motel de moka

Two a.m Bossa Nova list for that special someone. I haven’t made a serious practical list for awhile, so here is hopefully a complete series. Echoing Moka’s theme, this will curve around downtempo, shoegazer and indies. The first is Bossa Nova. An atmospheric list for delicate and luxurious moment, there is no tension but few continous light flirts and small conversations in the air. With Nouvelle Vague made a fashionable run these days, I thought I raid my CD collections and rip bunch of Bossa Nova fav. So here is a list. Stan Getz, Kenny Burrell and Rita Lee are the main attraction before everything turns simpler, slower and softer. It closes with Yusef Lateef, if you will end the slow mood. Otherwise loop back to track one and repeat. Enjoy. Don’t forget something light and sweet (w/alcohol).

01. Stan Getz & Luiz Bonfa - O Morro Nao Tem Vez (AKA Favela)
02. Kenny Burrell - Chitlins Corn Carne
03. Kenny Burrell - Moon And Sand
04. Rita Lee - She Loves You (Beatles Cover)
05. Shivaree - The Fat Lady Of Limbourg (Brian Eno Cover)
06. Shirley Horn - Here’s to Life
00. Yusef Lateef - Jungle Plum

image credit: Manu Galindo

Esta semana pensaba hablar de Italia, pero la abrumadora presencia del mundial de futbol me ha hecho decantarme por brasil.

Brasil y futbol:
Gekcko Turner - que papa e esse

Open foraina - futbol samba-shank

Los dos siguientes temas los conseguí de manera fraudulente y no se quienes son los interpretes … ¿algun melomano en la sala?
historia do samba

pais tropical

mas cosas:
jazzinho - Sin Ou Nao
riachao - pitada de tabaco
Zuco 103 - Brazilectro

Las frikadas:
Una canción que gravé con un amigo y un casiotone
La familia rustika - ven
El pescailla hace practicas de ingles cantando chica de ipanema

Back on October, when the motel was just opening it’s doors, I divided the posts into three major categories: “Elevator Beat” for the chilly, jazzy, downtempo type of music, “Laundry Room” for the new and otherwise challenging music around here and, well, “Bedroom rockers”, which was based on friend Susy Q’s original idea on how to arrange a good bedroom playlist by dividing it into 6 very helpful sub-categories (Rhytmic and exotic oddysey, deep and tender sex, upset and frenetic mating, cosmic sexual trip, sunday morning sex & kinky collection).

At the time, I thought having sex-themed posts would open up many posting possibilites: going back and forth on the sexiest songs of the month, music to make stripteases to, erotic music through the years, and so on. After the blog ran, I realized that I hadn’t established to much identity to this kind of posts and that there’s a noticeable lack of sexy songs around the “indie-sphere” to be constantly bringing anything new to the blog. The sex posts, I concluded, would eventually become redundant. As I started inviting people to form a staff I’m very proud of, the original 3 posting categories were gone, and only random “kinky collections” are still posted irregulary. (For a complete list of the kinky collections so far, check this complete link set that was posted by squashed on a thread at freeponytheory.)

Anyhow, to conmemorate those early motel days and to celebrate summer the way we ought to, I’m uploading a whole set of bedroom rockers, some of this songs have already been uploaded to the blog, but I tried to keep it as fresh and eclectic as I could. Pick your poison & enjoy.

But, wait there’s more! just before I dissapear for a pair of weeks, I’d like to throw the first official contest at MdM (yey!). The rules are simple: leave a comment with your mail and with what you consider are the 3 sexiest songs before Saturday, June 24th and if you win you will get 2 CD’s of your choice from either Insound, Amazon or CDUniverse (woohoo!). The winner will be notified when I come back via mail, July 11th. (Note: Each CD can have a maximum price of $20, or if you’d rather have one of those expensive $35-$40 dollar imports then it will be arranged via mail). The best recommendations I get from the comments are likely to be included on a next bedroom rockers post, which will in turn be provided as a soundtrack to the russian financed porn movie “Honeymoon in chernobyl” (медовый месяц в Чернобыля) directed by Aleksei Balabanov. All profits from the soundtrack will be donated to the “children with three hairs on the left testicle fund”. Good luck!

Rhytmic and Exotic Oddysey

Gustavo Cerati - tabu
The Stone Roses - breaking into heaven
Sean Lennon - photosynthesis
Massive Attack - Karmacoma (ventom dub special)
Arto Lindsay - erotic city

Deep and Tender Sex

Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - feel am
Air - ce matin la
Santo & Johnny - and I love her
Neko Case - look for me (I’ll be around)
Os mutantes - baby

Upset and Frenetic Mating

Depeche Mode - dangerous (sensual mixxx)
The Cure - lullaby
Radiohead - talk show host (black dog remixxx)
Oasis - fucking in the bushes
Ministry - Jesus built my hotrod

Cosmic Sexual Trip

Yume Bitsu - song three
Seefeel - through you
Soda Stereo - luna roja (soul mixxx)
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Michael Brook - sweet pain
Fatboy Slim - sunset

Sunday Morning Sex

The Beatles - flying
King Crimson - walking on air
Brian Eno - and then so clear
Frank Zappa - watermelon in easter hay
Lucybell - amanece

Kinky Collection (XII)

Coppe - Vad
Tosca - wonderful
Nelly Furtado feat. Timbaland - promiscuous girl
Peggy Lee - fever
Robbers on the high street - the price & style

Photograph credits: Sofa series by Merkley.

