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

Downloaded and queued up. Thanks !

totally sold, looks awesome

all set for weekend listening, thanks

Hope you guys enjoy it--thanks for listening! This one was percolating for a long time--some of these tracks have been earmarked for years (Bohannon's "I Found My Love on a Saturday" was the first song at my wedding six years ago!). Real life has almost entirely gotten in the way of making mixes, but I'm always listening (and purchasing, for better or worse) to so much new-to-me music and thinking of mixes I want to make. So really hope to do better next year than the one mix I finished this year. But at least the back catalogue is well over 50 mixes and people seem to trickle in.

Can I poll folks--does anyone here prefer the streaming (mixcloud) set up to downloadable mp3s? It takes a good amount of time to get the mixes on there with timestamped tracklists, but I'd like to have all the old mixes (or at least the best ones) on there, just not sure if it's worth the time...

Thanks again!

Personally I much prefer downloads but YMMV. If Mixcloud had a direct download option I wouldn't care either way.

I prefer downloadable as I do all my listening on a Sansa clip or iPod classic.

Download for sure - to keep this for posterity

Great funk mix. I'm new to your blog, but if it's all as good as this new mix, count me in. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks guus--I'll always do the downloads (for as long as they last, since some get pulled down for whatever reason), but just wondering if setting up streams for old mixes is worth the time. Young people I talk to seem to stream exclusively, and then only if theres an app (which there is for Mixcloud). But it's probably a rare millenial who is interested in this sort of music...

Mom, sorry I missed your comment. Glad you like it! I'd say I put a similarly stupid amount of time and effort into culling, refining, sequencing and "packaging" all the mixes as this one, so you'll hopefully find a lot you like.

Always impressed with your mix comps. This one no exception.

As far as my format preference... dealer's choice. I like streaming, so I can listen to it in different places, but I've also downloaded your mixes before. Either way.

Thanks!

I'll make an effort to upload old mixes for streaming--at least the ones for which I have timestamped tracklists and can quickly get onto Mixcloud.

Just got the email about the new one "Funk 85" and psyched to delve into it!

me too! (though i am waiting for one-day 60s funk which is my favourite funk)

I think the Pointer Sisters' Hey You or Automatic would be right at home on this one.

Where does the email get sent from? Hope you like it!

For everybody else, two new mixes focused on stuff from '83-'85: boogie, post-disco, r&b, pop, elctro, hip-hop, etc., one more up-tempo and the other more down:

'Le Monde du Funk '85'

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01 [00:00] D-TRAIN – “Music” (Music, 1983)
02 [08:11] CHANGE – “Got My Eyes On You” (Change of Heart, 1984)
03 [12:41] MANTRONIX – “Fresh Is the Word” (“Fresh Is the Word” single, 1985)
04 [18:09] Toshiki KADOMATSU – “Step Into the Light” (After 5 Clash, 1984)
05 [21:33] CYBOTRON – “Cosmic Cars” (Enter, 1983)
06 [25:59] David BOWIE – “Shake It” (Let’s Dance, 1983)
07 [29:41] Herbie HANCOCK – “Rough” (Future Shock, 1983)
08 [36:23] Afrika BAMBAATAA – “Looking For the Perfect Beat” (“Looking For the Perfect Beat” single, 1983)
09 [43:19] LIME – “Extrasensory Perception” (Sensual Sensation, 1984)
10 [48:09] KRYSTOL – “Information)” (Gettin’ Ready, 1984)
11 [52:26] Human BODY – “Desire” (Cosmic Round Up, 1985)
12 [57:36] SHALAMAR – “You’re The One for Me” (The Look, 1984)
13 [63:28] NEWCLEUS – “I’m Not A Robot” (Jam On Revenge, 1984)
14 [67:00] Hamilton BOHANNON – “Let’s Start the Dance III” (The Bohannon Drive, 1983)

[Total Time: 1:14:00]

