We’ll tak a right gude-willy waught, for auld lang syne.

What yis uptae fur hogmanay? I'm going to a gay mardi gras themed party on the beach. It'll be interesting.

Moving house?

Alright youse, just a few tunes that have been on my mind recently and coincidentally in keeping with the theme of Frazer's last post.

A classic that a certain pvk told me just had a re-print this year:



And a belter from this year from the appropriately named EP Vocals for Everyone by FCL:



I kind of prefer this one pitched up just a wee bit like in the mix I discovered it.

Buy here:

http://boomkat.com/downloads/278408-fcl-vocals-for-everyone-ep

And while we're at it:

this sampled that

Now then,

I just had a moment of 'this sampled that' realisation whilst going through some records to sate a Diana Ross craving and thought I'd share it and ask a related question.

This Omar S belter 'Day' uses a sample from The Supremes' "Come See About Me' to brilliant effect.

Omar S 'Day'



The Supremes 'Come See About Me'



So, does anyone know which house tune uses a sample from Diana Ross' 'Love Hangover', below? (from about 2:45 into the video) I can't for the life of me think what it is and it's right frustrating.

Joseph Spence - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

I'm so glad that this is the 200th post on this blog

Merry Christmas

Photonz

So this is what I'll be bringing in the new year listening to, with David Vunk playing downstairs. Only a recent discovery for me but I'm really diggin them. Brooding electronic retro future funk. They did a couple of shake remixes recently which you can find here: http://www.myspace.com/photonz


This mix is a bit of a belter too:

Photonz - Sónar Session 2010 by Red Bull Music Academy Radio on Mixcloud

Details and tickets for the event can be found via the facebook event page and www.rubadub.co.uk

Hackman

Some toasty warm garage house from back in the balmy haze that was June of this year. Because quite frankly it's cold enough in here to freeze the cassocks off a brass monk.





Buy from here http://boomkat.com/vinyl/309226-hackman-more-than-ever-ep

The weather outside is frightful

My favourite Christmas song (well, maybe - one of anyway) just to get us all in the mood. What a belter. Some bittersweet melancholy at Christmas. This and Fairytale of New York.

Was pleased to see ole Jona getting his proper juice in the recent Ikea advert which used this song.

Rrritalin

Absolute belter from coin-op records. Don't know how they do it: oodles of compression, attention to detail yet all over the place, hint of dubstep but still unmistakably massive techno. I seriously need to get out more.

COIN OP 16 - Spack to the Future EP by rrritalin

http://soundcloud.com/rrritalin/sets/coin-op-16-spack-to-the-future-ep/

Servotron - There is no Santa Claus!

Everyone's favourite pro cyborg sci fi rocking new wave robots get festive on this single from 1996 . . .featuring Man or Astroman members for those who didn't already know . . . .


Tracklist

01 Christmas Day of the Robot
02 Servotron Sonic Evaluation of the Christmas Season
03 Death of the Sugarplum Fairy

Merry Christmas you slags
God bless us, everycunt

Download - There is no Santa Claus!

Rest in Peace Captain Beefheart

The great man is dead. This calls for some kind of mammoth tribute compilation which I'll get on right away. Can't even explain how much this guy influenced the way I think about and listen to music. Sad day man . . .

Grasscut

Thanks to Frazer for the glacial music. I thought we might need a bit of cheering up after that. I went to the ninjatunes 20th anniversary party here in Prague a few nights ago ... this band were new to my ears ... purveyors of electronica that, live, is strongly influenced by niun niggung mouse on mars. Be warned, they are exceedingly pretentious. One of them looks and dresses like a high school physics teacher. The other looks like a classically trained public-schoolboy-twat. They come off as quite ironical in performance. Their instrumental bits are better, I think. Have a listen anyway.

William MF Basinski

Now then,

William Basinki is a guy that needs a big up on here. As a precursor to a larger post I've been intending to write about some bits of ambient/post rock/drone from the past few years that float my boat, I thought I'd take the time to highlight this guy, who makes some of the most unassuming, atmospheric and downright fucking powerful music that I've ever heard. (I'm aware that this is a mighty big claim, but it's not meant to be in any way hyperbolic. I really do love him.)

Classically trained and enamoured of the tape loops that can be created using reel-to-reel recorders, Basinski is perhaps most famous, relatively speaking, for his 'Disintegration Loops' albums. This is a group of albums that came about whilst he was archiving decades old analogue tape loops to digital format. The tapes broke down further and further until they essentially 'died' during recording, hence 'Disintegration Loops'.

Basinski's better tunes have the ability to wring me out emotionally and there are still certain Mondays when I know better than to listen to his stuff.

I'm not going to write too much more from here, preferring instead to let the music speak for itself

And we're off:

Melancholia - Three and a bit minutes of perfection





El Camino Real - Uplifting, haunting, so bloody deep



D P3 - See the above comments



Vivian & Ondine - Here's the first 10 minutes of a 45 minute track. A personal favourite.




I'll leave it there cos I'm off to think of synonyms for 'glacial'.


Merry Christmas to the pure mad massive!

p.s. the 'MF' up there in the title in between his first and last names is purely my own doing.

Civil Civic

Drum machines and guitars done very well. Check out other tunes on the increasingly infuriating myspace.





Buy here cheap as chips:

http://civilcivic.com/

Acoustica: Alarm Will Sound Performs Aphex Twin

Heard this and it reminded me of the school band performing Aphex that Jim posted a while ago . . .I won't post he whole album cos I figure these guys are a twenty piece chamber orchestra who probably see little enough of their royalties as it is, so go and buy this CD and encourage some incredibly talented musicians to keep doing what they do. 


