The playlists from the programs of June 3 and June 10 are here.
I shouldn´t be makin´you go here and there, apologies, i´ll get everything together in one
place eventually. There are links and a bit of insight provided with the other site.
Some choice lyrics from Ursula Rucker, as featured on Loveless by 4Hero. The upcoming dj stint at Expo / AguaViva inspired a couple enviromentally-led tracks for this week´s radio excursion.
Watch my foolish daughters and sons As the kill me Slowly, kill me Quicker, kill me
They loved me as would an unfaithful lover, part-time and and half-assed.
Such beauty in life, you will never have again.
See ya....
One Big Orgy, No One´s Taking A Bath
The Txola / Festival Musicalia Experience
Last weekend was a busy one in the town/city of La Laguna; Txola Bar on the Friday night, and
the Festival Musicalia the following night. Txola was pumping.....they ran out of beer/cerveza. Pedro, el jefe de Txola has got some plans for some special events in August/Octubre, so keep an eye open...abries un ojo. The folks at Musicalia magazine (Estrella, Pino, Presi Nacho,Urena...que mas?) alongside Dani El Shiva Azul Medina brought La Kinky Beat from Barcelona to deliver their brand of rock·jungle·reggae sounds with force and kinetic energy. Local crew Tropico28 stepped up with their new line-up to give a taster of their forthcoming album, which I have been told should surface in two weeks. I did contribute to a song for their album, but their producer/beat-man did a runner with the files when he left the group, so who knows what the hell he´s done with them! Oh, i´m digressing....back to Musicalia Festival....the idea was to raise money for the next issue of the magazine, it has no advertising you see. Hopefully they will have got a few euros together, although I do think they had the price of the beers a bit low....one euro!
A very good deal, and it was free entrance. I don´t think people are really aware of the difficulties that exist trying to put on a festival of this magnitude...dealing with the council, a sexist and incompetent sound company.....then there´s the matter of posters being ripped and defaced by supporters of the Platano Rock festival that was taking place the same day in Santa Cruz. Come on people.....there ain´t no need for that shit, grow the fuck up. I was sorry to hear that the Platano Rock festival was cancelled at the last minute because of some bureaucratic police nonsense. GAF ,who I really like were due to take the stage, as were Marvel Hill, but the police, miserable fuckers seemed to be working on somebody else´s behalf who doesn´t like gigs happening if he ain´t a part of it or getting paid. Yes, it´s like that in these parts....fuckin´ third world shit going on here brothers and sisters.
The weekend before last, Fun-da-mental did a show in Prague. Always nice to be in Prague, we just don´t get to spend any proper time there.....pisses me right off! Before parting ways at the airport, bassman Lloyd gave me his copy of Naomi Klein´s latest book The Shock Doctrine. Fucking put me in a right mood. I know enough about what goes on, but jesus h ucking hell....unts like Bush, Dick ´So´ Cheney, Condoskeeza Rice, Rumsfeld, are worse than I thought....and that is real Bad. In all seriousness, they should be fucking made to walk around Baghdad totally naked and left to their own devices for a few hours, then publicly hanged, shot, pissed and shat upon, then burned alive for good measure. I am deadly serious. That ´Let God sort them out´stuff is bollocks. Kill them NOW! I hate to pray for bad things to happen to people, but they deserve it, and you know it!
Yes, The Bug album is going to be released in July, and the title is, as I hoped, London Zoo...very appropriate. This person is doing the album artwork. Next single will be featuring Tippa Irie on one side and FlowDan pon the flip. Can you handle it?! Soon see eh?
Before I split, if your into Cumbia check out Vampiros DJ....I did, bought me a couple CD´s one from him, and the other being the Sonido Martines mix he did for DJ /Rupture´s radio program last year. I´ ve been really trying to turn people onto the rebajadas sound.....it´s great, and I hope to spread the word tomorrow.....got a radio interview at Radio Club Tenerife. I´ve been told they want to talk about mixing Canarian folklore music with contemporary sounds, and methinks what Vampiros, El Hijo de la Cumbia, Sonido, Oro 11 etc., and without a doubt, El Guincho, are very good markers as to what is possible. More as it happens.
