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Weekly mp3 #67: Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas - Rothaus (Groove Edit)

On the Eskimo Recordings label website.

Layers and layers of meandering instrumental jam - mostly synths, what sounds like a live drum kit and a bit of electric guitar knocking out some chords. These guys are always described as disco, but I figure it'll appeal to fans of Pink Floyd more than Floyd-haters would like to admit.

Lindstrøm and Prins Thomas are a Norwegian duo. In a nice Dummy Mag interview Hans-Peter Lindstrøm gives you a clear picture of how the two work and how rock'n'roll they are. (Hint: not very.)

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Trippy tunes made from slicing and dicing movies

Pretty sorta ambient house tracks made by slicing up tiny bits of movies, by a guy in Perth called Pogo. Vibes like Todd Edwards at his most mellow, but I guess more obviously like Akufen. (Anti-Akufen hype rant deleted)

This Alice one is the one I saw first. If you're reading this on Facebook, you won't see the Youtube links. Click "View Original Post".


The good old 'Candy Man' scene from the original Willy Wonka...



And a more recent movie, The Secret Garden, turned into something supremely chilled out. The music box at the start made me think of Rhian Sheehan's latest album...

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Weekly mp3 #66: Anonymous Mongolian man recorded by Jean Jenkins - Mouth music (Khoomii or xoomii)

The Internet Archive's Open Source Audio section has turned up a recording of an LP from 1977 called Vocal Music From Mongolia and credited to Jean Jenkins.

A man sings unaccompanied, producing a series of overtones through his nasal cavity. Loads of vibrato. If you've heard overtonal singing, you know exactly what to expect. If you haven't, set your brain to melt-resistant before checking this out. That whistling melody in Massive Attack's 'Karmacoma'? Yeah, it's not a synth or a kettle, it's a man.

The people involved with making the music here are unidentified, but there's a write-up for Jean Jenkins on Wikipedia. She was an ethnomusicologist from Arkansas, USA. It doesn't mention this recording, but it must be the same person.

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Weekly mp3 #65: The Units - High Pressure Days

I posted a link to the song on Youtube a week or two back, but also found much-maligned taste-makers (how dare they have influence! especially if I disagree with their taste! outrageous!) Pitchfork have an MP3 of the song available.

You can stream the song either via that Youtube link or at the Pitchfork site, but basically it sounds like contemporary dance-punk hybrid stuff although it was recorded closer to 30 years ago. Imagine a band like The Wire circa their first few albums, but with big, bright synths that alternate between rushing walls of noise and chuggy late 70s / early 80s chugging arpeggios.

The Wikipedia entry for The Units says they're a synthpunk band from San Francisco, and were active between 78-84.

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The increasing capacity for online communities to effect meaningful change

OK, actually it's an otter playing a cheap electronic keyboard in exchange for tasty treats.


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Of course everyone reading this already heard the audio from this on the last Malty Media show and has already pored over the tracklist on our site... but it's cute with the visuals.

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Weekly mp3 #64: Casiotone For The Painfully Alone - Young Shields

There's a good dose of free MP3s on Mr Casiotone For The Painfully Alone's site.

The track's basically dirty synth chords, non-dancey drum machine and the guy singing in a sorta half-spoken, restrained way. The mood's a wee bit desperate, but the lyrics are funny about it: "Sent a letter to Mom and Dad / Said the money's running out / Got a letter from Mom and Dad / Didn't send me anything." Distorted synth lines fill the rock guitar role later in the track.

Casiotone For The Painfully Alone is a one man band based in Chicago, which I've heard is in America. This is off his fourth album, where he started breaking away from really being a guy singing with a Casiotone keyboard. Well, maybe there was more to it, but, either way, his recordings are a bit more filled-out now.

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Amazingly contemporary sounding - The Units

This is from 1980. It's been re-released this year with some contemporary remixes, but the original sounds like it could've been recorded this year too, I reckon. Which probably says more about what's cool right now than it does about the song. I like it, tho.



Facebook users, do you see this sentence? If so, click "View original post" to see the Youtube link, because I think Facebook won't have imported it.

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