Lindstrom & Christabelle

I stumbled upon this album today and am sharing a couple tracks. I am not up on Lindstrom like I’m supposed to be, but from the first couple of listens two songs stuck out, the first Never Say Never is extremely psychedelic, it’s after the rave coming down off a Hippy Flip music. The second, is Music in my Mind, this track is the opposite of Never say Never. It’s a cool disco-ish song with great synth tones and atmospheric vocals.

enjoy

pre order the album here

Kaos & Sal Principato – Danse, Gravite Zero

This here is one reason why spending hours going through used section at Amoeba in San Fran is worthwhile. One thing i love about this cd is that it introduced me to numerous amazing artists, especially since the playlist is pretty all over the place. It’s put together by Berlin’s DJ Kaos, and Sal Principato (from the band Liquid Liquid) and it pretty much kills on the synth disco tip while including greats from other genres as well. We were lucky enough to catch Kaos’ live DJ set last year when he came through with Tim Sweeney…and those two dudes had pretty fresh sets that had us wigglin. Check it out.

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Week 24

Sugar Rocks was back this week for after a battle against the swine flu, she always adds a nice dynamic to the show. We had James Burke breaking it down with a monologue about artist. Last week was a good week for us, we have recently been getting stuff from labels as promotional material for the show, that’s a good sign.

As usual we were covering multiple genres and exotic locations. Making your ear drums smile, now make us smile by coming and hanging out with us, this Friday as we do the show. We can have some drinks, smoke, sandwiches, and a damn good time. So after you are done being a consumer come have lunch with us. I am in the process of making some better quality fliers for the show, so they will be around town soon. Ps Print has a sale on post cards.!! Stickers are also in the works but that will take a few pay checks to save up for.

P.S. does anyone know how to put up podcast to make them available to download on itunes? Get at me, if yo do!

http://www.divshare.com/download/9466732-8ad

Lock Groove (Out) (FILL MUSIC) – Liquid Liquid
Jukebox Babe – Alan Vega
Tell Me Why Your Light Shines – Lykes Of Us
Trocitos de Madera (El Remolon remix) – La Yegros
Jarabe Tapatío (FILL MUSIC) – Sinfonía De Las Aves Brasileñas
Hideous Men – Talons
Spacing Out – The Invaders
lindsay brohan – Javelin
Beach Cassette Jam – De Rol Le’
Sundog Sinners – Obsidian Pond
Antillas (Banana Clipz (Bersa Discos) Remix) – El Guincho
Ritmo Tres – Matias Aguayo
dreambathe – Dizzy Jaguars
01 – Phonic (Extended Version) – Cristal (Cerrone)
Good Luck (FILL MUSIC) – Washed Out
Velvet Painting of the Stars – Universal Studios Florida
Perfume For Winter – Fennesz
intervales theme (FILL MUSIC) – Javelin
Dumb Sick – Terror Bird
Nudes in the Forest – Dark Day
Mirror Friends – Lucky Dragons
stay cool 4:13
L’Uccello Magico (FILL MUSIC) – Nino Rota
James Burke & Eno – Where to Start
Yahyia Mu – The Uhuru Dance Band
Don Quichotte – Magazine 60
Visions Of Trees – Through The Trees (fill music)
Do Ya Wanna Funk (Radio Version) – Sylvester

Here’s the link to the facebook invite
http://www.facebook.com/mike.melero?ref=profile#/event.php?eid=177505789076&ref=mf

Alex Bleeker and The Freaks LP

Here is another track by one of the dudes from Real Estate, Alex Bleeker. The band consists of Alex Bleeker (Real Estate), Matt Mondanile (Real Estate, Ducktails), Martin Courtney IV (Real Estate) and Julian Lynch. Underwater Peoples sent us this with love. The track to preview is called Animal Tracks, it is what’s expected from a band that has 3 Real Estate members in it, Jersey boy’s I think, Alex’s vocals kinda remind me of Wayne Coyne and there’s a cool stoned guitar solo for the last 30 seconds or so.

“Animal Tracks” (Originally written by Mountain Man)

Here’s what they had to say…

Alex Bleeker & The Freaks have been friends since High School and as healthy, red blooded American men so often choose to do, they’ve channeled their romantic energies into an electrified musical powerhouse. It’s as classic and genuine as an adolescents Playboy collection or a fat, bald man in a Red Corvette. The Great American Rock Band captures our collective enthusiasm for life’s appropriate deviances. As wiling as we all are to allow ourselves to slip into this nostalgic mindset, it is the rare band that actually forces warmth over our chests and sheepish grins around our tongues. in one breath, chords that rain like clouds of arrows accompany beignet guitar solos. While in another, Loose snares and haunted vocals, drift forward through hazy fields. Alex Bleeker & The Freaks encompass a large swatch of genuine article Rock and Roll. The band is uniquely tailored to everyone.

