knXwl3dG3 - live dublab set 2.24.08

Here at the doctors office, certain interweb localities are of constant interest. If you haven't heard, dublab.com is an excellent source of up and coming new music broken via the web. as a regular podcast subscriber, doc tee takes chances at the dances, and he recommends you to do the same. for instance, check out but one of the many sultry offerings via dublab.com - knXwl3dG3: a philly beatmaker of an astral projectionist nature. if you like hip hop production of the FlyLo, Jel, Quas styling - peep it. though its a set from earlier this year, its got a spacey boom bap thats sort of eternal. check his myspace page too.
live at the dublab studio.

Janelle Monae - Metropolis: The Chase Suite - special edition (2008)

Metropolis: the chase suite - special edition (2008)

This is the ep re-release post signing with bad boy/atlantic records.
Do not sleep on this any longer than the somnabulent doctor T did. 2 years later doc tee wakes up to a concept album to bumrush all other concept albums of the day (but really how many concept albums are out now that are offering up social commentary enclosed within a story about an android who breaks the law by falling in love with a human). The android, named Cindi Mayweather, goes on the run, from bounty hunters set on disassembling her for this infraction. Basically the album is about her odyssey on the lam. oh, and its set in the year 2719. hot.

Sound wise, if you can get down with Sa-Ra Creative Partners, your ears will prick up for a listen.

check the video for "sincerely, jane." it'll getcha.

myloveilove - Bogdan Raczynski

Dr. T had slept on Bogdan Raczynski. "MyLoveILove", though often quoted as a quick quip during intimate moments, had no sonic bearing for the good doctor until recently.
This album is perfect to engage autumn with, sniffles subdued as the summer fades away, a fling with a inconstant season, that maybe some of us got too attached to. Global climate change keeps playing with our hearts and the seasons make less sense, until you put this record on.
Welcome to the fall of 2009.
(still pertinent though recorded in 2001, how about that?!)
Get in touch with the inspiration behind the record, and why every track is myloveilove, plus the SFweekly review from 8 years back that questioned the sincerity of "the working man's julio iglesias".
For more info about Bogdan, click here, Raczynski.

myloveilove

Blunted in the Bombshelter

The doctor has been bumpin this around the office for a week and a half now, after a solid 9 months of lurking around blogger looking for a download link that actually worked. Behold at last!
(on a side note, at the very moment that the doctor is in preparation to share this gem of a musical mix with the wide world of the internet, he has taken notice that several other blogs of note are also currently upping and re-upping this very offering. Synchronicity exists, even in the blogosphere!)

1. Place in the Sun/Fire Corner/Black Man Time – David Isaacs
2. Flat Foot Hustlin’ – Dillinger
3. Jingle Lion – Lee Perry
4. Walk Rastafari Way – Mikey Dread
5. Destruction Sound Battle – Prince Far I
6. Public Jestering – Winston Blake/Lee Perry
7. Better Version – King Tubby
8. Bad Da – Gregory Isaacs
9. Black Magic Woman – Dennis Brown
10. Throne of Blood – Prince Jammy
11. Lottery Spin – Zap Pow
12. Star Trek – Vulcans
13. Want Me Cock – Owen & Leon Silveras
14. Free Man – The Ethiopians
15. Man in the Street – Don Drummond
16. Don’t Deal With Folly – Prince Far I
17. I Love Marijuana – Linval Thompson
18. Stop the Dubbing – Aggrovators
19. Free from Chains – Prince Jazzbo
20. Sensimelia – Barrington Levy
21. Mission Impossible – Roots Radics
22. Golden Chickens
23. Herb Vendor – Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace
24. Babylon Deh Pon Fire – Truth Fact & Correct
25. Shaft – The Chosen Few
26. Sipreano – The Upsetters
27. Girl of My Dreams – Cornell Campbell
28. Rhythm Pleasure – Jerry Lewis
29. Cocaine – Sly & the Revolutionaries
30. Love Life – U-Brown
31. Voice of Jah – Mikey Dread
32. Teacher, Teacher – Dennis Alcapone
33. DJ’s Choice – Dennis Alcapone
34. King Tubby’s Special – King Tubby
35. Reggae Makossa – Brenton Dowe
36. Rougher Version – King Tubby
37. Cool Down Version – King Tubby
38. Space Flight – I-Roy
39. On the Move – Roland Alphonso
40. Guns of Navarone – The Skatalites
41. Popcorn – The Upsetters
42. None Shall Escape Judgement – Johnny Clarke
43. Freedom Style – Trinity
44. Starvation – The Pioneers
45. African People – Jay Boys

