Mustafa Özkent – Gençlik ile Elele (Hand In Hand With Youth) (1973) [2006]

Insane grooves from arranger Mustafa Ozkent -- an artist who was to Turkey what Lalo Schifrin was to the US in the 70s! Like Lalo, Mustafa had a great ear for mixing funkier rhythms and fuller orchestrations -- often with odd instrumental twists and turns that bubble over with a fair bit of electricity over heavy percussion -- kind of in an Incredible Bongo Band way, but with some moogier touches overall! The record's an instrumental masterpiece through and through -- filled with enough heavy breaks to satisfy even the pickiest crate-digger, but also the more complicated arrangements to appeal to fans of funky 70s soundtracks! Titles include "Uskudar", "Burcak", "Dolana", "Carsamba", "Lorke", "Ayas", "Emmioglu", and "Karadir".  © 1996-2009, Dusty Groove America, Inc.

1. Üsküdar 

2. Burçak 

3. Dolana 

4. Karadir 

5. Emmioglu 

6. Çarsamba 

7. Zeytinyagl 

8. Silifke 

9. Lorke 

10. Ayas

Beastie Boys - The In Sound From Way Out (1996)

Unlikely funk heroes The Beastie Boys spun a lot of heads around when they released "The In Sound From Way Out!" in 1996. Leaving the hip-hop and DJ on the shelf for a moment, the Beasties created one of the most essential and i

nfluential instrumental albums of the 1990's, if not in history. This album ranks right up with Medeski Martin and Wood's "Shack Man" and John Scofield's "A Go-Go" as far as documenting the loose, jazzy, independent musical consciousness that swept our scene in the mid 1990s and inspired leigons of funky jazz jambands. -HomeGrownMusic

1 Groove Holmes
2 Sabrosa
3 Namaste
4 POW
5 Son of Neckbone
6 In 3's
7 Eugene's Lament
8 Bobo On the Corner
9 Shambala
10 Lighten up
11 Ricky's Theme
12 Transitions
13 Drinkin' Wine

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Tv on the Radio-Dear Science

Highly regarded Brooklyn art-rock band TV On The Radio's new albumDear Science is a little less avant-garde and a little more... well, dancy. Any time a band makes a bold step in a new direction it's admirable and the album is being considered by many critics as the band's best material, though I'm not sure if I'm willing to jump on that bandwagon. I really thought the densely cinematic Return To Cookie Mountain held layers of subtle genius that peeled back a little more after each listen. More straightforward than its predecessor and laced with handclaps and horns galore, Dear Science is undoubtedly the band's catchiest and most accessible release, but that doesn't come at the price of their usual brainy songwriting. Certain moments on the album are very Prince-like with singer Tunde Adebimpe's falsetto laid over funky guitars and rhythms, but it works much better than it did on My Morning Jacket's latest album. Built on echoed piano, "Family Tree" is a musing on forbidden love and is one of the more subdued yet memorable songs on the album. The string-heavy "Love Dog" is another highlight, and the album closes on an overtly sexual note with "Lover's Day," whose "I'm gonna make you cum" proclamation is sure to leave an indelible mark. No pun intended. All in all, Dear Science is another glowing example from an important band that's well worth your careful attention. -Capt. Obvious

1. Halfway Home
2. Crying
3. Dancing Choose
4. Stork & Owl
5. Golden Age
6. Family Tree
7. Red Dress
8. Love Dog
9. Shout Me Out
10. DLZ
11. Lover's Day

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White Denim - Exposion (2008)

Jam-band virtuosos with an unlikely knack for concise songs, Austin, Texas' White Denim make post-rock that actually rocks. Favoring a bright, treble-heavy guitar attack, the group skew their arrangements in ways that feel more canny than contrived. Fist-pumper "Don't Look That Way at It" threads an accelerated, heavily processed riff through stutter-stepping percussion and a teenage-wasteland chorus, while "You Can't Say" distills melt-with-you chord changes down to a heartbreaking, elemental riff. Artfully ambitious. -Shannon Zimmerman

1. Don't Look That Way At it

2. Transparency

3. IEIEI

4. WDA

5. Heart From Us All

6. You Cant Say

7. Shake Shake Shake

8. All You Really Have To Do

9. All Truckers Roll

10. Migration Wind

11. Sitting

 

Scarlett Johansson-Anywhere I Lay My Head (2008)

The Hollywood hottie it’s respectable to like: it was always clear that if Scarlett Johansson launched a musical career, it wouldn’t be a sub-Britney exercise in bottom-wiggling. Even so, a whole album of Tom Waits covers is pushing the boat out further than anyone could have foreseen.
Johansson’s perceived coolness is built on a mixed bag of performances: beguiling in the Coens' 'The Man Who Wasn't There', loathsome in the overrated ‘Lost In Translation’.

