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Blue Lagoon in June

2026-06-10T00:02:10.113-04:00

Blue Lagoon was a German pop/dance project of David Joseph & Estrella (Patricia Gemdt). Their first single was a cover of Matthew Wilder's ''Break My Stride'' that hit #2 on the German pop charts. Clublagoon is their first full length that contains a mix of covers & original material. Though short-lived, they highlight the German pop sounds of the early Aughts.

Bluelagoon - Clublagoon, Media Spirit 0000082MSP, 2005.
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Blessed
I Won't Let You Down
The Best
Break My Stride
Biscuit
Oxygen
Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?
Club Lagoon
Stop That Train
In da Dancehall
You Don't Love Me (No, No, No)
Chocolatino
Souljah's Wisdom
Love is the Key
Now That We Found Love
Jah Call

Enjoy.
NØ

Independent Worm Saloon in June

2026-06-09T00:01:06.809-04:00

Don't need no intro for the Buttholes.

This one obviosly rhymes with June.

Get with it or piss off.

Butthole Surfers - Independent Worm Saloon, Capitol Records CDP077779879823, 1993
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Who Was in My Room Last Night?
The Wooden Song
Tongue
Chewin' George Lucas' Chocolate
Goofy's Concern
Alcohol
Dog Inside Your Body
Strawberry
Some Dispute Over T-Shirt Sales
Dancing Fool
You Don't Know Me
The Annoying Song
Dust Devil
Leave Me Alone
Edgar
The Ballad of Naked Man
Clean it Up

Enjoy,
NØ

Swoon in June

2026-06-08T00:01:48.130-04:00

Silversun Pickups originated in the Silverlake district of Los Angeles. I had a close friend who lived in Silverlake in the Aughts (& beyond). Whenever I was visiting him & we were out on a liquor run (going to the Silversun liqour store on the corner of Silverlake Blvd & Sunset - hence Silversun), we would often run into members of the band also on a liquor run (hence Silversun Pickups, get it). If we were hitting some local Silverlake Clubs to see Elliott Smith or Beck or Rilo Kiley at the Silver Lake Lounge or the Echo or Spaceland, we would often see the Pickups perform. They never truly made me swoon, but nonetheless, here they are, making you Swoon.

Silversun Pickups - Swoon, Dangerbird Records DGB035, 2009.
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There's No Secrets This Year
The Royal We
Growing Old is Getting Old
It's Nice to Know You Work Alone
Panic Switch
Draining
Sort Of
Substitution
Catch & Release
Surrounded (or Spiraling)

bonus track -
Currency of Love

Enjoy,
NØ

Immune in June

2026-06-07T00:03:00.000-04:00

Immune was a post-rock band from Lyon, France active in the Aughts. Its members were: Jean-Sébastien Nouveau - samples, programming, drums, keyboards, & vocals; Martin Duru - piano, guitar, keyboard, & bass; Gary Soubrier - vocals; & Julien Nouveau - cello, guitar, & toys. Their use of magnificent guitars, piano melodies, smooth electronics, & strings walk a thin line between post-rock & sad post-electronic pop. Superb intimate music mingling with organic sounds.

Immune - Not Until Morning, Eglantine Records EGL016, 2008.
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Lie Awake
Slow Backwards
Wakening of a Former Land
When We Faint
Misplaced
Slightly Upon My Arm
Hello
Recorded Home

Enjoy,
NØ

Monsoon in June

2026-06-06T00:13:56.966-04:00

I've shared Sheila Chandra several times before here. This one was originally released as Third Eye by Monsoon in 1983. This is the North American 1995 reissue CD with alternate versions of several tracks (the longer 12" version of "Shakti" & a slightly different "Watchers") & six additional tracks. It is credited as Monsoon featuring Sheila Chandra. Monsoon was a world music trio consisting of Chandra, her husband Steve Coe, & Martin Smith.

Note of interest to followers of this blog, Bill Nelson plays E-Bow & electric guitar.

Monsoon featuring Sheila Chandra - Monsoon, Mercury 3145265272, 1995.
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Wings of the Dawn (Prem Kavita)
Tomorrow Never Knows
Third Eye & Tikka T.V.
Eyes
Shakti (The Meaning of Within)
Ever so Lonely
You Can't Take Me with You
And I You
Kashmir
Watchers of the Night
Indian Princess
Sunset Over the Ganges
Ever so Lonely (Hindi version)
Wings of the Dawn (Prem Kavita) (Hindi version)
Ever so Lonely (remix)
Ever so Lonely (instrumental remix)

Enjoy,
NØ

Tonight at Noon in June

2026-06-05T00:03:49.935-04:00

I don't share much jazz here. I listen to a lot but am not really knowledgeable enough to be presenting it to others. I just know what I like. I like the double-bass stylings & studio overdubbing of Charles Mingus & here he is joined by saxophonist Roland Kirk on several tracks.

