BEARDO DISCO (finally fixed for vahid) - not idjuts / lindstrom - harvey, rub'n'tug, map of africa

ooooh im on my 3rd carlsberg and the map of africa album is sounding so good. i'm gonna be playing this a lot, its hard not to get bimble-esque bout this, its so awesome, i love it! 'balearic rock style' is pretty on point. 'freaky ways' is my fave. title track and 'dirty lovin' coming a close second obv.

Version of Black skin blue eyed boys made me want to commit murder.

yeahhh, odd choice of cover ill admit

not sure where this fits into things really, and i can't find any discussion of this guy around here, but mark e has a really nice mix up at cool in the pool. really making this drizzly day.

looped steel drum (?) coolness! hiro ohta. nice.

where is the Fixx's "Reach the Beach" instrumental dub from? could it be an edit that jazzanova did? it's not on the LP and there doesn't seem to be a 12" listed on discogs.

oh, it's the b-side to One thing Leads to another

One Thing Leads To Another (12")
a) One Thing Leads To Another 8:00
Extended remix
b) Reach The Beach (dub) 4:06
Instrumental

MCA FIXXT 5, UK PS 1983

http://www.myspace.com/stillg0ing

eric of rub'n'tug & and Olivier Spencer of Manthraxx & Mr. Negative.

ON DFA!

it's wonderful. i wonder when it's coming out?

The song will also be featured on James Murphy and Pat Mahoney’s (LCD Soundsystem) upcoming Fabric Live mix.

nice

I probably should have known this already but it also says they did the How & Why record on Rong

eric and olivier I mean, not james murphy and pat mahoney

OMG this Map of Africa lp is completely burning my mind right now.

they had a copy of the MOA at thee record store last week! and i passed it up. :(

The CD is out now and still relatively easy to get- Sounds of the Universe, Juno, Boomkat, etc. all have copies. I think it's a limited run, just not as insanely limited as Whatever We Want vinyl.

OMG this Map of Africa lp is completely burning my mind right now.

Can we agree to disagree

I like this genre, but that Map of Africa lp is shitty dad music.

that's totally the point

shitty dads need music too.

Ha, well then why listen to Map of Africa at all? You can go to any bar and see baby boomer white guys playing classic rock covers and embarrassing attempts at blues.

did you listen to the rest of the record? that's only like 3 songs

yeah, I was just about to say that it's probably just the last few tracks that skewed my perception of the rest of it. But a few people have mentioned how much they like "Bone", which is the one I really detest, so I guess whatever it is I'm hating is exactly what some other people like. Anyway, really strange.

http://www.timeout.com/chicago/outandabout/?p=2568

That looks great. I love "Ain't Afraid To Beg".

Back to MoA - why press it so quietly and craply? You'd think if you were into some collector limited vinyl fetish type vibe, you'd do a quality pressing. I know there are a lot of tracks but they could have either done a double (and charged EVEN more) or lost a couple of the rockier tracks. Anyway, I'm sure I've got single albums with that many tracks that don't sound that bad. I love "Here Come The Heads" and it sounds really shitty as the last song on the side. (Moan grumble dad-house dad-rock grumble moan.)

I also recently got hold of the first Otterman Empire thing and that's got a great chunk out of the side of the record!

anyone picked up that Mudd lp yet? "Claremont 56" on Rong? almost bought it the other day but I put it back for something else ....

cool cover

http://www.musicmine.com/img/disco/IDCA-1025_b.jpg

hi i'm a shitty dad and I don't care for this MoA LP much at all.

oh crap now i will never get signed to their label

i wish that TOC mix i linked wasn't in 128, it sounds like shit

Claremont 56 is pretty uneven for me, some great disco stuff, maybe too much acoustic guitar "balearic" noodling.

i've been listening to it all week and i love it. gets very deep-housey as it progresses but that isn't a bad thing. very nice, spaced out album. not too 'beardo' though...

