Marc Bolan & T.Rex - Spaceball - American Radio Sessions (Applebush CPSSPCD005) (2009) @320

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VA - B-Music - Cross Continental Record Raid Road Trip (2007) 320

leeds - I will post VA - B-Music - Drive In, Turn On, Freak Out tomorrow, so if to like this then return for more on tuesday. 

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Bob Marley & The Wailers – First Trip (Absord Music Japan ABCP-67)(2001) 320

Hi guys, just got out of hospital yesterday, after having an operation on my left knee, had the right one done last year. So thought would post something today, can see you have been busy in my absence!! Thanks again to Reb for letting me use his accounts to upload the music. 

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Temples

Sun Structures

(2014)

 

 

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The 101ers

Elgin Avenue Breakdown - Revisited

(2005)

 

 

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The Clash

The Singles Box Set

(2006)

 

 

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VA – Deutsche Elektronische Musik 4 (Experimental German Rock & Electronic Musik 72-83) (Soul Jazz Records SJR CD459 ) (2020) @320

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VA – Deutsche Elektronische Musik 3 (Experimental German Rock & Electronic Musik 72-83) (Soul Jazz Records SJR CD402) (2017) @320

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VA – Deutsche Elektronische Musik 2 (Experimental German Rock & Electronic Musik 72-83) (Soul Jazz Records SJR CD265) (2013) @320

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VA – Deutsche Elektronische Musik (Experimental German Rock & Electronic Musik 72-83) (Soul Jazz Records SJR CD213) (2010) @320

 

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Grace Jones - 1985 - Island Life

Grace Jones - 1985 - Island Life @320

Originally released in 1985, Island Life compiles highlights from Grace Jones' 1977 debut through 1985’s Slave to the Rhythm. It’s a concise overview that features four Top Ten U.S. club hits (“I Need a Man,” “Do or Die,” “Pull Up to the Bumper,” “Slave to the Rhythm”), as well as an additional smattering of choice cuts from her late-‘70s collaborations with Tom Moulton and her stellar ‘80s work with Sly & Robbie. It’s a decent introduction for casual fans but lacks crucial material like “Warm Leatherette” and “Nipple to the Bottle.” (AllMusic)

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Grace Jones - 2008 - Hurricane + 2011 - Hurricane Dub

Grace Jones - 2008 - Hurricane + 2011 - Hurricane Dub @320

After 19 years, Grace Jones finally released a new studio album, and it's a weird one, nostalgic and timeless in equal measure. Her collaborators (including Brian Eno, Tricky, Wendy & Lisa, Sly & Robbie, Tony Allen, and others) set up instrumental backdrops that explicitly recall not only her own early-'80s albums, but also those albums' influence on the later work of Massive Attack, Tricky, et al. At the same time, Jones' old lyrical persona -- the androgynous cyber-demon who uses scorn as an erotic weapon -- has been largely abandoned; only on "Corporate Cannibal" does that version of her reappear, atop a track that sounds inspired by Massive Attack's "Inertia Creeps." Instead, we get a nostalgic, autobiographical Grace Jones, which is interesting and pretty much totally unexpected. The songs "William's Blood" and "I'm Crying (Mother's Tears)" find the now 60-year-old Jones looking back on her childhood in Jamaica, recalling her mother singing in church and comforting her as a nightmare-stricken little girl. Her voice changes on these songs; her accent grows thicker, abandoning the female-Terminator delivery of classic tracks like "Nightclubbing" and "Pull Up to the Bumper" in favor of a voice that's like a more gravelly Sister Carol. Of course, age has put a few crinkles into her throaty delivery, which helps when she ramps up the aggression on songs like "This Is" and the title track (a collaboration with Tricky); she's as scary as ever, when she wants to be. A calculated look back to her glory days and even earlier, Hurricane is possibly Grace Jones' most focused artistic statement and a worthy sequel to her classic early-'80s albums. (AllMusic)

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VA - Beginner's Guide To African Funk (3cd set) (2009) @320

 

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Veneno

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Franz Ferdinand

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Monthly mix of new and newly re-released indie tracks: Cosmas Mix 179