BLUNTED

Flying Lotus - Reset ep

RESET
FlyLo's ep from 2007. damn sexyness. doctor approved.

Ducktails - landscapes

Dr. T is still trying to make sense of the "tropical" moniker for the genre of shoegazey sort of ambient noise melodiousness emanating from the l.a. scene and various environs scattered. in the meanwhile please enjoy some of the very best this calamitous genre has to offer with Ducktails, the solo project of Matt Mondanile, of Predator Vision fame.

Landscapes

shades of blue & untinted

recently dear friends of the doctor have requested the remix album, shades of blue by the prolific and great otis jackson jr.
as a bonus, t has also included untinted - sources for madlib's shades of blue.

like right angles they complement one another.

shades of blue

untinted

enjoy!

Black Orpheus original soundtrack (1959)

Black Orpheus sdtrk

This soundtrack offers a taste of bateria, samba, bossa nova and overall sweetness.
The soundtrack and the cinematography carry the weight of the film, which was recently re-released as a part of the massive criterion collection. check it out!

Moondog - Moondog on the streets of New York

Moondog - on the streets of new york
this is just a sampling of the sounds Moondog made.
T just caught wind of this last month. still trying to piece it all together, Moondog was a new york legend and a seriously weird experimental musician living and thriving on 6th avenue. for more info do it the easy way and check the wikipage.

Repo Man - original motion picture soundtrack

Best weirdo punk soundtrack of all time. The doctor had the soundtrack on cassette perpetually on repeat between ages 9 and 11. Highlights include - Bad Man by the juicy bananas, institutionalized by suicidal tendencies and (of course) repo man by iggy pop.
Great movie, great soundtrack - great for early summer.
Repo!

Here come the Girls - Ernie K-Doe

Here come the girls an Ernie K-Doe original.
Ernie K-Doe was a NOLA original himself, and this particular track was featured on Soul Jazz's New Orleans Funk compilation put out a few years ago. For more info about the man check out not only the wiki article but also the site dedicated to the memory of this New Orleans legend.

Here come the girls - Ernie K-Doe

This verse pretty much sums up Doc Tee's stance on ladies.

"i can live w/o coffee
i can live w/o tea...
and oohh water
i don't need no lemonade...
but to live w/o girls,
i can't live w/o girls
like a man with a hole in his head..."

The Gaslamp Killer - I spit on your grave

get your head nod on to this masterful mix by the Gaslamp Killer. keep their heads ringin.
doctor approved!

i spit on your grave - GLK

No nos parar!!!

it's a celebration ladies!
to celebrate the 1,000 hits mark being broken doctor t offers up the anthem that started it all.
Ain't no stoppin us now - Charanga 76
thats right mi gente! disco en espanol!
don't stop the rock!
and thank you for pushing doctor t & the ladies way past the thousand mark.

Inspiration Information 3 - Mulatu Astatke & the Heliocentrics

Inspiration Information 3 by Mulatu Astatke & the Heliocentrics

Mulatu Astatke is famous for basically inventing the ethio-jazz game. Check out volume 4 of the Ethiopiques series for an extensive introduction to the arrangements this musically inventive jazz organizer is world renowned for. His signature instrument is the Vibraphone. nuff said.
The Heliocentrics are a british funk/soul/world/hiphop/jazz genre defying band led by drummer malcolm catto and carried by the stones throw label of which the doctor is oh so fond.
This album is collaborative tag team of groovin genius. Play this for the ladies.

