The Oscillation-Out of Phase

not sure how i found out about this album but i've had it for awhile & listen to it pretty frequently.I think what first intrigued me was they covered Head Hang Low off Julian Cope's wonderful first solo album.Looking forward to new material at some point.And apparently it's not so much a band as one guys bedroom recording.Psych lovers will dig it.

I have a mild paranoid fear that possibly Demian Castellanos has snuck into my loungeroom and scoured my music collection for all my favourite bits to take home and meld into this sprawling masterpiece. It’s got many of the things I love somehow genetically modified into a cohesive whole.
Velvet Underground noise freakout ‘67; Primal Screamadelics ‘90; NEU! Motorik wave ‘74; meandering Pink Floyd noodle ‘68; Ride and Chapterhouse shoegaze blissout ‘91; the massed reverberating intimacy of Mum ‘01; Stereolab dronescape ‘94. Add to that some dub production on acoustic instruments to make King Tubby proud, and the obligatory punk-funk-Gang of Four references and this is music coming at you from every direction.

Things are particularly ear catching when Castellanos talk/sings his simple melodies under a wave of effects and driving rhythms such as on ‘Violations’ or ‘Head Hang Low’. He can also ride a riff for all it’s worth, particularly with a distorted bassline as he does in ‘Gamelin Minscape’. After a barrage of various uptempo styles the album is rounded out with a handful of mellower, yet no less spaced-out, musical tracks, building to the final, 10 minute ‘Visitation (Exit)’ which revels in off-kilter delays, weezy synths, glockenspiels and pulsing bottom end. What is of particular note is that this album is the product of a single musician’s work. The traditional (rock) format of drums, bass and guitar are featured throughout in a remarkably ensemble sounding manner, overlaid with synths and production.It does sound like a band and it wasn’t until I MySpaced The Oscillation after a number of listens that I realised it was something other.

I have to confess to having a large amount of preconditioning to the sounds used in Out Of Phasebut, if anything, that would make me even more critical of their use. While I can hear reverberations of the last 40 years in Castellanos’ work, this is undoubtedly his own music, a blend of influences put to good effect, not a pastiche of styles. I absolutely loved this album.

Adrian Elmer-Cyclic Defrost Magazine

• Visitation
• Liquid Memoryman
• Violations
• Distant Transmission
• Head Hang Low
• Comatone (Part One)
• Respond In Silence
• This Is Nowhere
• Gamelan Mindscape
• Hear Your Sadness
• Saturn 5
• Comatone (Reprise)
• Visitation (Exit)

as i listened to this i found out track 7 had a big digital pop on it.I went ahead & uploaded a fixed file.Then as i was doing that i found another version of Head Hang Low off the ep of the same name so i put that mp3 file in a zip.Remember track 7 in the original file is damaged.Substitute this one

• The Oscillation.zip
• 07 Respond In Silence.mp3.zip
• 03 Head Hang Low Bright Confusion Version.mp3.zip

The Soundcarriers-Harmonium

I'm down with the sound of Nottingham based quartet The Soundcarriers and their jazz influenced psychedelic pop sound. New Long player 'Harmonium' has a lot going on, from the master class player to the meticulously well thought out production job, this record is clearly a labour of love for the group. 'Harmonium' immediately reminds me of Stereolab and Broadcast, two other groups that pay very close attention to detail when it comes to song craft and production. Soundcarriers come complete with a full arsenal of instruments; lilted guitars, gutsy bass lines, washy and reverberant drums are accompanied by a huge array of additional sounds including flutes, organs, harps, recorders and the occasional stylophone too. Vocal melodies sound like they've been lifted directly from some obscure 60 pop seven inch, sounding immediately familiar and reassuring. Musically the group wander through the best traits of 60's psychedelia, lounge jazz, euro-indie pop and canterbury era folk prog. For me, this is an excellent combination of influences and couple that with an obsession with the unorthodox production techniques of Phil Spector and David Axelrod and you've got one tasty and inventive sounding record. They are definitely influenced directly by certain 60's psych pop groups but i can't put my finger on which, maybe United States of America.....i can't quite work it out but rest assured this is some stylish stuff yo! Very enjoyable.

Normanrecords.com

That the debut album by The Soundcarriers shares its title with a 1992 Stereolab single may be no coincidence.
Professed influences include Free Design, whose Chris Dedrick has written sleevenotes for the vinyl edition of Harmonium. Indeed their airy vocals and downbeat jazz-inflected melodies evoke harmony pop in general. Also in the mix are Wendy & Bonnie, The united States Of America and Future Days-era Can. Time will come channels the title track of Small Faces' Ogden's Nut Gone Flake, but The Soundcarriers are more than record collector/rock lab scientists. What they bring to the table is a living, breathing sence of the organic. This music reaches out, enveloping warmly, blanket-like. Drummer Adam Cann's jazzy precision is especially beguiling. Overall Harmonium is lovely. A splendid future awaits.

Kieran Tyler - Mojo Magazine - June 2009

Citing 'Tropicalia, Bollywood, European folk, '50s surf and exotica' as their influences and talking freely of 'psychedelia', Nottingham's Soundcarriers present an album of dense, trippy, hypnotic and downright groovy (in a 1969 exploitation movie love scene kinda way) tunes that update the '60s experimental easy/electronica mash-ups of The United States Of America, Fifty Foot Horse and The Free Design with captivating results.