 I was invited to post here on occasion.  I think given the broad range of things posted on this blog, the monthly mix that I make would be a good thing to post.  This mix is available monthly on MixCloud and will help give you all a good idea of interesting Indie, Indie-Rock, Post Punk, Shoegaze, and Dream Pop releases that are coming out each month (and being re-released)

Currently I've just released mix number 179.  You can stream it here:

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Here is the tracklist for this month's mix:

key: Artist- "song" (album) 

*Indie Selects Zone*

1- Mo Dotti- "pale blue afternoon" (opaque)

2- Blankenberge- "New Rules" 

3- Memorials- "Cut It Like A Diamond" (Memorial Waterslides)

4- The Asteroid No.4- "Caroline's Gone" (Several Shapes of Solar Flares)

5- Beach Vacation- "Stuck Here" 

6- Cathedral Bells- "Dead Malls (Collaboration W: Orchid Mantis)" 

7- Sea Lions- "Out Alive" 

8- Alvilda- "Angoisse" (C’est D​é​jà L’heure)

9- maisonette- "last cig" 

10- chaoticpoprecs- "The Pale Love Unseen - Forever With You" 

11- The Linda Lindas- "Nothing Would Change" (No Obligation)

12- Actors- "Object of Desire" 

13- Yama Uba- "Angel (A . S. Valentino Remix)" 

14- The Horrors- "The Silence That Remains" 

15- CEREMONY east coast- "Turn Out The Lights" (Turn Out The Lights)

16- A Place to Bury Strangers- "Bad Idea" (Synthesizer)

*Nostalgia Zone*

17- Electric Guitars- "Language Problems (Demo)" (The Bristol Post Punk Explosion Vol 2 (1979-1986))

18- Shop Assistants- "I Don't Wanna Be Friends With You (John Peel Session 11/11/1986)" (Will Anything Happen (Deluxe Edition))

19- The Chameleons- "The Fan and The Bellows" (Tomorrow Remember Yesterday)

20- Fire Engines- "(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang  (Live, BBC Radio 1, John Peel, Broadcast 9 March 1981)" (Chrome Dawns)

21- The Damned- "The Last Time (Live at O2 Apollo Manchester 03/11/2022)" (AD 2022 - Live in Manchester (Live at O2 Apollo Manchester 03/11/2022))

22- The Primitives- "The Ostrich (Remastered 2024)" (Why Don't You Smile Now: Lou Reed at Pickwick Records 1964-65)

23- Talking Heads- "Psycho Killer (Acoustic Version) (feat. Arthur Russell) (2024 Remaster)" 

24- Galaxie 500- "Moonshot" (Uncollected Noise New York ’88-’90)

25- Dean & Britta & Sonic Boom- "Pretty Paper" 

26- Slowdive- "kisses - electronic version 3" 

27- Suede- "Stay Together (Single Version)" (Dog Man Star (30th Anniversary Edition))

28- The Cure- "A Fragile Thing" (Songs Of A Lost World)

29- Johnny Marr/ Johnny Marr + The Healers- "You Are the Magic (Union Mix)" (Boomslang (2024 Deluxe Edition))

30- New Order- "Bizarre Love Triangle (Stephen Hague 12" Remix)" 

31- New Order- "New Order - Blue Monday 1988 (Michael Johnson 12” Remix) [Official Video]" 

32- Kim Deal- "A Good Time Pushed" 

33- Screaming Trees- "What's Never Been" (Weird Things Happening (The Ellensburg Demos 86-88))

34- Yung Wu- "Shore Leave" 

35- Real Estate- "Daniel" 

36- Maximo Park- "Favourite Songs" (Stream Of Life)

37- Stars- "Ageless Beauty (2024 Remastered)" (Set Yourself On Fire (20th Anniversary Edition))

38- Interpol- "Not Even Jail" (Antics (The Twentieth Anniversary Edition))

39- The Ruts- "Jah War (Single Version)" (Roots Rock Rebels (When Punk Met Reggae 1975-1982))

40- Stiff Little Fingers- "Johnny Was" (Roots Rock Rebels (When Punk Met Reggae 1975-1982))

41- The Selecter- "Too Much Pressure" (Roots Rock Rebels (When Punk Met Reggae 1975-1982))

