Soul Explosion

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From Desco Records Afrobeat series, The Daktaris' grooving Afro-funk record Soul Explosion. This 1999 record hits like Fela Kuti & James Brown did a record together with heavy percussion and guitar throughout, sounding like it came right out of Nigeria in the '70's. Enjoy!

The Birthday Party Peel Sessions

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Essential collective recordings of The Birthday Party's classic John Peel Sessions. Enjoy!

Kopernikus Hortoilee Näkinkengässä

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Finish super duo, Rättö ja Lehtisalo (members of Circle) 2011 release Kopernikus Hortoilee Näkinkengässä. With present influence of Cluster and Neu, Kopernikus Hortoilee Näkinkengässä is a kraut-pop sensation with catchy hooks, grooving psychedelic breaks and all around weirdness, this is an album I highly recommend checking out. Enjoy!

Top Albums of 2011 (Revised)

1. Tim Hecker-Ravedeath 1972/Dropped Pianos (Kranky)
2. Grails-Deep Politics (Temporary Residence)
3. Cult of Youth-Cult of Youth (Sacred Bones)
4. Tom Waits-Bad As Me (Anti)
5. Alvarius B-Baroque Primitiva (Abduction)
6. Psychic Paramount-II (No Quarter)
7. Steve Hauschildt-Tragedy & Geometry (Kranky)
8. A Winged Victory for the Sullen-S/T (Kranky)
9. Glenn Jones-The Wanting (Thrill Jockey)
10. Puerto Rico Flowers-7 (Fan Death)
11. Barn Owl-Lost In A Glare (Thrill Jockey)
12. Aram Shelton Arrive-There Was (Clean Feed)

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Death Chants, Breakdowns, & Military Waltzes

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Vol. 2 Death Chants, Breakdowns, & Military Waltzes, the second album by non other than John Fahey on his own Takoma label. Vol. 2 picks up right where Vol. 1 Blind Joe Death leaves off, delivering classic primitive guitar classics like Sunflower River Blues (which appeared on Jack Roses's Kensington Blues album) and America. Enjoy!

"Blind Joe never sang. He had no voice. He had been struck blind and dumb at the age of three by a local member of the NAACP, for not complying with the organization's demand to learn bar chords and diminished augmented sevenths, so that he might disassociate himself from the myth of the Negro past. Here, thanks to the intensely personal stubborness of an old man who refused to bow to the dictates of crass commercialism and political interfuge, sat John Fahey at the feet of this old man, listening and waiting for his hands to be big enough to play the surrogate kithera as did his mentor. For in Blind Joe's music, the young white boy could discern a way in which he could express the intensely personal, bitter-sweet, biting, soul-stirring volk poetry of the harsh, elemental, but above all human life of the downtrodden Takoma Park people ."

Replica

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Oneohtrix Point Never's 2011 full-length Replica out on Mexican Summer.

"Replica is an electronic song cycle based around audio procured from TV ad compilations. These sample-based meditations are as lyrical as they are ecological, featuring re-purposed “ghost vocals” which serve as narration for Lopatin’s signature amorphous, ambient passages. Lopatin’s Juno-60 is still prominent, but Returnal’s placid, synthetic surroundings are accelerated through darker, more unpredictable terrains via Lopatin’s use of samplers, analog filtering, tape-op, piano, plate reverb and sub-bass. The result is a heightened sense of music as part and parcel of an overall sonic terrain."

Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica by Mexican Summer