Musicophilia Blog (by that guy who did '1981') Updates Thread

New mix up this morning, covering post post-punk tunes:

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Various - 'Post Post-Punk' (1983-1994)

01 Liquid Liquid - "Scraper" (1983) [3:41]
02 Camberwell Now - "Daddy Needs a Throne" (1984) [3:24]
03 ESG - "Erase You" (1983) [4:08]
04 Ex - "Machinary" (1983) [2:57]
05 Mark Stewart - "Jerusalem" (1983) [3:45]
06 Disco Inferno - "In Sharky Water" (1994) [4:40]
07 Biting Tongues - "Compressor" (1987) [4:52]
08 Trio - "Girl Girl Girl" (1983) [3:30]
09 Special AKA - "House Bound" (1984) [4:12]
10 Neon Judgement - "Please Release Me Let Me Go-Go" (1983) [4:34]
11 David Thomas - "Big Breezy Day" (1985) [3:24]
12 Thick Pigeon - "Dog" (1983) [2:21]
13 100 Flowers - "Horizontal" (1983) [1:06]
14 Blackouts - "It's Clay Again" (1983) [6:17]
15 Arthur Russell - "See-Through" (1986) [2:10]
16 Dog Faced Hermans - "Volkswagen" (1994) [5:35]
17 Creatures - "Weathercade" (1983) [2:48]
18 Death Comet Crew (ft Rammellzee) - "Exterior Street" (1984) [4:32]
19 Sonic Youth - "Shadow Of A Doubt" (1986) [3:32]
20 Cybotron - "Clear" (Edit) (1983) [3:21]
21 Colin Newman - "But I" (1986) [4:54]

[Total Time: 79:43]

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This one is upped as individual tracks, since that's how it was originally put together. Hope you guys like it. Flimsy as the premise may be, it's a nice listen, better coherence and flow than one might expect.

If an admin or moderator reads this:

Would it be possible to change the name of this thread to something like:

Musicophilia Blog (by that guy who did '1981') Updates Thread

Or something like that? Because I guess that's really what this has become. . .

Thanks!

looks cool! i'm still catching up -- haven't had time to listen to "the gloaming" mix, but looking forward to it. keep it up!

Tylerw -

'The Gloaming' and the other heavily mixed ones like that are my favorites--but I don't think many others agree. Hope you like it. Thanks for continuing to check them out.

got yer thread title change

The ‘Collide\Coallesce’ mix a while back was awesome I might add, I have much of the stuff in it but still couldn't sort it out all the time. I will check out the Gloaming mix next.

Pashmina--

Thanks for that! Just seems more accurate, it's no longer really an announcement of a new blog.

Sonderangerbot--

I'm glad you liked it--definitely the mix I've worked hardest on, thought out every tiny detail. 'Gloaming' is more low-key, but probably the fullest experience relative to length of mix (it's only 28 minutes long) of anything I've done. I'll be curious what you think.

I'm right now putting the finishing touches on six new mixes in the style of the 'Le Tour du Monde' mixes, created via the seemingly popular 'Miniatures' approach. . . Also another "full-sized" 'Le Tour du Monde' should be finished this week, and another 1981 volume or two will probably go up, along with another full album.

So keep your eyes peeled, some really great stuff coming in the next few days.

Starting a new series today that combines the 'Le Tour du Monde' musical territory with the short-and-sweet tendencies of the Miniatures Post-Punk mixes:

http://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/les-miniatures_volume12_front_small.jpg?w=500&h=500

Various Artists - ‘Les Miniatures’ Volume 12
(10″ LP, Musique du Monde, France - 1975)

Side A:
[00'00"] 01 PEOPLE - “Prologue” (1971, Japan)
[01'45"] 02 FAUST - “I’ve Got My Car and My TV” (1972, Germany)
[03'00"] 03 Henry COW - “Arcades” (1974, England)
[04'50"] 04 Curtis MAYFIELD - “Junkie Chase” (1972, USA)
[06'20"] 05 SEESSELBERG - “Eintrachtkreis-Paranoia” (1973, Germany)
[07'15"] 06 Kevin AYERS - “Two Goes Into Four” (1974, England)
[08'50"] 07 Sun RA - “Wurlitzer & Celeste” (1972, USA)
[10'35"] 08 Serge GAINSBOURG - “Ah! Melody” (1971, France)
[12'20"] 09 Joe UFER - “Drums on Phasing No. 6″ (1973, Germany)
[13'30"] 10 Paul SIMON - “Hobo’s Blues” (1972, USA)

