05-08-2021 FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 1988-1992 (2h 34m)

05-08-2021 FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 1988-1992  >>Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, The Rolling Stones, Rabih Abou-Khalil, Lou Reed & John Cale, John Scofield, Massive Attack, A Tribe Called Quest, Gong, Peter Gabriel<<

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1988-1992

Wildly influential British guitarist who made a splash with the Yardbirds and as a session player before founding Led Zeppelin. Unquestionably one of the all-time most influential, important, and versatile guitarists and songwriters in rock history is Jimmy Page. Just about every rock guitarist from the late '60s/early '70s to the present day has been influenced by Page's work with Led Zeppelin...

Jimmy Page 

Liquid Mercury (Jimmy Page)3:03

Hummingbird Lead voc. Chris Farlowe (Leon Russell) 5:22

Emerald Eyes (Jimmy Page) 3:31

from Outrider 1988

Outrider is an album by Jimmy Page, released by Geffen Records on 19 June 1988. It is his first solo studio album (and his only one as of 2021) and the first time since 1969 he has recorded with a record label other than Atlantic Records/Swan Song Records. Page recorded the music at his personal studio The Sol...

Former Led Zeppelin vocalist whose successful solo career has found him covering a wide range of styles... 1982 solo debut, Pictures at Eleven, Plant pursued a feverishly adventurous solo career, embracing synthesizers and art rock that seemed to be the antithesis of Zeppelin's majestic hard rock, but he'd also later dabble in sampling and world music, while taking detours to reunite with Zep guitarist Jimmy Page for both a rockabilly lark and a folk-based revival of their catalog. 

Robert Plant 

Tall Cool One (Phil Johnstone / Robert Plant) 4:38

Ship of Fools (Phil Johnstone / Robert Plant) 5:00

Helen of Troy (John Cale / Phil Johnstone / Robert Plant) 5:10

from Now and Zen 1988

After years of trying to separate himself from his legendary status as Led Zeppelin's frontman, Robert Plant finally reconciles with his past on Now & Zen. He borrows a few Zeppelin riffs, and even enlists Jimmy Page to play guitar on his hit "Tall Cool One." This album is also notable in that it marks his first collaboration with keyboardist Phil Johnstone, who would continue to play and write with Plant on subsequent albums.... a must-own for fans of Led Zeppelin.

04-07-2021 FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 1983-1988 (2h 30m)

04-07-2021 FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 1983-1988  >>David Bowie, The Honeydrippers, Julian Cope, Tom Waits, Robert Wyatt,Miles Davis, Sonic Youth, Sinead O'Connor, The Nits, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant<<

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1983-1988

The mercurial music icon widely considered the original pop chameleon and figurehead for countless musical movements.

David Bowie 

Modern Love  (David Bowie) 4:48

Let's Dance  (David Bowie) 7:37

Cat People (Putting out Fire)  (David Bowie / Giorgio Moroder) 5:09

from Let’s Dance 1983 

After summing up his maverick tendencies on Scary Monsters, David Bowie aimed for the mainstream with Let's Dance. Hiring Chic guitarist Nile Rodgers as a co-producer, Bowie created a stylish, synthesized post-disco dance music that was equally informed by classic soul and the emerging new romantic subgenre of new wave, which was ironically heavily inspired by Bowie himself. 

Briefly active in the mid-'80s, vintage R&B-inspired supergroup featuring Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck.

The Honeydrippers 

Young Boy Blues (Doc Pomus / Phil Spector) 3:32

Rockin' at Midnight 5:59

Sea of Love (George Khoury) 3:03

from The Honeydrippers, Vol. 1 1984
...Plant always harbored deep, abiding love for early rock & roll, a fact that was often obscured by his restlessness, too, a side that he indulged on his first two post-Zep solo albums -- glistening, modern albums with a heavier debt to Robert Fripp than Little Richard. Two albums in, he switched tactics for the EP detour The Honeydrippers, Vol. 1, an unabashedly retro-rock project that hauled out five golden oldies from the pre-Beatles era and served them up authentically, or at least as authentic nostalgia... Some may find this kind of pastiche a bit distancing, even campy, but there's a genuine warmth in Plant's performance, and his ad-hoc group of Honeydrippers -- including Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page in uncredited cameos -- have a great time running through these handful of oldies, particularly "Rockin' at Midnight."...

Enigmatic, prolific singer/songwriter and author known for his genre-defying work and contrary personality.

