Happy New Year

We wish you all a happy new year, with new music, new experiences, feelings and motions. Last bought record this year, Minnie Riperton's Stay in love, awesome soulful disco, which says it all: Oh darling...life goes on.

Take care!

MY HOUSE

"There are many different colours of my shack, like red white and blue, red black and green, and green you know what a mean."
                                                                                                                            Psychedelic Shack, Trybe


Excerpt from a great track released on Wild Pitch Records back in 88, produced by Chuck Artamatik and mix and edit made by Frankie Knuckles. Sadly I could not fit this into the mix, which was my intention, it would have done perfectly, both conceptually and by the mode it generates. But there is more things, new and old, different styles of electronic dance music – have a look!



1. Deadman - Shackleton
2. The Sticks - Friedman and Liebezeit
3. L.O.V.E. - Dj Kicks
4. Aqua-note - Forme
5. Beat down - Sydenham and Chandler
6. Can't get enough - Liz Torres
7. It's that east street beat - Chocolate
8. Love honey, love heartache - Man Friday
9. Thunder in your love - Lemuria
10. Love reaction - React
11. I want to be real - John Rocca
12. Feet - Sandals
13. The sun can't compare - Mr. White
14. Death is not final - Shackleton

Garage Soul

First mix from my friend, D. Rossous. A short but intensive funky soul garage mix.

Enjoy with Shrimp and White Wine.



Sonny Raye-Eye To Eye
The Sounds Like Us-Clock On the Wall
Dr. T and the Undertakers-Times Have Changed
Del Shannon-Sister Isabelle
David and the Giants-Ten Miles High
Conny Clark-My Sugar Baby
Gene Chandler-There Was a Time
Jerry Washington-Let Me Get Close To You
Lee Moses-She's a Bad Girl

Not Fear

The world of Skweee is slowly expanding. A music style with a name that origin from the English words “squeeze out”, which also says a lot about the sound stage, a sort of squeezed out thing with references funk and early synthmusic - lo-fi with a lot of soul.

We have the honour of having artist Not Fear sharing music from his catalogue which contains stacked rhythms and whining synthesizers. Things that relates to the world of Skweee, beautiful things.

To get more goodies step into his soundcloud, here.

And for further information, Nation of Skweee.

Sahara Hot Knives - Not Fear

Guinea pig music?

No music this time but a great picture. It is the second singel from the british pop-psych group the World of Oz. They only made one album which was released in 1969. The best track on the album (or maybe the only good?)is Like a Tear, which was also released on the flip of their last singel and can be heard on the PSYCH! mix below. I think this picture speak for itself but it makes you wonder, is it a guinea pig on top of his head or what is it?

Friday special

Once again its time for a live session of sweet music. This Friday, the 2th of December, we welcome you all to Bar 1900 in the middle of Stockholm. We start at 21.30 and go on till 2, new and old, from soul to house.

Friday special sound clip!

top sound

The debut album from the Stockholm based top sound is finally ready, filled with beautiful pop melodies and analogue drum machines. I have sampled one of my favorite tracks below. For more info, buying the album or listen to more of their music please visit top sound's website

top sound-at my expense

PSYCH!

New psych mix with some classics and recent discoveries.

Morning Glory-Jelly Gas Flame
Federal Duck-Tomorrow Waits For Today
Giles, Giles & Fripp-Erudite Eyes
Twentieth Century Zoo-Quiet Before The Storm
Afterglow-Dream Away
Creation Of Sunlight-Light Without Heat
Tiffany Shade-No Reality
Kaleidoscope-Keep Your Mind Open
Marcus-Grains of Sand
Paul St. John-Flying Saucers Have Landed
Iron Horse-Obeah Man
Kak-Lemonade Kid
World Of Oz-Like A Tear
Orient Express-Azaar

An evening at Upstairs Bar

If you have the slightest urge for a bar with great music and a beautiful view of a highway running just through the house beneath your feet, then you should join us on Friday the 11 th November at Upstairs Bar, Clarion Hotel Stockholm, Södermalm. The party starts at 22 and goes on till 3.

A small appetizer on what music possible could be heard during the evening. Just click on the player below.

Most welcome.

