Articles by Chris Wodskou

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  Dmitri From Paris

  A Night at the Playboy Mansion

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2000

  Anyone who heard Dmitri From Paris's Sacrebleu, his 1998 pastiche of '60s soul done with Japanese-style, sampledelica and French lounge pop...

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  Greyboy Allstars

  Live

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2000

  Funk-oriented groups that depend heavily on samples and programming will often suck live, but you'd think a band that releases righteously...

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  Tommy Guerrero

  A Little Bit of Somethin'

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2000

  Elegance is not what you'd expect of a San Francisco skate punk, but Tommy Guerrero, a legend in skating circles and a former member of the...

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  Sam Paglia

  B-Movie Heroes

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2000

  You can add Sam Paglia to the ranks of faux soundtrack composers, although both his inspirations and his parodies are broader than most. Wi...

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  Various

  Easy Tempo, Volume 9

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2000

  Rocco Pandiani and remix king Gak Sato dig ever deeper into the vaults of Italian soundtrack funk and crime jazz from the late '60s and ear...

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  Mojave 3

  Excuses for Travellers

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2000

  These are dark days for pop, at least on this continent, but a darkening gloom transformed by an ineffable pop alchemy into a thing of bitt...

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  Jayhawks

  Smile

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2000

  This is not the Jayhawks' finest hour, and the hint of desperate optimism you can read into the title is perhaps a tip-off. While the two J...

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  T-Model Ford

  She Ain't None of Your'n

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2000

  You'd still have to go a lot further than the Mississippi hill country to find an 82 year-old more ornery than T-Model Ford, a man mean eno...