#psychedelic shack

[djevilninja]

People, let me tell you 'bout a place I know: To get in, it don't take much dough, Where you can really do your thing, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's got a neon sign outside that says, "Come in and take a look at your mind"; You'll be surprised what you might find, yeah. Strobe lights flashing from sun up to sun down, People gather there from all parts of town.

The Temptations - Psychedelic Shack (Extended Version)

#the temptations #dennis edwards #eddie kendricks #music #soul #funk #70s #motown #groove #psychedelic shack #psychedelic shack remix

[agoodsongeveryday]

Day Eight Hundred and Forty

Welcome to the circles, yeah Yes, we'll decide, shorty - you dig? 'Cause you people look at us like we're freaks Dingdongding, ain't no big thing, yeah

There is no young, there is no old Reach out and touch your soul Tell me, have you ever been off the ground For a long, nice and slow, here we go

#the temptations #psychedelic shack

[restauranthistorian]

Psychedelic restaurants

Psychedelics had a minor but colorful moment in restaurant history.

The short-lived psychedelic “theme” did not become popular in restaurants to the same degree that it did in the music world. But when you think about it, that’s not too surprising. [Trident menu, ca.1969] As decor, a psychedelic interior made generous use of strobe lights and brightly colored paint. The decor was most likely to turn up in a teen club or a nightclub, such as Mother’s in San…

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#Barbie&039;s Cafe Today #Haight-Ashbury restaurants #Psychedelic Shack #The Trident

[musicandotherdelights]

Daily Listening, Day #1,195 - April 9th, 2023

Album: Psychedelic Shack (Gordy, 1970)

Artist: The Temptations

Genre: Psychedelic Soul

Track Listing:

"Psychedelic Shack"

"You Make Your Own Heaven And Hell Right Here On Earth"

"Hum Along And Dance"

"Take A Stroll Thru Your Mind"

"It's Summer"

"War"

"You Need Love Like I Do (Don't You)"

"Friendship Train"

Favorite Song:

#Psychedelic Shack #The Temptations #Gordy #Psychedelic Soul #1970 #Early 1970s #1970s

[pedrostories]

❄️ PedroStories Secret Santa event 2023 ❄️

Thank you again for participating in PedroStories’ second Secret Santa event! We hope this event gave you some joy this holiday season! 💙

Special shoutout to our pinch hitters: @gasolinerainbowpuddles who jumped in later to help us out and @katiexpunk & @taro-666 for taking on two prompts! 🥰

Additional shoutout for Santa's little helpers who made sure this event stayed on track: @userdjarin, @wannab-urs, @chronically-ghosted, @oogaboogasphincter & @pedrorascal

You can find all the works published by the participants below the cut!

