
SAVE BBC ASIAN NETWORK (AND 6 MUSIC TOO) Another delayed post featuring some of my musical favourites from the last few weeks. Hurriedly put up (in unfinished form) simply because its the last chance to fill in the BBC's online questionnaire registering your objection to the closure of The Asian Network & 6 Music. Visit here to register your objection with the BBC Trust (they make the decisions) The Asian Network recently picked up a couple of Sony Awards for its output. Nihal won Best Speech [...]

Ming Ming Dance Company - Crookline "Crookline" is the latest track from Boston's Ming Ming Dance Co and it's a 9 minute long slow burner jam of the highest awesomeness. They got that new/old psych drone sound everyone loves kinda like Sun Araw, Predator Vision, or Emeralds. But this one's real chill, like a loping burned out blues number. Warped and fucked guitars get their groove on while some synths get all noodly. You can [...]

Lo-fi kingpins Lefse Records have a new and equally amazing outlet called Waaga Records . In the spirit of 2010's Waaga offers us a 15 song free download compilation, that starts with an amazing lazy psychedelic jam MING MING DANCE COMPANY and ends with glitcy IDM scapes by Seams. Impressive. 1. "Crookline" – MING MING DANCE COMPANY 2. "Golden Things" – Treasure 3. "Black Castles" – FUR (ft. Alan Palomo of Neon Indian) 4. "Deal With It" – Florene [...]
Ming Ming Dance Company - Crookline Serious ssloowwww roller here from Cambridge, Massachusetts' Ming Ming Dance Company - gliding by on a sun-baked smoke trip with its fried reggae swagger and spaced out organ wandering. "Crookline" slowly unfolds over its nine-minute voyage encountering all sorts of weird UFO visions and ignored distress calls, instead opting to open a bag of corn chips, peace out and take it (the universe) all in. If you dug the smoked funk and dub vibage on Sun Araw's excellent Heavy Deeds from this year, definitely check this [...]
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