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