Charles Mingus - Tohight at Noon, Atlantic SD1416, 1964.
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Side 1 -
Tonight at Noon
Invisible Lady
'Old' Blues for Walt's Torin

Side 2 -
Peggy's Blue Skylight
Passions of a Woman Loved

Enjoy,
NØ

Marquee Moon in June

2026-06-04T00:02:13.539-04:00

No introduction necessary. You’ve all seen this on Television. A classic.

I will say that the cover photo was taken by Robert Mapplethorpe.

Television - Marquee Moon, Elektra 7E1098, 1977.
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Side One -
See No Evil
Venus
Friction
Marquee Moon

Side Two
Elevation
Guiding Light
Prove It
Torn Curtain

Enjoy,
NØ

The Loon in June

2026-06-03T00:03:00.000-04:00

The Loon is the first full-length release from Minneapolis indie band Tapes ‘n Tapes. While not the high-water mark of originality (playing a wide mash of influences from the various Pavements-like bands of 80s lo-fi & indie), they definitely play with a boundless energy & enthusiasm throughout all the album's eleven tracks. Derivative or not, The Loon retains a genuinely empathetic sincerity that gives weird, left-of-centre indie an enjoyable platform.

Tapes ‘n Tapes - The Loon, Ibid ibid0002, 2005.
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Just Drums
The Iliad
Insistor
Crazy Eights
In Houston
Manitoba
Cowbell
10 Gallon Ascots
Omaha
Buckle
Jakov's Suite

Enjoy,
NØ

Maroon in June

2026-06-02T00:03:00.000-04:00

You know him. You love him. Here’s Maroon in June.

Muslimgauze - Maroon repress, Staalplaat STCD084, 2002.
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Intro
Thimble Cups of Urdu I
Maroon of Gaza
Harem of Dogs I
Harem of Dogs II
Thimble Cups of Urdu II
Blood of Salah Jadallah I
Stars of Golan Heights
Blood of Salah Jadallah II

Enjoy,
NØ

The Moon in June

2026-06-01T00:03:00.000-04:00

As the moon in June wanes, I wax poetic.

The moon in June shines firstly on D. Boon.

Minuteman D. was an important figure in the history of punk rock & independent music. Boon's solos were very unique, using odd rhythms or scales that were influenced by jazz or classical guitar. He was one of the most technically accomplished American punk guitarists of all time.

4:40 am - Centennial, Arizona - 12/22/1985

D. Boon's life was tragically cut short on a lonely stretch of Interstate 10 in the Arizona desert at the age of 27. He was traveling with his fiance, Linda Kite at the wheel, & his sister Jeannine in the passenger seat. He was asleep in the back of the 1979 Dodge van when a broken left rear axle caused the van to go off the road & roll over. Dennes was thrown from the van & suffered a broken neck.

D. Boon - D. Boon & Friends, Box-O-Plenty BOPCD001, 2003.
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Jams with Crane & Richard Derrick 11/84-6/85 -
Everyone was There
Fifth Gear
Deadline
The Waiting Stage
Indecision
Theme from Empty Box
The Long Road Home
Take You There
Freedom Forever
Jam # 6
Binky's Round-Up
Too Much Fun
All Over the Place
The Viking Song
Just Around the Corner
As Long As (Parts 1 & 2)

Hammerdown @ The Music Machine 4/5/84 -
Hammerdown I
This Land is Your Land
Hammerdown II

D. Boon @ The Lhasa Club 6/27/84 -
Our New Industrial Direction
That's All There Is
My Part
Don't Look Now
Plight
Corona

Minutemen with Guest Drummer UCLA 1/30/85 -
But First...
I Felt Like a Gringo
God Bows to Math
Themselves
Self-Referenced
#1 Hit Song
History Lesson - Part II

D. Boon @ Home 5/85 -
Many as One

bonus track -
D. Boon - In His Own Words

Enjoy,
NØ

When You Think it’s All Over

2026-05-30T16:01:50.010-04:00

I thought I was done with this month. As I sez on the MAYDAY MAYDAY share:
"I'm just going to throw together what I'm listening to at the moment & see what forms of it all. That's what I say right now. We'll see what is transpiring come Memorial Day."

Well, today is Memorial Day (I know the USA celebrated it last Monday but that's just Memorial Day [observed] because of that governmental Monday Holiday Bill bull...true Memorial Day is May 30th...that's when we here at Casa de Nada 12.0 celebrate it 'cuz it's my daughter Lao's birthday).

She ses to me today:
"Dad, you know it's a mad, mad, mad, mad world."

That prompted me to post this one, my favorite Mad Professor compilation of all time. Recorded in Dubarama, so play it loud.

Mad Professor - It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Professor, Ariwa ARICD105, 1994.
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Ultimate Experience
Beyond the Realms of Dub
The Heart of the Jungle
Rebel
Rat Race
The Doppler Effect
Aztec Warrior
Ariwa-The Dub Sampler
Invasion Dub
People of Yoruba
Kunte Kinte
Fast Forward into Dub
Medusa's Head
Pirates of the Airwaves

See you all in June,
NØ

For a Film

2026-05-28T21:11:13.409-04:00

Jumping back into film soundtracks for a final time this month after the Dark Origins shares earlier. (Thanks Hawksmort & all for your terrific contributions).

