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Funky Friday

THREE DAY WEEKEND

Your 4th o' July party pack of beats for your feets is ready for mass consumption. My "tip of the hat" to the departed MJ is Discovery's lovely cover of I Want You Back from their forthcoming album called LP. Filthy Dukes jam post-punk, pop and electronics into a slamming brew of catchiness. The Emperor Machine are your Miami Vice/sci-fi/Italo soundtrack dream - Kananana is pure disco fun. Sleazy McQueen is excellent scratchy NYC No Wave funk from the very tasty Bearfunk comp Hibernation Vol.1. The latest round of remastered reissues from the Rolling Stones is out - Tattoo You, Some Girls, Undercover and Emotional Rescue, which gives us the tough strut of Dance Pt.1. Aussie electro man Faux Pas sent me a dreamy little demo he made. One of my favorite records right now is Bodies Of Water by Minneapolis' own Solid Gold. They have achieved a perfect blend of rock riffage, heavenly pop choruses and electronic dance trickery that I can't get enough of. Blo are a vintage '70s funk combo out of Nigeria - I dare you to sit still through this one! Two more SIART faves - Miike Snow has hit my hi-fi like a hurricane these last couple of weeks. I was a bit meh at first and then it clicked. It is a lovely album of electronic adult contemporary pop with some rock-ist touches that is very hard to decribe or classify. One song reminds me of Spoon, another of Royksopp, another of something more pastoral like the Beach Boys. It is all over the place, but yet makes a great whole. Mos Def has a new record out called The Ecstatic, and I give it two thumbs up. It is a funky set of tracks featuring Mos' unique sing song flow over beats by Madlib, Mister Flash, Preservation, Chad Hugo and J Dilla. Talib Kweli raps on one tune - look for a reunited Black Star in the not too distant future!

Discovery - I Want You Back (In Discovery)
Filthy Dukes - Twenty Six Hundred
The Emperor Machine - Kananana
Sleazy McQueen - One Extra Day
The Rolling Stones - Dance Pt.1
Faux Pas - Vanderbilt (Demo)
Solid Gold - Synchronize
Blo - Get That Groove In
Miike Snow - Cult Logic
Mos Def - Casa Bey
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Discovery have announced a special early release of their new album, LP. "With the help of our friends at Amie Street, we are releasing the album a week early for only $8. When you purchase the album, $2 will be donated to Oxfam America, an international relief and development organization that creates lasting solutions to poverty, hunger, and injustice. Oxfam's focus on broad advocacy and local relief for the impoverished is inspiring and we hope our support brings more awareness about their projects and goals.

Click HERE to purchase the new album. We hope you enjoy it and thank you for supporting this excellent organization!

Rostam and Wes"

SIART Says...

LISTEN UP!

Spinnerette - Ghetto LoveOne of my current favorites is the new self titled debut album from Spinnerette. This is the new band fronted by former Distiller (and wife of Josh Homme) Brody Dalle. The record has her recording with Alain Johannes, former Red Hot Chili Pepper/Pearl Jam drummer Jack Irons and former Distiller bandmate Tony Bevilaqua. It is a sexy, raunchy, rockin' good time, filled with catchy choruses, and a pile up of grunge, punk, garage and new wave riffs. It is the perfect female companion to the last few QOTSA/Eagles Of Death Metal records, which Dalle, Johannes and Bevilaqua have all been involved in. People will probably be offended by the album cover's rather forward approach, but I am not one of them. (can't. stop. looking.) And ladies, because I believe in equal opportunity sexy, let me point you in the direction of this Twitpic of Lenny Kravitz's bubble butt that he posted a while back.

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Rye Rye - Bang feat.M.I.A.

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Tosca - Rosa

Alive & Kicking At The Country Club

The Associates - Club Country

The fault is, I can find no fault in you
Assault is say it or I'll say it for you
If we stick around we're sure to be looked down upon
What better way or should I say?

Alive and kicking

Alive and kicking at the Country Club
We're old and sickening at the Country Club
A drive from nowhere leaves you in the cold
Refrigeration keeps you young I'm told
Alive and kicking at the Country Club
We're old and sickening at the Country Club
Your limitations are our every care
Every breath you breath belongs to... someone there

At all's two words could they be soldered as one
Therein lies the perfect pseudonym
To think you've learned to know someone and find
That you don't know don't know them at all

Alive and kicking

Alive and kicking at the Country Club
We're always sickening at the Country Club
A drive from nowhere leaves you in the cold
Refrigeration keeps you young I'm told
Alive and kicking at the Country Club
We're old and sickening at the Country Club
Your limitations are our every care
Every breath you breath belongs to... someone there

Sad to see that you're suffering
Work hard at being a something
Sad to see that you're suffering
Work hard at being a something
Sad to see that you're suffering
Work hard at being a something

Alive and kicking at the Country Club
We're old and sickening at the Country Club
A drive from nowhere leaves you in the cold
Refrigeration keeps you young I'm told
Alive and kicking at the Country Club
We're always sickening at the Country Club
Your limitations are our every care
Every breath you breath belongs to someone there

Funky Friday Play List

It has been one hell of a crazy last couple of days, eh? Time to unwind with the beats you need to chill/party/rock the house with. A good selection - a couple of '80s classics by Herbie Hancock & M+M given the re-edit treatment by two of my faves, Dave Wrangler & Sir Billy. Alan Wilkis delivers a slice of prime Minneapolis sound funk. The Herbaliser Band are straight up live killer funk. The 18 Carat Love Affair give good synth rock disco. Stevie Wonder in dub? Oh yes... Lee Perry + Dubblestandart + Ari Up = skankin' goodness in Austria meets Jamaica dub stylee topped with post punk legend. Whomadewho give you a sweet bit of electro pop deliciousness, Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens is pure gospel soul, and Social Disco Club given the once over by Greg Wilson is just pure bliss. Yowsah!!

Alan Wilkis - Pink And Purple
The Herbaliser Band - Geddim!
The 18 Carat Love Affair - Constructs (Edit)
Stevie Wonder - Master Blaster Jammin'(Dub)
Herbie Hancock - Rock It (Dave Wrangler Remix)
Lee Perry & Dubblestandart feat. Ari Up - Surrender Dub
Whomadewho - Keep Me In My Plane (Reverso 68 Remix)
Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens - What Have You Done
Social Disco Club & Maia - The Way You Move [Greg Wilson Version]
M+M (aka Martha & The Muffins) - Black Stations White Stations (SirBilly 18 Carat Love Affair Re-Edit)

Michael Jackson RIP

Michael Jackson - RIP
P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)

My '70s Remastered

Big Star's seminal recordings #1 Record & Radio City have been available as a two-albums-on-one-CD for many years now. The problem has always been that the CD is mastered at a very quiet level, completely unfitting of the music contained within. All that has changed with Concord Music Group's remastering of the two. The new reissue also contains two tracks never before seen on CD. Suffice it to say that it sounds spectacular - punchy, loud and full of detail. It makes me so very happy. Here are a couple of classics - one from each album - demonstrating their power pop hugeness and their softer side. A must have.

Big Star - Feel

Big Star - September Gurls
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