November 2008 Archief

We're off to Madrid. Forever and ever. No updates here until we're fully installed and connected to the interweb and all that.
See you on the other side.

Los Piolines - Anunciado en t.v.
label: Munster
year: 1996
side a1: Huevosaurio
side a2: Patos
side a3: No todo lo que grunge es una fiera
side a4: Minimanía
side a5: Yellow Fever
side b1: Atari
side b2: Relatividad
side b3: I Am a Winner
side b4: Guachisnai
side b5: La hormiguita punk
side c1: Dracula
side c2: 10 en punkitud
side c3: I Wanna Be Kike Turmix
side c4: El jevi no es biolencia 2
side c5: No quiero pensar
side d1: Wonderbra
side d2: Algo grande
side d3: Salvaje
side d4: Fistfucking
side d5: Megan

The fun we had with these guys. Their gigs were always very, err, let's call them 'eventful', and they had as many avid fans as people hating them. No-one was safe for them, Los Piolines (Piolín is the Spanish name for cartoon character Tweety) made fun of literally everyone (themselves first, of course). Tis a pity they split up, would have been nice to see them again.

This double single in gatefold sleeve is the vinyl version of their debut album No quiero pensar, minus six songs.

The Pinker Tones/Astrud Gilberto - If Not for You
label: Wah Wah
year: 2002
side a: Astrud Gilberto - If Not for You
side b: The Pinker Tones - If Not for You
www.thepinkertones.com | www.myspace.com/thepinkertones
www.astrudgilberto.com

Got this as a promo from Jordi at his Wah Wah record shack in Barcelona. He released it on his label, on white vinyl and in a deluxe sleeve. Astrud Gilberto recorded this Bob Dylan cover on the 1971 With Stanley Turrentine album. The Pinker Tones have since gone on to become one of Spain's most successful bands in club land.

Here's a video for a more recent song, "Happy Everywhere":

The Piglets - Johnny Reggae
label: Bell
year: 1971
side a: Johnny Reggae
side b: Johnny Reggae (Instrumental)

One of the singles from my mum's collection and one of my favourites when I was a kid - I thought, and think, it was a very funny song. At first I didn't really get the moaning in the break, but that probably had something fi do with my age.
The Piglets were produced by Jonathan King.

Pigbag - Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag
label: RCA
year: 1982
side a: Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag
side b: The Back Side

Pigbag - The Big Bean
label: RCA
year: 1982
side a: The Big Bean
side b: Scumda

The first time I heard Pigbag's "Papa's Got a Brand New Pig Bag" was on TV. The song was used as the intro of a Dutch program on (underground) youth culture in the eighties called Je ziet maar. My mother didn't like it because they talked about sex and punk and stuff. I was about thirteen so I had to see it, if only to go against my mum's wishes. I always loved the song, and when it was played on school disco nights or even at the carnival parties at the local "alternative" youth club I danced my ass off to it.

Many years later I found the single in some ramsj in Spain and to my surprise the B-side held the sample I was intrigued by on Instrümental's "100 Pies". Which was nice.

Edith Piaf - Milord
label: La Voz de Su Amo
year: 1957
side a: Milord
side b: Je sais comment

You gotta love her.

Esther Phillips - What a Diff'rence a Day Makes
label: Omega
year: 1975
side a: What a Diff'rence a Day Makes
side b: Turn around, Look at Me

I thought I was buying a nice little easy listening tune when I handed the sales guy my three euros in exchange for this here slab of wax, but when I listened to it at home I found it's a extremely annoying disco version of Dinah Washington's classic. Which, by the way, is a version of a Mexican bolero called "Cuando vuelva a tu lado".
The horror, the horror.

I didn't know much about Ms. Phillips but I didn't expect her to have recorded stuff like this. I don't dislike disco, quite the contrary, but this is one 45 I wouldn't have bought had I had the opportunity to listen to it. It's even worse than that übercheesy version of "Night and Day" by Francis Albert I own - come to think of it, I probably got it from the same guy, at some record fair. At least that one has a kind of Loveboaty feel to it that makes me chuckle.

The Pharcyde - Otha Fish
label: Delicious Vinyl
year: 1993
side a: Otha Fish
side b: Pharcyde Live at Dodger Stadium
www.myspace.com/thepharcyde

The Pharcyde - Runnin'
label: Delicious Vinyl
year: 2005
side a: Runnin'
side b: Emerald Butterfly

I don't know why I don't know the other ones but Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde is the only Pharcyde album I actually, erm, know. That's three knows in one sentence, I know. I heard Labcabincalifornia when it came out but I guess I wasn't into it. Except for this single "Runnin'" (produced by the mighty J Dilla) which I loved. I bought that ten years too late though as a re-issue, when stores started stocking loads of Dilla-produced stuff after he passed away.