Julian Cope 

Reynard the Fox (Julian Cope) 6:16

O King of Chaos (Julian Cope) 2:36

from Fried 1984

In contrast to the crisp, clean sound of World, Fried often sounds rougher, a bit more shut in. Combine that with Cope's generally successful attempts to project an image of barely stable sanity, helped in large part by the notorious wearing-nothing-but-a-turtle-shell cover photos, and the idea of Fried as his album of crazed musical collapse understandably is a strong one. However, World producer Steve Lovell once again handles things here, along with playing guitar, while even more importantly, key Cope collaborator Donald Ross Skinner, a young musician from Cope's hometown, makes his debut. Kate St. John again contributes cor anglais throughout, adding a haunting atmosphere on many cuts. If anything, the album shows that Cope may be completely musical tripping out as he chooses but he knows exactly what he's doing throughout...

"I Put a Spell on You" #104 ALTER.NATION.MiX - weekly favtraX 11-10-2020

ALTER.NATION #104

The Jaded Hearts Club, The Nude Party,Frankie & the Witch Fingers,Rodrigo y Gabriela,Robert Plant, Drive-By Truckers, Hot Chip, Beatrice Dillon, Róisín Murphy, The Jaded Hearts Club

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"I Put a Spell on You"

A supergroup comprised of members of the Last Shadow Puppets, Jet, Muse, Blur, and the Zutons, the Jaded Hearts Club was formed by guitarist and founder Jamie Davis, who rounded up his famous friends to perform as a cover band for a birthday party. Influenced by Northern soul and Motown, they made it official in 2020 with the release of their debut album, You've Always Been Here.

The Jaded Hearts Club - You've Always Been Here / I Put a Spell on You

The Jaded Hearts Club features frontmen Miles Kane (The Last Shadow Puppets) and Nic Cester (Jet), guitarists Graham Coxon (Blur) and Jamie Davis, Matt Bellamy (Muse) on bass and drummer Sean Payne (The Zutons)...

Bellamy and Davis started working on an album, with Bellamy producing, focusing on lost Northern Soul classics, supplemented by their raw, soulful takes on some famous standards. Davis says “We just love the story of how Northern England fell in love with American soul music even after it stopped having hits, and used that music to soundtrack a good night out.” Adds Bellamy “Like Jazz which reinvents old songs, we are continuing the tradition of how bands like The Beatles & The Stones started out - finding great soul and blues standards and recording them in a more modern style.”

Formed by college freshmen in North Carolina in 2012, this band celebrates the clanging frat rock of the '60s as well as the Velvet Underground.

The Nude Party - Midnight Manor / Cure Is You

After two years of near-constant touring in support of their self-titled debut album, the Nude Party headed back to their communal farmhouse in the Catskills to work on another full-length with Black Lips' Oakley Munson. The resulting follow-up, Midnight Manor, finds the six-piece still cranking out riff-fueled, freewheeling rock jams about booze and women (and the music industry). Indebted to '60s and '70s acts like the Velvet Underground, T. Rex, the Rolling Stones, and the Kinks throughout, the 12-track set has both swagger and nervous energy to spare...

Los Angeles-by-way-of-Indiana foursome whose music takes tough garage punk and runs it through a heavy psychedelic filter.
Frankie & the Witch Fingers - Monsters Eating People Eating Monsters…/ MEPEM

When momentum is in full swing on Frankie and the Witch Fingers’ ‘Monsters Eating People Eating Monsters’ it is boundless. In a greenhorn’s hands, this fired-up haste could be a ghastly listening experience, but fortunately, the L.A.-based foursome handles abundant vigour with a supreme deftness, which they honed to a superlunar level on 2019’s ‘ZAM’. Like its predecessor, ‘MEPEM’ continues to shed further layers of the band’s lo-fi garage- rock-of-yore DNA in favour of a richer and groovier psychedelia, but most importantly, it is a more polished manifestation of their own sound, and never has it been this thick...

Mexican guitar duo that plays an appealing amalgam of classical, Latin, world music, and heavy metal.

Rodrigo y Gabriela - Mettavolution [Live] / Diablo Rojo

When guitarists Rodrigo Sánchez and Gabriela Quintero released Mettavolution in 2019, it marked their first studio outing in five years. Their goal was to "reconnect with the physical rush and emotional core of the music we first made together." They succeeded. It not only charted but took home the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album. Their 92-city world tour was met with wildly enthusiastic responses. The pair claimed the jaunt "was the very moment we felt truly complete as artists and musicians." The duo planned on continuing their road sojourn in 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic intervened. Thankfully, they recorded most of those shows. This 81-minute, double-length set contains performances of the entire Mettavolution album with select concert staples...

