Covid-19 Music… part 27… ESG
ESG, self titled ep, 99 Records, 1981 and ESG, A South Bronx Story, Soul Jazz Records, 2000… Years and years ago there were a couple of radio shows that were from midnight to 4 am or 5 am that played all the fun and interesting music. These included Liz Copeland‘s show on WDET and Patti …
Covid-19 Music… part 26… Kraftwerk, Electric Cafe
Kraftwerk, Electric Cafe… Florian Schneider, one of Kraftwerk’s co-founder’s died recently. They were one of the most important bands ever… so many references on this… [1], [2], [3], [4] I remember years and years ago, one of my friends at the time introduced me to Kraftwerk. He had a few different CDs including a compilation …
Covid-19 Music… part 25… Grimes, Visions
Grimes, Visions, 4AD, 2012… Apparently Grimes had a baby on May 4th. So having one of her records, I decided to celebrate by listening to it. I remember a few years ago I was a bit bored with my record collection and thought that it needed a bit more variety. Also at the time I …
Covid-19 Music… part 24… The Cure, Seventeen Seconds
The Cure, Seventeen Seconds… I was listening to the radio the other day, and they played a few Cure songs, and then they announced that on April 22, 1980 that Seventeen Seconds was released. I remembered that I had a copy and went through my record collection to play it. There are many good reviews …
Covid-19 Music… part 23… Fela Kuti, Zombie
Fela Kuti, Zombie… Tony Allen died today. The one thing that is crazy is newspapers and radio stations that never played or talked about anything that he ever did all of a sudden are his biggest fans. I really wish I had more of his music (if I ever get a job that pays some …
Covid-19 Music… part 22… Polygon Window, Surfing on Sine Waves
Polygon Window (Aphex Twin), Surfing on Sine Waves, Warp Records, 1993… so certain ‘communities’ are a bit close minded and tend to like a what they like. It’s not everyone who lives there but it seems to be impossible to find anyone different. Whenever I go to a record store in one of those communities, …
Covid-19 Reading… part 3… Flatland
Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott… I remember a long time ago, in my university undergrad daze, these guys I knew took a philosophy course where they read this book. I overheard what sounded like a great conversation, and they suggested that I should read the book as well. At the time, I didn’t read this …
Covid-19 Music… part 21… Antibalas, K-Leg/R.O.C
Antibalas, K-Leg/R.O.C, Purpose Records… so I was going through some records and for whatever reason I forgot about this one. The B-side (or the that side), is a song that is so good that you could listen to it first thing in the morning, every day, for the rest of your life… When I tried …
Covid-19 Music… part 20… Monk’s Dream
The Thelonious Monk Quartet, Monk’s Dream, Columbia records… Usually when I’m in a particular good mood I like putting this album on. Lately, I haven’t been too happy and thought that if I played this, everything would be better. I guess we will see if things get better. This is my favourite song from this …
Covid-19 Music… part 19… Godzilla
DJ Slugo, Godzilla Remixes, Databass records, 2003… This old job that I had wasn’t always that fun. No matter how awful it was, the drive home usually made it better since this one radio station always played some crazy ghettotech tracks like this classic… I remember that I bought this at Record Time on 9 …