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01 [00:00] Unlimited TOUCH – “Reach Out (Everlasting Lover)” (“Unlimited Touch” single, 1984)
02 [05:40] 52nd STREET- “Tell Me (How It Feels)” (Children of the Night, 1985)
03 [09:32] The GLOVE – “Perfect Murder” (Blue Sunshine, 1983)
04 [13:31] The Egyptian LOVER – “I Cry (Night After Night)” (On the Nile, 1984)
05 [18:22] Tones on TAIL – “Shakes” (“Performance” single, 1984)
06 [22:01] Run-D.M.C. – “Sucker M.C.’s (Krush-Groove 1)” (Run-D.M.C., 1984)
07 [25:07] Gwen GUTHRIE – “Family Affair” (Portrait, 1983)
08 [29:39] MTUME – “Juicy Fruit” (Juicy Fruit, 1983)
09 [35:25] Depeche MODE – “Lie to Me” (Some Great Reward, 1984)
10 [40:20] Loose ENDS – “Hangin’ On A String (Contemplating)” (So Where Are You?, 1985)
11 [46:13] ZAPP – “Computer Love” (The New Zapp IV U, 1985)
12 [50:09] KASHIF – “The Mood” (Kashif, 1984)
13 [54:13] Patrice RUSHEN – “To Each His Own” (Now, 1984)
14 [58:16] Andre CYMONE – “M.O.T.F.” (Survivin’ in the 80’s, 1983)
15 [62:32] This Mortal COIL – “Song to the Siren” (It’ll End in Tears, 1984)
16 [65:47] S.O.S. BAND – “Just Be Good to Me” (On the Rise, 1983)

[Total Time: 1:14:00]

You can download or stream them here.

Thanks all!

It must be your mailing list I'm assuming?

Didn't know I had one! Something Wordpress sends out if you subscribe perhaps? It's a bummer for all blogs that the days of Google Reader ended--have to imagine almost everyone's audience became a fraction of what it was. Part of it was that I could make a new mix every few weeks a decade ago, and I'm lucky if I manage two a year now; but it used to be any mix I put up got hundreds or thousands of downloads, now they're lucky to top a hundred or two. Oh well--still makes me happy to put them together, and if a few folks find things that are new to them then I'm content.

Totally man. I remember getting your original 1981 box in the mail and freaking out, so cool.

It likely won't last long, but thanks to Mediafire doing away with file size restrictions, I've finally shared the *truly* complete '1981' box set, with the never-before-shared-online 'Briefcase' disc. Brings the total collection to well over 500 tracks, 28 hours or so. Enjoy, and pass the blog post along. Thanks!

https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2017/04/04/post-punk-1981-complete-collection-including-the-briefcase/

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Now that's quite something.

Still a thing of wonder

such incredible work. thank you, Soundslike - have greatly enjoyed your mixes over the years (though I admit I haven't kept up in the last few, life getting in the way and all that).

yes yes yes
Thank you

sweet, nicely done

don't pass this up, I still listen to it all the damn time... so good!

I've had and listened to a few of the 1981 sets for like a decade, adding the briefcase now. Damn! Thanks so much.

nice!

Thanks guys--hope you're able to download before they inevitably go down--got posted to a website that sent about 3,000 people so far today, so it'll likely get taken down much sooner than expected. It's still fun thinking how so much of this music could be new to somebody--heck, 25 year olds today were 12 when I first put this out! Wish I still had the time to make a so many mixes--but I will say only getting to do a couple a year means I really put them together with a lot of thought.

So it's pretty unlikely, but--does anybody have a physical copy of the box set that they'd be willing to part with? I managed to send out a few hundred, but failed to keep a copy for myself. Thanks!