CMYK EP by DERT

CMYK - cyan, magenta, yellow, and black.
the 4 colours used to make every other colour
(for colour printing and so forth, design heads can i get an amen?).

aesthetically speaking, we're wavy on the spectrum here, eh?

CMYK the ep by DERT (whom yall should really know by now...)

Cold Fact - Rodriguez

Rodriguez was slept on for almost 40 years.
From Detroit (home to amazing musical genius of many a genre), Sixto Diaz Rodriguez or simply know as Rodriguez, released a record named Cold Fact way back in 1970. Cold Fact finally caught some serious notice in the last few years and was officially re-released last year in 2008 on the Light In the Attic label.
Rodriguez has been reported to be the missing link between Bob Dylan and Marvin Gaye.
Dr. T argues rather that Rodriguez's music and lyricism is more in the same lineage as Richie Havens and Curtis Mayfield.
While Cold Fact was a hit for many in far flung locales such as Australia and South Africa, in the West, Rodriguez got not love. In response to a not so hot reception to his music stateside, Rodriguez was M.I.A. until being unearthed by David Holmes in 2002 when Holmes found a copy of Cold Fact whilst cratedigging. The rest is a blessing.
Dr. T recently came across a live performance on a favored podcast: Dublab.com, and found this amazing never heard before artist.
Cold Fact is an interesting listen; the songs are an intense intermingling of vehement and vague; political and personal; remorse and revulsion.
Light In The Attic also re-released Rodriguez's 2nd album from 1971, "Coming From Reality" as well.
One has to wonder what Rodriguez will do now that he is touring again, further plans for music of the same strain? What sort of things would Rodriguez sing about today?
If you're in NYC and like what you hear, check him out at the bowery ballroom, may 15th.

Cold Fact - Rodriguez

Rhythm Trax vol. 4

the track playing in the above video is "purple".

Dam Funk is the part of the reason why a certain west coast label has stayed so strong over the last few years. Because said label has reaches far and wide, and doesn't hesitate to yank their artist's content from even lil ole sites like *Dr.t & the ladies* this will remain a rx confidential...
enjoy!


Trax vol. 4

Nite Jewel - Good Evening

Dr. T COSIGN >>> NITE JEWEL.
This girl duo from L.A. makes dreamy music with blurry casio melodies and funny drum machines. Good Evening, the 2008 debut, is sort of similar to The Chromatics & Glass Candy (in lady musicking terms) but has much more in common (recording wise) with Ariel Rosenberg (Ariel Pink).
Good Evening is so good you can't even understand what the hell is going on.
Sounds a lot like coming down off ecstasy, the next day, 3 joints into recovery.
Dr. T says - do what you gotta do, cop that GOOD EVENING.

7 days of Disco

Play one for each day of the week. doctors orders, no refills.

Let no man put asunder (ron hardy re-edit) - First Choice

Don't make me wait - Peech Boys

Native New Yorker - Odyssey

Right back to you - Ten City (larry levan)

I was born this way (shep pettibone extended mix) - Carl Bean - gay anthem.

Heartbeat (12" mix) - Taana Gardner & Larry Levan

Kiss me again - Dinosaur (arthur russell)

Timothy Leary - Turn on, Tune in, Drop out

Timothy Leary's - Turn on, Tune in, Drop out was dropped in 1967, as a means of spreading the gospel of acid. The album is mainly the spoken word narrative of Leary leading a trip, which is interspersed with sitar, drums, and assortment of all the other lynchpin's of psychedelia.

Timothy Leary and Dr. T, the leaders in alternative therapies towards supreme enlightenment for citizens of the decaying west.

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out O.S.T.

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti

Ariel Pink is fucking weird. and also weirdly talented.
This dude has put out over 500 songs on cassette
(which is also the favored format of so many of those
westcoast psychedelic krautrock-ish noisemakers of current times).
That being said, where to start with a deeply musical weirdo, how about a 7"?
A recent discovery of the doctor,
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Can't hear my eyes/Evolution's a lie.
These 2 nuggets represent two very different and very enjoyable aspects of the Ariel Pink Haunted Graffiti experience.
Can't hear my eyes is super loungey,
while evolution's a lie has a rumbling noisy anxious quality.
enjoy!

