Experiment #6: Anima Mundi: World Psychedelic Remixes

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Sources

Sensacional Soul Vol. 1:

1. Melenas Club- Frank Miller & Hispania Soul
2. Vagando en las Tinieblas- El Fin
3. It's My Thing- The Presidents

Sensacional Soul Vol. 2:

1. Sintonia en Soul- Jae's Soul
2. Perdoname- Las 4 Monedas
3. El Saltamontes- Los Roberts
4. Las Bellas Illusiones- Conjunto Brillant's
5. La Maquina Infernal- Lone Star

Pop Yeh Yeh: Psychedelic Rock from Singapore & Malaysia, 1964-1970:

1. Budi Bahasa- Adnan Othman & the Rhythm Boys
2. Bertemasha- Zaleha Hamid & Orkes Zindegi
3. Bersiar Siar- Fabians Boys ft. Halipar
4. Bintang Pujaan- Hasnah Haron & The Spiritual 70s

African Scream Contest: Raw & Psychedelic Afro Sounds: 

1. It's a Vanity- Gabo Brown & Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo
2. Ye Nan Lon An- Orchestre Super Jheevs des Paillotes
3. Djanfa Magni- Tidiani Kone & Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo
4. Mi Kple Dogbekpo- Les Volcans De la Capital

Psych Funk Sa-Re-Ga! Seminar: Aesthetic Expressions of Psychedelic Funk Music in India, 1970-1983:

1. Freak Out Music- R.D. Burman
2. Dance Music from Hare Rama Hare Krishna- R.D. Burman
3. Lekar Ham Diwana Dil- R.D. Burman ft. Asha Bosle & Kishore Kumar
4. Dum Mario Dum Live- Asha Bosle w. R.D. Burman
5. Bairaag Dance Music- Kalyanji Anandji
6. Tera Jasia Pyara Koi Nahun- Usha Khanna
7. Hum Tumhe Chate Hain- Kalyanji Anandji
8. Hotel Incident Music- Usha Khanna
9. Dharmatma Theme Music- Kalyanji Anandji
10. Everybody Dance with Me- Bappi Lahari
11. Sitar Beat- Klaus Doldinger
12. Somebody to Love- Kalyanji Anandji
13. Aaj Mera Dil- R.D. Burman ft. Asha Bosle
14. Meri Aakhon Mein Ek Sapna Hai- Sapan Jafmohan ft. Mohd. Rafi & Pankaj Mittra


Nigeria Disco Funk Special: Sounds of the Undergroung Lagos Dancefloor, 1974-1979:

1. Lagos City- Asiko

The Sound of Siam: Leftfield Luk Thug, Jazz & Molam in Thailand, 1964-1975:

1. Mae Jom Ka Lon- Dao Bandon
2. Lam Toey Chaweewan- Chaweewan Dumnern
3. Mae Kha Som Tam- Onuma Singsiri
4. Sao Ban Pok Pab- Panom Nopporn
5. Fai Yen- Ream Daranoi
6. Soul Lam Plearn- Chaweewan Dumnern
7. Nom Samai Mai- Saknatee Sirichiangmai
8. Uay Porn Tahan Chaydan- Sodsri Rungsang
9. Isan Klab Tin- Noknoi Uraiporn

Nigeria 70: The Definitive Story of 1970s Funky Lagos:

1. Dancing Time- The Funkees
2. La La La- Sgun Bucknor & His Revolution
3. No Discrimination- Tony Allen & His African Messingers
4. Ifa- Tunji Oyelana & The Benders
5. Kita Kita- Gaspar Lawal

The Sound of Wonder! Rare Electronic Pop from the Lollywood Vaults, 1973-1980:

1. Karye Pyar- Tafo ft. Nahid Akhtar
2. Dilbar Dilbara- M. Ashraf ft. Nahid Akhtar
3. Mera Mehbob Hai- M. Ashraf ft. Nahid Akhtar
4. Dama Dam Mast Qalandar- M. Ashraf ft. Ahmed Rushdi

The Rough Guide to Psychedelic Bollywood:

1. Hare Rama Hare Krishna- Asha Bosle & Usha Iyler
2. Pyar Zindagi Hai- Asha Bosle, Lata Mangeshkar & Mahendra Kapoor
3. Title Music- R.D. Burman

The Rough Guide to Psychedelic Africa:

1. Kadia Blues- Orchestra de la Paillote
2. Obialu Be Onye Abiagbunia Okwukwe- Celestine Ukwu
3. Nijaay- Orchestra Baobab
4. Guitar Boy- Voctor Uwaifo
5. Fadakudu- Balla et Ses Balladinds

Love, Peace, and Poetry: Asian Psychedelic Music:

1. Gonul Sabreyle Sabreyle- 3-Hur-El

Love, Peace, and Poetry Vol. 6: Brazilian:

