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.

Sex, Lies, and death by synthpop

After listening to the wonderful Sublime Frequencies' Radio Pyongyang, I dug this one up. Yeah, it's one of the bands whose members were executed by the fattie Kim Jong-un -- the singer's ex-boyfriend --, allegedly accused of pornography, amongst other things.

Not much to say about the music, mostly propaganda stuff filled with synth tracks. Enjoyable at times, eerie at others, kinda like a pea soup. I can't recommend enough the aforementioned Sublime Frequencies release, though!

pw: spooked

Tapes For Sale pt.2

here is the initial offering. i definitely have more that i will be putting up in the next day or so.

first photo
abdoul fouad do - soweto $30
thai classical music play by...kind vol 1 $7
fred frith - technology of tears $20
robedoor - raiders $8

second photo
space habitat - rising interiors $6
dr wayne dyer - choosing yr own greatness $5
turban chopsticks - mexican food $8 (sun araw dude)
los saicos - the complete recordings $7
jean-luc ponty - cosmic messenger $8
television - television $5
mi or & the pedestals - eos $8
x tours/brein kerkhof split cassette $7

third photo
superhits from hmv vol. 18 $30
wrangler brutes - wrangler brutes $10
angel flores - tres veces te engane $6
milton nascimento - ao vivo $25
elias karam - lebanese folk nights with... vol 1 $6
beyond - no man moves $8
shadowfax - folk songs for a nuclear village $3
? - $15 (sorry, i don't speak arabic, so not sure who artist is, but is amazing cassette)

fourth photo
ustad vilayat khan - ameer khusrau: a tribute by... $40
daniel higgs - surrender to love $8
r stevie moore - prohibituary $10
? - $30
? - $20
? - $10 (again sorry i can't translate these three, but trust me they are fantastique!)
nusrat fateh ali khan - gham judaiyan de $35
million miles  - original motion $5

 most of the new tapes i only listened to once or twice, other than the dan higgs which i think i played maybe four times. all tapes are in great condition, i took wonderful care of them. you can email me about shipping costs. willing to work out a deal if yr looking to buy multiple cassettes. remember all of the proceeds go to pay for my cat's medical bills.

Tapes For Sale!

so this adorable guy got very very sick a couple of days ago & i had to rush him to an emergency clinic (did you know they have emergency rooms for animals? i didn't). he's home with me now & seems to be on the mend (fingers crossed). the bill came out to about three grand, which was my entire savings. soooo this leads me to sell off my cherished cassette collection. most tapes will run between $5 to $10 bucks, with some being somewhere over that depending on how much i had to initially spend to get them. i will be posting a list along with some photos & prices later on today. any help would be much appreciated towards gregg's vet bills! thank y'all for reading this & hopefully i'll hear from some of you soon!

dance of days.

exotica lite from robert drasnin which came out in 59'. nothing too mind blowing, but a very nice listen.

atlantis purge.

one of the undersung heroes of the new age movement, & one of my absolute favorites. not quite as good as crystal illumination, but just as splendid & lush & beautiful as inner sanctum (which was my introduction to this guy as a cassette that i bought for ten cents). if you new age at all, or are starting to get into it, or wanna dip yr toes in, then this is a wonderful place to start!

the throne in lhasa awaits.

for those cats who didn't cop this the first time it was floating around a few years ago. again had to break it up into two parts because zippy is acting weird.

one // two

our souls were clean.

scuzzed out beat driven new age for vfw drug binges.

eternally summer.

some truly harrowing next level room clearing noise which you could kinda dance to if yr in some post apocalyptic junk yard. i'm fucking in love with this record.

ballad for bernt.

one of my absolute favorites by il maestro morricone. lush gialli for lazy saturday mornings.

i thought you were singing to me.

i have been meaning to post this forever. sorry it has taken me so long paul. if you guise are fans at all of classroom projects by trunk, then this will be right up yr alley. download both parts, the file was too large & kept on stalling in zippyshare so i had to break it up. trust me, you want the entirety of this record!

PT.I   //    PT.II

listen to me on dandelion radio!

a couple of things boss.

1) ron geesin's electrosound is a fantastic library voyage through musique concrète cues. dip yr toes in.

2) the inimitable, phenomenal & all around dream boat mark whitby over at unwashed territories is also a dj at dandelion radio. he is playing side a from my newest tape, which you can stream here www.dandelionradio.com . i'm pretty sure his show plays a few times a week, go there & support good dudes playing independent music! you can download my latest here. thanks!

ps recently saw a documentary on jobriath. what a sad fucked up story. if you haven't heard this genius' work before, do yrself the favor & get hip to his shit. yr life will be better for it.

Ivory heavens

Hey amigos. I put a good effort on my first post of the year to be special, hence the delay. And as jefe has been presenting us with such good music stuffs, I was able to do it at a calm pace.

Many people gladly have been introduced to Ethiopian music, directly or indirectly, by Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers, while restricted, however, to the Ethio-jazz legends, like Mulatu Astatke and Mahmoud Ahmed -- the Éthiopiques collection has about 20 volumes, still counting. And while have listened only a couple of them, I figure this one is probably one of the most surprising.

Before Tsegué-Maryam (emahoy is "nun" for Amharic), only Monk was able to keep me hooked on (non-classical) solo piano pieces. They both bear, IMO, a rare talent for adding that extra colour between the black and white keys. A rather pleasant way to start the year, enjoy!

ps. If you please, contribute to the Emahoy Tsege Mariam Music Foundation.

pw: spooked

eye of the pearl.

beautifully lush library cues.

moon nightclub.

weirdo lo-fi outsider minimal electronic reichian jazzy funk rock. yep, a sentence of random words that somewhat accurately puts a finger in the general direction of how insanely good this is.

deep shadows.

more desert pop to start yr weekend off right. this one right here is a fucking burner sun. psych lounge smoking weed in the afternoon kinda shit. jump on it amigos.

ps heading on down to portland this weekend, won't be posting for a few days. mississppi here i come!

sailing through the sonoran.

picked this up the other night from a tiny hole in the wall mercado here in seattle, & just had to share it. chalino sánchez is a goddamn champion around these parts. he has the voice of a golden throated caracara & his songs speak to the depths of the soul. if you haven't listened to the last album i posted of his then don't sleep & grab both.

dystopian riff.

acid fried heavy synth weirdness.

hexden channel.

minimal techno for astral nite flights.

selling live water.

fela lite, but still a very pleasant listen.