Currently Spinning

Senor Coconut & His Orchestra - Fiesta Songs

Tracks :-

1. Smoke on the Water
2. Negra Mi Chachacha
3. Riders on the Storm
4. Smooth Operator
5. El Rey de las Galletas
6. Oxygene (Part II)
7. Blue Eyes
8. Las Maracas de Machin
9. Beat It
10. Electrolatino
11. Humo En El Agua

Riders on the storm is a classic

 

Keith Caputo 'Live Monsters'. Hasn't been out of my CD player since is arrived last Friday.

 

Hi,

Ol' Dirty Bastard - Return to the 36 Chambers. R.I.P.

SCIDB

 

This has to be one of my all time favourites, together with Nocturna....
currently..Tori Amos, Boys for Pele...on thhe PC!

aquapiranha

 

Peter Brotzmann/Die Like A Dog Quartet, Little Birds Have Fast Hearts. A long-time favourite. Not as fierce as most Brotzmann by any means. Fabulous group (Hamid Drake, William Parker, Toshinori Kondo). Free improv that never slips into cliche.

-- Ian

 

I've steered clear of Brotzmann since buying a Machine Gun LP a number of years ago..
Is it all as unpleasantly squealy, or does it tend toward the best of Derek Bailey et al?

 

Machine Gun, and the other stuff he did in the late 60s (Nipples, F*ck de Boere, et al) are pretty much Route One sonic assaults, his more recent stuff is much more varied, although always pretty intense. The Die Like a Dog quartet records (there's about half a dozen) are the ones to go for if you want to try a few things out. His records with Han Bennink are always great fun too, Bennink is nearly as barking as Brotzmann.

If you were just going to buy one Brotzmann record I'd go for Aoyama Crows.

-- Ian

 

Ektroverde, Ukkossalama. Spin-off from The Best Live Group In The World At The Moment (Circle, since you asked). One of my favourite records of the past couple of months, kinda jazz-rocky but don't let that put you off, it's one funky driving rifftastic mofo of a record.

http://www.ektrorecords.com/

-- Ian

 

The Fall, Hex Enduction Hour. One of the all-time great groups, I've been buying their records since 1978 and they're nearly always better than virtually anything else you could name. This is one of my favourites, from 1982. The mighty "Hip Priest", "The Classical", "Who Makes the Nazis?", every one a winner.

-- Ian

 

Prince Far-i - Cry Tuff Dub Encounters 1,2 and 3
U-Roy - something or other, they're all brilliant but can't the name!
Scientist - High Priest of Dub
Sojie - Rebel Sojie
Sly and Robbie - Rhythm Killers
Jimmy Cliff - Fandamentally Reggae

Mmmmmmm

 

Wadada Leo Smith, The Year of the Elephant. Smith's all-star quartet (Malachi Favors from The Art Ensemble of Chicago on bass, Jack DeJohnette on drums, and Anthony Davis on piano). A beautiful record, with some of Smith's most Miles-like playing. Gorgeous.

-- Ian

 

23 Skidoo, Seven Songs. First album (1982) by industrial funk outfit who later went on to the extremely weird (The Culling is Coming) then the extremely funky (the "Coup" single), and then, on their last album, managed to get Pharoah Sanders to play with them. This, and the contemporaneous 12" single "The Gospel Comes to New Guinea", is their best stuff. Includes a great track ("Porno Base") made up of samples of Unity Mitford drivelling on about the evils of pop music over some deep and heavily reverbed bass guitar viciousness.

-- Ian

 

charles webster - born on the 24th july.
cheers


julian

 

Genesis - Trespass. Their second album. Basically the first "proper" Genesis album with all the good bits, the long instrumentals, the quiet to loud developments, strange story telling lyrics and tunes. None of the later pop rubbush but Gabriel/Phillips driven song writing.

I used to be a massive Genesis fan and then after Invisbible Touch I suddenly snapped and didn't listen to any of it for a decade. But today I was rumaging in the vinyl and remembered an add for the Best of 3 cd set on TV last night. Not wanting to go near the later stuff I dug out Trespass. It may need a deep clean but the songs are terrifc stuff. I'm sitting here singing along. Excellent bit of nostalgia

 

dug out crowded house woodface.

also, a copious amount of floyd.



A.N

 

on heavy rotation at mo..

lp
nick drake heaven in a wild flower

cd
leftfield leftfism
massive attack parallel lines
mozart stabat mater

 

Gillan,
The last concert december 17th 1982 excellent remaster
Jimmy whitherspoon aint nobodies business

 

Unkle - do androids dream.... currently on the Tai mix

 

went to do a bit of buying today in a local s/h dealers.

came out with pink floyds ummagumma, pink floyds a saucerful of secrets (both on cd) and the best bit at a bargain price of £1.50, peter gabriel's so on vinyl. (virtually mint too!!)

 

Jon Lord & the Hoochie Coochie men 'Live at the Basement'
Steve Ray Vaughan 'In Step'