Flutes, tablas, analogue keyboards and Leslied male/female vocals snake across floral drum/bass grooves that recall Ennio Morricone and Gabor Szabo far more than they do Stereolab, Broadcast and their ilk. The whole thing was done on analogue equipment so the sound should appeal to retro pop and psychedelia snobs too. Hell, they even manage to sound like The Strawberry Alarmdclock covering The Byrds' 'I See You' on 'Caught By The Sun'!

Riveting.

Andy Morten - Shindig! May-June 2009

Intro
Time Will Come
Uncertainty - Listen
Caught By The Sun
Calling Me
Calling Me Reprise
Volcano
Been Out To Sea
Without Sound
Without Sound PART II
Cannonball
Let It Ride
Falling For You
Glide - Listen
On That Line
Harmonium

The Soundcarriers.zip

soundcarriers 2.

THESE ARE MP4 FILES-NEED TO DECODE FOR PC

Monsters,Robots & Bugmen

Towards the end of its short life, Virgin’s Ambient series – from which we’ve already tasted Isolationism and the two Macro Dub Infection collections – started to venture further afield. Subtitled “A User’s Guide to the Rock Hinterland”, it’s a comprehensive look at post-rock, math-rock, alt-rock and a whole variety of short-lived terms that hyphenated with “-rock”. It’s a great collection, and a shame it’s been out of print for over a decade. The Ambient series would drift yet further, with David Toop’s Sugar & Poison funk collection stretching the original label concept to breaking – but pretty much everything on the list is worth acquiring.

i plan on eventually posting most everything in this series of 2 cd sets.The Isolationism sets,the macro dub sets,the David Toop mixes & whatever else there is.In the mid 90's it felt like experimental music & dj culture & the modern world were combining to create something new.It never happened but the music is still fascinating

DISC ONE
01. Bardo Pond – Tantric Porno (6:10)
02. Long Fin Killie – A Man Ray (3:34)
03. God – Gold Teeth (Charles Atlas Mix) (4:27)
04. Third Eye Foundation – Sleep (6:50)
05. Hair & Skin Trading Company – * (2:46)
06. Füxa – Photon (3:14)
07. Run On – Pretty Note (4:07)
08. Ui – The Grand Piano (13:55)
09. Bowery Electric – Slow Thrills (10:15)
10. Brise-Glace – Neither Yield nor Reap (6:49)
11. Pram – Sea Swells and Distant Squalls (6:05)
12. Magic Hour – Chance Was (4:56)
13. Labradford – SEDR77 (4:09)

DISC TWO
01. Mercury Rev – Everlasting Arm (5:13)
02. Flying Saucer Attack – Feedback Song (5:17)
03. Jessamine – Ordinary Sleep (3:39)
04. Yona-Kit – Dancing Sumo Wrestlers (3:24)
05. Windy & Carl – Preparation (7:12)
06. Godflesh – Crush my Soul (Ultramix) (14:11)
07. Sabalon Glitz – The Lonesome Death of Elijah P. Woods (6:22)
08. Stereolab – Les Yper-Yper Sound (5:10)
09. Cul de Sac – Doldrums (9:20)
10. Roy Montgomery – Departing the Body (4:38 )
11. U.S. Maple – Aplomado (1:52)
12. Space Needle – Before I Lose my Style (5:29)
13. Stars of the Lid – Goodnight (6:07)

Monsters, Robots & Bugmen [Disc 1].zip

monsters disc 1 pt.2.zip

Monsters, Robots And Bugmen [Disc 2].zip

monsters disc 2 pt.2.zip

Hammond Street 3

I love the Hammond.And i dig the funk.As funky mod sounding dancefloor organ based dancefloor jazz goes this is pretty solid. Guarantee people will hit the floor if i throw this down

Hammond Street's a mighty nice place to be — a place where organs are cooking all day long, serving up a tasty blend of soul, funk, and mod-styled grooves! This third entry in the series is just as great as the previous outings — and like those, it offers up a sweet sampling of current Hammond groovers from the deep funk underground — a range of work that includes some excellent indie tracks very much in the Record Kicks and Hammond Beat side of the spectrum! All tunes are great, and the set's overflowing with organy goodness — on 14 titles that include "Hammond Eggs" by Past Present Organisation, "Hash Cakes" by Reverend Cleatus & Soul Saviours, "Toss & Pot" by Pyes, "Glass Onion" by Link Quartet, "Ain't Gonna Tell No-One" by Stoned Soul Picnic, "102%" by New Mastersounds, "Hammond" by Smoove, "The Block" by Mini Vip, "Stuck In A Wind Up (inst)" by Lord Large, and "Raw" by Soldiers Of Soul

01. The New Mastersounds - 102 Percent (3:01)
02. Stoned Soul Picnic - Ain't Gonna Tell No-One (3:25)
03. Enri - The Performer (3:28)
04. Speak Low - If Youd Be Mine (3:13)
05. Lord Large - Stuck in A Wind Up (3:23)
06. Smoove - Hammond (3:40)
07. Mini VIP - Block (2:31)
08. Andy Lewis - Lazuli Affair (3:16)
09. The Soldiers of Soul - Raw (3:09)
10. Men from S P E C T R E - Black Tank (4:05)
11. The Pyes - Toss and Pot (2:46)
12. The Link Quartet - Glass Onion (3:18)
13. Reverend Cleatus and the Soul Saviours - Hash Cakes (3:54)
14. The Past present Organisation - Hammond Eggs (2:33)

