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ESSENTIAL RECORDINGS
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06.23.10Excuse The DustWe're trying to fix up, look sharp. Nahh mean? Continue Reading...
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12.17.09REISSUES: Kill Rock Stars is reissuing Elliott Smith’s first and last full-length albums.Two key recordings which serve as bookends to Elliott Smith's catalogue of solo recordings, Roman Candle (his first) and From A Basement on the Hill (ostensibly, his last), are being reissued by Kill Rock Stars on 6 April 2010. Roman Candle, Elliott's first album, was issued by Portland's Cavity Search Records in 1994. For the Kill Rock Stars reissue, Roman Candle been remastered by Smith family archivist Larry Crane. Crane, the respected long-time editor of Tape Op Magazine, served in several engineering capacities on Elliott's work over the course of his career, predominantly as owner and operator ...
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12.14.09VIDEO: Massive Attack’s “Paradise Circus” features interview with porn star Georgina Spelvin (NSFW)WARNING: THIS VIDEO CONTAINS EXPLICIT PORNOGRAPHIC MATERIAL WHICH MAY BE CONSIDERED OFFENSIVE. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED - PLAY THIS VIDEO AT YOUR OWN RISK. A new video has been released from Massive Attack's forthcoming Heligoland, a video which is likely to raise some eyebrows. The video for "Paradise Circus" features an interview with '70's porn icon Georgina Spelvin, providing color commentary over portions of her banned pornographic film classic, The Devil in Miss Jones. I found it tough to watch, but I post it in the hopes you'll find it enjoyable and interesting.
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11.24.09Massive Attack’s Heligoland slated for February 2010 release | First studio album in six yearsThe standard-bearers for trip-hop, Bristol natives Massive Attack, have announced complete details on their soon-to-be released new album. Entitled Heligoland, the album will see release on 8 February 2010. Their first studio album in seven years, Heligoland is seen as one of the most hotly anticipated releases of 2010. Ranked among the most influential bands to come out of British music in the 1990's, Massive Attack had long been believed to reach their creative peak with 1998's seminal release, Mezzanine. Creative fallout and personnel changes within the band left founding members Robert Del Naja (3D) and Grant Marshall (Daddy ...
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11.11.09Four Tet – Love Cry (Joy Orbison Remix)(Big ups to DISCO ATTACK via Gorilla vs. Bear)
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11.10.09TEST PRESSINGS: Prince Klassen re-imagines (and re-edits) a Roxy Music classic.Prince Klassen is one of my favorite DJ / Producer / Remixers in the world at the moment. Roxy Music is one of my favorite bands of all time, a master act of the 1970's and 80's who straddled the lines of rock, dance and pop music, led by the inscrutable Bryan Ferry. This re-edit of "Love is the Drug", nearly a perfect song by our standards, just popped fresh into our inbox. And it's impressive -- another in a series of outstanding edits that Prince Klassen has given us of classic tracks. Like a damn Reeses ...
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10.07.09Reissued Betty Davis albums prove still funky as ever | Win a limited-edition Betty Davis PosterWell how are you doing, my brethren? Some of you already know I've been battling a series of health problems the last few months which have kept me from updating regularly. What can I say, I got a bit unlucky on the health front. But enough about me, let's talk about a major day in the world of funk freakitude: today marks the reissue of Betty Davis's oft-bootlegged 1975 funk gem Nasty Gal alongside her previously-unreleased phantasm of funk, Is It Love or Desire?. Nasty Gal is an essential funk recording, once only traded as an 8th ...
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02.23.09Don Blackman’s self-titled soul-funk odyssey still bumps.Through time and circumstance, a lot of what record fans consider to be "classic" falls by the wayside. Such is the fate of the critically-acclaimed and oft-sampled solo album by soul master, funk pioneer and session mastermind Don Blackman. This 1982 record is still available as an import for a whopping $39.99 in the U.S. However, it's worth every cent of that and more. Flawless keyboard arrangements and vocals, tight funky-basslines, synth and Moog progressions that are unlike anything you're likely to hear anywhere else, the album transcends its out-of-print status on repeated listenings. Funk fans, take ...
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01.29.09Thursday Throwback: Heaven 17 – “Penthouse and Pavement”I'm glad people are rediscovering the funky side of 80's electro, even if it's just an accident. I mean, truly there was a load of absolute crap that came out back then; however there remains a select handful of artists who created uniquely identifiable electronic funk music in the 1980's. Among them, I have to account for the accomplishments of Heaven 17. The song "Penthouse and Pavement" remains one of my favorite so-called 'throwbacks' to drop into a set. The dirty nasty funk signatures in the electronic configurations of this track remain unlike any I've heard ...
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12.18.08Loudersoft’s Picks: The Top Songs of 2008Last year, I procrastinated heavily. I think there were a lot of good records that came out the last couple of years, but I started to think that for every record that came out, there was an equal number of these "best-of" lists being bandied about. At first I thought, "Wow, it's finally happened. Everyone's a music critic." Then, with this pervasive thought entrenched in my gourd, I started reading these other lists before making my own. I suddenly felt small. So deadlines for the "best of 2007" rolled around, and I was in a tailspin, dogged by ...
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