The Magic Organ

Let it begin! The mountain of turkey carcasses has been made (I did not contribute) and the best of year lists will start firing any day.

If you have found this podcast then you might think our collective musical culture matters; it matters to me as the corporate music outlets are basically a bag of ass, we know dis.

I consider myself to be the widest listening and hardest working new music podcaster in these here 50 states. You can see the variety pack on display in every episode and all through the best of year episodes -- metal, reggae, African music, electronic music, funk fusion, and Latin Jazz.

So have at it and enjoy it, if you have playlists hit me up, and there are four more best of year episodes to go in the month of December.

Excerpts from this episode:

Mykal Rose and Subatomic Sound System: Streets On Fire

Gatecreeper: Masterpiece of Chaos

KOKOKO!: Bazo Banga

SML: Bazo Banga

New Regency Orchestra: Para Los Papines

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I'm always open to listener suggested playlists if you feel you can hang with the host.

You can find these artists on bandcamp and streaming outlets. You can support them by listening and telling your friends. You can celebrate what they do! Let this shitass 13 minute podcast inspire you. God forbid.

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I can't stand the holidays but this is my absolute favorite time of the year in terms of listening to music and finding new music to listen to during the dark days of winter. Year end lists, checking out how garbage-y the New York Times best of year list is, and then finding awesome heavy metal records in the comment sections of other year end lists. Good times for music obsessives.

This here episode is the last episode before I rain down upon the masses my best of year list in podcast episode form. That said I'm guessing the 20 bag of short bangers by the harcore/metal outfit Thirdface will make it onto my year end list for its positive mental attitude. Good stuff there and in the rest of the episode.

Excerpts from this episode:

Jennifer Castle: Trust

The Bongo Hop: Magica Bonita

Thirdface: Bankroll

Mulatu Astake & Hoodna Orchestra: Major

Asher White: Runes

La Rueda: Alevantate Temprano

Elori Saxi: Drift II

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I'm always open to listener suggested playlists if you feel you can hang with the host.

You can find these artists on bandcamp and streaming outlets. You can support them by listening and telling your friends. You can celebrate what they do! Let this shitass 13 minute podcast inspire you. God forbid.

Questions, comments, review requests -- contact me at [email protected]

The Magic Organ didn't vote for either murderous bastard that was on offer and it looks like we got the Orange Circus 2.0.

The Magic Organ doesn't want his life to be dictated by this insane Orange Cheese Doodle so we're just gonna tell him to fuck himself and get on with what The Magic Organ does best, bust out the flavor pack.

We kick it off with some aggro, there's gonna be a lotta aggro comin' up, and then we peep a poppish African tune that is just lovely, get on with an appropriately aimed tune about the life of a garbage can, then some dancefloor and on and on it goes.

We hope you stay tuned because it's the end of the year and that's when we rock the best of the year episode and you can find some music that slots right into your life and gets the booty moving if that's how you roll.

Just a reminder if anybody out there has the skills and the daring shoot me a playlist and it could happen.

Thanks for listening.

Excerpts from this episode:

The Body: A Premonition

Kokoko!: Mokolo Likambu

Peter Bibby: Bin Boy

SUBSET: Advanced Fizziks

La Sonora Mazuren: Cavernicolas

Kali Uchis: Perdiste

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I'm always open to listener suggested playlists if you feel you can hang with the host.

You can find these artists on bandcamp and streaming outlets. You can support them by listening and telling your friends. You can celebrate what they do! Let this shitass 13 minute podcast inspire you. God forbid.

Questions, comments, review requests -- contact me at [email protected]

Best of the year music lists will start popping out a little before Thanksgiving and they will continue to trickle out into the first week or so of December and then a few stragglers towards New Years.

It's looking like 4 best of '24 podcasts for The Magic Organ and maybe an honorable mention if I can squeeze one out. Those shits take time (I've already begun downloading and contemplating my choices), so there will be one or two more non best of '24 episodes before that. Hence the beginning of the end.

Best of year lists are the best time of the year to be a music fan, at least one like me where I listen to the choices on a lot of these lists. If I had two suggestions for budding music listeners, one would be to ignore anything the NY Times puts on a list, the odds of finding a banging record in the paper of record is almost zero, their music writers have always been the worst. Ignore NPR, what a bag of soft ass over there.

The other is just life advice, don't listen to Wilco, Wilco is one of the most boring bands ever, right up there with The National, don't listen to them, man that shit is energy vampire music, awfulness incarnate.

Enjoy, and thanks for listening.

Excerpts from this episode:

Black Decelerant: Six

AJ Lee & Blue Summit: City of Glass

The Zawose Queens: Maisha

DJ Muggs and Raz Fresco: Memory Lane

MAVI: tether

Angelica Garcia: Mirame

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I'm always open to listener suggested playlists if you feel you can hang with the host.

You can find these artists on bandcamp and streaming outlets. You can support them by listening and telling your friends. You can celebrate what they do! Let this shitass 13 minute podcast inspire you. God forbid.

Questions, comments, review requests -- contact me at [email protected]

There are many things we don't do here at The Magic Organ. We don't discuss tits and ass, we embrace ugly ass musicians. We don't celebrate rich musicians, in fact we think they're boring and they shouldn't listen to. We don't stay in our lane, we listen to all the genres and musicians who play all the notes!

We do one thing, we bring the bangers, we let 'em out, we drop the mic! I get that might be more than one thing but just blur your eyes and pretend it's one thing, that's what 'Merka does.

So kick back, enjoy the variety, don't sleep on the New Regency Orchestra record, it is absolutely a certified bag of bangers.

Thanks for listening, always looking for musical guests as in people who can put up a custom playlist and defend it, let's do this!!!

