No Condition Is Permanent

Pictured: Don Cherry.

Standing there looking up at the crazy-quilt structure, I was thinking that L.A. was a lot like that mansion. The city was growing at a pace so fast that no piece of it was designed to fit with the rest. Houses were being built in wildfire basins and on mudslide hills. Ultramodern skyscrapers stood next to squat brick office buildings built before the last three wars. The sun was almost always shining in a sky filled with smog, and people spent their days sitting in automobiles, at office desks, and in front of TVs at night.

It was a crazy life where housekeeper black women lounged by the ocean in million-dollar beach houses and old black men held private meetings in seaside jails.

— Walter Mosely, Charcoal Joe.

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Here’s what we played in Ep. 269 of No Condition Is Permanent:

THE FIRST SET

Archie Bell & The Drells — “Let’s Groove” — Love Train: The Sound of Philadelphia

Bayo Damazio — “Dizzy With Love” — Lagos Disco Inferno Vol. 2: The Cosmic Return

Dave & The Customs — “Ali Baba” — Surf Guitars Rumble Vol. 1

Los Immortales — “La Pollera Colora” — Cumbia Cumbia: Cumbias De Oro De Colombia

Ray Ellis — “The Sheik” — RCA 45rpm

Elias Rahbani — “Ya Nassini” — Omar Khorshid With Love

The Savoy’s — “Can It Be” — Keb Darge And Cut Chemist Present The Dark Side: 28 Sixties Garage Punk and Psyche Monsters

Black Sugar — “Funky Man” — Back To Peru Vol.1: The Most Complete Compilation Of Peruvian Underground ’64-’74

IT’S MADISON TIME…

The Tweeters — “Mascara Mama” — Malamondo 1

THE SECOND SET

Sinn Sisamouth & Meas Samon — “Komlos Teng Bey (Three Gentlemen)” — Cambodian Rocks

The Electric Eels — “Jaguar Ride” — Die Electric Eels

Jozi Anjum — “Dance Music (Nishani)”— More Early Pakistani Dance Music Vol. 2 (From Original 7″ Vinyl 1966-1978)

Reigning Sound — “When You Touch Me” — Too Much Guitar

Latin Blues Band — “Pussycat” — Big Ol’ Bag O’ Boogaloo Vol. 3

Dick and Libby Halleman — “Pizza Sure Is Good” — Summit 45rpm

Los Walker’s De Huanuco — “Todos Vuelven” — Andina: Huayno, Carnaval And Cumbia – The Sound Of The Peruvian Andes 1968-1978

The Barrino Brothers — “I’ll Take My Flowers Right Now” — Dave Hamilton’s Detroit Dancers

The Congos — “Don’t Blame On I” — Arkology Reel I: Dub Organiser

THE THIRD SET

Granby Street Development — “Jelly Roll” — Funky Music Is The Way

Joni Haastrup — “Do The Funkro” — Nigeria Soul Fever: Afro Funk, Disco And Boogie: West African Disco Mayhem!

Shoes — “Fatal” — Black Vinyl Shoes

Ranking Joe (feat. Black Uhuru) — “Rent Man” — Zion High with Black Uhuru & Dennis Brown

Don Cherry — “I Walk” — Disco Not Disco (Leftfield Disco Classics from the New York Underground)

Perez Prado — “Virgen De La Macarena” — Concierto Para Bongo

Hasil Adkins — “Truly Ruly” — Out To Hunch

Dara Puspita — “Believe Me” — Java-Java: Indonesia Screaming Fuzz Vol. 1

THE FINAL SET

Wreckless Eric — “Whole Wide World” — Stiff 45rpm

Orchestre Conga International — “Nakupenda Sana” — Urgent Jumping! East African Musiki Wa Dansi Classics

The Velvet Underground — “Foggy Notion” — VU

The Revolutionaries — “Channel One In Dub” — Negrea Love Dub

Johnny Cool and the Counts — “Love Bounce” — Souvenirs of the Soul Clap Vol. 4

Fruko & Sus Tesos — “Achilipú” — The Afrosound Of Colombia Vol. 2

LORD BUCKLEY’S WEEKLY BENEDICTION…

Alix Dobkin — “View From Gay Head (Every Woman Can Be a Lesbian)” — Lavender Jane Loves Women