Wednesday, July 20, 2011

EVENTS - the last ever Jury Duty! Plus FREE mix!

JURY DUTY - Friday, July 22 @ Elks Lodge
*** The last ever JURY DUTY! Disc jocks FOREST J. (HOTT LAVA), GEOFF P. (Mystery Party), and ROBERT W. (Ann Arbor Soul Club) do the pony & watusi with you, baby. Soul, R&B, boogie, disco, bounce, int'l & more. Free mix for the first 50 attendees!
Elks Lodge / 220 Sunset, A2 / 10:30PM / $5 / FBOOK: http://on.fb.me/p0BM5p

NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl - Ron Hardy, Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo, Bibio + amazing comps!

v/a FOLLOW ME DOWN: Vanguard's Lost Psychedelic Era (1966-1970) 2xLP
*** "Deep within the Vanguard Records vaults lies some of the craziest & most mysterious psychedelic rock music to come out of the '60s. This is the first time the Vanguard label has selected tracks from their best 'lost' psychedelic records & 45's."

v/a LONDON IS THE PLACE FOR ME: Trinidadian Calypso In London, 1950-1956 2xLP
*** "Honest Jon's comp of Caribbean calypso that was crucial to the development of British swing and jazz music, ranging from social satire to sexual double-entendre, from voodoo to the most pressing issues of the day, from sporting events to competitive insult."

v/a WHERE THE SOUL OF MAN NEVER DIES: A Treasury Of Caucasian-American Gospel LP
*** "Compilation of rare white gospel spanning the years 1937-1977. Early country brother duo harmonies, gorgeous gospel bluegrass, and roaring Pentecostal pandemonium. Liner notes by Mike McGonigal."

BIBIO K Is For Kelson 12"
*** "K Is For Kelson is a limited 4 track 12" featuring an alternative version of the title track and 3 brand new songs. The track is a multi-instrumental smorgasbord, with Bibio (aka Stephen Wilkinson) playing every instrument -- including a bermibau, brandy glasses and a Chinese silk fan."

BORDEN / FERRARO / GODIN / HALO / LOPATIN Frkwys Vol. 7 LP+MP3
*** "FRKWYS Vol. 7 features pieces improvised by David Borden, James Ferraro, Samuel Godin, Laurel Halo, and Daniel Lopatin (ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER, FORD & LOPATIN). Cosmically dense Fourth World freak out."

RON HARDY Music Box Classics Vol. 1 12"
RON HARDY Music Box Classics Vol. 2 12"

*** RECOMMENDED White label reissue of Ron Hardy's re-edit series. Chicago dance classics.

ORCHESTRE POLY-RYTHMO 1st Album LP / CD
*** "Some of the most raw & psychedelic Afro sounds from arguably Africa's most innovative band. By building upon and modernizing the traditional rhythms of Vodoun, conforming to the Afrobeat sound of the time, incorporating Western styles and injecting a healthy Latin dose."

SEBADOH Bakesale LP
*** BACK IN PRINT! Remastered but still all screwy sounding. Choice!

WASHED OUT Within & Without LP+MP3+7" / CD
*** NOW ON VINYL! BONUS 7"! "Washed Out is the operational alias for Atlanta, GA's Ernest Greene recorded with Ben Allen who co-produced Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavillio & Deerhunter's Halcyon Digest."

NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - Andre Williams, Washed Out, Alice Coltrane, 13th Floor Elevators + more!

v/a R&B HIPSHAKERS Vol. 2: Scratch That Itch CD
*** RECOMMENDED "The second volume of rockin' R&B and early soul from the King/Federal/DeLuxe catalog ca. 1956-1967 -- 20 killer cuts selected by DJ Mr. Fine Wine of Downtown Soulville/WFMU. Virtuosic instrumentals, classy love songs, unholy dances & holy nonsense."

v/a RED HOT + RIO 2 2XCD
*** "Red Hot + Rio 2 is a contemporary take on the late 60s Brazilian Tropicália & features 34 original collaborations between Brazils legendary musicians and some of the best of today s international indie, R&B, and pop artists."

13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS Headstone: Contact Sessions 2xCD
*** "The Contact Sessions were the first studio recordings by The 13th Floor Elevators, recorded in Texas in January and February 1966, which never saw the light of day in those heady drug-filled days. Mono & stereo versions included!"

DENNIS COFFEY Big City Funk: Original Old School Breaks & Heavy Guitar Soul CD
*** "Dennis Coffey (born in Detroit, Michigan) is notable as a prominent studio musician for many soul and R&B recordings. This comp is culled from four studio albums cut between 1971 & 1974 and are not unlike a big personal advertisement for potential film score work. Raw, big city breakbeat funk."

