4a) Interzone: ManMachine

 

4a1) Interzone: ManMachine 

A black hole sun sets on gunmetal skies and an abandoned ribbon of two-lane blacktop. The looming darkness echoes with the rhythmic pounding of thundering road iron. It's the apocalypse, now. Suspended between chrome and fire, bloodlust and gasoline, speed and distance–it’s a burned-out head of a set. The ManMachine. 

4a2) Tracklist

Trouble - Snake Eyes 00:00

Suicide - Ghost Rider 03:50

Loop - Rocket USA 06:20

Head Of David - Snuff Rider M.C. 11:25

The Birthday Party - Junkyard 14:30

Butthole Surfers - Graveyard 20:15

Sonic Youth - Rain King 22:55

Painkiller - Buried Secrets 27:25

Electric Wizard - Wizard in Black 33:25

11Paranoias - Milk of Amnesia 41:20

Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Shockwave City 45:15

Black Rainbows - Master Rocket Power Blast 49:10

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - A66 52:30

High Rise - Cycle Goddess 61:15

Ty Segall Band - Oh Mary 62:10

Guitar Wolf - Motorcycle Leather Boy 63:45

Boris - Laser Beam 66:10

Melvins - Honey Bucket 69:55

White Heaven - My Cold Dimention 72:40

The Gun Club - Death Party 76:30

Alan Vega - Motorcycle Explodes 80:55

4a3) Album list at Rate Your Music

4a) THE Reason the 70's Rocked

4a1) The Who "Baba O'Riley" Who's Next (1971)

4a2) A ferocious cry of freedom with the heart of a ballad, it echoes the album cover–the monolith both desecrated, and untouched by man. The profane, insane, and transcendent. The higher gods leading rock into new horizons. This is the birth cry of the starchild called RAWK. It's shadow looms even today. On everything from punk to grunge to motorik kosmische to operatic narratives. Preceding or following, all bow to "Baba O'Riley." Happy birthday. 

4a) Daily Zen

4a1)  Lee Hazlewood and Suzi Jane Hokum "Sand" The Very Special World Of Lee Hazlewood (1966)

4a2) One of the better subtle sex songs. While the metaphors may not be subtle, the intertwining vocals, the backing vocal sighs, and the rhythmic strumming produce a hypnotic simulation within the style of the time. Just another example of Lee Hazlewood's unique genius. 

This version is better than the Hazlewood/Sinatra version, recorded later. The slower tempo of Hokum's version, and her far more seductive vocals round off the Spector-ish wall of sound pop of the Sinatra version. While I love a good sitar, it feels added on, and does little to make up for the sex-stoned atmosphere of the Hokum version. 

4a) Daily Zen

 

4a1) "Raging Rumble" 

Composed By – Julien, Raphael Aletti 

Composed By [Picture of Spring] – Jack Arel, Pierre Dutour 

Remix – Count De Money 

4a2) "To start this series off, Galerie, the super left-field label from France, present a collection of remixes of the legendary Jack Arel Chappell sessions, recorded in Paris in the 60s.

["Raging Rumble"] contains elements from Picture of Spring."

Discogs 

4a3) Most of the Chappell library collection is worth listening to. But it never hurts to have a set of DJs comb through and remix the breaks into new compositions. This is one of the early examples from the first volume of a ten volume set called Nuggets, released by Universal. Any library or beats fan would be remiss in opting out. You can view the whole series at the Universal website.

 

4b1) "Crazy Flute and Happy Guitar" 

David Perian Orchestra 

Happy Music and Crazy Music, 

Luke Vibert's Further Nuggets (2002) (Listed under Roger Davy)

4b2) A nice example of the near unhinged exuberance the Chappell crew could get up to. 

4a) Reprise

 

  4a1) Can "Vitamin C" Ege Bamyasi (1972)

 

4a2) 24-Carat Black "24-Carat Black (Theme)" Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth (1973) 

4a3) In a bit of a who made who mystery, this is a stunning coincidence. It is unlikely that Can made it to Dale Warren's turntable as he was putting together Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth. Was anyone outside of Europe listening to Ege Bamyasi in 1973? Even in the 70's, I would assume there was a crew of global heads that had knowledge, access, and the wherewithal to grab up the oddities coming out of Germany, and Europe at large. 

I don't know that anyone would know the "true" story. But the similarities between the two songs are enough that it would be an odd coincidence if both groups stumbled across a similar rhythm, and then built a song out of it. That is, unless there was something in the ether of a more nascent form.

4a4) DJ Food's loop of 24-Carat Black pointed me to the similarities when I mistook it for a Can sample. 

4aWTF?) Just in case someone needs a copyright defense.

4a) Daily Zen

4a) Christophe "Sunny Road to Salina" Road to Salina (1970)

4a) In Appreciation of Raymond Scott

 

4a1) Raymond Scott "Powerhouse" (Various Performers)

One of the more anarchic bits of music accompanying the antics of the Looney Tunes crew.

 

4a2) Raymond Scott Quintette "Powerhouse"

 

4b) Raymond Scott "Naked City" 

"The recording of “Naked City” featured here is a brilliant recreation of the Scott original, in sparkling sound, made by Jan Stulen, conducting the Metropole Orchestra. The Metropole Orchestra is a multiple Grammy winning jazz and pop orchestra based in the Netherlands, and is the largest full-time ensemble of its kind in the world." 

