Other Mixes By SwankExpress
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On the Book Corner: ...HEAD EXPLOSIONS!!! (3 CDs)
Side A | ||
Artist | Song | |
[Disc one] Nurse with Wound | This Piano Can't Think | |
Bobby Byrd | I Know You Got Soul | |
The Jimi Hendrix Experience | Spanish Castle Magic | |
The Mahavishnu Orchestra | Noonward Race | |
London Sinfonietta | Ionisation, for 13 percussion instruments [Edgard Varese] | |
Ex Orkest | Kokend Asfalt | |
Ritmo Flamenco | El Ritmo | |
The Meters | Little Old Money Maker | |
David Bowie | Sound and Vision | |
James Brown | Give It Up or Turnit a Loose | |
The Lounge Lizards | Do the Wrong Thing | |
Virgil Moorefield Ensemble | Funk Trouble | |
Aceyalone feat. Mumbles | Human Language | |
The Clash feat. Allen Ginsberg | Ghetto Defendant | |
Linton Kwesi Johnson | Independant Intavenshan | |
The Flaming Lips | One Million Billionth of a Millisecond on a Sunday Morning | |
Wayne McGhee & the Sounds of Joy | Fire (She Need Water) | |
[Disc two] Archie Bell & the Drells | Tighten Up | |
Betty Davis | Git in There | |
Funkadelic | I Got a Thing, You Got a Thing, Everybody's Got a Thing | |
Stevie Wonder | Do Yourself a Favor | |
Aiyb Dieng | Boka Devotion | |
Side B | ||
Artist | Song | Buy |
Miles Davis | On the Corner/New York Girl/Thinkin' of One Thing and Doin' Another/Vote for Miles | |
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band | Electricity | |
Simply Saucer | Mole Machine | |
Rudimentary Peni | Imps of the Perverse | |
Randy California | I Don't Want Nobody | |
Toots & the Maytals | Funky Kingston | |
Eddie Bo | Check Your Bucket | |
Derek Bailey & DJ Ninj | Dnjbb (Cake-Mix) | |
[Disc three] Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou Dahomey | Minsato Le, Mi Dayihome | |
Earth, Wind & Fire | Serpentine Fire | |
Barry Adamson | The Snowball Effect | |
JUNEXXON S | Ananvoice | |
Jack Kerouac & Joe Strummer | MacDougal Street Blues | |
Tom Waits | Diamonds on My Windshield [The Early Years, Vol. 2] | |
Butthole Surfers | Bar-B-Q Pope | |
The Fall | Hip Priest | |
Sonny Sharrock | Promises Kept | |
Albert Ayler | Truth is Marching In | |
CAN | I'm So Green | |
John Coltrane | Mars | |
The MC5 | Starship | |
Comment:
Hello all, Rob Conroy here (again). As SwankQueen is indisposed at the moment, her liner notes will follow at a later date. This is the second in our series of monolithic mixes assembled for the venerable Niagara Falls, NY institution, The Book Corner. (See our last mix for the first--pre-ellipsis!--portion of the title and for more of an explanation.) When we last spoke with Jeff (the store's proprietor), we asked what types of mixes would most interest him. He mentioned that his favorite music was funk after activating the dancing/singing James Brown doll that he had just received as an early Christmas present (this conversation, freakily enough, occurred three days before the holiday/day of James' death). We told him that we could supply him with a mix that would be funky in more ways than one and here is the result. Like our winter mix, this isn't an "alternating DJ" mix in the strict sense--it's the product of weeks of planning/discussion/debate, and none of these songs appears here without the full approval of both SwankQueen and myself. I can, however, safely say that both of us have been so obsessed by the results that neither of us can listen to much else right now, and I want to sincerely thank SwankQueen for making this mix what it is--without her input, ideas and contributions, this mix wouldn't be one-quarter the mix that it is. Enjoy!Note from SQ:
The Aiyb Dieng track features Bootsy Collins on space bass and Bernie Worrell (Pharoah Sanders & Bill Laswell also work their rhythmagick on this record). Thanks to Toronto's own Ritmo Flamenco, featuring the violin stylings of Sir Laurence Stevenson. I included Hamilton's Simply Saucer, wondering if Jeff would remember them. The Rudimentary Peni track, in addition to being about an author (H.P. Lovecraft), is a rather cat-friendly tune -- my sister's cats loved that entire CD when I played it for them -- and as the Book Corner is home to many stray kitties, I wanted to include a few tracks just for them! We were going for a G-rating with Squawking Brass warning, but the lyric "they shot the pope/they shot his ass" appears as an in-joke on disc 3. Oh, and Tom Waits sings, "colder than a well-digger's ass" on the same disc. I don't think we'll achieve a truly "clean" mix until we do one for Shauntae's apparel store (the owner, Ore Lean, was kind enough to give me a bonus pimp hat many years ago). Hope it's adequately funky!
