The M i s s i s s i p p i f a r i a n

Electric Prunes vs. 13th Floor Elevators

Wege — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 22:17:59 +0000

A ’60s psychedelic blow out with the Electric Prunes vs the 13th Floor Elevators, as well as other stuff including new Duran Duran.

24 songs, 1:38:09, 195.87MB.

Note that while all the 13th Floor Elevators and Electric Prunes are dated as being from 1999 and 2001, that’s just when the compilations of remastered tunes were issued. All Elevator and Prune music in this set dates back to the mid to late ’60s.

Season of the Witch covers, in honor of tonight’s Supermoon

Wege — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 23:05:09 +0000

Boing Boing posted a youtube of Julie Driscoll’s vintage psychedelic cover of Season of the Witch and that got me to searching for more covers of my favorite Donovan song. Links only so as to not clog your pageload and sorted into a workable listening order:

Donovan: live from 1966

Donovan (studio version): George Romero video

Donovan: live and acoustic from 2007

Suck: very flutey, very 1970, & Zeppelinesque

Vanilla Fudge: original heavy (the only version of this song I owned)

Dr. John: twas a dark and sultry

Dr. John: darker, heavier (bonus goat)

Dr John & The Blues Brothers Band: funk’n'roll

Lou Rawls: very scratchy vintage vinyl

Hanne Boel: club jazz

Richard Thompson: slow jammed

Dr. Nick: e euro jazz trio makes the case for sax

Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper, Steve Stills: jazz funk (warning: Stills gets really hot)

Mike Bloomfield: live

Jenny DeVivo: dance funk reinterpretation

Bootleg Blues: blues lounge

Martijn Hover: poppy; interesting video clips

Luna: live and somewhat distorted/edited video

The Strangelings: wickedly animated and country strung

Courtney Love & Hole: C&W grunged Velvet Underground stylings

Joan Jett: audio with JJ pictorial tribute

Steve Wynn: strangely fascinating out of focus hand held camera, poorly executed bridges and bad overall sound quality proving this song is indestructible (OK, I’ve been skipping over the really bad garage band bar videos but 90% of the videos I’ve watched have been outstanding)

Terry Reid and Walker & The Brotherhood of the Grape: live drunk with crowd sing-a-long

Claude Sirois: solo acoustic seguéing into an appealing living room jam session thing (even if they do keep repeating that riff from Love Potion No. 9)

Vanilla Fudge: “the” tripped out version

Wack Kuntucky: Eclectic Method Remix

Tom Malm Band: if you’ve clicked on everything else slow jam (including all three Donovan links) (still here? whatever) (still here? OK, now and only now may you click on the Mo Shambo link)

Yes, you can listen to the same song over and over and over again. Sorry I lack the techno chops to have made this a one-click video binge, but the pause to click between covers hopefully refreshed you as much as they did me.

Oh, also: the Futurama fragment, Season of the Bewitched and Starsky & Hutch’s Mystery of the Smelly Pentangle.

Mike Glicksohn, R.I.Pi

This video set triggered by a long absent friend’s passing. No ties between Mike and this song that I know of, but — and this is all that really counts — it works for me.

James Chance vs Kemialliset Ystävät with a side of Romeo Void

Wege — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:43:03 +0000

22 songs, 1:44:56, 196,82MB.

side:

Vaporized Elvis Christ on a Khartoum Crutch

Wege — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:20:18 +0000

24 songs, 1:38, 193.27MB.

John Lee Hooker vs Chinese Experimental Music

Wege — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 23:54:40 +0000

John Lee Hooker versus Chinese experimental music, and some other stuff. This is your only warning.

22 songs, 1:43:26, 193.75MB.

Rock’n'etc

Wege — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 01:39:11 +0000

I don’t know why these sets are so hard to describe, but they are. Rock tonight, tempered by other stuff with a little country and a lot of Detroit Cobras.

John Lee Hooker, Supreme Team, Alpha & Omega, Tom Jones, Jeff Beck, Amon Tobin, Madlib, Amanda Palmer, Foo Fighters, The Othermen, DJ Trace, Forgotten Fish Memory Orchestra, Shackleton, Henry Flynt & The Insurrections, MED, and Six Organs of Admittance.

26 songs, 1:42:51, 191.69MB.

Also Hortobágyi László, Fantômas, Neung Phak, Benoît Pioulard, the Krax Orchestra, and The Rural Alberta Advantage.

Which, actually, explains a lot.

What it is

Wege — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 01:28:54 +0000

Hint: it’s more music. The rest is on a need to know basis.

23 songs, 1:36:55, 190.45MB.

