Scotch And Soda (Featuring Pastor McPurvis) - Auld Lang Syne

Back to Comfort Stand and the singular Auld Lang Syne compilation for this final day of 2014.  My goodness gracious, what a year it's been.


I've loved this version since I first heard it...need to share.

More about Scotch and Soda:

Based in Lake Worth, Florida, Scotch & Soda is an imaginary lounge duo combining melodic tuba playing with the built-in cheesiness of the Optigan. In reality, both parts are played by Max McMillan and combined through the magic of multi-track recording.In real life, Max is a cataloging librarian by day, a tuba/electric bass player in community bands/bar bands by night, and spends his weekends thrift store hopping in search of records.

Have a great day.  Bon Annee!

Scotch And Soda (Featuring Pastor McPurvis) - Auld Lang Syne

The Ronnie Wibbley Disco Machine - Auld Lang Syne

This was the final compilation from Comfort Stand.  A grand New Year's tradition that happened once.

Subsystem7 and I had a fine time one New Year's night on the radio counting down multiple midnights around the world with this release, Auld Lang Syne [csr071] the soundtrack.  The label founders joined us by phone.  Fun memory.

The Ronnie Wibbley Disco Machine contributed one of my favorite cuts on the release.  Here's the scoop:

Recorded live at North London's majestic "Slappers" nightspot, this New Year treat features band members Hammer Malone, Pablo and Manolita, with introduction by DJ Nappyhead. Ronnie's plangent ukulele has never sounded as sweet and fitting as on this traditional Scottish ballad of lost love and regret.

Here it is.

The Ronnie Wibbley Disco Machine - Auld Lang Syne

Jack Fetterman and the in Hi-Fi Music Direction - Acapulco 2000

From the great first compilation from Comfort Stand comes this marvelous lounge tune...just in time for the New Year's festivities.  The name of the compilation is Two Zombies Later [CSR001].  

This is a deep collection of loungy exotica that will thrill the ears.  It is almost a decade old, but timeless...

I'm going to try to put up several New Year festive pieces over the next few days under the label, Auld Lang Syne.  Seems only fair to balance out the BSWChristmas stuff.  Happy New Year. Bonne Année!
From the liner notes:  

Remix of Les Baxter's 'Acapulco' from the LP 'The Sacred Idol'. Percussion instruments don't play a secondary role. They are, part and parcel, smoothly integrated into the exciting provocative whole. Here's music — no gimmicks — but exotic, glittering melodies that throb with the beat of the drums. You'll hear a sparkling blend of piano, vibes, bass, accordion, harp, reeds, woodwinds, 17 different percussion instruments, digital loops, and plug-ins. This is a spectacular array of unique sounds and truly different rhythms. Mixologist (err, I mean remixer) Jack Fetterman, with the assistance of The in Hi-Fi Music Direction, explores the recorded work of maestro, Les Baxter's 'Acapulco' for a special DJ engagement honoring, ironically, the demise of the fabulous Kahiki tiki restaurant, formerly in Columbus, Ohio, August 26, 2000.

Jack Fetterman and the in Hi-Fi Music Direction - Acapulco 2000

Martinibomb - cha l'ectro cha cha

Reaching back into the catalog of the wonderful, if defunct netlabel, Comfort Stand, for today's post. Merry Christmas, cha, cha!

MartiniBomb is/was a Portland duo that figured very prominently in the early iterations of BSWC...Subsystem 7 and I were playing them constantly, almost every week.  And for good reason...it's a party. Here's a snippet from the Comfort Stand notes:

...they enjoy cobbling odd songs together from vinyl records, tin cans, sticks and chewing gum. Martinibomb enjoys reading books, collecting records, brewing sake, and watching obscure films.

You can find this link in many of our program playlists on the blog, but it never made it into the feed. I noticed the tune in the playlist of Netwaves, the Belgian-based CC radio broadcast.  It showed up in [nws265] netwaves 7.32: poptronics in 2013. 

If you need some energy to get through this busy day before contemplating the more sombre elements of this holiday, then get your groove on.  

Martinibomb - cha l'ectro cha cha

BSWC One-a-Day: Okapi - Bah!

A BSWC favorite for today's selection. This song has appeared on many a BSWC playlist and Subsystem posted it over at cc:365 once upon a time.

I wanted to make sure that it showed up in the One-a-Day feed.

