Downfunk

R&BsoulViennabasedMongolianCowboyBeBopcountryjazzfunkhoprockhopTomwaits, actually.

After you listen to #4 you’ll better understand why I ruthlessly purged most of what iTunes offered up and broke all my rules by cherrypicking the crap out of this set. Sequentially all iTunes but over 40 songs got deleted before I was happy with the premiere all new brand spanking 100MB/onehour Friday Set [...]

HalloWege set

Since only one person signed up for Pandos, it seems privacy is an issue. I don’t blame you, I wouldn’t want my email address stored on my computer if the RIAA comes knocking.
The new solution is 4shared.com.
Better than Rapidshare.de (100% less porn) and because the files stay there until I delete them. Feel free to [...]

Zombies to Children of Men

UPDATE: Sorry, I just checked again and Rapidshare seems to be permanently redirected to porn site ads. Time to find a new site OR maybe we should just go with Pando. Email me to be put on the list and I’ll notify you each week when new stuff is up. This way I can do [...]

Final Friday 10

Thought I’d bring nonsequitur musicality back for old timey sakes, and no, this set is in no way random:

Download the zipped set at Rapidshare and listen to the tunes in the order indicated.
This is my final commandment for you:
Take, listen, this is my hobby. Drink from it all of you for these are from the soundtrack [...]

Not so much as I think I am

If you’re at all tolerant of electronic music, this is incredible stuff. 
There are as many reasons for saying that as there are cuts on that album, all of which for the most part blew my parietal lobes. The Weinberg Method Of Non-Synthetic Electronic Rock, maybe some of the most inspired electronic sounding music I’ve ever heard. [...]

Birchers, bucks, and BaBa ZuLa

Now we’re getting into weird shit from my childhood. I should have known Alaska would be one of the places the Birchers moved to.

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Fuckin’ Birchers. We are so far from Kansas Dorothy had to change her name and go into the witness protection program. True believers will think this a plus, but sane people will [...]

Friday Randomnation

Just made several additions to my Mali folder and to celebrate my belated introduction to Rokia Traoré I’m doing an all-Mali Random Ten.

ALL-MALI FRIDAY RANDOM TEN
 

Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba: The River Tune (instr.)
Rokia Traoré: Bowmboï
Ry Cooder & Ali Farka Toure: Lasidan
Baaba Maal: Yero Mama
Bougouni Yaalali: (track two from Yaala Yaala)
Kélétigui Diabaté: Djarbi
Unknown Gnawa musician: [...]

Wednesday Pre-Dawn Random 10

Still catching up on my reading and I saw this:

 
One, I owe you all a music set for the 4th. Two, I do see the light and will from now on only share genuinely randomly gathered songs from my hard (left) drives.
Except when I cheat and grab the Random Ten from a keyword search. For this [...]

Mixed (not the same as random) set

It’s Friday, here’s what’s in this week’s download:
 

 
From the spiritual to bluesy to a bit of funk and then yet another cover of Tezeta, which I’m coming to suspect translates from Amharic as Louie, Louie.
Click here, then scroll down and click FREE, wait on the timer and then download the entire 70MB set with just [...]

Jazz

Jazz from artists not listed in the New Yorker’s Top 100.
 

Thirteen songs, almost two hours of music.