October 2008 Archief

New Planeet Polly episode on pod-O-matic (Dutch spoken).

traxx:
The Velvet Underground - Lady Godiva's Operation [Verve]
The Pink Mountaintops - New Drug Queens/Slaves [Jagjaguwar]
Leonard Nimoy - A Visit to a Sad Planet [Dot]
Kati Kovács - Sehnsucht [Showup]
Jimi Hendrix - She's So Fine [Helter Skelter]
Dungen - Det Tar Tid [Subliminal Sounds]
Frank Zappa - Chunga's Revenge [Reprise]
Jerry Goldsmith - Who Was That Lady... ? [20th Century Fox]
Davie Allan And The Arrows - Blue's Theme [Tower]
Fender Benders - Drag Strip [Norton]
The Phantom Surfers - Rheostat Rock [Hobby Hut]
The Bees - Voices Green and Purple [BFD]
Spacemen 3 - Losing Touch with My Mind [Fire]
Piñonate - Eraseb [Hundergrum]
The Jaggers - Feel So Good [Planet X]

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Blood Red Shoes - This Is Not for You
label: V2
year: 2008
side a: This Is Not for You
side b: Carry Knots
www.bloodredshoes.co.uk | www.myspace.com/bloodredshoes

So I finally saw them the other day playing in Brussels, thanks to the legendary mista Oyl Butcher, my homez. He persuaded me to go with him and the other fellas, despite previous arrangements I had made. I do not regret having gone. Blood Red Shoes were supposed to play at da club about a year ago. We were all really psyched, but then they cancelled, don't know why. Six month later they were famous, and last Summer they play Pukkelpoo, which brought them even more fame and fortune.

The Botanique gig was ace, even though the lady had a cold. They went for it. I bought this single afterwards, and the album, finally - I've been listening to the MP3 version for about a year now and I still love it. Definitely one for the yearlist.

Paradogs - Lost in Music
label: Scorpio
year: 1990
side a: Lost in Music
side b1: Lost in Music (Slow Version)
side b2: Thunder in My Veins

I think I got this record when I was working at the Amsterdam FM local radio station in the early nineties. The version Eric Danno and his buddies made of this Sister Sledge track is not bad, but not really incredible, either. But the sleeve is by Peter Pontiac, and I'm a fan of Peter Pontiac. Peter Pontiac rules.

Las Paquiras - Tumba que tumba la rumba
label: Columbia
year: 1962
side a1: Tumba que tumba la rumba/El negro Francisco
side a2: Cosas de Las Paquiras
side b1: El fuego de la cortinita
side b2: Menos pretensiones

I liked the sleeve so I bought it. The shop offered no possibilities to listen to the records before you bought them, so I just had to go with my gut feeling. Which was, as usual, right. Four great flamenco tracks by a group I know nothing about, and I can't find anything on them on the Interweb, either.

Papa San & Lady G / General Levy & Lily Allen - LDN Rights / Mad LDN
label: bootleg
year: 2007
side a: Papa San & Lady G - LDN Rights
side b: General Levy & Lily Allen - Mad LDN
www.myspace.com/papasanminister | www.myspace.com/lady_g_gstringproductions
www.myspace.com/wwwmyspacecomgenerallevy | www.myspace.com/lilymusic

One of those single a man buys when he's really into a record that after a while proves to be not so timeless. I got it whithout even listening to it - the red marbled vinyl and the fact that they were two reggaefied versions of a Lily Allen track was enough reason. So I didn't hear the A-side was a bit of a misprint until I got home. And it's not so good, either. I like the B-side better, but all in all, this is one of the handful of singles I could have left alone when I stumbled upon it.

Open Foraina &anp; Jack Quiñónez - Fala tanto
label: Lovemonk
year: 2008
side a: Fala tanto
side b: Fala tanto (Instrumental)

Nice laidback tune from Javier Sirena, a guy from Madrid living in Brazil, and Colombian singer Jack Quiñónez. Jazz-tinged funk with a touch of Latin-American sounds, just the way we like it here at chezlubacov HQ. This is the third installment of the Marulasoulfood series on Lovemonk, a collaboration between the label and the funky little dancehall that is Madrid's Marula Café.

