Merry Christmas, everyone. With a mere week to go until the ball drops in Times Square, listeners all over the globe have been compiling their Best Of lists for the year. For the Bodega, 2013 was a complex but often exciting time to be paying attention to international music. In early March our superfriend Carol hipped us to a program at BAM that would change our lives: Mic Check: Hip-Hop from North Africa and the Middle East. Later in the month, the Bodega returned the favor, taking her to see pioneering Palestinian rap group DAM at Drom on New York’s lower east side. As more of our regular CD-findin’ haunts in the city dried up, new doors were opened, including two previously undiscovered stores selling Czech and Latin music, allowing us to exponentially grow our stock of both, literally overnight. For more recent music, there’s the endless rabbit hole that is Bandcamp. In fact, most of our 2013 faves came from this revolutionary end-run around the terminally ill Music-Industry-As-Such. Above all, our fellow music bloggers kept their little rooms on the Internet warm even when the sun wasn’t shining anywhere else. Special Big Love to stalwarts Awesome Tapes from Africa, Jenny Is in a Bad Mood (Japan), Jewish Morocco, Jugo Rock Forever (former Yugoslavia), Madrotter Treasure Hunt (Indonesia), Monrakplengthai (Thailand), Moroccan Tape Stash, Music from the Third Floor (India), My Passion for Ethiopian Music, and Turkish Psychedelic Music 2, to say nothing of fellow eclecticists Flash Strap, Ghost Capital, Global Groove, Inconstant Sol, Kadao Ton Kao, Music for Maniacs, Snap Crackle & Pop, and Terminal Escape — to name but a few of the dozens whose offerings fill our hours and ears. Two great but seemingly dead blogs got new life this year: Brain Goreng (Indonesia) and Voodoo Vault (Japan), though whether either will keep up the good fight into 2014 is anyone’s guess. Meanwhile, Interstellar Medium | Foreign Lavish Sounds stormed onto the scene to raise the bar unconscionably high and show us just how awesome a music blog can really be. We’re humbled, shamed even, but genuinely grateful for their existence. 2013 was a year of personal triumph for the Bodega: We not only published some of our least egregious nonfiction to date (in Burning Ambulance, Indiewire, LA Review of Books and Roads & Kingdoms), we received the ultimate worldly acknowledgement of our humble efforts in poetry: Inclusion in a Norton anthology. But there were setbacks. In April, our then-host, Divshare, kicked us out of the file-sharing playground, citing multiple complaints about our *cough* copyright infringement *cough*. Tail between our legs, we hooked up with ADrive and began to restock the shelves, offering customers a new feature: The Bodega Pop Comp (see “hot comps” in the sidebar to the right). Then, in May, Super DJ, creator and director of WFMU’s Give the Drummer Radio stream, and music blog supporter extraordinaire, Doug Schulkind asked if we’d like to bring the bodega to WFMU in the form of a weekly broadcast. Our ego said yes, yes, oh god let us, yes. Our ego has never been the brightest bulb in the tulip patch, but he tends to get away with pretty much whatever he wants. So, every Wednesday evening from 7-10pm ET, starting on January 15, we’ll be hosting Bodega Pop Live on the aforementioned stream. Shout outs are due to several fabulous people—in addition to Doug, of course—who helped make this happen: Brandon Downing, Andrew Maxwell, Andrei Molotiu, Sianne Ngai, Mel Nichols, and above all, Carol “Craftypants” McMahon, who donated a Macbook we desperately needed to do the actual streaming. Still awake? Hello? Awrighty, let’s move on to the sole reason you’re even here tonight: Bodega Pop’s Top 10 Albums of 2013 …
DAM Dabke on the Moon ($8.99) December 15, 2012 As we intimated earlier, middle eastern and north African hip-hop reigned supreme in our ears this year, including this album, technically released last year, but for all intents and purposes not readily available until 2013. It wasn’t the first album we’d heard by the pioneering Palestinian rappers, but it was easily the best of their work to date. The album blasts off with the unlikely-sounding rocker “Street Poetry” and doesn’t let up, kicking out jam after jam all the way through the anthemic “I Fell in Love with a Jew” and final deep groove of “Handcuff Them War Criminals.” If I was Christgau (“Christmas with Christgau” has a nice ring to it, eh?) I know three very talented young men who’d be getting a big ol’ A+ in their stocking.
The Girl UR Sensation($8.99) January 9, 2013 (planned December 19, 2012) I almost can’t breathe when I think about the awesomeness that is Aiha Higurashi. Her first band, Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her, was easily the best rock group of the Aughts, and with every subsequent project Aiha has shown us a new or at least slightly different side of herself. The Girl, who released their second album this year, brings it back home to the stripped-down, noirish rock Aiha first explored with SSKHKH—but the sound is grittier, more disconcerting. Our sole complaint? Try setting up a Google alert for “The Girl.”
Various Artists Spanish New Wave, The Golden Age (6 Vols.) (Free) January 20, 2013 See, I told you music bloggers were awesome this year. Compiled by Sebi and Jose Kortozirkuito for free download on Boozetunes, this six-volume set of post-punk music from Spain is everything the bodega dreams of: A vast, and vastly entertaining panorama of pop from a faraway time and place, lovingly introduced with a smart and relevant preface.
Various Artists Khat Thaleth (Free) January 22, 2013 Goodness gracious: The year really started out with a bang, didn’t it? This late-January Arabic hip-hop compilation, released two days after the awesome comp above, is pretty much the coolest international rap collection we can think of since 1988’s Brazilian overview Hip Hop Cultura de Rua. And the download is gratis on Bandcamp. Yep, you heard us: Free.
Satanicpornocultshop Picaresque ($10) February 2013 The Japanese sound-collage trio put out seven albums and EPs in 2013, which makes them among the most prolific groups of … dare-we-say all time? A perennial favorite here, the shop’s funked-up February release had the bodega rawkin out on the 7 train as we rode it in to work every morning.
Various Artists Harafin So - Bollywood Inspired Film Music from Hausa Nigeria ($5) April 23, 2013 Holy crap, but Christopher Kirkley’s label is amazing. 2013 was a stellar year for Sahelsounds, beginning with a January release of the second volume of Music from Saharan Cell Phones. This Bollywood-inspired, auto-tuned Nigerian pop was a real revelation to us, having had no prior idea that such a thing even existed.
