One more from the Azerbaijani rabbit hole I keep falling into:
Re: SOTD
Posted: Sun May 08, 2016 2:51 pm
by toothaction
^ 'Tis a fine hole you've found, my friend. Keep on rooting!
More balm for sad times:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGVwreJNWlk Bonzo Dog Band I'm The Urban Spaceman 1968 promo in COLOUR I felt like I'd posted this one before, but a search seems to have proved me wrong.
<3 Wow D! You just took me back to that wonderful trip we took to the beautiful Republic of Georgia. Hadn't seen this in forever...
Re: SOTD
Posted: Sun May 15, 2016 12:48 pm
by toothaction
^ I'll spare the masses, but I'll have to tell you the story of how I used to spin this little tune called Asia Minor in public all the time back in the late '90s.
“I can be you and you can be me — ultimate orgasm we will see!”
- Father Yod
Re: SOTD
Posted: Mon May 16, 2016 3:53 pm
by rattanicus
toothaction wrote:^ I'll spare the masses, but I'll have to tell you the story of how I used to spin this little tune called Asia Minor in public all the time back in the late '90s.
Naw it couldn't be the 7" we put out in 95! ...could it?
Re: SOTD
Posted: Mon May 16, 2016 11:00 pm
by toothaction
Could! Among the many wee (or in the case of this one, then wee) record labels that I grabbed everything I could get my hands on from back then was Merge. Their Bio Ritmo release really hit me right at the time, and I spun it constantly at my bartending gig or when I was DJing shows. I probably hadn't thought about those two songs for a decade, maybe longer, until a week or so ago when, as has been happening to me a lot lately, I got this flash of forgotten music while I was on a bike ride. Took me a few days to figure out what the hell I was remembering and who it was by. Once I looked into it I made some very surprising discoveries about this punk-ass salsa band. Chief among them? Apparently, Rei, we met a couple of decades ago!
I'll confess that the tune I remembered, the side I played way more than the flip, was the instrumental one: