Beautiful Swimmers - “O Yea”
According to their myspace page, these dudes/dudettes/whoevers are from somewhere in Maryland. This makes me feel moderately better about my native state.
So our last exchange was a few weekends ago, but the mixes everyone brought were rather meaty, in a delicious, dripping wet, 1/4 pound bacon cheeseburger kind of way, and I finally feel like I’ve had a chance to fully digest them all. Lots of excellent tracks, lots of bodacious sequencing, and most excellent packaging all around. Thanks for coming!
Also, should anyone else have taken a particular liking to Thin Lizzy and/or Os Diagonais as a result of choice mixinstituter selections, the albums those tracks are on are both quite rad I must say:
Sent to me the other day by a good friend with the subject: “I mark this as the official beginning of the early 90s comeback.” It draws pretty heavy from the 80s too, but that in no way dissipates my desire for an early 90s comback. TRUTH.
The quick cuts of the video become a bit nauseating after awhile, but the mix by Machine Drum is pretty hot stuff.
A leopard jumpsuited Marc Bolan introduces Paul Weller and co. on his 1977 TV show Marc.
The Jam’s “All Around the World” (b/w “Carnaby Street”) hit #13 on the UK singles chart in ‘77. You can find it on the first disc of the Direction Reaction Creation box set.
[Via Noisejunkie]
In the alternate future-past of 2076 via 1976, robot space stewardesses will play keytar versions of this while serving rainbow colored foaming cocktails on intergalactic flights to tropical cyberpunk star systems.
1200 bones will land you a MK III version of one of these beasts courtesy of some dude in Fredricksburg.
Came across this while browsing french-new-wave.com. Sounds sort of like Erik Satie with a Juno and a 4-track.
From the 1984 album Passions Divisées (re-released in 1988 as First Songs Vol. 1).
[Via Voxinsana]
So this song isn’t exactly about a foxy lady, but, well, close enough. To all those dudes and babes out there, be most excellent to each other this evening.
[Via Funkclassicmaster]
More balmy music for another incomprehensibly lovely February day. The Double, at least on Palm Fronds, made music that conjures up images of a blissful day in a malfunctioning future.
Download “Blanket on a Beach.”
Download “Standing on a Levee.”
The Double on myspace.
Gwen McCrae - Rockin’ Chair (192k mp3)
[Via Youcangetwithdiss]
Some delicious Miami soul for this unfathomably warm February evening. McCrae landed a #1 R&B single with the title track off this album, though the real burner is definitely “90% of Me Is You.”
