War & It's Side Effects

We'll be paying as a country for lil' Bush's ill-timed folly turned endless bloodbath in Iraq for a long time.

Not only are the bills going to be financial & political weights around the necks of future generations, but the unintentional socio-emotional prices will be high as well.

Look at this sad, likely leftover human detritus from our war in Vietnam.

Meet Lam Luong, he's a 37 year old immigrant from Vietnam whose been here since 1984.

A quick glance at his features though, and my bet is that his daddy was a G.I drafted and serving in Vietnam circa 1971 at the time he was conceived. I'm guessing that this messed up multi-cultural moron possibly never met his G.I Joe daddy...he certainly didn't get rights to his Pop's last name.

If our bloated bully nation had never spent so much time while shedding so much blood in Vietnam, this guy never would have been conceived.

Which in turn means he also never would

• a.) have ended up in the U.S working for low wages as a shrimper,
  
  
• b.) become a loser crackhead
  
  or best of all possible worlds:
  
• c.) never thrown his own kids off a bridge in Alabama.
  

It's as easy as A - B - C my friends:

Anyhow...

The American dream has been pretty much a nightmare for many years ...

Growing up in the post Vietnam , Cold War Era shaped my warped perspectives...

And I became a nasty lil' psychedelicized punk rock rebel dropout... which seemed like a fitting idea at the time...

Not so great for the ol' bank account, credit rating or your slick social standing... but at least ya save money on all those golf lessons & country club memberships...

Plus the perks are plentiful... no job to waste your time at, and plenty shows & substances to keep ya spinnin' for years until ya realize ya only have a fraction of yer hearing & liver left.

Here's some of that good ol' rebel music that got me through the sickening haze of watching my country turn fat, stupid & lazy...

These are simple songs that say more in their attitude than they do in their production value...

We'll start with one of my all time fave political pranksters...

He levitated the Pentagon, created a panic on Wall Street when he threw money on the trading floor, riled up Daley's pigs in Chicago, fled the Feds & lived on the lam, grabbed protest headlines with former first daughter Amy Carter and is now 20 years gone after dying in a far too sad fashion for such a feisty figure...



Abbie Hoffman - God Bless America



I was of course a big fan of DEVO, and a lot of folks of my generation were duly impressed with their approach.

Formed in the wake of Kent State in the industrially f*cked environs of the once pastoral rubber city of Akron Ohio, these guys ascended to an unlikely artistic greatness, and are really not to be ignored. They were a near perfect execution of a late 20th century pop cultural statement. Everything from the quirky tunes, to the costumes, production, merchandising, videos and the whole shebang were amazingly well constructed purposeful parodies in an age that was beyond my teenage comprehension...

(They are still chiseling away at the youth culture, with Mark Mothersbaugh working behind the scenes on children's music projects for clients like Nickelodeon & Disney.)


My pals in Lagwagon were apparently also in the same camp, and along with our mutual love for the ponderous pomp & satanic sword play of vintage Iron Maiden, they also had time for Devo...

You can look up Devo in yer own time I suppose...


Here are Lagwagon doing the title cut from a 1981 Devo LP

Lagwagon - Freedom Of Choice

I saw an interview with our next draft dodging contestant, who mentioned how important it was for his bandmates to avoid the draft. Imagine if the Stooges hadn't perfected their 4F status and the world was forced to endure another decade of crap like The Association and Dino, Desi & Billy.

Thank gawd that this peanut butter & blood smearing freak lived through Vietnam, and can continue to entertain us all today...

Gawd forbid, he had gone to 'Nam and started making babies...

Where would aging boomer targeted companies like Cadillac and Carnival Cruiselines get music for their wack tv commercial ad campaigns ?

Iggy Pop and The Stooges - Cock In My Pocket

Iggy And The Stooges
"Cock In My Pocket" (mp3)
from "Metallic K.O. - The Original 1976 Album"
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In the wake of Vietnam, with the petrol addicted 1st world empires in repose, we ended up with Britain huffing a whiff of the Stooges & NY Dolls. Soon bands like The Clash, Ian Dury & the Blockheads and Eddie & The Hot Rods arose out of the pubs & shook up the scene.