Teengirl Fantasy & a note on missing the bus

Living the life of an MD in the big city can be taxing. The doctor has a hard time keeping track of all his appointments, clients, and internetting responsibilities, much less social obligations.
Missing out on shows blows. Because of busy business over the last week and a half, the doctor totally forgot and therefore did not attend 3 events featuring one of his favored musical combos that graced the fair urban utopia of his practices.
Teengirl Fantasy, i lament missing out on such a chance opportunity to dance to your lovely tuneage.
In subsequent angst and pricklyness, dr. t has decided to break out the little black bag and feature the tgif ep and a dublab.com set from '08. Take heed and on an empty stomache.

Teengirl Fantasy - TGIF ep


Teengirl Fantasy live sprout session at dublab.com

Ron Hardy live @ The Music Box Chicago 1984

Ron Hardy was one of the premier dj pioneers of house music in chicago.
Dr. T has always been a fan of the Ron hardy mixes he spent his formative house head years listening to streamed via the internet and now is pleased as punch to be able to feature this late legend of house on the *ladies*.
please enjoy this live recording of Ron Hardy rocking chicago's the music box in june of 1984 -
a fine dj set in two parts.
tracklisting as follows

A - 47:12
1. Lady B - to the beat yall
2. Alessandro Novaga - faces drums 3
3. ???
4. Prince - when doves cry
5. Jamie Principle - waiting on my angel
6. Frankie goes to Hollywood - relax (sex mix)
7. Doctor's cat - feel the drive
8. Jackmaster Dick's revenge - sensuous women goes disco
9. MFSB - Love is the message
10. Roy Ayers Ubiquity - running away
11. Tulillo De Piscopo - stop bajon
12. Jocelyn Brown - somebody else's guy (remix break)
13. Womack and Womack - baby i'm scared of you

B - 46:22
1. Womack and Womack - baby i'm scared of you
2. South Shore Comission - free man
3. Dinosaur L - Go Bang! #5
4. The Originals - down to love town (edit)
5. First Choice - let no man put asunder (disco madness remix edit)
6. Mach - on and on
7. Hugh Masekela - don't go lose it baby
8. Double Exposure - my love is free
9. Craig Loftis - yes it's right (unreleased)
10. Klein & M.B.O. - the MBO theme
11. John Rocca - i want it to be real
12. Fresh Band - come back lover

45:33: Nike Original Run -James Murphy

Keeping with the theme of featuring tracks by electronic artists who have partnered up with major sneaker companies, Dr. T would like to direct the reader's attention to 45:33: Nike Original Run.
James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem released this long player two years ago, which features a number of DFA tracks sampled and spliced and mutated into the perfect music for jogging. Not really, but this almost all instrumental jam was commissioned for something akin to jogging, at least in the doctor's eyes. Great Cardio right here ladies n gents.

45:33

Theo Parrish

Theo Parrish is a producer of great esteem held dearly by thee Dr. T.
A longtime lover and enthusiast of electronic music and its cultural roots, Dr. T invited the gentle reader to investigate the sonic stylings of Theo Parrish in this short video made by adidas last spring '08. Parrish, has garnered a lot of media attention from the usual suspects within the electronic music industry, most notably for his stance on the trajectory of his music, its place within the framework of "house" music and the issue of race as an african american musician/artist/producer. Dr. T co-signs on Theo Parrish's expression, albeit with minor adjustments and disagreements along the way. (its all complex!)
Please enjoy Lakeshore Drive, a Theo Parrish sultry scorcher of springtime seductiveness.

