I did not know it would be this good

Music For the Gods - The Fahnestock South Sea Expedition Indonesia



Mesmerizing, beautiful stuff. Indonesian Gamelan, which is something I've heard mentioned before but never had a chance to look into--turns out this was a fairly major mistake! This disc is a collection of recordings made by a pair of American brothers lugging recording equipment around Indonesia circia 1940, and apparently stands as one of the best documents of gamelan music as performed by the original masters. Gamelan was "forgotten" for a while before being rescued by various musical ensembles and cultural institutes. Whatever the backstory though, this is some seriously ethereal, stunning music. I've been listening to this a lot since I got it. Very peaceful trance-inducing music. I HIGHLY recommend a download (it's okay to like "world music" people, as terrible as that term is).

A Third Thrilling Thumper

I noticed my grammar kinda went south in that last post, comma splices ahoy! But these things can't be helped sometimes. Ninjas be all up in my language steez. Nevertheless, here we have Track of the Week, Part The Third:

Aeroplane - Caramellas

Fantastic piano! Swoonsome buildup around the third minute completes disco wundertrack euphoria! OH EMM GEE!! Love it, you check Aeroplane myspace and listen to other lovely tracks, k? Mulchy! Soon come Beardo Mix The Part The Two, me thinks...

A Brace of Balaeric Beauties

A Mountain Of One - Brown Piano (Remake by Studio)

Peter Visti - Dolly

Start the week off with some slow-grooving beauties. First off Studio's remake of AMO1's newest single is everything you could hope it would be, massive slow-kick bassline and shimmering neo-western guitars unfold over an epic 10-minute span of ghostly disco. Peter Vistsi gives us a re-edit of Dolly Parton's "Jolene" which mostly just steals a guitar lick and the the eponymous chorus re-sung by male vocalist, adds haunted synths, drum kick and handclaps, repeats into krautrock oblivion. Just put these two songs on repeat and drift away...

Turkey Shells Northern Iraq

Can you imagine the absolute shit storm that would happen if this was Iran shelling Iraq?? Oh double standards. But the Americans have long ignored (condoned?) the Turks campaign against the Kurdish people anyway...