Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs:
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Description: Exuberance/Ebullience, banter, possibly an interview, context and connection, the familiar, the strange.
Find: Symphonies of Treble, Words Of Expectation, stab, skronk, shimmer, sheen, The New Sound of Now, Ideas for Walls, pleasure, pith, Flutter and Wow, Motorik, cowbells, disco akimbo, at least one Cantankerous Singer, The German Language, shards of glass, Ethiopian Punk, organic, synthetic, sawtooths & squarewaves, Library Riffage, yesterday's recipes, the wrong speed, intentional static, floating, ethereal, time and timelessness.
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| Artist | Track | Album | Label | Year | Comments | New | Approx. start time |
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| The Pogues |
Down In The Ground Where The Dead Men Go
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Red Roses for Me | Stiff | 1984 | Shane MacGowan died last week, may he Rest In Piece. Red Roses for Me is the debut studio album by the London-based band the Pogues, released on 15 October 1984. It was produced by Stan Brennan, who had managed the Nipple Erectors/The Nips and Rocks Off Records shop in London. | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: The Pogues |
Pinned Down / I'm Alone In The Wilderness
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Just Look Them Straight in the Eye and Say... Pogue Mahone!! - The Pogues Boxset |
Rhino / Warner / Pogue Mahone |
2008 |
Playing any 1990's+ Shane MacGowan next to any Shane MacGowan from the mid-80's backward provides a clear cautionary tale of the dangers of dedicating yourself to astoundingly self-destructive drink & drug intake. This is an outtake, one of many from 1990's Joe Strummer-produced Hell's Ditch album, which would be the Pogues' 5th album, and last to feature Shane MacGowan. Somewhere I read that many of MacGowan's vocals were so poorly performed that Joe Strummer had to piece together various takes in order to make a final version that was coherent. This track, an outtake, shows the energy & clarity the singer had at the time. |
0:03:27 (Pop-up) |
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| Strange Flesh |
Single/No Return
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Single/No Return Single | House of Zed | 2023 | Inspired by the arid allure of deserts both hot and cold, 'Single / No Return' explores the desire for flight—from both the exterior world and from oneself—as well as the simultaneous lure and fear of self-exile. Despite (or perhaps because of) being lifelong city dwellers, Varrick and Ed have a great reverence for the remote, and both harbor a latent desire to vanish into it. | * | 0:09:31 (Pop-up) |
| Klaus Nomi |
Lighting Strikes - Leonie Pernet Rmx
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Lighting Strikes - Leonie Pernet Rmx | Spindizzy Music | 2023 | I've heard many a Klaus Nomi remix and this one is by far my absolute favourite. Léonie Pernet is a French electronic musician and singer from Châlons-en-Champagne, France. She is a singer/songwriter/producer with several release since 2014, the most recent being e Cirque de Consolation. Her sound is a mix of perfect mix of pop, electronic music, neo-classical, oriental and African percussions. Lighting Strikes is a cover of a 1966 release by Lou Christie...with Nomi using "his piercing voice to subvert the lyrics' smarmy, swinging-bachelor heteronormativity," | * | 0:12:35 (Pop-up) |
| Jakko Eino Kalevi & Faux Real |
Hell & Heaven
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Hell & Heaven Single | Domino | 2023 | Upon hearing this I was convinced my beloved Midnight Juggernauts had returned to making amazing music. But it's not! Written with the livewire Faux Real brothers, aka Elliott and Virgile Arndt, the track is a high-energy romp with free-association lyrics and pulsating synths making it an instant album stand out. “I sent a drum track to the Faux Real boys and asked them to make a song out of it,” Jaakko comments. “It was only drums but somehow they understood the vibe completely. This song feels to me like some kind of gothic Abba pop song. Also, it needed dramatic lyrics so I went biblical. It is the most biblical song I have ever written.” "’Hell & Heaven’ is a very intense baroque-pop song. In my mind it demanded a video that would be shot in a castle,” says Jaakko. “Even in heaven you might bring your own hell, and vice versa." His full length album Chaos Magic dropped on Nov 17th and is definitely worth a listen! | * | 0:16:47 (Pop-up) |