Twas a dark and cheery

Wege — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 05:37:42 +0000

Lo-fi, girl band, hipster lounge, ambient noise and a pair from Nippon Girls to balance the Sahel Folk and French Girl Singers from the ’60s.

Thought it would be a good reading set but now I’m thinking driving at night and falling asleep and hitting a bridge abutment when the end of set ambient hits. So yeah, like Beetlejuice except the music part.

22 songs, 1:42:02, 191.37MB. The last song on the playlist isn’t actually in the set. Oops.

Double set

Wege — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 03:40:29 +0000

Too much good stuff so I did a double set. New remasters of old Joy Division promos, fresh hip hop, vintage New York Dolls, remixes, 4AD revivals, new faves, old obscurities, altered cumbias, a little dance in your trance and otherwise.

20 songs, 1:28:27, 180.36MB.

19 songs, 1:29:33, 179.18MB.

Fugs infested

Wege — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 02:56:10 +0000

Reading music, mostly, with an unhealthy triple helping of The Fugs to keep you from falling asleep. Any names you recognize in the tags will clue you in better than anything I could say.

Good luck recognizing many of the names in the tags, btw. Penn and Teller are in one of those bands, but you’ll have to download the set to figure out which one.

Dirty, filthy Fugs.

17 songs, 1:34:04, 188.94MB.

The kid is a lookout, on the alert for Fugs.

Back again

Wege — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:30:13 +0000

Incredibly, even the shut down of this blog was an “automated error.”

As the French would say, incroyable. Iran just executed a couple of guys for copping a ‘tude during the September 2009 uprising, and WordPress apologizes to me for accidentally taking down my sedition blogs.

Is this a great country or what?

My last Norwegianity post and no I have no clue what’s going on

Wege — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 17:21:06 +0000

http://norwegianity.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/linking-to-prerebuttals/ Sat, 22 Jan 2011 17:04:05 +0000 http://norwegianity.wordpress.com/?p=7915 Keith Olbermann getting fired, any more than I would weep over Ed “if you sound like Rush Limbaugh, you are Rush Limbaugh” Schulz getting shit canned. Liberals are served best by objectivity. When the facts are relentlessly on your side, partisanship just gives cover to the bomblasts coming from the right. [My Politics 101: the "right" is not conservative, and the Republican party is a vapid vessel for whatever bilge the wingnut billionaires want to pump into it] That doesn’t mean I’m not pissed that it was Comcast who, fresh from a merger with NBC that blatantly failed to serve the public good, dumped Olbermann. His replacement will be more corporate friendly and the show will die. Short of hiring Amy Goodman, there’s exactly zero chance Countdown will appeal to liberals and the right doesn’t watch MSNBC in the pm. [Also, what Jeff said and yes, I'm always startled when we agree but when you piss off both me and Fecke I think it's safe to say you're doing it wrong.] Sucks to be us, but when hasn’t it? The so-called liberal Huffington Post just sacked Mike Elk, a freelancer, for disrupting the Mortgage Bankers Association. Granted, Elk and the 200 construction workers who were with him were unarmed, so little good came out of the confrontation. Hell, they didn’t even bring a rope with them. [Tony Wikrent on why they should have] The left: we’re just not very good at this watering-the-tree-of-liberty-with-blood-libel thing. – Fresh off the humiliation of being named our worst informed member of Congress by Politifact, Michele Bachmann wows ‘em in Iowa. Bachmann, btw, will be delivering her own State of the Union rebuttal. [Yes, TBogg has prerebutted her rebuttal] Much as I think Politifact runs interference for the establishment media, I’m sure they’ll find a few errors in Bachmann’s rebuttals, not that the Fox audience will ever twig to them. – More politics:

Social Darwinism primer

More on arch-douchejustices Thomas and Scalia

There’s no such thing as free lubricant

Slate on Tammy Bruce

Franken to mentor Rand Paul (this could be the lefty-libertard alliance that leads to legalization of Aquabuddhatude)

COINTELPRO

- NPR took a huge beating (mostly at their own hands) for wrongly reporting that Gabrielle Giffords had been successfully assassinate. Frankly, I’m always amazed at how quickly and thoroughly so-called liberal media gets pilloried for errors when our mistakes are as rare as truth on Fox. Anyhow, I look forward to reading all the angst over local media outfits who wrongly reported a homeless woman had frozen to death in Minneapolis this week. Andy Mannix says the problem with that story is this:

Minneapolis police have no report of the death, says department spokesman Sgt. William Palmer.

“We checked the last four days and we have no DOAs outside,” he says. “There’s nothing in our system.”

A woman who answered the phone at the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed that “nobody died,” though she wouldn’t give her name or any further information.