hammond street.zip

Surfin with the Big Kahauna

So about 4 times a year some friends of mine put together a 1960's related dance parties complete with decorations & go go dancers .We have them in clubs,art galleries wherever.And the 60's is just a starting point as anything can happen.There have been Glam nights,Spy Nights,Valentines themes & more.My involvement is that i dj occasionally & i put together compilation cd's that i give away at the door ususally anywhere from 20=100 of them depending on the event.There's no boundaries on what i can do so the comps are usually all over the place not necessarily 60's related.I get a kick out of it & the Captain Groovy comps have become a Lollipop's trademark.Oh yeah the name of the event is the Lollipop Shoppe & it's put together by dj's & organizers Gabriel Mendoza(DJ Panda Bear) & Patricia Rodriguez(DJ Tiger Bee) .Patricia who also is code named Agent 76 is the brains & driving force & Gabriel is the music master who can get any dance floor moving.Plus you have Go Go dancers Mary Cherry,Melissa Meow,Marstar & Gellyfish.Yes it sounds a bit silly but it's all in good fun & if you think of it as a costume party with great tunes & get into the spirit it's really a great time.It's not like some of those 60's fetish events where fashion is what's important & it's all about recreating the clothes & looking sharp..The idea is to have a place for us older cats to dance without dealing with the usual club madness.

In anycase last night we had our summer shindig Hawaii Five-O A Go Go which doubled as a Tiki Polynesian thing & in the Kettle Art Gallery here in Dallas we danced the night away surrounded by various Tikis big & small.Plus it doubled as my birthday party.Good times.I made a couple surf/tiki comps for this one & that's what i'm posting here.If you like surf or tiki go for it.Coverart is included. And usually i'm Captain Groovy but for this one event i was the BIG KAHUNA!!! Surf's up folks & watch out for those scary Tikis

big kahuna.zip

big kahuna 2.zip

Nui Kahuna-1.zip

nui kahuna 2.zip

Lamp of the Universe-The Cosmic Union

I was always a huge Popol Vuh fan & at some point will post their catalog here but this is a current band that fills that sitar/guitar/tabla/hippy vibe.Everything is played & sung by Craig Williamson bass player for stoner band Datura.It's mostly lots of psychedelic folk jams but occasionally it drifts into a heavy Hendrix vibe.Great stuff to light some incense & sit in flickering candlelight to.

Lamp Of The Universe is a gorgeously lulling cosmic trip into a paisley colored psychedelic land of celestial ragas from Williamson's guitars, sitar, synths, and tablas. We're talking track titles like "Lotus Of A Thousand Petals" and "Tantra Asana". Believe me, these describe the music on The Cosmic Union perfectly. Lightly strumming acoustic guitars and sitars drift throughout as the tablas and other percussion keep a simple but effective psychedelic pace. Williamson's vocals are equally light and drifting making for the perfect marriage with his music. Lots of beautifully meandering jams that will open your mind for exploring the alternate realms that you travel with Williamson to. There are aggressive moments too, particularly on "In The Mystic Light" which sounds like a jam off Amon Düül's Yeti album. And love that organ and shimmering guitar on "Freedom In Your Mind".

1.Born in the Rays of the Third Eye
2.Lotus of a Thousand Petals
3.In the Mystic Light
4.Give Yourself to Love
5.Freedom in Your Mind
6.Her Cosmic Light
7.What Love Can Bring
8.Tantra Asana

The Cosmic Union.zip

The Cosmic Union 2.zip

The Advisory Circle-Other Channels

The Advisory Circle's aesthetic takes in old time radio,public information films,analog synth soundscapes,library music & nostalgia for a slightly creepy non existent past that has traces of steampunk,victorian buildings & hauntology.They're on  Ghostbox  which has created their own little world of sounds & designs like these.

Remember, electricity can not be seen or heard. Harmful, invisible forces surround us everywhere we go. Fortunately The Advisory Circle is on hand to help us make the right decisions.

Light synthesiser melodies and moments of surreal humour float in a drift of pastoral melancholia and fuzzy music concrete. Fragments of public information broadcasting are filtered through the distorting lens of prescription tranquillisers. Malicious gossip becomes jumbled and confused with continuity announcements.Ghostbox

This is the past seen through the distorting lens of the future, like analogue video feedback processed through digital filters

 "Everything's fine, but there is something not quite right about it."^[

Callsign 'A' - The TV Trap

Civil Defence Is Common Sense

Mogadon Coffee Morning

Sundial

Swinscoe Episode 1 - 'Enter Swinscoe'

Celebrate Michaelmas NOW!

Fire, Damp & Air

Frozen Ponds PIF

Erosion Of Time

A Clear Yarn Warning

Keep Warm, Keep Well

Eyes Which Are Swelling

Hocusing For Beginners

The Coastguard

Swinscoe Episode 2 - 'Release The Birds'

Farmland, Freeland

Everyday Electronics

The Old Schoolhouse

Callsign 'B' - Freeland Logotone

OTHER CHANNELS 1.zip

Other Channels 2.zip

The Mummies-Complete 7 inch collection

so i'm a huge garage rock band & i thought that some of you might be too.I never got to catch these guys when they were around.This is all the singles 16 of them i think.It includes artwork & label scans also i believe.Im pretty sure most this stuff is out of print.There's 45 songs & the quality is what you'd expect from punk garage in the 80's.In other words good times.

http://www.divshare.com/download/7434735-8c3

Isengrind-Journey of the Seven Stars

        

this is out elsewhere on the net but i figured somebody would want it uploaded on mediafire.Thanks goes to this blog for hosting the original posthttp://disconcertedsounds.blogspot.com/ & Turlluri for putting it up.There's only 24 copies so having this available is a godsend

01 Journey of the 7 stars SIDE A.mp3.zip

02 Journey of the 7 stars SIDE B.mp3.zip

isengrindart.zip

Come-Car

this is just one song but i had lots of trouble finding it so i figured i wouldn't be the only one.This single & the album that followed 11:11 were just splendid.I never really thought they scaled those heights again.Anyway this song soundtracked a particularly screwed up relationship i had.Hope you like it.

