Ridiculous

I was ready to go to bed, I promise, and then I found this site.

http://orgyinrhythm.blogspot.com/

If you don't know what this means, I can't explain it.

Psychedelic virus

Hey. Been a downloading day today. My girlfriend's been sick, so I've been downloading everything from here

http://www.unconsciousrepeat.blogspot.com/

This guy's a buddy of Burnt Brown Sounds so everything I've been listening to today has been on the same wasted early 70s California tip which goes just right with a rare grey day here in Spain and my massive sideburns which I'm going to cut tonight, taking me back to Squaresville.
I've also been dipping into the links here to the new projects from the members of The Beta Band.

http://coffeesnorter.blogspot.com/2006/07/second-cup-post-beta-band-era.html

Its nice to know that exceptionally creative and innovative band have not so much dissolved as mulltiplied like some psychedelic virus. My favourite track of there's is undoubtedly Monolith and in general I prefer The Three EP's before Steve Mason's lead vocals became uniformly prominent in the mix. There's nothing as expensive-sounding as Monolith here, its all necessarily a bit more lo-fi, but on all three projects the old magic is present.
Image from someone called Sagues. Downloaded it a while back. Seems appropriate.

Thumbsucker

Just saw this film. Seen a few teen / coming of age things recently - Almost Famous, Brick, Igby Goes Down. All good, but this is better. Air's Sexy Boy is probably my favourite music video, so I wanted to see this on the visual level anyway as its from the same director - Mike Mills.
But its a fine film, and good philosophical nuggets from Keanu Reeves in a role he was born to play. Lifted from Imdb...

That's 'cause we all wanna be problemless. To fix ourselves. We look for some magic solution to make us all better, but none of us really know what we're doing. And why is that so bad? That's all we humans can do. Guess. Try. Hope. But, Justin, just pray you don't fool yourself into thinking you've got the answer. Because that's bullshit. The trick is living without an answer. I think.

I read Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel earlier in the year. A fine read, so I thought I'd check if they made a film of it. They did, with Christina Ricci in the lead, though it seems it wasn't much cop. Shame they couldn't get a Mike Mills or a Sofia Coppolla on board for that one.

MostlyBrasil mix

Been gathering bits for this mix for a while, the latest attempt at compiling a CD for the car we can BOTH enjoy. A few rather random bits, I suppose, but I like to break up the sounds a bit. Have tonnes more Brasilian nuggets to plunder for future volumes.



1. Notas GOTAN PROJECT
2. Ernie FAT FREDDY'S DROP
3. Sour Times PORTISHEAD
4. Carnavalia TRIBALISTAS
5. Desafinado ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM & GAL COSTA
6. Feel Flows THE BEACH BOYS
7. Almost Cut My Hair DAVID CROSBY
8. A Minha Menina OS MUTANTES
9. Carolina Carol Bela DJ MARKY
10. Malizie Di Venere GIAN PIERO REVERBERI
11. Conversacao De Paz SERGIO RICARDO
12. Agua De Beber ASTRUD GILBERTO
13. Universo Ao Meu Redor MARISA MONTE
14. Carolina Carol Bela TOQUINHO & JORGE BEN
15. Round About Midnight CHET BAKER / GOTAN PROJECT
16. Swinga Sambaby TRIO MOCOTO
17. Canto De Ossanha BADEN POWELL
18. Mas Que Nada TAMBA TRIO

Most beautiful lyrics ever

I have to transcribe these lyrics giving me chills this morning. From 'Aguas De Marco' by Getz /Gilberto / Jobim. I was just thinking the other day that I don't listen to much hip hop or contemporary rock because the lyrics are too strong. Well these lyrics are sublime, translated from the Portugese, but not suffering from it and delivered with awesome class and poise by Gilberto.

A stick, a stone,
its the end of the road
its the rest of us done
its a little unknown
its a sliver of class
it is life, its the sun
it is night, it is death
its a trap, its a gun
the oak when it flows
a fox in the brush
the knot in the wood
the sound of the thrush
the wood of the wind
a cleaf of thorn
a scratch, a lump
it is nothing at all
its the wind blowing free
its the end of the slope
its a beam, its a point,
its a hunch, its a hope
and the riverbank talks
of the waters of March
its the end of the strain
its the joy in our heart
the foot, the ground
the flash on the bow
the beat of the road
a slingshot stone
a fish, a flash,
a silvery glow
the fight, a bet,
the range of the bow
the bed of the whale
the end of the line,
the dismay in the face
its a loss, its a find
a spear, a spike
a point, a nail,
a drip, a drop,
the end of the deal
a truckload of bricks
in the soft morning light
the shot of a gun
in the dead of the night
a mile, a must,
a trust, a bump,
its a girl, its a rhyme,
its a goat, its the mumps
the plan of the hounds
the body in bed
and the car that got stuck
its the mud, its the mutt
afloat, adrift,
aflight, a wink,
a hulk, a quail,
and the promise of spring
and the riverbank talks
of the waters of March
its the promise of life
its the joy in our hearts.