| The Intelligence |
My Simulation
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My Simulation Single | Vapid Moonlighting | 2023 | Back again this week with another track to blow minds is the Intelligence! Hailing from Seattle and largely the brainchild of one Lars Finberg...Mr. Lars Aldric Finberg has built a solid reputation as a unique artist and his work in legendary bands A-Frames, The Intelligence and Thee Oh Sees, have helped make him a West Coast elder statesman when it comes to idiosyncratic rock n roll. Fun Fact for Derek: The Intelligence played two shows with the Fall and Country Teasers bassist Kaanan Tupper joined the band in 2007, | * | 0:20:55 (Pop-up) |
| Javelins |
Subsaharan
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No Plants Just Animals | Suburban Sprawl Music | 2005 | Javelins formed when Rickle, guitarist Matt Howard and bassist Julian Wettlin graduated high school and decided to stop fooling around with half-assed endeavors. A couple of years of knuckling down paid off when they began to play live in 2004. The plaudits soon rained down. Their debut album, 2005's No Plants, Just Animals, saw that praise reach manic proportions locally, and since then, their popularity began to spread across the country. From a critical perspective, Javelins are a remarkable little band — merging the lush beauty of Radiohead with the artful madness of Talking Heads and, yes, the joyful awkwardness of Bowie into something challenging that may not hit instantly but seeps into you. | 0:27:21 (Pop-up) | |
| puni. |
Digital Love
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Digital Love Single | Wasted Talent Records | 2023 | There is not much to be said about Puni, except they have a full length "Childish Thoughts, released in 2022 and a few singles and seem to be pretty German. The full length is true to the style put forth on Digital Love, sample heavy pop/funk/indie/rap/groovy goodness. Sehr Gut! | * | 0:29:45 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: Jackie Davis |
Glow Worm Cha-Cha-Cha
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Hammond Gone Cha Cha |
Capitol Records |
1959 |
Jackie Davis was the first musician to popularize jazz on the Hammond organ, years before Jimmy Smith's name became synonymous with organ jazz. Davis was Capitol's leading performer on the organ at a time when relatively few mainstream labels were willing to put a black musician on the cover of an album. |
0:32:23 (Pop-up) |
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Music behind DJ: Floyd Newman |
Frog Stomp
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Stax Volt Singles box |
Atlantic |
1991 |
It's a stomper alright! |
0:34:50 (Pop-up) |
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Music behind DJ: Salah Ragab & The Cairo Jazz Band |
Egypt Strut
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Egyptian Jazz |
Art Yard |
2008 |
Many people in the West don’t know the name Salah Ragab, but in Egypt, he’s one of the greatest jazz musicians who ever lived. Coming of age during a rich period in the country’s history, this late, great bandleader and drummer (who died in 2008) was the first musician in Egypt to assemble a proper big band orchestra. |
0:37:09 (Pop-up) |
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| The Nips |
All The Time In The World
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All The Time In The World (Single) / Nips 'n' Nipple Erectors - Bops, Babes, Booze & Bovver | Soho / Ace / Big Beat | 1978 / 2003 | Shane MacGowan's first project w/ studio output, releasing three 7" records throuigh 1978/79. They would write enough songs to fill an album between '78 and '81, but no official full-length was ever made. Playing this very early Shane MacGowan next to any Shane MacGowan from the 90's onward provides a clear cautionary tale of the dangers of dedicating yourself to astoundingly self-destructive drink & drug intake. | 0:42:14 (Pop-up) | |
| The Pogues |
Eve Of Destruction