The Last Shadow Puppets - My Mistakes Were Made for You
label: Domino
year: 2008
side a: My Mistakes Were Made for You
side b: Paris Summer ft. Alison Mosshart - Live from the Olympia Theatre, Paris
www.thelastshadowpuppets.com | www.myspace.com/thelastshadowpuppets
www.theageoftheunderstatement.com

The Last Shadow Puppets - My Mistakes Were Made for You
label: Domino
year: 2008
side a: My Mistakes Were Made for You
side b: Separate and Ever Deadly - Live from New Theatre, Oxford

New single, and as usual Domino released two versions with identical A-sides and different B-sides. This time the flips are two live tracks, one of which features Alison Mosshart of The Kills, with whom they're performing Nancy and Lee's "Paris Summer". Which is nice.

New podcast: Planeet Polly broadcast of November 14th, 2008. It was my last one (Planeet Polly will of course continue), Polly herself was there and so was the legendary Mr. Oyl Butcher adding shouts and non-descript, err, comments.
The sound's a bit rough and it's longer than an hour as the guys from Beuling didn't show, so we helped ourselves to an extra twenty minutes or so.

Click to hear it or click to subscribe.

Playlist:
Butthole Surfers - Kuntz [Touch & Go]
Señor Soul - Pata Pata [Beat Goes Public]
Siegfried Schwalb - High Snobiety [Showup]
Malcolm Locks - Get up Stand up [Showup]
The Vibrettes - Humpty Dump [Lujon]
Sir Victor Uwaigo - Dododo [Soundway]
The Olympians - O Alexis [Universal]
Boudewijn de Groot - Een meisje van zestien [Decca]
The Kinks - A Dedicated Follower of Fashion [Reprise]
Johnny Cash - Don't Think Twice It's Alright [CBS]
Robert Johnson - Come on in My Kitchen [Columbia]
Lucas & The Mike Cotton Sound - Ain't Love Good Ain't Love Proud [Sequel]
The Shangri-La's - Easier to Cry [Red Bird]
The Egyptians - Party Stomp [Norton]
The Pebbles - I Wanna Be Loved by You [Planet Pimp]
The Driving Stupid - Horror Asparragus Stories [BFD]
Claude Denjean - Kiss This [Discomagic]
Hot Chocolate - Emma [RAK]
Lee Hazlewood - Poet Fool or Bum [EMI]
The Swinging Neckbreakers - Thinkin' Man's Girl [Telstar]
Jeanette - Porque te vas [Hispavox]
Bruce Haack - Electric to Me Turn [Columbia/Omni]
Yma Sumac - Choladas [Capitol]
Ananda Shankar - Dancing Peacocks [Fallout]
Tom Waits - Blind Love [Island]
Son Of Dave - Low Rider [Kartel]

Phantom Hand Band - Banger 'n Mash
label: Cottage
year: 2006
side a: Bangers 'n Mash (Original Version)
side b: Bangers 'n Mash (Swing Ball Version)

Sure fire hit from the Idjut Boys-run Cottage label. Phantom Hand Band are some kind of super group consisting of people from all over the place: Mat Ducasse (Skylab, Delusions Of Grandeur), Pete Z (Block16, Delusions Of Grandeur) and Tiff McGinnis a.k.a. Crazy Girl. The Idjuts were at the controls in the production room, and you know how they do, don't you? Dubbed-up disco galore!

Thee Phantom 5ive - Jump Start!
label: Solamente
year: 1996
side a: Jump Start!
side b: Surf Party

Nothing like a bit of good old fashioned surf music to wake a man up in the morning. I wonder what happened to this band. Or where they are.

A Place To Bury Strangers - The Box Set
label: Vacancy
year: 2008
side 1a: Missing You
side 1b: Sunbeam
side 2a: I Know I'll See You
side 2b: Half Awake
side 3a: Breathe
side 3b: Run around
www.aplacetoburystrangers.com | www.myspace.com/aplacetoburystrangers

A Place To Bury Strangers - I Know I'll See You
label: Rocket Girl
year: 2008
side a: I Know I'll See You
side b: I Know I'll See You (Clapp Remix)

I saw these guys perform at the De Nachten fest where I was working last weekend - one of the few artists I actually could see. That's the thing about working for a promotor - you spend months preparing and promoting an event, and when it actually takes place you can't really enjoy it because you're working. Nag nag nag.

