Dark Woods Casino Party

ailments

2008-07-23T22:41:00.000-07:00

Sometimes it is hard to listen to certain songs. It reminds me of who I was and what I wanted to be and how I haven't become that thing. More then anything, I wanted to be a poet. I don't want to give up on it.

This song by Smog, "River Guard" reminds me of the trip we made to the mountains. It is a reminder of how lonely I was. Our relationship was an empty one. Music such as this would give me hope that things would change for the better. Also, along with artists such as the Silver Jews, when I was 19 or so, the lyrics were an inspiration for my own. Where has that time gone?

When I write these days, the possible words swirl around in my head and it is difficult to arrange them together to describe what I am seeing. Also, the totality of the message or idea of the poem eludes me. I believe I am trying too hard when I write nowadays, because it is so sporadic and there is so much pent up creative energy (that sounds really cheesy, indeed) and it spills all over the place, all the words and descriptors. Words, or phrases can cling to me so easily. Today, I thought "every day I intrude on the passing scenery", and I don't know what to make of it exactly, or what to do with it.

I suppose I need to write more.

Dark Woods Casino Party for July 8th, 2008

2008-07-14T18:41:00.000-07:00

Modzilla - "Agony" - Welcome to Our Island - (Poteet)
Maitrey Akali - "Country Girl" - Yee-Haw! The Other Side of Country - (Normal)
Sparks - "It Ain't 1918" - Indiscreet - (Warner)
Hal Rammel, John Corbett, and Terri Kapsalis - "Evil Walks with Beauty" - Van's Peppy Syncopators

The User - "+}}}}}}}}}}}" - Symphony #2 for Dot Matrix Printers - (Asphodel)
Matmos - "Rainbow Flag" - Supreme Balloon - (Matador)
Attilio "Art" Mineo - "Man Seeks the Future" - Man in Space with Sounds
Pan American - "First Position" - self-titled - (Kranky)
101 Strings - "Trippin' on Lunar '07" - Astro Sounds from Beyond the Year 2000

Noreen Carcoran - "Love Kitten" - Feline Groovy - (Ace)
The Poppy Family - "I Thought of Your Again" - A Good Thing Lost: 1968-1973 - (March)
James and Bobby Purify - "I'm Your Puppet" - Shake a Tail Feather! - (Sundazed)
Tornadoes - "Do You Come Here Often?" - Queer Noises: From the Closet to the Charts - (Trikont)
Strapping Fieldhands - "Aeroplane Ticket" - Gobs on the Midway Singles - (Siltbreeze)
Marie Moor - "Pretty Day"- BIPPP: French Synth Wave

Rotten Piece - "Little Fish/Big Fish" - Incarcerated Dwarf Heiress - (Fleece)
Ruins - "Djubatczegromm" - Tzomboraghra - (Skin Graft)
Shit and Shine - "The Germans Call It a Swimming Head" - Kluess Mich, Meine Liebe - (Load)
Vert - "Octane Ray" - Small Pieces Loosely Joined - (Sonig)
Grace Jones - "I Need a Man"
Barbara Pittman - "I Need a Man" - Good Girls Gone Bad - (Ace)

Prima Donnas - "Yr So Cool" - Drugs, Sex and Discotheques - (Peek-A-Boo)
Angie Reed - "I Don't Do Dirty Work, Sucka" - Angie Reed Presents the Best of Barbara Brockhaus - (Chicks-On-Speed)
Charlie Feathers - "Nobody's Woman" - Jungle Fever
Monks - "I Can't Get Over You" - Monk Time
High Places - "Head Spins (extended version)" - 3/07 - 9/07 - (Thrill Jockey)

Top Albums in the South Sound area Goodwills 7/4 - 7/11

2008-07-11T19:37:00.000-07:00

Top Albums in South Sound Area Goodwills for the week of July 4th through the 11th.

