I love this record of snappy French pop-punk sung by the very skinny, very sassy, very sexy chanteusse Isabelle Le Doussal. Listening to Le Tigre's "Far From Home" while chugging coffee really gets my engine running during the morning commute.
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I thought this was going to be nothing but same-sounding techno babble, but it's surprisingly good and full of variety.ĭFA's follow-up remix edition is even better. Because DFA has an distribution deal with EMI, they get to remix a number of major label acts, including the Chemical Brothers, Le Tigre, Hot Chip, Gorillaz, Goldfrapp, Nine Inch Nails, and Fischerspooner. (According to Wikipedia, the label's original name was Death From Above Records, but was changed to DFA following the SeptemWorld Trade center attacks - for obvious reassons!). In fact, DFA Records is the New York City-based independent techno/electronica record label founded in 2001 by Murphy along with Tim Goldsworthy and Jonathan Galkin. For more info, see my blog post " Kraut Funk."įor the longest time I ignored this CD, until I realized it was affiliated with James Murphy of the very clever LCD Soundsystem. Despite their tighter-than-James-Brown sound, the Poets remained relative unknowns outside of Deutschland until they were discovered by DJ Shadow in 2001 Shadow helped bring them to the attention of London's Ninja Tune records, where their Define Discern release reached a broader Western audience. This German funk band (consider that oxymoronic term: German Funk!) recorded under various pseudonyms (Bo Baral's Excursionists, Bus People Express, Karl Hector & The Funk-Pilots, Mercy Sluts, The, Mighty Continentals, The, Neo-Hip-Hot-Kiddies Community, New Process, The, Organized Raw Funk, Pan-Atlantics, The, Polyversal Souls, The, Soul Sliders, Soul-Saints Orchestra, Soul-Saints, The, Syrup, Whitefield Brothers, The Woo Woo's), releasing albums in the guise of "compilations" by "Various Artists" between 19. All of these releases were by a band from Munich called The Poets Of Rhythm whose members included the very un-soulful-sounding Teutons Jan Whitefield, Max Whitefield, Boris Geiger, Till Sahm, Malte Müller-Egloff, Wolfgang Schlick, and Michael Voss.
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Hotpie & Candy was a small German label (a subsidiary of Soulciety Records) that released a series of singles between 1992-1995.
But it's by the whitest of whitebreads - Germans!. This is easily the blackest, baddest, funkiest, sweetest soul music I've ever heard. I blogged about it previously (and in more depth) in " Forward Into the Past." Its 22 tracks span the years 1977 to 1986, and while a few are obvious or familiar names (Buzzcocks, Scritti Politti, Swell Maps, Throbbing Gristle, Thomas Leer) the rest were complete unknowns to me - but pleasant discoveries, like Kleenex's "Ain't You" and Patrick Fitzgerald's "Babysitter." Sonically, it's a mixed bag, from primal low-tech punk doodlings to to experimental synth noodlings, with funk, dub, electronica and synth-pop to boot. This great compilation from the fine-taste arbiters at Soul Jazz Records takes a look at the UK's DIY movement, an independent music genre that flourished in the post-punk era. Pratt also owns Can's follow-up to Tago Mago, 1972's Ege Bamyasi. It was was originally released on vinyl as a double LP in 1971 and was the first studio album featuring "vocalist"/frontman Damo Suzuki (who replaced the nervous-breakdown-bound Malcolm Mooney). Tago Mago is arguably the best album by Krautrockers Can and certainly their most experimental, with two songs clocking in at 17 and 11 minutes each. They are listed in no particular order and serve as my attempt at a listening Reader's Advisory for those occasions when a patron asks me, "What do you recommend?" or "What have you heard that you like?" (It happens.) These aren't necessarily new albums released in 2008, merely the best ones I checked out from the Pratt's impressive music collection.
Inspired in equal parts by my friend Chuck, a library regular who writes the music blog Pratt Songs (which features reviews of the records he checks outs from Enoch Pratt's Central Library), and my former co-worker Tyson (who ordered many of the records lauded in Pratt Songs), I decided to jump on the end-of-year "Best Of" bandwagon and list my personal picks for the best records I checked out of Pratt Central's Sights & Sounds Department last year.
Everybody Goes To Gino's Fan Appreciation Day.Two docs about the real people living in Nomadland.Remembering the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.See my "all-things-Baltimore" blog with Scott Huffines: See my auxilary blog of CD, DVD and book reviews: About Me Name: Tom Warner, Almost Hip Guy Location: Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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