A lot can change in 2 years!  At the start of 2007, I was living in an old house near a vaguely dodgy part of Auckland’s CBD.  The BMP was an as yet unacquainted and unincorporated group of disparate figures who had not yet discovered a mutual enjoyment for the triplicate vices of Beer, MUSIC, and Pizza.  My friend Mike, (aka Mick ‘the kid’) was living in Mt Albert near what I personally consider one of Auckland’s best cafes, so most weekends would see me grabbing a pile of records and heading out to his flat to piss about mixing records (usually two for two), drinking beer and eating pizza (notice a pattern?).

Pop’n'tuck emerged from around that time and is one of the rare occasions where one (or both) of us didn’t fuck up the mix too badly.  We were both happy with the mix and it garnered some pretty positive comments so we’ve brought it back to give it a good home as a stinkfinger podcast.

The tracks themselves are kinda reflective of the times, with nothing that has dated too badly (yet) in my opinion, and a nice mix of minimal with housier influenced tracks.  Mick kicks the mix off smoothly with ‘Born Again’ hitting into some Jazzanova touched percussion.  The euro influence continues with some early Mountain People and Matthias Kaden works, followed by a triple hit of fairly minimal business from Guido Schneider, M.I.A, and Alejandro Vivanco.  Milton Jackson leads into possibly my favourite track on the mix, Jennifer Cardini and Shonky’s heavy and deep ‘lies’.  Things take a housier turn, and I don’t apologise for the inclusion of Dj Fame’s ‘Name it X’, it is a fun track!   Mick keeps it funky with Dj Sneak and Jesse Rose tracks, before Basic Channel’s ur-minimal classic ‘phylyps track II’ rounds things out.

Time passed by, the BMP formed, stink-finger was created, Mick now lives in London, and I moved to Japan, but I think this mix is still a good reflection of where our musical attitudes continue to lie – house and techno. 
Enjoy.

Tracklist:

1. Ricky L feat M:ck – Born Again
2. Outlines – Listen to the drums (Jazzanova Remix)
3. Serafin – Berlin Has No Cows
4. Hemmann and Kaden – People
5. Guido Schnieder – Transmission
6. M.I.A – Happy
7. Alejandro Vivanco – Fugazz
8. Milton Jackson – Rogue Element (Milton’s Dream remix)
9. Jennifer Cardini & Shonky – Lies
10. Slope – Runnin’
11. Dj Fame – Name It X
12. Iz and Diz – Mouth (Greenskeepers remix)
13. DJ Sneak – How I Feel
14. 2020 Soundsystem – Can’t Stop the Crew (Jesse Rose Dub)
15. Basic Channel – Phylps Track II
16. Steve Bug – Loverboy (Guido Schneider remix)

Download link (right click, save as):  http://www.stink-finger.com/audio/popntuckBN1Micarl060107.mp3
Duration: 1:20:55
Size: 74Mb

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Yeah yeah, it’s extremely delayed, but i figured what better way to formally introduce myself on this site than with a mix…let the music do the talking.

So with that (and for all those who can be bothered), I present to you: Dua Yabaki – a tribute to our beloved house music in all its awesome forms, influenced heavily by the sights and sounds I experienced in New York one year ago. But that’s another story.

Download link (right click, save as): http://www.stink-finger.com/audio/lelo-dua_yabaki.mp3
Duration: 3:19.48
Size: 229.3Mb

Tracklist:

Martha Wash “Carry On” (Masters At Work Dub)
Swing 52 “The Madness Of It All”
Alton Miller “Paper Mache”
Shed “Well Done”
Kerri Chandler “Yellow”
Magic Juan Atkins ft Dianne Lynn “Is This Real?”
Model 500 “Starlight”
Ane Brun “Headphone Silence” (Henrik Schwarz Remix)
Gladys Knight “I’ve Got To Use My Imagination” (Quentin Harris & Timmy Regisford Mix)
Femi Kuti “Traitors Of Africa” (Quentin Harris Remix)
Gel Abril “Spells Of Yoruba”
Solomun “Woodstep”
Stimming “1000 Words In Autumn”
Melchoir “In The Spirit”
Melchoir “Different Places”
Class 71 “Diamond Door” (Long Edit)
Pigon “Helios” / Marc Houle “Techno Vocals” (Acapella)
Ryo Murakami “Rise” (Bangana Remix)
Nick Holder ft Sacha “Time” (Manuel Tur Dub)
DJ Koze “I Want To Sleep”
D Dub “Deep Blue”
Josh Wink “Stay Out All Night” (Lelo Edit)
Dan Andrei “Balada Redo” (Boola Remix) / Green Velvet “Preacherman” (Acapella)
Laven & Mso ft Malte “Reach” (Alte Schule Acid Instrumental)
DJ Dozia “Pop Kulture” (Wink’s Size 9 Remix)
Laurent Garnier “Back To My Roots” (Original Afrodiziac Version)
Kenny Larkin “You Are…Dark”
Taho “The Hybrids” (WiNK Edit)
Brendon Moeller “Sweet Decay”
Roach Motel “Wild Luv” (Superchumbo Roach Clip)
Ame, Henrik Schwarz & Dixon “D.P.O.M.B” (Version 1)
Simon Baker “Plastik” (Todd Terje Turkatech Remix)

