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“Amigo” (1980) – Black Slate
I was going to give you the rarer track “Sticks Man” (robberman … why you do dat?), but it’s not on Youtube.
Notice in this clip the use of Spaghetti Western imagery, which was quite common at the time in reggae circles and exemplified by Lee Perry’s late 1960s and early 1970s output with The Upsetters.
Previous World Music Classics.
I dedicate this Princian song to you. The song is by Romanthony, you need the nearly a cappella version that came out on prescription Records at the end of the 20th century.
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Fantastic Planet (1973) – René Laloux
Fantastic Planet is the English title of La Planète sauvage (literally “The Savage Planet”), an animated 1973 science fiction film directed by René Laloux. Based on a novel, Oms en Série, by the French writer Stefan Wul, the film was an international production between France and Czechoslovakia and was distributed in the United States by Roger Corman. The film is chiefly noted for its surreal imagery, the work of French writer and artist Roland Topor. Alain Goraguer provides a fitting early electronic soundtrack.
Previous “World Cinema Classics” and in the Wiki format here.
Jeff Bark (born 1963) “Untitled (Dusk)” (2004–05), of the Abandon series, provided me with an immediate frisson. It laterally depicts a kneeling woman, her hands stretched out over a sofa, something that appears to be a whip to her side. The colors are very suede-like.
“The Belt“, a short story by Italian author Alberto Moravia, provided me with a very similar frisson.
Previous entries in Icons of Erotic Art here, and in a Wiki format here.
Tip of the hat to L’@mateur.
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“.
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
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“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)
Previous World Music Classics.
Lots of interesting linkage from my del.icio.us account, a recommended tool for social bookmarking. Delicious is part of the holy internet tools trinity along with WordPress and Flickr.
The Laughing Bone is back after an 2 month absence, one of the more original and enigmatic blogs on the web
Erika Remberg and Silvana Venturelli (see picture), together in Esotika Erotika Psicotika. Can it be a coincidence that my favorite film reviewer Esotika (whose nick is derived from the Italian title of this film) simultaneously put up his proper site?
A list of artists about to go into the public domain for countries who have a death of author + 70 years
A red dress, a very simple narrative, but what a photo
A wiki dedicated to pornography, edited by the enigmatic Tranquileye, brought to my attention by Esotika
Very stylish erotica
An international fetish model
Photos by Gilles Berquet of Kumi Monster, Pony Express is my hottest discovery as far as blogs go. See also this , this , and THIS from this super collection of nun’s erotica.
The original skate boy, a truly beautiful boy
A wiki: Non-hierarchical geek contents dis-organization by uncensored, decentralized, transglobal multi-user hypertext editing without restrictions.
So very few films are scary, this one by American director Tomaselli is horror we might like, have you seen this one Groovy Age ?(I haven’t yet) From an interview: Reverend Salo, an enigmatic preacher/faith healer. Kreskin paralyzed actors during a scene.
The Elsewhere concept was borrowed from the excellent 2blowhards blog.
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“Rotation” (1979) Herb Alpert
This is a slow groove and an eternal up-market dance floor classic, for a similar track see Wally Badarou’s releases of the early eighties on Island Records, especially “Chief Inspector”, which I’ve posted here.
Previous World Music Classics.
Ron Murphy (March 3, 1948 – January 13, 2008) was an American audio engineer at Detroit’s NSC/Sound Enterprises. Murphy was responsible for the mastering of some of the most respected Detroit techno vinyl releases, for such labels as Underground Resistance, KMS, Metroplex, Black Nation, Direct Beat, Axis, Planet E, Basic Channel and many others.
Ron Murphy was the reason that the Detroit techno records sounded crisp and clear, in contrast to contemporary Chicago house music, whose records were mastered under the direction of Larry Sherman, and which sounded like they were recorded on sandpaper, due to his use of recycled vinyl.
New York house music’s records were mastered and pressed by Herb Powers, Jr., much to everyone’s satisfaction.
Along with Chicago house, Detroit techno was my earliest musical love all of my own, a love that was probably fueled when first seeing Farley Jackmaster Funk’s 1986 “Love Can’t Turn Around” [Youtube] on Dutch television.
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