#mr. bongo

[guessimdumb]

Agnaldo Rayol Feat. Claudya - Sumaúma (1971)

Another cool Brazilian record rescued by the people at Mr. Bongo, who describe it thusly: "This epic track has a psyche break-beat drum and bass groove intro." Agnaldo Rayol is probably better known as an actor.

#Agnaldo Rayol #Sumaúma #Agnaldo Rayol Feat. Claudya #O Que Eu Canto #Mr. Bongo

[mywifeleftme]

97: Rob // Rob

Rob Rob 1977, Essiebons (Bandcamp) My favourite Ivorian Robot Operating Buddy from Ghana, Rob’s first LP is what Jay-Z once called “Black superhero music.” Few of the songs develop a ton—what you’re hearing in the first 30 seconds is more or less what you’ll be hearing seven minutes later, but it must be said that there is not a moment of this record that does not feel like an appropriate soundtrack to history’s slickest motherfucker doing his thing. Rob is probably one of the better-known afro-funk reissues of recent years, an assessment I’ve made purely on the basis of knowing one guy who will understand what I’m referring to when I yell “FUNKY ROB WAY” at him. (Though another sign might be that two different reissue labels, Mr. Bongo and Analog Africa, appear to have re-released the album within a month of one another in 2019. The Analog Africa version seems to be a much more elaborate production, but my Mr. Bongo version sounds great and you don’t necessarily need to know Rob’s star sign or shoe size to enjoy the LP.)

As a frontman, Rob is mostly just kinda there, muttering or yelling something every few bars while his band produces Pacific Northwest quantities of smoke. (Or as of 2023, Montreal quantities of smoke.) They really have an incredible sound, the funk equivalent to one of those collector-bait underground psych rock bands that turned some uncle money into a spectacular amateur studio and recorded one melted opus before selling their instruments and beginning a Christian ministry in Vanuatu. Though plenty of Ghanaian bands of the era could make people move, Rob’s band are just as impressive on the spacier numbers, like the warbling synth-spined “Forgive Us All” and “Your Kiss Stole Me Away,” which are basically FM radio for Black UFOs. The ensemble began life as a military band called Mag-2 under the stewardship of fanfic-ass-named guitarist Amponsha Rockson (would be like my parents naming me Hieronymus Suckdickson—how could they have known?). I gather that at the time joining the military wasn’t a bad deal for a musician, as the army would provide kickass western gear in exchange for entertaining their fellow troops. The Analog Africa liner notes (kindly provided on their Bandcamp) say the Mag-2 guys were still living in their barracks during the recording of this album, which suggests the Ghanaian Army must’ve been a pretty chill org. (Please send your links to the Ghanaian Army’s Wikipedia page subsection on ‘Atrocities’ to my email.) Can you imagine the US Army Herald Trumpets playing something as cool as the horn hits on “More”? (Please send your links to the US Army Herald Trumpets’ Wikipedia page subsection on ‘John Zorn Collaborations’ to my other email.)

In conclusion, a hearty “FUNKY ROB WAY” to you and yours, goodnight.

97/365

#vinyl record #music review #'70s music #afro funk #ghanaian music #west african music #ivorian music #funk #analog africa #mr. bongo #funky rob way #funky rob

[luuurien]

Marxist Love Disco Ensemble - MLDE

(Disco, Synthpop, Boogie)

Luxuriant disco with a leftist edge, the Italian collective's debut album explores not only the relations of its chief genre to class struggle and social identity but how disco has been morphed by Western capital desire over the years. MLDE is the band's mission statement, and it's a near-perfect one at that.

