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To Some Other Town this is the story of a juvenile delinquent and his motorcycle who grew up riding ‘Merica raw dog on his boss hog. all he wanted was to be free so he lived hard, rode fast and died young. to some it may be a motorpsycho nightmare, but for him it was the American Dream. photo : Cycle Annie Tracklist: Juvenile Delinquent – Ronnie Al…
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Seeing Through It we gotta see through all the lies. we gotta see through all the ads. we gotta see through all the greed. we gotta see through all the misinformation. we gotta see through all the narcissism. we gotta see through all the money. we gotta see through all the hate. seeing through it is not the hard part, the hard part is what to do ab…
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Stay At Home Astronaut after 30 years of djing and practicing the art of “traveling without moving” i have decided what i want to be when i grow up, a stay at home astronaut. trips will leave multiple times daily from Room Base Alpha nestled deep in the bosom of the Record Canyon. fourth dimensional travel is possible and encouraged! all you need t…
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Everything Will Probably Be Alright everything you know is wrong. everything good is bad and everything bad is good. also, nobody cares. phew! isn’t that a relief! ‘cos if nothing really matters than all of the expectations and societal pressures we put ourselves under to constantly perform and produce also don’t matter! there’s a kind of freedom t…
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Tres Pimientos Picantes some spicy goodies found during my continued education in Latin music. Nuyorican rhythms that beckon summer nights and letting loose. image : a detail nicked from a Ray Barretto & Joe Cuba San Francisco show poster. Ruben Guzmán Graphics. Tracklist: Micaela – Pete Rodriguez – Alegre Records (1967) Señora Lola – Willie Colon …
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Big City Styli went out and got me some brand new needles for my trio of Technics. figured i would take them for a test spin and made this abstract house mixtape. to make things interesting each track selected is from a different year, spanning over three decades. abstract house survives the trends and continues to go deep. photo : that time, in 19…
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Elektronika-1 – electronic – abstract – krautrock – synthpop – minimal – new wave – experimental – industrial – ambient – Berlin-School – all words used to describe the amazing machine music coming out of Germany in the early 1980s. image : Elektronika-1, the first LED watch made in the U.S.S.R. Tracklist: Rattenweisel – Moebius – Sky Records / Bur…
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Outside The Lines a small sliver of jazz from the decade spanning 1947 to 1956. a time where jazz musicians started coloring outside the lines, pushing traditional forms to explore sonic terrains creating new styles and harmonic theories in the post-bop era. whether it be expanding the palette of big band or experimenting with rhythms and chord cha…
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Radio Junkie this next mix of lo slung beats is about the djs who pollute our airwaves… it’s called Radio Junkie. photo : Telly Amster Tracklist: excerpt from Radio Junkie – Da Slyme – Celluloid Lunch Records (1979/2023) Back To The Old School (Scratch Mix) – DJ Mike Dred – Rephlex (1998)*** Spatial Convolution – Funckauma – Djak-Up-Bitch (DUB) (19…
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At The End Of Your Rope music, and all art in general, is a way of conveying feelings, emotions and ideas that are too complex to explain with just the basics of communication offered by language. we survive by using all our senses in tandem to help us understand and navigate our surroundings. sometimes we use our collective senses to protect us fr…
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