John McLaughlin has just celebrated his 70th birthday. At least I hope he celebrated it, he certainly deserved to. It's saying something when a musician is more famous for the work he did in his own band than he is for playing with Miles Davis on Bitches Brew . The Mahavishnu Orchestra was by no means perfect - at times the gloss sheen of prog can set your teeth on edge - but when they set themselves loose they were magnificent. One Word from the 1972 album Birds of Fire does [...]
Truly unclassifiable in any of today's genres, British beatsmith Om Unit (Jim Coles) has mastered the art of non-discriminatory electronic music. Originally known as a turntablist under the moniker 2tall, Coles has traversed through different periods of music whilst maintaining his signature incorporation of luscious textures and head knocking beats. Ranging all the way from ass-shaking tracks like "Neptune," which was featured on a 2010 Low End Theory podcast, to the instrumental 4/4 grooves of early chicago house found in "The Power of Love," Om Unit's work has diversified his audience. Coles' surging instrumentation and distinguishably exuberant sy nthwork has received appraisal from much [...]
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Connecting the dots between Hendrix, Handel, Hot Tuna, classical music and rock and roll. Rock music - Classical music - Music - Jimi Hendrix - Handel House Museum
Quite often I get a lot of questions about musical influences. Since this is the LEVI/WERSTLER take over, I figured, what better time to hopefully turn some of you on to a new player than now? So here are a few guys outside of the metal genre that are virtuosic and very extreme with their [...]
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I'm exhausted. It's been a long day and a long week, and I am looking forward to a good night of sleep tonight. This week should be a little more laid back than the previous one, and will provide me with opportunities to go out into the world and have some fun. I think. I don't really know. We'll see, I guess. The only thing I know for certain is that today is Sunday, which means I have to compile for you a new mix tape. It's Sunday Mix Tape time! RULES for uninitiated [...]
The Warp debut by Glaswegian Ross Birchard is certainly one of the most interesting albums that 2009 has dropped in our collective laps. Butter is a beautifully chaotic swirl of influences: L.A. glitch-hop, smears of Warp's spacier back catalog, and at its weirdest there's charmed allusions to 1970's prog/experimental masters The Mahavishnu Orchestra. It's a wonderfully experimental affair, something far more worthy of the Warp branding than the label's current top seller Veckatimest . Trying to pick a song to feature here was a bit [...]
On July 14th, 1974 an article by Stoney Brakefield appeared in the Pennsylvania newspaper, NEWS EXTRA, reporting an incident which allegedly took place in 1944 near this small coal mining town, yet because of it's nature it had been covered-up for nearly 40 years until the son of the mining inspector who investigated the incident revealed it as his father (then deceased) had related it to him. This mining inspector and a fellow investigator had been called in to look into a "cave-in" in one of the Dixonville mines. About 15 men had either been killed or [...]
Download: MP3: MOJO Club - The Maxwell Implosion / Blues A Volonte (Remix) MP3: Me'shell Ndegéocello - If That's Your Boyfriend MP3: Mahavishnu Orchestra - Noonward Race MP3: Lyn Collins - Think (About It) Bookmark It [...]
It's Sunday again, and as per usual, nothing exciting is happening anywhere in the world. People sleep late and hope they can relax for a few hours before the new work week begins. Meanwhile, I've reached the exact middle of my own work week, so I'm way closer to my next weekend than you are! Ha! In trying to write an introductory paragraph, I asked Ilya what topic I should pontificiate on. He said "cupcakes," then giggled softly. "Cupcakes are really what's in right now," he said, and giggled some more. Yup, I know what Ilya did all [...]
I had a strenuous day at work, helping to re-price all the jazz LPs in the store. It entailed pulling all the records and lugging them to the back of the store, re-pricing them, and then lugging them back out to the floor and reorganizing them. While that was happening, I had to help one of the girls at the front counter by providing her with $2.99 records that needed to be priced. So I had to lug all those records from back to front and then back again for storage. When full, the LP boxes weigh about 70 pounds, [...]
It has been a while. You need these beats to move your feets because it is the middle of winter and you need to warm up. OK, maybe you don't, but I sure as hell do. James Pants' album Welcome is one of my fave records of last year, covering all kinds of stylistic ground but all of it funky. Blancmange's Vishnu is a great bit of Indo-synth pop, a bonus track from the bonus disc of the reissue of
It's bloody amazing how much more accepted intelligent aggressive music has become, doncha think? Of course there are always still the outright pussballz in any audience who start trembling every time a vocalist strays ever so slightly away from straight-up singing into yelling, screaming, or dare I even say *growling* territory (I'm sadly lookin at [...]
There was quite an interesting debate in one of the darken spaces that thee 20jazzfunkgreats roam regarding the extent to which the trend towards tunes of 10 minutes or longer which has become growingly common in certain genres you know we dig, such as kosmische disco, is a good or ...
Allez, je secoue la case, je la tire de sa sieste flemmarde, Wake up Little Suzie, Keep the Faith... En la retournant dans tous les sens, en remuant tous vos sens, vous devriez tirer de belles choses dans le fouillis de ces deux mois à venir, ça va swinguer. Enfilez vos casques, portez haut le Son, chers hérauts de ce Sound system miniature. Encore porté par les effluves électriques d'un voyage
An em pee three of the original You Know, You Know FROM this album An em pee three of the string quartet version FROM this cd On Halloween when I was fourteen I TP'ed Roger's yard. I lived on a short road in the country. A handful of boys lived on the road; I was the oldest. We didn't have a lot of options for adding tricks to the treats because most of the houses on [...]
spent the weekend in michigan for a wedding & on the way home yesterday i was browsing through this weekend's issue of the reader & noticed that i missed a lot more going on in chicago than i thought... i knew aesop rock was playing the metro on thursday & rilo kiley were at the riv on saturday, but there were also some weekend performances that caught me by surprise... erykah badu was at crobar thursday night (crobar?), friday night saw bill callahan at the lakeshore theater, [...]
Miles Davis - " John McLaughlin " from Bitches Brew (1970) Mahavishnu Orchestra - " Miles Beyond (Miles Davis) " from Birds of Fire (1973) I think John McLaughlin is one of the few guitarists who actually deserved two necks on his guitar. Bend an ear and check it out as Miles and McLaughlin pay homage to one another. And may Joe Zawinul rest in peace . Glenn - I think you're better qualified to post something to honor the man. Buy [...]
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