* Hear a podcast of Jean-Jacques Perrey and Dana Countryman’s new CD “Destination Space” and a nice skype conference of them talking about the album.

* WFMU presented Switched-on Basic Hip a 28 track compilation of retrofuturistic moog music, Gil Trythall, Mort Garson, Christopher Scott, Dick Hyman, Enoch Light and more.

Kevin Blechdom singing Alabama Jubilee

* Austria’s They Shoot Music Don’t They is a one of a kind videoblog, which takes indie artists around Vienna and shoots videos of their acoustic performances. Artists include our fave maniac Kevvy B, Xiu Xiu & Tortoise, Turner Cody, Bishop Allen and lots more. Great blog

* Retro disco goldies on Donnaslut. Don’t miss!!. Dom om Romao - Amor en Jacuma

* Last.fm’s crowdsourced best of 2008 list, the music sucks as expected from the masses but the presentation is pretty good.

* Gorilla vs Bear’s songs of 2008. ]]> http://www.undomondo.com/2008/12/around-the-net-1012/feed/ http://www.undomondo.com/2008/12/anapop-vol-2-osman-ismen-orkestrasi/ http://www.undomondo.com/2008/12/anapop-vol-2-osman-ismen-orkestrasi/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:09:57 +0000 mersenne http://www.undomondo.com/?p=1409 Wednesday. The debut concert with Derdiyoklar was extremely well received and I hope/think it will be no less for Osman İşmen and his Orchestra. He's an acclaimed composer of old Turkish movie soundtracks and has also been an arranger for better known Turkish music personalities.]]> Well, the second Anatolian Pop Night in Istanbul is about to take place on Wednesday. The debut concert with Derdiyoklar was extremely well received and I hope/think it will be no less for Osman İşmen and his Orchestra. He’s an acclaimed composer of old Turkish movie soundtracks and has also been an arranger for better known personalities like Zeki Müren, Bülent Ersoy, Nükhet Duru, Sezen Aksu, Nilüfer and even İbrahim Tatlıses. In the late 70’s he’s composed 4 albums of discofied Turkish songs and later on drifted into more jazzy ways with his “Eastern Jazz” albums. If you wanna tune into the Anatolian Pop revivalism, make sure you wear your fez and catch him at Babylon.

Unlike other Turkish psychedelic stars of the time, Derdiyoklar made their name first and actually only among the “gastarbeiter” Turks in Germany. They played weddings and parties almost exclusively of Turkish workers and rural population; clung tightly to their Turkish roots, in the face of cultural shock and obvious social problems. Their lyrics converged around socio-political and cultural topics of the era.

Ali Ekber Aydoğan, the brains of the operation, was (and he still is) a progressive, so he forged these Turkish topics and traditional music with new forms that he was hearing in Europe at the time, creating a new musical genre named Diskofolk. This authentic fusion of Turkish immigrant culture in Germany, which for a long time has been dubbed banal by both Germans and Turks in the motherland, is a unique gem which deserves more publicity now. This gig will be the inauguration of an Anatolian Pop concert series, so stay tuned, if you are interested.

BTW, Derdiyoklar means something like “The Noproblems” which of course is quite the opposite of their lyrical content.

* XLR8R presents a mix from Portland’s Marriage Records, home to favourites The Watery Graves of Portland and Valet, …worms, Lucky Dragons, Karl Blau among others.

* Cosmic Dancing with Daniel Donnachie.

* Madlib’s WLIB AM on the air live with J.Rocc on the Stones Throw podcast.

* Vol 5 of the We Make it Good series by The Gaslamp Killer, a true gemfinder with lots of psychedelia, beats, noise, soul and hiphop under his belt. Fader Magazine.

* Jacques Renault Guest Mix on Cosmic Disco.

I’ll be leaving for Vienna in a few hours and I’ll be absent during the week, but as always I’ve packed a few punches before leaving. After some years you get burnt by blogging and writing reviews - which I never thought was my forte anyways - keeping an eye on undomondo was becoming a burden. I’m sure most of the readers don’t read reviews anyways now that there are a lot of music resources to keep up with. I know because I’m one of them as well. So instead of writing reviews a few times a week, I’ve made a new category called quickies, where I’ll be slapping a video and a song together with artist infos and pointers to reviews.

Now I feel great! and that’s the story of how I wrote about 10 quickies in a few hours.

