follow the reindeer...

Merry Christmas
from Poo-Bah Records.

FOLLOW THE REINDEER... to your very own copy of Poo-Bah Records' Christmas album.

Poo-Bah Records Presents:
Follow The Reindeer

1. Rick Potts
"Frosty the Red Nosed Ghost"

2. BLACKMONK
"Monk's Bell Carol"

3. Jah Grinch
"Santa Fraud"

4. Mitchell Brown
"Virgin Mary Conception"

5. Matthew David
"Matthew David Eats Christmas"

6. The Tenses
"Fun Bells"

7. TAKE
"Theme For Flying Minds"

8. Tom Recchion
"Weird Christmas Tree"

9. The Tenses
"Quiet Jelly"


all songs produced and recorded
by the artists at their own studios.
mixed, blended, and EQed at Low
Octave Studios by TAKE.
executive produced by ron stivers

thanks to everybody involved,
poo-bah crew, lafms crew,
dublab, and branwyne.

contact info:
poobahrecords@gmail.com
http://www.myspace.com/blackmonk77
http://www.myspace.com/rasg
http://www.myspace.com/magneticbrown
http://www.myspace.com/matthewdavid
http://www.myspace.com/rockandrolljackie
http://www.myspace.com/smegmatheoriginal
http://www.myspace.com/takeisme
http://www.myspace.com/tomrecchion

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FREE BAD CANDY
Category: Music

Infamy has treated us well.
Current mood: accomplished

By Patricia Jiayi Ho Staff Writer

Article March 10, 2007


PASADENA - Poo-Bah Record Shop, the counterculture legend established literally underground in Old Pasadena so long ago the neighborhood was almost young, has entered a new era with its own record label.

Now in its fourth location, far from Old Pas in the newly hip Lamanda Park neighborhood on East Colorado Boulevard, the store has long been known for its unique selection and its willfully uncheery clerks, obscure-band cynics decades before their brethren in the record-store novel and film "High Fidelity."

In an MP3 age, the store still carries plenty of vinyl LPs along with artist-distributed, hand-numbered cassettes and mainstream CDs from cool but successful outfits such as the latest Arcade Fire.

Unlike some hippie-born establishments, the store has a strong African-American and jazz-buff clientele, and bins are filled with works by lesser-known hip-hop producers such as J Dilla along with chart-topping artists like Jay-Z.

Now the Poo-Bah record label, launched quietly in 2004, is starting to pick up speed, said owner Ron Stivers, 34. Earlier releases were limited to runs of 300; new releases are larger and more frequent. A thousand copies of Dennis Duck's "Dennis Duck Goes Disco" LP and CD were distributed in January, followed by 600 of TAKE's Took One 10-inch vinyl record Tuesday.

Duck is the stage name for Pasadenan Dennis Mehaffey, a leader of the cult favorite band Human Hands, which just finished a national tour with Latino satirist and showman El Vez.

Poo-Bah held a record-release party, its "first really big show," complete with live silk-screening at the L.A.C.E. Gallery in mid-January, Stivers said.

Also in the works is a joint release with the Los Angeles Free Music Society and the city of Pasadena in April or May.

Local artist Tom Recchion, with a public art grant from the city of Pasadena, will record a 78-rpm gramaphone-style record. One side will feature sounds created by using the 78 as an object, while the flip side will be more of a sound collage, Stivers said. Of 500 copies pressed, 100 will be scattered around the city on park benches and bus stops.

The store's beginnings date to 1971, when original owner Jay Green opened up at Fair Oaks Avenue and Union Street in Old Pasadena, where the Parsons headquarters parking lot currently sits. It was in an underground basement for the first year or so before moving upstairs.

Poo-Bah was pushed eastward in 1974 to a creaky red wood-frame house at Walnut Street and Wilson Avenue. Eventually, one wall was practically "held up by posters," Stivers recalls. Stivers bought the store in 2003; in 2004, that location made way for a yarn store and Poo-Bah again relocated.

Today it's housed in a former pinball arcade next door to perennial dive-bar favorite The Colorado.

When it moved in, "This store was like a breath of fresh air," for the neighborhood, said Ras G, who has a record out on the label and is the hip-hop buyer for the store. "It has a cult following."

