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Catching Up - Random Coolness Edition

March 3rd, 2006

Since I didn’t get through all the great records that I had hoped to, I’ll throw one of these “catching up” posts in from time to time, but since it’s Friday, here’s a collection of cool records that have absolutely nothing to do with each other. Except they’re really good…

Mahi Mahi
(Re)Move Your Body
[Corleone; 2005; Electro-Rock]

Mahi Mahi’s (Re)Move Your Body moved from the danciness and into darker territory. Glammed out, slick electronic knob twistery mixed with digital and organic industrial percussion topped off with filtered vocals. And plenty of bass to give the little 10 inch sub in my Jeep a serious workout. What more could I possibly want in a record? Excellent.

Download 654321

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Corleone Records

Neotropic
White Rabbits
[Mush; 2004; Instrumental Rock]

Neotropic’s move to Mush Records continues her move towards a drifting, almost post-rock sound. Beautiful piano notes float above minimal electronic loops. Weeping guitars dance with sparse samples of found sound and environmental recordings. A warm ambient soundtrack to a cool spring evening… and an excellent fit with Mush’s collection of innovative artists.

Download Inch Inch

Buy it now:
Mush Records
Amazon

Joseph Malik
Aquarius Songs
[Compost; 2005; Jazz]

Aquarius Songs plays like a collection of some of the best jazz, samba, tango and soul songs ever - remixed by a master party-starting DJ. But that’s only half correct. Malik gets the party started and your ass on the floor, but these are his new creations, not classics mined from record shop basements. Some of it is a little dance-y for my taste, but the jazzier tracks more than make up for any of the others that I have to skip.

Listen to samples here

Buy it now:
Compost Records
Amazon

Spaghetti Western
Do Right By People
[Adonis; 2004; Instrumental]

Judging by the name and cover artwork, you would probably assume that this is a country record. If you skipped it because of that, you’d be sorely missing out on a great, very unique record. It does have many traditionally country instruments, but they’re played at times with a soaring, psychedelic quality. Guitars, banjo, pedal steel (always a bonus), pianos, organs, vibraphone, mandolin, fiddle, upright bass combined with “junkyard percussion” and drum programming, folk and bluegrass influences, to create an instrumental record with substance. At some points throughout the record, I want to give it a new genre name… like ambient country or something.

Download Ernestine’s Waltz and Claus And Lucas

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Spaghetti Western
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Entry Filed under: Rock, Other Genres / Eclectic, Instrumental