Side B:
[00'00"] 01 Milton NASCIMENTO - “Saidas E Bandeiras No. 1″ (1972, Brazil)
[01'20"] 02 Raymond VINCENT - “Mouvement pour Arcet” (1973, France)
[02'30"] 03 Sly & THE FAMILY STONE - “Mother Beautiful” (1974, USA)
[04'15"] 04 Erkin KORAY - “Korkulu Ruya” (1974, Turkey)
[05'45"] 05 Orchester FRITZ MALDENER - “Wild Luck” (1973, Germany)
[07'20"] 06 Gil SCOTT-HERON - “Billy Green is Dead” (1973, USA)
[08'45"] 07 Sammy BURDSON GROUP - “Electronic News No. 3″ (1973, Germany)
[10'00"] 08 Lou REED - “New York Telephone Conversation” (1972, USA)
[11'30"] 09 Franco BIXIO - “Dog’s Heart” (1974, Italy)
[12'00"] 10 Robert WYATT - “Muddy Mouse (A)” (1975, England)
[13'15"] 11 John CALE - “Days of Steam” (1972, Wales)

[Total Time: 29'55"]

Rough translation, back cover text:
“Continuing the tradition, ‘Les Miniatures’ Volume 12 brings more amazing sounds from around the world–all speeding to you in less than two minutes! Whirl your way through the hippest sounds of the today, from France to the United States to Germany to Italy to Wales and even from Turkey. The world is moving faster than ever–so we present to you the very best music, in miniature! But don’t worry, all the beats, the strings, the voices and the keyboards are there in full size. It’s ‘Les Miniatures!’”

Notes:
Following the recent reissues of some of the long-lost, highly sought-after ‘Le Tour du Monde’ compilations, we bring you another discovery from Musique du Monde, the French label known during the 60s and 70s to taste-makers the world over: Volume 12 of the ‘Les Miniatures’ series. Originally released as “miniature” limited-edition 10″ LPs, the ‘Les Miniatures’ discs bring all of the sounds we loved from ‘Le Tour,’ and with similarly international flair, but it does so entirely with tracks befitting the diminutive LP format–all under two minutes in duration! For their brevity, there is no skimping here–all the string flourishes, brass punches, heavy bass lines, and sample-worthy beats are here, along with the upper crust of the singer-songwriter world from 1971 to 1975. And as with ‘Le Tour,’ Musique du Monde refused to see barriers or genres, weaving together the post-funk, the delicate, the experimental and concrete seemingly without effort. You’ll find both old favorites–Sun Ra, Kevin Ayers, Faust, John Cale, even Paul Simon and Curtis Mayfield–and lesser-knowns like the Sammy Burdson Group, Erkin Koray, Joe Ufer, and Franco Bixio. In less than thirty minutes, ‘Les Miniatures’ provide a fully-rounded musical journey. Keep your eyes peeled–several volumes have been unearthed, and the Musicophilia reissue program will be sharing them all in due time. — I. Sonnecomme, November 2008

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Let me know what you think--several more will follow in quick succession--in fact, they're already finished. So I hope a few of you enjoy this one.

nobody sounds like ian soundcomme! hey all that tasty stuff fits on one side of a c60!

Glad you like it, Alex. Save the other side of that c60 for the next one.

Once I've added a Miniatures mix to my iPod, then what? Mike T. Diva said all he had to do was switch the iPod select button to "lyrics" and he got a timed tracklisting?? My fucking iPod does NOT have a "lyrics" option on the main menu. I don't like to be chained to listening to music on my computer. Imagine being able to take my iPod into my bedroom, pass out drunk, and STILL be able to find out from iPod what song was playing at any given time...

Press the middle button on your ipod while the track's playing til you get to the tracklisting: 1st press = search, 2nd press = coverart, 3rd press = lyrics/tracklisting, 4th press = rating.

Okay, I got a tracklisting. Yay! But it's very hard to reproduce the effect without clicking again and again and hoping for the best. At first I thought the secret was to choose "Album" on the third click, but it appears even that is not fullproof. No, I still know of no fullproof way to get that tracklisting to come up except clicking a bunch of times and waiting and hoping. It's really bizarre. It seems to have something to do with the rhythm in which you click the previous two times.

