blogs from the dub side

Strictly Vinyl Reviews #004
This time around on the review block ... Edikanfo, The Esquires and Oscar D'Leon ...
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Third Thursday, Free Mixes, Part 5
Ongoing monthly series ... this month download "Cool Down The Pace"
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Drastic Vinyl
Shameless self-promotion here ... we got new vinyl coming in ... 2 different 7"s both featuring MC Zulu on "Love is War" and "Lonely No More" ... find out more!
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updates from the drastics blog

Third Thursday Free Mix, Part 2

This month I've profiled Drastic bassman, bassie, bassist Chris ... Definitely more on the heavy and dub side than Bijan's mix ... we open this collection of jams with Chris explaining how to properly drink a bottle of cognac we stole obtained legally after we opened for Mad Prof. After that it's more or less just that gangsta style ... read more/download


Strictly Vinyl Reviews #003
Up for grades this time: The Mighty Sparrow, The Soul Children and Laura Nyro ... read more

[The Drastics]

Wow, seriously ?

A whole freakin' month without a post?
We have become the blog we all hate. No updates, no posts, just deadweight in the blogospheric ether.

Well, I have been blogging, but on the Drastics blog ...

Strictly Vinyl Reviews #002 ... in this installment, Con Funk Shun, David Axelrod and Rockers International!

Hey, someone post here already!

back!

but not much to contribute as i'm still recouping from the weekend ... i will definitely be sharing some of the stories of cops and drunks and bitchy artist types soon ...

in the meantime ... definitive proof that i AM actually a DJ ...
here's a vinyl mix i put together for "Echo Beach" an excellent (and as far as i know, ONLY) dub-centric radio show in Chicago ... so hit that play button and sit back for an hour or so ... vintage vinyl + exclusive/unreleased drastics and deals gone bad dubs ... mo fiyah!

i shoulda posted this a while back, it aired on april 25 ...




track list here

Vinyl of the East!

By researching that fantastic cover art below, I discovered a 60's and 70's Asian Pop Vinyl Gallery!

Here are some of my favorites:

Lookin' REAL good!

When I get a record deal, I'm going to put my high school picture on the cover!



Smokey Robinson of the Far East

How long is your ding dong?
My ding dong is SOOOO long!

(Stealing your schtick, Driznastic!)

Lost in Translation

Placards with the Cubs' slogan IT'S GONNA HAPPEN in Japanese have been read by Fukudome to say IT'S AN ACCIDENT. And one well-meaning bleacher bum keeps yelling a phrase that translates as, "It tastes good!"



(I couldn't find a good enough picture to post Fukudome related, so you got that instead)

I'm the microphone master, money makin' man...

... And I got more rock than Bon Jovi's band

just throwing another installment of 80s hip hop at ya.
currently listening to "Ugly People Be Quiet" as performed by Cash Money & Marvelous.
this tune is another jam. starts out with the opening piano line from Tears for Fear's "Head Over Heels" (though other websites claim it's a sample from Tears for Fear's "Shout" ... wrong Shout ...). from what i've gathered CM & M were a later day DJ Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince (both groups hailing from Philly) just more underground/less commercial. DJ Cash Money holds it down with some really sharp cuts (he loves the slick rick samples to scratch on), but Marvelous isn't the hottest MC on the block ... not terrible by any means and better then most today, just not poppin' off like i'd like to hear. the copy i have of this track is off a compilation entitled "The Rap Pack II" , (the original is from CM & M's album "Where's the Party At?") a 1988 release on Fresh Records. --- On a side note, Fresh Records parent label Sleeping Bag Records put out more then hip hop and electro. i have an album on sleeping bag entitled "Reggae Dancehall Vol. 2". it's mostly digital riddims with 80s rub a dubbers on em (yellowman, tiger, admiral bailey, etc) but some of the cuts are real dope. oddly discogs.com has no mention of either vol. 1 or 2. hmmmmmmmmm ...

RECORD STORE DAY!

its tomorrow!

i dont really know what it means, but ... hey, record store day!

also, their website is reallllllly slow.

link courtesy the always lovely sanam

former ceo of a biotch company

seems mostly to consist of typos, but there's some funny stuff in there.
this could be a cool site in a year or so... once they have more content.

not hired

one of my favorites...

and from their myspace page ...

also, notice that it's not even a scan of the image, he or she took a picture of it ...
brilliant.

on a side note, i found a stack of records in the trash on my way to work today ...
lotta dollar bin finds, but highlights include ...

• nazareth - hair of the dog (yesssssssss)
  
• cyndi lauper - she's so unusual
  
• tom petty - damn the torpedoes (don't wanna live like a reffffuugeeeee)
• hall and oates - h20 (maneater!)
  
• a very psyched-out looking record called "silhouette segments" ... looks like a christian record of interviews with pop stars. track titles include "hippie version of the 23rd psalm" and "hippie version of creation" i cant figure out if its interviews or music ... the gate-fold has all kinds of photos featuring pastor john rydgren with pop stars of the 60s ... peaches and herbs, the association, the monkees, 4 tops, etc ... ah, someone else already wrote about it ...
  
• black flag - my war (original 1983 release with rollins on vocals, prolly worth something to somebody)
• lost in the stars ... this is another weird one, from 1985 on the A&M label, its the music of Kurt Weill as being performed by a staggering list of artists including sting, john zorn, lou reed and tom waits ... whaaaa ? i didn't know who kurt weill was so i looked it up ... he wrote "mac the knife" (from threepenny opera) as well as "september song" and co-wrote music to a bunch of other musicals in the early 20th century.
  

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL RECORD STORE!!!!!!!!!!

while i love chicago and good reps of it, i can't take kanye anymore.
seriously, everytime i see him make one of the two expressions he can make (pissed) and (precocious) i wanna smack whatever pair of stunna shades he has on off his lop sided head. and on top of that, every record i've heard of his has successively more and more samples that are instantaneously recognizable. DIG DEEPER KID!!! its easy to make a "hit" with a sample from MJ's PYT cause MJ's PYT IS THE MUFFUGGIN JAM!!!

anyway, here's a really cool video ... off erykah's new album ... helps if you're into records ... plus i think madlib did some production on it ... not on this track though ...

do you have a subscription to black hair magazine !?

tracy morgan is one bad montana.

nobody pops like this! not even orville redenbacher!

link courtesy lil pampers ross.

oh and this is sick too lp cover lover ... gotta bunch of ones i've never even seen.

and if yer feelin' down on yerself, just take a look at these f*cking people and feel much better ... but wait! what are klingons and capn jack sparrow doin at an anime con !?

oh, and this is now on my amazon wishlist...




(i had to look it up to be sure)...

Homogenate: a chaotic slurry of tissues and cells which results when cell-tissue structure has been mechanically disrupted. (as opposed to by chemical means).

i guess it goes without saying....

the polytron hates thoses meeses ... to pieces.

gotta get my recs

i don't know how it works, but goddamn i want one! ... the Sony Flamingo Portable Turntable

the linked page is the only information/image i could find on this glorious product anywhere on the interwebs ... if anyone knows more, please throw in your two cents ... i don't even understand how it operates, i see no needle or arm or anything ...

ADDENDUM
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ok, so it looks like sony was just bitin' The Sound Burger ... here's some awesome 80s video of the beast ... but still, the Flamingo looks like it operates vertically ... still some unanswered questions here ...