Dub vs Dubstep Special w/ Mad Professor, Adrian Sherwood, Coki & Appleblim
By Mark Zip | July 24, 2010
The invaluable Core News brings us a nice clean recording of a recent radio show: Rob da Bank 2010-07-24 Dub vs Dubstep Special with Mad Professor, Adrian Sherwood, Coki & Appleblim
A very nice mix of new and old, does just what it says on the box.
Post includes a link to the Hotfile download and the tracklist:
Tracklist:
Slim Smith — Ain’t Too Proud To Beg – Trojan
Joe Gibbs — Chapter 3 – Lightning
King Tubby — Roots Of Dub – Blue Moon
Benny Ill, Kode9 & The Culprit — Fat Larry’s Skank – Tempa
Dubkasm — Reespek I Spek (feat. Levi Roots and African Simba) (Gatekeep and Appleblim Remix) – White Label
Coki — Intergalactic Dub – Dubplate
Loefah — Bombay Squad – Rephlex
Primal Scream — Echo Deck – Creation
The Clash — Robber Dub – Epic
Rusko — Hold On – Mad Decent/Co Operative
Magnetic Man — I Need Air – Columbia
Coki — Movado – White Label
The Upsetters — Blackboard Jungle Dub – Upsetter
The Upsetters — Blackboard Jungle Dub (Adrian Sherwood Version) – Upsetter
Lee “Scratch” Perry — International Broadcaster (feat. Roots Manuva and LSK) – Egea
Addison Groove — Foot Crab – Swamp 81
Arkist — Rendezvous – Apple Pips
Massive Attack — Teardrop (Mad Professor Mazaruni Remix) – Circa
Mad Professor feat. Luciano — Unknown Track – White Label
La Roux — In For The Kill (Skream’s Let’s Get Ravy Mix) – Polydor
TC — Where’s My Money (Caspa Remix) – DSR
Katy B — Katy On A Mission – Ammunition
Simian Mobile Disco — Cruel Intentions (feat. Beth Ditto) (Joker Remix) – Wichita
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You can help fund a film about Graham Parker
By Mark Zip | July 23, 2010
He is a diamond geezer. When I would ask him to sign records for me he was always simultaneously surly and gracious (two of my favourite things!). My signed copy of “Mercury Poisoning” on coloured vinyl is one of my greatest fetish objects.
Kickstarter provides an easy and transparent way to fund projects. Projects ask for a certain amount of money to be pledged by a certain time. If those goals are achieved, the pledges are delivered and the project gets the money. If they don’t get the pledges in the time allotted, no money is delivered. You can sign in with Facebook if you want to.
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Creative Review – New Stüssy book celebrates cover art of UK label Greensleeves
By Mark Zip | July 23, 2010
Creative Review has an interview with the artists behind the Stüssy Greensleeves covers book. Some great pics and some good stories.
Creative Review – New Stüssy book celebrates cover art of UK label Greensleeves.
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Note to ourselves: Keep an open mind
By Mark Zip | July 15, 2010
Over the years, I’ve had my issues with Beck (check that great tartan backgroud!) and quite a few more with NPR’s generally bourgeois coverage of music (unabashed Radiohead fanboi-ism), but now it’s time for a hat tip or two. Via the NPR All Songs Considered (sic) blog comes “Five Great Cover Songs From 2010 (So Far)”, of which at least two are well worth the time of day.
When I was doing my nightly radio show “Forward In All Directions” I would start every show with a cover. The one above would have been perfect. A completely new way to look at an over-familiar song and make it fresh. Kudos to Beck and his Record Club gang, and thanks to NPRs ASC for the heads up.
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Favela on Blast – Watch for free for a few days
By Mark Zip | July 13, 2010
Diplo coproduced a movie about Favela Funk / Funk Carioca
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The Music Industry’s Funny Money: Why Even Major Label Musicians Rarely Make Money From Album Sales
By Mark Zip | July 13, 2010
Still think a music career is an easy path to a blinged-out life? Don’t believe the hype. A whole lot of folks have to get paid before the musician does. The Root traces the money trail.
Lots more at the estimable Techdirt site: RIAA Accounting: Why Even Major Label Musicians Rarely Make Money From Album Sales
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Ninja Tune XX – What a beast! Now *that’s* the way to celebrate your 20th!