Here’s who they borrowed the song from…

Magazine 60 – Don Quichotte 7″

This 7″ actually came from my dad’s record collection. It must have been from the coke’d out disco days. Over the years I have been borrowing his records little by little and eventually I plan to have his entire collection without him even realizing it (he doesn’t even own a turntable, so I figure I’m doing him a favor). Anyways, Magazine 60 was a French electo-synth pop band from the 80’s which was composed of Dominique Regiacorte, Jean-Luc Drion, and Veronique Oliver. Italo disco goodie. This track never gets old and it is too great to be missed.

Side A – Don Quichotte

Side B – Don Quichotte (Bonus Beats)

Animal Collective//Fall Be Kind ep

This post is to announce two things 1.) the obvious, is to let you hear the new AC ep. It’s aiiiiiiight. The best song is the one you already knew about featuring the first licensed Grateful Dead sample. I will probably need to listen to this album a few more times be for I can get into it. 2.) Is the great news that Sordo Music DB is back! That’s where I’m stealing the link from. So make that your next stop on the internet. It was down for a while, so enjoy that ish.

http://www.mediafire.com/?wnzclambwzz

Fall of the Republic.

If you haven’t seen this, do it. Perhaps with a dose of medicinal marijuana. This is another movie by libertarian Alex Jones, it’s great high. It centers around all of your paranoia about the government. He’s a syndicated radio show host, conspiracy theorist, and self proclaimed “paleoconservative”. There is even a guest appearance by Jessie the Body Ventura. Yee! At a whopping 2hours 24mins 18seconds, I recommend watching it in segments.

Watch it because you hate the government.!

Space Oddities: A Compilation of Rare European Library Grooves

So this album has been a favorite on Fool’s Paradise for quite some time now. And seeing how the Leonid Meteor Shower just treated the northern hemisphere to a “Cosmic Light Show”, we thought this would be the perfect time for some space disco instrumentals.

Here is more info on the comp. by Resident Advisor:
Assembled by French DJs and music-obsessives Alexis Le-Tan and Jess, Space Oddities, on Munich-based Permanent Vacation, may seem to cynics like yet another collection of crossover crate display, an attempt to capitalize on the increasingly popular unclassic classics brand of Balearic, cosmic disco, and quirky vintage electronics. And though these now-words may get skeptics’ eyes rolling, the wealth of zany leftfield television scores and lithe prime-era disco vamps here should overwhelm even the naysayers. The product of years of shop-digging, research, and label clearance, Space Oddities culls source music from movies, television shows, and commercials never previously available for commercial sale before, typically purchased on a subscription-only basis with obscure library music labels like Koka Media or Lido-Melodies.

Space boots on…

http://www.divshare.com/download/9393881-c6c

MARIO BAVA

“An obscure cult figure during his lifetime, Mario Bava (1914 – 80) is now widely regarded as one of the most popular and influential figures of the post-war Italian cinema. Director, cameraman, editor, and special effects wizard, Bava is best-known as the man behind such stylish and innovative horror films as “Black Sunday”, “Black Sabbath”, “Blood and Black Lace”, and “Twitch of the Death Nerve”. What is not commonly known is that, before becoming a director, Bava enjoyed an equally long career as one of Italy’s leading cinematographers, by collaborating with the likes of directors Roberto Rossellini, G.W. Pabst, Vittorio De Sica, and Raoul Walsh. An even greater secret is that Bava’s workaholic tendencies compelled him to supplement his directorial career with numerous uncredited side-jobs for friends and colleagues.” – from Mario Bava : All the Colors of the Dark by Tim Lucas.”

Yes, Bava did direct a hell of a lot Horror films, but he also directed many other great films that were not all ghouls’n ghosts. He dabbled in fantasy, sci-fi, western, romantic comedy, and he even made a film based on Italian comic book character Diabolik. Fantastic cinema gems…..find and enjoy.

Solar Life Raft//DJ Rupture&&Matt Shadetek

Yo… So the manager of Dutty Artz and the Agriculture hit us up and gave us complements on the blog and the radio show. Also he sent us a few albums to rifle thru, some cumbia, dub step, and this great album from DJ Rupture & Matt Shadetek. Big ups to Tally Bower for keeping us in the loop. I’m digging the fact that labels are sending us material, please keep it coming.! Here’s the write up about the album and a couple of tracks…..