Makala - Partió la tabla
label: Lovemonk
year: 2008
side a: Partió la tabla
side b: Cartoon Tune
www.myspace.com/djmakala

This single isn't even out yet - boy I'm hip to the bone. Makala appeared on these pages before with his Achilifunk-related releases on the same label. The A-side is a Latin-fueled breakbeat stomper about a surfer who broke his board while the B-side is a, err, cartoonesque cut-n-paste dittie. Which is nice.

Beck - Gamma Ray
label: DGC
year: 2008
side a: Gamma Ray
side b: Bonfire Blondes
www.beck.com | www.myspace.com/beck

Beck - Gamma Ray
label: DGC
year: 2008
side a: Gamma Ray
side b: Gamma Ray (Jay Reatard Version)

Two US imports on DGC (in Europe, Beck's stuff is currently being released on XL) of one of my favourite tracks on Modern Guilt. The A-sides are identical, the B-sides are non-album tracks. I quite like Jay Reatard's version of "Gamma Ray".

Aaaaaaaaaaand we're back.
Spent a week in the lovely city of Madrid looking for an appartment, as the missus and I are moving there by the end of November. I will be working for these fine fellows. It was pretty hard (prices have been skyrocketing ever since I left eleven years ago), but we managed to find a place in the southwest of the city, in a barrio called Aluche.

We're psyched.

...I'm off to Madrid, looking for an appartment with the missus.
See you in a week.

New Planeet Polly episode on pod-O-matic (Dutch spoken).

traxx:
Shocking Blue - Acka Raga [Discofoon]
Brian Auger & The Trinity - Black Cat [Earmark]
Traffic - Pearly Queen [Island]
The Vampires Of Dartmoor - Dance of the Vampires [Fat City]
The Mohawks - Studio 69 [Rosbif]
Serge Gainsbourg - Sous le Soleil Exactement [LSD]
Robert Mitchum - From a Logical Point of View [Capitol]
Willie Rosario - Shining Knight [Honest Jon's]
Brigitte Bardot - Ciel de lit [PHhlips]
Hemant Kumar - Hai Apna Dil To Aawara [Angel]
Raghunath Seth - Orchestral Music [Guerilla Reissues]
James Brown - Please, Please, Please [Columbia]
Ed Bogas - Winston [Fantasy]
Jack Hammer - The Wiggle [Strip]
Bernie Turner & The Armorettes - Ching Ching Wong [Hot and Sour]
Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs - Getting High for Jesus [Damaged Goods]
Blue Beard - Sly Willy [Crazy Apple Boutique]
Nina Simone - It Be's That Way Sometime [RCA]
Peter Thomas - Agent X [Motor]

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Panico - Anfetaminado
label: Tigersushi
year: 2004
side a: Anfetaminado
side b: Qué pasa wey
www.myspace.com/panicoband

Subliminal Kill, the album these two tracks came from, has been playing on my WinAmp for ages now, and I can still hear it. Pity they never released it on vinyl. Got this single from my friend Dewey's shop, where I think I saved it from oblivion. Right until the end (the physical store is now defunct) I kept stumbling upon the other copy Dewey had in stock, whenever I went through the 45 boxes. Them Dutchies don't get it. Or at least Dewey's customers didn't. And now the shop is closed. But you can still get this single from the online vaults, so go on, you know it makes sense.

Apparently they're playing in Brussels on November 15th, gonna try to catch that gig, as I haven't seen them live yet. Should be good.

The Painted Ship - Audience Reflections
label: London
year: 1966/2008
side a: Audience Reflections
side b: And She Said Yes
www.myspace.com/thepaintedship

Reissue of one of the two 45s this wonderful Canadian psych garage band released. I'd like to get the other one, "Frustration/Little White Lies" (check the MySpace page). I like both tracks on this single a lot, but the A-side is my favourite, because it's so, err, quirky.