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Just Look Them Straight in the Eye and Say... Pogue Mahone!! - The Pogues Boxset | Rhino / Warner / Pogue Mahone | 1990 / 2008 | ""Eve of Destruction" is a protest song written by P. F. Sloan in mid-1965. // The song references social issues of its period, including the Vietnam War, the draft (conscription), the threat of nuclear war, the Civil Rights Movement, turmoil in the Middle East, and the American space program. // The American media helped popularize the song by using it as an example of everything that was wrong with the youth of that time. Due to its controversial lyrics, some American radio stations, "claiming it was an aid to the enemy in Vietnam", banned the song. It was also banned by some British radio stations." /////// As for the Pogues' version... Within 12 years of the track we just played, Shane MacGowan would prove to be a mere shell of himself, lacking the ability to capture any of the fire & passion that marked his early career. To think that the man singing this song was still in his early thirties at the time is truly tragic. MacGowan sounds less like a punk-inspired rabble rouser and more like a distracted drunk half-heartedly singing karaoke to a song he barely knows. As noted earlier, playing any 1990's+ Shane MacGowan next to any Shane MacGowan from the mid-80's backward provides a clear cautionary tale of the dangers of dedicating yourself to astoundingly copious self-destructive drink & drug intake. This outtake, us one of many from 1990's Joe Strummer-produced Hell's Ditch album, The Pogues' 5th album, and last to feature Shane MacGowan. Somewhere I read that many of MacGowan's vocals were so poorly performed that Joe Strummer had to piece together various takes in order to make a final version that was coherent. This outtake, however, shows what a less-produced, less edited MacGowan sounded like at the time; in his last days as a Pogue. Weirdly, though, this outtake works well in a way; haunted, plaintive, abstract, vaguely psychedelic and, in terms of vocal delivery, thoroughly defeated. Unfortunately though, the vocal approach of this era could be no other way. MacGowan had nothing more to give. | 0:45:26 (Pop-up) | |
| Cat Power & Iggy Pop |
Working Class Hero
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The Faithful: A Tribute to Marianne Faithfull | In the Q / Bandbox | 2023 | "Cat Power, Iggy Pop Cover Marianne Faithfull’s Version of John Lennon’s “Working Class Hero” //// Originally recorded by John Lennon in 1970, “Working Class Hero” was recorded by Marianne Faithfull nearly a decade later on her seventh album Broken English. In honor of Faithfull’s 1979 version, Iggy Pop and Cat Power (Chan Marshall) have covered the song for The Faithful: A Tribute to Marianne Faithfull, out December 8. //// Lurking around a deeply thumping bassline and what sounds like a sampling from U2‘s “With or Without You,” the spellbinding duet opens with Marshall’s As soon as you’re born, they make you feel small / By giving you no time instead of it all / ‘Til the pain is so big you feel nothing at all meeting Pop’s gravelly A working class hero is something to be. //// In partnership with Q Records, BANDBOX, and the Women of Rock Oral History Project, the tribute album to Faithfull features 19 covers of her songs performed by Pop and Marshall, along with Garbage‘s Shirley Manson, Peaches, Lydia Lunch, Throwing Muses’ Tanya Donelly, Bush Tetras, Donita Sparks, and more. The double vinyl version also features original artwork by Jill Emery (Mazzy Star, Hole). //// Proceeds from the sale of the album will help assist the 76-year-old Faithfull who is still recovering from long COVID." //// "The last time Iggy Pop and Cat Power collaborated was on "Nothin But Time," from Cat Power's 2012 album Sun." | * | 0:48:54 (Pop-up) |
| The Jesus And Mary Chain |
jamcod
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Glasgow Eyes | Fuzz Club | 2024 | 'jamcod' is lifted from The Jesus And Mary Chain's new album 'Glasgow Eyes' out March 8th 2024 on Fuzz Club. Pre-order here:https://TJAMC.lnk.to/GlasgowEyes ---- Of course, Shane MacGowan guested on the track "God Help Me" from Jesus & Mary Chain's 1994 album 'Stoned & Dethroned', if you want a tie-in from the beginning of this set. - More info: "The Jesus & Mary Chain have announced new album ‘Glasgow Eyes’ and shared new single ‘jamcod’. //// Marking 40 years since the release of their debut single ‘Upside Down’, 2024 will see the hugely influential band – whose debut album ‘Psychocandy’ is considered a pivotal work in the development of alt-rock, noise pop and shoegaze – release their eighth studio album, an autobiography and a documentary, and also begin a world tour. //// The 12-track new album was recorded at Mogwai’s Castle Of Doom studio in Glasgow, and finds the band working with electronics and textures that seem to play on the band’s place in a lineage taking in The Velvet Underground and Suicide. However, Reid told NME that this wasn’t an intentional move. //// “You go into the studio and you just feel your way around,” he said. “I guess what you’ve been listening to most