1. I Need You- O Terco
2. Let's Go- Sound Factory

Love, Peace, and Poetry Vol. 9: Turkish:

1. Sur Efen Atini- Turkuz Turku Cagiririz & Mazhar Ve Fuat

Forge Your Own Chains: Heavy Psychedelic Ballads & Dirges, 1968-1974:

1. Nina Nana- Ana Y Jaime

Back to Peru:

1. Tercera Piedra en el Sol- Los Juniors
2. Los Extranos- Pina Y Sus Estrellas
3. Who'll Stop the Rain- Los Datsuns
4. Ston- Texao
5. Tema De Los Golden Stars- Golden Stars
6. Pasos en la Luna- Los Mutables

World Psychedelic Classics Vol. 3: Love is a Real Thing:

1. Minsato Le, Mi Dayihome- Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo
2. Awon-Ojise-Oluwa- Gaspar Lawal

Other:

1. Spellbinder- Gabo Szabor (Spellbinder)
2. Gimmie Some- Freddie McCoy (Gimmie Some)
3. Homin Si Tche- Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo (Vol. 4)
4. Aiha Ni Kpe We- Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo (Vol. 4)

Experiment #5: Kali Yuga

THE KALI YUGA STILL has 200,000 or so years to play--good news for advocates & avatars of CHAOS, bad news for Brahmins, Yahwists, bureaucrat-gods & their runningdogs.- Hakim Bey, TAZ

Hindu philosophy sees history as a cycle of four ages or yugas, beginning with a golden age, the Satya Yuga. The process is one of decline, away from the gods, away from virtue. Even lifespans shorten, from an incredible 100,000 years down to 20. Each age is represented by the demon Kali (not to be confused with the goddess of similar name) cutting off one of the legs of the sacred cow. The final age is Kali Yuga, the demonic age of vice, in which there is one-quarter virtue and three-quarters sin.*

How appropriate, then, to characterize the contemporary age in the minds of the right-wing conspiracy theorists who are featured in this piece. The rants range from psuedo-scholarly predictions that there will be a full communist takeover of America by the 1970s (a Bircher-type conspiracy theory put out in 1973 by something called "Fact Records"), to the full blown schizophrenic ravings against the Communist Gangster Computer God by the notorious Francis E. Dec. Also included is the infamous evangelical interpretation of backwards recordings of Led Zeppelin and the Satanic/Nazi imagery of KISS (a version of this is also on the new Mogwai album, Rave Tapes). The soundtrack to all this decadence is provided by the seminal drone-metal album Earth 2.

The language on this recording is often offensive, always absurd.

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* According to most interpretations, the Kali Yuga began in the bronze age and still continues, and since whole civilizations have risen and fallen in that time, the Hindu cosmic-cycle schema is actually totally inapplicable to contemporary politics, except as a metaphor.  

Stanley Kubrick's Diaries

The other day I watched 2001: A Space Odyssey for the first time in years. This, more than any other film, opened my eyes and my mind to the possibilities of the medium. I've often cited it as my favorite movie, but I've only seen it a handful of times. At any rate, I've gotten back into Kubrick in a big way. In fact, last week I had a dream that Kubrick was driving me in a truck at high speed down a highway at night and demanding that I play all of my cassettes. Then I decided to make this little tribute video using the song "Stanley Kubrick's Diaries" by the German postpunk band Janitors of Lunacy.

Experiment #4: Harp of a Million Strings

It's amazing what a little echo can do. A long delay  with a slow decay factor turned a beautiful "sacred harp" song ("The Last Words of Copernicus" from Southern Journey Vol. 9: Harp of 1000 Strings) into an ambient wave of sound that hardly sounds like human voices.

Experiment #3: Can It Be?

Now here's an easy and fun little trick: take any 60's garage rock song, speed it up, and enjoy some kick-ass garage punk. This particular number, "Can It Be" by the Savoys (from Back From the Grave Vol. 3) also sounded great with some echo as well. First you'll hear the original, then the sped up punk version, then a more extreme version with an almost industrial sound. The tempo is about the same as the second version, but I increased the speed as well, which raised the pitch, and used more echo.

Experiment #2: Splint

I sped up Slint's (hence "splint") "Nosferatu Man" (listen to the original here) about 15% and added more bass. Not a radical change by any means, but now it's totally metal! Enjoy.

Experiment #1: Wallace Stevens + Can

In the mood for a highbrow mashup? Well, I've been fooling around with editing music lately, and I thought I'd share some of the more interesting results.  Here's a Wallace Stevens poem, "Tattoo," with an excerpt from Can's "Dead Pigeon Suite" (variation on "Vitamin C," from Ege Bamyasi). Interestingly, there's a song from Can's The Lost Tapes called "Evening All Day." Is this a reference to the line "It was evening all afternoon," from Stevens' great poem "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird?" Perhaps not, but I'm pleased by the coincidence.