Ba-da-bang

Another Yoshimi P-We project, another joyous pirouette at the palace of unreal spires and complex mechanical toys where your 20jazzfunkgreats spend their days, sometimes delighted, sometimes curmudgeonly. Definitely the former this time, OLAibi’s Tingaruda is all about the drum, Taiko & Jingo & Batucada & Motorik, a continuous, hypnotic chain of percussion advancing linear or spreading sideways dizzyingly, a pumped out 100Lb gorilla crashing through the crystal exhibits of the avant garde composition museum as goaded by a mischievous squad of Japanese schoolchildren, think the Chris Cunningham video for Come on My Selector as re imagined by Dan Deacon and YMO, the outcome is completely exhilarating as everything to ever come from the zone of total amaze where Boredoms and their offshoots trash wild like a multi-dimensional colossus of hex fire and fractal shadows.

Olaibi- Eisa

Now take a breath for a second before listening to one of the coolest things ever. If you are a fan of Omar Khorshid & His Magic Guitar, then you will be like, ‘aw, about time you guys got clued up to this utterly genius piece of 1970s Egyptian progressive surf music’. If you aren’t, give blessed Omar six and a half minutes and then you should have become a fan, as if a powerful and benevolent djinn had put a spell on you.

Because if, after a guitar intro of absolutely epic, mind boggling proportions, like standing in front of the eternal desert with a falcon sitting on your shoulder as the sun comes out over creation and its little creatures, the ensuing killer breakbeat and the breakdown with gut-wrenching spiralling psychedelic guitars to rival Zelda herself, feast of baroque synthesisers and weird electronic effects, and that’s only half of the song, if after all of this, you aren’t a fan, well, then I guess we are not meant to be friends.

This music is so beautiful it makes me want to cry. Join the party.

Omar Khorshid and his Magic Guitar- Raqsed el Fada

The rest of ‘Rhythms from the Orient‘ is as good as this.

And let us finish this, you will have to admit, rather fine day, on a totally different but similarly uplifting and excellent vibe. The Anorak people have just come out with their third volume of edits and it’s a total killer, a muscular affair of black basslines and bone-shattering rhythms, progressive song structures that don’t get in the way of a good shuffle, just fuck things up a little bit to make them even more exciting, a hint of stoney funk rock of the bestest kind, fist and feather in the air for one of those parties to utterly remember. I could have posted any of the tunes therein contained, the sinful metronome of Afro Disco or Green’s streetwise boogie, but I am going to leave you with All in the Family’s joyous lover’s rock and definitive end of the night jam . If you want the rest, get the record because it’s a definitive keeper.

Anorak edits – All in the Family

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Our most favourite online radio station, KDVS Freeform Radio based in Davis, California, host of the most excellent Art for Spastics show are having their fundraiser week this week. You have to remember that this is a radio station run by volunteers whose operating costs are mostly covered by these donations. They are all about spreading the love and the weirdness, and in that way we feel absolutely aligned to their efforts. We are giving some money to put our wallets where our mouths are, and so should you.

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This Saturday be sure to make your down to the Black Lotus Karate Club for R.I.P Roger / Larry Troutman, a Real Gold arranged tribute to the tragic figures behind Zapp! We don’t need to tell you this is gonna be amazing. Just take a look at the line up.