So each week I reach into my ludicrous 500+ blog RSS feed, download about 20 albums, and spotlight a few songs for your listening pleasure. Most of these recordings are painfully obscure in spite of actually kicking ass and being way better than a lot of the crap that comes out nowadays. Not that I don't like new music, but, you know. This time around, we're taking a look at painfully overlooked releases from 1976. After playing for years in [...]
Mort Garson - Wozard of Iz Mort Garson takes on the Wizard of Oz. From 1969 .
Mito urbano ou ciência aferida, o efeito da música sobre o crescimento das plantas tem sido tema de múltiplos estudos nos últimos anos. Mas enquanto a comunidade científica se debruça sobre tais experiências causa-efeito, a comunidade artística encontra nelas um fascínio que, tantas vezes, inspira a sua obra. Na música, dificilmente terá existido alguém que o tenha feito de forma tão explícita como Mort Garson, que em 1976 decide gravar Plantasia . Um álbum precisamente dedicado às plantas, inicialmente oferecido pelo próprio, e que contém um pequeno manual com indicações sobre a arte de bem tratar os seres. A [...]
Another audio oddity found this week on vinyl from Mort Garson. I picked up 5 albums of his each about different zodiac signs. Crazy stuff.
Andres Renteria is a DJ with a soft spot for other people's soft spots, and he's the man behind this edition of IT'S ALL FOR YOU, TUBE. "These are all songs that are totally heartfelt and make me feel good about life. Even though the majority of them have been in my life for years, they still make me feel like I am going to explode from loving them so much."— Andres Renteria Judy Mayhan Feat. [...]
I don't have to work tomorrow! I can spend all day writing a blog post about tonight's episode of LOST ! Or, you know, there are tons of other things I could do with my day. If you're anything like me - and, dear God, you'd better be - your work schedule is far from the Monday-through-Friday nine-to-five norm we've mocked and derided since...well, forever. My "work week" goes from Friday until Tuesday, and my hours vary from day-to-day. This leaves me with a "weekend" in the middle of the week. It sucks in that all my [...]
Sorry I forgot to post this on Sunday! RULES for uninitiated noobs : With roughly 100MB of webspace, I give birth to a weekly Mix Tape to be deposited on your iPods or Zunes or Kingklangs or whatever the industry is currently pushing on you. Sometimes there will be themes that link all the songs together, other times I'll just throw songs at a wall (not literally) and see what sticks. This week includes a couple live cuts (Will Oldham, Yndi Halda), and a bunch of randomly selected tunes. The final track was recorded by [...]
Dreams shouldn't be stoned, only the dreamer. Here is my tribute to psychedelic lounge synthesizer king Mort Garson. Mort started out doing arrangements for jazz singers in the early 60's. These recordings didn't really feature any of his signature space-synth touches, just nice airy lounge grooves with strings and Brazilian rhythms. The first track that really features an early version of his trademark style is a song that he wrote for the group Ruby & The Romantics in 1963, titled "Our Day Will Come". I suppose this was somewhat of a hit at the time [...]
One of our firm favourites of the West Coast downtempo Glitch-hop brigade Take (aka Sweatson Klank ) has just dropped a new mixtape on The New Worck to wet our appetites for his new mix CD Sweatson's Trajectory that should be dropping in early May . This mix keeps away from the digital Hip-hop sound that Take is known for and digs a little deeper into his (crates and) [...]
* Thrill Jockey's 2008 Advent Calendar . Free tracks everyday during the holiday season from acts like The Dead Science , Occidental Brothers Dance Band International . * Hear a podcast of Jean-Jacques Perrey and Dana Countryman's new CD "Destination Space" and a nice skype conference of them talking about the album. * WFMU presented Switched-on Basic Hip a 28 track compilation of retrofuturistic moog music, Gil Trythall , Mort Garson , Christopher Scott , Dick Hyman, Enoch Light [...]
In a time of nearly uniformly bad news, Obama's election is certainly a good reason to rejoice, and what would a celebration be without a good dose of Space Age Moog music? So today I offer a mix that surfaced some years ago on the Internet for a short time, the compilation Switched-On Basic Hip . Who could resist a computer singing "I Walk The Line", or Hugo Montenegro doing the Neil Diamond classic "Porcupine Pie"? It also features one of my favorite Walter Carlos tracks, the Burt Bacharach cover "What's New Pussycat". See the rest of this [...]
"Copies of Plantasia were initially given away with Simmons mattresses (!) in the mid 70's, the flora friendly record also came with an illustrated booklet on how to let the music speak to your plants, soothing them with soft oscillations and bouncy electro pop. How this music is supposed to relate to plants is beyond me, but it's all the better for it, since the tunes are so good, many far ahead of their time in the ambient electronic pop idiom. Occasionally dipping into cheeky Perrey-Kingsley territory, these tolerable moments are more than forgiven by some of the [...]
Mort Garson: Never Follow The Yellow-Green Road [ purchase ] A trippy take on "The Wizard Of Oz" , Mort Garson's "The Wozard Of Iz: An Electronic Odyssey is a must have for fans of brain-melting psychedelic weirdity. A big heap of Moog weirdness, for the fearless traveler. ( Wikipedia info).
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday. It's a pleasure to be here once again, sharing some rare and out-of-print recordings with you. Each of the following albums have passed through the store in recent days/weeks. I suggest you track them all down immediately and blow your paychecks on them. GTO's were a so-called girl-group consisting of groupies familiar to the Los Angeles music scene, most of whom are now dead but one of whom visited the store recently. They tried to sleep with as many pop and rock stars as they could. One of them wrote the tell-all book, "I'm With [...]
Very sad to read today that Mort Garson has died. As this LA Times article points out, Garson had plenty of mainstream success in the music biz, even co-writing a number one hit in 1963 (Ruby and the Romantics' "Our Day Will Come "), but is primarily remembered today for his bizarre '60s/'70s Moog synth records. There were lots of Moog-sploitation records being cranked out in those days, but what made Mort a strange-music superstar was his refusal to do too many cheezy remake rec [...]
This collection is the result of turning over rocks and finding moldy old forgotten relics of the disco craze. Disco music seemed to everywhere in the late '70s, and then seemingly vanished by the '80s, all parties waking up with a hangover and acting like these records never existed. In hindsight, it seems like a kind of mass hysteria, but it was no accident - the music business made a concerted effort to promote disco in their attempt to find a sure-fire hit-making formula, and disco records were cranked out with factory-like efficiency. It was expected that everyone - lounge [...]
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