In private email and on a pretty daily basis, I get chatted up about the playlists that we used at Boomtown, since most of the music is unfamiliar to most Jacksonville audiences and certainly doesnt get much play on radio here.
I thought I would start a thread about new music (both actually new, or new to me, or new to anyone else) with a list of some of the artists that we play and maybe some side discussion.
Our mix is pretty eclectic, with a heavy play of a few genres.
Acid Jazz.
Trip Hop
Freak Folk
Indy
World Beat
Neo Soul
French Kitsch
Britpop
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Acid Jazz
We probably play more Acid Jazz than anything, because the laid back beats and the sexy vocals pretty much blend with everything. Believe it or not, Wikipedia has an awesome page on Acid Jazz, which if you are interested about what defines "Acid Jazz" or its history, you can find herehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_jazz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_jazz).
Personally I prefer the English and Japanese Artists, with the exception of The Egg and Brookly Funk Essentials which are awesome American Bands, but here is a list of the Acid Jazz Artists that we play at Boomtown: (My personal favorites are in bold)
Arrested Development (hip hop group)|Arrested Development
A Tribe Called Quest
Brand New Heavies Check out the track Brother/Sister
Brooklyn Funk Essentials
Count Basic
Digable Planets
Funky Lowlives Absolutely brilliant band. "Sail Into the Sun" is stunningly good.
Gilles Peterson The godfather of Acid Jazz. Check out the track "I am the Black Gold of the Sun"
Greyboy Allstars
Groove Armada famous for the music from Sex in the City. All of their stuff is funky, sensual and very very smooth.
Jaga Jazzist
Jamiroquai
Jazzanova
Kyoto Jazz Massive
Mark Farina
Massive Attack
Moloko
Muki
Quantic Soul Orchestra
Saint Germain
Steely Dan
The Cat Empire
The Cinematic Orchestra
The Crystal Method
The Egg
Thievery Corporation
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United Future OrganizationThis band is probably the most fun you can have with Acid Jazz music.
No Sound is Too Taboo is my personal favorite CD.
Urban Species I Wonder, and Spiritual Love are amazing.
Zero 7 This band is west coast groove at its finest.
Although Portishead is not an Acid Jazz Band, she has done some pretty fantastic acid jazz collaborations with a couple of artists on this list. Probably one of the greatest tracks of all Acid Jazz were with her collaborations with Massive Attack and Moloko. Portishead and Moloko: THE CHILLOUT ALBUM is simply amazing. Fun For Me and Teardrop are brilliant but really the whole album is perfect for the title. The tracks go with hanging out with people you like at dinner, sex with one or more of them afterwards or just hanging out on a lazy day drifting off to sleep and thinking.
When I first read this and your reference to Acid Jazz, I thought, WTF is that??? And then I started reading the groups and I instantly recognized 60% of them, so I guess I know what Acid Jazz is after all.
Personally, I listen to a lot of folk music...and I do mean A LOT. I don't know what it is about a person and his/her guitar and songs about love and life that do so much for and to me. I do know it's definitely a combination though because I can't seem to get quite the same feeling from awesome lyrics without the musical element there, or fantasitc guitar licks without the meaningful words mingled with it.
I watched a documentary on Peter Seeger on PBS last week sometime and cried through almost the entire thing...especially the Kennedy Honors segment when everyone broke into song, "...the answer my friend, is blowing in the wind..."
My favorites are:
Polly Paulsuma
Iron and Wine
Damien Rice
The Avett Brothers
Meiko
Elliot Smith
Ryan Adams
Wilco, and of course the always great,
Joni Mitchell and
Pete Seeger
I also really like some of the more mellow Indie stuff like Feist, Rilo Keilly, The Shins, Limbeck, and Spoon, and the Indie-pop stuff like Racheal Yamagata, Sara Barellies, and Anna Nalick.
I don't know how to classify music, lol. I just know what I like and what I don't like when I hear it and it just so happens that almost everything I connect with ends up on Wiki as being in the "folk" genre ;) Maybe you can help...I know Pete Seeger was 'protest folk', right? At least, that's what he ended up being...because of the songs protesting war and segregation and all? Anywho, I like the folk music that has a guitar, a singer, and a story, lol....whatever that story may be. Rock Candy Mountain comes to mind...wait, that was another protest folk song wasn't it?