Additional note from R.C.:
Jeff also mentioned a particular fondness for New Orleans R 'n' B, hence the presence of the Meters (who would obviously be here under any circumstances), Eddie Bo and that particular Albert Ayler track (which incorporates "When the Saints Go Marching In" and sounds even more like a New Orleans street band than he usually does). Also, that particular Stevie Wonder track was picked as much for its educational message ("Educate your mind!") as it was for its incredibly funky groove. That Randy California song is here because it is a James Brown cover and because it really rocks. And lastly, the Sonny Sharrock tune (for those of you who are not familiar with it) features Pharoah Sanders on sax and Elvin Jones on drums.
Feedback:
wow. monolithic is an understatement; this is cataclysmic, this is epic, this is catastrophic -- most of all, this is just unthinkably fucking good.
And what a great thing this is.
blimey, this is - huge. excellent work.
If you two are expecting me to make any insightful (okay, let's not be unrealistic - make that a "halfway coherent" instead) comments, you'll have to come up with something a little bit less impressive next time. If having me stare at the computer screen in disbelief was the reaction you were aiming for, then by all means, carry on.
Holy Crap!!! Unbelievab;e effort here....so many highlights the Meters/Bowie/JB/Lounge Lizards stretch ... the Kerouc/Waits/Surfers/Fall run ... Eddie Bo, Hendrix, Clash, Funkadelic, EWF, Toots.... Killer stuff kids!
wow!
Nothing to say except...WOW!!!!
Yes, a new mix from the SwankExpress. Fresh and Funky. Personal faves include pretty much everything, but bonus points for the meters, Beefy, Mc5....
*Jaw drops,hits the floor* Whoah, guys. Staggeringly, mind-blowingly great!! Hard to pin down a favorite moment here, but the whole of disc 3 just might be my favoritest thing I've seen in a loooong time. Long live Rob and SwankQueen!!
Incredible stuff, I can't wait to hear it!!
Holy majoly!'
I can't even find the words.
I can't even find the words.
this is great - a masterpiece! look forward to hearing it myself...
I got it, 2, 3, the next one will be a 5 CD set because you took advice from Mark and are following the Fibonacci series.
A lot of good stuff here.
A lot of good stuff here.
In-flippin'-credible!!
Ditto the rest of the gang. Oh my God, yes. The link, please, the link!
Lots of great picks... all over the funky place.
this is beyond words wow is all i can say thank you
I would love to hear this, Rob. looks incredible. a good friend of mine once won a highly competitive James Brown dance contest during Mardi Gras in New Orleans (before the flood, when there were people there). think I'll have him over for dinner, put this thing on and watch what happens.and who the hell is princess snip snip.
Nice looking.
Doing 3 discs would be an excuse for sloppiness in most cases but this is so so so so tight...Damn your good! *slopes off to wonder if mixing is worth it anymore*
This is amazingly good. Funky, tight, eclectic, smooth - now I've run out of appropriate adjectives, but you get my drift. You guys are quite the partnership!
finally took this crazy thing downtown. it's up to your usual high standards. especially like the London Sinfonietta to Ritmo Flamenco bit, as well as the Aceyalone feat. Mumbles and Jack Kerouac & Joe Strummer tracks. Also loved the crazy-shit jazz right there near the end. Wonderful!