Blog: Moistworks

AINT GOING DOWN TO THE WELL NO MORE GO DOWN, OLD HANNAH BLUE TAIL FLY NOBODY IN THIS WORLD IS BETTER THAN US WE'RE IN THE SAME BOAT, BROTHER OLD SHIP OF ZION OLD MAN, WILL YOUR DOG CATCH A RABBIT I'M THINKING OF A FRIEND I WANT TO GO HOME Leadbelly Lead Belly's Last Sessions (Disc 1) 1948 / 1994 [Buy it] Forget everything you know about Leadbelly - his frolics with Woody Guthrie, his indenture

JUMP [Extended Mix] Kriss Kross Totally Krossed Out Sony : 1992 [Buy it] WAKE EM UP Da Youngstas The Aftermath Atlantic : 1993 [Buy it] ON & ON (DJ Premier Remix) Shyheim 12" Virgin : 1994 [buy it] The young gunzz today on moistworks. KRISS KROSS These sartorial contras blew up in '92 with infectious summer jams "Warm it Up" [...]

YOU'D BETTER GET IT (BEFORE IT GETS YOU) The Golliwogs [buy it] SCAT SWIM Sly Stone [buy it] LOOSE BOOTY Sly & The Family Stone [buy it] MOTHER IS A HIPPIE Sly & The Family Stone [buy it] REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE Sly & The Family Stone [buy it] [...]

CRYIN' IN THE STREETS' (Part 1) George Perkins and the Silver Stars [buy it] CRYIN' IN THE STREETS' (Part 2) I hardly ever post to the I Love Music website because once I dive in there and start messing about, I look up and... somehow, it's two days later. ILM is the total crack binge of music nerd-dom, and if you don?t know about it, that's probably for the best. I posted there the other day because I'd looked in all the [...]

2 THA WALLS DJ Smurf and P.M.H.I. WRAP/Ichiban : 1995 When I did college radio in the mid-90s, Ichiban was perhaps the most enthusiastic servicer of vinyl, not that I ever listened to the slabs they served. They all had non-descript white sleeves and white stickers with black type and were virtually indistinguishable from one another. But maybe if I'd spent a few more hours in the shelf stacks (which I put together by hand - manual labor is the new old [...]

AM I EVER GONNA SEE YOUR FACE AGAIN The Angels 1976 [buy it] AM I EVER GONNA SEE YOUR FACE AGAIN (live) The Angels Liveline (?) [buy it] THAT AIN'T BAD Ratcat Tingles (EP) Polygram : 1991 [buy it] A quick jolt of superb Oz punkpop for the weekend. The Angels (known overseas by some as "Angel City") were a Sydney-based Australian hard-rock [...]

MVP Mary J. Blige 2005 DON'T CHA Tori Alamaze Universal : 2005 [buy it] In hip-hop, mold multiplies like a calculator. It's a genre of obsessions, a collection of artists, producers, record labels and fans that seize upon an idea or sound and, as Missy sang several years ago, "flip it and reverse it." Like dancehall's riddim culture, in which a single beat can be reused hundreds of times by hundreds of singers, hip-hop microscopes sound, prodding each bass quiver and snare crack until it emerges [...]

COLD SPELL AHEAD 7" Single w/ "Hot Ice" Some Bizarre : 1981 [buy it] UNCERTAIN SMILE (12") Epic : 1982 [buy it] UNCERTAIN SMILE Soul Mining Epic : 1984 [buy it] I have long wondered when that time would arrive when Matt Johnson would finally get his due. As pop music's most unflinching songwriter, he has spent the last two decades producing [...]

MY IMAGINARY GUY Deanie Parker & The Valadors The Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1959-1968 [buy it] OH, GIRL! Unknown Man and Woman Previously Unreleased SLOW TRAIN (Take #1) William Bell and Steve Cropper Previously Unreleased DINE-O-MITE Sir Mack Rice Previously Unreleased SUGAR Eddie Floyd (?) Previously Unreleased WILD ONE Unknown Drunk Man #1 Previously Unreleased BO [...]

JR'S BAND Subtle Earthsick Lex : 2005 L'ATLAS FLEXIBLE-VON GRADLEUTE (Hrvatski remix) 13 & god Men of Station b/w Soft Atlas Anticon : 2005 Indie kids , particularly mid-20s indie kids like me, aren't listening to much indie rock any more. The tacit elitism and vague Puritanism, the jangly guitars and lyrical non-sequiturs , the notion that playing a catchy hook like you sort of mean it is enough - all this seems as quaint as laser discs [...]

JESUS IS MY FRIEND Washington Phillips The Key To The Kingdom Yazoo : 2005 [buy it] In February of this year, Yazoo released a new collection composed of the sanctified blues singer, songwriter and jackleg preacher Washington Phillips' 78s from the late '20s. Allegedly (ummm, I've not heard it yet!), they've done a superb job digitally cleaning up sound: "His complete output of 16 selections is presented here with brand new remastering [...]

DANGDUT IS THE MUSIC Radio Sumatra (The Indonesian FM Experience) Sublime Frequencies : 2005 [buy it] STAMBUL LAMA Music of Indonesia, Vol 3: Music from the Outskirts of Jakarta: Gambang Kromong Smithsonian Folkways : 1991 [buy it] How Do I love Thee, Mama Ong? [...]

SWEETEST ROCKER IN THE WORLD The Wailers 7" : 1967 : Coxsone Label Available on: Rock A Shacka Vol. 6 [buy it] MUSIC LIKE DIRT The Lyrics 7" : 1967 : Blue Coxsone Label Available on: Collector's Edition: Rare Reggae from the Vaults of Studio One 1989 : Heartbeat [buy it] [...]

ROCK AND ROLL SERMON Elder Beck It Came From Memphis Manteca Records [buy it] MARY, DONT YOU WEEP The Swan Silvertones The Swan Silvertones/Saviour Pass Me Not Collectables [buy it] WALKING WITH JESUS Spiritualized Royal Albert Hall October 10 1997 Arista [buy it] I haven't put much stock in Jesus lately, but Elder Beck's done a lot to [...]

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A year ago tomorrow moistworks made its first humble post. There was little indication then that moistworks would develop into the world wide brand that it is today; a cultural tastemaker, the most popular website in Southern Finland, a thistle in the side of the British legal system. For year 2, we have made some big changes. Principally, we have real writers now, a whole bunch of them. Ringers! Check out the bio page for a brief who's who. [...]