11/29/12

Tribute To Farid El Atrache



As I lagged last week (visitors, thanksgiving, work, Vinjak, beer, chaos) here's a good one to make it all up for you, one of two excellent under $5 Omar Khorshid scores. He is, to my mind, as good a guitarist as you'll find. Effect drenched Egyptian surf guitar? One side Mr. Clapton, this is the business, and Omar's a suave devil in his Adidas trackie top too. Farid is a star as well, that's him in the header (for the next week or so anyway). Music is here. You absolutely should buy the fantastic Sublime Frequencies compilation which has been reissued on CD with bonus tracks.

11/24/12

Meanwhile, in Slovenia



Yeah, I'm lagging but after turkey washed down with Vinjak it's a miracle I can even type. Music in the next day or so. Opa!

11/16/12

Put The Blame On The Master


A very nice vinyl only compilation of Jamaican gospel sounds. Limited to 250 copies and essentially a bootleg (certainly has the pressing quality of one) with next to no track information, 'Put The Blame On The Master' is not your standard Jamaican fare. It's largely American style gospel from the islands, my guess is ranging from 1950's to the 70's. There's some tracks carried by enthusiasm more than talent, and others that are well slick, but they're all great. Tracks are here.

11/13/12

video fun






Via Aruna Irani, some fantastic Bollywood hotness.



Via Dapper Ben P, some fantastic Serbian biker disco.

11/9/12

Bhangra Fever






Bhangra Fever! All produced by Mr. Deepak Khazanchi and it's crazy t UK disco-bhangra all the way. Mad cheap synth sounds and storming beats are here.

11/1/12

#1






OK, here we go again with an attempt at a private music blog. Simply going to provide access for the interested few to some of the weirder bits and bobs of the record collection, mostly obscure and out of print (excuse any copyright violations) and mostly digitized vinyl (excuse any sound quality issues) I'll try to keep it along the Discostan vibe but will foray into the New World when it damn well suits me. As a test run, here's the first suitable thing I came to in the computer archive. Truly odd and definitely patchy collection of Russian artists covering 'Revolver'. Personally I think the Liverpool Lads are better with more accordions. The files are here, download at will.