Bimble, I hope you can work it out, man.

New mix this morning, the next in the 'Les Miniatures' series, lots of short-and-sweet:

http://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/les-miniatures_volume03_front_small.jpg?w=500&h=500

Various Artists - 'Les Miniatures' Volume 3
(10" LP, Musique du Monde, France - 1971)

Side A:
[00'00"] 01 Nick DRAKE - "Introduction" (1970, England)
[01'25"] 02 SAGITTARIUS - "You Know I've Found a Way" (1967, USA)
[02'05"] 03 Orchester ROLAND KOVAC - "Service No. 2" (1968, Austria)
[04'30"] 04 David BATISTE & THE GLADIATORS - "Funky Soul" (1970, USA)
[06'05"] 05 Pearls BEFORE SWINE - "(Oh Dear) Miss Morse" (1967, USA)
[08'00"] 06 Ennio MORRICONE - "Le Fotografie" (1971, Italy)
[09'00"] 07 Hiro YANAGIDA - "Love T" (1970, Japan)
[10'20"] 08 Oskar SALA - "Interludium" (1970, Germany)
[11'50"] 09 Roger ROGER - "Shere Kahn" (1971, France)
[13'45"] 10 Velvet UNDERGROUND - "Here She Comes Now" (1968, USA)

Side B:
[00'00"] 01 Serge GAINSBOURG - "Champêtre Et Pop No. 2" (1967, France)
[01'20"] 02 Red NOISE - "A La Memoire du Rockeur Inconnu. . ." (1971, France)
[02'05"] 03 Bob MARLEY & THE WAILERS - "Sun is Shining" (1971, Jamaica)
[04'00"] 04 The SHAGGS - "That Little Sports Car" (1969, USA)
[06'05"] 05 Les MOGOL - "Madimak" (1971, Turkey)
[08'00"] 06 Syd BARRETT - "Golden Hair" (1970, England)
[09'50"] 07 Amon DÜÜl II - "The Return of Ruebezahl" (1968, Germany)
[11'20"] 08 Reg WALE- "Bright Spark" (1970, England)
[13'05"] 09 KLUSTER - "3" (1971, Germany)
[14'10"] 10 King CRIMSON - "Peace (A Theme)" (1970, England)

[Total Time: 31'05"]

Rough translation, back cover text:
"Get ready for a joyride: 'Les Miniatures' Volume 3 is here! As they say, "big things come in small packages," and this is the proof. Travel from France to Italy to the United States to Germany to Japan, Turkey, Jamaica, Austria. . . around the world in half an hour! For a fast-paced world, there's still time to enjoy the fullness of modern sounds on the cutting edge in music. It's here, it's 'Les Miniatures!'"

Notes:
Our second reissue from Musique du Monde's nearly-forgotten 'Les Miniatures' series, 'Volume 3' comes to us from several years earlier than our first reissue, 'Volume 12', covering the years 1967 to 1971. But Musique du Monde had their finger no less on the pulse in '71, and so here again, like the 'Le Tour du Monde' series you'll find all the sophisticated pop stylings, proto-punk and art-rock energy, late psychedelic sensibility, sound library swing and punch, and krautrock mystery and dynamism that we've come to expect. But like all the other 'Les Miniatures' volumes, No. 3 brings all this to the listener in tracks under two minutes, twenty tracks in only thirty-one minutes. Originally issued as a 10" LP, and especially scarce in these earlier volumes even at the time of their original release as a promo record to producers, musicians, critics, journalists and general style-setters, it's was truly a lost gem--until now. Always eclectic, Musique here brings together acts as diverse as Ennio Morricone, Serge Gainsbourg, Bob Marley, King Crimon and the Velvet Underground, but not scrimping on the less-known (then) but no less revered (now) Nick Drake, Sagittarius, Hiro Yanagida, Roger Roger, The Shaggs, Kluster, and others. The brevity without compromise is perhaps even more appropriate for our world now than in '71, as we are even more "fast-paced" than ever, and when we must foster the "fullness" of our musical appreciation when and where we can. We at the Musicophilia label are still just getting started with our reissues of this series (and of 'Le Tour du Monde')--no time to slow down now! -- I. Sonnecomme, November 2008

Hope you like it, guys. Pass it on. Musicophilia at Wordpress.com

i love the bimble vs. soundslike rivalry

I wasn't aware there was one.