MASTERLIST

* - Mature/Explicit work

VISUAL ART

Joel Miller banners - from amongtlou to tempestuous-lush

Dieter Bravo fanart - from taro-666 to mysterious-moonstruck-musings

FANFICTION

Dieter Bravo

* Tear You Apart - from psychedelic-ink to dark-scape

* The Knight & His Queen - from mysterious-moonstruck-musings to booburry

Run Over By A Reindeer... - from blueeyesatnight to brandyllyn

A Thing for Angels - from miraclesabound to toxicanonymity

Din Djarin

* closure - from javier-pena to quinnnfabrgay-writes

to know the light - from burntheedges to lincolndjarin

* salt water - from 5oh5 to chronically-ghosted

Retrograde - from taro-666 to 5oh5

Ezra

* devour (the entire universe) - from frannyzooey to wannab-urs

* Floating in Space - from 0celesteisthebest0 to julesonrecord

the trembling willows - from sp00kymulderr to djarinmuse

Cross My Heart - from brandyllyn to oonajaeadira

Frankie Morales

Copilot - from frenchiereading to joelmillers-whore

* The Gift is You - from julesonrecord to the-blind-assassin-12

merry christmas, cariño - from joelsflannel to frenchiereading

A Little Christmas Magic - from the-blind-assassin-12 to something-tofightfor

* A love letter to Frankie - from fhatbhabie to prolix-yuy

* Gas, Grass or ASS - from katiexpunk to astroboots

* Routine - from endlessthxxghts to alwaysbethewest

Jack Daniels

* Under Your Skin - from wannab-urs to javier-pena

Stay Close to Me - from alwaysbethewest to iamskyereads

Snakebit - from blueeyesatnight to brandyllyn

Javier Peña

* Under Your Skin - from wannab-urs to javier-pena

* office party - from tieronecrush to flightlessangelwings

* Not So Secret Santa - from lincolndjarin to taro-666

* If We Make It Through December - from lucyeyelesbarrow to tieronecrush

Paperwork - from blueeyesatnight to brandyllyn

Mistletoes in the Moonlight - from 221bshrlocked to undercoverpena

Joel Miller

* it means something - from undercoverpena to joelsflannel

* Joel Miller fanfiction - from tempestuous-lush to sweetercalypso

i've got my love to keep me warm - from thetriumphantpanda to yeollie-plz

* Modern Day Hero - from flightlessangelwings to miraclesabound

* Snow and Mistletoe - from something-tofightfor to burntheedges

The Reason for the Season - from prolix-yuy to psychedelic-ink

Oh, the Wildflowers - from adora-but-ginger to amongtlou

Candlelight - from sweetercalypso to adora-but-ginger

a heart for melting - from joelscurls to thetriumphantpanda

Muffins and Jam - from noisynaia to katiexpunk

* freeze-thaw - from covetyou to oogaboogasphincter

Bookends - from djarinmuse to pascalispretty

Simply Having - from iamskyereads to talaok

* A gentleman - from talaok to lucyeyelesbarrow

* Joel Miller fanfiction - from booburry to fhatbhabie

A Very Miller Christmas - from yeollie-plz to joelscurls

* Nightmare Before Christmas - from katiexpunk to xdaddysprincessxx

* Love Shack - from pascalispretty to sp00kymulderr

* Visions of Sugar Plums - from dark-scape to covetyou

* twin peaks. - from toxicanonymity to endlessthxxghts

* Happily Ever After - from xdaddysprincessxx to frannyzooey

* Cinnamon and Sugar - from gasolinerainbowpuddles to thirtysevenodddogs

* a bowlful of joel-y - from oogaboogasphincter to lisadean

Marcus Moreno

Have Yourself a Moreno Little Christmas - from chronically-ghosted to noisynaia

Marcus Pike

* closure - from javier-pena to quinnnfabrgay-writes

* Procedures to Reach a Common Agreement - from thirtysevenodddogs to 221bshrlocked

Text Me Merry Christmas - from quinnnfabrgay-writes to 0celesteisthebest0

Max Phillips

I'll Leave a Light On For You - from oonajaeadira to artemiseamoon

Pero Tovar

* What the heart wants - from artemiseamoon to blueeyesatnight

* The Cross: The Spirit of the Season - from blueeyesatnight to brandyllyn

dividers by the lovely @saradika-graphics 💙

due to the less than ideal tagging system of tumblr all the participants are tagged in the reblogs

#pedro pascal #christmas #masterlist #fanfiction #frankie morales #jack daniels #oberyn martell #dieter bravo #marcus pike #joel miller #joel miller x reader #din djarin #javier pena x reader #ezra #javier pena #marcus moreno #max phillips #pero tovar #pedrostoriesgift23 #admin post

[ambrossart]

Hello, my question is about the Bowers gang and the music. I simply found it curious and fun and since Victor also seems to be a music fan and invited Evelyn next time to listen to music, my question is about her musical tastes, if she has a group. favorite or what genre of music do they listen to or if they have a favorite singer since Belch is a character who is characterized by the fact that he loves Metallica, so he asks me what type of music would each one listen to, Belch, well, he listens to metallica and anthrax (he has a band t-shirt and it appears in a movie if I remember correctly) Victor in one of the chapters says that he likes an Aerosmith song but from there I don't have an idea of ​​the bands or singers I heard, much less Henry or Patrick, I feel Patrick would be the strangest, he doesn't even seem like a person who listened to music or is a fan of someone and Henry doesn't seem that way to me either, and also it's from the 80's so it's even more interesting because I love the music of the 80's. 80s and 70s.

