Captain Beatfart Mix #8: Captain Beatfart & The Beastly Calliope

It's been a few months and the Captain's been backed up like a like a sink full of bacon grease.

Relax, sit back, and allow him to run his snake down your earpipes.

The tracklist:

Los Monstruos - Hey Monstruo
Nighttrain - Hallo Bimmelbahn
Bunker Hill - Hide And Go Seek (Part 1)
Harold Dorman - Uncle Jonah's Place
Etta James - What'd I Say
Jackie Wilson & Lavern Baker - Think Twice (Version X)
Proud Mary - We'll Make It Alright
Dottie Campbell - He's About A Mover
Los Crazy Birds - Soy Normal
The Starlets - You Don't Love Me
Friend & Lover - Reach Out Of The Darkness
Pete Rock - Half Man Half Amazin' (ft. Method Man)
The Tufftones - Sensi For Sale
MC Shan - M.C. Space
James Brown - Please, Please, Please
Peter Fernandez - Borriquito
Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo De Cotonou - Noude Ma Gnin Tche De Me
Hasil Adkins - Chicken Walk
Witch - Like A Chicken
Lloydie & The Lowbites - Birth Control
The Prisonaires - Just Walkin' In The Rain

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Captain Beatfart Mix #7 -> Wasabi Gas: A Full-Bodied Blend Of Japanese Funk, Fuzz & Pop

I thought I'd try something a little different with this podcast; instead of a random assortment of mind-blowing tracks, this is a mix of mind-blowing Japanese tracks from the late 60s and early 70s. For the most part they all incorporate psychedelic fuzz, funk and pop in some form or another.

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I went into this knowing the broad strokes, but not a ton about Japanese music from this era: The Spiders were the Japanese Beatles, The Finger 5 were the Japanese Jackson 5, Shinki Chen was the Japanese Jimi Hendrix; as well as some of the prog/proto-metal bands like the Flower Travellin' Band and Blues Creation.

I made it my mission while I was visiting Japan to try to find the Japanese James Brown.

Well, I failed*.

It turns out that while funk did seep into the Japanese consciousness in scattershot forms of funkiness, it never really took off as a scene in Japan like rock and later, disco did.

Despite not finding the Japanese equivalent of JB, I stumbled into a lot of great music while I was there, ate a lot of ramen, met a lot of great people in Japan (and some not so great, like the dickhead manager at the Disk Union in the Nihonbashi area of Osaka who kicked me out the store for bringing too many records to the listening station despite the clerk letting me do so...but that's water under the bridge...) and spent way too much time and money looking for records. I meant to put this mix out in May, but I kept finding more and more great shit online and at fairs so I kept putting it off. I finally decided that I had to put it out now since I'd never stop uncovering new stuff, so here it is.

You probably won't like everything I put on here, but chances are pretty good that even the most fervent musicus nerdus among you won't know most (or any) of the music in here. There's been a ton of compilations covering Brazilian, Indian, Nigerian and even Thai music, but Japan's music scene has been largely ignored in the Western reissue scene aside from a handful GS comps (I'm not sure if this is a case of expensive licensing or apathy). I listened to literally about 8 days worth of music to boil it down to the 30 or so tracks I put in this hour long mix. I'll no doubt be sprinkling more Japanese stuff in future podcasts (specifically stuff by P-Model & The Plastics who I love but didn't really fit with the rest of this stylistically) and look forward to being able to free my mind from obsessing over this for a while.

I hope you like it...

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*There is a guy named Zainichi Funk who put out a record earlier this year who does a pretty faithful JB thing, but I was mostly focusing on trying to find artists from the 60s~70s rather than modern artists for this podcast. You can check out Zainichi Funk's video here.

Captain Beatfart Mix #6

A hot summer wind is blowing in from the west.

Breathe it in.

Captain Beatfart Mix #6

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Tracklist:
S.E. Rogie - "Toomus Meremereh Nor Good"
Los Angeles Negros - "El Rey Y Yo"
Can - "Turtles Have Short Legs"
Boca 45 - "Round And Round" (ft. Kelvin Swaby from The Heavy)
Aloe Blacc - "I Need A Dollar"
Scarface - "My Block"
Crooklyn Dodgers - "Return Of The Crooklyn Dodgers"
Don Thomas - "Come On Train"
Jon - "Is It Love"
The Orb - "Little Fluffy Clouds"
Munk - "Kick Out The Chairs" (ft. James Murphy & Nancy Whang of LCD Soundsystem)
The Drums - "Let's Go Surfing"
Contramano - "Checking U"
Yvonne Elliman - "Can't Explain"
Kid Rock - "Doctor Rock" [this is not the Kid Rock you're thinking...]
Sroeng Santi - "Iron Man" [Black Sabbath cover...kind of...]
Spirit - "The Other Song"
Sanford Clark - "The Fool"
Pebbles & Bamm Bamm [of the Flinstones] - "The World Is Full Of Joys (For Little Girls And Boys)"

Captain Beatfart Podcast #5: Fresh Farts

The Captain is back to bring you a fresh blast of beats from his ass to your ears.

