Afleveringen
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This episode, set to go last week, was interrupted by Covid. It is never nice to have the 'vid, but it's receding and we're set to get the Magic Organ back out there.
We kick it off with some metal from Thou (heavy metal is good for you, as is eating bitter vegetables), and head out with some funky and poppy hip hop from Rapsody, then a track from Fenya Rai, a group updating older Catalan folk songs. From there we get some some heavy post love diva dancefloor banging from Becky Hill and we must not skip the Northern Irish hooligans Kneecap trafficking in a variety of themes on their track, Drug Dealin Pagans.
Thanks for listening, keep your masks on cuz Covid blows.
Excerpts from this episode:
Thou: Emotional Terrorist
Rapsody: Black Popstar
Fenya Rai: La Galindaina
Becky Hill: Outside of Love
Andra Day: Narcos
Kneecap: Drug Dealin Pagans
U-Ziq: Imperial Crescent
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I'm always open to listener suggested playlists if you feel you can hang with the host.
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Oh, we've got an episode perfectly matched to the mood of late summer.
Kick it off with some super funky techno, into some wild ass video game flavored African music, onto some highlife, into some Moroccan gnawa music, build towards the finish with some modern party reggae, and go out on the cumbia tip.
You can't beat it with a stick, tbh.
If you want to be on the show, if you're a music obsessive, hey just do it, hit me with 6 of your banging-est bangers and see if you make the grade. That's how we do it here on The Magic Organ.
Excerpts from this episode:
Logic 1000: side by side
Sisso & Maiko: Kiboko
Okwy Osadebe and Highlife Soundmakers International: Ifunanya
Asmaa Hamzaoui and Bnat Timbouktou: Lalla Rkia
Jahill & Marina P: Miss & Mister Rub-a-dub
Kumbia Boruka: Santa Suerte
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Zijn er afleveringen die ontbreken?
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This summer has been fruitful in terms of new music and this episode is the kickoff of a flurry of episodes to conclude this season of listening. Whereas I found a ton of amazing African music last summer this summer the action has been spread across more genres.
We kick it off with some funky techno, head into some sweet roots reggae, back into techno but a bit more raucous, into the indie, take a turn with some stripper pole electro funk and end up with some weird mostly acapella indie.
Thanks for listening, spread the word and stay safe out there.
Excerpts from this episode:
Lil Silva: Done Heavy
Mighty Joshua: Sometimes
M. Wagner: Marcy Av
Shannon & The Clams: Big Wheel
Lindigo: Tiako
Nikki Nair: Prowler
Anastasia Coope: Woke up and No Feet
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Episode 82 kicks off with some minimalist instrumental funk, segues into medium laidback African music out of Senegal, dips into some dark indie from Big Brave, and on and on it goes for 13 minutes. The episode concludes with some electronic metal out of Kenya and nothing signifies where The Magic Organ is at more than a tune by an African metal musician that is distorted and aggro but surely is not typical metal!
The Magic Organ is unaffiliated with the corporate bastards who are presently running the music business deeper into the toilet, it is an independent effort focused on quality over genre. Ask yourself who else is trafficking as widely as The Magic Organ? C'mon now, the answer is nobody, nobody comes close to The Magic Organ in terms of what's in the flavor packet.
Thanks for listening.
Excerpts from this episode:
Karate Boogaloo: One Hand One Bounce
Tidiane Thiam: Neene Africa
Big Brave: Not Speaking of the Ways
Facta: Emeline
Sam Gendel and Same Wilkes: Rugged Road
Lord Spikeheart: Djangili
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There was music before the internet and a lot of it was really good. This week we feature tracks from Portugal, Russia, America, Israel, and Sweden. All bangers but the opening track is especially hot.
Thanks for listening and stay safe out there.
Excerpts from this episode:
Shegundo Galarza: O Pezinho
Ivan Rebreff: Cossacks Must Ride
Lionel Hampton: Flying Home
Lev Ran Choir: N/A (record face is in Hebrew)
Ake Gronberg: Calle Schewens Vals
Disco Around the Globe (Compilation): Dancing
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A response to our last episode focusing on the sad ass music department picks at the New York Times. This by no means exhaustive set of bangers is part of The Magic Organ's continuing mission to present music that moves people, both asses and minds.