By Mark Zip | July 6, 2010
Ninja Tune, the label founded by Coldcut, is turning 20 years old. The Ninja Tune XX boxset is a beast. You’ve got wo days left to pre-order it at $130.00
Hit the link for the truly frightening details (6 CDs, 6 7″s, stickers, hardback, etc. etc.) and here’s the remarkable track lineup:
Tracklists: * = New + Exclusive
CD1
* Two Fingers ‘Fools’ *
* Roots Manuva ‘It’s On’ *
* Toddla T ‘Want U Now’ (feat. Ms Dynamite) *
* Dorian Concept ‘Her Tears Taste Like Pears’ *
* Zomby ‘The Forest’ *
* Offshore ‘Jen At The Station’ *
* Emika ‘Double Edge’
* DELS ‘Eating Clouds’ *
* Big Dada Sound ‘Signs’ *
* Eric B & Rakim ‘Paid In Full’ (Switch meets Coldcut Remix) *
* Andreya Triana ‘Lost Where I Belong’ (Flying Lotus Remix)
* The Bug ‘Catch A Fire’ *
* Eskmo ‘Cloudlight’ *
* Daedelus ‘LA Nocturn’
CD2
* Roots Manuva ‘Dub Styles’ (Micachu Remix) *
* Diplo ‘Summer’s Gonna Hurt You’ (Diplo 2010 Remix) *
* The Heavy ‘How You Like Me Now?’ (Joker Remix)
* Stateless ‘Ariel’ (Rustie Remix) *
* Diplo ‘Newsflash’ (Metronomy Remix) *
* PRDCTV ‘Metropolis’ (Dan Le Sac Remix) *
* Dark sky ‘Leave’ *
* The Long Lost ‘Woebegone’ (Flying Lotus’ Like Woe Remix)
* Spank Rock ‘Tell It What It Look Like’ (Todd Edwards Remix) *
* Shuttle ‘Lion’ *
* Poirier ‘Get Crazy’ (Mark Pritchard Remix) *
* Jammer ‘One Over Me’ *
* Fink ‘This Is The Thing’ (EL-B Remix) *
* Amon Tobin ‘Lost & Found’ *
CD3
* Lou Rhodes & The Cinematic Orchestra ‘One Good Thing’ (Version) *
* Bonobo & Speech Debelle ‘Sun Will Rise’ *
* Grasscut ‘Blink In The Night’ *
* Bonobo & Andreya Triana ‘Wonder When’
* Quincy & Xen Cuts Allstars ‘I Hear The Drummer’ (Tunng Edit) *
* Yppah ‘Never Mess With Sunday’ *
* DJ Food (Title TBC) *
* Jaga Jazzist ‘Endless Galaxy’ *
* Cougar ‘$64k Rainbow’ *
* Amon Tobin ‘Eight Sum’ *
* DJ Vadim ‘Terrorist’ (Gaslamp Computer Killer Remix) *
* Roots Manuva ‘Witness’ (Slugabed Remix) *
* Andreya Triana ‘A Town Called Obsolete’ (Mala Remix) *
* Coldcut ‘Man In A Garage’ (King Jammy Dub) *
* Jono McCleery ‘Tomorrow’ (Edit)
* Floating Points Ensemble ‘Post Suite’ *
CD4
* Eskamon ‘Fine Objects’
* The Bug ‘Skeng’ (Autechre Remix) *
* King Cannibal ‘The Grind & Crawl’ *
* Emika ‘Drop The Other’ (Daedelus Remix) *
* Amon Tobin ‘Foley Versions’ (Kronos Quartet Interpretation) *
* Antipop Consortium ‘Volcano’ (Four Tet Remix)
* Mr Scruff ‘Pickled Spider’
* Jaga Jazzist ‘Toccata’ (Grasscut Remix) *
* The Death Set ‘Impossible’ (Shuttle Remix)
* Daedelus ‘Trouble With A Capital D’ *
* Roots Manuva ‘Let The Spirit’ (Hot Chip Remix)
* Mr Scruff ‘Believe’ *
* Bonobo ‘Eyesdown’ feat. Andreya Triana (Floating Points Remix)
* Shuttle ‘Tunnel’
The following material will only be available (in any format) in the the box set, except where indicated:
CD5
* The Cinematic Orchestra (Title TBC) *
* Coldcut ‘Autumn Leaves’ (2010 Budapest Mix) *
* Floating Points Ensemble (No.2 title TBC) (to be released on 12″ single also) *
* Jaga Jazzist ‘Synchronise Your Watches’ *
* Coldcut ‘True Skool’ (Zomby Remix) *
* Bonobo ‘Eyesdown’ (feat. DELS) *
* Clifford Gilberto ‘Deliver The Weird’ (Dorian Concept Remix) *
* The Bug ‘Poison Dart’ (Prefuse 73 Broke Moog Version) *
* Fink ‘See It All’ (Scuba Remix) *
* Roots Manuva ‘Shake Your Money Maker’ *
* cLOUDEAD vs Fat Possum (Title TBC) *
* The Heavy (Title TBC) *
* Blockhead ‘Ugly Brown’ *
CD6