Just put up another of the more popular series as a collection: 'The Young Lady's Post-Punk Handbook' from 2009, with a brand-new fourth mix, featuring female post-punk artists including:

Laurie Anderson, Delta 5, The Go-Go’s, Raincoats, X, Flying Lizards, Jane Hudson, Crass, Blondie, Sonic Youth, Selecter, Marine Girls, Lizzy Mercier-Descloux, Weekend, Family Fodder, Au Pairs, Chris & Cosey, Plastics, Pylon, The Slits, Siouxsie & The Banshees, The B-52’s, Swamp Children, Y Pants, Antena, Vivien Goldman, Cocteau Twins, Thick Pigeon, Creatures, Eurythmics, Phew, E.S.G., Maximum Joy, Los Microwaves, Ludus, Crash Course in Science, Grace Jones, Lydia Lunch, Marilyn & The Movie Stars, Young Marble Giants, The Pretenders, Bush Tetras, Cha Cha Guitri, Malaria, Dog Eat Dog, The Glove, Noh Mercy, KUKL, The Lo Yo Yo, Tracy Thorn, Fall of Saigon, Krisma, Ut, Rip Rig & Panic, and This Mortal Coil

https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/00_various_-_the-young-ladys-post-punk-handbook_vols-01-3_1978-1983_covers.gif?w=936

Download here at Musicophilia:

https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2017/04/16/post-punk-collected-young-ladys-post-punk-handbook-expanded-edition/

Wow. Unfortunately interesting probs with the mediafire link tho

Permission Denied.
"Miss the Girl" by The Creatures may be available for download from Amazon.

For whatever reason, I've found recently that if you close mediafire, and click the link again a minute or two later, it will usually then work. That seems to be the case with this one--the file is still up for download.

If they eventually do go down, I'll upload all the mixes to the Mixcloud account so at least they are streamable.

Thanks!

hey, if you still needed a physical copy of your box set, I have one... I love it, but if you haven't got one of your own you should have it!

Thank you so much, Erry--I think a friend who ended up with two copies is going to send me one. But that's really kind of you!

A new mix in the 'Le Monde du Funk' series, which is really turning into my favorites--definitely helping get me through the Trump Era so far!

This one hones in on '80-'82:

https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/musicophilia_00_le-monde-du-funk-82_1980-1982_2017_cover.jpg?w=1536

Side A

01 [00:00] The BLACKBYRDS – “Without Your Love” (Better Days, 1980)
02 [03:20] Andre CYMONE – “Get It Girl” (Livin’ In the New Wave, 1982)
03 [07:36] Rick JAMES – Give It To Me Baby” (Street Songs, 1981)
04 [11:36] Peter GABRIEL – “Games Without Frontiers” (Peter Gabriel 3, 1980)
05 [15:25] IMAGINATION – “Music and Lights” (In the Heat of the Night, 1982)
06 [19:53] BREAKWATER – “Release The Beast” (Splashdown, 1980)
07 [24:39] KOMIKO – “Feel Alright” (“Feel Alright” single, 1982)
08 [29:48] ZAPP – “Doo Wa Ditty (Blow That Thing)” (Zapp II, 1982)
09 [34:32] Edwin BIRDSONG – “Funtaztik” (Funtaztik, 1981)
10 [40:55] SHALAMAR – “There It Is” (Friends, 1982)

Side B

01 [45:28] D-Train – “You’re the One For Me” (You’re The One For Me, 1982)
02 [50:23] Mass PRODUCTION – “Weird” (In A City Groove, 1982)
03 [53:46] Grandmaster FLASH – “Scorpio” (The Message, 1982)
04 [58:34] Inner LIFE – “Moment of My Life” (Inner Life II, 1982)
05 [64:57] The TIME – “777-9311” (What Time Is It?, 1982)
06 [72:51] Scritti POLITTI – “Faithless” (Songs To Remember, 1982)
07 [77:02] SKYY – “Here’s To You” (Skyyport, 1980)
08 [82:09] One WAY – “Cutie Pie” (Who’s Foolin’ Who, 1983)
09 [87:25] Yasuaki SHIMIZU – “Dots” (Kakashi 1982)

[Total Time: 1:32:41]

Download or stream it here: https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2017/04/26/musique-du-monde-le-monde-du-funk-82-1980-1982/

Most excellent.. I still listen to 1981 regularly. Thanks for all this!

excellent so far, thanks!

Each release is more appealing than the one before! Great work dude.

