Mark's Keyboard Repair
Track Listings
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1. Pretty Pain
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2. No Fighting
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3. Ba Ba Ba Boom - Money Mark,
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4. Have Clav Will Travel
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5. Don't Miss the Boat
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6. Sunday Gardena Blvd.
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7. Insects Are All Around Us
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8. Scenes from...
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9. Poets Walk
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10. Spooky
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11. Cry
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12. Ease
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13. Got My Hand in Your Head
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14. That's for Sure
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15. Sixth Synth
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16. Invitation
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17. Time Lapse Life
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18. Seven, Seven, Seven
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19. Sometimes You Gotta Make It Alone
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20. Pinto's New Car
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See all 30 tracks on this disc
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Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Mark Ramos Nishita has a riff or two for every season, which makes Mark's Keyboard Repair, his 30-song, 63-minute solo debut, stocked with enough organ-fueled flavor to get us through at least the next couple decades. Taking time off from his day job as the fourth Beastie Boy, keyman Money Mark has been hanging down in the basement, surrounded by his well-worn and strictly analog Moog, Fender Rhodes, D6 Clavinet, and Hammond organ--and even an old yardsale guitar--setting new standards for the art of noodling. Keyboard Repair is a lo-fi feast of hot licks that conjures Herbie Hancock, Bernie Worrell, Billy Preston, Augustus Pablo, and Gil Scott Heron in an ultraloose swirl that includes nods to '60s breeze pop and acid rock, 70s porn funk and R&B, Santana's Latin groove, art rock, ska, Beasties' hip-hop, and enough action-packed instrumentals to rewrite the theme songs of every cheesy detective show that ever aired. --Roni Sarig
Mark's Keyboard Repair
Average customer rating:
- beasties producer goes solo
- "Keyboard" needs no repair
- Flava-filled, funky, delightfully old-skool.....
- Hmm...
- Great instrumental jam
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Mark's Keyboard Repair
Money Mark
Manufacturer: Full Frequency / Pgd
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ASIN: B000003R69
Release Date: 1996-03-12 |
Tracks:
- Pretty Pain
- No Fighting
- Ba Ba Ba Boom
- Have Clav Will Travel
- Don't Miss The Boat
- Sunday Gardena Blvd.
- Insects Are All Around Us
- Scenes From...
- Poets Walk
- Spooky
- Cry
- Ease
- Got My Hand In Your Head
- That's For Sure
- Sixth Synth
- Invitation
- Time Lapse Life
- Seven, Seven, Seven
- Sometimes You Gotta Make It Alone
- Pinto's New Car
- Revolt Of The Octopi
- Never Stop
- Slow Flames
- Hard Ass
- From The Beginning To The End
- Functions
- World Lesson Pt. 2
- Inner Laugh
- The Grade
- Mark's Keyboard Repair
Amazon.com
Mark Ramos Nishita has a riff or two for every season, which makes Mark's Keyboard Repair, his 30-song, 63-minute solo debut, stocked with enough organ-fueled flavor to get us through at least the next couple decades. Taking time off from his day job as the fourth Beastie Boy, keyman Money Mark has been hanging down in the basement, surrounded by his well-worn and strictly analog Moog, Fender Rhodes, D6 Clavinet, and Hammond organ--and even an old yardsale guitar--setting new standards for the art of noodling. Keyboard Repair is a lo-fi feast of hot licks that conjures Herbie Hancock, Bernie Worrell, Billy Preston, Augustus Pablo, and Gil Scott Heron in an ultraloose swirl that includes nods to '60s breeze pop and acid rock, 70s porn funk and R&B, Santana's Latin groove, art rock, ska, Beasties' hip-hop, and enough action-packed instrumentals to rewrite the theme songs of every cheesy detective show that ever aired. --Roni Sarig
Customer Reviews:
beasties producer goes solo.......2007-05-06
money marks first solo record is filled with quick little 70's inspired nuggets... you can definately hear what the beastie boys did when they hired him to produce their cd... this raw record comes at you quick, and when your done you left thinkin... "was that ingenious or was that toooo easy?" moey mark makes very simple music in a way thats so infectious it can only be labeled as a guilty pleasure... those who bought his first record on brushfire and are lookin for the same will be dissapointed, untill you realize that this is just as good, but in a completely different way...