Come - Car.mp3

The Dayton Sidewinders

I haven't really had much variety on the blog lately but the truth is my listening tastes are all over the place.I'm a huge fan of late 60's/early 70's funk & soul.I uploaded this for a pal awhile back so i might as well share it here.Good stuff

A1		Funky Chicken Stew
A2		Go Ahead On
A3		Phoenix
A4		Something
B1		Funky In Here
B2		Let's Go Down To Funksville
B3		Slippin' Into Darkness

the dayton sidewinders- let's go down to funksville[1968].zip

Ghost live at Terrastock

I'm headed to Austin to see Ghost tomorrow.In honor of that here's Batoh & crew recorded live in Rhode Island a few years back.I never got around to splitting the file up into songs so it's 1 big mp3 recorded off the radio.Sounds good though & if you feel like editing it & putting a tracklist in the comments i'll be very happy.I was at this show & it was amazing.I've seen Ghost in Seattle & Providence & Batoh in Louisville but this is as close to me as they've gotten.Definitely worth the 3 hour drive.

Ghost Live at Terrastock 6 (2006.04.23).mp3.zip

DATA FAILURE

My computer went poof.I've been using my netbook which is great except my tunes are on the other drive.I didn't lose any music but until i transfer the information onto a new computer i won't be posting much.Of course i have to buy a new computer.Can't make up my mind between a Mac or PC.i may punt & buy both.Anyway i appreciate all the kind comments & regular service will return as soon as possible

Nice & Nasty-Selections from Dr. Ragtime's Private Stash

This was on a Volcanic Tongue update in a limited edition of 100.It's basically a mixtape put together by Jack Rose.Lots of things that are quite obviously his influences in glorious lo-fidelity.Lots of rare blues,jazz,gospel,country.Artists include Sam McGee,Peg Leg Howell & His Guys,Freddie Keppard's Jazz Cardinals,Dixieland Jug Blowers,Blind Blake,Tommy Johnson & Frenchy's String band.There are 15 cuts with titles like Texas & the Pacific Blues,Blind Arthur's Breakdown,Buckdancer's Choice,Stockyard Strut & Soft Steel Piston.Good stuff & this is hard to find
nice & nasty:dr. ragtimes private stash.zip

Cabaret Voltaire-Live 1980

when i started this blog 3 years ago i had intended on it being a place to post all kinds of music for my friends.I had/have hordes of stuff & many musical concerns & it was impossible to play all of it for my pals or share it with them so i started a blog as a way to keep my friends in the loop.I found that blogging consistently was hard work abandoned the blog came back to it & lo & behold i seem to have turned this into an underground music blog.Now that's cool because i dig that stuff but i listen to lots of other things too.Anyway i'm going to expand out so if you're a fan of the current underground musical scene i'll post that stuff too but i hate getting boxed into one style.Keep in my mind that this blog was named after a Primal Scream song,i quote Paul Weller lyrics on it & i have a line from a Cameron Crowe movie on top.I've got lots of interests.With that in mind this is a live recording from a band that was experimental 30 years ago.I'm a big fan of Cabaret Voltaire from it's earliest beginnings right thru their 1980's dancefloor heydey.I cut a rug to them on the floor on many occasions in the 80's.This is before that though wqhen they were kind of an industrial garage band.Great recording & not an official release.Number 6 wasn't titled & even though i know it i can't remember the name of the song to save my life
Oct.25, 1980
Keystone,
Berkeley, California, USSA
01. Photobia 6:50
02. Kneel To The Boss 4:13
03. This is Entertainment 6:56
04. Absent? 6:05
05. No Escape 3:50
06. 4:37
07. Eastern Mantra 19:21
cabaret voltaire 1.zip
cabaret voltaire 2.zip

Twinsistermoon-"7" inch Dull Knife

300 Copies, hand numbered

green marble vinyl

twinsistermoon.zip
this is number 51.After all the Natural Snow Buildings,Twin SisterMoon & Isengard i've downloaded i figured i owed it to the world to put this up.And it's out of print already.Big surprise right?

Jazz Satellites II : The Unreleased Compilation

i just found this & think it should be heard by more people.This is obviously unofficial.More info below.
In the mid-90s Virgin Records UK launched an ambitious series of compilations sparked by a handful of imaginative Ambient and three wonderful Ocean of Sound double-CDs. Perhaps the biggest ear-opener was Jazz Satellites, a cross genre look at the byways of jazz, funk, electronics, pop and what have you. The compiler Kevin Martin had definite plans for the second volume when corporate changes sunk the project. Following is the track listing for the never-issued Jazz Satellites II
Mahavishnu Orchestra “Miles Out”
George Russell “Events I-VII”
Weather Report “Boogie Woogie Waltz”
Olatunji “Dakun”
Carl Craig/Innerzone Orchestra “Bug in the Bass Bin”
Joe Zawinul “Arrival in New York”
Chris Bowden “Life Support”
Ray Russell Quartet “A Day in the Life of a Slave in Lower Egypt”
White Noise “The Black Mass”
Howard Shore/Ornette Coleman “Interzone Suite”
Marc Moulin “Tohubohu”
Peter Brotzmann/Bill Laswell “Death Rattle”
Joe Harriott “Multani”
AMM “Convergence”
Lights in a Fat City “When I Go Up (I Feel Like Shouting)”
Yusef Lateef “Sound Wave”
Charlie Mariano “Madras”
Masabumi Kikuchi “Auroral Flare”
Sonny Sharrock “Many Mansions”
Pat Martino “Baiyina”
Terumasa Hino “Aboriginal”
Ja_Satellites_II_(Original_Version)_Disk1.ip
Ja_Satellites_II_(Original_Version)_Disk2.ip
Ja_Satellites_II_(Original_Version)_Disk3.ip

