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/