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Slinging tuneage like some fried or otherwise soused short-order cook

19 November 2024

Set to a Valium Tempo

In 2023s Dubtember I shared Om Units Acid Dub Studies here & January this year I followed up with Acid Dub Studies II here

 



Om Unit is the musical project of Jim Coles from Bristol. I'm a fan of all he does, especially his Acid Dub music.

Here are Acid Dub Versions & Acid Dub Versions II...

 

Om Unit - Acid Dub Versions 2x12" , Om Unit self-released ADS001R, 2022.
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Side A -        
Dissolved (Deadbeat remix)
Ghosts (SKRS VIP)

Side B -
The Struggle (Dubkasm version)
The Struggle (Dubkasm extended version)


Side C -
Ghosts (CV313 re-animation)

Side D -
Ghosts (CV313 re-imagined Dub)
Rolling Stock (Variant Etherscope)

 

 

 

 

Om Unit - Acid Dub Versions II 2x12", Om Unit self-released ADS002R, 2023.

Side A -
Camo (Yushh remix)
Camo (Hodge remix)

Side B -
Strange Brew (Amy Kisnorbo remix)
Acid Tempo (Double O Dub Agent remix)

Side C -
Acid Tempo (Tapes remix)
Bristol Theme featuring Dego Ranking (V.I.V.E.K remix)
Valium Tempo (VersA BS5 Mix)

Side D -
Ghosts (Frenk Dublin remix)
Tapped (Surgeons Girl remix)
Electroacidspringwater (Nadia Struiwigh remix) 
 
 

Enjoy,

18 November 2024

The Act(uel) You’ve (not) Known for All These Years

 

Actuel was a trio made up of Steven Anderson - guitar & vocals, Gary Rabasca - bass, & Søren Berlev - drums. They started out in San Francisco in 1981 but soon after moved to Nashville,TN. They played a post-punk meets REM style. They released one three-song 12" in 1982 & a full-length in 1984, then were gone. They probably should have been more popular but I believe Nashville was not the best place for their sound. They were better known in Europe than here in the US.

Here is a recent 7" single that popped up on Painted Pony in 2019...

Actuel – Thru the Years, Painted Pony Records PPR01, 2019.
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Side A -        
Thru the Years (lost demo)    
Side B -        
Thru the Years (solo/live)

Enjoy,

17 November 2024

I Taste the Sickness Unto Death

 

These days I find myself bouncing back & forth between what I had previously planned before the world turned to complete shit & the desire to find some soothing solace in the sound of musick.

Note: Don't know if I ever explain why I oft times spell music M.U.S.I.C.K. It's basically the same mindset as magic vs. Magick. Magic is simple stage magic, basic trickery, while Magick is real magick, the power of the human mind to create change through WILL. The same goes for music vs. Musick. Music is just stage music, basic trickery, while Musick is real musick, the power of the human spirit to create change through SOUND.

I love you all so much. The idea that I can share musick that changes me with all of you & in some small way pass on that change to each of you to change yourselves in just the way you will the musick to do its power is what keeps me going. It's what keeps me going, it is my purpose, to plant the trees of change on seedling at a time.



I love you all so much. I send this out to you. I'm not going soft, I just have the need to soothe, to gently calm. There may be a typhoon a'comin', hope you all find ways to weather the storm. 

 

Typhoon - Hunger & Thirst, Tender Loving Empire TLE-024, 2010.
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Starting Over (Bad Habits)
White Liars
CPR/Claws Pt 2
Ghost Train
Body of Love
intermission
Happy People
Old Haunts, New Cities
Mouth of the Cave
Belly of the Cavern
The Sickness Unto Death

Enjoy,

16 November 2024

A Shitload of Singles & Stuff

 

Fontaines D.C. are a Dublin-based post-punk band. They're most associated with songs that have killer hooks, scintillating guitars, high-energy rhythmic drive, & frontman Grian Chatten, who channels Joy Division Ian Curtis' presence. Critics say they capture the smoother edges of British post-punk legends The Fall with forceful, ofttimes snarling angular rock.

Here are most of their singles & mp3 releases... 

 

Fontaines D.C. - Liberty Belle (Darkland version), Partisan Records, 2018.
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Liberty Belle
Rocket to Russia
 
 
Hurricane Laughter
Winter in the Sun
 
 
 
 
Fontaines D.C. - Boys in the Better Land, Trigger Party Records TPR003, 2018.
Boys in the Better Land
Chequeless Reckless
 
 
 
 
Fontaines D.C. - Too Real, Partisan Records PTKF1131-6, 2018
Too Real
The Cuckoo is a-Callin'
 
 
 
 
Fontaines D.C. - Roy's Tune, Partisan Records, 2019.
Roy's Tune
 
 
 
 
Fontaines D.C. - Big, Partisan Records 2019.
Big
 
 
 
 
Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death, Partisan Records PTKF1231-7, 2020
A Hero's Death
I Don’t Belong
 
 
 
 
Fontaines D.C. - Televised Mind, Partisan Records, 2020
Televised Mind
 
 
 
A Lucid Dream (Apple Music Home Session)
 
 
 
A Lucid Dreamer (live version)
 
 
 
I Don't Belong (a Take Away Show by La Blogothèque)
 
 
 
 
 
Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fia Sessions, Partisan Records PTKF 3029-1, 2022.
Side A -
The Couple Across the Way
Jackie Down the Lane
Side B -
Roman Holiday
I Love You
 
 

Enjoy,

14 November 2024

Finally Something Clicked

Sad Lovers & Giants tune "Things We Never Did" came on my player today & it just sounded perfect. Finally a song that touched me once more. I put on Total Sound & listened to it all the way through without the desire to fast forward, without my attention drifting to darker thoughts. I've shared plenty of SLAG here before but never this one. Hope it works for some of you as well as it did for me.  Think I may be coming around.

This set was recorded live for broadcast on the VPRO program Spleen, May 15, 1983, at the NOS Studios in Hilversum, Holland in a room primarily designed for radio talk shows. Witnessing the set was the presenter, the radio program staff & a few guests, about 10 people in all.  As intimate as it gets. Now you can join those lucky few. 

 

Sad Lovers & Giants - Total Sound, Midnight Music CHIME 0022M, 1986.
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Side One (over) -
Echoplay
Things We Never Did
Sleep (is for Everyone)
Landslide

Side Two -
Cow Boys
Man of Straw
Imagination
 
 
 

Enjoy (I did),

13 November 2024

Musick that Needed Work - Q: Quorum

 

The last Q in the queue...

 

Russian band Quorum formed in 2003 when Sergey Niconorov (drums) hooked up with Dmitry Shtatnov (bass) & Pavel Barabanov (guitars). Soon they were joined by Stanislav Smirnov (keyboards) to form the foursome. One year later they started performing live in various clubs. They soon enlisted Elena Kanevskaya (vocals).



In 2006 keyboardist Smirnov left the band & bassist Shtatnov took on the keyboards duties, but in order to perform live they were short one musician. While searching for either a new bassist or keyboardist, they completed their first studio album, 2010s Klubkin's Voyage with Dmitry handling both keys & bass.

Shortly after releasing their debut, the band added Vladimir Yanovsky as new bassist. In 2016 the released Foxhole

 

Quorum - Foxhole, Juggler Records, 2016.
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Before Losin
Patience
Live Lonely
She Ain't Just a Woman
Across the Bridge
Fuse
Hush
This Morning
Drink it Up
To Universe
Foxhole
 
 


Enjoy,

12 November 2024

Musick that Needed Work - Q: Queensway

 

Queensway is Nikolay Shvets, a young talented producer from Ukraine. Although not extremely well known, with each release he is adding to his fan-base & making a name for himself. He combines elements of trip-hop, dubstep, drum 'n' bass, downtempo, leftfield, house, & more to create a truly unique sound all his own. 

