What is spinning?

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Panabrite: Sub​-​Aquatic Meditation

One of two excellent releases from Panabrite this year. Panabrite is the recording name for Norm Chambers and he's been putting out some of my favorite synth music in the last few years. This album on Aguirre Records, along with Soft Terminal on Digitalis, make for quite a good release year for this guy. And I wouldn't be shocked if he put out more music before it's all over. I go back and forth as to which of these I prefer. Sub-Aquatic Meditation has that whole aquatic theme and you can hear it, a bit deeper than the much more airy Soft Terminal. Both are really good though and are also nicely pressed records for you vinyl fans.

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Yea sorry, I deleted it after a few days and don't have it on my computer right now.

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Bambara Mystic Soul: The Raw Sound of Burkina Faso 1974-1979

Another of the dozens of excellent Afrobeat compilations out there. This one from Analog Africa hones in on Burkino Faso, a small-ish landlocked West African country. The influences from neighbors abound and you can clearly hear the echo of American funk on many tracks. I'm purely amateur when it comes to analyzing this kinda music so I'll give you a quote from the label's blog: "The raw sound of Burkina Faso combined Afro-Funk, traditional Islamic rhythms and subtle Afro-Latin sounds brought over by visiting Cuban ensembles. Mandingue melodies and guitar techniques from Mali and Guinea, however, were by far the most defining traits of a potent African mix that distinguished the Voltaic style between 1974 and 1979." Good stuff.

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I had a mix-tape-making day the other day for the first time in a while. A good chance to revisit some of my favorite mixtape staples!

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~Rae

I think I want a copy of that.

Okay, if you'll take a cassette. What's yr address these days? Send me an email at wobert12 at yahoo.com?

~Rae

email sent

somehow the vital connection is made

~Rae

Anybody that find a way to mix Electrelaine, Ike Turner, Husker Du, Rob Crow and SuperChunk needs their own radio show. Good stuff Rae Rae...:yesnod:

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There! Are you happy now?

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I need to give that a listen cause I sure liked his dad.

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He's really coming into his own. This album, in particular, seems to be a very personal one. When one combines strong emotion with talent the results tend to be good.

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<b>Strategy: Super Awareness is Fruit</b>

From the label:
<i>Limited edition of 200 copies on clear vinyl. One 20-minute, deeply layered and psyched-out dub track from Paul Dickow's Strategy project split over two sides* Super Awareness Is Fruit comes as a welcome expansion of the multilayered ambiences that made up Dickow's Music For Lamping long-player, tackling the contemporary drone-scape with an agenda that eschews minimalist convention in favour of a sparkling, densely populated narrative full of dissolved acoustic timbres, wah-wah filtering treatments, etc.</i>

I'll just say that I almost never buy these sort of singles and generally prefer full albums but this one was totally worth it. Great stuff.

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We aim to please! :biggrin5:

I agree that is fantastic. Hadn't seen that is a good long while.

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I usually avoid the sadomasochistic leanings of the rap, hip hop genre but I decided to check out the stream of the Death Grips: The Money Store and I'm frightened to say that I think I like. Picture links out to stream of the full album on stereo.com.

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I might have to pick this up for real, knowing that I'll never be able to listen to it within 100 years of my family and without my shure earbuds.

Catchy track "I've seen footage" via youtube

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Yeah, I'm gonna hafta pick up a copy of that Death Grips. But for today...

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FRAK: Muzika Electronic

Swedish duo FRAK walks a fine line between electronic dance and experimental music. They have been around since 1987, mostly releasing things on the Swedish Börft label that specializes in electronic music. This one is on Digitalis, is quite excellent, and comes on some fancy green vinyl.

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Today is Friday. It's gorgeous outside. I'm inside. The cure is big band. I'm hitting two recent releases, both good, they complement each other well. Captain Black is live and seems to be riding that energy wave, more the modern big band style. McBride is studio, solidly composed and swinging and tends to lean Ellington and Mingus. Mingus maybe somewhat due to McBride also being a stellar bass player. But McBride also has his own voice on his own compositions. Maybe Orrin Evans on piano (Captain Black) leans Mingus and McCoy Tyner. I'm more familiar with McBrides past work. Hearing some of his previous small group compositions played large is very nice; I also like to hear Nicholas Payton on trumpet. I don't think you can miss with either of these. Some links to youtube embedded.

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Ok. Done with AM big band. Now on to a full listen of Father John Misty

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This review put it pretty well:
"Josh Tillman bears an old soul. And not just in his wise-beyond-his-years demeanor. He's crotchety, riddled with existential angst and a dimming worldview. On his Sub Pop debut, the self-anointed and self-aware Father John Misty bemoans everything from his birth name ("Everyman Needs a Companion") to the petroleum it takes to press vinyl records ("Now I'm Learning To Love the War"). Fear Fun is that glorious bummer, steeped in the pastoral warmth of Laurel Canyon ("O I Long To Feel Your Arms Around Me"), Harry Nilsson's warped balladry ("Misty's Nightmares 1 & 2"), wry country soul ("Tee Pees 1-12"), and Sixties pop grandeur – often all in the same song ("Nancy From Now On"). "


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sing along...
I ran down the road, pants down to my knees
Screaming "please come help me, that Canadian shaman gave a little too much to me!"
And I'm writing a novel because it's never been done before

First house that I saw I wrote house up on the door
And told the people who lived there they had to get out "cause my reality is realer than yours"
And there's no time for the present
And there's a black dog on the bed

I went to the backyard to burn my only clothes
And the dog ran out and said "you can't turn nothing into nothing is with me no more"
Well I'm no doctor but that monkey might be right
And if he is I'll be walking him my whole life

I rode to Malibu on a dune buggy with Neil
He said "you're gonna have to drive me down on the beach if you ever want to write the real"
And I said "I'm sorry, young man what is your name again?"

Now everywhere I go in West Hollywood
It's filled with people pretending they don't see the actress and the actress wishing that they could
We could do ayahuasca
Baby if I wasn't holding all these drinks

Something 'bout the way Violet whips her hair
That makes me empty my pockets on the corner to corner bumming twenties as if I was the mayor
I don't need any new friends, Momma
But I could really use something to do
So if you're up for it sometimes
I swear you wouldn't have to be my muse

Heidegger and Sartre, drinking poppy tea
I could've sworn last night I passed out in my van and now these guys are pouring one for me
I'll never leave the canyon 'cause I'm surrounded on all sides
By people writing novels and living on amusement rides

Interesting stuff n0ddy...I did a bit of big band too, all be it slightly untraditionally.

Started off with the Jaco Pastorius Big Band's tribute album, "The Word is Out" with Randy Brecker, Victor Wooten, the very funky Will Lee, Mike Stern, Peter erskine and a host of others.

Afterward I moved on to the Telerc Archive, Lionel Hampton nd Friends that has a list of about 30 contributors with names like Mingus, Dexter Gordon, Coleman Hawkins, Bucky Pizzarelli, and Buddy Rich...one of the best ADD recordings I've ever heard.

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Aphex Twin: Selected Ambient Works 85-92
An all-time favorite electronic music selection and an absolute classic ambient techno record. If you like idm, ambient, electronic, techno or whatever you've already either listened to this or you're a serious slacker. This is the remastered vinyl from R&S put out in 2006. Sounds better to me than the CD versions I listened to before grabbing this. The originals are too rare and expensive for my blood so I can't say what good the remastering does compared to the original vinyl. I was just happy when they re-issued this version.

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