Mo Kolours

Free tune from a new EP from Mo Kolours. Tasty, bleepy stuff.

"EP1: Drum Talking will be out in May featuring five tracks of Mo's unique combination of Mauritian sega music, dub, soul, jazz and various electronic styles, plus a heavyweight edit. Biddies is a bumping house-not-house gem propelled by Mo's handclaps, vocal manipulations and chants that draws an invisible line between the work of Theo Parrish and Gonjasufi while staying firmly in its own lane..."

Riki Gooch on a roll

Last month Riki Gooch dropped a brand new EP, via Bandcamp, called Cave Circles, and this week he's released Cave Circles 2. Dude is a machine! Go grab it.

Scratch 22

Local producer and DJ Scratch 22 has his debut album Distance From View coming out in a few weeks. Here's a way cool preview mix of the album. First single out April 11.

Steel up!

A few weeks back, I did a series of posts of some cool steel drum tunes, like the Nite Blues Steel Band, John Gibbs and Steel funk, and Steel an Skin. Most of these are off obscure albums that are pretty damn hard to find.

So I am delighted to point you in the direction of a brand new compilation that has just come out, on CD and vinyl and is readily accessible to one and all. It's called West Indies Funk, and is the follow up to an earlier compilation called Disc-o-lypso.

West Indies Funk has a great track listing, including one of my fave steel drum covers of all time, I want you Back (original by Jackson 5) done by the Esso Trinidad Steel Band (listen above). Plus steel drum covers of Hot Pants Road, Funky Stuff (original by Kool and the gang) and Syd Jones and the Troubadours doing Cardova by The Meters.

Available at all good records stores, like Conch Records in Ponsonby. Listen to audio samples off the album here at Light in the Attic.

TRACK LIST
1. Syd Jones and The Troubadours - Cardova
2. The Troubadours - No Names Bar
3. Dutch Rhythm, Steel and Showband - Funky Stuff
4. St. Vincent's Supersound Latinaires Orchestra - Hot Pants I'm Comin
5. The East Side Symphony - Hot Pants Road
6. The Esso Trinidad Steel Band - I Want You Back
7. Willie Dickson and The Playboys - Licking Stick
8. Wendell Stuart and the Downbeaters - My World Is Empty
9. St. Vincent's Supersound Latinaires Orchestra - Roasted Or Frie
10. Dutch Rhythm, Steel and Showband - Down By The River
11. The Guinness Cassanovas - Stormy

I also just discovered that Hugh Borde, the leader of the Esso Trinidad Steel Band (also known as Trinidad Tripoli Steel Band) moved to the US in 1976 and settled in Ypsilanti, Michigan. According to the Recordo Obscura blog, "He still carries on doing shows with the band. Apparently they will be playing The Great Lakes Folk Festival this year (2009) and surely other shows as well."

LCD last show - go watch!

LCD Sound System played their last ever show last night, at Madison Square Gardens, to 20,000 fans. Pitchfork streamed the video of it live, and I'm surprised the NZ internets didnt come crashing down, cos everyone I knew was watching it.

Pitchfork have posted the ENTIRE video on Youtube, with handy time listings for each song. Bless em! Check the rousing version of North American Scum, followed by a hilarious intro to the next song from James Murphy, their splendid cover of Alan Vega's Bye Bye Bayou, which he says is the first and last time they will ever play that song live. "Welcome to our rehearsal".

Here's a great review of the show, hat tip to Owen H for the link

ADDED Troubled Souls Unite has posted all the audio as downloads.

Set 1:
2:10 Dance Yrself Clean (with "I'm Not In Love" by 10cc intro)
12:40 Drunk Girls
17:09 I Can Change
23:45 Time To Get Away
28:16 Get Innocuous!
35:18 Daft Punk Is Playing At My House
41:45 Too Much Love
46:53 All My Friends
55:30 Tired (with "Heart of the Sunrise" by Yes snippet)

Set 2:
45:33 Part One
45:33 Part Two (w/ Reggie Watts)
Sound of Silver
45:33 Part Four
45:33 Part Five (w/ Shit Robot)
45:33 Part Six
Freak Out/Starry Eyes

Set 3:
1:54:39 Us v Them
2:04:00 North American Scum (with Arcade Fire)
2:11:45 Bye Bye Bayou (Alan Vega cover)
2:16:30 You Wanted A Hit
2:24:07 Tribulations
2:29:15 Movement
2:33:48 Yeah (Crass Version)

Set 4:
2:45:30 Someone Great
2:53:06 Losing My Edge (With "Da Funk" by Daft Punk snippet)
3:03:36 Home

Set 5:
3:15:53 All I Want
3:22:18 Jump Into the Fire (Harry Nilsson Cover)
3:30:30 New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down (with "Twin Peaks Theme" by Angelo Badalamenti intro)

beatz n peaces

Found these local beat makers after checking this compilation... from Finest Ego Beatmaker Platform. Check em out.

Ben Jamin''(Soundlcoud)

Ben Jamin" x Y∆HN LøÔK∑ PIc∆RD - Seoul 85 by Ben Jamin''

LA Riot ►♫◄‼▲▼ by Ben Jamin''



Matt Miller (Soundcloud) - check his Rose Royce rework....

The Calm by mattmiller.

Love Dont Live Here by mattmiller.

One of the beatmakers listed on that site up top is local lad and BaseFM DJ Christoph El Turento. Check his new EP out, then give him some money.

Riki Gooch and The Grand Szechuan

Found this on Bandcamp, Riki Gooch (Eru Dangerspiel/Trinity Roots) playing an Eru Dangerspeil tune, Backfoot.

