Friday, 23 July 2021

'Y' In Dub (Released October 29)

I've been waiting 40 and a bit years for this...

Exiled Global Mix One (2008)

Originally made and posted in the (very) early months of EXILE ON MOAN STREET back in 2008

A mix of musical styles though predominantly North African. After opening aptly on this Sunday morning (sic) with Baaba Maal's 'Call to Prayer' we find ourselves 'tranceported' by music from both the mountains and medinas of Maroc, by the psychedelic sounds coming from the Congo in the mid seventies and by the present-time desert blues of Tinariwen and Group Inerane. From Algeria by way of Paris, London and New York to the Ju-Ju lands of Nigeria

Tracklist:

1. Baaba Maal - Call To Prayer

2. African Head Charge - God Is Great

3. Okay Temiz - East Breeze

4. Material (with William Burroughs) - Ineffect

5. The Invaders of The Heart - Bomba

6. Rachid Taha - Barra Barra

7. Group Inerane - Kuni Majagani

8. Tinariwen - Cler Achel

9. Joujouka with Ornette Coleman - Snippet #1

10. Maleem Mahmoud Ghania w/ Pharaoh Sanders - Mahraba

11. Gnawa Music of Marrakesh - Toura Toura Tour Kelilah No. 2

12. Joujouka with Ornette Coleman - Snippet #2

13. Udokotela Shange Namajah - Sobabamba (We Will Get Them)

14. Le Super Borgou de Parakou - Congolaise Benin Ye

15. King Sunny Ade - Ja Funmi

16. Basokin ft. Mi Amor - Malume https://gfycat.com/ordinarycooperativeiberianemeraldlizard

If this mix doesn't want to make you dance barefoot under the sky then you are already dead

Thursday, 22 July 2021

Rickie Lee Jones remembers Chuck E. Weiss: ‘He was a Svengali to Tom Waits and everyone who knew him’

Don't forget to SWIPE

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Bob Monkhouse and the 'subversive' peni (1949)

So I learnt from Joe the other day that when Bob Monkhouse worked as a comics artist early in his career; on one title, his superiors complained that he had made the lead female character a little too buxom. So in the next issue, the hero fought killer penises, entirely without editorial objection.

Keef Spaced Out

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Low - Disappearing

The Taliban Are Breaking Bad

So I got asked to do a mix

It will be aired in about three weeks on Tales From The Dubside so I better keep the mix under wraps until then but here's a teaser of: Tim Intro/Space Oddity (LSK Sherwood Dub/Dubitron Melodica Version)

Basic Channel Tracks Arranged & Processed by Scion (Pete Kuschnereit aka Substance and Rene Löwe aka Vainqueur)

Mad Mike (Detroit) to Basic Channel (Berlin) 11/3/93

+ A comprehensive history of Basic Channel can be read HERE and I just found out that earlier this year Mark Ernestus released his first disc in four years These are good introductions to Basic Channel and Rhythm & Sound

I've signed up

“The Forever War doesn't end with Afghanistan" Joining the Substack parade, Spencer Ackerman wants to reimagine National Security coverage

I’m excited to announce Forever Wars, an experiment in covering the apparatus of ‘national security’ that I’m going to report, write and publish on Substack. (1/n)@charlottetklein lifts the curtain for @VFHIVE: https://t.co/l9pBEDVs1S pic.twitter.com/FeNWvq446o
— Spencer Ackerman (@attackerman) July 20, 2021

...and you should read The Attackerman's obit for Rumsfield

Fritz Catlin on Ben Thompson's The London Ear (ResonanceFM 15/7/21)

Ghostwriter and critic Ben Thompson presents a DFS Algonquin Table for the post-thought era. This week: mixing desk enforcer Fritz Catlin steps out from behind the faders with an amazing selection of music

Tracklist:

Azande - track from Afrique Noir

Peter Harris with Lee Perry - Tiny Victories

Carlton and his Shoe - Never Give Your Heart Away

23 Skidoo - Kundalini

Jorge Ben - Nasciemento de un principe Africano

Claret & Blues (featuring Sketch)

Jimi Hendrix - Up From The Skies

Grace Jones - Love You Tonight (unreleased)

Ibrahim Hussein - Sudan tape

Skintologists - Tomorrow People