lately has some sort of impact on the production values – writing, it’s always the same old deal really. I suppose that we were thinking it would be quite good to muck around with some synths and maybe just tweak the sound a bit.” //// The album comes previewed by launch single ‘jamcod’, which Reid said came from “remembering painful past issues”. //// “It was about the break-up of the band,” he explained. “It was actually about the night in the House of Blues when the band broke up [in 1999]. There’s another song, ‘Chemical Animal’, which is similar but different in as much as I was thinking back to the drug days and what it was like. //// “When you get that deep into that whole shit, it’s like everything’s acting on instinct and you become like an animal and it’s all about drugs. It’s your driving force, the thing that gets you from a to b is whether you can score. It was a horrible way to live and I’m glad I don’t do that anymore.” The Jesus And Mary Chain - jamcod (Official Video) | * | 0:53:37 (Pop-up) |
| Automatic |
New Beginning (Water From Your Eyes Remix)
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New Beginning (Water From Your Eyes Remix) [Digital Single] | Stones Throw Records | 2023 | Released Dec 6, 2023. Always lovely to see two artists you love combine forces. If you need a tie-in to earlier in the set, "Automatic" was the name of Jesus And Mary Chain's 3rd album. As for this Automatic... "Automatic is a rock band from Los Angeles. Automatic’s members are Izzy Glaudini (synths, vocals), Halle Saxon (bass, vocals), and Lola Dompé (drums, vocals). //// The three band members met while immersed in L.A.’s DIY music scene and started playing live in 2017, taking their name from the track "Automatic" from The Go-Go's album Beauty and the Beat. The group signed to Los Angeles label Stones Throw in June 2019. //// Dompé is the daughter of Bauhaus drummer Kevin Haskins. She joined her first band, art-rock outfit Blackblack, when she was 13." //// "Automatic has spent the year touring their second album Excess around the world. Now the trio releases one more track to round out 2023, – a remix of “New Beginning” by Water From Your Eyes – ahead of two headlining shows in Los Angeles and Brooklyn. //// The original song imagines the “nihilism and loneliness” of attempting to escape the planet once unchecked consumerism has reached its logical outcome. Nate Amos of Water From Your Eyes says, “I wanted to invert the emotional delivery of the song as much as possible – stripping it down to its core and replacing the bounce with a sort of stickiness. ‘New Beginning’ implies rising from the ashes – this remix looks backwards towards the fire that allowed for that opportunity.” Automatic adds: “Closing out the year with another Excess remix from our friends, Water From Your Eyes. We are such big fans that we asked them to DJ our Brooklyn show next week.” Earlier this year, Automatic collaborated with Peanut Butter Wolf for the “Venus Hour” Remix and released a video for “Turn Away”. After a year of headlining shows across the U.S. and opening for Voidz, Crumb, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Automatic will be at the Fonda Theatre (in L.A.) on December 12 and at Music Hall of Williamsburg on December 14. | * | 0:57:36 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: The Pogues |
Night On Bald Mountain
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Straight To Hell Returns |
Big Beat / Ace Records |
1987 / 2004 |
[Written by M P Mussorgsky, arr by James Fearnley.] One of many unreleased Pogues' songs from the retitled, repackaged, remastered reissue of the soundtrack to Alex Cox's 1987 cult offbeat spaghetti western, expanded to include many previously unreleased tracks. The original soundtrack was released in 1987 as Straight To Hell. |
1:00:54 (Pop-up) |
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Music behind DJ: The Pogues |
Harmonicas
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Straight To Hell Returns |
Big Beat / Ace Records |
1987 / 2004 |
Credited as written by all the Pogues, including Shane MacGowan from the retitled, repackaged, remastered reissue of the soundtrack to Alex Cox's 1987 cult offbeat spaghetti western, expanded to include many previously unreleased tracks. Original soundtrack was released in 1987 as Straight To Hell. |
1:02:45 (Pop-up) |
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Music behind DJ: The Pogues |
Rabinga
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Straight To Hell Returns |
Big Beat / Ace Records |
1987 / 2004 |
