Make The Sea Turn Turtle

Ushering in the weekend with 47 (and a half) minutes of electronica, spanning funk(i), broken beats, children's rhymes, new (and old) romantics, scuzzy guitars, pop vocals and non-stop dancing, sometimes ecstatic, always eclectic...

Some of these I haven't heard for at least half a decade, so it was a lot of fun playing mix 'n' match with the various sounds. Some of the segueways actually work, too! Which is nice.

1) Suck Acid, Pearl & Dean: Funki Porcini (1995)

2) Owner Of A Lonely Heart (2 Close To The Edge Mix By 808 State): Yes (1991)

3) I'm Still Searching (Junior Boys Spring 2005 DJ Mix By Jeremy Greenspan & Matthew Didemus): Visage (2005)

4) Leave Your Love (Justin Faust Remix): Young Summer (2014)

5) Backyard (Edit): Clearzone (1997)

6) Seventeen (Soulwax Mix By David Dewaele & Stephen Dewaele) (Edit): Ladytron (2003)

7) A Man Could Get Lost (Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing Remix By Harvey Goldberg): Soft Cell (1982)

8) Closer Than This (Xaphoon Jones Remix By Noah Beresin): St. Lucia (2012)

9) Make It Mine (Hilltop Mix By Daniel Stoner): The Shamen (1992)

10) Light Up: Fred Again.. & Mr Eazi (2022)

11) Love U More (Album Version): Sunscreem (1992)

1982: Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing: 7

1991: Owner Of A Lonely Heart EP: 2

1992: Art Of Compilation 10 (Art Of Mix bootleg CD): 9

1992: O₃: 11

1995: Ashabanapal's Big Pink Inflatable EP: 1

2003: nu:electronica_: 5

2005: Junior Boys Spring 2005 DJ Mix: 3

2009: Light & Magic: Remixed & Rare: 6

2012: We Got It Wrong EP: 8

2014: Leave Your Love EP: 4

2022: EarthPercent x Earth Day Compilation Album: 10

Make The Sea Turn Turtle (47:37) (GD) (M)

They Say A Record Ain't Nothing If It's Not Touching

Many blogs that I follow have frequently posted a "Monday Long Song", so here's my contribution with half a dozen of the beauties, taking you on a journey from (according to Discogs) jazz to goth to experimental ambient dub to techno disco to Afro-Cuban psychedelic rock to hip hop in six meandering decades. Andrew Eldritch may raise an eyebrow at the unusual company, but I think it works. Or maybe that's just where my mind is at right now...

 

Thanks to The Roots for today's post title. 

 

1) If You're Not Part Of The Solution, You're Part Of The Problem (Live @ Lighthouse Café, Hermosa Beach, California, sometime between 24 & 26 September 1970): Joe Henderson Quintet (1970)

2) Never Land (Full Length Version): The Sisters Of Mercy (1987)

3) Gone To Croatan: Jah Wobble ft. Pharoah Sanders & Bernie Worrell (1996)

4) Work (Prins Thomas Diskomiks): Junior Boys (2010)

5) La Puesta Del Sol (Demo): Santana (1968)

6) Water (The First Movement / The Abyss / The Drowning): The Roots (2002) 

 

1970: If You're Not Part Of The Solution, You're Part Of The Problem: 1

1996: Heaven & Earth: 3 

1997: Santana '68: 5

2002: Phrenology: 6

2006: Floodland (Expanded Edition): 2 

2010: Work Remixes (German promo 12" single): 4

 

They Say A Record Ain't Nothing If It's Not Touching (1:09:36)