Ear Conditioning / 27 mayo
DJ Food · Valves / Journeyman remix (Ninja Tune)
Badawi · Bedouin Raid (Asphodel)
Amir Sulaiman · Danger
Overtone · Give It Again (Rosebud)
Os Campiones · Dos (Sou Jazz)
Afronaught · Golpe Tuyo Calinda (Bitasweet)
Naomi Klein · Shock Doctrine
Stereotyp featuring Edu K & Joyce Muniz · Jece Valadáo (MAN Recordings)
Megablast · El Ninjo / Luv Lite Massive Remix feat. DJ Collage (Stereo Deluxe)
Stereotyp (?) · Police and Soldier (Giguptight)
Music from the Ivory Coast · Gueglo (Radio France)
Congo Natty · Jungle Souljah (Congo Natty)
Vamprios DJ · Selection from La Sonidera Colombiana Mix CD
La chancha via circuito / Oro 11 · Damas Gratis Dub
Sonido Martines · Cumbia ron the Bronx
El Hijo de la Cumbia · Cumbia de los barrios
El Hijo de la Cumbia · Mara Tomaza
Karos · Por que te quiero
DJ Food · Scratch yer Head (Ninja Tune)
Murga Las Salamanquesas · Himno (Gofio)
Murga Ni Quito Ni Pongo · Pout -Purri (Gofio)
Rude Hi-Fi . Elzn in Dub
Zapotec Indians · Firework Music (Folkways)
Yaqui Indians · Deer Dance (Folkways)
Bio-Muse · Hurrey Hurra
Coki · The End (dmz)
Rusko · Cockney Thug
The Bug feat. FlowDan · Jah War /Loefah remix (Ninja Tune)
The Bug featuring Warrior Queen · Poison Dart (Ninja Tune)
Kode 9 · Stung (Soul Jazz)
Ear Conditioning at Radio Norte 89.4FM
Tuesday / martes 20h00
No cock blocking please....
No cockblocking please.....eh?
Cockblocking is a term that refers to ´hindering a male as he attempts to get it on with a female´,
check Pharoahe Monch ´The Light´.
In my instance it refers to someone hindering my attempts to get some work. Fer fuck sakes, last week I had a little rant about some promoters being dickheads for not properly compensating DJ´s for their work...now I got fellow DJ´s giving attitude over sharing the decks, like they own the fucking club or something. No wonder things don´t progress in this motherfucker....and to think i was went into the situation with open arms with thoughts of trying to build something here with other DJ´s. Fuck it, just gotta get on with it, and try and rise above the bullshit which seems to be at an all-time high.
Back in the real world, an investigative report revealed the how TV military analysts have a vested economic interest in selling the Bush adminstrations happy talk about Iraq. In the summer of 2005, the Bush administration confronted a fresh wave of criticism overGuantánamo Bay. The detention center had just been branded “the gulag of our times” by Amnesty International, there were new allegations of abuse from United Nations human rights experts and calls were mounting for its closure. So the Bush administration went into overdrive, a damage control exercise that got together ´experts´ to hit the TV airwaves to defend their state of action...."Yep, let´s push forward this war agenda while making mad loot." This world is fucking insane, and what am i doing, playing records on a weekly basis, like it´s gonna do somethin´? I apologize.
Last week several men in the UK were found guilty of financially aiding and inciting terrorism, and sentenced to between two and four and a half years in prison. Eh, inciting terrorism? Everybody knows who encourages terrorism, and who is helping to swell the ranks of Al-Qaeda etc, but do they face the judge and jury? People who have incited an illegal and immoral war are suggested to be presidents of Europe and receive very well paying jobs while the common man has to take it whole, even if it doesn´t fit and tears the sides and leaves him bleeding....motherfuckers.
This weeks program featured some new joints to my ears even if they be released years ago. David Byrne´s excellent Luaka Bop continues to give joy, as i came across Asia Classics 1, Vijaya Anand....a man whose name means "victory" and "ecstacy". His music, mainly composed for films is the stuff that will keep ya going aaaaaaallllllll night long, jazzy brass, synths, hypnotic vocals, off-key quirks, the whole nine.