It was a tight race to the top this week, as Tom Jones "Live in Las Vegas" took a giant plummet from the #1 spot, after more then a few individuals in the area bought the Jones LP's due to a recent Volkswagon commercial featuring his rendition of "Love Me Tonight". The classical music compilation 120 Masterpieces featuring an elegant couple watching an orchestra from a balcony maintains its reign on the charts with the 73rd straight week in the top 5! A plethora of Slim Whitman greatest hits compilations have recently surfaced in various locations, making Mr. Whitman our surprise chart-topper of the week. Congratulations!

1. Barbara Streisand and Kris Kristofferson - A Star is Born
2. Various Artists - 120 Masterpieces
3. Various Artists - Great Songs for Christmas, compiled by Goodyear Tires
4. Mitch Miller and Gang - Sing Along with Mitch Miller
5. Chuck Mangione - Feels so Good
6. Tom Jones - Live in Las Vegas
7. Slim Whitman - All My Best
8. Various Artists - Love Story Original Soundtrack
9. The Eagles - Hotel California
10. Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 - self-titled

captain nautical and the space invader army

2008-07-04T16:08:00.000-07:00

Last night, I had my Ipod on shuffle while I was driving home. Two songs came on, almost one after the other, and both struck me as being particularly of their era, those being The Tornado's "Telstar" and Captain Groovy's "Captain and His Bubblegum Army". I'm sure much has been written about Telstar, and I recall the last thing I read was that it sounded like an outdated version of the future, and when it was released, listeners considered it sonically ground-breaking. "Telstar" does sound like the 50's version of our future in space, and that sort of utopian dream has passed, but the song is timeless. Yes, it is the musical equivalent of the original incarnation of Tomorrowland, but it is filled with awe and the wonder of possibility, which is also what makes Tomorrowland so fascinating. It is still cool sounding, and unlike so many other 50's/60's pop, it doesn't sound dated, both musically and because of the subject matter: the fascination with what could be.

"Captain Groovy and His Bubblegum Army", is more dated, because it filled with tics of the era, but it is still charming and catchy. How bubblegum to have a chorus shout "bu-bu-bu-bu-bu bubblegum army". The song sounds like an interlude or song intro to a Sesame Street lesson, filled with allusions to the pervasive psychedelic aesthetic infiltration of mainstream culture.

Dork Wooods Casino Party - 6/3/08

2008-06-03T22:07:00.000-07:00

Bo Diddley - "Gunslinger" - Bo Diddley is a Gunslinger
Magnetic Fields - "Born on a Train" - Charm of the Highway Strip - (Merge)
John Leyton - "Johnny Remember Me"
Loose Joints - "Is It All Over My Face?"

Paintings for Animals - "Wineslide" - Headphone Spiritual
John Schnall - "Herbert, You're Insane" - Songs from Midnight Matinee
Cheap Trick - "Voices" - Dream Police
Argumentix and Mattress - untitled - Echo Scratch Finale
Tyvek - "Air Conditioner" - 7" - (What's Your Rupture?)
Nami Shimada - "Sunshower (Larry Levan remix)"
Matmos - "Polychords" - Supreme Balloon - (Matador)

Tarantism - "Transmission from the Xerophyte" - Stuck to the Bottom - (Resipiscent)
Edward Ka-Spel - "Six Cats on a Dead Man's Chest" - Down in the City of Heartbreak and Needles - (Soleilmoon)
Stars of the Lid - "Daughters of Quiet Minds" - And the Refinement of their Decline - (Kranky)
Delia Derbyshire - "Moogies Bloogies" - The Complete Works

unknown artists/compiled by Alan Bishop - "India's Sound Museum of Oddities" - Radio India: The Eternal Dream of Sound - (Sublime Frequencies)
Blues Control - "End Zone" - Puff - (Fusetron Sound)

About the time they called me "Jackie"

2008-05-27T10:38:00.000-07:00

I've been obsessed with the song "Jackie" for the last few weeks, just like I've been obsessed with "Next" time before. Speaking of "Next", I printed off the words to the song at work wanting to memorize them and forgot them near my register the other day. I wonder if one of my co-workers will find it and read it and what they would think about me. Anyway, "Jackie" is originally by Jacques Brel, as is "Next" and they were both covered by my beloved Scott Walker - if this was the 90's, I would have made a I Love Scott Walker Zine by now.

