Deep mix

A tribute to Dave Mothersole whose wonderful Late Night Sessions on Kiss 100 ended this year. I thought this picture would be appropriate both because of my alias and because Dave's love of house and techno began in India. You can read about it at his myspace

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=83586487

And here's the link to the site i got the picture from which has some exceptional images.

http://alanlittle.org/Gallery/India/NamaRupa/index.html


On with the tracklisting

1. Plunder ALEX SMOKE
2. Night Images LARRY HEARD / SWAYZAK
3. 55 Cancri ELEGY (alias KIRK DEGIORGIO
4. Space Rider BASIC BASTARD
5. Mine To Give PHOTEK & ROBERT OWENS / DAVID MORALES
6. Crosses JOSE GONZALES / JORI HULKKONEN
7. Dragon Loop MARCUS WORGULL
8. Aint Nothing Like This Feeling (Version Mix) SLOPE / CHARLES WEBSTER
9. Je Suis Ta Drogue (Epic Club Mix) GRANT NELSON

Downloads of the week # 2

Found more zip blogs recently (as always).
There's a lot of good alternative rock here - My Bloody Valentine, Mercury Rev, Yo La Tengo.

Musikalia

My pick of the bunch is Coney Island Baby by Lou Reed. I've only given it a quick listen but it sounds more on the Velvets tip than most Lou stuff. Think of the comedown stuff like Pale Blue Eyes rather than the pulsing thrashy stuff like Sister Ray. 3rd entry on this page...

Lou

And here's a blog from Russia (?) which covers many bases of black music. Pick up stone cold classics by Shuggie Otis and Fela Kuti as well as stuff from today's innovators such as Madlib.

Black Man Land

Amongst the mainstream stuff there's a few nuggets most notably The Roots' fairly obscure debut Organix. My favourite hip hop album is hands down Things Fall Apart which has all the slickness and drama of top level gangsta rap but with a black consciousness flow. Organix is jazzier, inevitably less well produced but a great listen. Its worth the download for the track The Session, a 12 minute jam featuring a pretty far out (for hip-hop) jazz-horns loop. Its the 11th entry down on this page.

Roots

R.I.P. Anita

Heard the sad bews yesterday reading the Straight No Chaser blog (not the London magazine, an old American jazz head)

A great singer, not one for stuffy purists but full of personality. One of the first jazz artists I got into, actually - Apollo 440's Krupa inspired me to pick up a budget Krupa comp which lead me onto Anita.

She's more celebrated for her 50s recordings than her big band efforts. Versions of Early Autumn and My Funny Valentine stand out for me from this period.

And there's a beautiful and largely unknown track from the Krupa days called That's What You Think.

Sample her breathless style and some naughty (for the 40s) leg-flashing shenanigans here

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mCU4ExwpfS8

Downloads Of The Week # 1

New feature! I've been thinking about doing this for a while so I have a nice selection for you this week. I don't know why but I'm having no joy with the links in the posts so you will need to cut n paste, children.
First, a podcast of quality drum n bass here. Grimeheads wont be satisfied but it joins the dots between old school, soulful and broken beat very nicely.


http://www.timelessinspiration.com/Timeless-Inspiration-repost

Joe Henderson's Canyon Lady deserves another mention. The track Las Palmas is a favourite from the tapehead days. Driving Latin rhythms and discordant sax - but it really works!

http://elreza.blogspot.com/2006/11/canyon-lady-joe-henderson-1.html

When Herbert was good (don't know what's happened recently... Scale sounded like vaudeville show tunes) he put out a remix of Karin Krog. This is pretty much all I heard about her til I stumbled across her album Joy here. The first track Mr Joy has that early Cinematic Orchestra sound, with the twanging of the double bass dominant.

http://swami-hermitus-solus.blogspot.com/2006_11_05_swami-hermitus-solus_archive.html

Loronix is posting a superhuman amount of Brasilian gems. The enormous selection is also by and large still downloadable. Here's two which stand out for me.

http://loronix.blogspot.com/2006/07/elis-regina-como-porque-1969.html
http://loronix.blogspot.com/2006/07/joyce-feminina-1980.html

And get your laughing gear round this. Classic comedy vinyl from Derek And Clive. Michael 'Kramer' Richards take note - these guys are offensive but also funny, you Seinfeld-ruining loon! Go to the bottom of this page - PLO archives in months.

http://palestinianlightorchestra.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_palestinianlightorchestra_archive.html

Thanks to all the sharity bloggers, mp3 bloggers and podcasters out there. There's tonnes of great stuff out there right now, including lots of stuff I've downloaded and haven't listened to yet!

