This Blog is a collection of my recordings from travelling around Asia

This Blog is a collection of my recordings and collectings from travelling around Asia...
expect lots of obscure instruments, strange sounds, electric and acoustic instruments, obscure records and tapes, and any other sounds i find on the road.
Please be Patient, as the site is very content heavy, the Soundcloud streams are a bit slow to load...

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

BKK Vinyl, the second batch.

Took the pictures sideways in an attempt to compensate for the Auto rotate. now they are all coming in upside down... nice. Some wierdies and some goodies in this track.
12. A sort of Silly disco track...


13. Awesome Synth/guitar track from the 80s in case you couldn't tell.




14. Some Really groovin Temple style morlam, put it all together because its the same groove throughout. put a slight silence between the two sides.




15. a couple of 70s funky tracks...




16. Some really nice Chorus based Temple Morlam.




17.Don't quite know what to call this, but its a killer track, sort of traditional. With a particularly beautiful label, on a really nice, semi-clear red acetate.



18.Super minimal percussion backed track. Temple style. Really beautiful female vocals.



19.Sick Thai version of Kung Fu fighting...




20. I have tons of awesome stuff from this double rabbit label... here's a song with a sweet reggae groove, not sure if thats the intention or not...




More still to come...

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

BKK Vinyl, the first batch.

Some rips from recent acquisitions here in BKK. Hours of digging, and you get the rewards...
Apoligies about the label orientation, cannot fix the mistake of Google's auto-rotate.
enjoy.

1. Super Funky track from Isan.... Dig the violin intro and strings....


2. Nice little Shout out track from Isan...

3. Two funky sides

4.Beautiful Traditional morlam just Kaen and Vocal...



5. Some killer Thai funk.



6.Some more funky goodies from Isan



7. Another funky Isan track



8.Super funky Indian groove strait out of Isan...



9. A Chill, but super groovin Luk-Thung track.



10. An excellent Morlam song featuring a rare lead saxophone.



11. Straight ahead Thai funk



More to come in the next couple of days, have around fifty 45s and more then ten 12s.
One of the great personal joys of digging through these old records, besides the incredible sounds i'm lucky enough to find, is the incredible aesthetic value of the record labels themselves...

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Other news

Been off the radar for a bit, doing things other then digging for tunes, back on it soon, here's a little of what i've been up to in the meantime.






 Headed to BKK, now that this is finished.  Also have a record player now, so expect some vinyl rips in the next couple of days.

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