motel de moka

While I take Tuesdays to Saturdays to celebrate life through diverse rites like naming umbrellas, Sundays and Mondays are the days where I fall into a deep lethargy which I can compare to some sort of perpetual state of menstruation which doesn’t allow me to speak or write clearly to the other people around me. The sweet ain’t as sweet without the sour.
Days like these require no usual analgesics. I lock myself up and wrap around cascading walls of sound desiring that damn shoegaze tune could last other 30 or maybe 60 minutes. Well that, and the ever-tranquillizing thought we can decide to end it all whenever we please.
I hate Mondays. Big time. Like a rolling stone. Today I am your dagger.

m83 - I guess I’m floating
(before the dawn heals us, 2004)
Malory - lake of doubts (maladon remix)
(Outerbeats, 2002)
Sigur Ros - Bium Bium Bambalo
(angels of the universe, 2001)
Dub Tractor - much better than this
(hideout, 2006)
Windermere - coast is clear (curve cover)
(never lose that feeling Vol.1, 2005)
Dwayne Sodaberkh - whiskey eyes
(Cut open, 2006)
Butterfly explosion - sofia
(the butterfly explosion, 2006)
Gregor Samsa - young and old
(55:12, 2006)
Airiel - firefly
(melted Ep, 2004)
Slowdive - dagger
(Slouvaki, 1996)
Aarktica - ocean
(Pure tone audiometry, 2004)

Thanks to Mary, Merz, Exoul for their recommendations on the shoegazing part 1 post and to all the other shoegaze fans who left comments. Hope you also like this second installment.

Esta semana pensaba hablar de Itália, pero resulta que ha subido la temperatura y eso es inversamente proporcional al numero de prendas que nos ponemos. Todo esto hace que las calles se inunden de curbas sugerentes y estó hace que a nosostros mismos nos suba también la temperatura. Por todo esto y puede que también por esta foto de Kalho he decidido que esta semana…va de sexo.

Empecemos con un ejercicio de onanismo que nos canta Albert Pla interpretando Mi mano en pena (de Javier Krahe).

Los Amigos Invisibles nos invitan a practicar sexo anal en El disco anal (también en un recomendable video).

Nadie habia descrito tan bién un cunilingus como Pablo Carbonell que le pasó a Raimundo Amador este Ay que gustito pa mis orejas.

Jorge Drexler nos confiesa su afición a mirar en tu voayer.

Y por último Kevin Johansen se va de putas en daisy.

Espero que hayan disfrutado.

01 animal collective ft vashti bunyan_it’s you
02 mice parade_focus on the rollercoaster
03 the dead science_threnody
04 tunng_woodcat
05 kiila_auringonlunta
06 davide balula_eburn (9v)
07 nitrada_fading away (telefon tel aviv version)
08 like a tim & gina v.d’orio_where did our love go
09 multiplex_you beautiful girl
10 spinform_hjertats mysterion

01 boards of canada_dayvan cowboy
02 bibio_quantock
03 polypore_365 night bus
04 cephia_as
05 miles tilmann_wrong move
06 mr cooper_untitled
07 loess_dasein
08 helios_the toy garden

…and we must understand by this a sort of communal opinion, a collective representation that is imposed on every individual; we must not understand by it a great anonymous voice that must, of necessity, speak through the discourses of everyone; but we must understand by it the totality of things said, the relations, the regularities, and the transformations that may be observed in them, the domain of which certain figures, certain intersections indicate the unique place of a speaking subject and may be given the name of author. ‘Anyone who speaks’, but what he says is not said from anywhere. It is necessarily caught up in the play of an exteriority
- Michel Foucault, The Order of Things.

A late night note at the margin about desire and being free. I have to admit being a momentary optimist here, in which the playlist ends with Les McCann ballad. A lyrical soul top charter about paradox of love as a solution to freedom. One relinguishes it is the answer. It makes a hopefull narrative I suppose. The list is my rendition of early MdM posting styles. In the list: “Macorina“, the more interesting song in the list, comes from 2003 live recording at Carnegie Hall. Chavela Vargas dallies seductively about night encounter in context of earlier century social constrain on personal identity. “A Change Is Gonna Come” is a memorable Sam Cooke 1964’s top chart song. Next to Les McCann, they both are key players during the turbulent decades where stylistical development of R&B and soul coincide with social turmoil. On the background of all that, muted description and without vocals are post-rock pieces. Tarentel (the title of this playlist), Mono, and Zorn’s film work.