Ian Dury wrote an enduring punky 70's sort of anthem, that still holds plenty resonance today with a certain fringe devout following...

Ian Dury - Sex & Drugs & Rock n Roll

Here's a midwestern U.S based band known as Soul Asylum doing a live Eddie & the Hot Rods cover a decade or two later, showing that the wasted U.K pub pop scene had legs, if not a legacy. (At the end you can hear Dan Murphy dedicate the track to Articles of Faith singer Vic Bondi, a fixture on the 80's hardcore scene in Chicago and featured in the documentary "American Hardcore".)

Soul Asylum - Do Anything You Wanna do( Eddie & The Hot Rods Cover)

In the late 70's UK trend spotter Malcolm McLaren smelled blood & lots of bloody money, and suddenly we had the Sex Pistols, and even solo Sid Vicious attempting his best Eddie Cochran impersonation before stabbing the shit out of some whiny junkie broad from New Jersey.
Sid Vicious
"Something Else" ( recorded live Sept 28th '78 )
from the recent dbl CD release "Sid Lives".

Incidentally, this track was recorded live with with itinerant scenster Steve Dior on guitar backed by Jerry Nolan and Arthur "Killer" Kane of the NY Dolls as the rhythm section upstairs at Max's Kansas City.

On 9/28/1978 these junkie bashers in NYC banged away two sets ruthlessly in oblivion, while their 70's contemporaries like prog rockers Yes performed in the round at the Checkerdome in St.Louis. Hee Haw banjo man Roy Clark guested on the Muppet Show, and in Austin TX, at Armadillo World HQ, future American Idol judge Randy Jackson played jazz fusion as part of Billy Cobham's band, the same venue where months earlier an ill-fated Sex Pistols performance had been held.

Meanwhile, across the Atlantic in the Vatican, it was announced that Pope John Paul the 1st died mysteriously 33 days after he was named Pope. It was also just 2 weeks before Sid would reportedly find himself covered in blood at the Chelsea hotel and be charged with Nancy Spungen's murder.

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Eventually, like in any good war, the Canadians get involved and one of the greatest hardcore punk bands of all time would have to be Vancouver's D.O.A, whose War on 45 record is amongst the best punk releases ever...

Joey Shithead & Co.'s take on Edwin Starr's hit War written by Norman Whitfield is the definitive version if ya ask me...

Here's a couple more from that classic, and links to get it yer bad self...

D.O.A - War In The East



D.O.A - America The Beautiful

War On 45

D.O.A

Sudden Death Records

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gotta go pay some bills here... and plan my happy hour.

Money Trumps Peace Sometimes

While the British media are openly speculating on how many hours we have until Bush launches an attack on Iran, USA TODAY's founder Al Neuharth finally put GW Bush on the list of all time worst presidents. More on that in a minute, but first y'all get yourselves in the mood with some thematic Presidentially relevant tuneage...

Paula Cole - My Hero Mr President


Slackers - International War Criminal


Jackie Mitoo - President Roots


Subhumans ( Canada ) - World At War


In an editorial published on President's Day, now retired Gannett publisher/editor Al Neuharth, outed Bush as beyond lame in his online column aka "blog":

Our great country has had 43 presidents. Many very good. A few pretty bad. On Presidents Day next Monday, it's appropriate to commemorate them all.

I remember every president since Herbert Hoover, when I was a grade school kid. He was one of the worst. I've personally met every president since Dwight Eisenhower. He was one of the best.

A year ago I criticized Hillary Clinton for saying "this (Bush) administration will go down in history as one of the worst."

"She's wrong," I wrote. Then I rated these five presidents, in this order, as the worst: Andrew Jackson, James Buchanan, Ulysses Grant, Hoover and Richard Nixon. "It's very unlikely Bush can crack that list," I added.

