KLAUS NOMI

Man of style and self.
Countertenor
On earth for a short visit...
Klaus Nomi is a figure you could imagine a little kid running up to, stopping at his feet, looking up from his black slacks to his triangular tuxedo top half, slowly becoming wide eyed, then horrified, then breaking out into a snotty cry. Then Klaus would look down at the kid with an animated smile and eyes to match, and extend his hand out to the kid who would suddenly damn his own smile into a giggle, which would roll on forever and ever.

Electrik Red will electrocute!!

and i mean electroCUTE!
Seriously, How To be A Lady: Volume 1, was the most slept on and under-appreciated Rn'B album of 2009. Filled with jams, co-written and produced by The-Dream, lady's with attitude supergroup= MEGA
How To Be A Lady: Volume 2 is coming out sometime this year, so get schooled!!
Choreographed toilet cubicle cha-cha!!!
Video for Drink In My Cup; song of the record.

GHETTS- ARTILLERY

woah
listen careful or you might get hit.
i'm a sucker for epic beats and dramatic strings.
and on top of that, change of pace punchline flows.
ghett's is probably a rapper's rapper.
nice

Walking in L.A

I forgot about Missing Persons for a while, but today, when I was walking, it reminded me of this song.
I love Dale's squeeks in this live video
Sorry it's not in synch

Ministry- Revenge

From Ministry's first record: With Sympathy, which Al Jourgensen called "an abortion of an album"...1981, synth pop, pre industrial slaughterhouse Ministry. Same antics, different sound. But always as good.

Decline of Western Civilization

Here's part of the Germs segment from Penelope Spheeris' amazing documentary about the late 70's/early 80's L.A Hardcore scene: The Decline of Western Civilization. Go rent it out.
Darby Crash is still one of my favourite vocalists of all times

Wilder-bout Billy

Possibly the greatest writer/director of all time? Hollywood Heyday Perhaps, maybe, arguably so.

Billy Wilder : Sunset Blvd, The Lost Weekend, Some Like it Hot, Double Indemnity, The Apartment, The Seven Year Itch....And the list goes on. Good stories, perfectly faulty characters, twists and turns, and best of all gold plated scripts. Ah......

A salute to El-P and Def Jux

It came to my attention that the indie hip hop label Def Jux are taking a hiatus. This truly marks the end of an era. Definitive Jux were responsible for changing the course of underground hip hop. They had their own style, sound, aesthetic, (doom-boom-bap), with artists like Aesop Rock, Cannibal Ox, RJD2, Mr Lif, Cage, founder El-P and many oter Jukies.
El-P bought a sci fi flavour to beat making and subject matter, presenting a grim Orwellian audio world.
Progressive and revolutionary, El-P and his def Jux cohorts are responsible for carrying the legacy of hip hop forward and beyond with their own dialect and gospel.
I salute!

You can read a statement by El-P explaining his decision of change here:
http://www.definitivejux.net/news/jux-crew/1628

EL-P DEEP SPACE 9MM

Erykah!

Just heard that Erykah's got a new album coming out New Amerykah Part II: Return of the Ankh, which is the follow up to the ever so amazing, gritty New Amerykah Part One: 4th World War.
Perhaps one of my favourite ever strong woman/stellar style/saccharine singing chanteuse's of all time.
Live version of The Healer:


And an old classic

Cocteau Twins

I have so much time and space for this band, particularly because of the way they utilise time and space in their work.
Cocteau twins were a Scottish band, who formed in the late 70's, amidst the new wave world. Airy and dark, other worldly, heavenly, their music is pretty much ethereal goth bliss.
Elizabeth Fraser's vocals are like dream pop scats.
I don't know what else to say, but I'm on a bit of a Cocteau Twins binge this week and I like it..

one of many men-ies.

   Chris Johanson...

I'll call this boatiful.

a word from my unsponsors

  pen of choice. but you choose yours

Charlotte Salomon self portrait

From: Life? or Theater? A play with music.

Charlotte chose life, a life in drawings.

Hers is an interesting story, do the research

So, I was looking for the perfect beat...

And I came across this....
Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic force
Saturday morning home schooled breakfast chef soundtrack

Progressive tweeting

While we (arguably) digress through our twitter/tweeting, birds have progressed through theirs and their forward flying.

"French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot creates works by drawing on the rhythms of daily life to produce sound in unexpected ways.

For his installation in The Curve, Boursier-Mougenot creates a walk-though aviary for a flock of zebra finches, furnished with electric guitars and other musical instruments. As the birds go about their routine activities, perching on or feeding from the various pieces of equipment, they create a captivating, live soundscape."