Pantless - ADD Vol. 2

another ADD mix has arosen from the ashes of all things danceable. this mix was really fun to create but way overdue. expect sonic debauchery with a mix of funk, dub, hip hop and blissful soundscapes. i really hope this music speaks to you as it has to me.

and so the track list goes a little something like this:

01 Invisible On The Brow - Fantasmes
02 Santic Dub - Rockers Allstars
03 Theme De Yoyo - Art Ensamble Of Chicago
04 Hollywood Swingin` - Kool & The Gang
05 Ghetto Life - Rick James
06 Funky Worm - Ohio Players
07 Mothership Connection (Star Child) - Parliament
08 Li quid Swords - GZA/Fall Of Saigon - This Heat
09 Yonkers - Tyler, The Creator
10 Fiat Lux - Einstürzende Neubauten
11 Vulture - Michachu
12 Port Town - Yumiko Kanki & Naoto Ishida (F Zero)
13 The Free Design - Stereolab
14 Bem Vinda - Hermeto Pascoal
15 Schweitzer - Stock, Hausen & Walkman
16 January Rain - Psychic Ills
17 Halloween - Zombie Zombie
18 Sexx Laws - Beck
19 Aliante Giallo - Alessandro Alessandroni & Nora Orlandi
20 Disorder - Joy Division

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illustration by Christine Fraguela (http://paldecolors.blogspot.com) and Lorraine Rodríguez (http://www.flickr.com/photos/lorraine-bosque)

total run time: 56min.

Com Truise - Galatic Melt

feels like the 80s, having sex with vhs tapes, hanging out with a young boards of canada, four on the floor all the way, synthwise selectah, robots speak to me, lsd and where have you been all this time?

gracias feldy.
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Three fer'

Stones Throw Records have recently released these three excellent compilations, get em.


"Funky fuzzy psychedelic tracks from 60s and 70s Nigeria, Iran, Turkey, Russia, South Korean and other exotic countries."


"Tropicalia Psychedelic Masterpieces, 1967-1976. The Heaviest, Rarest, Best Fuzz-Funk-Psych 45s From Brasil."


"Covers and music inspired by the Godfather of Afro-Beat. This Fela Estate-approved anthology includes rare and previously unreleased music from Nigeria, Ghana, Colombia, Trinidad and more."

Sly & The Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On

First off, if you need proof of Sly's state of mind during this period click HERE. Dude was fucked up. During the recording of this album he was locked up in his mansion, by himself and the occasional groupie, doing massive amounts of coke and PCP. Sly was losing his mind and the band was falling appart.

Gone are the uplifting and optimistic anthems from Stand!. What you'll find here is dark soul, weird funk, and lyrics like: "feels so good inside myself, don't wanna move" and "look at you fooling you". The happy days were over motherfucker. The good times were replaced with wars, assasinations, and overall social unrest. It's one of those albums that represents the feeling of a time period and the state of mind of it's creator perfectly.

"All of There's a Riot 's pleasure centers and nerve endings are frayed from coke, dope, flesh, flash and, above all, disillusionment. Every single sound is weary, wasted, creaking, cracked and sleep-deprived, like a somnambulant zombie stumbling through the graveyard of ideals on the pavement of good intentions. The singles ("Family Affair", "Running Away") exude a façade of empty positivity, a bitter resignation to the darker forces bubbling underneath. Chicken-scratch guitars claw at caskets, human drummers meld with undead drum machines, and frightened voices fissure with the crisp horn lines, yet it all sounds incredible, prescient. Listen to the paradoxical 0:00 of the title track, to how hip-hop took that stripped drum sound and furthered Sly's bleak music, to how Miles got his groovebox back, to how the wasted Brits-- from Primal Scream to Julian Cope-- copped their dope from the grooves. Listen close, because there's no way in hell a major label will ever again let out this much horrible truth."

Family Affair

King Khan & the Shrines - Mr. Supernatural

You can now get this for free when you buy the "What Is?!" CD through ITunes. You can get the rest in YouTube if you check out the "Related Videos" section.
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Various Artists - Afro-Rock Volume One

One of many great compilations of great fucking african funkified electric music with touches of psychedelia, soul, and cuban spice, featuring great cuts from Jingo, Super Mambo 69, Yahoos and Bokoor Band among others, and including Geraldo Pino's immortal "Heavy Heavy Heavy". Get fucked in afrodelic zones of debauchery.

