#50: Have a Rotten Xmas This Year

1 Mogwai Christmas Steps (10)
2 Low Just Like Christmas (9)
3 Butthole Surfers Good King Wenceslas (8)
4 Bright Eyes Blue Christmas (7)
5 Sonic Youth Santa Doesn't Cop Out on Dope (6)
6 Grandaddy Alan Parsons in a Winter Wonderland (5)
7 Gomo Santa's Depression (4)
8 Themselves Grass Skirt & Fruit Hat (3)
9 The Murder City Devils 364 Days (2)
10 William S. Burroughs/Kurt Cobain The 'Priest' They Called Him (1)

bonus tracks:
11 Sixtoo & Norsola Part One & Part Two
12 My Bloody Valentine Touched

First aired on Dec 25

Two Loons For Tea - Nine Lucid Dreams

Sarathan Records



Sexy, just too sexy to even mention, almost erotic, really! These are the words that immediately come to mind when addressing Two Loons for Tea's beautiful work. "Nine Lucid Dreams" is this Seattle-based duo's third album and it's like their "Simple Things", the big breakthrough for Zero 7. It starts in style with an incredibly gorgeous track, "Sunset Room", sure to insufflate fresh air into any toxic brain.

It's impossible not to fall in love with Sarah Scott's voice and Jonathan Kochmer's gently layered music patterns. The diehard downtempo fan will probably be surprised by these often acoustic, somehow voice-centered numbers but, as "Consuela" comes in, the agnostic jaw will probably drop like autumn leaves in Canada. This rumba-inspired track feels so beautifully out-of-place it will tuck you in as if it were your grandmother getting you ready for a nights sleep.

"Monkey", the second and thus decisive track, brings in a bagful of styles from the jazzy ambience to the trip-hopped folk rock. It should work pretty well as electronic music for the hearing impaired – the vibe is so intense and rich the deaf would at least sense it in the back of their mind. But, above all, Two Loons for Tea will end up setting the mood for beautiful, sunny afternoons spent in the park with the headphones on.

Far from me to get all horny when the shades are still up, but "Nine Lucid Dreams" does add that little twinkle to any bedroom. It's like the cinnamon stick you mix your drink with. And with track names like "Eyebrows Are Nature's Makeup" and "Dixie It Up!", you're sure to (forgive my directness) get laid tonight. Two Loons for Tea is definitely a band to keep an eye on and invite for a cup of...tea. Seattle never sounded so sexy, except maybe for Heather Duby!

http://www.properlychilled.com/music/release/profile.php?view=516

Mango Juice - Cry Out EP

Switchstance Recordings



Mango Juice's "Cry Out" EP is dope reggae in bad need of a GPS. Consider Mango Juice as dub's problem child – he definitely won't die of devotion because he doesn't have Jamaica breathing down his neck, but what he does have is this rioting confluence of rock, reggae, jungle and smoky, sharpened vocals.

Side A is a tentative heads-up to the careless listener: if lustrous, raspberry-scented dub is your wet dreaming catalyst, you can jump ahead because "Fire Pon Rome" is as dark as reggae can be, with its encrypted, rum-driven layers of sound. The next track "Lovely Life" is much more Marley-oriented throughout its slowed-down, nebulous delivery.

"Beware (Ancient Astronauts remix)" opens side B in heavy machinery fashion; even though the track's backbone is quite entertaining, the forefront is much more looming than your average roots record. Interestingly enough, the original version comes after the remix.

The finale, "Love Alone", is orbiting around the Jamaican galaxy but, as the track comes to a close, it shows its true affiliation: a sound that's everywhere without being handcuffed to a certain genre. The good folks at Switchstance Recordings surely weren't snoring when they first spotted Mango Juice.

http://www.properlychilled.com/music/release/profile.php?view=513

#49: Verbal Eulogy

1 Solzalez Dropdeesnumber3
2 8th W1 The Shocker
3 Parallel Thought All I See feat. Caness
4 Pace Won, Lakim Shabazz & El Da Sensei Womb to the Tomb
5 Young Zee If I Only Had a Brain feat. Sass (Live from Montclair 2005)
6 Reef The Lost Cauze Slay Them (prod. by Two Hungry Bros)
7 Truth or Square La Di Da Di
8 Mugshot Verbal Eulogy (prod. by *Waz Most/ cuts by DJ 3rd Rell)
9 Langston Black We Got One Path (Freestyle)
10 Dolla Bin Mixdown the Drummer
11 Flip Kuma Untitled
12 Written On Your Psyche Caped Crusaders feat. Realizm & Victor KJ
13 Bash Sold to the Highest Bidder
14 J0-DBL Hide
15 MuaMin Co. LSD
16 Fallen Angels Freedom
17 Sol Zalez
18 Replife Just Listen (R U Ready) (inc.)

