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The Impressions - keep on pushing

Fun da men tal. Impressions forever!.

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Already a celebrated songwriter by the time of the third Impressions album, Curtis Mayfield introduced a political element to his material with the Top Ten hit "Keep on Pushing." An anthem of the burgeoning civil-rights movement (the 1964 Civil Rights Act was signed several weeks after its release), "Keep on Pushing" cemented his blend of gospel optimism with a relentless spirit of self-improvement. Though it was the only message song present, the album featured all the hallmarks of an Impressions set: impeccably smooth harmonies, the dynamic horn charts of Johnny Pate, and many more of Mayfield's irresistible songs (each with a clever spin on the usual love lyric as well as a strong sense of melody). "Talking About My Baby," the album's other big hit, was an adoring love song driven by a simple chorus and delivered by soul music's greatest harmonists. The simple ballad "I've Been Trying" was one of the most delicate and powerful the group had ever delivered, and the gospel march "Amen" became a Top Ten pop hit in early 1965 after its use in the Sidney Poitier film Lilies of the Field (for which Poitier became the first African-American to receive an Academy award). Keep on Pushing was the Impressions' first Top Ten album hit, and an excellent introduction for pop audiences just waking up to the inspirational power of soul music's finest group.

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Fugazi - Peel Session 1988

Una de las bandas-de-la-vida, no fucking comments.

Take - 13/12/1988
Producer - Dale Griffin
Engineer - Mike Engles
Studio - The Hippodrome, Golders Green, London

TRACKLIST

01 Waiting Room
02 Break In
03 Merchandise
04 Glueman

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Guy Picciotto, Ian Mackaye, Joe Lally, Brendan Canty.

Fugazi - peel session 88

Magik Markers - Boss

When confronted with an example of magnificence in nature, such as a waterfall, Jane Goodall reported that the chimpanzees she observed were captivated, as if in awe of the beauty of the world. On BOSS, the Magik Markers have tried to capture the chimps' awe. A formality and restraint the Markers have never exerted on their previous recorded material is present on BOSS. Now the Markers are Jainists, with their mouths masked so as to not inhale even one tiny insect, here pursuing the killer gentle with a vengeance. Recorded in the cavernous dark of Echo Canyon West, with producer Lee Ranaldo working the boards like a diviner, BOSS documents the Markers with a previously unheard fidelity and orchestration. Idiosyncratic song structure and melodies interspersed with a destructive drum stomp are reminiscent of the early electrified blues of Junior Kimbrough, or the black hole rhythms of Kousokuya. Mixing a gentle vulnerability with a winded egomania, the Markers have always had a musical tunnel vision; BOSS is that vision made manifest. The tug of war the Markers enact, the way they are fully prepared to start yanking their world apart as they find themselves losing their place in, makes moot possibilities of greatness or mediocrity. It makes them unapologetic soothsayers with their ears pressed to the ground, waiting for footsteps.

With Peter Nolan, we finally hear what Lou Reed would have sounded like had he sallied with the drums instead of getting seduced by the easy praise of front man status. Like Rashid Ali squeezed into the Teutonic leather pants of Faust, Nolan drums like there are hell hounds at his heels but he just can't be bothered. Here both laconic and frenzied, Nolan's drumming arms reach out like an octopus's: tickling the ivories, humming the organ and blasting taps on some kind of endtime trumpet. As a pianist, Nolan reminds us that the piano is a percussive, beating out the whoomp of some old war dance, a bare foot-fall rhythm of fighters to battle and the heavy hands of a whiskey burlesque in the afternoon. Nolan is easy to underestimate, but finally, here is high fidelity record of the strange soul of one of America's most natural and quizzical musical minds.

In a 2005 interview in The Wire, Elisa Ambrogio said, "I want [The Magik Markers] to concentrate on music and focus inward, to concentrate on our own language of sound." BOSS stands as the Markers' first stab at getting to the meat of this ambition. Ambrogio is not easy to categorize. Nose deep in New England Calvinism and the brutality of nature, Ambrogio's lyrics are like a transcription of a drunk lunchtime argument between Lisa Yuskavage and Herman Melville. A guitarist whose notes form question and hatchet marks with equal measure, a musical humility to the point of ingratiation fused with all visible seams to grandiose self-importance speeds through her playing. With a mix of blues simplicity, an almost Sonny Sharrock wailing and a janky Americana punk reminiscent of Pat Place and Roky Erickson, Ambrogio avoids preciousness like a rash. On BOSS, a tent rises right out of the empty plain and we are thrust into a full blown revival show with no audience and no lights; it is just Elisa preaching, Pete blowing Gabriel's horn, and the mad wind of the prairie blowing all around. Fairfield Porter wrote that: 'Art does not succeed by compelling you to like it, but by making you feel this presence in it. 'Is someone there?...' "

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TMTR presents...

¿la desea conocer? es una compositora chilena, está preparando un disco debut y a mí me está matando con sus canciones.

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Baby Huey

¿Que ya no publico nada meritorio? No, no, no. Este tipo pesaba 181 kilos y murió de un ataque al corazón poco después de terminar las sesiones para un disco producido por Curtis Mayfield. Una leyenda sublime.

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Baby Huey (a.k.a. James Ramey) - The Baby Huey Story (album)

The Klaxons

Corporateamericanewhypedbands? puede . Pero es viernes, dejate de joder. Do you wanna dance? do you?

The Klaxons - Atlantis to Interzone (Crystal Castles remix).mp3

The Gossip.

"Gorda, lesbiana y reivindicativa", así se define Beth Ditto, una de las mejores voces del rock contemporáneo y responsable de este combo punk'n soul. Capa.

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The Gossip - Listen Up.mp3

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Vashti Bunyan - Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind

Vashti Bunyan era para la música popular lo que Vermeer era para la pintura holandesa; aquello que nos hacía preguntarnos por los procesos de olvido, por las lagunas culturales, por la transmisión y por el secreto de la herencia. Vashti ha sido tan importante para la canción de autor como Nick Drake; la diferencia es que de ella, hasta hace unos años, no sabíamos nada.
Ahora la situación es distinta, ella es venerada públicamente por los referentes contemporáneos de la canción de autor (Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart, etc.), y Fat Cat recs. Se atrevió a editar un disco con las canciones previas a la época de Just Another Diamond Day (1970). Se trata de Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind, un disco que se hace cargo de los singles y rarezas que comprenden los años 64-67. Una verdadera bomba "editorial".

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Nina Simone - The Blues

Nina Simone es una grande, nadie debería tener dudas; a veces en la música las cosas parecen ser absolutas, reveladas, sin posibilidad de polémicas, eso -me parece- se llama amor y a Nina Simone la amo. Hace 50 años hacía un debut impresionante con Little Girl Blue... no sé si soy ligero con el juicio, pero es el mejor debut que conozco. En fin, acá, como homenaje, una de las mejores compilaciones que se han hecho: canciones de la época 65-66, blues-based shit, como debe ser.

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byebyemixtape

No hay tiempo para hacer mixtapes, tampoco para escucharlos. Así es la vida en babylon. Por eso ahora somos the link link resistance. Adios (temporal) a los mixtapes, hola a los álbumes.