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Saturday, December 17, 2011
12/17/11 - The Cowboys From Sweden Live DJ Set on Radio 23!
Saturday night the Cowboys from Sweden will be doing a 4 hour DJ set live on the radio from Beech Street Parlor in Portland OR. Click here to listen in!
The set is from 9pm-1am Portland time. Please Join us on the air or at the Bar! It's a Radio 23 Holiday party! Don't forget to check out DJ Kev It Up from 6-9 (Just before our set).
Never heard of Beech Street Parlor? It's new, it's the best. A very classy place where you can spend a very classy evening. Find them online here.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
"X" - Compiled & Mixed By The Cowboys From Sweden (2011)
Almost an entire year has passed since my last Cowboys From Sweden mix tape was posted! That said, sorry for the wait! Anyway, here it is, the 10th mix by The Cowboys From Sweden (thus the title "X", the Roman Numeral "10"). This one is easily the most dynamic mix of the series so far. Starting off in a dark hallucinogenic daydream, exploring the bliss and loneliness of solitude. Soft dream-like soundscapes melt into dark classical psychedelia. Moody late 60's folk, sentimental piano music, some opium den music... The mood shifts and develops, like a journey for your mind! After a few choice break beat heavy vocal tracks, the mix escalates into a hazy cloud of early 70's prog-rock laced with swirling fuzz guitars, pipe organs, synthesizers and BEATS! Let's not forget about the key ingredient in every Cowboys mix: Groovy bass lines! Plenty of those to be found here as well. Oddly enough, this mix turned up a lot of tracks with upright bass lines as too. All of these ingredients combined build up to the climax of Serge Gainsbourg's "Cargo Culte" from the holiest grail of all pop records, his 1971 masterpiece "Histoire De Melody Nelson" (an LP included in every single Cowboy's DJ set since the beginning of time). Yes, I'm sure you all know it already, but I wanted to showcase it as the premier track since our 10th mix is kind of a special occasion for us, and that album has so much to do with our sound (Well, the sounds we like!). A toast to Serge and Mr. Jean-Claude Vannier! To settle things down after all the commotion, there is a little wink at the camera at the end of the mix with a quiet night time nocturne by Poyuschie Gitary... I hope that you all enjoy it, it's been fun making these mixes and I thank you all for your gracious feedback! It makes it all the more fun to know that people are listening and enjoying these rare tracks with us! Comments are always welcome and appreciated! 78 more minutes of rarities ripped at 320 kbps from us to you! Enjoy!
Sincerely, The Cowboys
Ps. I would also like to thank all the other excellent bloggers keeping this music alive with their rips and mixes! Keep Riping!
Tracklisting:
01 Système Crapoutchik/Aussi Loin Que Je Me Souvienne
02 Christophe/Red Mountain
03 Billy Green/Amanda
04 Alain Goraguer/Strip Tease
05 La Nouvelle Frontière/Sans Légende
06 Susan Christie/Rainy Day
07 Stanley Myers/Solitaire
08 Ennio Morricone/Canzone Per Donatella
09 Ilous & Decuyper/Berceuse
10 Alessandro Alessandroni/Sesso In Controluce
11 Claude Lombard/Les Enfants Perle
12 Nino Ferrer/Looking For You
13 Anne Lonnberg/Ne Ferme Pas Ta Porte
14 Jane Birkin/Kawasaki
15 Jean-Pierre Ferland/Le Chat Du Cafe Des Artistes
16 Bernard Lavilliers/L'Espagne
17 Christophe/The Girl From Salina
18 Guido & Maurizio De Angelis/Life Of A Policeman
19 Blue Phantom/Metamorphosis
20 Egg/Fugue In D Minor
21 Bill Conti/Packing Up
22 Remigio Ducros/Vigilia Nel Chiostro
23 Francois De Roubaix/Les Dunes D'Ostende
24 Michel Legrand & The London Symphony Orchestra/Theme and Variations For Two Pianos and Orchestra (From The Go-Between)
25 Pierre Bachelet & Herve Roy/Emmanuelle In The Mirror
26 Pierre Bachelet & Herve Roy/Emmanuelle Steps Out
27 Pierre Cavalli/Un Soir Chez Norris
28 Serge Gainsbourg/Cargo Culte
29 Poyuschie Gitary/Nocturne
Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?fj8ml9m35y5um3n
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Bline Slime - Panhandle Moon (Music Video)
Check out this new psychedelic drug-trip music video by Blind Slime from the upcoming new instrumental rock album "True Country". True Country will be released on Cassette tape this Friday at Wil-Ru Records. Also if you hate tapes, you will be able to purchase the digital version or just stream the entire album here. I highly recommend checking this out! Very cool psychedelic slacker rock filled with droning fuzz guitars, crisp punchy drums with sizzling white cymbals, warm melodic keyboard washes, twangy surf leads and warped vocal samples. Also this album was mastered by the one and only musical madman Brian Grainger! This album is a haze of pure psychedelic rock ecstasy! Worth it guys!
Friday, August 19, 2011
Brian Grainger / Biathalon - Backwater Fumes 7" EP
The second of two vinyl releases today from Wil-Ru Records! Busy day here! Anyway, here's what Grainger had to say about it...
Longtime friends Eric Adrian Lee and Brian Grainger finally unite on Backwater Fumes, a 7" split EP on marbled vinyl. Brian's side starts the affair with Mudd's Boots, a track that sounds as if ZZ Top were recorded on a wax cylinder, performing in a country line dancing club out in the swamp, and just as the band picks up the groove, zombies burst onto the dancefloor spewing swamp muck everywhere, only to be dowsed in bourbon and set on fire. After the panic dies down, Eric puts on his Biathalon disguise and cleverly sneaks onstage to flip the record over. Like aural heroin, the sounds of Moss seep out of the speakers and liquefy the minds of the line dancers. Subtle detuning and modulation vibrates through the walls and somehow, everything feels lighter for a moment. Satisfied, Brian bursts through the club's backdoor and meets Eric in mid-air with a Milli Vanilli style high five. At this precise moment, the PA system explodes but a fuzzed out signal incessantly pushes itself through the smoke and wires. Gigantic bass kicks storm the building as a cloaked figure can be barely made out through the haze...this must be Night Sequels, appearing unexpectedly with his blistering remix of Mudd's Boots. Scrambling, Brian and Eric frantically search for the breaker box, otherwise, if Night Sequels is not stopped, the world could be destroyed. Hell, so could the entire universe. At the last possible second, the boys cut power, dispelling Night Sequels back to his evil realm for another millenia, and Brian quickly restarts a charred black laptop to deliver the last burnt jam of the night: a dense, woodsy Coppice Halifax remix of Moss. Midranges smooth over the din and reverb smears reality left and right until we're left with one blurry camera lens. What just happened?
Give it a listen or check it out here.
Brian Grainger - Mudd's Boots by Wil-Ru Records
Biathalon - Moss by Wil-Ru Records
Coppice Halifax - High Hawaiian Fog
Gorgeous new work by Coppice Halifax (Brian Grainger) out today on vinyl format from Wil-Ru Records. This marks the first vinyl release by Coppice Halifax, and I must say... What a way to start! This record effortlessly weaves together washy electronic beats and warped samples from classical symphonic records into a breathtaking sound-scape. Highly melodic, highly hypnotic, highly recommended! For fans of atmospheric electronic acts such as GAS, Casino Versus Japan and The Caretaker.
If this sample track appeals to you, get more details here!
Coppice Halifax - Miniature Island Fantasy by Wil-Ru Records
Sunday, July 31, 2011
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