The Artings of Ms. Mary O'Malley.

Two of my last three postings have featured what is to me (and others) some very inspiring art from a new favorite. Mary O'Malley is a new name to me but her works have a familiar feel. Not familiar like apple pie or a rainy spring day, but a familiarity which inspires a very welcome contemplation. Though by no means an art critic, I possess a impressionably difficult pair of eyes. Last Thursday was fairly lackluster until I was introduced to Mary and subsequently, her works. Imagine my surprise upon finding this woman is a recent transplant to Boston's north shore (yeah, I am here too)... I am now freshly believing in a world where inspiration can pop out of my dad's hometown willy nilly. Beverly ain't no Brooklyn (Mary's previous zipcode) but the water is cleaner(?) and the living is easy.

Check Mary O'malley's website .
ciao!

FLOODS GO DEEP.... CHRIS EDWARDS' TAKE ON INNER BEAUTY.

So my man CRED... AKA Chris Edwards has taken a swing at the heart of darkness and knocked her senseless. His new cut Qlouds captured my attention a few days ago and he's graced LMQM with an exclusive download of this glorious cross section of simplicity gone terribly right. I am having some issues with pressing stop on this track. Please enjoy what sounds to me like a beautiful order of business....

CRED-"Qlouds"

FEVER!!! NEW SENSUAL HARASSMENT SINGLE!

This is a new single from Brooklyn's Sensual Harrassment. I could say to get on these guys while they're still the next big thing. BUT their sound is solid and they have a pretty good shot at some shelf life. They have a sound that MGMT should envy. Not going to get to gushy on this but I highly recommend you carve their name on your forehead and name your child after their deceased guitarist. you can do it. They are produced by Jesse Cannon. You might remember him if you're over 21 from a band called the Cure or under 21 from ANCO. I posted Sensual cut "Daddy Long Legs" a couple months back. This is some high level production value on these tunes. enjoy.


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Engineered by Jesse Cannon (The Cure, Animal Collective) and Sensual Harassment.
Mixed by Adam Scheuermann (Coldplay) and Sensual Harassment.


Sensual Harassment-"Fever"
that's the wav btw. listen here...
Fever by sensualharassment

BIG ROCK LITTLE ROCK... ETTIEM

As far as I know this is Little Rock Arkansas first respectable foray into the world of disco, cosmic, psychedelic, slo mo.... etc. Feel free to correct me on that one though.
Ettiem is one cool character and his music shows it. His first vinyl release "Teeth In The Rug" will be for Cosmo Vitelli's mighty I'm A Cliche. Ive been really busy the last few weeks and the blog shows it...
this month has really flown by. Maybe it's a space-time glitch or something but i literally haven't stopped to breathe once in the last 20 days. Anyhow... to make it up I'm posting a bunch of stuff by Ettiem... and there'll be more to come from a couple new artists tommorrow and Wed. Probably :)

Ettiem's is the musical equivalent of what it must be like trying to squeeze through a one foot crack deep on a Mexican Spelunking expidition.

Half-time doubletime scorcher "Goat's Milk"

Ettiem-"Goat's Milk"

Ettiem-"Burn Barrel"

Ettien-"Squash Anyone" AIF

Ports of Call.... Nassau's Your Man

I'm probably going to kick myself for doing this entry before I have more information on this guy. I met Italy's Nassau through the wonders of Soundcloud. A truly groundbreaking website, Soundcloud has allowed me to get to know some truly dynamic remixers and producers from around the globe.
According to his profile, Nassau's been disco-jockeying for about as long as someone can do so without having invented the art. His Soundcloud page features edits of some really great tropically-tinged Balearic morsels. I'm not going to do the history lesson on this particular edit of but he sent me his dubbed out version of fellow Italian Ivano Fossati's "Panama" and I've been quite looking forward to writing this post. Part of djing music like this is digging through the crap to find the real gems. So many songs which fit into the "balearic" or "tropical" categories (not one for over-categorization myself) are tucked away into albums of music that were written by jazz musicians who suffer from having just too much talent and not enough good taste to know when to not play every note. I guess you could call it elevator music-itis Maybe I'm just jealous. But you can be the best musician in the world and not be able to get out of your own way. I know a million people like that.
Anyways...
thank God we have people like Nassau in this world to cut through the chaff and edit up some of the finest moments cocktail music glory.
"Highly recommended with Martini Dry and Gauloises @ 7 p.m." ...to quote him.

Ivano Fossati-"Panama (Nassau Dub Edit)"

FWACTALZZ...

GREAT FILM ON FRACTALS...


AND ON THAT SAME-ISH NOTE...

You gotz to have a J-O-B.

Great Gwen Guthrie edit by Italy's finest.
Rayko is likely to win this years 'Golden Touch Award'.
Disco Posturing has never been easier.

Gwen Guthrie-"Nothing going on but the Rent(Rayko's Edit)"

He's also got a really cool series of edits out...

"Drunken Monkey" Disco Edits:

Rayko-"Nightcrawl"

Rayko-"Superstar"

Rayko-"Taking Off"

Rayko-"Summer Feeling"