februari 2003 Archief

maar wat is het?

wanna make a hit song that will make you filthy rich so you can start your own label and recording studio to put out tunes nobody will actually enjoy but gains you respect from the army of pop journos?
i know i do.
try hit song science (hss), brought to you by polyphonic hmi!
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stereo deluxe special on bbc radio 1.
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ik heb weer met mijn ogen geknipperd.

visca el salvador?

hahahahaha!
gekke yanken.
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fraser's here! woohoo!

volgens mij is dit mijn eerste "concert"recensie ooit.

that fatal day, hank williams' last night according to popcult magazine.

très cool special mix by gilles peterson on radio madrid, brought to you by the heavy üsker, he who did the re-edit of that murder track "futebol de bar" on spain's finest label.
[check that version of nirvana's "come as you are"!]

ehh... ??

went to see dj storm perform the other day. ms. nixed and her hubbie came along, too, as you might have noticed. she [ie storm] was preceeded by red zone's resident djs pan and pressure, of whom pan i liked most. they got the crowd nuff movin', but when storm came on the place just about exploded. apart from playing the loud but always funky tunes she was so much fun to look at. showing off her excellent skillz and clearly enjoying the deejaying, her set was pumping like a motherfucker.
it also made me love the drum&bass again. i kinda fell out of love with the genre a couple years back because it had all gone soul- and funkless, but she played nothing but fan.tas.tic tunes, really hard but with enough ragga and amen breaks to keep luba happy. lovely, lovely, lovely.

new weekly fav lists online over @ list-o-rama.

update monday night: dewey sakitumi's added. he apologises for his terrible english
update wednesday morning: volga's added. apologies again for badd engrish

6 live tracks by david holmes and the free association

went to see the stereo mc's last night in brussels, together with raoul and his better half. it was phantastique, which was a bit of a surprise to me. i didn't think i would enjoy it as much as i did for reasons i have now forgotten. that guy rob birch is pure energy and the ancienne belgique went bazerk. wonderful.
and while we were at it, rado and i decided to do a new project in the very near future. watch this space!

ruff rhythm's dj statik gaat naar een onbewoond eiland en neemt geen enkele drum&bassplaat mee.
wat is op met dat?

so tell me, what's the use of bringing a release one week forward due to piracy problems?

morphizm interviews rob swift

lovely new mix of the week.

in other radio news: basmars' 'fanfare of the warriors' [tracklist here] and volga's destination unknown.
yummie!

dogma 95: 'open hearts' luidt het einde van Dogma in

naar mijn bescheiden mening was de houdbaarheid van dogma '95 reeds lang verstreken. sinds 1995, zo ongeveer.

hee, jij, stomme kutboer! als je een verkeerd nummer draait, dan bied je je verontschuldigingen aan en dan hang je niet zonder iets te zeggen op terwijl ik nog een zin aan het uitspreken ben. en als ik je dan terugbel zet je niet dat stomme faxmasjien aan, zodat je deze tirade zelf aan kan horen en ik mijn lezers daar niet mee hoef lastig te vallen om de irritatie uit mijn systeem te krijgen.
BEGREPEN?

upgrade to movable type version 2.62 successful.
woo.

new list online here.

greg whitfield interviews more rockers' rob smith about the beautifullest of all sounds: bass - the final frontier

it was dutch heroes doe maar's "bella donna" that made me fall in love with the bass sound. it's a three-minute-long instrumental track with a break in the middle, with only henny vrienten's bass sounding, echoing. it's extremely simple yet beautiful. there were times that i listened to it every morning a couple times on my walkman while doing my paper round. every time the song came on i stopped and listened, not wanting to be distracted by anything. then i would rewind the tape and listen to the song again, and again, and again, before continuing with my work.
ever since, i have wanted to play bass. i used to fiddle about a bit on my uncle's bass guitar when i was a kid, but i never seriously got around to actually learning how to play it. after doe maar i got into reggae and ska. together with my class mate nicolai i started frequenting the record stores in breda [bullitt, tunesville] and tilburg [king, tommy] looking for new but mainly old roots reggae and dub rekkids. i'm actually still looking for this one record by nicodemus, but i don't remember the title. nicolai had it, it had the heaviest bass sounds on it that i had ever heard in my life, apart from some really raunchy lyrics.
<note to self> should get in touch with nicolai, mabbe he still has the disc</note to self>
after speaking to dr. das a couple weeks ago i decided: this year i'm gonna get a bass guitar.

went to see der rainer yesterday night @ the cactus club in bruges rock city. we came in when he had just started, and the first thing we saw was my buddy david's latest release "atítetoca" sticking out of rainer's record bag. we were forced to keep our jackets with us as the wardrobe was full so we lay them on the floor. but since we're responsible thirty somethings now, we didn't dare leave them there to storm off to the dance floor. so there we were, next to the dance floor, trying to dance but not really, and mister trüby was playing one killer track after the other. great set, apart from one really cheesy hands-in-the-air "all children reach for freedom" track. i particularly liked the way he kept his cool when one record he was playing [carlito's stomping d&b remix of koop's "summer sun"] finished before he had the next one ready. on the koop record, carlito's mix is followed by the acapella of the same track, and rainer left it playing [and it was obvious he didn't do it on purpose]. when yukimi nagano was well on her way into the song, the funkiest man in freiburg started the next record, and it sounded pretty fucking cool. the smile on his face was triumphant.
as the mighty gilles peterson once said: "rainer trüby, what a guy!"

