Exactly how I feel about most “communicative” technologies.
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I fucking adore this band. Quite possibly the best active outfit making music in New York City these days, @buscabulla pretty much represent everything that I’ve always loved and tried my damnedest to represent/manifest when explaining the mellifluous magic of NYC’s multicultural musical collusions. Their two EPs contain dense yet airy thickets of tropical pop bliss, blending classic Afro-Latin textures with earworm pop melodies and subtle futurist synthetic touches. They’re romantic enough for the lovers, but simultaneously eccentric enough to satiate the palettes of more experimentally-minded listeners. You can hear “Temporal,” from their 2014 debut EP, at the tail end of my recent “Slate Palms + Neon Saltwater” mix (link can be found in my IG bio!), and if you dig what you hear, by all means, Go buy everything they’ve done and just get lost in their magic. Now PLEASE, you two, I beg of you: record an album already!! •
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#Buscabulla #Vinyl #Pop #Latin #Tropicália #Indie #NYC #Brooklyn #SummerSoundtrack #SoundsOfSummer #FavoriteBand #BestBandInNYC #PuertoRico #Electronic #Synthpop
Absolutely KILLER unclassifiable sounds via this 1984 cross-pollination of downtown NYC’s no wave/funk axis and Japan’s city pop/jazz underground. Japanese saxophonist Genji Sawai joined forces with New York’s Material collective, led by bassist Bill Laswell, and together they assembled an absolutely monster band that also includes synthesist Michael Beinhorn, Sang Won Park on kayagum (Korean zither), and percussion alchemist Midori Takada, among many others. The resulting album blends oblique funk grooves, Far-Eastern folkloric textures, early hip-hop syncopation, urban jazz sophistication, dense African polyrhythmic clusters, and neon-hued synth splatter into an album very much of its time, yet somehow also far removed from it– it conjures an imaginary Fourth World cosmopolis whose seams often show, but in wild technicolor juxtapositions, like some wild Blade Runner nightclub’s house band soundtracking the coming apocalypse with one last ritual of the body and mind. •
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#GenjiSawai #BillLaswell #Material #Vinyl #Records #Jazz #HipHop #Synthwave #Funk #Electro #Celluloid #MetalDance #1980s #Japan #NYC #NoWave #MidoriTakada #RareGroove #CityPop #PostPunk #WorldMusic #Rare #JapaneseGroove #80s
FINALLY managed to get my hands on a copy of this private promo-only white-label 45 of one of my absolute, all-time, unimpeachable favorite songs. Tammi Terrell’s version of this Stevie Wonder deep cut is possibly my favorite soul recording ever… high praise to be sure, but her voice and that arrangement are truly magical, moving works of musical majesty. The flipside’s no slouch either, with Brenda Holloway’s more rough-around-the-edges interpretation. Today was a #GoodMailDay. •
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Technical assistant Akira Takabayashi with the OKITAC 5090-C computer system, 1973.
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