Info on the tune from Bandcamp.... "performed at The Toff in Town, Melbourne. 29th September 2010. Engineered and recorded by Brett Doig (Stereo mix from the desk.... what a legend!!) Playas.... Riki Gooch - Drums /  Adam Page - Tenor Sax / Jon Hunt - Alto Sax / James Brown - Guitar / CJ Rhodes - Bass frequencies." More live goodness from the same sessions over here.

High Noon Tea playlist, KiwiFM

Broadcast Sunday 3-5pm, and replays Friday 2-4pm, on KiwiFM

Salmonella Dub - Problems - Sonsine remix
Jefferson Belt - Skylurking
Ota - Nuinui
Scratch 22 - For walking faces
Riki Gooch - Bakade varor
Benny tones - Odyssey
Dub terminator - Man like me
Fat Freddys Drop - The raft - Steppers dub
Hikoikoi - Vibraphone
Pitch black - Dub obscura - International observer remix
Zuvuya - Bamboo five
Tubbs - T's groove
Lewis McCallum - Take a step back
Audiosauce - Bee bo
OG - Moving on
Isaac Aesili - Use your mind
Lord echo (aka Mike Fabulous) - Thats right
Felix deluxe - Minstrel river
Shogun orchestra - Jacmel -
Video kid (aka Brett McKenzie) - DJz girlfriend
Lord jackson - Chillem inst
Recloose - Absence of one
Clanky B Tuffins - Visual pollution
Kevvy Kev - Midnight dub

Mayer vs Dennis

Motown guitar legend Dennis Coffey has a new album out April 26, one of the guests on it is Mayer Hawthorne, on the tune All your goodies are gone. Here's Mayer Hawthorne and his band The County (who visited NZ back in Feb and played a killer show at the Splore City festival) playing in Detroit, with Dennis joining them onstage for that song. Shredding.

"The two will unite in Detroit once again on April 16th, which Coffey will be honored with a Distinguished Achievement Award at the Detroit Music Awards."

Coffey also has a seven inch single dropping for Record Store Day, April 16, with a Steinski remix on the flip. More info here.

New Lee Scratch Perry tunes

Pitchfork reports that Lee Scratch Perry has a new album out May 10, produced by Bill Laswell. Sounds interesting. Pitchfork have an mp3 of it here, features TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe...

"On May 10, zonked-out dub eccentric Lee "Scratch" Perry will release his latest album, Rise Again, via legendary NYC-based producer Bill Laswell's (Motörhead, Herbie Hancock) MOD Technologies label. Scratch worked with Laswell on the LP; other contributors on the record include P-Funk's Bernie Worrell, Sly and Robbie's Sly Dunbar, Jahdan Blakkamoore, and TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe, who pitches in on "Higher Level".

Ring The Alarm playlist, BaseFM, April 2

Stevie Wonder - Masterblaster/Jammin - Radikal roots edit
Sound dimension - Drum song
Big Youth - Jim Screechy - Smith and Mighty remix
Scientist vs King Midas Sound - U dub pt 2
Invisible Spike - Spike's groove
Pepperpots - Real tru love
Charles Bradley - Golden rule
Wabine - Sail on
Atlantic Starr - Freak-a-ristic
Super cat - Dolly my baby - Bad Boy extended mix
The Meters - Look-a-py-py
Patti LaBelle - Most likely you go your way...
Sulata - Never
Mr Scruff - Get a move on
Lefties soul connection - Chop it
Fred Wesley and the JBs - You can Watergate but gimme some bucks and I'll be straight
Mr Chop - Shut em down
Souleance - La romance
Ohio players - Walt's first trip
Aloe Blacc - You make me smile
Sun Ra - Where pathways meet
Born Jamericans - Boom shak atak
Sizzla - Police oppression
Chalice riddim - version
Nando Fresh - High grade (Chalice riddim)
Joint force - AK2000

Real Groovy Welli closing

Following news that Real Groovy Christchurch wouldn't be reopening after the latest earthquake come the sad news that Real Groovy Wellington will be closing down May 31 (see stuff.co.nz).

Owner Mark Thomas says its due to a decline in business caused by the economic recession, rising fuel prices, big chain retailers able to sell at cut prices, file sharing, and competition from online retailers and auctions sites.

"This has been an incredibly stressful and sad time for my family and myself, but it needs to be done," he said. 12 Staff will lose their jobs. although he hopes to open a smaller store and employ some of them there.

The Real Groovy stores in Christchurch and Welllingon were independently owned, following the collapse of the Real Groovy chain in 2008 when the stores were placed in recievership.

I am the operator

Kraftwerk live. From 1997. Via Dangerous Minds....

Tracklist:
1. [00:00 05:56] “Numbers”
2. [05:56 03:39] “Computer World”
3. [09:35 07:53] “Radio Activity”
4. [17:28 09:41] “Trans-Europe Express”
5. [27:09 11:21] “Pocket Calculator”
6. [38:30 05:30] “The Robots”
7. [43:00 04:32] “The Robots II”


Kraftwerk - Live PA, Tribal Gathering, Luton, UK: Essential Mix - BBC Radio 1 1997-05-24 by +dB

No time for dreaming

Single off the brand new album No Time For Dreaming from Charles Bradley and the Menahan St Band, out now on Dunham/Daptone.

The whole album is searingly good soul. Go hunt it out.

Dunham Records was started by in 2005 by Thomas Brenneck, who plays in The Dapkings, behind Ms Sharon Jones. He also plays in the Menahan St Band, who put out the first single on Dunham, a tune called Make the road by walking.

It was sampled by Jay -Z ("Roc Boys") which enabled Brenneck to set up his own recording studio.

Herbs w Freddys

Heard a rumour this morning via Facebook, Fat Freddys Drop to collaborate with Herbs on some new recordings? Could be kinda cool. Anyone know any more about this?