Blatantly stealing this idea from Prentiss, I thought I'd put together a mix of stuff I was listening to in 2006. And if you've spent any time at all reading this blog, it will come as no surprise that I was unable to edit myself down to one concise list. So, it's the 4-CD set House of Dioxin faves from '06, then. Requests for copies will be entertained thru the usual diplomatic back-channels. Liner notes below the cut.
NO ORDINARY KITCHEN: beep beep yeah
01. "Coast of High Barbary" :: Joseph Arthur (from Rogue's Gallery)
06. "Baby You Can Drive My Car/the Word/What You're Doing" : the Beatles (from "Love")
01. "Coast of High Barbary" :: Joseph Arthur (from Rogue's Gallery)
Depp and Verbinski took some of their fat Pirates $$ and hired Hal Willner to produce a set of pirate songs and sea chanties. Many of the usual WIllner suspects (Sting, Richard Thompson, Lou Reed, Stan Ridgway -- was Tom Waits out of town?) along with Antony, Nick Cave, Martin Carthy, Bryan Ferry, Bill Frisell. Also some interesting non-singers in the mix like John C. Reilly and Ralph Steadman. I know next-to-nothing about Joseph Arthur (singer/songwriter/one-man-band) but this is one of my favorite tracks on this set.02. "West Indies" :: Bounty Killer (from the Good, the Bad, and the Blazing)
Conscious dancehall, from a 2005 split CD with Capleton and Junior Kelly03. "Patricia" :: Billy May & Orchestra (from Organs in Orbit)
From the UltraLounge series. May, best known as an arranger for Sinatra, Anita O'Day, etc. recorded a lot of fabulously cheesy stuff with his own band. This is a Perez Prado song, which might be familiar to some as the theme from the HBO series Real Sex04. "Beatles A Granel" :: Tom Zé (from Estudando O Pagode)
One of the founders of tropicalia, still going strong in his 60s.05. "I Want to Hold Your Hand" :: the Beatles (from Love)
06. "Baby You Can Drive My Car/the Word/What You're Doing" : the Beatles (from "Love")
Two tracks from the remastered, remixed, mashed-up soundtrack for the Cirque du Soleil show in Vegas.07. "Boop" :: Ursula 1000 (from Here Comes Tomorrow)
More electro-loungey goodness! The CD actually branches out into many different styles; this track is most in the earlier Ursula style08. "Domino" :: Dirt Crew (from the First Chapter)
Two guys from Cologne, bringing it back in an 80s electro stylee09. "Hole in the Sky" :: Karsh Kale (from Broken English)
From tabla-ist, drummer, producer, DJ Kale's 3rd CD. Representing for Asian Underground10. "Vache" :: Venetian Snares (from Cavalcades of Glee & Dadaist Happy Hardcore)
this is a machine for making cows...11. "Perrereca Pra Frente" :: MC Mdy (from Rio Baile Funk: More Favela Booty Beats)
Frog noises and EBM beats!! Baile funk has the same kind of madcap sampling that made early techno so much fun.12. "Majajneh (Too Stoosh)" :: Rishi Rich (from the Project)
bhangra fever13. "Esh 'Dani, Alash Mshit (Rai of Light remix) :: Cheb I Sabbah (from La Ghriba)
Remixed by Transglobal Underground. Vocals by Cheba Zahounia. HUGE
Is #9 a Black Sabbath cover? Sign me up if it is.
Do back channels extend to Florida? :)
#9 is not, apparently, a Sabbath cover.
"Hole in the Sky - This track was originally created for Kollektiv as a breaks/tabla jam called Cowboys and Indians" (from karshkale.com)