As always, the track info is embedded in the file, but if you want to know what you're getting into here's the tracklist:

Marion Black - Who Knows
Big Maybelle - That's A Pretty Good Love
Bo Diddley - Another Sugar Daddy
Mel Torme - Comin' Home Baby
The Deviants - You've Got To Hold On
Yura Yura Teikoku - わかってほしい
Los Roberts - El Saltamontes
Biddu featuring Manhar & Anand - Hum Tumhe Chahte Hain
??? - Pork Chops & Onion Gravy
David Bowie - The Laughing Gnome
The Newcomers - The Martian Hop
Phantogram - Mouthful Of Diamonds
Focus Three - 10,000 Years Behind My Mind
LA Symphony - Broken Now
Crucial Conflict - Hay
Can - Little Star Of Bethlehem
Bullion - Say Goodbye To What
Onra - The Anthem
Jan Turkenburg - In My Spaceship (Pilooski Remix)

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Captain Beatfart Podcast #4: A Feast Of Festive Flatulence

I've never been a big fan of Christmas music. Diggers with dusty fingers know thrift shops' vinyl sections are littered with all kinds of horrible Christmas detritus that one has a hard time anyone ever bought in the first place. 

Lately, though, after stumbling upon a bunch of really cool tracks, my opinion of Christmas music has softened. With this mix, I wanted to compile all the greatest Christmas songs I could cram into an hour. I tried to eschew a lot of the obvious classics like Vince Guaraldi and "Christmas In Hollis" in favor of tracks you probably won't hear very often during the season (although the Canned Heat track is probably familiar to most people).

Here's the tracklisting:

The Joy Strings - O Little Town Of Bethlehem
Sun Ra & The Qualities - It's Christmas Time
Milly & Silly - Gettin' Down For Xmas
Harvey Averne Band - Let's Get It Together This Christmas
Hector Lavoe - Una Pena En Navidad
Captain Beatfart vs. The Chipmunks
Eazy-E - Merry Muthafucking Xmas
Hard Call Xmas - My Christmas Bells
Quad City DJs, 69 Boys & K-Nock - What I Want For Christmas
James Brown - Hey America
The Sonics - Don't Believe In Christmas
The Fall - Jingle Bell Rock
Nathaniel Mayer - Mr. Santa Claus
Clarence Carter - Back Door Santa
The Twistin' Kings - Xmas Twist
Canned Heat - Christmas Blues
Blues Magoos - Jingle Bells
Was (Not Was) - Christmas Time In The Motor City
Julian Casablancas - I Wish It Was Christmas Today
Ramones - Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)
The Kinks - Father Christmas
Electric Jungle - Funky Funky Christmas
Frogs - Here Comes Santa's Pussy
Alan Vega - No More Christmas Blues


HAPPY FESTIVUS!

Captain Beatfart Podcast #3: Fart Mask Replica

Jim Jarmusch's Captain Beatfart Podcast PSA
Doris - You Never Come Closer
The Emotions - I Like It

Ron B - Stitch By Stitch
Rappin' 4-Tay - Playaz Club
Money Mark - Cry (Dust Brothers Remix)
Charlotte Gainsbourg & Beck - Me And Jane Doe
Apeanaut - Wargames
Salem - Redlights
TV On The Radio - Robots
Roxanne Shante - Big Mama (Quarterbar Remix)
Slimm Calhoun ft. Andre 3000 - It's OK
Kool Keith and Beatfart go to the zoo
Nina Simone - Funkier Than A Mosquito's Tweeter
Porno For Pyros - Tahitian Moon 

Jimi Hendrix - Happy Birthday
Selda - Meydan Sizindir
Carl Orff - Gassenhauer
Moondog - Enough About Human Rights
The Aislers Set - Catherine Says
Marie Laforet - Et Si Je T'aime
Joe Cook & The Thrillers - Peanuts 68little

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Captain Beatfart Podcast #2: The Beat That My Fart Skipped

More goodies. This one is slightly rootsier than the first podcast.

Tracklist:

Reading Rainbow Theme 

The Slickers - Johnny Too Bad 

Trevor Dandy - Is There Any Love 

Abner Jay - Bring It When You Come 

Bobbie Bare - Don't Think Twice 

Merle Haggard - (My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers

Elton & Betty White - Bitch 

Harold Alexander - Mama Soul 

Jonny Trunk & Wisbey - The Ladies' Bras 

Riskay - Smell Yo Dick (ft. Aviance & Real) 

Danny Gold - Throwdown (Pilooski Edit) 

Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder - What's That You're Doing? 

Adriano Celentano - Prisencolinensinanciusol 

Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - Hold Tight 

Invasion - Spells Of Deception

Mike Tyson PSA 

Ultimate Force - I'm Not Playing

Willie D - I Wanna Fuck Your Mama 

??? - Fuck Your Friend

Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan - Yeh-Yeh

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Captain Beatfart Podcast #1: First Fart From The Mothership

If I've ever given you a mixtape, it's a lot like that. It's a disparate mix ranging from French Pop to Hip Hop to Pakistani film music to Soul. All of these tracks have been "the most amazing thing I've ever heard" at some point.

Here's the tracklisting:

Intro
James Curd - We Just Won't Stop
Roy Porter - Party Time
Claude McLin - Jambo
Tafo & Nahid Akhtar - Karye Pyar
Don Cavalli - Wonder Chairman
Isabelle - Amstramgram
PSA #1
MF Doom - Dead Bent
6ix - I'm Just Like You
Marvin Gaye - Third World Girl
Ed O.G. & Da Bulldogs - Love Comes And Goes
PSA #2
Cut & Run - You Cunt
Sleigh Bells - A/B Machines
Angelo & Eighteen - Flight 2
David Bowie - Moonage Daydream (Leo Zero Edit)
Little Caesar & The Euterpeans - Good Good Lovin'
Eddie & Ernie - Bullets Don't Have Eyes

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Expect more in the future. As soon as I figure out a hosting situation, I'm going to try to get it on itunes.