Liesbeth List - Pastorale
label: Philips
year: 1968
side a: Pastorale (met Ramses Shaffy)
side b: Zo hoog in de hemel
www.liesbethlist.nl

As said (2), a Dutch classic. I like the way the male singer, Ramses Shaffy, sounds - so epic. Fits the role he's playing - the sun. Not everybody's convinced it is indeed a conversation between the sun and the earth, which I believe, but a child expressing its love for the sun. Makes sense, probably more than "my" version. I pity the fool who doesn't speak Dutch - the lyrics are very poetic and, well, beautiful. Lennaert Nijgh's lyrics usually are.

Jeanette - Proque te vas
label: Hispavox
year: 1974
side a: Porque te vas
side b: Seguiré amando

As said, I used to love this song as a child. Like Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side" it had been playing in my head throughout my childhood without me knowing exactly what it was. I don't even remember wondering what it was - it was just there. With Lou Reed it was a tape made by a friend that made me find out, with Jeanette it was seeing the movie it was used in. The joy! I got the CD shortly after but I always kind of hoped to find the vinyl. Finally, I found this 7" last weekend.

I wonder what it's like to know you don't really need to work ever again in order to pay the rent. To be able to live off the royalties of one hit song made over thirty years ago. I don't know if such is the case with Jeanette, of course, but I wouldn't be surprised. The song has been covered many times and it still pops up every now and then, like in this pretty funny car commercial.

The Gutter Twins - God's Children
label: Sub Pop
year: 2008
side a: God's Children
side b: Spanish Doors
www.theguttertwins.com | www.myspace.com/theguttertwins

Part of the latest incoming vinyls. "God's Children" is an album track, "Spanish Doors" is not, but it does appear on the download-only Adorata EP, released exclusively through iTunes last month. What's up with the iTunes exclusives? I don't use iTunes because it crashes my machine, so now what? Tough luck? Or torrent?

16 Ajax-knallers - V/A
  Telstar LP 1973
  Gotta have this one, having been raised with the idea Ajax is the greatest football club ever. Also, the store where I found it was in Rotterdam, which kind of added to the excitement.

Blood, Sweat & Tears - The First Album
  Embassy LP 1968
  Hadn't really listened to BS&T (apart from the hits) but I read something in Wax Poetics where the writer said the first album is brilliant, so I thought I'd check it out. I like it.

Vashti Bunyan - Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind
  [gatefold sleeve, 2LP] - Dicristina LP 2007
  First heard of Vashti when her album Just another Diamond Day was reissued. Got the vinyl (with bonus 45, oh yeah baby) and loved it. Then Lookaftering was released, but I didn't really get that. This however is a beautiful collection of old recordings, demos and such. Maybe I should give Lookaftering anonther chance.

Manolo Escobar Y Sus Guitarras - El primer bautizo
  Belter 7" 1960
  See the 7-inch series, part 482.

Luboš Fišer - Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Valerie a týden divu) OST
  [gatefold sleeve] - Finders Keepers LP 2006
Haunting music from a Czech movie from the seventies. It's on Finders Keepers so it's a must-have. Besides, Trish Keenan loves it. Nuff siad.

Foals - Red Socks Pugie
  Transgressive/Warner 7" 2008
  See the 7-inch series, part 483.

The Gutter Twins - God's Children
  Sub Pop 7" 2008
  Two of my favourite artists in one band - lovely. The B-side isn't on the Saturnalia album. Which is nice.

Jeanette - Porque te vas
  Hispavox 7" 1974
  Loved this track when I was a kid. It wasn't until many years later that I found out where it came from - the soundtrack of Cría cuervos by Carlos Saura. The film features the very young Ana Torrent who would later star in one of my favourite movies, Vacas by Julio Medem and also in Alejandro Amenábar's Tesis.

The La's - The La's
  Plain LP 1990/2008
  I lost my original copy so when I found this reissue I had to take it with me. Classic, classic, classic.

LCD Soundsystem - Big Ideas
  DFA 12" 2008
  It's on the original soundtrack of 21. It sounds pretty clean for an LCD track, a bit too clean, even. I bought it without listening to it (what's up with record stores that have no vinyl listening spots, anyway?). The Babytalk remix on the flip is decent enough though.

