Aphex Twin face mapping

Aphex Twin used live facial recognition to map the audience and overlay images of his trademark fucked up face  at the London Electronic Festival (LED) this weekend. So cool man. And the tunes sound pretty special too. . . .




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Voodoo Beach Party on the Planet of the Cannibal She-Wolf

Here is a mix of garage, surf, trash, exotica, freakbeat, soul and whatever else, with a kitschy b movie vibe running through it . . .It’s the kind of music you can hear at my favourite club here in Perth, Deville’s pad, which is not only kitted out in the coolest possible manner with go go dancers and regular good surf bands, but it has my favourite rule of any club so far – It’s over 25s only. Therefore it’s not full of the wank off students who would love it probably even more than I do. It’s apparently owned by the same people who run the famous ‘Las Vegas Grind’ night in Vegas, and the even more famous series of compilation records of the same name. I might be having my wedding reception there . . .

Anyway, here is the mix, I’ve called it ‘Voodoo beach party on the planet of the cannibal she-wolf’ in keeping with the Devilles pad aesthetic, hope you enjoy . . .

 Download - Voodoo Beach Party on the Planet of the Cannibal She-Wolf

Tracklist

'Dare The Devil' Movie Trailer

Cannibal Love - B.D Kay and the Rollercoaster

Voodoo Doll - Glen and Glenda

I am the Wolfman - The Staggers

It's a Mummy ! - The Chimps

Satan's Holiday - The Lancasters

St Tropez - Brigit Bardot

Gammera - The Moons

Jack The Ripper - Link Wray and his Wray- Men

Let it out (Let it all hang out) - The Hombres

The Whip - The Originals

Tequila - The Champs

Rusty Nail - The Tiki Tones

Revenge - The Ray McVay Sound

Slave of Desire - TheNew Dawn

Vampiro - Satan's Pilgrims

Little Demon - Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Go Go Gorilla - The Ideals

'The Crawling Thing' Movie Trailer

Don't Monkey with Tarzan - Laika & the Cosmonauts

Crossfire - Johnny and the Hurricanes

Knock on Wood - The Rivieres

Telstar - Laika & the Cosmonauts

'Bummer' Movie Trailer

Vinyl Solution

Jason Leach of Subhead has started a company that will press your ashes into a vinyl record once you die.

You can get up to 30 discs, about 12 minutes each side for 2 grand.500 quid deposit, the rest on delivery so you have to sign something that gives them the money when you die.

 If you really want to be buried, you can just get a particular body part cremated and they'll use that.

fuckin amazin. check it out

http://www.andvinyly.com/

What would you have on it? Sid Vicious' 'My Way'?, Thriller?, Roy Chubby Brown? maybe a derek and clive sketch. Or a locked groove of me farting or saying 'shiteshiteshite' or something daft. Or maybe a touching recorded message to my daughter. Nah, farts it is.

Warm and banging

Currently listening to an absolute stinker of a mix by the ever-excellent Mark Broom from the Bodytonic site. It's got that mid-evening pure humping main room sound to it, like you're inside a very funky factory going at peak production. There's also a good interview with him - get it here.

This follows on from another rather tasty acid mix of his I got earlier in the week. It is available here.

He's doing a fair amount of promo at the minute cos he's got a new album coming out soon, his first in 15 years or something. More details on his MySpace, including a link to preview the album.

Good to see the old school techno heads coming back up out of the woodwork, now that the mnml fashionistas have moved on to whatever the new cool thing is. Charles Siegling was talking some good sense along those lines in his recent Bodytonic interview, with accompanying mix too. Wasn't as interested in the mix as what he was saying to be honest, but there ye are.

Velvet Underground Bootlegs

Just absolutely wet masel after discovering this blog which has over 150 Velvet Underground bootleg recordings in full lossless audio. Collecting all of these looks like a life long labour of love for this gentleman and all I can say is thank you for putting it out there.

get stuck into it here

check it out, Velvet Underground Ludo

Lost Jazz Treasures salvaged

I love this story from the New York Times, about a huge collection of old live Jazz recordings which have been gathering dust for 70 years but might now be heard once again. Back in the day, 78 rpm records were all that people could bring out and consequently all the classic old Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong and Cab Calloway tracks are three to four minutes long cos that's all you could get on one side of a 78. Of course, live jazz is the best jazz and all of those artists played far more creative and intense music when they played live, which at the time could only be heard either actually live, or on the radio.