Couple of things I'm not sure about here (truckload of bricks??!!) If anyone has a better transcription, please let me know.

Brasilian wax

I love my Brasilians. No, really. And I'm getting more into them daily. I highly recommend anyone who'd like a comprehensive intro to that nation's music gets over to the Brownswood forum and downloads this 140 min nugget selection.

http://brownswood.5.forumer.com/index.php?showtopic=6445

Gal Costa, Marisa Monte, Jorge Ben, Baden Powell, Astrud Gilberto, MPB-4, Tamba Trio, Sergio Mendes, Quarteto Em Cy, Os Originales De Samba to name a few, but there are tonnes more waiting to be discovered.
But I'm irked by the new version of 'Mas Que Nada' by the Black Eyed Peas. Hideous McMusic by this generation's Black Lace. Wrong, just wrong.

Info on the scene here...

http://www.slipcue.com/music/brazil/brazillist.html

Woodenelephant's Current Top Ten Albums

10. Almost Famous VARIOUS
9. DJ Kicks KRUDER & DORFMEISTER
8. Jazz Et Jazz ANDRE HODEIR
7. Complete Pacific Jazz Small Group Sessions ART PEPPER
6. No Other GENE CLARK
5. Gal GAL COSTA
4. Mendelsshon Concertos In E JASCHA HEIFETZ
3. Free For All ART BLAKEY
2. Fuzion PESHAY
1. Cellar Door Sessions MILES DAVIS

Devvo

Was over in London and found out about this new internet phenomenon for dem yout' dem. The site that this Gonzo-esque (part fact / part fiction) character appears on also includes some cartoons which are above average. I liked the one about the Gulch. These guys can only be 7 or so years younger than me but I feel worlds away from them. Enjoy it while it lasts.

http://www.fat-pie.com/chavs.htm

Watch the shitrain start

Just sent the blog address to my whole address book. Hmmm.

Links

Man.
I don't know how to get a Links column.
So I'm gonna do a Links post (cos I'm in the mood like Glen Miller)

First of all, I'm becoming a regular poster here and anyone who's stumbled onto the site after locating a name like Gilles or Blakey would do well drop in here too. Many of the guys here post their own mixes (being more technologically advanced than myself) I'm listening to an acheingly gorgeous Brasilian mix by Brownswood mainman Amblito as I type.

Brownswood forum

http://brownswood.5.forumer.com/index.php?s=da4d48a63c003b541db9f5a3b5f068bc

Of course Gilles is the hero of the heads and you can hear it streamed here (normally i don't bother with streams but, you know, its Gilles) . Great great Jazzanova mixtape and Gilles is finally getting on the deep / tech house tip, it seems...

Gilles show

http://www.giantstep.net/artists/710/

On a rock / folk tip this mp3 blog, which I have mentioned before (and bigged up on Brownswood) is always stuffed full of goodness. The blogger is a member of a group called Speck Mountain. Awesome David Crosby track available here.

Burnt Brown Sounds

http://www.brownsounds.blogspot.com/

This, The Hype Machine, is a great resource. Its a search engine for mp3 blogs which I use mainly for tracking down Rub N Tug releases. I figure one day the suits'll close this down but like the day of peak fossil fuel usage a-comin', its better not to think about it, innit?

The Hype Machine

http://hype.non-standard.net/

You can get yourself some fine mixes here from the likes of Ben Watt and half of Rub N Tug.