Friday afternoon ditties for messy time.

I know Goddamned well it’s party time
…
Listen to that square talking shit,
and couldn’t mean a thing
Trying to bullshit the public
you know damned well I am the game
…
-RL. Burnside

“Garden of Love - Nothing You can Say”

01. The Skatalites - Garden of Love
02. Peter Case - Let’s Turn This Thing Around
03. The Gossip - Fire With Fire
04. R.L. Burnside w/ Jon Spencer - The Criminal Inside Me
05. Holly Golightly - Nothing You Can Say

image credit: pumpkinoodle

just do

Depeche Mode, Suffer Well (M83 Remix).
M83, Teen Angst (Montag Remix).
Goldfrapp, Black Cherry (M83 Remix).
Depeche Mode, Halo (Goldfrapp Remix).
Jenny Wilson, Let My Shoes Lead Me Forward (The Knife Remix).
Annie, Helpless Fool For Love (Patrick Wolf Remix).
Stina Nordenstarm, Parliament Square (The Knife Remix).
The Knife, Marble House (PTR Remix).
Goldfrapp, Time Out From The World (Fields Remix).

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While often compared to “childtronica” pioneers, Múm, Balún are a completely different beast to tame. They are constantly (along with many other similar electronic acts) tagged next to Múm for a reason: They both make fragile and lovely music, often charmingly odd but with a gleeful melancholy and they both use similar instrumentation and a shared aesthetic for fragile innocence. But where Icelanders, Múm, evoke nostalgia for childhood, Balún evokes childhood itself. For best or for worse, they supress any undertones on their music, so the songs flow along like a beautiful narcotic dream free from spite, malice or anything that may disrupt the overwhelming sphere in which these “balúns” live.
Their melodies incorporate a wide use of live instrumentation (violin, piano, melodica and god! many accordions!) which add a more naked honesty to their sound by giving life to the once believed rigid and cold computer music.

Their first Lp, “something comes our way”, will be released through Brillante records on June 27th. The album collects some of the songs from their previous net released and rare Ep’s along many new ones that finds them more confident in the textures they create and even flirting with electropop at times. Their music may not be revolutionary or groundbreaking at all, but when you’re looking for a soundtrack to slowly emerge from some watery depth and to take you to some pleasant and beautiful countryside, then this is the kind of redemption songs you’ve been secretly humming to yourself all this years.

Balún - a surprise
Balún - everything’s alright

Also check: This interview I did to the members of Balún about their favorite records.

Peaches is Canadian-born, Berlin-based electro punk slash performance artist revolutionary. She debuts in 2000 and has been rocking the world since with weird brand of minimalist electro synth punk. The ultimate DIY artist. She has to, nobody wants to pick up her work initially. Her live performance is a stuff of the legend, in tradition of german expresionist. (or sex craze, whichever you want to call it) But one thing is certain, she is no Britney Spears type of sexiness, her work is always charged with counter culture politics. Think riotgrrrl meet funkadelic. And her latest album ‘Impeach My Bush’ is her masterpeace. Peaches rocks.

01. Peaches - Fuck or Kill
02. Peaches - Do Ya
03. Peaches - Diddle My Skittle (from first release)
04. Peaches - Stick It To The Pimp
05. Peaches - Give’er

image:: peaches

1. Radiohead - planet telex (karma sunra rmx)
2. Anthrax - the bends
3. Transient feat. Shelonda - fake plastic trees
4. Bilal & Pete Kuzma - high and dry
5. Radiohead - Bones (live)
6. Matthew Herbert and Mara Carlyle - (nice dream)
7. Mark Ronson feat. Alex Greenwald - just
8. The Section - my iron lung
9. Sarah Slean - bulletproof (I wish I was)
10. Christoper O’ Riley - black star
11. Peter Mulvey - sulk
12. The Darkness - street spirit (fade out)

The bends was created as a malignant and humurous reaction to the one-hit-wonder pigeonhole of “Creep”. Probably the last rock oriented album from Radiohead we’ll ever hear and the one which has arguably the biggest hooks of their career, not to mention the impotence & affecting claustrophobia reached in songs like “fake plastic trees” and “street spirit”, some of the most affecting Thom Yorke’s pen has begotten.
With hindsight after OK Computer and everything else that has come since, The Bends seems just a little bit less special than it once was. Today I have given myself the task to recover the stark and simple beauty of “the bends” by offering you diverse covers and remixes (actually just one remix) that have helped me gain more appreciattion again for this album. I couldn’t find any remix or cover of “Bones”, a shame as it is one of my favorite songs from the album, I’m filling it with a live version of the song with Thom’s voice sounding somewhat cynical (he used to be a very moody small man back then).
Hope you enjoy.

Also check: Kid A reworked.