First of all, I absolutely love questions like this! I’ve had the worst week, so this was a very welcome mental vacation. Thank you for this.

Anyway, let’s discuss everyone’s music preferences! I’m just gonna break this down character by character to make my life easier.

— Evelyn

Evelyn likes whatever songs catch her ear on the radio. Music isn’t a huge part of her life, so she doesn’t really have a favorite song or artist. She has songs she likes (a lot of those classic 80s pop hits), sure, but I doubt she knows the names of most of them. So far, I think the only artists I’ve specifically mentioned her liking are Olivia Newton-John, the B-52s (literally just for “Love Shack” probably), and The Beach Boys, but we’ll discover more of her interests later. It’s not a major storyline by any means, but it does get explored.

— Vic

This may be a departure from canon, but in my mind, Victor Criss is an early adopter of the whole 90s grunge aesthetic. Messy hair. Ripped jeans. Flannel. Oversized shirts. Drinking coffee and smoking weed. If this story took place in the 90s, Vic would be all up in that grunge scene. I’m honestly super bummed I couldn’t go that route with him, but mark my words, that boy will go full grunge in college. He will.

Since this story doesn’t take place in the 90s, a lot of people (and by “people” I mean the characters in the story) probably assume Vic’s into heavy metal like Belch, but that’s not necessarily true. See, Vic is very picky about his music, and I don’t mean that in a snobby way at all (although Vic can be a little snobby about it). For him, music is therapy. Vic just wants to get really high, listen to some music, and escape himself for a while. And the wrong kind of music can be painfully grating to him, like to the point where it would cause him intense physical discomfort. That’s why he’s so picky.

So what kind of music does Vic like? I dunno… I could see him being into psychedelic rock, artists like Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, The Byrds, The Beatles, stuff like that. Vic is very private about his music, though. There’s a reason Christie Gibson can’t seem to figure him out.

It's also a pretty big deal that Vic has invited Evelyn to listen to music with him. Just saying.

— Belch

Next to Victor, Belch is probably the most serious about music. As we all know from the movie, heavy metal is his preference and his passion, but he’s also the kind of guy who can (secretly) appreciate a well-composed song regardless of its genre. That being said, Belch does tend to steer clear of the mainstream pop music scene… unless, of course, Christie Gibson is with him. Yeah, when those two are together, he pretty much lets her play whatever music she wants (because Belch is a good boyfriend).

— Henry

Yeah, I don’t think Henry is that serious about music. He listens to it, sure, everyone does, but it doesn’t impact his life significantly. Despite that, Henry’s tastes are probably very similar to Belch’s, simply because that’s how Henry gets exposed to most of his music: he listens to whatever Belch plays in the car. Apart from that, I could also see him being into bands like Led Zeppelin, Blue Öyster Cult, Deep Purple, Kansas, etc. But would he consider any of them his favorite band? Probably not, because Henry doesn’t have a favorite band.

Honestly, I think Henry has a very negative relationship with music in general. Anything that tries to tap into his emotions or influence his emotions, yeah Henry doesn’t like that. At all. He doesn’t wanna feel things. He doesn’t wanna think about his parents or his childhood. He wants all that shit to stay buried real deep.

— Patrick

For Patrick, all music sounds the same—and by that, I mean it’s all just “noise” to him. He doesn’t connect to it on any level, least of all emotionally.

In Chapter 5 (I think?) we saw Patrick using the radio kind of like a weapon. He purposefully messed with the knob to create the most annoying sounds his possibly could, hoping that it would drive the other guys in the car crazy. And it worked. Belch almost crashed the damn car. That pretty much sums up Patrick’s relationship with music. It’s just something else for him to manipulate and use for his entertainment.

So yeah, I could see Patrick listening to some really weird shit, like music that isn’t really music, but more like a bunch of random creepy/disturbing sounds put together. Patrick’s a weirdo. There’s no way he listens to traditional music.

___________

Okay, that's all I have to say on the subject. Thanks again for this ask! It was a lot of fun to think about. ❤️

#bowers gang #henry bowers #patrick hockstetter #victor criss #belch huggins #it stephen king #it 2017 #answered asks #thanks for the ask! #it fanfiction #paper men #ambrossart

[80s-song-smackdown]

Song Contestants

Here are the 64 lucky ones that made the cut!

99 Luftballons – Nena

It’s My Life – Talk Talk

Too Shy – Kajagoogoo

Age of Consent – New Order

Here Comes The Rain Again – Eurythmics 

I Don’t Like Mondays – The Boomtown Rats

Just Like Heaven – The Cure

Drive – The Cars

Eyes Without A Face – Billy Idol

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun – Cyndi Lauper

We Got The Beat – The Go-Gos

New Sensation – INXS

I Ran (So Far Away) – A Flock of Seagulls

The Look of Love – ABC

Radio, Radio — Evita Costello

Rio – Duran Duran

Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) – Eurythmics

Come On Eileen – Dexys Midnight Runners

Love is a Battlefield – Pat Benatar 

I Want Candy – Bow Wow Wow

Relax – Frankie Goes To Hollywood

Smalltown Boy – Bronski Beat

Karma Chameleon – Culture Club

Ashes to Ashes – David Bowie

Love Will Tear Us Apart – Joy Division

Sunglasses At Night – Corey Hart

NeverEnding Story – Limahl

Only You – Yazoo

Just Can’t Get Enough – Depeche Mode

One in a Lifetime – Talking Heads

Our House – Madness

Everybody Want To Rule The World – Tears For Fears

Avalon – Roxy Music

Kids in America – Kim Wilde

Tainted Love – Soft Cell

Don’t You (Forget About Me) – Simple Minds

The Safety Dance – Men Without Hats

Take On Me – A-ha

Vienna – Ultravox

Don’t You Want Me – The Human League

The Killing Moon – Echo and The Bunnymen

Girls on Film – Duran Duran

Call Me – Blondie

Venus – Bananarama

Don’t Stand So Close To Me – The Police

Goody Two Shoes – Adam Ant

I Melt With You – Modern English

Fade to Gray – Visage

Only The Lonely – The Motels

Walking on Sunshine – Katrina & The Waves

Manic Monday – The Bangles

Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic – The Police

Whip It – DEVO

Cars – Gary Numan

Video Killed The Radio Star – The Buggles

Love Shack — The B-52’s

The Metro — Berlin

Voices Carry — ‘Til Tuesday

Down Under — Men At Work

You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) — Dead or Alive

If You Leave — OMD

Ghost Town — The Specials

Obsession — Animotion

Love My Way — The Psychedelic Furs

#80snewwavetournament

[walkswithdave]

A Sentient Fractal Lives at the Psychedelic Shack: Video Feedback Kinetic Sculpture God Machine II

A re-edit, of sorts

#videofeedbackkineticsculpture #light herder

[crashtestjeffy]

One of the first LPs I looked for and found was this compilation from Silver Eagle Records (Polytel in Canada). It is the best compilation of the Temptations and the Four Tops ever made. It has everything spread out on it's 3 records. It came out in 1986 and was mostly sold in department stores. And in some markets via late night TV ads.

Two things I have never figured out is why they packaged both acts together and why it's not on Motown who would have still owned the rights back then. Anyhow, it's a fabulous collection.