 



First off are three short blasts, one EP & two singles..

.

Queensway - The Sixth Race, Absys Records ABSDIG002, 2011.
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Itzdea
My Kitty Song
Sixth Race
Within Each of Us
 
 
 
 
Queensway - Run / Healing, Blu Mar Ten Music BMT015, 2013.
Run
Healing
 
 
 
 
Queensway - Away, Audio Plants Recordings APLANT02, 2014.
Away
Atmos
 
 
 
 

& Queensway debut full-length...
 
Queensway - Automatic Lover, Sync Saphir BLUSYNCLP002, 2012.

Automatic Lover    
Darlin'    
Feel Sexual    
Man Walks on the Moon    
Path to the Sea    
St. Valentine    
Stay    
Stutter    
Summer Jam    
The Sad Story of Nations    
Thinking about You Baby    
Message
 
 
 

Enjoy,

11 November 2024

Musick that Needed Work - Q: Quantic

 

Quantic is one of the many projects of William Holland, a Bewsley, Worcestershire, England musician, DJ, & record producer. 

 



Will plays guitar, bass, double bass, piano, organ, saxophone, accordion, & percussion. His first album The 5th Exotic was released in 2001.

 

Quantic - The 5th Exotic, Tru Thoughts TRUCD016, 2001.
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Introduction    
The 5th Exotic
Snakes in the Grass    
Infinite Regression
Life in the Rain
Long Road Ahead    
Common Knowledge
The Picture Inside    
Through These Eyes    
Time is the Enemy
In the Key of Blue    
Meaning

 

Here's something more recent, an EP featuring Hollie Cook & various mixes...


Shuffle Them Shoes
All I Do is Think About You featuring Christopher Ellis (Terror Danjah & P Jam remix)
Shuffle Them Shoes (Wrongtom reshuffle)
Shuffle Them Shoes (Jago & Ghost Writerz remix)
Shuffle Them Shoes (instrumental)     
Shuffle Them Shoes (a cappella)
 
 


Enjoy,

10 November 2024

Musick that Needed Work - Q: Quiver

 

This tangled tale is just for lovers of incestuous Rock history... 

 



First a brief intro:
Quiver were a British rock band formed in 1970 by Tim Renwick & Cal Batchelor. After the release of their second album in December 1972, they teamed up with the Sutherland Brothers. They from that point on became known as Sutherland Brothers & Quiver,

Quiver was originally formed by guitarist Tim Renwick & bassist John 'Honk' Lodge (both formerly with Junior's Eyes & David Bowie). They were soon joined by guitarist singer Cal Batchelor, bassist Bruce Thomas, & drummer Willie Wilson. Most of the members of Quiver also appeared on Al Stewart's albums Orange (1972) as well as Past, Present, & Future (1973).

The Pink thing:
Quiver's incestuous connections to Pink Floyd are numerous, going back to 1963 to a 17-year-old David Gilmour's Cambridge band Joker's Wild. The five-piece's distinction was that all of them sang, doing mainly Four Seasons / Beach Boys covers in an era when most bands had three musicians & a vocalist.

Within two years, the band's sound was becoming more soul/R&B. The members began to change, including Rick Wills on bass & Willie Wilson after the band's original drummer suffered a wrist injury. Soon Joker's Wild was a three-piece. They changed their name to Flowers, then Bullit. They played some shows in France & the U.K. until they had their gear stolen. They broke up in June 1967. Gilmour went to London to find new gear just as his old school friends (Syd Barrett & Roger Waters) in Pink Floyd were recording their second single "See Emily Play". He actually watched the session. The rest of that story is well known.