This track was also on the original "Straight To Hell" 1987 version of the Soundtrack LP, credited to Phil Chevron, w/ the vocal provided by Del Zamora |
1:05:10 (Pop-up) |
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Music behind DJ: The Pogues |
Big Question Mark
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Straight To Hell Returns |
Big Beat / Ace Records |
1987 / 2004 |
Retitled, repackaged, remastered reissue of the soundtrack to Alex Cox's 1987 cult offbeat spaghetti western, expanded to include many previously unreleased tracks. Original soundtrack was released in 1987 as Straight To Hell. |
1:07:29 (Pop-up) |
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Music behind DJ: The Pogues |
L'Amoria
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Straight To Hell Returns |
Big Beat / Ace Records |
1987 / 2004 |
Retitled, repackaged, remastered reissue of the soundtrack to Alex Cox's 1987 cult offbeat spaghetti western, expanded to include many previously unreleased tracks. Original soundtrack was released in 1987 as Straight To Hell. |
1:09:09 (Pop-up) |
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| Go Public |
Reality Business
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EP | Go Public | 2022 | This is a legitimate Athens supergroup composed of Jay Domingo (The Dignity of Labor), Adrian Finch and SA Rawls (each of Masters of the Hemisphere and then Elf Power and Still Flyin’, respectively), and Sam Gunn (Iron Hero). And what they’ve made is, indeed, super. It’s a nearly perfect marriage between everything that was ever loved about A Certain Ratio and pre-1986 Public Image Ltd. | 1:10:53 (Pop-up) | |
| Neon Kittens |
Sunburn On My Legs
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Nine Doesn't Work For An Outside Line | Metal Postcard Records | 2023 | Neon Kittens Say More songs inspired by childhood dreams, memories and nightmares and watching late night horror b-movies; mixed with the usual domestic violence and other homely fun pastimes. Post-punk beatnik shenanigans are afoot with this the new release from Neon Kittens. Their second album [I think] carries on where their last left off, with spoken female vocals purring erotically like an attractive nun filing her nails, smiling, knowing her crotchless knickers are only slightly hidden by her too short mini habit wondering just where to place her oversized cross next, over the scratch and sniff guitar yearnings that are part Fire Engines, part Scary Monster & Super Creeps, part rock ‘n’ roll, and part sexual abandonment. Yes, this is the true sound of total derailment. This is the sound of a 15 year old girl French kissing her jazz induced slightly older best friend with benefits; an album of pure off-center genius. | 1:13:33 (Pop-up) | |
| Aunt Katrina |
Get Me Out Of Bed
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Get Me Out Of Bed Single | Crafted Sounds | 2023 | Aunt Katrina is a new band from DC. Aunt Katrina began as the solo project of feeble little horse member Ryan Walchonski. The seven tracks blend noisy guitars, punchy synth lines, distorted samples and breakbeat inspired drums (performed by Ray Brown) that together create a unique style of electronic pop. Sitting atop the tower of sounds are Ryan’s soft and drowning vocals. Gentle and melancholy, the vocals explore themes of listlessness and aging. After finishing up a handful of dancy, fuzzy and chaotic pop songs, Ryan enlisted the help of friends Ray Brown (Snail Mail), Eric Zidar (Tosser), Emma Banks, Connor Peters and Laney Ackley to flesh out the songs in a live setting. The full EP drops on Dec 10th! | * | 1:15:40 (Pop-up) |
| CHACHO |
Egg
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Egg Single | Bleu Lagon | 2023 | CHACHO comes to life from Lausanne, Switzerland either as an alternative rock trio called Chacho&Friends, accompanied by dianita and Jean l'Asticot, or as a solo project, more experimental and electronic. The sounds are tinkered, disordered, crepuscular. Fuzzy Frequencies and rehearsals. Again and again. Still, yet ever present crunchy guitar sounds with distant voices: everything is mixed up, out of time. | 1:18:05 (Pop-up) | |
| Lee Paradise |
Paradise
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Water Palace Kingdom | Daps Records | 2014 | Lee Paradise is the solo musical project of Dan Lee, also of electronic group Phèdre and formerly of Hooded Fang and with associations with many TO bands including US Girls. Earl live shows involve instrumental beat performances using a Korg Sampler and paying homage to the house, techno, club and jungle he danced to as a teen in Toronto, but he has expanded his sound via collaboration in recent years...creating sounds that could accompany a compendium of different indie video games with floating 2D shapes, more psychedelic imagery, and no real plot line, perfect for completely zoning out and turning off your brain from reality. | 1:20:25 (Pop-up) | |