Jazz Satellites, Vol. 1: Electrification

In the 90's there was a great series of compilation cd's put out by Virgin Music that traversed about as wild a field of experimental music as you can imagine.David Toop curated most of them & i bought every last one including his books "Ocean of Sound" & 'Exotica".Somehow it felt like music & technology & dj culture were all becoming part of a new way of communication & artists like Tortoise & DJ Spooky were the new faces of this modern musical world.It all prtty much peaked with Tortoise second album but it was a very exciting time as something new & mindblowing always seemed right around the corner.Whatever it was we thought would happen it didn't but we did get albums like Jazz Satellites.Stuff like the Jooklo i posted yesterday i got to from here.There's always a beginning & while i love todays sounds looking back can be fun also.I'm going to put another perspective on this album below.It's kind of long but you can always skip it if you please.
In J.G. Ballards 1968 short science fiction story "The Dead Astronaut", relic hunters scavenge for the remnants of crashed space capsules after a dozen spacefarers died in orbital accidents:

"Already too, the relic hunters were at Cape Kennedy, scouring the burning grass for instrument panels and flying suits and - most valuable of all - the mummified corpses of the dead astronauts. These blackened fragments of collar-bone and shin, kneecap and rib, were the unique relics of the space age, as treasured as the saintly bones of medieval shrines".

Kevin Martin's 1996 compilation "Jazz Satellites Vol. 1 - Electrification" collected musical capsules orbiting Jazz in that music's exosphere - that layer of Jazz's atmosphere where it borders on the vast emptiness of space... The double album presented liminal music: Post Rock, Free Jazz, Electronica and Post Punk, even Industrial and Kraut Rock, all hovering on the threshold of Afro-Classical Music.

The compilation's context was the Virgin ambient series, in which series four compilations were curated by Kevin Martin: two 2cd albums of electronic dub ("Macro dub Infection Vols. 1 and 2") and an album of experimental ambient ("Isolationism"; a compilation whose doomed ambition was to found a new musical genre).

The earliest track collected on the album is Teo Macero's 1963 "Equals", and the most recent track is Post Rock band Ui's 1996 track "Drive Towards The Smoke"; but the vast majority of tracks date from the 1970-1976 period: Alice Coltrane, Miles Davis, Eddie Henderson, Jan Garbarek, Gil Melle, Sun Ra, Norman Connors, Stu Martin and John Surman, Roland Rahsaan Kirk, Joe Henderson, Headhunters, Don Cherry, Ornette Coleman and Herbie Hancock.

Coming back to that compilation of the almost-Jazz and the not-anymore-Jazz more than eleven years (!) after it came out, one feels a little like the relic hunters in Ballard's short story. Listening to the music and perusing the liner notes, one feels one is not only scavenging the album for relics of space age Jazz but also for the remnants of a mid-nineties aesthetic that has now become mummified.

That aesthetic is that period's Mondo2000 cyberpunk optimism of limitless faith in technology, internet, psychedelia and smart drugs; it is that era's discourse which presented studio technology as a musical instrument in it's own right (while what is or is not a classified as a musical instrument is a semiological question); it is that era's discourse which reappraised Miles Davis's electrified psychedelic music, presenting that reappraisal as a return of the repressed and as a revolt against Jazz critic's orthodoxy; it is that time's particular music critic's writing style, a style which would find it's culmination in Kodwo Eshun's cult book "More Brilliant Than The Sun".

Though the aesthetic may have become mummified, the album is no less potent for that. All tracks are surging with electrical power - not the electricity of Enlightenment and comfort, mind you, but rather the unholy energy that reanimated the dead body of Frankenstein's monster. There is one artists whose shadow falls over the compilation like the reanimated monster's shadow fell over Little Maria, the girl at the lakeside killed by the monster: Miles Davis. Listening to "Jazz Satellites" it is obvious how powerful Davis's hold over Kevin Martin's curatorial work is.

There is no mistaking "Jazz Satellites" for any other compilation of space age Jazz, such as Soul Jazz Records' "New Thing!" or the "JazzActuel" compilation. Neither as tinged by exoticism and funk as the former nor as informed by Black Power politics as the latter, "Jazz Satellites" is another "...collar-bone and shin, kneecap and rib..." out of astronaut Kevin Martin's saintly body.

Divine Styler	Am I An Epigram For Life (1:40)
1.02	Eddie Henderson	Mars In Libra (8:44)
1.03	Jan Garbarek	Karin's Mode (7:28)
1.04	Alice Coltrane	Universal Conciousness (5:00)
1.05	23 Skidoo	The Gospel Comes To New Guinea (9:55)
1.06	Gil Mellé	Xenogenesis (2:33)
1.07	Bedouin Ascent	Internal Bleeding (8:16)
1.08	Norman Connors	Twilight Zone (1:27)
1.09	Sun Ra	The Satellites Are Spinning (3:28)
1.10	Pop Group, The	3.38 (3:38)
1.11	Stu Martin & John Surman	Harry Lovett - Man Without A Country (4:44)
1.12	Krakatau	Bullroarer (2:12)
1.13	Organisation	Milk Rock (5:11)
1.14	Miles Davis	Rated X (6:49)
2.01	Teo Macero	Equals (3:49)
2.02	Roland Kirk	The Black Mystery Has Been Revealed (1:11)
2.03	Tony Williams Lifetime, The	Beyond Games (8:14)
2.04	Slab (3)	Bride Of Sloth (2:56)
2.05	Ry Cooder	Goose And Lucky (3:27)
2.06	Joe Henderson	Water (7:26)
		Featuring - Alice Coltrane
2.07	Headhunters, The	Rima (8:01)
2.08	Don Cherry	Brown Rice (5:07)
2.09	Ui	Drive Towards The Smoke (5:03)
2.10	Fat	New Power (4:58)
2.11	Ornette Coleman	Science Fiction (4:58)
2.12	16-17	Attack Impulse (6:21)
2.13	Herbie Hancock	Nobu (7:32)

ja satellites 1.ip
ja satellites 2.ip
ja satellites 3.ip
ja satellites 4.ip

Neokarma Jooklo Trio-Time's Vibes

i debated putting this up because it literally just came out 2 days ago & it's available as a digital download for just $10.But everything they do is ultra limited & i figure if this gets somebody to purchase a future release by them then.Hey i bought this after downloading their first few albums.Hearing is believing.This is Neokarma in kosmische musik mode with few traces of their jazzy side.Lots of tribal percussion chanting vocals flying in & out of the mix & some searing fuzzed out electric guitar work..Definitely some krautrock leanings in this one.So where do these guys go next?
Time's Vibes.ip

NEOKARMA JOOKLO OCTET feat. MAKOTO KAWABATA-INFINITY

this one is probably their least unique release.It's still good & the coverart is amazing & note the blue vinyl but it is very much a drone album.There are traces of the jazz & ritual element that makes them so special but it's buried beneath layers of what i assume is Kawabata's(Acid Mothers Temple) guitar.He can drone very loudly as i saw & heard at Terrastock.On the whole it has a very Taj Mahal Travelers thing going on.
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Neokarma Jooklo Trio-Solar Vision

200gr. clear orange vinyl, ltd. 125 copies only (of which 26 for the ltd ed ice q-be)
this might be my favorite thing by them.Again very spiritual ritualistic feel with lots of interesting instruments like zorna,kalimba,wood flute,gongs & lots of other percussion.Great stuff that takes me out to the middle of some ancient ceremony & leaves me there.
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Neokarma Jooklo Trio-Meditative

the band in another guise.I find the trio format to be when they are at their most eastern sounding with a very Alice Coltrane vibe.
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Golen Jooklo Age-Live May 2008

I have no photo of this.A very wonderful person posted this in the comments section of Disconcerted Sounds.So here it is for you guys.This is one crazy 43 minute piece with some heavy heavy sax action.Lots of bells & shakers to start but when it gets going that horn flies.In lieu of coverart here's a couple videos of them live in 2008.The first is more psychedelic the second catches them in full free jazz flight.The link is below the videos


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Golden Jooklo Age-Tropical Trip

GOLDEN JOOKLO AGE "TROPICAL TRIP" CD-R, hand-painted unique pieces ltd edition of 38 numbered copies
"Cdr version of this work already recently released on vinyl by Qbico, with an addictional track here. This jam was recorded at Zè dos Bois gallery, Lisbon, in a rainy sunday afternoon of february 2008, during Golden Jooklo Age first tour in Portugal, with the special collaboration of Tiago Miranda and Rui Damaso from Loosers, plus Rui Damaso from Frango. Tropical sounds, latin congas, groovy bass riffs, space and shamanic vibrations. Recorded by Pedro Alçada."
the vinyl edition they 125 copies of of they which they set 26 aside for the limited edition Portugal boxset

This one has some crazy free jazz stuff going on & reminds me more & more of wild out Sun Ra stuff.
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Golden Jooklo Age-I

So in this limited edition cassette only,one sided colored vinyl world of underground music we live in today every now & again a band comes along that stands out from the pack.Like say Natural Snow Buildings Golden Jooklo Age or Neokarma Jooklo Trio or Octet or whatever permutation they are recording or playing under is above & beyond.They combine the ritualistic percussion & vibe of an artist like Jorge Reyes with eastern/oriental motif's & wailing alto or tenor sax that could be from an old Sun Ra or Don Cherry recording.Add in some very spiritual Alice Coltrane stylings ,a dash of Zeit era Tangerine Dream & the occasional burst of fuzzed out guitar & you've got a band that could be listed as psychedelic experimentation or free jazz both.
Of course as is the case these days all their recordings are super limited & out of print almost immediately.I must say this stuff is popping up all over the net & over at Disconcerted Sounds blog there has been much of this posted including at least one live recording i'll put up.But as usual i really started this blog so my pals here in Dallas too lazy to search the net & keep up with blogs can at least hit mine & use it as a one stop shopping mart to see whatever i'm into at the moment.Anybody else who happens by Hello!!!I thought when i'd finished with MV/EE i'd put up some less experimental music.As my friends well know i'm as likely to play a Stones or Beatles album as this but i'm just groovin on that underground vibe these days.So anyway this is a one sided lp & i think their first release.I don't know much about these guys except they're great.And this was limited to 117 copies.Why 117?Modern limited edition culture is weird.
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Finally Finished!!!

