Secondhand - Hanging On An Eyelid That album cover, coud be a Tame Impala cover, some MGMT artwork, you could see it on Altered Zones or the ilk... I suppose what I'm trying to say is, that for an album out in 1971 it holds up, it looks good and most importantly the tunes are good. Take, Hanging On An Eyelid: Beach House or even your precious Arcade Fire would love some of that slightly tropical synth styling at the start. It's a prog tune though, it know's it, it's got the [...]
Download: If There Is Hell Below Podcast... Get Paid. Get Laid. Get Maid. Subscribe via iTunes RSS Feed Get your boxes at the ready because Rob and Callum are gonna tick 'em for ya. New hip hop from Wu Tang and TheManWithThreeNames, new jazz from Michael Kiwanuka, deep soul from Geater Davis, Canadians, Crunk Juice, Lindsay Buckingham covers, Music Power 100 nonsense and a tribute to Gil [...]
Max B. - Possession You may remember a Max B posting a few weeks back, I put up the killer African disco track Bananaticoco , killer absolute killer. Well here's a cut from his rare Spanish released LP Sex-Revolution, Possession and it's ready to spin on the same dancefloor.
Dion - Hoochie Coochie Man(ROMO Echo Re-edit) Scrabbling for a tune whilst DJ'ing the other night I saw 'Hoochie Coochie Man' scribbled down on a CDR and just slotted it in. Slotted in and turned right on to a version of the Muddy Waters tune I forgot about; a cover by Dion Dimucci edited and lifted from lord knows where? The edit is just a bit of echo, a subtle bit of tinkering has gone some way.
Terry Riley - You're No Good Got the heads up on this from one of my regular blog haunts The Beat : A remix of the Harvey Arverne R'n'B track 'You're No Good', I say 'remix', but Terry put this track under the knife back in 1967 (it was only officially released in 2000), that word or concept didn't even exist back then. From the droning synths, which at first made me think I'd left my iTunes on shuffle and it'd skipped to an iDosing track I [...]
Download: If There Is Hell Below Podcast... The New March of the Chillmeister General Subscribe via iTunes RSS Feed Rob and *drum roll* Callum return to the podcast; the patented chemistry, the opening of the rambling box once again, the ill advised ranting of respected bands and the true story of where CMG has been. [...]
Justin Fashanu - Do It Cos You Like It A friend and I were talking about Justin Fashanu the other day; still we can't believe that in the history of professional football, the hundreds of thousands of professional teams with the decades and decades of squads with a team of two dozen men, there has only really been ONE noted incidence of a football player having the confidence to come out as being homosexual. The story of Justin is a fairly unsavoury one and not one I want to go into [...]
Moon Duo - Scars (Sonic Boom Remix) Off to see space-kraut-pop-drone-duo Moon Duo tonight at Corsica Studio but slightly annoyed that I'll be missing out on Sonic Boom's Spectrum at the other end of town at the Lexington. This'll have to be a happy medium soundtracking my tube ride. Moon Duo's latest LP Mazes is out now.
Solomun - Love Recycled Take a wee browse down this site and you'll realise I don't really listen to much 'house' music, have I discounted it or do I invest so much time in other genre's that I find little time to delve into another endless pit in search of diamonds? Bumped into this tune a few years ago and all it took was some Curtis Mayfield vocals to get me interested, that voice is likely butter on my toasted heart... I was gonna write some blurb as if I really knew anything about [...]
Download: If There Is Hell Below... Different Strokes for Different Gary Coleman's Subscribe via iTunes RSS Feed The confrontational heavy hip hop of Death Grips shares the air with the sinister yet breezy psych folk of These Trails, the 'kraut space garage' of The Feeling of Love, Czechoslovakian beat group Hana Ulrychová & Atlantis, the soft pop hangover cure of Harpers Bizarre, industrial post-punk experimentalists Gray and more. [...]
Infectious bit of disco carrying on from the Steel Funk vibe I've been digging. Big hitter for Lerry Levan and the pioneering turntablists of the time. Can't find a digital copy of this or any comp with it on, will cost you at least £40 online. If anyone knows where it can be found cheaper or whether it's on a comp, drop me a line.
Download: Steel Funk Cheers Aquarian Drunkard for pointing this collection of killer steel drum funk in my direction. Some familiar covers and some dug up gems make up a comp hotter than the hottest jerk sauce. The tune below, taken from the comp, was ripped and used as a sample in a track by the eternally soulless, talentless, vapid, charismaless, charmless... you know who I'm talking about? Still, a killer track from a dynamite comp. 20th Century Steel Band - Heaven and Hell [...]
House of Balloons is one of the best albums of the year, placed on your listening device and into your heart free of charge. I think you're gonna find it hard to buy a fresher debut album this year. A new 'unofficial' video for What You Need has dropped, blogs are putting up their NSFW's and calling this racy. Maybe over the years I've become desensitised to what the internet can throw up on a simple google search. Suppose it's meant to have an air of debuached class to it; the black and white, the balloons borrowed from the [...]
Is this good? Bit of a mess really, just some cheap drums and some 80s funk keys; I ain't seeing this is a bad thing. But it's a mess I'm trying to get my head round whether these repeated listens are even worth it. Thoughts? Compare and contrast. I love you Beck, man, and I know you helped on this record, but you needn't have touched it.
<p>&amp;lt;p&a mp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp ;lt;a href=" http://spacebar.bandcamp.com/a lbum/beforecommonera"& amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;BeforeCommo nEra by KeithCharles Spacebar&amp;amp;amp;a mp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;a mp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&a mp;amp;gt;</p> If I could have your attention for a moment; while you finish gawping at Odd Future aimlessly jumping off speakers with skateboards, grunting to a backing track and laughing ironically at their worryingly homophobic and sexually violent lyrics - may I introduce you to KeithCharles Spacebar. If you listened to the pod a few weeks ago ( this one ) you'd have already been introduced to the hazy smokey jazz of BlowinO's, well here is his latest free mixtape/album BeforeCommonEra a [...]
Download: Night-People - Deluxe Double Fold (Spring 2011 Comp) Hey man, get yourself into Night-People records with their Spring 2011 comp (bit fashion show innit?). The Iowa label have already released tapes and wax from Dirty Beaches, Peaking Lights, EMA and more... some more is on this comp. Quite a charming little mix of lofi, garage, electronics and novel oddities, you'll find something to to dig on this comp whatever your taste. White Woods - Groundswell [...]
Download: If There Is Hell Below Podcast... Spa Treatment Subscribe via iTunes RSS Feed The melancholy bath, the harmony soak and the sugar blitz. You'll need it after your ears have rolled around in the glam rock garage dirt of King Tuff, taken a trip through Black Joe Lewis's Booty City and Madlib's Nittyville. There's more besides from [...]
Late on getting this video up. Man, can I not wait to see them in a couple of weeks. Their new album 'D' drops in a couple of weeks
Don Agrati - Hollywood Song Always felt like this was some kind of lost Steely Dan track. From the album Homegrown
Toad - Vampires Toad - No Need Looking for tunes for a new SPACEHIPS mix ( check the mix section for previous works ), Toad could find themselves on it, perhaps I won't go down this heavy psych rock blues route. Some [...]
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