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1/2 year best of list....

It always comes to December and i have great chance to write a good End-Of-Year list but i forget what came out during the year and what i bought? So I'm starting early with a first half of the year run down of the stuff thats been spinning on my stereo and making London's public transport bearable on my ipod.

LP's

The Beets - Spit In The Face (captured tracks)
Billy Childish - Archive From '59 (damaged goods)
Charlie & The Moonhearts - Thunderbeast (red handed)
DOOM - Born Lik eThis (lex)
Eat Skull - Wild & Inside (siltbreeze)
Eddy Current Suppresion Ring - Primary Colours (goner)
Finally Punk - Casual Goths (germs of youth)
Fresh & Onlys - S/T (castleface)
Ganglians - Monster Head Room (weird forest)
Grass Widow - s/t (makes a mess)
The Hospitals - Hairdryer Peace (self)
The Intelligence - Fake Surfers (in the red)
The Intelliegnce - Crepuscle With Pacman (born bad)
Jeff Mangum - Live @ Jittery Joe's (twin orange)
Marked Men - Ghosts (dirtnap)
Mi Ami -Watersports (touch & go)
Narrows - New Distances (deathwish)
Nodzzz - s/t (whats your rupture)
Obits - I Blame You (sub pop)
Pissed Jeans - King of Jeans (subpop)
Sex/Vid - Communal Living (dom america)
Strange Boys - And Girls Club (in the red)
Thee Oh Sees - Help (in the red)
Thee Oh Sees - Dog Poison (captured tracks)
Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death - Bird Songs (teardrops)
Ty Segall - Lemons (goner)
Vaselines - Enter The Vaselines (sub pop)
The Very Best - Warm Heart of Africa (moshi moshi)
Women - s/t (jagjaguwar)
Woods - Songs of Shame (woodsist)
V/A - Worlds Lousy With Ideas Vol 8 (almost ready)
V/A - Legends of Benin (Analog Africa)

E.P's, 7"s and Splits

The Bitters - East 7" (captured tracks)
The Bitters - Wooden Glove 12" E.P (captured tracks)
Brilliant Colours - 2 song 7" (captured tracks) & 4 song 7" (makes a mess)
Christmas Island - 19 / 29 7" (captured tracks)
Cold Pumas / Male Bonding split 7" (faux discx)
Cold Pumas - Jela 12"(hungry for power)
Cult Ritual - all 3 eps (youth attack/drugged conscience)
Dum Dum Girls - 12" ep (captured tracks)
Fucked Up - year of the Rat 12"(whats yr rupture)
Ganglians - 2 song 7" (captured tracks)
German Measles - Wild 12" E.P (captured tracks)
Graffiti Island - s/t 7" (house anxiety)
Grass Widow - 12" E.P(captured tracks)
Jacuzzi Boys - Ghost Ghost 7"
Male Bonding / Eat Skull split 7" (toughlove)
Not Cool - Wonderful Beasts 7"(sleep all day)
Real Estate - Fake Blues 7"(half machine)
Spectrals - 2 song 7" (captured tracks)
Ty Segall / Thee Oh Sees split 7" (castleface)
V/A GG Allin Tribute 7" w/ Fair Ohs, Graffiti Island, Male Bonding & Pens (IBB)
V/A Artfag Split 7" w/ Graffiti Island / Dum Dum Girls / Pens / Crocodiles split (artfag)
V/A PV! #04 7"w/ Graffiti Island / Male Bonding / Old Blood / Rapid youth (paradise vendors)
V/A Worlds Lousy With Ideas Vol #7 w/ Eddy Current Supression Ring / UV Races / Super Wild Horses / Straight Arrows 7"(almost ready)

