I first saw Why? play live on his Oaklandazulaylum tour. Unfortunately that night I'd necked so much ecstasy and washed it down with so much cider that I suffered the most supreme of blackouts.
One minute it was the opening song, the next, the closing whoops of applause.
For a long time the only hint of what I'd missed was the tour cd I bought from the merch table.
'Almost live from Anna's Cabin' was a very limited release of the warm up sessions that preceded the tour. A huge evolutionary step of Why? (the man) becoming Why? (the band)

These tracks are listed in order to whore myself out to the hype machine etc

Broken Crow

Cold Lunch

Ape in cage with wire cutters

However I suggest you dive straight in and download the full album here
Tweet

You gotta love Bjőrk, she's as mad as a swan, as such she should be protected by the Queen,
just imagine the mess if Asylum seekers attempted to eat her. : /

I'm still yet to hear Volta (out this monday) which is shocking considering it leaked it's way though many an internet pipe last month. In any case this post isn't about that album. No. It's to draw your attention to a fantastic 7minutemix (though it's closer to 8) of her music by Strepsil.
Details to follow..

Strepsil - Bjork 7minutemix

tracklisting:

army of me (beastie boys remix)
army of me
cover me (dillinja remix)
hunter
I miss you (photek remix)
so broken (krust remix)
all is full of love (passionate love mix)
hidden place (acapella)
immature
joga
possibly maybe
all is full of love (strings)
all is full of love

Fuck! Just missed my bus off to wrongness! So with the spare wait until it's next arrival, I'll leave you with a song that will forever remind me of an acid trip gone odd.

This song invoked short sharp feelings of...

combs
stickle bricks
corduroy
doom
facism

enjoy the fun.. good weekends to you!

neu! - negativland

Yay! Just discovered another record label with loads of free music to trawl through.
I've listened to a few of the mp3's here

Two very different songs that have caught my attention are...

The Amoeba Men - Shit Tubes

DJ Renaldo - The Fiscal Year Fandago

aceness all round.

: D

Another release, another pseudonym, this week Aphex Twin released his new e.p 'Confederation Trough' under the name 'The Tuss' (which apparently is Cornish for an erection)

It's bloody good stuff too. The album 'Rushup Edge' is forthcoming on his Rephlex label.

If you haven't got the e.p yet, keep your ears company with two excellent Analord mixes.

Analord Mixtape Side A (120 BPM)

Analord Mixtape Side B (150 BPM)

Way back in '94 Gravediggaz released 'Niggamortis' (the name was changed to 'six feet deep' in the states after Wal-Mart refused to stock it with the original title) It's a classic hip hop album.
Here are two b-sides from the first single 'Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide'

Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide (Portishead Remix)

Freak the Sorceress

Did you have a great weekend? I had a bloody lovely time at Audio in Brighton, dancing my socks off to splendid dj sets from wrongtom and the bees. Hats off to them.

Now for some electronic niceness...

A mix of unreleased posthuman tracks/b-sides

unnatural selection

tracklisting:
1) asha grew wings
2) the lust of dust
3) i saw her on camomile street
4) tenhauser gate
5) pinneal
6) dry riser inlet
7) plague
8) asha fallen

turns out this is a perfect antidote for the back to work blues.

: D

A while back I bought WHITE FLIGHT's album from Range Life Records and was quietly impressed by the offbeat nature of it. Yesterday I checked back on their myspace and found a Remix had been added, so it's prompted me to get the album on again. Have a listen

Now

Pastora Divine

The Condition

Great Gold

The Condition (remix)

You buy the 13 track mp3 album here for $7.49.

Project MKULTRA (also known as MK-ULTRA) was the code name for a CIA Mind-Control research program that began in the 1950s.There is much published evidence that the project involved not only the use of drugs to manipulate persons, but also the use of electronic signals to alter brain functioning.

A good way to get yourself out of bed in the morning... Bowzer's 'The Independents Vol.1' mix.
This is some heavy dubstep wrongness. Check his website for loads more mixes.

download here

Tracklisting:

