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Busy Doing Nothing : 23 July 2009

 

(from a fashion shoot by Patric Shaw, which uses the film Cul-de-sac as visual inspiration -- found here)

Busy Doing Nothing, on WVEW-LP, Thursdays 6-8 pm (eastern time)

23 July 2009 | Cul-de-sac

artist - song title - album (va = various artists) (label)

Noah Creshevsky - Sonata - The Tape Music of Noah Creshevsky (Em) (read an interview here)
Noonday Underground - That Noonday Sun - Surface Noise (Setanta)
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Blues March - Moanin' (Blue Note)
El Gran Combo - Going Out of My Head - Pata Pata Jala Jala Boogaloo (Disco Hit)
    behind DJ: Emperor Penguin -  Original Trax - Extreme Gaming (My Pal God)

The Bran Flakes - Feelings - Hey Won't Somebody Come and Play? (Happi Tyme)
IQU - Loving You - Sun Q (Sonic Boom)
George Shearing Trio - Consternation - 78 (London)
Bob Dorough - I've Got Just About Everything - Just About Everything (Focus)
Beastie Boys - Groove Holmes - Check Your Head (Capitol)
    behind DJ: Emperor Penguin - Cop Show - Extreme Gaming (My Pal God)

O*N*T*J (Olivia New Ton John) - Jasmin - Jose
Loong Piau Piau - Unforgettable Love - (Chinese CD) (NLS Production)
10cc - Hotel - Sheet Music (UK)
Joseph Moskowitz - Hungarian Dance No. 5 (Brahms) - The Art of the Cymbalom (Rounder)
Marzipan Marzipan - Angel - ep3  
    behind DJ: Emperor Penguin -  Streets and Stars - Extreme Gaming (My Pal God)

Roberta Flack - Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye - First Take (Atlantic)
Shirley Scott - The Blues Ain't Nothin' But Some Pain - Great Scott!! (Impulse!)
The Searchers - Till I Met You - No. 4 (Kapp)
Delta Rhythm Boys - Flickorna i Smaland - Guldkorn (Metronome/Warner Music Sweden)
Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto - The Telephone Song - 7" single (Verve)
Dave Soldier - Everdream - The Kropotkins (Koch) 
    behind DJ: Nocturnal Emissions - Pulsar - Collateral Salvage (Soleilmoon)

Birdy Nam Nam - Abbesses - Birdy Nam Nam (Uncivilized World)
Banana Blue - Kaze Ga Utau Melody - Tokyo Reggae Clash (va) (Wackies)
The Feminine Complex - Time Slips By - Livin' Love (Teenbeat)
    behind DJ: Emperor Penguin -  Tammy - Extreme Gaming (My Pal God)

Bruce Haack & Miss Nelson - Funky Little Song - Listen Compute Rock Home (Emperor Norton)
Dragibus - Mirror Boy - Lollipop (Autobus)
Felix Kubin - Hotel Supernova - Jet Lag Disco (A-Music)
Krzysztof Komeda - Cul-de-Sac - Cul-de-Sac/Knife in the Water (soundtracks) (Harkit)
    behind DJ: Emperor Penguin - Cop Show - Extreme Gaming (My Pal God)

Busy Doing Nothing : 16 July 2009

 

(Things Are Looking Up, (c) 2007 by Christopher Strickland)

Busy Doing Nothing, on WVEW-LP, Thursdays 6-8 pm (eastern time)

16 July 2009 |Things are looking up

artist - song title - album (va = various artists) (label)

Boredoms - Eeedoms - Chocolate Synthesizer (WEA Japan; Reprise)
Mombassa - Nairobi - Racubah! A Collection of Modern Afro Rhythms (va) (Comet)
Joseph Bertolozzi - Landfall - Bridge Music (Delos) (more info here and here)
    behind DJ: Tod Dockstader - Piece #2; Piece #3 - Eight Electronic Pieces (Folkways)

Tinariwen - Amassakoul 'N' Tenere (The Traveler in the Desert) - Putumayo Presents Mali (va) (Putumayo)
Hot Tuna - Water Song - Best of (RCA/BMG) (orig. on Burgers, Grunt Records)
Brazilian Girls - Corner Store - Brazilian Girls (Verve Forecast)
Gipsy.Cz - Tajsa - Romano Hip-Hop (Indies Scope)
Wilco - Can't Stand It - Summerteeth (Reprise)
    behind DJ: Michel Magne - Melodie en sous-sol - Orchestral Party, Act 2 (va) (St-Germain des Pres/Desco)