We kick off with some delightfully funky dumpster electronic, pop out a nugget for all the rockers out there, head into some pumped up dancefloor melancholia, get the horns up with a track from Gatecreeper's new record, on and on and on. 13 minutes of blast furnace levels of heat, Death Valley heat, etc.
The focus is not on genre or marketing budget but whether it gets you moving.
Thanks for listening.
Excerpts from this episode:
Nikki Nair: Prowler
Charles Moothart: Hold On
Becky Hill & Sonny Fodera: Never Be Alone
Gatecreeper: Oblivion
Shabazz Palaces: Angela
Flowdan: Do My Ting
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Imagine if the New York Times recommended passionate music, extreme music, and music reflecting the human condition. But alas it is not to be. Today we cruise through the 8 of the NY Times' best tracks of the first half of 2024. If you disagree with my assessment of this bag of tracks, I will invite you on the podcast to discuss it if you make sense. Part of what makes being a sports fan great is the trash talking of athletes, journos and fans, while in the sphere of music the vast majority of fans lap up whatever gruel is placed in front of them.
Next week I will push up some of my favorite tracks from the first half of the year and it will not be a flaccid playlist, it will be bumpin'.
Thanks for listening.
Excerpts from this episode:
Sabrina Carpenter: Espresso
Tyla: Safer
Ariana Grande: we can't be friends
Billie Eilish: THE GREATEST
Zsela: Fire Excape
Kacey Musgraves: Deeper Well
Beyonce: 16 CARRIAGES
Mk.gee: Little Bit More
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There's the good heat from bangin' new music and there's the bad heat that will f*cking kill you and sometimes we have both. Let's hope for more heat between the musical humans and the listening humans and less heat from the planet (which is our fault, the fossil fuel humans). Stay safe out there.
Summer 2023 was full of world music hot rocks and we can only hope for a repeat of that in 2024. We kick it off with the eternally partyistic Omar Souleyman, hit a little hop from Armand Hammer, some indie from Lord knows where (because I listen to so much music), some retro funk from the Silver Skylarks, and we take you out with a 5 minute double shot of my favorite jazz record thus far this year, the 58 minute monster shot from Ahmed out of the UK. It's hard to explain how these guys take jazz and blow it to the moon and back so please check that out.
Thanks for listening!
Excerpts from this episode:
Omar Souleyman: Male Atab
Armand Hammer: When It Doesn't Start With a Kiss
Blue Bendy: Mr. Bubblegum
Silver Skylarks: Number One Set and Sound
(Ahmed): Wood Blues
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Welcome back and we are on the threshhold of the summer of '24. The new music is heating up not quite as fast as the climate but we're just pretending climate change isn't happening because it's a #sadface bummer.
Another 13 minute music bomb from all over -- hip hop from Shabazz Palaces, traditional Mexican music from Cana Dulce y Cana Brava, onto some guitar driven world music/rock from Somaliland, some ambient cello business from NYC (go 5 boroughs!!), to some pop punk from Minneapolis, to the cradle of dub/electronic music from long standing reggae superstars The Aggrovators! Yikes, what a sentence.
Thanks for listening and stay hydrated, it's gonna be a hottie!
Excerpts from this episode:
Shabazz Palaces: Angela
Cana Dulce y Cana Brava: El Palomo
Sahra Halgan: Som hanyari
MIZU: Realms of Possibility
VIAL: Bottle Blonde
The Aggrovators: Press the Dub Along
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Episode 76! Could be a soft launch for summer '24 as we kick this episode off with the UK/Caribbean dancehall stylings of Flowdan with the track Do My Ting. He does his ting, I do my ting here at The Magic Organ, and hopefully you get in the ring and do your ting out there wherever you are.
For the 80th gabillionth time, we are committed to quality and not genre, I would play more new indie rock and white people rock if there was more high quality indie rock and white people rock being released. I have to run an affirmative action program for indie rock some episodes that's how lacking some of the indie rock is out there. Take it up with my fellow flour rangers making the indie rock, I go where the quality is.