The well-loved El Guincho is here this weekend for the Ecos festival, his first show in the Canaries, the place of his birth, so it´s very timely that his remix of Like it or Not, by Architecture in Helsinki, was made available via mp3 this week. I have the pleasure of doing a set ahead of him...thanks to Javi at the Culture Dept. in La Laguna for arranging this event. Also on the bill, Echo and the Bunnymen and The Mistake.
The first time I heard Squarepusher it threw my mind into a frenzied state....it was ´Conumber´, then i was lucky to see him play at a Ninja Tune night in Hoxton Square in London...him, his bass and a drum machine. Hot as a pig on a spit! Ah, the good ole days....are set to continue.
See you at Ecos 08 then, like i´ve said before, it´s free, so ya got no excuse....action begins around 8.30, and i´ll be doing two sets, one before Echo and The Bunnymen, and the other after them.
Ear Conditioning Playlist 22.04
King L Man · Dear God - The Aziz Mian Visitation (Ear Conditioning)
Kode 9 · Konfusion Dub (Hyperdub)
The Bug featuring FlowDan / Loefah remix (NinjaTune)
Burial · South London Boroughs (Hyperdub)
Paradox · A Black Sun (Archive)
Ghislain Poirier featuring Radioactive (Rebondir)
Vijaye Anand · Desire Soars Up High (Luaka Bop)
Jepp · Superglue Low (Hut)
Architecture in Helsinki · Like It or Not / El Guincho remix (Mistletone mp3)
Mikey Dread · Saturday Night Style
Supacat & WuTang · Scalp Dem / Congo Natty remix?
Squarepusher · Conumber (Spymania)
Radar · Antimatter (Ohm)
Buckwheat Zydeco · Hey Joe (Charisma)
Emiliana Torrini · Dead Things (One Little Indian)
Ear Conditioning is broadcast via Radio Norte 89.4FM Tenerife, every Tuesday at 20h00, and repeated Saturday 21h00. www.radionorte.com
If voting changed anything, it would be illegal!
It was national election time here in Spain...and it´s "territories", such as the Canary Islands. Mrs. Ear hates when i call this ´Spain´. I don´t get the electoral system here....
a) Politicians/parties that came third in last years regional election, did a deal with other parties, and they end up running things....read Coalition Canarias.
b) Politicians, like Ángel Llanos who spent a lot of energy castigating the under-investigation-for- corruption mayor Miguel Zerolo, only to turn around and accept the deputy mayorship...pfft! Check his before and after stance below.
I spent last Thursday afternoon in the emergency ward of the hospital, got pneumonia, anyway, I met patients that had to spend the night in emergency, but sleeping in a chair! Politicians are well-versed in the photo-op, Ricardo Melchior is a master, strange (not) he never turned up at the hospital with cameras in tow. If he had they would have been admitted as only a doctor would have been able to remove the sharp instrument that would have been impaled in his forehead!....but the thing is, plenty people complain ´bout the cunts, but they go and vote for them again. There are two hospitals in Tenerife, both in the same region, that serve a population of about a million people. People in the north or south of the island have to travel for miles to get to the hospital. Why it is never an electoral issue is completely beyond me. The people should force real issues onto the agenda, and stick with it until they get answers and actions.
Chomsky below on the non-existent
Ear Conditioning 04.03 2008
- Ghaitta and drums / Blind musician recorded by Paul Bowles,
- The KLF /
- The Last Poets / Invocation (Rykodisk)
- Jellaba Titara / Gnaoua de Abdenbi Bhinzi (Sub Rosa)
- The KLF / Pulling out of Ricardo and the dusk is falling fast (Wax Trax)
- Badoo / Headline News (King Tubby´s)
- George W….”The answer to your question is I can´t answer your question.”
- Masanko Soukayi &
- Coldcut & DJ Food / Classic Solid Steel featuring KRS-One, Busta Rhymes, J-Dilla and more
- Diplo & Cutty Ranks / Piracy Funds Terrorism
- Black Uhuru / Natural Reggae Beat (Virgin)
- Wayward Soul featuring Miss MC / Title unknown
- Kode 9 & The Space Ape / Quantum (Hyperdub)
- Balkan Beat Box / Hermetico · Dub Gabriel/Kush Arora Remix
- El Guincho / Cuando Maravilla Fui (Discoteca Océna)
Missing Tunes from the Echo Dek / Ear Conditioning 26.02.2008
Now I know where Barry Adamson got that sample!
