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Oh, and the amazing Trio Mocotó, who were Jorge Ben's backing band for "Força Bruta" and "Jorge Ben 1969" (which contains the original of "País Tropical"), worked with Toquinho, Chico Buarque, Vinicius de Moraes + others, and released their debut in 1971. Big influence on Brazilian drum 'n bass...

Mission of Burma? The Magic Band? How 'bout Henry Grimes? Not a band, but an amazing comeback anyway.

With everyone and their grandmother reuniting these days, with inferior results, perhaps the only band with integrity turns out to be ABBA, who famously refused a $ 1 billion offer for a reunion tour and album. Björn Ulvaeus (the clean-shaven one?) rules out a reunion on cnn. In their hearts...

Sign the In Memory of OdB guestbook here. A choice quote: "i remember when dirty was in amsterdam with wu back in 97 (right before forever dropped). the day after the show dirt visited 'the duivel' my favorite pub at the time, a historic place for dutch hiphop, from there he went to the...

@ sufi That book looks interesting, I'll look out for it. Thanks. On the other hand, some people can't help being cool, even if what they do is 'anti-cool'. It's in the eye of the beholder, I guess. We think people who bring home masses of obscure vinyl and find joy in connecting musical dots...

Ian Levine also produced things like Miquel Brown's "So many men, so little time" and, crucially, Evelyn Thomas' "High Energy". Wonder how that went down with his old northern soul audience (NB Levine was a one-time resident at the Blackpool Mecca). A good interview here. (The rest of the...

I don't know why it should be different for music and for other forms of art. Surely when putting on a recording of 'anything' (or going to a concert) you approach it with some sort of expectation, informed or not. At the very least, you can expect to have to use your ears! I think sound art is...

"Cool philosophy is a strong intellectual attitude, affecting incredibly diverse provinces of artistic happening, yet leavened with humor and a sense of play. It is an all important mediating process, accounting for similarities in art and vision in many tropical African societies. It is a...

Bill Motley's SF-based Moby Dick label (which grew out of the club of the same name) also deserves a mention, releasing tracks by Boys Town Gang ("Ain't no mountain", etc.) and Lisa ("Rocket to your heart", etc.). Proceeds from sales, although modest, were used to support up-and-coming artists...

Well, I'll be... Ram's Horn is a Dutch outfit and apart from offering their entire back catalog for the tidy sum of € 25K (!) they appear to be large scale purveyors of gabba, goa trance, aerobics and happy hardcore CDs. (I've just found out my copy of Sharon Redd's "Beat the Street" is worth €...

Cowley's albums (Megatron Man, Mind Warp, Menergy) are all worth scourging the bargain bins for. IMHO, one of Cowley's finest moments was his last production, "Do you wanna funk" (Megatone 12" 1982), with the irrepressible Sylvester on vocals. Apparently, Cowley, lacking the strength to sit up...

Mixtape fodder I just ran across Tonspion, a German site for free, *legal* good-quality MP3 downloads. It's pretty easy to navigate, even if you don't speak Deutsch, just let redcrescent give you a tour: There's individual MP3s categorized in sections (electronic, hiphop, world, classics...

The Ten Commandments of Bass. (Thank you, Tom!) My top Miami Bass boys are Pretty Tony, MC ADE and DJ Magic Mike. And Luke Skyywalker, DXJ and Calvin Mills II as producers. Full length: MC ADE's first album, Techmaster PEB's It came from outer bass (Newtone, 1990), Bose Rock the world (more...

That can only have been the now-defunct Atlantis store, from which I took home tablets by Pere Ubu, Thomas Mapfumo, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Sugar Minott... Funny to think one of your musical epiphanies happened down my neck of the woods, in that store, no less. It's a small, small...

Fuckin 'ell, what wealth! I'll visit regularly. Thanks. re.: online music resources. Try Tigersushi, too.

I have this but I've a feeling it's not what you mean...

The Village Vanguard stuff is indeed out there, for sure. Supremely energetic sounds. It too explores modality, but is different to Lateef's approach on Eastern Sounds, the adrenalin of the live setting aside. My limited knowledge hobbles me considerably, but I do think Lateef was absorbing and...

Damn right. Geechee Recollections, is fine, too. I love "Buttermilk Bottom"! First in the Ed Michel-produced trilogy of Geechee/Sweet Earth/Vista. I need to hear those collabs with Harold Budd, who is a genius anyway. (Marion Brown has also played with John Sinclair/Wayne Kramer - what's that...

What about Marion Brown? I find he's done some great things as leader (Three for Shepp, Afternoon of a Georgia Faun) and sideman (w/ John Coltrane [e.g. Ascension], Archie Shepp [e.g. Fire Music], Grachan Moncur, Burton Greene...) Here's a discography. The Kozmigroov pages (which Carlos...

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