I was wrong. This is my mea culpa. Not only has Bush cracked that list, but he is planted firmly at the top.

more at:
http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2007/02/plain_talk_by_a_1.html

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Meanwhile, I just read today that in a press conference on Feb 14th Bush tellingly told reporterswith candor in his best "Aw, shucks, I'm schoolin' ya hear fellas" voice :

"Money trumps peace sometimes. In other words commercial interests are very powerful interests..."

WOW...no sh*t sherlock, oh and say hello for me to all your Halliburton homies I see waiting for those upcoming Iran contracts ...

Flying Lizards - Money

Neil Young - Let's Impeach The President

Speaking of gov't's and following the moolah...

Any taxpayer worth their weight in non voluntary donations made to the government can complain about the institutionalized bureaucratic inefficiencies, laziness and general bad service received when we actually have to deal with the government agencies in charge of the minutiae of our lives.

Rare is it when we see a remedy or even a challenge succeed against the gov't and it's labyrinth of unaccountability that ordinary citizens face in such cases. Well , Tuesday provided one of those rare small glimmers of light in the uphill battle against bureaucratic b.s.

L.A bureaucrats at the county's Registrar-Recorder's office have been put on notice by a California state judge for failing to get their work done on time. Apparently what got the case started was county official Conny B. McCormack's refusal to get staff to file the standard , but legally necessary paperwork for property titles & deeds within the two business day limit set by law. Citizens were previously unable to check on the stautus of their cases for days, financial lives and property transactions hung in the balance, and gov't preferred profiteers with unequal access to the "unfiled" data were making a profit. A current class action lawsuit could see the county end up paying out up to some $200 million in penalties requested by plaintiffs p.o'd about some 400,000 reconveyances allegedly not filed on time and another $16.6 million per month for continuing violations until the county complies with Sec. 2941(c). The judge gave LA county until March 7th to get their act in order.

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Southern California, where I will be spending most of my weekend, has lots of other news as usual, not surprising since it is where most of the state's population lives.

LA Times Photo Gallery

Barack Obama's Southland visit

Amongst stories on the radar there, is Barack Obama wooing Hollywood Democrat donors and picking up more than a million at a $2,300 a plate Beverly Hills fundraiser. His itinerary also included an even more exclusive late night private dinner for 40 really, really big ticket donors at David Geffen's estate.

The earlier larger scale event at the Beverly Hilton was hosted by Geffen and his Dreamworks partner's Steven Spielberg & Jeffrey Katzenberg. The star power sightings included Jennifer Aniston, Norman Lear, Ron Howard, Morgan Freeman, Tom Hanks, Eddie Murphy, Ben Stiller and producer Brad Grey, current head of Paramount Studios.

Interestingly, Obama kept his media time to a minimum, answering questions only to the Los Angeles Sentinel, an African American weekly newspaper, which aides said would be his only California press interview.

California has attempted to increase it's political clout this year by moving it's 08 presidential primary to February 5th. Now less than a year away, Obama , just 11 days into his "campaign" is the 1st high profile democratic hopeful to rake the state's wealthy for checks...

Obama, moves on to the far less star studded environs of Des Moines today... bypassing a Labor Forum in Nevada where most other top democratic hopefuls were appearing.

Hillary Clinton though is expected later this week to the LA area, but unlike Obama who showed up in Crenshaw at a lively outdoor rally for 7,000, Hillary has no public events scheduled. Her LA itinerary appears to be heavy on meetings with high powered financiers in Pacific Palisades and deep pocketed execs, like those at Creative Artists Agency in Century City. There's a fundraising event at the office of Ninja Turtles mogul Haim Saban, as well as an event sponsored by Iranian immigrants. According to the LA Times, Clinton has also scheduled two other California trips next month to raise more money, in some cases from donors also giving to Obama.

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The Frogs - I Only Play for Money

Diplo - Money Power Respect

John Belushi - Money, That's What I Want

In another strange dispatch out of Southern California, a prominent rabbi, and longtime mideast peace movement member has issued a formal apology to a right-wing conservative activist who claimed she was attacked by the man at a UCLA event.