WPS1 DJ Sessions

http://ps1.el.net/web/podcasts/dj_sessions/

John Peel's memory being kept alive here. You can download nuff shows by the most modest of musical visionaries. Its here I read about a new comp of Peel faves, charmingly called 'Right Time Wrong Speed' There's a tasty looking Links section here which I've not yet had time to delve into.

http://johnpeeleveryday.blogspot.com/

Quality but not quantity here from Heavy Usker, remixer of Cesar Mariano, cratedigger, new dad and top bloke

http://radiomadrid.blogspot.com/

Seriously obsessive blogging-about-everything here. Links to many of my selections.

http://www.devilinthedetails.blogspot.com/

Diverse mp3 blog

http://dilate.choonz.com/

If you're into underground house there's no shortage of free mixes about. A lot of them aren't too good though. Back in Blighty I could always depend on 'Graveyard' Dave Mothersole but I've not been able to locate a podcast or mix by him.
This link page is massive though and leads to interesting places.

http://www.jameslauer.com/links.htm

Dependable podcasts here, quite web-renowned, I've noticed.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/milkradio

But this is perhaps the king of mp3 blogs webwide. Typically - old soul, classic hip hop, Americana ...

http://www.moistworks.com/

Similarly diverse and half-in-Spanish. Billions of links.

http://mookamotel.blogspot.com/

One of the Paris DJs crew (big podcasters). I ran into his site today.

http://dustytape.blogspot.com/

The Paris DJs crew. I recommend the Mind Radio show #1 part 1 for starters.

http://www.parisdjs.com/

Another mp3 blog I found today. Dylan tracks here (but I can't be bothered)

http://www.oneloudernyc.com/

More deep house. Mostly amateurs. But I found one nice mix here.

http://www.protonradio.com/phpBB2/index.php

A not overstocked blog which seems to be promoting rather than bootlegging, I reckon.

http://www.scissorkick.com/

Reliable mixes here of almost-house music. Box fresh. No dust.

http://allsexistape.blogspot.com/

Neil Young bootlegs and other rockery here.

http://permandskullet.com/

Looks like some good mixes here. Haven't checked it yet.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/TimelessInspiration

Download obscure 30's dance bands here. Must've linked to it from a Peel site. Different.

http://www.2multiples.com/hotdance/

Hugely dependable site for podcasts of spiritual black rhythms past & present

http://quincyessentialmusic.libsyn.com/

Similarly, with jazz emphasis.

http://www.bendingcorners.com/

Finally, there should be plenty of bits here (for a limited time) from the newly deceased Output Records.

http://www.outputrecordings.com/

Wow! That took a long time!

Painting

Painted today. Me and my chica.
Background music was Art Blakey's Free For All, then Pink Floyd's Dark Side (first time I've properly heard it). Had to turn off Swayzak's Loops From The Bergerie cos the dog was getting scared from the unnecessary fireworks people here set off when they commit to each other's genitals. Turned out a nice 'Two Men' on a Dubuffet tip, then rolled out the latest in my long-running 'Gallery' series (though the first A4 sized with extensive colour.) I'd love to stick up the results of my creative spunking for all to see but I haven't worked out how to do the photo thangmithangthang. Maybe my ole bro over at Sky Larks might be able to give me a few pointers.

Lay Down Your Massive Tunes

I'm sharing the wealth. The humungous music collection I've amassed during four months or so almost constantly on-line with Emule has been dipped into for the rarest shit to amass a gift for my pal Ben, DJ, music journo, record label type etc - the only guy I know as obsessive as me about tuneage - which I will give him when I 'bowl' over to London in a few days. Han, this list might get you back on the hard stuff.

First off a selection of loose tunes:

Flashback (2 remixes) FAT FREDDY'S DROP / JAZZANOVA
I'm Falling CHARLES WEBSTER / PEPE BRADDOCK
Detroit MOONSTARR
Illa ZINC
By Your Side SADE / MOODYMANN
Crackhousewarmingparty DAVID GILMOUR GIRLS / RUB N TUG
Return To Margin COLDCUT / J SWINSCOE
Ensadinado FATS SADI
Dreadlocked Woman 2 MANY DJ'S
The Sad Piano JUSTIN MARTIN / CHARLES WEBSTER
New York City BEASTIE BOYS / RUB N TUG
Deep City BASIC BASTARD
I'm On Fire FOUR TET
Misnomer FOUR TET
3625 FOUR TET
Too Much Love LCD SOUNDSYSTEM / RUB N TUG
Nobody's Gonna Love You Like I Do NORMA JEAN BELL
Out Here In There BUGGE WESSELTOFT & SIDSEL ENDRESEN
Try BUGGE WESSELTOFT & SIDSEL ENDRESEN
Live At 237 PESHAY
All The Critics Love U In New York (Mix 2) PRINCE / MOODYMANN
Everything In Its Right Place RADIOHEAD / HEAD OF THE HOUSE
Sister Morphine ROLLING STONES
Snakes & Ladders SLY MONGOOSE / RUB N TUG
Metronomic Underground (Peel Session) STEREOLAB