Music from TWIN PEAKS

Doctor Tee's favorite television series of all time, Twin Peaks, was not only the brainchild of deep weirdo David Lynch, but also aurally orchestrated by Angelo Badalamenti, renowned film composer. AB and DL had collaborated on a number of DL's projects (Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive) all of which were really fucking creepy, of course aided by AB's hilarious and macabre ambient and jazzy instrumentals. The Twin Peaks soundtrack is awesome not only for the sinister and cartoonish appeal of the instrumental tracks but also the tracks with ethereal vocal accompaniment by the most underrated brilliant weird girl Julee Cruise. She has a Broadcast, Cocteau Twins, (perhaps one might wager) Kate bush sort of quality to her range.


Music from Twin Peaks - Angelo Badalamenti

SUN ARAW

Beach Head is an LP released by Sun Araw in the fall of 2008. Sun Araw is an experimental genre crossing, genre defying band on the not not fun label. www.notnotfun.com for more info. The sound is sorta like Godspeed (less loud and desperate), sorta Jesu-esque (more upbeat and dreamy) sorta like Glenn Branca (not so heavy and strident, more on the meandering tip).
Its complicated. very hazy, very seductive and very anti-linear.
This record is best represented by the featured video for the song "Horse Steppin";
a surfin safari of post apocalyptic zombie jesus freaks. yeah, its like that.

Beach Head - Sun Araw

Marching to the beat of a different drummer

a beat tape that offers the doctors favorite beat makers.
this is extra strength, not traditional by any means.

march on!

A mili - Flying Lotus remix of Lil Wayne

best remix of last year, doctor approved.
just when you thought lil wayne couldn't get any more leftfield, flying lotus comes along and twerks him.

A Mili - Flying Lotus (robotussin remix)

Music from the forest

This podcast was released about this time last year in '08 but still provides a vital dosage of vitamin hell yes. James pants dee jay set podcast.
please enjoy and await further re-broadcasts of the doctor's favorite stones throw podcasts, which are available via itunes podcast FREE subscription directly through the stones throw site. They are updated regularly but not archived, so get it while its piping hot!

Music from the Forest - James Pants

Tall Girls love sandwiches

Sandwiches - Detroit Grand Pubahs

Song cycle for the current Venus Retrograde

Venus Retrograde is poop. poop is all around (theoretically speaking, until april 17th). Doctor's orders - spread the crap around a bit by selecting one or more of these miniature meltdowns to obsessively play in the background as you agonize through this, the cruelest season of 2009.

What do you see in her - inell young

Say it back - peven everett

Single Ladies (put a ring on it) - Beyonce

Smile - K'naan

Deserter - Matthew Dear

Shake it off - Mariah Carey

My Beau - Daedalus

No easy answers - Invincible

Broken arrows - Jose Gonzalez

The F-word - Cannibal Ox

Apology - Count Bass D

as a visual bonus, peep old school Kelis wildin out! hell hath no fury...

Kelis - Caught Out There
Uploaded by ineptique

in pieces, doc tee.

El General - Reggae en Espanol throwback attack

doc tee extra especially presents:

EL GENERAL

the joints that had los ninos de los 90s en las americas throwin it up!

te ves buena

tu pum pum

muevelo

son bow

wine your body

Serge Gainsbourg - Les Annees Psychedeliques 1966 - 1971

For those unfamiliar with the very specific brand of sleaze that serge gainsbourg offers, refer to his best known hit to date, je taime - moi non plus.
Les Annees Psychedeliques is where Serge struts the proto funk/psych jazz border, creating large solid orchestrations of melody, steady backbeats, fiery brass, and sexpot vocals with various female chanteuses. Included with the compilation are bonus beat followups to songs like "requiem pour un con" and "la horse".

1966 -1971

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Live 2007

These are the dudes you've seen the last 4 or 5 years, playing their hearts out all over NYC. Please check their site, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, and cross your fingers for another sweaty brassed off summer in Union Square to be blessed by the ensemble.