DJ /rupture & Matt Shadetek – Underwater High Rise

Telepathe – In Your Line (DJ /rupture & Matt Shadetek remix)

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With the release of Solar Life Raft, DJ /rupture and Matt Shadetek emerge from the shores of Brooklyn bearing gifts from the future. A rich blend of bass, beats, and space, rocked by a tropical wind out of the west, Solar Life Raft is an arresting testament to the fruit that grows at the margins, free from genre orthodoxy and pulsing with gentle mutant energy. The liner notes allude to a strange future, where youthful optimism and solar panels survive alongside dolphins in a drowned New York.

Solar Life Raft features 25 tracks blended on three decks into a complete hypnotic and gripping narrative. Rupture’s response to the recession was to stay local and work with nearby friends and collaborators. He invited Shadetek to co-produce the mix CD. Shadetek’s dubstep anthem “Strength in Numbers” is the first beat to drop on Solar Life Raft, and sums up their outlook. They reached out to fellow Brooklynites Gang Gang Dance, Telepathe, and Jahdan Blakkamoore, offering their skills as remixers.

To these remixes they added a half-dozen original productions, and a fascinating selection of other tracks. One of Rupture’s several collaborations with poet Elizabeth Alexander, who spoke at Obama’s Inauguration, finds a place here, as does entrancing multilingual poet Caroline Bergvall. Ghostly voices from classical wunderkind Nico Muhly’s Mothertongue (another New Yorker) flow into an exclusive beat from London’s leading female grime producer, Mizz Beats. French musique concrete and avant-garde legend Luc Ferrari rubs up against the latest wave of U.S. dubstep.

Indeed, while others focus on the U.K. sounds, Rupture & Shadetek make a convincing argument for the creativity and excitement of stateside dubstep and electronica. Solar Life Raft was recorded over the course of two days at Rupture’s home studio in Brooklyn, although the pair spent months before building tunes for it and crafting the remixes.

At times the narrative flow is delicately smooth, at others the duo use the first-take recordings to capture the energy and freshness of a live mix. The inclusion of sounds and artists from outside of electronic dance music move Solar Life Raft into a territory all its own. This is an album with lasting emotional resonance that can still make the car trunks rattle.

About the Artists:

American musician DJ /rupture is back in Brooklyn after living most of the ’00s in Barcelona. Rupture, aka Jace Clayton, began DJing internationally with Wax Poetic, a band featuring Norah Jones, but went off on his own after the 2001 release of his highly influential Gold Teeth Thief mix CD. This game-changing mixtape, recorded live on three turntables, brought together Missy Elliot, drum&bass, arty noise, and dancehall, providing inspiration for countless DJs and mashuppers to come. He spent a year touring with then-labelmate, Kid606.

DJ /rupture’s technically adept party-rocking has brought him to over 30 countries, including appearances at major festivals: SONAR (Spain), Transmediale (Berlin), Pitchfork Music Festival (US). Last year he released his fourth official mix CD, Uproot, as well as a live album, Patches, from a duo project with guitarist Andy Moor of Dutch post-punk band The Ex. Rupture hosts a weekly radio show on independent radio stronghold WFMU. His show is re-broadcast on a half-dozen similar stations throughout Europe. This summer he collaborated with filmmaker Jem Cohen and Fugazi’s Guy Picciotto on a live soundtrack. Laser-focused, rather than ‘eclectic’, these various projects are an organic result of his nonstop musical curiosity, so it’s no surprise that BBC1 legend John Peel invited DJ /rupture to perform (twice!) on his live Peel Sessions.

Producer Matt Shadetek is a lifelong New Yorker. Albums Burnerism and Pale Fire won him fans across Europe and America, making him one of the few U.S. producers to record on the U.K.’s Warp Records. He has released instrumental hip hop, dancehall, dubstep and many things in the cracks between. His recent turn to dance production foregrounding Caribbean and African influences has won him support from the ultra-competitive Brooklyn teen dancehall scene, as well as from trendsetting DJs like Skerrit Bwoy, Diplo and Green Lantern. Shadetek’s “Brooklyn Anthem” became a viral hit, landing on dozens of mixtapes and spawning 100+ D.I.Y. youtube videos of local kids one-upping each other with crazy dance moves to Matt’s banging beat. During his time living in Berlin, Matt Shadetek shared a studio with Modeselektor and co-produced two tracks for their album, Hello Mom!

When touring in Europe, Rupture and Shadetek discovered they shared a love and appreciation for engaging with streetwise dance music from a ground-up, participatory perspective, as well as more experimental sounds. Upon returning to NYC, the duo began making beats together. While the pair produced vocalist Jahdan Blakkamoore’s debut album Buzzrock Warrior (out Sept 14th on !K7), Solar Life Raft is their first extended project together.

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