"I am deeply sorry that I hit, kicked, and scratched you and called you a liar. By taking these unprovoked actions, I have contradicted the pluralism, peace and tolerance about which I so often preach. I have also violated the humanitarian teachings of Judaism regarding kindness and respect for others that I am bound to uphold."

so wrote Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller, who for 30 years has been the director of Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life at UCLA. He is currently on "sabbatical".

The "attack" on writer Rachel Neuwirth, reportedly occured following an Oct 2003 speech by lawyer Alan Dershowitz, who was promoting his book “The Case for Israel.” Ms. Neuwirth, a 50 something real estate agent and staunch pro-Israel activist & writer, was participating in a post event protest by a nationalist Israeli group and confronted Seidler-Feller angerly about his inviting a Palestinian to speak on campus.

After the brief scuffle which started when Seidler-Feller reportedly deflected Neuwirth's pointing fingers & grabbed her wrists, she called him a "capo", an insult meant to infer he would have capitulated to the Nazi's. Despite Neuwirth's claims that she was roughed up at the time, Seidler-Feller was never charged with assault by police.

Neuwirth, and her supporters have said their interest in pursuing the matter was based solely on the issue of male violence against women, but have capitalized on the media attention to promote their virulent anti-Palestinian/ pro-Israeli views. In her lawsuit filed against Hillel she asked for

"damages for battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligent infliction of emotional distress and negligent retention."

At the time of the incident, Yigel Arens of the Southern California based Information Sciences Institute (which is affiliated with USC), wrote "Neuwirth is an otherwise normal person who has a compulsive obsession with those whose position on Israel and Israeli policies she disputes. She has made it her life’s mission to hound such people and groups and has by now become a constant disruptive presence at all meetings, demonstrations, etc., that support Palestinian rights in Los Angeles. She is not to be reasoned with."

Uh, You Go Girl, Cash That Check!


John & The Sisters - Money Changes Everything

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In a move telling of the ongoing Google-fication of the online world...

As predicted in a January report in The Wall Street Journal, Google has purchased video game advertising agency Adscape Media for $23 million. Execs at Adscape, will eventually begin nesting at the multi-building Google-plex in Mountain View CA and figure ways to slip Google's "AdSense" clients into the online gaming realm.

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The Nazz ( featuring Todd Rundgren) - It's Not That Easy

from "Nazz Vs Toddzilla"
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Aside from Britney Spears shaving her head ala Sinead O' Connor, further evidence has surfaced of the decline of American empire. The New York Stock Exchange, has dropped to third in the global market volume for initial public offerings.

This puts the NYSE behind London and Hong Kong, and has financiers worried and blaming the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley. Recently it was reported in the NY Sun that the "financial secretary of Hong Kong, Henry Tang, recently thanked Messrs. Sarbanes and Oxley for sending so much business his way".

Another sign that America is losing it's way... well, pundits in conservative run US media are aghast that a So Cal legislator named Lloyd Levine has proposed eventually eliminating incandescent bulbs from the state's marketplaces. Editorials have sprung up around the country, speculating how stupid it is that nutty Californian's and their sick liberal values are seeking to control our consumer desires, make us live in darkness by banning our lightbulbs and starve us without access to satisfying saturated trans fatty acid rich diets...

California legislators are going forward despite being lampooned in the conservative media for a bill that would limit incandescent bulbs from being sold in the state. Despite Fox News attempting to ridicule the measure and rile the sleeping masses of overweight viewers by telling cosumers their freedom of choice is threatened, it just makes sense. Even electrical manufacturing giant Philips has announced plans to stop making incandescent bulbs by 2016.

With ready availibility of compact fluorescents and even light emitting diode technologies long available, the need for the old fashioned energy inefficient light bulb has declined.

In fact California may even be behind the curve...for the lead, we can look down under...