When I visited Chehalis months ago to go to Yardbirds, I found a Marc Almond tape from the early 90's and I had left it untouched for a long time. I recently opened it (how long it has been since I took the wrapping off a cassette tape!) and only recently realized it has a cover of "Jackie" called "Jacky." How fortuitous. However, Almond's cover sounds basically like Scott Walker's version, except with cheesy 90's goth beats. They do nothing for the song, nor do the ominous, choral "ahhhhh's" near the end. He does a great version of it vocally, except it has those damn goth synth beats. I wonder why he even bothered. It isn't quite ruined, but it makes it sound dated.

The Marc Almond version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgBcEbbiSNY

Scott Waker (oh, my hear melts!):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_XSXHm4vT4

Jacques Brel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3naJrcVJwc

Dark Woods Casino Pantry for May 13th, 2008

2008-05-13T22:42:00.000-07:00

Icky Boyfriends - "Pay N'Pak" - A Love Obscene - (Menlo Park)
Half Japanese - "Thing with a Hook" - Loud and Horrible - (Drag City)
The Centimeters - "Dracula Gary" - Presents the Facts of Destiny - (WIN)
Cabaret Voltaire - "Speed Kills" - Zero Degrees East, a Mix by Fast Asleep Club

Blue Sabbath Black Cheer - "Boutranger Moor"
Tim Hecker - "Celestina" - Mirages - (Kranky)

Matmos - "Cloudhoppers" - Supreme Balloon - (Matador)
Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers - "I Want You to Be My Girl" - The Best of - (Rhino)
Assumarks Derfla - "The Crawfish" - The Shing-A-Ling Ain't the Thing, a mix by Mr. Fine Wine
Larry Williams - "Short Fat Fannie" - Specialty Records Greatest Hits - (Specialty)
The 5 Royales - "The Real Thing"
Sylvan - "We Don't Belong" - Dreambabes Volume Three - (RPM)
Bobby Bland - "I've Just Got to Forget You" - Two Steps from the Blues - (MCA)

Ralf Wehowsky - "Atmosphere" - Beziehung - (Table of the Elements)
Alan Licht and Aki Onda - "Tick Tock" - Everydays - (Family Vineyard)
Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paradise U.F.O - "In E" - In C - (Squealer)
Jad Fair and Naofumi Ishimaru - "Godzilla Invades Mars" - Half Monster - (Misc. Music)

Don't forget that a lot of the songs I play on here are secret messages, clandestine transmissions. I am trying to tell you something.

awwww

2008-05-08T13:32:00.000-07:00

Has anyone else noticed the lettering on the new Matmos album, Supreme Balloon?

This tribute reminded me of one the things I like so much about Drew Daniel's work, especially with The Soft Pink Truth, but also with Matmos. He flaunts his influences in a joyful way, and pays tribute to them through his music, both conceptually and by experimentation with the form he is alluding to. He is a super-fan and scholar - critically dissecting genres, trends and pop and experimental music formulas. His work reminds me of an academic essay written in glee. The ideas or statements behind the album concept are as compelling as the music within.

Also, Supreme Balloon is fantastic. The Tomita allusion is more then just that - it is all over the music.

Dark Woods Casino Party for 4/22/08

2008-05-06T17:45:00.000-07:00

Van Shipley - "Gharki Murgi" - Bollywood Steel Guitar - (Sublime Frequencies)
unknown artists - "Dance Hall Twist" - from the film The Creeping Terror
Billy Stewart - "Sitting in the Park" - Twentieth Century Masters

Doris Troy - "Whatcha Gonna Do About It?" - The Girls Got Soul - (Kent)
St. Gun Khin May - "Shan Village" - Victrola Favorites - (Dust-to-Digital)
Rod McKuen - "Eros" - Queer Noises: From the Closet to the Charts - (Trikont)
P.S. I Love You - "Spell" - Into the Woods and What We Saw There
Sixes - "Wroughten Wretch" - Cursed Beast - (Troniks)

