(Mix of the Week is our not-so-weekly sec­tion where we present good mix­tapes: either our own or found on the internets)

This time a mix from Randy Bar­racuda of Ima­tran Voima. No track­list but a rather rare selec­tion and I mean that lit­er­ally. Didn’t rec­og­nize any of songs. Yeah, and I just real­ized I’ve yet to check his self-titled solo album. Like to read his columns too which are released every other week on Fridays.

Dis­cus­sion here

Randy Barracuda’s Elec­tro Funk Rar­i­ties Vol. 1 (320k, 95MB, 41:24 min)

Pierre Akendengue is one of the great mas­ters of con­tem­po­rary African music, and has been that for nearly four decades.

Vigego is a song writ­ten by Akendengue and it is on the b-side of Epuguzu 12″. I think this could be defined as Zouk music (and a fusion of many other styles), which means “party” or “fes­ti­val”. In Africa, it is very pop­u­lar style of rhythm music in fran­coph­one countries.

A-side (Epuguzu) is what could be described as “afro cos­mic”. Very suit­able mate­r­ial for cos­mic remix/edit. But more of that later…

It seems that Epuguzu 12″ is quite high­priced at discogs mar­ket­place. How did the record end up here, the Arc­tic Cir­cle, that I don’t know. I was just damn lucky to get it for 1€ from local flea market.

Akendengue — Vigego (1983)

Lesser known pro­duc­tion by leg­endary Francesco Bon­tempi!
The vocals are an inte­gral part of the song! Unlike some peo­ple seem to think. Ah ja mitkä sankaristabit!

Lee Mar­row — Can­ni­bals (Baa-Boù — Baa Boù) (5:55) (320) (13,5 mb)

I was going to post tracks by mys­te­ri­ous span­ish synth-pop group Vam Cyborg but Mutant Sounds did that (still avail­able) already a year ago.

Instead we have here pretty much sim­i­lar group called Vocoder, which is also from Spain. Italo-Disco from Spain? Yes, per­haps a lit­tle more towards electro/synth-pop. Not much more infor­ma­tion avail­able besides what is said in their myspace pro­file. They did cou­ple of songs and dis­ap­peared as did many other italo/electro acts in the 80s. (The songs in their myspace are avail­able for down­load if you log in! Tip.)
Re-press needed. Clone Clas­sic Cuts perhaps?

This video is fun. Ingen­u­ous and naive fun.

More Vocoder at Youtube:

directo en ZGZ (Vocoder live at Zaragoza, Spain) (youtube)
Hacker (youtube)
(maqueta La Radio)
Radiote­le­scope

Vocoder (myspace)

MP3
Vocoder — Amor de Robot (192 kbit MP3)
Vocoder — Min­danao (rapid­share) (192 kbit MP3)

edit: Some­one did this one too. Cou­ple of years ago. Noth­ing in teh inter­net is rare nowadays!

“Vanha Hippi” (old hip­pie) is a song by Top Rank­ing Eric & The Rev­o­lu­tion­ar­ies. It isn’t the the first reg­gae song in Fin­land but among the first ones, yes. It appears on the first vol­ume of “Suomi Rock ’80″ com­pi­la­tions released by Poko Records.
Most of the older Finnish reg­gae stuff aren’t any good (e.g. Avaru­uslintu — Kesä Reg­gae) but this “Vanha Hippi” is a great suc­cess mostly because of the con­tro­ver­sial and amus­ing lyrics! Def­i­nitely a good source for vocal sam­ples (tip!).

As said before, the eas­i­est way to get it is to acquire a copy of Suomi Rock ’80 com­pi­la­tion but we’re here @ Kyny­Nasty so nice peo­ple that we offer you the oppor­tu­nity to get it right here.

Top Rank­ing Eric & The Rev­o­lu­tion­ar­ies — Vanha Hippi

If you’re the owner of the song/the artist per­form­ing it/don’t want it to be put online, please mes­sage us and we’ll remove it as soon as possible.

A brief his­tory of Finnish reg­gae (pub­lished in Ylioppilas-lehti 09/2001, in Finnish)