Nisennenmondai N (iTunes store, $9.99) July 2, 2013 OMG I love these women, who put out what was easily my favorite music video of the year. (Don't stop watching before the 3:20 mark, seriously.) A must-have for all fans of the N-group and for any lover of the industrial / instrumental / experimental wing of J-rock.
MWR Because I’m an Arab (Free, if link works) August 14, 2013 A publicist for this Palestinian rap trio sent me word of this album—a retrospective of the band’s brief but thrilling career-to-date. Hailing from Gaza, these guys are as sonically rich as they are politics-forward. I’m not sure if the Dropbox link I’ve provided is going to work for you — but I have no earthly idea how else to get a hold of this album, let alone pay for it. (If you know, send the info/link our way.)
P.K.14 1984($8) September 13, 2013 The fifth album by one of Beijing’s oldest post-punk bands, formed all the way back in 2001. (It must be liberating having such a short music history.) Though they’ve mellowed slightly with age, they’re still awesome—in fact, even more so this decade than last. You can listen to the whole album on Bandcamp for free … so go listen to it, not to me.
Various Artists Sounds and Colors: Brazil ($11.43) November 25, 2013 I have heard the future, and it sounds an awful lot like the República Federativa do Brasil. Seriously, this record is fabuloso. Also, this label looks like it’s gearing up to give Sahelsounds a run for its money. Blaspheme? No, blashphe-you. Get over to their Bandcamp page and start digging around — and don’t miss out on their earlier “name your price” collections. You won’t be disappointed.
Reupped by popular demand, here. [Originally posted July 2, 2011.] Found on Arthur Avenue in an Albanian bodega run by what must be the single nicest bodega owner I've ever met. After letting me know in uncertain terms that "This is all Albanian music," my response, "I know; I like Albanian music, especially Fatmire Brecani," changed the game rules. After an hour talking and listening to numerous samples, I walked out of the store with five CDs--the owner charged me only for four. This one, by the Mustafa Sisters, is my favorite of the bunch, in great part for the harmonies. Listeners will note the abrupt endings of songs; this is because, on other Motrat Mustafa CDs I have, the songs are all run together. Every single CD in this store was pirated, and I'm guessing someone used the "2 second delay between songs" feature in iTunes when they burned their merch. Check out this rather old VHSed music video:
Reupped here. RIP [Originally posted on October 1, 2012.] Found a couple of weekends ago in Millennium Records (4045 White Plains Road). Actually, owing to the bizarre lettering on the cover of this one, whoever had added this CD to the shelves had placed it upside down pointing face outward, so my eye kept gravitating toward it, trying to figure out what it was. I finally asked the owner: "Hey what is that grayish-blue CD with the bizarre lettering?"
"Junior Murvin," he said, once he'd figured out what I was talking about, and brought the CD down for me to examine up close. "You know him; he did 'Police and Thieves.'"
The owner was right: Though I'm no fount of knowledge when it comes to reggae, I had certainly heard "Police and Thieves" before, and not just the Clash's version--although, admittedly, that's where I'd heard it first.
Junior Murvin, who's still alive, was not particularly prolific: Muggers in the Street was only one of seven total albums (not counting compilations) he released over the years since debuting with "Police" in 1977.
Oh, and before I forget ... as I said in previous posts, I'm considering changing the layout of this blog to something more like this. But in a sense, it's your blog, not mine, and I'd like you to decide what format you'd like to experience when you visit the Bodega. A couple of people have already chimed in, but I'd like to hear your thoughts as well ...
Reupped in case you missed it the first time, here. [Originally posted on April 13, 2013.] I know I promised you more Fairuz this weekend, but it was such a warm day today I wound up spending all of it on my bike. And I think you know what that means. Yes, that's right: I wound up at Blessing Udeagu (99-08 Lewis Avenue, Corona, Queens), where I picked up a dozen or so mostly Nigerian CDs, including this mind-blowingly great collection of 70s hits by the legendary Celestine Ukwu.
From LASTFM: Celestine Ukwu began his musical career during the 1960’s with Michael Ejeagha’s Paradise Rhythm Orchestra in Enugu, capital of the former Eastern Region of Nigeria. He left four years later to launch his own band, the Music Royals. Following a hiatus caused by the Biafran war of independence from 1967-70, the Music Royals were resurrected as the Philosophers National, who distinguished themselves with a series of sparkling, subtle highlife releases during the 1970s. Sadly, Ukwu perished in an automobile accident in 1977, depriving Nigerian music of one of its shining stars.
Listen to the second track UPDATE: Reripped at 320kbps with formerly missing track 2 and reupped by reader request here. [Originally posted on April 22, 2012.] As you know if you read the previous post, I was down in Washington, DC, this weekend to give a reading with younger experimental poet Megan Ronan and legendary language poet (and a major hero of mine) p. inman. I visit DC somewhat regularly, at least once or twice a year, almost always seeing a number of poet friends while I'm there.
I've long known that DC is home to the country's largest Ethiopian community, and I was certain I'd someday stumble onto an Ethiopian bodega or music store where I might pick up a few musical treasures, old and new. But it never happened. So, when Bryan Koen and Mel Nichols invited me to read for Ruthless Grip, I hinted that I'd be searching out Ethiopian music while I was there and--lo and behold--received an email back from Bryan with the address of Nahom Records Inc., situated a bit east of where I had spent the last decade trying futilely to find any of this stuff.
How excited was I? On Friday, the day of the reading, I sat bolt upright in bed at 6:00 a.m. and managed to Amtrak it down the nation's capital by 11:30. I was at Nahom's door at precisely 11:47. They weren't open. I called the number on a sign near the door and was told that someone would be in in about an hour. I walked down the street a bit and had a long, leisurely Ethiopian lunch.
An hour later, I emerged from the restaurant, my belly bloated with injera, the sponge bread that, unfortunately, you use in lieu of utensils. Unfortunately, as it means you wind up eating a lot of it. And injera expands throughout the day as it makes its way slowly down your intestinal tract.
So I go back to Nahom and I see that the lights are on and I can hear music coming out of the store. But the metal gate standing between me and the front door is locked. I stand there, frustrated, about ready to call the number again, when an older Ethiopian man comes up to me and asks me if I'm looking for Ethiopian music. I say yeah, but that I'm not sure if Nahom is really open yet.
"Across the street," he says. "At the market."
"They have music?" I ask.
He motions with his head for me to follow him as he crosses the street and leads me into Habesha Market & Carryout (1919 9th Street NW), which was packed with people, some having coffee at tables, others buying bread and other staples. My guide pointed to the barista area, behind which I saw a small but well-stocked section of the wall with a bunch of CDs and DVDs.