Steven R. Smith - "A Celebration" - Tableland - (Emperor Jones)
Loachfillet - untitled
Vertonen - "Face Grab with Chlorine" - Stations - (C.I.P)
Robert Tomasi - "When I Let You Down"
Sylvester - "Over and Over (12" Disco Mix)"

Laura Lee - "Women's Love Rights" - Go Girl! Soul Sisters Tell it Like It Is - (Rhino)
Bo Diddley - "Ride on Josephine" - Bo Diddley is a Gunslinger
Ivor Cutler - "An Old Oak Tree" - Dandruff
unknown artist - "Gaw Gawng Jing Pe Play" - Ehtnic Minority Music of Southern Laos - (Sublime Frequencies)
Strategy - "untitled" - Music for Lamping - (Audio Dregs)
Evangelista - "Winds of St. Anne" - Hello, Voyager - (Constellation)
Wolf Eyes - "Human Animal" - Human Animal - (Sub Pop)

He Doesn't Even Know I Exist - A Compendium to the Boy Down the Street

2008-04-16T19:15:00.000-07:00

1. "Johnny Angel" by Shelley Fabares
2. "Terry" by Twinkle
3. "He Cried" by the Shangri-Las and Luv'd Ones
4. "The Rider" by the Pussycats
5. "Dressed in Black" by the Pussycats
6. "Leader of the Pack" by the Shangri-Las
7. "Johnny Thunders" by the Kinks
8. "Johnny Are You Queer?" by Josie Cotton
9. "Johnny Loves Me" by Glenda Collins
10. "Beatnik Boy" by Talulah Gosh
11. "Heaven in a Black Leather Jacket" by The 6ths
12. "Wild One", by Martha and the Vandellas
13. "He's A Rebel", by The Crystals

Dark Woods Casino Party - 4/8/08

2008-04-15T19:54:00.000-07:00

The Homosexuals - "Vociferous Slam" - Astral Glamour - (Hyped2Death)
The Banana Splits - "I Enjoy Being a Boy (In Love with You)"
Shirelles - "Dedicated to the One I Love - The Doo-Wop Box Set - (Rhino)
The Weird Weeds - "Sorry Rain" - I Miss This - (Auto Bus)
..the sounds of North American Frogs...
Hans-Joachim Roedelius - "Wenn Der Sudwind Weht"
Yellow Swans - "To Valleys of Beatiful Arson" - Ambient Not Not Ambient - (Audio Dregs)

P-Model - untitled - Landsale
Dave E. and the Marriage Counselors - "Searching Through Sears"
Television Personalities - "She's Only the Grocer's Daughter" - Yes Darling, But Is it Art?
Hungry March Band - "Whole Hog" - Portable Soundtracks for Temporary Utopias
Edward H. Defis - "Y Penderfy"
Strategy - "Lower Macleay" - Music for Lamping - (Audio Dregs)

Claudio Mingardi - "Star (Medley w/Starman)"
Hercules and Love Affair - "Blind"
Oval - "Polygon Med Pak" - The Corners of the Mouth - (Bubble Core)
Maria Smyrnea - "The Grass Widow" - Victrola Favorites Volume 2
Bill Carlisle's Kentucky Boys - "Unclouded Sky" - Prayers from Hell - White Gospel and Sinners Blues

Christina Carter - "Solitude" - Christina Carter/Pocahaunted LP - (Not Not Fun)
Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Solar Arkestra - "Mysterious Crystal" - Space is the Place - (Evidence)
Lord Beginner - "Jamaica Hurricane" - London is the Place for Me
Eric Ostrowski - "Finding Entrances" - Magnificent Forest

