The sound of Curious Curious w/ David Barbarossa

It gives a pretty accurate description of what we're about over at Curious Curious [vinyl only, drunken mixing, abrupt stops & all] & -as stated elsewhere- the person who IDs the most tracks by Friday morning [& mails us via myspace or at curiouscuriousclub@gmail.com] wins 2 guest places to Heartbreak on Friday night.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/56054806172613e1/

Juan Kerr presents….A blog-standard mix

Morning all,

I decided to try out a mix on Ableton for the first time. I haven’t figured out how to mix properly yet but thought Id stick this on the blog as the tunes are decent and I am a well-talented cross-fader. Feedback appreciated:

1) Junior Boys – Parallel Lines
2) The Jellies – Jive Baby on a Saturday Night
3) The Laughing Light of Plenty – Mother for you
4) Fol Chen – The Believers
5) Magazine – thank you falletinme be mice
6) Todd Terje and Prins Thomas – Reinbagan
7) The Laughing Light of Plenty – The Rose
8) Harry Thumann – Sphinx
9) Dennis Parker – New York by night
10) 16 Bit – where are you?
11) Bangkok Impact – Junge Damne mit Freundliche Tel
12) Mathias Aguayo – Walter Neff
13) Hot Chip – Don’t Dance
14) Alden Tyrell and David Vunk – Lord of the Cockrings
15) In Flagranti – Business Acumen (Holy Ghost mix)
16) Betty Botox – Impossible Dreams

http://www.zshare.net/audio/5609570358cc9b7f/

Ten Tracks

Throughout the month of February, our chums at Ten Tracks have invited us to curate our own channel. For those unaware of the concept, the basic premise is that you can sign up and pay £1 for ten individual tracks - this then gets divided equally amongst each artist. Soma and Optimo have both curated channels before now, so we're in good company.

There's not much you can buy with a pound these days - it even costs an incredulous £1.20 for a single on Glasgow's antique Subway. