Childish Gambino is another one of those artists that we couldn’t get enough of this year here at TBT. I always find it funny to think that the first time I came across Donald Glover, … Read More →
Has Post-1996 Hip Hop Abandoned the Turntablist?2:30PM ET December 1st, 2011Contributor : Todd Williams A Rocky Williform Company
“Where’s the DJ?”
The late, great Jam-Master Jay used to say that ‘It ain’t hip hop if there ain’t no DJ,” and wh…
In the Seventies, one would undoubtedly have wrongly classified Fusion among the “super groups”, ad-hoc groupings of virtuoso instrumentalists, organized by the Anglo-Saxon-owned music business, with the aim of filling the stages and of profiting by re…
Rarely does an EP come along that is such high quality. Magma released this little gem in 1998 during a long break between studio albums (1984′s Merci and 2004′s K.A.), and man does it ever show their want to get back into business! The Ep consists of …
Magma – Mekanïk Kommando-Klaus Kömbälad (1972)
1. Mekanïk Kommando (5:04)
2. Klaus Kömbälad (4:27)
Credits
- Christian Vander / drums, vocals
- Louis TOESCA / trumpet
- François CAHEN / piano
- Francis MOZE / bass
- Teddy LASRY / sax soprano…
Friends Records has been collecting songs since the beginning of 2011, and the result is a 30 song compilation full of new and exclusive tracks from Baltimore, Maryland.<p>&amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;…
This is one of the alternate versions of Christian Vander’s most notorious/best loved work, Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh. The official 1973 release is, quite rightly, regarded as the high point of Zeuhl music, but it did not fully do justice to Christi…
Recorded on October, 15th, 1995 at the Espace Lumire in Epinay-sur-Seine, during the second concert celebrating Magma’s 25th birthday, BABA YAGA LA SORCIŽRE is a surprising adaptation of the mythical MEKANIK DESTRUKTIW KOMMANDOH, sung by an impressive…
“Great Pyramid” is the final statement on side A of Celebration’s most recent LP, Hello Paradise. The band channels a card in the tarot that deals “the boss, the king, male influence and authority, planning, building, construction, seeking stability, a…
Take Care
12:00PM ET November 15th, 2011
Contributor: Todd Williams
A Rocky Williform Company
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