Thanks guys, hope you're digging it. Besides my stated ulterior motive of getting people to buy music they didn't know/have, my other motive with the Musicophilia blog has been trying to parlay the popularity of the post-punk/'1981' stuff into some ears on all the other stuff I love. So if one or two people who never thought they liked 80s funk/boogie/post-disco/R&B/etc. hear these mixes and dig them, I'll be happy ; )

I've put up another collection, gathering the late-1960s to mid-1970s globe-spanning, genre-defying 'Musique du Monde' series, including the 'Le Tour du Monde' mixes, the 'Le Mystere de la Musique' mixes, and a couple of other related mixes including an homage exploring the roots of Broadcast/Stereolab.

https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/musicophilia_musique-du-monde_collection-1.gif?w=768

Some key artists: Dorothy Ashby, Janko Nilovic, Faust, Karen Dalton, Franco Battiato, John Cale, Terry Riley, Milton Nascimento, The Millennium, Caravan, Duncan Browne, Bernard Estardy, Ron Geesin, Free Design, Augustus Pablo, Serge Gainsbourg, Ennio Morricone, Nino Nardini, Syd Barrett, L’Infonie, Jonny Teupen, Kraftwerk, Os Mutantes, The Feed-Back, Kevin Ayers, Martin Circus, Donovan, Alan Moorhouse, Gil Gilberto, Pierry Henry, Moondog, White Noise, Shuggie Otis, Colin Blunstone, Roland Kovac, El Kinto, Silver Apples, Jean-Michel Jarre; Henri Texier, Joni Mitchell, Arthur Russell, Bernard Parmegiani, Lou Reed, Alan Parker, John Cameron, Brigitte Fontaine & Areski, Le Orme, Sun Ra, Harmonia, Iggy Pop, Laurie Anderson, Robert Wyatt, Roy Ayers, Television, Brian Eno, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, David Axelrod, Roxy Music, Jorge Ben, Willie Nelson, Miles Davis, Cymande; Todd Rundgren, Silver Apples, Ananda Shankar, 10cc, Amon Duul II, Syreeta, Hall & Oates, Catherine Ribiero, Francisco, Placebo, Harry Nilsson, Marcos Valle, Wolfgang Dauner, These Trails, Tim Buckley, Michael Chapman, Jacqueline Thibault, Comus; Barry Forgie, Braen’s Machine, Karl Heinz Schafer, Jacques Siroul, Piero Umiliani, Goblin, Franz Auffray, United States of America, Alessandro Alessandroni, Manfred Hubler, Free Design, Philippe Besombes, Gianni Oddi, and many others.

Download or stream the collection here

Thanks!

Truly a labor of love.

that's a formidable roster

(do you allow yourself to use bootleg stuff in your mixes? Because some of Gil Melle's soundtrack work would fit right in there but almost none of it has been commercially available)

I'm sure I'd use things that fit, even if they were never officially released--thanks for the recommendation, I'll definitely check out Gil Melle!

I think you'll love him! Enormously reductive description: freak-jazz with a bristling array of self-built non-keyboard-driven synthesizers

Ok, this one came together quickly, but it's been spinning in the back of my head forever: a mix focused on cyclical music, music that feels like it's turning and pulling you along. Includes Ashra, Jack DeJohnette, Eno & Cluster, Jean-Philippe Goude, Michael Rother, Jan Hammer, Roxy Music, Robert Wyatt, Gunter Schickert, Heldon, Essendon Airport, This Heat, Harald Grosskopf, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Gong, and Le Orme, and I'm really happy with how it came together:

https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/musicophilia_00_various_-_le-son-de-linfini_vol-4_1974-1980_2017_cover.jpg?w=800

Various - 'Le Son de l'Infini' (Volume 4)
1974-1980 | Musique du Monde

Part I

01 [00:00] ASHRA - "Sunrain" (New Age of Earth, 1977)
02 [06:21] Abercrombie, HOLLAND, DeJOHNETTE - "Back-Woods Song" (Gateway, 1976)
03 [14:16] Eno, MOEBIUS, ROEDELIUS - "The Belldog" (After the Heat, 1978)
04 [20:24] Jean-Philippe GOUDE - "Machine" (Drones, 1980)

