It’s jazz. Not just any jazz. It’s Japanese jazz and jazz-funk. So there.
1 Flying by Toshiaki Yokota & Primitive Community
2 Shrimp Dance by Hiroshi Suzuki
3 Breeze by Jiro Inagaki & Soul Media
4 Sunrise by Zerosen
5 Heated Point by Akira Ishikawa & His Count Buffalos
6 Theme (Mustache) by Takeshi Inomata & Sound Limited
7 The Vamp by Jiro Inagaki
8 Painted Paradise by Jiro Inagaki & Soul Media
9 Revulsion by Akira Ishikawa & Count Buffalos
10 Kuro to Shiro by Hiroshi Suzuki
Songs for you to chill and long for dreamy, nostalgic moments
1. Lola Marsh - Wishing Girl
2. Spissy - Her Heart
3. Jens Lekman - Evening Prayer
4. Fazerdaze - Jennifer
5. Le Couleur - Femme
6. Warpaint - Ashes To Ashes
7. Tiger Waves - In Retrograde
8. Hein Cooper - Rusty
9. Dillon - Thirteen Thirtyfive
10. Ontario Gothic - Foxes In Fiction
11. Varsity - So Sad, So Sad
12. Night Moves - Colored Emotions
13. Salvia Palth - I Was All Over Her
We had to conduct this in English because our long friend apparently speaks eloquently in this language. Continuing the hype of Defile for the past 4 episodes, this time the crew will visit Yogyakarta’s scene along with local heroes - Django, Android 18, Moustapha Spliff and not to forget to invite Ones, Ffonz and SKS to stomp the dance floor. For those who know better, Ffonz and Moustapha Spliff are pretty much the same person. But who is he and why he remains mysterious since the first time he got back to Indonesia? We got a chance to ask some fundamental questions to reveal who he is.
Vinyl and cats? Let's start with cats. I basically grew up in a hippie-esque household where animals are able to come in and out as they pleased. Being Jakarta, these are mostly cats. So I always played with them as a kid. And when I was in Holland I used to cat-sit for friends before finally adopting a couple of cats myself. So yeah, there's this fascination from childhood. Plus they're strange and arrogant motherfuckers, something that weirdly endeared them to me.
As far as records are concerned, I bought them out of necessity. Because it was cheap. Back in 2002-2004, after leaving Manchester to live in Holland, I found that most of the CDs I was looking for (mainly Dylan, Bowie, Pink Floyd, etc.) were going for 10-15-20 Euros each, which was expensive for a student who cleaned toilets for a living. LPs were going for around 5 euros and EPs were 1 or 2 euros. So yeah, it's an economical decision.
Ffonz is me, the double F being a typo that I never seemed to bother getting rid of.
Moustapha's my cousin from Istanbul. He came here a couple of years ago in a container ship transporting garden chairs. It just so happens that he likes psychedelic rock as well as his native Turkish joints and other middle-eastern crackers.
Humphrey's an old neighbour of mine from when I was living in England, who moved to Jakarta a few months ago. He's a weird fellow. He considers marshmallows an aphrodisiac and likes to chirp like a bird every-time he's taking a dump.
Ah Red Light Radio (RLR), one of the funnest times of my life. I was lucky because I was introduced to the guys who were running it (Orpheu de Jong and Hugo van Heijningen) just as they set up the station. I was invited as a guest for another RLR regular called Future Vintage to be interviewed and spin in conjunction with that Those Shocking Shaking Days comp.That was my first ever appearance on the station.
Luck also had it that I was close friends with another RLR regular, Mark Cremins (aka Nose van Conk, Mark From Middlesex, Carl Cardigan), who was head distributor for Amsterdam's Rush Hour Records. Out of the blue he set up a slot for me at RLR, playing a jazz set with Mo Kolours. During that show Mark introduced me to Hugo and Orpheu, and being the nice souls they are, offered me a bi-weekly spot. Couldn't say no to that.
And all those cats I mentioned above had an extreme diverse taste in music. From weird disco to bizarre spoken word records, greek electronica, various shades of hard rock/metal/psych/prog, middle-eastern folk and pretty much everything in between. Plus listening to the other slots on the station just added to that. So yeah of course it opened my eyes and ears.
