Ten for Today

thanx to Ronan who in his irritation with my myopia in re: dance music pointed me toward that wonderful Omni Trio track

RONAN!?!?! HAH!

which is my way of saying "renegade snares" isn't STADIUM HOUSE, therefore ronan doesn't like it.

I made a mix as well... info here. Pretty different from Darn1elle's.

1 The Undisputed Truth: Smiling Faces Sometimes
2 Madeline Bell: That's What Friends Are For
3 Dennis Brown: Lips of Wine
4 Elizabeth Cotten: Going Down the Road Feeling Bad
5 Bob Dylan: Pressing On
6 Marvelettes: The Hunter Gets Captured By the Game
7 Pine Valley Cosmonauts (feat. Jenny Toomey): Miss Otis Regrets
8 Harry Nilsson: Love Story
9 Robyn Hitchcock: It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry (live)
10 Little Milton: Lookin' for My Baby
11 Odetta: John Henry
12 Byrds: Pretty Polly
13 Pete Seeger: East Virginia Blues
14 Redd Volkaert: Luther Played the Boogie Woogie
15 Malcolm Yelvington and the Star Rhythm Boys: Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee
16 Louis Jordan: What's the Use of Getting Sober
17 Clara Rockmore: Tchaikovsky - Valse Sentimentale
18 Poulenc (performer unknown): Salve Regina
19 Free Design: You Could Be Born Again
20 Robert Wyatt: Shipbuilding
21 Beach Boys: Tears in the Morning

Is the Clara Rockmore treatment of Tchaikovsky a standard one? I'm always trying & failing to incorporate classical stuff into mixes without seeming gimmicky. Anyway nice one Jody esp. the Hitchcock=>Little Milton move there.

if i had to guess, i'd say the rockmore is the one played on theremin, yes?

It's played on theremin, but it's it's a pretty standard arrangement.

Ahem... Assuming this is the post-your-latest-mix thread:
For a lady-friend, who went away and made me sad. Pretty cliche in places.

1. Scritti Politti – The Sweetest Girl

2. The Mgababa Queens – Soweto Never Sleeps

3. David Byrne – Loco de Amor

4. The Pet Shop Boys – Always on My Mind

5. Violent Femmes – I Held Her in My Arms

6. Tim Deluxe – It Just Won’t Do

7. Talking Heads – The Great Curve

8. The Wildbunch – Danger (High Voltage)

9. The Velvet Underground – The Gift

10. Bill Withers – Ain’t No Sunshine

11. The Rolling Stones – Miss You (Dr. Dre remix)

12. Safety Scissors – Your Beautiful Feet

13. They Might Be Giants – She’s an Angel

14. Sarah Vaughan – They Can’t Take That Away from Me

15. Capitol K – Pillow

16. Neutral Milk Hotel – Engine

17. Mysteries of Life – Naïve Melody

18. Grandaddy – AM 180

19. Jackson Five – I Want You Back

Wow, someone else who recognizes the beauty of MoL's cover of "Naive Melody!" That's a pretty standard inclusion on any tape I make.

Thumbs up for John for recognizing Biosphere's brilliance.

biosphere, brilliant? i bet biosphere is laughing his ass off right now. i can't understand the hype that this is getting.

to me, biosphere is to music as kraft cheese slices are to cheese. in both cases the former approximates the latter, except they are made through a sterile laboratory procedure that fully negates any possible aesthetic value, and hence any comparison to the latter.

To each his own and all but isn't the general rule that if somebody says "that's not music" then the artist in question is almost assuredly doing something right?

I definitely need to buy that damned Ludus sometime... Telescopes, too... Charles Dodge's vocal cut-ups are really cool to put on mixes, short too...

Lawrence from Felt/Denim Lawrence? I haven't heard from him since Denim on Ice. What kind of music is he making nowadays?

Lawrence Denim can currently be found making (admittedly decidely Denimish) music under the delicious name Go-Kart Mozart...go here http://www.cherryred.co.uk/other/gokartmozart.htm for details, freakin' loverly as per!

hey thanks! good old L.

no worries! album came out a couple of years ago now, but it's worth a listen in any case - bit more "novelty" than he's been in the past - if that's even possible! - but fun anyway. still, ain't nothing gonna beat Jane Suck Died In 77 and We're Looking For A Job, I reckon...

Another second recomendation for the Go Kart Mozart album. Like Johnathan Richman (whos being discussed on another thread) I think he can achieve very effective communication of feeling and idea through music that seems very shallow and silly.

The Lawrence on my mix is something else - southern German techno guy being distributed stateside by Forced Exposure - pretty cinematic stuff that sounds to me like the imaginary soundtrack to a dance club located in a small regional airport.

I gotta check out Go-Kart Mozart.

a sterile laboratory procedure
Odd, I don't hear this at all in Biosphere - Compared to Global Communication, Autechre or even the God Eno, Biosphere is very 'organic', using sounds of melting ice, etc. I would rather say that Biosphere is more 'natural' ambience than studio wizardry...

Thanks John but surely I've been miscredited here!

Jess you should come over to my stadium some time, we play some great house.

...Ronan wasn't it you who gave me a list of jungle/d-n-b choons to check out before I spouted off any further about whether the stuff was any good? When we were having the music-and-drugs/music-in-clubs argt./discussion on Olde ILM? It pointed me off on a lot of interesting tangents. At any rate your abiding passion for the music you like inspires me to check out stuff I'd usually dismiss so here's to you :)

{My own style of stadium house, by the way, which lacks rhythm instruments and sounds rather more like a guy with an acoustic guitar accompanied by a guy on bass, comes to Dublin for a show on October 9th: aren't you out that way? If so do stop by: ilm meetups roXor}

Yeah actually, where are you playing? Sounds good.

I didn't give jungle and d n b no, I'm more of a house man, however if you want a list I can all too gladly provide one, haha.

John, just get the Omni Trio Music for the Next Millennium album (ignore the title). Renegade Snares isn't even the best track on it. (But don't buy any other Omni Trio albums--they are very jazztastic).

These aren't actually on a mix tape but they're in my mind at the moment.

Loverboy - D. O. A.
Sonic Youth - Rain On Tin
Oren Ambarchi - Track 5 on Suspension
Van Halen - I'm On Fire
The Beatles - Blue Jay Way
Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven
Boston - There Was Something About You
J. S. Bach - Clavierubung Pt 3
Aerosmith - Toys In the Attic
New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle

(We listened to a lot of classic rock radio while moving.)

Ronan I'm not sure of the venue name - I've got an email in to the promoter, will post here when I got it

also playing Sligo earlier that week if you're up for a lo-o-ng drive

Any dates in the south of England? Please please please etc. Although the way things are right now I probably can't go unless they're on my front drive or in the kitchen at work. Sigh. (And the tape sounds good. Enon and Omni Trio on the same tape, mmm.)

"...Ronan wasn't it you who gave me a list of jungle/d-n-b choons to check out before I spouted off any further about whether the stuff was any good?"

That was me and some other people (Gareth? Omar?).

Well - thanks to you then Tim!

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