01 bowzer - last man standing
02 roommate & no thing (babylon system) - everyday hustle
03 soundbox - fatty boom batty
>> emalkay - bats in the belfry
04 babylon system - fully loaded
05 loetech - shotgun harmonica
06 goldfinger - chainsaw
07 bowzer - sudden death vip
08 skream - chest boxing
09 lurk n' gully feat. dynamix - ballistics
10 juju - punks
11 jack sparrow - the hold
12 benga - evolution
13 mrk1 - the underworld
14 bowzer - robotic panadas
>> the others - hear dis style
15 skream - check it
16 loetech - bedlam
17 loetech - bedlam (lurk n' gully remix)
18 parson feat. smoke - babylon compressed
19 metalboxproducts - breaking up
20 loefah - disko rekah
21 monsta - caveman vip
22 skream - warning (d1 remix)
23 bowzer - disconnect me
24 distance - night vision
25 dz - retrospekt
26 skream - lose control
27 mala - bury the bwoy
28 justin timberlake - my love (ruf remix)
29 bowzer - disconnect me (dz's electro haven mix)
30 toasty - one life
31 two oh one - ghost train
32 grok - voices dub
33 tes la rok - natty dread
34 lurk n' gully feat. cryme - forward

Pixies

I got a broken face
I got a
I got a broken face
Uh-hu, uh-hu, uh-hu, uh-hu, ooo
I got a broken face (3x)

There was this boy who had two
Children with his sisters
They were his daughters
They were his favourite lovers

I got no lips, I got no tongue
Whatever I say is only spit
I got no lips, I got no tongue

I got a broken face, uh-hu, uh-hu
I got a broken face

There was this man who snapped his poke
In little pieces
And then they drilled holes
And then they put 'em back in there

I got no lips, I got no tongue
Whatever I say is only spit
I got no lips, I got no tongue

I got a broken face
Uh-hu, uh-hu, uh-hu, uh-hu, ooo
I got a broken face

The little thing who loves my mother
Speaks no English
But if you saw her
You'd say "Hey isn't she lovely"

I got no lips, I got no tongue
Whatever I say is only spit
I got no lips, I got no tongue

Just what the fuck is going on here?

Mong Hang are representing Tokyo very well in the special music olympics. I have no idea what they're singing/screaming/scaring about, so can only judge how mental they are on the oddness of the music...

Mad
as
a
lorry.

This is what jumps in my head...
Funk, Thrash, acid laced vocals, post rock having a fight with prog rock.

Where to begin with just how bizarre they are? Try Listening to...

Track 1 (Family e.p)

Track 2 (Family e.p)

Track 6 (Family e.p)

Track 4 (unknown e.p)

Track 8 (unknown e.p)

Found something nice in the back of beyond of my computer. It's Yppah's remix of Lady Sovereign's 'Love me or Hate me'

I like it, you might like it too.

Love me or Hate me (Yppah remix)

Props to Gas.
He's put together an ever explanding collection of mixes for all of us to download. Pretty much everything is covered. A lot of of the mixes come from the very talented peeps over at the Ninja Tune Forum. Get stuck in here and spread the word.

: D

This could turn out special. Save The Whales have revealed demos of their forthcoming e.p for Range Life Records. It's the usual Post-Rock kinda stuff and it's sounding bloody lovely. Check some of the niceness.

Othello

mansbestfriend is the alter ego of Sole. Over the past few years it's been an outlet for his self-produced and self-released music. Often sonically a lot dirtier than his Anticon albums, rougher around the edges, more urgent even. The first mansbestfriend to get a record label release was 'The new human is illegal' on Morr Music. Highly recommended. Intense rapping and spot on production. This time around though, Sole is using the pseudonym to release his first instrumental record 'poly.sci.187' and it's dropping from Anticon 29th May. The preview sounds ace, reminds me of the less polished early days of the label.

Missle Defence
(from poly.sci.187)

Numb
(from The New Human is Illegal)

Dream I had on 25th Birthday
(from The New Human is Illegal)

And this is pretty exciting news, announced yesterday, so get in quick:
'If you order the poly.sci.187 CD from soleone.org you will also recieve a bonus EP of unreleased material. initially, this music was to be the followup LP to live from rome, but after i formed the band with skyrider this music has no home, so i'm giving it away with the first 100 pre-orders. bonus CD includes 7 new songs, 4 with barcelona's twelve, 2 with sample 208 (as seen on current tv), and one with 88 komaflash from germany, this music spans the period from 2005-2007.'

Thank You Azeda Booth. Just a few days after getting back into writing this blog and you send me 'mysterious body' It's a sign, I'm sure of it. 90% of what reaches my inbox ranges from spectacularly bad to nothing spectacular, but not this...

I love it. A lot. Six guys from Calgary, Canada, making music with a male singer who sounds like he's on loan on Múm. Two polar opposite songs with vocals, three Eno-esque instrumentals, all of each is golden.

enjoy

Landscape (with grass)

Aislinn Bos

Eight years ago the brilliantly named DJ Mayonnaise released his instrumental lp '55 stories' on Anticon. Since then he's been a bit on the quiet side. His new record 'Still Alive' should make enough of a noise to get our attention again. He's a master of drums so I've got hight hopes for his return.
Anticon release it to the world on 17th July.... Meanwhile check the preview...

Easily Distracted

A few weeks back as Saturday faded, around 04.00am a friend dropped a song that had me bouncing like tigger (the rum helped as well) ... it was the dirtiest bit of dubstep I'd ever heard.
I've tracked it down and listened to it straight and it's just as good.

Bass Clef tears it. His album 'a smile is a curve that straightens most things' is a far more varied affair than most of the genre.. at times more shoegaze electronics than fierce bass.. can't recommend it enough.

Two songs to give you an idea of where he's heading..

'cannot be straightened' This is the song that shook my socks off

'thank you for starting fires' heavy echo dub ambience

The lp is only out on cd, but check 'The Opera' e.p for some of the best bit's on vinyl.

Turn the wonk upto 11!

A fantastic mix of madness from DJ Elephant Power.

Download it here
Check his website for more goodies.

dan le sac VS scroobius pip - Thou Shalt always Kill

This has been inescapable for the last few weeks and there's every reason why.. It's simply the most exciting bit of music for quite some time.. Watch the video, listen to the words, dance a bit and buy it..

Digital download 2nd April / Limited edition 7" vinyl 16th April (lex)
Includes a remix from electro-genius Knifehandchop

It's been a long time! I'm back etc

No time to talk just take a look at this....

beatpervert has done it again..

Shoelace full of acid

tracklisting:
ol dirty bastard and the Boards of Canada - shimmy shimmy ya(drunk and focused blend)
daedelus - loaded
Juelz Santana, lil Wayne, Red Cafe - hood shit
el p - smithereens
prodigy - breathe (aphex twin remix)
stark reality - dreams
freestyle fellowship - for no reason
tortoise - to day retrieval( autechre remix)
antithesisters - where science grows
Peter, Bjorn & John - young folks (diplo remix)
can - peking garden
spacemen 5 - come down easy
boards of canada - diving station
eat cloud - i miss my baby seal
underworld - born slippery (brown acid remix)
neu! - negativeland
sonic youth - total crash
philip glass, brian eno, david bowie - heroes symphony (aphex twin remix)
young jeezy - trapstar
slowdive - souvlaki space station
nore - cocaine cowboys
restiform bodies - stupid human button
eat cloud - voices don't speak
siqur ros - untitled
aphex twin - violin solo
ugk ft. 3 6 mafia - players anthem
odd nosdam - track 17
who killed the red baron? - live at tuesday scissor test

A little Announcement

There's been no posts in ages and I apologize. I'm being evicted and things are hectic. Trying to find a room is making me feel fucking shit. No energy or brain ability to write stuff here for now.

Assuming I find myself settled, normal service will resume.

xxx

THE BEST OF MUSIC I FOUND WHEN I CLEANED MY ROOM YESTERDAY pt.2

Jacob Golden is bloody brilliant. I thought I'd lost his Rough Trade released e.p forever and yesterday it turned up under my bed. His fragile broken voice sounds like a thousand shattered dreams. Share the excitement and listen...

Polyamory
Carry Yourself
As she turns

Point yourself at his myspace for more recent beauty...

Someone is freaked. It might be me, or maybe it's that shadow that just jumped up, stared at the cat, then ran out the room. These Are Powers have got me shook up and scared. Anna Barie (ex Knife Skills), Ted McGraith and Pat Noecker (ex Liars) craft music for funerals of long dead and very pissed off people. As your attorney I advise you buy their e.p.
While you're waiting on the postman, get a taste with these songs..

The South Angel
Hoop Snake

telephone jim jesus - Birds in Chase

When Steve Mason (Beta Band) announced his retirement from music last year, alot of people were hoping that he'd do a Jay-Z and be back soon.. and yep, it's happened, he's dropped King Biscuit Time and returned as Black Affair. His voice is distinctive as ever and the beats and bleeps are set to storm clubs full of people with wonky haircuts. The first single 'Japanese Happening' is currently only available to stream on his myspace or to buy through u.s.a itunes.. in the meantime enjoy these beauties..