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In the eighties I used to do a radio show on a student station… the guy who did the show after me hosted the country music show, he was in my eyes old… and played all his music from cassettes – thus I mocked him.
I remember one day he told me that when I to got old I’d be listening to country music to, oh how I laughed.
Well two decades later here I am old… and listening to country music

With this in mind I present the first instalment of the Anti Folk Discombobulation

Tracklisting:

Jeffrey Lewis & Diane Cluck – the River
Matt Singer – VHS
Jeffrey Lewis – You Don’t Have To Be A Scientist To Do Experiments On Your Own Heart
The Sewing Circle – Sewer Gators NYC
Brooke Pridemore – Snakes on My Brain
Eric Wolfson – Sleeping Is A Sucker’s Game
Adam Green – Salty Candy
Jeffrey Lewis & Kimya Dawson – Klutter
Frank Hoier – I Can’t Love You Anymore
Paleface – I Don’t Think I Like You (As Much As I Used To)
Creaky Boards – I’m So Serious (This Time)
Jeffrey Lewis & Diane Cluck – Travel Light
The Bowmans – The Slumber
Jeffrey Lewis – Punk Is Dead

Download link (right click – save as):
http://www.stink-finger.com/audio/antifolk_discombobulation_july08.mp3

Filesize: 40.2 MB
Length: 44 minutes

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May those that love us, love us.
And those that don’t love us,
May God turn their hearts.
And if he doesn’t turn their hearts,
May he turn their ankles,
So we’ll know them by their limping

Tracklist

Induceve – Time To Begin (Henrik Schwarz Remix)
Martin Landsky – Man High
Johnny D – Orbitalife
Johnny D – Riddim Mood
Locodice – How Do I Know
Lee Jones – Aria (Tiger Stripes remix)
Winx – Dont Laugh (Original Mix)
Cassy – for you
Precession – Sandcastle (Mike Huckaby remix)
Rhadoo – Going Like You
Dan Andrei – Balada Redo (Boola Rmx)
Henrik Schwarz and Kuniyuki feat Yoshihiro Tsukahara – The Session (Kuniyuki version)

Download link (right click – save as): http://www.stink-finger.com/audio/Stink-Finger01_080620_websta.mp3
Filesize: 69.8 MB
Length: 1:14:40

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So with his new mix and a bit a return to form as such I was sat listening to it with a keen ear and ants in me pants. Thoroughly enjoyable mix of house and techno classics and future classics put together in an entertaining fashion…

However, on my second listen I noticed one tune in particular and turned it up a bit to get to hear the spoken word vocal mumbling away. What I had at first thought was confirmed. It was a sample of a Jim Jones speech. I listened more intently before getting a knot in my stomach as I realised exactly what was being played.

Now for those who may not have heard of Jim Jones, he’s the guy who fed 900 men, women and children the cyanide laced Koolaid in Guyana in 1978. Not to mention the only murder of a US congressman in United States History. (info here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones)

I dunno about you but I don’t really believe this entirely in the spirit of house/techno. Using this sample in a track is in extremely poor taste to my mind/ears and made me wonder if people who are hearing it are aware of its significance?

On chatting this through with the BMP we found a bit more info on the track in question, which was EC50 – Jonestown out on Coincidence Records (Sample below)

The writeup that has been distributed alongside this track seems to completely miss the significance of this speech, which is intensely concerning to me. It reads as follows:

The Kool Aid Vocal Mix of Jonestown is very loopy, very deep, slightly reminding you of the sound by Radio Slave or a bit Mobilee even. And all that deepness only enhanced by a priest sharing his gloomy view on the world of today. An amazing hypnotic piece of music that has done fantastic on the dancefloor everywhere we tried it.

Priest? World of today?? WTF!

No that’s not what he is talking about and its not some dark moody speech from a film or studio…. It had a direct effect on the lives of over 900 people! Their deaths to be exact! I suggest that the people playing this track have not fully grasped the intensity and effect that this speech had or the pain and horror that accompanied it.

It’s not just another cool speech, it’s a speech given at gunpoint to 900 people who were all forced to kill themselves and their children. Mothers knowingly poisoning their young children.
900 people take a long time to die, picture sitting at the end awaiting your turn watching 800 people slowly die in front of you, then having to step over all them so you can murder your own 5yr old child before taking your own life ….
This is barely a `spiritual thing’.

Now maybe I am getting a bit up in arms about something a bit trivial. But I kinda think that there needs to be a bit of thought put into these things. How would people take to listening to one of Hitler’s speeches over a drum track?
“yeah he killed a few people here and there but ya can’t argue he was the centuries greatest speaker eh…..”

So in turn if that’s not ok, why is this?
Does ignorance make it ok?
Is mass murder the nu cool?

The use of this song in the RA mix has kinda wrecked it for me, which is a shame really.

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