It is also the kind of store that encouraged secretive selfishness among some fans. "They didn't want to tell anyone about it," Ras G said.

Fellow store buyer Mike Davis describes Poo-Bah as "madcap and eclectic."

"There are lots of unusual things interacting and being side-by-side. There is always toleration for the unusual," said Davis, who also hosts a jazz show on college radio station KXLU. The store stocks "semi-interrelated niches" such as West Coast jazz, rockabilly and 21st-century classical music, he said.

Branching out into a record label was a way to give back to the music community and was a "natural progression," Stivers said.

"We're not doing it for the commercial sales," he said, adding that the goal was not to make money or become famous. "This is the music we have to make."

Stivers said he hopes to become more involved with the community via public art and live shows. He said his entrepreneurial career is inspired partly by his grandfather, Jim Stivers, the well-known local real-estate investor who has long been a Tournament of Roses leader and is a member of the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame.

"I really want to emulate that, in my own way," he said. "This is my hometown - I love Pasadena. There's so much talent and so much to offer."

Currently listening : 33 1/3 By Smegma Release date: 24 April, 2007

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Ras_G's TOP TEN PART 2

(VINYL)

1. Black Monk -Monk Music- POO-BAH RECORDS

"First Solo EP From Up and Coming Downtempo HipHop/Broken Beat Producer Black Monk( Bobby Bradford, Day and NIGHT EP) also featured on The SOUNDS OF LA Comp on Plug Research,"
4 Fans of Wajeed, Jay Dee, King Britt, Seji,

2. Mweslee- Megaplast- Kindred Spirits

"Debut Ep from Chunky Beat Producer Mweslee(Arkestra)
This joint I heard @ work made me wanna go home and get on tha beats !!!!
one of my fav joints of tha year "
4 Fans of Dabrye, SA-RA, PREFUSE 73

3. Up Hygh-Keep On- Raw Fusion/Jugglin Records

"This is One Of tha Hottest 12`s on Earth From One Of the Hottest Labels on Earth!!!
Up Hygh does it again, this time Featuring Phonte and Big Pooh of Little Brother" We also have ther first 12 in stock "Love Dat"
4 Fans of SA-RA- Dabrye- J-DILLA

4. Dj Genesis- Get Out tha Frame Fea Neco Redd- Realtone Records

"This was a Myspace Exclusive 4 a Good Min Now it`s officially on Vinyl
Soul Sis Dj Genesis is a local Detroit House Dj who`s also known 4 her producion and song writing skills, drops this very soulful 12" feature`s the very beautiful vocalist Neco Redd, who was also featured on the Purple edition Of the Dj Mitsu 12`series RIGHT HERE SEOUL CITY RMX(Produced by WAJEED BLING47). This A-Side is a Soulful R&B sure shot(with Instrumental)The B-Side has a Franck Roger House Remix, get while u can looks pretty Limited"

4 Fans Of Amp Fiddler ,Wajeed ,Jill Scott

5. K-Kruz- Time (Take RMX/Caural RMX)- Organik

"A dope 12" from K-Kruz local Chicago HipHop/Downtempo Producer
K-Kruz(Production also featured on Diverse One AM LP) This time around he comes with TAKE and Caural on the rmxs which brings more of a electronic,nu wave,glitchy,droney Beat feel"

4 fans of Dabrye,Daedulus,Caural,Ezekial Honig

6. Daisuke Tanabe- Gas Fog - Fluid Ounce Records

Noisy Experemental IDM production from Daisuke this cat was Featured on Tony Nwachuku(attica blues) Burnt Progress 1.1.
4 Fans of Caural,Prefuse,Dabrye,UMOD

7. Sun Ra- Beyond The Purple Star Zone- Art Yard

" All I gotta say is "Rocket Number Nine" is one of the illest Ra joints ever ith June Tyson on vocals Purple Star is along the lines of "Lanquidity" and "Door Of the Cosmos" can`t lose on this one!!!!!! "

8. Basic Vocab- Come Get Wit It - AXX Music Group=

"HipHop 12" From The Sickest Cats in Miami ( that i have heard as of yet Sorry Rick Ross)Production By Tony Galvin and Square. "

4 fans of Slum Village,Little Brother,

9. Elevator Music- Vintage Soul

"Classic Ta`Raach(LOVELUTION,PPP) and Wajeed(BLING 47,PPP)RMX From 2002"
4 Fans of J-Dilla ,Slum Village,

10.Daedalus-Denies the days demise-MUSH
"If u ain`t knowing about Daedalus it`s about time u get acquainted
cause Daedalus is the future of Music!!!!!"

