Thursday, 21 August 2025

Melt Not My Igloo - Larry Jon Wilson


[1975]
A country-funk jam that gets pretty cosmic.

"Old cold gravy ain't gonna harm ya
If the meat is warm"

Wise words from Larry.

Monday, 18 August 2025

Don Blackman - Deaf Hook Up Connection


[1982]
For a dude who played with Earth Wind & Fire, Parliament/Funkadelic, Lenny White and Roy Ayers you know whats coming yet he's surprisingly fresh and idiosyncratic. Blackman's jazzy piano starts up this jam that gets immediately funky with awesome bass and mucho hand clap action, goes into an awful scatting bit before going metal with triumphant horns then take it down to the celebratory party sounds then some daft funk verse. Next the heavy but buoyant riff is back with some chanting kids and on to the final minute of funky metal mayhem. One infectious funky number it is! You would have to think N.E.R.D. were big fans of this.

Thursday, 14 August 2025

Ariel Pink - Everyone's Wrong


2025 Anthem.

The summer jam for August with the most correct sentiment in a pop song ever. The new look tubby sized Ariel un-cancels himself again.

Seriously who fucking drops an anthem this good 25 years into their career. 

Chuck The Beach Boys, Grandmaster Flash, Goth Rock and more into the Ariel blender and voilà you've got yourself... (insert some words to indicate the goodness of what you've got).

SOME OF THE WRONG (THE HATE IS REAL).

The government who are criminalising our dissent over their retarded mass immigration scam sending Australian born citizens to live in their cars in car parks while new arrivals get housing priority are wrong.

The Indian immigrant getting paid 400 thousand Aussie dollars a year to call us raycisss: Wrong.

The E-Karen American hag pretending to make our internet safe for kids. Really though she's just getting paid to tell us Aussies we can only say things that conform to her worldview. Her mass surveillance is for censorship of free speech and mining our personal data for future thought crime blackmail/social credit/criminal prosecution which is all so fucking wrong it's very very fucking wrong. 

Becoming Soviet Australia: Wrong, wrong, wrong!

The globalists: Most Wrong. 

The current state of anarcho-tyranny we've all been placed under in the anglosphere: WRONG AND FUCKING INSANE... and wrong.

The Netflix comedians who are so fucking not fucking funny: Wrong. 

These not fucking funny comic podcasters who need to quit comedy immediately because they're not funny: Wrong.

The fucking fake Christian influencers who got baptised this morning: So Wrong.

My entire fucking family: WRONG, WRONG, MORE WRONG.

Steve Albini apologising for being a fucking free speech legend, to the cult, before he died: Wrong.

The adderall addicted libtard youtubers: Wrong.

The containment centrists: Wrong.

The shitlib Islam apologists: Wrong.

The fucking fake outraged conservative youtubers outraging over their outrage: Wrong.

The fucking fake partisan legacy media commentators doing their divisive ra-ra-ing for money: Wrong.

You fucking rappers who haven't moved beyond the freaky psych-trap flows of 2013: So fucking wrong.

You boring pop stars who are so vacuous and boring and vacuous and boring are so fucking boring and vacuous AND... Wrong.

Youtube music critics why do you exist - you are all fucking twerps and so fucking dumb and got no taste and wrong.

All you haters throwing green dildos onto WNBA courts however are they wrong though? Champagne comedy.

Wednesday, 13 August 2025

Keep On Funkin' · Barefoot Jerry


[1977]
Even more groovy baby. This one's from their sixth LP. A choice country funk hoedown it is. Some excellent banjo and cosmic guitar workouts. It makes you wonder if maybe The Meat Puppets were fans.

Turn it up and let the good times flow!

Monday, 11 August 2025

Smokies · Barefoot Jerry


[1971]
Groovy baby! Chuck this on your i-pod immediately.

Pretty cool funky southern rock tune with a west coast psych tinge. Like that other great barely recognised group Cowboy these guys were totally unknown to me when they appeared on that great swampy southern rock compilation cd on Soul Jazz Records 15 years back. Since then this tune has turned up on some dumb show on the telly and now the normies have steamed it millions of times so it's pretty surprising that the debut Barefoot Jerry LP Southern Delight has not been reissued on vinyl since its initial release. Maybe the people who stream songs coz they were on the telly aren't your physical media vinyl buying artist supporting music fans. 

Tuesday, 5 August 2025

Orkiestra Ósmego Dnia / Jan A. P. Kaczmarek - Muzyka na koniec


[1982]
When psychedelic and ambient meet in an apocalyptic folk based extravaganza. It's unbelievable that this LP isn't a massive cult album in avant/psych folk or new age-y ambient circles because this pioneering work is a masterstroke of atmospheric ethno-psychedelia. 

An orchestra of two Polish men Grzegorz Banaszakon on guitars and Jan A P Kaczmarek playing a zither (Fidola Fishera), Synthesiser, piano, flute, recorder, vocals and percussion

Muzyka na koniec, I think, translates as Music For The End. A totally compelling cosmic-pagan jam that's mysterious, mystical and sometimes unsettling. One of the great unknown and unconventional records of its ilk, this has surprisingly never been issued on cd or had a reissue since the 80s. 

Friday, 1 August 2025

Helga Pogatschar - Mars: Requiem


[1995]
Spooky ye olde voices. 

Mars: Requiem is an impressive blend of oratario and 90s industrial flavours. Placing liturgical vocals amongst a dystopian post industrial landscape creates a creepy and ominous effect then at other times it feels pretty sacred and devotional. Some relate these ancient vocal stylings as demonic opera but that probably has more to do with pop culture's inclusion of such music in horror movies but then again who knows what the intentions were. Actually some of the more bombastic tunes from Mars: Requium would have been perfect for a game or movie soundtrack while the more solemn songs would be more suited to being heard in a cathedral.