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08:27 / 13.03.02

Ok, another one that no one will listen to, but anyway...

The Guilt - Migala, because it's just beautiful.

11:19 / 13.03.02

The Ark: "Calleth you, cometh me"

01:24 / 14.03.02

Flux - did you go see the Liars and the Walkmen at Mercury last week? The Liars were fantastic, but the Walkmen...maybe I'm just too burnt on the Strokes for most of their stuff. By the end of their set they'd started to sound interesting, though.

Nikon - I was reading through this thread waiting to get to the end and pimp "Mistakes and Regrets" - funny you said that about Sonic Youth since at the Trail of Dead show on Monday they said (before a different song), "In this song, we're going to rip off Unwound, Sonic Youth, AND Slint! Go!" They also inferred that New Yorkers were pussies for not throwing shit at them; twenty seconds later, the air was full of flying plastic beer cups. Somehow, it was beautiful.

But that song aside, I need to pimp "Am I Loud Enough?" by Bis. I can't stop listening to Social Dancing and I begin to think there's something wrong with me...

01:27 / 14.03.02

Postscript: Flux, somehow I just decided from your posts and band mentions that you must be in NYC; apologies if I'm jumping a bit far to conclusions.

Also, one song I forgot: "You Are Invited" by the Dismemberment Plan. Gets me every time.

18:51 / 14.03.02

quote:Originally posted by straylight:
Nikon - I was reading through this thread waiting to get to the end and pimp "Mistakes and Regrets" - funny you said that about Sonic Youth since at the Trail of Dead show on Monday they said (before a different song), "In this song, we're going to rip off Unwound, Sonic Youth, AND Slint! Go!"

...nuff said.

my pimp for the day is quite a strange little number from the kitty-yo stable. autopilot should get the credit really as he pimped it to me. it's one for those lonely nites at home - which autopilot has LOTS of. just jokin baby. you know you're money.lol

anyway. here goes:

mocky: show me that you're mine

go fetch!

[ 14-03-2002: Message edited by: nikon driver ]

Matthew Fluxington

23:16 / 16.03.02

Straylight, I am indeed from NY, but I haven't seen The Walkmen or the Liars live just yet. I don't really get to see nearly as much live music as I'd like to, mostly out of inconvenience and cashflow.

Anyway, my latest pimp shall be for the unfortunately named indie rock/dance pop sensation I Am The World Trade Center, and their song"Metro". This is the 'Brooklyn' mix of the song - it's really infectious, somewhat obtuse electro pop. It kinda reminds me of the Tom Tom Club in outer space or something. It's cute, it's minor, it's fun. Give it a shot.

Matthew Fluxington

13:34 / 22.03.02

Okay, making up for lost time...

"Cabbage Alley" by The Meters ... Soul funk euphoria. Happy good times. Happy glowy. Just a bunch of killer sunshine hooks, lyrics be damned (and fuck full sentences, too). One of the best piano riffs in the whole wide world. Grin from ear to ear.

"Number One" by Playgroup. Sexy disco. "I'm the kind of cat who always gets his bird". Super simple bassline, like the Pixies gone all funky. When you dance to this song, you put yr hands up over yr head.

"Young Scene" by Keith Mansfield. You can only do the most silly dances to this song - like, you know that one where you pretend you are a submarine? That would be perfect for this. Instrumental orchestral funk. Just over a minute long. Yes!

"Problemmes D'amour" by Alexander Robotnick. His name is Alexander fucking ROBOTNICK!. It's electro disco, it has lots of shouted French lyrics, girls cooing along, and lots and lots of synth squiggles... and his name is Alexander ROBOTNICK!

13:41 / 22.03.02

Mia Doi Todd - Digital, Version 2.2.

I don't know how to describe this one, really, except that is REALLY good.
It's energetic and adventurous, and sort of electronic (which I don't too much about). It has this base loop, and the girl's voice feels like fudge, it tickles if you're wearing earphones.
I think you can dance to it, too, but I'm not sure...

10:58 / 23.03.02

Any fans of Big Black, Bikini Kill/Le Tigre and nasty elecrto-punk racket, download something by Erase Errata. They absoluteluy rule.

Matthew Fluxington

12:17 / 23.03.02

Jade, that "Digital" song is great, by the way. I like it a whole lot.

I want you all to get a copy of "Launderette" by Vivien Goldman... I'm in deep love with this song, it's got this amazing, dizzy funky bassline, all kinds of distant high-pitched guitar effects going on in the background, light subtle percussion, and this woman with this amazing voice singing about her exboyfriend in the context of still having his clothes and washing them with hers at the launderette.. This song is especially recommended for Slits and Sonic Youth fans.

Also, try out "Let's Go Swimming (version 3)" by Arthur Russell... it was written to be a "futuristic summer record" back in the early 80s, and it really does sound like it's from another planet. It sounds like the song is simulating what swimming and being underwater is like, while remaining danceable. It's maybe a bit like dancing on the ocean floor...

[ 25-03-2002: Message edited by: Flux = A New Face In Hell ]

The Natural Way

11:14 / 25.03.02

"Supafunk" by Jake Slazenger (aka one of the Autechre guys in funk/dance mode).

Only it's not. 'Jake Slazenger' = Mike Paradinas.

"I don't know, those beard-dance blokes all look the same to me, what w/ their dorky glasses and awkward, shuffling gaits..."

So far almost all yr recommendations have been golden, Flux. Cheers.

[ 25-03-2002: Message edited by: You and Runce ]

Matthew Fluxington

11:40 / 25.03.02

Autopilot told me it was Autechre! Blame him!