A Soundtrack for a Film reveals itself to be none other than a new soundtrack for Fritz Lang's 1927 silent film classic Metropolis. Factory Floor was commissioned by the London Science Museum to write & perform the score. The band performed the 150 minute score at the Science Museum’s IMAX theater on April 28, 2017 marking the 90th anniversary of the film's release. The band played & recorded this in the studio for your listening pleasure. You can play it along with the 153 minute long movie for a real treat...just figure when the beginning theme Metropolis should start (use your better judgement)...it should sync up well enough to make a rewarding viewing.

Factory Floor - A Soundtrack for a Film 2xCD, H/O/D/ Records H/O/D003CD, 2018.
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CD 1 -
Metropolis
Beneath
Run
Father
Identity Switch
Circuit Senses
Babel
Cave
Wonder
Suspicious

CD 2 -
Transform
Heart of Data
Find
Up Rise
Flood
Become
End

Enjoy,
NØ

Who Observes the New World?

2026-05-26T22:57:12.076-04:00

Something from Deadbeat is a weekly thing with me. Recently I picked up this one, another one from Deadbeat Scott Monteith with vocals here by Athésia. A dive deep down into Deadbeat's rich, tactile, organic, & fluid music, a slow, trippy path through rhythm & reverb.

Grab the chillum & chill...

Deadbeat - New World Observer, ~scape ~scape27cd, 2005

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Slow Rot from Rhetoric
Port-Au-Prince
N'Importe Quoi
Abu Ghraib
Texas Tea
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Time is Passing Slowly
Rock of Ages
Ruination
Habitat for Heavy Hearts

Enjoy,
NØ

Ø Seven

2026-05-25T00:05:32.466-04:00

Yeah Ghost is the final release from Zero 7, coming three years after their previous. Many fans of the band shied away from it as their sound has evolved away from their usual more Trip-hoppy style into a more poppy style. For me it is one of my favorite Zero 7 albums. The various vocal stylings seem more of a preferred challenge than a detriment. To me it sounds fresh, new, experimental while also somehow more Ambient (especially the instrumentals)...

Zero 7 - Yeah Ghost, Atlantic 520260-2, 2009.
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Count Me Out
Mr McGee
Swing
Everything Up (Zizou)
Pop Art Blue
Medicine Man
Ghost sYMbOL
Sleeper
Solastalgia
The Road
All of Us

Enjoy,
NØ

I’m Lost in All This Free Ass O.C. 8 Shun

2026-05-24T00:30:10.672-04:00

This has been a winding twisted trail. It began back in September 2022 with Flykkiller - Experiments in Violent Light here.

Then in May 2025 I did May: I Come Again where I was revisiting artists I had shared in the past. I returned with a Flykkiller related post here that featured Pati Yang. Pati & her husband Steven Hilton were Flykkiller. At that time I mentioned that the twosome had often worked on OSTs with David Holmes (Buffalo Soldiers, Ocean's Eleven & Twelve).

That led to The Free Association, a group started by David Holmes & Steven Hilton.with Pati Yang & songwtiter / vocalist Sean Reveron. This version contains a bonus track, the Free Association version of “Sugarman” by Sixto Rodriguez.

The trail ends here (for now)...

David Holmes presents - The Free Association, 13 Amp AMP012CDX, 2002.
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Don't Rhyme No Mo
(I Wish I Had a) Wooden Heart
Le Baggage
Free Ass O-C-8
Somedays
Everybody Knows
Pushin' a Broom
La Dolce Vita
Paper Underwear
Whistlin' Down the Wind
bonus track -
Sugarman

Enjoy,
NØ

Dubbled Up on Bud

2026-05-22T00:01:04.265-04:00

Of course, on a daily basis I get my dose of Dub.

Here are a couple that didn't make February’s Dub & Dub Adjacent shares due to time/space constraints.

Pop one of these if you want a great high.

First off some psyDub...

Various - Bubbled Up on Dub Vol. 1: Natural Progression,
Gliss Records GLISSCD004, 1998.
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Wildflower - The Herb
In the Valley - Arkology
Dusk Till Dawn - Steffe
Sticks & Stones - Doof
World Today - Arkology
Blow Up Dub - Blow Up Dub Band
Zero Gravity - Steffe
Many Lands - The Herb
Celebration - Steffe

Secondly some psytrance, Downtempo, & psyDub all mixed by Sundog...

Various - Surrender to the Vibe, Phantasm Records PTM132, 1995.

Khamoun - Mammal
Water Drums - Union Jack
Tube (Ambient mix) - Nebula II
Dawn Goddess - Quartermass
Slow River - Delphi
La Danseuse Obsedante - Astronimix
Shimmer - Auto Union
Spiral Galaxy M33 - Tau Factor
Weather Watcher (Sundog remix) - Cyclone 7
Pharoahs Wear Boots - Mindfield
Return from Infobahn - Sungog vs Mindfield
What's Going On in the World? - Interlect 3000
Afterlife - Vibe Tribe
Breakfast at Cosmo's (Vivid Pink mix) - Sundog

Enjoy,
NØ

Danger, Electric Fire

2026-05-20T00:01:45.800-04:00

The other night I was getting my monthly dose of Hell & brimstone Good Ole Religun from St. Paul (Janeway) & his Birmingham Broken Bones. One of the songs, "The Last Dance" put me in mind of Electric Six. I used to binge on their music back in the early Aughts but haven't listened to them in years. I guess none of their later releases grabbed me like their first two & I just drifted away. I dug out Danger! High Voltage & Fire & indulged in some rock nostalgia.

