Audio Arsenal

Nuevos Ricos, Rock en Electrespañol

• April 22nd, 2005

Now THIS is a mission statement for a record label… “Income doesn’t mean happiness but, who wants to be happy?” Nuevos Ricos was formed in Mexico City in September 2003, the label aims to bring underground Mexican (and Spanish) music to Europe by means of limited edition Vinyl and Poster Art. Their home base is in Lucca, Italy, they distribute music from The Netherlands, and they have regular Art Openings in Spain and other parts of Europe. I linked to some tracks of their stock of mostly Spanish speaking (or singing actually) artists…

LASSER MODERNA - KARABAO
LASSER MODERNA - LA CUMBIA DEL ESTEREO
SILVERIO - EL BAILE DEL DIABLO
SILVERIO - SUPER IDOLO
MIKI - SOY POBRE
MIKI - SOLO ESCUCHO DANCE
FACA - VAFALEFERIFI A FA
FACA - NIGHTSHOT
MARIA DANIELA Y SU SONIDO LASSER - MIEDO
MARIA DANIELA Y SU SONIDO LASSER - EL TUVIERA NO EXISTE
SECRET MEXICAN BAND - UNKNOWN 01
SECRET MEXICAN BAND - UNKNOWN 02
THOM REVOLVER - ON THE ROAD
THOM REVOLVER - INTERGALACTIC PARADE

via Nuevos Ricos

8Bit Peoples, Nullsleep Depeche Mode Megamix

• April 22nd, 2005

While perousing the family of x-dump music acts, I came upon this treasure of a site, dedicated to 8bit audio, old school video games (Commodore 64, Nintendo Super Famicom, etc.) and music mods (I did some on my trusty Amiga 500 back in the day!). There are so many freely available mp3s, I figured I would link to one that really brought me back to the old days.. well, not soooo old, but still a new wave classic.

A monstrous gameboy megamix paying tribute to the bad boys of Depeche Mode, spanning over 14 minutes of nonstop chiplove, and using every last pattern of lsdj from 00 thru FE! Equally suited for use when dancing in front of the mirror alone in your bedroom or rocking the crowd to the ground at your next mega dance party! Tracks 1 thru 4 are offered in a single mp3 to ensure a seamless mix. Bonus track 5 takes the sweetest cuts of the megamix and offers them up in a powerpacked mini serving!

01. Enjoy The Silence
02. Photographic
03. New Life
04. Everything Counts

05. Depeche Mode Minimix

I would take a deep look at the rest of the music on the 8Bit People site, its pretty amazing… I am going to spend some time tonite downloading myself! Make sure to check out Lo-bat, Paza, Trash80, Sabastian Boaz, and Mesu Kasumai.

Lo-Bat - White Russian
Paza - Hjihjihji
Trash80 - Your Funk Is Fine
Sabastian Boaz - Some New Wave Song
Highway Signs (Project 65 Remix)

via X-Dump
via 8Bit Peoples

Din Stalker, Swedish Electro House

• April 21st, 2005

While surfing the Ponpoko site, a pair of japanese/french sound designers, I spotted this link to some amazing moody and melodic Swedish Electro House from Din Stalker. Some of his tracks remind me of the Vangelis stuff from Blade Runner with a bit more energy and electronic percussion elements. I am really digging this music! I linked to all the mp3s that were posted on his site.

Din Stalker - Exkursion Nånstans Bort
Din Stalker - Lidilidi
Din Stalker - David Lynch
Din Stalker - Herr Reporter v2
Din Stalker - Ohne Zuschlag
Din Stalker - Majken Makin’ Mambo
Din Stalker - Rate Your Mate v3
Psilodump - The Somnambulist (Din Stalker Remix)

via Ponpoko
via Din Stalker

DJ Food, Raiding The 20th Century

• April 19th, 2005

Gotta love DJ Food and their constant itch to remix, recut, mashup, tweak, fondle, fiddle, and finesse the existing audio of the world!

“On January 18th 2004, Strictly Kev premiered the original ‘Raiding The 20th Century’ on XFM’s ‘The Remix’ show in London. It was a 40 minute attempt to catalogue the history of cut up music - be it avant garde tape manipulation, turntable megamixes or bastard pop mash ups. It rapidly spread throughout the web and managed to cause a full scale server crash on boomselection.info when they hosted it due to the volume of net traffic.