☆☆☆☆½

Created with liberation and freedom in mind, disco's history has nearly been entirely wiped from its modern image. In its earliest incarnations, disco and the places you could dance to it were safe havens for queer communities, music made by oppressed communities as an expression of joy and empowerment they weren't allowed anywhere else in the world. After the genre's mainstream explosion during the 1970s, all those precedents were lost, disco homogenizing to fall in line with the needs of record executives and radio stations, and by the early 80s disco was largely already on its way out - not to mention a healthy dose of racism and homophobia thrown towards it and the club culture it was born from as well. Marxist Love Disco Ensemble isn't having any of it. A somewhat mysterious collective from Bologna, Italy, their debut album MLDE refutes the idea of disco as a purely bourgeois entity, pulling off the veil over disco's sociopolitical origins and embracing the joyous, communal resistance its early years held so dear. Dusted with retro stylings but settling principally in modern Marxist theory and praxis, MLDE is one hell of an impressive debut. Inspired by Soviet era disco-pop à la Hamlet Minassian and Chaz Jankel, MLDE is an amalgamation of post-disco gentility, 80s boogie, and pure pop perfection, vocals often performed by a quartet in homage to traditional Soviet vocal records while the rich orchestration of disco colors in everything else. But there's more to Marxist Love Disco Ensemble's formula than meets the eye: it's hard to deny the many similarities between them and Stereolab - there's even hints of loungey, space-age pop in the flashy synth arpeggios dotted all over 1905 and Dust's jazzy piano line - and the notes of retro synthpop in the glowing keyboards all over Manifesto or Engineers' shiny digital strings help give bold outlines to the lo-fi edges of the album's 1/2 inch cassette tape recording set up. All these little details are what keeps MLDE from growing stagnant, a disco album through and through but never succumbing to the genre's trappings and testing how far they can take things while staying comfortably within dance tradition, Brumaire toying with a fuzzy analog synth solo and Hues of Red featuring a percussive breakdown and a whistle that calls back to the same way Donna Summer used one back on 1979's Bad Girls. In sound alone, MLDE is one of the most delightful listens this year, balancing creamy disco richness with just enough new additions to make their take on it compelling and singular. But the most important thing that distinguishes MLDE from its disco contemporaries is its political focus, Paolo Volkov's songwriting pulling from different strands of Marxist theory - dialectical materialism, class struggle, capitalist social stratification - and implementing them forthright into his music without subtlety. He references Marx's book on The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte on the fittingly-titled Brumaire, situating bloody images of revolution ("The workers aren't blindfolded / ...Bleed the skull from culture") with his hope for a communist future ("Brumaire's up eighteenth / Take the bow now"); album centerpiece 1905 takes advantage of its radiant space-disco sound to look back on the 1905 Russian Revolution and the following revolution which ended the Russian monarchy and reformed the Bolshevik party in 1917. His reserved vocal presence serves not to undermine his message but ensure it doesn't take over the music, Engineers shifting between proletariat sympathies ("The calloused hands who work for pay / Can change their emotions to betray") and outward calls for protest and change ("Here's the voice that calls your name to go defy / Marx, Engels, Lenin, Luxembourg") and perfectly balancing the disco's hopeful glow with the message Marxist Love Disco Ensemble seeks to convey. It's both poetic and sardonic at once: Volkov can sell his message so well because he knows that keeping his ideals crystal-clear while presenting them underneath velvety dance music is the most potent way for him to express it. Outwardly political music rarely manages to be so well-constructed and lyrically impactful at once, yet MLDE seems to manage it with more effortlessness than anyone else out there. Maybe it's their low-key Italian cool or the hazy warmth of these cassette-recorded dance tunes, but Marxist Love Disco Ensemble makes for one of the most enchanting new groups of the year with a might few others could manage, MLDE's leftist-aligned disco jams as fun to listen to as they are spiritually vital. The dancefloor's demands for energy and passion are met by the group every time, and the strength of their Marxist-aligned message is only amplified tenfold through it.

#marxist love disco ensemble #mlde #mr. bongo #art pop #boogie #dance #disco #pop #post-disco #rock #space age pop #space disco #dance pop #2022 #9/10 #album review #album reviews #2022 albums #synthpop

[super-andi-ness]

I can’t believe I forgot to post this here omg

#tma podcast #tma shitpost #tmp fanart #mr bonzo #the magnus protocol #the magnus archives #tmp shitpost #fanart #god will never forgive me so it’s good I didn’t ask #sexy Mr bongo #ceaseless watcher eat your heart out

[gamercats-fight]

Bongo from Life is Strange vs Mr. Midnight from Fran Bow. Vote for your fav!!

Need help picking? Check down here!

Bongo - DONTNOD Entertainment - 2015 - White/gray cat:

-

Mr. Midnight - Killmonday Games AB - 2015 - Black cat:

-gonna be honest I haven't played Fran Bow since middle school but uhh I'll try my best It's nice to have an ally in a game this disturbing tbh, so his presence is very welcome. He's just a kitty who loves his owner and they go on adventures togethee <3

-I really really really really like fran bow

#gamercats tournament #polls #bongo #mr midnight #life is strange #lis #fran bow #mr. midnight

[iwatanaomi-fanblog]

Pecola Seika Coloring Book

(Source - Scanned by ChainsawVulture)

Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4

#pecola #dr. chu #bongo #mr. bernard #aunty yorkshire #mr. lonely #robbie #scans

[bigmrfisch]

Wanted to try draw the Fischs mother 🐟

+ some Calvin and Felix doodles

#bobs burgers #calvin fischoeder #mr fischoeder #felix fischoeder #fanart #bongos

[holymotherofgertrude]

me every time richard feynman was in frame in Oppenheimer:

🫵👁⭕️👁

#richard feynman #oppenheimer #i would get so excited for no reason #i wigged out when he started playing the bongos #“surely you're joking mr. feynman!”

