Cult figure Kim Fowley, record producer, rock impresario, songwriter and musician. Manager of The Runaways, Animal Man and the original Mayor of the Sunset Strip. “One of the most colorful characters in the annals of rock & roll.” Thrill to gossipy stories of Sly Stone and Doris Day; Sonny and Cher; Cat Stevens, Led Zeppelin, Gene Vincent and more. Part 1
Bollywood session keyboardist Charanjit Singh released Synthesizing: Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat in 1982 to an uninterested Indian public. Having loaded up on all the then current electronic music goodies (a Roland Jupiter-8 keyboard, a Roland TR-808 drum machine and a Roland TB-303) he spent two days making his version of Indian classical music and inadvertently invented acid house in the process. It’s lovely stuff, have a listen !
thx Andy Davis and Tara !
(Charanjit Singh, acid house pioneer)
An already lovely printed visual score by Rainer Wehinger for György Ligeti
Low End Theory is a weekly club night I throw every Wednesday with my cohorts Daddy Kev, D-Styles, Gaslamp Killer and resident MC Nocando. Instead of trying to explain to you what kind of music we play, I’ll invite you to download our latest podcast which we drop monthly. Each mix features one of our resident Dj’s paired with a guest selector. This month we feature myself, Nobody, and Take, who’s album Only Mountains drops on April 20th on Alpha Pup Records.
Trippy 2010 reel from animator, illustrator and designer, Kristof Luyckx. Music by Black Spires.
(via Ignant)
A difficult and turbulent mix of 7” singles from my collection for the sake of your aural edutainment.
Portsmouth Sinfonia - Also Sprach Zarathustra Op. 31 (excerpt)
Annie Anxiety - Cyanide Tears
Jimmy Smack - Untitled
Keith Rowe - Scratch Music
Joe Colley/Crawl Unit - Clay Sound
Princess Tinymeat - A Bun in the Oven
Eazy Teeth - Her Blade
The Flying Lizards - All Guitars
Minimal Man - She Was A Visitor
Stefan Weisser (Zev) - Poextensions
Sun City Girls - Eye Mohini
Project 197 - Plastic Straws
Jimmy Smack - Untitled
Caroliner - The Cooking Stove Beast
Johnny Ace - Pledging My Love
Give it up for Andrew W.K. for he is a very brave man. In the pages of the Guardian newspaper, the hard partying rocker was willing to tell one of those stories that should probably be left untold, but oh what a great story it is. You see, young Andrew had a massive crush on a girl who didn’t exactly crush on him in return. So the 17-year-old future rock star wrote her a love song, recorded it and turned it in as his high school senior project. That’s where things went terribly, terribly wrong… Play the song here. It’s kinda great for a kid—sophisticated sonically to be sure—but LOL at the same time.
The day after I submitted the song, the head of my school called me and my parents in for a private meeting. They played the song for my parents as I sat next to them, paralysed and devastated by the humiliation. The head of the school recommended that I go into counselling or see the school psychiatrist (my parents did send me to a child psychologist following later exploits in arson, baseball card forgery and mail fraud: his final diagnosis? “You have a devilish side”). That was bad, but nothing compared to what happened a year later.
It turned out that the assistant to the head of school got a copy of my song on cassette and gave it to the girl I had a crush on. This was probably the worst thing that had ever happened in my life. She heard the song and was completely freaked out. Within three days, every kid in school had a copy. She told her friends, teachers and parents: “This guy at school is stalking me and threatening my life.” She played them the song and they called the police.
Read the rest of ‘It’s time to let you hear the song which earned me a juvenile restraining order’ (including the lyrics) (The Guardian)
Thank you Chris Campion!
Remember our anesthesia patient from earlier this week? Well thanks to a comment left by Eric S, we now know that her Jesus freestyle was actually a song by Carman
Though this clip has been around for some time, I think this latest version is of the best quality. This is from a James Brown concert in 1983, in which the hardest working man in show business invites both Michael Jackson and Prince to the stage for a little improvisation. Michael woos the ladies, while Prince - well you’ll just have to watch. If you blink you might miss him ride in on the back of a gigantic body guard dressed in a leopard wrestler’s outfit.
Like holy crap, you guys. The Internet just told me there’s actually such a thing as dinosaur metal for kids. Apparently the band’s called “Hevisaurus,” a lot of the members used to be in Dio (!?!?!?) and their songs are in Finnish—although I would say the concept carries in any language, wouldn’t you?
Hevisaurus was a band made up of members from legendary band Dio and Sonata Arctica. Their goal was to recrod heavy metal for children. After an intense brainstorming session, someone thought of buying a bunch of dinosaur suits and the idea stuck. The music itself is in Finnish, but the lyrics usually deal with popular children’s stories and, you know, dinosaurs. Because that’s the heart of metal.
And now I can’t get their song, linked below, out of my head. Damn you Hevisaurus!
(Previously on Dangerous Minds: Ganymed! What is it this week?!)