Needless to say this proves that our social services net is working just fine and from this we can easily extrapolate that no homeless persons have ever frozen to death ever. Because poverty doesn’t kill people, poor lifestyle choices do. Being certifiable has nothing to do with it. When everything you own fits into one shopping cart, you have only yourself to blame. Even if it’s an oversized Costco shopping cart, the SUV of shopaholicism. – Robert Ludlum’s estate picks a girl to write the next book in Zombie Ludlum’s Covert-One series. I’m still reading the first volume of Mark Twain’s held-until-100-years-after-his-death autobiography. It may indeed be the worst thing Twain ever wrote, but it glistens in places and besides, how cool is the concept? Post-mortem co-authorship? Not so cool. I’m sure Jamie Freveletti is a great author. Too bad she can make more money fronting for a corpse than she can with her own byline. Corporatism makes everything suck. I’d love to see the numbers on who made money writing fantasy novels last year. I suspect J.K. Rowling out-earned every other fantasy writer on the planet by several multiples. You have to love an economic system that gives us a billionaire on every corner but if you’re not that person, maybe you should start pricing shopping carts. – I gave short shrift to those German sea cadets yesterday so sure as shit I stumbled across the real story this morning. And yes, the real story seems very incomplete. More on this later. – Etc.:

Sure fire solution to our insanely stupid street layouts (ban left turns forever) (seriously, our system for getting from one place to another is almost as stupid as how we determine who gets how much money for doing what)

Anna Chapman gets her own TV show (ever notice how much Chapman looks like an anorexic Monica Lewinsky)

If you meet Jose Francisco Gomez in the road, cut his nuts off

PiPress on Bob Marley’s family suing vulture capitalists (oops — the case is already over, sorry about that!)

Scientific American on the Metrodome roof collapse

Stuck in a strange town Ed Kohler photographs the toilet paper; James Wolcott reflects on Joan Didion (who can judge which is more ironic? — The winner, of course, is Mr. Fish, writing about his childhood

Media Blitz Radio, because this is looking like a good day for loud

- Mark Gisleson Should Write a Column for the Star Tribune, R.I.P. Not gonna happen, but thanks for the thought. Totally related thought: has City Pages become more relevant? Going back to Brett Favre they’ve been much more in our face of late, and I like that.]]> 7915 2011-01-22 11:04:05 2011-01-22 17:04:05 open open linking-to-prerebuttals publish 0 0 post 0 _edit_last _edit_lock jabber_published email_notification

Avant rock with a side of electronica (and a smidgeon of soul)

Wege — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:16:25 +0000

Grabbed the songs Tuesday and mixed them on Wednesday so I could do some serious Hopslamming tonight. More thought than I usually put into my sets and harder to describe because of it. Let’s just call it a seamless blend of cover rock, ambient noise, avant garde, broken beat, dance, funk, drunk, vintage, Turkish psychedlic, kraut rock and Spanish psy.

Music I like and maybe that’s the lowest common denominator for describing this set. This music goes well with alcohol. It’s hard to come up with a better recommendation than that, in my as usual less than humble opinion.

19 songs, 1:43:03, 187.17MB

[link fixed but I swear to god it was working when I posted this last night]

Void where prohibited by actual law.

UPDATE: Just read the label. It’s changed and now says Ale Brewed with Honey which I don’t remember being there before at all. Hard to quantify the meaning of that, marketing wise. Are they bragging about consuming a dwindling resource (bees mysteriously dying and all that — or have we developed artificial honey, making this moot?) or is this something new? Buying it on opening day I feel confident these two (doing a hit and a bottle which is way favoriting getting drunker firster) bottles I’ve had are fresh and as good as this beer gets and . . . yes, this tastes like the Hopslam I remember, but that’s not a very precise thing. Hopslam is 10% alcohol yet — unlike most high alcohol beers — is remarkably friendly and easy to drink too much of.

Do the math.

Updates to follow, comments to be scrutinized harshly.

UPDATE: Did I mention the ska Michael Jackson tribute embedded in this set?

UPDATE: and it’s not because of the variable factors or whatnot, this beer ale really does taste different each time you drink some. It’s like it’s so flavorful your mouth can only process part of it at a time.

That’s a good thing, I think.

UPDATE: Too drinkable, really. Just went to pour the third beer, looked at the clock and saw I’d been drinking for 56 minutes and was already starting to stagger. Goddamn but I can’t wait to see how this third round goes — cheers!

UPDATE: (Typing this as I drink, just in case) but it tastes so good. you wouldn’t think something this dangerous would taste so incredibly very extremely much so good.

which just makes it better, mhoi

UPDATE: why is it the drunker you get, the better you hit¿

UPDATE: Stars, it’s full of stars

UPDATE: Yes, I wrote this all at once, having suddenly flashed on how unlikely it was I’d be able to type later.

