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World music classics #39, 40 and 41

Beastie Boys - Cooky puss
Beastie Boys – Cooky puss
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From: iwillluvher
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Ciccone Youth -
Ciccone Youth – “Into the Groovey”
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From: dipsetmuthafucka
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Liquid Liquid -
Liquid Liquid – “Cavern” 1983
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From: tertolkin
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Background info:

Notes: There is a better version on Youtube of “Cavern” (sound-wise), but the one featured here has the original music video, and the only one commissioned by New York record label 99 Records. “Cooky Puss” was a revelation when it came out, and my first exposure to the Beastie Boys. “Into the Groove(y)” was also my first exposure to SY, there are two alternative versions of this Madonna spoof/cover.

If you have the time, check dipsetmuthafucka‘s Youtube channel, he, or rather his musical selection, is the incarnation of taste.

MyTube

As I’ve probably mentioned before, YouTube satisfies most of my current music needs. Whether that says more about Jahsonic than about the quality of the current batch of YouTube footage, I leave up to you. This aside, I thought I’d let you know that from now on I will be favoriting both my audio and video finds on Youtube. The address is quite simply http://youtube.com/user/Jahsonic (I’ve even managed to give it the vintage clay/day-glo green Jahsonic.com color scheme).

I hope you enjoy and do let me know if you have an interesting YouTube channel.

Nobody’s Fault But Min…
KeniLeeBurgess
Very nice rendition of a blues classic, by a bible-lover.

Rainbow brown feat. F…
Some old Patrick Adams material

LNR – Work It To The B…
Old skool house music

steve poindexter/WORK …
Old skool house music (and hard too, many of you may be unfamiliar with this jam)

Lizzy Mercier Descloux…
From the recent August Darnell offshoots project

Machine – ‘There But F…
From the recent August Darnell offshoots project and classic tout court

Dr. Buzzard’s Original…
More Darnell.

Richard Thompson – Wal…
An old love of mine, by guitar player extraordinaire Thompson

Erutarettil, or, Treasures from the Antwerp library

I went to the Permeke library in the center of Antwerp yesterday evening and loaned these:

Two of these books I had already loaned, the work by Rachleff, which is excellent, and the sublime Sade / Surreal, which I’ve mentioned before here. Sade/Surreal is a pricey book (a French bookseller currently wants more than 300 EUR for it, but a German vendor is currently letting it go for less than 40 Euros, which is a bargain, if you have deep pockets, consider buying it for me as a present). For the last hour of so, I’ve been updating my wiki with the names found on the opening and closing pages of the book (pictured below), which reads like a who’s who of Sadean thought, a summa sadeica, as it were.

Sade Surreal inside page

Opening and closing page of Sade/Surreal

There were only a couple of names I could not identify, any help is welcome: Retz (either Gilles de Rais, or the cardinal with the same name, Young (perhaps Mr. Young of Night Thoughts?), de Saint Martin, Bertrand (probably Aloysius Bertrand ?) and Constant (Constantin Meunier?). The rest is indentified.

Also in the same book is the engraving below, which I find lovely, like a cake-building or a building of collapsing blubbery wet clay.

Tomb of Pompeii by Jean-Baptiste Tierce, 1766

Tomb of Pompeii by Jean-Baptiste Tierce, 1766

The Bed-Sitting Room and other digressions

[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BJ2jai1USY]

The Bed-Sitting Room was an absurdish British comedy film directed by Richard Lester based on Spike Milligan‘s play. Here in a YouTube bricolage accompanied by “Milkshake” by American R&B singer-songwriter Kelis. What I like so much about Youtube bricolages is that they address two senses at once. I used to be somewhat addicted to television, but lots of the time, I used to watch with the sound turned off, and some music playing in the background, finding the combination of visuals and sound found on TV not interesting enough.

Also on YouTube, found by the Greek blog dmtls is Joel-Peter Witkin – L’image indélébile (1994) directed by Jérôme de Missolz a documentary first aired on Channel 4 on the work of Joel-Peter Witkin.