The Natural Way

11:42 / 25.03.02

Foolish Autopilot. Consider him blamed.

No star here laces

13:28 / 25.03.02

It's nearly summertime and as we can now all stand to still be at clubs at 7am and spend our sunday aftenoons reading the papers with the windows open, that means it's time to start listening to really deep disco again.

So I want to pimp War - "City country city" possibly the most sprawlingly complex and subtle piece of dance music ever created. I would love, someday, to go to a club where they had the balls just to play the whole of this tune.

War you will know from cheesy latin-funk numbers such as "Galaxy" and "Lowrider", but they also provided much of the inspiration for nearly everything Masters at Work and their ilk have ever done with a huge obscure back catalogue of noodly fusion instrumentals which really reward proper listening.

City Country City is a deceptively simple instrumental track that builds and fades and builds and fades again, playing with all it's components (bongos, bass and guitar in essence) in a way that reminds me mostly of something like Bach's "The art of fugue" in the way they extract every ounce of possibility from the instruments.

Listen to it when you've got a bit of time on your hands and the sun is shining. Play it through more than once. I don't think you'll be disappointed...

03:35 / 23.07.04

Hey Buddy Buddy , by Rare Essence, feat. JAS. Funk
I'm Chillin' by Trouble Funk deat. Kurtis Blow
Go Go Swing by Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers

I have just found this genre of music (go go) and... it's amazing. I'm trying to figure out more about the groups. I am told that the genre only exists in D.C, and is notorious for having raunchy, dirty parties - where the doors are locked and people are getting five dollar blowjobs.

And that's what the music sounds like - raw and dirty.

Rare Essence do another track with Redman. Hence, I peg them as current go-go. Trouble Funk is more 80's - hollow drum sounds, synthesizers, and rhyming couplets. Chuck Brown, godfather of go-go, started all of this in the 70s. His track has that Isaac Hayes funk wa-wa.

All three have the interlocking latin beats, played by god knows how many people on stage at once, that is why I've spent the last week trying to find more go-go.

No star here laces

07:10 / 23.07.04

Seeing as we're reviving this thread, I'd like to pimp the new Shystie album released this week to y'all by drawing your attention to the following piece of kerrr-azzy music. There's something a little too self-conscious about Shystie to make her work for me as a grime artist, but as a piece of pop I love this record - there's so much going on and the popping noises and breakneck rapping alternating with drawled "murrrder" exclamations is very appealing as is the two beats worth of squelch bass every few bars.

Check it out here (scroll down to the bottom of the post)

05:41 / 26.07.04

Akufen - Deck the house (remix). Mad and funky. How he gets all those sample snippets to work together is beyond my meager understanding.

S'Express - Superfly Guy. 'Cause its brilliant old skool acid house. Cheap nasty video game sounds, big fat chunky acid line, tacky chic vocals!!!! I love this song so much!!!!

Regrettable Juvenilia

12:14 / 26.07.04

Heloise and the Savoir Faire Dancers - 'Odyle'

Just when you thought the disco/punk/electro/pop formula couldn't be improved upon any further, here comes Heloise and her crew to cause dancefloor mayhem. A tiny hint of Blondie melody, a little bit of apocalyptic imagery, a pulsating 'Can't Get You Out Of My Head'-style beat, a whole load of defiant Le Tigre shouting... Simply divine, simply essential.

19:33 / 27.07.04

"I want all the contributors to the Song-Pimping thread to download this. " - iconoplast

just a plug, but one that could be very useful to everyone posting on this thread.

have fun!

Regrettable Juvenilia

19:39 / 27.07.04

Are you going to do this in every music forum thread?

02:09 / 28.07.04

nope... just two of them.

No star here laces

14:55 / 01.08.04

this is a test to see if I can host mp3s on my blog but link to them elsewhere.

Nio - "No strings" (calypso remix)

Goodness Gracious Meme

22:15 / 01.08.04

Well, if they don't have to be new, go get:

Smith and Mighty - Anyone
or 'why I h8 trip hop', which was mainly a watered-down/coffee-tablelised travesty of the proper stuff. Like this. Wonderful re-jigging of Cilla's Black's gorgeously sad Anyone Who Had A Heart, taking cunks of vocal and mixing it with sparse and sinister bass and beats.

Haunting and yum.

Unique 3 - The Theme. I've been listetning to this alot recently, amazing fucking tune. Mmm. If you can't get, go find Rhythm Takes Control instead.

23:11 / 01.08.04

Aphex Twin - Windowlicker

and make sure you watch the video too.

it's an amazing song, and once you watch the video, you'll have a big smile on your face every time you hear it.

No star here laces

23:20 / 01.08.04

If y'all want a touch of Unique 3, you can get "weight for the bass" here

Regrettable Juvenilia

01:08 / 02.08.04

Aphex Twin, you say? Wow!

INTELIGENT BEATZ!

Regrettable Juvenilia

17:50 / 12.08.04

I have to pimp 'The Adventures of The Lactating Man' by Infinite Livez - I first heard it a few months ago and laughed so hard, I was instantly smitten. And now you can hear it at Fluxblog for a limited time only... Basically, it's saucy comedy British hip hop, which sounds like an absolute recipe for disaster, but somehow it works. The highlight is surely when the protagonist goes to see the doctor and is told to come back in the morning with a pint of semi-skim: "I said 'Semi-skim? Blood, stop jokin', I'm a lactating man, 'av a look, my shirt's soakin'..." I think this record may secrely have been recorded with Illmatic in mind as the target audience, but plenty of other people here should dig it too.

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