This is the only way I know how to honor one of my heroes…A mix with some of my favorite songs and collaborations with Mr. Gil. He was a true artist and revolutionary. Enjoy!
Since K has been so diligently reviewing tunes for http://corrosivematerial.com/
I figured I would start occasionally contributing a mix. This is my first one and it is Hip Hop. It is a mix of some of my favorite collab joints. It could be an odd collabs that came out great or just a beastly mic session. Its and an hour and thirty minutes of pure Hip Hop at its finest…Enjoy!
A couple days ago, the 10 year anniversary of this album was (sorta) celebrated – as most people that know me understand, I’m one of the biggest fans of the band. PopMatters has a nice little retrospective, that I will not attempt to top here – but I think it’s worth posting (as are all Radiohead releases). Definitely one of the great albums of all-time, from one of the great bands of all time. Weird and obtuse, and at times sane and closed off. I don’t think there has been a great album with so much emotion tied to it, varying from complete hate to undying love to absolute confusion….all of which give, and continually add onto, the legacy of the album. Highly recommended – probably something you should have in the collection. If you can, cop the latest edition with the millions of B-sides and live versions. Completely worth every dime paid.
Everything In Its Right Place (live in Saitama):
Below: I love to post this from time to time: the complete Saitama performance. If you have the time, it’s more than worth a watch. Dope.
Shamoto runs a small tropical fish shop. His second wife, Taeko, does not get along with his daughter, Mitsuko, and this worries him. He also feels somehow unfulfilled and dissatisfied with what his life has become.
One day Mitsuko is caught shoplifting at a grocery store. There they meet a friendly man named Murata, who helps to settle things between Mitsuko and the store manager. Since Murata also runs a tropical fish shop, Shamoto establishes a bond with him and they become friends; Mitsuko even begins working for Murata and living at his house, to avoid conflicts with her stepmother.
What Shamoto doesn’t know, however, is that Murata hides many dark secrets behind his friendly face. He sells cheap fish to his customers for high prices with his artful lies. If anyone detects his fraud or refuses to go along with his money-making schemes, they’re murdered and their bodies disposed of by Murata and his wife in grisly ways. Shamoto is suddenly taken in by Murata’s tactics, and by the time he realizes that Murata is insane, and a serial killer who has made over fifty people disappear, he is powerless to do anything about it. But now Mitsuko is a hostage at Murata’s home, and Shamoto himself has become the killer’s unwilling accomplice.
Meanwhile, the murders, without any trace of the bodies, continue unabated. The police have long suspected Murata and try to get information about him from Shamoto; Murata quickly senses the danger and threatens Shamoto not to report anything to the police. Shamoto has no choice but to obey Murata’s order. Cruel murders gradually cripple his mind and finally the ordinary man being driven to the edge of the abyss.
notre jour viendra (Our Day Will Come): A Film by Romain Garvas
Gavras threw down the cinematic gauntlet recently with his stunning video for MIA’s Born Free and is following hard behind that with a feature debut that features Vincent Cassel as both producer and star.
via Twitchfilm.net : What do you do when you’re a red-haired teenage loser with no friends except for an older guy, your shrink? When everyone hates you, especially your family? When all your peers make fun of you and kick you around? The answer: you and your loser buddy blow all the cash you can get your hands on to buy a sportscar, you dress smart and you head for the land of redheads, Ireland. But what starts off as a search for an ideal, gradually escalates into a rampage of hate, violence and self-destructi
We Are What We Are by Jorge Michel Grau:
via Twitchfilm.net: A middle-aged man dies in the street, leaving his widow and three children destitute. The devastated family is confronted not only with his loss but with a terrible challenge – how to survive. For they are cannibals. They have always existed on a diet of human flesh consumed in bloody ritual ceremonies… and the victims have always been provided by the father. Now that he is gone, who will hunt? Who will lead them? How will they slake their horrific hunger? The task falls to the eldest son, Alfredo, a teenage misfit who seems far from ready to accept the challenge… But without human meat the family will die. Shocking, bloody and deeply moving, WE ARE WHAT WE ARE is a remarkable reinvention of the horror genre – a visceral and powerfully emotional portrait of a family bound by a terrible secret hunger and driven by monstrous appetites.
Confessions by Tetsuya Nakashima:
Coming soon from Third Window Films, ‘Confessions’(Kokuhaku) tells the terrifying tale of revenge taken by a substitute teacher (played by Takako Matsu) upon the students she feels are responsible for the death of her daughter. Out in February 2011 in cinemas throughout the UK.
Something old today – listening to this hard today. It’s really had to know exactly how many bands owe (at least some of) their sound to this band, and specifically this album. I only recently found this album myself, maybe a year ago….but I find it unusually current in a lot of ways. I go back to it when I listen to bands like Nirvana…and then bands I like now, i.e. Queens of the Stone Age, who probably listened to The Joke’s music and found some inspiration in the funk rock sound. I do wish the vocals were recorded better, but shit that was like 30 years ago. Recommended for metal heads, and people interested in the predecessors to bands like Metallica, Foo Fighters, Tool, and many others. Still pretty dope.
Basically a complete anthology of Dr. Miller, a respected jazz musician/ethnomusicologist to the highest degree, during the 60s and 70s. A lot of this centers around sounds you find in music of the East, specifically India and the Middle East, mixed with Western sensibilities. It can be confusing at times, so one has to how a bit of patience in listening to this album (or anything he’s done), but it’s more than worth the time and effort. He puts in good work on the santur, as can be seen in the video below. For lovers of Alice Coltrane, and the like, either you’ve already been up on Miller – or you should be. Recommended.
A very complex post-dub album, a sort of fusion of sounds with booming bass in the background. I’ve heard a lot of singles and EPs they’ve done, but it seemed like it would’ve been better if they just kind of put some of them together as an album, since the singles/EPs weren’t bangers in a traditional sense. You could easily take the tracks way out of context. In fact, I didn’t understand what to make of some of the earlier stuff. But here, as an album of focused material, it makes a lot more sense. The mixture of sonic sprawl seem now like common sense…like “oh…I get it”.
Recommended, but mainly for those who are want to be challenged musically, in the way a lower-key Flying Lotus might. Open the mind up, folks.
Check them out here – they are currently on a massive tour of Europe and the US.
Dope, soulful, introspective mood music, brought to you in part by a cat, from Copenhagen. I thoroughly enjoyed the “extended connection” feel with this album. I suppose what I mean is that feeling you get where you’re far away, maybe from someone you care about or a place you loved, but it jogs a certain emotion you enjoyed about this person or place. Maybe whatever it is isn’t at your fingertips, but those memories get you over. Nice appearances by Dudley Perkins, Georgia Anne Muldrow….plus some unfamiliar people like Ida Kudo, Thomas Price, and Johnny Prince
It’s also perfect chillout music, something for adults to sort of vibe to. Excellent pick up. You can check Forest Won out here and here. Definitely worth your time and money – support good music. One of the best releases in its genre in 2010. (I copped it on iTunes)
