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Air – 10000 Hz Legend

steaknbutter — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 12:45:00 +0000

It´s hard to tell about Air (which means Amour Iganination Rêve (Love Phantasy Dream)), I´m pretty sure all of you have heard a song the one or other times, it´s kinda funky, electronic jazz stuff.

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Barcelona Zona Bastarda (VA 2CD Comp./2002)

steaknbutter — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 12:40:23 +0000

If I think back, I had a lot of those compilations of the town where I lived and the cities around, crappy pop bullshit and silly hardrock next to each other, but this is different, it gives you a good overview about the Barcelona music scene, from ska, reggae, soul, to rock or electronic. Most of the artist are unknown for me, so I can give you the tracklist, but no further information about the artist, don´t be lazy google it yourself!

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CD1
01. Funk Empire / Introfunk
02. Brazuca Matraca / Falando Alto
03. Lumbalú / Te va a matar
04. Beto Bedoya / Freedom
05. Shiva Sound / Nada
06. Sgatto / Todos los gatos son pardos
07. Soma Raza / El maestro
08. Ojos de Brujo / Timbero
09. Cheb Balowski / Paloma
10. Macaco / Pirata de agua salada
11. 08001 / Star
12. Arianna Puello / La ley de Murphy
13. Dusminguet / Centroamérica
14. Trimelón / On The Vas
15. An der Beat / Da
16. Dr. Calypso / Brigadistes Internacionals
17. La Carrau / Golf

CD2
01. Quimi Portet / La Rambla
02. Sólo los Solo / Somos Sólo los Solo
03. El Payo Malo / Na ma se cantá
04. Caníbala / Hasta los huesos
05. Le Diablo Mariachi / Toc toc
06. Pat Macdonald + Lidia Pujol / Little Dark Angel
07. Paul Fuster / Come a Long Way
08. Miki-Lez + Manu Chao / People Dance
09. La Txaranga Revoltosa / Correcaminos
10. Costo Rico / Corazón
11. Kiko Veneno / Tú tranquilo
12. 8 Bits / No tan lejano Far West
13. Nelo y La banda del Zoco / Pura vida
14. Goldfinger & The Mush Potatoe / Can Tunís
15. Dúmbala Canalla / Joe, la cuenta
16. 7 Notas 7 Colores + Amparanoia / Hacer dinero más
17. Sergio Makaroff / Tranqui tranqui
18. Ragina & The Paissas / Vidas ejemplares.

Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here (1975)

steaknbutter — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 10:21:25 +0000

Recorded in the famous Abbey Road Studios 1975, this is may the most known Pink Floyd record. The most songs are dedicated for their former band member Syd Barrett. One of the best song intros is the intro of “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”, you hear the song in the radio and suddenly somebody plays the guitar to the radiosong until both melt together and the songs starts.

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Tom Waits – The Dime Store Novels Vol. I (Live 1974)

steaknbutter — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 10:08:20 +0000

You all may know Tom Waits, known for his acting in Jim Jarmusch movies like “Night On Earth”, “Coffee And Cigarettes” (together with Iggy Pop) or you may have the Epitaph Punkrocksampler “Punk-O-Rama 4″ where he covered the Alphaville song “Big in Japan” which is in my eyes the best cover of this crappy new wave shit.

This one is a real early record, recorded in 1974 live in Ebbetsfiels, Colorado, published in 2002 by EMC records. Interesting is the difference in his voice, the early records are quite different to the records especially after “Small Change”. The topic is the same, stories about outsiders, drop-outs and losers sitting drunken in bars.

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Trivia

He refused any offer of companies to play his songs in commercial ads, he even sued the Opel (General Motors Company) for playing a song of him in a TV commercial

“If Michael Jackson wants to work for Pepsi, why doesn’t he just get himself a suit and an office in their headquarters and be done with it.”

“Apparently the highest compliment our culture grants artists nowadays is to be in an ad—ideally naked and purring on the hood of a new car,”

John Butler Trio Live (@ The Civic Theatre 12/21/2005)

steaknbutter — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:41:03 +0000

Part two of the bootleg records, this part is dedicated to the great John Butler Trio, even if they played on the cruel “Live Earth” event. It´s hard to explain their music, I would say somewhere between blues and roots music.

The quality of this bootleg is pretty good, but if you have ever the chance to see them live, get to the concert, but train your legs, over 2 hours standing in the crowed while nobody on the stage is moving, made me very tired! So nothing more to say, just enjoy it.

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Beastie Boys – Sea Bright NJ (Live Bootleg 05/22/92)

steaknbutter — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:32:54 +0000

Today is bootleg time, this is the first of bootleg records I will publish today. Here we have a live bootleg from a Beastie Boys concert in Randy´s Rodeo, NJ in 1992 if you know the history of the Beastie Boys, you will know that this one is not a hardcore to the bone nor a true hiphop record. The quality is fair, if you think that someone recorded the show without permission. I publish also the tracklist, because I couldn´t find it on the net, a cover is also missing.

CD1
1. Ricky Powell’s Intro
2. To All The Girls
3. Slow & Low
4. Shake Your Rump
5. Pass The Mic
6. Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun>
7. Rhyming & Stealing
8. Time For Livin’
9. Egg Raid On Mojo
10. In 3′s (Instrumental)
11. POW
12. Live at PJ’s
13. Stand Together
14. Posse In Effect
15. A Year & A Day/Posse In Effect pt 2
16. Jimmy James
17. Sounds of Silence
18. Finger Lickin Good

CD2
1. This One’s for Todd
2. High Plains Drifter
3. So Whatcha Want?
4. Paul Revere
5. The Maestro
6. Groove Holmes (Instrumental)
7. Something’s Got To Give
8. Lighten Up
9. Gratitude
10. Stand Up (Minor Threat Cover)
11. Time To Get Ill
12. Shadrach

CD 1

CD 2

The Bar-Kays – Soulfinger

steaknbutter — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:06:56 +0000

The first update for this week, will be the 1967 published RnB record “Soulfinger” from Bar-Kays. It´s an easy listening RnB record, going straight without any great impulses, but the right music for the background. You may should know, that the hit Soul Finger was also covered by the Blues Brothers on one their records.

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PS: If you have the front cover, please let me know!

The Mars Volta – Francis The Mute

steaknbutter — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:15:04 +0000

I´m a little bit lazy today, so I just copy & paste the wiki post about the record, sorry but I´m not in the mood to write, next time will be better for sure!

Frances the Mute is comparable to The Mars Volta’s 2003 release De-Loused in the Comatorium, with its cryptic, verbose lyrics, largely improvised musical interludes and highly layered instrumentals, although the progressive rock influence is stronger on Frances the Mute than it was on De-Loused in the Comatorium. The band’s musical influences are more prominent; the guitar solo on “The Widow” seems inspired by classic rock, and much of the album has a psychedelic feel to it. Perhaps due to inspiration from such Pink Floyd albums as Meddle, ambient noise plays a larger role on Frances the Mute than it does on De-Loused in the Comatorium. “Miranda That Ghost Just Isn’t Holy Anymore,” for example, begins with 4 minutes of coquí frogs singing while a thick soundscape is slowly built from Cedric Bixler-Zavala’s voice and synthesizers.

Another distinct aspect of Frances the Mute is that the songs often move through several rather different stages. For example, “Cygnus…Vismund Cygnus” begins quietly with a lone acoustic guitar eventually joined by Cedric Bixler-Zavala softly singing. The song then turns into something resembling a chaotic hybrid of funk and metal, with Bixler-Zavala singing some of the lyrics in Spanish. Following this stage of the song, it shifts yet again, this time into an odd time-signatured rhythm accompanied by a guitar solo. This stage builds to a crescendo of jazz fusion, followed by a jam in 10/8. The song ends with a barrage of ambient noise and strange sound effects.

Wiki

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Bye bye for this week

steaknbutter — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 10:27:12 +0000

This is my last post till tuesday, it´s time for a little holiday trip. I found an interesting article about internet politics in germany (sorry it´s in german).

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Jefferson Airplane – Surrealistic Pillow (1967)

steaknbutter — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 07:11:39 +0000

Now it´s gettin psychedelic! This is the second LP from the psych-rock legends “Jefferson Airplane” and contains their first two hits “White Rabbit” and “Somebody To Love”. This piece was the first Top 20 entry in the USA for Jefferson Airplane (today: “Jefferson Starship The Next Generation”). Have a nice lunch with a good appetite for mushrooms.

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