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The RZA's Greatest Bumps

Hey!

Check out this shi-ut.

It's a mix of some 30 odd tracks that the RZA used in his studio wizardry.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/wu-originals-mix-mp3.html

here's the track list:

Allen Toussaint Orchestra - Underdog Theme
Willie Hutch - Baby, Come Home
King Floyd - Don't Leave Me Lonely
The Dramatics - Tune Up
Lamont Dozier - Shine
Syl Johnson - Could I Be Falling In Love
The Sylvers - Wish That I Could Talk To You
Willie Mitchel - Groovin'
Donny Hathaway - I Believe To My Soul
O. V. Wright - Lets Straighten It Out
Barbara & The Browns - In My Heart
Jimmy Van - I Weigh The World With Kilos
Antoine Duhamel - Belphegor Theme
Al Green - Gotta Find A New World
The Dells - Love Is BlueThe Emotions - If You Think It
Bob James - Nautilus
O.V. Wright - Motherless Child
Bernard Wystraete - Daydream
The Charmels-As Long As I Got You
Baby Huey - Hard Times
Sweet Inspirations-Why Marry
Madlads - Gone The Promises Of Yesterday
The Sylvers - Stay Away From Me
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass Band - Treasure Of San Miguel
Asha Bhonsle's Dum Maro Dum
Luther Ingram-To The Other Man
Stylistics - You're A Big Girl NowSyl Johnson - Is It Because I'm Black
New Birth - Honey Bee
Wendy Rene - After Laughter
Syl Johnson - Different Strokes
Gladys Knight & The Pips - The Way We Were

It can be downloaded too.

Thanks to this guy for it.

z

Freeloaders: CocoRosie

I won't be showering you pricks in loads of free music all the time because there's plenty of other places that will. Instead i'll do a much nicer thing - wade through the morass of new stuff out their and cherry pick the decent sounds. Or the things i like anyway.

Here's CocoRosie's new record which, after an initial listen or two sounds a bit slight, but is actually a real grower. It's like watching a fireworks display through a blanket fog: muted but still something to behold.

CocoRosie - 'The Adventures Of Ghosthorse and Stillborn'

myspace

If you like this record, then buy it when it comes out on Touch and Go Records on the 10th of April.

Wanker Wednesday: No. 1 Louis Walsh

Welcome to a new and hotly anticipated addition to the Zeitghost, where I get to target my vitriol at one particularly loathsome prick in the music industry. With such a humongous amount of deserved targets, I'll probably run out of Wednesdays before I run out of wankers but that's a risk I'm willing to take for you guys.

First up Kiltimagh Crap Merchant Louis Walsh.

Louis Walsh is to music what predatory paedophiles are to the Internet. He sources out nubile young boys and grooms them to perform unspeakable acts for his pleasure. What's even more creepy is that you know he's permanently hiding an erection every time you see his pinched little mug. He's like those sacred heart pictures of Jesus who's eyes follow you around the room. Except it's Louis's jap's eye that has it's sights set on you laddy. Ick.

Louis is often credited as being a pop Svengali but his track record is shit. Aside from those dullard automaton's Westlife and Boyzone - who were identikit versions of each other - he has no success stories. Ronan Keating, Samantha Mumba, Bellefire are all residents of Skid Row, and the Carter Twins were such a ball of shite that even those boffins at Wikipedia are considering scrapping their entry because their legacy is so worthless. Oh the ignomy! Also as a foot note to Louis's shitness, the only band to ever eulogise him in song were the Donegal ewok-rockers The Revs with a tuneless packet of piss called 'Louis Walsh'.

And then there's the gayness. Everyone deserves their privacy, but Louis Walsh is such a misogynist little spunk-farter that it's in the public interest that he be outed. According to a news item on a bitchy gossip site i read ages ago, Louis always needed two cars when he was being transported to Shite-Factor recordings: one for his clammy-handed self, and the other for some stray rent boy he was knobbing at the time. I suppose he was taken around the back entry. Oooh-Er, Betty!

Louis's disgusting musical legacy will plague this Island for years to come. He has turned pop music into sinister and exploitative brand of accounting, where all that matters is the numbers. Okay so the whole of the music industry is about that - but at least there's some decent shit out there. If everyone did it Louis's way, all music would be one long, ear-bleeding, karaoke session.

That's pretty much my reasons for the vendetta right there. I'm glad i got it off my chest. All that need to be taken care of now are the formalities.

"Congratulations Louis Walsh: it's Wednesday and you're a wanker."

Some Nice News

Let's begin this new era of camaraderie and blow-jobs with some cheery good tidings from those Out On A Limb fatcats, who are splashing the cash again after their recent snapping up of Cork cunts Hooray For Humans. The Limerick label has now pounced on vulnerable indie-electronica-poppet Crayonsmith and convinced him, by employing a series of techniques they witnessed on a recent episode of 24, to join their shady cabal. They released this statement on the coup:

"Crayonsmith has this week become the latest addition to Out On A Limb Records, the independent label based in Limerick, Ireland.

Crayonsmith is the music of Dublin's Ciarán Smith, with good friends Ruadhan "Big Fists" O'Meara and Ronan Jackson aiding on guitars, keys, bass and percussion.

In 2006, Crayonsmith's debut album "Stay Loose" was self-released on the Musical Voodoo label. Sparklehorse's Mark Linkous was so impressed by it that he personally asked Smith to support his band on their UK and Irish tour. Other shows since the release of "Stay Loose" has seen Crayonsmith play dates with The Decemberists, Islands, Juana Molina, Viva Voce, and Quasi amongst others.

A solo US tour starts on March 21st, with a prestigious guest spot to Casiotone For The Painfully Alone (see dates below). All at Out On A Limb were already big fans of "Stay Loose" , and a batch of new songs since have managed to even surpass that. These new songs are currently being recorded for the second Crayonsmith LP, due out around February 2008, and Out On A Limb is only too delighted to be involved in the release of this.

On another significant note, this will also be the first OOAL release to come from outside Munster!

For more info, and to order "Stay Loose", go to www.myspace.com/crayonsmith . You can also join the Crayonsmith mailing list by dropping a mail to crayonsmith@gmail.com."

Frankly, I'm livid they've signed up a Dublin jackeen bastid but there you go. Money talks, bullshit notions of loyalty and a healthy regional bias, walks. There are rumours that to compensate for his origins within the Pale, Crayonsmith will be forced to perform all his gigs in a Munster rugby jersey.Too right.

Congratulations to one and all on the arrangement. I had the pleasure of meeting Ciaran recently, and he's a thoroughly great chap. I was completely ballbagged at the time though.

Z

Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

Right.

No more fannying about.

This time it's serious.

I'm back on the wagon with this blogging lark, but this time there'll be less twittering on about crap and more good stuff like music.

Unfortunately, the place will still look pretty shit cos i've no idea about HTML. But all you lot are ugly pricks anyway so you're not going to get hung up on superficial stuff like looks and whatnot.

So where will this new direction be taking us all then? Well, basically i couldn't be bothered sticking up the Zeitghost stuff because it's already on the Clare People website, and having two places containing the same bum dribble could cause the Internet to explode.

Instead i'll be sticking up records and links to other shit i find on the web. It'll take shape in the next few weeks. The motivation for this singular and radical overhaul of everything i have previously stood for is this: I spend way too much time online and it would be nice to have something more constructive to show for my efforts than a sixteen page argument on a navel-gazing music forum about some cunting claptrap. Or worse still - just reading the tommyrot and not making a peep myself.

So I hear by promise to update this shithole regularly so we can all share in the boundless possibilities of the interweb.

bed.

Zeitghost