Episodes

I am a finicky ass mofo and yet there will be many more rounds of The Magic Organ Roundup as 2023 was an incredible year for new music. This episode does the usual Magic Organ thing, lots of energy, lots of genres and feelings. The whole point is not to make money but to feel something. Enjoy your holidays and find some new music! Excerpts from this episode: Alex Figueira: Blowing Up Gates Angel Bat Dawid: INTROIT Joy n' Suffrin' Conjunto Media Luna: Pajarito Golindrina Skech185 & Jeff Ma...

Let it begin! The Magic Organ Best of 2023 Part 1. I picked all the records for this episode but especially rocked the Son Rompe Pera record and the Liv.e record in early 2023. Just so you know. Excerpts from this episode: Son Rompe Pera: Chucha Blak Flower: Magma Liv.e: Heart Break Escape Horse Lords: Comradely Objects Mizmor & Thou: Myopia schroothoop: Cheval Orange Feel free to follow me on the Insta where I conversate as themagic_organ. I got it friggin' goin on over there. Or hit m...

The episode title says it all, the Year End Roundup comes after this episode but do not sleep on this episode as a couple of the tracks here are from records that will make the year end list, the James Holden recording and the Justin Walter ambient solo synth record. In addition we got a little slinky hip hop, some cumbia (that record could make the list too!), a tasty track from PJ Harvey -- oy, I believe I got the song title and the record title confused during my overdub action, and finally ...

Inspired by ongoing events in the world The Magic Organ is opposed to all warring and violence. We approve only of dropping the bomb on one's own self and moving towards being a better person with better values and less violence inside you. Of course, by this we mean killing as there are many among us who could use a good dirtnap/adjustment. We kick it off with a track from the new Dengue Fever record, move onto a track off an amazing reissue of East African Music on the Coloimbian Coast, into ...

First off the mistakes. I say in this episode that the Nihiloxica tune is off a remix album and it's not, it's off their new record called Source of Denial which just came out on Crammed Discs and you should check that record out. That's how it works with the mistakes, those folks who get victimized get some added mentions in the show notes. The Hella record is called Hold Your Horse Is and that just mentally hosed the voice changer which didn't understand the joke/pun so if you get that far th...

Released Monday September 4, 2023 -- Labor Day!!! So let's honor the labor of musicians who in our current music business regime often labor for fractions of pennies. Oh no politics! I freeball all my commentary and alas I make mistakes. I mistakenly say in this episode that the second group Teke::Teke is from Japan because they have a female singer with a Japanese accent. This outfit is from Canada and their new record sounds like Captain Beefheart's car smashed into a bus with some Japanese f...

Oh man, late summer 2023!!! Hot enough for you? The sheer volume of insanely great music out of Africa has been the listening highlight of this summer for me, but let's be honest most folks are not that sophisticated or adventurous enough to listen outside of the various lanes and channels created for them by the music industry. I urge you not to stay in your lane, it's boring, and you create a boring life. Still, we get a little North Africa in the hizzy with the Charif Megarbane track Tarator...

I got the idea for this episode in the middle of a global heat wave and though the scorching temps seem to be dying down a bit, the music out of Africa this summer has been hot hot hot. With the exception of the third excerpt from BKO the rest of these records were released this summer and that's pretty damned impressive. I can't say I've heard five rock records out of the U.S. or the U.K. that come close to this level of funkiness, entertainment and listener satisfaction. From the toasting, D...

Have you ever hung out with an investment banker? I have had that great misfortune and it does indeed make you appreciate musicians because bankers are boring af. So if you can get your head arount that comparison and manage to get around the stereotype that musicians are lazy do nothings, try to appreciate musicians who do something to make the world more tolerable. This week we do what we do, we roll around genre wise kicking it off with some hip hop, roll into some cumbia out of Colombia, a ...

It's been a bit, I was out going to multiple Taylor Swift shows as part of her gigantic, man what an artiste!!!! We are back in the saddle for the summer and bringing the flavors. We got some South Asian ambient music kicking us off and then we just shred, shred away into some African into the metal in and out of some this and that, it's action packed you shitheads! Excerpts from this episode: Ruhail Quaisar: The Abandoned Hotels of Zangsti Inna Baba Coulibally: Asina Leyle Bernice: Second ...

