a sublime frequencies call out: how often do you listen to radio palestine, i remember syria, bush taxi mali, etc.

But this North Korean one is pretty great on first listen.

Some of this reminds me of the kitschiest Arabic pop things I've heard. It's like the same weird type of synthesizer sounds and other similarities too.

Also, at the moment I'm feeling more sympathetic to the whole idea of trying to maintain that sense of disorientation as a listener. It can't really be that impossible, can it? If one wanted to.

diving back into the catalog after a few years away, particularly princess nicotine. i don't regret stanning over these for one damn second.

Singapore A-Go-Go is one of the best albums for a groovy house party ever

i don't know where to put this, brings to mind the Guitars of the Golden Triangle release from a cpl years back:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYGl-l0Toig
cross-post with psych/drone/freak thread really. don't know if this has had much play around here, but goodness it smokes

wow... pretty cosmic jams.

no thread for ขุนนริทร์ศิลป์พิณประยุกต์?
Psychedelic Rock that's not Psychedelic Rock

Wow. This entire George Wassouf concert in Lebanon in 1992:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P49-4O9lu0

Have posted and re-posted parts of it. It is admittedly raw and ridiculous in various ways, but I still love the bulk of it. He and his band are on fire throughout.

(Actually I think the guy in the red shirt who introduces him did a human beat-box routine at the intro. but that appears to have been cut. Not joking.)

2018 is the 25th anniversary of my passionate attachment to Arab music, and George Wassouf was possibly the first Arab singer I really cared about, even if his flaws and limitations have become glaringly obvious over time. So there is an excuse for my half-assed threads and thread revivals on related interest.

Oh and good audio quality for a change, which might have something to do with this having been posted by someone whose last name happen to be Wassouf.

Does that two-man chorus ever crack a smile?

I understand you liking his singing, despite your reference to his flaws and limitations. Just read about him still supporting Assad in Syria, which is unfortunate.

Assad has the support of the majority of Syrians. I think external attempts at regime change, largely driven by Jews who want to see Syria balkanized is unfortunate.

I think it's unfortunate that Jews have such a disproportionate influence on US foreign policy.

The (Zionist dominated) US and its friends have been using terrorist proxy forces for the last several years to try to destroy Syria and you are whining about Assad. Thank god Russia was there to step in, even if for its own self-interested reasons.

Of course, the anti-Russian propaganda built up shortly after Russia's intervention. And the Jewish dominated western media fell into place, didn't it? Not Jewish dominated? Not Jewish pundits everywhere you look in the media when these issues are discussed?

:-/

maybe I've not paid close enough attention but I'm surprised (and obv disappointed) to see you come out with this antisemitic rubbish rudi

Your anti-Semitism is disgusting, plus you don't have the facts right on Syria and who supports Assad and who doesn't

well that certainly took a turn

agree w/ curmudgeon

it's gross

Banned.

good

thanks mods

sadly, the takeaway will likely be "it's unfortunate that Jews have such a disproportionate influence on ILX moderation."

we were founded as a group of snake handlers, and we'll die as a group of snake handlers

Correct call by mods, although he was one of the only folks here into salsa and bomba & other Afro-Latino genres, plus middle-eastern vocalists

was rudipherous the same poster as rockist scientist?

if so i'll be really disappointed because i liked that guy

I believe so :(

This definitely isn't a first offence. I can remember some milder but still FP-worthy antisemitic nonsense from the same poster before. But that shit belongs in The Daily Mail comments section.

he's a homophobe too fwiw

aye, that's him. I've seen him say stuff before on ilx but maybe not quite as explicit as this

ugh

Some years back he once nicely sent me a salsa mixtape, but sometime later, out of the blue, emailed to me a 9/11 conspiracy theory. Responded back that I wasn't interested and never heard from him direct again.

He was "Rockist Scientist" before. The Ulm Kulthum thread and a couple other threads largely feature posts from music he was listening to. Posted a fair amount on the most recent ILX top albums or tracks thread (and seemed to keep his focus there on the music ).

I've always thought of him as a v good poster on ilm with fairly unique taste but it's disappointing to see him say what he has.

^^ yeah agree w that, extremely disappointing

wow this thread, jeeze.

i had somehow completely missed any red flag posts from him before. i think he's been on ilx longer than me and i started on here in 2005 maybe?

When some ILM posters post about anything other than music, you sometimes realise you might have met them before on that bad trip you had through the 9 circles of hell, or The Comments Section as some would have it.

You might want to check a thread called Butthole Surfers- Classic or dud? he seems troubled of late :(

yeah maybe he had some kind of break

ah, having just spied that butthole surfers thread he is definitely not a well man

oh god i missed that thread revival but...yeah

if anyone knows him irl it might be a good idea to check he's ok.

Shit.

Apparently lives in Albuquerque. Formerly known as Rockist Scientist. Re-regged under this name in 2009.

see also R S LaRue (? ) for even more old school posts, I think

I did enjoy the Wassouf clip. And I will check in with Rudipherous (virtually).

Yeesh, only just saw what was happening.

that BS thread progression does not bode well

The various Radio ones are my favorites actually. I never tire of them. They allow me to imagine i'm somewhere more exotic and interesting than Joliet, Illinois.