” Wopbabalubop ”01. Bach - Prélude Johann Sebastian Bach / Elliott Carter (Ecm Records, 1994)02. Vashti Bunyan - Leave MeSome Things Just Stick in Your Mind: Singles and Demos 1964-1967 (Dicristina Stair, 2007)03. Cocorosie - RaphaelThe Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn (Touch & Go Records, 2007)04. Funkdoobiest feat. B-Real - WopbabalubopWhich Doobie U B? [...]
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Talking Timbuktu
Ladies & Gentlemen We are Floating in Space
Photo: SwamibuDamian Lazarus - MomentMoment (Get Physical / 2009)Popnoname - The MovementSurrounded by Weather (Italic / 2008)Milosh - Awful Game (Dj Troublemaker remix)Awful Game - Troublemaker Remix (2009)Junior Boys - Dull to PauseBegone Dull Care (Domino / 2009)Yuksek - I could never be a dancerAway from the Sea (Barclay / 2009)An electro-pop sampler of some [...]
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Music swims back to me
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Photo: Richard Burbridge The night I came I danced a circle and was not afraid. The Whitest Boy Alive - Keep a Secret Rules (Bubbles / 2009) French Kicks - Also Ran Two Thousand (Vagrant / 2006) Violens - Already Over* Violens Ep (Cantora / 2008) Mike Bones - What I Have Left A Fool for Everyone (Vice / 2009) The Sea and Cake [...]
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Anything to keep the barbarians away will do
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Maybe you don't know what you've got, husk to hide and I know you're not, spending money on a desert rose, holy dances and acronyms for bones. - Beach House, Holy Dances. Barzin - Sometimes the night… My life in rooms (Monotreme / 2006) Camping - Fotografie Suburban Shore (Plug Research / 2004) Beach House - Holy Dances Devotion (Bella Union / 2008) Antena - [...]
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Bubbachups top 10 albums 2008
1. Birchville Cat Motel - Gunpowder Temple of Heaven (Pica Disk) MP3: Gunpowder Temple of Heaven (excerpt) With Gunpowder Temple of Heaven Campbell Kneale has delivered his masterpiece. Massive church organ drones majestically unfold over the course of 40 minutes and collide with shimmering rays of noise and eventually a deep, sluggish pounding. Layer upon layer of [...]
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Shadow’s Cast
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow - Ursula le Guin DJ Shadow - Building Steam with a Grain of Salt (Endtroducing. . . . ./1996) Daedelus - Pursed Lips Reply ft. Sach (Invention/ 2002) DJ Shadow - What Does Your Soul Look Like? (Part 4) (Endtroducing. . . . ./ 1996) Daedelus - Perchance a Bit (Invention/ 2002) DJ Shadow - Six [...]
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Song. Simply.
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Artist:manuel de falla
" Moka's New B'day Headphone. '08 " 01. André Prévin - Song. Simply Tango Song & Dance - Anne-Sophie Mutter (2003) 02. Manuel de Falla - Asturiana Jimena Gimenez Cacho & Ireneusz Jagla. Musica Española Para Violoncello y Piano (2005) 03. J.S. Bach - Suite for solo cello No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009. Prélude Johann Sebastian Bach / Elliott [...]
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Prece Cosmica
Image: Eric Shaw Popol Vuh - Morgengruss II Hosianna Mantra (spv recordings / 1972) Secos e Molhados - Prece Cosmica Secos e Molhados (1973) Docteur Nico & L'orchestre African Fiesta - Zadio African Fiesta sous la direction du Docteur Nico (Sonafric / 1967) J.J. Cale - Cherry Troubador (1976) Tony Joe White - Thing about you baby Train I'm On (1972) Caetano Veloso - Maria Bethania Caetano [...]
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InsideOut: King of Style Lounge
" Retro Acid Jazz '00. Imperial Lounge No.8 " 01. Verano - Andy Caldwell Om Lounge 6 (Om Records, 2002) 02. Jeff Bennett's Lounge Experience - Dreams Om Lounge 9 (Om Records, 2004) 03. Dizzy Gillespie - Matrix Matrix (2002) 04. Ibrahim Electric - Absinthe Absinthe (stunt, 2006) 05. Menahan Street Band - Birds Make The Road By Walking (Daptone, 2008) 06. Cal Tjader [...]