"Keyboard" needs no repair.......2005-02-10
When he's not the fourth Beastie Boy, Mark Ramos Nishita creates some wicked solo music as Money Mark -- lo-fi, funky, fuzzy, and entrancingly spacey. How to describe it? A colorful, twisted rollercoaster ride through a Hammond organ and Moog, as Money Mark explores every experimental nook and cranny.
It opens with the slow-grinding, chunky "Pretty Pain," before lifting off to mixtures of soul-jazz and funk, done against a blippy backdrop of thick, dense organ and blippy keyboard. Most of the songs are two-ish minutes or under, but somehow that seems just right -- if they were any longer, they would seem stretched out.
And Money Mark also augments the music with jam sessions, bells, thick distortion over droned vocals, lessons on entomology, and sputtering electric organ. It's impossible to describe every facet of Money Mark's sound; it's far too complex, but that complexity never bogs it down. It trips merrily in its colorful trappings, rarely slowing down.
Few albums really mesmerize, never boring listeners with a single song. Thankfully, Money Mark achieved that in "Mark's Keyboard Repair" -- not one song, be it pretty or gritty, gets dull. There's a feeling of delighted anticipation throughout the album -- what will he pull out of his hat next? Acid jazz, or funky electronica? Distortion or organ? Sparkles or sputters?
Since all these songs were originally released as a series of EPs, there really isn't any internal flow. But it feels like there is. There's nothing to link the songs directly, but Money Mark's distinct musical style and unique electro-jazz sound seems to band them together.
Nishita's vocals feature in quite a few songs, but aren't the centerpiece of those songs. Instead, he uses his flat intonations like another instrument, blending them perfectly with his expert use of electric organ and moog, mixed in with basic acoustic jazz. Best of all, he both layers the two sounds over one another, then alternates them -- it never gets dull or simplistic.
Money Mark created a truly unique collection with "Mark's Keyboard Repair." A heady mix of electronica, jazz, funk and experimental twiddles, this is a minor masterpiece.
Flava-filled, funky, delightfully old-skool............2003-08-28
One of my favorite CD's in my collection!!! The vibe of this album has a very analog, organic, old-skool (for want of a better term), and sometimes mellow feel, it's just the disc to listen to with your mahogany console stereo (if you've got the rare UK vinyl pressing of this album) in your den with the red shag carpet & knotty pine paneling, with the naugahyde chairs, lava lamp, and sunburst clock!! :)
My favorite track on the album has to be "Pinto's New Car", with a lot of flavaful groove that leaves plenty left over for the rest of songs on the album.
I also read somewhere that Money Mark recorded these songs long before he met the Beasties when they were recording Paul's Boutique in '89 (and became the 4th beastie boy soon after) to fix a entry gate to their driveway at the mansion that the B-Boys were recording at in Silverlake in LA (Mark is a carpenter by trade as well), so I'm assuming some of these songs on this album are probably around 15-20 years old! All the better... :-)
All of these songs were independently released by Mark on a series of EPs on his own Pinto Records label a while before this album came out, which is a re-issue of these EPs all combined together.
Once again, this is a disc I *highly* recommend...
Hmm..........2002-09-30
How do you describe "Keyboard Repair?" Umm...
...uhh...
...hmm...
Okay, I got it. Hard to pin down, but lots of fun to listen to. A lo-fi sonic adventure. Definitely one of those CDs friends will ask you about.
