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"Rat Salad" with mark (archive)

Wednesday, August 21, 2013 | 07:00 to 09:00 | Playlist
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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
Nick Lowe Cracking Up Labour of Lust Columbia 1979
Nick Lowe Love Like A Glove Nick Lowe and his Cowboy Outfit Columbia 1984
* Arrows Out Signal This Picture Recalls A City self-released new NC instro stuff
* Russian Tsarlag One Way Out Gagged In Boonesville Not Not Fun aka Carlos Gonzales from Providence RI. New
Eccodek Juju In Those Strings (ambient remix) Voices Have Eyes White Swan 2007. Canadian producer Andrew McPherson plus kora, beats, etc
* Jeri-Jeri Xale Rhythm Ndagga Versions Ndagga Collab. betw Gambian & Senegalese sabar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabar) drum ensemble & a Berlin producer. New.
* Bob Chance Jungle Talk It's Broken! Trunk Anaheim CA, 1980. Reissue of what was only a private pressing back then. Described by Jonny Trunk as "a touch of Giorgio Moroder, a bit of the Beach Boys and a sprinkle of Glen Campbell as a serial killer."
Blaze Foley No Goodwill Stores In Waikiki Cold, Cold World Lost Art Fredericksburg TX, 1980.
Travis Wammack Easy Evil (VA) Country Got Soul, vol. 2 Casual
The Versatones Bila (VA) Twistin' Rumble!! vol. 5 : The Swingin'est Dance Party Ever! Crypt
The Rosebuds Cherish The Day Love Deluxe (The Rosebuds perform Sade) self-released 20 years later, the whole Love Deluxe record (Sade's 4th) covered in its entirity. Free download on Bandcamp! http://therosebuds.bandcamp.com/album/love-deluxe-the-rosebuds-perform-sade
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson The Bottle/Guan Guanco (live) Winter in America Strata-East 1974
* Moderat Versions / The Mark II Monkeytown 2nd collab betw Berlin-based artists Apparat and Modeselektor. New.
Massive Attack Protection Protection Virgin 1995
* Sylvan Esso Play It Right Hey Mami 12" Trekky local, new
* Food Pyramid GmbH Ecstasy and Refreshment Intercoastal Artists/Holy Mountain new hazy-electro-throb from Minneapolisssss
* Causa Sui Echo Springs Euporie Tide El Paraiso new from Denmark. Instrumental krauty goodness.
(your TV) Howdy Doody Television's Greatest Hits: 65 TV Themes from the 50s and 60s TeeVee Toons
* Thee Mighty Caesars Rumble Beware the Ides of March Damaged Goods 1985
* The Retros 9:00 Bridge Inner City Rockers: The Retros 1979 BDR St. Louis, MO, 1979. Never released til 2011.
Restriction Restriction (VA) The Bristol Reggae Explosion 1978-1983 Bristol Archive 1983
* Chico Trujillo La Banda de mi Vecino Gran Pecador Barbes New from Chile; mish-mash of cumbia, ska, rock en Español, and traditional Chilean sounds.
* Shazalakazoo Halls Preto (feat. MC Si) Karton City Boom Eastblok Music New from Belgrade but sounds like Brazil!
* Meridian Brothers Coplas para Cantar al Atardecer Devoción (Works 2005-2011) Staubgold Meridian Brothers is Eblis Álvarez. New from Bogotá.
Albert Ayler New Ghosts New Grass Impulse! 1968, with a band featuring Bernard Purdie on drums.
Mikal Cronin Turn Away MCII Merge still loving this one...
* The Prophet Hens Pretty Popular People Do Popular People Fishrider new jangly pop from NZ
* David Kilgour & The Heavy Eights Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus 7" Merge more new NZ. Song inspired by the statue of Columbus that stands in the Rambla de Santa Monica in Barcelona.