Birdy Nam Nam
The DMC World Team Champions - 4 DJs from Paris

picked this up this weekend [thanks to aurgasm] based on this performance:

Birdy Nam Nam - Absesses

and a variation, less polished yet still infectious:

Taking their name from the classic Peter Sellers/Blake Edwards film The Party, these french turntablists create a mesmerizing groove.

Duchess:2006:06:21 67.1mb 128kbps mp3
01 Stormy Weather [Charles Mingus & John LaPorta] 00:00:00:00
02 Three [Gavouna] 00:03:14:45
semaphore and basin (excerpt) [Pompey]
03 Fidgety Feet [Bix Beiderbecke] 00:06:49:52
04 Le Chasseur (Danke) [Dictaphone] 00:07:43:46
05 Horror Show (edit) [Loefah] 00:10:04:39
06 the steel box [Chris Vrenna/tweaker] 00:11:44:45
Nazdrave ti chorbadjiio (overlay) [Bulgarian State Female Vocal Choir]
07 Pancake America [Tiger Tunes] 00:15:09:14
08 Decisions, Decisions [Nobody & Mystic Chords of Memory] 00:18:20:65
09 white horses [jacky] 00:21:24:49
10 i listen to the plantains (g.d.luxxe eurotrash mix) [plantains] 00:23:45:44
11 It’s Not The End Of The World [Le Sport] 00:28:26:35
12 Chor Javon [Nato] 00:31:38:58
13 Wrong [Stijn] 00:35:15:06
14 Elephante Marinos [Buffalo Daughter] 00:39:18:19
15 Preparing 4 Emergent Seas [cassetteboy] 00:44:48:50
16 The Frozen World [Emilie Simon] 00:46:28:14
17 discoball world [Davíd Garza] 00:50:47:53
18 dawn chorus [vertical cat vs yimkin] 00:54:20:22
19 popple [zehnder with kold] 00:58:51:68
20 excerpt From “Monsieur Sexe” [Mr flash] 01:02:14:60
21 Tics [Lars Horntveth] 01:05:02:37
22 I’d Fall at her Feet [looper] 01:10:02:71

from now on, track times will be relative to the start of the file…
the more I thought about it, the less sense the other notation made.
we live and learn.

This is a bit of an experiment with keywords [offered in the comments of the last post] and plugged into the library management system. Odd combinations spewed forth, but allowed for an eclectic media pool to build from. And from there, I allowed myself some wiggle room to cut and paste as I saw fit.

My boy brought this painting home from school, and I quite dig it. Thought I’d share…

Duchess:2006:06:10 47.2mb 128kbps mp3
01 Made [Greg Weeks] 03:38:55
02 I’ve Got You And You’ve Got Me [New Buffalo] 03:52:05
03 Dead And Lovely [Tom Waits] 05:36:31
04 Teardrop [Elbow] 03:58:44
05 Beautiful Day [Nina Nastasia] 02:50:11
06 boys and girls [twink] 02:03:48
07 Sweet Child O Mine (Linus Loves Mix) [Flatpack] 05:17:51
08 Sleep The Clock Around [Belle and Sebastian] 04:39:24
09 Beautiful Day Without You [Röyksopp] 05:07:35
10 Sow Into You [Róisín Murphy] 03:46:40
11 Beautiful Day (Banzai Republic Vs.Trentemoller) [laidback] 06:58:74
12 last night i dreamt that somebody loved me [the thrills] 03:40:12

so maybe I do need an extra session…
however this track list grew from throwing a couple of keywords into the jukebox. Any guesses? Obviously “beautiful day” and…

Anyone wanna play
throw some keywords into the comments and we’ll see what happens