Tracklist: The Way You Do The Things You Do Baby I Need Your Lovin’ My Girl Ask The Lonely Get Ready I Can’t Help Myself Ain’t Too Proud To Beg It’s The Same Old Song Beauty’s Only Skin Deep Something About You (I Know) I’m Losing You Shake Me, Wake Me (When It’s Over) (You’re) All I Need Reach Out, I’ll Be There You’re My Everything Standing In The Shadow Of Love I Wish It Would Rain Bernadette Cloud Nine If I Were A Carpenter Runaway Child, Running Wild 7 Rooms Of Gloom Ball Of Confusion Walk Away Renee Psychedelic Shack It’s All In The Game I Can’t Get Next To You Still Water (Love) Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) Papa Was A Rolling Stone

[jan-unpa]

Small Musical Artists/Bands that I think need more attention. (Under 50,000 monthly listeners on Spotify)

The German Art Students (Silly Alt Rock)

The Bomboras (Surf)

Hawaii Samurai (Surf)

Vennaskond (Estonian Anarcho-Punk)

Röövel Ööbik (Estonian Indie Rock)

J.M.K.E (Estonian Punk)

Šiaurės Kryptis (Lithuanian Alt Rock)

FOJE (Lithuanian New Wave)

Linga (Latvian Indie Rock)

Otra Puse (Latvian Rock)

Goodness (Alt Rock)

Chavez (Indie Rock)

Man or Astro-Man? (Spacey Surf)

Bix (Lithuanian Alt Rock)

Free Refills (Synth Punk)

Bile (Industrial Metal)

Isaac Turner (Nice-Sounding Indie)

Powerplant (Synth Punk)

The Space Cossacks (Surf)

The Volcanos (Surf)

The Ghastly Ones (Horror Surf)

The Chop Tops (Psychobilly)

Horrorpops (Psychobilly)

Revolting Cocks (Industrial)

Toxic Lipstick (You'll just have to see for yourself)

Long Tall Texans (Psychobilly)

Legendary Shack Shakers (Rockabilly)

Rinse & Repeat (Absolute Synth Insanity)

Pop Will Eat Itself (Grebo)

Jello Biafra (Punk)

Restless (Rockabilly)

The Surfrajettes (Psychedelic Surf)

Atomic Mosquitos (Surf)

Lard (Industrial Punk)

#indie #music #small band #alt rock #surf #punk #industrial #rockabilly #psychobilly #new wave #synth punk #psychedelia

[odk-2]

The Cramps - Swing the Big Eyed Rabbit (1994) Lux Interior / Poison Ivy from: "Flamejob" (LP|CD)

Garage Punk | Garage-Psych | Psychobilly

JukeHostUK (left click = play) (320kbps)

Personnel: Lux Interior: Vocals Poison Ivy: Guitar Slim Chance: Bass Harry Drumdini: Drums

Produced by Lux Interior / Poison Ivy

Recorded: @ Earle’s Psychedelic Shack in Thousand Oaks, California USA during 1994

Released: on October 11, 1994

Creation Records (UK) The Medicine Label (US)

#The Cramps #Flamejob #1990's #Poison Ivy #Lux Interior #Harry Drumdini #Slim Chance #Swing the Big Eyed Rabbit #Creation Records #The Medicine Label #Garage-Psych #Garage Punk #Easter

[kdo-three]

The Cramps - Let's Get Fucked Up (1994) Lux Interior / Poison Ivy Rorschach from: "Flamejob" (LP|CD)

Psychobilly | Garage Punk

JukeHostUK (left click = play) (320kbps)

Personnel: Lux Interior: Vocals Poison Ivy: Guitar Slim Chance: Bass Harry Drumdini: Drums

Produced by Lux Interior / Poison Ivy

Recorded: @ Earle's Psychedelic Shack in Thousand Oaks, California USA during 1994

Released: on October 11, 1994

The Medicine Label (US) Creation Records (UK)

#The Cramps #Poison Ivy #Lux Interior #Garage Punk #Psychobilly #Let's Get Fucked Up #1990's #Flamejob

[mondoradiowmse]

08/30/23 Mondo Radio Playlist

Here's the playlist for this week's edition of Mondo Radio, which you can download or stream here. This episode: Untitled ("Soul Vibrations"), featuring classic soul jazz and more. If you dig it, don't forget to also follow the show on Facebook and Twitter!