* Roots Manuva ‘Witness’ (Modeselektor Remix) *
* Toddla T ‘Sky Surfing’ (Benga Remix) (to be released on 12″ single also) *
* Roots Manuva ‘Join The Dots’ (Cut Chemist Remix) *
* Kid Koala ’3 Bit Blues’ *
* Pop Levi ‘Blue Honey’ (Amorphous Androgenous Remix Edit) *
* Blockhead ‘The Music Scene’ (EL-P Remix) *
* Coldcut & Hexstatic ‘Timber’ (The Orb Remix) *
* DJ Kentaro ‘Paid In Full’ *
* Coldcut ‘This Island Earth’ (Joe Goddard Remix) *
* Qemists ‘Don’t Lose It’ *
* DJ Food ‘African Rhythms’ (Tom Middleton Remix) *
* DJ Food ‘Dark Lady’ (808 State Remix) *
* Herbaliser ‘Something Wicked’ (Roots Manuva Dub) *
6 x 7″ single:
1. Bogus Order ‘Chillin With My Zen’
Bogus Order ‘Zen Bones’
2. Mr Scruff ‘Wriggle’ *
Coldcut ‘Boogieman’ (King Jammy Dub) *
3. King Geedorah ‘Snakecharmer’ (feat. Kurious as Biolante) *
Daedelus ‘Impending Doom’ (Rustie Remix) *
4. Two Fingers ‘Bad Girl’ (The Bug Dub) *
Spank Rock ‘Sweet Talk’ (Matthew Herbert Remix) *
5. DJ Vadim ‘Bang it Out’ *
Toddla T ‘Pum Pum’ *
6. Wagon Christ ‘Sloth Gets Paid’ *
Shuttle ‘Rotten Guts’ (Gold Panda Remix) *
OOOFF!
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Independence Day Vinyl Sale – Woodstock NY – This weekend
By Mark Zip | July 2, 2010
To celebrate our independence, Zip’s Ziggurat Vinyl Garage and Tent(s) will be open this weekend Saturday July 3 Sunday 4 and (maybe) July 5
I should be indoors watching the World Cup. Instead, I’m gonna be out in the yard working on the LPs, so come on by!
Just got a new collection with a lot of classic rock, also a fair number of sealed items.
Likely to be lots of other folks doing yard sales in the area.
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Boilerplate:
Many Thousands of LPs vinyl records, 12”s, 45s,
classic rock, pop, hip hop, country, dance, world, folk, reggae, soul, alt.rock, jazz, funk, punk, r+b, metal, classical, techno, new wave, house, old-timey, breaks, spoken, 80’s, electro, blues, promos, more
at insultingly low prices
as low as $0.50
(hey, some are even “cheaper than free”)
Listen before you buy
Saturday + Sunday + (Monday ?)
All covered, so it’s rain or shine
Osnas La. Near Rt 212 + Glasco Tpke
Woodstock / West Saugerties, NY
Thruway to Exit 20, Rt. 212 west towards Woodstock
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BBC coverage of Sonar 2010 – Includes DJ sets (Joy Orbison!), songs, interviews
By MarkZ | June 24, 2010
The Sonar festival in Barcelona has become a vital part of the European festival circuit. And by far the most important to the exposure of new electronic-based music. Billed as a festival of “Advanced Music and Multimedia Art”, the booking ranges far and wide (ie. it’s not just banging house and trance, or even just “dance” music) and the organizers ask various luminaries to curate various sections.
In keeping with the multimedia aspect of the festival, the BBC has put together a series of audio snapshots of the event. Each picture in the Flash window sits over a link to some form of audio. There are partial or full DJ sets from Joy Orbison, Mary Anne Hobbs, Pete Tong and others. There are also individual cuts and back stage interviews from many bands.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/sonar/2010/ (Warning: This is a Flash object. Make sure you have updated your Flash player. Sorry, if you are on an iPad Steve says you can’t see this.)
