#lali puna

[leiselaute]

Lali Puna - Bi-Pet from "Scary World Theory". Released 2001

[rastronomicals]

10:39 PM EDT August 9, 2024:

Lali Puna - "Everywhere & Allover" From the album Mojo Presents Kidology

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

"A Radiohead companion" given away with Mojo's December 2020 issue. Not a huge fan of the band, but it seems that I like their antecedents.

[gummifeather]

[mymelodic-chapel]

Lali Puna- Our Inventions (Indietronica, Dream Pop) Released: April 9, 2010 [Morr Music] Producer(s): Christian Heiß, Oliver Zülch

[unchangingwindoww]

I've never said you'll have to

Be afraid

Of the cookie monster

Beside your bed

It's not the real

The real one's in your head

Beyond control

The true one cuts you dead

[thestonecuttersguild]

Lali Puna - 40 Days.wmv

[poeticanthologies]

together in electric dreams . lali puna

[marystaceylala]

[biolizardboils]

digitally_restored

// Curtain has risen—make your own storyline!

A mix for searching your soul, to forge new frontiers.

sea of voices — porter robinson | beacon — goldfinger 

drastic measures — bayonne | summertime sadness — lana del rey | just sound — state champs

out there ft. yukihiro takahashi — lali puna | be free — zayde wølf | jump — against the current

chosen ft. svrcina — generdyn | sane — meet me @ the altar | running with scissors — i see stars

beings — madeon | take me apart (recorded in st. mark’s cathedral) — syml | electric forest — i see stars, cassadee pope | unsung — symbion project, mars nord | coloratura — coldplay

heal me (alternate version) — snow patrol | c.h.a.o.s.m.y.t.h — one ok rock

✪ listen on youtube

✪ listen on spotify

[randomvarious]

German Trip Hop Playlist (YouTube)

Alright, folks, for the past couple Sundays I've been posting playlists comprised of German music from electronic genres that the country tends to be naturally associated with—trance and techno—but this week, to end this little Deutsch-centric foray I've been on, we're getting into some sweet cuts from a genre that Germany's not so typically known for: trip hop.

Now, maybe when you think of German music, you naturally assume some things. And probably because of Kraftwerk and krautrock and techno, you imagine stuff that sounds cold, mechanical, repetitious, and robotic. But this little playlist here, which really isn't even beginning to scratch the surface of Germany's trip hop landscape, should start to disabuse you of your very own wrongly held preconceived notions. All of these tracks here are a blend of smooth, blissful, and relaxing. Clearly and obviously, there’s far, far, far more to German music than sounding like an automaton, but maybe you never really thought about it all that much 🤷‍♂️.

So let's highlight some of these nuggets here, and start with a track that really seems to call back to trip hop's own Bristol, UK origins, when it was basically fusing Jamaican dub and hip hop in order to form sonic syrup in the late 80s and early 90s. The Frankfurt-based duo of Soul Patrol, who only ever released a pair of 12-inches, bring forth "Slow Groove," a sedative that served as their debut track when it appeared on a pair of compilations back in '95. This gem uses a sample that should sound *very* familiar to hip hop heads: Isaac Hayes' "Walk On By," a part of which was famously used in The Notorious B.I.G.'s "Warning," as well as another mid-90s trip hop tune, Belgian group Hooverphonic's "2 Wicky," which got a lot of burn on Pandora back when Pandora was still a big fucking deal. "Slow Groove" basically sounds like it was made by Portishead, but replacing Beth Gibbons on vocals is an American woman named Francesca Harper, who is actually now a world-renowned dancer. And it has a little over 43,000 plays across a few different uploads on YouTube.

Next up, from Berlin, we have a guy named Jiri.Ceiver, who in 1997 released a song called "Ycool" on a 10-inch single as well as his second and final album, Jig, Amble & Lisp, which were both put out on the legendary Frankfurt-based and Sven Väth co-owned Harthouse label. Harthouse had originally started out as a pioneering outlet for hard trance, trance, and techno in the early 90s, but by the latter part of that decade, and before they wound up closing their doors, they had expanded their palette with a bunch more electronic genres. And “Ycool,” a terrific piece of reconstructed trip hop-blues, serves as a sweet example of just how broad that expansion was getting. And it only has 169 plays!

