motel de moka

” in a hurry ”

01. The Blue Nile - Tomorrow Morning
Peace At Last (1996)
02. Quiet Village - Circus Of Horror
Silent Movie (2008)
03. The Stooges - Real Cool Time
The Stooges (1969)
04. The Durutti Column - Self Portrait
LC (1981)
05. The Roots - The Seeds
Phrenology (2002)

note: Lunch with 80’s retro feel.

image: helter-skelter

More Jungle. The genre, like the forest, is dense, diverse, and full of juxtapositions: the flora and fauna, the calm day and the live night. This list is a bit more of the same, and a bit of something new. To ease into the genre there’s not too much of the heavy or dark — yet. This is a compilation of some unknown independent DJs and well-known classics, fast-paced uptempo traditional and mellow “intelligence/atmospheric” jungle. Delve a bit deeper into the wild and enjoi.

Deejay v@s Jungle Line
(ACIDplanet/ 2007)
DJ Apex Mud Cake
(ACIDplanet/ 2006)
LTJ Bukem Atlantis
(Goodlooking Experience/ 2005)
Total Science Burning
(Sky Stalker/Burning 12″/ 2002)
Calibre Second Sun
(Second Sun/ 2005)
Roni Size/Reprazent Down
(New Forms/ 1997)
BorisR Acid Rain
(ACIDplanet/ 2005)

see also: Welcome to the Jungle …
image: dandy fsj

Photos: Sue H

As we held it in our hands, the creature within warmed and squirmed. We were delighted and wrapped it tighter in our fists. The pupa began to jerk violently, in heart-stopping knocks. Who’s there? I can still feel those thumps, urgent through a muffling of spun silk and leaf urgent through the swaddling of many years, against the curve of my palm.

-from ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek’ by Annie Dillard.

Toumani Diabaté - Ali Farka Toure
(The Mandé Variations / 2008)
Skyphone - Dream Tree Lemurs
(Avellaneda / 2008)
Nuno Canavarro - Bruma
(Plux Quba / 1988)
Chris Abrahams / Mike Cooper - Surfside No. 2
(Oceanic feeling - Like / 2008)
Los Jaivas - del aire a aire
(alturas de machu pichu / 1981)
Virginia Astley - Morning : a summer long since passed
(From gardens where we feel secure / 1983)
Bleeding Heart Narrative - As if yearning was all and more than enough
(All that was missing we never had in the world / 2008)
Arvo Part - Fratres For Eight Cellos
Part: Fratres (Telarc)

Every day we make decisions that affect our environment. Think about the things that you do, the products you consume and the garbage you generate. Are there any options that you can use that are less agressive for the environment? The answer is generally, yes.

See also: My blood is clean.

Spring has sprung — right into the Summer. The daily commute is no longer welcomed by a transition seasonal breeze, but rather by the lingering haze that sticks to the skin. The ambiance of the city is set by a heat no shade can quench and humidity thick enough to hold in one’s hand. The inner-Amazon need not travel overseas to experience the jungle, as this metropolis transforms itself into an urban jungle for the next three months. To welcome the sudden, but inevitable change, a Jungle list.

Like the title notes, this is a relatively introductory foray into the Drum n’ Bass genre, thus the first track is:

M Beat ft. General Levy Incredible
(Incredible (Single)/ 1994)
DJ Apex EZ Ting
(www.acidplanet.com/ 2005)
Roni Size/Reprazent Brown Paper Bag
(Brown Paper Bag (Single)/ 1997)
Frank de Wulf Drum in a Grip (Wax Doctor Mix)
(Logical Progression, Disc 2/ 1996)
Calibre/High Contrast Mr. Majestic
(Mr. Majestic/The Other Side 12″/ 2004)
Bad Company The Nine
(Essential Rewindz, Disc 2/ 2001)
Progressive Future Music (PFM) One & Only
(Conversions: A K&D Selection/ 1999)
Artemis Brazilian Sunrise
(Earth, Vol. 4/ 2000)

photo credits: orianomada

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Caught a glimpse of you
in an unselfconscious smile.
Reveal yourself.

- Shellac

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” Musing And Such ”

01. Niccolo Paganini - 24 Caprices for Violin solo op. 1 No. 5 A
Tilman Hoppstock. Werke für Gitarre (Signum, 1990)
02. Nouvelle Vague - Dance with Me
Bande a Part (Luaka Bop, 2006)
03. CAN - Moonshake
Future Days (1973)
04. Toshinori Kondo and DJ Krush - Sun is Shining
Ki-Oku (1999)
05. Plaid - rakimou
Not For Threes (Nothing Records, 1997)
06. Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Grown So Ugly
Safe As Milk (Buddha, 1967)
07. Shellac - Didn’t We Deserve a Look at You the Way You Really Are
Terraform (Touch & Go Records, 1998)
08. Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Romance
Out of Season (2002)

note: I can’t get through the wall to the Mystery—why music from its time can sound timeless, but music out of its time is somehow culturally less connected, less vivid and immediate. And I will still listen to it, and gladly; good music commands attention. (Dial “M”)

Most of the time I feel all music is strange and intriguing, the one that sings “Let’s dance little stranger“, “Show me secret sins // Seduce me once again”. It draws, like a lover’s voice. You heard it a million times and still you can’t get enough. Words unheard before are even more irresistible. “Burning like an angel // Who has heaven in reprieve // Burning like the voodoo man // With devils on his sleeve”.

You want to capture that short moment when melody forms in the air, illusion of order made out of quivering ether, “Like an apparition // You don’t seem real at all // Like a premonition // Of curses on my soul”

It’s when body moves, words sung, story told and emotion unfolds. Everything seems to be in the right place … you are seduced.

Take a chance with me
In my world of fantasy
Won’t you dance with me (nv)

There are usual practical tricks like dynamic, keys, melody flows, context of one song to another that can make a song work with another, but they are not the reason. it’s always about the unmentionable. ” Show me secret sins “.

image: rrraul

Image: Scott Barry

Y sabes bien que yo te quiero.

Kings of Convenience - Love is no big truth
(Riot on an Empty street / 2004)
Klint - Closer
(Blue Ep/ 2002)
Turin Brakes - The Door
(The Optimist / 2001)
Badly Drawn Boy - Once around the block
(Once around the block Single / 1999)
Die Romantik - Narcissist’s Waltz
(Narcissist’s Waltz / 2007)

Let’s not be in a room alone:
scratching hands and legs in an attempt to break off
pieces of our own simple body stone.

Let us surround ourselves with others,
showering sparkling drops around the room
without soaking each other.

Let’s keep our clothes on,
as nakedness symbolizes a kind of terrible innocence,
and my feelings for you have no innocence.

- Fragments from “Some constantly besieged castle” by Diane Wakoski.

Photos: Moe Rex, C-monster & Herschell

Random Heroes - (Theme from) Gold Block
(Gold Block single / 2008)
Kokolo - Our own thing (Instrumental)
(Our own thing 7″ / 2007)
Enur ft. Natasja - Calabria 2007
(Calabria 2007 single / 2007)
Del Shannon - Gemini (Pilooski edit)
(Dirty edits / 2007)
The Heavy - That kind of man
(Great Vengeance & Furious Fire / 2007)
Clout - Sunshine Baby
(Save me / 1979)
Klint - Diamond
(Snatch OST / 2001)
Linkwood Family - Piece of mind
(Firecracker Ep / 2007)

Also: Londonism II.