Banana Bazaar

Cooked up this little Banana Bazaar number for the fine folks at Noncollective. Easy, breezy, beautiful journey connecting the dots between euro-reggae, '80s tribal-jazz, African grooves and Brazilian jam sessions.

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The Porter

Another saucy number for my buddy Butter's Mixtape Club organization. Butter is off to Brazil to scope butts, as there weren't enough in NYC to meet his needs. Bon voyage to a lovely guy.

The Porter (57:19)

Interior "Hot Beach"
Haruomi Hoson "Honey Moon"
Eurythmics "This City Never Sleeps"
Spectral Display "Laxton Superb"
Fun Boy Three "Best Luck Mate"
Baffo Banfi "Dancing On The Ship"
Steve Washington "Please Don't Go"
Superior Movement "Wide Shot"
Fern Kinney "Love Me Tonight (Ch. 83 edit)"
Guy Cuevas "Obsession"

The Porter on SoundCloud

The Porter on The Mixtape Club

War

“I heard that a way of collecting it was to cover children in honey and run them naked through a field of herb, and they came out the other end and they scraped ‘em off.” - LIFE, KEITH RICHARDS

War (52:16)

Jorge Reyes "El Arrullo De La Mujer Dia, Mujer Luz"

Solar Bears "Head Supernova"
Al Usher "Lullaby For Robert (Bogdan Irkuk Remix)"
Clams Casino "All I Need (Instrumental)"
M83 "Fountains"
Kaito "The Breath Of Spring"
M83 "Midnight City"
The Durutti Column "Opera II"
AR Kane "Baby Milk Snatcher"
Testpattern "Souvenir Glace"
Basement Jaxx "Stop 4 Love"
Andres feat. Vernon Hill "Step Pattern" War On SoundCloud

Electronic Masks

"She lifted her arms above her head, running her fingers through the hair and spreading it out as though to hasten drying. Her arms were slim and graceful. Very attractive, Baley though." - THE NAKED SUN

Electronic Masks (53:11)

Latitude “Cloud Dancing”
Eric Serra “Burglary”
Dolphin Brothers “Host To The Holy”
Tangerine Dream “Dolphin Dance”
Gontiti “Moon Flight”
Moti Special “Every Moment”
Coati Mundi “Prisoner Of my Principles”
Giles Reaves & Jon Goin “Sunday Afternoon”
Jean Schultheis “L’Amour Zarba”
Patrick Vian “Oreknocke”
Blancmange “Vishnu”
Henry Kaiser “Free To Chose”

Electronic Masks on SoundCloud

Caribbean Blue by Popeye Jawns

A lot of folks got hype off the Eames chair action, but i found the Enya music video to be much more relaxing. New mix from me soon.

The Devil's Wine

The Devil's Wine is a mix I've done for my buddy Butter's site, The Mixtape Club. It's all about cutting loose.

The Devil's Wine (50:48)

Takanaka Masayoshi "Breakin' Loose"
Hong Kong Syndikat "Too Much"
Jean-Michelle Jarre "Zoolook"
Wham! "Club Tropicana"
Guy Cuevas "Obsession"
Chaka Khan "Twisted"
Tatsuro Yamashita "Love Talkin'"
Scotch "Primitive Man"
Asso "Don't Stop"
DNA "La Serenissima"

The Devil's Wine On SoundCloud

Blanc De Noirs

"Everyone remembered the wild sexuality, but often they forgot to read the big sequence at the end, the scene where the young man approaches the woman." - PIERRE GUYOTAT

Blanc De Noirs (78:22)

Yann Tiersen "Mouvement Introductif"
Mozart "Hostias"
Maxence Cyrin "Acid Eiffel"
John Roberts "Ever Or Not"
Yann Tiersen "Naval"
Loscil "Zephyr"
Instra:Mental vs. D Bridge "Translucent"
Thomas Newman "Going Through Withdrawal"
Robin Guthrie "Cuanto Tiempo"
M83 "Skin Of The Night"
Solar Bears "Twin Stars"
Koudlam "Eagles Of Africa"
AR Kane "Spermwhale Trip Over"
Fennesz+Sakamoto "Mor"
Jeff Mills "Childhood (Maria's Mix)"
AFX "Laricheard"
The Other People Place "You Said You Want Me"
Duran Duran "The Chauffeur"

Blanc De Noirs On SoundCloud

Cowbell

Deal with it. I'm doing a guest post on Bumrocks soon. New mix is almost done too.

Koudlam - Brother

Mucho macho.

Ballet

"I will concoct a soundscape on your system. You must open it so I can do so. When you capture Angelique you will cuff her and play her the scape, through earphones." - BAD VOLTAGE

A Silent Flute - Ballet (64:42)

Kajagoogoo "Introduction"
John Martyn "Please Fall In Love With Me"
Blancmange "No Wonder They Never Made It Back"
Ramunto Cho "Zoique"
The Style Council "Long Hot Summer"
China Crisis "African and White"
Ryuichi Sakamoto "Tibetan Dance"
Vector "Around The World"
Machinations "Esteem"
Robert Schroeder "The Inside of Feelings"
Rupert Hine "I Hang On To My Vertigo"
Cafe Jacques "The Boulevard Of Broken Dreams"
Time Bandits "How Does It Feel?"

Ballet on Soundcloud
Ballet on Mixcloud

Inside Fashion | Bill Blass

Tumbl In The Jungl | Strada Principale Eccellente di Informazioni

There are two super-hot ways to view my Tumblr (1) in a column and (2) in a mosaic.