Matti Bye

The music of Matti Bye gives me a certain mood, some could say dreamy, what that means I don't know. But there is a strong tension, a mystical music room with certain physical laws.

My first encounter with that room was through the Swedish silent film The Phantom Carriage by Victor Sjöström, based on the book written by Selma Lagerlöf, filmed in 1921.

This song is taken from his release Elephant and Castle (2011) and recorded together with Martina Hoogland Ivanow and Mattias Olsson.

If you like what you hear I strongly recommend to look into the music catalogue of Matti Bye.

Matti Bye - People passing sunset

Part I - No sense of time

Travelling on... with no sense of time or direction.



Shoreline-Shipwrecked (2006)
Cherie & Jim Schwall-Thinking of You (1973)
Boa Constrictor & Natural Vine-The Devil & the Ace of Spades (1968)
Songs:Ohia-Journey On (1999)
Brent Titcomb-Tibetan Bells (1977)
These Trails-Lost In Space (1973)
Kurt Vile-Beach On the Moon (2009)
William R. Strickland-Touch (1969)
Andy Zwerling-Spiders In the Night (1971)
Ben Watt-North Marine Drive (1983)
Jim Sullivan-Jerome (1969)

Padjelanta Music Festival

Video and music from Elevated Pitch, consisting of Tobias Wessman and Gustav Samrelius.

A secret music festival took place in Padjelanta nature reserve late this summer, mainly focused on electronic music. To get to the site both musicians and audience needed to walk for half a day. One of the musicians, our own Gustav Samrelius, share some experiences:

I consider music to be a carrier of thought a compass of direction, guiding you, a wilderness to get lost in, but still close to get back, just like the Saiva festival in Padjelanta, a place for collective creativity, a place truly celebrating the beautiful nonsense of our excistence, One morning I was dancing on a boulder and suddenly I noticed that the fog had rolled in and formed a smoke ring around us, was an amazing feeling, felt like it was trying to shelter us keep us in this state of mind for a while, If we work with the right ambitions anything is possible, we can create beutiful nothingness and be receptive as we create.

Music Mind

This mix is named after a song from the album on the picture above. "Music Mind" by Solaris is a perfect blend of funk and disco and i´ve been after this record for a couple of years until i stumbled upon it earlier this year. Rest of the mix is in the same style with a few exceptions. Hope you´ll enjoy it!

Planetary Boundaries

The Earth System has been defined to have nine planetary boundaries which it have stayed within for the last 10 000 years. During this period the Earth System has remained stable and created a suitable habitat for human development. Today our modern societies have pushed the system passed three of the boundaries and moving dangerously close to some of the others. To move beyond the planetary boundaries is to enter a world of uncertainty where we do not longer recognize or can control the processes of the Earth System. Then we stand helpless as our planet may transform into something that no longer favor human development.

So the question is, how can our society transform so that it will remain within the safe haven of the nine planetary boundaries?

"Earth oh Earth where we all living
Earth oh Earth where we all belong
Or Can Nature be wrong?"
-Excerpt from "Ship" by Mick Softley, 1970

To read the full scientific paper and more information on planetary boundaries press here or listen to Johan Rockström’s (the main author of the article) presentation here

This mix is inspired by the concepts of planetary boundaries and adaptive cycles.

John Cage

"There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make silence, we cannot. For certain engineering purposes, it is desirable to have a silent situation as possible. Such a room is called an anechoic chamber, its six walls made of special material, a room without echoes. I entered one at Harvard University several years ago and heard two sounds, one high and one low. When I described them to the engineer in charge, he informed me that the high one was my nervous system in operation, the low one my blood in circulation. Until I die there will be sounds. And they will contiune following my death. One need not to fear about the future of music."

Quote from the book Silence, Lectures and Writings - John Cage

Love Affair

This is not for everybody. Silky smoochers for late night lovers. The first in another planned series of "love affairs". This is not really a mix, it´s more a compilation of songs chosen by their theme and mood. I´ve been rediscovering and enjoying music like this lately and i hope you feel it to.