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Electronica 2008. The Age of Grand Unraveling.
For the resources of nature and men's devices are just as fertile and productive as they were. The rate of our progress towards solving the material problems of life is not less rapid. We are as capable as before of affording for everyone a high standard of life—high, I mean, compared with, say, twenty years [...]
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L’Irrémédiable
Une Idée, une Forme, un Etre Parti de l'azur et tombé Dans un Styx bourbeux et plombé Où nul oeil du Ciel ne pénètre; - L'Irrémédiable (1857), Charles Baudelaire. . " Irredeemable Imperfection of Technology " 01. J.S. Bach - Concerto In D Minor. BWV 974: II. Adagio Glenn Gould Plays Bach and Scarlatti - 70th Anniversary Edition (2002) 02. W. A. Mozart [...]
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Guest post: Hauschka
[It's been 2 years since we last attempted a guest post by a musician we love and respect over here, and I'm very happy to break today our guest hiatus with Dusseldorf-based pianist and composer Volker Bertelmann, aka Hauschka. Earlier this year, Hauschka released the delicate and playfully nostalgic, Ferndorf, based around his own childhood [...]
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Moka’s Top 10 Albums 2008
1. Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista (Fonal) MP3: Ursulan Uni Laulu Laakson Kukista feels like gazing into the global subconscious, like finding a damaged film reel filled with some of the most beautiful and mysterious images you've ever seen, while a silent frustration overcomes at all those cigarette burns and missing scenes. The story might not make [...]
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And The Beat Goes On
The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her. ~ Mary Quant " Sunday Groove " 01. Richard Groove Holmes - Grooving with Mr. G Comin' On Home (1971) 02. David Axelrod - Holy Thursday Holy Thursday/Song Of Innocence (Stateside, 1968) 03. Buddy Rich Orchestra - The Beat Goes On The Beat Goes On [7"] (Pacific Jazz Records, 1967) 04. Herbie Hancock [...]
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Between night and morning
En una noche de Babel Catbird - How Long Must I Wait Among Us (Playgroup / 2008) Gotan Project Meets Chet Baker - Round About Midnight Nu Jazz (Wagram Electronica, 2004) Kelli Ali - What to do Rocking Horse (One little indian / 2008) Goldfrapp - Hairy Trees Black Cherry (2003) Martha Argerich - Jeux D'eau Debut Recital (1996) En la [...]
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Synthesized Calm Relief 2027
. Happily, in the future it will be possible to mimic, and then magnify out of all recognition, the kind of altruistic devotion to each other that might have arisen if were we all 100% genetically-related clones. - TrueLove " This Electronic Stuff Will Never Last " 01. Guardner - Profile Ready For Take Off (Elektrolux, 2007) 02. [...]
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Voyage of Innocence
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To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour. A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage. - William Blake , Auguries of Innocence _____________________ " An Old Repeat " 01. Paavoharju - Valo Tihkuu Kaiken Läpi Yhä Hämärää [...]
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Travelling without moving
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Album:Auntie's Lock
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Track:Infinitum
When I emerge, nobody looks like me anymore. Most of all you. Or least. Isn't it strange how either one fits? You can do that with words, use one for the other. - Priscilla Becker. Flying Lotus - Auntie's Lock / Infinitum Los Angeles (Warp / 2008) Shigeto - Winter Thaw New Crossings Ep [...]
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The rounds of smoke come and go
Toute l'âme résumée quand lente nous l'expirons Dans plusieurs ronds de fumée abolis en autres ronds Atteste quelque cigare brûlant savamment pour peu Que la cendre se sépare de son clair baiser de feu - Stephan Mallarme, Hommage. Peggy Lee - Is That All There Is? Is That All There Is? (1969) Jon Brion - Little Person Synecdoche, New York ost [...]
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Mountain Afterglow
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Photo: Coquinete. Quilapayun - Elegía Quilapayun 3 (1968) Sergio Mendes & Brasil 77 - After Sunrise Raizes (1972) Pep Laguarda & Tapineria - Alceu-vos, xe, que ja és de dia Brossa d'ahir (Discmedi Blau / 1977) Animal Collective & Vashti Bunyan - I remember learning how to dive Prospect Hummer Ep (FatCat / 2005) Silvio Rodriguez - Sueño con Serpientes Días y flores (1975) There was [...]
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