Within six months Floyd drummer Nick Mason approached Gilmour to ask him to join the band for gigs, due to Barrett's growing unreliability. By March of 1968, Gilmour had fully replaced Barrett. That left Wills & Wilson with no band. Both joined country-rock outfit Cochise, which occasionally featured Cambridge schoolmate Tim Renwick. Renwick wasn't a member of Cochise, but provided some guitar parts.

Wills then teamed up with Peter Framton (Camel) & finally Foreigner. But before Wills joined Foreigner in 1979, he & Wilson served as Gilmour's band for David's self-titled solo debut in 1978.

Wilson connected with Renwick during their time in Cochise. Wilson agreed to join the band Renwick was starting with Canadian keyboard player/guitarist Cal Batchelor called Quiver. The other two members of Quiver were bassist Bruce Thomas, who would go on to distinction as a member of Elvis Costello's Attractions (doing the famous "Pump it Up" bassline, the incredible bass tracks in "Lipstick Vogue" & "Living in Paradise").

Thomas' distinctly busy & melodic style is quite evident on Quiver's debut album, which came out six years before the first Attractions album My Aim Is True in 1977. The final member of Quiver, the lone Canadian in this story, is Cal Batchelor (R.I.P.). Batchelor had been in the band/duo called Curtiss Maldoon, who were actually on Deep Purple's record label. Curtiss Maldoon's self-titled album came out in 1971, the same year as the debut Quiver album. Roger Quested engineered Maldoon & produced Quiver. He also worked with Led Zeppelin, The Kinks, Paul Simon, John Denver, & of course, Pink Floyd. He was working at Morgan Studios & helped engineer Meddle, also in 1971.

Quiver made two albums, their self-titled 1971 debut & Gone in the Morning in 1972. Through their connection to Gilmour both album covers have artwork done by Hipgnosis (Meddle, Electric Warrior, & the Electric Light Orchestra debut aka No Answer amongst many). The band thank Gilmour on the sleeve, using a pally fake name "Ta, Fred Gilmour."

The other Pink Floyd person on the record is saxophonist Dick Parry, two years before his famous solo in "Money". He actually had yet to play a note on a Floyd song by 1971, but was an old Cambridge friend of Gilmour. Parry & Joker's Wild bass player Wills were in Soul Committee together years earlier.

Still there’ll be more...
Guitarist/vocalist Renwick performed with Pink Floyd on the 1987 & 1994 tours, the Live 8 show & with Waters on his Pros & Cons of Hitchhiking tour. He also plays on Rick Wright's 1996 solo album Broken China.

Drummer Wilson plays bass on two tracks on Barrett's first solo album The Madcap Laughs ("No Man's Land" & "Here I Go"). He plays percussion on the 1971 followup Barrett. Wilson was the drummer in the "surrogate band" for Pink Floyd's The Wall concerts in 1980-81. Most recently, he performed on Gilmour's 2006 single "Smile'.

Finally, the above mentioned Dick Parry. He played sax on the Pink Floyd songs "Money", "Us & Them", "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", "Wearing the Inside Out". He toured with the band as showcased on the live album Pulse. Parry also performs on three Gilmour live DVDs. 

 

Quiver - Quiver, Warner Bros. Records WS1939, 1971.
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Side 1 -
Glad I Came Around
Down Your Way
Killer Man
Take a Train

Side 2 -
Cool Evening
Barnes County
Back on the Road
Just Loving You
Reason for Staying

 

 

 

 

Quiver - Gone in the Morning, Warner Bros. Records BS2630, 1972.

Side 1 -
Dorset
I Know You So Well
Green Tree
Love/No Boundaries
I Might Stumble

Side 2 -
Gone in the Morning
Fung-kee Laundry
She's a Lady
Don't Let Go
 
 

Enjoy,

09 November 2024

Musick that Needed Work - Q: Quasi

 

Quasi is an American indie rock band from Portland, Oregon formed in 1993 by former spouses Sam Coomes (vocals, guitar, rocksichord, various keyboards, bass) & Janet Weiss (vocals, drums). 