it's been out for a while, i think, but i only heard it for the first time this week. cody chesnutt is da bomb. lo-fi soul, funk, rock and brutally honest lyrics on a double cd. did a remake of "the seed" with the roots. cody's a lady's man. if i were a lady, i would fall for the guy. only to be deceived by him, and then hate him afterwards.
i wanna be cody chesnutt.
www.codychesnutt.com

the war against pop must continue!
by chachacha

vandaag mijn anti-valentijn cd binnen.
hij is goed!
een welgemeende thank you naar leiden's eigen ms dynamiet, bareuh!

the new album by luke solomon and justin harris rocks bells. robotic mutant funk with icky bleeps and clicks a plenty, at times reminiscent of early prince but not in a retro way.
[sorry for the shitty sleeve pic - i got a promo without sleeve]
www.themanwholivedunderground.com
www.musicforfreaks.com

another ace episode in the already brilliant series, selected exclusively for your listening bliss by the big chief of compost himself, michael reinboth. tracks by hird [feat. the divine miss yukimi nagano], joseph malik, dntel, savath & savalas, stateless and many more. all beautiful, all the time.
[and check out that funky 3d sleeve! complementary 3d glasses included]
www.compost-rec.com

for all you future star razzie-winners out there: what can you do in ten seconds?
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lekker goedkoop, die nieuwe videoclip van tosca. maar het blijft een geweldige single.
dat dan weer wel.

why doesn't she just get on with it and quit playing professional "tennis" to fully explore the possibilities of being a model. she won't be remembered for her tennis skills anyways.

gisteren mijn anti-valentijn cd op de bus gedaan, t.a.v. een mij onbekend heerschap uit de grote stad a.
ik weet toevalligerwijs reeds van wie ik de mijne ga krijgen, ik lig al de hele dag bij de brievenbus - koud! [nu even op sigarettenpauze]
tracklist van de mijne:

01. intro
02. the persuaders - thin line between love and hate
03. the kostars - never so lonely
04. elvis costello - i hope you're happy now
05. tuxedomoon - i heard it through the grapevine
06. adult - hand to phone
07. flunk - blue monday [jori hulkkonen remix]
08. dinah washington - is you is or is you ain't my baby [rae & christian mix]
09. impedance - tainted love
10. frank zappa - broken hearts are for assholes
11. motorpsycho - junior
12. ween - baby bitch
13. bobby vinton - blue velvet
14. the shangri-las - you cheated, you lied
15. dawn penn - no no no
16. jacob miller - keep on knocking
17. ms. dynamite - put him out
18. beck - guess i'm doing fine
19. pj harvey - rid of me
20. outro

"the axis of weasel".
hahahaha!
gekke yanken
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a message from lsdb:

gisteren kreeg ik te horen dat jack martens vorige week is doodgegaan. jack was mijn elftalleider bij unitas. hij was de coolste van alle elftalleiders, want hij deelde zijn biertjes met ons, wist goordere moppen dan wij te vertellen, en zat vol met goeie verhalen over zijn studententijd in amsterdam. soms kwamen we met het hele elftal bij hem thuis - hij woonde in een piepklein flatje in de [toen nog] nieuwbouwwijk 'plan hooghuys' in etten-leur. dan dronken we bier en rookten sigaretten, en we belden wildvreemden op met lollige boodschappen. of we bestelden taxi's voor de buren, en dan keken we uit het raam hoe de buurman reageerde.
hij gaf me mijn eerste bandje van nick cave & the bad seeds. "the firstborn is dead", geweldige plaat. op de b-kant stond "soul mining" van the the, de ruimte die overbleef had hij opgevuld met een paar nummers van lene lovich. ik had die muziek nog nooit gehoord, en ik vond het prachtig. ik heb het bandje nog steeds, net als dat van the specials en madness dat hij me later gaf.
jaren later, toen ik zelf in amsterdam woonde, ben ik een keer in café 'de engelse reet' geweest, een pijpenla die jack's stamkroeg was geweest. ik ging alleen voor de naam, ik vond dat iedereen die zichzelf respecteerde ooit in een café met zo'n prachtige naam geweest moest zijn.
ik heb hem al sinds 1989 niet meer gezien, maar ik heb altijd gedacht dat ik hem nog eens tegen zou komen. vorige week vrijdagochtend werd hij, na bezoek aan zijn stamkroeg de avond ervoor, dood in het portiek van zijn woning gevonden.
het ga je goed, jack.

not a whole lot of new entries [ie on my part], but here's alex' and my new list-o-rama

sometimes spam is funny.

het gesprek ging volgens mij wel goed, maar ja, dat hebben we te huize lubacov al eens vaker gezegd, dus ik verwacht niets.
maar hoop des te meer.

verplicht leesvoer: dames en heren, hier is kelly osbourne, door xander van aart.

can you hear angelo badalamenti's score while reading?
i know i do.

nog meer 3voor12ness:
metropolis terug van weggeweest.
nu werfpop nog [niet weg, wel in gevaar].

lana clarkson is volgens cnn de vrouw die phil spector phil spector verondersteld wordt te hebben vermoord.
[dankjewel, erwin!]

oh trouwens, about*blank #9 is uit.
met een sterretje, ja.

can't believe i only found out 'bout this one minutes ago: neumu [ gramophone ], a weekly freely downloadable mp3 of the kindamuzik we like.

second entry to list-o-rama: now with alex tobin's fav list included.

woehoe! vanavond begint toscane weer! oefent u vast mee?