Interesting question as I never really pondered as to why. If I had to put my finger on it, I guess it's because I had a fascination with blues from a very early age. My dad used to play in blues bands so I was always drawn to the blue notes. I mean it's a style of music where the artists sounds sad and happy at the same time. How could you not love that?
Jazz in particular has a strong blues influence, with many of early jazz records pretty much being sped up blues music with 4 pounds of swing added into it. Plus stuff by Louis Armstrong, W.C. Handy, King Oliver and the likes had the name 'blues' within their song titles. St. Louis Blues, Potato Head Blues, Aunt Hagar's Blues, etc. And that blues influence in jazz stayed pretty much up till the 60s.
And all the other shades of Black American music I like, be it rhythm and blues, soul, funk, hip hop, disco, house, techno,etc. grew out of those two aforementioned genres. And what all these genres, from blues to techno and hip hop had in common was improvisation. Something else that attracted me from a very early age.
The ideal party? One where punters don't ask the guy playing records to "put on some R&B" all the fucking time.
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Sabtu, 13 Mei 2017
Taphouse Beer Garden, Yogyakarta
20:30
Django
Android 18
Moustapha Spliff
Guest appearance:
Ffonz (W_Music)
Ones (Casual Dance)
SKS
The W_Musician from Germany is back with a new mixtape for spring. Enjoy the selection from jan k on this episode of Selected!
1.Pedro Santos - Ritual Negra
2. Mor Thiam - Ayo Ayo Nene
3. El Babaku - El Lupe Chango
4. The Lightmen Plus One - All Praises to Allah (Parts 1 & 2)
5. The Detroit Jazz Composers Ltd - Yes Lord
6. John Coltrane & Don Cherry - The Blessing
7. Dorothy Ashby - Dust
8. Norman Riley - Colors
9. Michael White - Praise Innocence
10. High Risk - Common Woman
11. Maki Asakawa - Govinda
12. Andrew Ashong - Flowers
Twilight Bayside Mix
I have a deep fond for, and always fascinated by how some musicians are drawn into creating music that affiliates, or relates to the atmosphere of summer. Crystal clear beaches, sunlight through the palm trees, sound of waves crashing into each other. I believe that we tend to search for tranquility in nature. It is how we are built. Here are assorted sea shells to evoke your inner holiday in paradise island. A platter of sea food for the soul.
1. Leon Lowman - Morning Song (Sound Horizon - self-released, 1982)
2. MFSB - Poinciana (MFSB - Epic Records, 1973)
3. Makoto Iwabuchi - Moonlight Flight (Super Moon - Columbia Japan, 1977)
4. Akira Inoue, Hiroshi Sato, Masataka Matsutoya - Melting Blue (Seaside Lovers - Memories in Beach House - CBS/Sony, 1983)
5. Iasos - Bamboo Grove Samba (Bora Bora 2000 - Magrita, 1991)
6. Minako Yoshida - Rainbow Sea Line (Minako - RCA, 1975)
7. Guru Guru Sun Band - Taoma (Hey Du - Brain, 1979)
8. Haruomi Hosono, Shigeru Suzuki, Tatsuro Yamashita - Kiska (Pacific - CBS/Sony, 1978)
9. Taeko Onuki - Nanimo Iranai (Sunshower - PanAm, 1977)
10. Nohelani Cypriano - Lihue (Nohelani - HanaOla Records, 1979)
11. Lio - Sage Comme Une Image (Suite Sixtine - Attic, 1983)
12. Electric Mind - Summing Up (Summing Up - Good Vibes, 1982)
13. Chris Watson - 10m (Oceanus Pacificus - Touch, 2007)
14. VDB Joel - Kinderspiel (Prospective Metropolis/Digital Project - Coloursound Library, 1989)
Presenting Taufiq Rahman: music fan, thinker, schemer and one of the founders of Jakartabeat.net as well as being political editor of The Jakarta Post.
01. The Southern Beach Terror - Zombie Pipeline
02. The Aay Jays - The Aay Jays Theme
03. Dara Puspita - Pusdi
04. Moha Jamin - Ashk-e Roya E Bashkahe
05. Iggy Pop - The Passenger
06. Television - Marquee Moon
07. Galaxie 500 - Tell Me
08. Bryan Eno - I’ll Come Running
09. Omar Khorshid - Raqset Al Fada
10. Jokers - Better Days
11. Homicide - Rima Ababil
12. Roman Catholic Skulls - Drooling Ghoul (Roman Catholized)
