FLASHBACKS #1

"Listeners under the impression that drug music began with "White Rabbit" and ended with "White Lines" would be wise to pick up the first and best volume in the German Trikont label's excellent Flashbacks series - compiling 25 jazz, blues, and vocal cuts from the first-half of the 20th century, the set documents World War II-era vice and sin at its finest, deftly mixing radio hits with utter obscurities. The songs range from the benign (Gene Krupa's "Feeling High and Happy") to the explicit (the Memphis Jug Band's "Cocaine Habit Blues"), and while some of the selections are clearly reaching to justify their thematic inclusion - Bukka White's immortal "Fixin' to Die Blues" almost certainly has nothing to do with "fixing" in the junkie lexicon sense of the term -- the pacing and sequencing are dead-on, and even novelty throwaways like Harry "The Hipster" Gibson's "Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine?" stand up to repeated listening in this context. Excellent remastering and liner notes (in both English and German) round out the package."

—Jason Ankeny

jazz
blues
pop rock

mp3@VBR

Drug Songs (1917-1944) - High & Low (2005)

MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA

"The Inner Mounting Flame's ascending and descending distortion-laden mantra-like riffs and unison playing set a standard for jazz-rock that is still in place today. It's Indian influences merged with blues scales and rock rawness set the music world on fire. The musical attack was relentless. (...) Melodies and rhythms like had never been heard before. The distortion and the loudness could be insulting, and the speed of the playing was mind-numbing. In short, this was the greatest jazz-fusion recording ever made."

— All About Jazz

jazz-rock fusion

mp3@VBR

The Inner Mounting Flame (1971)

COMBO PIANO

Japanese Takuma Watanabe, producer, composer and pianist.
Has other musicians (apparently all guest musicians), even in live performances. Takuma has already released albums, but this belongs to his side project. Their sound is very dynamic, active, noisy and confusing, but you can feel the gentle eastern as well as it's melancholy.

jazz

piano

experimental

progressive

mp3@192kbps

Combo Piano (2010)

Zu - Carboniferous

Zu Myspace

'A powerful and expressive music that totally blows away what most bands do these days.'
- John Zorn

Ladies and gentlemen,
this is my most recently drug that i'm addicted to.
Ingredients of the drug:
Amazing baritone saxophone, rhythm and riot drums, and a giant bass.
A Must Have!

Genre: Instrumental | Math | Avant-garde free jazz

mp3@320kbps
Carboniferous (2009)

Le Scrawl - Whisky a Go Go! (ep)

'Initially playing "typical" Grindcore we eventually blended it with various musical styles - not necessarily stuff we're huge fans of, but music we're listening to occasionally, like Jazz, Ska, Swing, etc.'

- myspace.com/lescrawlofficial

Imagine a Ska/Jazz band who the lead singer has throat problems, 

put some experimental Grind on it ...Le Scrawl!

Recommended!

Le Scrawl 'White Russian'

Le Scrawl Myspace

mp3@320kbps

Whisky a Go Go! (ep) (2008)