Yes, cratedigger's favorite guest, Colonel, is back with a vengeance with both an aggressive and trance inducing mix called Murray's Choice, fueled by the CDs full of dub and reggae that he sent me.
From his generous gift, I am still reaping the kind mix for you, dear reader.
This mix around, there is some reggae mixed in with the dub. Thematically as well as sonically, Murray's Choice spans many eras. Definitely pack the headphones, G.
Hopefully the sound will rattle your ipod/car doors/house/apartment, like it did the CDHQ.
01 Dangerous Match One Scientist 02 Lamb's Bread Collie Jacob Miller 03 Natty Rebel Uroy 04 Universal Dub J-Boogie 05 Natural Roots Mad Professor 06 King Tubby Meets The Rockers Augustus Pablo 07 Soundclash Dub Syndicate 08 Cool Rockers Lee Scratch Perry 09 Extra Time Five Scientist 10 Dub Organiser Dillinger 11 It Dread Inna The Earth 12 Ecological Dub
My buddy Iowahawk has built quite a cool tradition of featuring monthly movies on his blog. The latest installment features hotrods of the friends of Iowahawk.
I have been away from the Cratedigger homestead all of last week, with nary a chance for digging. In the meantime and in order to keep things interesting, here is a list of interesting mixes put out by other bloggers:
Vincent at Fufu Stew has a new mix called, Fufu Soul Soundcheck. Some great covers are on offer on his mix. Makes me wonder how he has the time to put together so many tough sets.
DJ Dubstrong at Disco Devil has a new dancehall dub mix that I have been listening to today called, Uptown Skank v. 2. He hails from Brasil, so much of the blog is in Portugeuse.
Phill Most Chill at That Real Schitt put out a digital version of his mix called 2001 Spaced Oddities from a few years back of some killer beats and breaks. Here is Side A. It is cool listening. I have much to learn, Grasshopper.
Heavy Soul Brutha Dave from Soul Brutha's Put The needle on the Record has the second installment of his series, Soulbrutha Meets Caplog V. 2 on Mod Radio UK. It is an internet radio show that repeats. Maybe he will post it soon... hint, hint.
Enjoy and support the players above. I am off to Gotham. Hopefully, I will be able to put something together on Friday or over the weekend.
One of the summer rituals here in the Midwest is to get your car out to the cruise nights. My 66 is not really nice enough to take to one of these events, where lawn chairs and diet pepsi is the norm.
Anyway, I put some high priced high test into the Mustang and was on my way the 12 miles or so to the Mundelein IL Park on Park Cruise Night that occurs once a month during the summer.
This was a 35 Ford Truck that still had an old flathead in it. There was still some original Henry Ford pin striping under the rust and patina. The old guy that owned it was a bit squirrelly, when I spoke with him. I still liked it. This Mini was pretty cool in British racing green. It might have too many decals and doo dads on it though. This was a nice YenkoCamaro set up for the strip. I parked right next to it. It was really too nice to put on the strip. This was an especially clean mid 30s Ford Cabriolet. 35/36? I am not sure but it was so clean that you could eat off of it. This Camaro was also clean, the stripes on the sides of the car were a nice metal flake. A very nice paint job indeed.
The quote of the evening was, "I didn't realize that cars could be antiques." This was spoken by an 8 year old girl. Some of the people there could have been classified as antiques. I even saw a couple of Outlaws. (They are the ultimate rival bike club of the Hells Angels.)
A close friend of mine from the way back machine, chose to keep his life much closer to nature than I did after college.
His name is the Colonel. He spends much of his free time climbing mountains and slashing powder on the slopes in the western areas of our grand country.
For the soundtrack to his outdoor pursuits, he is a big reggae and dub fan. I received an unbelievable package in the snail mail from him last week containing a whole grip of cds filled with freaked out tunage.
In honor of this great gift, I have assembled a mix of some of the jamming tunes contained on a few of the cds. Call the Colonel a guest selector, if you will.