4 fans of Machine Drum, Prefuse 73,Four Tet, Caribou

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Rick's Top Ten
Category: Music

Rick's Top Ten:

With the understanding that my greatest joy lies in the rediscovery of those artists of the late '60s and early '70s that managed to evade either public scrutiny or mass adulation, I present...

SOME OF DA REV's FAVORITE CD RESISSUES of 2005:

1. THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION - "We're Only In It For The Money" (US Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab UDCD 764)
Lovingly prepared in the 24K Gold "Ultradisc II" CD format by the kind folks at Mobile Fidelity, this is Zappa's finest moment (C. 1968) -- yea, his very reason for having been born at all. Despite (or in spite of) his frustration with his band at the time, Zappa turned to the "studio as instrument" concept, utilizing speeded up and/or backwards backing tracks, vocals, and guitar solos. Add to the above the musique concrte workouts of "Nasal Retentive Calliope Music" and "The Chrome Plated Megaphone of Destiny" -- all done via tape manipulation and *not* with ProTools -- and you've got one of the greatest musical forces to have ever been reckoned with.
MORE: http://www.mofi.com/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=7&idproduct=67..details

2. JUDY HENSKE/JERRY YESTER - "Farewell Aldebaran" (UK Radioactive RRCD133)
...and if God himself said that I could only have one CD to take to heaven, this one would warrant serious consideration. A virtual tour-de-force from the first note to the last fade, this album (originally released in 1969) remained a lost treasure, known but to the few who sang its praises over the years. Perhaps we have MOJO to thank for shining the spotlight back on this masterwork, but the big bad kudos fall to the folks at the ambitious UK label, Radioactive, for making this available again for a new generation to reappraise.
MORE: http://www.blueorchardrecords.com/products/229
http://mysticalbeast.blogspot.com/2005/03/i-meant-to-post-this-on-monday-but-got.html

3. IVOR CUTLER - "An Elpee & Two Epees" (UK DECCA/UNIVERSAL 9826606)
Ignorance of Ivor is no excuse. Here, his earliest releases (from 1959 and 1961) show that the light of his individualism would shine eternal and undimming for the next 47 years. Along with Stanley Unwin's twisted tales, Ivor provided the very stuff that would tweak John Lennon's cranium into offering up mere imitations of the DEEPER nonsense that Ivor had brewing in his noggin on a regular basis. "Pickle your knees in cheese", indeed! On a related note, most Beatles' fans will recognize Ivor Cutler as "Buster Bloodvessel" from the MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR film.
MORE: http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=si4idoatq1so?
method=4&dsid=2360&dekey=R 731740&curtab=2360_1&sbid=lc04b&linktext=An Elpee and Two Epees

4. JOHN SIMON - "John Simon's Album" (US Water 145)
Originally released in 1970, I have long enjoyed this delightful batch o' tunes on LP, 8-track and cassette formats...all of which were lovingly rescued from cut-out bins back in the day. Once available as a pricey Japan import CD in 1992 (and also known by the title "Don't Forget What I Told You"), John's first legitimate solo release finally gets a release in his "homeland". This album was/is a model of artistic restraint -- tempered, as it were, with tasteful arranging skills, deft songwriting, and heartfelt vocals. In short, a masterpiece.
MORE: http://theband.hiof.no/albums/john_simons_album.html

5. NANCY PRIDDY - "You've Come This Way Before" (UK REV-OLA CR REV 134)
Speaking of John Simon, his arranging skills grace this, the only full album release by Nancy Priddy, a remarkable singer/songwriter from the east coast. 1968 was a wonderful year indeed -- and this album is one of the rarest jewels to bedeck its ever-radiant crown. Trivia point: One of the songs, "Christina's World", is based on an Andrew Wyeth painting -- and served to name her first daughter, Christina Applegate (best known to TV fans as Kelly Bundy on "Married With Children").
MORE: http://www.cherryred.co.uk/revola/artists/nancypriddy.htm

