Ugly Music for Beautiful People http://www.uglymusic.org This is the music site of a guy named Ed. I post things. Sat, 31 May 2008 23:25:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 en Getting Out of a Car with a Shotgun http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/UglyMusic/~3/302087105/ http://www.uglymusic.org/2008/05/31/getting-out-of-a-car-with-a-shotgun/#comments Sat, 31 May 2008 23:25:13 +0000 Ed http://www.uglymusic.org/2008/05/31/getting-out-of-a-car-with-a-shotgun/ About a week and a half ago, I got an email from my friend Justin. It said “So, my friend Hank was in town this last few days and he, Sam and I made mix tapes full of songs to be played “when getting out of a car with a shotgun”. One can only assume how the shotgun will be used. I thought you might be interested in adding to the list of mixes. I’ll give you ours when you’re done.”

What popped in my head was an image of a man holding a shotgun stepping out of a car with a shotgun in slow motion while the wind whips his tie to the side. So I decided to put together a mix of music that sounded like a soundtrack to a Tarantino film. It starts off all funky and gory, but gets really weird and awkward near the end.

Getting Out of a Car with a Shotgun
Quiet Village - Circus of Horror
Okay Temiz - Denizalti Rüzgarlan
Ananda Shankar - Dancing Drums
Los Chikichaka - Musica Mulata
Soul Creations - Funky Jive Part II
Juaneco Y Su Combo - Mi Robaron Mi Runa Mula
Kazi Arindam - Mere Liye Too Bani
Wallias Band - Muziqawi Silt
Sidney Pinchback & The Schille - Soul Strokes
Greek Fountains - An Experimented Terror
Czerwone Gitary - Coda

]]> http://www.uglymusic.org/2008/05/31/getting-out-of-a-car-with-a-shotgun/feed/ http://www.uglymusic.org/2008/05/31/getting-out-of-a-car-with-a-shotgun/ I’m influential! http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/UglyMusic/~3/249879760/ http://www.uglymusic.org/2008/03/11/im-influential/#comments Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:41:04 +0000 Ed http://www.uglymusic.org/2008/03/11/im-influential/ 5 million years ago, I did a avant-garde/experimental music radio show on KXUA called Ugly Music for Beautiful People (a name I liked so much, I’ve reused it for this blog). For a while, I podcasted the show and it gained a decently sized following. This was fairly early in the history of the podcast, and I was putting out 2 hour long shows. At that point in time, there weren’t many other dudes uploading 2 hour long shows filled with crazy new music on a weekly basis. So I filled a niche. Ever since I stopped doing it, I get the occasional email or blog post asking if I’ll ever start the show up again.

Well, today, this dude named Little Chris took it up a notch. He does a podcast devoted to music from the Midlands area of the UK. And he recently recorded a podcast that was inspired by the type of music I played on Ugly Music for Beautiful People. He even gives me a shoutout.

Download his podcast here:
http://brumcast.podomatic.com/entry/2008-02-21T13_36_08-08_00

And check the shoutout at about 3:30 in. I love hearing my name said with an English accent.

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That Gum You Like is Going to Come Back in Style

Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks Theme
Nico - Janitor of Lunacy
Black Devil - “H” Friend
Burial - Archangel
Arthur Russell - You Have Did the Right Thing When You Put That Skylight In
Angelo Badalamenti - Dance of the Dream Man
The Walker Brothers - Fat Mama Kick
Grace Jones - Warm Leatherette
The Knife - Silent Shout
Angelo Badalmenti - Audrey’s Dance
Farah - Dancing Girls [Suite 304 Demo]
Can - Thief
Blonde Redhead - The Dress
Angelo Badalamenti - Laura Palmer’s Theme

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This is also the first mix I’m posting under my new DJ name, DJ Triple Rambo. Please adjust the mp3 tags of all of my previous mixes that you have downloaded. kthnxbye.

from http://flickr.com/photos/kahala/684997663/
Wine, Cheese & Melon
1. Tel Aviv - Renewal
2. Dominque Leone - Clairevoyage: A Medley performed by The 16th Rebels of Mung
3. Glass Candy - Computer Love
4. The Marvellettes - Please Mr. Postman
5. Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons - Beggin’ (Pilooski Re-Edit)
6. The Field - Over the Ice
7. The Field Mice - Missing the Moon
8. Buckingham Nicks - Frozen Love
9. Mathew Leutwyler - Jovencitas
10. Fuck Buttons - Bright Tomorrow
11. LCD Soundsystem - Freak Out/Starry Eyes

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Here are two disc length compilations of my favorite singles of 2007 and tracks from my favorite albums of 2007. Both are in reverse order and there as many songs as I could fit on a CD length mix. My full top 50 lists are below.

