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More retro tracks for your collection with a quick yet very informative description:
The Clash were, are and will remain england’s and probably the whole world’s best punk act.
I love James Brown’s and Billy Garner’s shouts.
A certain ratio were an alternative funkpunk band that eventually became very mainstream to my likes.
Cymande and electric indian were underground funk bands that got quickly dismembered but have achieved a legend like status in the past decades.
Well then, I guess this is a pretty good introduction to this type of music… hope you enjoy this short disco/funk selections from my collection:

The Clash - mustapha dance
Cymande - fug
Electric Indian - I heard it through the grapevine
A certain ratio - do the du
Billy Garner - brand new girl
James Brown - the Boss

The image with the funky circles had no credit at all… if you created this image, tell me so I’ll credit your work. Otherwise I’ll lie and tell everyone I drew this one.

- Dimanche -

Nos rehusamos a salir de la cama. Acurrucados el dia entero, nos alimentamos de sexo, tele y comida, en ese orden. Vemos por la ventana como va cambiando el tono del dia. Llega la noche, hora de decir adios. Nos acurrucamos un rato mas. Hasta olvidar que es manana de nuevo.

.pop songs to hold him/her/it/them
warm up
and melt into each other.

Gustavo Cerati - Bocanada
Lucybell - Amanece
The Blue Nile - Let’s Go Out Tonight
Richard Hawley - The Ocean
Robi Draco Rosa - Solitary Man
Elbow - Great Expectations
Suede - The Wild Ones
Paul Weller - You Do Something To Me

Painting by Jeffrey Li.

I all the time see mp3 posts talking about the soul jazz new york noise comps but where is the love for Big Apple Rappin’: The Early Days Of Hip-Hop Culture In New York City 1979-1982? holy hell if this isn’t the hottest thing you’ve ever heard then i hate you. Christ almighty! Big apple rappin’ documents the birth of a genre! don’t you wish you were in NYC back then? i don’t know what to say listen to this! damn!

exciting music! long-winded? pssh! you’re long winded!

rappers of modern times,
everyone on big apple rappin’ owns your boring selfs. damn.
sincerely,
oum

those who like boring music check crish’s post which i’m including BELOW. this blog is crazy fast paced- better keep up. new people! hey!

Brother D & The Collective Effort-How We Gonna Make The Black Nation Rise?

Xanadu-Sure Shot

Songs of Green Pheasant… Alot of people are going to hear this and just hear another low fi pysch folk record. But whether or not it’s a product of trend it’s quality pysch folk that is a welcome addition to the new crop of artists excelling with this format. This guy has a sincere earnest edge that isn’t present in some of the hipper acts, even recalls nick drake with some of these guitar parts. Promo legend has it that the guy behind this, Duncan Sumpner, sent Fat Cat these demos in 2002. But because of his wandering “go where the wind and songs take me” travel habits dual with hermit style reclusiveness it took Fat Cat 3 years of desperate searching to actually find him and beg him to come into the studio. He replied “No, Fat Cat. Thank you but a studio is not necessary, just give me a 4 track and a kitchen and I will do just fine.” Whoa, man…heavy.
not as good as marissa nadler but worth checking out.
-crish

Songs of Green Pheasant-Knulp

Songs of Green Pheasant- Until…

image is by Sean Star Wars !

Parece que la nieve ha llegado a Barcelona y para contrarrestar el frio que mejor que un poco de alegria “retro-futurista” de Parade, la osadia de La Prohibida y otro poquido de “don” :D

Miranda! “Don”
Parade - Metaluna
Parade - Bucle surf
Parade - Robot
Parade - Construye a tus amigos
La Prohibida - My Johnny doesn’t come around anymore

Image found in davidszondy

I get the best vibe from listening to bands from my hometown, Monterrey, in northern Mexico, and finding no trace of “the Mexican sound”. Though I’m not sure what that sound is. I am sure that these bands don’t sound like mariachi, or huapango or indigenist crap (as my friend Bx would put it)… probably because we’re a three hour drive away from Laredo and McAllen TX.
The songs are still pretty kickass.

Here is my selection, after undergoing gigs, myspaces and slow downloads.

[With this sound, we're definitely proud to be a wildcard]

El desayuno, by Abeja [from Hendersonville EP]
Be in my dreams, by Ruidos en el Techo [from La Musica Moderna EP]
Don’t stop believing, by D3ndron
Road to the sea (single version), by Nerv [from Senor con Sanitario EP]
The way the things come & just go, by Club Comfort [from Pyolin Rasguno EP]

To be erotic, the objects of your interest have to be in a state of sexual ease, more dreaming than desiring, lying back nonchalantly, asleep, or miles away, wrapped in some narcissistic concern. They have to have forgotten about you and yet offer themselves to you in some strang way, with a sort of indifferent animalistic, gentle folly and involuntary nakedness. Only the body without desire is truly deserving of pleasure.
- Jean Barudrillard, “Cool Memories”

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Blonde Redhead - Girl Boy
Eric Von Essen - Blues For Me
Clothesline Revival - Ramblin’ Man
Mia Doi Todd - What If We Do
Fortin-Leveille - Nostalgie

image : jclutter

This is not folk.
Folk es algo muy terrenal.
Esto es sublime.

.de etereo/from ethereal:

Paavoharju - Valo Tihkuu Kaiken Lap.
Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms.
George - Joy Could Be Here.
Jeff Alexander - Come Wander With Me.
Vashti Bunyan - Here Before.
Diane Cluck - Real Good Time.
The Bangles - Following.
Suzanne Vega - Song Of Sand.

:a mundano/to mundane.

Painting: Caminos Tortuosos by Remedios Varo.

Edit: info on the mps. Paavoharju are some born-again finnish who released a stunning otherworldly album last year. Linda Perhacs is the former hippie/now dentist assistant who got her sole album reissued and deservedly praised a few years ago. George is a Scottish (?) duo who just released a second album (Week of Kindness) some months ago. I got that Jeff Alexander song from The Brown Bunny soundtrack. Vashti Bunyan is… well, almost everywhere nowadays - rubbing elbows with the freakfolkers. Diane Cluck is a coffee shop troubadour from NYC, got that tune from a recent compilation. The Bangles tune is sung by the bass player - Michael Steele, a truly underrated and underappreciated songwriter and the Suzanne Vega one is from 99.9 F, my favorite album of hers.