[quakerr0ats]

GAH I’m definitely not going to finish Linktober in October, but I’ll be damned if I don’t finish it at all

Days 12 and 13 baby!!!!

Day 1 Days 8-11 Days 14-16

#art #digital art #oatsart #linktober #loz #loz fanart #deku princess #majoras mask #majora's mask #loz mm #loz oot #ocarina of time #I laughed out loud when he put the Deku princess in the jar #also mr bongo bongo almost made me shit my pants the first time I fought him fr

[thenhc]

from "Hell-o-ween" in Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror #6, written, illustrated, and lettered by Jim Mahfood, script by Ian Boothby, colors by Chris Ungar

#simpsons #comics #bongo comics #satan #mr. burns

[barb-animation-fan18]

Art credit goes to @n4talia-chaparro

#captain underpants #jerry citizen #mr ree #toilette ree #captain underpants the first epic movie #lavator ree #barbtheunicorn #bongo the bunny

[trevlad-sounds]

Tuesday 05 December Mixtape 402 “Speak to the Paracosm EXCLUSIVE”

Multi Genre, Downtempo, Ambient, Electroacoustic, Experimental Tuesdays & Saturdays. Support the artists and labels. Don't forget to tip so future shows can bloom. https://linktr.ee/trevlad

Trevlad Sounds-Welcome in you wonderful listener 00:00

6WX_O-Speak to the dead 00:31 https://6wxo.bandcamp.com/album/hill-country

Node-Thin Air 06:48 https://dinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/node-2-din44

preston.outatime-Focusing Out 14:38 https://prestonoutatime.bandcamp.com/album/mirror-radius

Duolant-Havaddit 19:24 https://duolant.bandcamp.com/album/wf-77-above-inlets

Sulk Rooms-Soul Mother End Credits 23:42 https://thomasragsdalemusic.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-the-film-soul-mother

Skytree-Drumlin Fields 26:01 https://skytree.bandcamp.com/album/harmonic-residents

Hello Meteor-Thermoplastic 30:41 https://hellometeor.bandcamp.com/album/community-broadcasting-winter-office-hours

Glenn Fallows, Mark Treffel-Moogs Over Jupiter 33:22 https://glennfallowsmarktreffel.bandcamp.com/album/the-globeflower-masters-vol-2

36-Desire 37:40 https://3six.bandcamp.com/album/cold-ecstasy

Den Osynliga Manteln-PLANETVISKAREN 41:50 https://denosynligamanteln-cis.bandcamp.com/album/under-gr-n-himmel

OVRSCN-III 51:11 https://overscan.bandcamp.com/album/time-erases-memory

NUUK-Traill_Ø 53:45 https://moatun7.bandcamp.com/album/tunfjordur

Holy Hive-Celeste 57:08 https://holyhivemusic.bandcamp.com/album/big-crown-vaults-vol-3-holy-hive

Hyperlink Dream Sync-Gold Dust Station 1:00:29 https://hyperlinkdreamsync.bandcamp.com/album/hyperlink-dream-sync

Lord Of The Isles, Ellen Renton-My Noise Is Nothing 1:04:01 https://lordoftheisles.bandcamp.com/album/my-noise-is-nothing

Pabellón Sintético-Analog Dream 1:08:48 https://pabellonsintetico.bandcamp.com/album/pabell-n-sint-tico

Mind over MIDI-overflaten 1:10:11 https://lontanoseries.bandcamp.com/album/sensitiv

The Central Office of Information-Barium Cloud 1:12:15 https://coi-woodfordhalse.bandcamp.com/album/wf-19-private-issue-synthetic-music-2010-2020

Common Dream-Dags 1:15:54 https://hoganordrekords.bandcamp.com/album/hnr050-bats-dags

Tatsuro Murakami-Swimming in the Dark 1:21:57 https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/an-imaginary-autumn

Under Allt-3-Heads 1:26:53 https://underallt.bandcamp.com/album/3

Darren McClure-Charmonia 1:32:57 https://darrenmcclure.bandcamp.com/album/on-opposites

Remote Guest List-Paracosm 1:42:30 https://kahvicollective.bandcamp.com/album/lonely-nights

jarguna-Wind of Sutra 1:45:36 https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sogni-di-sutra-nei-venti

