So I apologize for the last blog. I haven't heard any complaints, but I knew going in that my screed, my decree, might be decried as grandiose. That it might tickle some of you as off-topic, even though it WAS the topic.
((Well! Don't say I didn't warn you of
My Awesome Powers when the Christo-Pocalypse rains upon the earth.))
But I know that you come here not for spiritual revelation, but musical revelation:
AND THUS IT SHALL BE.
{{updated August 5th, with some streaming audio and direct links to select MP3s!}}
DOWNLOAD The Coup :
http://www.mediafire.com/The Coup- Get Up.mp3
STREAM The Coup at IMEEM :
Here is a mix I made (should I say, of which 'I Am the Creator'? Hmmm...) All the tracks are all stone-cold rockers; real cuts as Lindsey says; all killer no filler; etcet etcet.
Here is the cover that I made for my copy of the mix:
With Less Ado:
"Kill: The DJ.zip"
More Mix CD’s for you: MIXPLANATIONS
I teach at a Philadelphia-area university, and last semester I taught 'philosophy of contemporary music'
It was pretty great.
((btw : THE WHOLE POINT OF THIS IS THAT I WANT TO BURN THESE MIXES FOR YOU- you being actual friends: actual meaning that you have a face- WITH AWESOME CD SLEEVE DECORATIONS AND PICTURES AND STUFF: SO TELL ME IF YOU RIKEY AND I WILL MAIL THEM TO YOU BECAUSE I WUV YOU: I wuv you if you have a face, that is))
I put a few tracks together almost every class, and although I usually forgot to play more than one or two, I sent all selections via email. Great. But that only means that some of my students (some of them- I think most never listened to any of it) got to hear.
BOO I like you better than my students.
http://www.mediafire.com/Sleater Kinney - I Wanna Be Yr Joey Ramone.mp3
What okay so I took all the songs I ever picked out, and chopped them into 8 different mixes. 8 which on its side is the symbol for infinity. Cos that's a lot. Most of these have a musical sound that they ride through the mix.
*SOME BACKGROUND* I never thought mix CDs should be letters to a friend, or documents of a 'moment', or eighty minutes of your favorite or most fun songs that you could think of, off the top of your head-like.
My default mode for mix CD'ing is closer to a DJ. There will be a mood or a song with a very specific musical quality to it, and then there will be a selection of all the songs that resemble the mood/song. Then, you pare down the songs on the basis of which ones fit together. There will probably be certain songs that
M U S T MUST must
be on the mix, and so you have to get from point A (must 1) to point B (must 2), using those other songs that might work, that might make the cut. So it fits together from song to song and as a whole.
And still to me that is the model of a mix. Points as Joints: each song, as a relatively discrete point, must form a jointure with the next point, and together they form something like an organic whole. LESSON OVER now on to the Kill: The DJ.zip mix I made from class. They are all tootoo dope.
Wheres Jack the Ripper? (Origin Unknown RMX) - Grooverider
This first one is called "Kill: The DJ" .zip, not "Kill the DJ". OKAY? This one is very good. It is not happy with your testwork. It has some stunners, and it might maybe have a headache. But it won't give you one, prolly.
Panic (live) ----- Billy Bragg
I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone ----- Sleater-Kinney
Love Will Tear Us Apart ----- Joy Division
Age Of Consent ----- New Order
Paint It Black ----- The Rolling Stones
Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black) ----- Neil Young
Summer ----- Mogwai
Sluta Följa Efter ----- Dungen
http://www.mediafire.com/Dungen-Sluta Följa Efter.mp3
What's Ya Take on Cassavettes ----- Le Tigre
Posse Slash ----- Vast Aire (f Karniege, Breez Evahflowin, Poison Pen & Aesop Rock)
Get Up ----- The Coup
Earth People ----- Dr. Octagon
We Enter RMX ----- Optical
Where's Jack the Ripper? (Origin Unknown RMX) ----- Grooverider
KILL: THE DJ .zip
You probably recognize some of these, and if so, you should have a decent mental image of what the others sound like, based on the shared feel of the ones you know.
It is the of utmost import that you listen to these IN ORDER: I didn't just pick out like the best songs ever (although I most certainly DID do that), but also sequenced them properly. (It's a gift; what can I say.)
Mogwai, then Dungen?: It's A Must!
Sluta Följa Efter - Dungen
And how do you hopscocth from the Rolling Stones (very old) to some crucial junglist anthems? Why, you must get some rock-with-synths (thx Kathleen Hanna! Hai JD! ay Johanna!) in that-there mix! Then slide through some lurching, icy, creeping hip-hop. Smooth: easy breezy mang.
Panic is that Smiths joint. But here is a live Billy Bragg version.
*Joey Ramone has Corin Tucker making this way-rad squealing noise.
You have danced to this Joy Division at Making Time, AND at Click!. So, you know.
*When will the New (world) Order finally arrive?....
You may have wanted to dance to Paint it Black at Kelliann's in West Philly, but you never did.
*Mogwai puts on a fierce intense destructive live show. Some think that the album off of which this song comes is their best; some people are silly little things. COME ON DIE YOUNG is their best.
Dungen sounds old, and many-headed; it is new, and mostly just one person. He even plays the drums!!?!!
*Le Tigre: My take on Cassavettes is that I loved 'Faces' better than "woman under the influence", which is quite good. "Genius, or misogynist?": How about, "Both"?
Vast got vastly lazy these last few years: here he is still killing mics.
*The Coup are as relevant as ever. Funky Bay-area business, all in the name of black rights/consciousness/pride/greatness/etc.
Kool Keith is still Krazy.
*Optical is strictly for the heads- tell me if I know any 'heads' anymore please.... "and we enter, enter with the funk of the future...."
And this Grooverider track (though not this remix) is what got me into drum and bass decisively. I had Goldie's Metalheadz comp, and enjoyed it, but when I heard "Where's Jack the Ripper?", I lost it.
I never got it back.
KILL: THE DJ .zip
And neither will you.