Live 2007

Memories are my only witness (2002) - Yuka Honda

aaahh yes, Yuka Honda, 1/2 the flavor of the doctors favorite band from pre-med days, Cibo Matto. after the madness was all eaten up, Yuka Honda went on to record this instrumental electronic album full of the sort of stuff that clearly illustrates what role she played in C.M.
ethereal soundscapes, with or without syncopated rhythms, exploratory, tad bit beyond slightly cheesy, fun.

memories

Papito, Colombia & Back to Colombia

Paul aka Papito submitted his Colombia mixes to one of doc tee's fave music blogs,
This is Tomorrow.

colombia mixes 1 & 2.

tomalo!!

Body Language by DP ONE

DP ONE will move the crowd. not just for the b-boys. chock full of the golden age.

DP ONE - BODY LANGUAGE

Brasil by way of L.A.

exciting madlib mix from last year - dirty brasilian crates vol. 1 - speto da rua

cop this before we get shut down, as the initial search for this musical gem was quite exhaustive.

S.D.R.
&
Jackson Conti

brasilian fusion madlib collabo feat mamao from azymuth, not to be missed!

Is it all over my face? male & female versions

Female

Male

The female version is a classic, but the doctor absolutely adores the male version.
Thusly proving again that doc tee's ladies aren't always exclusively ladies.

Disco at its finest, produced by the late great Arthur Russell.

Maria Bethania - Carcará

This Lady is for real.




Carcará sung by Maria Bethania, written by João do Vale.

the 1st single of her career, a protest song about the brazilian military dictatorship debuted in 1965.
loosely translated, the song chronicles a bird of prey (hawk) as it catches, kills and eats all in its way. raw!

check out the documentary about this amazing singer, sister of Caetano Veloso,
Maria Bethania: Music is perfume.

Dert - Talk Strange - a beat tape inspired by Bjork

Yet another Beat tape from last year, '08 had people knodding their heads all the way into the first days of spring 2009. with this crazy weather we're having and current astrological meltdown of sorts (more on that later) the doctor prescribes something to take on the go, Talk Strange by Dert.
Much Like Black Milk's color purple (prince) fiasco, talk strange is a fun innovative and exciting beat tape that samples bjork and creates new riffs on a classic artist. And i felt tired of Bjork, not the case after i heard this tape.

talk strange

Black Milk - Music from the colour purple

This is ridiculous. Black Milk sampled a bunch of Prince records and created a bang out beat tape. At the end of each beat the original Prince snippet is revealed, to relieve all who are mystified by what they hear.

Purple

puttin heads to bed

Lullaby by Morgan Geist

interview with Morgan Geist, a favored dj of doc tee.

Universal Robot Band - Barely Breaking Even 1984

i've got to get some for myself!

another funk defying audible for that prole strut baby!
we're not out of the woods yet, by any stretch of the imagination.

Hard Times mix with cuebism & recession - ebonycuts

prior to the gospel of the technologically incorporated doc tee and the ladies, doc tee was standing in line online tryna get his struggle jam on.

found this one a few months back on the ebony cuts site, so so good it made me forget i was getting by on stone soup. high in vitamin daaayyummm.

better days are comin round

Minnie Riperton - Perfect Angel - "Reasons"

what the hell do you say about someone with a five octave vocal range!?
nada, you just shut up and let em kick game at you in 10 different time zones, because this woman's voice follows me wherever i go.

Reasons

BSBD - Late Night Cinema

Blue Sky Black Death - Late Night Cinema


ambient, heavy, springy, foreboding, remorseful, innovative, contemplative, BSBD make musical landscapes that emcees go hard over. This duo has produced for hell razah, jean grae and a ton of angry ass underground pale skin rappers who hate the u.s. govt.
Late Night Cinema is their first instrumental LP that dropped sept. '08.

go there

erotic aerobics with Kitten Natividad

beginnings tan humilde

seminal eruptions,
additions not yet calculated
enter in the 9th year,
editions to be celebrated

first things first
this blog features the wit and wisdom of Dr.T
as he showcases his favorite ladies.

Ladies come in all shapes and sizes,
melodies unrestrained and rhythms unexpurgated.

please enjoy and respect these musical gems,
droppin them from all heights
at my discretion
and at my whim,
let the ladies play.

gracias a ti.