2005 music
Folk Is Not a Four Letter Word (2005) - Andy Votel, Various
Folk Is Not a Four Letter Word (2005) - Andy Votel, Various [Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK]
Track Listings
1. Kathy Smith - It Takes So Long
2. Sarofeen & Smoke - It’s Love
3. Brigitte Fontaine - Brigitte
4. Linda Perhacs - Hey, Who Really Cares?
5. Breakout - Warm Up My Lips
6. Musica Dispersa - Cefalea
7. The Poppy Family - Shadows On My Wall
8. Wendy & Bonnie - By The Sea
9. Bonnie Koloc - My Aunt Edna
10. Heaven & Earth - Jenny
11. Erica Pomerace - You Used To Think
12. Audience - Man On Box
13. The Roundtable - Scarborough Fair
14. Sidan - Gobiath
15. Sidan - Ar Goll
Album Description
Folk-Funk? Electric Folk? Hippy-Rock? Acid Folk? Sunshine-Pop? Folk-Fusion? Folksploitation? Once again music lovers struggle to bridge the deep & wide gully where another hybrid genre wanders lonely amongst the vinyl ghosts of yesteryears ethereal love songs. Let us introduce a flock of unsung songbirds who flutter between rocks and hardened pastures too commercial to be traditional - not successful enough to be credible - from the wrong side of town - on the other side of the globe. Here are some of the would-be folk legends that you didn’t read about, they never played the festivals and you never heard their records... until today.
"Folk Is Not A Four Letter Word" is the debut release from DELAY 68 RECORDS, a brand new label from CHERRY RED RECORDS, set to bring you the best in Folk, Funk, Psych, Prog, Ye-Ye, & Beat from across the world.
Compiled by, and featuring original artwork and sleevenotes from ANDY VOTEL (TWISTED NERVE), fans of Andy’s groundbreaking "MUSIC TO WATCH GIRLS CRY" mix CD (an insanely eclectic mix of 75 tracks in 76 minutes!), and "FINDERS KEEPERS" compilation on FAT CITY RECORDS will have some indication of what to expect from this enthralling compilation.
** The majority of these tracks have never before been on CD, many appear here for the first time away from their sought after original releases.
** Eclectic folk has become very popular lately amongst collectors, DJs and artists (Wendy and Bonnie’s "By The Sea" was recently sampled by Super Furry Animals on their album Phantom Power), and Andy Votel is well respected in each of those circles.
** Features cover sticker endorsements from DAMON GOUGH (aka BADLY DRAWN BOY), and BOB STANLEY (ST. ETIENNE)
** There is already much press interest in the label and this album from national magazines (including Uncut, Mojo, Record Collector) as well specialist websites and radio. --via Amazon.co.uk
see also: folk music - terms of disparagement
State of Mind (2005) - Raul Midón
State of Mind (2005) - Raul Midón [Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK]
Raul Midón is a blind guitarist from New Mexico currently living and performing in New York City. He combines his distinct voice, strumming, beats, and acapella instruments to create a one-man performance. His unique style shows influence of virtually every musical genre which came before him, including jazz, blues, R&B, and folk. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raul_Midon [Mar 2006]
See also: blind - guitar - blues - jazz - folk music - R&B
Mod Classics (2005) - various presented by Mojo magazine
RVNG PRSNTS MX4: Crazy Rhythms (2005) - Mike Simonetti & Dan Selzer
Mx4 is $3 plus $1 shipping in US ($2 shipping outside of US) through PayPal, (payforstuff@igetrvng.com). Click here to buy
Tracklisting:
01. Giorgio Moroder – Night Drive (Reprise)
02. Klein & M.B.O. – The Big Apple
03. Wide Boy Awake – Slang Teacher
04. Massimo Barsotti D.J. – Whole Lotta Love
05. Amin-Peck – Girls On Me
06. Vortex – Black Box Disco
07. Man Friday – Love Heartache (A “Tom Moulton” Mix)
08. War – Galaxy
09. Macho – I’m a Man
10. Gazebo – Masterpiece
11. Musicology – Obsessed
12. Tyree – Acid Crash
13. Belle Epoque – Bamalama
14. Ram Jam – Black Betty (Ben Liebrand Mix)
15. Delta 5 – Try
16. Salsoul Orchestra – Magic Bird of Fire (Walter Gibbons Mix)
17. Dinosaur – Kiss Me Again
18. The Feelies – Crazy Rhythms
With superfunny liner notes:
Crazy Rhythms is Dan Selzer, and Mike Simonetti. They DJ sometimes. Mike is partial to old-school hip-hop that sounds likes disco and dirty, dirty house music and Dan is partial to gay electronic disco and new wave that sounds like house music. They both like Post-Punk and Acid, and they invented No Wave. Their beatmatching skills are impeccable, but used sparingly. They have DJ'd at all the cool clubs and some of those crazy Brooklyn loft parties you only read about.