Totality of things said? Who knows. Once my optimism wears out, I am sure I will agree with any alternative reading but optimistic.

01. Mono - A Heart Has Asked for the Pleasure
02. Chavela Vargas - Macorina
03. Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come
04. Tarentel - Popol Vuh
05. John Zorn - Seductress
06. Les McCann - With This Hand

image credit: bitmapr

Si Madrid me mata y Sevilla tiene algo especial…Barcelona sona i la música es bona.
Os propongo un vistazo con la oreja a lo que se hace por mi ciudad nonatal . Bueno, musicalmente se hacen cientos de cosas mas, pero yo destaco estas.

El Tio Carlos - Caballos de viento

Muchachito - Azul
(extraido de una de sus maquetillas)

La Familia Rústika - Haciendo Glüh
(también en video aqui)

Pero como no solo de mestizaje vive el hombre, que sepais que en bcn también se hace buen jazz
Ass Trio - Something Stupid

y buenísima musica electrónica
The Pinker Tones - Viva la juventud

Siento que me dejo taaaantas cosas…

Yesterday at work while shuffling on the player, two tracks were sequenced and I was alarmed at the exact riffing on the baselines. The songs were “Debra” by Beck and “My love for you” by Ramsey Lewis.
Although I lost some time skipping back and forth the two songs to my colleagues to prove my amazing discovery until I annoyed them, it gave me a good idea for a post. Remember kids: Sampling and covering is cool, ripping off and not credit is not.

Round 1: Beck vs. Ramsey Lewis
Both songs sound very familiar in mood and especially in the baseline. As they progress Ramsey Lewis gets lost in an endless funk jam and Beck, predictably, sticks with the original riff throughout the song.

Ramsey Lewis - my love for you
Beck - Debra

Final Verdict: I’m gonna go for Beck on this one. I’m not the biggest beck fan but I thought “Midnite Vultures” was the shit when it first came out, I rarely listen to it anymore but I still stand Mr. Beck’s rip-offs now and then. Sorry Mr. Lewis.

Round 2: Visage vs. Kelly Osbourne
A shameless rip-off only a few are aware of. Kelly Osbourne passed the fine line between copy and cover on this one. Fuck, it even has a fancy spoken french word at the beginning of “her” song.
Such rip-off from an mtv branded artist couldn’t pass without notice in the music biz and Mrs. Osbourne was contacted immediatly by Visage themselves for explanations. Apparently they arranged a collaboration on Kelly’s new album or I think it was rather a collaboration from Kelly on a comeback album by visage… I’m sorry, I really don’t remember how it turned out and I’m too lazy to find out.

Visage - fade to grey
Kelly Osbourne - one word

Final Verdict: The original one tickles me better by far. There’s also an extended version of “fade to grey” which is even better and which I’d recommend you to look for (probably will post it anyways in the near future).

Round 3: The Beatles vs. Sublime
The first time I heard “What I got” I noticed it sounded really familiar. Then when “Lady Madonna” appeared on the radio a few days later, it dawned on me. The similarity in both songs’ vocalization on the verses is so big and both songs are so widely known across the world that I’m surprised none of the beatlemaniacs I know have pointed it out when “What I got” rises up from someone’s old stereo. Maybe they’re just not similar at all and I’m the only person that perceives it as a rip-off.

The Beatles - lady madonna
Sublime - What I got

Final Verdict: Tough one. I’ll call it a tie but unfortunately I don’t have the time to explain to you the reasons why. (Swoosh!, look I’m magically vanishing now.)

If you’ve got some more rip-offs you’d want to share, comment or mail me. I’d appreciate if you’d like to feed my current rip-off obsession very much. Thank you.

Image: one of the numerous anonymous copies from the 16th century of the Mona Lisa claimed to be the original one.