‘Anywhere I Lay My Head’ is a record which, with its My Bloody Valentine-esque multi layered and reverb-heavy production (courtesy of TV on the Radio’s David Sitek, with guitar by Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs), could have been released on Creation/4AD in the late 1980s. It’s a pleasure to hear Waits’ songs delivered in a voice other than his own gruff growl.
Johansson is no great singer herself, but her bovine lowing, multitracked and echo-laded in excelsis, is as demure as her screen persona. Being able to rope in none other than David Bowie as a backing vocalist is a perk of Scarlett’s star status.
A collaborative effort and a triumph of the producer’s art it may be, rather than the statement of a sole auteur, but as a pop artefact ‘Anywhere I Lay My Head’ isn’t remotely diminished by that. - Simon Price

track list:

1. Fawn (originally on Tom Waits' album Alice)  

2. Town with No Cheer (originally on Tom Waits' album Swordfishtrombones)  

3. Falling Down (originally on Tom Waits' album Big Time)  

4. Anywhere I Lay My Head (originally on Tom Waits' album Rain Dogs)  

5. Fannin Street (originally on Tom Waits' album Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards)  

6. Song for Jo

7. Green Grass (originally on Tom Waits' album Real Gone) 

8. I Wish I Was in New Orleans (originally on Tom Waits' album Small Change) 

9. I Don't Want to Grow Up (originally on Tom Waits' album Bone Machine)  

10. No One Knows I'm Gone (originally on Tom Waits' album Alice)  

11. Who Are You? (originally on Tom Waits' album Bone Machine)

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Noah & the Whale - Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down (2008)

Noah and The Whale have made quite a name for themselves on the indie-circuit as of late. ‘Twee’ is a word often used to describe their own specific brand of romantic anti-folk: a description hardly surprising when debut album Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down boasts a ukulele, hand-claps, trembling violin strings, romantic folk tales, whistling, a cowbell and fellow anti-folk artist Laura Marling on backing vocals.

Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down is a collection of simple and uplifting songs about love, death and time. Penned and demoed in dark bedrooms in Twickenham and Manchester this album is anything but dark. Despite tales of awkward and isolated love, the melo

dies are instantly uplifting and reassuring. -Lauren Down

1. Atoms in a Molecule   
2. Jocasta
3. Shape of my Heart   
4. Do What You Do       
5. Give a Little Love   
6. Second Lover   
7. 5 Years Time   
8. Death by Numbers   
9. Rocks and Daggers   
10. Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down   
11. Mary   
12. Hold My Hand As I'm Lowered   

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MGMT - Oracular Spectacular (2008)

On the first song on their debut record, MGMT let us know how they got here. The rock song-as-origin myth is nothing new-- from "Who Do You Love" through "Immigrant Song", to "We Share Our Mother's Health" and Kanye West's "Big Brother"-- and "Time to Pretend" situates itself in that canon. Emerging initially from a viscous electronic fluid, the song quickly takes shape as a bombastic electro-glam number about rock star dreams. Accordingly, it's cheesy and clichéd, but also thick with sarcasm: Before the first chorus, MGMT sing nostalgically about having models for wives, moving to Paris, and shooting heroin. The kicker, though, is in the title itself. Knowing that the Almost Famous notion of stardom doesn't exist anymore (if it ever did), the duo of Andrew Vanwyngarden and Ben Goldwasser realize they're "fated to pretend." It's a charming idea-- making a career out of fantasizing-- and on Oracular Spectacular, they not only accept their playacting destiny, they demonstrate that, just maybe, it's a path more people should take.
- pitchforkmedia


1. Time to Pretend
2. Weekend Wars
3. The Youth
4. Electric Feel
5. Kids
6. 4th Dimensional Transition
7. Pieces of What
8. Of Moons, Birds, and Monsters
9. The Handshake
10. Future Refleksions



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