School me on Panton and Supraphon
fishmongerfunk
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i have heard a few things i like on both labels (jazz q, sbb) and was wondering if any of you dudes could school me a bit on funky, psychy or proggy czech records.
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http://www.divshare.com/download/14537846-e2e
The stuff on here tends towards the garagier side of beat (particularly with the Czech stuff).
Here's the tracklist:
Tracklist
1. Intro (Mascha I Vitra)
2. Juventus Stuj Obcane
3. Illes Zenekar Protonok Tanca
4. Skaldowie Something Should Happen to Us
5. Breakout Gdybys Kochal, Hej!
6. Singing Guitars ?
7. Trubadurzy Krob To Dla Mnie
8. Skaldowie i Ali Babki Pod Gorke
9. Bergendy Te Is Jarszneha Tilosban
10. Illes Nem Akarok
11. Emil Dimitrov ?
12. Synkopy 61 Tichej Kout
13. Blackout Popatrz To Przeciez Ja
14. Singing Guitars ?
15. Mahagon Obrazarna
16. No To Co Po Ten Kwiat Czerwony
17. Atlantis You Don???t Love Me Any More
18. Olympic Planetar
19. Juventus Chram
20. Synkopy 61 Hul, Nuz a Cop
21. Lorencova Neodpovim
22. Ali Babki Pajacyk
23. Fonograf Lokd Ide a Skrit
24. Skorpio Igy Szolt Hozzam A Dedapam
25. Atlantis Nechod Do Klastera
The Panton and Suprahon tracks are those by Juventus, Synkopy 61, Mahagon, Atlantis,Olympic, and Lorencova.
If you are unfamiliar with the Czech beat film, the Road That Leads Nowhere, you can check out the full version here:
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/01/the-road-that-l.html
(didn't want to embed it, as it is the full movie)
Marie Rottrova and Flamingo Group
"Time is a rogue" on this album is great but I couldn't find a clip of this.
Mahagon is great.
Big Band Prague too.
Some scattered, incomplete thoughts written in a hurry.
The beat stuff is quite strong. The Matadors and George & Beatovens records are really nice. Petr Spaleny (he's done stuff with Atlantis) has a record he did with Apollobeat that's pretty underrated that I really dig. It's called "Zvon ????lenc??v" and gets called the East Euro Sgt. Pepper a lot. Lots of beat girls like Eva Pilarova, Hana Ulrichova, Marta Kubisova, too. Olympic started out as a beat band and their LP "Ptak Rosomak" is cool. Later stuff went hard rock, and past the early 70s, I'd stay away, as they became poop, but the early stuff is rad. Marta Kubisova's stuff with the Golden Kids is super rad too. C&K Vocal put out a record called "Generace" that is just awesome, and includes a Czech cover of a long Marek Grechuta & Anawa psych track. It's like... I dunno, vocal prog or something. Hard to describe and really great.
Radim Hladik and Blue Effekt/Modry Efekt stuff is great, starting out beaty and moving more into proggier/rocking realms.
Collegium Musicum is more classical-influenced prog, but it's quite great and rocking, and I find it a lot more listenable than a lot of bands from other parts of the world that went that way.
There was a lot of blue-eyed soul stuff like Framus Five and Marie Rottrova/Flamingo that was nice too. Quite often informed by blues-rock and psych/beat ever so slightly.
Jazzrock was great too, but I think people covered this already. Jazz-Q, Mahagon, Fermata, Energit and others. There's a great comp called "Jazzrockova Dilna" with a sculpture of a head on a green background that is worth getting.
It gets deeper, I'm still learning. A record hunting trip into the Czech Republic is due soon. Apologies for lack of Czech diacritics. I am lazy, tired and don't speak Czech.
Most of my good Czech stuff is on 45. Panton seemed to release a lot of 10 inches as well.
BRAEKS