Beloved Bands I Just Can't Get Into - An Incomplete List

2008-04-14T13:32:00.000-07:00

Negativland - So many of my friends love them, but I just don't get it. I think some of the stuff is funny, such as "Piece of Pie", but overall, I much prefer People Like Us.
Sonic Youth - Granted, I listened to a lot of Daydream Nation years ago, and some of Sister, but as a whole, I can't dig it, although I am a fan of Thurston Moore's experimental excursions. Maybe one day I will see the light?
Animal Collective - They have some pleasant enough songs, but it has never done it for me..my apologies to my boyfriend.
The Decemberists - I guess this isn't surprising considering my complete drift away from "indie rock" in the last few years.
Glass Candy - I wouldn't call them "beloved", but it seems like I would like them a lot given my love of the kind of music they're emulating.
Bjork - I liked some of her music as a teenager, but even then it never blew me away. I've never been able to fully connect with her music.

Bands Whom I Used to Love, but Have Since Broken Up With:

Cat Power - I loooooved Moon Pix when I was 17, and I listened to a lot of You Are Free when I was 20/21, but since then, I can't love her music the way I used to.
A Lot of the K Records arsenal, including Mirah and Microphones - Maybe it is just because that I don't listen to much of this kind of music anymore, but as much as I'll always have a place in my heart for K Records music. It isn't bad music at all, I just don't feel compelled to listen to it anymore. Something tells me I'll come back to it years from now. This is also true for the music of The Mountain Goats, who I used to adore to pieces, but somehow it isn't like it used to be.

serious synth fetish

2008-04-13T19:16:00.000-07:00

I-F's Mixed Up in the Hague is one of the most important discs I have ever encountered. It is a mix of electro and disco of the Italo variety. It very neatly sums up why I find synthesizers and vocoders so sexy and gorgeous. When people speak of Italo disco, they often refer to its space-like quality, and this is entirely accurate. This idea is succinctly summed in Peter Richard's song from the I-Robots italo disco comp: "walking in the neon, the lonely galaxy".

When I was a teenager, I had an inkling that I liked a certain kind of dance music that would be perfect for traversing a highway at night, lights glowing intermittently within the darkness. Certain techno music on the Seattle dance station was suggestive of what I would come to love, or 80's synth-pop such as Depeche Mode and Pet Shop Boys would also allude to it. It would take a while until I discovered just the right ingredients to make the perfect synth-pop concoction.

The music with Mixed Up in the Hague is suggestive of romance and danger, but mostly of the loneliness of space. At this moment in my life, this disc makes me sublimely happy. I can think of nothing that is as perfect. The transition between Alexander Robotnick and Mr. Flagio is especially tops. For some good reading on the essentials of Italo disco-kind of music, see an article from Woebot.

go away realtor

2008-04-07T15:49:00.000-07:00

It is Spring - thus was have rain, hail, sunshine, and cats lounging about, keeping an eye on the neighborhood. I've always been obsessed with those "NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH" signs and the shadow-y, detective figures that adorn them. They should just put on a picture of a cat instead, but I suppose a cat isn't nearly as intimidating as a shadow figure with a single hole for an eye.

My gift for you today, is some melancholy music for lounging in a library, closed for the evening

Porthcurno by Movietone

youth

2008-04-05T10:46:00.000-07:00

youth has gone

Excursions of a Spring Afternoon

2008-04-01T17:48:00.001-07:00

It is an exciting day for new music. Today in the station came the new Weird Weeds album, "I Miss This" and W-S Burn's "Pleiades". I've also been listening to Prurient's "And Still, Wanting" a lot recently, the Carla Bozulich "Evangelista" album is also exciting. I love Prurient's aesthetic, and the name of the band truly speaks for the music. The lyrics from the song "Strict Ideas" often will pop up in my head unexpectedly, especially when I see a business man at my work:

"A well dressed man / has some very strict /ideas"

the endlessness of space

2008-03-31T18:42:00.000-07:00

Here's another Dark Woods Casino Party classic, from Alex Bundy's "Planetarium Music", subtitled "Traditional Psychedelic Electronic Music", released originally on Strange Attractors Audio House in 2002, I believe. This song sounds exactly as it should be, hanging out with Jack Horkeimer in outer space. This takes me back to my beloved Miami Planetarium.