Tapes

An Emergency - Wrecked Angles (suplex)
Black Time - Greatest Hits (self)
Black Time - Eine Kleine Trashmusik (self)
Black Time - East Bay Rays (self)
Cheaters - Magic Weapons e.p (paradise vendors)
Explode Into Colour - The Sean Rocky Zach and Dekum Tape (self/krs)
German Measles - Demos (captured tracks)
Light Sleepers - 4 track e.p(suplex)
Male Bonding / Fair Ohs - Live in London (IBB)
Nodzzz - Live New Years Eve 12.31.08 (whats yr rupture / self)
Spectrals - 4 track e.p(suplex)
Teen Sheikhs - First 4 Months (suplex)
Traditional Fools - s/t (burger)
Watt Makes a Man Start a Band - v/a (shabeen scene)

The following Mississippi Records Tape Comps (all downloaded as out of print)

House of Broken Hearts 1 & 2 - MRC 1 + 2
We're Gonna Make It - MRC 03
Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven, But Nobody Wants To Die - MRC 04
Death Just Might Be Your Santa - MRC 06
Trust Your Child - MRC 07
Wrong Time To Be Right - MRC 08
Chaabi Music From Al-Maghrib - MRC 09
Way Up The Hill - MRC 10
Black Plastic Singing Flats - MRC 11
A Little Bit Of Hurt - MRC 12
Samba Trist - MRC 14
Afraid Of The Dark - MRC 16
Fables Of Fabulous - MRC 19
It Happened - MRC 33

Old Stuff & Reissues


Abner Jay - The True Story of Abner Jay (mississippi)
Daniel Owino Misiani& Shirati Band - Benga Blast (earthworks)
Dolly Mixture - Demonstration Tapes
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Press Color
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Mambo Nasua
Orchestre Poly Rythmo De Contonou - The Vodoun Effect (analog africa)
Paul Simon - Graceland (warner)
Shangri La's - Best Of
Spiritual Singers - Ntsamina (mississippi)
V/A - Tropicalia: A Revolution In Sound (soul jazz)
V/A - Back from The Graves Comps Vol 2-5 (crypt)
V/A - Love is Love (mississippi)
V/A - Thai Shadow Music (sublime frequencies)

Day #6 - Bangkok Baby

So we arrived in Bangkok and found ourselves a place to stay on Rhambuttri, just off the Koh San Road, which is pretty much where you head to if you're white, european, like getting corn rows on the street and drinking cheap beer. So its pretty much the Camden market of Bangkok on a saturday night minus the goths (too hot for crushed velvet and trenchcoats)



Even Ronald is polite over here!


This place does some amazing breakfasts, with pancakes, eggs, waffles and frothy coffee for Liane who was suffering on crappy coffee with no real milk. This is where i discovered the joy of lemon iced tea which became a staple diet for the rest of the trip, thank you Ricky's for making each morning awesome.





Walking to the royal palaces through the crazy scooter infested streets, where no one stops and you just walk into the street and people will avoid you. It seems to work, i didn't see too many victims on our walks.


The royal palaces where pretty amazing, apart from having to take clothes to cover up, even though it was scorching and i was dripping with sweat. We put jeans and jumpers on just to go in, then stripped them off to shorts & tees after we got out. I thought it was worth it to see the crazy demons and buildings inside, much more insane than boring Buckingham Palace!












There is a massive mix of Hindu into the majority Buddhist following, with lots of their gods used in the stories, co-opted for amazing visual value. I suppose there is only so many positions you can put Buddha in, which they have stretched to its max, reclining is my favourite, looks like me on the sofa after a good feed.







Above is the Thai Alfred, on his way back to his Batcave, not before he rips of some gullible tourist.


We took a short ferry ride to the amazing Forensic Science museum which is in the middle of the Bangkok public Hospital. This was a highlight of the trip but we couldnt take any pictures, maybe if you look online you'll find some but here are the best things we saw
- recently mummified remains of murderers and rapist in glass cases, with the doors on held together by sellotape
- two headed babies in a jar
- pictures of dead bodies and explanations
- a massive elephantitus infected testicle about 3 x the size of my head!
- multiple jars of brains, livers, lungs etc
This ruled even more because though it was gross out, we were surrounded by visiting school kids and monks!

mmmmmm, pop! mmmmmmm, burp!