As the lead singer of Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant seemed invincible, a "Golden God" in the words of journalist/filmmaker Cameron Crowe. Plant may have embraced rock stardom at the height of Zeppelin's zenith in the mid-'70s, but the singer spent the decades following the band's 1980 dissolution exploring the road less-traveled. Beginning with his 1982 solo debut, Pictures at Eleven, Plant pursued a feverishly adventurous solo career, embracing synthesizers and art rock that seemed to be the antithesis of Zeppelin's majestic hard rock, but he'd also later dabble in sampling and world music

Robert Plant - Digging Deep: Subterranea / Darkness, Darkness

Robert Plant launched the Digging Deep podcast in 2019 as a way for him to explore the intricacies and oddities of his body of work. A year later, he released Digging Deep: Subterranea, a double-disc deep dive that effectively functions as a soundtrack to the podcast. Plant talks about Led Zeppelin tunes on Digging Deep, but Subterranea pointedly concentrates on his solo career. It's a compilation that strives to make overarching connections, so it doesn't proceed in a chronological order, nor does it have all of his hits. Neither his oldies folly the Honeydrippers nor Raising Sand, his Grammy-winning collaboration with Alison Krauss, are here, nor are there big rock radio hits like "Little by Little" and "Tall Cool One." Instead, Digging Deep: Subterranea places 1993's Fate of Nations at the forefront and follows its strands front and back, creating a moody, adventurous bit of autobiography. Maybe it doesn't deliver the hits the way most compilations do, but it certainly captures the musical wanderlust that defines Plant's career.

Boasting a mix of Southern pride, erudite lyrics, and a muscled, guitar-heavy attack, Drive-By Truckers became one of the most well-respected alternative country-rock acts of the 2000s. 

Drive-By Truckers - The New Ok / Sea Island Lonely

Musicians play music. That's what they do. Unless they suddenly can't go out and perform for people because, say, there's a global pandemic that has almost entirely shut down live music. Life in a divided nation under the rule of Donald Trump was already weighing heavy on the minds of the Drive-By Truckers on 2016's American Band and 2020's The Unraveling, and being stuck at home and unable to tour, with little to do but watch their nation burn, hasn't made them feel any better. In many respects, 2020's The New OK is an album that came to be because the DBTs couldn't do much else... 

British alternative dance act formed by Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard, known for their melodicism and witty, affecting songwriting.

Hot Chip - Late Night Tales: Hot Chip / Workaround Two feat. Beatrice Dillon
... On their first mix album in over a decade, Hot Chip focus on tracks from the 2010s instead of digging for vintage cuts, a choice that adds a welcome freshness to the set. They also emphasize selections from female and non-binary artists that make for some of the collection's most striking moments... Beatrice Dillon's taut fusion of experimental techno and jazz on "Workaround Two." Within its artfully calibrated ebb and flow of propulsive cuts and restful ones, the mix circles through contemplative, danceable, and sensual moods...

Former Moloko frontwoman who explored adventurous electronic pop in her solo career. A purveyor of adventurous, omnivorous pop, Róisín Murphy makes influences as far-flung as disco and hot jazz her own. As a solo artist, she builds on the eclectic style she forged as Moloko's frontwoman in increasingly confident and distinctive ways. 

Róisín Murphy - Róisín Machine / Murphy's Law

...A swirl of mirror ball sparkles and dry ice fog, it spoke to Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder's transporting version of disco as well as Murphy's skill at sweeping listeners into a world of her own. It was a potent start to her collaboration with Barratt, who went on to craft similarly elegant music steeped in house and disco traditions as Crooked Man. On 2020's Róisín Machine, he and Murphy continue to bring out the best in each other...

A supergroup comprised of members of the Last Shadow Puppets, Jet, Muse, Blur, and the Zutons, the Jaded Hearts Club was formed by guitarist and founder Jamie Davis, who rounded up his famous friends to perform as a cover band for a birthday party. Influenced by Northern soul and Motown, they made it official in 2020 with the release of their debut album, You've Always Been Here.

The Jaded Hearts Club - You've Always Been Here / Fever

The Jaded Hearts Club features frontmen Miles Kane (The Last Shadow Puppets) and Nic Cester (Jet), guitarists Graham Coxon (Blur) and Jamie Davis, Matt Bellamy (Muse) on bass and drummer Sean Payne (The Zutons)...

Bellamy and Davis started working on an album, with Bellamy producing, focusing on lost Northern Soul classics, supplemented by their raw, soulful takes on some famous standards. Davis says “We just love the story of how Northern England fell in love with American soul music even after it stopped having hits, and used that music to soundtrack a good night out.” Adds Bellamy “Like Jazz which reinvents old songs, we are continuing the tradition of how bands like The Beatles & The Stones started out - finding great soul and blues standards and recording them in a more modern style.”