I don't care how nice a person is--and the women behind the counter were incredibly sweet and helpful--it's just frustrating when you're forced to have to point and grunt at CDs until you find a few things you think might be good bets. Especially in a hopping joint like Habesha; a line began to quickly form behind me, ensuring that I would feel more awkward than I already did, what with all of the pointing and grunting and clear lack of knowledge about what I was pointing and grunting at. Add 5 or 6 guys waiting for their coffee, and, well--let's just say I didn't stay there quite as long as I typically would at one of these places.
I did, however, come home with a few mind-blowing treasures, all of which I'll share over the coming days and weeks. This incredible CD is one of them.
Listen to track 7 Listen to track 9 Get this 12-track album here, you lucky bastard, you. My god I have a lot of CDs. I'm not bragging. (Okay, I'm kind of bragging.) I'm still unpacking and there's just -- there's so much. So, so much. How is it that I've never shared this with you? I don't care how many Cambodian rock comps you've already got, you most likely don't have at least a few of these Ros Sereysothea tunes. So, a big shout out to everyone who has bought some art in our Help Put Bodega Pop on WFMU campaign. I have thrilling news: Someone has come through and is sending us a used Mac that we're 98% sure will work to stream the show. Fingers crossed. And final word in a week or two. Meanwhile, there's some art left if you wanna put something sort of groovy on your wall. Check eet oot!
Listen to "Чирибим" Reupped by reader request here. "Chiribim, Cherry Bomb, Chiribim Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb ..." Does this CD even really need an intro? Obviously, I picked it up for its cover. I think I was actually in Brighton Beach with Kasey Mohammad and his girlfriend that day; Kasey was in town for the Flarf/Conceptual reading we did at the Whitney. I say this because I remember bringing the CD that evening to a Spanish restaurant/bar in Chelsea, where we met Christian Bök and Kenny Goldsmith for a few drinks. I figured that, being (a) Jewish and (b) a WFMU DJ, Kenny would be especially appreciative of the CD. He was.
Listen to "Jabar" Grab the whole album here. Kazim mad! Kazim riiiiiip paper! Yeah, uh, I'm not sure precisely what's going on in that fabulous cover, but whatever it is, the CD's publisher wanted to underscore its importance:
As you can see above, the image is repeated on the CD itself. Well, more than just repeated, actually; it's freaking hand drawn. I'm trying to imagine the marketing meeting for this one: A: We must show Kazim as resolute--he is through with this %#*$@%! So, he rips the [unintelligible: love letter? lease?]. B: Sitting cross-legged on the floor, perhaps? Grounded. Close to the earth. Close to life. A: Listen. Listen to what I am telling you. We will then hand draw this same image of Kazim ... on the CD. B: On the CD ... ? A: Yes, on the CD itself. Drawn ... by hand! B: Wait, I have it ... I have it. In red. Blood red. According to the meta-data, this album is titled Kazem Al Saher and is dated 2009; the former is unlikely (it's a live album and I think there's a title of some kind there on the cover) and the latter is impossible. That's a relatively young Al Saher on the cover and, more importantly, the instrumentation and sound quality suggest that we're listening to a performance from the 1980s or, at latest, the very early 90s. I'm almost certain I found this gem at the Nile Deli on Steinway Street. In fact, I think it was relatively recently, within the last six months to a year. As I said in my last post, I'm gong to be DJing for WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio in the next month or two, but in order to do that, I need to get a new computer, specifically a Mac of some kind, and Macs are not cheap. In order to help raise funds I'm going to start selling and/or auctioning off original artwork and rare books and CDs to help defray the cost. I have to finish a comic under deadline today, and if I get done with time to spare, I'll start posting things for sale as early as this evening. Stay tuned ...
Bodega Pop will be on the radio soon. Specifically, we'll join WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio, the streaming station curated by master DJ and music blog supporter extraordinaire Doug Schulkind. Doug actually asked me if I'd be interested in bringing the bodega to the woof-moo months ago, but for several reasons--including (a) complete ignorance on my part as to what goes into being a DJ and (b) the impending move to my new apartment--I wasn't quite ready to start the show. I'm still not quite ready, although I've made progress. I've bought a professional microphone, a mixer, and a Byzantine array of cords, jacks, plugs and adapters. All I need now is a Mac computer of some kind. That, dear reader, listener, is where you come in. Over the next few weeks I'll be selling original art, rare CDs and books, and whatever else I can pull together to raise funds for the computer I'll need to stream you and other listeners the goods. More info to come soon. Meanwhile: My new apartment is no longer a mess, yay. The bad news? That's because more than half of my CDs are in boxes that I've shoved, out of exhaustion, into the closet. That said, I'm finding lots of new stuff--new to you, anyway--to post. First up is this lovely example of Turkish taksim, or improvisation, that I found half a decade or so at Uludag Video in south Brooklyn. More--much, much more--to come.
Just reupped here. [Originally posted in May 2011. Since then, the Greek music store where I found this moved a couple of blocks north on 31st Street, to just above 23rd Road, and I've moved several avenues south. Also, I'm pretty sure that I'm remembering correctly and that someone in the comments field wonders if I'd been watching The Wire. I hadn't. Since then, however, I've seen the show and understand where the comment came from.] There is, a couple of blocks away from me, on 31st Street in Astoria, under the N/Q el, what feels like the Tower Records of Greek music. Now, you know I love music, especially pop music, especially-especially old pop music, from around the world. But I'm also, let's face it, not rich. I'm used to spending between $1-$10 maximum for prerecorded entertainment, especially that of a musical nature ... and there is nothing in this store less than, like, $25. That said, you know those cartoons where the person's head is replaced by a big lolly-pop? Or sucker? Well, yes, in situations wherein I'm confronted with aisles and aisles of prerecorded product, especially that of a musical nature from other countries, that cartoon sucker-head is me. Oh, god. Was it, like, Christmas Eve when I got this? I know it was cold and dark and depressing and there was some sort of holiday that I really had nothing to do with, but should have. And that this place was empty. Except for me. I spent hours combing through the stacks and plucked out two items, this CD and another, which perhaps I'll upload another day. Stylianos "Stelios" Kazantzidis (Aug 29, 1931–Sept 14, 2001) was one of Greece's most popular Laïkó singers. Much of his music was included in films. And that is where my "knowledge" of him begins and ends. Well, other than the extreme kick-ass nature of the pop music he recorded. Which, if you weren't familiar with it before, you will be now. Typically, when I'm buying music from a place like this, I'll either get extreme attitude from the person working the register, or a host of questions: "You speak [language of music]? You like [country of origin] music?" That night, perhaps because it was Christmas Eve and I was the sole customer at this caverous CD warehouse, I got nothing but a knowing nod. Of course I was buying this CD, the clerk seemed to be saying. That, and, in what I can only assume was Greek, a "Merry Christmas, loser." Here's a video to watch while you're downloading:
[Originally posted in August 2012.] I found this collection of Greek dimotika, or folk, music nearly a decade ago in this odd little store in Bayridge just off fifth Avenue at around 79th or 80th Street. All I remember about the store was that it was actually two stores, which you could go back and forth from via a single door in the back connecting both. Oh, wait; no. It was three stores, one of which was a wedding dress maker? Right on the corner. I just Google mapped the area and it looks like none of this exists anymore. Anyway, there was the dress maker, then this weird sort of Z-level movies DVD place and then, last but not least, a small Greek music store.