Anyways, saw these guys and they were awesome, except for the vocals not sounding quite the way they should - too dry, with no effects on them whatsoever. But the noise was good. Really, really loud, although the boys in the band wanted to crank it up to 116dBs (100 dBs was the maximum at the place and "A dangerous sound is anything that is 85 dB or higher" - they're called "the loudest band of New York City" for something). The Jesus And Mary Chain meets My Bloody Valentine meets
Spacemen 3. Lovely. Spent every euro I had in my pocket on the box set, "I Know" single and the self-titled album which is a double LP with one black and one orange vinyl. "I Know I'll See You" is also available on purple vinyl. I'm afraid that if I had had five euros more I would have bought that as well. I am quite idiotic like that. But I hadn't, so no harm done. Good thing I could get my drinks for free though.

Liz Phair - Carnivore
label: Minty Fresh
year: 1993
side a: Carnivore
side b: Carnivore (Raw)
www.lizphair.com | www.myspace.com/lizphair

Liz Phair - Supernova
label: Matador
year: 1994
side a: Supernova
side b: Combo Platter

Liz Phair was one of the coolest dudettes around back in the day. I loved her album Exile in Guyville - good lyrics, good music. Saw her live and that too was great. Then came Whip-Smart, which featured "Supernova", and after that I kind of lost interest. A couple of years ago she released a self-titled album which I didn't like at all - she sounded way too smooth for my liking and the promotional photos portrayed her like some kind of over-aged Britney-like schoolgirl, which I found a bit embarrassing. I haven't heard Somebody's Miracle.

Exile in Guyville has just been re-issued - if you don't own it yet, go get it it's worth it.

Lee Perry - I Am the Upsetter - The Rare Sevens Box Set
label: Trojan
year: 2005
side 1a: King Iwah - Give Me Power
side 1b: The Upsetters - The Tackro
side 2a: Leo Graham - News Flash
side 2b: The Upsetters - Flashing Echo
side 3a: The Upsetters - Bathroom Skank
side 3b: The Upsetters - One Room Skank
side 4a: The Upsetters - Dub Organiser
side 4b: The Upsetters - Bucky Skank
side 5a: The Upsetters - Stay Dread
side 5b: The Upsetters - Kingdom of Dub
side 6a: Eric Donaldson - Stand up
side 6b: The Upsetters - Dub fa Ya Rights
side 7a: Danny Hensworth - Mr. Money Man
side 7b: Danny Hensworth - Dub Money
side 8a: Annette Clark - Sinner Man Dub
side 8b: King Tubby - King Tubby ina Jamdung
www.myspace.com/leescratchperry

I got this as a present from my girl. She knows me so well. Lee Perry is a hero of both mine and hers, so it was a good gift. It's a collection of some rare and sought-after Scratch productions from the golden era 1968 - 1978, released as a follow-up/companion to the 4-CD box set "I Am the Upsetter". This is how I love my reggae the most: dubby, rugged and rootsy.

Perlitas o.l.v. Rudy Plaate - Perlitas
label: Philips
year: 197?
side a1: St. Christoffel
side a2: E neshi
side a3: Polka
side a4: Juffrouw Evi
side b1: Ik mag niet laat naar bed
side b2: Aruba
side b3: Nos juf
side b4: Mèmè

This is one of the records my mother must have bought for me and my little brother when we were living in dushi Kòrsou (I also own an LP by them). Perlitas is a children's choir led by singer/composer Rudy Plaate. I think the most famous singer coming from the choir is Izaline Callister - check a video of her singing "Cielito lindo" with Perlitas:

The single makes me want to go back to the island of which I have few but very nice memories. Maybe I should.

Peret - Borriquito
label: Ariola
year: 1971
side a: Borriquito
side b: Qué cosas tiene el amor
www.myspace.com/peretrumba

Peret - Canta y sé feliz
label: Supreme
year: 1974
side a: Canta y sé feliz
side b: Mi santa

Pere Pubill Calaf is no stranger to this site. The King of Rumba had one major hit in The Netherlands and Belgium with "Borriquito", and a slightly smaller one with "Canta y sé feliz" which was Spain's submission for the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest - the year Abba performed "Waterloo"; Peret ended up on number 9.

Peret is the inventor of the "ventilador" (fan) style of guitar playing, as shown in this video (it's in Spanish but you'll get the picture). He's in great part responsible for the popularisation of the Catalan rumba in Spain in the sixties and the rest of the world in the seventies.