The Jaded Hearts Club, The Nude Party,Frankie & the Witch Fingers,Rodrigo y Gabriela,Robert Plant, Drive-By Truckers, Hot Chip, Beatrice Dillon, Róisín Murphy, The Jaded Hearts Club

1st_100 / SMOKE OF DREAMS: my favorite tracks from 2017 PnM.MiX

1st_100 / SMOKE OF DREAMS: my favorite tracks from 2017

Thurston Moore - Smoke Of Dreams
Arto Lundsay - Each to Each
Neil Young, Promise of the Real - When Bad Got Good
Jamie Saft, Steve Swallow, Bobby Previte, Iggy Pop - Don't Lose Yourself
Charnett Moffett feat. Jeff "Tain" Watts, Stanley Jordan, Cyrus Chestnut - Just Need Love
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard - Crumbling Castle
Slowdive - Sugar for the Pill
Spencer radcliffe - Static Electricity

Do Make Say Think - As Far as the Eye Can See
Moon Duo - Mirror’s Edge
Juana Molina - Sin dones
Big Thief - Mythological Beauty
Joan Shelley - The Push and Pull
The Afghan Whigs - Demon In Profile
WALL - River Mansion
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Rest
The New Year - The Beast
Blue Iverson - Brown Grrl
Emma Ruth Rundle, Jaye Jayle - The Distance
Hovvdy - Try Hard

Alexandra Savior - 'Till You're Mine
Tori Amos - Wildwood
EMA - Always Bleeds
The National - Turtleneck
Tony Allen - Tony's Blues
Tera Melos - Trash Generator
The War on Drugs - Thinking Of A Place
Coca Leaf - No Light Bleeds the Den
Lee Ranaldo - Let's Start Again
Tricky - Dark Days
Carla Bruni - Jimmy Jazz
Cécile McLorin Salvant - Let's Face the Music and Dance

Camille - Seeds
Robert Plant - Keep It Hid
The Weather Station - Impossible
King Krule - Dum Surfer
Dhani Harrison feat. Mereki - London Water
Omni - Supermoon
Twin Peaks: Limited Event Series Soundtrack - Audrey's Dance
Chromatics - Shadow
Juiceboxxx - Go to the Club Alone
Melkbelly - Greedy Gull
Cloakroom - Time Well
Umm Double - Toatal Collapse of the Sun
St. Vincent - Savior
Torres - Marble Focus
Beck - Dreams
Courtney Barnett / Kurt Vile - Fears Like a Forest
Destroyer - Tinseltown SwimmingIn Blood
Dayna Stephens - Emilie
Melanie De Biasio - Lilies
Warm Digits - Fracking Blackpool
The Mountain Goats - WearBlack
Black Grape - Losing Sleep
Dale Crover - The Fickle Finger of Fate
Crystal Fairy -  Crystal Fairy
Stereolab - Refractions in the Plastic Pulse
Hamell on Trial - Tackle Box
Psychic Temple - SOS
Art Feynman - Feeling Good About Feeling Good
Somi Petite - The Wild One
Akua Dixon - Akua’s Dance
Matthew Stevens - Sparkle and Fade
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah - Ruler Rebel
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah - Our Lady Of New Orleans
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah - The Emancipation Procrastination
Sheer Mag - Can't Play It Cool
Waxahatchee - No Question
Lana Del Rey - Coachella - Woodstock In My Mind
Kevin Morby - City Music
Elder - Sanctuary
chimney - Holy Man
Banditos - Visionland
Radiohead - Lift
Radiohead - Man of War
Ulrika Spacek - Dead Museum
Palm - Shadow Expert
North Mississippi Allstars - Bird Without a Feather
Hurray for the Riff Raff - Hungry Ghost
Dispatch - Be Gone
Pere Ubu - I Can Still See
Benjamin Booker - Overtime
Beach Fossils - Tangerine
The Poison Arrows - Stuck on Screen
El Michels Affair - Shadow Boxing
Karen Elson - Double Roses
Deep Purple - Roadhouse Blues
Andrew Combs - Better Way
Jeb Loy Nichols - Come See Me
Boss Hog - Shh Shh Shh
Boss Hog - Elevator
The Jesus and Mary Chain feat. Sky Ferreira - Black and Blues
The Molochs - No Control
The Vampires Meet Lionel Loueke - Hard Love
Brandon Can't Dance - Angelina
Mick Harvey feat. Andrea Schröder - Ich Liebe Dich... Ich Liebe Dich...
Mick Harvey feat. Andrea Schröder - Striptease
Cherry Glazerr - Told You I'd Be with the Guys
Cherry Glazerr - Apocalipstick
Once & Future Band - Standing in the Wake of Violence
Piano Magic - Exile