Electric Six are essential American hard rock. They are definitely the Hell & brimstone to St. Paul's salvation, but Dick Valentine (Tyler Spencer)'s vocals grab me like Paul Janeway's & the Electric Six create music on par with the Broken Bones (a sadly much under-rated outfit). For any of you who haven't visited the E6 in a while, here's two to you.

Electric Six - Danger, High Voltage, XL Recordings XLS157CDUS, 2002.
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Danger! High Voltage (Soulchild radio mix)
I Lost Control (of My Rock & Roll)
Remote Control (Me)
Danger! High Voltage (Thin White Duke mix by Jacques le Cont)

Electric Six - Fire, XL Recordings XLCD169, 2003.

Dance Commander
Electric Demons in Love
Naked Pictures (of Your Mother)
Danger! High Voltage
She's White
I Invented the Night
Improper Dancing
Gay Bar
Nuclear War (on the Dance Floor)
Getting into the Jam
Vengeance & Fashion
I'm the Bomb
Synthesizer

Enjoy,
NØ

Dark Origins

2026-05-18T00:06:57.168-04:00

Before leaving these Dark(jazz) Obsessions, I feel the need to share the music of three of the great Film Noir/Crime Noir soundtracks that are often cited as the progenitors of Darkjazz.

The Man with the Golden Arm was the work of Elmer Bernstein for the Otto Preminger film starring Frank Sinatra. It is one of the finest jazz soundtracks to come out of the 50s. Bernstein's blustery horns & deep percussion are only the facade for the gorgeous orchestration that hides in the hazy, smoky underlayers almost unnoticed beneath the surface. With much of the Hollywood soundtrack elements intact, it only hints at the Darkjazz to come.

Elmer Bernstein & Orchestra - Music from the Soundtrack of "The Man with the Golden Arm",
Decca DL8257, 1956.
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Side 1 -
Clark Street
The Top
Homecoming
Antek's
Zosh
Frankie Machine
The Fix
Molly

Side 2 -
Breakup
Flight
Louie's
Buriesque
Sunday Morning
Desperation
Audition
The Cure
Withdraw
Cold
Morning
Finale

Next up is Bernard Herrmann’s final movie score before his death. Herrmann had worked in the past with Alfred Hitchcock & Orson Welles. He had provided scores for TV (Twilight Zone & Have Gun Will Travel). Later he worked with François Truffaut on Fahrenheit 451 & Brian De Palma on Obsession. De Palma hooked Herrmann up with Martin Scorsese for Taxi Driver. Immediately after finishing the recording of the Taxi Driver score on December 23, 1975, Herrmann viewed the rough cut of what was to be his next film assignment, Larry Cohen's God Told Me To. He dined with Cohen & then returned to his hotel where he died from an apparent heart attack in his sleep the next day.

Bernard Herrmann - Taxi Driver OST, Arista AL4079, 1976.

Side 1 -
Theme from Taxi Driver
I Work the Whole City
Betsy in a White Dress
The Days do Not End
Reprise: Theme from Taxi Driver

Side 2 -
Diary of a Taxi Driver
Theme from Taxi Driver
The .44 Magnum is a Monster
Sport & Iris
God's Lonely Man (end title)

Finally, the duo of Angelo Badalamenti & David Lynch are often credited as being a direct precursor of Darkjazz with their music for Lynch’s Twin Peaks. I have chosen the OST for Fire Walk with Me, which appeared the year following the original TV series as a prequel.

Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Warner Brothers Records, 1992.

Theme from Twin Peaks - Fire Walk with Me
The Pine Float
Sycamore Trees
Don't Do Anything (I Wouldn't Do)
A Real Indication
Questions in a World of Blue
The Pink Room
The Black Dog Runs at Night
Best Friends
Moving Through Time
Montage from Twin Peaks - Girl Talk / Birds in Hell / Laura Palmer's Theme / Falling
The Voice of Love

Enjoy,
NØ

& the Dark Persists

2026-05-16T00:45:05.317-04:00

Continuing on with Darkjazz music, here are several more divergent offerings to showcase some variety in the genre.

Gamardah Fungus is a Dark Ambient drone outfit from Dnipro, Ukraine. They play slowed drone Ambient featuring Darkjazz stylings with electroacoustic instrumentation incorporating field recordings. This is one of their finest moments...

Gamardah Fingus - Nuclear Winter, Nocharizma nchr010, 2012.
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Big Finger Labirynth
Nuclear Winter
Last Train to Save Us
World Dying
Another Earth

Somewhere off Jazz Street is the film noir Darkjazz music project of musician Buz Hendricks featuring late night sound improvisations, sound effects, & saxophone. Hendricks plays all the music using electronically generated sounds played on keyboard.