Pepe Deluxé - Go for Blue
label: Catskills
year: 2007
side a: Go for Blue
side b: Go for Blue (An Optimo (Espacio) Version Radio Edit)
www.pepedeluxe.com | www.myspace.com/pepedeluxe

Excellent single by the Finnish combo, from their third album Spare Time Machine which according to the band "has received almost as many 'album of the year' awards as it has sold copies." The vocals are by Chris Cote from The Farangs and Solo Adultos. Also check out the hilarious video of their single "Salami Fever".

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This week's episode is called "Blackbird", made by Arne, PJ, Robinho & myself.

Tracklist:
Yma Sumac - Ataypura [Capitol Records]
Manfred Krug - Wenn's draussen grün wird [Showup Records]
The Pointer Sisters - Yes We Can Can [Blue Thumb Records]
Chip Wickham - Feel Alright [Lovemonk]
Pepe Deluxe - Go for Blue [Catskills]
Sir Victor Uwaifo - Mother Witch [Soundway]
LCD Soundsystem - Big Ideas [DFA]
Architeq - Birds of Prey [Tirk]
Daedelus - Twist the Kids (ft. N'fa) [Ninja Tune]
Yo Majesty - Blame It on the Change [Domino]
Gang Gang Dance - Dust [Warp]
Bing Ji Ling - Home (The Phenomal Handicap Band remix) [Lovemonk]
Boola - Predator [Innervisions]

The Pebbles - Rock Concert
label: Planet Pimp
year: 1993
side a: I Wanna Be Loved by You
side b: We're Going Shopping

Now these Pebbles I love. Technically a lot less gifted than yesterday's Pebbles, but all the more fun. This is one of the two singles they released on Planet Pimp. Can't find a whole lot more on the Japanese all-gril band, so I don't know if they released any more rekkids.

The Pebbles - Jane Suzy and Phil
label: United Artists
year: 1972
side a: Jane Suzy and Phil
side b: Love Fades away

No idea when, where and why I bought this single. I must have thought the name indicated they were some kind of cool garage band or something. Which they weren't. They had a big hit in the sixties with "Seven Horses in the Sky" - the Belgian Pop & Rock Archives even calls it "probably the best song ever to be made by a Belgian band" - quite a bold statement I'd say. It's alright, though. Unlike this single.

Pearl Jam - Alive
label: Epic
year: 1991
side a: Alive
side b: Once
www.pearljam.com | www.myspace.com/tenclub

Pearl Jam - The Fan Club Singles
label: Jeremy
year: 1993
side a1: Christmas Time
side a1: Ramblings
side b1: Sonic Reducer
side b2: Ramblings Cont.

I never was a very big fan of Pearl Jam. Not that I disliked them, I just wasn't as devoted as many people I knew. I am however a little bit proud to have seen them play live at the Paradiso in Amsterdam. It's in fact the only time I've seen them play. That Paradiso date was kind of a secret gig - I think they were playing some big venue elsewhere. I got in for free, lucky as I was to be working at the local radio station (and knowing "the right people"). To my surprise I liked them a lot more than I thought I would - a lot more than their records, too.

It was a short affair though. Eddie Vedder was having problems with his throat, I think they performed six songs or so, some of them half because the poor guy just couldn't cope. I felt sorry for them when they had to stop the show - Vedder looked heartbroken letting his fans down like that, even though it wasn't his fault.

I don't know where I got these singles, I don't think I paid for them. Because I wouldn't.

Yma Sumac died, age 86.

Pavement - Trigger Cut Plus Two
label: Big Cat
year: 1992
side a: Trigger Cut
side b1: Sue Me Jack
side b2: So Stark (You're a Skyscraper)

Pavement - Cut Your Hair
label: Big Cat
year: 1994
side a: Cut Your Hair
side b1: Camera
side b2: Stare

I heart Pavement. There's talk of a reunion, but I don't know about that. Would it be as good as it was back in the day?

Patrullero Mancuso - Vacío E.P.
label: Munster
year: 1990
side a1: El trabajo de odiar
side a2: Sólo
side b1: Esclavo
side b2: Hazlo otra vez
www.myspace.com/patrulleromancuso

Patrullero Mancuso - Desde el más allá
label: Munster
year: 1994
side a1: One More Time
side a2: El Rey Bicho
side b1: No estar
side b2: Na

Patrullero Mancuso - El halcón milenario
label: Elefant
year: 1997
side a: El halcón milenario
side b: Optimismo

I got to know two of the Patrulleros pretty well as they were my colleagues at the record distributor I where I worked in Madrid in the nineties. Sometimes we hung out in the suburb where they were living, Villaviciosa de Odón. Loads of bars there but only a few more or less good ones. Loads of bands, too. All of the Patrulleros were involved in several other bands and projects, and one of them, Murky, started his own label Alehop! to release the stuff he liked and nobody else wanted to put out. Their gigs were always very exciting, with all kinds of stuff happening, mostly because of drug and alcohol abuse by both band members and audience. It seems they're still around - I hope so, I'ld love to see them play again.