The image is some graffitti in Brasil.

Poetry, Lyrics & The Black Stuff

Check out my friend Han's poetry. Its rather good. Manages to be emotionally raw and genuinely surreal at the same time. http://hanless.blogspot.com/index.html

He linked to my Waters Of March lyrics post so I thought I'd post some more.

This track I heard on rocking Radio 2 a long while ago. I taped it as I did almost everything at this stage. Perhaps prompted by the death of the lyricist, the Austrailian TV presenter and raconteur Clive James, I see its been reissued on CD.

More info here: http://www.peteatkin.com/dtouch.htm

Touch Has A Memory

Touch has a memory
Better than the other senses
Hearing and sight fight free
Touching has no defences
Textures come back to you real as can be
Touch has a memory

Fine eyes are wide at night
Eyelashes show that nicely
Seeing forgets the sight
Touch recollects precisely
Eyelids are modest yet blink at a kiss
Touching takes note of this

When in a later day
Little of the vision lingers
Memory slips away
Every way but through the fingers
Textures come back to you real as can be
Making you feel time doesn't heal
And touch has a memory

And this from Leonard Cohen. It gives me chills every time I hear it. This is one song I am sure will always be a part of my life.

Famous Blue Raincoat

Its four in the morning, the end of december
Im writing you now just to see if youre better
New york is cold, but I like where Im living
Theres music on clinton street all through the evening.

I hear that youre building your little house deep in the desert
Youre living for nothing now, I hope youre keeping some kind of record.

Yes, and jane came by with a lock of your hair
She said that you gave it to her
That night that you planned to go clear
Did you ever go clear?

Ah, the last time we saw you you looked so much older
Your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder
Youd been to the station to meet every train
And you came home without lili marlene

And you treated my woman to a flake of your life
And when she came back she was nobodys wife.

Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth
One more thin gypsy thief
Well I see janes awake --

She sends her regards.
And what can I tell you my brother, my killer
What can I possibly say?
I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you
Im glad you stood in my way.

If you ever come by here, for jane or for me
Your enemy is sleeping, and his woman is free.

Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes
I thought it was there for good so I never tried.

And jane came by with a lock of your hair
She said that you gave it to her
That night that you planned to go clear

By the way the party's over... Watch the excellent TV version of Rob Newman's excellent stand-up show. Be both disturbed and entertained. I found out lots of things I would never have known about the West's crusade for oil, the media representation of it and the American economy if it hadn't been presented in easily digestable chunks by Newman. A favourite for some time, Newman uses his skill for the long, convoluted build-up to a punchline for socially conscious monologues.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7374585792978336967

5am in London

Completed this mix night before last, appropriately enough around 5am (couldn't sleep due to heartburn). Its been gestating for many months, perhaps prompted by the recent grey, windy tiempo round here. So this be the nostalgian. The spliff when it still represented freedom and not imprisonment to me. A tribute to those big days of youth when loneliness was a thrill.

1. Michael Knight FRIDGE
2. Mi Par d'Udir Ancora (Bizet) ENRICO CARUSO
3. Buckie High BOARDS OF CANADA
4. Syntax GIMMIK
5. Sister Morphine ROLLING STONES
6. Blues De L'Antenne BARNEY WILEN
7. Diabolus CINEMATIC ORCHESTRA
8. Don't Panic COLDPLAY
9. Mondschein Sonate (Beethoven) MARIA JOAO PIRES
10. Pale Blue Eyes VELVET UNDERGROUND
11. Windwind AUTECHRE
12. Like It Is YUSEF LATEEF
13. Try BUGGE & SIDSEL



And here's a jazz mix I did as a promo hoping to get a gig at a jazz club here called Matisse. I'm sending both these mixes to a geezer called Fred as part of a sort of Secret Santa over at Brownswood.

1. Casa Forte ELIS REGINA
2. Feminina JOYCE
3. Las Palmas JOE HENDERSON
4. Crisis ART BLAKEY & THE JAZZ MESSENGERS
5. Flying Machine WAR
6. Money (Thats What I Want) FREDDIE ROACH
7. King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown AUGUSTUS PABLO
8. Mr Joy KARIN KROG
9. Sylvia ARTHUR VEROCAI
10. Di-Da SAHIB SHIHAB & THE DANISH RADIO JAZZ GROUP
11. Bongo Chant HAROLD VICK
12. Sambongo JOAO DONATO
13. Paint It Black GABOR SZABO
14. Jamie DONALD BYRD
15. Bunny ART PEPPER

By the way, I've finally worked out how to do a Links section. It will be expanded in the coming weeks...