Tejano music was part of the soundtrack of my life when I was living in New Mexico, as pervasive as the smell of roasting Hatch chilies. The insistent rhythm of Tex-Mex blasting from low-slung, tricked out Camrys cruising Paseo del Pueblo Sur.

The Nortec Collective is doing something very cool here - combining Mexican norteno music with techno: nor-tec. Accordions, horns, drum machines and synthesizers come together in a sound that is both modern and traditional. Borders dissolve in the dance.

Nortec Collective perform live and record as Bostich + Fussible and Hiperboreal + Clorofila under the banner of the Collective.
 

 
Bostich + Fussible are going to be touring in 2011 and here’s a promotional clip. The masks have a hi-tech Lucha libre look. Very hip.
 

 
This is incredible: Behold as Miles David watches Louis Malle’s French film noir, Ascenseur pour l’échafaud, AKA Elevator to the Gallows, and improvises his moody soundtrack score. Followed by an interview with Malle.

Jazz critic Phil Johnson described this as “the loneliest trumpet sound you will ever hear.” This is like watching Picasso paint.
 

Via PCL Linkdump

 
Kraftwerk before Autobahn.
 

 
Bonus clips of early Kraftwerk in performance after the jump…
 

 
One of the coolest fake bands in TV history. From ‘Get Smart’.

The Sacred Cows were session musicians Jerry Scheff (bass) John Greek (guitar) & Ben Benay (guitar) They played the band and recorded the music. John Greek also recorded with real band The Beautiful Daze; played guitar on The Seeds’ 45 ‘Wind Blows Your Hair’ and played on four cuts on the Uni Lollipop Shoppe LP.

Don’t just stand there being placid
Get into some psychopathic acid
I’ll take you to a place that’s purple and paisley
There’s no problem everybody is crazy
Come on get rid of your frustration
Get into our hate generation
If you are ready…...

Get Smart season 3 episode 15. Larry Storch plays the Groovy Guru.
 

 
A very happy birthday to artist, musician, model and feminist icon, Cosey Fanni Tutti, who was born Christine Newby on this day in 1951. You can visit her website to read about current museum exhibits, live performances and to see online archival materials from her four decade career with COUM Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle, Chris & Cosey and now Carter Tutti.
 

 
Read an excerpt about the infamous “Prostitution” exhibit at London’s ICA in 1976 from John A. Walker’s book, Art and Outrage: Cosey Fanni Tutti & Genesis P-Orridge in 1976:Media frenzy, Prostitution-style (Art Design Cafe)

From her “Time to Tell” box set, an interview with Cosey about her time in the sex trade.

Below, Cosey demonstrates the Tutti Box:
 

 
This is pretty wonderful. Pogo composed ‘Wishery’ using “vocal syllables, musical chords and sound effects recorded from the 1937 Disney classic Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs.”

Pogo is an electronic music producer currently living in Perth, Western Australia. He is known for his work recording small sounds from a single film or scene and sequencing them to form a new piece of music.

 
Via Have you seen this?!

 
Well, this one clever way to roundup cows. Here’s an awesome version of “Get Along Little Doggies” played on an accordion. The cows seem to really enjoy it, too.

(via Everlasting Blort)

 
Dangerous Minds pal, Chris Campion writes:

“Two of the most unlikely names ever to be mentioned in the same breath, now united.”

Oddly, it kinda works!

 
Dick Flash of ‘Pork’ magazine interviews Brian Eno on the release of Eno’s new recording ‘Small Craft on a Milk Sea’. Flash and Eno, convergence of one great mind.

“I used to love that Ian Dury, great voice, amazing limp.”
 

 
Here’s the legendary Paul Super Apple (Paul Moralian) tape sent to Keith Richards sometime in the 1980’s. Mr. Apple, sounding like Joe Pesci and radiating a Rupert Pupkin vibe, is either either insane or brilliant…and there’s a thin line between the two.