Artist - Song - Album

The Cannonball Adderley Quintet Feat. Nat Adderley - This Here (Live) - The Cannonball Adderley Quintet In San Francisco

Gene Ammons/Sonny Stitt/Jack McDuff - Shuffle Twist - Soul Summit

Jimmy Smith - Back At The Chicken Shack - Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith & Wes Montgomery - 13 (Death March) - Jimmy & Wes: The Dynamic Duo

Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder - The Sidewinder

Big John Patton - Let 'Em Roll - Let 'Em Roll

The Underthings - Being A Clown Has Its Ups And Downs - The Underthings

Shirley Scott With Stanley Turrentine - The Soul Is Willing - Soul Shoutin'

Stanley Turrentine - Let It Go - Let It Go

The Horace Silver Quintet Feat. Stanley Turrentine - Psychedelic Sally - Serenade To A Soul Sister

Lou Donaldson - Alligator Bogaloo - Alligator Bogaloo

The George Benson Quartet - Ain't That Peculiar - Anthology

The Ramsey Lewis Trio - The 'In' Crowd (Live) - The In Crowd

Eddie Harris - Live Right Now - What It Is!: Funky Soul And Rare Grooves 1967-1977

Lonnie Smith - Slow High - Turning Point

Brother Jack McDuff - The Shadow Of Your Smile - What It Is!: Funky Soul And Rare Grooves 1967-1977

Charles Earland - Here Comes Charlie - Black Talk!

Charles Earland - Black Talk - Black Talk!

Dorothy Ashby - Afro-Harping - Afro-Harping

Dorothy Ashby - Soul Vibrations - Afro-Harping

The Politicians Feat. McKinley Jackson - The World We Live In - Psycha-Soula-Funkadelic: The Hot Wax Sessions

The Politicians Feat. McKinley Jackson - Politicians Theme - Psycha-Soula-Funkadelic: The Hot Wax Sessions

#Soul Jazz #Milwaukee #Music #Radio #Playlist #WMSE #MKE #Soul #Jazz

[dustedmagazine]

Listed: James and the Giants

James and the Giants is the latest project from James Jackson Toth, who got his start in the freakiest edges of aughts folk as Wooden Wand, releasing a slew of albums under that and his own name. More recently, Toth has convened another band, James and the Giants, which shares personnel with Woods (Jarvis Tavernier, Kyle Forester and Jeremy Earl). In her review of their self-titled debut, Jennifer Kelly wrote, “Who’d have guessed from James Jackson Toth’s early forays into noisy, freak folk experiments that he’d shape up as such an elegant craftsman? This latest collection of songs attests to the artist formerly known as Wooden Wand’s deep connection to and understanding of foundational American popular music forms: blues, folk, gospel, R&B, Beatles-esque psych and Brill Building pop.”

Below is some music I really love. I have omitted music created by friends and people with whom I am acquainted in “real life.”

Oiro Pena

Studio overdubs are a bit of a rarity in jazz music; even less common is jazz created by a single musician overdubbing themselves. While recent Oiro Pena albums have expanded to include several other members, band founder Antti Vauhkonen’s earliest work under the name was created by Vauhkonen alone accompanying himself performing all of the instruments. The result is like a cross between the space exotica of Sun Ra’s Chicago period and the homespun psychedelic clatter of No Neck Blues Band. As much as I enjoy the band’s recent work, it is the early Oiro Pena records that I find most compelling, the composite parts of a single brain improvising with itself to create a beautiful illusion.

B-52s — “Ain’t It A Shame”

The B-52s’ 1986 album Bouncing Off The Satellites is what is often referred to in rock crit speak as a “transitional record.” It preceded a 3-year hiatus, after which the B-52s enjoyed a tremendously successful comeback with 1989’s 4x platinum Cosmic Thing, thanks in no small part to chart-topping singles “Love Shack” and “Roam.” Bouncing Off The Satellites found the increasingly fractious band moving away from their taut, artsy new wave origins and embracing the potential of nascent studio technology, namely the Fairlight CMI. Most crucially, the album was released less than a year after the AIDS-related death of founding member and guitar player Ricky Wilson, who was silently and secretly struggling with the virus during the recording of the album. As a result, the band did not promote nor tour in support of the album, which is really too bad, because it’s a great group of songs, the highlight of which being the melancholy “Ain’t It A Shame” (later covered by Sinead O’Connor). The song does not deal directly with Ricky’s illness—it was written before the diagnosis was revealed to anyone in the band—but seems to foreshadow some of the band’s personal difficulties in that prophetic way that songs often do. A gorgeous, flawless song.

