If you are a fan of I Am Kloot then I think you will enjoy this track from The Walkmen. Bittersweet lyrics twinged with regret and a lo-fi acoustic guitar. It's making it all sound so simple that is the trick.
11 May 2012
lund quartet
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Eponymously named, this is a very trippy, downtempo album that fuses jazz with trip-hop to produce a quite stunning little album. Of special note is track 2, Kulde. It's extremely good with a piano score given a very mellow turntable scratching as accompaniment. Do yourself a favour and buy the album and support real music.
10 May 2012
barbarossa - 'butterfly plague'
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James Mathe returns in the guise of his alter ego with this song from his latest EP released next month. It has all the tell-tale signs of a Mathe production too. It's electronic but with a lo-fi feel, the confident yet understated vocals and a warmth that you just can't fake.
regina spektor - 'call them brothers'
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This track is a bonus on the deluxe version of her new album 'What We Saw From the Cheap Seats' and features the vocals of Jack Dishel.
09 May 2012
another day, another train journey
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This time I'm Birmingham bound. All this commuting does afford me the luxury of listening to a lot of music though and my album of choice today is Senior by Royksopp. It's a more purely electronica album than it's older yet quixotically named sister album 'Junior'. It reminds me in part of the Kompakt compilations in design and depth but also in part of the recent Orb albums. I guess I'm trying to say, albeit very badly, that it's an ambient dancey album.
This is 'Tricky Two'.
07 May 2012
ricardo villalobos - dexter (robag wruhme mix)
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This is playing right now on my stereo. It's track 3 on Wruhme's Wuppdeckmischmampflow album and is an exquisitely mixed tune on an incredibly well compiled album. The album is so fat with beats and percussion yet retains a minimalism at its core that allows a Villalobos track to feel right at home within.
and.id is in the house
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DJing is serious business but nothing winds me up more than prima donnas on the 1s and 2s. You know the types, too cool even for the crowds they play to. That's why my heart lifts when you come across videos like this one showing And.Id in action. There's some seriously funky music and smiles everywhere.
As a bonus, here's the song he's playing ('Black Mamba') in full. Actually, it's the complete EP.
06 May 2012
memories, like the corners of my mind
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Shoreditch in the early 90s was a crazy place. There were still large areas that were yet to be gentrified, neighbouring Hoxton felt like the Wild West to a suburban boy from Sussex and the rave scene was coming to an almighty hedonistic end. This is a grainy amateur video of a rave in a warehouse in Underwood Street back in '94. My memories of those times are hazy. I didn't go very often as they felt cliquey and there was often a slightly menacing undertone that was thankfully (and deliberately) absent from the early days of the scene. The monochrome sets the mood well, I think.
http://www.dazeddigital.com/projects/secret-history/22451/shoreditch-rave-
(You'll need to follow the link as the video owner has disabled embedding).
mississippi delta
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I've been listening this morning to Bobbie Gentry. Cold, grey Sundays are made for sounds like this; the roast is in the oven, a cup of Earl Grey tea to hand and the keywords are 'chill' and 'relax'.' This is the first track on the album and was Bobbie G's first major success. She always drew inspiration from her Mississippi roots where music tinged with melancholy meets a languidness that only living in sunny climes can bring. She also brings that Deep South bloody-mindedness that shines through.
05 May 2012
have i ever told you how much i love elvis?
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It's true. I adore him. Here are a couple reasons why.
Just check this video out. What a star. One of my all-time favourite Elvis songs.
skatalites live in concert
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The weather is grim so what better way to cheer yourself up than listening to the Skatalites in concert. Here they are performing in Belgium and what a sound, what a collection of killer tunes and just how tight are they all?
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