What was a Greek music store doing in Bay Ridge? Well, Bay Ridge hosts an annual Greek Cultural Festival, so I'm guessing there must be a Greek population there, although I don't think there were any restaurants or other Greek-related businesses, save for the CD store. I've always thought of the neighborhood as predominantly Arabic (there used to be half a dozen or so Arabic music stores dotted along Fifth Avenue), but this is New York, after all.
I picked up this CD on a lark for like $5-10, having no idea what it was, and have loved it ever since the first play. It sounds to me like gypsy music, perhaps because of the clarinet and the extremely soulful voice of the singer. But it clearly says "dimotika" on the cover and that, so far as I know and understand, means "folk." Oh, and if you read Greek, here's the back cover with the track list:
Sorry I seem to be posting more writing and links to writing than music recently, but I've been getting a lot of requests for writing and comics lately, so I've been admittedly distracted from the music bloggin'. I've got a stack of stuff I've been meaning to share with you, including Arthur H's first album, given that y'all seemed to love so much the song of his I included here. Soon!
Grab this ridiculously fabulous example of early 1990s Arabic art song here.
Watch a two-minute excerpt from a rare live performance of the title song:
One of the best things about moving is unpacking. Because I've just moved from a relatively large apartment to a fairly small one, I'm having to (a) unpack slowly and (b) make a lot of tough decisions about what stays and what, soon, will have to go. This has been good for me because, if I'm going to be perfectly honest with you, there are a lot of CDs here that I haven't yet really listened to. Tonight's offering is one of them. Had I listened to it earlier, I would have posted it long ago. I don't even know how to describe this album, which consists of two songs, the 47-minute-long "La Ya Sadiki" ("Babel") and the 4-minute "Ya Rayeh Lebnan." Kazim al Saher composes a lot -- perhaps all -- of his music, and it's entirely possible these two songs are his. If so, the man is a genius. Not that I didn't already think that about him. I did. But the title song of this 1993 album is as mind-blowingly intricate as it is expressive -- and if you know al Saher's music, you know you can pretty much always count on the latter. I've got a bit of news to share with you all, but I'm going to save it for later. Right now, a dozen-plus boxes are calling me, waiting to be unpacked, their contents sorted, their fates decided upon.
Listen to "Mas Caliente Que El Sol" Grab this record here. Didja miss me? Well, I certainly missed you. Yes, I DID oogie woogie oogie-oogie. *Cough*. Hello? No, wait, come back. I won't do that again; I promise. So. I've been very busy this month: I moved. No, not to Buenos Aires or Bangkok or Tower Records Shibuya. I'm still in Astoria, but closer to Manhattan, closer to my midtown job and--most importantly--closer to the Almighty 7 Train ... or, as I like to call it: So Big Metal Sky Snake What Takes Me To Many CDs of a Delightful "Foreign Music" Nature. Or maybe I'm in Long Island City? Honestly, I don't know because every other map I look at has completely different borders for each Queens "city." Let me put it this way: I haven't been so excited about where I'm living since I moved to NYC in 1997. I'm still unboxing things, which is why I haven't really added anything to the Bodega shelves since September. And also why, if you've requested a reup, I haven't yet gotten to it. (Note to Self: Next move, clearly label what's in each box.) But last weekend I took a long walk around the new neighborhood and, in addition to somehow convincing the woman working at Tacos Mexico to bring me her mother's recipe for nopales (cactus), I discovered a vast warehouse of Latin CDs, mostly from Mexico, priced to move at three for $10, including tonight's thrilling offering. Fobia was founded in the late 1980s and were part of the Rock en Español wave, largely influenced by the American and British New Wave, including Caifanes, Los Amantes de Lola, Maldita Vecindad y los Hijos del Quinto Patio,Maná, and Neón. True to their name, Fobia's lyrics shied away from the more socio-political leanings of their counterparts, favoring exploration of band members' personal fears and unhealthy obsessions. The band recorded five albums in the 90s, split up, then regrouped in 2004. Tonight's offering includes tracks from the band's first decade along with a few songs cut the year they got back together.
I've reupped this 27-song collection by special request, here.