Eyvind Kang — “Binah”

Tucked inconspicuously into the center of polymath / genius Eyvind Kang’s 2002 CD-only release, Live Low To The Earth, In The Iron Age, is this mesmeric masterpiece, somewhere between a post-rock Bill Frisell and a more pastoral Henry Flynt. Over 27 minutes, “Binah” slowly blossoms, changing almost imperceptibly. To an impatient listener, it will be like watching paint dry; to me it’s like watching a flower bloom. My wife Leah and I have listened to this album on a loop for hours, and I’m not typically a “listen to a song on a loop for hours” kinda guy.

Omar S

For over two decades, fiercely independent producer Omar S has been upholding the tradition of Detroit techno, his best music fusing the black sonic fantasias of Drexciya with the supple house-funk of Theo Parrish. On his own records and on his own label, FXHE, on which the vast majority of his 12”s and albums are released, the former Ford Motor Factory employee works exclusively with analog gear. Omar’s releases on FXHE are pressed in small quantities, often with crude, handwritten labels; if you order direct from FXHE, it’s very likely the box you receive will have been assembled and shipped by the man himself. While using techno and Chicago house as its base, the music Omar S produces is eclectic and unpredictable, untethered to any signature sound or approach; he’s just as likely to release an irresistible summer jam (see the Diana Ross-sampling “Day,” a track so infectious it makes Daft Punk sound like The New Blockaders) as darked-edged minimal house tracks like “Nite’s Over Compton,” on which Omar S masterfully evokes a mood using the barest essentials and tools.

Frank Zappa — “Chunga Basement”

I’ve given up trying to convert friends to the cult of Frank Zappa. I’m a big fan, especially of his guitar playing, but I sympathize with those who might have an aversion to Zappa’s prurient and mean-spirited sense of humor. In fact, if Frank Zappa’s particular sense of humor could be said to have an exact diametric opposite, it is my own. I love Zappa’s music in spite of — not because of — its scatological / puerile aspects. With that preamble in mind, I encourage all you private press-obsessed guitar loners to consider this embryonic, uncharacteristically laid-back version of future live staple “Chunga’s Revenge,” recorded during a casual jam session in early 1970 and featuring a rhythm section of Ian Underwood on keys, Max Bennett on bass, and Aynsley Dunbar on drums. “Chunga’s Revenge” was historically one of several signature vehicles for Zappa the Guitarist (as opposed to Zappa the Social Theorist, Zappa the Comedian-Provocateur, Zappa the Serious Composer, et al) and this early take finds our mustachioed man sounding uncharacteristically mellow and un-caffeinated, exploring the endless possibilities of his guitar in a way that isn’t remotely wacky or wanky.

Barre Phillips — Three Day Moon

There was a brief period in the mid-to-late 1970s when artists on ECM — my all-time favorite label after Three Lobed — were experimenting with synthesizers, approaching this relatively new technology with an omnivorous artistic fervor common to the ECM roster. Legendary bassist Barre Phillips’ pair of albums in the late 1970s are, to me, the distillation of this meeting of the earthy and the synthetic, locating in the process what might be considered ground zero for “ambient jazz.” While jazz groups incorporating elements of ambient and drone have become increasingly common as of late, there was little precedent in 1976 for the experimental marriage of saxes and circuitry. Mountainscapes (1976) and Three Day Moon (1978) both feature the mysterious and under-recorded synthesist Dieter Feichtner, about whom little is known — anyone know what became of him?