Instead I'll just post the three songs on this album which appear on my favourite Aphex Twin record, the 'Richard D James' album from 1996, those tunes being Logon Rock Witch, Fingerbib, and '4'. What's that, '4'? you say? surely those snare rushes are impossible for human hands to play! But no, apparently not, look





Download the 3 tunes here


Buy the album here

Photek strikes back

I've been getting back into some dnb recently. Any suggestions? I enjoyed Photek's modus operandi and form & function, but I think he may be blossoming now ... Dsco this new offering from Photek http://soundcloud.com/photek/101-clip-from-benji-bs-radio-1-show-25-11-2010

i notice massive attack also still putting out quality music

weblergh

Some random thoughts of the day... mainly cos I'm sick of looking at that Orb Live picture already. Here's a different one. By Pieter Bruegel.

Firstly, more reasons to like Sex Trothler. He first got my attention with his bloody marvellous RA Podcast from last summer which keeps popping onto my playlists on a semi-irregular basis, thanks to its general smacky-wacky-jackingness, the weird and wonderful versions of various tracks that he rocks out, his sleazy voiceover... and those ad breaks of course. Now he's done one for Bodytonic that is different but equally beaut. Still has a strangely humorous backdrop but with more of the head-down party beats this time, and less of the lounge lizard disco-pop. Get on it here.

DJ Harvey (he of Black Cock fame...) has been on my list of folk to investigate further for a while now, so I had a listen to this set on the seemingly endless stream of excellent mixes that come from Rico Passerani's Soundcloud account. You'll be pleased to hear that it's ace - back to more of the lounge lizard disco-pop again.

Nextly, this week's 6Mix is by Christopher Tubbs, a New Zealander currently residing in London. It's described as Afro Techno Balearic or somesuch bollocks, and he is frankly a whiny little Kiwi prick, but his selection of tunes is spot on. Have a wee listen anyway.

There's a good radio drama on the Beeb at the mo (yeah I know - I'm just a sucka for a bit of radio drama though) called Eye of the Cricket. It's a detective story set in New Orleans - based on a James Sallis novel, who I'd never heard of, but he's a jazz writer when he's not writing detective novels, and his brother's a reasonably well-known philosopher. Anyway, it's an interesting take on a detective story so far, lots of literary and jazz references. The reason I post this on here is (a) cos it's good and you should have a listen to it and (b) the soundtrack itself is ace... Sun House, Patty Kline, and some Chris Smither. Which made me want to say that...

Chris Smither is fucking amazing (just in case I haven't already bent your ear about it at any point in the last 15 years). He's an American singer and guitarist in the blues/folk vein with some mean finger-pickin styles inspired by/completely blagged off Mississippi John Hurt. His songwriting is the real stone cold killer though - deep, meaningful, witty by turns, never cliched or contrived, and he pulls off some of the most unexpected rhyming couplets you're ever likely to come across. I'd recommend the songs Winsome Smile, Happier Blue, and I Am The Ride to give you a first taster. I would have put links to these songs on Youtube but they're not on there. You won't regret buying any of his albums anyway, especially Happier Blue, Up On The Lowdown, or Small Revelations. If you must use some other means to test it out first, do so... Then buy 'em all, cos he no doubt needs the support!

And finally, this made me smile on Monday morning. Had to conclude that I really would quite like a Button myself. Amongst her more impressive achievements are this and this.

Thank you. That is all.

PS actually it's not. For any of you who haven't been keeping up to date with the latest audio emissions from the GK Machine, get on it here. He's just done his first ever remix. Congrats Machine. And you should download some of his mixes whilst you're there, cos they're just as brilliant as ever. Lovely.

That is all. No really.

The Orb at The Barras

"What were the skies like when you were young?"

"A bit dreich, kinda shitey and grey. They went on forever... as a matter of fact... All black and white and grey and bilin'."

Just spotted that The Orb at the Barrowlands in 97 is this week's 6Music Classic Concert. Haven't listened to it yet like. Wasn't there either - about a year too early for me and Glas Vegas.

Anyways, enjoy... bbc.co.uk/i/w8q1y.

Saturday Squeeze

Just a couple of classic Squeeze tracks for your delectation of a Saturday afternoon/evening/Sunday [delete as appropriate based on global location data].

I'm wondering if those filthy analogue synth noises are Jools Holland. I guess they probably are. Smoking a fat cigar too.

Obviously had to have this:


And then some Joe Jackson, just cos it's been going round my head really...

Windowlicker - X-Rated lick

Remember this one?




Run Jeremy, AKA Trentemoller re-edit. I like it simply because it turns a tune I love into something a wee bit more pleasing to the ears; the filthy genius of the original made (dare I say it?) danceable. I find it a bit weird that this record even exists, I can't imagine Richard D. authorising or approving of this at all. I guess if it was a promo then he couldn't do anything about it anyway.


Hahaha, having just checked the wikipedia entry as I typed this:

Also included is a sample of James's French then-girlfriend speaking in her native tongue saying J'aime faire des croquettes au chien, translating to "I love making dog nuggets".

1997

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Neil Landstrumm and Christian Vogel Live PA @ Kinky Afro, Subbie

Tasty live sets from some old masters. Was anyone at this?

Neil Landstrumm

Christian Vogel