super Macho" and "The Dream Machine"" | 0:39:39 (Pop-up) |
| John Baker |
Vendetta: The Sugar Man
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The John Baker Tapes Volume 1: BBC Radiophonics | Trunk Records | 196? / 2008 | "From an episode of Vendetta (1966-68), a short series of 36 black and white shows featuring crime fighting ex-mafia man Danny Scipio." -- " John William Baker Profile: Born in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England on October 12, 1937. Died 7 February 1997 in Freshwater, Isle of Wight. Elder brother of Richard Anthony Baker. //// A talented jazz musician, educated in piano and composition at the Royal Academy of Music. He joined the BBC as a studio manager in 1960 and at the start of 1963 he joined the Radiophonic Workshop. He had an interest in the manipulation of sound via the use of tape effects, bringing jazz influenced tape editing to his rhythm compositions and also combining live jazz recordings into his work. His work outside the BBC creating advertising jingles became highly lucrative, earning him three times his BBC salary. He also played in jazz groups and his own trio in Southend. /// He was devastated by the death of his mother in 1971 and entered into a spiral of drink and depression, becoming semi-reclusive. He held his position in the Workshop until he was sacked in 1974, after which he was unable to recover from the shock and never wrote another note of music nor played in public again. //// At this point he entered into a platonic relationship with Daphne Walker, buying houses on the Isle of Man and Isle of Wight. After leaving the Workshop, he spent the next few years in an alcoholic stupor. Whilst living on the Isle of Man, he was diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver. After being discharged from hospital, he declared that he was ashamed and would never drink again. He then moved to the Isle of Wight to enjoy the silence and walking his dogs in the hills near his house. In 1996 he was diagnosed with cancer of the liver and was told he had less than a year to live. //// Daphne survived John by six years and in her will she left £100,000 to the Royal Academy of Music to set up a fund to benefit jazz students." | 0:42:56 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: Karl Hector & The Malcouns |
El Gusto
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Tamanrasset |
Now-Again Records |
2011 |
"Based in Munich, the multidimensional Karl Hector & the Malcouns play a wildly hybridized meld of Krautrock, neo-psychedelia, jazz-funk, and Afro-beat. The brainchild of visionary guitarist, producer, and songwriter JJ Whitefield (Jan Weissenfeldt), keyboardist Thomas Myland, and drummer/multi-instrumentalist Zdenko Curulija, the band has functioned in lineups ranging from a quartet to a big band. Whitefield also founded Poets of Rhythm and the Whitefield Brothers -- two bands whose raw approach to analog recording and retro-funk revivalism opened the door for labels like Daptone and Truth & Soul. The Malcouns tour nearly constantly, but they record infrequently. For instance, after issuing their debut single, 2002's "Watou"/"Broken Ribs," it was six years and three more singles before they dropped Sahara Swing, their first long-player, on Eothen "Egon" Alapatt's Now-Again label in 2008. Since then, they've continued with the same m.o. Between albums -- which appear five to six years apart -- they supplement their catalog with limited-edition, hand-silkscreened EPs. These sought-after releases have insured that the "Cult of the Malcouns" has continued to grow and diversify; in fact, the release of 2019's Non Ex-Orbis was announced by media outlets from Japan to Austin, Texas." |
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Music behind DJ: Karl Hector & The Malcouns |
Tamanrasset
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Tamanrasset |
Now-Again Records |
2011 |
"The band came together in late 2001 while Whitefield was on a break from Poets of Rhythm, who have existed since the early '90s and created bands such as Bus People Express, Dynamic Soundmakers, the Ghanaian-German collective Johnny!, Karl Hector & The Funk-Pilots, and more than half a dozen others for the sole purpose of releasing singles. The formation of Karl Hector & the Malcouns coincided with In the Raw, the recorded full-length debut of the Whitefield Brothers, a band led by brothers Weissenfeldt and Max. Though this ever-evolving combo has coexisted for the entire time as the Malcouns, their sounds couldn't be more different. Whereas the former's approach is driven by neo-psych and funk, the Malcouns have pursued an altogether more global aesthetic. After the initial single appeared on Soul Fire in 2002, they began touring Europe and issued four more singles, all on Now-Again. In 2008, Karl Hector & the Malcouns dropped Sahara Swing with a quintet that included Weissenfeldt on bass, guitars, keys, and metallophone; drummer/multi-instrumentalist Curulija and keyboardist Myland (both members of Poets of Rhythm); as well as the horn/vocal section of Ben Abarbanel-Wolff and Wolfgang Schlick. The program drew on underlying grooves that tied root influences from James Brown and Fela Kuti to the Ethio-jazz of Mulatu Astatke and the sonic-beat weirdness of Jean-Claude Vannier. Greeted by critical acclaim across the globe for their then-unique approach, they hit the festival circuit, playing alongside a variety of musicians -- from African legends like Ebo Taylor and stars of the Zambian "Zamrock" scene to England's Heliocentrics. Karl Hector & the Malcouns followed with the single "J.B. Rip" b/w "Popcorn with a Feeling" almost immediately. While Whitefield stayed busy in other bands, he was able to convince his bandmates to tour Germany and Europe, but it soon became an all-encompassing trek." |
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| Lene Lovich |
The Night
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Flex | Stiff Records | 1979 | I was this many years old until I realized that Lene Lovich covered this Northern Soul classic. DOH! HOW COOL IS THIS! | 0:48:14 (Pop-up) |
| Martha & The Muffins |
Echo Beach
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Echo Beach 7: | Virgin | 1981 | "Echo Beach" is a song recorded by the Canadian group Martha and the Muffins in 1979. Written by band member Mark Gane, it was released as a single from their album Metro Music in 1980 and went on to reach number 5 in Canada, number 6 in Australia, and number 10 in the UK. It was certified gold in Canada on 1 October 1980, a month after Metro Music achieved gold status, and also won the Juno Award for Single of the Year. "Echo Beach" was the band's only significant international hit, although they had other popular singles in Canada. In 2003, Q magazine listed "Echo Beach" among the 1001 best songs ever. In 2005, it was named the 35th greatest Canadian song of all time on the CBC Radio One series 50 Tracks. | 0:52:37 (Pop-up) |
| The Fun Boy Three |
The Lunatics...
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The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum 7" | Chyrsalis | 1981 | Rest in Peace, Terry Hall...1959-2022 | 0:55:58 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: Molly Lewis |
Mirage
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Mirage |
Jagjaguwar |
2022 |
Australian born and Los Angeles-based professional whistler, also known as Whistler's Sista. She was declared the Best Whistle In The World at the 2015 International Whistlers Convention "Whistling is like a human theremin" she says....We Agree... |
0:59:11 (Pop-up) |
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