Shinjuku, I'll see you soon!
Conroy
Cake
B-Sides and Rarities
Upbeat Records : 2007
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68 State
Gorillaz
D-Sides
Virgin : 2007
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Earth Changes
Jack High
Beatnicks Vol 1
Rush Hour : 2007
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B.E.A.T [extended version]
Justice
D.A.N.C.E/B.E.A.T [Vinyl EP]
Ed Banger : 2007
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Onde Anda O Meu Amor
Reminiscience Quartet
Thievery Corporation's Jet Society
Eighteenth Street : 1999
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Clipper's Discotheque Break
Yoshinori Sunahara
Pam Am: The Sounds of the '70s
Bungalow : 1999
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And there it was - it had been a while since his last FmGT-post. He found himself overworked, underslept and strangely enough - talking about himself in the third person. What?
Where was it? The crossroads baby - the motha fuckin crossroads. Remember those New Years resolutions that each of the FmGTeam wrote last year? It's time to check one of those off the list. I'm finally headed to Japan tomorrow. That's right, gonna pop my Tokyo cherry.
For the first time, in what seems to have been ages, I've reloaded my mp3 player with a slew of tunage - you know, because I got something of a 15 hour flight to endure (no worries, I've got a great Murakami book and Zelda: The Phantom Hourglass to keep me company ^_^). This will be a time of intense music digestion and not to mention the rising anticipation of kissing that sweet Japanese soil upon arrival.
Unfortunately I'll have to miss out on BlipFest 2007 - but if you're in New York City and you're fan of the ChipTune scene, don't miss this three day event of 8-bit breakdowns. Hopefully I'll be able to make up for it by reporting on some new sounds from Japan - we'll see.
In the mean time, your daily download today has a few tasty bits from my Jetset playlist: Enjoy these select h'orderves, compliments of Silent K...
Cake's recent B-sides release isn't anything astounding, but it's nice to have a few new tracks from these guys, even if there are like 3 different versions of 'War Pigs' on there - good track though. 'Conroy' - the instrumental of the track-list is much more my style though. In this instance, the Cake isn't a lie!
The Gorillaz too have released a selection of offbeat tracks that were either never released or never put onto their full LP releases. '68 State' is the lead-off track for this set, and it's surely the one that I've had on repeat the most - are you surprised that the second track from my post is an electronic-leaning instrumental? Loop it, dig it.
The Beatnicks compilation sort of dropped in my lap and I didn't even know it. It had been sitting in my inbox (read: tunes that need digesting) since July. I finally found it at the bottom of the crate last week and fell in love. All varied tracks that you'd only expect to find on vinyl. Jack High's composition is a left field, electro-jazz gemstone.
Justice, Justice, Justice - I know that everyone loves their sound, and even though the big cross thing sorta creeps me out, I can't resist the urge to shake my ass to their beats either. This 'B.E.A.T' is a re-edit of sorts of 'D.A.N.C.E.' done by the boys themselves. I don't think that it's as good as the original, but it's a great variation on something that dance-heads have been obsessing over since the beginning of the year. Yes, yes, I know that this track has been posted on every music-blog known to man since early July - But I don't care. I'm posting it because I love it as well as for the benefit of those who might have missed this one.
Here's another track that's been collecting nothing but dust since I acquired it in 1999 - sadly too, b/c this solid Thievery Corporation compilation is something extra special - and will surely be blasting in my Pioneer cans all the way to Japan. I've zoned in on the Reminiscience Quartet's upbeat track to promote this sweet compilation of yester-century. The entire thing is just as jroozy. Lap it up.
And we might as well end it with Yoshinori Sunahara's disco-funk track 'Clipper's Discotheqe Break' - a bouncy electronic groove that will surely find itself in the middle of my first dance floor set when I touch back down in the states in 3 weeks - but let's not get ahead of ourselves...
That's it! Add these tracks to your playlist, blast 'em and check out my Flickr page for updates on my adventures in Japan (and Hawaii). Damn, now that's a vacation.
Stay tuned...
-- Silent K
Cake's recent B-sides release isn't anything astounding, but it's nice to have a few new tracks from these guys, even if there are like 3 different versions of 'War Pigs' on there - good track though. 'Conroy' - the instrumental of the track-list is much more my style though. In this instance, the Cake isn't a lie!
The Gorillaz too have released a selection of offbeat tracks that were either never released or never put onto their full LP releases. '68 State' is the lead-off track for this set, and it's surely the one that I've had on repeat the most - are you surprised that the second track from my post is an electronic-leaning instrumental? Loop it, dig it.
The Beatnicks compilation sort of dropped in my lap and I didn't even know it. It had been sitting in my inbox (read: tunes that need digesting) since July. I finally found it at the bottom of the crate last week and fell in love. All varied tracks that you'd only expect to find on vinyl. Jack High's composition is a left field, electro-jazz gemstone.
Justice, Justice, Justice - I know that everyone loves their sound, and even though the big cross thing sorta creeps me out, I can't resist the urge to shake my ass to their beats either. This 'B.E.A.T' is a re-edit of sorts of 'D.A.N.C.E.' done by the boys themselves. I don't think that it's as good as the original, but it's a great variation on something that dance-heads have been obsessing over since the beginning of the year. Yes, yes, I know that this track has been posted on every music-blog known to man since early July - But I don't care. I'm posting it because I love it as well as for the benefit of those who might have missed this one.
Here's another track that's been collecting nothing but dust since I acquired it in 1999 - sadly too, b/c this solid Thievery Corporation compilation is something extra special - and will surely be blasting in my Pioneer cans all the way to Japan. I've zoned in on the Reminiscience Quartet's upbeat track to promote this sweet compilation of yester-century. The entire thing is just as jroozy. Lap it up.
And we might as well end it with Yoshinori Sunahara's disco-funk track 'Clipper's Discotheqe Break' - a bouncy electronic groove that will surely find itself in the middle of my first dance floor set when I touch back down in the states in 3 weeks - but let's not get ahead of ourselves...
That's it! Add these tracks to your playlist, blast 'em and check out my Flickr page for updates on my adventures in Japan (and Hawaii). Damn, now that's a vacation.
Stay tuned...
-- Silent K
2 comments:
dude, enjoy Tokyo, was there for the 1st time in July and now Im totally obsessed, Natsuo Kirino books, manga, Takeshi Kitano movies! A great place. And funilly enough, the lost in translation sountrack works perfectly on the ipod while strolling around the tokyp streets. Wow! I wanna go back! Out of interest, whats the Murakami book ?
Dave in Dublin
That classic: The Wind Up Bird Chronicle. It's been the perfect read for my journey.
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