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Prairie Dog Flesh - Take the Green Over the Red (3 LOBED)

The first release from this Bardo side project (featuring pretty much everyone in the band) So, it comes as no surprise that the collection of songs that make up Take the Green over the Red sound quite a bit like Bardo Pond.

"The Winged Dog" starts with a two note delayed guitar line, panning slowly across the speakers while Clint talks over the repetitious fuzz. Drums pulse only in the deep recesses of the mix. The distorted blues chord riff of "Vampire Squid" combined with the simple vocal line are probably the closest the Bardo's will get to sounding like they're a pop band from Olympia, Washington. The delicate last track, "Donovan Out," is played with a single acoustic guitar and accented by quiet bongos, both accompanying hushed vocals. The resulting album is an hour of the primal sonic love, PDF are more free form, less specific. Sit back and take a trip
Prairie Dog Flesh - Take the Green Over the Red

Galactus' Helmet
Husk
The Winged Dog
Gila
Roundheads
Onion
Vampire Squid
Unlit Effigy
Spleen#2
Donovan Out

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V/A - Heavyweight Sound | 2 Heavyweight

Out of the many reggae reissue labels that plied their trade in the '90s, none did it with more care than Blood & Fire Records. Choosing to use the fertile '70s era as a launching pad, (with dub being a particular speciality), B&F reissued classic albums by such legends as The Congos, I Roy, King Tubby, and Scientist.
Here's the first and second installments of the Blood & Fire Heavyweight Samplers. You will not be disappointed, both collections are filled with the creme de la creme of heavy sounds from the "golden" age of reggae that you're ever going to find. They include massive dubs from I,Roy, The Congos, Prince Alla, Philip Frazier, Tappa Zukie, King Tubby, Burning Spear,Horace Andy,etc with many of the cuts exclusive to these compilations.
A word of warning though!!!!

These samplers could seriously damage your pockets - as you will certainly be tempted to try out some of the featured albums... One not to miss !!!!

V/A - Heavyweight Sound

1. Real Gone Crazy Dub - King Tubby & The Aggrovators

2. Jah Is I Guiding Star - Tappa Zukie & The Aggrovators

3. Falling Dub - Prince Philip & The Musical Intimidators

4. Marcus Children Suffer - Burning Spear & The Black Disciples

5. Black Heart - Hudson, Keith & The Soul Syndicate

6. Problems - Andy, Horace

7. Problems Dub - Andy, Horace & Prince Jammy

8. Rock Vibration - Yabby You & King Tubby

9. War And Friction - I-Roy & The Aggrovators

10. Living Style - Yabby You & King Tubby

11. Black Right - Hudson, Keith & The Soul Syndicate

12. Judgement Dub - Prince Philip & The Musical Intimidators

13. Marcus Say Jah No Dead - Burning Spear & The Black Disciples

14. Dub Fi Gwan - King Tubby & The Aggrovators

V/A - 2 Heavyweight

I Roy - Late Hour

Glen Brown & King Tubby - World Dub: Away With The Bad

Jah Stitch - Ragga Muffin Style

The Congos - La La Bam-Bam (Alternative mix)

King Tubby & Santic Allstars - Shooter Dub

Phillip Fraser - You're No Good (Discomix)

The Congos - The Wrong Thing (Alternative mix)

Prince Alla - Only Love Can Conquer

Jah Stitch - Jah Help The Dread

Scientist & Soul Syndicate - Dub Bible

King Tubby & The Aggrovators - Higher Ranking

Prince Alla & Phillip Fraser - Black Rose

King Tubby & Soul Syndicate - Great Stone

Glen Brown & King Tubby - Version 78 Style

I Roy - Superfly (Extended mix)

Prince Jammy & The Aggrovators - Drums of Africa

Blood and Fire

Here & Now - Gospel of Free (Live & Jammin' 76-78)

Powerful live improvising psychedelia recorded at Free Festivals and urban squats in the late '70s with wonderfully remastered sound. A fitting testament to Beautiful (or Floating) Anarchy, the ethos of the Festival Movement of which Here & Now were such a vital component.