Liesbeth List - Pastorale
  Philips 7" 1968
  The title track with singer and actor Ramses Shaffy is a Dutch classic written especially for List and Shaffy by Lennaert Nijgh and Boudewijn de Groot. The beautiful lyrics are a conversation between the sun (Shaffy) and the earth (List).

Robert Mitchum - Calypso Is Like So...
  Capitol LP 1957/1984
  According to the record store guy "they" have been talking about reissuing this album for ages, without it resulting in an actual release. It already has been reissued once, in 1984, but even those are not very easy to find these days. So I had to pay quite a bit for this one, but it's worth it. Robert Mitchum the badass actor singing calypso songs, you can hardly beat that.

Miguel de los Reyes Y Su Conjunto - Gitanos y flamencos
  Regal 7" 1961
  Four nice flamenco tracks in a beautiful sleeve - you gotta love 'em.

Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Nancy & Lee
  Reprise LP 1968
  About ten years ago I took a shot at my fifteen minutes of fame with the Spanish band Las Solex. I was the singer and I wrote a song about a guy who lost all he had because he was in love with Nancy Sinatra's voice. I still think it's one of the most beautiful female voices I ever heard. Have this one on CD but now I can ditch it - you can't knock the vinyl, my friends.

Foals - Red Socks Pugie
label: Transgressive/Warner
year: 2008
side a: Red Socks Pugie
side b: Gold Gold Gold
www.wearefoals.com | www.myspace.com/foals

Got this in Rotterdam a couple days ago. Foals rock. Haven't had the chance yet to see them live, but with a little bit of luck I'll see them in Madrid in December. "Red Socks Pugie" is the third single off the fine Antidotes album, the B-side isn't on the album. Which is nice.

Manolo Escobar Y Sus Guitarras - El primer bautizo
label: Belter
year: 1960
side a1: El porompompero
side a2: El primer bautizo
side b1: Ave María no morro
side b2: Te canto con mis guitarras

Found this one yesterday in an excellent second hand store in Rotterdam called Demon Fuzz. Check out that sleeve - it's beautiful. I love "El porompompero", the way Escobar ends each verse with the first two syllables of the next. Nice. The song is also featured on the other Manolo Escobar single I have. The words to "El primer bautizo" make me feel kind of incomfortable - it's an unashamedly cheesy song about how proud he feels to witness his firstborn getting baptised. I suppose you have to have a firstborn getting baptised to feel this song. And a devoted catholic who understands Spanish, of course.

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www.myspace.com/dunkorama

Selection and vox: PJ, Robinho and Lubacov.
Playlist:

Woestst

Bad Brains - Leaving Babylon [ROIR]
Matty G ft. Juakali - '80s Crush [Argon]
Professionals - The Backstabbers [Numero Group]
The Prime Mates - Hot Tamales [SoulJazz]
Kokolo - Girls on Film [Record Kicks]
Nathaniel Mayer - Why Dontcha Show Me [Alive]
Porgy Jones - Dap [SoulJazz]
Mickey Moonlight - Interplanetary Music [Ed Banger]
Minimono - Sweet Murmur [Love Letters from Oslo]
Bostro Pesopeo - Falls (Hercules Love Affair rmx) [Permanent Vacation]
Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go too [Feedelity/Smalltown Supersound]
Roots Manuva - Again and Again [Big Dada]

The Outsiders - Me Song (flexi disc)
label: Monkey Business
year: 1994
side a1: Me Song
side a2: Me Song (Version)

The Outsiders - The Outsiders
label: Beat Crazy
year: 1994
side a1: Talk to Me
side a2: Lying All the Time
side b1: If You Don't Treat Me Right
side b2: I Want to Know

I'd heard of The Outsiders of course, and I had seen their lead singer and Nederbeat icon Wally Tax play solo a couple times, but I never paid much attention to the band's records until I moved to Madrid in the nineties. I was working for a record distributor and we had loads of clients all over the place who went crazy every time an Outsiders reissue or bootleg was announced. They'd order dozens of copies at a time. One of my best clients, Manuel from the Emily mailorder company, was particularly enthousiastic about the band. I'd be on the phone with the man for hours, mostly just naming the new titles and then listening to Manolo talk and talk and talk. I learned a lot from him about the music made in my home country in the sixties.