When you find an interesting YouTube clip, always check who uploaded it, you will find more interesting footage. In the case of the Witkin documentary, checking the uploader leonocusto666, I found the Polish artist Zdzisław Beksiński Google gallery.

Some more eye candy: work by Geert Joiris Geert Goiris and a very nice still of the Japanese film Woman in the Dunes, a still which was used on the cover of Kyrou‘s Amour – érotisme & cinéma.

2 x Rita Cadillac = 2 x guilty pleasures

Rita Cadillac

“Ne touchez pas à l’animal” (1971) by Rita Cadillac via au carrefour étrange

“É Bom Para o Moral” (1984) by Rita Cadillac

The first Rita is French, she was an exotic dancer of the generation of previously mentioned Rita Renoir, the tragedienne of strippers. The title of her single reads “Do not touch the animal”.

The second Rita is Brazilian and her song translates as “It’s good for the moral”. It’s an outrageously uplifting Euro-dance song of the same mantle that holds Lou Deprijck, the virtually unknown but at the same time one of the most successful Belgian music producers ever, of whom I’ve given you guilty pleasures #7 and Que Tal America.

What Lou and Rita share is a love of the Brazilian thing, logical for Rita since she is Brazilian, logical for Lou since he loves party music and Brazilians have been very apt at producing party music.

Introducing Praxis

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It’s actually strange that I’ve never actively come across this band besides of having heard of them. I am a big fan of Bill Laswell and all P-Funkiana, both are canonical to my encyclopedic work. Praxis introduces a whole collective of adventurous culture, from cutting edge music to exciting graphics, rebellious texts and tetsuoesque performances (is the life-size doll by Rammellzee?).

[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUL_gcHv0EA]

“Animal Behavior” (1992) from the Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis) album.

Praxis is the name of an ever-changing Bill Laswell musical project. Praxis combines elements of different musical genres such as funk, jazz, hip-hop and heavy metal into highly improvised music. First appearing in 1992 with the critically acclaimed Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis), Buckethead, Bill Laswell, Bernie Worrell and Brain have defined the direction of the band over the last 15 years.

Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis) is the first album by Bill Laswell‘s everchanging “supergroup” Praxis. This first album features Buckethead on guitar, Bootsy Collins on bass and vocals, Brain on drums, Bernie Worrell on keyboards and DJ AF Next Man Flip on turntables and mixer.

Transmutation features a wide range of musical styles, all mixed together to make a very diverse and unique album. Styles such as heavy metal, funk, hip hop, ambient, jazz and blues are blended together to form a strange style of avant-garde, with extended guitar and keyboard solos, and highly improvised passages.

The artwork is by James Koehnline, photography by Thi-Linh Le and liner notes by Hakim Bey.

 

Strut is back and World music classics #19

Tip of the hat to uzine.

Strut is a British record label dedicated to unearthing the lost gems of dance music past. Disco Not Disco is the title of their series of avant-garde disco compilations published since the early 2000s. They feature late 1970s and early 1980s atypical dance music and have highlited the work of Arthur Russell with tracks such as “Kiss Me Again“.

Disco Not Disco 3

I wonder who does the very stylish artwork?

The subtitle of this third volume is “Post Punk, Electro, & Leftfield Disco Classics 1974 to 1986” and the CD features the tracks “Mind Your Own Business” [1] by Delta 5, “Crunch Cake” by Isotope, “Your Life (party mix)” by Konk, “Launderette” by Vivien Goldman, “My Spine Is The Bassline (12″ edit)” by Shriekback, “Contort Yourself (August Darnell rmx)” by James White & The Blacks, “Love Tempo (rmx)” by Quando Quango, “Sharevari (inst)” by A Number Of Names, “Silent Street/Silent Dub)” by Maximum Joy, “Shake It Right” by Six Sed Red, and “Los Ninos Del Parque (12″ mix)” by Liaisons Dangereuses.

A foretaste of the CD and World music classic #19

[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xonezVB_4xI]

“Mind Your Own Business” (1979) Delta 5

Also, there are five more days to listen to an Arthur Russell interpretation by Arthur’s Landing [1] (a group of musicians who knew and played with Russell)

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