Somewhere off Jazz Street - Stories of Midnight Streets, self-released, 2007.

It's Time
Can't Escape the Past
When it Slips Away
Scene of the Crime
Along the Way
Forgotten
Calm Before the Storm
One Crazy Night
Last Resort
Night Voices
If I Had a Reason

Although trumpeter & composer Jon Hassell is primarily know as the creator of Fourth World music (& his work on it with Brian Eno), he has collaborated with many & dabbled in numerous genres. He has released several Darkjazz offerings, this being my favorite, The strangely beautiful title is taken from a poem by the great 13th century Sufi mystic Jalaluddin Rumi. The rest of it is: "Last night the moon came dropping its clothes in the street/I took it as a sign to start singing/Falling up into the bowl of sky." Listen to Hassell's trumpet sing...

Jon Hassell - Last Night the Moon Came Dropping its Clothes in the Street,

ECM Records ECM2077, 2009.

Aurora
Time & Place
Abu Gil
Last Night the Moon Came
Clairvoyance
Courtrais
Scintilla
Northline
Blue Period
Light on Water

I've been sharing a bit of Tuxedomoon lately. They as well tried their hand at Darkjazz.

Tuxedomoon & Cult with No Name - Blue Velvet Revisited, Crammed Discs MTM42, 2016.

The Slow Club
Lumberton
Do it for Van Gogh
So Fucking Suave
Now it's Dark
Dorothy - Tuxedomoon & Cult with No Name
Lincoln Street - John Foxx
A Candy Colored Clown
Frank
Alligator Briefcase
Jeffrey Nothing
Until the Robins Come
Don - Tuxedomoon & Cult with No Name

Schwarzeneggerization is the Darkjazz / noir-lounge project of Ukrainian Anton Korablev serving as a distinctive tribute to that unforgettable pair of cinematic hauntologists, Angelo Badalamenti & David Lynch. There are synthesizer swipes, big-ass rimshots, Noir reversals of indie guitar twang, decayed xylophones, vibrato stacattos, drumesque freakouts, & overamped pulsatronics. Each track on this debut limited-edition cassette Big Ed's Dead Squirrel Wig & Magnificent Mustache feels like a track for an unreleased unfilmed Film Noir by David Lynch or a horror movie by John Carpenter.

Here Schwarzeneggerization is: Igor Kharabebasku - guitar; Anton Perezimnik - keyboards & strings; & Anton Korablev - double bass, drums, & noises.

Schwarzeneggerization - Big Ed’s Dead Squirrel Wig & Magnificent Mustache cassette,

Православная Боль 001, 2012.

Side A -
Dead Dog Farm
Uncle's Day at a Whorehouse
6 Ounces of Unicorn Meat
Side B -
Body Bag
Ronette's Bridge
Deer at Log Cabin

Enjoy,
NØ

Going Back to the Mountains

2026-05-14T00:54:45.513-04:00

Last month when I was doing Musick that Needed Work: T I shared The Thing with Five Eyes. That was an experimental Darkjazz project of Jason Köhnen, formerly of the Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble & The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation.

In the mid-Aughts I listened to a lot of Darkjazz but with the passage of time, other sounds came along & soon we forget. Sharing TTwFE got me to listening to the Darkjazz mountains again & realizing how much I still really enjoyed the musick.

Darkjazz is a slow, somber contemporary style combining jazz instrumentation to create a doom-laden, cinematic atmosphere. It emerged in the 1990s, then gained most prominence in the 2000s, primarily in Europe with acts such as Bohren & der Club of Gore or The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble.

An early proponent of the genre is Angelo Badalamenti's work on the Twin Peaks soundtracks starting in 1990. Darkjazz uses Ambient & lounge elements alongside its surreal jazz sound. Heavily inspired by the dark, brooding themes & moody, shadowy visuals of Film Noir movies, the soundscapes of Darkjazz seek to conjure up images of smoky, dimly-lit jazz clubs or eerie, rain-soaked city streets.

Drawing on the Crime Jazz scores of 1950s - 70s Noir (such as The Man with the Golden Arm or Taxi Driver), Darkjazz is performed at a considerably slow tempo, showcasing an exaggerated form of the gloomy, dread-inducing moods & sounds heightened by the use of mournful trumpets / saxophones, brushed drums, electric piano / mellotron, vibraphones, double bass, all with a noticeable lack of upbeat big band stylings.

Decided I'd share some with you all & see how you like it (or like it again or still like it, whichever). I'll start with this compilation of Darkjazz, called simply...