[Originally posted in November 2012.] GARY'S NOTE: For months now, a fellow traveler currently in Seoul, South Korea, calling himself "Male Cousin," has been promising to send me a mix of new and old pop, folk, rock and indie music from his host country. Last week Male Cousin sent along the finished product: 27 songs that prove to us that there's much more going on in Daehan Minguk than K-pop and PSY. His introduction follows:
Koreans love music. As one of my friend’s students explained, “We are a sing-song culture.” There are singing rooms literally everywhere, in every city, no matter how small. Often, in Seoul, there are more than five within eyesight, and there aren’t just singing rooms. There are request bars (where you request the songs you want to hear), vinyl bars (specializing in music from the sixties through the nineties in Korean and English), even band themed bars (one of my favorite bars is called The Cure and only plays new wave music over an endless loop of Cure video projections). In Seoul, there is a bar for every taste, no matter how obscure. Then there’s K-pop. Jesus, K-pop. Thanks to PSY (the most unlikely spokesperson for such a heavily manufactured and meticulously crafted “genre”) people in nearly every country on this planet have heard of it. It’s that incessantly catchy club music with the lyrics-you-can’t-understand-but-don’t-mind. It’s mindless. It simply works. And yes, in Korea, it is EVERYWHERE. It’s in the malls, the corner stores, the coffee shops, the boutiques, the taxicabs, it’s even piped into some of the parks. It’s entirely unavoidable. Eventually (thank god) it just becomes background noise, you can tune in and tune out. But the ubiquitousness of K-pop is mostly a post-millennial phenomenon. There were pop stars in the 80’s and 90’s, but cut from a very different cloth. These pop stars, in addition to being in many cases actual songwriters, occupied the radio waves with the remnants of an earlier, more diverse group of Korean musicians. See, in the late 60’s through the 80’s Korea’s music got wonderfully bent. The war was over. There was more interaction with the west and its sounds. There were Koreans and Americans playing music together, western music on the radio. And to top it off, there was a repressive military dictatorship to protest against. For a couple decades there was an explosion of raw creativity here as Korean musicians began taking cues from psychedelic rock, funk, disco, and, later, new wave. They adapted, made discoveries, and wound up with some beautiful hybrids that still deserve attention today. However, under the military regime, a lot of this music was banned as subversive. It still existed, and was passed around fairly openly. Sang Ul Lim, for instance, is still a household name; some say they were the Korean Beatles. But as Korea modernized, so did the record companies. And in the past decade and a half, they have been
so effective at cornering the market, utilizing a by-the-numbers pop equation that always seems to hit, that they have almost completely wiped out the rich history of the previous three decades. In some sense K-pop is the true representation of music in Korea. It accounts for nearly four billion dollars of the country’s economy, and for many of my students, it is all they know or care to know. There are some musicians here that wish that this particular part of their musical history had played out differently. The music in this mix is meant to be a sampling of the (de-facto underground) Korean music scene, as it exists at this very moment, with a handful of songs from the 60’s-90’s thrown in as reference points. There are hipster chillwavers, post-rockers, folk artists, shoegazers, weirdoes, punks, electronic experimentalists, drone metalheads, and indie poppers all making unique and wonderful music within a dominant culture that doesn’t respect difference when it comes to musical taste. They are, to use a Korean idiom, “throwing egg at a rock.” This collection is imperfect, and obviously slanted to my tastes and exposure, but nonetheless offers a glimpse at some of richness that exists here, if you just know where to look. Male Cousin teaches at a university in South Korea. Read more about the bands in this mix on his blog here.
Reupped in case you missed it the first time, here. Originally posted in December 2012.
Listen to track 1
INTERVIEWER: What do you think of this first bit? RESPONDENT: It's like this chick is smashing a car when she might be singing a song about "I love you, baby." Is she saying the car is evil and the music is in "the" background? It's like she's out there reading poetry with this little green and gold robe on while smashing an M.G. ...
Listen to track 7 INTERVIEWER: Have you heard this one before? RESPONDENT: I've heard the beautiful lights but they don’t sound like they did before. This is nicer, a nice little cat in her own groove, all about flowers and people wearing golden underwear. I like that nobody is going to listen to it. It's really groovy, but her group ought to be a little less creative. These days everybody thinks everybody else has to have trips, and people are singing about trips. Listen to track 8 INTERVIEWER: She's just making up words at this point. RESPONDENT: Yeah, it's like we're all being filmed. As we listen to it, shivering, the night and the ice descend. The chill air maybe picks this one up. Like this was not part of the formal trip, so she could just rap, because this isn't where she is at all. And that--that's where we're going, man. [Don't miss Bodega Pop's 10 Best Albums of 2012.]
Totally fabulously fucked up first track from this super great CD Reupped by popular demand, here. [Originally posted in July 2010.] Found somewhere on the Bowery. Oh God I love Fama. And I especially love the first track on this CD, "温故知新." I mean, OMFG, how many time changes are there in this? How many things have they collage-crammed into it? It's just ... spectacular. I could be wrong, but I think the title involves some sort of word-play involving "feng shui," which can be literally translated "wind and water" ... right?
Grab it here. Found today in the Nile Deli on Steinway Street while out on a long walk in the neighborhood. A composer, singer and actor, Fawzi was born in 1918 in Tanta, the fifth most populous city in Egypt, about an hour and a half north by car from Cairo. By the age of 12 he was already making a name for himself as a wedding singer, but his father disapproved; he more or less ran away to Cairo to make it in the music industry. He landed a gig with Egyptian Radio and then launched his acting career in 1944. His most famous composition might be the Algerian national anthem (the lyrics were written by Mufdi Zakariah while imprisoned by the French).
Listen to "Abe Kaku"
Listen to "Mondo"
Grab the whole shebang here. Awesome gypsy music from a label in Istanbul. One of a series of similar albums I picked up at Uludag Video (1922 Avenue W) in Sheepshead Bay Brooklyn. If you like, let me know and I'll upload the others. (They're not all gypsy, fwiw.)
Reupped in 320 glorious KBPS, here. Listen to the fabulous fifth track
[Originally posted on March 15, 2012.] Why anyone would listen to 20th century western classical/avant garde music when Burma exists is beyond me. Well, okay; in all seriousness: There really isn't any music quite like Burmese, at least Burmese music toward the more folk end of the spectrum. (They do, like everyone else on planet Earth, have their own brand of western-influenced pop and rap.)
As regular readers of this blog may remember, last August, Peter Doolan, who curates the insanely great Monrakplengthai , invited me out to visit Thiri Video, a Burmese media store in Elmhurst, Queens, that he'd gotten wind of a few weeks prior to contacting me. (Get the CD I found that day here.)
It took us well over half an hour to find the place, and this was after we had already unwittingly passed it. It turns out there is no store front; it's actually in a garden-level apartment. After confirming that we were, finally, at the right place, we removed our shoes and went in.
There is nothing like Thiri Video anywhere else in New York--at least, not that I'm aware of. I'm guessing there's nothing like it in the rest of the U.S. as well. (Please correct me if wrong; and include an address, as I would love to visit it, if it exists.)
Rather than rely on my groggy descriptive capabilities (it is, after all, not quite 5:00 a.m. as I write this), let's take a look at Thiri Video's promotional video, shall we?
I love that video. If my exhortations thus far were not enough to get you to watch it, or if a lack of subtitles frightens and intimidates you, I'll explain: A young Burmese man and what I gather are his or his girlfriend/wife's parents check out the time and wonder where Dude's significant other could possibly be.
As often happens in this kind of situation, a woman bathed in eerie blue light, whose midsection has been replaced with a midriff-sized chunk of silver, drops by, telling the young man to forget his bride/bride-to-be, and regaling him and the rest of the family with tales of Thiri Video (including numerous shots of the shop). Obviously, he doesn't, at least at first, believe her. For how could such a Paradise on Earth exist, even in fabulous Elmhurst, Queens?