Neko Case is another one I have a few songs of that I find on my playlists regularly.
Joanna Newsom is VERY cool! But Brits are cool in general ;)I love the second verse in the song, Emily,
"There is a rusty light on the pines tonight
Sun pouring wine, lord, or marrow
Down into the bones of the birches
And the spires of the churches
Jutting out from the shadows
The yoke, and the axe, and the old smokestacks and the bale and the barrow
And everything sloped like it was dragged from a rope
In the mouth of the south below"
I have no idea who she had in mind while writing the song, but I imagine Laura Ingalls from Little House on the Prairie.
I don't think I've ever heard anything by Grizzle Bear ???
Cool thread Stephendare, For true music fans there seems no end to the journey. I thought I'd never move off the old Rock of the 60's-70's. Then got into a piece by John Abercrombie (Timeless), and bought that album. Of course it was all experimental... me and about 20 hippie chicks experimented a lot listening to that album (hee hee). We didn't know it then but Timeless was pre-New Age Ambient music. Then along came an apartment with maybe 100 albums I'd never heard of, they very nearly stayed in the trash heap, but hell, maybe it was music??? So I hauled about 50 to my player and spent hours in some other world... Shadowfax, Mandrill, Amhad Jamal (the daughter y'all met was even named for Jamals song "TRILBY"). Jazz, acid Jazz.
Then along comes Enya, Fresh Aire, 2002, Vangelis, Arkenstone (both), Kitaro, Jarre, Paul Schwartz, Medwin Goodall, and my newest love... B-Tribe. Anyone who has not taken the New Age Trip, try a couple of these on Last FM radio, or your favorite online server.
B-Tribe............Las Salinas
Vangelis...........Space Themes
Jarre...............The year of living dangerously
BecVar............
Ranga.............
Send us an intergalatic telegram when you land...someplace
Ocklawaha
When I was on Mykonos there was a radio station. Radio Mykonos. That station played the coolest music ever. I've been looking for it on the web from time to time but Greece is a third world country I guess streaming isn't something the greeks do.
Oh friend Stephen... Eat your heart out, but I have a near mint condition original release LP of Timeless!
Jarre and Eno are also household words. Lot's of stuff still to move to the digital world, I've got to get one of those transfer turntables. Also a HUGE collection of "OREGON" on LP, love their pieces "Water-wheel" and "Sail".
I was Deep Purple man, like Riding the Tiger, Taking trips around the Bay, Prisoner of the White Lines on a freeway, with a Black Dog, just Me and Bobbie McGee, a little Hot and Nasty, but got by with a little help from my friends. Then came Timeless... The rest is history...
Ocklawaha
Quote from: stephendare on March 10, 2008, 05:46:29 PM
Tom. Im suprised you didnt know that.
I guess I didn't know that because in Austin, you can't sneeze without infecting a wirless router or one of Bush's daughters on coke. You're freaking kidding me....it's on line now??? I love that dj. He only, or used to only come on like every fifteen minutes and just say "Radio Mykonos" Pronounced baritone slowly "rraaddioo mmykkoonnoos". OMG it sounds just like the real deal.
Stephendare, and Gang... Well I just couldn't retire to my quarters without printing the words to the greatest alternative music song of all time:
Artist: Horror Rocky
Song: Time Warp
RiffRaff:
It's astounding;
Time is fleeting;
Madness takes its toll.
But listen closely...
Magenta:
Not for very much longer.
RiffRaff:
I've got to keep control.
I remember doing the time-warp
Drinking those moments when
The Blackness would hit me
Magenta:
And the void would be calling...
Transylvanians:
Let's do the time-warp again.
Let's do the time-warp again.
Narrator:
It's just a jump to the left.
All:
And then a step to the right.
Narrator:
Put your hands on your hips.
All:
You bring your knees in tight.
But it's the pelvic thrust
That really drives you insane.
Let's do the time-warp again.
Let's do the time-warp again.
Magenta:
It's so dreamy, oh fantasy free me.
So you can't see me, no, not at all.
In another dimension, with
voyeuristic intention,
Well secluded, I see all.
