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[cStu]

Late night, lone groovin' or cookin' up, in company, these Dub tracks'll get you higher. Peace.

iFingers

Can You Hear The Silence stream
Can You Hear The Silence QT link
Slick and Stylish Dub outing, and good for the soul.

RootCat

Trackin' Away (Voodoo brother) stream
Trackin' Away (Voodoo brother) QT
Listen to anything by RootCat - I love this Dub track (on the track, on the track)

Sp3ccylad

Harmonica dub stream
Harmonica dub QT
"I wanna find out what it's like to be somebody else" - this man has his finger on the pulse. I Dub thee Sir Sp3ccylad!

[slumbering]

[url=http://www.macidol.com/jamroom/bands/62]
Maggie Osterberg[/url]
The Last Two Drops
A strange and intoxicating beauty, i fell in love with this song the instant i first heard it... so why did it take me so long to post it here?! Duh.


Sp3ccylad
i wish i was a theremin
When i hear this song, i wish i could stretch my life span to fit the length of the song. I think. Or stretch the song to fit my life span? No, no, no, the former. Shrink, rather. It's lovely.


Jenkins Mackenzie
Baby I'm Your Man
I have to give credit to a song that can take me from my despair to fits of laughter that make my belly hurt.


(I had <i>wanted</i> to pick this one a long, long time ago...
Paul Brazier
So Beautiful
...but it had already been listed!)

[sp3ccylad]

Paul Brazier/Slumbering
Fly
OK, so (in a way) I'm cheating with a twofer here - two of the most exciting artists on MacIdol get together in a beautifully inspired duo. The fact that Mr Brazier pops out for a drink at the beginning of the song and leaves Slumbering warbling on seemingly oblivious to his absence is especially sweet. Typically elliptical work from the real-time drums enigma and wildly cascading guitars combine with two fantastic vocal performances to make this a giddy, booze-fuelled piece of psychedelia that would eat the indie charts alive if released commercially.


Maggie Osterberg
Goin' To A Party (ITMS link. You'll have to buy this one now, and rightly so)
MacIdol's "mumsy Keith Richards" gatecrashes The Factory and gives the Velvets a run for their money. The woman who (supposedly) can't do drums kicks in with a thunderous Mo Tucker rumble before hitting the speakers with a dense wall of sound that makes you want to point at The Jesus And Mary Chain and laugh. A rare treat this - a song that wears its influences on its sleeve yet still manages to be unmistakably recognisable as belonging to the artist. Great bass work, perfectly layered backing vocals, and swampy as all hell. Listen to every nanosecond: this one is over before you know it. Blimey - is that man Brazier there again? What a musical slut.


Stuart Walker (aka Gumbo)
Haunted By Their Dreams
The man who regularly competes with me for the title of "daftest bloke in the MacIdol forums" shocked me with the depth and rootsiness of this marvel. When it was likened to Led Zep by Rich, he wasn't far wrong. To add to this, Rich said "Songs like this make me do this thang." If Stu didn't feel the warmest glow of pride at this point, he should have done - because the belief that someone would produce such a piece of virtuosity from outside the system gave us the best place to post our music on the internet. Bar none. Take a bow, Mr Walker.

[slumbering]

I know these artists have already been mentioned in this thread but i really felt strongly that these songs should be included, as they are classics here:

James Bouchard
Ice
This is one of the most beautiful songs at MacIDOL or anywhere. Heartbreaking lyrics and music.

iFingers
Just a Dream
Lovely...

Also, Frogmorton has a fine collection of songs in his jamroom:
Frogmorton
My Thoughts Feed the Fire
This song is utterly cool.

[cStu]

Me and Boris the Bull
Sable For George
This has more atmosphere than the Glens of Skye.
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Duke Elegant
If We Try
It's great to hear some whooped up free-in-the-wind good time music right now!
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Baroolyo
Calm Down Everybody
Oh Summer Time is here! Funk it up!
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[Fluffy Bunny Feet]

This popped up on my radar recently. My perfect kind of pop-ish song. It has everything.
<a href="http://www.macidol.com/jamroom/bands/5208/">The Sunray Estate</a>
<a href="http://www.macidol.com/jamroom/play.php?band_id=5208&song_id=14962&mode=song_hifi"> Zeros and Ones </a>


I am haunted by this . . . too short . . . too short!
<a href="http://www.macidol.com/jamroom/bands/1481/"> Slumbering </a>
<a href="http://www.macidol.com/jamroom/play.php?band_id=1481&song_id=16932&mode=song_hifi"> My Dark Side <a>



A recent Sunday morning chill out to this (over and over again!)
<a href="http://www.macidol.com/jamroom/bands/367/"> James Bouchard </a>
<a href="http://www.macidol.com/jamroom/play.php?band_id=367&song_id=18304&mode=song_hifi"> Puff </a>

[slumbering]

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There are times when i don't like this thread because how can you possibly not forget something because there are so many wonderful songs here, i truly would rather listen to MacIDOL than most stuff on the radio.

Now i realize that i was just going to list some songs for this thread but now i can't just pick three and now that i think about it, i could go on and on, so maybe i had better not do it at all. Okay

[Fluffy Bunny Feet]

Maybe just use it every now and again for 3 tunes that are currently standing out for you?

[cStu]

Midi Orleans
Rialto Ripples rag
A swingin' arrangement of Gershwin's Rag tune.
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HOKEY POKEY
Sugarcane's Tango
A sultry little number, and the magic of the Tango will catch you unawares ;~)
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Dave Jones
Jollof Rice
Part of Dava's World Food Emporium. This is mesmerising.
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