EDDY MERCKX

DREAM BIKE/S

SATURDAY NIGHT

I'm going to see HTRK tonight.
Just listening to this stuff (below), eating baked vegetables.
About to brew a dandelion tea.

FATIMA AL QADIRI

I'm a big fan of this ladies work.
The E.P GENRE-SPECIFIC XPERIENCE came out today.
GET IT.
She also goes by the name Ashay. She started making music in Kuwait, when she was nine, in response to the trauma from being in a war torn city. She now lives in New York.

She speaks subtle politics through her song titles and videos. Her music is instrumental.

AMAZING

Possessed To Skate

I skated hard when I was 16-17-18.
Then annoying grown up stuff made me stop.
I was good. I did mean kick flips and frontside flips.
I'm psyched to start skating again.
I'll be careful.
Eternally a teenage boy.
x

EGG RAID ON MOJO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Some Old Bullshit= Best Beasties album for sure.
Then Paul's Boutique, then: Ill Communication, then Check Your head then Liscence to Ill then Hello Nasty.
Throw in Aglio E Olio in the middle of all of that or something, as an interlude.

OMG I'M FUCKING AMPED RIGHT NOW. I WANNA SMASH SOME SHIT UP OR SOMETHING.
WAAAAAAAAA

LUSCIOUS JACKSON + relates radness

NOSTALGIA.
Luscious Jackson rocked my world and locked my jaw in '94. I got NATURAL INGREDIENTS on vinyl. Baby blue vinyl.
Do I need to go through the history?
Kate Schellenbach used to drum for the Beastie Boys in their very early incarnation, before Luscious Jackson.
Grand Royal released Natural Ingredients.
They formed in '91.
Luscious Jackson's biggest hit was definitely Naked Eye. ('97)
They broke up in 2000.
In 1996 Vivian Trimble and Jill Cunniff from the band recorded a record under the name Kostars. 'Klassics With a K' was a dreamy album with lots of little toy keyboards and acoustic guitars and pretty harmonies.
Schellenbach and Josephine Wiggs (bassist for The Breeders) were girlfriends and released a 7" called THE KIMS WE LOVE, under the name Ladies Who Lunch. It featured 2 covers- A Sonic Youth one (Bull in The heather) and a Pixies one (Gigantic).
A genius concept indeed.
Anyways, this is like a history class, or Herstory class rather.
This stuff was such a major influence on me. I owe some of my blood cells to all the songs/projects below. Or a thousand breaths...


Luscious Jackson- City Song



Ladies Who Lunch- Bull in The Heather



Kostars- Never So Lonely

NEW NAS!!!!!!!! NASTY!!!!!!!

Nas sounds the best over these kind of beats. Minimal breaks. His flow has a mind of it's own.
Trajectory that treads from the mind to the heart to the lungs to the ether.
Respect to God's Son for always keeping true to himself. Nas never tries to bend his character to make it fit with the rap of the moment.
There's always complaints about how he's a bad beat selector, but can you imagine Nas raping over anything else but the beats he chooses? His essence and style shoot perfectly across his choices.
The King of Queens. Nas is in a borough of his own.
xxx

NittyScottMC-Auntie Maria's Crib

sweet smooth flows. Salute to the 90's.
Like a blunted Butterfly.

OLIVE- you're not alone/CHICANE-Saltwater

Love the chilled out jungle vibes of Olive's You're not Alone.
This song touches my heart.
There were so many songs of this ilk coming out in the late 90's.
Here are 2.

Cibo Matto- Beef Jerky

Dont' mind some primal strips faux jerky.
Love Cibo Matto.
Their whole debut album Viva! La Women, was full of sweet jams. And every song title had an edible thing in it.
I heard they've been working on a new album. Yes!!!
They went on to form a side supergroup, Butter 08, with Russell Simins (Jon Spencer blues Explosion), Rick Lee (Skeleton Key) and Mike Mills. That was a pretty great album too.
Anyways...

new month, new Harmony Korine

"Snowballs"

The Spinanes

In 1996, I went to Israel with my high school.
It was a life changing trip in many, many ways.
The Spinanes 'Strand' came out that year and became a sound track to my movements.
Weird, to put the warm desert of the Holy Land and the Spinanes together, in one sentence and experience.
But something about it worked.
Rebecca gates voice sounds sun lit.

DON TRIP

DON TRIP= TRUTH IN THE BOOTH.
poet.
All his video's are just him in the booth, one shot, one angle, one take, one good rapper.

LOVE LIFE

I loved love life.
I saw them once in San francisco at the Hemlock Tavern. Only a circle of candles dimly lit the room.
'The Rose he lied by'' was one of my favourite records of 2000, when it came out. It was released on Troubleman Unlimited who were totally my favourite label of that era. They released the radest stuff of the late 20th, early 21st century (haha)
The entire record swept me off my broom stick.
Their second record 'Here Is Night, Brothers, Here the Birds Burn' came out on Jagjaguwar in 2002.
Here's the opening track: LISTEN LOUDLY
Do what it is says, become the song, listen loudly
Katrina Ford, who I always thought was a man, listening to the first LOve Life record, went on to form Celebration who are still around today

Mr. Muthafuckin eXquire

So coolloquial.
Produced by EL-P, which is such a perfect coupling.
I'm psyched about this. Sparse simple dark head nod perfect amount of here now abstract sensibility.