Okapi is from Italy.

As a child, Okapi studied piano, drums, violin and solfeggio at conservatory, with such poor results that he decided to give up his plans to become a professional musician. Then, after some positive experiences in the field of musical improvisation, he began to study graphic art, and learned to steal the works of others and to use them in a personal and creative way.

Okapi - Bah!

BSWC One-a-Day: Nick Chapman - Take Me Now

The netlabel, Comfort Stand had some wonderful compilations, but none so accessible as Wakka Chikka Wakka Chikka [csr049]. It got a lot of downloads on account of it's subject matter.

The explanation resides in the release notes:

"Even if you have never seen a porn movie in your lifetime, almost everyone in the world knows what the 'Wakka Chikka Wakka Chikka' represents... Each person, upon hearing it, mentally interprets the 'Wakka Chikka Wakka Chikka' in their own way, fueling a range of emotions from lust to disgust."

This is a very nice tune from that collection.

Nick Chapman - Take Me Now

BSWC One-a-Day: Jan Turkenburg - Awakening (Sending Packages to the moon)

:: WM Recordings :: releases :: WM065 Jan Turkenburg - Packages to the moon

What an opportunity! I get to blog a WM Recordings new release before Subsystem gets to it. I was crossing my fingers yesterday when this was released, hoping that he wouldn't post it. And, here I am today.

Jan Turkenburg is very cool, indeed. I first discovered his particular brand of cutting and pasting at Comfort Stand and have since enjoyed his contributions to WM Recordings.

A school teacher, Turkenburg does his thing in Zwolle, Overijssel, The Netherlands.

A recurring theme in his work is space travel (this includes a lovely little number mixing a children's chorus with samples from various versions of the TeeVee show, Star Trek). This release's title track is space related and I wanted to share it.

Jan Turkenburg - Awakening (Sending Packages to the moon)

Over a 1000 Links to CC Music in 15 Months

As 2006 comes to a close, we would like to thank our listeners.  Some of you listen to the radio show over-the-air and others to the podcast.  Over the last 15 months, BSWC has posted over 1000 links to music posted on the internet with a variety of Creative Commons licenses.  As we have mentioned previously on this blog, the variety and depth of CC music available online is simply amazing. 

In the coming years, BSWC will continue to support and promote Creative Commons licensed music and the artists that create it.  Stay tuned for our ccMixter Extravaganza coming soon.  If you have ccMixter favorites that you would like to see included in this special edition of BSWC, please post them in the comments section.

This coming Saturday, we will present an encore broadcast of our Comfort Stand Auld Lang Syne program that included phone interviews with Otis Fodder and Mr. Melvis on the night the final Comfort Stand collection was released (CS 071).

Have a great weekend, be safe, have fun.  Happy New Year.

Biotic

BSWC Comfort Stand Special with Breaking News from the Netlabel

Here is both the set list and the program audio file in one post. We had a wonderful interview with Comfort Stand's Otis Fodder and Mr. Melvis. Breaking news from the interview: Otis is stepping away from the netlabel to pursue other projects and Mr. Melvis is stepping up his involvement. Thanks to both of them for a fun evening. Best wishes from the BSWC for a healthy, exciting new year.

1. Auld Lang Syne (Cup O' Kindness) by Fortyone
2. fab cushion by Martinibomb
3. Think Of Me by Stark Effect
4. Pecesito by Flavia & The Motonets
5. Cracking Eggs (Eitjes Tappen) (piece for flut... by Jan Turkenburg
6. Zij zei zij zei (The she said she said variat... by Ton Ruckert
7. this-is-no-chanson by Twizzle
8. Auld Lang Syne by Chenard Walcker
9. Auld Lang Syne by The Ronnie Wibbley Disco Machine
10. Shopping For Explosives by Coconut Monkeyrocket
11. The Love God by Martinibomb
12. Giga Lounge by Gigaboy
13. A Gigantic Spacecraft! by The Lounge King meets Monsieur Max
14. Chicken Dance by Jack Fetterman and the in Hi-Fi Music Directi...
15. Bah! by Okapi
16. Eee-Ooo by Lady Bombon
17. Moonlight Zombie Dance by Bruce Lenkei
18. Satan in the White House by Weirdomusic
19. Yecch To Auld Lang Syne by R. Stevie Moore
20. Auld Lang Syne by Lovebyte


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