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Nomo - New Tones

Props to Abe for posting Nomo's wonderful "Ghost Rock". Here's their 2nd album.

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NOMO - Ghost Rock

The latest album by this Michigan funk collective.

"The album sheds light on the way forward for a band that has been forging its own vital sound. This is not the Afrobeat of Fela, nor the revivalist Funk of a forgotten decade. This record owes as much to Can and Eno as it does Kuti, Francis Bebey, and Funkadelic. On Ghost Rock, NOMO arrives in a new place. There's no loss of steam as they incorporate new influences, instead NOMO breaks through with a matured and developed sound that is fully its own."

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Tropicalia: A Brazilian Revolution in Sound

"Tropicalia in the late 1960s revolutionized Brazilian music mixing Psychedelic Rock, avant-garde musique concrete (tape loops, sound experiments), Samba, Funk and Soul into a truly unique combination."

This is yet another great compilation from Soul Jazz that gathers the most important artists from the politically charged, artistic movement known as Tropicalia. From Os Mutantes and Gilberto Gil, to Caetano Veloso and Gal Costa, they're all here.

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Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove

More Funkadelic for yo' ass. The fuzz and freakness is toned down a bit here, but it more than gains in pure ass-shaking grooving, incredible songwriting, and a bass player nicknamed Bootsy. Listen to "Into You" and "One Nation..." and let the Funkentelechy grab you. Plus a very good live version of "Maggot Brain" (no Eddie Hazel here folks, sorry, but Gary Shider does an impressive job).

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Funkadelic - Free Your Mind...And Your Ass Will Follow

First album of George Clinton's zoned out psych funk collective, and one of my faves.

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The Eternals

First album from this wildly inventive dub/funk outfit featuring members of the mighty, lamented Trenchmouth (the band Fred Armisen used to play drums at) and Tortoise. Worthy successors to Sherwood's On-U Sound.

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V/A - Sí, Para Usted: The Funky Beats of Revolutionary Cuba, Volume 1

It's hard to be Puerto Rican and not like Salsa. It's all around you and you grow up on it, but just like a lot of musical styles it can hit a dead end. A lot of it starts to sound repetitive. That's why when I first heard this I couldn't believe it. I thought I was fairly well informed when it came to Cuban music but I never thought there would be a crop of Cuban musicians from the 70's that were blending the island's typical Son and Salsa sounds with psychedelic, progressive, middle eastern, avant-garde, and fusion influences creating a funky melting pot. Apparently there was a steady stream of American and European records flowing into the island and these local musicians absorbed all their influences creating some throughly unique recordings that until recently were criminally unavailable to a wider audience. What's even more surprising is that a lot of these bands were government sponsored and on their payroll. Apparently Fidel liked hitting the bong and listening to some good shit.

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Don Cherry - Brown Rice

This guy played on the soundtrack to Alejandro Jodorowsky's surreal masterpiece "The Holy Mountain" and on Ornette Coleman's classics: "The Shape of Jazz to Come" and "Free Jazz". That alone should be reason enough to listen to this.

He might not be as famous as Miles Davis but he's just as crazy and diverse. This album is jazz with hints of Eastern European and African music, Bitches Brew-esque spaced funk, and psychedelic/krautrock experimentation. It's not easy to pin down and it's so original you need to listen for yourself. 

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Fabric Live 36

Regardless of what you think of LCD Soundsystem and DFA records James Murphy deserves some props. He helped propel a revival trend that gave us some good bands and some not so good bands, and frankly he knows his shit. With the help of friend and band mate Pat Mahoney he delves deep into his record stash to give us this great collection of obscure disco and tech funk. Shake that ass.

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Funkadelic - Maggot Brain (1971)

Definitely one the finest productions by this pioneering funk band. Instant proof in the opening track. George Clinton, probably wasted out of his mind, told guitarist Eddie Hazel to play "like your momma had just died", resulting in one of the best guitar solos in history. An improvised composition recorded in one take. This album is a melting pot of musical styles and points of view. Mind-blowing. It rarely gets any better than this.

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