Roskilde 2011 (sampler)

A Roskilde 2011 sampler selected by the Copenhagen record labels Bad Afro, Hjernespind, Orpheus, Play/Rec, PonyRec and Red Tape. Enjoy!

Yourspace @ Roskilde Festival 2011 by Yourspace @ Roskilde 2011

Wolf Gang - Suego Faults album sampler

Album sampler for british indie-rock Wolf Gang's debut album Suego Faults coming this June via Atlantic Records.

Suego Faults Sampler by wolfgang

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Nope, not back from my little vacation/break/thing yet, but I was digging through a never ending pile of CDs today and found this. I thought it would be cool to post so here it is. That said, anyone out there have a lossless copy of Trent Reznor's remix of N*E*R*D's Lapdance? It's for an upcoming post. I used to have a promo CD of it but I can't seem to locate it any longer. Any chance someone has a FLAC of it they could share with me? Write me and I'll give you more info if you'd like.

Regarding this little sampler, back in 98 I was going to the Lorain County Community College and we were trying to get their radio station, which didn't actually broadcast on the radio, to be taken seriously and possibly get promotional materials from labels. No one really supported it other than myself and it went nowhere. That said, we did get some really good promo CDs and I managed to get in touch with Nothing Records. At the time they said they wouldn't send me anything because we didn't report to CMJ but somehow I ended up on their mailing list regardless and I received a really nice package from a woman named Leslie Miller. It had two or three copies of this sampler, which features a lot of the electronic artists Nothing was licensing at the time, including what appears to be an exclusive mix of Plaid's Abla Eedio, as well as a CD-R of The Bowling Green's One Pound Note album. That CD-R was totally cool to me because I'd never received a CD-R from a record label person, and this was a little while before it seemed like everyone could make CD-Rs. What more, it even had a track that got deleted from the US pressing due to sample clearance issues! I kept the original and made a copy for the station. Thanks Leslie, wherever you are!


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01 Squarepusher - Tequila Fish
02 Autechre - Vose In
03 Meat Beat Manifesto - Acid Again (Dub Again Remix)
04 Plaid - Undoneson
05 Plug - Cheesy (Amen Mix)
06 The Bowling Green - Think What You're Doing
07 Meat Beat Manifesto - Book Of Shadows
08 Autechre - Corc
09 Plaid - Abla Eedio (Freemix)
10 Squarepusher - Massif (Stay Strong)
11 Plug - Drum 'n' Bass For Papa
12 The Bowling Green - The Road Is A Grey Ribbon

"Name Your Own" Sampler

This is a Warner Bros. Records in-store sampler from 1995. Unlike the Trademark Of Quality promos and some of their other unique releases, this one doesn't have anything unreleased on it, though it is rather unique nonetheless. The cover image is actually a sticker and contains the rather amazing phrase, "Fuck 'em in the ear", as an option to name the CD. I suppose whomever approved the cover figured wherever this was getting played, the store wouldn't put the case up front for customers to see, though that seems rather naive. On top of that, the CD features the Deftones' 7 Words, a song which certainly sounds like someone is screaming "fuck" repeatedly in the chorus, as well as Backstrokin' from Mr. Bungle's Disco Volante, one of the most uncommercial albums Warner Bros. has ever released and also features some mumbled obscenities at the end. Overall though, the CD is actually a really great representation of WB's alternative themed releases from the mid-nineties. You've got appearances from Cibo Matto, Soul Coughing, Cornershop and many more. The Mouse On Mars and Long Fin Killie tracks are particularly good.

If I heard this disc in a store today I'd probably be asking about several of the releases, although I'm glad I already know the majority of them. That said, while I know Soul Coughing's The Brooklynites rather well, John Lurie's Let's Get Ready To Rhumba is rather excellent and I'm probably going to have to hunt down the Blue In The Face and Smoke soundtracks. Never seen either movie before, though I always wanted to. Guess I've got some research to do. Enjoy!


"Name Your Own" Sampler

01 Deftones - 7 Words
02 Mr. Bungle - Backstrokin'
03 Mouse On Mars - Bib
04 Long Fin Killie - Homo Erectus
05 Lisa Gerrard - Sunvean
06 The Flaming Lips - Psychiatric Explorations Of The Fetus With Needles
07 Son Volt - Drown
08 The Jesus and Mary Chain - I Hate Rock 'n' Roll
09 Cibo Matto - Know Your Chicken
10 Built To Spill & Cuastic Resin - Still Flat
11 Pedro Ramos - Luis di Kandinha (Luis, Kandinha's Son)
12 You Am I - Jewels and Bullets
13 Cornershop - Call All Destroyer
14 Soul Coughing - The Brooklynites
15 John Lurie - Let's Get Ready To Rhumba