Well, I'm here to emphatically tell you that it does, indeed, exist, as I just visited it for the second time last Sunday. I'm also here to offer you one of the most insane, shit-eating-grin-fabulous CDs I've ever found anywhere.
Alton Ellis - Sets A Better Example
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Half-Way Tree LP 1989 FLAC
Recorded at Dynamic Sounds
Reggae With You
Pearl
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Lord Deliver Us
Jamaica
Set A Better Example
Love Me Foreve...
João Bosco – Galos De Briga (1976)
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João Bosco de Freitas Mucci, known professionally as João Bosco, is a
Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist. In the 1970s he established his
reputatio...
MARI BUNG BANGKIT KEMBALI!
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Absolute fucking scorcher from 2002 with 29 Indonesian hardcore bands, many
of whom don't appear to pop up anywhere else. Impossible to go through ban...
Deef – "Real Control" (Mass Record) 1984
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Starting with a sentiment that we can all agree on, this bunch of brutal
Japanese Punk Rockers takes no prisoners,play it loud until you too become
Deef...
W- Johnny Shoot Em Down 12”
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Been a second since I’ve posted something more electronic. With that in
mind, here’s a rare one-off 12” released in 1984 via Martyr Records. Not
much to be...
RADIO JAZZ GROUP STUTTGART "BURGHAUSEN, 1976"
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Manfred Schoof, trumpet
Herbert Joos, trumpet
Heiner Wiberny, alto saxophone
Hans Koller, tenor saxophone
Paul Schwarz, piano
Adelhard Roidinger, do...
radio Damascus 1982 (new links)
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Once i was in Damascus, capital of Syria. Those were the days of old
dictator Assad (Lion in Hama, rabbit in the Golan, as the joke went).
People wer...
viral—communion + benediction
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turn of darkness eating its tail
the whisper of black hole total pull
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(*Beak* (stylized as *BEAK>*) is an English Experimental Neopsychedelic
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toge...
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miles davis quartet - caravan
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Jungle Room Records
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Ungawa! I'm unleasing obscure oddities from 35 years of record collecting
that (hopefully) have not appeared on other compilations of wild, weird
Mid-cen...
This is the end of the road.
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Thank you everyone who has visited and followed this blog and its
predecessor (Washerman’s Dog) since 2010! I have run out of steam and will
be taking time...
Solo Chu (朱江)
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Solo Chu (朱江) is “Peranakan” or “Baba-Nyonya,” a descendant of early
Chinese traders who had settled in the Malay Archipelago and intermarried
with the loc...
Various - God Bless America
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I hadn't listened to this for a while but then Randy Greif left a comment
on the post. He'd just wandered past and saw how much love there is for him
an...
All single track ePm Mixes Re-upped Here
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Thanks for all the requests for the re-ups. Here is the full Eros Plus
Melody collection in single track form. I will get the split tracks up at
some point...
TEN IN TWO
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VARIOUS ARTISTS - Ten In Two
Tracklist: 1 - The Edge - David McCallum 2 - Soran Bushi - Kifu Mitsuhashi
/ Kiyoshi Yamaya 3 - The World Is A Ghetto - The Al...
Elliott Smith Basement Remodel
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Since the poor dead bastard's unfinished basement was completed by others
to their own design, here's my take, which is obviously better because it's...
R.I.P. this blog (and hello new zine!)
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As anyone who still occasionally checks into this site will have noticed,
updates over the past few years have gone from sporadic to almost
non-existent. T...
QUATSCHPARADE
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I´m still buying way too many records. Here are just a bunch of (mostly)
German Novelty 45s that I found this week. Some I had been looking for for
a long ...
Free Market Reality
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After posting the historic Sunny Ade album last night, I wondered if the
famous name would be tagged by someone claiming copyright. This morning it
appea...
Turkish Classical Soloists of 1927
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Sometimes one piece isn’t quite enough; it’s fun to compare, especially
within a given time frame. I arbitrarily chose the year 1927 to focus on
five parti...
Nine years later
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Many immigrants come to the United States with a boxful of records from the
old country. The second or third generation then looses interest in the
music ...
Usha Khanna: Bambai Ka Maharaja (1980)
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[image: Bambai Ka Maharaja]
I've always been slightly partial to Usha Khanna, and while 1980 was hardly
the best vintage for any Bollywood music director...
Japshare to Shut Down
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Obviously I have not posted any new music here in years, but I am making
this post to announce that the mediafire files will be going down also on
July 25t...
How I Became An Expert on
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Realty Lawyer – Why You Should Use One in your house Purchaser Lawsuit What
does a property lawyer do? An attorney spends their job assisting people
obtain...
Ambiance Congo: September 27, 2020
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Catching up after a couple of months of not keeping up!
This time we have a track from the new compilation of boleros by Franco and
OK Jazz. Also a nice ...
Padre e hija ... y música
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Luis Kalaff PerezThis illustrious “maker of songs” was born on October 11,
1916 in Pimentel, Dominican Republic.He first made his living as a
carpenter and...
T.P. POLY-RYTHMO & Avolonto Honoré
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Some artists have marked music like like Honoré Avolonto and his particular
way of singing, especially on afrobeat. "E So Plait Mi A" is, for me, one
of...
New Donation Channel on Bandcamp
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Pada tanggal 21-22 Juni 2019 Gabber Modus Operandi akan tampil dalam
program Night Mass di festival musik eksperimental internasional Dark Mofo
yang digela...
Akina Nakamori – Fushigi (1986)
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After a month laying low due to restrictions on some platforms, we’re back!
You probably are seeing some reposts and more will come along the way,
these ar...
Déambulations sonores dans Gallica – Épisode 1
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L’idée de faire un mix à partir des collections sonores de Gallica me
trottait dans la tête depuis un moment. En voici une première
concrétisation, que je ...
Sweet and Smooth Highlife
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If you're in the market for sweet, smooth Ghana highlife music, Nana
Tuffour always delivers!
James Kwaku ("Nana") Tuffour was born on Valentine's Day, 1...
RIP: David Riley, bassist for Big Black
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David Riley, the bassist for Big Black, has died at 59. From David Riley’s
partner, Rachel Brown:
Sad news my Chicago friends. My dearest friend and lon...
30 Years
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It is hard to believe that thirty years have passed since *Franco* died.
