Ah man, this is so nice, i actually have a night at home, and for the
first time in so long, i have nothing to do but relax and listen to music.
Its excellent! Supping my beer and smoking my *ahem* cigarette, heres some
thoughts on recent musics i been listening to..
Monolake - Polygon Cities - this is by far the best purely electronic
record i have bought or listened to it in so long. Its not trying to be
clever or different, just nice clean and new sounding
analog and digital noise and in a completely classic sorta techno
structure. You know someone has some magic when they can still sound mind
blowing original while working within a quite distinctive genre.
Modeselektor - Hello Mom! - I was really interested in hearing this after
the recent discussions on here, and have to agree that its excellent as
well, also very fresh sounding, sorta mashup but in a more
refined manner. For the people that havent heard it, its like a melting
pot of comedy skit intros, chunky tech breaks, ragga sounds, hip hop
stylings, and low down dirty techno basslines. Entertaining
and excellent. [ i have this annoying habit of heading up to Glasgow for
excellent gigs and then missing the headline band - Autechre a few months
back, and this time Modeselektor!!! argh ]
Murcof - Remembranza - I only bought this a few days back and havent given
it much chance yet, but i kinda feel like i want my money back! Its all
quite nice and well done, but it sounds like outtakes from the
first album, same formula to it all, but like big long 10 minute ambient
tracks that just seem to meander.
Small Melodies - this a compilation on Spexx records out of Japan, more
microsound, featuring Sogar, Taylor Deupree, Oren Ambarchi, Fenton (whose
album i loved), Anderegg, Stephan Matthieu, and a few others. I've heard
lots of ace things about it, but i have to admit, again, i feel like i
wasted my money. Its all nice and its exactly what you would expect from
the artists, but somehow i just felt it was going to have some progression
to it, or something new, but its just so predictable.
sun0))) - Black One - I fucking love this band! they're just nuts. I
really liked that thread on here last week about noise bands, and wanted
to join in, but just didnt have time to type. Theres a massive
crossover here in London and Brighton for noise and electronic shows, and
i really think its the way forward. So much electronic music has become
too clean, the sound pallette to easy to digest and not very challenging,
all the things that made electronic music so appealing and original in the
early nineties, after being repeated for 15 years lose a lot of their
appeal. I think a classic good example of crazy punk noise and electronics
mixing well in a live environment is..
DJ Scotch Egg - KFC Core - amazing live, so bloody entertaining and fun.
If you havent seen or heard this guy, basically he has two gameboys and a
mixer, producing some seriously noisey 8bit gabba beats and
feedback, while he has a megafone and a mic and shouts fuck-off a lot
while jumping around or fiddling with the gameboys (oh yeah and throwing
Scotch Eggs at the crowd (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_egg)
sometimes). Don't get me wrong, its definitelty novelty value, but
Shige/Scotch Egg has a million other musical
projects going on, and hes just having fun. I think i posted the link for
his video before?
http://www.nothing-to-see-here.com/scotchegg.php
what else? *flicks to itunes*
Oh yeah, speaking of sun0))), theres another really good Stephen O'Malley
project called Khanate, which is kinda similar to sun0))) but with, i
dunno, its sorta different but not that much, itsa bit more slightly,
slightly uptempo! maybe more evil or something..
Danger Doom -The Mouse And The Mask - DJ Danger Mouse and MF Doom
collaborate on a most excellent hip hop adventure. Classic sounding hip
hop funky breaks, with the lush comedic voice of Doom over the top.
Thats not much of a review! but yeah, i'm enjoying it a lot actually.
Aiiight, i'm tired typing, if you're still reading here, you're probably
bored as well! I found this site today from Jayce Claytons blog -
http://www.blentwell.com/
Lots of DJ mixes, in different styles but there were three sorta
booty/grime mashups i thought were really good:
Dj Family - Ghetto Bang Down
DJ Cutlass Supreme - 30 min workout
The TAPE aka Robert Koch - In the Mix
What else is new and good out there, any more recommendations? agree or
disagree with any of these opinions?
cheers,
thor
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