Fortunately for the world, an eccentric audio engineer called William Savory, one of the few people at the time with access to aluminium and acetate record making equipment, made tons of recordings of live jazz from the radio, and then jealously guarded them till his death. Now a museum has bought and lovingly restored them so we are going to get to hear them.

Apparently you can hear the great musicians experimenting with new sounds and forms well before anyone could convince a studio to take a chance on new sounding records,

One notable example is a stunning six-minute Coleman Hawkins performance of “Body and Soul” from the spring of 1940; in it this saxophonist plays a five-chorus solo even more adventurous than the renowned two-chorus foray on his original version of the song, recorded in the fall of 1939. By the last chorus, he has drifted into uncharted territory, playing in a modal style that would become popular only when Miles Davis recorded “Kind of Blue” in 1959.

Amazing. Canny wait to hear that shit.

Los Tentakills

Nice wee mix site

Came across this little belter the other day (big ups to Mr 'Avant Radge' Tomlinson for that one). Funny I had a few fullbozman mixes already but had never been on the actual site. It's a right little treasure trove I tell thee.

http://www.fullbozman.com

if you system is whack then you should hear

An Invitation to Love

Check out what a gwan this weekend in Leeds:  firewalkwithme.co.uk

That Thomas Truax guy that Tulley posted about a while back is playing.

Andy Blake

Been listening to this mix repeatedly of late, really groovy infectious wee acidic housey techno number. To quote the man himself...

"playing and experimenting with a range of percussive, rhythmic styles and notions of minimalism, and creating a raw, tribal vibe without resorting to the clichéd musical definitions of ‘minimal’ or ‘tribal’. For me, both minimalism and tribalism are hugely important in terms of club music and the dancefloor and are far far bigger than any narrow musical style or definition of a genre.”

Quite.

Get it here: factmag.com/2010/07/09/fact-mix-165-andy-blake

Knights of the New Crusade

Something a bot different on punk legend Jello Biafra's 'alternative tentacles' label, these dudes dress up as crusaders and sing kicking garage rock songs about being christian fundamentalists. I really like them.

William Orca- Hyetal

I know nothing about this character and im only posting it because its great.

Hyetal - Phoenix - 002 by william orca

I will write more words next time because to be honest im sick of the english language just now.

Hot Buttered Boogie

Name says it all. Tasha Thomas in full effect.

Funky Ladies

Keeping the funk on, here’s a mix I made of feisty female fronted funk. The tracks are about half and half old and new, the newest being Gizelle Smith & The Mighty Mocambos, from the album ‘This is Gizelle Smith & The Mighty Mocambos’ which came out this year (well worth checking out), all the way through some psychedelic afro – beat poetry from Wanda Robinson, hymns of heartbreak and struggle from Mary Love and Marva Witney, some rare soul from The Sisters of Righteousness, a bit of Big Lebowski worship from Sharon Jones (also new) . .anyway there will be some tunes you know, hopefully a good few that you don’t, all good sassy funky vibes from some beautiful and talented ladies. Enjoy !

This is a mix, split into the individual tracks for ease of navigation, so you may want to listen to it without gaps if you need to do that with your player, I use winamp which doesn’t leave a gap between tracks . .anyway . . .

Download – Dave Fireball presents – Funky Ladies

Tracklist

001 - Strugglin (Original) - The Snugs.mp3

002 - Seven Nation Army - Nostalgia 77 ft. Alice Russell.mp3

003 - Settle The Score - Cookin On 3 Burners.mp3

004 - (Oh No! Not) The Beast Day-Marsha Hunt .mp3

005 - Working Woman - Gizelle Smith & The Mighty Mocambos.mp3

006 - Born To Live With Heartache - Mary Love.mp3

007 - Im Tired, Im Tired, Im Tired (Things Better Change Before Its Too Late) - Marva Whitney.mp3

008 - Wanda Robinson - A possibility back home.mp3

009 - You-Spanky Wilson.mp3

010 - Just Dropped in (to See What Condition my condition was in) - Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings.mp3

011 - It Aint What You Do Its How You Do It-Laura Lee.mp3

012 - Gimme Shelter-Maxayn.mp3

013 - Liberation Conversation - Marlena Shaw.mp3

014 - Thats How I Feel-The Sisters Of Righteous.mp3

015 - Supercool - Pat Hunt.mp3

016 - What A Man - Linda Lyndell.mp3

dsco downBeats

Been listening to that Mount Kimbie stuff that Jim posted the other day and quite liking it and was trying to think what I listen to when I fancy a nice warm aural soak with plenty of analogue bubblebath. And it's generally SonicSunset mixes - they're great, not least for the completely over-the-top yet totally charming descriptions that they put together for their mixes. "starts the night with a sunset of hazy feedback, a cluster of scintillating Chain Reaction chords, and then onward into the starry skyway"? Aye alright then, cheers.