Shortly afterwards he read Paul Morley’s recently published book ‘Words & Music’ and was amazed that certain chapters mirrored parts of his mix. Apart from the fact that the title, ‘Raiding the 20th Century’ was coined by Morley 20 years before for a future Art of Noise project, he also featured Alvin Lucier who - purely by chance - was sampled on the opening track of the mix.

Kev decided to expand his idea to make the defnitive document on cut up music including many other parts, omitted by the constraints of the original radio session. After months of further research he tracked Morley down and they recorded passages from ‘Words & Music’ specially for this mix in an attempt to marry the two and finish something that neither of them actually started. A year to the day of the original airing, the newly expanded version is ready.”

‘Raiding the 20th Century’ - MP3 File (Original Download Link)
‘Raiding the 20th Century’ - Bit Torrent (Deluxe Edition, encoded at 320kbps)

via DJ Food

Funky Do Morro, Brazillian Beats

• April 19th, 2005

After watching ‘Ginga‘ (this is a link to another blog with a good summary of the event) a RES specially screened film from Nike/O2 Films documenting 7 individuals lives surrounding footbal and fusball in Brazil, I HAD to get my hands on the soundtrack. Turns out that as part of the promotional give aways at the RES event, I actually got a CD soundtrack compilation. On this CD are some of the most intense and raw street, percussion and hip hop beats you have heard. I think its safe to assume that Sao Paulo, Rio and Salvador are harder and more rugged places to live than the bronx, harlem or queens or any other hood here in the US? In any case, its amazing to me that in such poverty and disrepair, there are people inspired and equipped to produce this (although somewhat repetative once you listen to a few dozen tracks) primal and spiritual beat focused music.

I got this Brazillian music link from another site, but its basically focusing on the same genre of music presented in the Ginga film. The Funky Do Morro site has a tome of links to quite a few Brazillian Hip Hop, Percussion and Funk Compilations. I have posted a select few here to be concious of their bandwidth issues (since they are on a donation only server plan)…

“Do Morro” translates to “of the hill”, and has been ingrained in brazilian slang as reflection of the culture of the segregated favelas that have firmly rooted themselves in the hills of Rio De Janeiro.

This archive is intended to share the hip hop beat produced in the hills of Rio, the favelas of Sao Paolo, and the streets of Salvador - funky do morro: the funk of the hill.

Much of this music was found with independent sellers, and produced in garages, with not much international distribution. Many of the individual artists on the track may remain anonymous to global audiences…

MC Junior y MC Leonardo - Rap do Centenario (Rap do Brasil)
O Credo (Hip Hop Cultura de Rua)
As Panteras - Descontrolados (Batidao Cruel)
Tigrao - Toc Toc Toc (Batidao Cruel)
Bnd dos Salientes - Genio Saliente (Batidao Cruel)
MC Jaqueline Pocahontas - Vem Meu Bem (Ta Dominado)
MC Catra - Rap Mercenarias (Ta Dominado)
Casinha Da Baixada (As Melhores do La)

via Evil Wire

Mark Vidler, GoHome Productions UK

• April 15th, 2005

Just got this link from my friend Christian P. to GoHome Productions UK, which has an amazing selection of very unique and sometimes confusing (how Mark came up with these combos) mixture of mashups to listen to (and of course, download!)… I posted a selection of the ones I was least confused by…

BEATLEG BOOTLES PART1 - Various 15.14 (21.5Mb)

Available for the first time at (192kbps). A collection of 5 Beatles-related bootlegs, that first surfaced in Sept 2003. Contains ‘How Does It Feel To Be Rich, Man?’ / ‘Sloop For No One’ / ‘Razor Smile’ / ‘Daytrip To Never Never Land’ / ‘Karma In The Life’. A very complimentary Pitchfork review followed it’s appearance.