Tomas Tranströmer

The poet Tomas Tranströmer is one of my favourite Swedish poets and have been for quite some time. I believe his approach, and his way of working with images and metaphors through his text is amazing and often gives great depth to commonplace situations. An ability to fit the existential questions alongside daily life. Poetry of all kinds gives me relief and I keep coming back for that consolation, and especially to Tomas Tranströmer.

This is a recording done in 1988, taken from the cassette Svenska Poeter 2, a couple of years before Tomas Tranströmer was stricken by a stroke that made him partly paralyzed. He is not able to do readings any more.

This reading is in Swedish so for all of you non speaking I give my apologises.

Ensamhet (Klanger och spår, 1966)



Svar på brev (Det vilda torget, 1983)



Galleriet (Sanningsbarriären, 1978)

Greetings from Space

Take two in the postcard series; and this is a transmission from outer regions, maybe a reversed signal that somewhere in time was sent from our world and now had return back again. Everything is in connection with another, high and low, big and small, and my dinner table wares the same lines as the Great Andromeda Nebula.



1. Cerrone - In The Smoke
2. Cos/Mes - D. F. G. (feautering Dr Nishimura)
3. Jay B Jay - The Source
4. King Crimson - Formentera Lady
5. Friend Sound - Joy Ride
6. Sun Ra - New Horizons
7. Fleetwood Mac - Hypnotized
8. Gatto Fritto - Invisible College
9. Burnt Friedman - Hut Selector
10. Primal Scream - Echo Dek
11. Serge Gainsbourg - Dub Canaille
12. African Head Charge - Hold Some More
13. Arthur Russell - See Through

Windy Fur Rundgren

Let´s Pretend We Are Lovers - Windy Fur Rundgren

Breathtaking music from the multi artist Windy Fur Rundgren. Four recordings from a forthcoming album released on Ghost Wolf Productions. Look out for the complete release in stock the 11th of November, 2011.

Making Time Out of Sand - Windy Fur Rundgren



Licorne d'Orléans - Windy Fur Rundgren



Pearlpaint - Windy Fur Rundgren

Greetings from Stockholm

First out in the postcard series; Greetings from Stockholm, and it includes a couple of house tracks from New Jersey, late eighties. Mostly from the label Movin' Records that I recently discovered and became fond of. Nevertheless my favourite track this week is I've got the music, beautifully sung by Boyd Jarvis, Movin' Records, 1987, check it out.

Pleasant summer!

1. The Vision - Shardé
2. Park Ave. - Don't turn your love
3. Bäs Noir - My love is magic
4. Vicky Martin - Not gonna do it
5. Ron Trent - Piano track
6. Before the Storm - I've got the music
7. Bäs Noir - I'm glad you came to me
8. Ron Trent - Seduction
9. No 1 - Deep penetration
10. Turntable Orchestra –-You're gonna miss me
11. Don Carlos - Alone

Business as usual

New mix with more folk, psych and loner stuff. Last post for me this summer, next time will be in September or so.


Mick Softley-If You're Not Part Of The Solution, You Must Be A Part Of The Problem
Euphoria-World
Bernie Schwartz-Round And Round And RoundHoover-Leave That For Memories
Val Stöecklein-Say It's Not Over
Bob Lind-White Snow
Owl-As The World Keeps Turning
Arthur Gee-Love Song 450
Gelin And His Boys-Take Me Away
Serpent Power-Forget
Appaloosa-Pascal's Paradox
Pete McCabe-The Experiment
Bob Brown-In These Flames
Tina And David Meltzer-I'm So Willing
Marcus-Butterfly Girl
Adrian Pride-Her Name Is Melody

Money & Love

A bit late i know but just in time for midsummer rumblings comes a short but sweet mix from my old friend and super nice madman Samo DJ. A half our of varied styles that we hope you enjoy. Have a great midsummers weekend!

Folk-Psych Guest Mix

Guest mix from my friend Eric (a.k.a Ralph the Lizard). Wonderful loner folk-psych from the late 60s and early 70s.