Alex Bundy - Terrible

Dark Woods Casino Party for March 18th 2008

2008-03-22T20:08:00.000-07:00

OOIOO - untitled - Eye Remix EP - (Thrill Jockey)
Love - "Alone Again, Or" - Forever Changes
Fiery Furnaces - "Single" - EP - (Rough Trade)
Jean-Claude Vannier - "L'enfant au Royaume Des Mouches" - L'enfant Assasin Des Mouches - (B-Music)
Electric Light Orchestra - "Midnight Blue"
Quintron - "Backwards" - The Frog Tape - (Skin Graft)

Porest - "Composition of Sheep" - Prude Juice for the Heritage Swinger - (Seeland)
The Shadow Ring - "The Way of the World" - Hold Onto I.D - (Siltbreeze)
Kelly Harrell - "O! Molly Dear Go Ask Your Mother" - Victrola Favorites
Roy Montgomery - "Fantasie on a Theme by Sandy Bull" - Harmony of the Spheres - (Drunken Fish)

DQE - "Take it Easy, Baby" - The Queen of Mean - (Dark Beloved Cloud)
The 5 Royales - "The Slummer the Slum" - Songs We Taught the Detroit Cobras
Johnny Sayles - "I Can't Get Enough (of Your Love)" - Downtown Soulville
Mighty Sam - "I Who Have Nothing" - Papa True Love - (Sundazed)
Stella - "Gaspard"
Twinkle - "A Lonely Singing Doll" - Golden Lights - (RPM)
Vashti Bunyan - "I'd Like to Walk Around in Your Mind" - Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind - (DiCristina)
The Centimeters - "Daddy's Gone" - The Lifetime Achievement Awards
And Spiders - "And Spiders" - We're Twins - Our Sampler 2001 - (We're Twins)
Judy Lynn - "Hello Mr. DJ"

Otto Van Schirach - "Yellow Staircase" - Escalo Frio - (Schematic)
Prurient - "Lust End" - And Still, Wanting - (No Fun Productions)
Loren Connors - "Adonais" - Night Through - (Family Vineyard)
Growing - "Lateral" - Lateral - (The Social Registry)

A handsome boy waiting all alone..

2008-03-20T19:51:00.000-07:00

I wanted to do this post months ago, but couldn't get the knack of linking to songs, so finally we have the DQE post! This is my favorite of their songs, because it contains many of my favorite topics: graves, handsome boys, ghosts, and wandering alone. This jumpy ditty with vocals by the amazing Grace Braun is a treat for any time of the year.

DQE - Halloween Song

we like the paper cuts

2008-03-08T21:04:00.000-08:00

My life is a busy one, what with debt, having to move, finding a new house, and trying to figure out how to raise money for The Olympia Experimental Music Festival. In the mean time, I spend the majority of my time working. This song concerns my work and it is by the band known as Oggatron from Olympia, Washington.

Oggatron - Making Copies is Easy

Dark Woods Casino Party for February 12th, 2008

2008-02-23T17:59:00.000-08:00

Family Fodder - "English" - Watershed - (Dark Beloved Cloud)
Pussycat - "Je N'ai Pas Pleure"
Reptile Ranch - "Don't Give the Lifeguard a Second Chance" - Messthetics #104 - (Hyped2Death)
Jonzun Crew - "Space is the Place" - Space is the Place 12"
Peter B - untitled - The Sound of Doves in a Cave - (self-released)

Burning Witch - "Stillborn" - Crippled Lucifer - (Southern Lord)
Coil - "Rosa Decidua" - Moon's Milk (In Four Phases)
Southland Ladies Quartette - "My Loved Ones Are Waiting for Me" - Flowers in the Wildwood: Women in Early Country Music - (Trikont)
Baby Dee - "You'll Find Your Footing" - Safe Inside the Day - (Drag City)