| ADAM & ELVIS |
Currency
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Currency Single | Freak Power Records | 2021 | With unconventionally killer hooks and lyrics of brilliant, caustic wit, Adam & Elvis are undoubtedly one of the most thought-provoking bands around.” t’s a bit Iggy Pop, and a lot black Neo punk in a kind of a Stranglers on a come down from Golden Brown sort of way. All unadorned distorted lines, moody toms and attitude. Lots of ATTITUDE. They are from Reading, UK and are playing the Shacklewell Arms in London on Dec 16th. | 1:24:24 (Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: Shabbos Ranks & Lee "Scratch" Perry |
Basement - L$P Dub Mix
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Is Melting |
Off Beet Records |
2023 |
Shabbos Ranks is an exploratory trip through experimental dub, klezmer, and improvised music, formed by Celeste Cantor-Stephens (Bristol, UK) and Sam Day Harmet (Brooklyn, NY, USA). |
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1:29:03 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: Eek-A-Mouse feat Lee "Scratch" Perry |
Ganjaville Dub (Ganjaville Riddim)
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Ganjaville Dub (Ganjaville Riddim) Single |
Oneness Records |
2023 |
Released just last week, this dub version of Ganjaville by the late great Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and Eek-a-Mouse is an authentic reggae anthem paying homage to Perry’s classic sound while giving it a modern twist. Eek-a-Mouse and Perry go head-to-head with their unique lyrical styles and inimitable sense of humor. |
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1:33:44 (Pop-up) |
| The Ex |
Henry K
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Turn | Touch And Go | 2004 | Henry Kissinger died last week... May he burn in hell forever. -- "Turn is a double album by Dutch anarchist post-punk band The Ex. After 20 years of working with Luc, their former bass guitarist, Turn is the only Ex album to feature double bass player Rosemarie giving the band a sound akin their prior work with cellist Tom Cora. In tandem with The Ex's drummer Katrin, Rosemarie also contributed significant female vocal harmonies to the album.The album received critical acclaim and has been singled out by many publications at the time as the band's best album yet." - Lyrics - "I searched for the soul of young Henry K. I searched all night, I searched all day. And I searched his pockets and I searched his books, and I searched the fucker's lists of crooks. Yeah, I searched for the soul of Henry K. I thought there should be something slightly okay. I searched in the corners, and under the bed, I searched for the facts kept under his hat. I searched for the soul of young Henry, not out of spite or envie. You may call it curiosity, but I just tried to understand, you see, why the poor soul got away. The poor soul got away.... I searched in vain, I searched in vain. I may not be Abel, but he's worse than Cain: the public enemy of now and then, the legitimate son of Uncle Sam. But the poor soul got away, why did the poor soul get away? Vietnam, Uncle Sam, goddamn, what a scam. Pinochet, CIA, US, Henry K tossed in bed, cold sweat, nightmare, like a diplomat. So sad, shouting out: what if a peace broke out? Cambodia, Bangla Desh, East-Timor, Nixon's whore, clusterbombs, napalm, Nobel prize, election-time, El Salvador, Colombia, contras, Nicaragua, Haig, Reagan, Ollie North, Iran, Somalia, and so forth: Iraq, uranium, what's inside that cranium of George Bush I and II, Rumsfeld, Cheney, how are you, Rise, Powell, Wolfolwitz, North-Korea, Middle-East, Afghanistan, shock and awe, war on terror ho ho ho. The poor soul got away, the poor soul got away, and we got stuck with the asses of A." | 1:37:26 (Pop-up) | |
| Dog Faced Hermans |
Calley