Here & Now - Gospel of Free
1. Hairy Barber
2. Fredest Air Travels
3. Bom Shiva Shanka
4. Soviet Kommercial Radio
5. Strawberry
6. Summer's Coming

Keith Missile: Bass, Vocals
Kif Kif: Drums, Vocal
sSteffe Sharpstrings: Guitar, Vocals
Gavin da Blitz: Synths, Vocals
Annie Wombat: Vocals
Bella: Vocals
Gilli Smyth: Spacewhisper
George Bishop: Saxophone

I recently got hold of the excellent 'live at Bristol gardens- jubilee 1977' cd for £7 [ includes p&p] buy it here at the bands own label free love records
Here & Now page by Dave Weller
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Herman Düne- Mas Cambios

This is an anti-folk album that’s far too hard to get a handle on, there’s nothing concrete to grab, it’s all air. How about some facts? We can maybe build on something there. Herman Dune are two Jewish Swedish brothers (David-Ivar Herman Dune and Andre Herman Dune) who live in Paris, record in New York, and give it a slab of Americana like steak. The non-American factor is important: they’re non-Americans composing American culture, living in it as well. It’s non-American Americana, an outsider’s view, in a genre which seems to consist of just itself, Herman Dune are a revelation.

Herman Düne- Mas Cambios

1. With A Fistful of Faith

2. Red Blue Eyes

3. Show Me The Roof

4. My Friends Kill My Folks

5. In The Summer Camp

6. In August

7. You Stepped on Sticky Fingers

8. Sunny Sunny Cold Cold Day

9. At Your Luau Night

10. Winners Lose

11. The Static Comes from my Broken Heart

12. So Not What I Wanted

not on top here

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aboombong : asynchronic

i listened to this wonderful album last night and was truly blown away,i suggest you pop over and have a listen-a must for anyone interested in out there music.

Style(s): afro-ambient noise, musique concrète, minimalism, experimental
Toys: field recording, split bamboo marimba, Turkish darbuka, Punjabi ektara, Vietnamese jack fruit danmo, camel bells, elephant bells, goat bells, bone cymbal mallets, Trinidadian tenor steelpan, homemade surdo, piano, 5-string prepared electric guitar, Kawai K3, sequencer, effects, tape-manipulation, drum kit.

you can listen to it or download over at PEN & MALLET

Mouse on Mars - Niun Niggung

Mouse on Mars dabble in complex, heavily hybridized forms that include everything from ambient, techno, and dub to rock, jazz, and jungle. Working from Werner's studio, the pair fused an admiration for the early experiments of Krautrock outfits like Can, Neu!, Kluster, and Kraftwerk into an offbeat update including influences from the burgeoning German techno and ambient scenes
It's all too easy to assume that bands wielding multiple laptops can suffer from too much book learnin'. Not so with Mouse on Mars. The German band's sixth full-length, Niun Niggung, is like a child's playroom with electronic toys run amuck. Percolating beats ascend to the surface only to pop like soap bubbles, while tacked-together melodies are as likely to disintegrate midsong as they are to wobble to the conclusion. Check out the frenetic clambering of steel drums and the fat warped `bouncing ball' snare of diskdusk. The ska-reggae influence is heavily evident on niun nugging and is used to good effect.
Mouse on Mars - Niun Niggung

1. Download Sofist

2. Yippie

3. Pinwheel Herman

4. Super Sonig Fadeout

5. Booosc

6. Discdusk

7. Gogonal

8. Albion Rose

9. Mompou

10. Distroia

11. Wald FX

12. Circloid Bricklett Sprungli

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Alexander Sopchek - Masks

In the lineage of Sun Ra, Fela and other unclassifiable artists, a musician from Belgrade constructs his own sonic universe, rooted in the rhythms of Africa and branching out into future jazz. Masks was Sopchek's first album for Cosmic Sounds, released in 2000 and is entirely dedicated to Africa, particularly Kenya and Tanzania.

7 tracks, no pigeonholes, File under clever bastard beatnik shit, or something. Sopchek is throwing a virtual party in his studio just outside Belgrade, Yugoslavia. He has invited African pygmies, a witch doctor, half a Kenyan tribe, a jazz group with brass section and a set of pedigree drum loops. In other words this is a solo album cunningly assembled from scraps and samples by a producer who loves jazz and African music. Now my theory is that if you work in this way, your music will ultimately be banal, but Sopchek has so much flair and sheer, big hearted vibe that he comes within a hair's breadth of proving me wrong. The album is infectious. Perfect for your next loud party, especially if you're inviting clever bastard beatniks.
Alexander Sopchek - Masks
01 DESTINY DAWN (Song of courage)
02 COCONUT (Man must work in order to be strong)
03 AKAMBA (Witch doctor)
04 ERASTO (The thief was finaly arrested)
05 VUGO (Wedding)
06 DODO (Funeral dance)
07 INTO THE NIGHT (Evil ones Are drawn out)
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