They mash up all sorts, early British electronica, old Chicago material, softer end of dubstep, big washy synth material, and all things nice and warm and fuzzy.

Check it out here - www.sonicsunset.com

PS The site's nowt to do with Juan Atkins by the way, they just took the name from the Model 500 track above, and I thought I'd embed cos you all love a bit of instant gratification and general eye candy.

Thomas Truax

This guy makes his own bizarre instruments, and has just made an album of songs from David Lynch movies. Here he is introducing his strange musical creations



and this is him performing a song called 'Full Moon Over Wow Town'. Looks like a good fun performance, he apparently played in mono during the Glasgow Film Festival . . .



Here's his myspace
Purchase "The Songs of David Lynch" here
Audrey's dance is in my opinion the best tune off the album, get it  ?j3nyz4g1103heqg

Best thing in... six months?

Another (more recent) Sun Ra Documentary

This one is from 2005 and is made by the legendary Don Letts

This is the full documentary. It's pretty amazing.



SECOND EDIT  -  Download the full movie to keep here (big thanks to the uploader)

mount kimbie

the whole album is great, was listening to it today picking mushrooms in the forest. beautiful use of samples and soothing noise in various electronic flavours. get it if you haven't already.

Bow down and worship . . .Larry Graham

Prince comes on to help with some guitar work during an Encore of 'Thank You' with master of Funk bass, Larry Graham.


Larry Graham INVENTED slap bass.
If that fact doesn't immediately make him worthy of worship, let me tell you some more about this guy, a god to me and a genuine hero of modern music.

Morphamish-Improbable Mix by morphamish

Morphamish-Improbable Mix 3 by morphamishThis is an anything goes Improbable mix originally made for that point about noon at a rave/afterparty where everyone's still partying, but some folk are tired of mostly electronic music and want more organic 'real' music - things with lyrics etc, but you've also got some spangled people who want to keep dancing to beats, and a hell of a lot of drunk people who didn't realise they wanted to dance again.So there's Ivor Cutler, Pixies, Zappa, Talking Heads, King Tubby, Bonzo Dog Dooda Band, Adult, Beasty Boys, Captain Beefheart, Sonic Youth, Le Tigre, Bridgette Bardot and loads of other stuff all intertwined with electronic beats taken from hiphop, techno, breaks, electro, french house and dnb/jungle to keep it freaky with the familiarity. Stuff like Freq Nasty, Kid 606, Shitmat, Anti Pop Consortium, Alex Gopher etc. Recorded this a fair few years ago.........

Summer 2010 tracks by morphamish

Summer 2010 tracks by morphamish 3 totally new ones, plus other recent tracks. All pretty warm sounding, different from the more face-melting stuff you may have heard from me. Still plenty bass, steppy breaks, dubbiness and ass shaking material:)

The Marauding Moroder

It's time for some Moroder on this here blog - Giorgio is God.

A brief introduction, as if any was needed...

Slim Gaillard

Slim Gaillard - Jazz legend. Check out the dancing at the end there, fuckin hell that looks like fun, literally throwing each other aboot. Need some kind of superhuman strength but . . .

jazz casual

The Jackening

After Scobie's extremely interesting post about Jakbeat I went off to try and get me some, without much success, so here is a wee sample of what I found mixed up with some old Chicago House, disco, synth pop,techno and whatever the fuck else. I had great fun making this actually, plenty of looping and fannying about with tracks goin on, hope yis like it.

Download - Dave fireball presents . . .The Jackening

Tracklisting

The Hills of Tantra (re edit) - Jamal Moss

Moonbootation 2002 -  Moonbootica

King of the Box - JTC

Shake Shake Shake (Shake your Booty) - K.C and the Sunshine band

Jack 2 the Future - Bobby Peru

Don't you want me (Extended edit) - Human League

untitled (re edit) - Jamal Moss

Walk (DJ Rahaan re edit) - Bent Boys

Ghetto Shout Out(feat Wax Master) - Parris Mitchell

Jack your Body - Steve "Silk" Hurley

The Second Night Cycle(Feat. Ellis Monk) - James T Cotton

We invite you to expand your total self - Salamandos

Other Voices - 16db