After a while I started writing for a magazine called Beat Generation and they asked me if I could do a phoner interview Wally Tax. So I did. It was fun, he was a very funny man. Pity I haven't got the magazine where it was featured, because I don't really remember what we talked about, just that we laughed a lot during the conversation.

Ouke Baas - Live at the Cumsucker Casino
label: Kelt
year: 1990
side a1: Jambalaya
side a2: Crazy 'bout Your Beaver
side b1: Save the Tapir
side b2: Draggin' Around

Ouke Baas - Chainsaw Nazi
label: Quality of Life
year: 1993
side a: Jambalaya
side b: You're an Ashtray

We used to scream their name at the top of our lungs. Out of the blue, without reason, just because we felt like it. "Ooooouuukkeeeeeee!" (which sounded something like "ow-ke"). Whenever we needed to rent a van or a car we got one from the car rental the band took its name from, so we could hang out of the window while driving uttering our war cry. I loved Ouke Baas. Band members had names like Fuckface and Pretty Boy, and they were noisy. I had them in the studio a couple times at Amsterdam FM - an adventure, every time they came around. Some of them played in other bands such as The Kliek and Loveslug, and the world famous Treble Spankers rose from the ashes of Ouke.

I believe the band had already ceased to exist when "Chainsaw Nazi" was released - "Cumsucker Casino" is to my knowledge the only single they released while they were still around. Ouke Baas were a live band more than anything.

By the way, the reverse-speech piece at the end of "Jambalaya" says something sweet about Karen Carpenter: click.

Carlos Otero - Weine keine Tränen um mich, Bella Maria
label: Polydor
year: 1961
a-side: Weine keine Tränen um mich, Bella Maria
b-side: Die roten Segel im Hafen von Napoli
www.myspace.com/carlosalmenarotero

Another single I saved from oblivion by taking it from its box in the cellar at my mother's house. Apparently this was a hit in the Dutch charts of 1963. I wonder what my mum was like back then. I've always been intrigued by her musical taste - it's pretty broad. I've seen her shaking her behind to Otis and Gladys Knight, but she also likes this really cheesy German Schlager stuff. It's probably in her genes - she's from Indonesia but her maiden name is very, very German. She doesn't speak the language, though.

Anyways. Carlos Almenar Otero is an opera singer from Venezuela who ended up in Germany in the sixties, had tremendous success in Europe, Japan and South America, and is now a voice pedagogue.
There's a video of the b-side on YouTube: clicky.

Osaka Monaurail - We Got One (A Show)
label: Our Label
year: 2007
a-side: We Got One (A Show)
b-side: We Got One (A Show) (Instrumental)
www.myspace.com/osakamonaurail

I was in my soon to be hometown Madrid earlier this year, and my buddies and me went to the Kathmandu club one night to see if we could still do them crazy dance moves. There was a guy spinning the most insane funk tunes I had heard in a long time. He was wearing a T-shirt that said "Happily married" and he was playing 45s only, which he kept in a beautiful wooden case. I went up to him to thank him for a great night and to ask for his email address - I wanted to try to convince my boss to book him for one of the funk nights we do at da club. Normally they don't really listen to our suggestions, but you never know, right? The DJ turned out to be Gu, the man running Our Label Records. He gave me two 45s as a present, bless him, one by the Magnificent Freedom and this one. As expected, I didn't succeed at getting him booked at da club, and now that I'm leaving I don't think it'll ever happen.

Osaka Monaurail are playing in Madrid in November. Unfortunately we won't move there until the end of the month so I won't be able to see them, but I'd love to. If only to see with my own eyes that the singer is really Japanese and not someone looking a lot like James Brown.