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Those Deep Buds | Konkurrel Records/Alternative Tentacles | 1994 | "The My Lai massacre (/ˌmiːˈlaɪ/; Vietnamese: Thảm sát Mỹ Lai [tʰâːm ʂǎːt mǐˀ lāːj] ⓘ) was a war crime committed by United States Army personnel on 16 March 1968, involving the mass murder of unarmed civilians in Sơn Tịnh district, South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. Between 347 and 504 civilians were killed by U.S. soldiers from Company C, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment and Company B, 4th Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd (Americal) Infantry Division. Victims included men, women, children, and infants. Some of the women were gang-raped and their bodies mutilated, and some soldiers mutilated and raped children who were as young as 12. It is the largest publicized massacre of civilians by U.S. forces in the 20th century. //// Twenty-six soldiers were charged with criminal offenses, but only Lieutenant William Calley Jr., a platoon leader in C Company, was convicted. Found guilty of murdering 22 villagers, he was originally given a life sentence but served three-and-a-half years under house arrest after U.S. president Richard Nixon commuted his sentence. //// The massacre, which was later called "the most shocking episode of the Vietnam War", took place in two hamlets of Sơn Mỹ village in Quảng Ngãi Province. These hamlets were marked on the U.S. Army topographic maps as My Lai and My Khe. //// The U.S. Army slang name for the hamlets and sub-hamlets in that area was Pinkville, and the carnage was initially referred to as the Pinkville Massacre. Later, when the Army started its investigation, the media changed it to the Massacre at Songmy. Currently, the event is referred to as the My Lai Massacre in the U.S. and called the Sơn Mỹ Massacre in present-day Vietnam." //// My Lai was first revealed to the public on November 13, 1969—more than a year and a half after the incident—when Hersh published a story through the Dispatch News Service. After extensive interviews with Calley, Hersh broke the Mỹ Lai story in 35 newspapers; additionally, the Alabama Journal in Montgomery and the New York Times ran separate stories on the allegations against Calley on the 12th and 13th of November, respectively. //// On the 20th of November, explicit color photographs and eye-witness testimony of the massacre taken by U.S. Army combat photographer Ronald L. Haeberle were published in The Cleveland Plain Dealer. The same day, Time, Life and Newsweek all covered the story, and CBS televised an interview with Paul Meadlo, a soldier in Calley's unit during the massacre. //// From the U.S. Government and Army's point of view, Haeberle's photos transformed the massacre from potentially manageable to a very serious problem. The day after their publication, Melvin Laird the Secretary of Defense discussed them with Henry Kissinger who was at the time National Security Advisor to President Richard Nixon. Laird was recorded as saying that while he would like "to sweep it under the rug," the photographs prevented it. "They're pretty terrible", he said. "There are so many kids just laying there; these pictures are authentic". //// Within the Army, the reaction was similar. Chief Warrant Officer André Feher, with the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigation Division (CID), was assigned the case in early August 1969. After, he interviewed Haeberle, and was shown the photographs which he described as "evidence that something real bad had happened", he and the Pentagon officials he reported to realized "that news of the massacre could not be contained." //// The story threatened to undermine the U.S. war effort and severely damage the Nixon presidency. Inside the White House, officials privately discussed how to contain the scandal. On November 21, National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger emphasized that the White House needed to develop a "game plan", to establish a "press policy", and maintain a "unified line" in its public response. The White House established a "My Lai Task Force" whose mission was to "figure out how best to control the problem", to make sure administration officials "all don't go in different directions" when discussing the incident, and to "engage in dirty tricks". These included discrediting key witnesses and questioning Hersh's motives for releasing the story. What soon followed was a public relations offensive by the administration designed to shape how My Lai would be portrayed in the press and understood among the American public. | 1:42:24 (Pop-up) | |
| The Special AKA |
War Crimes [Version]