Nor can I see anything -- on this thread, or either blog -- to suggest its existence!

omg how am I going to get through all of this

the rivalry started on the 1981 thread

FYI

This whole bimble/I.M. exchange is pretty bizarre.
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, April 13, 2005 7:18 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Hmm, you must have a better memory than me : )

Bimble and I have pretty significant divergence in taste, I'd say--he goes in for the sub-Joy Divisiony vein of post-punk a lot, whereas that's pretty my my least fave. But a difference doesn't constitute a rivalry. He's certainly passionate about what he likes, and I respect that.

is that why you took 1981 as reference year? to avoid the dilemma of having to choose joy division songs? come to think of it, that is the main disadvantage of 1981 from my pov. that there is no joy division. besides that it is a phantastic year. i suppose there was at least one new order song on your compilation cds. the three compilations you posted didn't have any yet though iirc. somehow i have the feeling we had this discussion already.

btw i am looking forward to listen to that late 60s/early 70s miniatures mix tonight.

I like Joy Division themselves just fine, though they probably wouldn't make my top 30 or 40 post-punk acts--and I will admit freely to much preferring New Order, generally. I just don't generally care for the stuff that was clearly "inspired" by Joy Division's (and early Factory's) influence, like Crispy Ambulance or the Pin Group or five thousand other groups doing po-faced theatrical dourness with sort of bleating vocals and overwrought lyrics. (That's not how I'd describe Joy Division's music, mind, but with a few exceptions, that's how their follower-bands tend to sound to me).

Hmm--so the most recent mix ('Les Miniatures, Volume 3') was apparently taken down, or became inaccessible through some glitch. I've re-upped it, for anyone who wasn't able to get it. I hope this doesn't become recurrent. . .

i don't care for the bands inspired by joy div neither. i think i hardly ever cared for bands which were mainly influenced by the sound of one other band. that's not innovative, that's boring. i don't look for pale copies of originals. probably nobody does. but joy division themselves are my favourite band in between punk and post-punk. they transformed their explorations of the dark regions of the human soul into incredibly powerful music.

True, any carbon-copy (or to be period-appropriate, I guess we should say Xerox) is bound to be dead-boring. But the sort borne of cult-of-personality can be extra icky. The main thing to me is that the Joyless Division wannabes just never sound like they're having any fun at all--which can't be said of Joy Division themselves.

Undance to the radio.

Another JD-less 1981 mix up this morning: 'Amplifier'

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1 9 8 1 | Amplifier

01 The Embarrassment - Celebrity Art Party [3:06]
02 Minutemen - Straight Jacket [0:57]
03 The Replacements - Johnny's Gonna Die [3:24]
04 Flesh Eaters - Pray Til You Sweat [2:36]
05 Black Flag - Louie Louie [1:19]
06 Stiff Little Fingers - The Only One [4:18]
07 Mx-80 - Cover To Cover [2:42]
08 Meat Puppets - Big House [1:06]
09 Agent Orange - Too Young To Die [2:04]
10 The Saints - Paradise (Edit) [2:56]
11 Buzzcocks - I Look Alone [3:01]
12 Empire - All These Things [3:15]
13 Secret Hate - New Routines-Suicide [1:26]
14 The Gordons - Coalminers Song [5:43]
15 Virgin Prunes - Twenty Tens [2:27]
16 The Cramps - Green Fuz [2:06]
17 Minor Threat - Straight Edge [0:45]
18 100 Flowers - Reject Yourself [2:34]
19 The Undertones - Julie Ocean [1:46]
20 Bad Brains - Pay To Cum [1:30]
21 Flipper - Ha Ha Ha [2:13]
22 Mission of Burma - Fame and Fortune [3:35]
23 Gun Club - Goodbye Johnny [3:45]
24 Josef K - Crazy To Exist [2:57]
25 Swimming Pool Q's - Rat Bait [2:21]
26 Dead Kennedys - Nazi Punks Fuck Off [0:59]
27 Au Pairs - Love Song [2:52]
28 Wipers - When It's Over [6:36]
29 X - Adult Books [3:19]
30 Zoomers - Give Your Heart [2:13]

Two month anniversary of the blog today, and I discovered I have stats on downloads: just over 1,140! That is really great, far more than I imagined. Hope that means you are liking the music!