But wait, there always YouTube:

Anne Briggs - Sing a Song for You
  Bo'Weavil WEAVIL 20 LP 2008

Cult Cargo: Belize City Boil up - V/A
  [gatefold sleeve, 2LP] - Numero Group LP 2005

Eccentric Soul: The Big Mack Label - V/A
  [gatefold sleeve, 2LP] Numero Group LP 2006

Essential Dub - V/A
  Roir LP 2008

The Free Pop Electronic Concept - A New Exciting Experience
  Wah Wah Vampi Soul LP 2008

Matty G - Take You Back
  [3LP] Argon LP 2008

The Heliocentrics - Out There
  [2LP] - Now Again LP 2007

Kuniyuki - Remixed Vol. 2
  Mule Musiq 12" 2008

Las Vegas Grind! Volume Six - V/A
  Strip LP 2000

Lil' Tony / Boola - Basement Tracks EP
  Innervisions 12" 2008

Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go too
  [2LP] - Feedelity/Smalltown Supersound LP 2008

Nathaniel Mayer - Why Don't You Give It to Me?
  [purple marbled vinyl] - Alive LP 2007

Minimono / Markus Fix - Sweet Murmur / House in the House
  Love Letters from Oslo 12" 2008

Mickey Moonlight - Interplanetary Music
  Ed Banger 12" 2008

Portishead - Third
  [special edition box set w/ USB memory stick, etched 12" Machine Gun, Nick Uff print] - Universal Island LP 2008

Soul Shaker Vol. 5 - V/A
  Record Kicks LP 2008

Some Songs Stuck in My Mind - V/A
  Crazy Apple Boutique LP 2007

Emilíana Torrini - Me and Armini
  Rough Trade LP 2008

You Don't Know: Ninja Cuts Sampler - V/A
  Ninja Tune 12" 2008

ORS - Moon-boots
label: Salsoul
year: 1977
a-side: Moon-boots
b-side: Moon-boots (Instrumental)

Disco hit by the Orlando Riva Sound, a German band formed by Anthony Monn, a.k.a. Schlager singer Tony Monn and Rainer Pietsch, a Schlager producer. Monn has written and produced many of Amanda Lear's hits, composed songs for Al Bano & Romina Power and wrote Peter Schilling's "Major Tom".

I got the single from some second hand store in Barcelona, I didn't know the band, just thought I should be good since it was on Salsoul. When I heard it first it turned out I did know the song. Which was nice.

Check this "funky fresh fun" video:

Ever since I started posting MP3 rips of my own 45 collection I've been getting emails from bands or people representing bands. "I really dig your blog, please post these tracks and write something about them", so they tell me. Which I find surprising, as up until today I was writing in Dutch, and I simply couldn't believe so many people all over the world would be able to read and understand the language which sound has been described by one of my friends as that of a serious throat disease.

I kept promising them and myself to at least try to write about them, but I just haven't got enough time.

Today I got an MP3 in my mailbox from the good people of Domino Records USA, one by the wonderful Juana Molina, whose album Un día is coming out next week. I already ordered my vinyl copy from my local wax pusher, or tried to, because so far only the CD version has been announced. And I don't buy CDs, because I'm a snob. I really hope they'll release it on vinyl, because if Un día's only half as good as its predecessor Son, it'll be worth every eurocent.

The MP3 of Un día's title track can also be found on the Domino website, as are a couple of short video clips of the interview Uncensored Interviews did with this great Argentinian singer and actress. Download it, watch them. You need it.

download: Juana Molina - Un día
www.juanamolina.com | www.myspace.com/juanamolina

update October 7: Domino man tells me no vinyl.
what.
the.
fuck?

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Enola Gay
label: Virgin
year: 1980
a-side: Enola Gay
b-side: Annex
www.omd.uk.com | www.myspace.com/officialomdmyspace

My friend Gerwin (I think it was his birthday yesterday - if you ever read this: congrats old boy!) and I wanted to go to the Pinkpop fest in 1986 and G came up with the simple but brilliant idea to hire a bus for 50+ people. We could sell bus tickets cheap so we could get to the event for free and maybe even make a couple of guilders. So we did, and we called ourselves "Enola Gay Enterprises". G made the company logo (something with wings and little lines to indicate the thing was moving fast), we hung up posters at school with my phone number on them and within days we had a bus full of people. Most of them didn't even attend our school. It was a success, and we did it again in '87 and '88.

