If it ever stops raining for more than 12 hours, I’ll still be swimming through the humidity. If we would have got 1/4 this amount of precipitation this past winter I could forgive it now. Easily one of my favorite pieces by Byrd. Duuummmmeeee…..

Tonic: Donald Byrd – Cristo Redentor (don lowed)

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Muse: Lee Dorsey (& The Meters) – Occapella (don lowed)

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I realize it’s been pretty tame around here for a couple few moments, we’ve just been paddling around barefoot not noticing the rest of the world. I also blame Fuzzy’s absence since the oil began gushing. Not saying those two are related…. but 2+2 = 4, right? And now for something completely different…

Satanic Acid Youth – Ascii.Disko has been dropping some new tunes (jawbreaker), and while those tracks are repetitiously glorious in traditional killemall Ascii.Disko style… Its hard to beat the Stooges on Ascii.Acid. Erm… what I meant was his earlier punk-ass.

Fingerbanger 1: Ascii.Disko – I Wanna Be Your Dog (don lowed)

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Comon; get rel! Trentmoeller… how can we possibly live up to this. It can’t be done.

Fingerbanger 2: Trentemoeller – Silver Surfer, Ghost Rider Go (don lowed)

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This new Max Bett song is sickening minimal terror in the same saw that being lost in the woods after dark can raise your heartbeat to your throat, slightly pleasant, slightly liberating, but mostly just a wide eyed adrenaline induced inner frenzy. Whats even better about this Black Wood (s) song is that the remixes are equally as monstrous. Support the madness (buy / listen on Itunes)

Fingerbanger 3: Max Bett – Black Wood (Original Mix) (don lowed)

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UK artist Leeks new 12-inch Qwerty is a good example of minimal done right. Keep it interesting, give it teeth, and let it ride. Support on beatport here.

Fingerbanger 4: Leeks – Adhesive (don lowed)

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Murder me with orgasms.

Fingerbanger 5: Mock & Toof – Farewell To Wendo (don lowed)

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Take nothing but pictures,
Leave nothing but footprints,
Kill nothing but time.

Throwback: Galt MacDermot – Coffee Cold (don lowed)

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Throwback: Handsome Boy Modeling School – The Truth (Feat. Roisin & J-Live) (don lowed)

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Continuing with the edits today and looking into the eyes of those songs that are old enough to be known and enjoyed by everyone, I begin to wonder, in the age of long-tail niche marketing and ” I only listen to bands that don’t exist yet” cool-ness if our kids will have common culture in the future, or even if we will. On the upside, the barriers of entry to creating and distributing new ideas, new music, new energy are almost non-existent. On the downside, our culture is fixated on consumption of information (and everything else) at an ever increasing rate. To the point that we can’t possibly manage the barrage of incoming, let alone complete a thought without it being interrupted, truncated, and dismissed. ADD isn’t hyper-activity; it’s information overload. A very inorganic living. In programming terms, ‘garbage in, garbage out.”

Dryhump Champion: Marvin Gaye – Heavy Love Affair ( The Revenge Rework) (don lowed)

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Dryhump Champion: Stevie Wonder – Superstition ( Todd Terje Edit) (don lowed)

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Tonic: George Benson – Give Me The Night ( Rascale Extended Redit) (don lowed) (from : rascale blog)

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“The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life. It’s so easy to make it complex. The solution may be for a lot of the worlds problems is turn around and take a forward step. You can’t just keep trying to make a flawed system work.”- Yvon Chouinard

Fingerbanger 1: Mylo – Macrobiotic (don lowed)

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“I’m sick and tired of a society — I’m not talking about politics, I’m talking about a society — that is only dealing with symptoms of a problem and not the root cause. Our health-care problems are deeply connected to the environment. Consider breast cancer — you’ve got one in eight American women who are going to get breast cancer, that’s up from one out of 30 right after World War II, so there’s got to be an environmental cause to it. And yet only 3 percent of cancer research funding goes to trying to find the environmental causes. They’re trying to find treatments so they can make money off of it. The same thing goes for our so-called War on Terror. We’re not looking at the root cause of our conflict with the Middle East, resource dependency; we’re treating the symptoms.” – Yvon Chouinard

Fingerbanger 2: Gifthorse – Dark Engineer ( Morocco ) (don lowed)

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This is the version I’ve been thinking of. Sometimes my gigabits of memory have to search a while before they locate themselves in other things they forgot to remember. I’d say everything (DJ) Nobody has ever done is worth buying. (Amazon him here)

Fingerbanger 3: NOBODY – This Will Be Our Year (don lowed)

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Black Artist Library sent me an link to Museum, a compilation featuring the Museum Crew (3rd Party, Art&Craft, The Contortionist, The Hermit and Keno 1). If there is truth in beauty, then it takes arms against the sea of trouble and holds it’s own as a well choreographed abstract breaks & sample driven time piece. Best of all, it’s free to me and you. Download the whole thing here.

It might not appear so, but there is a definite aesthetic vision at work, which will hopefully govern the ouevre. In the same way that wearing sandles alters your gait. – Black Arts Library

Fingerbanger 4: The Contortionist – Charity Case (don lowed)

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Marching orders just came in…

Fingerbanger 5: Peanut Butter Wolf ( feat. Rasco ) – Hold Up (don lowed)

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Over.End.Out. – P.tone

I decided I wanted to post some dub right about 10 minutes ago. Now that I’m doing it I know its the right thing to do. In between the inbetweens is where infinity lives.

“The Soul Vendors, a group of Jamaican musicians who between early 1966 and mid 1968, the golden era of Reggae, either composed and/or recreated all the great rhythms for all the artists at the now famous Studio One in Kingston.

Alternately called Soul Vendors, Soul Brothers, Sound Dimensions, Brentford All-Stars, Jamaica All-Stars and The Jet by Sir Clement “Coxone” Dodd as a marketing strategy. This group of musicians consisting of the legendary Jackie Mittoo on keyboards, Joe Isaacs on drums, Brian Atkinson on bass, Hux Brown on guitar, Denzil “Pops” Laing on percussion and Dennis Campbell on Tenor Saxophone invented “Rocksteady” thereby bridging Ska and Reggae; creating musical history in the process. They were joined in the recording studio from time to time by horns-men such as Rolando Alphonso, Bobby Ellis, Ron “Willo” Wilson, Headley Bennett, Vin Gordon, Johnny “Dizzy” Moore, Lenox Brown, Lester Sterling, David Madden, Rico Rodrigues, Dilly and Tommy McCook.

Working five days a week, Monday through Friday for two and a half consecutive years, Jackie, Joe, Hux, Mr. Campbell and Pops, sometimes accompanied by different groups of horn players, recorded a minimum of twelve songs everyday, backing most of the original Studio One artists on over 4,000 songs comprising well over one hundred hits.” – From the Soul Vendors dot com. (one of the most annoying sites I’ve come across in a while.)

Dubback Dubsday: The Soul Vendors – Swing Easy (don lowed)

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Dubback Dubsday: The Soul Vendors – Musical Happiness (don lowed)

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Tunawax is the 2010 Intercontinental Dryhump Champions. But rather than hold it over your heads, we’re giving back…Finely picked dance tracks to go cotton to cotton with.

Straight from your favorite freckled camp counselor comes 5 minutes of permanent vacation.

Dryhump Champion: Woolfy Vs. Projections – Neeve ( Permanent Vacation Tropical Heat Mix ) (don lowed)

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Tonic: Scratch – Too Late ( Ft. Damon Albarn And Talib Kweli ) (don lowed)

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