Various - Dark Jazz Compilation, Dark Jazz Records DJR002, 2017.
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Sunshine III - Côte Déserte
Il Reverchon Cascatelle - Dale Cooper Quartet & the Dictaphones
Murdered (by Love) - Detour Doom Project
Detective's Tears - Macelleria Mobile Di Mezzanotte
Sleepdriving into Oblivion - Manet
Loose Change - Michael Arthur Holloway
The Rose Sail - Nobody Jazz Ensemble
Combava Blissophony - Noroeste & Shri
Crowhurst Yew - Somnambulist Quintet
Dark Night of the Soul - The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble (original by Danger Mouse, David Lynch, & Sparklehorse)
Meduxae - The Thing with Five Eyes
Krakau - Trigg & Gusset

Now on to some Dark Moumtain music...

Mutations (EP) is just that, adaptations of earlier tracks off the debut album The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble which I previously shared here & demos that later became the tracks on the second album Here Be Dragons , mutated.

Track "Caos Calmo" is a reworked "The Nothing Changes"; track "München" is a reworked "Lobby"; track "Serpents" is a reworked "Pearls For Swine"; track "Twisted Horizons" contains some elements from "Parallel Corners" all from their self-titled debut; track "Shadows" later reworked in "Embers" on Here Be Dragons contains the melody from "Senki Dala" by Venetian Snares that appeared on the Rossz Csillag Alatt Született album (or "Senki Dala & Öngyilkos Vasárnap (Bong-Ra Remix)" from 4 Adaptations of Rossz Csillag Alatt Született by Venetian Snares vs Bong-Ra); track "Symmetry of 6's" contains some elements of "Solomon's Curse" & track "Horns of King David" contains some elements of "Guernican Perspectives" from the debut; while track "Avian Lung" was later reworked to "Seneca" on Here Be Dragons.

The Kilamanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Mutations EP, Ad Noiseam adn105cd, 2009.

Caos Calmo
München
Serpent
Twisted Horizons
Shadows
Symmetry of 6's
Horns of King David
Avian Lung

I Forsee the Dark Ahead, If I Stay is the first TKDE live album. A compilation of 9 live tracks recorded during the period of 2006 to 2011, from shows in The Netherlands, Slovenia, Hungary, Spain and Poland.

The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - I Forsee the Dark Ahead, If I Stay live, self-released, 2011.

Celladoor (The Netherlands, 2011)
Lobby (Hungary, 2007)
Mists of Krakatoa (Poland, 2011)
Adaptation of the Koto Song (Hungary, 2011)
Symmetry Of 6's (The Netherlands, 2009)
The Nothing Changes / Senki Dala / Embers (Hungary, 2007)
Black Wings (Spain, 2006)
Goya (The Netherlands, 2009)
The MacGuffin (Slovenia, 2007)

This is not the first live music TKDE has been involved in however. The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation is the live improv alter ego of The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble. Their offerings are live recorded releases with several members of TKDE + guest musicians. All The Mount Fuji shares are live concert recordings.

The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation is: Charlotte Cegarra – vocals; Eelco Bosman – guitar Jason Köhnen – bass; Hilary Jeffery – trombone, oscillator; & Gideon Kiers – drums.

This next one was recorded live in Amsterdam on February 24, 2007. As there are no true breaks between tracks, I have combined all nine into one continuous uninterrupted track for your listening pleasure...

The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation - Doomjazz Future Corpses!, Ad Noiseam adn81, 2007.

One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine

This last one was recorded live at Telco HQ, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, January 15, 2009. while viewing Jess Franco's 1969 film Succubus, a low-budget erotically charged sadomasochistic murder horror flick. (note - A lifelong jazz enthusiast & pianist, Franco studied music at the Madrid Royal Conservatory as well as the Instituto Ramiro de Maeztu, before embarking on a film career.)

The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation - Succubus, Ad Noiseam ADN112, 2009.

The Sexy Midnight Torture Show
Erotic Love Queen
Strange Dreams
Castles by the Sea
The Admiral’s Game
The Morning After
Perverted Pleasure Party
A Bad Trip
A Place for Fantasies
Murder Amongst Mannequins
Fleeing the Scene
Deadly Rehearsal
Faustine

Enjoy,
NØ

A New Reflection

2026-05-13T00:08:00.000-04:00

When I was fixing up Musick that Needed Work: T last month I came across two Tuxedomoon releases that I had not realized were missing from my other Tuxedomoon albums. Half-Mute was one of those. It was the first Tuxedomoon that I ever bought, one of my all-time favorites, & one that I played often until I nearly wore it out. At some point I acquired the digital version but it needed work. It ended up forgotten in the Needed Work folder. What a joy it was to relisten to it after I fixed all the flaws. I was amazed at how well I remembered all the great tunes. I have listened to it regularly since then.

While I was working on Half-Mute (removing clicks, fixing ID3 tags, touching up cover artwork, etc.) I discoved this gem with contributions from Foetus, Aksak Maboul, Simon Turner Fisher, & many others. It contained a bonus 7“ & download code for an additional track...

