cool beans

This chick is so cool i want to smack her ass, like we had just played football together or something. Too bad i’m not THAT cool. Also, my football skills are a joke. A not really funny one.

amisexy

supah dupah

alright

In a couple of weeks a rundown of my favourite 2009 albums, as well my favourite albums from the past 10 years will be hosted on these pages. Starting on Dec. 1, working up from no.20 to no.1, one each day, as per gone4sure’s idea. But i have a confession to make. My own personal favourite album of the decade is not an album and was not released during the 00’s. Let me explain myself.

What i’m talking about is The Beta Band’s compilation of their first 3 EP’s, surprisingly called ‘The Three E.P.’s’, released by Regal Records back in 1998. Steve Mason and company took on Beck’s idea that all music is worth stealing from and using in a collage of disparate sonic strokes and expanded it, stretched it, distended it until unheard-of things started to emerge from within the cracks. Raps in faux-french, muted trumpets serenading slide guitar riffs to sleep, bleeps, squeeches, and all sorts of tricks, it’s in there. In the end, it’s a really basic idea. It’s nothing but music. Music isn’t that big a deal to begin with. It’s only the most fun thing to play with. In the decade that followed many would build on that idea and eclecticism would become the new hip even for a little while. But noone ever managed to repeat the ‘whoooosh, what the fuck!’ i first felt when the bass on Dry The Rain decided to make a run for it and start rumbling. Not even The Beta Band themselves. So, yeah.

Dry the Rain

sclaves

I can’t get this melody out of my head for the past few days and i’m hoping it stays there for quite a bit more.

milton nascimento – os escravos de jo

touch me

The pendulum swings back. And stays suspended mid-flight, a menace waiting for release.

malcolm mclaren – call a wave

space – carry on, turn me on

brian eno + david byrne – regiment

arto lindsay – complicity

voodoo

I don’t have a goddamned clue on what or who this is. All i know is it makes the hair on my neck dance like it’s voodoo. Which is fine, fine by me.

danielle patucci – la dimo strzione

rain #2

I think i need new shoes. Walking the old pavements of this dirty old city is not what my Tigers were made for.

port-royal – Balding Generation

Steve Jansen – Playground Martyrs (reprise) [credits to Thalia+Aggelos for blogging about it a few weeks back]

Kenny Larkin – Computer Rain

Pumajaw – Sorcery

j-funk

Now that’s what i call a bullet through the head. Japan may be a lot of things, but the origin of sexy space-funk it is not. Or at least, so i thought. But here’s Tatsuro Yamashita to convince me otherwise. His 1977 release ‘Spacy‘ is chock-full of wah-wah and Rhodes and strings sweet enough to make you swoon.  Keyboards and vibraphone, played by none other than Ryuichi Sakamoto. Big ups to http://simplygoodmusic.blogspot.com/ for bringing this gem to my attention.

dancer

solid slider

space age disco 29

Party like it’s 1985 again. Space age disco goes retro, or passé, depending on your perspective. My ass likes this one though, so here goes.

01. Herb Alpert – Rise
02. René & Angela – I Love You More
03. AGO – You Make Me Do It
04. Joe Bataan – Rap O Clap O
05. Jimmy Ross – First True Love Affair (Larry Levan Mix)
06. Etienne Daho – Il Ne Dira Pas
07. Gang Of Four – Man In Uniform
08. Siouxsie And The Banshees – Arabian Knights
09. Gang 90 – Jack Kerouac
10. Company B – Fascinated
11. Crazy Gang – Telephone Computer (Edit)

Download here

chills

Fucking chills. Running up and down my skin. Inside and out and back again.

Jonathan Jeremiah – Protection (live)

all things grow

i made a lot of mistakes.
i made a lot of mistakes.
i made a lot of mistakes.
i made a lot of mistakes.
guilt shouldn’t sound so fucking beautiful.