6. BOB DYLAN - "No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (The Bootleg Series Vol. 7)" (US Columbia/Legacy 93937, 2-CD set)
O.K. -- as much as Chad loves Depeche Mode, he hates Bob Dylan. However, there is no denying Mr. Dylan's impact on his generation in general and on rock lyric writing in specific. You may even argue, with some degree of success, that "Subterranean Homesick Blues" was the first rap record to hit the top 40 in the US...and that the film to accompany its release may have been the first rock "video". In any event, here's the document of Dylan's rise to the peak of his impact, culminating in the tours featuring Mike Bloomfield (in 1965) and The Band (in 1966). Bob would never be the same again. Neither would we.
MORE: http://www.bobdylan.com/ndh.html..features

7. PEARLS BEFORE SWINE - "The Complete ESP-Disk' Recordings" (US ESP 4003)
Here's where folk music "turned on" after Bob Dylan laid his mojo on it. Under the influence of Bob Dylan (and The Fugs), Tom Rapp and Pearls Before Swine issued a pair of remarkable LPs for the adventurous ESP-Disk' label, based in New York: "One Nation Underground" (1967) and "Balaklava" (1968). Lovingly remastered by Rapp himself, this is the very genesis of the kind of freak-folk stuff that Devendra Banhart has tapped into, along with Marc Bolan's Tyrannosaurus Rex, of course. Damon & Naomi are admitted fans -- and provided Tom Rapp with a "comeback" of sorts in 1998 by inviting him to play a few shows and co-write some new material.
MORE: http://www.furious.com/perfect/tomrapp.html
http://citypaper.net/articles/070298/music.rapp.shtml

8. PAUL WILLIAMS - "Someday Man" (US Collectors' Choice CCM-544-2)
Nobody likes to have their time wasted, naturally. So why do I dare to mention this album at all? Because, to quote the immortal words of Anna Nicole Smith, it's "frickin' genius"! This was his first solo album...and, unfortunately, he never quite stirred the magic pot in quite the same way ever again. This may be due in large part to the nonpareil musical contributions of his songwriting partner (and genius in his own right) Roger Nichols. Clocking in at just under a half an hour, the album is such an exercise in taste and economy that, lo these 37 years hence its release in 1969, it still manages to entertain me.
MORE: http://www.thesmileshop.net/somedayman.html

9. APPALOOSA - "Appaloosa" (US Collectors' Choice CCM-594-2)
The folks over at Collectors' Choice really do have their finger squarely on the pulse of joyously obscure masterpieces from the '60s, bless their collective pointed little heads. Radiating acoustic perfection, superb songwriting, and tasteful production from none other than that loveable madman (and Dylan sideman), Al Kooper, Appaloosa is one outfit that you ignore at your own peril. Yet another magic slice from 1969 -- quite possibly one of the best years for music, ever.
MORE: http://www.ccmusic.com/allreviews.cfm?itemid=CCM05942
http://www.richieunterberger.com/appaloosa.html

10. SONNY BONO - "Inner Views" (US COllectors' Choice CCM-519-2)
This 1967 vintage delicacy demands that the listener suspend disbelief, forget whatever notions of "hip" one has managed to acquire, and submerge (nearly to suffocation) in the frustrated ramblings of a cat that knew hip when he saw it, but just couldn't pull it off all by himself when pressed into duty. Using what sounds like Dr. John's "Gris-Gris"-era bandmates (who, for the most part, were Sonny & Cher's backup band anyway), Sonny clumsily hammers his way through 5 overlong selections in a manner both insipid *and* charming. This is the "anti-Sergeant Pepper", folks -- and its badness is, in some perverted way, its greatness. If you're really a glutton for punishment, locate the now out-of-print 1999 Rhino Handmade CD reissue, which features no less than 11 bonus tracks! Rest in peace, Sonny. Ya did well...
MORE: http://www.ccmusic.com/item.cfm?itemid=CCM05192

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Ras G's Top Ten
Category: Music

Ras G's Top Ten:


1. J-Dilla Beats CD-R (Random Instrumentals(over 80 beat) By Tha King Of This thing called Beat Music)


2. Madlib Raw Cake 4(Beats! Beats! Beats!)


3. Dj Take -Hollywould`nt-CDR-(take takes it 2 another level get ready!!!)


4. Eric Coleman-Beat cdR-Mochilla(Ill ass beats by my man Dj Eric Coleman!!!!!)


5. KanZulu-Seeing Spirits-Illmindmuzik(Kanzulu is tha Charles Mingus of this Beat shit!!!!)


6.DJ Kutmah-Live From DUBLAB!!!-( LA`s MOst Slept On Dj comes thru with a bangin mix cd fea tha likes of Dimlite,Dabrye,Prefuse 73 and Nobody etc... Check 4 his Solo 10' Debut on Poo-BAH RECORDS coming soon


7.Caural- Remembering TodaY-mUSH( aS MUCH AS I LOVE THIS ALBUM IT MAkes mE waNna Go hoMe and smoke some trees and make beats all day, and even worse i`m told it`s 4-5 years old )


8. Nosaj Thing- Live from Terrace-CD-R(Check 4 his release on POO-BAH Records He will be Featured in tha 10" Series)


9.Ge-Ology- plays Ge-Ology-Female Fun
(12' b-side champion Ge-ology rocks all of his past,present and future Beats on this mix cd)


10. Organized Konfusion-Stress Album-Hollywood Basic
(CLASSIC!!!!!!! extra on tha sick)

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Branwyne's Top Ten
Category: Music

Branwyne's Top Ten:


1. Hall of Fame - First Came Love


2. Badgerlore - Stories For Owls


3. Albert Ayler - My Name Is Albert Ayler


4. Dusk Yellow Swans - Get The Us Out Of A (cassette)


5. The Aum Rifle - Dust & White Sky


6. Jackie-O-Motherfucker - Flags of the Sacred Harp


7. Paul Metzger - Five Improvizations for Modified Banjo


8. Various Artists - Maan Matoset (Finnish, comes with twig!)


9. Akron/Family - handmade, tour only


10. Barlow / Peterson / Wivinus - The Transparent World

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Gary's Top Ten
Category: Music

Gary's Top Ten:

1. Kid Anderson - Rock Awhile (Blue Soul)


2. K.T. & Midnight - Cannon Ball - Knock me a kiss (Rhythm Bomb)


3. Ray Collins - Tohuwabohu (Crazy Love)


4. Bill Stuve - Flyin Right (Upright All night)


5. Joel Patterson - Go Lightnin (Meantone)


6. Show Ya - Outer Limits (Eastworld)


7. R.J. Mischo - He Came To Play (Ray Tone)


8. William Clarke - Live in Germany (Watch Dog)


9. Stranger - No More Dirty Deals (Thundr Bay)


10. Ginger - Far Out (Netwerk)

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Elizabeth's Top Ten
Category: Music

Elizabeth's Top Ten:

1. Melanie - Gather Me (Neighborhood Records, LP)


2. Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit (Matador CD/DVD)


3. Gris Gris - For the Season (Birdman)


4. Jacqueline Taieb - Complete Masterworks of French Madamoiselle (Wagram CD Import)


5. Animal Collective - Feels (Fat Cat)


6. Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering (Dicristina Stair)


7. The Espers - The Weed Tree (Locust)


8. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (Columbia)


9. The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo (Columbia)


10. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Ballad of the Broken Seas (V2)

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Chad's Top Ten
Category: Music

1. She Wants Revenge, Self titled - Geffen


2. Kraftwerk, Minimum-Maximum - CD/DVD Box Set Astralwerks*


3. Imogen Heap, Speak for Yourself - RCA


4. Editors, Backroom - FZ Music


5. Arctic Monkeys, Whatever People - Domino


6. Love Makers, Times of Romance - Cherry Tree


7. Panic at the Disco, A Fever You Can't Sweat Out - Fueled by Ramen


8. Future Retro (Comp.) - Rhino


9. Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel - Reprise


10. NIN - Pretty Hate Machine (Vinyl Reissue) - Ryko


*Chad wants you all to know that "kraftwerk is the greatest band of all time".

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