The early singles remind me a bit of Ariel Pink's sound. Which is nice.

If you understand Spanish, check this video where comic artist Mauro Entrialgo explains where the band took their name from (namely from Angelo Mancuso, a character from John Kennedy Tool's novel A Confederacy of Dunces.

I'm a bit behind with my showing off slash keeping track list of recent acquisitions. This one was supposed to go online a week ago.
New list is coming up in a couple days.

Beck - Gamma Ray
  [b/w Bonfire Blondes] - DGC 7" 2008
  See here.

Beck - Gamma Ray
  [b/w Gamma Ray Jay Reatard Version] - DGC 7" 2008

La Captura del Sonido - V/A
   [gatefold sleeve, 2CD] - Lovemonk CD 2008
  CD I got from my future colleagues. It's a fine selection of songs that according to the sleeve notes captures the spirit of the La Captura del Sonido radio show from Ibiza, hosted by Daniel Peñacoba who's also compiled this disc.

Gareth Dickson - Gareth Dickson
  Gareth Dickson CD 2008
  Saw this guy playing a fifteen minute set as a warm-up for Juana Molina at the Arenberg in Antwerp. Beautiful, beautfiul music. His guitar play reminds me of Cocteau Twins sometimes. Which is nice. And yes, it's a CD. I know I always say I don't buy CDs but hey, if you want the music and it's not on vinyl, you have to do the right thing and get it on CD. Even if you don't own a CD usable player.

Gareth Dickson - Spruce Goose
  Sleeping Man CD 2005

Bing Ji Ling - Home
  [white label, promo] - Lovemonk 12" 2008
  More homework from my future work place. Fine house and disco music, mixes by Tokyo Black Star, The Phenomenal Handclap Band and Blackjoy

Makala - Cartoon Tune
  [white label, promo] - Lovemonk - 7" - 2008
  See here.

Juana Molina - Tres cosas
  [gatefold sleeve, 2LP] - Domino LP 2002
  The predecessor of Son. Wonderful music this lady makes. Wonderful.

Juana Molina - Un día
  Acqua CD 2008
  Her new album is another sure fire hit at luba's. Too bad it's not coming out on vinyl. Too bad? A fucking shame more like. I asked the people at Domino's what's up, but I get no answer. Now I was forced to buy the CD, and I don't buy CD's.

Limón & Nada - V/A
  [transparent white vinyl, 2x10", promo] - Mono 10" 2008
  More homework. This is one of the branding things the label uses its sublabel Mono for. It's for some new drink by a big fruit juice producer. Pretty cool they put it out on a double 10" though, and with a couple good tunes on it, too.

Marulasoul - V/A
  [gatefold sleeve] - Lovemonk CD 2009
  Marula is one of the places I like to go to when in Madrid at night. Classy place where they play very decent music. This CD is one in a series of collaborations between my future bosses and the club.

Open Foraina & Jack Quiñonez - Fala Tanto
  Marulasoulfood 7" 2008
  See here.

Soul Vigilantes - Background Noise (ft. Xan Blacq)
  [white label, promo] - Lovemonk 12" 2008
  Yep! More homework. Edits and remixes by the great Pilooski and Pablo Sánchez, to be released in the next couple months.

Gecko Turner - Manipulado
  Lovemonk CD 2008
  While we're waiting for his proper new album, Lovemonk released this collection of remixes of tracks from his previous albums.

Watch TV & The Lovemonk Allstars - Wild Safari (ft. Gene García)
  [white label, promo] - Lovemonk 12" 2008
  Nice little afro-tinged dittie by Madrid-based Ruben García, with a remix by Metro Area's Darshan Jesrani.

Jack White & Alicia Keys - Another Way to Die
  [gold-coloured vinyl] - XL 7" 2008
  It's kind of a weird track, I don't think they fit too well together. Maybe it'll turn out to be "an acquired taste". But it's on gold-coloured vinyl, so I bought it anyway.

Chip Wickham - Feel Alright
  [white label, promo] - Lovemonk 7" 2008
  The man has worked with an impressive list of musicians and he's a member of Malena. Funkin' all over the place, this is.