Monday, January 1, 2024

2024 Single Listens (unless otherwise noted)

1200 Hobos - Tapes • Skills • Techniques
Gumbo - Stir the Pot
Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard - Skinwalker
Various - Atlantic Jazz Legends, Vol. 1 [5 stars in the RS Jazz & Blues guide] 
Jeb Loy Nichols - Season of Decline [EP]
Various - Now That’s What I Call Yacht Rock
Fellow Travellers - A Few Good Dubs
Various - Congo Funk! - Sound Madness from the Shores of the Mighty Congo River (Kinshasa​/​Brazzaville 1969​-​1982)
Bopol Mansiamina - Belinda
The Dicks - Kill From the Heart + Hate the Police [EP]; These People + Peace? [EP]
Babehoven - Water's Here in You
Hovvdy - Hovvdy
Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Fu##in' Up [this again?]
Bruce Springsteen - The Best of Bruce Springsteen (1CD version)
ZZ Top - Goin' 50 (1CD version)
Big Youth - Reggae Phenomenon (single-disc original Jamaican release)
Various Artists - The Soul of Congo - Treasures of the Ngoma Label (1948-1963)
Kool Keith - The Commi$$ioner 2
Mixmaster Morris/Jonah Sharp/Haruomi Hosono - Quiet Logic
The Last Dinner Party - Prelude to Ecstasy
Trouble Funk - Trouble Over Here, Trouble Over There
Lola Kirk - Country Curious [EP]
Donna Summer - Love to Love You Baby
Various Artists - Punky Reggae Party: New Wave Jamaica 1975-1980 [2 listens]
The Shirelles - 25 All-Time Greatest Hits
1010Benja - Ten Total
Photek - Modus Operandi
Ministry - Hopium for the Masses
Bill Ryder-Jones - Iechyd Da
Kool Keith - The Personal Album
Various Artists - The Abyssinians and Friends: Tree of Satta [two listens] [single riddim]
Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru - Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru [solo Ethiopian classical piano]
The Chantels - The Best of the Chantels
Kool Keith - World Area
La Perla - Callejera
The Upsetters - Return of Django [1969 instrumentals]
Various Artists - The Book of Clarence (The Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Bright Eyes - The People’s Key
The Caretaker - A Stairway to the Stars [2 listens]
Okwy Osadebe and Highlife Soundmakers International - Igbo Amaka [highlife]
Kimi Djabate - Dindin
That Petrol Emotion - Chemicrazy [2 listens]
Various Artists - Note of Hope ["collaboration in [Woody Guthrie's] words and music"]
Jason Isbell & Amanda Shires - The Sound Emporium EP [two songs each]
Kanye West & Ty Dolla Sign - Vultures 1
Nirvana - Live at the Paramount
Meyhem Lauren - Respect the Fly Shit
The Cenobites - The Cenobites LP [2 listens]
The Who - Odds & Sods
Jeff Mills - Live at The Liquid Room - Tokyo
Culture - As Hard as the Rest [two listens]
Sister Zo - Arcana
Bounaly - Dimanche a Bamako
Sleater-Kinney - Little Rope
Kool Keith - Dr. Octagon, Part II [is this even really him??]
Slow Pulp - Yard
Canibus - Rip the Jacker
Ras Kass - Soul on Ice
Culture - Children of Zion [3.5 hours of remixes, versions, etc.]
Stik Figa & The Expert - Ritual [two listens]
Roy Montgomery - Temple IV
Scientist - Dubs Culture into a Parallel Universe [dub of 1999 album Payday]
Johnny Clarke - Creation Rebel [Dreader Dread plus more -- ie, too much]
Various - Trojan Dub Box Set
King Tubby/Scientist - King Tubby's Meets Scientist at Dub Station
The Upsetters - The Good, the Bad and the Upsetters
Jimmy Radway/Various - Keep the Pressure Down [Rough Guide pick]
Harry Mudie/King Tubby - Harry Mudie Meet King Tubby's - In Dub Conference Volume One [Rough Guide pick]
Bushman - Nyah Man Chant [Rough Guide pick]
Pizza Hotline - Level Select
Sleepy John Estes - I Ain't Gonna Be Worried No More: 1929-1941

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