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Galt MacDermot — Space
from Woman is Sweeter (1969)
Yes, before Busta Rhymes got all ‘Woo Hah!!’ on it, this keyboard line was but a sweet tinkling on Galt MacDermot’s keys.
The man behind the music of Hair, MacDermot gets seriously funky on this album, which later served as the soundtrack to French filmmaker Martine Barrat’s 1973 film about Yves St Laurent, Woman is Sweeter.
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Pascal Comelade — Schizo
from Fluence (1975)
It took me a while to understand this album, but when I did it really blew my mind. I just started putting it on every night as I went to bed, and one night the majesty of the slow build finally hit me, when those first distorted notes of guitar tumble all over everything and you realize ‘that’s it, that’s what was missing.’
Listening to this song unfold is like watching one cloud morph into another, or studying how the grooves in the surface of a river reflect the stones on the bottom. It’s so much to take in, and yet so little. Magical.
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Toro Y Moi — Still Sound
from Underneath the Pine (out Feb 22, 2011 on Carpark Records)
Oh hell yeah. Chaz Bundick aka Toro Y Moi has been sippin’ on the disco juice and damn is it making me thirsty! As he’s said in interviews, he’s veered away from the sample-heavy sounds of Causers of This in favor of these Stevie Wonderesque space jams with a live band.
Mark my words — the Underneath the Pine tour is gonna be off. the. hook.
via frntrow… do yourself a favor and snag a seat over there in the frntrow.
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Kuroma — Get the Gunz (2009)
Kuroma is Hank Sullivant, of MGMT and The Whigs. I really dig this song, but you get the feeling that with one more day in the studio it could have become epic. The casiotone and carnival keyboards are fine. But there’s this glorious distorted slide riff…and then the acoustic melodijam. Couldn’t he do something more with those? Lots of brilliance in a short little track. And it only leaves you wanting more.
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Cumbia en Moog - Cumbia de Sal (mp3)
Even the music of Colombia was not safe from the moog treatment back in the analog synthesizer heyday.
I snagged this off of a great compilation of cumbia music from Vampisoul
Synthesizers really give a whole new face to cumbia. And I like it!