Messer fur Frau Muller - 2 X 2 = 5 - Hyper Utesov Presents (Solnze)
unknown Japanese band - title unknown - from a cassette given to me by a friend
Lata Mangeshkar - Rajni Gandha Phool Tumare (from the film, Rajnigandha) - 7" single (Odeon)
Frank Sinatra with the Jeff Alexander Choir - Nature Boy - Rarities (Columbia)
    behind DJ: Piero Umiliani - Power Stations - The Man and the City (Right Tempo)

The Kaplan Brothers - A Taste of Honey - Universal Sounds (on Tony Coulter's 2009 WFMU marathon premium, "Hit Replay: A Second Collection of Covers")
DJ Shadow - Six Days - The Private Press (MCA)
Kid Koala & Dynomite D - An Elegy - The Free Design: The Now Sound Redesigned (va) (Light in the Attic)
The Free Design - An Elegy - You Could Be Born Again (Project 3; Light in the Attic)
    behind DJ: Ornette Coleman - Love Words - Of Human Feelings (Antilles/Island)

Peter Lind Hayes - Life Gets Tee-jus, Don't It? - 78 (Brunswick)
Peter Grudzien - Nothing - Interesting Results: Music by a Committee of One -- or, "I Feel Like I'm a-Fixin' to DIY" (va) (Sonic Arts Network)
Little Feat - Willin' - Sailing Shoes (Warner Bros.)
Sam Hui - I Ain't a Sucker (You're So Square, Baby I Don't Care) - Chinese cassette
    behind DJ: Tokyo Serenaders - Yie Lai Shan - Holiday in Japan (49th State)

The Dondero High School Symphony Band and A Capella Choir - I Just Want to Celebrate - Pop Concert 1995 (self-released)
Mama Cass Elliot - It's Getting Better - Make Your Own Kind of Music (ABC Dunhill)
Judee Sill - Things Are Looking Up - Dreams Come True (Water)
Chika Chika - Voom Voom Vooma - Chika Chika (Win)
Evolution Control Committee - I Want a Cookie - Plagiarhythm Nation (Seeland)
    behind DJ: Booker T - Pound It Out - Potato Hole (Anti)

Busy Doing Nothing : 9 July 2009

(Shakin' that thing: Reverend Gary Davis and friend)

Busy Doing Nothing, on WVEW-LP, Thursdays 6-8 pm (eastern time)

9 July 2009 | The shakes

artist - song title - album (va = various artists) (label)

Space Ghost - cold open
Mae West - Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On - Great Balls of Fire (MGM)
The Miracles - Whole Lot of Shakin' in My Heart (Since I Met You) - 35th Anniversary Collection (Motown)
Sakarin Boonpit - Kotmorn Yoop Yap (All Shook Up) - Thai Beat a Go-Go (va) (Subliminal Sounds)
Earl Royce & The Olympics - Shake a Tail Feather - Ferry Cross the Mersey (soundtrack) (United Artists)
The Guess Who - Shakin' All Over - Shakin' All Over (Sundazed)
    behind DJ:

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Shaky Jake - Buhaina's Delight (Blue Note)
Big Daddy Kane - Set It Off - Long Live the Kane (Cold Chillin'/Warner Bros.)
Bingo Gazingo - Two Pack Shaker - Bingo Gazingo (WFMU)
Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra - The Sheik of Araby - The Ellington Era (Columbia)
Lolita No. 18 - Shakin' All Over - Japan Nite Sound Sampler (va) (Japan Nite Committee)
Borden's - Shake It - Product Music (va) (Honest-Abe Disc)
    behind DJ: Roger Roger - Sounds Industrial 15 - Sounds Industrial (Zippy)

KC & The Sunshine Band - (Shake Shake Shake) Shake Your Booty - 45 played at 33 (T.K. Records)
The Beastie Boys - Shake Your Rump - Paul's Boutique (Capitol)
Beatles - Nothin' Shakin' - Live at the BBC (Apple/Capitol)
Patty & The Emblems - Mixed Up, Shook Up Girl - 20 Original Winners of 1964 (Roulette)
Paper Bag Players - Earthshake - Paper Bag Players (private release)
    behind DJ: Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra ("The Harlem Footwarmers") - Old Man Blues - The Ellington Era (Columbia)

Memphis Jug Band - Memphis Shakedown - Best of (Yazoo)
The Lovin' Spoonful - Voodoo In My Basement - Hums of The Lovin' Spoonful(Kama Sutra)
Inflatable Boy Clams - Skeletons - 2 X 7" single (Subterranean) (download here)
Papa Charlie Jackson - Shake That Thing - The Blues vol 1 (Smithsonian)
The Who - Shakin' All Over - Live at Leeds (MCA)
Ruth Etting - Shaking the Blues Away - unreleased collection
    behind DJ: Lew Howard All-Stars - Hula Rock - The Super Sounds of Bosworth (va) (Trunk)

