Mix #3

Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm a DJ.

Eurythmics – Love is a Stranger
Gold Panda – Quitters Ragga
Virgin Prunes – Yeo
Jackson 5 – Pride and Joy
Daniel Rossen – Waterfall
Boris – Tokyo Wonderland
Fripp & Eno – Evening Star
Atlas Sound (with Noah Lennox) – Walkabout
Church Triumphant of Jah Rastafari And Haile Selassie I Theocracy – Fire Burn
Davy Graham – She Moved Through the Fair
Jean Yves Tourbin – Tiens, voila la Lune
Chihei Hatakeyama – Starlight Reflecting on the Surface of the River
OOIOO – KONJO
Sly Dunbar – Herb
The Louvin Brothers – My Brother’s Will
Tim Hecker – Harmony in Blue I & II
Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Mysteries

http://www.mediafire.com/?ninztqldtty

V/A-Take the Subway to Your Suburb (1993)

I have really been digging this compilation the past few days. To be honest I hadn't heard of the Subway Organization until a few weeks ago although I have been listening to a lot of their artists contemporaries for years like Primal Scream, the Jesus and Mary Chain and Felt. I guess the first time I heard anything from the Subway Organization was the Shop Assistants compilation "Will Anything Happen", even though they don't appear on this I would recommend checking them out. If you are into any of the bands earlier output I mentioned above than you will probably be kicking yourself as hard as I was for not finding out about the Subway Organization sooner. Apparently the label was active between the years of 1986 to 1989 releasing a bunch of great and underrated singles and full lengths by bands like the Shop Assistants, the Flatmates, the Rosehips and the Chesterfields. There is not a ton of information available about these bands or the label in general but anyone who takes the time to check them out will recognize a commitment to timeless pop songwriting as well as the incorporation of some of the best parts of modern Rock and Roll. From what I have read the Subway Organization kind of reminds me of Flying Nuns formative years, not just in sound but in the way it was run. If a certain track on this compilation stands out I would recommend keeping your eyes peeled because a lot of them are still in print on CD. Like a lot of my favorite musical phenomenon, it sounds like the Subway Organization was doomed from the get go to only exist a short time but from the looks of the amount of quality records they released they used their time wisely.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?5ntnjkqnnw2

People Take Warning: Muder Ballads & Disaster Songs, 1913-1938

I'm going to be in Europe for the next few weeks, so there won't be much posting going on here. But here's a parting gift, a wonderful collection of early 20th century songs of misery and paranoia.

Hope everyone has a good month of July.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=T9F6DI0C

ZZYRUS Mix #2

1. Kandia Kouyate – San Barana
2. Funkadelic – Can You Get to That
3. Paul Parrish – Walking in the Forest (of My Mind)
4. Thom Yorke – And It Rained All Night (Burial Remix)
5. Mikey Dread – Rockers Delight
6. Iron and Wine – Freedom Hangs Like Heaven (Live)
7. Karen Dalton – Katie Cruel
8. Bert Jansch & John Renbourn – The Time Has Come
9. Animal Collective – Daily Routine (Phaseone Remix)
10. J Dilla – In The Night (Owl N Out)/While You Slept (I Crept)
11. The Crystals – He Hit Me (It Felt Like a Kiss)
12. The Supremes – When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes
13. Akron/Family – Running, Returning
14. Israel Kamakawiwo’ole – Over the Rainbow
15. Konono N°1 – Kule Kule Reprise
16. Sibylle Baier – Remember the Day
17. Das Bierbeben – Abschied
18. Lindsey Buckingham – Bel Air Rain
19. Alèmayèhu Eshèté – Tchero Adari Negn
20. NOMO – Banners On High
21. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan – Shams-Ud-Doha, Badar-Ud-Doja
22. David Bowie – All the Madmen

23. Horace Andy – Spying Glass

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RIX9W478

Various Artists – Dubstep Allstars, Vol 1 (2003)

This one’s been around for a while, but I still listen to it a lot. A great batch of tunes, flawlessly mixed by DJ Hatcha.

http://www.mediafire.com/?obdondyojct

ZZYRUS Mix #1

Here’s a little mix that I put together. Just a bunch of things that I’ve been listening to lately. A couple of newer songs and a lot of older ones. I’m not really good at sequencing this kind of thing, so sorry if the pacing is a little schizophrenic. Oh, and it’s all 320kbps, so it’s a pretty big file.

1. The Revolutionaries – Kunta Kinte Version One
2. Dirty Projectors – Temecula Sunrise
3. Bibio – Ambivalence Avenue
4. Tim Buckley – The Healing Festival
5. Richard & Mimi Farina – The Quiet Joys of Brotherhood
6. Point 7 – DNA Conflict
7. The Grateful Dead – Frankin’s Tower
8. Jacob Miller – Baby I Love You So
9. Lee Moses – Dark End of the Street
10. The Field – The More That I Do (edited)
11. Jana Hunter – Farm, CA.
12. The Three Degrees – Giving Up, Giving In
13. Skip Spence – Cripple Creek
14. Kouyate Sory Kandia – Chant de rejouissance
15. Annie Lennox – Big Sky
16. Lee Perry & The Upsetters – Bird in Hand
17. The Byrds – Pretty Polly
18. Bush Chemists – East of Jaro
19. Gilberto Gil – Miserere Nobis
20. Milieu – Silver Fountain Cascade
21. The Notwist – Boneless (Panda Bear remix)
22. Brian Eno – Golden Hours
23. Asakawa Maki – Doko e Iku No
24. Beach Boys – ‘Till I Die
25. Benga – Crunked Up
26. Super Eagles – Love’s a Real Thing

27. Gary Higgins – Telegraph Towers

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=W4SZFR6O

Lee Perry & Friends – The Singles Collection: Anthology 1968 to 1979

Pt 1: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?yjdmy2z2n2w

Pt 2: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ny3xgoyfmed

V/A – Techno: The New Dance Sound of Detroit (1988)

Now that I got all of that folky stuff out of my system who’s in the mood for some old-school Detroit techno? I’m guessing not too many people. Anyway, here’s a sweet compilation that was put out in the UK back in 88. It’s been long out of print, and is kind of a historical artifact, since it gave a name to the nascent genre and introduced it in Europe, where it was embraced to a much greater extent than it was in the States.

Part 1:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?emgnythndzt
Part 2:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ynirhnnuoyh

V/A – The First Days of Funk, Volume One (2005)

Here's something to lighten the mood a little after the last couple of posts.

Disc 1:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ewmmdnwihzi
Disc 2:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ttt5zdztmjt

Various Artists – Congotronics 2: Buzz 'n' Rumble from the Urb 'n' Jungle (2005)

This one's awesome. Electro-fried Congolese music. Traditional instruments and percussion are combined with fuzzy guitars and layers of chanted vocals to create deep, trancey grooves. Very hypnotic.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?11mnxrnmvfg

Rembetika: Greek Music From The Underground (2006)

From the Wikipedia:

"Rembetiko is the name for a type of Greek urban folk music. A roots music form of sorts, the sound of the genre reflects the combined influences of European and Middle Eastern music. Rebetiko music has sometimes been called the Greek blues, since like the blues, it grew out of a specific urban subculture and reflected the harsh realities of an oppressed subculture's lifestyle: poverty, alienation, crime, drink, drugs, prostitution and violence. But rebetiko's subject matter also extends to other subjects: romance and passion, social matters, people such as the mother, death, the difficulties of living in a foreign country, army life, war, trivial matters of everyday life, exotic places, poverty, labor, illnesses, and the minor sorrows of people. Also like the blues, rebetiko progressed from being a music associated with the lower classes to becoming during the 1960s and later a revived musical form of wide popularity, especially among younger people."

Disc 1
Disc 2

Disc 3

Disc 4

Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys (2006)

Arrrrrrr!! This was released in conjunction with Pirates of the Caribbean 2. The film’s producers got a bunch of people together (including Ralph Steadman, for some reason) and had them record pirate tunes and sea shanties. Check out the list of contributors at allmusic:
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:axfyxqydldke
Anyway, this is a fun and goofy collection of songs; guaranteed to cheer you up if you’re sitting around at home worrying about things like bad job interviews or whether or not you have a brain tumor.

Disc 1:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?tzkmf0rbynw
Disc 2:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zo3hgnd2wt4

Phil Spector – Back To Mono (1958-1969)

Disc 1:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?wjuziktaijj
Disc 2:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?wmzywznwezm
Disc 3:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?y1mcyodnknn
Disc 4:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?4z4tjmlxyzy

Various Artists – I Belong To This Band: Eighty-Five Years of Sacred Harp Recordings (2006)

Info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_harp

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?e2jy1zknhh1

Inaugural Post (Part One)

Just a few things I've been digging recently:


Tropicalia: ou Panis et Circenses (1968)
This compilation is considered the musical manifesto of the influential Tropicalia movement in Brazil. Some really nice tunes with plenty of wonky orchestration





http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mwxzjy3owzt



The Congos – Heart of the Congos (1977)
Amazing roots reggae album produced by Lee Perry. Long, hypnotic tracks with lots of layered rhythms and clattering sounds fading in and out. Good singing too, though the falsetto guy might get annoying after a while.



http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?4cww1tzgtyv (pt 1)
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?jwyotmwmaki (pt 2)



Prince – Dirty Mind (1980)
A lovely little collection of skeletal disco-funk tracks. Songs about oral sex, incest and race relations. The production is stark and minimal – as devoid of colour as the album cover.





http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?jz4xmwvntwr




David Crosby – If Only I Could Remember My Name (1971)
A journey into the fractured mind of David Crosby. A messy, murky beast of an album. But quite good. Crosby’s singing is incredible, and he manages to create a mood that is at once soothing and unsettling.



http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?tmzonmznwj




Shugo Tokumaru – Exit (2007)
A collection of happy, mildly trippy pop songs from Japan. Very nice.








http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?m2tottjmhkk