Various - Give Me New Noise: Half-Mute Reflected, Crammed Discs cram268LP, 2016.
decryption code in comments

Side A -
Nazca - Simon Turner Fisher
59 to 1 - Zero Gravity Thinkers
Fifth Column (instrumental version) - The Man from Managra featuring Blaine L. Reininger
Tritone (Musica Diablo) - Norscq
Loneliness - Cult with No Name

Side B -
James Whale - DopplAr
What Use? - Foetus
Volo Vivace - Palo Alto featuring Steven Brown
7 Years - Georgio "the Dove" Valentino & Grey Lotus
KM / Seeding the Clouds - 2kilos & More & Julius Gabriel

bonus 7" -
Tritone (Musica Diablo) - Aksak Maboul
Crash - Non Finito Orchestra

bonus downloadable track -
Dark Companion - el TiGeR CoMiCs GRoUP

Enjoy,
NØ

Kind of a Tricky Fix

2026-05-12T00:15:00.000-04:00

The Baby Namboos was a loosely-defined Trip-hop group founded by Trick's cousin Mark Porter, with vocalists Aurora Borealis (Zoe Bedeaux), Leo Coleing, Claude Williams (of The Wild Bunch), with bassist Julian Brooke & drummer Mad-Dog.

They only released three shorts & one full-length. Although they sound much like Tricky's earliest two, even with the Martina sounding doppleganger of Zoe Cedeaux & the guest help from Tricky himself, I can never get enough of the initial Tricky (or Massive Attack) sound so I listen to this often, right in the Tricky mix but a great slab of music unto itself. Plus the two bonus remixes make it more than worth the listen.

The Baby Namboos - Ancoats2Zambia, Palm Pictures PALMCD2031-2, 1999.
decryption code in comments

Intro
Hard Times
Get Your Head Down
Ancoats2Zambia
Provoked
Persist to Reminisce
Holy
Late Night Antics
Trials & Tribulations
Play with Me

bonus tracks -
Ancoats2Zambia (Geoff Barrow remix)
Ancoats2Zambia (Dillinja remix)

Enjoy,
NØ

A Further Nod to ZF

2026-05-10T00:16:00.001-04:00

During the March Madness League Play-offs I received a great deal of helpful insight from many Frienz of NSS who gagged along with the go. One of the most insightful is dear Frienz FlaccusMUC.

In one comment he sez:
"If you've got any of the ones that I haven't got (The End of Nothing, the Beginning of Everything, Russian Heterodoxical Songs, A Long Walk, The Tables Are Turning, Further Collusion, A Third Collusion, Ω ℧), I'd be very happy, if you find the time ..."

I picked the Play-off choices from what I have, mostly 80s / 90s releases. I do have a few newer Zoviet France though, four of which were on F-MUC's list which I'm sharing now. Try these out, my friend...

:zoviet*france: - The Tables are Turning, Soleilmoon Recordings SOL182CD, 2013.
all decryption codes in comments

The Grit in the Clouds
Amber Rose Hand
Flam
Moss Balls on Moss
Green Air
Prophecy Loved a Child
Sweeping Arbor Low
The Fire of Revolution
Sandbox
The Fire of Revolution 2
A Moment of Film
Poured out Slowly

:zoviet-france: - The End of Nothing, the Beginning of Something,

Vinyl-on-demand VOD165-1, 2020.

Side 0 -
Das Singende, Klingende Bäumchen
The Monkey is Back
Radar Screen
Side 1 -
A Song Before the End of Nothing
One More Time
A Song After the Beginning of Everything
Hurleburlebutz

:zoviet*france: - Russian Heterodoxical Songs, Vinyl-on-demand VOD165-6, 2020.

Side ☼ -
Неортодоксальность (Hétérodoxie)
Ересь (Hérésie)
Отступничество (Apostasie)
Неподчинение (Indocilité)
Разногласие (Dissension)
Инакомыслие (Non-Conformité)
Side ▲ -
Вариация (Variation)
Изменение (Changement)
Противоречие (Contradiction)
Отказ (Renouncement)
Инспирация (Inspiration)
Автономия (Autonomie)
Возражение (Riposte)
Деконструкция (Déconstruction)

:zoviet*france: - Further Collusion 2xLP, Vinyl-on-demand VOD 165-16/17, 2020.

Side 1 -
With Us Today
Sucking the Instrument
Spike
Side 2 -
I Felt the Breath of My Assassin
Soft & Close by Me
False Witness
Side 3 -
Synaestetica
Mir
Daisy Gun
I'saram
Side 4 -
Eleven Drops

Enjoy,
NØ

Nation Lights the Fuse

2026-05-08T13:02:06.971-04:00

Wanted to share a couple hot releases from cool Nation Records. Nation Records was started in Ladbroke Grove UK by Propa-Ganhi of the band Fun-Da-Mental (real name Aki Nawaz).

As his philosophy, Aki sez:
"It has always been based on an idea from the punk era, be radical musically and politically, never work by the book, re-invent the rules and then re-invent them again when those rules become the norm."

I've shared favorites of mine from Nation Records roster before: Natacha Atlas & Transglobal Underground; the above mentioned Fun-Da-Mental; “Radio Morocco” by Pulse 8 (Jah Wobble & friends); the Macro Dub Infection I shared recently; Asian Dub Foundation & too many more to name.