UPDATE: 7:11 and i’m already slipping into an abyss of inbrebiatude but my great truth flash is that it’s too late, i’ve forgotten where that was going

UPDATE: Huh. Four’s kind of sobering me up, in a weird suddenly coordinated but dfinitely drunk kind of way.

Then again, that was just the first sip.

UPDATE: oops, forgot the hit

UPDATE: cool, when you drink hopslam right after ahit, it kinda tasktes tobaccoiey

UPDATE: 7:47 Log of the Survivors of the USS Hopslam…

UPDAT$E: Okseriously, I just LOLed.

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not to five yet but mostly sidewise

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UPDATE: Dallas-Chicago? Culture jar¡

(avant guy thing)

[working on finding my way back to the fridge 5 thing]

UPthatthingagain: There were pomeganate seeds by the beer so I mashed them and regained coherency sort of but I didn’t because I didn’t have a clean bowl to mash in and washing dishes is a bummer and this is getting sad now fuck shit but it was happy before insert repentance here /

UPDATE: OKseriously but I’m really just drunk and acting out, thereof, pisspot, q.e.d.

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Psychedubby

Wege — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:08:40 +0000

One of my favorite albums of the new century is the Easy Star All-Stars Pink Floyd tribute, Dub Side of the Moon. This new release of remixes, Dubber Side of the Moon, inspired this set.

25 songs, 1;36:09, 190.78MB.

As well as selections from Amorphous Androgynous’s
third volume of Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind, a double serving of Lotte Lenya as well as the usual Seuss specs.

Psychedelia like I remember it because some of these songs date back to that long ago.

New Year’s

Wege — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 02:17:53 +0000

Sets sequenced in order of loudness, more or less. Mostly just under 200MB.

psychedelic-pop

rock

funk-hip hop

electronic

the year in Madlib

loud

~~and more to come (just like the beer).~~

Passing out now . . . happy 2011!

Missichrissippifarianmas

Wege — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 03:46:23 +0000

What the title says.

27 songs, 1:35:03, 196.2MB.

WARNING: May contain a small amount of Christmas music.

Dubbier than usual

Wege — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 04:12:07 +0000

The best of the last week’s downloads plus some carefully selected filler. Song six was my hook, the best song from a year-old Bad Lieutenant album I just downloaded after learning that half of New Order was involved, so yes, some regular beats to go with the Middle Eastern and ’50s jazz, downbeat and hip hop, Siamese funk and Saharan cellphone recordings. As well as Cranes, Jaga Jazzist, Femi Kuti, Current 93, Bill Laswell, Eels, Girl Talk and Frank Zappa.

24 songs, 1:46:41, 186.01MB. [LINK FIXED NOW]

Madlib’s 10th

Wege — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 03:23:38 +0000

A couple of songs from Madlib’s tenth release of 2010, some other stuff and that’s this week’s set.

22 songs, 1:45:44, 194.63MB.

One of these weeks I should do a set comprised solely of songs from all of Madlib’s 2010 releases. It’s an awesome and prodigious output and the range and diversity is stunning.

Born Otis Jackson Jr., you might know Madlib from his work with Tha Alkaholiks, Yesterdays New Quintet, Talib Kweli, Percee P, and Erykah Badu, or by Quasimoto, Jaylib, Madvillain, or OJ Simpson.

Yeah, I definitely have to do an All-Madlib set before (or for) New Year’s.

Sumpthin’ 4 ever_one

Wege — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 03:53:20 +0000

UPDATED to include a working link!

Something for everyone, unfortunately. This set covers a lot of ground from Marlene Dietrich to Daft Punk vs. Afrojack, The Klezmatics to Gorillaz, Class Actress mixed with Buckethead and a side of Felt.

See also Boys, Harry Roy & His Bat. And other stuff.

23 songs, 1:38:56, 198.94MB.

Oh, and oops. I just realized that instead of the playlist I accidentally included a screenshot of someone’s bank balance. If you download please toss that. Thank you.

New rockers delight

Wege — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 04:29:50 +0000

Putting the petal to the mettle, rock flavored otherwisely reformatted songs that will get you out of your chair without making you invade Poland. New music from Girl Talk, Ministry, Afrirampo, De-Phazz, The Bug, Amon Tobin, Big Boi, Beats Antique, Nouvelle Vague and I Am Kloot, plus some nice surprises.

Alcohol friendly loud music for modern Americans.

24 songs, 1:32:24, 190.16MB.