Trevlad Sounds-Until the bat skull horn calls us back again tomorrow. 1:52:17

#6WX_O #Node #DiN #preston.outatime #Subexotic Records #Duolant #Woodford Halse #Sulk Rooms #Skytree #Hello Meteor #Glenn Fallows #Mark Treffel #MR BONGO #36 #Den Osynliga Manteln #Castles In Space #OVRSCN #NUUK #Móatún 7 #Holy Hive #Big Crown Records #Hyperlink Dream Sync #Fonolith #Lord Of The Isles #Ellen Renton #AD 93 #Pabellón Sintético #Mind over MIDI #rohs! records #The Central Office of Information

[trapstar89]

#weed bong #bong hits #bongos #spongebob #spongebon squarepants #squidward #patrick star #sandy cheeks #mr krabs #high as shit #smokesum #be blessed #munchies #trap nigga #o block #backwoods #swishersweets #white owl #sheetz #cartoon #nickelodeon #weedlife #weed marijuana #smoke weed #drugs #sex meth #fentanyl #crackhead #billie piper #tick tock

[thetripleaedit]

PUMPA X CARDI B X MEGAN THEE STALLION - A LIST X BONGOS VYBZ KARTEL X ASAKE X OLAMIDE - ANY WETHER X AMAPIANO KES X DOJA CAT - BANGA X SAY SO LEADPIPE X FLO RIDA FT. WILL.I.AM - BRAIN FREEZE X IN THE AIR ELEPHANT MAN & MR VEGAS X SNOOP DOGG - BUN IT X GIN AND JUICE VYBZ KARTEL X ASHANTI - HAPPY PUM PUM X HAPPY GBM NUTRON X J BALVIN X USHER - HOT GAL ANTHEM X DIENTES MOTTO X NELLY - MAN WITH RIDE X HOT IN HERRE BOBO X NELLY - TIC & TAC IT X HOT IN HERRE ZOELAH X TYLA - MORE WATER X WATER NESSA PREPPY X PETEY PABLO - NASTY FLOW X FREEK-A-LEEK BEENIE MAN X J-KWON - DRINKING RUM & REDBULL X TIPSY MASICKA X JAY-Z - TYRANT X I JUST WANNA LOVE U SKEEYEE X UNDER WATER -SEXYY RED X VYBZ KARTEL

#PUMPA X CARDI B X MEGAN THEE STALLION - A LIST X BONGOS #VYBZ KARTEL X ASAKE X OLAMIDE - ANY WETHER X AMAPIANO #KES X DOJA CAT - BANGA X SAY SO #LEADPIPE X FLO RIDA FT. WILL.I.AM - BRAIN FREEZE X IN THE AIR #ELEPHANT MAN & MR VEGAS X SNOOP DOGG - BUN IT X GIN AND JUICE #VYBZ KARTEL X ASHANTI - HAPPY PUM PUM X HAPPY #GBM NUTRON X J BALVIN X USHER - HOT GAL ANTHEM X DIENTES #MOTTO X NELLY - MAN WITH RIDE X HOT IN HERRE #BOBO X NELLY - TIC & TAC IT X HOT IN HERRE #ZOELAH X TYLA - MORE WATER X WATER #NESSA PREPPY X PETEY PABLO - NASTY FLOW X FREEK-A-LEEK #BEENIE MAN X J-KWON - DRINKING RUM & REDBULL X TIPSY #MASICKA X JAY-Z - TYRANT X I JUST WANNA LOVE U #SKEEYEE X UNDER WATER -SEXYY RED X VYBZ KARTEL #tripleasounds #tripleaedits #triplearemix #dancehall #afrobeats #soca #amapiano #rnb #hiphop #remix #remixes #mashups #djs #angrydjlife #djlifestyle #djedits

[gamercats-fight]

REMATCH: Mr. Midnight from Fran Bow vs Bongo from Life is Strange

Need help picking? Check down here!

Bongo - DONTNOD Entertainment - 2015 - White/gray cat:

-

Mr. Midnight - Killmonday Games AB - 2015 - Black cat:

-gonna be honest I haven't played Fran Bow since middle school but uhh I'll try my best It's nice to have an ally in a game this disturbing tbh, so his presence is very welcome. He's just a kitty who loves his owner and they go on adventures togethee <3

-I really really really really like fran bow

#gamercats tournament #polls #bongo #mr midnight #life is strange #lis #fran bow #mr. midnight #rematch #lis bongo #fb mr midnight #fran bow mr midnight #edit: rearranged the wording in the title

[iwatanaomi-fanblog]

Pecola’s Anime Picture Book 1: Postman Pecola (Part 3)

(Source - Scanned by Penguin Productions 900)

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

#pecola #rory #mayor papazoni #bongo #rudy #coco #professor hornbender #officer kumada #hillary #gazelle #aunty yorkshire #mr. saruyama #scans