WELCOME TO THE NEW MUDD!
welcome to Mudd Up v1.9! This probably doesn’t look good if you are using IE (in which case you should switch to Firefox). But maybe it doesn’t look good anywhere…So let me know if anything is weird with usability or RSS feeds or whatnot, and i’ll apply my caveman coding skills in attempts to fix/improve/destroy it.
ok. i’m in the middle of a tour with The Ex. suffering through Christmas carols in a Baltimore Starbuxx. In honor of that (the tour not the multinational) i bring you
This song is from 1986’s incredible 1936: The Spanish Revolution 7″ which contains a bilingual book which beautiful photos from the anarchists’ archives. Los libros anarquistas son armas contra el fascismo. Fans of Federico Garcia Lorca will find El Tren Blindado particularly endearing because it is based on his arrangement of a popular song. And of course the sweetness of not-quite-in-tune vocals with the not-quite-Spanish accent singing in full Castillian.
“i wanted nothing and don’t want anything to do with order, rank orders and commands. i am as i am, a peasant who learned to read in prson, who experienced pain and death closeby, who was an anarchist without knowing it, and today, now that i know, i am even more anarchist than yesterday when i killed to be free”
- from Nosotros, anarchist daily 1936
The book is a trip if you know Barcelona b/c you’ll recognize several prominent buildings, most of which currently house cellphone shops and places for tourists to either eat pizza or buy pottery.
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And then there is Mavado.
gun me nuh borrow, me money buy, a boy will die
Plaintive gunsong multiplied by DJ Mad’s club-maxximizing edits: Timberlake, ’spanish’ guitars, airhorns, old school house samples, sinuous flamencoid claps that Wayne is counting out, whoosing noises, a soundbitten Sean Paul (i think), and the word ‘die’ extended with tunefulness that grips you, alive and ambigous. Did i mention a vocoder (put to the same use as in Arabic pop, greasing the curves between notes you might not find on piano)? In short: sonic DNA slippery as oil but the bastard child can dance. These types of bodies only live on substances that DJs eat.
I’ve got a lot of these 12″s; the reggae-house-club edits in particular can get very strange and unintentionally avant-garde.
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you can’t get mad at any list whose #1 position is occupied by Albanian Folk Iso-Polyphony.
Does the web count as “oral and intangible heritage” yet?
ok. c u in the clubb.
December 11, 2006
first!
lookin wicked shahp, dude. keep the mudd a bubblin..
December 12, 2006
It’s a good look, J. And that Ex track is lovely.
December 12, 2006
lookin good, dr. j…
like the no surrender no delete!
nron
December 12, 2006
ah, new site, nice. I’m sorry about the starbucks. you should be hijacking their PA and blasting that mavado track. strange!
December 12, 2006
“no surrender no delete!”
i just keep thinking “no disassemble johnny 5!”
nice new site, congratulations
December 12, 2006
Great Show in Mpls MN! Thanks for taking the ‘weird’ photo and making the extra trip outside to bring in some cd’s and vinyl. The new site looks great and I wish you well.
December 13, 2006
nice one. wicked set in new york with andy, round two 2morrow night.
December 13, 2006
Looking sharp Sñr Claxxon, and looking 4ward to yer next t´ing.
By the way, check fer Kill a Drumpan Sound by Bunny General….oh, hell, I´ll send you the thing!
Later…
December 13, 2006
yippee! thanks for the int’w in bmore, we got lots of good feedback about the show already and we’ll pass along the audio soon.
December 14, 2006
Lovin’ them watermelon bullets. Great new look for the site.
December 15, 2006
big ups the new digs! good looking good!
funny you should raise that mavado trac just now I was just wondering where i would hear it
enjoy the tour - say hi to grrrrt if he’s along for the ride
December 15, 2006
Yeah, looking good. But I can’t find a link to the RSS feed anywhere. What’s the frequency, Kenneth?
December 15, 2006
Lookin’ good!
December 15, 2006
in firefox you click on the lil’ orange box to the right of the URL and that should get you rss. but yes, i’ll add a text link on the right-hand side column. and somehow i managed to loose the URL for my Gold Teeth Thief mix as well. this hotel has a weird internet tunnel so it’ll have to wait a few..
December 15, 2006
Like the new look.
Mm. Time to get my copy of Homage to Catalonia out again, too!
December 15, 2006
Like the new look.
Looks like time to get my copy of Homage to Catalonia out again, too!
December 15, 2006
er, either you are going to get two comments the same when they appear later, orcommenting doesn’t seem to be working. I’m just typing this in case it turns up on your email, even if the comment gets eaten again…
Great look. Commenting’s a bit of a problem though.
December 16, 2006
/j,
big up mudd up.
nice look.
paz
December 16, 2006
Thx Jace. Got it worked out. I use a different app to read my newsfeeds, so it might be helpful to similarly-minded geeks to have a hardlink on the page. Watch out for the lights at the end of that tunnel!
December 17, 2006
derek- that better? rss2.0 and atom linked (i think!) at bottom of side column. what app do you use for newsfeeds? i’ll branch out from bloglines to see how easy it is to get the rss using other methods. thnks for the feedback. Building A Better Mudd Bog.
December 17, 2006
Site looking good.
Movado track got ruined.