First aired on Dec 18

Coffee Breakz #41-50

#41: Noite Cigana
#42: Little Ghetto Boy
#43: Two Loons for Tea
#44: Chilled Master Cuts
#45: Miles Davis
#46: Chilled Master Cuts - part 2
#47: War of the Worlds
#48: 70s Reggae
#49: Verbal Eulogy
#50: Have a Rotten Xmas This Year

#48: 70s Reggae

1 Bob Marley & The Wailers Kaya
2 King Tubby Ring the Alarm
3 Lee Perry East of the River Nile
4 Gregory Isaacs Lonely Days
5 Byron Lee and The Dragonaires Oh Carolina
6 Culture Soon Come
7 Dawn Penn I Let You Go Boy
8 Dennis Brown Money In My Pocket
9 Max Romeo The Lucky Old Sun
10 Derrick Harriott Some Guys Have All the Luck
11 Dillinger Marijuana In My Brain
12 Rita Marley I'm Still Waiting - "Excuse Me Mrs Marley"
13 The I Threes Buffalo Soldier
14 Horace Andy Skylarking
15 Errol Dunkley OK Fred
16 Boris Gardner Lock Jaw
17 Derrick Morgan Save the Last Dance
18 Ken Boothe I Can See Clearly Now (inc.)

emitido a 11 e 15 Dezembro

#47: War of the Worlds

emitido a 4 e 8 Dezembro

Canartic - Bouncing Radar Beams Off The Moon

Dank Disk



Engaging in a dub journey by taking the express train to Jamaica always means safer sex, when compared to the dive into the wide unknown of adding less-saturated elements to the bill. That's exactly what Canartic, a band from Austin, Texas, does in "Bouncing Radar Beams Off the Moon". And one also has to give the guys some credit for the great title they came up with.

It would be unfair and, above all, incorrect to state that these Texans only have dub and reggae written in their DNA. For the sake of accuracy, in their second full-length, Canartic is how Lee "Scratch" Perry would sound like if he ever artistically hooked up with Slint. And on tracks like "London 67", they even resemble Norway's electronic favorites Röyksopp.

The problem with dub is that it sometimes lacks consistency in its smokey, infatuated delivery. That doesn't happen on numbers like "Syd's Psychedelic Adventure", simply because Randall Peterson's guitar and Gerard Smith's bass are not regarded as furniture but rather as key figures. By "Pie Eyed Piper", you should have realized that this is not a dub record, but a post-dub, psychedelic, slowed-down post-rock album of sorts.

And let us not forget Jon Coates' great job in the rhythm and sound section. He is what links the lighthearted Marley's nephews to the more mature King Tubby's dub roots. Unlike most reggae-oriented works, Canartic's never gets drowsy. After a somehow lethargic cut like "The Soft Collapse", there's always a drone-built "Narcatic" (read narcotic) to wake you up. It really saves a lot of your caffeine money.

http://www.properlychilled.com/music/release/profile.php?view=508

Putumayo Presents Tango Around the World

Putumayo World Music



If Argentina's Buenos Aires was the center of the world, all of us would be entangled in the webs of hyperactive tango. But, since Argentina presumably exports more beef than tango, we are doomed to be putting on weight instead of shaking our asses as stylish lunatics. "Tango Around the World" walks the listener to different locations where tango does not suffer from jet lag – or does it?

The opening track, Ousmane Touré's "Dimba", recorded in Senegal, lets in all kinds of external influences, serving almost like a revised copy of tango for the new generations. But the second track, "Kangastus", by Finland's M.A. Numminen & Sanna Pietiänen, is much less permeable, featuring the long pauses and the easily imaginable body positions based on the step-step-step-close pattern.

"Tango Around the World" is clearly a record for ballroom exposure, but it also has a certain encyclopedic value for it maps out tango's geographical and stylistic long arms. It is a real pleasure to hear what appear to be fat cello lines on Fortuna's "Tango Idishe", from Argentina's neighboring country Brazil. As is with great delight that one goes up northeastern to find cold Norway busily doing some hot dance steps, as heard on Electrocutango's "Felino".

Surprisingly enough (or maybe not so), it is Liana's "Estrela da Tarde", hailing from Portugal, that manages to come up with a firecracker of musical influences. While her voice is clearly detached from fado's encompassing delivery, the surrounding ambience is tango at its finest, but the bed where all these elements converge to has electronic sheets.

There's even a vintage aspirin for the vinyl nostalgic minds: on "Gia Ligo", by the Greek duo Alexis Kalofolias & Thanos Amorginos, you can hear the creeping detritus of a worn-out record. And then, of course, four native cuts from the country that brought us this somehow schizophrenic music. All of them are quite good but sound a little too regional and revisionist, whereas the rest of the album tries to move a little step out of tune.

http://www.properlychilled.com/music/release/profile.php?view=503

#46: Chilled Master Cuts - part 2

1 Lo Fidelity Allstars Dark Is Easy
2 Kinda Blue [Ashley Beedle Remix]
3 Dust Where You Wanna Be [Roots Manuva Mix]
4 Mozez, Nightmares on Wax Fuzz
5 Lucky Jim Lesbia
6 In Deep The Sea
7 Indian Ropeman, Shahin Badir 66 Meters
8 Annie I Will Get On
9 Family Break It Off
10 International Pony Blow Your Mind
11 Canartic Narcatic
12 Massive Attack Man Next Door (inc.)

emitido a 27 Novembro e 1 Dezembro