The Knife — Silent Shout

In 2006, I was in an electronic music rut. Everything being produced suddenly felt like a retread or a facsimile of things I already liked, a malady common to older, more established genres like rock and jazz, but not, as far as I was concerned, electronic music. My slump ended upon hearing Silent Shout, the third album by Swedish sibling duo The Knife. Though I avidly continue to keep up with the uniformly excellent solo projects of both members of The Knife — Karin Dreijer Andersson’s Fever Ray and Olof Dreijer’s Oni Ayhun — Silent Shout remains a pivotal record in my listening life. The album’s gothic austerity and phantasmal reimagining of dance music is clearly the work of visionary minds. Silent Shout is music of physicality, of intimacy and bodies, rendered icy and alien in part by the deployment of pitch-shifted vocals that suggest multiple menacing personas, giving the album the dissociative sense of having many different vocalists embodying different characters. Dreijer Andersson’s voice is an incredible instrument, capable of evoking dread, fear, loneliness, and antagonism. Incredible artist.

Ulver — Blood Inside

Ulver is predictable only in its unpredictability. The band radically reinvents its sound from album to album in a way that makes the Norwegian group’s music impossible to pigeonhole (see also: Boris, Circle). The group’s early albums are exciting, if fairly traditional black metal. But since then, Ulver has experimented with symphonic neo-classical, synth pop, art rock, trip hop, and folk music. 2005’s Blood Inside is their masterpiece — one of the most engrossing, relentless and overwhelming albums I’ve ever heard. Sometimes the album sounds like King Crimson covering The Cure’s Pornography, sometimes it sounds like Swans trying to evacuate a city being blasted by bombs. A grower if ever there was one, Blood Inside will worm its way into your psyche with its manic, brute ferocity and decadent maximalism. I’m loath to resort to the cliché of comparing a piece of music to an acid trip, so let’s instead call Blood Inside the sonic equivalent of an anxiety attack — inside a kaleidoscope.

Tolerance — Divin

The late music journalist Yuzuru Agi founded the Osaka-based Vanity label in 1978, releasing 11 LPs alongside a handful of 7” singles, flexis, compilations, and cassettes by mostly Japanese artists before dissolving the label in 1982. My favorite Vanity release is 1981’s Divin, the second album by the Osaka duo Tolerance. Led by the enigmatic and mysterious Junko Tange and aided by guitarist Masami Yoshikawa, Tolerance used drum machines and mixers alongside guitars and keyboards to create a different sort of early electronic music, one that was as far away from Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream as Captain Beefheart was from the Rolling Stones. As the album’s most enthusiastic boosters love to acknowledge, listening to Divin is like listening to the future: the mechanized cracked electronics of Wolf Eyes and Nautical Almanac can be heard here, no wave’s dissonant skronk and grave incantations, and certainly what is now referred to as “minimal wave.” But the record’s prescience as a precursor to techno may be a tad overstated; by 1981, we already had “Being Boiled,” Louis and Bebe Barron’s soundtrack for Forbidden Planet, and Throbbing Gristle’s “Hot On The Heels On Love” (the latter of which does sound like a clear precursor to Tolerance’s “Sacrifice”), to name a few. Whether or not the members of Tolerance were aware of any of these things is impossible to know, as no one has seen or heard from either band member since shortly after Divin’s release. I’d speculate that most if not all of these resemblances are purely coincidental and not an indication of any direct influence. The coincidences, however, are fascinating. “Misa (Gig’s Tapes in ‘C’), presented here backwards, sounds a bit like a dry run for My Bloody Valentine’s “Touched;” “Sound Round” could quite easily pass as a sixth-generation cassette dub of some lost Skam or Rephlex 12,” while “Bok Wa Zurui Robot (Stolen from Kad)” does indeed sound like a blueprint for Detroit techno. There is something beguiling and uncanny about the entire presentation of Tolerance in general and Divin in particular. Though it is unlikely that the future architects of electronic music as we know it were aware of this record upon its limited release in 1981, it is a testimony to the notion of collective unconscious that Divin unwittingly presages so much of what was to come while still sounding like nothing else.

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