Angel Maimone Entreprise - Question Piège

Your guess is as good as mine on this one.

Metrô - Beat Acelerado ‎

This is the level of frothiness I'm shooting for this Friday (December 6th, 10 PM to 2 AM) at Cafe Dancer. Come down if you can!

Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin - Henry and James

The other day a musical couplet popped into my head -- "Henry and James / Remember their names" -- and I thought oh, that's an old '80s song, but who's it by? So I Googled to find this. I think I must have heard it once on the radio in the '80s. I'm certain I haven't heard it since. And the moral of the story is: if I "remembered their names" for 25+ years, it must be a good song. 

Good for a November Sunday where it's getting dark at 2 PM. There's more good songs on the album, too; I may post them soon.

Patrick Forgas - Sex Move

Do I detect the influence of this?

The best part of this video is everything.

Haruomi Hosono with Friends Of Earth - Alternative 3

Pretty abstract stuff here from Harry, but ultimately successful (I think) as a self-contained piece of music. Recorded and mixed digitally October-November, 1984, Tokyo.

bonus beats:
Kurtis Blow - AJ Scratch (1984)

Miharu Koshi -
Bara No Yakai~Arui Wa Amai Mitsu No Imashime

Japanese title: 薔薇の夜会～あるいは甘い蜜の戒め
English translation (as per Google translate): Soirée, or, Sweet Nectar of the Commandments of Roses

Happy birthday (yesterday) to Harry Hosono, who produced this and presumably played the fretless bass(es). Written by Miharu Koshi. See here for another cut from the same LP. Artwork by Satoshi Nishizaki.

Best part at 2:15.

Miharu Koshi - パラレリズム [Parallélisme]

Vangelis -
Silent Portraits 1
Silent Portraits 2

Thanks to Hatchback and our friends at noncollective for the tip on part 2 (featured in the "Galaxy's Fountain" mix). Part 1 is an agreeable way to spend nine minutes. Part 2 is the sound of your life improving.

Notes on the LP, from discogs.com:

Created exclusively for "Silent Portraits", a project involving Italian photographer Gian Paolo Barbieri, who shot on Polaroid a series of black and white photos, mostly all portraits, of the inhabitants of the nation of Seychelles. The book and photographs together make up this project, and was published by Garzanti Editore S.p.A. in 1984.

The book has a clothbound hardback cover that measures an 15.5 inches horizontally and 12 inches vertically. It is 132 pages in length, filled with images on glossy paper. The foreword is presented in both French and English.

The music was meant to be played while looking at the photos.

Emmett Presents: The End Is Not In Sight



Side A
Modern Folk Quartet - This Could Be The Night
Twin Engine - Mistress Of The Morning
Nancy Sinatra - Sugar Me
Lio - You Go To My Head
Step Lang - Airborn
George Martin & His Orchestra - Theme One

Side B
Bachdenkel - Long Time Living
Caramba - Fedora (I'll Be Your Dawg)
Split Enz - Six Months In A Leaky Boat
Tomita - Clair de Lune
Tuesday - Sewing Machine
Helen Banks - Do You Know

Side C
Up 'N Adam - Rainmaker
El Tigre - Figure
Hybrid Kids - D'Ya Think I'm Sexy?
William Onyeabor - Good Name
John Keating - Rocket Man

Side D
Violeta Parra - Arauco Tiene Una Pena
The Carpenters - Superstar (Rapson re-edit)
Simon & Garfunkel - So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright
Jerry Garcia - Eep Hour
Ozark Mountain Daredevils - Spaceship Orion

all-in-one zip file

Featuring music from six continents, and dedicated to the people of Japan. I'm going to Ireland for two weeks, but when I get back... IT'S ON.

Eternal Triangle - Nothing But A Friend (Endless Mix)

I needed a bit of Balearica while cleaning the house yesterday, and this is what I arrived at. For fans of shiny surfaces and jazzy horn stabs.