Of course I had to buy the single, even though I wasn't really into OMD. I was only just warming up to synth bands - I was quite the rockist back then. Around the same time I saw them perform at Parkpop in The Hague, and to my surprise I liked them. There was a guy waving a U2 flag in the audience and Andy McCluskey said something along the lines of "I know we're not half as good as them, right?" which was met with a lot of howling from a big part of the crowd. I found it touching, don't know why. But from then on I liked them, even though I didn't really run to the record store to get all of their albums.

OMD split up in 1989, with McCluskey keeping the name and releasing three more albums. Now he and Paul Humphreys are back together and they started their 30th anniversary tour only last week.

Net als de dUNKcast heb ik the pod van radio lubacov ook maar meteen naar pod-O-matic verhuisd. Dat betekent dat je ook de url waarmee je je hebt geabonneerd op the pod ff moet aanpassen.

Hier de uitzending van Planeet Polly van vandaag.

traxx:
Solomon Ilori And His Afro-Drum Ensemble - Igbesi Aiye [Honest Jon's]
Marc Moulin - La Blouse [Counterpoint]
Hu Vibrational - Bron from the Sea [SoulJazz]
The Heliocentrics - Sirius B [Now Again)
Zombie Zombie - Nightclubbing [Versatile]
The Free Pop Electronic Experiment - Chewing Gum Delirium [Wah Wah Vampi Soul]
Pop Levi - (A Style Called) Crying Chic [Counter]
Stereolab - Valley Hi! [4AD]
The Time & Space Machine - Reeling [5D]
Love - The Daily Planet [Elektra]
Los Goya - Cow Girl [Hundergrum]
Asha Bosle w/ R.D. Burman - Dum Maro Dum [GR]
Alfred Panou & Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Je Suis un Sauvage [Comet]
Budos Band - King Cobra [Daptone]
Nathaniel Mayer - Doin' It [Alive]

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Planeet Polly op Radio Centraal, 106.7FM Antwerpen, iedere vrijdag 18-19u.

Oliver Onions - Sandokan
label: RCA
jaar: 1976
kant a: Sandokan
kant b: Sweet Lady Blue
www.oliveronions.com

Ik was net niet oud genoeg om helemaal te begrijpen waar Sandokan eigenlijk over ging, maar ik vond het reuze spannond, zo'n woeste man die tijgers aan zijn mes reeg en mooie vrouwen redde. Ik herinner me vaag de spectaculaire slo-mo beelden waarin hij onder een tijger duikt. Zwaar onder de indruk.

Het muziekje (van Oliver Onions, het pseudoniem waaronder het Italiaanse broederduo Guido en Maurizio De Angelis schuilgaat) is me altijd dierbaar gebleven. Toen ik de single vorig jaar voor een euro of zo tegenkwam in een winkeltje in Barcelona ging-ie dan ook meteen mee. Vetjusss!

Various Artists - One Step Ahead
label: Straight Ahead
jaar: 1999
kant 1a: Pencil Brain - Follow Me
kant 1b: Tosca - Natural High
www.myspace.com/pencilbrain | www.myspace.com/toscak7

kant 2a: Freeform Arkestra - Playin' Cool
kant 2b: Amaka - Roses (Earthbound Remix)

kant 3a: J Swinscoe Presents: The Cinematic Orchestra - Diabolous
kant 3b: Two Banks Of Four - Skylines over Rooftops
www.myspace.com/thecinematicorchestras | www.myspace.com/twobanksoffour

kant 4a: Absent Minded - Capital "L" City
kant 4b: Earthbound - Reggie's Escape (Attica Blues Remix)
www.myspace.com/adltheswede | www.myspace.com/earthboundensemble

kant 5a: Hidden Agenda - Something Somewhere
kant 5b: Mark & Seven - Go Ahead

kant 6a: Earthbound - Cyclone
kant 6b: Sol - Longstreet Hustle
www.myspace.com/solgalarreta

kant 7a: Mijatoho - The Nth Conclusion
kant 7b: Freeform Arkestra - Last Drum Poet
www.myspace.com/mijatoho
www.straightaheadrec.com

Ik hou van albums die in 7-inchvorm verschijnen. Ze zijn als haringdrop op de vroege morgen - verrassend, verfrissend, troostend.
Deze kreeg ik van mijn vriend David El Gran Lapofsky voor mijn 29ste verjaardag.