And lastly, we have something beautifully dubby from another Berliner named Christian Kleine, whose 2000 tune, "Bitter Things," first exclusively appeared on a lovely double-disc compilation called Putting the Morr Back in Morrissey, which really had nothing to do with The Smiths' own frontman, other than the fact that a bunch of its songs had a reflective melancholy to them. However, despite "Bitter Things"' own title, this is a song that was really made to sync up with a sunrise. An organic, crunchy, and happy, boom-bappy bop, with cool, dubby effects employed all throughout. Over 36,000 plays across a few different YouTube uploads.

This playlist is ordered as chronologically as possible:

Nonplace Urban Field - "Universe" Jazz Con Bazz - "Wayz of Life" Knowtoryus - "The Revenge of the Bomberclad Joint (Kruder & Dorfmeister session, Part II)" Fon:Kin - "Montininja (Fauna Flash remix)" Hacienda - "Nightmare of Max" Soul Patrol - "Slow Groove (Soul Patrol original vocal)" Beanfield - "Charles (remix)" Jiri.Ceiver - "Ycool" Christian Kleine - "Bitter Things" Lali Puna - "Fast Forward (Flowchart Rmx)"

And this playlist is also on YouTube Music.

So with this start, we have ten personal German trip hop favorites of mine that appear on a handful of compilations that I've collected over the years. Totals at 53 minutes.

And next week we'll be staying in this chilly mode, but we'll be zooming out from Germany ⛄.

Enjoy!

More to come, eventually. Stay tuned!

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[rastronomicals]

10:54 PM EST December 21, 2023:

Lali Puna - "Everywhere & Allover" From the album Mojo Presents Kidology

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

"A Radiohead companion" given away with Mojo's December 2020 issue. Not a huge fan of the band, but it seems that I like their antecedents.

[tmsgksk]

Lali Puna - Hostile To Me [Cornelius Remix]

[horsesinmydreams]

tragic

[theam-cjsw]

The AM: October 2, 2023

This week's AM ushers in October with occult vibes courtesy of satanstompingcaterpillars and Throbbing Gristle, trip-hop tunes from Portishead and Ghostkeeper, and more melancholy, moody, and otherwise magical music for misty Monday mornings.

Listening links:

Soundcloud

CJSW.com

Spotify playlist (missing a few tracks)

Image: Günter Brus, Erinnerungen an die Menschheit (Memories of Humanity), 1985

Hour One

The Best Thing in the World Alabaster DePlume • Come With Fierce Grace

Slow Drip Rich Hinman • Memorial

Dust Collects The Album Leaf • Future Falling

glenora forlorn wihtikow • weird kid

No Body Contagious Yawns • Intramental

For a Burning World Lord of the Isles, featuring Ellen Renton • My Noise is Nothing

Enough About Human Rights Ghost Train Orchestra, Kronos Quartet • Songs and Symphoniques: The Music of Moondog

Self Portrait Ryuichi Sakamoto • 1996

The Wind Surfer Teen Daze • The Wind Surfer

Sonic Space Atari Umma • Stoner Ambient Noise

Cerulean Blue Active Surplus • Mirroring

Hour Two

Blue Fish Sachiko Kanenobu • Misora

Clear Cut (Live Version) Jeffrey Silverstein • Single

Shine the Light Inside Astral Swans, featuring Jairus Sharif • Shine the Light Inside

It’s Not the Worst (Lali Puna Remix) Two Lone Swordsmen • Further Reminders

Just Eyes Void Comp • Metropol

Colorfulnickels satanstompingcaterpillars • The Autumn Kaleidoscope Got Changed

boatfriend satanstompingcaterpillars • The Autumn Kaleidoscope Got Changed

Snake Saloli • Canyon

Walkabout Throbbing Gristle • 20 Jazz Funk Greats

Life Cycle Vic Mars • Plant Life

冬のサナトリウム Ryohei Shima • Romance Girl A

october La Force • XO Skeleton

Hour Three

Wake Up Sargeant X Comrade • Lo Fi Future

? Saya Gray • Annie, Pick a Flower.. (My House)

The Rip Portishead • Third

Oceans Ghostkeeper • Sheer Blouse Buffalo Knocks

Thin Thing The Smile • A Light for Attracting Attention

All Good Things Bart • Some Kind of Way

A Summer Long Since Passed Virginia Astley • From Gardens Where We Feel Secure

Sunbeam Misha Panfilov • In Focus

Murkit Gem Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band • Hotline Bling b/w Murkit Gem

Air, Light & Harmony Badge Époque Ensemble • Air, Light & Harmony

Sojourner (Live) London Odense Ensemble • Live At Jaiyede Jazz Festival