Episode 57! Peep the fancy Latin episode title this week and bask in the old school vibes. It translates to 'against endless repetition' and it's a sentiment worth spreading around. It was inspired by the short except in this episode by Angel Bat Dawid: 'This endless repetition is like a Chain around the Spirit. And it is a reflection of the denial of the future to the Negro in the American way of life.' In the episode I left out the second part of the title due to a screenshot I do of the play...

Episode 56: Winter 23 Besties! When it comes 'round to the best of/end of year lists for music the lists are tilted towards releases from the second half of the year. The Magic Organ aims to rectify that sitch with this episode, Winter '23 Besties. Mistakes, I always rectify my mistakes in the show notes. I got my band name and album name mixed up for the the band Son Rompe Pera and the album entitled Chimborazo. My apologies to the band and they get an extra shout out. Excerpts from this epi...

Episode 55: Give 'Em the Business! The internet's only 13 minute multi genre new music podcast returns with another backpack full of bangers. We kick it off with some organic, janky electronic music from Japan, head into some junk funk from the Netherlands, get down for a bit of roots and culture, give a quick shout to Satan, get a little Brazilian lushness oozing across the brain pan, and head out with some chill sitch country music from a Canadian gent. Yes, yes the Magic Organ is worldwide. ...

Episode 54! The War Against Boring. I guess the most boring thing to do right here in this space is to say everything sucks and it's boring but if I've joined the fight against boring I wouldn't do the predictable boring thing but say hey there's a lot of reasons why things can get so boring, have some sympathy for all the folks out there who struggle to get by and you're a jerk asking them to entertain you, and that the machine (our society) that produces all this boring, predictable culture is...

Episode 53! Always be projecting, as in always be pushing new flavors out there into the world. Kinda random title, but hey there's a lot of randomness going on out there. This episode kicks off with a new favorite record just released by Liv.e, a rich stew of funk/r&b/soul/electronic music. It's a great record full of bangers. Then some Mediterranean dancefloor banging into some proggy, funky shredding and on and on it goe, you know how the Magic Organ does it. Excerpts from this episode: Li...

Episode 52, a celebration of a music podcast episode without any Grammy award winners or nominees. I thnk Fantastic Negrito was nominated for a Grammy award last year and I like his last record but it's not often that I traffic in it! Why be proud of being Grammy free??!! Cuz you know a lot of this mainstream music business is about booty and money and drama and business and not so much if at all about music. Musicians who shall remain nameless using their records to sell clothes and sneakers a...

Episode 51, first episode of 2023! It has been a while and we are now (hopefully) up with our new podcast hosting service. The Magic Organ is a one person operation so all administrative, technical, creative, editing and plumbing issues all flow downhill to one sap. Episode 51, Mixed Bangers, is the result of a lot of year end list listening. We kick it off with Systema Solar out of Colombia, get into more dancefloor banging with some NYC techno from Louie Vega and it just goes on and on from t...

Episode 50! It would be a wee bit extra to go for the Best of 2022 Part 4, so we end the year with a Christmas metaphor of wrapping something up and opening something up. Happy New Year and good ridd

Episode 49: Best of 2022 Part 3! People are grooving on the Magic Organ best of year episodes, we appreciate all listeners joining the party, and we're sporting a different look than a lot of the othe

Episode 48: Best of 2022 Part 2! First off the mistakes. I pay tribute to the Spanish language World Cup broadcaster, I don't know his nationality but I don't think he's Spanish. Secondly, the last

Episode 47: We kick off the best time of the year to be a music listener -- year end best of lists and podcasts! And I know we're early but the plan is to have 3 best of 2022 episodes to finish off

Episode 46! Free Speech. What with the sale of Twatter to the world's richest man there's a lot buzz about free speech or the lack thereof. What to make of it? More beefing I'm guessing.What abou

Episode 45! The Magic Organ Bucket 1! I have a playlist called Magic Organ bucket and I toss tunes into that bucket as I listen when the playlist for the current podcast is already full up. This epi

Episode 44! Entitled Brisk, no fucking around, we just get in there spinning and spinning. Same party spirit served up with a little bit less random nonsense.Hey, feel free to follow me on the Ins