Excerpts from this episode:
Flowdan: Do My Ting
SPRINTS: Heavy
Piper Street Sound: A Shadow in August
MIKE & Tony Seltzer
Angelica Garcia: Juanita
Adrianne Lenker: No Machine
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As I initially was constructing this episode I noticed the excellent space rock on offer from Okavango African Orchestra in track 3, and how the Brazilian MCs take American sounds and make them their own in the final track. All these various sounds and sonic subcultures slurping around the interwebz, picked up and checked out by other folks in other places and thereby changed even a wee bit as they spread. It's cool to see creativity in action.
I ended up titling this episode Skills and Vibes as it came out whilst I was spieling over the faded tracks and I liked it a whole bunch with it. The crosstalk will continue to occur, it's near the heart of what music makes it onto The Magic Organ.
Thanks for listening -- tell your stupid friends.
Excerpts from this episode:
Tiken Jah Fakoly & Tiggs Da Author: Les Martyrs
Charles Moothart: Clock Rats
Okavango African Orchestra: Selam Kiblaki
John Thayer & Chris Cochrane: Excavation
Mama Sissoko: Safiatou
MC L da Vinte & MC Gury: Parado no Bailao
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The Magic Organ returns and if you don't grok the whole 13 minutes (I estimate that to be 1 and one half to 2 toilet sittings depending on diet) make sure you peep the opener by Ahmed Ben Ali as I've been listening to this Liberian reggae dancehall gent do his thing and it is stylish. As usual lots of world music, but not exclusively world music and as we say at the Magic Organ it's not about genre it's about quality. If you want to guest on the show, hit me up, I would love to have a music obsessed guest on the show, otherwise peep and enjoy.
Excerpts from this show:
Ahmed Ben Ali: Ya Ghalian Alakheera
The Ex: Requiem For a Rip-Off
Loving: Medicine
Dieuf-Dieul De Thies: Ariyo
Aiace: Se Voce Se For/Citicao: Meia Hora
Ben Okafor & The Liberators: Beware of the Snake
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Last week 90+ indie artists pulled out of South By Southwest (SXSW) as it's sponsored this year by defense contractor Raytheon and the U.S. Army.
This episode features 6 of those indie artists. I understand my podcast has a small audience but anybody who hears these artists should support them and spread the word about them because they did something good and should be supported for it. Passing up money and high quality exposure is not common these days among musicians, in fact more often than not large corporate artists will happily take gigs with connections to janky death dealing institutions. Beyone, ahem, looking at you.
This week you won't get the genre variety but hey folks gotta stick together in these difficult and violent times.
Excerpts from this episode:
Squirrel Flower: Stick
The Armed: Modern Vanity
Rachel Chinouriri: All I Ever Asked
Horse Jumper of Love: Gates of Heaven
Tomato Flower: Destroyer
Kharma: By Any Means
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Greetings Magic Organ devotees!! Regular listeners know this is the part where I ramble in an entertaining manner, apologize for mistakes made in the recording of this fine podcast, and talk about how awesome this podcasts is. I believe I put the emphasis on the wrong syllable in the second track Basilisk, quality and transparency matter here at the Magic Organ (unlike Boeing!) and maybe I misprounced Mr. Andrew Ashong's name (track 5), I'm not sure.
We kick it off with some energetic shit kicking music from the Dead South, head into some instrumental fund from Orgone, hit the techno dancefloor with the track 'Protection', check out some Latin/electronic drama with a track called Ranita Verde and we just go on and on from there, boom all genres out the window it's just a question of quality.
Excerpts from this episode:
The Dead South: 20 Mile Jump
Orgone: Basilisk
John Tejada and Silent Servant: Protection
Barzo and Guadalupe Urbina: Ranita Verde
Rian Treanor and Ocen James: Agoya
Andrew Ashong, Kaidi Tatham and Shy One: Learning Lessons
The Dead South: Where Has The Time Come
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Episode 71, you can't stop the underground bangers -- it's a tidal wave!!! I can barely contain these 13 minute podcasts as they are bursting with farm fresh musical flavors and creativity.