I'm very excited about the several 'Le Tour du Monde' volumes I've got going right now, as well as the three more 'Les Miniatures' mixes already finished (shy of artwork). Thinking the 'Heart' mix next for the 1981 set--but then what? Anyone have any requests, feedback, ideas, etc.?

Thanks, everyone!

keep upping the 1981 volumes please because i had the entire set stolen from my car in 2006

actually, the set wasn't stolen from my car. my car was stolen with the set in it.

maybe a group of car thieves has been totally schooled on 1981 post punk

Ouch, I'm sorry someone stole your car just to get a handmade box set. The addiction to music can be so sad sometimes. . .

You pick the next one, then, since you've been so harshly deprived ; )

I put up a few polls to get a sense of what people like or don't about the blog, the mixes, etc. Obviously it's not very important, but if anyone is bored--I'd really appreciate your participation.

i'm quite pleased with the "heart" mix being uploaded next

Cutty--

'Heart' it will be, then. Got a preference after that?

The results from the polls I put up have been really interesting--thanks to everyone for participating so far.

• Unsurprisingly, a lot of my visitors seem to be ILMers, which is great. Decent numbers have found it through other blogs or from friends, though, which is neat.
• A good number of over 40s, all the rest so far between 26-40--so, damn, old weird 70s stuff and post-punk aren't huge with the youngster set (or maybe I just haven't pimped it on MySpace enough).
• Getting visitors from mostly North America, unsurprisingly; but also Europe and Asia.
• Good news to me: there seems to be large crossover appeal between the post-punk stuff and the earlier 70s stuff (and maybe the weirder heavily-mixed stuff), not just factions coming for one or the other too much.
• Also great news: lots of people are finding stuff that's new to them, and a good majority are buying new music as a result! Take that, RIAA.
• People don't seem to think I'm posting mixes to often. That's cool, though I doubt I'll always keep up the rate of one mix every four days.
• "Late 70s-Early 80s" is winning "favorite years for music" by a wide margin, "Early-Mid 70s" next. That fits the blog's M.O. pretty well.
• Surprisingly, people want to hear "Pretty stuff in general" from the blog next, in terms of territory not yet covered. Hmm. . .
• Most shockingly, people seem to think the hype-blurbs I'm writing help them get interested in the music. I admit, they're getting harder to write, and I'm no writer to begin with. But I'll keep trying.

where do you find the time, ian?

Well, fortunately most of the mixes I've posted I'd already made before the blog.

But basically right now my career is in a lull, so I figure if I'm going to be wasting time, I should at least waste it with music that helps other people waste time, too.

whoa, didn't even know about this. i'm linking to it via my blog.

This whole bimble/I.M. exchange is pretty bizarre.
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, April 13, 2005 7:18 PM (3 years ago)

― cutty, Friday, November 28, 2008 1:12 PM (1 week ago)

cutty, you aren't the only one who remembered this important moment in history.

Hey i, hope Portland's treating you well.

Poly-

Things are good. Hope things are ok in S.F.

Mike A.-
Thanks, hope you like it. I think we talked some back in the 1981 box set days, yes?

i love the bimble vs. soundslike rivalry

It seems as if my name is being evoked in this thread a little too often. ;)

I was thinking that even if there *were* a rivalry, it would be a pretty silly one because even if Ian & I share a love a post-punk, he's obviously interested in doing a different thing with his blog than I am with mine. I simply don't feel the same creative drive he feels to do mixes of stuff, for one thing. I've never put up mixes on my blog (although I did once put up a short list of songs on a mix I'd made for myself) and I don't see that changing any time soon. It's just not something I want to do. Further, as Ian has said, there are some pretty fundamental differences in musical taste. What was said earlier here about my tastes is true enough, but to be honest, I find myself veering off towards disco/funk/mid-80's R&B/club music and even early 80's Top 40 kind of stuff more and more, and I don't believe he's interested in any of that. By the same token, he's into a lot of non-post-punk stuff that I'm not interested in.

So hey, you know, "two great tastes that taste great together" or whatever, apples & oranges, etc. There's plenty of room for both of us is the way I see it.

In the very off chance anyone is interested, I posted two albums of my own work today.

Hope to have a new 'Le Tour du Monde' volume up tomorrow morning, stuff from 1969-1972.