 



In addition to the highly acclaimed Quasi, Sam has worked with Elliott Smith, Built to Spill, Jandek, the Go-Betweens, & others. He is currently a member of Jon Spencer & the HITmakers. 

Janet was a longtime member of Sleater-Kinney, as well as recording &/or touring with Courtney Barnett / Kurt Vile, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Bright Eyes, the Shins, Elliott Smith, the Go-Betweens, & others. She is currently a member of Portland band Slang.

 

Quasi - Featuring "Birds", Domino WIGCD55, 1998.
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Our Happiness is Guaranteed    
I Never Want to See You Again    
The Poisoned Well    
The Happy Prole    
Sea Shanty    
It's Hard to Turn Me On    
Nothing from Nothing    
Tomorrow You'll Hide
California
You Fucked Yourself    
Ape Self Prevails in Me Still    
Please Do    
I Give Up    
Birds    
Repetition    
Only Success Can Fail Me Now
 


Enjoy,

08 November 2024

Thug Life

Sorry to all for being such a downer. I'm going to try to forge ahead. Maybe activity will break the lethargy of depression. I'll get back to Musick that Needed Work - Q after this one. It seemed what I wanted to post on returning. 

 



The Thugs are Nicola Giunta - guitar, bass, organ, drum mahine, tape, vocals & Edoardo Guariento - drum. The twelve tracks were recorded almost exclusively with vintage instruments & delve into the roots sound of the mid to late 70s. They have that expansive, profound attitude, that sense of constant invention that characterized the work of Lee Scratch Perry. At the same time the tracks have this psychedelic centrifugal force that is either explicit or more often hidden in the details.

Thugs or Thuggees is the name of a historical brotherhood of religious murderers & muggers. Estimates of the number of their victims vary between 50.000 to over a million. The Brotherhood experienced its heyday in pre-colonial India. It was destroyed by the British colonial power at the beginning of the 19th century. Giunta liked the image of this forbidden sect meeting in subterranean sanctuaries performing mysterious rituals for their goddess Kali (goddess of death). Every track is about the Thuggees activities in one way or another.

     "Holy Cobra Dub is truly immersive – a Great Leap Forward"
sez Mark Stewart R.I.P. (The Pop Group, Maffia, New Age Steppers, On-U Sound) 

 

The Thugs - Holy Cobra Dub, Love Boat LB27, 2023.
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Underground Rituals    
Down to the Dark Side    
We are Thugs    
White Demons    
Cosmic Order    
Gold & Shine    
Echoes    
Dark Waters    
Kali is Our God    
Rumal at Work    
Holy Cobra Dub    
But I'm Still Mist
 
 

Enjoy,

06 November 2024

Fugue State

To All: I'll be gone for a while, be back as soon I as can. 

Yesterday I witnessed the collapse of my future. 

Being a person who tries to Be in the Here & Now, it was very disturbing. 

My wife & I are both dependent on Social Security & Medicaire for our livelihood & health. What is coming our way does not bode well for either of us. 

I will sort this out as soon as I can but right now, this blog has moved from funtime priority to the back burner. 

I'm walking around in a disassociative fugue state right now. I'll try to find my way back a.s.a.p. 

Thank you all.

Update: To everyone who has commented here, thank you for your overwhelming outpouring of kindness & thoughtfulness. I feel I have let you all down by not plunging forward with some encouragement & unplifting shares. In the wake of events I just can't seem to carry on with business as usual. Your words have really helped so I'm asking for some more help. If you could list the music that is helping you cope, that is lightening your crush of grief, perhaps you would let me know & I'll try to get my shit together enough to share some of your recommendations. 

Thank you all again

05 November 2024

Musick that Needed Work - Q: Q Lazzarus

May as well continue with this series since Quincy's untimely passing set things off. 
 