Besides the Mingus thang at the end, there´s a great story on Dutty Artz blog about the viral spread of the Team Shadetek ´Brooklyn Anthem´. The tune has now become known as ´The Craziest´ riddim (rhythm). There are versions abound, with plenty videos to go along with it. See tracklisting for further links on this ting.
Rewind action on Jay Electronica, a slice from his Eternal Sunshine Mix .
In Electronica related news, the Moody Boyz, barely out of the studio after remixing Erykah Badu, has now tackled the legendary ´Scratch´, yes Lee like Perry. A weighted bass on yer chest and Perry´s lyrical poetic charm working as usual. This is from an Adrian Sherwood-produced album, due out later this year. Plenty of Sherwood productions in this program, African Head Charge...I was in the studio last week with Airtor/Tropico28, and he wasn´t aware of Sherwood or Head Charge, so i think that planted the seed for this week´s rinse-out of On-U Sound produce - Mark Stewart and Dub Syndicate included
Sherwood/On-U influenced many a current producer, Dr. Das included, got a joint from him this week.
It´s been a pleasure.
- 23 Skidoo / Excerpt from The Culling is Coming (L.A.Y.L.A.H.)
- 23 Skidoo / Coup
- Jay Electronica / Voodoo Man from Eternal Sunshine mix
- Dub Syndicate / Wadada means Love (On-U Sound)
- Mutaburuka / Sit Dung Pon de Wall (Trojan)
- Linton Kwesi Johnson / Reggae Sounds (LKJ)
- Pitcho / Boucan · Dr. Das Remix (Soot)
- African Head Charge / Who Are You? (On-U Sound)
- Moody Boyz Vs. Lee ´Scratch´Perry (On-U Sound)
- The Perceptionists / Blo (Def Jux)
- La Peuple de l´Herbe / Keep Rockin´ (PIAS)
- People Under the Stairs / Crazy Live
- GAF / Two Things I Need to Tell You (Ruin)
- Iraqi soldiers beating up suspects as US soldiers watch.... "beat his ass...hey, your not filming this are ya? Turn it off!"
- Team Shadetek feat. 77Klash & Jah Dan / Brooklyn Anthem (Shadatek)
- Mighty Zulu Nation / Mdavu The Man (Nation)
- Mark Stewart+Maffia / High Ideals and Crazy Dreams (On-U Sound)
- Charles Mingus / Freedom - Part One (Blue Note)
Men and Chicken-shits / Ear Conditioning 19.2.08
As i was preparing the playlist for today the news of Fidel´s retirement came through the wire.
Nice one Fidel, you made a lot of people proud of themselves by standing up to the man, and taking him on fair and square. An inspiration to millions in the Caribbean, South America, hell, the world over, much more of an inspiration than the Washington boys, no doubt! I just don´t get it with anti-Fidelistas....they go on about Cuba´s lack of this and lack of that, but never once question the so-called democracy that is supposed to exist in the land mass that is but 90 miles from Cuba. They never ever think that for 500 years, Cuba had never been allowed to run it´s own coarse. For 500 years, the French, Spanish, and Yanks ruled the roost and laid down the law. For the first time in 500 years, a Cuban, free of outside influence was at the head of the country. Think about it, your home being run by someone else for all that time. Think about it, then we´ll talk. The last track in today´s program is coincidentally very appropriate.
Fuckin´pussy ´oles! Who? The fucking Metropolitan Police Force of London, that´s who!
According to documents seen by the BBC, the police refused to arrest an Israeli general on a war crimes warrant because they feared an armed confrontation with Israeli security that were on the airplane that brought major general Doran Almog to the UK. Lawyers acting for Palestinian campaigners lobbied the Met Police to acto over allegations he had ordered the destruction in 2002 of more than 50 Palestinian homes in the Gaza Strip.
This is the same police force that had no problem engaging their weapons against an unarmed man by the name of Jean Charles de Menezes or the countless people they have killed while in police custody.
The film Injustice looks at some of the families of people being killed at the hands of the police, and the families struggle to receive some kind of justice on behalf of their deceased brother, father, mother, sister, cousin. Whenever the director and producer of the film has tried to arrange screenings for the film in the UK, the venue, cinema has been threated with a court order by the Police.....something to do with libel.....fuckin´pussy´oles!
