Pink Fog
If Ariel Pink was to one day awake from the 1980s dizz-ney landscapes that inhabit his semi comatose mind where the sunbaked California streets lined with friendly faced anthropomorphized apple pie trees are alive with bleached, drooling beach bunnies in black ray-bans and pink scrunchies hitching rides with perma-tanned creeps in white suits driving busted up night rider cars that blast out tinny, warped Fleetwood Mac songs and compete with the sounds of the crazed day-glo freaks dressed up like various McDonalds characters (Grimace the Purple Blob on drumpads) playing Adam Ant covers with pastel keytars that emanate from the boulevard corners, chances are he might sound a little like Golden Birthday who in “Exposure” have crafted a wonky dew eyed, fuzz-synth bliss ballad that would be perfect for playing the penultimate scene in a future-fantasy John Hughes movie where inside an empty auditorium a beautiful robotized Molly Ringwald dances all alone beneath the light show of a rotating mirrorball reflecting off her chromium body in a sea of silver balloons, before running out into the night air to find her beloved for a midnight kiss in the pixelated pink fog.
Recently there’s been a stupid wealth of goodness drifting out of Canada; the slo-mo disco of Tuxedomask, the black lipped Kate Bush, marble floor murder chic of Parallels, and the shamanic gabba rhythms and jagged trance waves rode on by Basketball. Babe Rainbow is another magnificent sea-shell washed up on our shores, except when we put our ears to this shell we don’t hear the serenity of the sea, but the cavernous, bombastic sound of inverted dubstep cave recordings documented beneath an oppressive futuristic mega city that constantly rumbles above with the noise of titanic machines in the midst of a apocalyptic takedown.
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Our heart kin, Salem, have been good enough to stitch together for us a disarming patchwork of haunted juke hall malevolence, cave crunk atmospherics, brain breaking tekno noise, and crackling transmissions from a childhood spent floating down beautiful starlit rivers in the constant glare of hidden monsters. Thank you smoke.
Tracklisting:::
1-PEARL – Pearl’s Dream
2-NEOPHYTE – I will have that power
3-DJ NATE – I’m a Burn
4-DJ NATE – Ghostmix
5-YOUNG CREAM – Angie Juke
6-AiDS 3D – Back Once Again (Forever)
7-THA POPE – Track 41
8-UNKNOWN – Track 20 Chicago Juke
9-NEOPHYTE – Catastrophe
10-THREAT MISSES – Juke that Girl
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Lastly Dummy Magazine recently asked XXJFG’s gum chewing, back of the bus sista blog So Bones to make them a mix which is now available for all those who may wish to hear Britney Spears vomit and chant over a black-funk forest floor of twitching stripper limbs alongside various other goldplated fidget funk robo-workouts. CLICK HERE and N-joy.
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Thursday, June 11, 2009 1:21 pmSimonACarr
[...] SALEM – Mixtape (mp3) (via 20JazzFunkGreats) [...]
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NEOPHYTE – I will have that power
4life
Reminding me that I used to love Dr. Who before the new one ruined it.
Thursday, June 11, 2009 1:58 pmdann
Thank you so much, I’ve been looking for that Juke ya boy/juke ya girl song for so long. Its like the stanky leg for chicago .
Thursday, June 11, 2009 6:33 pmya boi
GOLDEN BIRTHDAY are AMAZING!! I saw them play in Baltimore with Matmos. It’s like a dreamsicle on a hot summer day.
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Friday, June 12, 2009 4:08 amJeremy
instant boner. love me some roar & beat
Friday, June 12, 2009 2:32 pmdat boy right there
[...] reminded of something I told my sister: I like music that makes me feel a little crazy. Thus, via 20JFG, a Salem [...]
Sunday, June 14, 2009 12:31 amndanger.organism :: blog :: Crazy with a side of bass
[...] Salem, who readers of HSB will recognize as one of my favorite new acts out there right now, released a new mixtape last week curated especially for weirdo-shit-you’ll-still-like blog juggernaut 20 Jazz Funk Greats. [...]
Monday, June 15, 2009 12:04 amHate Something Beautiful » New Mixtape From Salem
[...] check this insane and dizzying juke/crunk/goth/??? mix that SALEM recently put together for 20 Jazzfunkgreats [tracklist [...]
Monday, June 22, 2009 4:59 pmbesidethebend.com » Blog Archive » lessins
[...] Cameron Reed — aka Babe Rainbow — creates haunted, murky, “inverted dubstep cave recordings” that evoke similar feelings of paranoia/anxiety as SALEM’s darkest and most desolate [...]
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 12:55 amMusic News, IOmusic.net » babe rainbow
[...] BoxVancouver’s Cameron Reed — aka Babe Rainbow — creates haunted, murky, “inverted dubstep cave recordings” that evoke similar feelings of paranoia/anxiety as SALEM’s darkest and most desolate [...]
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 1:43 amBabe Rainbow-Cameron Reed | musicu.be - featured blog posts. updated daily.
[...] song was stored in my subconscious since i heard it on the salem mix that made the rounds a few months ago. finally, after 48 hours of racking my brain and my music [...]
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 4:55 amavissart » young cream – angle juke
[...] of dj nate’s tracks were featured in salem’s great xxjfg mix i posted about previously. download one of them [...]
Saturday, August 29, 2009 1:02 pmavissart » dj nate
[...] Hunter (1955). The song sung by the little girl Pearl is sampled on Salem’s great mixtape for 20jazzfunkgreats. This entry was written by Jeff Kinkle, posted on October 2, 2009 at 12:36 pm, filed under Film, [...]
Friday, October 2, 2009 5:37 pmDossier Journal » The Night of the Hunter River Scene
[...] check this insane and dizzying juke/crunk/goth/??? mix that SALEM recently put together for 20 Jazzfunkgreats [tracklist [...]
Thursday, June 17, 2010 11:51 amlessins « Gorilla vs Bear
[...] Cameron Reed — aka Babe Rainbow — creates haunted, murky, “inverted dubstep cave recordings” that evoke similar feelings of paranoia/anxiety as SALEM’s darkest and most desolate [...]
Thursday, June 17, 2010 11:52 ambabe rainbow « Gorilla vs Bear
[...] that is invariably described as resembling cough-syrup highs/lows. they’ve made a couple mixtapes, remixed a few gucci mane songs, and released a couple eps. salem has a record dropping in [...]
Thursday, June 24, 2010 11:19 pmsalem – king night « Last Night's Mixtape
[...] check this insane and dizzying juke/crunk/goth/??? mix that SALEM recently put together for 20 Jazzfunkgreats [tracklist [...]
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 7:57 amlessins | GORILLA VS. BEAR
[...] first heard DJ Nate in that legendary mixtape which SALEM put together for us a long time ago- tip of an obsidian Juke iceberg disjointing chi-hips with epileptic [...]
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 12:06 am20jazzfunkgreats » Beauty in mutation mp3 blog fanzine from brighton uk
[...] that is invariably described as resembling cough-syrup highs/lows. they’ve made a couple mixtapes, remixed a few gucci mane songs, and released a couple eps. salem has a record dropping in [...]
Monday, July 19, 2010 5:57 amsalem – king night at Last Night's Mixtape