That is it.Every single MV & EE release i have.Well actually there was another Dredd Foole album i could have posted & there's a DVD but essentially i'm done.I think it was about 80 some odd albums.I am missing the Sasquatch Helper cassette on Father Yod tapes.If anybody wants to give me a link to that it would be much appreciated.Special thanks goes to the blog My Record Collection which can be found at this link http://www.myrecordcollection.org.I used(stole) his reviews for most of these.He is a far better writer than me & did a great job of describing with enthusiasm this bands music.Check his site out for more great reviews of underground bands.
Hope you enjoyed all these.I like lots of different music so i'll keep posting but there will probably be more variety

MV& EE with The Golden Road-Sasquatch Creamie

The second volume for MV + EE's Live Road series on tape (which began with Sasquatch Helper), starts off with an absolutely wild version of Satisfied. In fact, it's so spaced-out and twisted that it's been extended into two parts (well on the CD-R edition anyway). I wasn't even sure if this was the right song or not at first. The vocals are completely submerged in reverb and muffled as if coming from the heavens. It's easily one of the band's smokiest, most laid back, bloodshot-eye-and-munchies-inducing tunes to date and it singled-handedly makes this one a must have for fans. I'm not sure if the sound quality on the vocals is voluntary or not, but the same effects are used on the next tracks as well with Home Comfort sounding particularly great. By the time you reach the closing three-song medley, you're mind has already experienced whole new levels of consciousness. This is fast becoming one of my favorite live recordings by the duo.
i tried dividing this up & ended up splitting side 2 into 2 songs.It's really one long extended jam.This is straight from the cassette.

1. Satisfied Rain (20:01)
2. The Burden (6:41)
3. Home Comfort (7:21)
4. Summer Magic > Environments > Get Right Church (29:14)

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MV & EE with the Golden Road-Black Ark/White Egg

There's a pleasant, summertime laziness and outdoorsy hue to this five-track live recording. On Boo Woe, I feel as if I was right there with the duo listening to them jam on their front porch. It's a lovely song which really captures the duo's pastoral roots. Even the ubiquitous Satisfied has gotten the country farm treatment and sounds much gentler than usual. There's a fun live version of Drone Trailer, from the album of the same name which was released around the time of this live gig, but even it has mellowed quite a bit compared to the original. Besides the toned-down atmosphere (and unusual cover art), Black Ark/White Egg doesn't really stand out among all the other recent live albums. I Got Caves In There is actually the only real highlight here with it's constantly warbled vocals and guitar melody. Definitely one for the completists out there.

1. Boo Woe (7:21)
2. Satisfied (5:57)
3. Drone Trailer (6:45)
4. I Got Caves In There (6:20)
5. East Mountain Joint (8:14)

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MV & EE with the Golden Road-Unrock

Recorded in Krefeld, Germany in 2008 at a place called Unrock (thus the title), this, MV & EE's 255th live recording to date, finds the duo in a particularly smooth country folk mood. Rarely does the band break out in a frenzy of fuzz and reverb. Easy Livin' sounds as if it was made for the open road, I'm certain the duo play this one in the car while driving from venue to venue. It's a beautiful song which starts things off on a mellow note. Things take a slightly bluesier vibe on Get Right Church which actually ends with a pretty fried up guitar solo, but it's far from the over-the-top extended jams we've heard before. The next two tracks also sound toned down with Cold Rain being practically ambient this time around. In fact, the only time the band actually swirl off into Acid Mothers Temple freak out territory is during the second half of East Mountain Joint, but even doesn't last for very long. Samara Lubelski jams along with the band on this one.

1. Easy Livin' (6:01)
2. Get Right Church (7:06)
3. Cold Rain (6:31)
4. The Burden (5:35)
5. East Mountain Joint (9:06)
6. Powderfinger (8:26)

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MV & EE-Drone Trailer

Whoa!!! This album starts off with one of the biggest bangs I've ever heard from this band. Anyway includes some mightily crunchy guitar riffage that'll have you smiling from ear to ear as you are projected into a brick wall. Pleasantly damaged! And to have EE sing with her delicate voice over such crispy material is a nice touch. Things mellow down considerably from then on as the duo explore more familiar territory, but there is enough variation on Drone Trailer to keep even us regular fans surprised and pleased. Is it me or does MV's voice sound more and more like his idol's with each new album? Just check out The Hungry Stone and tell me I'm wrong! What would an MV & EE album be without one long extended track? With Weatherhead Hollow, the duo go from crystal healing music to a pouncing monster with such finesse you won't even realize what hit ya! And there's tons more great stuff to hear (the closing Huna Cosm being a favorite).

1. Anyway (4:29)
2. The Hungry Stones (6:39)
3. Weatherhead Hollow (10:33)
4. Drone Trailer (6:46)
5. Twitchin' (6:15)
6. Huna Cosm (6:34)

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MV & EE-The Hick Smoke

Used to be a time when MV & EE's main means of expression was their Child Of Microtones. Tons of full length albums would be released every year on that label, but nowadays, we're lucky if we get more than one per year). True the band seem to permanently be on the road so there is less time to record anything at the Maximum Arousal Farm. The Heroine Celestial Agriculture label has now gone on to become the main outlet for their live recordings (these seem to pop up everywhere like weed - no pun intended) and I'm not complaining really, but I do miss all the elaborately packaged albums from the early years. Hick Smoke is the first CoM release for 2009 (I'm keeping my fingers crossed for more) and is an interesting mix between the band's bastardized Neil Young clones, their LSD-laced folk tunes and the infamous extended freak-out jams. Sure wish there would be more like this, cuz Hick Smoke is definitely a must for fans.