New mix is up: the third 'Le Tour du Monde' compilation. A dark and spooky one, liberal with the beats.

http://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/00_various_-_le-tour-du-monde-volume-05_2xlp_1971_cover-small.jpg?w=500&h=500

Various Artists - ‘Le Tour du Monde, Volume 4′
(2xLP, Musique du Monde, France - 1971)

Side A:
01 [00'00"] Jean-Jacques PERREY - “E.V.A.” (1970, France)
02 [03'06"] Curtis MAYFIELD - “Underground (Demo)” (1970, USA)
03 [06'12"] Roy BUDD - “Goodbye Carter!” (1971, England)
04 [09'18"] Gershon KINGSLEY - “For Alisse Beethoven” (1969, Israel/Germany/USA)
05 [11'23"] Piero PICCIONI - “Blue Rhythm Festival” (1968, Italy)
06 [14'20"] Stevie WONDER - “Look Around” (1971, USA)
07 [17'03"] Vladimir USSACHEVSKY - “Sketch 2″ (1971, Russia/USA)
08 [17'54"] Bruno SPOERRI - “Les Electroniciens” (1971, Germany)
09 [19'48"] The OPEN WINDOW - “4:00AM June, The Sky Was Green” (1969, USA)

Side B:
01 [00'00"] Jorge BEN - “Take It Easy, My Brother Charlie” (1969, Brazil)
02 [02'33"] Dionysis SAVOPOULOS - “O Paliatsos Ki O Listis” (1971, Greece)
03 [05'20"] Hugo MONTENEGRO - “Peace Train” (1971, USA)
04 [07'50"] Andy LOORE - “Mixed Drums” (1970, Yugoslavia/France)
05 [09'29"] Yuya UCHIDA & THE FLOWERS - “Greasy Heart” (1969, Japan)
06 [13'17"] The FUNKEES - “The Dancing Time” (1971, Nigeria)
07 [16'32"] TRUST - “Les Blés” (1970, France)
08 [20'04"] Simon FINN - “Laughing Till Tomorrow” (1970, England)
09 [22'40"] United STATES OF AMERICA - “Coming Down” (1968, USA)

Side C:
01 [00'00"] Giancarlo GAZZANI - “Under Drama” (1971, Italy)
02 [02'53"] SPIRIT - “Mellow Fellow” (1969, USA)
03 [06'36"] Bill FAY - “We Have Laid Here” (1971, England)
04 [09'01"] Miles DAVIS - “Willie Nelson (Insert 2)” (1970, USA)
05 [13'15"] Yoko ONO - “Mrs. Lennon” (1971, Japan/USA)
06 [17'22"] György LIGETI - “No. 2, Coulée” (1969, Romania/Austria)
07 [19'34"] Swamp SALAD - “Ode to Billy Joe” (1971, Australia)
08 [22'05"] NICO - “Nibelungen” (1968, Germany)

Side D:
01 [00'00"] CAN - “Turtles Have Short Legs” (1971, Germany)
02 [03'01"] Stark REALITY - “Cooking” (1970, USA)
03 [05'37"] Ennio MORRICONE - “Guardami Negli Occhi” (1969, Italy)
04 [07'45"] Black HEAT - “Wanoah” (1971, USA)
05 [10'15"] Saka ACQUAYE - “Akudonno” (1969, Ghana)
06 [12'45"] Francis LAI - “Dans La Poussiere du Soleil” (1971, France)
07 [14'58"] Monk MONTGOMERY - “Fuselage (Part I)” (1971, USA)
08 [17'25"] Isaac HAYES - “Ike’s Mood” (1970, USA)
09 [22'13"] Velvet UNDERGROUND - “I Love You” (1970, USA)

[Total Time: 100' 35"]

Rough translation, back cover text:
“You can feel the change. It’s happening in France. . . but it’s also happening in every corner of the planet! Come with us on a journey to The United States, to Germany, to Russia, to Greece, Nigeria, Israel, England, Japan, Romania, Italy, Ghana—come on a world tour! It’s the whole world, a new revolution on a twelve-inch platter! Feel the funky rhythms, ride the shimmering strings, bounce with the bass, know the new sound, hear the new voice. This is your time, this is our time—on Le Tour du Monde!”

