Yahoo Yahoo Training School DJ set from Jujuka label showcase @ IRL Gallery in Brooklyn, NY on February 11, 2022.

Yahoo Yahoo Training School - Jujuka Records Showcase @ IRL Gallery - 02.11.2022

Silver Jubilee

Not For Everyone

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Devon Turnbull’s HiFi Pursuit Listening Room Dream No. 2 was an immersive audio installation that provided visitors with a chance to experience exceptional high-fidelity music playback on HIS completely custom built soundsystem.  He invited operators who are noted record collectors, from the Bay & beyond. Including myself, Beck, Mark Ronson, Wonway Posibul, Tommy Guerrero, “Cool” Chris Veltri, Dan Gentile, Prince Language, Vinnie Esparza, TJ Gorton & more. https://www.sfmoma.org/devon-turnbull-listening-room-schedule/
-FRIPP & ENO “WIND ON WATER/EVENING STAR" Soaring.
-RAYMOND RICHARDS “MESCAL SHAKES”  
-THE KLF (EXCERPT FROM) "CHILL OUT” LP. Ambient pranksters.
-THE BOOKS W/JOSE GONZALEZ “CELLO SONG” Nick Drake tune.
-NICO “THESE DAYS” Jackson Browne song.
-EDDIE CHACON “MY MIND IS OUT OF IT’S MIND” 
-ALDOUS HARDING “THE BARRELL” Perfect.
-MOMUS “THE CHARM OF INNOCENCE” Momus (the Greek God of Sarcasm) Wicked.
-PANDA BEAR “COMFY IN NAUTICA” Great Lp.
-ARCHIE SHEPP GROUP “SONG FOR MOZAMBIQUE (A SEA OF FACES)” “there is a beautiful sound that is heard, it begins with an African word” Powerful. One of Shepp’s best.
-CODONA “MUMAKATA" Kalimba vibe ritual. On the iconic ECM label.
-THE USER  "-^^-%^%^%” From “Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers no. 2” for 21 Dot Matrix Printers.
-MY FIELD RECORDING  OF BRIAN ENO’S “MUSIC FOR AIRPORTS 1/1” 1980, I drove up to the “NEW MUSIC AMERICA FESTIVAL” in Minneapolis. My Tape Recorder in tow. Brian Eno had just released “Music For Airports” The Festival was piping it into the Bus Stops at the Nicolett Bus Mall, downtown (as well as at the Airport!). (Recording from a now well worn Cassette.)
-THE DECEMBERISTS “ON THE BUS MALL” A favorite LP of this century. 
-SEEFEEL “CHARLOTTE’S MOUTH” Got back into Shoegaze music during covid. Dubby, monolithic. 
-MILDLIFE “RARE AIR” MILDLIFE with one of their otherworldly, space anthems. 
-SLOWDIVE “STAR ROVING” Broke up in the early 90’s reformed in the ’00’s.  Better than ever..
-KING CRIMSON “FORMENTERA LADY/SAILOR’S TALE” One of the first things I thought of when I secured the session. A poetic,and dexterous journey.
-MASSIVE ATTACK “SAFE FROM HARM” Bristol’s finest. One of my top 90’s tracks.
-SOCCER96 W-ALABASTER DEPLUME “I WAS GONNA FIGHT FASCISM” A top track of the last set of years. Snarky vocal from Alabaster Deplume. Stakes are high. Donate, Call, Text, And VOTE like your life depends on it, because, it does. 
-GRAY W-GLENN O’BRIEN “WILLE MAYS, BOOM FOR REAL" Basqiat’s group from the *80’s”. Archival recording. Not sure if it has much to do with the great baseball player Willie Mays, but, it  is a fever dream of a track.
-RAHSAAN ROLAND KIRK W-BETTY NEALS “THEME FOR THE EULIPIONS” Perfect, with The Poetry of Betty Neals & soaring Sax worth of the one of a kind Rahsaan Roland Kirk. “…if there were no Sun, there would be this Song…” This is all the light you need!
-YUSUF DAYES “BLACK CLASSICAL MUSIC”. Title track of the recent LP. New UK Jazz Drummer Yusuf Dayes with a track of Bop bliss.
-ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO W-FONTELLA BASS “THEME DE YOYO” The 3rd “must play” track. Fontella Bass’ dark, sexual lyrics, one of the best bands of  the 70s The Funk/the Jazz/theSoul & the OUTNESS!
-UKOKOS & JABCO EDIT “KEEP RISING ALL NIGHT LONG” A boisterous, jovial Medley of Keni Burke’s “Rising to the Top” & Mary Jane Girls “All Night Long”!
-ARIEL KALMA JEREMIAH CHIU & MARTA SOFIA “TEN HOUR WAVE” One of the best albums of this year, from the unique “International Anthem” label.  Rythmic, trance positive.
-ROBERT ASHLEY  “THE BACKYARD” The 4th “must play” of the session. Member of the collection of 60’s artists “Fluxus”, Robert Ashley from the LP “Private Parts” With tabla, etc. from “Blue” Gene Tyranny.  Entrancing, calming, baffling, yum.  (The record has been played a lot so a bit “crunchy” at the end.)
-LAURIE ANDERSON “DIEGO (TIME TO GO)” Early piece about a security guard at the NYMOMA snapping people out of the “art trances” at closing time. Love Laurie.

SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART LISTENING ROOM 7 - 30 - 2024 (STUDIO RECORDING)

ELECTRIC FLING - Bond St. Sessions

https://codekrecords.bandcamp.com/album/electric-fling-vol-4
 
The tracks for this release were recorded at a Friends loft at 7 Bond Street in Manhattan/New York City right above Celeb hairstylist April Barton’s Suite 303 & Eyewear designer Selima Optique.
 
This Loft on Bond Street has been a creative hangout since the 1980’s. Many Artist, Musicians & Film Makers from the likes of Keith Haring, Madonna, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Larry Clark, Bret Easton Ellis, Russell Simmons, De La Soul, & the Beastie Boys gathered and created in this Loft.
 
In the earliest days Composer Steven Bray produced Madonna's 'Get into the Groove' in the Loft when our friend (let’s call him DVD) let Steve secretly move in all his midi studio gear so he could compose a Dance hit alone and undistracted all while under the pressure of a serious deadline. 

The Loft on Bond is right up the street from where David Mancuso’s Legendary Loft had been. This was also the same location our friend DVD opened up one of the first & best video rental stores in New York called Time Shift Video back in 1983.
 
Time Shift Video was located on 659 Broadway & Bond Street in NoHo (short for North of Houston Street) in Manhattan. It was buzzing every night around 6pm, you just had to hang out there to meet and talk to people like Painter #KennySharf, conceptual artist #JosephKosuth, filmmaker #AmosPoe, Director #JonathanDemme, stylist #Maripol, Make-up artist #HelenQuitery, actor #VincentGallo, photographer #MikeRock or Randy from the #VillagePeople and countless others, they all went there to rent & return VHS video tapes every evening including Keith Haring who was member and redesigned the new logo for the store in 1987. 

The owner of Time Shift Video (DVD) was my first connection into the booming downtown cultural art scene in June of 1984, i had just arrived the month before in NYC from Switzerland, i couldn't speak a word of english but i showed him a list of cult movies that i wanted to see and he was surprised to see some kid with an obscure taste in movies and said, "that's a very strange list!" he invite me to shop's basement studio where he had a VHS editing suite and a few backdrops, lights and video cameras they used to record their weekly manhattan cable TV show with is friends called "Time Shift's Cable TV Show" (Channel D - Monday at 5.30pm and Fridays at 1:00am). My job was to do set designs and help around the studio and learn english! plus i got to use the video editing equipment for free during off hours and edit all my favourite movie scene together like a mood board, which helped me a few years later to become an art director for TV commercials and music videos.

The Bond Street Sessions represent the synergy & consequence of NYC’s creative class and we wanted to capture that. Sasa from In Flagranti stayed at the loft in November 2024 and collaborated with current tenant Michael Hamer, recording him playing the few instruments in the loft: A Vintage Mini Moog Model D, Korg Kronos, Ibanez GBR 100 Bass Guitar & a 1970’s Premiere Drum Kit with a beat up Sabian B8 14 inch Rock Hi-hat.

The Bond St. Sessions hearken back to the raw sounds of the DIY New Blank City scene that flourished here in the shadows of CBGB’s & Mancuso’s loft. 

Alex Gloor 12/2024

Electric Fling Vol. 4 - Bond St. Sessions preview

In the summer of 2024 Sasa & I outlined the idea of creating two albums from the heaping mass of new tracks we produced in the previous year.

We would make an album called “Sliver Jubilee” to celebrate the 25th anniversary of In Flagranti. And then we were to do a follow up album called “NoTown Hit Factory”.

“Silver Jubilee” was to be a commercial album with proper promotion and a toned down approach targeting a broader audience.

“NoTown Hit Factory”; the second album, found us back in full swing creating something profoundly offbeat musically and visually for our fans who expect nothing less from us: just like we always have for these last 25 years.

So enjoy the bumpy ride through filth & loathing filled sounds & imagery that we are profoundly and perhaps for now, perversely proud of.

Alex & Sasa - 1/2025
credits
releases February 1, 2025
bancamp only!

NoTown Hit Factory

Recorded in stereo on a TASCAM handheld recorder. Sorry about the sound quality.

2025-01-19 OS8P SAMPLER

Recorded in stereo on a handheld TASCAM recorder. Please forgive the low quality. 

2025-01-19 OS8P SONG 1 EDIT

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One Seven Eight Product emerged from various musical collaborations in our basement rehearsal space underneath the original Max Fish Bar at 178 Ludlow Street LES. For 27 years many creative musicians came and went so in 2012 we started having sessions with invited guests that improved to the point that we wanted to take things above ground. At first, One Seven Eight was an unwieldy 13 piece unit that included former (or current) members of Liquid Liquid, Les Savy Fav, Phenomenal Handclap Band, The Rapture, Habibi, Felice Rosser, Neurotic Drum Band, Other Music & more. Currently, the band is distilled down to 4 or 5 members to make the sound more personal and pliable. The musical approach is unprepared songs meaning tracks composed on the spot. Stylistically it's a little kraut bongo rock, deep groove, California sunshine juxtaposed against the NYC subway & punk-funk with the creative process not hidden but celebrated.

Members of 178 Product include:
Salvatore Principato (Liquid Liquid, Fist of Facts)
Gerald Hammill (Other Music, The Catherine Wheel US)
Elliot Taub (Ulysses, Neurotic Drum Band)
Fernando Avila (Subskins, Death By Comfort)
Leslly Almeida (Rebecca Kill, Fist of Facts)
+ special guests

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One Seven Eight Product

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