“If I may speak completely for myself. It’s musicians like Charles, Ty, Chris Shaw, John Dwyer, Tim Presley and Mikal Cronin who are not only revitalizing Independent Music, but have forced the idea of the monolithic album, endless tour and then a year before another release to be but an antiquated and megaboring option. It’s a blast trying to keep up with their output. Super exciting. Lastly, all three CFM albums are great but Soundtrack To An Empty Room is the best one. It rips from start to finish.” —Henry Rollins
Well we post nothing tomorrow Sunday here on Vibes and I have posted all I am going to post today, vol 15 & 16 in the From the Ground Up series, bringing it to a close, thanks once again to Captain Crash for compiling this series and allowing Vibes to share it here.
So I will think over how (if I am) will continue to post here on Vibes, tried adding passwords and no one asked for the password, added new links today without and many takers already (says it all) . So need to think my next move.
Think what might happen is I post the album and not the link right away?
Or password protect or ask you to request a link, but this causes more work?
Maybe I turn the whole thing private and that will mean 100 lucky people will get access to Vibes.
Ok have just thought of this one I might password protect and add the file and and if 10 people ask for the password I will post it in the comments. Or I add no link and if 10 people requested via comments or email then I will add the link.
I may reconsider posting Flac, but that would deffo be password protected, in the future.
Another option could be I post only the one post per day in the future.
Will maybe try some posting idea's next week on my posts.
"Swing! Swing! Swing!" That's the motto of Marina & The Kats. Hot grooves, dreamy melodies, snappy guitars, driving drums, and the captivatingly charming voice of Marina, launching into one of her playfully cascading scat solos. Fingers snap, eyes sparkle, and the dance floor swirls! The story begins at a party in Graz. One evening together sealed the trio's fate. Old 7" singles by Louis Prima, Gene Krupa, Benny Goodman, Anita O'Day... were spinning on the turntables, and it suddenly dawned on the three of them: "Jazz is the ultimate dance music!"
The world's smallest big band was born, and the songs just flowed, quickly finding their way onto tape. Where needed, friends lent a hand, all of whom enjoy an excellent reputation in their field: Raphael Wressnig warmed up individual songs with his guttural, gurgling Hammond organ, clarinetists Herb Berger and Milos Milojevic provided the authentic swing feel here and there, and violinist Klemens Bittmann lent the quieter passages their supporting melodies. Generally speaking, the content of a song is very important to the songwriting duo "Zettl / Mauerhofer." In the title track "Small," for example, they've hidden two approaches: one that vividly describes what it's like to go through life as a small person. On the other hand, there's also a hint of rebellion, along the lines of: "Just because I'm small, nobody should think they don't have to take me seriously!" says Marina.
With this album, a circle closes that the trio began to trace at least ten years ago: All three met while studying jazz and have done pretty much everything except jazz in the past decade. In a way, the Kats have "come home"—to the genre that once inspired them to become musicians. (Jazz-Fun)
An earwitness account of the electronic dance music revolution on Belgian dancefloors from 1984 to the mid nineties.
By Captain Crash
Warning this compilation is VBR, the majority of tracks are 320, but some are in lower bit rates.
Thanks to Captain Crash for sharing this home made compilation with us on Vibes. This the end no more volumes to come in this 16 volume series. Hope you have enjoyed it.
1991 - Jah Shaka – Commandments Of Dub Chapter 10 - Africa Drum Beats (Flac)
Made up of dubwise versions of tracks off the "My Prayer" album plus others of unspecified origin, tracks like "Tribal Beats" (a dub of "Rasta Deh Yah"), "Bongo Dub" ("Rise And Shine"), "Snare Drum Dub" ("Don't Give Up") and "War Drum" are tried and tested favourites.
An earwitness account of the electronic dance music revolution on Belgian dancefloors from 1984 to the mid nineties.
By Captain Crash
Warning this compilation is VBR, the majority of tracks are 320, but some are in lower bit rates.
Thanks to Captain Crash for sharing this home made compilation with us on Vibes. 2 more volumes to come in this 16 volume series, which I will post tomorrow Saturday 24th October 2026.
On their second album Obey, Exploded View find themselves stretching out and building up from their noisy, pulsing foundation. Their influences are wide-ranging but impeccable: Can, Silver Apples, The Velvet Underground, early ’80s post-punk and industrial, electronic kosmische soundscapes.
The dubwise counterpart of "Dub Symphony" on Island Records. Its distinction is now fully that of the computerised/digital sound, recorded at Shameless Studios with the engineer and keyboard-gifted Andy Mozart, the rhythms herald a new direction, upfront digital drums and percussion, spikey keyboard synths and rhythms different in their concept and construction. Check out the "Dub Symphony" review for more enlightenment.
At the very dawn of the 90s, Love Child's debut 7” made a splash on the burgeoning scene of shambolic bands and lo-fi recordings. Back then, they were mentioned in the same breath as Pavement, Sebadoh, or Beat Happening. But Love Child’s two great albums and sparkling singles have become the stuff of record collectors, unavailable via streaming and out of print, until now. Never Meant to Be: 1988-1993 pulls from these releases and some unreleased radio sessions, unearthing a trove of lost gems by a band that could be the best of all of the 90s buried treasures.
The production again raw but just taking in the use of some more modern keyboard sounds, on the brink of a new style. Dubs to Sister Rasheda`s "Psalms 61" and a wicked rhythm dubbed here as "Prayer Of David Dub" but which remained further as a strict Shaka sound system dubplate power play!
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