Regular visitors of this blog (if there are any) probably recall my earlier
posts ...
The Tony King Sound (1975)
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Great mid-70s album from Tony King, an arranger who had a hand in quite a
few chart hits here in the UK.
This album has it all, some ...
THE NEXT MUTANT SOUNDS RARE LP AUCTION IS LIVE NOW
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Some major monsters this time, including four LP's on Futura Records, The
V/A-Music box on Vanity Records, The First Decayes LP and NDW LP's pressed
in edi...
Bagaimana cara menjadi pemain Dewa poker online?
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Untuk game God of Poker Online, banyak yang dicintai dan menjadi game
favorit pemain. Karena gaya permainan untuk pemain cukup rumit dan
menuntut, itu meng...
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this blog is now officially dead. i think i set out what i wanted to
accomplish, which was to expose people out there to music that i found
around the dust...
Music Lover's Announcement
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Hi there,
If you here because you're looking for old files/links to great music you
may be disappointed. This blog is now officially 'deceased', though ...
Africolombia needs your help
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For 12 years, Africolombia has dedicated to sharing with the world the
incredible picotero culture of Colombia’s Caribbean. From exposing a vast
inventory ...
Original Beach Scorpions
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Well, this band is certainly one of my favourites: The Original Beach
Scorpions, led by Anthony Scorpion. Fine guitarwork, remarkable voices,
truly origi...
Tip For Choosing a Good Driving School
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Once you sit behind the wheels ready to start a car, you must be ready for
the tremendous responsibility that you are about to take over. The
knowledge o...
Phono Mundial Toutes Etoiles – 12 Mai
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On investit les 700m2 en extérieur du Chapiteau Belle de Mai ce samedi, et
pour une fois on commence dès 14h avec nos invités : –L’Espadrille
(Phocéephone)...
Rest in Peace Ndikho Xaba
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June 18, 2019
Durban, South Africa
Legendary South African Musician Ndikho Xaba has made his transition at age
85.
After a long battle with Parkinson’s di...
A Secret History of a Musick Yet To Be (Readable)
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In July, a bulletin on the myspace page of a group of Moroccan musicians
sent my mind wandering down some strange paths, got me thinking about music
as a t...
Membasmi Kutu Kucing Dengan Minyak Telon
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Jika kucing Anda membenci air, coba gunakan sisir kutu agar membasmi kutu
kucing dengan minyak telon merasa tidak nyaman. Anda perlu memastikan sisir
turun...
Penpals - 2nd Coming
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Penpals - 2nd Coming
321 Records Limited TOCT-24648
2001.10.24
Today I have decided to hack and slash all my prices on discogs. deep
discounts abound in...
Camelia Jordana
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Camelia Jordana - Non non non
Camelia Jordana - Comment lui dire (Mathieu Boogaerts)
Camelia Jordana et Alex Beaupain - Avant la Haine
JET FM Fundraising Marathon
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Jet FM is a local independant radio in Nantes, France, which hosts my Cosmogol999
Radioshow and close friends Hashtag & Tête de bois's broadcast.
This rad...
No i było tak:
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Na wakacje po ósmej klasie w Trzech Kwadransach Jazzu Jan Borkowski puścił
kilka nagrań Free Cooperation. Po dwóch minutach pierwszego utworu mi się
to spo...
Field Report: Richmond Folk Festival
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Feature image above: Victor “Bitori” Tavares. Photos by Charles “DJ
Graybeard” Williams. The Richmond Folk Festival might not get a lot of hype
outside of ...
goodbye, 8tracks
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I've started a project of daily music selections on Twitter at
*#hearsaysongoftheday*.
I hope you check those out. Let's see how this goes.
The post goo...
CDer Idol Club
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Here is the CDer Idol Club album.
1. 100% Danjou Kousai (Koizumi Kyoko)
2. Suki ni Narazu ni Irarenai (Iwasaki Hiromi)
3. Last Kiss wa Hoho ni Shite (Mats...
Livro "Lindo Sonho Delirante" saiu do forno
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BUY IT!
E finalmente já está a venda o fundamental *Lindo Sonho Delirante: 100
discos psicodélicos do Brasil (1968-1975)*, livro de Bento Araújo, que...
Jual ORP Meter | Lutron NI 214
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[image: alat ukur bod, harga bod, harga bod meter, beli bod meter dimana,
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cod ...
The Bottom of the Page
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Hi everyone! As 2016 draws to a close, I’ve decided to commit to something
that has been slowly happening of its own accord – the shuttering of Paper
for t...
Dhafer Youssef – 2016 – Diwan of Beauty and Odd
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Dhafer Youssef‘s album “Diwan of Beauty and Odd” carries all the
trademarks this exceptional artist is known for: beautiful melodies,
heartfelt chanting ...
new blog
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Decided to abandon the expetc ship and start a new blog: Slowdive's Corner.
Expect awesome, (semi)obscure albums at least once a week, perhaps with
some wo...
Pretty - Neo Damaging Noise III - 2006
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Pretty - Neo Damaging Noise III Cd
Fuck The System Records - FSR-003 - 2006
http://ulozto.net/xRBX1bcu/pretty-neo-damaging-noise-lll-2006-zip
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* Rare LPs, 45RPMs from Egypt, Tunis, Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia,
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► Steve Beresford - The Bath of Surprise (1977-80)
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[CD: Amoebic/Valve, Japan, Dec. 1999; #AMO-VA-03
- LP originally released by Piano, UK, 1980; #PIANO 003]
Steve Beresford: all instruments
01. Punctuati...
LIBEREZ - "ALL TENSE NOW LAX" (2015)
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Θυμόμουνα το όνομα αυτής της μπάντας, θυμόμουν ότι είχα ακούσει κάτι από
αυτούς που ήταν της προκοπής αλλά τι και γιατί ιδέα δεν είχα – τόσο πολύ
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You No Longer Need to Beware of the Blog
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After ten fun-filled years, we're packing up shop here at WFMU's Beware of
the Blog. Many thanks to the dozens of volunteer authors who put in so much
time...
THE END
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Sorry keeping some of you on tenterhooks wondering whether Boot Sale Sounds
is still a going concern. I was hoping to get back into uploading some gems
fr...
Uncover Valuable and Semi Jewels
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Semi Jewels - Any mineral substance that's listed at its charm and/or its
strength may just like a gems. You'll find several kinds of gems for
instance rub...