Australia is promising it will be the 1st country to get rid of the bulbs altogether. Australian Enviornmental Minister Malcolm Turnbull pledges to do away with the outmoded technology by 2010. Turnbull has told media reps

"Electric lighting is a vital part of our lives; globally it generates emissions equal to 70 percent of those from all the world's passenger vehicles."

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Search Inside the Music... Songs of War, Data Storage Law & Cosmic Rays

Maybe call me slow, but I just found out that Neil Young started a section on his website awhile back called Songs Of The Times, and there are over a 1000 free tunes you can listen to from various songwriters known and unknown. All deal with the timely subjects of war, patriotism, our foolish leaders and the state of the world we are living in.


Here are just a few tracks that piqued by attention, go visit Neil's Living With War site here for more...

Bad Religion - Let Them Eat War
from The Empire Strikes First

Nils Lofgren - Frankie Hang On
from the album Sacred Weapon

Steve Forbert - The Bagdhad Dream

Walter Egan - Love In a Time of War

MC Hammer w/ Andre Williams - Bring Our Brothers Home

BRING OUR BROTHERS HOME
by MC Hammer
listen here

With all due respect, I haven't been in your shoes

And I know it must be hard with all the things you goin' through,
Got the world on your shoulders, everybody's watchin' you,
Keep us all safe and out the same mouth we hate you,
I voted for you, til this day I don't regret it
When the funk popped off, you was there in a second,
Showed what it is, taught them cowards a lesson,
If they wanna go to war, GW ah get at em'
You did what we needed, in our darkest hour,
While our peoples was dying, in those burnin' twin towers,
Never before, had we seen it like this
The enemies we lookin' for, was livin' in our mist,
So we brought it to em' and we hit em' where it hurt,
Stuck they heads in the sand and knock they dicks in the dirt,
They know what it is Sir, job well done,
Now pick up the phone and tell our boys come on home,

Bring Em Home bring our brothers home
Too much dying, they been gone to long,
The people cryin', that this war is wrong,
Right or wrong, it's time to come home

In a world that's so cold and nobody knows
what this life has in store we can let it go....let it go

And now they got the House and now they got the Senate, but it ain't
what you got, it's what you do with it,
everybody's watchin' you, to see what it do
politics,is politics, you better make some moves
Living in a glass house you don't throw stones,
All eyes on ya'll now you sittin' on the throne,
We listen close, don't sing the same songs,
Cause in two more years it's more votin' goin' on,
It's not about you, you can hit the door,
it's about them youngsters out fightin' the war,
Clean up the game, we done made a mess,
We done our best, and we pass the test,
We hit'em in the desert,
Blast'em in the caves,
Tanks through their cities,
And Sadaam gone hang,
They know what it is, Sir job well done,
Now pick up the phone and tell our boy's come on home,


Bring Em Home bring our brothers home
Too much dying, they been gone to long,
The people cryin', that this war is wrong,
Right or wrong, it's time to come home

In a world that's so cold and nobody knows
what this life has in store we can let it go....let it go

I support you Sir and we got no beef,
I'm just a rapper, you Commander and Chief,
From out of my mouth, my heart do speak
So everything I'm saying Sir, is what I believe,
I do believe that the children are our future,
So why leave' em open where them rats can shoot'em?
If we leave 'em there, them suicides gone do'em
drive past the front line and run right into them,
They don't value life, so it ain't no talking to them,
They say when they die, a bunch of virgins gone screw them,
Now you tell me, what kind of ish is that?
We took'em to war, now it's time to fall back
I support you and the war on terror,
and I prayed for you, when you made that error,
This is not the enemy, this is from a friend,
Bring our boy's home and in the end we all win,

Bring Em Home


Bring Em Home , bring our brothers home
Too much dying, they been gone to long,
The people cryin', that this war is wrong,
Right or wrong, it's time to come home

In a world that's so cold and nobody knows
what this life has in store we can let it go....let it go

The world is changing,
Life is changing,
But we can make it,
Yes we can,
Yes we can

Immortal Technique - Bin Laden (Geniewiz unspeakable remix )

The Beat Meters & Sons of Emperor Norton - Irrational Anthem

Tim Easton - Jesus Protect Me From Your Followers
from his album Ammunition

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Researchers at Sun Microsystems are working on technology that goes beyond mere meta data to recommend music and hope to revolutionize the "shuffle" play. They are attempting to create machines that can listen, and use processing algorithms to identify and recognize similarities in music. Aside from training machines to analyze tunes, Sun's crew are digging into digital music users listening habits and discovered interesting things about music discovery, and what is driving listening habits.

