Friday, October 21, 2005  7:27 am 

Disco 20JFG Do Ladyfest busy friday!

Three part post today cos there was nought yesterday…

To begin the first instalment of what might become a little series in which we pick tracks we like from good dj mixes and post ‘em in their original version. Who’d thought it?? we’re so inteligint!

Anyway…

When I think disco it’s always Carlito’s Way by Brian dePalma. There’s two main characters in the movie, Al Pacino and Sean Penn, stereotipically representing both faces of disco, on one side the funkier percussive stuff, on the other, the flamboyant stringey cheesier things.

Chic or Bee Gees?

This is probably too dualistic, my vision of Disco is necessarily impaired as I’m not that much of a disco-stu expert myself.

Anyway, as I was saying, there’s Al Pacino and there’s Sean Penn, I’m more of an Al Pacino kinda guy but you’ve got to acknowledge that Sean Penn rules too, come on, man, that afro, those flares, it’s fun! high coke-addled drama! That’s what the original Magic Bird of Fire epic by the mighty Salsoul Orchestra was about, a glamorous storm of glitter covering some seriously funky bones, in the mix we are posting today Walt Gibbons crops down the hairdo and brings the wild-eyed latino Pacino out, the track is stripped down to the bare essentials, what’s left is a bass percussion oddissey in which the rest of the instrumentation, strings, horns and piano, take you subtly but irresistibly in a carousel of mute pleasure like John Legizamo and Mira Sorvino getting jiggy with it in Summer of Sam.

Guess you need both Pacino and Penn for such an ace movie.

Salsoul Orchestra- Magic Bird of Fire (Walt Gibbons edit)

I first listened to this track in the cracking RVNG session by Crazy Rythms, where it is mixed into Kiss Me Again by Dinosaur to define the sonic equivalent of ecstatic joy. YAAY!

How nice is the flyer Tina made us?

2nd part- some instructions about where to go tonight if you’re lucky or unlucky enough to be in Brighton, or something…it’s 20 Jazz Funk Greats at the Penthouse, free entry, 7.30ish til 11, all the fun of this blog plus our radio-controlled robots pretending they’re us and getting drunk on two squid pints all night, yess. Robo-1 and Robo-Stu will be joined by one James Tranmer aka James Sticks or James who messes around, who will be delighting everyone in the place with his selection of whatever the fuck he wants to bring, here’s some tunes and words he wrote…

Thank god for crappy myspace bands!…..

Anal Gore Terror are from Philadelphia, and proclaim themselves the gods of porno-noise. the vocalist ‘assgoblin’ uses his bottom to great effect. His voice is not as thrash metal as you’d think.

It’s kind of a refreshing stink in todays seemingly lo-fi but hi-production/highly referential/self-conscious values type situation.

All their stuff is free to download, and I think someones putting a record out by them. just goes to show you don’t have to create the latest hot shit to get a record deal!

Anal Gore Terror- The Revenge

Here’s another pillar of shining goodness, the Montees from Ohio. encapsulating the charm of their garage predecessors, this band have that rare, magic alchemical talent of not playing ‘well’ but transmitting an undeniable care-free enthusiasm and gusto for what they do.

The Montees- Oi for Chemi

Watch out for these fine fellows on the upcoming Hi-Class compilation.

Appearances also from:

The Tassles(hopefully), Mad Headed Octogon, Sonny Tufts, The Mark, Bogen Erase, Vitamin b12, Jumping Bananas, The Wrists, The Koronas, Clunes………….and more

Looking forward to 20JFg tonight them after which Robo1 and Robos2 will, totally shortcircuited run to the Core Club, here starts the third part of the post eh!

Stina Nordenstam - Parliament Square (The Knife Remix)

Stina Nordenstam made an atmospheric lo-fi piano guitar and saxophone song with her cracked china vocals drawing the entire piece together. She was helped by by Pluxus so obviously its amazing yeh?

The Knife take Stina’s beautiful vocal and inconceivably fuck it up. It’s like the major part of the song (apart from the wonderfully cafe jazz sax solo) and they just destroy it the mad rabbits. I thought this was a different person singing! Hey it might be, but a tiny mouse tells me it’s pitched down to a harmony with the original faded in the background like a little murmur. (edit - melody nelson says in comments olof redid the vocal?)

Parliament Square is turned into a funeral march tale of a rainy day in London poor Stina feeling so small and hallucinating so much she really needs a drink, but hey isn’t that what everyone feels in London? The added orchestration brings an understated yet epic feel to the remix drawing out tension, sadness and some cold whispers. God girl you need to get out of that place, move to Brighton, come live by the sea it’s much nicer!

This is an audio spamvert for that nice lady whose voice you can hear on Take My Breath Away by The Knife- Jenny Wilson. (its The Knife link you see!)

Jenny Wilson is playing live, by the sea in the very own club night we’re part of - The Do Club in asociation with Ladyfest. Its the first time she has performed songs from here album live in England and she is bringing her sister Sara with her, so be nice.

The Do Club
at the core club
12-15 King’s Road
Brighton
BN1 1NE

Live -

Yuchi
The Corey O’s
Dragula
Jenny Wilson
Partyline(ex Bratmobile)

8-2am all for £5/6 quid!

Remember, this is a fundraiser for the following charities:

Brighton Women’s Refuge
Truth About Rape
RAWA (Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan)
Threshold (Women’s Mental Health Initiative).

Have a great night and help a good cause, as we like to say in 20JFG, it’s a win-win situation.

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