Risa Potters - Half Woman Half Child
Sibylle Baier - Tonight
Karen Beth - Nothing Last
Bonnie Dobson - Winter´s Going
Deena Webster - Just like Tom Thumb's blues
Vashti Bunyan - I'd Like to Walk Around in your Mind
Sandy Denny - You Never Wanted Me
Linda Perhacs - Hey, Who Really Cares
Kathy McCord - Candle Waxing
Susan Christie - Echo in Your Mind
Christine Perfect - And That's Saying a lot
Margo Guryan - Sunday Morning
Penny Nichols - Look Around Rock
Karen Dalton - Something on Your Mind
Judee Sill - Crayon Angels
Jan & Lorraine - Bird of Passage
Barbara Keith - Detroit Or Buffalo

Caspar Forsberg

Two smooth sounding deep house gems, exclusively and never before released material from Caspar Forsberg, produced in 2004. Simply good music!

Untitled One - Caspar Forsberg


Untitled two - Caspar Forsberg

Flea Markets

In almost every flea market or garage sale there are at least a few records to go through. In 99% of the cases there is just junk that you find but once in a while, maybe once a year, there are one or two records that you think is a real find. That of course is why you always take your time to go through all of the crappy records. The find for this year was made in a flea market in the Stockholm archipelago. It had just opened and sold records for 5 Swedish kronor each, which is less then $ 1. I went through the records, mostly classical and Swedish folk music, and then I saw a psych-looking single, which appeared to be Spanish and I thought that this looks interesting. I bought it along with a bunch of other records, many of which I had no idea what it was. That is another aspect of buying records on flea markets, you can find very weird titles and stuff you don’t know anything about and because it cost nothing it is worth taking a chance. Once again, almost every time the records are just crap but you never know that until you come home and listen to it. This time there was not just junk, except for the Spanish single I also bought a soul record, which I could trade for the Serpent Power album in one of the records stores in Stockholm. The reason why I wanted this record was that I also found the Tina & David Meltzer album in the flea market and they were formerly in Serpent Power. The other interesting record I found was a Finnish record with mostly cover songs but it also contained a nice version of “Bosses låt” that was originally recorded by a Swedish progg band called Fläsket brinner.

Shelly y nueva generacion-Devil Woman (La Mujer Diablo) (1968)

I believe they released three singles in total and this is, what I have heard, their most freaky. Devil Woman is maybe not the best song you have heard but it’s fun and weird. The flip is I'm Just A Fool and is a better effort with nice drums and more garage feel. That song is also part of the soundtrack to a Spanish film called Un, dos, tres, al escondite inglés.



Cirius-Bossen Laula (1974)

They released two albums and this was there second one. There is not much information on the internet and the records do not seem to be of anybody’s interest. Most of the songs are no good but I think they made a great version of this one, it has a good beat with a nice break in the end.

Psychedelic Party

Again it is time for a fantastic evening of music and live performance at Högkvarteret in Stockholm. The evening starts at 7 pm and continous till midnight, on Wednesday 11/ 5.

Playing live; Tracy Martin and C.S. Gusten + a secret guest

Most welcome!

In Dub Vol. 2

It´s the 3rd of may and it´s actually snowing. Cyaaaan believe it! Anyways here is the second volume of what is planned to become some kind of series of Dub mixes. If the first one was dark and almost industrial this is the opposite, deep and soulful and towards the end even a bit funky. I am very satisfied with this one and hope you like as much as i do.

Easter Folk

A new folk-rock mix with a lot of fresh music. The Jim Sullivan song comes from his privately pressed 1969 debut which was reissued last year. He released the same record in 1970 but with a different and much worse mix. So I'm glad that the private press finally was reissued because the whole album is outstanding and otherwise very hard to find. The Judy Henske & Jerry Yester song was also released on their debut in 1969 and one year later they renamed themself to Rosebud and released another album before they divorced. The Rosebud album is underestimated and includes many nice folk-rock songs but not as good as their debut. The Oriental Sunshine, Strawberry Alarm Clock and Lewis & Clark Expedition songs are Eastern influenced with sitars. Also listen to the break in the end of the KO Bossy track, which I think is really good. Hope you like it!

Creation Rebel

Adrian Sherwood and his label On-U Sound will always have a special place in my heart. There is something about the whole thing; maybe it is the making of reggae outside of Jamaica that gives a certain freedom, maybe the influence of electronic music, maybe the combination of organic and electronic sounds.

