“KIDS DON’T GO HOME WHEN THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO———AND THEY SHOULDN’T” MIX

Yo-yo, yo-yo. This is a hot new mix from me, DJ Mos Wan Ted aka Johnny Disaster aka Birth Name aka Dump Truck aka Listen Up. It was inspired by SXSW 2008, L.A. “new punk” scene, and feeling, speaking, and acting like a bad-ass, but with the intentions of overly respecting everyone you may come in contact with. This is something your children will be asking you about in the future, so don’t put yourself in the position of being embarrassed by answering, “Oh well, I saw the link to download it, but at the time I was thinking about all the homework I had to get done, and I missed out.” Besides your internet bill, this is totally FREE. Be a go getter and get going!

1. Suicide – Ghost Rider

2. BARR – Is All For Updated

3. Rusty Santos – Say To Say

4. Faust – Sad Skinhead

5. Times New Viking – Teen Drama

6. No Age – Everybody’s Down

7. Mika Miko – See You There

8. Abe Vigoda – Gallop

9. Crime Novels – New Is New

10. Whirlwind Heat – Blue

11. Blood On The Wall – Hibernation

*****KIDS DON’T GO HOME WHEN THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO, AND THEY SHOULDN’T MIX*****

Note: This is a zip file, the link will take you to mediafire.com where you will be able to download.

Credit: Photo collage=Paul Young, Mixing at the edges=Brad Barry, Song selections and sequencing=Matthew Orr

FRIDAY FEEL 6

Otherwordly hits for friday. No need to understand when you can feel. I hope you enjoy. *I want to find all of these albums in some hip record store.

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Marika Papagika – Smyrneiko Minore (Greece)
Ester John – Mwanamail Wa Maridadi, Fadhilia William, Ben Nichols and Fundi Konde
Ersen – Sor Kendine
Sic Alps – Dr. Bag and the Pomade Nature Giants
Gang Gang Dance – First Communion

New Weird Mexico: Selma Oxor

Exploding out of Monterrey, Mexico with Technicolor blasts of punk rock cheerleader energy, Selma Oxor are the kind of musical mixing pot that only Latin America can pull off. Combining violent punk riffs, demented drum machine pounding, and hyperactive female vocals that masterfully straddle the silly/sexy divide, the three young women two young women and lone male of Selma Oxor have moved into the space between Sonic Youth and Spank Rock and made it their musical playground – a place where detuned, Spanish language Beyonce covers and neon odes to marijuana are par for the course.

Selma Oxor – “Let’s Burn”
Selma Oxor – “Abrazame Demonio”

FRIDAY FEEL 5

Today’s micromix features the ultimate chill vibe from Brightblack Morning Light, a dub-step hit transformed into a lo-fi dreamscape, followed by an ultra hazy pop SMASH that i can’t get enough of! Closing with a Marc Bolan fantasy strum and some solid doo-wop advice.

 
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Brightblack Morning Light – Oppressions Each
Banjo or Freakout – Archangel (Burial cover)
Get Back Guinozzi – Carpet Madness
Tyrannosaurus Rex – Strange Orchestras
The Silhouettes – Get A Job

Julia Sonmi Heglund

illustrator

I recently had a cybersitdown with the amazing illustrator Julia Sonmi Heglund. She is an incredibly talented lady who draws magical creatures and super psychedelic doodles while residing in Madison, Wisconsin. You can find several of her rad tshirt designs at Threadless. Besides drawing, making, and thrifting Julia also creates music with her boyfriend under the moniker Sonmi. She had many good things to say.

FRIDAY FEEL 4

Here’s today’s mix coming a little late in the day. I’ve had a busy week trying to catch up after my trip to LA

Today’s micromix features Dr. Dog’s opener from their new album “Fate.” Followed by a great track from Jeffrey Lewis (who put on quite a show on campus grounds at SXSW). Then comes a shining gem from Department of Eagles (Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear). Memory Cassette is a new discovery for me. Totally hazy and delicious! The mix ends with a haunting lo-fi journey by Grouper.

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Dr. Dog – “The Breeze”
Jeffrey Lewis – “End Result”
Department of Eagles – “No One Does It Like You”
Memory Cassette – “Listen To The Vacuum”
Grouper – “Invisible”

Jana Hunter on the Porch

I had a chance to talk with the lovely Jana Hunter recently for an article I was working on. You can read the piece here, but I saved some extra tidbits for the Porch.

First, some MP3s:
Jana Hunter – “Farm, Ca.”
Jana Hunter – “Babies”

The Porch: What kinds of things inspire you?

Jana Hunter: Really, other people’s music inspires me a lot. Also, new equipment. You know when you get a new piece of equipment and you spend hours and weeks playing with it. Pretty much any really inspiring work, not just music. And major life events too.

JAMES JACKSON TOTH lights his torch on our Porch

Is it a coincidence that James Jackson Toth (formerly Wooden Wand) and I both have AOL email accounts? Is it a coincidence that his favorite Sun City Girls’ album is titled Torch of the Mystics? Is it a coincidence that his favorite album of his is Second Attention, which just so happens to be my favorite as well. I think not, these are no mere coincidences, his presence on our Porch was predestined by fate. When we chatted via cell-phones, James was somewhere between Buffalo, New York and Bloomington, Indiana, touring for his new album Waiting In Vain, out now on Rykodisc. In Toth’s own words, Waiting In Vain is “kind of about temptation and redemption, and the varying ways you can view these things.” He told me he was not wearing his seat belt, and yes he was driving while talking on his cell-phone. More importantly James does not wear his seat belt on the highway of life, traffic laws are like your mother’s precautions, and you alas are not your own mother.

Hazy Summer Podcast #2

I threw together another set of jams for my Mexican compadres at Nene Records. I focused on some classic Jamaican dub for the waning days of summer. Here’s the playlist:

01)  King Tubby – “Hijack the Barber” Dub from the Roots [1974]
02)  Dillinger – “Natt Up, Natt Up” Cornbread [1981]
03)  Jacob Miller – “King Tubby Meets the Rockers Uptown” Who Say Jah No Dread [1974]
04)  The Upsetters – “Jah Jah Ah Natty Dread” Return of the Super Ape [1978]
05)  Cedric Im Brooks – “Free Up Black Man” Cedric Im Brooks & The Light of Saba [197?]
06)  Bunny Clarke – “Move Out of My Way” Shocks of Mighty [1974]
07)  The Revolutionaries – “Roots Dub” Roots Man Dub [1979]
08)  Culture – “Two Sevens Clash” Two Sevens Clash [1978]

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Bonus videos of King Jammy laying down some live dubs:

Dropping a h/int

When I got an e-mail from Jason describing his “Electronic based – hiphop, dance, and funk -  some of it just plain weird” project h/int, I was fully prepared to hate it. But once I started playing his incredibly earnest, strangely infectious tracks, I knew I had to know more. After my interview with Fuller, I’m still not quite sure what to think, but I do know that he is out there, producing music he loves, and trying to spread the word. What more can you ask of someone?