Now sports....we got all kinda tings going on in this weeks edition of Radio Freedom, newness from Cat Power, hardcore bass from Stereotyp, tag-team action from Mickey Hart and Zakir Hussein, percussion concussions from Nána Vasconcelos, a dash of cumbia, some of dat Radiohead thing, as well as Belgium´s best musical export, Think of One, who have a new album out very soon via Crammed. Kicking off the program.....a cut from The Best Belly Dance Album in the World 2!
Farrok Salama / Dalah (EMI Arabia)
Beat Conductor / Freeze (StonesThrow)
Think of One / Marrakesh II
Nána Vasconcelos / Balanca Rede (Island)
Lito Barrientes y su Orquesta / Cumbia en dos menor (Soundway)
Argonort / The Argonort
El-P / Truancy (Def Jux)
Stereotyp / My Sound (G-Stone)
The Bug / Poison Dart · Stereotyp Remix (Ninja Tune)
Company Flow / Lenorcism (Dummy Snacks)
Elixir & Endemic Void / Chronono (Eves/Language)
Madvillian / Raid (StonesThrow)
Radiohead / Jigsaw (XL)
Global Drum Project featuring Mickey Hart and Zakir Hussein / Funky Zena (Shout)
Cat Power / Lord Help the Poor and Needy (Matador)
Ear Conditioning program does it´s thing at Radio Norte 89.4 fm, Tenerife. 20h00-21h00
The Special Brew / Ear Conditioning Feb. 12
The Ear Conditioning program is now being transmitted by Radio Norte 89.4FM, straight outta Tacoronte.
The program is pre-recorded however i am not describing what tracks, who by, where you can get etc., which is a shame really, as i am supposed to be informing the listeners as to what the hell is going on. I am planning to do the show from next week okay?!
I came across DJ Negro via hispace, and he has been kind and generous enough to send me seven tracks to share amongst the listeners. His style....cumbia, dub, dancehaul. Everybody that has Diplo and the Mad Decent crew on their radar knows of the sixteen year old RyeRye....well i think they do, and so should you. Speaking of Diplo, while The Bug was visiting us here, he gave me a blast of Piracy Funds Terrorism mixes of M.I.A. that Diplo produced. I was able to record the session note for note in my head and re-record it for you here..."Yeah right, you copied it ya bastid!"
Lined up for tonight´s program is a new joint from Erykah Badu, getting a kinda dubstep-inspired treatment from Mr. Moody, Tony Thorpe. One of the main men at Universal Records was back home in NewZealand and heard his remix of Amy Whinehouse, and was moved to ask "Who did dat?" and "Can he do something with Ms. Badu?" This one is for the ladies. We continue to follow the links....from Badu to Jay Electronica....yes, him again. His flow is so different i´m hooked like the fish we had for lunch.
This past weekend, the group Tropico28 and myself headed to the mainland for a couple concerts in Alcazar de San Juan and Madrid. During one session, Aitor, the Tropico programmer asked "What is that track you just played that had the heavy pounding drums, that opened my mind?" Oh, you mean The Bug remix of Thom Yorke, i responded.
The Special Brew / Ear Conditioning 12 Feb. 2008
DJ Negro · Danza Extrerrestre (DJ Negro)
DJ Negro · Mash Up Andres Landero VS. Rookie (DJ Negro)
DJ Blaqstarr &
M.I.A. / Cutty Ranks · from Piracy Funds Terrorism mixed by Diplo
Bunny General · Kill a Drumpan Sound (Sweet Music)
77Klash feat. Johnny Osbourne · Mad Again (Dutty Artz)
Ghislain Poirier · Blazin (Ninja Tune)
Erykah Badu VS. The Moody Boyz (Universal)
Jay Electronica · Departureandareyouwatching
Thom Yorke · Harrowdown Hill · The Bug Remix (XL)
The Bug · Skeng · Kode 9 Remix (Hyperdub)
Cauto · Bona Vida (Dutty Artz)
US Soldier at Abu Ghraib talks about CIA techniques and the pimping of a 15 year old Iraqi girl.
Source Direct · The Crane (Source Direct)
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