The record Starship Africa with the group Creation Rebel was originally recorded in 1978 but released 1980 on the label Hit Run, later issued on On-U Sound in 1982. Produced and arranged by Adrian Sherwood and highly recommended.

More info about the On-U Sound catalogue – here

Creation Rebel – Space Movement

GUEST MIX

For years i´ve met Rickard in the record shop and everytime he always talked about the records he just got, the ones on the way or the ones he got last week. Very cool stuff and often records i had never heard or even heard of. This made me curious to hear him play which proved quite difficult since he quit playing out in clubs and bars. Now that we have gone all modern with a music blog and all it seemed like the perfect time to ask for a mix and at last here it is and it is just as good as i could have ever imagined. Get on the DL and have a listen.

Nite Jewel

Nite Jewel – Am I real?

The tree piece band with Ramona Gonzales as a front figure released this beautiful Ep last year on the label Gloriette. An album filled with s dreamy melodies and low down beats. Nite Jewel creates a wonderful crossing between pop and older electronic music like early house and electro.

For more info – Nite Jewel website here

We Want Our Things - Nite Jewel

Psychedelic Party Part II

Tuesday 12/4 from 7 pm

Passing clouds present the Psychedelic Party at Högkvarteret in Stockholm, an evening with music and images from the colourful history of psychedelia. Join us on Tuesday 12/4 at 7 pm till midnight.

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Listen! It is the Psychedelic Party experience

Blues Run The Game

This week will be a blast from the past. It contains many favorite artists like Jellybread, Christine Perfect and Wizards From Kansas but also some new discoveries like Steamhammer. The mix is mainly blues and blue-eyed soul with a lot of great beats but it also got some crossover stuff, and that I think is the way to go.

Cuttin' Out

Professor Longhair released this great blues-rocker in 1959 on the local New Orleans label Ron. It is just beautiful.

The Sound of New York

I went to N.Y. for a one week holiday, and with me I brought loads of ideas about the place. Pieces picked from film and music – different stories. Nevertheless I eventually made it my own city by walking it, up and down for six days. Of course some crate digging too, and those moments made a strong distinction between the city sounds, like traffic and people, and the tracks I heard in the records stores. But these are the songs that I fell for – hope you like them – I do!

In Dub

A couple of weeks ago i posted a tribute mix to Scientist and this week i continue in a dub related fashion. This time in a Techno-Dubstep-Bass-Dub kinda way,all new, fresh, heavy and trippy. Hope you enjoy it!

...thinking of 2010

This is some of my favorites from last year, which was a great music year for me. I ended up in a new social context with new influences and I realized that so much good music is still being made. And this year looks very bright as well, the new Low Anthem record is fantastic and I have of course high expectations on the second Timber Timbre album, which will be released in April. If you're in Stockholm and need a little musical input I would highly recommend that you pass by Fönstret, one of my favorite record stores in town.

Psychedelic Party

Passing clouds presents Psychedelic Party at Högkvarteret in Stockholm, an evening with music and images from the colourful history of psychedelia. Join us at Thursday 10/3 at 6 pm till midnight.

Also playing live for us: The Birds of Speech, a mix of folk and jazz, starting at 19.30.

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Ten minute mix, a psychedelic appetizer for the happening.

Scientist A Deh Dub Specialist

It´s not everyday that you get a new Scientist album in the post. Today was that day though and what a record. Scientist "Launches Dubstep Into Outer Space" is much better than i could have ever hoped for. I like Dubstep, but the main problem with it and all other modern bass music from the UK is that it´s for the most part not dubby enough. I never understood why you wanna call something Dub and then forget to dub it? With Scientist behind the desk this is not the case here. Modern style rhythms with one of Dubs living legends = super niceness.

I was meaning to do a midtempo disco mix for this week but instead i chose to do a tribute mix to the man called Scientist. This mix contains tracks from way back when he landed on earth, won the world cup, became heavyweight champion of the world and encountered Pac-man. Feel free to download, put it in your player, walk down to the shop and get the above mentioned album and while your at it don´t forget the latest Barry Brown re-issues on digikiller which also holds some heavyweight Scientist dubs.