Made To Be Worn | Polo Western

Here's an old Polo Western ad from an '80s issue of People.

Meet Me At Midnight | Mr. Chow Matchbox

Wary Meyers

Illustration by David Hockney, back by Ed Ruscha. Does Mr. Chow still distribute these? Might be time for drinks at the bar on 57th. And of course, as immortalized in Steely Dan "Glamor Profession."

Weekend Reads | White Topics

• Rent A White Guy by Mitch Moxley in The Atlantic
  
  
• I'm Comic Sans, Asshole by Mike Lacher on McSweeny's
  
  
• The Future of America's Working Class by Joel Kotkin on New Geography
  
  
• Portrait of The Artist Before & After by Daniel Grant in Humanities
  
  
• Why I Feel Tony Hayward's Pain by Tunku Varadarajan on The Daily Beast
  

Don't Matter What I Do | Long Hot Summer

Minus a shirtless Paul Weller, this video has all the right summer cues for a funky party bro-d0g interested in pants but not blue jeans. As in, perfect for a slowed-down soundsystem session. Act now and we'll throw in a pair of Italian loafers cut a full an inch and a half lower on the top. Oh yeah.

West On Sunset

"First the water was white and wide and then it turned slowly to scarlet ... and it pulsed as the red sun rose, making the sky blossom with deep yellows and watery purples and a flat, rich orange." - THE SWORD AND THE STALLION

A Silent Flute - West On Sunset (60:02)

Zwol "Southern Part of France"
Mickey Jupp "I'm In Control"
Steely Dan "Glamour Profession"
Cerrone "Rendez-Vous "
Caldera "Coastin' "
Michael Franks "B'wana He No Home "
Gap Mangione "Takin' It Back "
Full Moon "Hero's Welcome"
Alessi "Air Cushion"
Gino Vanelli "Love Is A Night"
Jimmie Spheeris "Bayou Eyes "
John Stewart "Monterrey"

West On Sunset on Soundcloud
West On Sunset on Mixcloud

Bougainvillea & Gros Piton

Where Only The Strong Survive | Land of Lala

If you're not hip to In Square Circle, you're missing out. Also, make sure you check out Stevie's synth showdown from the '85 Grammys. Maniacs.

Real Talk | An Update from Paul Mooney

"He's critically white." - Paul Mooney on Joe Biden

Koudlam | Eagles of Africa

Fascinating When I'm Updating

RIP

Are You Ready for the Remix? | Rollin' & Scratchin'

Badman Know Di Crepe | Vybz Kartel "Clarks"

A summer anthem for tenured professors and badmen alike? Usually, the song about branded footwear thing, I can't get down wit' it, but Vybz Kartel's Clarks potentially nerd-blazin' summer anthem "Clarkes" picks up where Ghostface left off, celebrating the suede in style. The YouTube massive seems to appreciate this tune as well;

"bore! bore! bore! ah wah u ah sey jj,dis tune sick eno,d teacher madddd mi seh"

Says Dmadgazadog. Nuff said a dem. Lighta! Or should I say; tootsbrush!

The Disputed King of Auto-Tune

I managed to inject my rap trivial pursuits into the letters section of Esquire (April, Tina Fey cover, on stands now). NPR & WNYC, I'm coming for you next. If you cover one more ethnic novelty rapper or yet again, a conscious dread dude from Prospect Heights, while continuing to ignore the facts of the matter, that there's a now a guy on the charts called Waka Flocka Flame, and that Usher's new song is about fingering and it's awesome, I'm going to have prank phone call Leonard Lopate with DJ Khaled McDonalds drops. I'm so sincerious.

Weekend Reads | Cashmere, Likes, Bananas & Dislikes

• The Prince of Solomeno by Rebecca Mead in The New Yorker
  
  
• Why India Loves Facebook by Tunku Varadarajan on The Daily Beast
  
  
• The Great Grocery Smackdown By Corby Kummer on The Atlantic
  
  
• The Death of Film Criticism By Thomas Doherty on The Chronicle Review

Color Ways

One thing to sort out now for the summer is your tote bag, park/beach blanket scenario, right? Please do not get that blanket that comes with a handle you saw on eBay or whatever. And if you got the Supreme Budweiser tote, that's tacky son. Unless it's for your girl, then that's a pimp decision you made right there. Now, you could get real ACL-on-it and get some vintage scenario that some dead dude used to carry logs in or whatever - or you could save yerself the time and trouble and just sort it out on LL Bean like a normal person. Something interesting LL Cool Beans's offering right now is the Custom Boat and Tote. As a sneaker joke, I did one in a Jordan I colorway, yo (I will be seriously excited if there are kids outside Uniqlo that've matched a custom tote to their Js though). But I'm thinking more like above ultimately (you know I'm all about the "Dark Bronze bottom," if you know what I'm saying). And why go to all this trouble? To take shorties on dates. And once you're done, make sure you Don Draper that ho and shake your trash out in the park.

Watching Ladies Go By

Not to undermine what's going on here, but I watched this a second time with Slave "Watching Ladies" playing instead of "Look," and it worked quite well.

The Color Purple

Purple Diary

"Every man should celebrate and seduce women because women love to be celebrated and seduced" - Olivier Zahm in The Future of Fashion Part Four

Blue

A Russell Harty (the guy Grace Jones attacked on air) Show appearance by Wham! An early on, '83 thing. If you're much for "Blue", I can recommend the tunes appearance on my No Kimono mix. A proper cassette classic.