Some new discoveries (new to me, anyway): Dorothy Ashby and Raymond Scott (each sold separately). Amazing stuff.
James Brown, Juan Garcia Esquivel, Les Baxter, Ennio Morricone, alcohol, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Motown, Ravi Shankar, Link Wray, mambo, Fela Kuti, Steve Reich, Steven Wright, Steve Martin, Phillip Glass, the sixties, Pink Floyd, high school band, Tortoise, DJ Shadow, Amon Tobin, nighttime, Fellini films, James Bond movies, and the Kennedy assassination.
Sounds Like
Shadow, Bonobo, RJD2, Amon Tobin, Four Tet. That ballpark. With some hints of Tortoise, Phillip Glass, Steve Reich, Pink Floyd, Juan Garcia Esquivel, James Brown, and a slight sprinkling of John Cage.
PROXY is a purveyor of fine instrumental sounds for the casual listener. He is available as a hired gun for soundtracks and other collaborative efforts and responds well to the "magic word."
He is also the company composer for the intense theatrical troupe, Bare Theatre...There will be a forthcoming soundtrack for their Rogue Company production of "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead later this summer.
NEWS...
Massive updates are in order and will be forthcoming to the website. I know. The new album, "New Sounds and Old Conspiracies," is also on the way this...summer. Yeah, summer.
NEW!!!:
Jazz & Milk has just released a new label compilation disc...
...and if vinyl's your thing, you might like this:
Available on vinyl through Jazz & Milk Recordings.
Here come the bells, up go the sells, lost in the mail, wagging a tail..ok, I gotta be honest I don't know the words to "Carol of the Bells" Merry Christmas!
part1: Mr.Goju - Migrations Rewind Intro - Mulatu Astatke Igor Vdovin - Gypsy Band Goes Up To The Sky / Eastblok Double Beat - Hear, Sugar / Big-Sur Solo Moderna - Rare Features / Social Beats Proxy - Art of Leisure / Jazz & Milk Parov Stelar - Super Eight (ft. Peter Kreuzer) / Etage Noir Gerardo Frisina - Zanja / Schema Karminsky Experience - Belly Disco (Beatfanatic Remix) / ESL Double Beat - Hot Jazzy Temper / Big SUr Soulphiction - Make a Buck / Unique Uncut Kevin Yost - The Plan / ! Records Neil Landstrumm - Jake's Room / Compost Billie Holiday - All of Me (Charles Feelgood & GIL Remix) / Legacy Los Tres Brothers - Marble's Latin Time / Cast-a-Blast Axel Krygier - Zorzal (Gerardo Frisina Remix) / HiTop Rec.
Heather and I often discuss cheese and other dairy related matters via email. The one you intercepted...errrrrr... accidently saw....no.... The one you read today was nothing more than that. (these are not the droids you're looking for)
Let us lay down the melancholy burden of sanity and begin the grandest project ever conceived! Also John Lennon glass night at the Saucer, can't forget that.
No one else seems to know this... but it's become apparent to me that you're actually kinda cool...SHHHHH! Don't tell!!! Or everyone will want their own Todd.
part1: Pierre Henry & Michel Colombier - Jericho Jerk (St. Germain Remix) / Philips Eric Sumo - Just a Woman / Pulver Secret Bob - Batman / Lobster Ill Boogs - Funky Ghost Town / Breakin Bread Crate Soul Brothers - Flying Down To Rio / Cool D:Vision Origami - Paper's Game / Big Sur Parov Stelar - Room Service / Etage Noir Neighbourhood Romeo - Mayo Fingers / Home Breakin FOP - Doombap (Crate Soul Brothers Remix) / EmArcy Il Verde - La Fiesta / Promo Chris Joss - Superman / ESL Promo Mo'Horizons - Insatiable / Agogo
part2: Benny Goodman & His Orchestra - Benny Rides Again(Kool Kojak Comandante Remix) / Varese Sarabande Mop Mop - Frank & Stein / Tam Tam Blockhead - Dough Nation / Ninja Tune Mo'Horizons - Southern Fried Funky Lovesong / Agogo The Duncan - Too Deep / Wagram Solo Moderna - Crazy Beat / Social Beats Keno 1 ft AR - Ghetto Fly (Alice Russel Remix) / Wholemeal Double Beat - War is Over / Big Sur Nina Simone - Funkier than A Mosquitos Tweeter (Live) / BMG Heritage Natural Self - Foundation Pt.2 / Breakin Bread Waldeck - Jerry Weintraub / Dope Noir Mo'Horizons - Tu Fiesta Personal / Agogo
Dun dun dun da! I wrote a sketch about the evils of wife swapping and peer pressure, or was it peer swapping and wife pressure...I guess I should be drinking more water due to all of this heat.
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much love,
C