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MAH, FlyLo, Roska, Joy Orbison – Sonar 2010 – Video
By Mark Zip | June 23, 2010
The Beeb has just posted a quick 8 minute video with Mary Anne Hobbs talking to the cats she brought with her to the Sonar Festival in Barcelona – Joy Orbison, Roska and Flying Lotus. Includes footage from the stage also. Of note: Flying Lotus making a point of mentioning the importance, to him, of playing Weather Report in his set. Yes, Weather Report. I knew that I was right to be so confused by his Cosmogramma record.
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“Hold On” by Rusko w/ Amber Coffman gets official vid!
By MarkZ | June 23, 2010
Unlike the earlier vid for “Woo Boost”, this one pretty much straight ahead. Featuring our hero on the decks and standard pix of kids having a good time at a rave. Ho-hum, but still a reeeeaaallllyyyy good track from his new LP. Features Amber Coffman from Dirty Projectors. What really makes it for me is the drop at 0:29. The vid expresses that nicely, with Rusko arriving at the gig and hitting the crowd with the bass.
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Has the internet killed local music scenes?
By Mark Zip | June 11, 2010
Interesting think piece : Has the internet killed local music scenes?
Could this be said to explain the sameness of the Nike/Fader mixes we mentioned the other day?
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World Cup fever yields fun mixes from unlikely(?) source
By Mark Zip | June 9, 2010
Using the World Cup as a peg, The Fader magazine and Nike Sportswear (?) have teamed up to bring us a series of music mixes. The series is called Pitch Perfect and it includes six mixes of music from various continents sending teams to the World Cup. So far we’ve seen mixes from South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and North America. An African mix will be released at the start of the World Cup proper.
Each mix is put together by a different DJ and they are quite amusingly consistent in the dance vibe. Actually, it’s sometimes a little disturbing to me how consistent they are. Once you get past the stand-out (South American) mix by Maga Bo, the sound is mostly uptempo euro cut-up with small amounts of the current bass-y dubstep trend thrown in.
On the other hand, one could see it as an interesting experiment. I suppose one might read it as a journey to see how musicians from around the world can be shoehorned into a singular sound.
Could this be the sound of the world?
Each mix comes with a tracklist and individual artwork and they can all be found at http://www.thefader.com/tag/pitch-perfect/
Especially recommended if you think you only have a small amount of attention or a short time to devote to “dance” music.
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LP and CD Sale Memorial Day Weekend – Woodstock / West Saugerties
By Andrew | May 24, 2010
Zip’s Ziggurat presents another
Huge! Insane! Music Yard Sale
10,000s of LPs , CDs, 45s +12”s
rock, pop, hip hop, country, dance, world, folk, reggae, soul, alt.rock, jazz, funk, punk, r+b, metal, classical, techno, new wave, house, old-timey, breaks, spoken, 80’s, electro, blues, promos, DVDs (music + features), tons more
Insultingly low prices
As low as $0.50 (hey, some are even “cheaper than free”)
Listen before you buy
Free refreshments too!
Memorial Day Weekend
Saturday + Sunday + Monday 10am – 5pm
May 29 to 31
All covered, so it’s RAIN OR SHINE
Osnas Lane
Near Rt 212 + Glasco Turnpike junction (Next to Red Onion Restaurant)
Woodstock / West Saugerties NY
Follow the red and white signs
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Bassface @ Coachella – A heavy duty lineup indeed
By MarkZ | April 15, 2010
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Are The Dum Dum Girls The Shop Assistants?
By MarkZ | April 2, 2010
And would the Shop Assistants have gone further had they been produced by Richard Gottehrer?
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LCD Soundsystem “Drunk girls” (unofficial video) – Officially wonderfully bad taste
By MarkZ | April 2, 2010
Thanks to Will for the tip
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Steve McQueen: Vinyl Abuser
By Mark Zip | March 26, 2010
Recently published photos of Steve McQueen reveal the “King of Cool” to be a vicious vinyl-abusing fan of shag carpeting.
Leaving aside the issue of the carpeting, for which he perhaps cannot be blamed, let us dive headlong into the horror.
In one particularly gruesome shot (above) McQueen straddles a graveyard of records strewn on the carpet while he looms over his next victim. The experienced music fan will recognize this as a virulent strain of the vinyl-abuser’s sickness; the massacre of innocent vinyl in search of the perfect song (or “side”) to match the mood. Is it so hard to imagine that there is other substance abuse concurrent with this madness and vinyl lust?