RiffRaff:
With a bit of a mind flip
Magenta:
You're into the time slip.
RiffRaff:
And nothing can ever be the same.
Magenta:
You're spaced out on sensation.
RiffRaff:
Like you're under sedation.
All:
Let's do the time-warp again.
Let's do the time-warp again.
Columbia:
Well I was walking down the street
just a-having a think
When a snake of a guy gave me an
evil wink.
He shook-a me up, he took me by surprise.
He had a pickup truck, and the
devil's eyes.
He stared at me and I felt a change.
Time meant nothing, never would again.
All:
Let's do the time-warp again.
Let's do the time-warp again.
Narrator:
It's just a jump to the left.
All:
And then a step to the right.
Narrator:
Put your hands on your hips.
All:
You bring your knees in tight.
But it's the pelvic thrust
That really drives you insane.
Let's do the time-warp again.
Let's do the time-warp again.
Ocklawaha
If anyone here hasn't had an opportunity to check out Vampire Weekend, I highly reccomend it. They may be huge by now, but because I never listen to the radio here or watch MTV I''m not sure.
Otherwise, I've been listening to alot of alt-country, southern rock and Mofro. Drive-by Truckers are another band that is definitely worth a listen to, especially if you like southern rock.
What a drag it is getting old.
"Kids are different today,"
I hear ev'ry mother say
Mother needs something today to calm her down
And though she's not really ill
There's a little yellow pill
She goes running for the shelter of a mother's little helper
And it helps her on her way, gets her through her busy day.
"Things are different today,"
I hear ev'ry mother say
Cooking fresh food for a husband's just a drag
So she buys an instant cake and she burns her frozen steak
And goes running for the shelter of a mother's little helper
And two help her on her way, get her through her busy day.
Doctor, please, some more of these
Outside the door, she took four more
What a drag it is getting old.
"Men just aren't the same today,"
I hear ev'ry mother say
They just don't appreciate that you get tired
They're so hard to satisfy. You can tranquilise your mind
So go running for the shelter of a mother's little helper
And four help you through the night, help to minimise yourplight.
Doctor,plese, some more of these
Outside the door, she took four more
What a drag it is getting old.
Life's just much too hard today,"
I hear ev'ry mother say
The pursuit of happiness just seems a bore
And if you take more of those, you will get an overdose
No more running to the shelter of a mother's little helper
They just helped you on your way through your busy dying day.
-Rolling Stones
Ocklawaha: What is mother's little helper after all?
Sweet... finally something I actually car about! Just kidding,... kind of.
The Music thread is a great time to tell yall we sell a great selection of used vinyl records @
The Royal Treatment shop between 5th and 6th st. on main st.
Heavy on the Hip Hop, lots of old 70's Jazz, Soul, Funk, ect.
Housed in the same complex is Inertia records, which sells mostly new relese punk rock, metal, loud stuff, ect.
Both are kind of specialty stores, but everyone should be able to find something they dig between the 2!
I myself am a Hip Hop guy, proud indy record label owner and promoter.
Some good local true school Hip Hop:
Willie Evans Jr. (2nd release on HHH Records)
Tough Junkie (manager of the shop!)
The N Word
The Smile Rays (amazing- with Daisey singing!)
Mr. Al Pete
Jacksonville is making some of the highest quality traditional -true school styled- Hip Hop in the world right known... it is really starting to be known as a "hot spot" in other parts of the country, in my circles.
Just another thing to be proud of...
What local bands are you guys into? I will book them at Shantytown...
Quote from: stephendare on March 10, 2008, 08:48:41 PM
pancake, did you get to check out Grizzly Bear?
Tom you would love these guys, btw.
Interested in hearing some feedback.
Ok, I listened to clips of every song they had on Yellowhouse, and I thought they were freakin great! Surprisingly, I liked Knife the least...not that I didn't like it, just didn't like it as well as Lullabye or Easier. My favorite is, On a Neck, On a Spit,and the vocals in Reprise were pretty great too.
I love Shantytown. Has that location always been a bar? Hood music there is way cool!
Mothers little helper's...
