Attic Beats 014 - Recorded October 27, 2005
This week’s episode demonstrates three things:
How major labels were totally clueless when it comes to trying to market hip-hop in the early-90s
What a lunatic can do with a toy xylophone
What the heck a Korean tape with a red pepper driving a teacup has to do with anything
Enjoy these [...]
Attic Beats 013 - Recorded October 20, 2005
Sorry for the delay in getting the corrected version of this episode back on the site!
Hip-hop has been my life for over 20 years now and I have fond memories of first discovering it at my cousin’s house in the mid-80s. This week’s show takes a look [...]
Attic Beats 012 - Recorded October 13, 2005
This week we take a listen to the music of Vietnam. A number of traditional folk tunes are featured as well as some fusion and pop tunes. I also share a field recording I made of a Cao Dai service I attended in Tay Ninh in [...]
Attic Beats 011 - Recorded October 5, 2005
If you were to bring up musicial obsessions, I have about a dozen names I’ll rattle off to you. Some of those artists I’ve already featured on Attic Beats. But when it comes to jazz, there’s no one that I obsess over more than saxophonist Archie [...]
We’ve lost a good one… Paul Pena passed away last Saturday at age 55 from complications of diabetes and pancreatitis.
Pena was featured on Attic Beats 008. He was the blind blues singer who taught himself how to throat-sing like the Tuvans. His story was well-documented in the movie Genghis Blues.
You’ll be missed, Earthquake.