As I mentioned, the tracks below were grabbed from cds and NOT vinyl.
01 Dance of The Vampires Scientist 02 A Useful Version Prince Jammy & The Aggrovators 03 Prince Far-I Bedward Dub Syndicate 04 Alam Dub Bill Laswell & Jah Wobble 05 Dub In The Right Way Soul Syndicate 06 Rude Boy Dub Prince Jammy 07 Drifter Dub King Tubby 08 The Alien Aborts Roots Radics Band 09 Dreader Locks Lee Perry & Junor Byles 10 Kiwi Culture Mad Professor 11 Trinity Dub Massive Attack vs. Mad Professor
I have a passing interest in Krautrock, but I have to admit I know very little about the entire genre. When I have a chance, I have been taking recommendations from other music heads about their faves.
Using this approach, I have heard some Can, Faust, Gong and I happened across a burn of AR+Machines, which seems to be a Krautrock talisman of some repute, (and non reissued).
I also received via a trade, three full dvds of Krautrock. One of the bands that struck me with both their overt weirdness as well as their ability to rock was Can.
I happened upon a dvd full of live Can recently and this extreme hot weather has put me into an odd mood. Can seems to fit the bill for the 90 degrees and humidity here on the shores of Lake Michigan.
From some cursory internet research, Can was formed as a collective way back in 68. They had their own studio called Inner Space, which seems like a rather non sequitir as their soundscapes that I am hearing are more akin to spacerock, more like a more arty Hawkwind without the preachy scifi baggage of the Hawks. I can also hear elements of the more spacey areas of English artrock, eg. Eno, and possibly 801 without the Manzanera guitar pyrotechnics.
In 1970, Damo Suzuki was discovered on the street performing music and was quickly incorporated into the Can clan as their lead vocalist.
1971 was when Can started gaining some traction with the critics with their release Tago Mago. Ege Bamyasi was put out the next year and contained the track Spoon which oddly enough appears on two of the three of the dvds that I received. Spoon brought them acclaim in a wider arena as it was used as the theme for a film called Das Messer and was Can's first success charting wise.
listening to some of these extended jams, repetition seems to be the modus operandi for the freak factor.
Here is a link to CAN performing Improvisation for the BBC (the BEEB) in 1974. The limited info that I have on the track suggests that this track did not appear on the Peel Sessions CD.
Here is another download link, if the player ain't your bag.
01 Intro 02 Soul Searchers Funk To The Folks Sussex 517 03 Isley Brothers Don’t Give it Away T Neck 901 04 Dialog 05 Bobby Blue Bland Turn On Your Lovelight Duke 344 06 Clarence Carter Funky Fever Atlantic 2508 07 Dialog 08 Ike & Tina Turner Funkier Thank A Mosquita’s Tweeter Liberty 56216 09 Curley Moore Funky Yeah House of The Fox 1934 10 Dialog 11 Rufus Thomas Do The Double Bump Stax 236 12 Dennis Coffey Scorpio (rb edit) Sussex 226 13 James & Bobby Purify I’m Your Puppet Bell 648 14 James Brown Brother Rapp (pts 1&2) King 6310 15 Dialog 16 Fantastic Johnny C Boogaloo Down Broadway Phil LA of Soul 305 17 Sons of Slum Right On Stax 120 (mono) 18 Dialog 19 Kool & The Gang Funky Stuff Dee-Lite 557(mono) 20 Jimmy Castor Bunch Bertha Butt Boogie (pt 1) Atlantic 3232 21 Outro 22 Funkadelic Loose Booty Westbound 205 (promo)
all of the above tracks were captured from original 45s, gathered in various dusty midwestern locales. no ebay track diggin' whatsoever...
dialog comes from the aip motion picture "abby" starring carol speed and william marshall, which comes from a very old vhs transfer.
N.B. It appears that the divshare link above is AOK, but the zshare version of the file is shortened. I tried to reupload, but it continues to chop my file in half. There is a save option within Divshare. Sorry about the technical difficulties.
