motel de moka

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” Could be a dating list ”

01. Aurelio Martinez & Andy Palacio - Lanarime lamiseu (via Benn Loxo)
Paranda (Stonetree Records, 2007)
02. Boozoo Bajou - Under My Sensi (Les Demons Flowers Mix)
Om Lounge 3 (Om Records, 2000)
03. Kraftwerk - Home Computer
Computer World (1981)
04. Nicola Conte apresenta Rosalia de Souza - Maria Moita
Garota Moderna (Schema Italia, 2003)
05. Razor - Doppleganger
Fila Brazillia : B2 (23 Records UK, 2003)
06. Brian Eno/Jah Wobble - Steam
Spinner (Allsa, 1997)
07. Po! - Joybang! (via Skatterbrain)
The Alphabet [EP] (rutland records, 1993)

note: A reset Lounge list. Mostly dubstep like tracks plus two nice pieces from Benn Loxo blog and Skatterbrain. The list is sweet and should work as mellow night lounging. (This better work as reset list for me, cause my head is a mess. Otherwise expect incoherent posting until I found something nice) Speaking of messy. Anybody know whose track no.5 is? (Doppleganger) I forgot to mark the artist before moving directory. Now I have no idea who write it. Help from electronic music fans out there?

see also: 1, 2, 3a, 4, 5.
image: Stewf

It seems, therefore, that the cure for being a paranoid wingnut who sees decay all around him, usually in the form of eager fornication, would be to cultivate a little humility and believe that the world will go on even after you die. -pandagon

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” Been Causing Trouble Ever Since The World Begins ”

01. Faun Fables - I’d Like To Be
The Transit Rider (Drag City, 2006)
02. The Pernice Brothers - Cronulla Breakdown
The World Won’t End (Ashmont Records, 2001)
03. The Byrds - Eve Of Destruction (wiki)
Eve of Destruction (umvd, 1965)
04. Heavy Trash - This Day Is Mine
Heavy Trash (Yep Roc Records, 2005)
05. The Legendary Shack Shakers - CB Song
Cockadoodledon’t (Bloodshot Records, 2003)
06. Wanda Jackson - Hard Headed Woman (wiki)
Queen Of Rockabilly (Ace Records UK, 2000)
07. New Bomb Turks - We Give A Rat’s Ass
Destroy - Oh - Boy (Crypt Records, 1993)
08. Monarcs - Alphabet Retraction
Apocalyptic Bebop (Self release, 2006)
09. Jello Biafra & The Melvins - The Lighter Side Of Global Terror (wiki)
Never Breathe What You Can’t See (Alternative Tentacle, 2004)
10. Atari Teenage Riot - Fuck All!
Burn, Berlin, Burn! (Grand Royal Records, 1997)

note: My contribution to cultural war and decaying world view. Probably the basic feel for this list is the emotion you get after reading about woman suffrage era writing and find out your grandmother was an outlaw fighter too. It is now as it was then. Such an obvious and simple idea but there it is. The simple rage over the obvious injustice. Between emotion and run away thoughts, a simple rebellious idea percolate.

This is a classic MdM list, a two points style transition, series of popular songs contextualized in contrasting key or rhythm. They are obvious but evoking subtle series of emotions, folks and downtempo as foundation. Several are classic songs where simple form is played at higher tempo or breaking race and gender perceptions, etc. Anyway enjoy. Oh yeah and eff the chimpie. A big F.U. postcard from NoLa and please go start a revolution.

see also: Winter Sky, Freedom, Revolt, and Love, My blood is clean
image: WadeB

When you pull it up
each blood vessel bursts,
in its version of the bends?
I ate it, twice.
I’ll eat it again.

- Thomas Lux, Slimehead (Hoplastethus atlanticus).

Alejandro Franov - Micerino tema*
(Khali / 2007)
Phelan Sheppard - Lady Never City
(Harps Old Master / 2006)
MV & EE with the Golden Road - The Burden
(Gettin Gone / 2007)
Starbird - lullaby on record
(Nanook of the north / 2007)
Apple Snails - rose-colored shade
(Only on a Macadam road / 2006)
The Valerie Project - Elsa
(The Valerie Project / 2007)
Faun Fables - I’d like to be
(The transit rider OST / 2006)
Valet - My Volcano
(Blood is clean / 2007)

Human skin is only about 0.07 inches (2 mm) thick.

*Kudos to Undomondo for the introduction to Alejandro Franov’s music.

” Mid West Winter Sky ”

01. Espers - Hearts & Daggers (Myspace)
Espers (Locust, 2004)
02. Holly Golightly - Your Love is mine (MySpace)
My first Holly Golightly Album (Damaged Goods, 2005)
03. Heavy Trash - Crying Tramp (wiki)
Going Way Out With Heavy Trash (Yep Roc Records, 2007)
04. Holly Golightly - Black Night
My first Holly Golightly Album (Damaged Goods, 2005)
05. Ray LaMontagne - Burn
Trouble (2004)
06. John Fahey - Jesus Is A Dying Bedmaker 2 (wiki)
America (Takoma, 1998)

Note: I made this list yesterday and it utterly failed after it grew too big. So I redid it in much smaller lists. They are really weekend lists. Mellow, lyrical, and somewhat bluesy, a mix between folks and blues. Imagine yourself sitting in a bus station somewhere in Nebraska with this tiny station speaker playing great ballad tracks. Serene but somewhat melancholic and distant. I’ll do the second part soon and you’ll see why I couldn’t put it together. Inside the list are MdM’s favorites albums, nothing strange about them. Enjoy.

image: Miss K

It’s this feeling I get walking down the sunlit hall, that thing that pricks my upper vena cava.
It’s that twitch in my facial muscles, the scent that makes my eye-lids heavy and my neurons fire up like fourth of July.
Le je ne sais quoi, qui me fait sourir et dancer avec tes cheveaux.

