Tower of Sleep

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Image: Mary Heilmann, Green Wave, Surfer’s Dream, 2008, Oil on canvas, 37.8 x 22.9 cm JUNE MIX: HUMIDITY (click to DL) 1. Dirty Projectors - dance for you2. Mixed Grill - brand new wayo3. Blues Control - love’s a rondo4. Nara Leão – Consolação5. Donnie & Joe Emerson - baby6. Etoile 2000 - boubou n’gary7. Jeans Wilder - spanish tile8. The Brims - anti gandja9. Aka - do what you like10. Nguzunguzu - delerium11. Francis Bebey - the coffee cola song12. Joe Moks - boys and girls13. Moons - waves at night14. Black Brothers - saman doye15. Rail Band - Wale Numa Lombaliya16. Peaking Lights - beautiful son17. Kris Okotie - show me your backside18. Roger Damawuzan - wait for me19. Kindness - SEOD (Zdar dub)20. Peter King - african dialects21. Brute Force - some kind of approval22. Clams Casino - human23. Le Super Borgou De Parakou - congolaise benin ye24. Gabo Brown & Orchestre Poly-Rythmo - it’s a vanity25. Poolside - slow down26. Nara Leão - nana27. Baden Powell - candomble I think this might actually be the best mix I’ve ever posted on this blog, mostly because I’m cannibalizing a whole bunch of other excellent compilations that were put together by actual, legitimate anthologists. This is also the longest mix I’ve ever posted, featuring over two hours of music drawn from: Nigeria 70: Lagos Jump The Rough Guide to Psychedelic Africa African Scream Contest: Raw & Psychedelic Afro Sounds From Benin & Togo 70s Brand New Wayo: Funk, Fast Times, and Nigerian Boogie Madness Francis Bebey - African Electronic Music 1975-1982  Those Shocking Shaking Days (Indonesian Hard, Psychedelic, Progressive Rock & Funk: 1970-1978) Brazil Bossa Beat! The Story of Elenco Records Plus rare soul from Brute Force (feat. Sonny Sharrock) and Donnie & Joe Emerson (recently covered by Ariel Pink and Hype Williams), a cut of smoking m’balax from Senegal’s Etoile 2000 (a band formed by two members who split off from Youssou N’Dour’s Etoile de Dakar band in 1977), and a selection of the finest in steamy contemporary beats from Blues Control, Peaking Lights, Nguzunguzu, Moons, Jeans Wilder, Clams Casino, Poolside, and Kindness (a 9-minute dub edit by Philippe Zdar!). And a brand-new track from the Dirty Projectors. Enjoy!

Image: Mary Heilmann, Green Wave, Surfer’s Dream, 2008, Oil on canvas, 37.8 x 22.9 cm

JUNE MIX: HUMIDITY (click to DL)

1. Dirty Projectors - dance for you
2. Mixed Grill - brand new wayo
3. Blues Control - love’s a rondo
4. Nara Leão – Consolação
5. Donnie & Joe Emerson - baby
6. Etoile 2000 - boubou n’gary
7. Jeans Wilder - spanish tile
8. The Brims - anti gandja
9. Aka - do what you like
10. Nguzunguzu - delerium
11. Francis Bebey - the coffee cola song
12. Joe Moks - boys and girls
13. Moons - waves at night
14. Black Brothers - saman doye
15. Rail Band - Wale Numa Lombaliya
16. Peaking Lights - beautiful son
17. Kris Okotie - show me your backside
18. Roger Damawuzan - wait for me
19. Kindness - SEOD (Zdar dub)
20. Peter King - african dialects
21. Brute Force - some kind of approval
22. Clams Casino - human
23. Le Super Borgou De Parakou - congolaise benin ye
24. Gabo Brown & Orchestre Poly-Rythmo - it’s a vanity
25. Poolside - slow down
26. Nara Leão - nana
27. Baden Powell - candomble

I think this might actually be the best mix I’ve ever posted on this blog, mostly because I’m cannibalizing a whole bunch of other excellent compilations that were put together by actual, legitimate anthologists. This is also the longest mix I’ve ever posted, featuring over two hours of music drawn from:

  • Nigeria 70: Lagos Jump
  • The Rough Guide to Psychedelic Africa
  • African Scream Contest: Raw & Psychedelic Afro Sounds From Benin & Togo 70s
  • Brand New Wayo: Funk, Fast Times, and Nigerian Boogie Madness
  • Francis Bebey - African Electronic Music 1975-1982 
  • Those Shocking Shaking Days (Indonesian Hard, Psychedelic, Progressive Rock & Funk: 1970-1978)
  • Brazil Bossa Beat! The Story of Elenco Records

Plus rare soul from Brute Force (feat. Sonny Sharrock) and Donnie & Joe Emerson (recently covered by Ariel Pink and Hype Williams), a cut of smoking m’balax from Senegal’s Etoile 2000 (a band formed by two members who split off from Youssou N’Dour’s Etoile de Dakar band in 1977), and a selection of the finest in steamy contemporary beats from Blues Control, Peaking Lights, Nguzunguzu, Moons, Jeans Wilder, Clams Casino, Poolside, and Kindness (a 9-minute dub edit by Philippe Zdar!). And a brand-new track from the Dirty Projectors. Enjoy!

  1. murdermetonymy reblogged this from towerofsleep and added:
    Currently listening...mix. Good job. Good things.
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    mix, follow his link...download. Saelan Twerdy
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    S o l i d
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    Reposting because this sounds really exciting but I can’t download it now. Must. Check. Out. Later.
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