Ok, my last review for the time being is for our close friend Baris K. who took the dance scene by storm with his Eurasia mixes. The Eurasia sound focuses on forgotten Turkish classics of soul, funk, disco and Anatolian rock from the 70s. This authentic blend of Anatolia has previously been only interesting to progheads but now it’s rejuvenated and ready for the dancefloor. This third mix unearths a whole new bunch of gems mostly reedited by himself. It was first broadcast on Beats in Space last week and it’s appreciated everywhere by vinyldiggers. Must give this a listen folks.

this tuesday we’ve got mixes from Baris K (Istanbul) and Kool DJ Dust (Stockholm) on the show. Baris has done the final mix in his Eurasia trilogy (Part 1 on Alianfinkielkrautrock and Part 2 on Lovefingers) for us. He’s been working on this last part of the trilogy for the past 6 months and it’s definitely worth the wait! It’s all Turkish oldskool psychedelic soul-disco-folk-rock. Look out for vinyl releases of his turkish edits coming soon. Beats in Space

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Clutchy Hopkins – 3rd Element
Oneness of Juju – Follow me
Owusu & Hannibal – Monster
Rhytmagic Orchestra – Afrodesia
Cymande – Willy’s Headache
Vampire Weekend – Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
Emil Richards – Journey to Bliss – Maharimba
La Cumbia Moderna De Soledad - Crees que soy sexy
Outlines – Listen to the Drums
Jamie Lidell – Figured me out
Universal Robot Band – Barely breaking even
Wanda - I must be dreaming
Paul Simon – You can call me Al
Oneness of Juju - Sabi

Undomondo Radio Show #58

It’s been a while I haven’t post any jazz mixes. Here is a new one, with the excitement of going back home to Turkey for summer holiday, after two years. So the vibe is warm and positive. Classic, instrumental, vocal and contemporary jazz; all blended equally. Pleasure is guarantee to a wide audience! Sit back and enjoy this last selection from Australia, while I’ll be enjoying it at Mediterranea in the coming weeks.

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Moodymann - Rectify
Carola & Heikki Sarmanto Trio - Black Is The Colour
Tassel & Naturel - Ballad For Cam
Yusef Lateef - The Plum Blossom
Marino Marini - Guaglione
Nicola Conte - Fuaco Fatuo
Miles Davis - Freddie Freeloader
Matthias Voigt Trio - With A Smile
Shazz - In Your Eyes
Samia Farah - Un Autre Comme Un Jour
Patricia Barber - Summer Samba
The George Shearing Orchestra with Nancy Wilson - The Things We Did Last Summer
John Coltrane - I’m Old Fashioned
Pink Martini - Veronique

Some other mixes :

* Another mix that Cenk digged on Awesome Tapes from Africa, is this some slow West African psychedelia and hypnotic guitars mix with no well-known names, which basically spells more treasure hunting. zshare.

* Sankofa mix; courtesy of Lovefingers, Perlon boss and our friend Zip, Disco Exota’s Zip mixes a terrific slow disco set.

* Got tipped by another friend from down under Tim Shiel on a spaced out mix produced by Tom Smith of Cleptoclectics, blending songs by artists like Tarentel, Alog, The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Lukid as well as their own. Get it here

* Beat Electric Guest Mix on Cosmic Disco (Specialising in Boogie, Rare Disco, Laser Soul and Proto House, wow!). Here’s the Beat Electric blog. 2 more great mixes on Cosmic Disco once again, first one by Stu and the other by Niles which includes rare gems from Spain, Peru, Italy and Australia.

* Soul Nation soul mix on 100 Limousines, downright incredible selection by collector/dealer Dave Withers. Don’t miss!

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* The seminal improv jazz label ICTUS Records led by Andrea Centazzo and Carla Lugli has a page on Last.FM. Here’s an awesome компютри втора употребаfull track playlist featuring artists like Steve Lacy, Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, John Zorn, Anthony Coleman, Henry Kaiser and Toshinori Kondo.

* Earth Monkey is 50 Mix by Clutter for INQ Mag : Earth Monkey’s 50th release is a mix spanning their back catalogue, artists like Cousin Silas, The Cardboard Lung, Radio Scotvoid, Hometaping, St. Bernards School and Halal Kebab Hut are all here, 30 tracks overall.

* An awesome Vialka track fully available for stream on Last.fm

* Oddjob - Aquaparki on Last.fm

* Fader Magazine interviews nudisco sensation Glass Candy

* Rush donates 100K to museum via Sturgell

* Tokafi interviews Autistici and Sawako

* Fact Magazine interviews Appleblim founder of dubstep label Skull Disco.

* Fact Magazine reviews Notwist’s new one and Rich Hanscomb is instantly elevated to cult status with these words:

The Notwist’s main problem is this: they’re boring. They’re boring in the same way that Radiohead are boring. They represent, like the aforementioned coma inducers, Guardianista ‘tastefulness’. They are the acceptable face of left-field indie. The avant-garde rendered palatable to Jools Holland’s demographic. Their music is so pristine and perfect it’s rendered sterile, lifeless, and utterly pointless. The soundtrack to a sixth form college art teacher’s dinner party. I could never imagine any one – apart from maybe that art teacher– actually getting any enjoyment out of this record.

Please, can we face some facts? Mum. Animal Collective. Efterklang. The Notwist. Fuck (right off) Buttons. They’re all boring. They’re all safe. And we should stop pretending they’re anything but mediocre.

also read what Buddyhead says about Casiotone for the Painfully Alone

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