1. Nodes (6:06)
2. Interstellar Allah (8:14)
3. Drug Buff (5:49)
4. Woodlawn (4:46)
5. The Best It Ever Was (4:11)
6. Drone Offcut (12:29)
7. Poor High Sky (4:39)

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MV/EE with the Golden Road-Guitar Barn

MV & EE's what... seventy-seventh live release this year (I've lost count)!? The duo go through their usual live repertory here: Get Right Church, the ubiquitous Cold Rain, Hammer, etc... Most of them get the expected extended cosmic jam we all know and love. It's not always successful, once you've heard one, you've pretty much heard most of them, but somehow I can't get enough. I'm always expecting at least one exceptionally fried reverb drenched guitar solo and some other unexpected phenomena (like an exclusive new track). There usually is at least one such gem with each release, which is why I never pass on any of them. On Guitar Barn, you'll want to pay closer attention to Twitchin'. I don't believe I've ever heard this one before. It's a great, heavy blues number with the guitar distortion threatening to blow my speakers up with every burst of solo insanity. Same goes for the last three monster tracks

1. Easy Livin' (7:29)
2. Get Right Church (7:52)
3. Cold Rain (8:18)
4. Twitchin' (5:40)
5. The Burden (5:43)
6. Hammer > (7:16)
7. Environments > (6:25)
8. East Mtn. Joint (15:00)

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MV/EE with the Golden Road-Sniffin Glue

Sniffin' Glue is the title of the gig this psych-folk duo gave in London back in January 2008. The show starts off with the Neil Young-inspired Easy Livin', a mellow country/folk tune which would probably have all you 300-pound truckers tapping your fingers during those long drives. There's a fun rendition of Get Right Church which sounds spaced-out enough to be included on the soundtrack to René Laloux' La Planète Sauvage. Hammer and East Mountain Joint form the main core of the gig and at over ten minutes each, sound pretty epic to these ears. Glue/Cheeseburger Rap is a fun little chat with the audience and is the basis for the name of this release. The show ends of course with the always incredible Canned Happiness, an exercise in TRULY heavy blues. This particular version sounds like it was injected with a huge dose of krautrock/motorik beats (it reminds me of a "bluesier" version of Harmonia if that's any help. Good shit as always!

1. Easy Livin' (7:23)
2. Get Right Church (6:32)
3. Hammer (16:07)
4. East Mountain Joint (10:21)
5. Glue/Cheeseburger Rap (2:29)
6. Canned Happiness (17:55)

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MV/EE with the Golden Road-Freedom Fries

How many times can one enjoy the same track? These releases on Heroine Celestial Agriculture often seem pretty redundant, but as I've mentioned before, it's always fun to hear where the duo will head off this time. Although each song starts off pretty much the same way, we always get to drift off into new, uncharted territory with each new rendition. I must own at least twenty different version of Cold Rain and no, I don't listen to all of them on a regular basis, but like classical music, one eventually finds the version which they prefer. This particular gig was recorded in Brussels, Belgium during the winter of 2008. The duo don't abandon themselves much during the show and besides Get Right Church and Hammer, their patented extended outros are often quite tame. Still, it all depends on how you prefer your MV+EE,

1. Cold Rain (9:46)
2. Easy Livin' (7:03)
3. Get Right Church (12:59)
4. East Mountain Joint (9:20)
5. Hammer (8:41)
6. Canned Happiness (9:44)

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MV/EE with the Golden Road-Astral Bleachers, Big Moment - Pete's Picks Volume One

Much in the same vein as Deep Space Circuit, Astral Bleachers, Big Moment is a series of choice cuts from the duo's latest tour (chosen here by Pete Coward). Besides the fact that it is not a complete show, I'm not sure why this simply wasn't just released as another installment in the Heroine Celestial Agriculture series. The sound quality is a tad better than usual and there is a slight penchant for electric over acoustic if that is enough to convince you. The first half of the record is pretty calm and laid back compared to the second half. From Tea Devil onward, the album really picks up the pace, as we journey through some of the most intensely psychedelic pathways (including some truly fried guitar solos) I've heard from the duo so far. The trip eventually culminates with THE... fucking... HEAVIEST rendition of Canned Happiness I've ever heard. This rivals the works of legendary swedish heavy psychsters Pärson Sound. Killer stuff!

1. Moment Spacing (3:34)
2. Easy Livin' (6:56)
3. Get Right Church (7:46)
4. Tea Devil (12:02)
5. Environments (25:56)
6. Canned Happiness (17:27)

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MV/EE with the Golden Road-Total Loss Songs

save for some bursts of white noise fuzz guitar this is a very mellow album that sounds like a stoned mid period Neil Young album.Definitely for the morning after the buzz

1. The Shape Of Space (6:12)
2. Stateline (6:10)
3. Beyond The Sunset (9:15)
4. Moonbof (4:05)
5. Lonely Moon (4:29)
6. Hyperspace (5:36)
7. Losin' Sorrow (7:18)
8. Frozen Love/Meru (7:08)

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MV/EE & the Golden Roaf-Pray For Less

more live stuff.This one features Willie Lane.Great version of "Death Don't Have No Mercy"

1		I Got Caves In There (6:45)
2		The Burden (5:26)
3		Death Don't Have No Mercy (13:54)
4		Hammer > Summer Magic Is Gone (18:18)
5		Environments (5:08)

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