Great instrumental jam.......2000-06-06
The songs are too short, the organ a little overpowering, but overall, a timeless disc that stays in my CD changer
Average customer rating:
- "Keyboard" needs no repair
- More For The Money
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Mark's Keyboard Repair (+6 New Tracks)
Money Mark
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
Pop Rock
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| Styles
| Music
ASIN: B000009G68 |
Tracks:
- Pretty Pain
- No Fighting
- Ba Ba Ba Boom
- Have Clav Will Travel
- Don't Miss The Boat
- Sunday Garden Blvd.
- Insects Are All Around Us
- Scenes From...
- Poet's Walk
- Spooky
- Cry
- Ease
- Got My Hand In Your Head
- That's For Sure
- Sixth Synth
- Invitation
- Time Laps Life
- Seven, Seven, Seven
- Sometimes You Gotta Make It Alone
- Pinto's New Car
- Intro
- Cry(Dust Bros. Remix)
- Sometimes You Gotta Make It Alone(New Version)
- Hand In Your Head(With Russell Simins & Sean Lennon)
- Never Stop
- Space Alert Now
Album Description
Japanese reissue of Money Mark's 1995 album, plus a sixtrack bonus disc featuring 'Intro (Device In)', 'Cry' (DustBros. Remix), 'Somewhere You Gotta Make It Alone' (NewVersion), 'Hand In Your Head', 'Never Stop' (with RusselSimmins & Sean Lennon) and 'Space Alert Now'. 26 trackstotal. Each disc is a full color picture CD. Comes packagedin a gatefold miniaturized LP sleeve. 1998 Toy's Factoryrelease. 1998 release. The original release was on Mo Wax/ffrr. The full title is 'Mark's Keyboard Repair'.
Customer Reviews:
"Keyboard" needs no repair.......2005-05-25
When he's not the fourth Beastie Boy, Mark Ramos Nishita creates some wicked solo music as Money Mark -- lo-fi, funky, fuzzy, and entrancingly spacey, full of musical kinks and corners. How to describe it? A colorful, twisted rollercoaster ride through a Hammond organ and Moog, as Money Mark explores every experimental nook and cranny.
It opens with the slow-grinding, chunky "Pretty Pain," before lifting off to mixtures of soul-jazz and funk, done against a blippy backdrop of thick, dense organ and blippy keyboard. Most of the songs are two-ish minutes or under, but somehow that seems just right -- if they were any longer, they would seem stretched out. There's also a bonus EP, filled with remixes, which is entertaining but not on the level of his original material.
And Money Mark also augments the music with jam sessions, bells, thick distortion over droned vocals, lessons on entomology, and sputtering electric organ. It's impossible to describe every facet of Money Mark's sound; it's far too complex, but that complexity never bogs it down. It trips merrily in its colorful trappings, rarely slowing down.
Few albums really mesmerize, never boring listeners with a single song. Thankfully, Money Mark achieved that in "Mark's Keyboard Repair" -- not one song, be it pretty or gritty, gets dull. There's a feeling of delighted anticipation throughout the album -- what will he pull out of his hat next? Acid jazz, or funky electronica? Distortion or organ? Sparkles or sputters?
Since all these songs were originally released as a series of EPs, there really isn't any internal flow. But oddly enough, it feels like there is. There's nothing to link the songs directly, but Money Mark's distinct musical style and unique electro-jazz sound seems to band them together.
Nishita's vocals feature in quite a few songs, but aren't the centerpiece of those songs. Instead, he uses his flat intonations like another instrument, blending them perfectly with his expert use of electric organ and moog, mixed in with basic acoustic jazz. Best of all, he both layers the two sounds over one another, then alternates them -- it never gets dull or simplistic.
Money Mark created a truly unique collection with "Mark's Keyboard Repair," which is still the best he's created, whether in a band or as a solo artist. A heady mix of electronica, jazz, funk and experimental twiddles, this is a minor masterpiece.
More For The Money.......2004-07-30
Why do they do it? Why do they include remixes on records where the original appears? It compromises the integrity of an album as a work of art. Shame on anyone who does it. Clean and simple. Works every time.
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