never the right time.

 

 

i've been jamming the new andy stott album a whole lot, so i decided to make a screwed version of it.  feel free to pass it around :)

 

summer without waves.

don't really remember where i copped this from years ago, but here is some carnatic loveliness for a lazy laundry afternoon.

one of them days.

don't even know where to start with this... classical ambient noise jazz? don't let my reptilian lack of motor skills prevent you from getting this. wonderful album.

freedom club. ~ smoke signals vol II.

time for another leap into my remixes of murky prog & screwed funk. not as deep as my young persons series, this is meant to be listened to while yr on the dancefloor & yr head is swimming in the clouds.

ps coming up on four years & five hundred posts. forever forward.

freedom club ~ smoke signals vol 1.

before i recede into the shadows of summer, i want to leave you with this mix i made for smoking weed on my porch on lazy hot afternoons. chopped&screwed indie rock, shoegaze, j pop, balearic disco, etc. enjoy y'alls summer. catch ya on the flip.

year of the wooden horse.

listening to this right now & thought i'd share it with y'all. this is one of the dudes who runs numero. like a pastoral prefuse 73, or maybe a more beat oriented bibio. also reminds me of jel/anticon productions from the late 00's. very nice on this beautiful sunny afternoon with the windows open.

here come the dogs.

at the intersection of kraut histrionics, classic rock wizadry & proggish tendencies lies the fourth album from sensations' fix. took me a while to get into this, not quite as immediate as fragments of light. definitely a grower, but hey, any sensations' fix album is %95 better than most shit out there. not to sound overly verbose here, franco falsini is a guitar genius.

the sea of sands.

bought this a while ago, just now getting around to posting this gem. came out in 85, beautifully beguiling guitar figures with don slepian's (yep that guy!) gorgeously lush ethereal synths on top. morning meditation musique of the highest order.

i'm on one.

this is one i meant to post during oktober, whoops. will be posting my last few ennio records from my hard drive that i haven't shared here already. closing in on 400 posts, yeah.

a lonely day in selma, alabama.

the follow up to that pacific album i posted a while ago. i love this & anything hosono touches. not as immediate as pacific is, it'll definitely grow on you.

ps if you didn't already, download pacific now!!!!

this one's for you walkingtrees.

mauritanian desert blues for you old knockout you. yr aces champ. i owe you a call. sorry to ramble.

the sleeping beauties.

another blast from the past. cool guy lounge funk jazz shit for those mornings at five am when yr awake drinking red bull with yr head in the clouds.

ps can't say enough how much i love yr posts bruno!

pps tapes still for sale if anyone is interested.

the eighth wave.

Sham Palace, the label owned and operated by Sublime Frequencies associate Mark Gergis, presents an amazing selection of intense and driving Dabke - the regional folk dance style popularised to some extent in the west by Omar Souleyman। Not limited to Souleyman's native Syria, this selection spans the Houran region "...a swathe of south Syria and north western Jordan, beginning just below Damascus, and encompassing the Syrian cities of Daraa, Suweida, Bosra, and the Golan Heights। Its populations include Syrians, Bedouin, Druze, Palestinians and Jordanians." It takes in seven stunning examples culled from cassettes and discs found in the cities of Daraa, Suweida, and Damascus, Syria between 1997-2010, predominantly using native microtonal keyboards to play both the rhythms and sampled mejwiz tones - that distinctively shrill, droning and hypnotic bamboo flute cadence - together with vocals drenched in echo and reverb to emphasise their impassioned emotional messages. They range from Ahmad Al Kosem's incendiary warning shot 'Love Is Not A Joke' to the EuroTechno-like arpeggios and pitched childrens voices on 'Mili Alay' by Mohamed Al Ali, through the steppin' torque and whooping delirium of Abu Sultan's 'Your Love Made Me Head Hurt' to an incredibly warped and near-psychedelic wedding celebration called 'Afrah Houran'. For exotic-minded DJs, open-minded parties and clued-up dancers, this is a must-have record!!! - boomkat

straight up face melting party jams right here.

i'm going to try for the sun.

this album has fast become a favorite around these parts as the weather warms up a bit & beach trips have become more common. predating gram parsons, this is cosmic country how i want it to be. it reminds me of late era byrds with gorgeous harmonies, although it predates the byrds sweetheart of the rodeo by an entire year. these cats were onto something with this lp, but never reached the fame or popularity of the bigger names which is a real shame because this is a beautiful hazy psych country album. the second song will floor y'all. if yr into the byrds, flying burrito brothers, or my main man lee hazelwood, then i highly recommend getting this now. this is another one i haven't seen around too much, but this should be gigantic.