Monday, October 31, 2011

Halloween Music

First Gravediggaz song ever recorded. Just released by Prince Paul!!!
The house that hatred built ( Unreleased Gravediggaz demo 92 ) by DJ Prince Paul

Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Monkberry Moon Delight


Thelonious Monk - Friday the 13th


Scientist - The Mummy's Shroud


Whodini - Haunted House of Rock


Damon Albarn & Michael Nyman - The Cave (From Ravenous OST)


The Dead Milkmen - The Thing That Only Eats Hippies

Friday, October 28, 2011



I was young and innocent enough when this aired that this gag was the most graphic thing I'd ever seen on TV. It was the start of a great relationship with TV and movies desensitizing me to horrific violence. Happy Halloween everybody.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Dirty Dulcet Radio 10/19/11


New Toby Goodshank album released yesterday! Check it out here.

Download this week's show here

Set List:
1) Scratchy - Travis Wammack
2) What Can A Man Do - Gino Washington
3) Nobody Can Live Forever - Tim Maia
4) Legend In My Own Mind - The Stepkids
5) Good Song - Blur
6) See The Light - Sparklehorse
7) Wedding Bells - Toby Goodshank
8) Baby I Feel Like I Just Got Cut In Half - Toby Goodshank
9) Life's A Gas - T. Rex
10) Love (Can Make You Happy) - Mercy
11) I Found a Reason - The Velvet Underground
12) Every Day I Love - Squarepusher
13) Avril 14th - Aphex Twin
14) The Financial Crisis Song - Open Mike Eagle (shout out to palejoe, willis, and everybody occupying across the nation!)
15) A B-Boys Alpha - Cannibal Ox
16) Figaro (Stones Throw 101 Remix) - Madvillain
17) Got What It Takes - J-Live
18) Flowers (Original Version) - Ghostface Killah ft. Raekwon, Method Man & Superb
19) Fish - Ghostface Killah ft. Cappadona & Raekwon
20) Banana Leaf - Shonen Knife

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Help .357 Lover master and release their new album!



.357 Lover, who I wrote about previously in this post, just made a Kickstarter campaign to help fund the mastering, artwork and design for their new record, The Purchase of the North Pole.

By donating only $25 you get a signed copy of the album on vinyl, as well as a digital download.

From the band:
"This is the first .357 Lover album to be listened to on vinyl record. We've finished the recording and we're very proud of it. The next step is mastering, which will be done for vinyl from quarter-inch tape. At this point, we've run out of money. What we plan to do next in addition to mastering, is making the packaging more than just a container for the record. In addition to the cover art, there will be a board game that will reference the songs on the album through a journey of time travel. It will be playable, although just looking at it may suffice in enjoyment. The title, The Purchase of the North Pole, is based on the Jules Verne novel of the same name. The goal of the game is to reach Danzig in the year 2050 in order to prevent an explosion that will tilt the earth's axis from the poles to the equator. The traveler will follow an alternate line of time, hitting a 70's American circus, the house of a werewolf in the year 1906, a Rush show in the year 1986, the Columbian Expo in the year 1893 and a mall in north Texas in the year 1995. There is more that awaits the traveler and the dice will admit him to the next level and the next, the last being the preventing the destruction of the earth's current poles. This album is inspired by the art of 20th Century science fiction magazine covers, the movies of Sergio Leone, the American circus, 19th Century mechanics and girls. There was a lot of passionate arguing and a lot of personal and collective triumphs. We really want to see this record become what we've envisioned."

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Dirty Dulcet Radio 10/5/11


I once again had problems recording my radio show last night, so screw it, I'll upload the songs anyway. No radio improvisation, but I'll do my best to recreate it w/ commentary below.

Download here.


Set List:
1) Curtis Mayfield - Right on for the Darkness
2) David Batiste & The Gladiators - Funky Soul Pt. 1
3) Salt - Hung Up
4) Pamoja - Ooh Baby
5) Lee Fields ft. The Expressions - Honey Dove
6) The Clipse - Mr. Me Too (Z.A.K. Remix)
7) De La Soul - Itzoweezee (HOT)
8) The Stepkids - Cup Half Full
9) Wu-Tang Clan - Hellz Wind Staff
10) Anti-Pop Consortium - Dead in Motion
11) Mr. Lif ft. Insight - Iron Helix
12) Mr. Lif - Earthcrusher
13) Mr. Lif ft. El-P, Jean Grae & Akrobatik - Post Mortem
14) Josef Vobruba se svym Orchestrem - Preludium Cis Moll
15) Elias Rahbani - Dance of Maria
16) Troupe Majidi - Essiniya (Nass El Ghiwane)
17) Blackbyrds - Wilford's Gone
18) Lee Hazlewood - It's Nothing to Me

First off, The Stepkids released their debut album last Tuesday, and it is very good. Here's their most recent music video, featuring a cameo from The Daily Show's Wyatt Cenac!

On the show I played my favorite song off the album, Cup Half Full. The album can be purchased online at www.stonesthrow.com, and also ordered in to CD Alley.

The 3 Mr. Lif songs I played form a triptych that closes out his near-perfect album, I Phantom.

(From the liner notes) "Iron Helix is a synopsis of colonization in which Insight plays the role of a tribesman, or anyone who may not be privy to the modern world. My [Mr. Lif's] role is as the voice of the modern world. At first, Insight is steadfast about his lifestyle, but as he continues to interact with my character, he loses sight of his old values, and way of life. By the end of the song, he is fully converted into the ways of the modern world, and there is no difference between his views and mine. Ultimately, we are both the voice of man's desire to control and conquer all that exists."

The song ends with a nuclear holocaust beginning, which is described sweeping across the globe in the next track, Earthcrusher.

The final song, Post Mortem, are the final thoughts of 4 people as they look into the light of the nuclear blast, played by Mr. Lif, El-P, Jean Grae & Akrobatik. Every verse is stellar, but Jean Grae steals the show. For my money she's the best female MC out there, and I'll let her lyrics back up that statement:

"Convert to atheism/denounce god/pronounce religion dead/faith in nothing/trace my wrist with razors/I refuse to wait for the blaze to erase my spirit/death, faced with it/run to it/not from it/swallow all the pills in the medicine cabinet/chase it with a bottle of 151/hug mommy/head outside to smash windows and trash my hotel lobby/break the grip off/if time allows/I'd finally get to him/I wish I'd done more sin/and got a strap-on, run up in some women/lay in the middle of a highway/wait for pain to hit me/steal a camera/people lootin', screamin'/'come and get me'/find the nearest pawn shop/biggest gun/crowded street/blow my brains to hell/I'm gone/and let the devil come for me"

The last song I wanna talk about is Essiniya (Nass El Ghiwane) by Troupe Majidi. This is off a record called Ecstatic Music of the Jemaa El Fna. Jemaa El Fna is a bustling market in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh, know for its performances by snake charmers, fortune tellers, musicians, etc. Sounds like an awesome place. The record was recorded live by Hisham Mayet, who, according to this Independent article, gave a talk and screened two of his documentaries at The Open Eye Cafe in December '07. Any of y'all go to that? Anyway, the song Essiniya (Nass El Ghiwana) is a great embodiment of the powerfulness of live music. Much of what makes the song so intense is the audience clapping, chanting, and cheering along.

Sunday, October 2, 2011