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War Crimes [2023 remaster / Single] | Chrysalis Records | 1984 / 2023 | Shortly after performing Ghost Town on Top Of The Pops, singers Terry Hall, Neville Staple and Lynval Golding left The Specials to form the Fun Boy Three & Roddy Byers departed soon thereafter taking his rockabilly outfit, The Tearjerkers, on the road. The remainder - band founder and keyboardist Jerry Dammers with bassist Horace Panter and drummer John Bradbury (and Cornet, Flugelhorn player Dick Cuthell) continued working together, recruiting new members to complete their lineup. They would work under the moniker The Special AKA moniker (not to be confused with "The Special A.K.A.", that The Specials used on on some releases in their early career) releasing a couple of singles, one with Rhoda Dhakar & one with Rico, before recording the 3rd Specials album between 1982-1984. By 1984, however, many members would leave this project, too, making promotion of the album virtually impossible. The artwork, a photo of an empty Wessex Studio where the album was mostly recorded, was Dammers' wry comment on all this, and his resultant state of mind. As for the track, "the disconcerting War Crimes is perhaps the bleakest song on the album, with a haunting melody over an Arabic 5/4 rhythm, expressing Dammers' sadness at the situation in the Middle East where refugee camps in Lebanon were being bombed, which he felt heralded a new phase in modern warfare where civilians have become the main targets and victims. "Bombs to settle arguments, the order of the boot / Can you hear them crying in the rubble of Beirut, Israel was nothing learned? I can still see people dying, now who takes the blame? / The numbers are different, the crime is still the same" | 1:46:38 (Pop-up) | |
| The Clash |
Washington Bullets
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Sandinista! | CBS / Epic | 1980 | "Sandinista! is the Clash's fourth studio album. It was released on 12 December 1980 as a triple album containing 36 tracks, with 6 songs on each side. The title refers to the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, and its catalogue number, 'FSLN1', refers to the abbreviation of the party's Spanish name, Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional. The song "Washington Bullets" was lyricist Joe Strummer's most extensive—and most specific—political statement to date. In it, Strummer name checks conflicts or controversies from around the world; namely in Chile, Nicaragua, Cuba, Afghanistan and Tibet. (In reference to the first three, Strummer seems to side with what he sees as popular leftist movements or governments, while in the latter two, he sharply criticises the policy of Moscow's and Beijing's communist governments for what he sees as their imperialist actions). The Rolling Stone review of Sandinista! calls "Washington Bullets", along with "The Equaliser" and "The Call Up", "the heart of the album"." | 1:50:10 (Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: The Special AKA |
War Crimes (Instrumental)
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In The Studio (Expanded) |
Chrysalis Records |
1984 / 2015 |
"Having grown up with The Beatles," says Jerry Dammers, "I always thought an album is where you are supposed to experiment, and then at the end you bring it all together on one big killer single. After 'More Specials' came 'Ghost Town', with 'In The Studio', it was Nelson Mandela. 'Specials' and 'More Specials' were about Britain. With 'In The Studio', I wanted to go international. On War Crimes I addressed the problems in the Middle East, with Nelson Mandela it was South Africa. Although making the album was not easy, for me, it ended on a very positive note." As time has passed, In The Studio's status has grown and today it is rightly viewed as a genuine lost classic. It is considered by some to be amongst Jerry Dammers' finest work, musically, pushing boundaries, while lyrically, an intelligent, considered critique that provides a snapshot of a troubled 80s, defined by violence and conflict and Thatcherite self interest, but with an underlying hope for change and a better world. |
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| Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds |
Death Is Not The End
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Murder Ballads | Mute | 1996 | "Death Is Not the End" includes vocalists Anita Lane, Kylie Minogue, PJ Harvey, and Shane MacGowan, along with Cave himself and Bad Seeds drummer Thomas Wydler and guitarist Blixa Bargeld. They each sing a verse in this cover of a Bob Dylan song, the only song in which an actual death does not occur. Cave later described it as, "just kind of a jokey little punctuation mark to the whole thing. There's tongue-in-cheek to that song, even though I think it's quite a beautiful rendition." | 1:58:17 (Pop-up) |
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