Jealous of all those in the vicinity of Glasgow tomorrow for this event.
Music
I’d love to embed this video but The Space site doesn’t let you unfortunately. Instead, if you click the image you can watch Raj Pannu‘s excellent 18 minute cut up of vintage Old Grey Whistle Test footage. You may know of Raj as the AV tour DJ with Coldcut or maybe witnessed one of his amazing solo DJ sets over the years in clubs all over the world. Either way, this is worth 20 minutes of your time.
Love Reso‘s stuff, always interesting to see where he’s going with things. Great cover on this one, slightly reminiscent of the Tame Impala one I posted below with the pink/red sticker and abstract image.
The track, ‘Check 1,2’, is a killer slice of 100bpm break beat thunder which reminds be of some of those old Prodigy B-sides that were better than the A-sides. Remixes come from Starkey, DJ Kentaro, Emperor and Danny Scrilla and it’s out on Civil Music on 12″ and DL with an album forthcoming.
Really liking the new Tame Impala album, ‘Lonerism’, especially the glam-stomp of the single, ‘Elephant’. Love these covers too, not sure who did them but I’m guessing it’s the excellent Leif Podhajsky who did some for them before maybe?
Documentary in the works about the Stones Throw label – Kickstarter fund to finish it too if you want to help out and grab some goodies.
The forthcoming Pepe Deluxé ‘Queen of the Wave’ deluxe edition will have an EP of easy listening versions of album tracks by the mysterious Yol Gorro. Here’s the front and back covers, follow the progress of the edition on Facebook as more is revealed weekly in the run up to release.
Trevor Jackson‘s Playgroup recording project now has its entire back catalogue available digitally via Juno with an extensive list of remixes and versions of several tracks. Exclusive unreleased mixes and acappellas are up for sale including a track with Madlib that didn’t make the album and the ‘Hooked On U / Mad Love’ ‘release’ above. Trevor has also just designed the DJ Shadow compilation ‘Reconstructed’ with its lavish box set, seen here on the Creative Review blog.
Be very quick if you want one of these, The Herbaliser have their new LP (designed by yours truly) up for pre-order. If you want CD or download, you’ll be fine, but…
If you want vinyl you have two options: regular double LP with full printed inner sleeves in a screen printed sleeve – only 450 copies though.
Or there’s the super limited (50 copies) deluxe version which comes with hand stenciled covers by Snub23, a signed A2 poster, a T-shirt and a download card. More photos when I actually have a physical copy! Order here (red ‘shop’ tab on the top right) – actually I think you can only order the regular vinyl right now…
My god this is beautiful. Whilst we all wait for Boards of Canada to release another record there’s plenty to keep you going on this compilation. Made by members of the Twoism.org forum it’s vol.5 in an ongoing series of tracks inspired by the Scottish duo and the standard is very high. How I’ve missed these I don’t know but all 5 are available to hear and you can buy physical CD copies too. Look and Listen here.
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How can my interest not be piqued by this playful pun on Eno & Byrne‘s masterpiece when it’s coupled with Radiophonic tape manipulation and my friend Robin The Fog – BBC employee and sidekick to Jonny Trunk on the OST show?
“‘Ghosts Of Bush’ was created entirely using the natural acoustic sounds of Bush House, the iconic home for the past seven decades of the BBC World Service which will shortly be closing its doors for the last time. All of the sounds were captured in the small hours of the morning in empty offices, corridors, stairwells and other hidden corners by a Studio Manager working overnight. These recordings were then dubbed onto quarter-inch tape in the basement studio deep in the bowels of the South-East wing using two of the surviving reel-to-reel machines.”
You can read more about how it was put together as well as hear the whole album on Robin’s blog – The Fog Signals.
I’ve featured work by Jude Greenaway, before, his promo for Pendulum‘s ‘Coffin‘ last summer was fantastic. Long time associate of The Light Surgeons, owner of the Yellow Machines label and music maker under the name Scanone.
Now he’s put together a DVD of 13 unreleased experimental / cinematic audio tracks that have been worked on visually by 12 directors and collectives. The tracks span a 10 year period and this project has taken four years to put together overall. Catch a sample in the trailer below and pre-order the DVD here.
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Loving these graphics for Baltimore band The Flying Eyes, they were done by Kiryk although the posters may be by someone else.