We kick it off with some outstanding guitar work out of the Congo, head into to some dub from a Puerto Rican musician, onto some ambient shitkicking out of Virginia, more reggae-dub flavors out of the UK, indie out of Washington DC (I make a little fun of the indie conceit but I do dig the tune), then wrap it up with some heaviness out of Toronto.
Once again proving The Magic Organ is nothing if not worldwide.
Tune in, tune out, can you dig it?
Excerpts from this episode:
Vumbi Dekula: Zuku
Pachyman: Trago Coqueto
Daniel Bachman: Till the Roses Come Again
Creation Rebel: Salutation Gardens
Soft Punch: Fine
Thantifaxath: Hungry Ghosts
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America hates everything that doesn't make a ton of money, music maybe most of all. Who cares if 'Merka hates underground music, maybe deep down they realize what an utter crock of shit corporate music really is? Worse and less satisfying than a McDonald's burger, flatter too.
We do what we do during every episode, we kick it without regard for genre, location, race or class. Starting with some female led hip hop, moving on to some more African music from '23, into the metal chaos, out into a mash of Mexican music and American banjo playing, hit the dancefloor and out on a world music stylistic mash.
Who could ask for more? Please keep in mind you won't like this unless you let go of the idea that the quality of a piece of music is tied in any way to money.
Excerpts from this episode:
H31R: Backwards
Chouk Bwa & The Angstromers: Vini We M
Fabricant: Demigod Prototype
Larry & Joe: Caballo Viejo
Surusinghe: Bet
Ladaniva: Manoushak
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We continue with the celebration of all the great music that came out in 2023. Billy Woods continued with his sizzling string of hot records, the Kara Jackson record is beautiful, Homeboy Sandman is completely underrated and The Coral, so far into their career, released a great The Coral record.
I'm a finicky fckr so for me to go on and on about how much great music came out in 2023 is a sign of how much great music came out in 2023!
Check it out, spread it around. #culture #newmusic
Excerpts from this episode:
billy woods & Kenny Seagal: Rapper Weed
Bandit: Butterfly Knife
Kara Jackson: no fun/party
Ziur & Abdullah Miniawy: Malikan
Homeboy Sandman: Off the Rip
The Coral: Wild Bird
Teke::Teke: Gotoku Lemon
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Part 3 of The Magic Organ's end of year roundup is here and now. Be careful and don't shit your pants in complete and total amazement.
Summer 2023 was an avalanche of incredible African music but other genres, most notably electronic music, were bumping along as well. And don't sleep on the Liturgy album, it's a banger.
I say unto ye focus on quality and not on genre and that will produce much happiness for you in 2024.
Excerpts from this episode:
Groundation: Between Earth and Zion
LCY: Believe
Liturgy: Djennaration
Alogte Oho & His Sounds of Joy: Doose Mam
Altinbas: Second Wind
Nana Benz du Togo: Tousse
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I am a finicky ass mofo and yet there will be many more rounds of The Magic Organ Roundup as 2023 was an incredible year for new music.
This episode does the usual Magic Organ thing, lots of energy, lots of genres and feelings. The whole point is not to make money but to feel something.
Enjoy your holidays and find some new music!
Excerpts from this episode:
Alex Figueira: Blowing Up Gates
Angel Bat Dawid: INTROIT Joy n' Suffrin'
Conjunto Media Luna: Pajarito Golindrina
Skech185 & Jeff Markey: East Side Summer
Nathan Fake: Crystal Vision
King Ayisoba: Namba Sonne
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Let it begin! The Magic Organ Best of 2023 Part 1.
I picked all the records for this episode but especially rocked the Son Rompe Pera record and the Liv.e record in early 2023. Just so you know.
Excerpts from this episode:
Son Rompe Pera: Chucha
Blak Flower: Magma
Liv.e: Heart Break Escape
Horse Lords: Comradely Objects
Mizmor & Thou: Myopia
schroothoop: Cheval Orange
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