"Naked City” Music of Raymond Scott – Part One – Swing & Beyond 

4c) "Scott called his music “descriptive jazz”—his name for a novel chamber music style that drew on the propulsive drive of swing, with all the riffs and syncopation of that dance style, but with less improvisation and proclaiming a taste for extravagant, quasi-industrial sounds. It was like techno before there was techno, but with a jitterbug sensibility." 

Ted Gioia – The Secret Music Technology of Raymond Scott 

4d) RaymondScott.net

 

4e) Callithumpian Consort "For Your Eyes Only" Composed by John Zorn

4a) Reasons Why the 70's Rocked

4a1) Linda Ronstadt "Tumbling Dice" and "You're No Good," Atlanta 1977

4a2) "There are two kinds of men in this world. Those with a crush on Linda Ronstadt and those who never heard of her."

Willie Nelson

4a) Friday Zen

 

4a) BrighterSide of Darkness "Just a Little Bit" Love Jones (1973)

4a) Daily Zen

4a) Warp Rider

 

4a1) “Ready to drop now.” 

A sonic blacklight full of warped orbits, exploding nebula, and melting suns. 

Cover illustration by Mike Hinge with Neal Adams From “...Rears Its Ugly Green Head," Heavy Metal Magazine, July 1979 

Island People - From the Sky

Faith Coloccia & Philip Jeck - Stardust

Kevin Richard Martin - Weightlessness

Sunroof - 1.4 - 18.6.19

Mugstar - Low, Slow Horizon

Expo Seventy - The Slow Death of Tomorrow

Bong - Find Your Own Gods

4a2) Warp Rider Cover

4a3) See 070421_3b 

4a) Daily Zen

 

4a) Model 500 "Sound of Stereo" 1987

4b) EVOL Select: Savage Planet

4b) A trip around this ball o' dirt in a decades in the making crate-digging expedition.

Big Jim Sullivan - Flower Power
Telemachus - Planet Earth (feat. Mr Thing)
GRIMEZ - Womb of the Earth
Doctor Bionic - Cultural Revolution
Kalyanji & Anandji - Theme From Don
X'Lents - Psychedelia
Asha Bhosle - Yeh Mera Dil
Madlib - Piano Garden
Janko Nilovic - Underground Party
Alessandro Alessandroni - Afro Darkness
Piero Umiliani - Green Dawn
Narassa - Accavallatrice
Klauss Weiss - The Hunters
Manorexia - The Harpoon Jockey
Lilacs & Champagne - Midnight Creeper II
Sandro Brugnolini - Amofen
Madlib - Fällig
The Sumos - My Chinese Girl Likes Kung Fu Fighting
The Peter Laine Orchestra - Tiger Walk

4a) Reprise

 

4a1) Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra "Bolero on the Moon Rocks," Raumpatrouille (1966)

 

4a2) Pulp "This Is Hardcore," This Is Hardcore (1998)

4a) Daily Zen

4a1) Metal Fingers "Black Snake Root," Special Herbs Vol. 5 & 6

 

4a2) Boz Scaggs "Lowdown," Silk Degrees

4a) Chiefdom Records

4a1) Grimez The Holy Realm

4a2) Doctor Bionic The Invisible Hand 

4a3) Excellent B-movie exotica beat instrumentals from this Cincinnati collective. Oft imitated, but rarely perfected, shadows of Doom and RZA loom over the stag film scuzz. Dark alleys full of glimmering switch blades, gold-toothed grins, and fishnet flesh―the world of the rain and slime soaked concrete jungle. The dark and dangerous world the tourists never see. Listen and thank god it's only on wax.

4a) Emancipation

4a) Take Five (x2): Emancipation
Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
Nina Simone - Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair
Aretha Franklin - Young, Gifted And Black
Roberta Flack - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Alice Coltrane - Going Home
Sonny Sharrock - Black Woman
Gil Scott-Heron - Comment #1
Eugene McDaniels - Love Letter To America
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Old Rugged Cross
Last Poets - Panther

4a) (R)eternal

4a1) 3 Hours of Ambient Sounds from Forbidden Planet's Alien Krell Machines 

4a) Daily Zen

4a1) Magical Mystery Mix – 60s & 70s Soul Music Mix - "Extra Selected" - by Dirty Art Club

 

4a2) Brighter Side of Darkness - I Owe You Love

Standout track at 14:32. I hesitate to cut in because the mix is the thing, but this is so good it deserves it's own entry. Thanks to MMM and DAC for the introduction. 

4a) Heavy Medal

4a1) Take Five: Heart of Thunder

An adrenaline pumping short stack of heavy medal motivation. For those who dare with hearts of thunder to go beyond, I salute you.

4a2) I but follow the masters. In this case, Hollywood Steve Huey at the Beyond Yacht Rock podcast.

There’s a fanfare of synthesizers, typically, that open the song to warm up the listener for the battle at hand. The meat? Hard-driving rhythms, a rough-and-ready guitar, and a vocalist who can hit the high registers. Lyrics are filled with metaphors: things are always on fire and people are on the edge.

 
Beyond Yacht Rock – Heavy Medal 

4a3) John Farnham "Break the Ice" from Rad (1986)