NIKE7UP's hyperreal, pop-melting meta-edits are a) a new form of eyeball-burning tween psychedelia, b) pop devouring itself again, or c) the end of western culture. Answer = a,b,c and d. awesome. His latest girl-powered video SWALLOWED NIKE7UP THE WAVE MIX is above, after the jump he answers our 321 questions.

Emmett presents: Winter-Harvest side one Zmirneikos Balos - Maria Papagika The Woman Of Our Day - Svanfridur Pastels - Keith Cross & Peter Ross Sidewalk Cafe - Todd Rundgren Nice Age - Yellow Magic Orchestra side two Trois Gymnopedies (First Movement) - Gary Numan I Can't Leave It Alone - Tony Wilson Jalousi - Amon [...]
What do you get when you cross hippie commune dwellers and avante-gard prog? Amon Düül II of course. Perhaps some of the most inventive and inspired krautrockers, Amon Düül II spun an eclectic quilt of psychedelic sounds throughout their decadeish long career (1969-1981). The jam above best embodies the experimental and raucous energy notable in their performances. I personally like the drugged-out people piled on top of each other next to Rainer Werner Fassbinder lucidly smoking cigarettes. "Mozambique" and "Jalousie" are featured on their 1973 release "Vive La Trance." Though I love both I [...]
As I mentioned yesterday, my attention this year, as far as music goes, has been diverted in a variety of ways. Doing a 2009 playlist seemed to miss the thrust of what my year was all about (and probably redundant with every other blog out there); doing a collection of old yet new-to-me stuff would have missed all the music that wasn't new to me that I spent so much time with. So instead I offer this: a 75-track playlist that comes as close as I can to giving some impression of what my listening year has really [...]

INTERNATIONAL WEREWOLF CONSPIRACY "Hip Revolutionaries have the power to strike FEAR!" We are the ultimate Horror Show…Hideous Hair and Dangerous Drugs…Armed Love striking terror into the vacant hearts of the plastic Mother and pig-faced Father. The future of our struggle is the future of fear, FEAR!! The fear of free love, fear of not working, fear of YOUTH …We drink the magic potion and become the spectre that haunts Amerika. We are WEREWOLVES baying at [...]

Guten Tag, Leute ... Continuing our summer tenpack series, For The Sake Of The Song goes all German on you this time. So put on your Lederhosen and enjoy a krautrock primer of sorts, showcasing the various exciting directions - electronic pop, avant-garde rock, neo-classical, ambient avant la lettre and a mix of all these - this utterly surprising genre could take. Auf wiedersehen! Faust - It´s A Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl MP3 Can - Splash MP3 [...]

The people of South America known collectively as the Jivaro are well know for their practice of shrinking the heads of their enemies. Raids on alien tribes are carried out specifically to secure tsantsas , or shrunken head trophies. The attacks are usually small and are usually carried out on one house where the victim may be caught unaware. The trophies bring prestige to the head takers and trap the avenging souls of their victims. The first step is the removal of the head of the unfortunate victim. The skin is cut around the top [...]

Tagged: Amon Düül II, Between the Eyes, Classic Video of Day, Video
I suppose that it'd be crude to tease an adept internet dork with videos and not provide an album. This here? This here is Amon Düül as opposed to the latter splinter group. It's got some fire side jams and the lyrics are a bit... [More after the jump...]

One thing about krautrock: so many of these bands were dark, hypnotic, experimental, epic—and also full of humor. Faust, Neu!, and Amon Düül II all regularly featured total goofball vocals or musical interludes. The unfortunate thing is that really Faust was the only band that could pull it off consistently. Neu! was successful about half the time, and Amon Düül II essentially ruined every single song in which they tried to inject anything resembling levity. That was my main complaint when I first heard them last year, picking up their second album, Yeti . That album had enough mindblowing [...]
Hey, apparently there's a cure for GRID HIV now ! The Wall Street Journal is reporting that a brilliant doctor from Germany performed a bone marrow transplant on an HIV patient using marrow from a naturally immune donor. Since white blood cells are derived from bone marrow, the HIV-resistent bone marrow produced HIV-resistent WBCs with the CCR5 mutation that prevents HIV from binding to white blood cells, and all traces of the virus disappeared from the patient's bloodstream. Since the transplant, doctors have not detected any signs of the virus for 600 days. [...]

So we come to "the rest." These are albums that aren't bad; in fact many of them are quite good. They just, for whatever reason, didn't force their way into that part of my brain that compelled me play them over and over and over. Nevertheless I still recommend everything here. Sometimes the albums in this category are slow burners, either melting into a bunch of my playlists or just consistently sneaking their way into rotation. The Flatlanders, More a Legend Than a Band Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, 100 Days, 100 [...]
As I was leaving work last evening, I checked my cellphone and noticed I had three text messages and a voice mail. This is not entirely uncommon, seeing as how I am an immensely popular public figure who has to constantly deal with the demands of friends and family who often claim to "never see or hear from" me. The messages were fairly standard, your "What are we doing for dinner?" "Yo fag, call me" run-of-the-mill type stuff. The voicemail, though, was completely unexpected. It was from a woman who claimed to be the manager of the Pizza Hut I [...]

Washington, DC blogger extraordinaire IntangibleArts DJ's this week's Tangible Ten: "And now, a taste of heavy space from the IntangibleArts archives. Most of these would be what Julian Cope would call 'head music' and encompasses bits of Krautrock, English space-rock, and American folk-psych. This material represents my birth as a record collector: When I was about 10 or 11 years old, a benevolent older relative took me by the ear and opened up his vast collection of dusty vinyl goodies. I was already buying my own records at that age, with [...]

In recent years a number of the more prominent exponents of the constructed Kraut-rock genre have received a lot of attention, with most of the platitudes being reserved for Neu!, Can and of course Kraftwerk. Amon Düül II however seem to have been bypassed slightly; maybe it's the slightly unweildy band name or the fact that the II part is confusing, or maybe it's because they've had a longer history and so aren't as defined as say Neu!, who only released a few records. I think that actually it could be put down to the fact that their sound was [...]

Amon Düül II - mozambique (intro) ( Vive la trance / 1973 ) Findlay Brown - Losing the will to survive (Beyond the wizard's sleeve reanimation) ( Losing the will to survive / 2007 ) Mistral - starship 109 ( starship 109 / 1978 ) Sylvester - I dig you (dirty edit) ( Dirty space disco / 2007 ) [...]

As described last week, Obscure References recently ended their longest hiatus to date and returned to Studio Evan Studios to commit two hours of music to tape. The sessions have yielded eight tracks and 68 minutes of listenable audio. Please listen closely, for you will hear delayed drum signals, ugly guitar tones, brilliant nothingness, and meandering abstract sound paintings. It is the audio-equivalent of complete isolation on a deserted isle. Officially titled Music For Poetry In Orbit , each track is dedicated in memory of a poet. The entire album, of course, is dedicated in loving memory to [...]

Amon Düül II - Kanaan [MP3] Amon Düül II - She Came Through the Chimney [MP3] Can - Halleluwah [MP3] Can - One More Night [MP3] Neu! - Hallogallo [MP3] Faust - Krautrock [MP3] The beginner in the title refers to me. I can't remember exactly what I was listening to in the late 1990s when the Krautrock revival apparently happened but a fair guess would be the seemingly endless supply of funk compilations that got released around that time. [...]