Music for sitting down on that warm bench over there…

1. José Gonzalez - Down the Line
(In Our Nature, 2007)
2. Angels of Light - Untitled Love Song
(How I Loved You, 2001)
3. Beach House - Master of None
(Beach House EP, 2006)
4. Bikerider - Moonracing
(Morning Macuba, 2002)
5. Cassandra Wilson - Hellhound on my Trail
(Blue Light ‘Til Dawn, 1993)
6. Emiliana Torrini - Lifesaver
(Fisherman’s Woman, 2005)
7. John Mayer - Kid A (Radiohead Cover)
(Bigger than my Body, 2003)
8. Jolie Holland - Darling Ukulele
(Escondida, 2004)

Image: LOW

…
They didn’t say anything.
The man and the woman moved closer to each other,
The round table between them.
The stove was still on and burned the empty pot.
She started to get up.
One of them shot her.
She leaned over the table like a schoolgirl doing her lessons.
She thought about being beside him, being asleep.
They took her long gray socks
Put them over the barrel of a rifle
And shot him.
He went back in his chair, holding himself.
She told him hers didn’t hurt much,
Like in the fall when everything you touch
Makes a spark.
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- Frank Stanford , Freedom, Revolt, and Love .

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” Freedom, Revolt, and Love ”

01. LSD Pond - We are LSD Pond
LSD Pond (Disc 1) (Archive, 2008)
02. Donny Hathaway - The Ghetto
Everything Is Everything (1970)
03. Bettye Swann - Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye
Bettye Swann (2004)
04. Ben E. King - Stand by Me
Spanish Harlem (Collectables, 1961)
05. Willie Tee - Teasin’ You
Teasin’ You (Night Train Int’l, 2002)
06. Fontella Bass - Talking About Freedom
Free (The Paula Recordings) (Varese Sarabande, 2003)

note: The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. That always strucks me as unresolved and vaguely defined statement that leads to the exact opposite situation to most people but few who sits up top. Who exactly define what freedom and its physical manifestation? Yeah I know I am ranting, but that’s the mood I have for this list. Inside mid tempo soul and incredible melody, everybody is screaming something that hasn’t been resolved yet. Freedom. A great soul piece always spooks me. Like a soundtrack for a metaphysical movie scene that’s about to go terribly wrong. Hey, you figure it out, maybe this list should be about nothing but a textual exercise of composition. Freedom or no freedom. … Give cheers to the great soul singers peeps. Work like that will never be recreated.

image: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], [1, 2, 3, 4], [1, 2]

Image credit: Robert Gendler

In the sixth instalment of this series I actually promised it would be the last. For a while now however I’ve been feeling the urge to post some serious star-gazing psychedelic rock and drones again. So this marks the rebirth of the series and I have some really awesome stuff lying around for a handful of new instalments. First up is a selection of heavy grooving and hypnotizing monsters to get back into the rhythm again. This is the 1st heavy-artillery regiment recalibrating your psyche so you’d better be warned.

Nadja is a doom-ambient/drone-metal duo consisting of ambient/drone hero Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff. It’s interesting to see the significant contrast between Baker’s often dreamy and atmospheric work as a solo artist and the growling cacophony that characterizes his work with Nadja. Their most acclaimed work to date, Touched, was reissued last year by the awesome Montreal-based label Alien8. An album that is best described as a blurred cacophony of colossal drums and mammoth guitar- and synthesizer-driven noise. Together creating a roaring and deafening pulse that gloomily moves in ultra slow-motion like a monstrous Godzilla rip-off in an old Japanese b-movie. Sounds like a beast? It is and it kills. Alien8 also lets you stream all of their albums on their website. I truly appreciate it when artists and labels provide this service so that we can legally and easily try before we buy.

A similar contrast between different musical outlets also characterizes the work of Sietse van Erve who’s best known under the moniker of his ambient/drone solo project Orphax. Van Erve is also a member of one of the most promising bands in the Netherlands at the moment called Zonderland whose debut album released last year was a terrific tour de force of dark and hypnotizing grooves powered by drums, guitar and electronics. Featured in the playlist below is a 27 minute track that keeps you chained to your loudspeakers as if time didn’t exist. As Vital Weekly wrote in their review: “taken with all the right substances you could easily be lost in this trip.” Yet another similarity lies in the fact that you can also stream their album in its entirety on their website.

But we start off this small (yet 60+ minute long) playlist with a track from my favourite 2008 release so far, the insanely awesome collaboration between Bardo Pond, LSD March and Kawaguchi Masami’s New Rock Syndicate. Now I know what you’re thinking, this can’t be real, usually collaborations like this can only be dreamed of. But let me tell you that is indeed the real deal and it more than lives up to its potential. There’s no better way of introducing them to you than with the stunning (and improvised) opening track called We are LSD Pond. Archive has done it again!

1. LSD Pond - We are LSD Pond
   LSD Pond (Disc 1) (Archive, 2008)
2. Zonderland - Bad Habits-Massproduced
   Oidipus: Motherfucker (Self released, 2007)
3. Skullflower - Can You Feel It?
   IIIrd Gatekeeper (Crucial Blast, 2007/Headdirt, 1992)
4. Nadja - Stays Demons
   Touched (Alien8, 2007/Deserted Factory, 2003)

Stream playlist

Previous instalments:
Dark Stars in the Dazzling Sky pt.1
Dark Stars in the Dazzling Sky pt.2
Dark Stars in the Dazzling Sky pt.3
Dark Stars in the Dazzling Sky pt.4
Dark Stars in the Dazzling Sky pt.5
Dark Stars in the Dazzling Sky pt.6

All of these should still be online so make sure to check them out before it’s too late.