Part II

05 [24:07] Michael ROTHER - "Flammende Herzen" (Flammende Herzen, 1977)
06 [31:23] Jan HAMMER - "Darkness - Earth In Search of a Sun" (The First Seven Days, 1975)
07 [35:54] Roxy MUSIC - "Spin Me Round" (Manifesto, 1979)
08 [40:40] Robert WYATT - "Little Red Riding Hood Hit the Road" (Rock Bottom, 1974)

Part III

09 [48:11] Günter SCHICKERT - "Wanderer" (Überfällig, 1979)
10 [56:38] HELDON - "Bal-A-Fou" (Interface, 1977)
11 [61:29] Essendon AIRPORT - "Wallpaper Music" (Sonic Investigations of the Trivial, 1980)
12 [67:06] This HEAT - "24-Track Loop" (This Heat, 1979)

Part IV

13 [73:10] Harald GROSSKOPF - "Synthesist" (Synthesist, 1980)
14 [80:14] Penguin CAFE ORCHESTRA - "The Sound of Someone. . ." (Music From the Penguin Cafe, 1976)
15 [87:07] GONG - "Percolations, Pt. 1 & 2" (Gazeuse!, 1976)
16 [94:13] Le ORME - "Fine di un Viaggio" (Florian, 1979)

[Total Time: 1:38:49]

Download or stream it here at the Musicophilia blog

Fifth entry into the 'Le Monde du Funk' series is up now:

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Various – ‘Le Monde du Funk 1972‘
1970-1972 | Musique du Monde

Side A

01 [00:00] Roberta FLACK – “Go Up Moses” (Quiet Fire, 1971)
02 [05:25] OSIBISA – “So So Mi La So” (Heads, 1972)
03 [08:17] Sly & THE FAMILY STONE – “Family Affair” (There’s A Riot Goin’ On, 1971)
04 [11:36] Allen TOUSSAINT – “From A Whisper To A Scream” (Toussaint, 1970)
05 [14:27] SYREETA – “I Love Every LIttle Thing About You” (Syreeta, 1972)
06 [19:49] Roy AYERS – “We Live In Brooklyn, Baby” (He’s Coming, 1972)

Side B

07 [23:34] The METERS – “Stay Away” (Cabbage Alley, 1972)
08 [28:37] NIAGARA – “Gibli” (S.U.B., 1972)
09 [32:37] Bobbi HUMPHREY – “Smiling Faces Sometimes” (Dig This!, 1972)
10 [38:05] Donny HATHAWAY – “I Believe in Music” (Donny Hathaway, 1971)
11 [41:12] Johnny Jenkins – “I Walk on Gilded Splinters” (Ton-Ton Macoute!, 1970)

Side C

12 [47:36] Jimi HENDRIX – “Angel” (The Cry of Love, 1971)
13 [51:57] Bill WITHERS – “Ain’t No Sunshine” (Just As I Am, 1971)
14 [54:04] Marvin GAYE – “‘T’ Plays It Cool” (Trouble Man, 1972)
15 [58:14] Mulatu ASTATKE – “Mulatu” (Mulatu of Ethiopia, 1972)
16 [63:03] Serge GAINSBOURG – “Cargo Culte (Instrumental)” (Histoire de Melody Nelson, 1971)

Side D

17 [70:45] CYMANDE – “Bra” (Cymande, 1972)
18 [75:49] Kuni KAWACHI – “Works Composed Mainly By Humans” (Kirikyogen, 1970)
19 [81:32] Leon WARE – “Tamed To Be Wild” (Leon Ware, 1972)
20 [85:26] FUNKADELIC – “Maggot Brain” (Maggot Brain, 1971)

[Total Time: 1:35:40]

Download or stream it here at Musicophilia

Thanks!

In case anybody is more into streaming, I have all the new mixes made in the last couple years, plus a bunch of "archival" earlier mixes, available here on Mixcloud:

https://www.mixcloud.com/musicophilia/

Thanks!

Very nice.

these mixes been taking up a lot of my time recently