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“Girl You Need A Change Of Mind” (1973) Eddie Kendricks
It would have been Eddie’s 68th birthday today had he not died 15 years ago. “Girl You Need A Change Of Mind” is an example of what I would call proto-disco.
Proto-disco = disco before the twelve inch, disco avant la lettre.
See previous entries in this series.
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I’m currently very much taken by the quality of thought in Giambattista Vico‘s extensive quotes on marriage in Adultery in the Novel, a book I recently acquired at Het Ivoren Aapje, the Brussels equivalent of Antwerp’s Antiquariaat Demian. The link with the above Youtube clip is oblique but can be constructed as follows: “Law of the Land = Universal law or verum factum“. This juxtapoem brings together Afro-American psychedelic soul group The Temptations and Italian Counter-Enlightenment, self-publisher philosopher Giambattista Vico.
Esotika on Philippe Grandrieux ‘s Sombre [1] and Lemateurdart on Vito Acconci [2] [3] and a seriously amusing piece on the war of the sexes by Gu Dexin [4].
I’ve been checking the British MP3 blog 20 Jazz Funk Greats (Throbbing Gristle album namesake) off and on for the last couple of years, but I’ve never properly introduced it. Its recent post on 80’s Groove “More Nostalgia for the better remembered 80s” provides me with an excellent opportunity to do so. I advise to listen to the quaaludy “Coyote- Too Hard (Aeroplane Remix)” by Tim Sure.
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Superb juxtapoem of image-to-music by Youtuber Zapple 101
Does anyone know which Karlheinz Stockhausen piece is on the audio track?
Update: regarding my previous question, the piece is “Mikrophonie 0.1”, here is more from Mikrophonie. (Studie II, 1954)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7PMMl_-yY8
From Lil Louis‘s Club Lonely (1992) album
Excuse me, my name is on the list.
What list?
The DJ’s list.
There is no guest list tonight!
See also: World dance music classics #1
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Elevator to the Gallows (1957) Louis Malle
The Miles Davis score to Elevator to the Gallows was recorded 50 years ago. It has been described by jazz critic Phil Johnson as “the loneliest trumpet sound you will ever hear, and the model for sad-core music ever since. Hear it and weep.”
Previously on this blog: As she stalks through the night …
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Marcia Baila
Fred Chichin, the guitarist who founded the popular French pop group duo Les Rita Mitsouko, has died aged 53 of cancer. Les Rita Mitsouko were popular all over European discotheques in the 1980s.
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Andy
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Rockit (1983) – Herbie Hancock
I believe I’d never seen the Godley & Creme video to this song before. What a strange affair. Definitely a work of the uncanny, celebrating disembodied body parts and general weirdness.
Also check one of my guilty pleasures: “I’m Not in Love” by 10cc. I love the soundscapes of that one.
See previous entries in this series.
“Everything Is Everything” is a poem by Paul Heaton read by Bootsy Collins (listen) in a spoken word performance featured on Late Night Tales: Fatboy Slim.
Poem About Everything and Naught:
When hip-hop’s selling perfume
And boy band’s selling grief
The blues man’s market life insurance just won’t flip underneath
Jazz just chucks its concrete into transparent handkerchief
Everything is anything to anyone … (read)
Late Night Tales: Fatboy Slim (2007) – Azuli Records.
Late Night Tales: Fatboy Slim is the 19th DJ mix album, released in the Late Night Tales series on Azuli Records. It was mixed by British DJ, Fatboy Slim. Hi-lites include “Blue Skies” [1] by Willie Nelson, “I’ll Keep A Light In My Window” by Ben Vereen and “From a Logical Point of View” by Robert Mitchum. Recommended.
Late Night Tales and its predecessor Another Late Night are the names of two related series of DJ mix albums released on Azuli Records independent record label. The tracks on the albums are selected and mixed by a diverse selection of DJs, recording artists, and bands, asked by Azuli “to compile an album of their favorite music that inspired them to make music their profession – their favorite of the favourites”. The series is also noted for its imaginative cover designs, the designer of which is as of yet unidentified. Anyone?