Lead investigator Paul Lamere has developed 3D visualizations that allow users to "fly" through their clustered collections. He's utilized a specially developed internal search engine as well as social tagging data from Last.FM ( which has determined 422 shades of metal) and what he calls folksonomies.

Amongst some of the Sun music findings :

80% of user listening time is concentrated on about 20% of their music.
63 % of the songs on hard drives & I-Pods had not been listened to even once.

further info

28 minute interview with Sun's Paul Lamere & Dana Gardner of Tech World
Beyond The Shuffle Button Discussion

related links:

http://research.sun.com/projects/dashboard.php?id=153
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/55720.html
http://blogs.sun.com/plamere/

in another finding by Lamere did not discussed in the podcast but made clear on his Sun blog:

All that immersion into music research revealed that Emusic is a solid choice for music lovers... I myself have said this on several occasions in the past 6 months, including yesterday, and i am glad to see a distinguished researcher has backed up my own findings. Lamere who is based in Burlington Vermont, could not find the new Deerhoof album at local stores...so he made the plunge into Emusic's free trial when he saw the album offered instantly on their servers.

I gave it a shot, and I'm glad I did. For the price of a CD at the local bookstore, I can get 50 downloads per month from eMusic. The downloads are non-DRM'd high-bit rate mp3s (VBR of at least 192K). The lack of DRM means that I can put the tracks on my iPod (unlike Rhapsody and Napster). eMusic keeps track of what music I've downloaded so I can redownload any purchased track so I don't have to worry about losing my music when my disk dies. The catalog is surprisingly deep. You won't find U2 or the Beatles, but it is a gold mine for indie music. It's no surprise that with its deep, long tail selection of DRM free, high quality music that eMusic is the second largest digital music store - and I think that eMusic, and offerings like it will be the future of music.

Busdriver w/ Abstract Rude - Unecessary Thinking

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Bad News for Google News...and lots of bloggers?

I keep my homepage set to the url http://news.google.com, which not only offers a glance at alll the latest news coming down the wire, but customization by region, topics , keywords, phrases and names of interest. Well, it appears my news junkie fix is an expensive habit, and may be threatened somewhat by an EU court decision.

A Belgian court, in typically snooty European fashion, has ruled that Google must refrain from publishing "copyrighted content" on it's popular Google News aggregator site in Europe without prior permission. The court ruled Google had also violated "Belgian data-storage law" by archiving stories the papers usually charge for.

The decision came on the heels of a prior ruling that laid out penalties of more than US$1 million per day for violations. The good news for Google is that the new ruling went somewhat in Google's favor by reducing the penalty Google must pay for using unauthorized article extracts & photos to be $32,390 per day. A U.K newspaper has estimated that the fines could total in the $5 million range.

Google indicated Tuesday that it would appeal the Belgian court's latest ruling based on their contention that exemptions in copyright law allowed for publishing brief snippets and abstracts of copyrighted works.

The case, may open a large & expensive can of worms online if European online news providers & content owners can now charge any websites that dare quote & link to their websites without pre-approval. The case does not apply in the US as Google's publishing of synopsis links is considered "Fair Use" under the DMCA.

Global warming Caused By Cosmic Rays Not Humans?

A Danish scientist is causing controversy with his contention that global warming is caused by "cosmic rays" and not earthly emissions. "It was long thought that clouds were caused by climate change, but now we see that climate change is driven by clouds," Henrik Svensmark told London's The Sunday Telegraph.