In 94, Mike founded Troubleman Unlimited Records and is now the label par-excellance for cutting edge hipster sounds of the like Erase Eratta, Glass Candy and Tussle. In 99, Dan founded Acute Records to reissue lost art-punk from the late 70s like the Theoretical Girls, Metal Urbain and the Prefects. While they are both well known and regarded for their collections of 7" punk singles, both Mike and Dan always had an equal love for dance music. Back then Mike was absorbing the NY house of Todd Terry and Pal Joey while handing out flyers at Mars and Dan geeked out to the techno sounds of 808 State and Derrick May. Meanwhile, they both heard WKTU blaring out of the windows of white Camaro's all over the Nebula Jersey.
By the end of the 90s, they decided it was time to teach the punks how to dance. Mike started Contort Yourself at the Knitting Factory and Dan began Tranmission at Plant bar with Luke from the Rapture. It seemed like something was in the air, a post-punk disco-funk zeitgeist. Due to the sudden popularity of such sounds, the Crazy Rhythms crew became the most sought-after DJs ever. Dan was voted "Best DJ's DJ" in the Village Voice and Mike became a resident in Ibiza where Paul Oakenfold recently opened for him. Dan continues to rock the alldisco parties in brooklyn and hopes to DJ in a future where instead of having to carry a hundred pounds of records, he only has to carry a small electronic device of some sort, some kind of pod, an interactive music pod. The future is uncertain for Mike. He plans to DJ on the moon, as long as there is a monitor.
The mix you hold in your hands was recorded during a time when there was nobody who would say "man, Italo-disco is played out" or "don't you know that track is on so-and-so's mix/an import bootleg/a CitiBank commercial?" No, those were more innocent times. It features Italo-Disco, New Wave, Post-Punk, No Wave, Actual-Disco, Danish Remixes of Glam One-Hit Wonders from ex-Bubblegum Artists, you know, all the same stuff everyone else plays. Of course these records are all original pressings, M/NM quality, light scuffs on the b-side and a bit of surface noise on the play out groove. --http://www.igetrvng.com/shop_mx4.html [Aug 2005]
See also: New York - music - Dan Selzer - electro
Disco Rotic I, II and III (2004, 2004, 2005) - Various
Disco Rotic I, II and III are a bootleg vinyl compilation series on unknown German label, click the image source to listen to excerpts of the tracks, all cover images are by Milo Manara. The images were sourced at http://www.juno.co.uk, the text at http://www.boomkat.com.
The selection of tracks on the Disco Rotic compilations are similar to RVNG PRSNTS MX4: Crazy Rhythms (2005) by Mike Simonetti & Dan Selzer, which counted among the best compilations efforts of 2005.
image sourced here.
Bobby O - "I'm So Hot For You"
Giorgio Moroder - "I Wanna Rock You"
Kid - "Kid"
Rinder & Lewis - "Wiilie & The Hand Jive"
The Key - "Wulf Ticket"
More eighties extensions - this time Bobby O offers one of his better known and some what more palatable numbers. it still reeks a big one of moulding cheese to these ears, but then i never was one for hi-nrg clubs. It is quite evident who human league ripped off after hearing this tune. An offcut from Georgio Moroder 'I wanna rock you' drifts along in rather no-descript fashion, until K.I.D. arrive with a welcome dose of the funk, just as all those sequences were starting to get on top. Rinder & Lewis's synthetics sound a whole lot more well conceived - big sounds, funky handclaps and a cosmic approach to disco which really works. The Key's 'Wulf Ticket' rolls on somewhere between proto fey rap and Frankie Goes To Hollywood. okay, enough already. --http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=16058 [Oct 2005]
image sourced here.
Irene Cara - "Breakdance"
Goblin - "Flashing" (12" remix)
Kebekelektik - "Journey Into Love"
Easy Going - "Do It Again"
Witch Queen - "All Right Now"
Perhaps the pick of the three retro collections on shgow this week, especially if you're after some quality obscurities -Irene Cara's 'Breakdance' is perhaps a little over-familiar, yet Goblin's venerable 'Flashing' in its 12" version will have the electro maffia creaming themselves. Worth price of admission alone and just check the breakdown! Heavy. Kebekelektrik's 'Journey into Love' ploughs a more familiar furrow, and is jarringly familiar. Easy Going's 'Do It Again' picks up on the disco's penchant for soft rock funk, before anyone really understood the whole movement as a genre - a useful track for breaks afficionadoes, although using a compilation would be somewhat sacrosanct. Witch Queen's 'All Right Now' is a mad mad tune - a kind of hoedown disco version of the hairy bearded old Free rocker - strings to the fore. True bad taste and so much the better for it. --http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=16057 [Oct 2005]
image sourced here.