Only just heard this and, as an unashamed fan of The Amorphous Androgynous, they continue to deliver. This wasn’t what I was expecting at all and the opening section was a shock. After the 5 minute mark however it takes flight and starts moving in all sorts of directions, passing through early 90’s ambient, late 80’s Italo house, 70’s disco (!) and their usual 60’s psyche stardust. If this and their earlier ‘Shoot A Hole In The Sun’ remix are anything to go by then their remix of Noel Gallagher’s album will be fantastic. Oh yeah, this is out Monday on the b-side of his ‘Everybody’s On The Run’ 12″, CD and download on his Sour Mash label.
Kid Koala‘s new album ’12-Bit Blues’ is due to drop on September 17th and a couple of tracks, ‘2-Bit Blues’ / ‘6-Bit Blues’ (can you see a pattern forming here?) are doing the rounds on promo. I discovered the film, ‘The Cameraman’s Revenge’, a few years back – a story of insect infidelity, animated in Russia a hundred years ago this year! I thought it was the perfect pairing with Koala’s music as he has a, as yet unreleased, project involving an insect band in the works, made entirely from 3D models.
The original film is 11 minutes long so I had to speed it up dramatically to fit it to the music but the original was silent and it invokes those early examples of film where they set the speeds too fast. I must stress, this isn’t the official video or anything, just something I made for my DJ sets. You can pre-order the album here, which comes with a bonus flexi disc and DIY cardboard turntable that will play the disc.
The Soundsci LP is finally out today! Ex-Dynamic Syncopation producer Jonny Cuba and current part-Herbaliser DJ Ollie Teeba – alongside ex-Mass Influence MC Audessey, U-George and Oxygen. The deluxe bundle I posted about a few weeks back sold out in a day but the regular vinyl and digital is out now. Here’s a little snippets mix by Ollie Teeba to wet the taste buds…
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and an even longer version on Soundcloud…
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I have to listen to this several times a day at the moment, the video makes it even better.
I’m lucky enough to have heard most of this album and it’s excellent, another step on and up for Eric. Set for release on September 18th, a limited version will come with a DIY card turntable and flexi disc plus interior drawings and paintings of kid koala’s studio, of which I contributed one piece.
Very much looking forward to this, available August 6th from ZTT
CD1: Frankie Goes To Hollywood in The Pleasuredome, a Zang Tuum Tumb singlette in five parts: Happy Hi! (All in the Body), The Soundtrack from Bernard Rose’s Video of the Welcome to the Pleasuredome single, Get It On, Welcome to the Pleasure Dome (How to Remake the World), Happy Hi! (All in the Mind); Relax (International); The Power of Love (I’ll Protect You From The Holocaust) can be read in various ways but, for the sake of CD indexing, has six distinct sections: The Power of Love (extended, singlette – as opposed to 12” – version), The World is My Oyster (Trapped), Holier Than Thou (FGTH’s Christmas message), The World is My Oyster (Scrapped), Holier Than Thou (further festive messaging), The Power of Love (instrumental, singlette version); The World is My Oyster (at its full length); Don’t Lose What’s Left, Rage Hard + ++ *.
CD2: Extracts from Relax, From Soft to Hard, Dry to Moist: Relax (Sex Mix), Later On (from One September Monday), Ferry Cross The Mersey (…and here I’ll stay); Music from and inspired by Two Tribes (Keep The Peace): Two Tribes (singlette extracts), One February Friday (singlette extracts), War (somewhere between Hidden and Hiding); Further elements from The Liverpool Look: Warriors of the Wasteland (Compacted), Do You Think I’m Sexy?, Watching the Wildlife (Voiceless).
It’s fast becoming a vintage year for great album releases and today, another is finally unleashed into the world. I’ve said more than enough about Aaron Thomason over the past years, aside from actually collaborating with him on the multi-track ‘Magpie Music’ on my last album as well as getting him to remix ‘The Illectrik Hoax’, and his second album release lives up to, and expands, on the first. I think I have about three different versions of this record on my hard drive from the last 18 months at least, each one has built upon the preceding version and got better and better. There is no filler on this record and it’s attracting some very favourable reviews, check out the lush gatefold vinyl and CD too!
You can finally buy it today after being on pre-order for a while, particularly from the Equinox online store, but if you order via the HHV.DE site then you have a chance to get a limited edition bundle CD with the album preview mini mix I did alongside vinyl or CD album plus a poster too.
Out today, on Catskillz, lots of remixes, the Husky Rescue one actually holds a candle to the original (no mean feat)
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