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 17x1Burning 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.
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...
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...
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:
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?
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?
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.
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.
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...
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.
Two great pieces this week...
The first, a piece by John Colapinto about Paul McCartney's new record, his reflections on the Beatles and some insight into where his head is at these days. The New Yorker's site has
an MP3 interview with Colapinto discussing the making of the article and hanging with Paul.
The second item is a review of recent performances mixed with some historical profile details of jazz pianist Hank Jones. The whole piece is online
here.
And a download from us...
The Gordons with the Hank Jones Trio -
Bebopper
from
The Beat Generation
First of all, this site has one of the cool interfaces and navigational metaphors I have seen in a while. I have been hitting the site for abuot 10 days and I just figured it out...
Disco, Soul, Funk and Oldschool indeed, and lots of it. Ebony Cuts offers up
an on-going podcast series and
over a dozen "special guest mixes" created by DJs the world over. On top of all of that free music, there are individual MP3s scattered throughout the site...not to spoil the surprises there, but many are hidden in plain view...
I have scored some gems from Ebony Cuts over the last week or so. Enjoy.