 

 

I've been hammering out this series since 2015. It used to be called Musick that Needs Work, but recently it changed to Musick that Needed Work. I have actually DONE the work so I thought I might be more positive about completing the project if I acknowledged I was accomplishing something.

Since December last I have finished letters M thru P. Going to knock out Q this month. I was mildly suprised that I had more things in the Q Needs Work folder than in my reqular Q folder. Only three things under Q: Quick Culture; Quicksilver; & some shit by Queen that I had somehow acquired??? The Musick that Needs Work: Q folder contained seven separate artists, half with more than one release. I guess I just dumped Q stuff in the Needs Work & then forgot it.

Let continue Q...



Q. Lazzarus was the nom de musique of Diane Lackey who died in 2022. A former New York City cabbie turned East Village musician, Diane was working one snowy evening & picked up Jonathan Demme as a fare. She was playing some of her own music in the cab. Demme decided to work with Q & used her music in four of his films, most notably Silence of the Lambs

 

Q. Lazzarus - Goodbye Horses 12", All Nations Records, 1991.
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Side A -
Goodbye Horses
Side B -
Goodbye Horses (7" version)
White Lines

bonus tracks -
Goodbye Horses (Krikor edit)
Goodbye Horses (instrumental)
 
 
 
 
Q. Lazzarus - Goodbye Horses reissue, Mon Amie Records MON013, 2017.

Side A -
Goodbye Horses (single edit)    
Goodbye Horses (demo 1)    
Goodbye Horses (demo 2)    

Side B -
Tears of Fear (demo)    
Transformation (demo)    
Love Dance (demo)

bonus track -
Heaven
 
 
 

Enjoy,

04 November 2024

Musick that Needed Work - Q: Quincy Jones.

 

Musick that Needed Work has been a long running project around NSS. Musick that I stuck in a folder that needed future repair, that I'm trying to finish.  Finally getting to letter Q this month. I had this post ready for a bit later in the month, but with the passing yesterday of the 91 year old musickal legend, I felt it appropriate to post this today.

 

 

In a career spanning over seven decades, Quincy Jones has earned his reputation as a renaissance man of American music. Quince is a talented trumpet player, master arranger, & top-notch producer in rhythm & blues, soul, funk, big band, swing, bossa nova, jazz, hip hop, rock 'n' roll, pop, & disco. Although these days he may be best known for his soulful productions with artists such as Michael Jackson at the turn of the 1980s, this was just one peak of his long & varied career.

A gifted trumpet player by his teens, he won a scholarship to Schillinger House in Boston but left soon after when he was offered the job as a trumpet player with Lionel Hampton. It was with Hamp that Jones' skills for arranging came to prominence. Moving to New York, he became an arranger, working with artists such as Dinah Washington & Ray Charles. After touring with Dizzy Gillespie's band, he secured a deal with ABC-Paramount & shortly thereafter began leading his own band.

The two selections I have that needed work are as varied as the man's career. The first is 1975s Mellow Madness. This era of his journey saw Jones moving further towards jazz-funk. Hope you enjoy. 

 

Quincy Jones - Mellow Madness, A&M Records SP-4526, 1975.
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Side 1 -
Is it Love That We're Missin'
Paranoid
Mellow Madness
Beautiful Black Girl
Listen (What it Is)

Side 2 -
Just a Little Taste of Me
My Cherie Amour
Tryin' to Find Out About You
Cry Baby
Bluesette

 

 

 

Jumping ahead some 11 years, but still with A&M Records, this one is in a more downtempo, soul-jazz vein still flavored with discofied jazz-funk.

 

Quincy Jones - A&M Gold Series, A&M Records C28Y3065, 1986.

Side A -
Ironside (Theme from "Ironside" NBC-TV series)
Superstition
Manteca
Everything Must Change
Stuff like That

Side B -
What's Going On
Body Heat
Smack Water Jack
Killer Joe
Ai No Corrida
 
 
 

Enjoy,