More mixes from the crypt

So it took a few days but I finally had some time to rifle through the old posts and re-upload Volumes 9 and 10 from my mixtape series. Enjoy the downloads and let me know what you think.

Burning Dervish Volume 9: Jeff Tweedy 17x1

Burning Dervish Volume 10: Frank Zappa Update: we received a cease and desist from the Zappa Family Trust's attorney and as a result have removed the mix from the site. Buy Frank's music anyway, though.

Burning Dervish mixtape celebration

Ok, well I promised it so here we go...

Here are the first eight of fourteen mixes I posted in year one of burningdervish.com...Ignore the expiration dates in the original posts, I posted the links to be active for another 10 - 14 days from today...

• Burning Dervish Vol One


• Burning Dervish Vol Two


• Burning Dervish Vol Three


• Burning Dervish Vol Four


• Burning Dervish Vol Five


• Burning Dervish Vol Six


• Burning Dervish Vol Seven


• Burning Dervish Vol Eight

Nine thru fourteen will be coming later this week...hopefully this much free music will keep you satisfied for a few days...looking forward to your feedback...

One down

The first year of burningdervish.com is behind us as today is the anniversary of the site launch!

Readership has really started to pick up over the last 60 days or so and I thought it would be fun if over the next few weeks I highlighted some of my early posts for folks who didn't read the site until recently.

I am going to start that effort by re-uploading the fourteen mixes I posted during year one since I get so mamy requests for them when new people happen across the site and when the download links expire. The links to those will start rolling out in the coming days.

I have one or two other "looking back" ideas up my sleeve which I will sprinkle in with my usual posts over the next couple of weeks.

Looking forward, I am excited to continue work on a project I started at the beginning of June to document every concert I have ever seen. I have been posting individual entries featuring ticket stubs, set lists, backstage passes, photos, reviews and other memorabilia/ephemera from my 24 years of concert-going. Ultimately this project will expand to include documentary audio and video material from bands I played in and other music-based events from my life. My OCD is is about to be indulged to the max...Click here for what I have managed to assemble for the project so far....

Thanks for sticking with me over the last year. As always, I welcome your comments, publicly or by email. It has been great hearing from and sharing music with so many cool people.

In the meantime, here are some birthday gifts for you, to maybe help you enjoy the site some more:

• Burning Dervish Blog Widget version one


• Burning Dervish Blog Widget version two


• Burning Dervish IM icons


• Burning Dervish System Icons

The Hiplife Complex

Another great blog: The Hiplife Complex

About the site:

"More than ten years ago, Ghanaian youth began to write rhymes in local languages over imported beats. At once a copy-cat culture and an indigenized national phenomenon, hiplife challenges people at all levels of society to think in new ways. I spent a year in Ghana asking questions and filming interviews and performances with hiplife artists. This is a document of my observations..."

Deep, right?

Permanent Records in Brooklyn

This is not an advertisement, I don't know the folks who run this place...and its not an endorsement, I have have been in there yet...A friend of mine let me know about this spot a few weeks ago and I have yet to make it in.

Know anything about the place? Have you dug through the place yet?

Three Eyed Dimension

I don't know why I like this blog so much...It might be the artsy-leftist vibe or maybe the broken English (which is always irresistable)...

How they describe themselves:

"This blog is primarely about electronic music. Secondarily about any art found interesting. The blogs is administrated from Denmark and its main objective is to be an oasis of inspiration."

It is hard to pass up on an oasis of inspiration.

Check them out.

way-back machine v90, 91 and 92: Grateful Dead (twice!) and MC5

Lots of music to download today...

Grateful Dead at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ with Steve Miller opening.

Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan at the Franklin County Airport in Highgate, VT, on June 15, 1995. Offering up the Dead's and Dylan's sets...

DKT/MC5 at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City on June 15, 2004. No downloads for this one, do you have a recording?

way-back machine v89: Ravi Shankar and Ravi Coltrane Quintet with Alice Coltrane

Ravi Shankar supported by Ravi Coltrane Quintet with Alice Coltrane at Town Hall in New York, NY on June 14, 1998...you have to check this out...

way-back machine v87 and 88: Tori Amos and Praxis

Now here are two divergent tastes for you, both available for full-show downloads...

Tori Amos at the Palce Theatre in New Haven, CT on June 13, 1994

and

Praxis live at the Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage - inside the base of the Brooklyn Bridge at Cadman Plaza West - in Brooklyn, NY, June 13, 1997.

Enjoy.

way-back machine v84, 85 and 86: Van Halen, Grateful Dead and Dave Matthews Band

We're getting into the summer concert season so as I pillage my archives there are sure to be many more dates coming up on which I saw shows in multiple years.

Today's three are pretty meat-and-potatoes...rock shows in arenas, stadiums and amphitheatres...the life blood of the commer concert season!

Enjoy.

Van Halen, Sullivan Stadium, Foxboro, MA, June 12, 1988

Grateful Dead at Knickerbocker Arena, Albany, NY, June 12, 1992

Dave Matthews Band at Meadows Music Theatre in Hartford, CT on June 12, 1996

way-back machine v82 and 83: Grateful Dead and David Bowie

Grateful Dead at Knickerbocker Arena, Albany, NY on June 11, 1992

and

David Bowie, Roseland Ballroom, New York, NY, June 11, 2002.

Voodoo Funk

Another blog I would like to feature - "Voodoo Funk: Record Digging in West Africa - Sounds and Experiences from the motherland"

The guy who runs this site gives his profession as "vinyl archeologist"...from his profile and blog mission statement:

"I...left Europe to dig up funk records even more obscure and elusive than US Funk 45s: I moved to Guinea on the coast of West Africa where I retired as a DJ and dedicated my entire time to the pursuit of African Funk Records. This blog is about my travels and experiences in a region that despite being plagued by civil wars corrupt governments and other diseases has so much more to offer. Maybe this site will even inspire You to buy a plane ticket and come to visit where we all came from. You might even find things more valuable than the rarest records and sometimes you won't even have to dig through dusty boxes to find them."

Now how about that? Check out Voodoo Funk - you'll find the occassional MP3 download of the DJ mixes that he assembles from his finds, too.

way-back machine v80 and 81: Judas Priest and The Lazenbys

on this date in in 1986 and 1997...

Watching Judas Priest with support act Dokken, at the Veteran's Memorial Coliseum in New Haven, CT on June 7, 1986

and

Performing with The Lazenbys, at the Neverending Bookstore in New Haven, CT on June 7, 1997.

What were you up to?

way-back machine v78 and 79: The Kinks and Grateful Dead

I was at some shows...

The Kinks with support act Sheriff, at the Veteran's Memorial Coliseum in New Haven, CT on this date in 1983

and

The Grateful Dead with support act Sting at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ on this date in 1993

Awesome Tapes from Africa

Here's a great MP3 blog referred to me by Kate over at MOG...and because you can never be too literal in the blogosphere, I especially love the name of the site: Awesome Tapes from Africa.

Guess what the site is about?

Yup, cover art scans and MP3 downloads of cassette tapes released and scrounged for in Africa...hip hop, highlife, and all kinds of regional stuff, heavy on West Africa.

Off you go now...

We Eat So Many Shrimp

A great hip hop blog whose motto is: "If Blastin You Is Wrong We Don't Wanna Be Right". Ha.

MP3s...YouTube videos...underground hip-hop...retail leaks...

Check it.