Lynchian techno

Well who'd have thunk it? David Lynch goes electronic.

“I was just sitting and these notes came and then I went down and started working with Dean [Hurley, his engineer] and then these few notes, ‘I want to have a good day, today’ came and the song was built around that,”

David Lynch - Good Day Today [Original] by Sunday Best

Appropriately weird indeed.

Via FACTMAG

http://www.factmag.com/2010/11/29/david-lynch-releases-solo-electronic-single/

NE WHERE

Somehow hadn't made the connection before but Jamie xx of The xx was the producer of GSH's I'm New Here album from the start of the year. I only knew that he was the owner/manager of XL Recordings.

Anyway - apparently he's just done a remix album of I'm New Here called We're New Here, which is available for listening and downloading purposes right aboot hyar. Might actually go listen to some of The xx now, having dismissed them out of hand previously.

Celebrating 20 years since Twin Peaks first aired

appropriately weird.

Odd Nosdam

Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson 1955 - 2010

Just read the sad news that Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson of Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV and  Coil has died aged 55.  Here's an interview he gave in The Quietus a couple of months ago.


"we are all only temporary curators of our present bodies, which will all decay, sooner or later. In a hundred years or so ALL the humans currently alive will have died. I take great comfort in knowing, with certainty, that thing that makes us special, able to enrich our own lives and those of others, will not cease when our bodies do, but will be just starting and new (and hopefully even better) adventure..."


Sleazy, 2010





Here's the amazing Psychic TV album, 'Dreams Less Sweet' from 1983

Dirtbombs - Sharevari

This is apparently off an album of covers, but i cant find more about it.

Tiger & Woods @ La Cheeta

The highlight of my weekend, and without a doubt one of the best live shows I've seen in a while. I went to see Leftfield at the Barras first on Friday night. As much as nostalgia is a powerful thing, I can't say I was particularly blown away. No new material and slightly gimmicky reworkings of their old classics, backed by a big shiny-shiny screen and over-the-top-visuals. The thousands of Glesga folk who saw them over Saturday and Sunday will no doubt disagree with me and call me a moany c*nt, mind.

So on to La Cheeta for this later on. They blew my socks off: 2 cheeky italian boys cracking out driving disco funk edits. Heavily working their MPC's, it's not always easy to impress nowadays with an Ableton set. The lure of Disco brought a pleasant balance to the crowd mixture. And by this I mean that it wasn't a sausage party like most of the other nights in there that play the music I love.

Here we go then:



You can find a few other tunes on youtube or their myspace, the vinyl is very rare apparently.

http://www.myspace.com/tigerandwoods

http://www.juno.co.uk/artists/Tiger+%2526+Woods/

Jus' Ed - I'm Comin' (Levon Vincent Remix)

Now then,


I've been buying stuff on Jus Ed's label Underground Quality for a few years now, however nothing has previously whacked me as much as the tune below. This is massive for me at the moment. A true house banger: deep but rousing, driving and soothing. I only wish it was twice as long.

Weatherall or not

Hello all - been ages since my last post, so apologies for that. In the middle of refurbishing a house at the moment, so I'm busy-busy all the fooking time. In fact I could barely work out how to create a new post, that's how out of the loop I am.

Anyway, just wanted to post this great wee 6Mix I'm currently listening to. Andrew Weatherall plays the music which inspired Screamadelica. Only ten minutes in and it's already genius... enjoy!

Get on it.

Fela Kuti Documentary (1982)

Fela Kuti - Music Is The Weapon from Green Grin on Vimeo.


An excellent 53 minute documentary about the force of nature that was Fela Kuti.

I think I might post some of his music too as I'm getting Fela on the brain over here, the idea of making a tribute compilation is pretty daunting though, with 30 years of music to chose from and so many amazing yet really long tracks. Anyone have a favourite Fela album?

Be warned by the way, there are some pretty graphic and disturbing images of the violent and turbulent times Fela lived in, folk getting shot etc.

Los Saicos - ¡Demolición!

The first of six 7" vinyls from perchance the best band that ever was. LOS SAICOS.

GIT IT!
Los Saicos - Salvaje

Music had its share of rebels and rockin' rumblers in the mid-sixties, but none broke down the bars and stampeded through the urban jungle, instilling fear in the weak and exhilaration in the strong quite like Los Saicos, the short-lived, highly influential garage band from Lima, Peru, who played from 1964-1966. Los Saicos knocked down those walls with the primal urge to play unbridled rock n roll with attitude and vigor. Their music attacked like a feral rabid dog - everyone in Lima was infected. Whereas most Peruvian bands were playing covers of American/English rock n roll groups, Los Saicos stood out from their peers, writing and performing originals no one had ever heard before. In fact, they had very little to no knowledge of the Nuggets-type garage bands performing in the US and UK. In 1965, they scored their first major hit, "Demolició which swept across the country and across South America.

The band, comprised of Erwin Flores (lead vocals, guitar), Cér "Papi" Castrillóvocals, bass guitar), Rolando Carpio (lead guitar), and Pancho Guevara (vocals, drums), released a total of six singles before calling it quits a year later. Though Los Saicos remained relatively obscure for the rest of the 20th century, the influential torch they lit forty-five years ago still shines brightly on modern garage-punk bands, and shows no signs of burning out anytime soon.

The Human Expression - Love At Psychedelic Velocity

A psychedelic blitzing assault on the senses, demonstrating versatility, originality and vast amounts of energy.

GIT IT!

The Human Expression - 45's

The Vampires Of Dartmoore - Dracula's Music Cabinet (1969)

Spooky German psychedelic exotica ? Ultra rare late sixties proto hip hop moogsploitation? Whatever this is I like it. A soundtrack to a film that was never made, by a band that no one can name, on an amount of acid no one should take. Well maybe now and again, special occasions etc . . . .

Honestly though, the use of samples and the obvious familiarity with quite technical studio effects (for 1969) makes this sound like it was made in 96, not 69. Reminds me of Tipsy,Sukia and Funki Porcini.



Download The Vampires Of Dartmoore - Dracula's Music Cabinet (1969)

Tracklisting

1 - The Torture Chamber of Dr Sex
2 - Crime and Horror
3 - The Fire Dragon of Hong Kong
4 - Murder in the Ohio Express
5 - Dance of the Vampires
6 - Hello Mr Hitchcock
7 - The Executioners of Dartmoor
8 - Killer's End
9 - The Soaked Body
10 - A Handfull of Nitro
11 - Dr Caligari's Creeps Cabinet
12 - Frankenstein Greets Alpha 7