Keep cool...

Source: She Got Game

For the next while, I am going to be blogging a lot less, as I have some other major projects on the go. In the meantime, keep cool. Just like Walt 'Clyde'  Frazier.

Pixie Williams

For The Record (The Pixie Williams Collection 1949-1951), out July 11.

Info from Amplifer.co.nz: "The stunning new digitally remastered collection of Pixie Williams' songs. Featuring 13 songs in total, including Williams much loved, and best known recording of Blue Smoke.

The sound quality of these recordings is outstanding! Pixie Williams' incredible voice can now be clearly heard, as can each instrument, brought together again in perfect harmony as if the band were performing, and being recorded today. Recorded 60-plus years ago, these songs have never sounded so good."

Read more about Pixie WIlliams here. Excerpt: "... Pixie Williams couldn’t read music but taught herself to play guitar, ukulele, the banjo and piano accordion. At age 73 she decided to teach herself the organ - for something to do. After the death of her husband in 2006, Pixie left Dunedin 57 years after stopping in on her holiday for a week or two.

Today, at the age of 82 , she lives in Wellington and still loves to sing, whistle and hum her way through each day.

“Music – it’s what keeps you going through good times and bad. It kept me sane in the hard times. Forget the pills. When you’ve got music in your life – you’ll be ok.” Pixie Williams

Random video pics, read the blurb on Youtube in the comments for explanation...

Who is the music industry?

This is one for those musicians who think they are not part of the music industry. I hear this one a lot.

"One might presume that the producers of a given commodity might be considered a fairly central part of a given industry. Few people would deny that chemists have a role to play in the chemicals industry, milliners in the hat industry. Musicians, then. And yet, just like Mr Jobs, musicians everywhere seem to be complaining about the music industry, railing against its follies and excesses, pointing the finger somewhere else. Nowhere in particular - just so long as it's somewhere else. It wasn't me!"


Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Music Industry? In Search Of The Beast

Ghetto disco

Ted Taylor- Ghetto Disco (mediafire download)
From: Norman Jay MBE presents: Good Times 30th Anniversary Edition 7/19 CD, 8/02 Physical
http://www.strut-records.com/normanjay

Ted Taylor- Ghetto Disco (Edit) by Strut

"Celebrating 30 years of his influential Good Times sound system, master selector Norman Jay MBE has assembled a mix of soul, hip-hop, reggae, funk and more that will be sure to soundtrack many a summer dance floor. Check out Ted Taylor's 1977 TK burner "Ghetto Disco" for a taste of the flavour."

Beyond Cairo

Ye Mighty release their album Beyond Cairo on July 11 thru First Word Records. Free DL below as a taster. Fat City says "The debut release from Brighton duo Ye Mighty - Richard 'Dutch' Halligan and Max Wheeler (formerly of Dirty Diggers) - fusing ethio-jazz with hip hop breaks. For fans of Mulatu, The Heliocentrics, The Lions and more."

Ring The Alarm playlist, BaseFM

Martin Brew - Sand steppin
Dennis Coffey - Ubiquitous - Steinski remix
Woima collective - Marz
Johnny Hammond Smith - Shifting gears
Manzel - Midnight theme - Dopebrother remix
Hackney coliery band - No diggity
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Jordan - Stone cold dead in the market - Ticklah remix
Jackie Mittoo - Totally together
Junior Reid - Boom-shack-a-lack 12" mix
Resonators - Gold getter
Konshens - She love money (Billie Jean riddim)
Sizzla - Police oppression (Billie Jean riddim)
Damian Marley - Move
Bad brains - Return to heaven
Konk - Soka loka moki
Mr Chop - T.R.O.Y.
Quantic - Mas pan - DJ Day remix
The Echocentrics - Dudar
Isaac Hayes - Zeke the freak - Todd Terje rekut
Chico Mann - Anima
Midnight movers unltd - Follow the wind - Mr K edit
Hawk - Don't judge a book by its cover
West coast revival - My mind is at ease
Jean Knight - Do me
Aural exciters - Spooks in space
Ras Stone meets the Dub Terminator - Love you so much
Tenor Saw and Buju Banton - Ring the alarm quick
Ragga Twins - Shine eye

New Ermehn

I'm working on some more posts on the Deepgrooves label, following up the series I did at the start of the year. In the mean time, check this preview of the new album on the way from Ermehn, spotted over at Move The Crowd.


ERMEHN - "Trained To Kill" from KirkMTC on Vimeo.

Collision pt 2

Chris Bourke has posted more of the album by Maori funk outfit Collision. Tracks 4-5, and 6-9. Check it.

"Originally from New Zealand mill town Tokoroa, Maori funk band Collision emigrated to Australia in 1976 and got a gig at Les Girls in Sydney's King's Cross district. In 1978 they recorded their only album - Collision - for the Infinity label in Sydney"