Columbus discovered Japanese Death Jazz

Okay, I think I've smoothed things out with Mr. Dracula - it's my fault though really for being a lazy (but in my defence, also busy) poster. Still, I feel kind of bad for taking so long to get the YSI thing sorted out and the piece of junk computer I've got back in the Batcave kept crashing, 'sti.

The tune for the day is 'Sabotage' by Soil & Pimp Sessions. It's from their second full-length album which, on the spine of the CD self-identifies as "Death Jazz".
BBC 1's Gilles Peterson claims to have discovered these guys on the club scene in Japan - that kind of statement always rings like Christopher Columbus discovering North America. It's not like the Native people weren't already eating yams and maize and dancing to some tight, loud funk before he sailed the ocean blue, right? I don't know, maybe he did discover them. I sure didn't. Not until I climbed through the convoluted maze of Japanese commercial record-buying and magically found myself in a loud store run by very quiet punks.

Would you check out that cover? I was buying it for the cover alone! I have no idea what that animal is but it seems to be their mascot, it's on all the B-sides and EPs and seems appropriate once you hear the music. This serene, mythical beast will be the one in the corner of the chill-out lounge holding your drink and waiting for you to finish dancing. And dance you will. I get my arms all tangled up in my cape whenever this comes on from dancing so hard.

>>> Soil_and_pimp_sessions_Sabotage.mp3

Put that in your ear and smoke it.

I have no idea what'll be next but I do promise to try to make it sooner. F'real. Or, as I just learned Paul Wall is accustomed to saying: trill.

Batman Returns

Well, I have been away.
No excuse, I know. Would it help if I told you I was zigzagging the solar system sussing out hot-ass new sounds to make your ears want to get it on with each other?

No?

It's because I promised that Japanese hotness and failed to deliver, right?

Dammit.

Well, I've still got that stuff. In fact I've got a veritable batload (get it!?!) of sounds that will put your ears in the mood but I've got a little problem. I've been hosting files I've posted on my own Bat-server but y'all vampires have been sucking my monthly Bat-transfer rate dry every month. I either gotta get more space or sort out some You Send It crap like your friend and mine, Dracula, does.

If you've got any clever alternative solutions, do say, Qusay. Maybe put those beautiful ideas into the comments section at the bottom of this here post and then I'll be able to call up those jokers in Toronto who host my Bat-bandwidth and say something all dark and smoky like "Party's over, Jokers."

As an aside, I feel like David Caruso has pretty much taken the air out of any dramatic, huskily whispered good-guy retort. His whole schtick is to "Say things like Batman would say them". It's like crying wolf, David. People stop paying attention. Also, those of us who are kind of the strong silent type and try to save those dark witticisms for les moments justes get burned - so quit it.

So anyway, Dracula was childishly berating me this afternoon about my failure to post (as if I'm not saving Gotham circa every minute!) and when I promised him I'd post tonight he was all "No, don't post tonight, you'll pave over my recent crap." So, I'm posting, but not linking tonight. If none of you nice people out there in Gotham have any clever ideas about where/how to host these precious nuggets of musical bat-gold, I'll try to sign myself up for some YSI-action so that I can hook up that Soil & Pimp Sessions stuff for you cats.

tardiness and good goodbyes...

so i was late with this one.

life got in the way.

one of the reasons for having 2 or more of us here was to avoid these long spans of time between postings.

batman is sucking at this.

time to shine the light in his eyes instead of up.

anyhow, onto more sounds...

oh, by the way, they're planning on bombing the moon before mars. a bit of a different strategy involved. no copper balls, just the warfare from the "war" read fiasco, in Iraq. Bunker busters is what they plan on using... I wonder if they'll be using the D.U. (depleted uranium) versions they did so casually in the land of babylon.

here's one version of the story, just google bomb moon, and you'll find others.

anyhow, after disaster and devastation,

i suppose we should deal with how to say farewell.

a good goodbye is important, to lovers, to enemies, to friends, one has to know how to part ways for a long or short span of time, or even forever.

i don't know if i was ever really good at goodbyes, sometimes resorting to an ineffective see ya or later or even sometimes a take care. i don't know that these were particularly insightful, but perhaps they were the best option, because no one really wants to deal with a long, drawn out goodbye.

i suppose this could be tied into bands and their encores.

i was at a pink mountaintops show recently, where after a long, marathon-like set, that was really, really good, the crowd didn't really respond with applause enough to merit an encore. even the soundguy seemed taken aback, and tentatively brought in some music, after the awkwardness had gotten unbearable to him.

the band was disappointed, they told a friend of mine, L, after... and hey, i was disappointed too.

but it has now gotten me thinking about how this ties into the idea of a good goodbye. perhaps the crowd had silently decided it had had enough with long drawn out goodbyes, where we clamour for one last visit, one more hit, one more song, one more chance, one more time...

and the band seemed to want this, the long version.

some bands have given up on this...deeming it pretentious. some have even gone so far as to mock it somewhat.

the band ok go could fall into this latter category. their encore has become somewhat legendary.

i must admit to having thoroughly enjoyed it.

you can view it here

that's it, that's all they do, to that prerecorded soundtrack.

good goodbyes, (segway alert!!!) well, that happens to be the name of a band made up of members of the shins, amongst others, and their 4 song e.p. has been getting some heavy rotation here lately.

i chose to post one of the tracks from this e.p, track four to be exact.

the band is the good goodbyes, the track is sure and steady towards the coast and it talks about the money fever, amongst other things...

buy it exclusively, here.

>>>good_goodbyes-sure_and_steady_towards_the_coast.mp3

i didn't post the instrumental track number 2, good_goodbyes-fantastic_caverns_(part_2) though i really would have liked to. (heh.)

ah, the money-fever...

i was going to email these YSI links to my friend M, and my other friend, L, as i told her about the band too! but i suspect that i'll probably just send them here as per our firstly posted raison d'être.

so...

yeah we're on hiatus.

sorry.

we suck.

and are wholly unprofessional.

a new post in the next few days, and then.....

it'll be on good goodbyes, though.