Valium, very similar to todays Xanax, perhaps not quite as addictive. Besides (not that I've ever done it, but I've read the books, seen the videos etc...) If you powder your valium and do the lines (snort it) you get a clogged up nose for all your trouble... Try that on the newer Xanax and you just check out for the day.
Valium, was over used by everyone in the 1970's... Doctors gave it for everything from mental depression to IBS... Heart RX was up about 20 mg per dose. Others got by with 5 or 10's. They discovered that drinking a bit of hard stuff with your Valium could stop your heart. Men on long term RX lost sex drive and or ability. Women just no longer cared.
Ocklawaha
For what it's worth: REM and Van Morrison are in Austin for SXSW.
I have a buddy coming into town, and he was wondering where all the good stores for records are. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Uh...Ock, we're talking music here. All this talk about lines, Valium and Xanax are starting to make me question whether or not I actually want you running the transportation here. We might all hop a train and end up through the looking glass or down a rabbit hole somewhere, lol.
"You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes."
lol. I never thought that about 2pk. Who would have guess it would have been getting on the "Crazy Train" owned and operated by the Blizzard of Ock., Inc.
Second Pancake, OF COURSE WE ARE... speaking of music that is. My Valium post was an answer to reply Number 16 in this thread. A song "Mothers little helpers" and nobody (still living) could remember what the heck "mothers helpers were". As I studied Rock Music and Pharmacy during my mis-spent youth in California, I recall very well what they were giving out as Mom's Helpers. In fact it was RX for everything from ingrown nails to IBS to depression.
But it was such experiences that brought us classics such as "Timeless" by John Abercrombie. They held workshops where groups like "Oregon" would go into the South East Oregon desert and study the sound of rocks and trees, lizards and running water. Okay maybe the trees or rocks didn't make a sound but the object was, if you could express their shape, mood and color only in music, how would it sound? The resulting pioneers along with Emerson, Lake and Palmer's instrument experiments are largely the first attempts at "NEW AGE" it's just nobody knew it at the time.
Nope, no "Riding my train, high on cocaine..." if you'll recall wasn't that Jerry Garcia?
Ocklawaha
I recently watch the jane paully Gerry Garcia interview from circa 1987. What. Was way cool was when The King of psycodellic explained the making of a Touch Of Grey. Did anybody catch that interview?
Get out "Mothers little helpers", accept a "little help from your friends," "grab your hats and swing your hips, and don't forget to bring your whips, we're freakin' at the freaker's ball, y'all..."
This is what brought us the sound of the Aliens, the little green men, and the moonbeams they rode in on...
Don't believe it? Give Radio SOMA a try!
http://somafm.com/
Of course the music was always just sound until one added the drug of choice, In this case those who were prescribed both Lortab and Soma, and made the accidental discovery of "the Soma Coma". A harmless state of mind where you climb into the music, ride on it, and see those rabbits. Alice and I once dated...LOL
Ocklawaha
I've not been to a Greatful Dead show but Ive seen impersonators. Gerry said his shows routinely went for 6 hours? I couldn't sit still long enough for that. Anybody catch a dead show?
But did you ever convince somebody to "Hold a dollar bill up to the mirror?" It really is a fast buck. "but it's a so hard to make that kind off money!"
Lets get back to something wholesome like BLACK OAK ARKANSAS!
Ocklawaha
Stephendare, I have about 1/2 of the old records here, the other half is (I hope) still in my buddys garage in Orlando.
Lot's of progressive/fusion/new age/jazz in it... rare finds like Mandrill, the impossible to buy or find Ahmad Jamal 73 lp (which isn't in good shape), Timeless (with one small scratch) but 90% of that album is killer good.
As well as weird stuff like "Flying Frames", "Oregon" and "Shadowfax". Still good listens.
Ocklawaha
Are there any places in town anymore that play downtempo/triphop, anything on the chiller side of the electronica music spectrum anymore? Back in early part of the decade you could get some of that at fatkat, the pearl even had a triphop night before it started leaning mainstream, and I believe Mr. Dare said he used to play it at boomtown. As for now though, I dont know of any places. Maybe I can talk starbucks into turning their XM to chill 84 :D
Nice image from the "Mandrill" LP records painted on the side of Shantytown... Good work y'all.
Ocklawaha