42- The Beat- "Stand Down Margaret (Dub)" (Roots Rock Rebels (When Punk Met Reggae 1975-1982))

43- Sir Horatio- "Sommadub" (Roots Rock Rebels (When Punk Met Reggae 1975-1982))

44- The Go! Team- "Ladyflash" (Thunder, Lightning, Strike Demos)

45- Primal Scream- "The Centre Cannot Hold" 

*More*

46- Get Violet- "below the moon" 

47- EggS- "Head In Flames" 

48- The WAEVE- "City Lights" (City Lights)

49- The Smile- "Zero Sum" (Cutouts)

50- Xiu Xiu- "Maestro One Chord" (13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips)

51- Public Service Broadcasting- "Towards the Dawn" (The Last Flight)

52- Cassius- "Cassius 1999" (Best Of 1996-2019)

53- GLOK & Timothy Clerkin- "Empyrean (Radio Edit)" 

54- Bonobo- "Rosewood" (Expander)

55- Godspeed You! Black Emperor- "SUN IS A HOLE SUN IS VAPORS" (“NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD”)

VA - ¡Chicas!, Vol. 3 1963-1982 (2023) @320

 

Third volume of our ¡Chicas! series, an irresistible collection of ye-yé, twist, disco, beat, popcorn, flamenco pop and even Northern Soul!

From the early 60s and in the middle of a difficult political and social context, Spanish female singers – and those who moved to Spain - disregarded conventions and overcame all barriers to be part of a music movement that shook the Spanish society of the period.

Tracklist

01 - Marion - Azul, azul, azul

02 - Suzie - Mirándote

03 - Hermanas Ros - Estilo Beat

04 - Erõs - Abrázame así

05 - Cecilia - Te marchaste

06 - Chocolate Menta Mastik - Sola

07 - Mary Gema - Necesito

08 - Marian Conde - No me llames Dolores

09 - Doris Y Rossie - Casa forte

10 - Franciska - Twist contigo

11 - Rosa Morena - Qué más da

12 - Albertina Cortés - Amor amargo

13 - Elvira - No, no, no

14 - Nena Catherine - Mi amor, mi bien

15 - Sylvia Nelson - Es tu error

16 - Dolly - Listen Here 

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Orchestra Baobab - Adduna Jarul Naawo (1975)

A1 - Fecal Waay Sama Xol

A2 - Adduna Jarul Naawo

A3 - Sama Xol Bul Dem

A4 - Wango

B1 - Sama Xol Faatu Joop

B2 - Fuutu Tooro

B3 - Jolina

B4 - Mansani Siise

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1970 - King Kong - Jean-Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa

1970 - King Kong - Jean-Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa @320

Not just an album of interpretations, King Kong: Jean-Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa was an active collaboration; Frank Zappa arranged all of the selections, played guitar on one, and contributed a new, nearly 20-minute orchestral composition for the occasion. Made in the wake of Ponty's appearance on Zappa's jazz-rock masterpiece Hot Rats, these 1969 recordings were significant developments in both musicians' careers. In terms of jazz-rock fusion, Zappa was one of the few musicians from the rock side of the equation who captured the complexity -- not just the feel -- of jazz, and this project was an indicator of his growing credibility as a composer. For Ponty's part, King Kong marked the first time he had recorded as a leader in a fusion-oriented milieu (though Zappa's brand of experimentalism didn't really foreshadow Ponty's own subsequent work). Of the repertoire, three of the six pieces had previously been recorded by the Mothers of Invention, and "Twenty Small Cigars" soon would be. Ponty writes a Zappa-esque theme on his lone original "How Would You Like to Have a Head Like That," where Zappa contributes a nasty guitar solo. The centerpiece, though, is obviously "Music for Electric Violin and Low Budget Orchestra," a new multi-sectioned composition that draws as much from modern classical music as jazz or rock. It's a showcase for Zappa's love of blurring genres and Ponty's versatility in handling everything from lovely, simple melodies to creepy dissonance, standard jazz improvisation to avant-garde, nearly free group passages. In the end, Zappa's personality comes through a little more clearly (his compositional style pretty much ensures it), but King Kong firmly established Ponty as a risk-taker and a strikingly original new voice for jazz violin. (AllMusic)

ANDY