Cactus - untitled - Night is Rising on the World - (Resipiscent)
Night Wounds - "Hex Appeal" - Allergic to Heat - (Corleone)
Irr.App. (Ext.) - "Perekluchenue: The Stairway to the Blue Light Subsides"
Jim Copp and Ed Brown - "The Talking House" - Agnes Mouthwash and Friends - (Playhouse)
Appenix Out - "Wild I Lived in Flanders" - The Rye Bears a Poison - (Drag City)

Gino Soccio - "There's a Woman" - http://discolitter.blogspot.com
Atlas Sound - "Quarantined" - Let the Blind Lead those Who Cannot See - (Kranky)

Dark Woods Casino Party for February 5th, 2008

2008-02-05T22:58:00.001-08:00

Quiet Riot - "Cum on Feel the Noize" - 7" - (Pasha)
John Wiese - "Sad Physics" - Soft Punk - (Load)
Jon - "Les Slucettes" - Great Jewish Music: Serge Gainsbourg - (Tzadik)
Sferic Experiment - "Too Many People" - Eight Miles - (Drunken Fish)
Kendra Smith/David Roback / Keith Mitchell - "Fell from the Sun" - untiled - (Serpant)
Mary Scatpoo - "Ooooooo" - Yodel!

Vertonen - "The Last Great Circus of Desperate Heritage" - The Ocean is Gone, the Ship is Next - (Ground Fault)
Arrigo Barnabe - "Clara Crocodilo"
John Phillips - "Holland Tunnel" - John, The Wolf King of L.A - (Dunhill)
Alberto Camerini - "Telex"
Night Wounds - "Ex Best Friend" - Allergic to Heat - (Corleone)

Carlos Giffoni - "No More Air" - Arrogance - (No Fun Productions)
Julie Driscoll - "I Know You Love Me Not" - Dreambabes Volume ?? - (RPM)
Radio Ghosts - "My Room" - Messthetics #105 - (Hyped2Death)
Land of the Loops - "Rotate" - 7" - (Up)

Billy Childish - "Wounded Knee" - Native American Sample - A History - (Sub Pop)
Sonny Harris and the Soul Reflections - "The Vibration" - Shing a Ling Ain't the Thing (a compilation by Mr. Fine Wine)
Vashti Bunyan - "I Want to Be Alone" - Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind - (DiCristina)
The Receptionists - "Wink Wink" - Keep Your Secrets EP - (Harriet)
This Mortal Coil - "Kangaroo" - It'll End in Tears
Sunroof! - "Etoile Sauvage" - Panzer Division Lou Reed - (VHF)

Dark Woods Casino Party for January 29th, 2008

2008-02-01T12:38:00.000-08:00

Burl Ives - "Mairzy Doats" - Chim Chim Cheree - (Disneyland)
Ludicra - "In Fever" - Fex Urbis Lex Orbis - (Alternative Tentacles)
Lydia Lunch - "Emerald Pale Has Disappeared" - Drowning/In Limbo - (Atavistic)
Mono Pause - "Sadchatri 06" - Post-Asiatic Lost War Dream Music - (Urckarm)
Visitors - "Moth" - Messthetics #105 - (Hyped2Death)

Baby Dee - "Safe Inside the Day" - Safe Inside the Day - (Drag City)
Michael Yonkers - "162" - Grimwood - (De Stijl)
Acre - "Moth" - Candyflipping
Midmight - untitled - Almost Clear - (Resipiscent)

Neil Hamburger - "Kenny Rogers" - Left for Dead in Malaysia - (Drag City)
MC Hellshit and DJ Carhouse - "Deadskywalker" - Live!!! - (Japan Overseas)
Hector - "Wired Up" - Boobs: Junkshop Glam Discotechque - (RPM)
James Knight and the Butlers - "There Goes My Baby" - Eccentric Soul: The Outskirts of Deep City
Ponies in the Surf - "Little Boy Lost"
Trisha - "The Darkness of My Night" - Dreambabes Volume 5: Folk Rock and Faithfull - (RPM)
Eddie Holman - "Hey There Lonely Girl"
France Gall - "Cet Air La" - Baby Bop
Anna King - "If You Don't Think" - Back to Soul