You and Me
Will She come
Sweet

My bus journeys to work are getting better and better.. this is another fine mix that has kept my ears company.. put together by beatpervert and in his words 'for the kids that like gangsta rap and kraut rock'

the king stay the king

tracklistling:
spaceman 3 - ecstasy
pink floyd - on the run
boards of canada - beware of the stranger
electro 4 - pause
Dj Shadow - midnight in a beautiful world (exteneded remix)/Project Pat - Raised in the projects (drunk and focused blend)
Trae and Young Joc/Mims - this is why I'm hot (drunk and focused blend)
mean joe green ft. juvenille - down bottom
eat cloud - bow'd brain
Young Jeezy and bun b/squarepusher - over here(drunk and focused blend)
tangerine dream - phaedra
ice cube - my dad was in the KKK, please excuse me you love to hate
can- future days
TI and beanie seigel - 2 glocks nine/ Can- Oh yeah/boom bip-from left to right (drunk and focused blend)
E-40, Juelz santana, ugk/boom bip-white gurls (evaredy loves pancake booty blend)
antithesisters - eddie winslow (remix)
aphex twin - arched maid via rdj
Slim thug, ti, bun b - three kings/neu - hallogallo ( drunk and focused blend)
radiohead - I will (scott matelic remix)
crooked lettaz - caught in the game
godspeed you black emperor - ?
black sabbath - killing yourself to live
suicidal tendencies - institionalized
emynd - hanging on

A Swiss Trio making fine Electronic music.
Sinner DC are sounding ace to my ears. I've yet to hear more than a few songs, but these three tracks are on the right side of wrongness.

they never stay (mount age lp)
romy schneider (arkle parkle avenue lp)
always rock on the western side (dave apple remix)

They've also got a few wonky mixes up.
Peep the tracklisting..

Various Artists 2006 mix

burial : forgive (hyperdub)
pan sonic : liuos (blast first)
spectrum & silver apples : the edge (space age)
sinner dc : northbeach (ai records)
extrawelt : fernweh (kompass)
the field : over the ice (kompakt)
james figurine : apologies (plug research)
afx : pwsteal.ldpinch.d (rephlex)
remote : teaser (kill the dj)
(t)ékël : smet (initial cuts)
mathew jonson : marionette (wagon repair)
klaxons : gravity's rainbow - van she tech mix (because)
mjuc : noise moving (aiding music)
vitalic : trahison (citizen records)
kinski : schedule for using pillows & beanbags (sub pop)
arpanet : probability densities (rephlex)
cluster : zum wohl (sky records)

Check the website for 2004/2005 mixes.

: D

The internet doesn't just come in English! Oh no, there's a world wide web of language out there that has me scratching my head and hovering my mouse above hyperlinks. So even with my limited grasp of language I was happy to stumble across kwadratuur, a Belguim site that contains all manner of goodness. On there a found a *brand new* múm track, the first I've heard with their new line-up (check the story here)
It's sparse, piano led with male vocals.. in short, different from what you'd expect.. Hear for yourself..

Moon Pull

Fog and Why? released their Hymie's Basement lp on Lex to little fanfare. It's an ace album and they both have a following, but there was no two man in a van world tour to promote it. That's a shame as I always sure the songs would sound great live .. and now I'm very happy to have this to prove it.. unearthed from the archives, these songs are from an ultra limited Live e.p, recorded when and where? I don't know, but I do know these performances are every bit as good as you could hope for...

America Won/America Too
The Act
All Them Boys
Ghost Dream/The Pump
Ben & Joey
Lightning Bolts And Man Hands/You Die
21st Century Pop Song

Also as another little treat....
21st Century Pop Song (Mount Eerie Remix)

One downside of downloading obscene amounts of music is that often I'll end up with lots of unlistened mp3s.. The upside is putting the ol' ipod on shuffle, hearing something new and thinking 'wow! what the *fuck* is this?'

I got that feeling on the bus this morning with this mix.. (yep, another mix, gone mix mad, me) put together by Melonhands..

Moody butterfly bass, creaking door atmospherics, unexpected world music blends and a beautiful outing of aphex twin's 'on'

melonhands - i need dub(step)

tracklisting:

nettle - halfstep
pinch and p dutty - war dub
pinch - qawwali VIP
tinariwen - amassakoul n tenere
i-wiz - habibi
digital mystikz - ancient memories (skream remix)
caspa - for the kids
distance - taipan
aphex twin - on
black ham - necron
toasty - angel
filastine - dreams from wounded mouth
mutamassik - high alert aala teta
amadou and mariam - toubala kono

cracking song
ace video

Holy Shit. I just stumbled across Marnie Stern and upon hearing her, it was like taking ecstasy for the first time. I've never been a big fan of guitar shredding but the rush here is relentless...

Her album 'In Advance Of The Broken Arm' will be released on February 20th on Kill Rock Stars.

listen to Grapefruit

(by the by, this is a myspace rip, sounds cool on my speakers, but the quality isn't gonna match the album..)