Phew!
Five sessions next

Gilles Peterson with Beth Gibbons in Session on Radio One
Beta Band Breezeblock Mix On Radio One
Soft Machine Live In Montreux '74
Spirit Of Bedrock Vol 3 by Matthew Lippiatte
Osunlade on Novamix

And the albums

Live At The Royal Albert Hall '66 BOB DYLAN
With Thelonious Monk ART BLAKEY & THE JAZZ MESSENGERS
Basscadet EP AUTECHRE
A Few Old Tunes Vol 1-2 BOARDS OF CANADA
Mocha Supremo BUSCEMI
Fabric Live 07 JOHN PEEL
Ceefax FRIDGE
Semaphore FRIDGE
Jazz Juice Vol 1-8 GILLES PETERSON
Brazilica Vol 1-2 GILLES PETERSON
Impressed Vol 2 GILLES PETERSON
Europe '72 GRATEFUL DEAD
Flags Of The Sacred Harp JACKIE O MOTHERFUCKER
O Bidu No Brooklyn JORGE BEN
Remixes 99-05 FOUR TET
Black Gold KING BISCUIT TIME (aka Steve Mason, ex-Beta Band)
DJ Kicks 4 (Rareties Bootleg) KRUDER & DORFMEISTER
Kerrier District KERRIER DISTRICT (aka Luke Vibert)
Peel Sessions 97 - 01 MOGWAI
Black Mahogani 1 & 2 MOODYMANN
Sem Limites Vol 2 MPB-4 / QUARTETO EM CY
Smoking Blues ('70 Bootleg) PINK FLOYD
Radio Mixes 2005 DFA
Do This Well THE ROOTS
Instrumental Album THE ROOTS
Trip Hop Reconstructed (Bootleg) / Remixes PORTISHEAD
1965 Demos / 1969 Lost Live Tapes VELVET UNDERGROUND
Reconstruction ZERO DB

Quite a haul. Something for everyone, even Joe Public himself! (Floyd bootlegs)
Just as there's always a tune that the DJ wishes he'd brought, the absence of which haunts him through the set, I'm vexed by some omissions on this spectacular 4.5 GB (as near as dammit) explosion of cum.
There is not a dicky bird from my trinity of musical heroes (who sometimes form a hexagon with the present Hebden, Dixon Jr and Blakey) - namely Neil Young, Gal Costa (ok, heroine...... will be the death of meee etc) and Art Pepper. For shame, for shame.
I also meant to include Fat Freddy's Drop live in Paris but it somehow got lost. Next time, Murphmeister. Yo!

Forced poem

Struggles to come out,
The arsehole contracts.
Mess.

'F Is For Fake'

This film just popped up on TVE quite unexpectedly. Welles' last film, an experimental documentary about an art forger and his hoaxer biographer, dropping in on Howard Hughes and Pablo Picasso. Interesting stories, makes me want to read about the shit they were digging into in 70s gossip pages. Good film too, and plenty of quoteables from the big man who wanders iconically through his film puffing a cheroot and wearing a black hat and cape. As George Costanza once said 'Who wears a cape?' Orson.

I took this off the Imdb site...

Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war, or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash - the triumphs, the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. A fact of life: we're going to die. "Be of good heart," cry the dead artists out of the living past. "Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing." Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that much.

Stating the obvious, but its nice to hear it said somewhere more permanent than the air. And us bloggers, now - aren't we the ultimate in man's disposable efforts to be permanent?

Yahoo Answers patheticness

Putting some of the views I've been posting to the US college kids & single 40sth Who fans onto my fine-assed blog for posterity.

Here's a link to my contributions... Wooodenelephant

on creationism

Is it true that 80% of Americans believe in Creationism?

I previously had this question removed because of a small additional phrase which was deemed insulting. In fact, the phrase undermined the seriousness of my question and it is better without.I believe that Creationism is untrue. I also think that its advocates employ the crude but effective devise of accusing evolutionists of doing exactly what they do - such as selectively interpreting or even surpressing scientific evidence.Evolution theory is the result of years of research, and does not in any way oppose any conception of God, other than literal interpretation of scripture.I urge anyone who feels uneducated about the theory of evolution to read, for example, The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins. This book opened my eyes to the true complexity and logic of evolution theory and made me see the evolution of, say, the human eye, is not only conceivable but probable - and deeply astonishing.

on depression

i suffered from depression for a long time. it would be fair to say it was not serious depression and typical of the depression which some adolescents and young people experience. My advice is to keep it simple. You are on a journey of accepting yourself and everything which goes with that. it will take time and there is no guarantee of success. the only thing you have in life is yourself. you have never had and never will have anything else. this probably sounds like a nightmare but after years of accepting - you will, i believe, find yourself free of your negative mind cycles.