RAPTURE RIDERS - The Doors and Blondie 5.38 (7.9Mb)
RAY OF GOB (Original mix remastered) - Madonna and Sex Pistols 2.45 (3.80Mb)
SEXUAL HIGH (remastered) - Marvin Gaye and Radiohead 4.11 (5.77Mb)
FREEEZING RAIN - Freeez and The Cult 4.19 (5.93Mb)
ESSEX DOVES - David Essex and Doves 3.24 (4.67Mb)

via GoHome Productions UK

Ryukyu Underground, RHKirk remixes

• April 14th, 2005

Today I was browsing through some design portfolio sites, Sanderson Bob (ex tDR* Art Director) to be specific, and a recent piece he did, the Richard H. Kirk (ex Cabaret Voltaire) remixes for Ryukyu Undergound CD design caught my eye. Turns out that Ryukyu Underground are big file sharing pro-ponents! So I posted the RHKirk remix links here… Thanks guys!

Asian melodies and sounds combine with cutting-edge beats and production. Shamisen echoes over subsonic bass - Okinawan singers blend with ambient sounds and cut-up break beats.
This is the sound of contemporary Okinawa.
This blending of an ancient eastern culture and a modern westernized world.
This is Ryukyu Underground.

Ashibi Shongane - Richard Kirk Quiet Storm Mix
Ashibi Shongane - Richard Kirk Scientific Dance Hall dub
Ashibi Shongane - Richard Kirk Heavy Weather Mix 1
Ashibi Shongane - Richard Kirk Heavy Weather Mix 2
All previously unreleased

Sefa Utaki - Lelonek mix (Ryukyu Remixed)
Mo Ashibi - Jason Bentley remix (Ryukyu Remixed)
Hana - Progessive Breaks mix (CD single/12″ Hana)
Koi no Michikusa (Mo Ashibi)
Tinsagu nu hana dub (Ryukyu Underground)

via Ryukyu Underground

Emperor Norton, More Space Pop

• April 12th, 2005

While on the hunt for Space Pop audio samples, I also came across the Emperor Norton site and their literal tomb (pronounced TUME) of MP3 tracks (some REAL audio as well, yeeech! What were they thinking?)

Arling & Cameron - 1999 Spaceclub (We Are A&C)
CQ - Take Me Higher
Golden Boy with Miss Kittin - 1234, Vocal Version (Or)
Logan’s Sanctuary - Metropia (Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Mount Sims - How We Do (Ultra Sex)
Ralph Myerz and the Jack Herren Band - Casino (A Special Album)
Ralph Myerz and the Jack Herren Band - Clouds (A Special EP)
Pepe Deluxé - JA Jazz DJ Set (1 Hour)
Schroeder’s Cat - Sleep (Schroeder’s Cat EP)
Senor Coconut - Showroom Dummies (El Baile Aleman)
Soul Ecstasy - Citroens ‘n’ Sitars
Takako Minekawa - Maxi On! (Maxi On! EP)
Ugly Duckling - Turn It Up (12inch Single)

via Emperor Norton MP3 Listen Page

Bungalow Records Space Pop

• April 12th, 2005

Bungalow Records (Germany) is a great resources for vintage synth pop and modern acts that sound like the latter. I am especially groovin to the Peter Thomas Sound Orchester(ra)… and of course FPM!

PETER THOMAS SOUND-ORCHESTER - Space-Patrol (Raumpatrouille)
LOS FANCY FREE - Voltage Is OK (Sirius Mo remix)
SILVERIO - Yepa Yepa Yepa
FANTASTIC PLASTIC MACHINE - L’Aventure Fantastique
DAUERFISCH -Ride My Bike (Astrud Remix)
LE HAMMOND INFERNO - An Apple A Day
LE HAMMOND INFERNO - Move Your MP3
MAXWELL IMPLOSION - Follow My Riddim (Jean Jacques Smoothie remix)

via Bungalow Records

LE HAMMOND INFERNO - DJ Mix (~68mb)

via LHI Why

Readymade Entertainment, Tokyo

• April 12th, 2005

Readymade Entertainment (Tokyo) otherwise known as Readymade Records, famous for Panoramica (similar to Pizzicato 5) and a whole slew of other Italian 60’s pop stylee artists… Here is a sampling from one of their current releases, Karly (aka Nomoto Karia)…

Karly (aka Nomoto Karia) - Rock Steady
Karly (aka Nomoto Karia) - Freedom Street Afternoon
Karly (aka Nomoto Karia) - Adieu
Karly (aka Nomoto Karia) - And When I Die

**These are 30second previews (Sorry, I am working on finding some full length Japanese Pop!)

via Readymade Entertainment, Tokyo

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