Reiussue Notes:
We at the Musicophilia reissue program are proud to bring you another killer package from France’s revered Musique du Monde: ‘Le Tour du Monde, Volume 4′. Another trip around the world from the hippest compilers and listeners at the dawn of the 70s—fifteen countries worth of the Moog-laden, Rhodes-fed, breaks-filled, string-kissed bliss-outs, futurist pop concoctions, mellow moods, and jazzy freak-outs. By 1971, Musique du Monde was in full stride, releasing some of the best (and today, rarest) sound library records in France, but with a growing reputation amongst the cognescenti for their compiling chops through the ‘Le Tour’ and ‘Les Miniatures’ series, released in limited quanties direct to DJs, record store and club owners, and occasionally as scarce commercial releases. And already their ethos of seeing no borders—neither national nor sonic—was in full swing. So on ‘Volume 4,’ with tracks spanning 1968 to early 1971, you’ll find a Greek cover of “All Along the Watchtower;” a Japanese cover of Jefferson Airplane’s “Greasy Heart,” and a sunshine-pop cover of “Peace Train;” Vladimir Ussachevsky and Gyorgy Ligeti alongside Isaac Hayes, Bill Fay and Jorge Ben; high-life from Ghana, and Afrobeat from Nigeria; Yoko Ono presaging Big Star; unique takes on funk from Italy, Germany, and Australia alongside Miles Davis breaking it down hard with Sonny Sharrock; foundational synth-pop from Jean-Jacques Perrey, Gershon Kingsley, and Hugo Montenegro; and unreleased or rare (at the time) demos and singles from Can, Nico, the Velvet Underground, Bruno Spoerri, and Curtis Mayfield, among others. ‘Volume 4′ transports us not just through many places but wholly to another time, when possibilities were infinite and boundaries were for breaking. We may never regain the openness to change and hopeful eagerness for the future that Musique du Monde captures here—but it remains, now as then, “our time” to enjoy, our “new sound” to experience. — I. Sonnecomme, December, 2008

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Seems the upload for 'Volume 4' was down last night--I've re-upped, should work now.

I'm listening to the Complicity stuff now. It's mostly really, really good. It's been awhile since I appreciated music that sounds like this. It's funny I've had Aphex Twin's SAWII on my iPod for weeks waiting for the moment when I'll want to hear it again and I ended up just taking it off my iPod! But some of this Complicity stuff really fills a need. I like that you used the sound of rain...I heard something else like that recently that made me want to pull out THAT Cure song, but I didn't.

5th disc from the 1981 set is up:

http://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/00_1981-heart_1981_coversmall.jpg?w=500&h=500

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01 Cure, The - All Cats Are Grey [5:24]
02 Passions - Alice's Song [3:13]
03 Depeche Mode - Any Second Now (Voices) [2:35]
04 Durutti Column - The Missing Boy [6:38]
05 Costello, Elvis & The Attractions - Gloomy Sunday [3:15]
06 MX-80 - Promise of Love [4:40]
07 Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime (Edit) [3:22]
08 New Order - Doubts Even Here [4:20]
09 Shelley, Pete - It's Hard Enough Knowing (Edit) [2:50]
10 Sound, The - Winning [4:18]
11 Japan - Ghosts [4:34]
12 This Heat - A New Kind Of Water [5:02]
13 Raincoats - Only Loved At Night [3:30]
14 Gist - Love at First Sight [3:42]
15 Numan, Gary - Dance [2:45]
16 Psychedelic Furs - No Tears [3:16]
17 Gang of Four - Paralysed [3:23]
18 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Romance Of The Telescope [3:19]
19 Ultravox - Rage In Eden [4:12]
20 Weekend - Nostalgia (Demo) [5:21]

One of the best in the set, with many of the strongest tracks of the year, in my opinion. Give a listen.

I'm listening to the Complicity stuff now. It's mostly really, really good. It's been awhile since I appreciated music that sounds like this. It's funny I've had Aphex Twin's SAWII on my iPod for weeks waiting for the moment when I'll want to hear it again and I ended up just taking it off my iPod! But some of this Complicity stuff really fills a need. I like that you used the sound of rain...I heard something else like that recently that made me want to pull out THAT Cure song, but I didn't.

Thanks a lot, Bimble. I'm glad you like it. The weird thing is, when I recorded it, I hadn't heard Aphex Twin (nor Tangerine Dream nor early Cluster. . .) so I'm not sure where to think it fits in.