on lennon v elvis

from cheesy Merseypop to glum suburban psychedelia to avant garde tedium? or from classic rock & roll balladry like Fool Such As I and Mystery Train to anthemic gospel-tinged soul like Always On My Mind and Can't Help Falling In Love? No contest.

on the big G

Depends on your definition of God. For instance, there are pantheistic religions (I think Hinduism is one) - i.e. god is everything. Religion and philosophy are tied. Man has always asked himself 'why am I here?' and organisations and individuals have always lied to maintain power. Just because you reject organised religion does not mean you should necessarily reject all the varied conceptions of god (or, indeed, life).Dostoevsky believed prayer was psychologically beneficial and I, for one, agree with him. A sound mind can accomplish more than an unsound one.

new mix

As I used to with my tapes, I'm currently making loads of mix cds at the same time.
The first one to be completed is a deep mix of tech-house etc. which came in at a glorious 79.49. All of these tunes have been ticklin the tiny bones more than others.

'ELECTRIC EEL'

1. Lady - MODJO / DANNY TENAGLIA
2. Detroit - MOONSTARR
3. The Sad Piano - JUSTIN MARTIN / CHARLES WEBSTER
4. Deep City - BASIC BASTARD
5. Buena Vida - INNER CITY / CARL CRAIG
6. By Your Side - SADE / MOODYMANN
7. Crackhousewarmingparty - DAVID GILMOUR GIRLS / RUB N TUG
8. It's No Good - DEPECHE MODE / ANDREA PARKER
9. Everything In Its Right Place - RADIOHEAD / HEAD OF THE HOUSE
10. J'ai Dormir Sous L'eau - AIR / CHATEAU FLIGHT
11. Atlantic Avenue - FRANCIS HARRIS & DAVE MOTHERSOLE

All excellent tracks. Last night I had the presence of mind to download the full version of Charles Webster's remix of The Sad Piano (the 4 minute edit appears on this cd) so this may reappear on these pages sooner than others.
Special mention is owed to Dave Mothersole, whose late night deep & tech house show on London's Kiss FM (Tuesdays, 2am) almost single-handedly turned me on to these kinds of sounds. Isn't it time Dave's show was syndicated on the 'Net?
I'm looking into podcasting technology, folks, so watch this space...

Michel Thomas

Just been getting into the first few lessons of his Learn Spanish course on my delicious Creative Zen Micro, which I erroneously call an iPod (isn't it high time iPod became accepted slang for all mp3 players in the manner of sellotape, hoover etc?). Really beefing up my knowledge already, especially on grammar and pronunciation - I've been living in Valencia for a year and already have a lot of the vocabulary down. He must be pretty old though, it sounds like he's sucking a Werther`s Original the whole time.

Tee Hee (Update)

Just click on 'Woodcock' in my entry 'Tee Hee' and you'll get a direct link to the meaning eater. Now we can all write nonsense poetry like Chris Morris.
Not that anyone's going to visit this blog. Not with sites like 'Naked Asian Girl' around. Rumpole!!!

a FUCKING tracklisting you CUNT!

English humour, ay? The finest in the world. All cancer and paedophiles. The Americans say (adopt mosquito-like whine) 'Uh, why is that funny?' A friend told me 80% believe in creationism. For goodness sake. That's why Oprah's got a TV show instead of being as nature intended her - alone, scared and crying. Anyway...
I'm hoping to DJ in sunny Valencia town. The tracklisting of my historic first promo CD follows.
¡Joder! y'all!

'BEEF'

1. I'm A Man CHICAGO / RUB N TUG
2. Tropical Soundclash DJ GREGORY / KENNY DOPE
3. Dreadlocked Woman 2 MANY DJ'S
4. Dat Dere BOBBY TIMMONS
5. Live At 2-37 PESHAY
6. Sebastiana GAL COSTA
7. Afro Temple SABU MARTINEZ
8. Peas N Rice FREDDIE McCOY
9. Flashback FAT FREDDY'S DROP / JAZZANOVA
10. Break You Off THE ROOTS & MUSIQ
11. She Lives In My Lap OUTKAST
12. Illa ZINC
13. Black Waders BEN & THE PLATANO GROUP
14. Ensadinado FATS SADI
15. Jeep Blues PIERO UMILIANI

Lots of jazz cos I'm going to a jazz club tomorrow an' I like jazz anyway.
Just say the word 'jazz'. Its funny.

Man have I been downloading shitloads from Emule.

I feel so empty.