DJ Emmett presents fin de la décennie spectacular

Good Time Coming - Mustard
Lucy Lu - Bob Summers
I Won't Step On Your Shoes - Barnaby Bye
Asmodaï - Tac Poum Système
Eanie Meany - Jim Noir
I Won't Let You Down - Ph.D.
The EMI Song - Alex Chilton
Gemini - Marcello Giombini
I Need You Tonight - The Punkin Machine
Right Off (excerpt, -8) - Miles Davis
No Train To Stockholm - Lee Hazlewood
Spiralys - Daniela Casa
L'idole des jaunes - Stella
Run For The Sun - Brett Smiley
Il Veliero - Lucio Battisti
My Love Will Shine - Pat Thomas & Marijata
Pyjamarama - Sartre's Lobster
Bilbao Song - Bernie Leighton
Trouble - Lindsey Buckingham
Perpetrator - Stew Lane
Poison Lips - Vitalic
Schwerkraft - Schaltkreis Wassermann
2010 - Andy Summers
Art Decade Chant - Big B

(or, get them all in one zip file)

Herbie Hancock: Junku

Off of Sound System and evidently written for the '84 Olympic games in LA.

Lou Reed: Endlessly Jealous

Oh beware, my Lord, of Jealousy
It is the green-eyed Monster which doth mock
The Meat it feeds on.

Lloyd Cole and the Commotions: Forest Fire

it's just a simple metaphor...

INXS: Original Sin

FROM THE ARCHIVES


In honor of our recent milestone (1,000 posts in 924 days; or 1.08 posts per day since November '06), here is a selection of songs that kick ass. Congrats guys... on to the next 1,000.

The Art of Noise - Moments In Love (12" Beaten Version)
Originally aired: 1.19.2007

Shuggie Otis - Aht Uh Mi Hed
Originally aired: 2.13.2007

Harry Thumann - Underwater (12" Version)
Originally aired: 3.8.2007

The Professionals - Rio Ontario
Originally aired: 4.3.2007

The Might Clouds of Joy - Mighty High
Originally aired: 7.27.2007

Pilot - Canada
Originally aired: 8.14.2007

Peter Green - Funky Chunk
Originally aired: 10.23.2007

West Phillips - (I'm Just a) Sucker For a Pretty Face (Instrumental)
Originally aired: 1.16.2008

Paul Humphrey - Hot Ice Cream
Originally aired: 1.29.2008

The Pool - Bisa Blues
Originally aired: 5.12.2008 (with perhaps my favorite picture pairing)

Mike Bloomfield and Al Cooper - Stop
Originally aired: 6.9.2009

Grateful Dead -
Scarlet Begonias
Touch Of Grey
Fire On The Mountain

Performed July 13, 1984
Greek Theatre, Berkeley, CA

Thinking a bit about the article that was printed in the NYT the other day... I don't care much for the "best show ever" discussion, but I am interested in this "Survival of the Fittest" idea - that the crème de la crème rises to the top. If a show was widely circulated in the days before the Internet, does that make it a great show? Obviously 5/8/77 is a great show, and the soundboard that circulates, the Betty Board is also of such amazing quality that if you care at all about the Grateful Dead, it is required listening. The show is also from a period in which the Grateful Dead are generally accepted to have played at their near-best if not their best. Regardless of whether or not it is one of their best performances, I get a kick out the fact that every Deadhead knows where Barton Hall is, and the mere mention of Barton Hall triggers a recollection of the date 5/8/77.

In my earliest days of trading tapes through the mail, I ended up with 7/13/84; only Set II if memory serves me correctly. It sounded funny to me back then. A little thin, and a little fast - and quite a contrast to the Dead that people probably initially hear - the Dead of 67-72, or the late 70s. It is a fun tape, but not one I would throw into my tape player too often. I also think it was widely traded, and I am unsure why. Maybe it was the placement of the fairly recently (within 2 years) composed Touch of Grey, or the Dark Star encore, but otherwise the rest of the show is, in my opinion of course, ho-hum. I do like the jam between Scarlet and Touch, and in general the Fire is played very well. Maybe it was the venue, which is right up there with the Frost Amphitheater as perhaps the best places to see a show. But that too, is a point for discussion.

Anyway. Emmett posted the Scarlet > Fire from 5/8/77 about a year ago for those of you who would like to compare.

Coming tomorrow - a post containing all 44 live performances of Easy Answers.

BONUS BEATS, from the same show. I was reminded that this song from the first set is also worth a listen. Thanks, Rich.

Haircut One Hundred - Evil Smokestacking Baby

I was checking out an eBay auction for Cedar Walton's Low Rider, only to learn that the Idjuts had already released it, with this evocative Haircut 100 jam on the flip. I give you Evil Smokestacking Baby, unedited and unmixed.

Marcel King - Reach For Love