Ghosting - "In Wonderful Correspondence - The 2nd Marriage Records Comp - (Marriage)
Valerie Dore - "The Night (Original Mix)"
Sir Richard Bishop - "Hecate's Dream" - Polytheistic Fragments - (Drag City)
Arachnid Arcade - "Erotic Man O'War" - self-titled - (Curor)

Dark Woods Casino Party for January 15th 2008

2008-01-17T20:21:00.000-08:00

Sparks - "I Want to Hold Your Hand" - Indiscreet
Rod McKuen - "Kaleidscope" - Greatest Hits
Roxy Music - "In Every Dream Home a Heartache" - For Your Pleasure

Baby Dee - "Flowers on the Tracks" - Safe Inside the Day - (Drag City)
Valet - "Five" - The 2nd Marriage Records Compilation - (Marriage)
Scout Niblett - "Let Thine Heart Be Warned" - This Fool Can Die Now - (Beggars Banquet)
Brian Harnetty - "Soon We'll Reach the Starry Sky" - American Winter - (Atavistic)
Metalux and John Wiese - "Untitled" - Exoteric - (Load)
Arpanet - "Zero Volume" - Inertial Frame - (Record Makers)

Ryuichi Sakamoto - "Riot in Lagos" - Mantronix: That's My Beat - (Soul Jazz)
Jonzun Crew - "Pack Jam" - Terry's Musical Life/Pack Jam 12"
Fancy - "Slice Me Nice"
Solvent - "Operating Ease" - Apples and Synthesizers
Starcluster - "Smoke and Mirrors" - from numerous blogs

Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell - "You Ain't Livin till You're Lovin" - Best Of - (Universal)
Goodies - "Sophisticated Boom Boom"
Omar Souleyman - "Leh Jani" - Highway to Hassake: Folk and Pop Sounds of Syria - (Sublime Frequencies)
Sam Baker - "Do Right Man" - Florida Funk: Funk 45s from the Alligator State
Karen Dalton - "Katie Cruel" - In My Own Time - (Light in the Attic)
Lavern Baker - "Bumble Bee" - The Girl's Got Soul - (Kent)

Carpenters - "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft"

Dark Woods Casino Party for January 1st 2008

2008-01-11T23:20:00.000-08:00

Welcome my friends to my world of wonders! Behold the future:

Head and Leg - "The Hits Keep Comin'"
Von Sudenfed - "Family Feud" - Tromatic Reflexxions - (Domino)
Felix Kubin and Coolhaven - "Weil Du Mich Liebtest" - Suppe fur die Nacht
Ludus - "Breaking the Rules" - GRLZ: Women Ahead of their Time - *(Crippled Dick Hot Wax)
Fe-Mail with Lasse Marhaug - "Charmed" - All Men are Pigs

The New Flesh - "Wherever We Go" - Well Deep: 10 Years of Big Dada Recordings - (Big Dada)
Fiery Furnaces - "I'm in No Mood" - Bitter Tea - (Fat Possum)
D.D Sound - "Burning Love"
Scissor Girls - "Towers" - Here is the Is-Not - (Atavistic)
Celtic Frost - "Dawn of Meggido" - To Mega Therion
Critical Monkey - "Nine 18" - Failure of an Intelligent Design - (Resipiscent)

Scott Walker - "My Death" - Scott
Erik Satie - "Fantaisie-Valse" - Volume One: Le Gymnopediese 1884 - 1890
Jan Jelinek - "Planetenin Halbtrauer" - Kosmischer Pitch
Group Doueh - "Cheyla Ya Haiuune" - Guitar Music from the Western Sarah

Cline/Giffoni/Licht/Renaldo - "Nothing Makes Any Sense" - Nothing Makes Any Sense - (No Fun)
Prurient and Kevin Drumm - "Comes Another Brood" - All Are Guests in the House of the Lord
Nervous Gender - "Miscarriage" - Live at Target
Na - "Nais song"