VA_-_Thai_Pop_Spectacular_(1960s-1980s)-TH-2007-BCC

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MP3/FLAC

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BCC

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85,29 MB

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21

Date

2007-09-04

NFO

Artist  : VA
Title   : Thai Pop Spectacular (1960s-1980s)
Genre   : Easy Listening
Year    : 2007
Date    : 09/2007
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks  : 21
Label   : Sublime Frequencies SF032
Source  : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length  : 57:16 min
Size    : 85,2 MB


Tracklist:
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01.introduction - welcome to thailand     00:46
02.buppah saichol - roob lor thom pai     02:55
(there are many handsome men out there)
03.onuma singsiri - mae kha som tum       02:36
(papaya salad merchant)
04.p.promdan-lung dee kee mao             01:40
(uncle dee is a drunk)
05.johnny guitar-fawn ngeo                02:09
(dance of the ngeo)
06.chailai chaiyata & sawanee patana -    03:35
kwuan tai duew luk puen (you should die
07.sangthong seesai-dek kai nuang sue     02:57
pim (newspaper boy)
08.gawao siangthong-gao guek              03:02
(wise old man)
09.man city lion-tid lom ta lai           02:05
10.kampee sangthong-mai na lork gun       03:38
(don't deceive me)
11.generation-nan nan pob gan tee         03:23
(long time no see)
12.phet potaram-koh phuket                03:19
(phuket island)
13.kabuan garn yor yod yung yong-gang     04:17
geng nai krai lab (look whose underwear
14.pairoj - khor tan gor mee hua jai      04:05
(the beggar has a heart)
15.pumpuang duangjan - sao dok kum tai    03:03
(lady from a flower)
16.sangthong seesai - tangkon tanggnae    02:15
(we both think we're the best!)
17.p.promdan-keng ma (dog races) excerpt  00:35
18.man city lion - na doo                 02:51
(very striking girl)
19.setha - dteuu (bothering)              01:52
20.duongdao and chailai - mia rai duen    03:41
(monthly wife)
21.chalermpon malakum - pleng show        02:32
(title theme)
                                         -------
                                          57:16 min



This is just so great - a new super-obscure collection of weird
and wondeful Thai pop music from the supremely good Sublime
Frequencies crew. And not only that - we're honestly pretty sure
that it's one of label's most charming, interesting and delicious
compilations yet - taking us into a world of alien pop music that's
just too fucked up and too inspirational for words.

I can't say I'm well versed in the world of Thai pop music, but from
what I hear on this disc (which spans from the 1960s all the way
to the 1980s in just under an hour!) it manages to take influence
from disco pop, experimental electronics (really.), funk, jazz,
crooning ballads and more - but what makes this more interesting
than so many other compilations of its kind is that these super-obscure
acts never fail to just miss the point slightly.

When they're doing disco, it's just not quite disco and when they're
doing funk, it's just not quite funk - it's better than that, less referential
and slightly spannered in the best way possible - and to someone sitting
in an office somewhere in inner city Manchester, there really couldn't be
anything more exciting. With the usual expansive liner notes from Alan
Bishop (along with Mark Gergis) which detail how the pair came across
this defiantly unusual pop music, it doesn't feel like you're walking through
this landscape totally unguided and by the end of the album's 21 tracks
you'll genuinely feel like you've learned something about genius pop music
from the very outer margins. Just skip to the mutant disco of 'Kwuan Tai
Duew Luk Puen' which opens with the kind of fractured synthesis you'd
expect to hear on a Delia Derbyshire record before bursting into a 4/4 beat,
or the sleazy electro-funk of 'Mia Rai Duen' which I reckon you could
get away playing out at virtually any party i can imagine.

There really aren't words to describe the kind of music crammed onto this
epic disc, suffice to say that it has re-assured us that we're in the right
industry. We love this stuff, and chances are you're going to get just as
slack-jawed about it as us, so you know what to do.

Who knows, the sun might just carry on shining long enough for us to
get some proper mileage out of this - it's music just tailor-made for those
gorgeous balmy evenings.

Magical stuff - a huge recommendation.


http://www.sublimefrequencies.com/

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