Vivien Vee - "Alright"
Universal Energy - "Disco Energy"
Patrick Cowley - "Get A Little"
Harry Thurman - "Underwater"
Blue Vision - "Visions"
The third Disco Rotic selection and I think we all know what we’re getting into here. Its quite evident that an unnatural italian obsession can lead to hunting out the rarest Goblin productions. Universal Energy's "Disco Energy" is a safer smoother proposition – good mixer - Patrick Cowley's "Get A Little" offers reason enough to get involved. Harry Thumann's "Underwater" rears its head again and still manages to sound pretty good, Blue Vision's "Visions" maintains the quality levels through side two. Party time! --http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=18192 [Oct 2005]
See also: Milo Manara - electro - disco
RVNG PRSNTS MX4: Crazy Rhythms (2005) - Mike Simonetti & Dan Selzer
2005 was the year of the New York Alldisco parties, this CD reflects the vibe of those parties.
Mx4 is $3 plus $1 shipping in US ($2 shipping outside of US) through PayPal, (payforstuff@igetrvng.com). Click here to buy
Tracklisting:
01. Giorgio Moroder – Night Drive (Reprise)
02. Klein & M.B.O. – The Big Apple
03. Wide Boy Awake – Slang Teacher
04. Massimo Barsotti D.J. – Whole Lotta Love
05. Amin-Peck – Girls On Me
06. Vortex – Black Box Disco
07. Man Friday – Love Heartache (A “Tom Moulton” Mix)
08. War – Galaxy
09. Macho – I’m a Man
10. Gazebo – Masterpiece
11. Musicology – Obsessed
12. Tyree – Acid Crash
13. Belle Epoque – Bamalama
14. Ram Jam – Black Betty (Ben Liebrand Mix)
15. Delta 5 – Try
16. Salsoul Orchestra – Magic Bird of Fire (Walter Gibbons Mix)
17. Dinosaur – Kiss Me Again
18. The Feelies – Crazy Rhythms
See also: New York - music - Dan Selzer - electro
LCD Soundsystem (2005) - LCD Soundsystem
Featured on account of the lyrics of "Losing my edge," which was released in 2002.
LCD Soundsystem (2005) - LCD Soundsystem [Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK]
Yeah, I'm losing my edge. I'm losing my edge. The kids are coming up from behind. I'm losing my edge. I'm losing my edge to the kids from France and from London. But I was there. I was there in 1968. I was there at the first Can show in Cologne. I'm losing my edge. I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks. I'm losing my edge to the Internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1962 to 1978. I'm losing my edge.To all the kids in Tokyo and Berlin.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Brooklynites in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered eighties.But I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge, but I was there.
I was there.
But I was there.I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1974 at the first Suicide practices in a loft in New York City.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way, you'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Daft Punk to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGBs.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.I used to work in the record store.
I had everything before anyone.
I was there in the Paradise Garage DJ booth with Larry Levan.
I was there in Jamaica during the great sound clashes.
I woke up naked on the beach in Ibiza in 1988.But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody. Every great song by the Beach Boys. All the underground hits. All the Modern Lovers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagra record on German import. I heard that you have a white label of every seminal Detroit techno hit - 1985, '86, '87. I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your computer out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yaz/[jazz?] record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitars and bought turntables.
I hear that you and your band have sold your turntables and bought guitars.I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records? This Heat, Pere Ubu, Outsiders, Nation of Ulysses, M|A|R|R|S, The Trojans, The Black Dice, Todd Terry, the Germs, Section 25, Althea and Donna, Sexual Harrassment, a-ha, Pere Ubu, Dorothy Ashby, PIL, the Fania All-Stars, the Bar-Kays, the Human League, the Normal, Lou Reed, Scott Walker, Monks, Niagra, Joy Division, Lower 48, the Association, Sun Ra, Scientist, Royal Trux, 10cc, Eric B. and Rakim, Index, Basic Channel, Soulsonic Force ("just hit me"!), Juan Atkins, David Axelrod, Electric Prunes, Gil! Scott! Heron!, the Slits, Faust, Mantronix, Pharoah Sanders and the Fire Engines, the Swans, the Soft Cell, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics.
You don't know what you really want.
this 2002 text sourced here.
Text shows interesting parallels with Earl Zinger review.
LCD Soundsystem
LCD Soundsystem is the musical side project of producer James Murphy, co-founder of dance-punk label DFA Records. The music of LCD Soundsystem can also be described as a mix of dance music and punk, along with elements of disco and other styles.
During live performances, Murphy is accompanied by Tyler Pope (!!!/Out Hud) on the bass, Phil Mossman on the guitar and percussion, Nancy Whang on the keyboard and Pat Mahoney on the drums.
LCD Soundsystem gained attention with its first single, "Losing My Edge", in 2002 before releasing a self-titled album in February of 2005 to critical acclaim. Opening track "Daft Punk is Playing At My House" entered the Top 40 in March 2005. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCD_Soundsystem [Jul 2005]
see also: 2002 - 2005 - music - post-punk revival - electro clash - DFA records
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