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Wild Horses
courtesy of droid - Saxon vs Ghettotone, Lewisham, '83, Papa Levi vs Les Lyriks - fucking amazing...i came into it having only my ragga stuff to compare it to but it's better, the DJ even spins Lone Ranger's 'the answer' at one point... i guess this stuff was the genesis of UK MC's, just spitting over reggae. the competitors are so charismatic and the put downs are just brilliant..all ends with the judge asking for a show of hands...Levi wins. cheers droid!!
 
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sing_minimal

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ah, sorry..i was thinking of hotel parallel there..haven't heard this remastered version yet and im quite a fan so i wondered if it would be worth getting..anyway, yeah, endless summer is rather nice.
 
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mms

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vimothy said:
Fennesz - Endless Summer

Lazy afternoon dreaming seen through a haze of digital interference - lovely
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oh come on you can buy that in the shops, its a well known record that was reissued this year, this isn't soulseek imo.
 
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vimothy

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mms said:
oh come on you can buy that in the shops, its a well known record that was reissued this year, this isn't soulseek imo.
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Sorry - don't keep up with what's in the shops or not or what's released when or anything. last time I looked for this record it was unavailable. and i did ask upthread, if it was ok to post albums.

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zhao

there are no accidents
Dunninger said:
Aren't you in Berlin at the moment? Should be possible to get most of that stuff there.
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heh ok. another problem i have is no turntables so no vinyl love for me :( only solution for my globe trotting is ableton boomboom... but that's, like i said, my own problem i suppose.
 
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luka

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roland young-isomorphic boogie woogie
this is the best thing i heard for a while. i didn't find a copy though, i stole it.
it's very pretty.
 
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luka

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from 'dusty groove'

A fantastic self-released album by the enigmatic Roland Young -- an unusual blend of organic sounds and slight electronics -- all put together with the careful creativity of older albums by members of the AACM! Roland plays all the instruments here himself -- in a set of tracks that mix electric bass clarinet with kalimba, bells, chimes, soprano sax, and a bit of "electronic drone" -- all at a level that's really compelling, and much more hippy dippy than you might guess from the date of the record! The electric bass clarinet is especially great -- almost moogy or wah wah-esque at times -- and tracks are longish and open-ended. Titles include "Flutter Fly Flounce", "Row Land", "Crystal Motions", "Velvet Dream", and "Loveliness". CD also features 2 bonus tracks -- "Magenta Sky" and "Stillness".
 
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zhao

there are no accidents
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Music For The Gods - The Fahnestock South Sea Expedition Indonesia

this was literally the very first gamelan disc I ever purchased, includes a wide range of styles. was completely hooked roughly 10 seconds into the first track.

From Amazon:

This classic of ethnomusicology was originally recorded in 1941 by the Fahnestock brothers, Bruce and Sheridan, on what was then state of the art aluminum discs. The music is amazing both for the quality of the sound and the beauty of the performing gamelans -- the sound is rich and clear; individual notes hang shimmering in the air like rainforest hummingbirds. The enclosed booklet tells the story of the expedition that the Fahnestocks organized to capture these sounds, recorded just before the creeping invasion of Western influence. The journey included shipwrecks and lugging the unwieldy recording equipment through impenetrable jungles. It reads like a possible musical adventure for a future Indiana Jones flick. --j. poet
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and Mickey Hart likes to stress his involvement / make things sound like he's responsible for them:

Music for the Gods, the Fahnstock Expedition was one of my Endangered Music Project recordings that I curated and released on the World Series for Rykodisc in the 90’s.The Fahnstocks were recording the Indonesian archipelago in 1939-1940 as spies for President Roosevelt. He was searching for information about his great uncle’s adventures in Indonesia. This is a fantastic story. I found this collection at the Library of Congress and digitized it, not really knowing the far-reaching implications that were to arise from its rediscovery. When I visited Bali about 4 years ago I brought my recording equipment with me. I was on the track of the rarest of gamelon music, the iron gamelon. When I arrived in Bali, I went to the Institute for Music in Denpasar and met with Pak Dibia the leading ethnomusicologist on the peninsula.
He was the most knowledgeable ethno on gamelon and all of its sub-sets. I asked him if he would give me 5 of the most important works or examples of gamelon music that he knew of. He handed me 5 recordings; one of them was Music for the Gods. He was not aware that I curated and produced this CD. So this music had made the round trip; it had worked its way back into their culture and was now considered the finest example of post war gamelon. This music was long forgotten, but was now being played by the many large ensembles scattered across the island. We were all overjoyed by this discovery and I was from then on treated like family wherever I went. They were given back their greatest treasure that the war ripped away from them and they saw it in those terms. It was like a prisoner of war or a long lost relative that had returned from battle. - Mickey Hart
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i feel that it's OK to download this because even though it is commercially available the artifact or the proceeds it generates has nothing to do with the musicians responsible for the music inside. and this stuff should be public domain, not just because of academic historical importance, but because it is fucking amazing.
 
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Saxon / Ghettotone thing is lovely.
The reference to "cross your heart bras" took me right back to my youth.
is that what they mean by hauntology? ;)

Zhao, the gamelan link don't work :(
 
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