Back to MoA - why press it so quietly and craply? You'd think if you were into some collector limited vinyl fetish type vibe, you'd do a quality pressing.

funny, i was listening to a buncha records last night and totally thought this about the MoA.

This looks interesting, if maybe a bit opportunistic:

http://www.soundsoftheuniverse.com/releases/?id=9403

"The Original Sound of Ibiza" mixed by Alfredo:

1. Henri Mncini & his Orchestra — Pink Panther Theme
2. Art of Noise — Moments in Love
3. Funk Inc — Give me Your Love
4. Yellowman — Strong Mr Strong
5. Soul II Soul — Keep on MOvin
6. Timmy Thomas — Why Can't We Live Together
7. Tears for Fears — Shout
8. Rufus — Ain't Nobody
9. William Pitt — City Lights
10. Elkin & Nelson — Jibaro
11. Atahualpa 1530 — Andino
12. Antena — Camino Del Sol
13. James Brown — How Do You Stop
14. Mike Post — Theme From Hill Street Blues
15. Mr Fingers — Can You Feel It
16. Orange Lemon — Dreams of Santa Anna
17. A Guy Called Gerald — Voodoo Ray
18. Richie Rich — Salsa House
19. Acid Tracks — Phuture
20. Liasons Dangereuses — Los Ninos Del Parque
21. KC Flight — Planet E
22. The Residents — Kaw Liga
23. Joe Smooth — Promised Land
24. The Nightwriters — Let the Music Use You
25. The Housemaster Boys — House Nation
26. George Kranz — Din Daa Daa
27. Richie Havens — Going Back to My Roots

are there Alfredo mixes out in the interweb?

None that I'm aware of. Discogs says he's got a couple of older mix CDs out there.

Baldelli's been a bit more opportunistic, no? I think he's has had more than few cosmic/baia mixes out the past couple years.

Baldelli's definitely cashing in on cosmic/beardo/new-balearic whatever's newfound popularity; good for him, I say. The accusation of opportunism was aimed less at Alfredo (who seems a good egg) than at Ministry of Sound who are putting this out and can bandwagons with the best of them.

er, can jump bandwagons, don't know where my verb went.

baldelli is putting out new records on gomma, too, so it's not all ca$$$h-in.

specifically this, which is pretty good.

even if baldelli wasn't putting out new stuff to cash in, he's got tons of tapes that people digitized that you can find on slsk. that didn't happen with alfredo? how does everyone (djh especially) know all the tracks he played?

Yeah, I approve of the Baldelli cash-ins. His "Cosmic Sound" studio album from last year was hot too. His other funky house album: not so much.

Yeah, I approve of the Baldelli cash-ins.

Same here. Dude already did most of the work, why should all the younger artists have all the fun?

His "Cosmic Sound" studio album from last year was hot too. His other funky house album: not so much.

Ah, now this has me curious. I've seen his non-Gomma/Amarkord releases on Discogs and wondered what's up with them, but I can't find any English-language info. So...what is up with them?

I think the funky house one was called "My Funky Side". It's miles away from anything beardo/cosmic, I remember it being pretty conventional/generic sounding. I didn't even listen to it twice.

"Cosmic Sound" was only released in Italy or Europe or something. I believe the tracks used old skool equipment and were modeled in homage to the Italian cosmic sound. I have the info somewhere. It's pretty sparse melodically, but pretty great on the percussion - Liquid Liquid-esque.

At least that mix is about "Ibiza" and includes house music and whatnot, as opposed to being the Messthetics of a Time/Life Yacht Rock comp.

I just have to say, love Lee Douglas - New York Story. Out of all the music coming out of the "Brooklyn scene" these days, sthis space disco shit's probably the best

Yeah, "New York Story" is pretty much perfect.

LA people please try and check out Christine Renee. No beard, but she knows how to rock a party.

yeah, what's her deal? i get emails from her. she musta taken my email from the blackdisco/lovefingers list or something?

I used to DJ Christine's parties at the Coral Room. Really nice person.

She was out here last weekend. She mentioned you, Dan!

She's the real deal. Great DJ, lovely lady.