Svensmark's study which bolsters critics of environmental controls over industry & emissions, was released just a week after the U.N. Panel on Climate Change released an authoritative multi scientist endorsed report that definitively said human carbon dioxide releases were responsible for the rapid increase in global warming. For more info on whether Washington will ever get any meaningful legislation passewd on the issue of climate controls , visit AlterNet for the latest.

Sam Brown - Timebomb


Andy Dick - Cosmic Dust

Run Level Zero - Cosmic Penetration

Thievery Corporation - The Cosmic Game

Tosca - Annanas (Cosmic Rocker Dub)

from "Suzuki In Dub (Continuous Mix)"
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Cuban Coldplayaz Etc

Like I mentioned in my last post...it's been a bit chillier than usual out here on the left coast...

So wehen I was walking by Recycled Records up on Haight St and spotted the "Rhythms Del Mundo" disc in the window as I waited for a bus, I knew it might hold some Havana-esque heat & hope...








Turns out it features members of The Buena Vista Social Club and other Latin musical specialists getting down on modern rawk hits with members of bands like Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys & U2...

I had never heard of it, or Demetrio Muniz who did the arrangements, but why it isn't on the shelf at every frickin' Starbucks is a mysytery to me...

Not only does it offer some palatable spicy sonic tapas, it even includes the late Ibrahim Ferrer's last vocal recording done in Madrid of the Casablanca classic "As Time Goes By"

Then the booklet is chock full of info on global warming / climate change from folks like Al Gore etc, and even the inner disc tray is some sort of bio degradable corn fiber paperboard... Plus you know the P.C gods have shined on a project the all mighty Sting is included.

So it seems like a perfect match for the greedy yet guilt-free gravitas of corporate cafe culture...why do I not see it it in my local latte' line?

Well, thanks to Al Gore inventing the internet at least ya can check it out here eh?

Here's a video of The Arctic Monkeys tune Dancing Shoes mashed into a more mambo friendly mix and then below that, an mp3 of the track I'd pick as most likely to succeed in rotation at a friendly Frappucino shoppe near you...



From The Rhythms Del Mundo Cuba CD

Cold Play - Clocks ( Cuban Mix)

If I had a solid case of Hannukah fever I might've gotten around to mentioning this when i first came across it...

However I veer away from the religious like Anorexics from All You Can Eat Buffets, Superman from Kryptonite, Gazelles from Lions ...

but this still is pretty interesting and since I saved it in my drafts folder... and I am a little shy of inspiration this afternoon...here we go

Irving Fields Bagels & Bongos - Cha Cha No. 29.3.1416 -Mexican Institute of Sound Mix

See Irving himself give ya the low down on how it came about in this quicktime movie

REBOOT
STEREOPHONIC | Irving Fields

other Reboot Stereophonic Releases

Mocean Worker - Under The Matzos Tree

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anyhow...

since I ain't been too prolific a poster over the first 10 or so days of the new year...

here's a few random weekend sonic fillers in a mini mix of sorts for y'all, (get em now, as some of these tracks are due to expire soon as i clean the ol' server space for the neu year around here...)

Of Montreal - Rapture Rapes The Muses

from Of Montreal's Satanic Panic In The Attic 2004 CD

Mendoza Line - Mysterious In Black

from Mendoza Line's Full Of Light And Full Of Fire (2005) CD

Air - Napalm Love

from Air's upcoming release available: Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Pocket Symphony (2007) Click & Pre-Order Now!

Amadou & Miriam w/ Manu Chao - Senegal Fast Food

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T- K.A.$.H w/ The Coup - What The Po Po's Hate

Other tracks by T-K.A.$.H.
on his CD "Turf War Syndrome"

available via Guerrilla Funk Recordings

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Barry Adamson - Who Killed Big Bird

from Stranger On The Sofa (2006) CD

Turtle Island String Quartet - Rachel's Dream

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Detroit Cobras - I Wanna Holler

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Flipper - Life

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Slackers - Int'l War Criminal

International War Criminal EP

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