ALICE COLTRANE Universal Consciousness / Lord Of Lords CD
*** RECOMMENDED Holy smokes, we're about to get REAL heavy here! Choice import of two of Alice Coltrane's finest moments on one disc. Heartbreaking strings married to chaotic jazz, Alice's harp & piano playing... ah, holy smokes. This woman is a religion.

DEMDIKE STARE Tryptych 3xCD
*** "Four albums worth of music! KPM Library records meets Basic Channel! Hypnagogic & hauntological, based largely on obscure library records to long-forgotten jazz, early electronic & industrial recordings, alongside an array of Iranian, Pakistani, Turkish & Eastern European material re-aligned via an array of analog machines, ending with something that is in part plunderphonic."

HOLLY GOLIGHTLY & DAN MELCHOIR Desperate Little Town LP / CD
*** "Reissue of a great lost album originally released on Sympathy For The Record Industry. Recorded in London & California with Bruce Brand (HEADCOATS) on percussion, this album features 10 tracks."

GOOGOOSH Googoosh CD
*** "The East's best kept secret? Some of the rarest, heart-melting pop music in the world -- mid-tempo pop peons with pulsating rhythm sections awash with expertly orchestrated strings from 'Iran's Daughter'."

KATE SIMKO Lights Out CD
*** "Debut full-length of delicate fluttering percussions, effortless yet hypnotic drone, dark, sexy meanderings of minimal mastery, intricate rhythms and time-stopping harmonies! Vivid."

WASHED OUT Within & Without LP+MP3+7" / CD
*** "Washed Out is the operational alias for Atlanta, GA's Ernest Greene recorded with Ben Allen who co-produced Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavillio & Deerhunter's Halcyon Digest."

ANDRE WILLIAMS Movin' On With Andre Williams CD
*** RECOMMENDED Compiling some of Andre's most down & dirty, dark & funky soul tracks from the '60s for Fortune, Avin, Sport, Wingate, Ric-Tic, Checker & Chess. Featuring "Bacon Fat," "JailBait" & "The Greasy Chicken." MUST HAVE.

Friday, July 15, 2011

NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl - Black Keys, Daft Punk, Grandaddy, Chris Bathgate & more

CHRIS BATHGATE Salt Year LP / CD
*** "After several years of struggle, Bathgate has reemerged on the other side of struggle & tumult with a more realized version of his signature country-tinged gothic folk. It is perhaps that very struggle that makes this latest album such a triumph."

THE BEATLES Abbey Road LP
*** BACK IN STOCK! Currently the only Beatles album in print domestic.

BLACK KEYS Rubber Factory LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

CRYSTAL ANTLERS Two-Way Mirror LP+CD
*** "The album is truly their most defiant and ambitious work yet. Produced by Ikey Owens (the Mars Volta), mixed by Jack Endino (Nirvana, Mudhoney, etc) and cover art by Raymond Pettibon."

DAFT PUNK Discovery 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

GRANDADDY Under The Western Freeway LP
GRANDADDY The Sophtware Slump LP
GRANDADDY Sumday 2xLP

*** NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL!

KING CRIMSON In The Court Of The Crimson King LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI Worn Copy 2xLP+MP3
*** BACK IN PRINT! Includes digital MP3 files.

TOOL Undertow LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

SCOTT WALKER Scott 1 LP
SCOTT WALKER Scott 2 LP

*** BACK IN STOCK! And I think these are on their way out of print so don't delay!

NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - Handsome Fures, Red Krayola, Creation Rebel, Brian Eno & more

v/a KEB DARGE & LITTLE EDITH'S LEGENDARY WILD ROCKERS CD
*** "Scottish Northern soul & funk legend Keb Darge & Little Edith’s collection of surf / rockabilly rarities and other lost finds."

CHRIS BATHGATE Salt Year LP / CD
*** "After several years of struggle, Bathgate has reemerged on the other side of struggle & tumult with a more realized version of his signature country-tinged gothic folk. It is perhaps that very struggle that makes this latest album such a triumph."

CREATION REBEL Starship Africa CD
*** "'Starship Africa'' is the greatest sci-fi dub soundtrack never put to film. Produced and arranged by Adrian Sherwood and created by some of the greats from the On-U Sound stable, it is one of the finest moments of British Dub."

BRIAN ENO & RICK HOLLAND Drums Between The Bells CD
*** "Brian Eno first came across the work of Rick Holland in the late 90's but in early 2011, the pair resolved to finish a project. Drums Between the Bells is the result."

ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER Last Summer CD
*** "Eleanor Friedberger is previously known for her work in Chicago harmonie-musik bandThe Fiery Furnaces. They won awards, sold out happenings & made 9 albums. She was inspired her to make her first solo record!"