This first one is the first one for Nation. #001 is a compilation introducing the world to the cultural hybrid which fused bhangra & Latin with house / techno rhythms through then unknown artists such as Mahatma T (now better known as Talvin Singh) & Pulse 8 (which included the musicians from On-U-Sound, David Harrow with Jah Wobble & Justin Adams) that I shared as My Radio is Picking up Morocco here.

Various - Fuse-World Dance Music, Nation Records NR0001L, 1989.
decryption codes in comments

SIDE ONE -
Yassassin (Wild Assassin mix) - David Harrow
Jihad - Mahatma T
Sapna– Ah Kudia - Sapna
Encantador - !Loca!

SIDE TWO -
O'dhe O'dhe - Sapna
Radio Morocco (Club mix) - Pulse 8
Shanti - Mahatma T
Teus Quay Ana - Paradise Organisation

Here's the follow-up Fuse II...

Various - Fuse II-World Dance Music, Nation Records NR0005CD,1991.

Stotinki (Aki Nawaz remix) featuring Jah Wobble - the Space Cadets
Timbal (Chris Greenwood remix) - !Loca!
Yab Yum (Aki Nawaz & Katherine Canoville remix) - Uzma
Chinatown New York (Wobble mix) - Bebop 90
The Unspoken Word - Invaders of the Heart
Radio Africa (Aki Nawaz remix) - Ntuli Abrahamse
Tarana (Talvin Singh remix) - Gondwana
The Voice of Hassan - Amahl
Zapotech - Aztec To Hi-Tech
Chinatown New York (Will 'Shamen' Sin remix) - Bebop 90
Timbal - !Loca!
Stotinki (Dub mix) - the Space Cadets

Enjoy,
NØ

Wobbly Winer

2026-05-06T13:00:00.004-04:00

My perusing Jah Wobble's catalogue also led me to this. What a treasure to uncover.

A world star that few know...Leslie Winer.

Leslie Winer moved from Weston, Massachusetts to New York City in the late 70s to attend School of Visual Arts. While there she met William Burroughs (who became her mentor & life-long friend) & dated Jean-Michel Basquiat. In 1980 she began a career as a fashion model. Her androgynous look & being difficult to work with gained her fame in the modelling world. She was a Chritian Dior girl & appeared on numerous Vogue covers. In the mid 80s her modeling gigs brought her to London. She became a regular at the Taboo nightclub where she became friends with Jah Wobble.

In 1990 she recorded her debut album Witch with Jah Wobble. John Peel played some tracks from the white-label promo & the recording became a minor cult classic. With this debut album Winer recorded one of the earliest testimonies of a new genre that was to become the signature sound of the 90s, Trip-hop. Although recorded one year before Massive Attack's Blue Lines, Witch never saw release until 1993. Witch is still considered by those in the know to be the birth of the fusion of hip hop with Jamaican dancehall, integrating a psychedelically colourful bouquet of Funk, soul, house, & R&B elements with electronic stylings.

He Was
Flove
N1ear
The Boy who Used 2 Whistle
John Says
5
1nce Upon a Time
Skin
Dream 1

The musicians Winer has collaborated with include acts as diverse as Björk, Bill Laswell, Tim Simenon aka Bomb the Bass, Holger Hiller, Karl Bonnie (Renegade Soundwave), Jon Hassell, Vincent Gallo, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Mekon, Diamond Version, Christopher Chaplin, Jay Glass Dubs, & Maxwell Sterling. Winer's songs have been interpreted by the likes of Grace Jones, Boy George, & Sinéad O’Connor.

About Winer, Boy George sez:
"She might just be the coolest woman on the planet!"

But despite her coolness, her closeness & connection with legendary artists, her name is familiar to only a small minority. This next is a career-spanning anthology of Winer's music. It covers three decades of a musical body of work that is unparalleled in terms of independence & originality. "Hold on Postcards" & "Fragment #2" are previously unreleased.

Leslie Winer - When I Hit You - You'll Feel It, Light in the Attic LITA181, 2021.

When I was Walt Whitman
N1 Ear
Tree - Leslie Winer
Personals - Jon Hassell & Bluescreen featuring Leslie Winer
Dream 1 - Leslie Winer
Dunderhead - Purity Supreme
The Boy who Used 2 Whistle
Hold on Postcards
He Was
RoundUp Ready
Skin
Box - Leslie Winer
This Blank Action (Diamond version featuring Leslie Winer)
Battle Porn - Leslie Winer
Woodshedded - Leslie Winer & Jay Glass Dubs
Fragment #2 - Leslie Winer & Mari G. Mooney

note: the original file I shared was missing track 13. I have fixed it & apologize to all. Thanks, Sam S.

The song “Woodshedded” above is from the Leslie Winer & Jay Glass Dubs - YMFEES. It is an amazing record, a superb mix of spoken word & Ambient Dub, I couldn't not share it here as well.

Leslie Winer & Jay Glass Dubs - YMFEES, Bokeh Versions BKV015, 2018.

Side A -
Woodshedded
Tin Mine
Cogged
Side B -
About the Author
#29
No Famous Actors

Enjoy,
NØ