Observant readers will also note one more especially insidious detail; the record player is placed in the disused fireplace. This is obviously McQueen’s sly commentary on the tendency of the vinyl fetishist to make the phonograph the hearth and center of the home. Surely the sign of a man deep in the throes of vinyl’s malignant charm.
Who could have known that the star of such touchstone films as “The Great Escape”, “Bullit”, “Le Mans”and, errrrm, “The Towering Inferno” harbored such dangerous and perverse depths? We can only hope that more images of this insanity do not surface. There are too few heroes these days….
Thanks to Jason for the tip
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Must read – Charlie Gillett
By MarkZ | March 17, 2010
The Sound Of The City: The Rise Of Rock And Roll
Charlie Gillett’s master work. As this post goes to press you could get it used from $4.76
Highly recommended.
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Alex Chilton didn’t *always* sound the same.
By Andrew | March 17, 2010
We don’t post too many RIPs here, but on trawling the net the other day we came across this oddity from 1996. Alex Chilton, Ben Vaughan and Alan Vega get together for some true spookiness. Hadn’t really occurred to us to post it, but the news of Alex Chilton’s death prompted me to go back to it, It’s a very different sound for him, far removed from the sweet harmonies and jangle we usually associate with him.
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Official vid for Rusko “Woo Boost” – @MadDecent blows it again?
By MarkZ | March 17, 2010
Mad Decent just posted this, the official vid for one of our favourite choons from the last 14 months, “Woo Boost” by Rusko:
They are readying release of his first full length “O.M.G.” for May 2010 and this will be the first single. As is the norm these days (and especially at Mad Decent), there will be a ton of collaborators on the project. The hope, obviously, is that his over the top, almost frat-boy, version of the noisy and wobbly end of dubstep will make it through to the US dancefloor and pop massive. Hey, if anyone can do it, he can.
But what about this vid? Directors Pomp&Clout have apparently found the video processing button labeled “Make-It-Look-Like-A-Tenth-Generation-Bootleg-Of-A-Video-Recorded-Off-Night-Flight-from-USA’s-Up-All-Night-in-1984″. then they threw in a couple of seizure inducing backgrounds from The Shamen or possibly Sunscreem in 1992
One thing is for sure, nothing else will look like this for several years. Which will make this stand out like nothing else. I dunno if that is enough to put it over the top tho…
The dedicated Pooplist reader(s) will know that we hyped the Major Lazer record to death and also mentioned many of the ML videos. We’ve been commensurately disappointed by the lack of uptake on those, can this version of Rusko do any better? We fear not.
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NSFW – New Massive Attack vid
By MarkZ | February 27, 2010
Massive Attack (feat. Hope Sandoval) “Paradise Circus”. The video is directed by Toby Dye and features Georgina Spelvin discussing her part in the notorious “Devil in Miss Jones”. Her remembrances and insights are intercut with scenes from the original film and the soundtrack is the MA song. The overall effect is fascinating, alternately haunting and disturbing, and never less than thought provoking. NSFW. Sandoval plays the role of Massive-Attack-languorous-female-singer. Shara Nelson, Tracey Thorn and Sinead O’Connor have previously filled this spot in the MA soundscape.
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Internet Killer is Still Alive – Won’t you please help?
By Mark Zip | February 22, 2010
A while back there was a leak of an EU memo referring to a particular chapter of the proposed ACTA treaty. Now the actual chapter in question has leaked. The reliable Michael Geist has a reasoned analysis:
Michael Geist – ACTA Internet Chapter Leaks: Renegotiates WIPO, Sets 3 Strikes as Model.
Yes, his analysis is more reasoned than my headline.
It still appears that this treaty seeks re-shape American law and also the laws of all other signatory nations. Noticeable NON-signatories include Russia and China, where a huge percentage of the world’s piracy happens.
If you are a US citizen, please have a look at the EFF Alert for ACTA and see if you can help.
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This is what extreme record digging looks like…
By Mark Zip | February 11, 2010
From WFMU DJ Frank O’s recent trip to Ghana
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What if you like a tune but it might be bad for the world (#389 in a series)
By MarkZ | February 10, 2010
Uffie feat. Mr Oizo – MCs Can Kiss
Annie Mac played it the other day and the context made it sound good enough to listen to again. On my fifth listen I am still conflicted. Her attitude is great, but the beat isn’t. Her lyrics are stupid/fun but the flow ain’t fine. The hook is sharp but …. Oh I give up. Perhaps this is the natural end product of the “poptimist” critical approach.
BTW: Starkey did a remix – and for once it is not too good.