FUSIOON Absolute Fusioon CD
*** "Imagine a Spanish merging of Soft Machine & Egg. An uber-legendary exponent of Ibizas' 1970 psychedelic club scene. Imagine a Spanish mutation somewhere between Goblin and The Stark Reality."

HANDSOME FURS Sound Kapital CD
*** "Handsome Furs use keyboards & drum machines to forge life-affirming anthems taut with muscle & blood. These nine songs of innocence & experience occasionally look ahead to a better world in the not-so-distant future." Okay?

JOHN MAUS We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves CD
*** "Questing synthesizers, tense bass lines & drum machines provide the perfect backdrop for John's reverb-drenched vox. It's a world where the Germs jam with Jerry Goldsmith, Cabaret Voltaire relocate to Eternia & Josquin des Prez writes a new score for RoboCop."

MEN Talk About Body CD
*** "The debut album from MEN, the new project from LE TIGRE's JD Samson, feminist leader and gay icon. MEN focus on the radical potential of dance music & speaks of issues such as wartime economies, sexual compromise, and the demand of liberties."

RED KRAYOLA The Parable Of Arable Land 2xCD
*** YES! "The ground-breaking 1966 album. Remastered by SONIC BOOM. 2xCD edition with both the Stereo & the first reissue of the Mono version. Book + bonus tracks!" Killer reissue in the vein of the 13th Floor Charly reissues.

SKELETONS People CD
*** "Skeletons work a globe spanning realm of inspirations into a singular and colorful vision of guitar based songcraft. Sonic excursions boiled down into a collection of concise, fluid and emotive songs."

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

EVENTS - the last ever Jury Duty!

JURY DUTY - Friday, July 22 @ Elks Lodge
*** The last ever JURY DUTY! Disc jocks FOREST J. (HOTT LAVA), GEOFF P. (Mystery Party), and ROBERT W. (Ann Arbor Soul Club) do the pony & watusi with you, baby. Soul, R&B, boogie, disco, bounce, int'l & more. Free mix for the first 50 attendees!
Elks Lodge / 220 Sunset, A2 / 10:30PM / $5 / FBOOK: http://on.fb.me/p0BM5p

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl - Shabazz Palaces, Laurel Halo, Shigeto, Battles et al

BATTLES Gloss Drop 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

BURIAL Street Halo 12"
*** BACK IN STOCK!

LAUREL HALO Hour Logic EP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

KING CRIMSON In The Court Of The Crimson King LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

KRAFTWERK Trans Europe Express LP
*** BACK IN STOCK! Remastered Kling Klang edition.

SHABAZZ PALACES Black Up CD / LP+MP3
*** "If Bedouins herded beats instead of goats and settled in Seattle instead of the Atlas Mountains, this would be their album. Black light uses electromagnetic radiation to eradicate microorganisms, but shabazz didn't come to kill a sound, just to shine their own incandescent lamp on this. Fifty thousand years in the making."

SHIGETO Full Circle Remixes EP
*** "Ghostly and Rush Hour have teamed up to release select tracks for a 12” white label version of Full Circle Remixes feat. Mike Slott, Take, Om Unit & Brainfeeder’s Samiyam. Essential."

NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - Ellington, Ililonga, Shabazz Palaces & Sylvian

DUKE ELLINGTON The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse: A Suite In Eight Parts CD
*** RECOMMENDED Fuggin' KILLER 1971 album of insanely hooky & bumpin' "world music" that Allmusic calls one of Ellington's "most intriguing works from his later years . . . showing the influence of rock, African folk music & more advanced areas of jazz."

RIKKI ILILONGA & MUSI-O-TUNYA Dark Sunrise: The Birth Of Zamrock 1973-1976 2xCD
*** "32 tracks characterized by James Brown's raw funk combined with the fuzz guitar sounds of Jimi Hendrix and the polyrhythms native to this African nation. But this neglects to mention Musi-O-Tunya and Ililonga's otherworldliness." On NOW AGAIN.

SHABAZZ PALACES Black Up CD / LP+MP3
*** "If Bedouins herded beats instead of goats and settled in Seattle instead of the Atlas Mountains, this would be their album. Black light uses electromagnetic radiation to eradicate microorganisms, but shabazz didn't come to kill a sound, just to shine their own incandescent lamp on this. Fifty thousand years in the making."

DAVID SYLVIAN Died In The Wool: MANAFON Variations 2xCD
*** "Ballads, ambient improvisations, groundbreaking & extreme works come together in a new collection with composer Dai Fujikura. There is a complete bonus disc with just one long piece."