moody thursday

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Here are a few tunes for lunchtime.

Susan Cadogan - 'Don't Burn Your Bridges'

Portishead - 'Scorn'

Onra - 'The Arrival'

nathan fake - grandfathered

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nina kravitz - show me your time

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I can't tell you how much my ears love pure minimal techno such as this. It's so crisp, so clean, so beautiful. 

shigeto

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I've been following this band for some time now after seeing them on a show on Sky Arts. Unfortunately I could never remember the name of the show and couldn't find the footage showing the amazing drumming and simultaneous synthesising. This short clip isn't the one I saw but does do justice to the talents that they have. Brilliant stuff.

i would fix you - kenickie

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dedicated to joyce reid

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This song reminds me of Sunday breakfasts with you and Grandad. Rest in peace, Nan. 

pressure drop - warrior sound

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CHOON!

rick hopkins - take it to the house mix (part1)

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post modern escape artist

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Have I played this before on my blog? I've had this tune for a while now and I can't find anything when I do a search but I have a nagging feeling I have posted this before. Here it is anyway and apologies if it's a repeat. Actually, scrub that...I won't apologise. It's a lovely splice of Billie Holliday and hip hop. How can anyone be sorry about that?

nick pride and the pimptones remixed

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This is a classic funk-jazz album given a hip hop makeover and the overall effect is close to perfection. Don't take my word for it though. Give it a listen and your ears will thank you for it.

daniel steinberg - arms and legs podcast #4

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The latest podcast from my favourite minimalist. This just oozes soulful minimalism.

sister frica - 'one in the spirit'

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This is a haunting dub track produced by Augusto Pablo and sung by Sister Frica. This is as good as it gets, it really is.

chelsea wolfe plays rudimentary pen

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This is a brilliant collection of covers from lady of the moment, Chelsea Wolfe. I hope you don't mind my laziness but I've lifted the sleevenotes from the Soundcloud site:

1. A HANDFUL OF DUST

I will show you fear in a handful of dust

2: ECHO

language of agony, torment in sound. weeping of ancestors formed into words. the echo of anguish, primeval sorrow

3: BLACK ON GOLD / SICKENING FOR SOMETHING

lapis lazuli turquoise and amethyst black on gold viridian and jasmine tan and black ruby and cinnabar dove grey puke pink onyx and bronze vermillion and amber jade and amber black on gold 454 Angell Street Black on gold green to feel blue gawd those colors opium madness unleashed! supreme final ecstasy.

give me that decanter, eliot!

4: DISSOLUTION/REHEARSAL FOR MORTALITY

it matters not that i did seek, to conquer fear and vanquish pain, for victory belongs to grief, so into tears dissolve in vain.

in this rehearsal for mortality I learn acceptance and can no longer return with such tenacity to cling to all that is me to all that is me

5: PRAYER FOR THE UNBORN

let us rest in oblivion forever and ever amen

alan's psychedelic breakfast

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Well...actually it's mine with probably the finest purveyors of psychedelic rock around at the moment. This is Amorphous Androgynous with 'Tiny Space Birds'. Are you experienced yet?

saint etienne release new track

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Yes, I am very excited about this and am going to get tickets to see them for their upcoming tour too. Their new track 'Tonight' is available as a free download here and there's a new album coming out too. It sounds classic St Etienne and let's face it - if it ain't broke then don't fix it. What a great start to the weekend.

alex kenji - 'adelante'

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One of my favourite ever minimal techno tracks, I love the way Alex Kenji brings in a Spanish guitar ever so lightly, leaves it to linger, building it louder and louder and then BAMMO! He swirls it around the speakers. Fantastic!

ian brown - 'in the year 2525'

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What a weekend in store for Brighton and Hove Albion fans.

julia holter - 'in the same room'

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Something for the weekend



good graces

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They play with a shoegazer style to their guitars but more hardcore style to the vocals and the overall effect is something surprisingly listenable, melodic even. I really like this band. They have that indefinable quality about them that deserves a bit of success. The songs I've heard so far are incredibly well-produced with the band showing just how tight they can be in holding it all together. Here's Philadelphia's Good Graces.

tennis - 'origins'

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Let's have some indie pop before we go to bed (Their new album was released yesterday, as it happens).