:Episode One Hundred Eighty-Five: 5.1.2020
| Artist | Title | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Leafs | No Control | Space Rock Tulip |
| Vibracathedral Orchestra | Cholita Maria | Smoke Song |
| Spacemen 3 | Losing Touch With My Mind | Taking Drugs To Take Music To Take Drugs To |
| Purling Hiss | Whipple Dam | Hissteria |
| Magic Lantern | Planar/Sonar | Platoon |
| Hills | National Drone | Alive At Roadburn |
| Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band | Moving Mountains | Between My Head And The Sky |
| Loop | Shot With A Diamond | Shot With A Diamond (Single) |
| My Bloody Valentine | Who Sees You | MBV |
| Jesus & Mary Chain | In A Hole | Psychocandy |
| Crystal Stilts | Through The Floor | In Love With Oblivion |
| Group Bombino | Kamu Telyat | Guitars From Agadez, Vol. 2 |
| The Jimmy Castor Bunch | L.T.D. (Life, Truth & Death) | It's Just Begun |
| Jessie Evans | To The Sun | "Is It Fire?" |
| Liquid Liquid | Zero Leg | "Successive Reflexes" |
| Wilburn Burchette | Raising The Pyramid of Power | Guitar Grimoire |
| Alain Goraguer | Deshominisation (I) | La Planete Sauvage OST |
| Amon Düül II | Wie Der Wind Am Ende Einer Strasse | Wolf City |
| The Velvet Underground | What Goes On | 1969 Velvet Underground Live With Lou Reed |
| Wooden Shjips | Lazy Bones | West |
| Muddy Waters | She's All Right | Electric Mud |
* Not on Spotify:
Well, most of it is on there, but I didn't make a Spotify playlist for this episode, since it seemed to defeat the purpose of recording a live mix.
Description
Special All-Vinyl Mix Show
Once, in the Before Time, I used to periodically DJ at bars around town. This is an attempt to recreate one of these sets, both for the enjoyment of those trapped at home by the pandemic, and as an audition tape, of sorts, for when (if?) we return to "normal."
Highlights:
Spacemen 3 - Losing Touch With My Mind: My favorite song from what is perhaps the most literally-titled album of all time, "Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To." Six minutes of the Spacemen at their best, churning out variations on a theme, centered around Pete Bain's chugging bass.
The Jimmy Castor Bunch - L.T.D. (Life, Truth & Death): Taken from their most successful album, It's Just Begun, which I found sealed(!) in a thrift store when I was in college. Jimmy Castor is best known for his novelty songs (e.g. The Bertha Butt Boogie, King Kong), but he turned out some pretty legitimate jams as well, including It's Just Begun's title track (a staple of early hip-hop DJ's sets), and this number, a Latin-inflected, psychedelic burner.
Muddy Waters - She's All Right: I am convinced that if you figured out a way to remove Muddy Waters' voice and dub in Damo Suzuki's, you could convince the less-musically-aware that this is a lost CAN track. Neither the snaky, noodling guitar, the minimalist bass, nor the thumping, caveman-style drums would've sounded out of place on an outtake from Ege Bamyasi, say. Also, if someone can offer an explanation as to why the band plays a few bars of "My Girl" during the coda, I'd love to hear it.