Dirk

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Member Since: 5/19/2003
Total Mixes: 51
Total Feedback: 316

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Eclectricity

Artist Song
Miguel de la Bastide  Mori Sonando 
Ojos de Brujo  Intro 
Ojos de Brujo  Tiemp de Solea 
Misia  Litania 
Pink Martini  Never on Sunday 
Paris Combo  Berceuse Insomniaque 
Pink Martini  Sympathique 
Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli  I'se a Muggin 
Cocorosie  Candy Land 
Billie Holliday  Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man 
Jelly Roll Morton  King Porter Stomp 
Duke Ellington  Take the "A" Train 
Matmos  The Stars and Stripes Forever 
Eureka Brass Band  Just a Closer Walk With Thee 
Charles Ives (composer and vocalist) with the Kronos Quartet  They Are There! 
Christian Marclay  Louis Armstrong 
Jelly Roll Morton  Hyena Stomp 
Sun Ra  Stranger in Paradise 
Otis Spann  Great Northern Stomp 
Johnnie Johnson  Johnnie B. Bad 
Gene Ammons and his All Stars  Ammon Joy 

Comment:

1. Spanish flamenco
2,3. A Barcelona-based group who add turntablism, sampling,rap and electronics to traditional flamenco
4. Fado singer from Portugal
5,6,7. Paris Combo is from (naturally) Paris whereas Pink Martini is from Portland, Oregon. Their "Never On Sunday" avoids the usual bouzouki-crazed cliches for a slower, melancholy version. "Sympathique" is based on a poem by Guillaume Apollinaire
13. Matmos does a crazy and delightful deconstruction of the Sousa march
14. This track was recorded in 1954 in an actual New Orleans funeral march
15. Charles Ives jumbles together a number of patriotic songs as only Charles Ives can do (and sings too!)
16. Master turntablist Marclay deconstructs Louis Armstrong using a vintage wind-up Victrola and a 78 rpm recording of Armstrong
17. This one will make you laugh (or at least smile)
18. Very early Sun Ra (c. 1954) in a slightly demented arrangement of the Broadway song

Feedback:

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yertle-the-turtle
Date: 7/11/2004
cheers for the paris combo!
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hemizen
Date: 7/11/2004
This is sweet!
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g.a.b. l@bs
Date: 7/11/2004
Wonderfully eclectic idea, Dirk; interesting selections.
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12vman
Date: 7/11/2004
Kewl wanderings and wonderings.
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Curtis_Burns
Date: 7/11/2004
Brilliant.
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valis
Date: 7/12/2004
I echo-o-o-o the previous three commenters....good work here.
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joey de vivre
Date: 7/14/2004
all over the place ... and back again! Lots on here I'd like to hear, most especially Sun Ra . . .