Always loved Joker’s stuff on Kapsize (and his awesome showing for hyperdub)… am posting this not even having yet heard the track - will add review up here later - but bound to be a purple infused winner.
Sounds like 2040s G-Funk to me. Definitely driving music. Am liking this a fair bit but not as much as some of the earlier tunes. Need to get a better rip! Yeah man, chrome wheels, neon, late nights, beaches, west coast & clear roads. Repeat plays and its warming on me. Tune sounds like its about to fall apart at the seems, like its being ridden to some limit. Niice man…
I totally didn’t get what this track was based upon until it was pointed out to me… [[spoiler alert!]]… it’s an awesome reworking of the utter classic track Maps by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. But it’s pulled apart by surgeons and reassembled by poets.
Those guys at Boomkat are always after my money… it’s not enough that I sign up to their mailing list and get a couple of extra email recommendations each week, no - I have to follow them on twitter too. Honestly, is there no escape? And the reviews are never less than gushing in their praise for everything…”this new single by handfart might seem a little pricey at £30 but for our money it’s the best thing this Belgium 17 piece have released for months”… etc etc etc…
The problem is that there is so much good music around and Boomkat distribute very good stuff indeed. This always leads me to do a doubletake at the end of the month when I look at my bank balance before shaking my head and muttering stuff about trying to reign in my despicable habit. I’m sure that Boomkat do stock some pretty ropey product but, for the life of me, I can’t remember buying a duff record off of them.
Usually I know what I’m getting but every so often I’ll read a review, take a bit of a punt, and top up the basket (to hit that all important £50 free P&P target) with an unknown. Paco Sala was such a buy, after some heady praise from the site, and - boy - am I glad I did!
After a few plays I couldn’t escape from the likeness to Hype Williams/Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland - not so much in the sound being produced, although there are touches which are very alike, but it the process and methods to get to the sound. The most obvious connection is the sound-shift during the middle of (one of the highlights) “Tre’s Future First” but overall this LP is far more softer and dreamy, a lot less hip hop, than any thing Dean & Inga have done. Closing track “A Home For Paco Sala” is one of the bext things I’ve heard this year - really quite emotional. Completely recoemmend this LP and it truly stands up to the hyperbole that greated it April.
Lone (@Lone) is one of those artists that I really should have been checking out a few years back. After picking up Galaxy Garden (on a bit of a whim) I guess I’ll be delving into the back catalogue and further denting that bank balance cus this LP is fucking ace.
Can’t say how his sound has progressed but to there ears I hear a lot of Boards of Canada, fair bit of IDM and kinda soft sounding jungle breaks. Really day-glo colours though; the album sleeve does not lie! The cover’s by the awesome-o artist Konx-Om-Pax (check out his vimeo stuff here)
Amongst the best tracks are 2 featuring Machinedrum and here’s one of em now… “As a Child”…
And one more for you - 80s wonkiness with nice little triple time touches - “Lying in the Reeds”…
Of course, recent music history doesn’t really exist anymore. Sure, there might be certain strands of music out there who’s legacy can be traced along a nice lineal progression from what proceeded it to what preceded that, but this seems like the exception.
It wasn’t always so; archaeologists have uncovered evidence that *the kids* used to buy what was for sale, and what was for sale was what was NOW, and they started bands that sounded like NOW but they got it wrong, or did something different, and NOW became THEN, and there was a new NOW, and so on.
But with the internet and the rise of availability of everything came a dismantling of time itself, so that what was NEW wasn’t necessarily what was NOW. Kids might be seriously digging early Roxy Music and say YES! - this is the sound but I can take that somewhere different - or they might hear Gamelan music and think the same, or New Jack Swing, or Skiffle, or whatever…
100% Silk feels like a label bringing together artists who just discovered 1988-92 (and I might have my years off there, but fuck it) and thought DUDE, lets make this dance music - the vibe is there, the tech is different, the fidelity is definitely on the lo side… but goddamit it can still be pretty fly. People with a weird idea of history/legacy might shout foul play and say that these guys haven’t paid their dues or been with some scene for long enough to make this music… feels like an odd argument but hey, there are some whiney aresholes out there.
Is it dance music? Yes. I can dance to it (well most of it - *stares at Cuticle*), it has repetitive beats, electronic underpinning, blah blah, yes, it’s dance music. Sub-genre-lising I guess you could go with house, techno, italo, and if you were feeling waspish about the whole thing you could prefix those with a ‘hipster-’ but, really, you suck if you do.
Latest 12” I picked up was the rather excellent Bobby Browser offering; “Just Browsing” which contains 4 tracks of disco flecked loveliness - for yr delectation here’s my pick of the bunch - No Appointments…
My great grandfather was a man of business and opportunity, he never referred to himself as a self made man, but that is what he was. He passed down advice to us when we would gather around his chair in my grandparents’ house, which was his house before and maybe still was. He would tell us never to look a gift horse in the mouth, seize the day, and he would extol the importance of sound investments. He had much to say about sound investments and all of it we listened to in wide eyed silence although we never understood any of it and even now I would be lying if I said that this had changed any.
He grew up outside a village not far from here, the old farm buildings where he was born have since been swallowed up by the village borders, as has the farm and the next farm along. You wouldn’t know that there had been farms there whatsoever, unless you could look down from high above and then the patterns of the old hedgerows which still subdivide the old fields, now housing estates, suggested it.
His family had worked the land, but not been landowners themselves, for generations living in farm houses and other farm out buildings for as far back as the family history went, which was not far.My great grandfather had tasted manual farm labour and found it not to his taste, and he had also received some schooling and decided that such work was below him. He looked to the squires and the masters who owned the big houses and all of the land and decided that this seemed a far more ideal way to live than the endless toil of his parents.
Quite where all these ideas came from I do not know. I imagine that many other children of the time didn’t much like their lot but, as it was theirs, they held tight onto it for fear that someone else might take it from them and leave them lot-less. Others would have decided it was their place to keep quiet and get on with such a life, some may have turned to crime to take what was not rightly theirs, but I cannot imagine that there were many in the entire country who would have been so set on achieving the impossible task of self improvement.
My great aunt Lisa said that there has been rumour that he had been born to a wealthy Lord and Lady who had six children already and were too old to raise any more, she once told us that he had been left as a baby in the field and discovered, adopted by his new parents who were themselves barren. But no-one believes such a story unless they want to trick themselves into thinking that only a man born of the upper classes would think to one day reach to the upper branches of that tree and pick the juiciest fruits.
#welove2011 - Kuedo - Flight Path… from last year, but just getting a rewind recently… pure blade runner electro class. http://www.last.fm/tag/welove2011