The Who - Mary-Anne with the Shaky Hand - The Who Sell Out (MCA)
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Reasons to Be Cheerful (part 3) - Juke Box Dury (Stiff)
Roxanne Shante - Feelin' Kinda Horny - Bad Sister (Cold Chillin'/Warner Bros.)
Halcali - Hello, Hello Alone - Bacon (For Life)
Dave Clark 5 - Everybody Knows - Coast to Coast (Epic)
    behind DJ: Shudder to Think - pH Balanced - High Art (soundtrack) (Velvel)

Cyril Ritchard reading Chapter VI from "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," by Lewis Carroll, with music by Alec Wilder (Riverside)
Kaada - Black California - Thank You for Giving Me Your Valuable Time (Ipecac)

Busy Doing Nothing : 2 July 2009

 

(picture from Encyclopedia Britannica)

Busy Doing Nothing, on WVEW-LP, Thursdays 6-8 pm (eastern time)

2 July 2009 | Navidad en Japón en julio

artist - song title - album (va = various artists) (label)

Tom Dissevelt - Intersection (aka "Twilight Ozone") - Popular Electronics: Early Dutch Electronic Music from Philips Research Laboratories 1956-63 (va) (Basta)
The Bran Flakes - The Music from Another Planet - Hey Won't Somebody Come and Play? (Happi Tyme)
Harry Revel/Les Baxter/Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman - Lunar Rhapsody - Music Out of the Moon (with Music for Peace of Mind, and Perfume Set to Music) (Request)
    behind DJ: Piero Piccioni - Sognando la tua voce - The Secuction of Piero Piccioni (El/Cherry Red)

The Beatles - 1967 Fan Club Christmas Record - The Beatles' Christmas Album (bootleg)
Was (Not Was) - Christmas Time in the Motor City - A Christmas Record (va) (Ze)
Derrik Roberts - There Won't Be Any Snow (Christmas in the Jungle) - 7" single (Roulette)
Steely Dan - Charlie Freak - Pretzel Logic (ABC)
The Sixths - Winter in July (Ayako Akashiba, voc) - Wasps' Nests (London)
The Young Adults - Christmas in Japan in July - Live in Providence, 21 March 1978 (WBRU broadcast)
    behind DJ: The Kustard Kings - Welcome Christmas - A Kustard Kristmas (Confidential)

Aimee Mann - Save Me - Magnolia (soundtrack) (Reprise)
Nina Simone - Save Me - Flying Funk: Flying Dutchman, Bluebird & RCA (va) (Bluebird)
Tempos - Save Me - Racubah! A Collection of Modern Afro Rhythms (va) (Comet)
Judee Sill - The Vigilante - Heart Food (Asylum; Water)
Camper Van Beethoven - The History of Utah - Camper Van Beethoven/Vampire Can Mating Oven (Rough Trade/Pitch-a-Tent)
    behind DJ: Vince Guaraldi - Christmas Time Is Here - A Charlie Brown Christmas (Fantasy)

The Clash - Straight to Hell - Combat Rock (CBS)
M.I.A. - Paper Planes - Kala (Interscope)
Mexican Institute of Sound - Hip Hop No Pares - Pinata (Nacional)
La Yegros (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - Trocitos de Madera - forthcoming on Dutty Artz
Beto Villa - Southern Select - Father of Orquesta Tejana, Vol. 1 (Arhoolie)
Elakelaiset - Hotelli Helpotus (Hotel California)
    behind DJ: Friends of Dean Martinez - Summertime - A Place in the Sun (Knitting Factory)

The Zombies - Summertime - The Zombies (Parrot)
Halcali - Otsukare Summer - Bacon (For Life)
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - No Golden Throat - Press Color (Ze)
Talking Heads - Electric Guitar - Fear of Music (Sire)
Rosemary Clooney & Perez Prado - Corazon de Melon - A Touch of Tabasco (RCA)
Deerhoof - Rainbow Silhouette of the Milky Rain - Milk Man (Kill Rock Stars)
    behind DJ: Sounds Unlimited - Have Faith in Your Love - Cast Your Fate to the Wind (Parkway)

Shonen Knife - Music Square - Rock Animals (Virgin)
The Ronettes - Walking in the Rain - 7" single (Philles)
Strawbs - Lay Down - Bursting at the Seams (A&M)
    behind DJ: Billy Taylor - That's Where It Is - Warming Up! (Riverside)