The mp3 that was uploaded for Day 177 was a minute and a half short. I’ve corrected that problem, and the full song will now come down. I toyed with just posting the other minute and a half, but thought that might be a little confusing. Day 178 is on its way…
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The super high energy of Sjwaam is a departure from D’r Sjaak’s hit single Meatje (from the same album and very worth the download), but I have a thing for classical mixed with caffeine electronica mixed with rap all wrapped up in Dutch. D’r Sjaak is from the Dutch province of Limburg. By the looks of the picture I took from his site and posted here, he just purchased a MacBook pro. 
En Toch Wakker is full of creative sound work and obviously a lot of time and energy. It is a somewhat darker album than many of my favorite CC releases. If you can hold it together, download WM036.
Both Meatje & Sjwaam were featured on Black Sweater White Cat on 2/25/2006.
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Jan Turkenburg is one of the shining stars of the Creative Commons universe. Known as Splogman, he has released numerous works on WM Recordings, Comfortstand, and Oddio Overplay. Jan hails from the Netherlands and a simple google search will reveal how active he is. He was a staff member of Comfortstand and his full time work is teaching music to children.
“For Comfort Stand, Jan collected samples of screaming Dutch children, when he should have been teaching them music.”
I struggled between posting “In my spaceship” which is the second track off of the Comfortstand release # 020, Interplanetary Materials and “Cracking Eggs,” which was released on Comfortstand #21, a Fifth of Splogman in mid 2004. I love the way this arrangement comes together and the samples are wonderful. We played this tune on the Black Sweater White Cat new year’s eve Comfortstand special.
Enjoy!
Jan Turkenburg - Cracking Eggs (Eitjes Tappen)
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Vernon LeNoir has put together a fantastic 20 minute release on WM Recordings which was released June 4th 2006. You will fall in love immediately. I’ve reluctantly cut the first 4 minutes into an mp3 for cc365 consumption (bandwidth sensitivities), but I hope you’ll download the entire piece as soon as you’ve heard a tasty tidbit from WM Recordings.
“This work is a variation of balkan themes in an electronic and plunderphonic way. The concept is a 20 minute experience of balkanic sounds transported on electronic horses. “
Vernon LeNoir (and at myspace)
Vernon LeNoir - Balkan Spezialitaeten (first 4 minutes)
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Playful, unexpected, and very addictive. Økapi (aka Filippo Paolini from Rome, Italy) seems to have a talent for releasing very original crisp and unconfused experimental mod-italia - pieces of sound perfectly orchestrated to keep you on the edge of your seat trying to anticipate the next twist. If you’ve been listening to CC music for a while it is very likely you’ve heard this song, but I feel it is too good not to be included as one of the 365 daily doses of joy. Bah! is off of Økapi’s Comfortstand release, CSR025. That makes this the third Comfortstand post in a row.
If you get to Økapi’s Myspace page be sure to check out “rivoltante remix” which I believe is very recent work and is excellent.
The illustration for the album cover is done by the talented Camilla Falsini, well worth a visit on the web.
…and you can catch Økapi live July, 2 2006 at the HalfDie festival in Rome.
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Today’s feature is another tune that appeared on that wonderful netlabel, Comfort Stand. Truth to tell, the majority of Messer Chups discography does not carry a Creative Commons license, but they have placed a handful of tunes in the Commons. Devil Exit From Fashion is the B-side of a Comfort Stand Swinging Single (csr501). It comes from the Band’s “Vamp Babes Upgrade” 2004 sessions, but was never released on the Solnze record that resulted from the session.
The focus of the band has been Oleg Gitarkin from St. Petersburg in the Russian Federation. The Messer Chups’ website describes the genesis of the band:
It’s a paradox, but from the very beginning Oleg Gitarkin felt himself squeezed, framed in “Messer fur Frau Muller”, which he founded and managed within 10 years, and in 1998, like an alternative, he created “MFFM”, new project “Messer Chups”. First material, which was recorded together with Slava Amigo, did not go further, then the ears of the close friends, although it gained some interest. In the spring of 1998, promouter-girl from Hamburg Anette Schneider is arriving to Saint-Pete and expresses the wish to meet the musicians from “Messer Fur Frau Muller” personally, the tracks of this group she heard many times in Hamburg clubs, - so she gets acquainted with Oleg Gitarkin. In September,1998 Anette Schneider joins “Nozhik Chups” in Hamburg, and the name varies with German “Messer Chups”.
Over time the line-up has varied and currently Messer Chups is touring as a duo consisting of Gitarkin on guitar and Zombie Girl on bass guitar. According to the band’s Myspace page, Gitarkin is “a connoisseur of trashy esoterica, equally well versed in Italian horror flicks of the 60s and 70s, Roger Corman, Ed Wood and Russ Meyer as well as Nino Ferrera, Davie Allen and Larry Clinton.” You can’t miss those influences in Messer Chups’ music.
They tour Europe extensively and make the occasional trip to North America. They also have some swell video work available on YouTube.com. If you are in Marseille, France this evening (June 23) you can find Messer Chups at Poste a Galene.
Messer Chups-Devil Exit From Fashion (2:57)
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