Singles
Albums

Top 50 Singles
50. Miranda Lambert - Gunpowder and Lead
49. Bone Thugs-n-Harmony - Wind Blow
48. Klaxons - Golden Skans
47. Chromeo - Tenderoni
46. Robyn - Handle Me
45. Amerie - Take Control
44. Young Jeezy ft. R. Kelly - Go Getta
43. Bonnie “Prince” Billy - Strange Form of Life
42. Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing!
41. R. Kelly ft. Usher - Same Girl
40. Klaxons - It’s Not Over Yet
39. Róisín Murphy - Let Me Know
38. Petey Pablo - Get Me Out of Jail
37. M.I.A. - Paper Planes
36. Tay Zonday - Chocolate Rain
35. The Arcade Fire - No Cars Go
34. Caribou - She’s the One
33. Hot Chip - My Piano
32. Wes Fif - Haterz Everywhere
31. Chromeo - Fancy Footwork
30. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights
29. Art Brut - Direct Hit
28. Dan Deacon - The Crystal Cat
27. Los Campesinos! - The International Tweexcore Underground
26. The Cool Kids - 88
25. M.I.A. - Jimmy
24. Jens Lekman - Friday Night at the Drive-In Bingo
23. Justin Timberlake - LoveStoned
22. The Arcade Fire - Keep the Car Running
21. Panda Bear - Take Pills
20. Grinderman - No Pussy Blues
19. Glass Candy - I Always Say Yes
18. Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around…Comes Around
17. Mistah F.A.B. - Ghost Ride It
16. Rihanna - Don’t Stop the Music
15. Blonde Redhead - 23
14. Teki Latex ft. Lio - Les Matins de Paris
13. Chromatics - In the City
12. LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
11. Candie Payne - I Wish I Could Have Loved You More
10. Justice - D.A.N.C.E.
9. The National - Mistaken for Strangers
8. Fuck Buttons - Bright Tomorrow
7. UGK feat. OutKast - Int’l Players Anthem (I Choose You)
6. LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
5. Snoop Dogg - Sensual Seduction
4. Fucked Up - Year of the Pig
3. Caribou - Melody Day
2. R. Kelly ft. T.I. & T-Pain - I’m a Flirt (Remix)
1. Rihanna - Umbrella

Top 50 Albums
50. Black Dice - Load Blown
49. The Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil
48. Six Organs of Admittance - Shelter From the Ash
47. Neurosis - Given to the Rising
46. Justice - †
45. Eric Copeland - Hermaphrodite
44. Soft Circle - Full Bloom
43. Grinderman - Grinderman
42. The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are the Dark Horse
41. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
40. Tord Gustavsen Trio - Being There
39. Future of the Left - Curses
38. Holy Fuck - LP
37. Lucky Soul - The Great Unwanted
36. Chromatics - Night Drive
35. Ghostface Killah - Big Doe Rehab
34. Art Brut - It’s a Bit Complicated
33. Minsk - The Ritual Fires of Abandonment
32. Handsome Furs - Plague Park
31. Bishop Allen - The Broken String
30. Circle - Katapult
29. Charalambides - Likeness
28. Big Business - Here Come the Waterworks
27. Meg Baird - Dear Companion
26. The Field - From Here We Go to Sublime
25. Thurston Moore - Trees Outside the Academy
24. Boris with Michio Kurihara - Rainbow
23. Magik Markers - Boss
22. Eric Malmberg - Verklighet & Beat
21. Death Ambient - Drunken Forest
20. Dr. Dog - We All Belong
19. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
18. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
17. Aa - gAame
16. White Rainbow - Prism of Eternal Now
15. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
14. Robert Wyatt - Comicopera
13. Scout Niblett - This Fool Can Die Now
12. Voice of the Seven Woods - Voice of the Seven Woods
11. Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters
10. Caribou - Andorra
9. Olof Arnalds - Vid Og Vid
8. Tel Aviv- Underwaters
7. Marissa Nadler - Songs III: Bird on the Water
6. Radiohead - In Rainbows
5. Von Spar - Von Spar
4. Deerhunter - Cryptograms
3. The National - Boxer
2. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
1. Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala

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Download it

Tracklisting:
Chromatics - In the City
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
Teki Latex feat. Lio - Les matins des Paris
Snoop Dogg - Sensual Seduction
Goblin - Tenebre
LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
Jiang Xiao Qing - Kokorogokoro Doutei

]]> http://www.uglymusic.org/2007/12/10/new-mix-international-seduction/feed/ http://www.uglymusic.org/2007/12/10/new-mix-international-seduction/ I’m not dead. Also Snoop Dogg. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/UglyMusic/~3/192752041/ http://www.uglymusic.org/2007/11/29/im-not-dead-also-snoop-dogg/#comments Fri, 30 Nov 2007 03:52:06 +0000 Ed http://www.uglymusic.org/2007/11/29/im-not-dead-also-snoop-dogg/

So I haven’t posted in a while. That is because I am in grad school and am in the end of semester crazy shit time of the year. What free time I have to for music stuff has been devoted to putting together end of the year lists and end of the year mixes. Those will be up on the blog at some point in the next few weeks, but for now, I’m just going to post the best thing ever: “Sensual Seduction”, the new single by Snoop Dogg. Now, Doggy Dogg usually puts out one or two decent singles a year, but I can’t remember the last time he put out anything that really blew me away. But this song is awesome. And the video? It really takes it from good song to BEST THING EVER DONE BY ANYONE.

A list of things I live about this video: synthesizers, flying beds, star wipes, vocoders, video hos wearing throwback lingerie, disco balls, shiny suits, keytar, the line “If you don’t know by now, Doggy Dog is a Freak”, a rapped verse which makes it seem like Snoop is guesting on his own song, how the song kinda sounds like French House and most importantly, the VHS static at the beginning.

Here’s an 160k mp3 of the song of uncertain origin (it might be a myspace rip). I hope I don’t get arrested.
Snoop Dogg - Sensual Seduction

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The Forkadork just posted an insane track by the band Fuck Buttons. It’s called “Bright Tomorrow” and is from a new picture disc single they are releasing on ATP Records.


Anyway, listen to this fucking track. It is dope. Think Matthew Dear collaborating with Sunn0))). This is my new jam.

]]> http://www.uglymusic.org/2007/10/29/fuck-buttons/feed/ http://www.uglymusic.org/2007/10/29/fuck-buttons/ Samara Lubelski http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/UglyMusic/~3/175474665/ http://www.uglymusic.org/2007/10/26/samara-lubelski/#comments Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:11:37 +0000 Ed http://www.uglymusic.org/2007/10/26/samara-lubelski/ 883782527_l.jpg
I mentioned Samara Lubelski in my earlier post on Thurston Moore’s solo album. She played violin on it and is currently on tour with him. Parallel Suns is her third solo album for The Social Registry (one of my favorite contemporary labels). Its a collection of gorgeous sun-dappled psych/pop/folk songs that showcase Samara’s incredible and ethereal voice. At times it recalls Stereolab at their most spare, but it has more of a 60s private press vibe (think Wendy & Bonnie). The arrangements a relatively spare; they’re usually just guitar, some percussion, backing vocals and organ. It works perfectly, as Samara’s gentle voice would be overwhelmed by lush arrangements.

Samara Lubelski - Born From the Tree

]]> http://www.uglymusic.org/2007/10/26/samara-lubelski/feed/ http://www.uglymusic.org/2007/10/26/samara-lubelski/http://www.uglymusic.org/wordpress/wp-content/05-born-from-the-tree.mp3 Sally Shapiro http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/UglyMusic/~3/174895735/ http://www.uglymusic.org/2007/10/25/sally-shapiro/#comments Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:15:19 +0000 Ed http://www.uglymusic.org/2007/10/25/sally-shapiro/ discoromance-500×500.jpg
So Swedish dancing queen/disco princess Sally Shaprio’s Disco Romance will finally hit US shores on October 30th courtesy of Paper Bag Records. However, its not the same album that you downloaded off Soulseek bought as a Swedish import in 2006. Most visible is the new cleaveage-less cover, but the content has been changed, too. The two remixes have been removed and replaced with 3 new songs (”He Keeps Me Alive”, “Skating in the Moonshine”, “Jackie Jackie (Spend This Winter with Me)”). The original version of “I’ll Be By Your Side” has been replaced by an 8 minute extended mix. So basically, now its more of a proper album and less of an extended EP. Rad.

Here’s one of the new tracks. Its more glorious headphone disco for dancing around your bedroom in your underwear. And it has a vocoder!
Sally Shapiro - He Keeps Me Alive

Buy It

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