Hiroshi Sato - Super Market (1976)
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Some readers may know the late Japanese pianist Hiroshi Sato from his
excellent *Awakening* record with Wendy Matthews, or his work with ...
Faktor Penyebab Kanker Payudara
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*Penyebab kanker payudara* belum sepenuhnya dipahami, sehingga sulit untuk
mengatakan mengapa seorang wanita dapat mengembangkan kanker payudara dan
wanita...
GRAMMY TIME!
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I’ll be heading down to LA this weekend to attend the Grammy Awards.
“Longing for the Past” has been nominated in the Historical category along
with four o...
A Chinese Ghost Story Soundtrack (倩女幽魂) [REPOST]
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*As I've posted several times before, I am a huge Hong Kong movie fan and
"A Chinese Ghost Story" is definitely on my favorites list. While Tsui
Hark's "Z...
Subway - Subway (1972)
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*Subway - Subway (1972)*
A beautiful and very rare album from the annals of European
psychedelic/folk/prog circa 1972. Subway were a half American, half...
Age Factory
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*手を振る*
Посмотрев, несколько раз подряд, клип на песню 真空から - стал долго и упорно
ждать их мини альбом. Ждать пришлось чуть больше двух недель. Оправдал ли ...
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Hopefully all the links have now finally been refreshed and replaced with
working ones at a new service. If you still find missing or malfunctioning
on...
Sounds of the Streets: Istanbul
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In September 2013 I visited Istanbul for the first time with the hopes of
recording street musicians and any other interesting sounds I could find
along t...
New Latin But Cool Vinyl Coming Out
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*ANA TIJOUX-Vengo (Nacional Records, 2014)*: For a while, after her
departure from *Makiza*, I remember *Ana Tijoux* was trying to detach
herself from the...
The Soap: "My God, That Feels So Good!"
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1.- Discotic
2.- We go
3.- Wait a bit
4.- 24
5.- Cheese Boy
6.- Las Vegas
7.- Street
8.- What’t up your ass?
No sé para que escribo nada si solo os vais a...
"Cries for Help" original art | SOLD
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*THIS COMIC HAS SOLD*
India ink on Bristol board, 11"w x 14"h
*$60 includes postage/handling*
Published in *Brooklyn Rail* September 2012
Check or Paypal...
Ok Motherfuckers! Let's Go!!
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I've posted a few Ultra Bide related things before and have always gotten a
number of emails and inquiries about Hide and his band. So you'll be glad
to ...
Radio Show 2-28-13
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Greetings, listeners! This week's episode features a friend and local
artist, David Wheeler, whose music you can check out here. I hope you also
enjoy th...
Happy Solstice & Abbots Bromley Horn Dance
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*On Darkness:*
The child is born in the darkness of the womb; the chicken hatched after
incubation. Birth begins in darkness, as dawn follows the long nig...
Ravi Shankar - Sound of the Sitar
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*ravi shankar*
sound of the sitar
(sitar)
1. raga malkauns - alap
2. raga malkauns - jor
3. tala sawari
4. pahari dhun
listen
rest in peace ravi, you w...
Technical difficulties....
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Sorry folks, I thought I was going to be able to post a 45 today but
various pieces of equipment have been acting-up ever since we experienced
damp conditi...
Sundaram Sai Bhajan Vol. 27
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*Download*:
FLAC: Side A Side B
320kbps MP3
*Side A*
01. Mangala Dayaka Hey
02. Sadguru Om
03. Mukunda Madhava
04. Allah Ho Akbar
05. Prema Mayi Sai ...
LAGOS DISCO INFERNO IS BACK AGAIN!!!
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Hello, blog fam... I've had some trouble with my Blogger account so I
haven't been able to make any new entries for a while, but if you're
connected to me ...
野路由紀子 - 北信濃絶唱
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野路由紀子 was an enka singer from the 1970s. enka is forever a genre that i
will find to be particularly spooky. something about it just sends chills
up and ...
SOLVA SAAL | MANZIL
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*Get it here.*
*Solva Saal (1958)*
Music: S.D. Burman
Lyrics: Majrooh
1. Hai Apna Dil To Awara | Hemant Kumar
2. Yehi To Hai Woh | Mohammad Rafi
3. Nazar K...
The Atheist Who Stole Christmas
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by Nicole Audrey Spector
How a guy who once pulled over the car upon espying a black glitter rosary
on my neck (I was 12 and the rosary was from Claire's...
Au revoir
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Hi readers!
Thank you so much for all the support you've given this blog. It's amazing
the amount of traffic I still get, even when the blog has been inact...
Andrew Chen Shi An / 陈势安
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*Andrew Chen Shi An - Love Again. Stardom*
*Singer/band: *Andrew Chen Shi An / 陈势安
*Title: *Love Again. Stardom / 再爱一遍.天后陈势安
*Release date: *2011/11/11
*Yes...
QMix
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So here is a little sampler I compiled, reavealing my love for fancy pop
music + some other stuff - inconsistent and random as this blog is. Hope
you lik...
QotD - Sleazy on CDs
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I would have thought that CDs were things that homeless people hang on
their super market shopping carts to make them look less depressing but
apparently s...
S. D. Burman: Taxi Driver (1954/1977) Pakistan
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Ok, ok. I actually enjoyed the *Taxi Driver* soundtrack more than* Chalti
Ka Naam Gaadi*. And I have to admit that I am finding some S. D. Burman
songs wh...
Introduction
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Misora Hibari
"Everything absolutely has a tiny and flaring point which makes a person or
a thing different from others, like the incalculable stars in th...
Look at it as a Hiatus.
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First of all, Merry Christmas to all those who actually read this on a
regular basis. I hope you all have a great 2010.
I sadly however am going to be putt...
Inquiries
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Hip Hop in China is no longer an active blog. It will remain up as an
archive for people around the world to access information on Hip Hop in
China.
Plea...
Lord Astor e Seu Conjunto - E Danca (1961)
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Hello, good evening! I am very close to finish an important work to Loronix
and also a key effort to bring some relief to the financial problems I'm
facing...
Repi Multimedia - Fishing With Dynamite (2008)
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From my favourite Albanian DJ team and/or band Repi Multimedia we get this
new collection of "can i get a w00t w00t"-remixes.
From last.fm:
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Disparition d'Orlando "Puntilla" Ríos 3/3
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Un autre album de Puntilla:
Autre volet de notre hommage, voici un album introuvable et méconnu en
France d'Orlando Puntilla, en fait son premier disque a...