Excerrpts from this episode:

New Regency Orchestra: Para Los Papinas:

Laura Jane Grace: All Fucked Out

Hiatus Kaiyote & Niki Yang: BMO is Beautiful

Sideshow: RIP TY RIP RICCO

Los Campesionos!: Long Throes

Malignancy: Irradiated Miscreation

Previous Industries: Montgomery Ward

Pedro the Lion: It'll All Work Out

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I'm always open to listener suggested playlists if you feel you can hang with the host.

You can find these artists on bandcamp and streaming outlets. You can support them by listening and telling your friends. You can celebrate what they do! Let this shitass 13 minute podcast inspire you. God forbid.

Questions, comments, review requests -- contact me at [email protected]

This episode, set to go last week, was interrupted by Covid. It is never nice to have the 'vid, but it's receding and we're set to get the Magic Organ back out there.

We kick it off with some metal from Thou (heavy metal is good for you, as is eating bitter vegetables), and head out with some funky and poppy hip hop from Rapsody, then a track from Fenya Rai, a group updating older Catalan folk songs. From there we get some some heavy post love diva dancefloor banging from Becky Hill and we must not skip the Northern Irish hooligans Kneecap trafficking in a variety of themes on their track, Drug Dealin Pagans.

Thanks for listening, keep your masks on cuz Covid blows.

Excerpts from this episode:

Thou: Emotional Terrorist

Rapsody: Black Popstar

Fenya Rai: La Galindaina

Becky Hill: Outside of Love

Andra Day: Narcos

Kneecap: Drug Dealin Pagans

U-Ziq: Imperial Crescent

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I'm always open to listener suggested playlists if you feel you can hang with the host.

You can find these artists on bandcamp and streaming outlets. You can support them by listening and telling your friends. You can celebrate what they do! Let this shitass 13 minute podcast inspire you. God forbid.

Questions, comments, review requests -- contact me at [email protected]

Oh, we've got an episode perfectly matched to the mood of late summer.

Kick it off with some super funky techno, into some wild ass video game flavored African music, onto some highlife, into some Moroccan gnawa music, build towards the finish with some modern party reggae, and go out on the cumbia tip.

You can't beat it with a stick, tbh.

If you want to be on the show, if you're a music obsessive, hey just do it, hit me with 6 of your banging-est bangers and see if you make the grade. That's how we do it here on The Magic Organ.

Excerpts from this episode:

Logic 1000: side by side

Sisso & Maiko: Kiboko

Okwy Osadebe and Highlife Soundmakers International: Ifunanya

Asmaa Hamzaoui and Bnat Timbouktou: Lalla Rkia

Jahill & Marina P: Miss & Mister Rub-a-dub

Kumbia Boruka: Santa Suerte

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You can find these artists on bandcamp and streaming outlets. You can support them by listening and telling your friends. You can celebrate what they do! Let this shitass 13 minute podcast inspire you. God forbid.

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This summer has been fruitful in terms of new music and this episode is the kickoff of a flurry of episodes to conclude this season of listening. Whereas I found a ton of amazing African music last summer this summer the action has been spread across more genres.

We kick it off with some funky techno, head into some sweet roots reggae, back into techno but a bit more raucous, into the indie, take a turn with some stripper pole electro funk and end up with some weird mostly acapella indie.

Thanks for listening, spread the word and stay safe out there.

Excerpts from this episode:

Lil Silva: Done Heavy

Mighty Joshua: Sometimes

M. Wagner: Marcy Av

Shannon & The Clams: Big Wheel

Lindigo: Tiako

Nikki Nair: Prowler

Anastasia Coope: Woke up and No Feet

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You can find these artists on bandcamp and streaming outlets. You can support them by listening and telling your friends. You can celebrate what they do! Let this shitass 13 minute podcast inspire you. God forbid.

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Episode 82 kicks off with some minimalist instrumental funk, segues into medium laidback African music out of Senegal, dips into some dark indie from Big Brave, and on and on it goes for 13 minutes. The episode concludes with some electronic metal out of Kenya and nothing signifies where The Magic Organ is at more than a tune by an African metal musician that is distorted and aggro but surely is not typical metal!

The Magic Organ is unaffiliated with the corporate bastards who are presently running the music business deeper into the toilet, it is an independent effort focused on quality over genre. Ask yourself who else is trafficking as widely as The Magic Organ? C'mon now, the answer is nobody, nobody comes close to The Magic Organ in terms of what's in the flavor packet.

Thanks for listening.

Excerpts from this episode:

Karate Boogaloo: One Hand One Bounce

Tidiane Thiam: Neene Africa

Big Brave: Not Speaking of the Ways

Facta: Emeline

Sam Gendel and Same Wilkes: Rugged Road

Lord Spikeheart: Djangili

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You can find these artists on bandcamp and streaming outlets. You can support them by listening and telling your friends. You can celebrate what they do! Let this shitass 13 minute podcast inspire you. God forbid.

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There was music before the internet and a lot of it was really good. This week we feature tracks from Portugal, Russia, America, Israel, and Sweden. All bangers but the opening track is especially hot.

Thanks for listening and stay safe out there.

Excerpts from this episode:

Shegundo Galarza: O Pezinho

Ivan Rebreff: Cossacks Must Ride

Lionel Hampton: Flying Home

Lev Ran Choir: N/A (record face is in Hebrew)

Ake Gronberg: Calle Schewens Vals

Disco Around the Globe (Compilation): Dancing

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You can find these artists on bandcamp and streaming outlets. You can support them by listening and telling your friends. You can celebrate what they do! Let this shitass 13 minute podcast inspire you. God forbid.

Questions, comments, review requests -- contact me at [email protected]