Force Tracks for the summer

I dagarna ligger det väldigt nära till hands att lyssna igenom Force Tracks-katalogen. Techno, som vanligtvis hör natten till, har i den tappning som SCSI-9, Swayzak, MRI, Luomo och Dub Taylor serverar mer att göra med solsken och den urbana semesterns intensiva ljusupplevelser än industriområden och mörka, fuktiga nattklubbar (även fall det ena inte utesluter det andra).

Det här är den perfekta musiken en solig dag när du sitter på vagnen eller går nerför gatan, eller bara sitter rakt upp och ner i parken eller på en uteservering med en kall och kollar på folk; samtidigt oemotståndligt studsig och atmosfäriskt drömsk dansmusik.

Luomo - Body Speaking

MRI - Data Boogie

Scsi-9 - deep&fax

En låt som heter nåt med fax (också HST:s weapon of choice) får två tummar upp. Brytburken har alltid haft ett gott öga till arkaiska kommunikationsmedel - som ex. text-tv-tangentbordet och rörpostsystemet.

Cold Rob: A-Z mix series

Calfornian techno maverick Cold Rob, now living somewhere among the lush hills of São Paulo State, Brazil, sends us this:

I'M STARTING A NEW MIX SERIES A-Z.

HERE'S "A". I HOPE YOU LIKE IT.

PEACE

zSHARE - Cold Rob A.mp3

Starting out tech-house, the set goes into some harder stuff. Dope shit all the way through. Now where's "B"?

Chip music made good

For me personally, chip music rarely goes beyond interesting, but this live set from Quarta330 really delivers, going from an opening west coast vibe through traditional gaming style to bouncy house vibes.

(via Chipflip)

Playboy Tre - Liquor Store Mascot

Listening to this, it's no longer relevant to talk about "southern rap", as if it was a separate entity. This tape, like much other rap from the Southern states, transcends stereotypes and expectations. In a way it reminds me of Jay-Z, both the beats and the raps, except that I'd much rather listen to Playboy Tre. Ultramagnetic to the microphone, he got truckloads of charisma.


Other rap these days:

Max Minelli - Backpack Dreams & Hip Hop Wishes. Another southern over-achiever lays down technical raps over carefully selected slices of classic NY-boom bap. That's a recipe for success.



And these days, when the weather is warm you have to listen to some svenska klassiker:

Ken - Underjorden

Ken - Situation STHLM

The best of Brazilian Reggae

Brytburken is sending good vibrations to the best of Brazilian Reggae... A TROPA!

Jorge Ben is a genius

Jorge Ben - A Banda Do Ze Pretinho

Play this on the high volume. It's time to clean up your head for the new week.





Jorge Ben, one of the great geniuses of Brazilian music.

Saw this guy live in the center of São Paulo together with another 100,000 people. He pumped out his hot buttered samba for some three hours, calling up girls from the crowd to dance around on stage during a climatic medley that ended with a stunning tribute to his protector... São Jorge. The sixty-six year old musician made it well worth missing Afrika Bambaataa, who played at the same time, but on the other side of the city center.

Racionais MC's - Jorge Da Capadócia

"den musik som Nietzsche predikar"

"I slutändan bör det betvivlas om den musik som Nietzsche predikar kan fångas, vare sig i notskrift eller som ljudinspelning. Snarare handlar det kanske om en ett annat sätt att använda musik, att låta musiken genomsyra tillvaron."