AGT Rave Cru are fucking hardcore.. you know the score.. etc etc. Twisted dark Planet Mu type wrongness.. listen here

dj snapmouth (of AGT Rave Cru) has put together a mix that will have you losing your jaw if you're not carefull.

sick day mix

tracklisting:

godspeed you black emperor - dead flag blues
mira calix - skin with me (andrea parker remix)
milanese - sadako
rustie - response
vex'd - pop pop v.i.p.
british murder boys - anti inferno
beckett & taylor - hand on the plow
a guy called gerald - downstroke
my robot friend - dial zero (modeselektor remix)
burial - versus
a guy called gerald - nasty
funk d'void & phil kieran - black worm
hrdvision - thrash 1
lfo - dj trax
alern8 - frequency
cylob - smash up the pram
aux 88 - my aux mind
anthony rother - luzifer
konrad black - medusa smile (dont look back)
second phase - mentasm (beltram mix)
surgeon - floorshow (part one)
vex'd - angels
secret frequency crew - miami eyes
the consumer - looking for the code
lfo - we are back
lfo - lfo
lfo - freak
mr oizo - latex
modeselektor - kill bill vol 4
audion - kisses
styz - mr roboto
acen - trip to tha moon
altern8 - move ur body
hug - the happy monster
cursor miner - man made man
ardisson - yes
posthuman - beautiful beast

xxxx

0_O

Gay Against You are two peeps from Glasgow, causing a bit of a hot fuss on Last.FM at the minute. They make DJ Scotch Egg style gameboy rock but with much less gabba madness, reminds me a little of the fabulous bestfwends. If these two tracks take your fancy, you can d/l the album here.

Hello

Ice Scooter

(If anyone can hook me up with the bestfwends remix of bump, I'll be very grateful)

Todd Rundgren is a mentalist. Today I've been listening to his 1973 album 'A Wizard, a True Star' and marvelling at just how fucking great it sounds. It's almost not of this planet, big songs progged out on effects.. it sounds old yet futuristic too. If you've not already heard him, grab these two songs..

Le Feel Internacionale

Sometimes I don't know what to feel

Michael Forrest - Broken into Tumbolia

This album is mostly abrupt electrics in a similar vein to all your favourites. So far, so Warp.. but Mr. Forrest steps further and lets loose a mentalist convention in a brass band bad dream. It spazzes hard and doesn't stop.

Some video niceness too..

Valentines day is fast approaching and this mix is the perfect accompaniment to a broken heart. Beautifully put together, the track selection speaks for itself.
Hats off to Bobby Corridor.

Melancholy Flowers 2

Alan Watts- Divine Madness
Talk Talk- I Believe In You
Helios- Paper Tiger
Dub Tractor- Faster
Buck 65- Food (inst)
Bob Dylan- Don�t Fall Apart On Me
Stendec- Raine
Marc Almond- Ends In Tears
Manyfingers- Some Shield
Fila Brazilia- Return Of The Red Hot Brethren
Veda Brown- Living A Life Without Love
Eliot Lipp- Real Tragic
Tom Robinson Band- Long Hot Summer
Van Morrison- Warm Love
Sketchie- Suffragist Down
Andre Gurov- Relevation Of Wrath
James and Boby Purify- I�m Your Puppet
Lord Finesse- Yes You May (remix inst)
Lhasa- My Name
Johnny Osbourne- Give A Little Love
Scientist- Give A Little Love Dub
Barry Adamson- Hollywood Sunset
Clem Snide- Find Love
Scritti Politti- Petrococadollar
Billy Childish- The Humility Of Love
Jacob Golden- Dirty Snow
Arab Strap- Phone Me Tonight
Alias & Ehren- Lillian
Esmerine- While She Swallows Bullets and Stones
Hans Appelqvist- Grammofonnummer
Sufjan Stevens- That Dress Looks Nice On You
Savath & Savalas- Two Blues For Marion Brown
Caural- Sipping Snake Blood Wine (Savath & Savalas Mix)
Art Of Noise- Moments In Love
Zane Trow- Thirtithri
Silicon Scally- Toneworks
Brendon Anderegg- They�re Still Here
Jeff Klein- Nobody�s Favourite Girl
Ammoncontact- Barbeque Plate (Telefon Tel Aviv�s Last Supper remix)
John Martyn- Hurt In Your Heart
Bernard Purdie- Summer Melody
George Russell- You Are My Sunshine
Fat Jon- Romantic Misery
Tindersticks- My Oblivion
Aoki Takamasa- Fly Variation
Souad Massi- There�s Worse
2 Tall- Shifting Tides
Mark Eitzel- Anything
Bill Near- Drumin