We really feel like that (as far as beats and production go) we’re entering a second golden age of hip hop, and that’s kind of what the majority of this mix is all about.
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You can hear more like this live on August 27th at Rio Rita. Its always free, and always fun. We’ll see you on the patio.
The second in a series of themed mixes by Recspec is now available online. Its music to get your naughty bits excited to, so we hope you enjoy it. Here’s the tracklisting:
1. Rubber City – Perdita
2. Wanda Jackson – You Don’t Know Baby
3. Serge Gainsbourg – En Melody
4. Issac Hayes – The Feeling Just Keeps On Coming
5. Bobby “Blue” Bland – I’ve Just Got To Forget About You
6. Nina Simone – I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl (Live)
7. Nouvelle Vague – In A Manner Of Speaking
8. Juliette LeBlanc – Theme from “Nights of Sin”
9. Billie Holiday – Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be)?
10. Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan – Come On Over (Turn Me On)
11. James Brown – It’s A Man’s World
12. Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra – Some Velvet Morning
13. Can – She Brings The Rain
14. Air – Le Voyage De Penelope
15. Curtis Mayfield – We The People Who Are Darker Than Blue
16. Otis Redding – Cigarettes and Coffee
17. Kool and The Gang – Summer Madness
18. Faith No More – Midnight Cowboy
If you like what you hear, please support these amazing artists and buy their music. The mix can be downloaded for free, here. Happy Valentines Day to all you lovers out there!
Thank you to everyone that came out to Rio Rita last night to celebrate the release of our first mix CD, Season of The Witch. We hope that everyone that got a copy enjoys it, and if you feel a spirit possessing you while listening – it’s best to just accept it.
We set up an altar to incant all that we could, and offered our sounds up to the gods. Pictures below.
Our first mix CD in a series of themed mixes we are doing is now available here. It was a serious labour of love and effort and we are so excited to have the final product in our hot little hands. Thank you so much to Ben Webster, Affordable Sound, Dave and Snowman, Scott Cannon, and everyone else that helped make it possible.
More info is here. And for those of you who are local, the info for the release party is here.
Dia de los Muertos is one of our favorite holidays, and for the second year in a row, we’ve carved a pumpkin depicting some skellington friends. This year we decided on making a skeleton lady (last year was the Duke), as inspired by a mural put up on 5th street downtown for the Dia de los Muertos festivites a few days ago. Sadly, I didn’t have our camera on hand, but the lovely Angeliska got a couple of beautiful shots:
These beautiful ladies made me want to make one of my own, and below are the results. A little rough, but this is only my second (!) pumpkin carving ever – with the help of Dave of course. We also found this wonderful Santisimia Muerta (The Holy Dead) candle that seemed all too fitting for the festivities. You can view the whole set on flickr here.
Zorch is a recently transplanted two-piece band that has quickly shot up to the top of Recspec’s favourites – their sound is a mix of freak out rock, psychdeleic electronic arpeggios, tribal music to be circumsized by, and the fruits of two very talented musicians. We work with them for their design and video projections and are very glad that they are in Austin now. You can download their album at their website (designed by Recspec!), or listen now over at their myspace.
Recently they had a house party with some other Recspec favorites: Woodgrain, Butcher Bear, and FM Campers. Here are some pictures that we took on the night. Thanks for having us, Zorch!
Had the pleasure of seeing The Gaslamp Killer DJ again while he was in town this past Thursday, and he was phenomenal and had the entire place packed with very very happy people. Here’s a couple pictures we snapped from the night, and if he comes to your town – make sure its a show that you do not miss. More photos here.
Here are some pictures from a show we attended at Carousel Lounge where our friend Aphid was playing with Khonnor and others. I’ve personally been a fan of Khonnors music ever since his release Handwriting, so it was a pleasure to meet him and learn that he is now an Austin local.
The Carousel Lounge itself is a brilliant circus themed dive bar that seems to be taking on more experimental shows lately, which is exciting.
In other news, we’re off to LA for about a week for a much needed vacation after working SXSW and will be updating this site with all manner of things when we return. We’ve also purchased a new digital SLR so you can be expecting many more pictures from us as well.
Some friends of ours have some really great podcasts that are currently live, so I thought I would link them here.
Kon Karne and The Bear is our very own Kon Karne (Dave) and our friend Butcher Bear doing a podcast preview of their monthly night held at Rio Rita here in Austin. RECSPEC is also doing the design for the series – you can view the poster for the first night here.
Rapid Composure Series 2009 is the new podcast from SLC based Eucci, and features near daily snippets of ambient noise and music for as-yet-unmade films. Really haunting and beautiful.
6th Floor Sessions is our good friend Zombie-J from San Francisco, dropping all sorts of bass-heavy dubstep-ish goodness.
Scrapecast is the podcast of Austin-based Aphid and his other alter egos. Nice crunchy in your face electronic experimental madness.
The 4am is writer Warren Ellis‘ collection of new found music sent to him directly by musicians and artists. If you have stuff to send him, you should. From his own words, The 4am “shits fireworks and baby heads.” Hell yes.
I’m sure I’m forgetting some of you, so e-mail us if you want your name included on this list. We’re music obsessed and love to spread your love.
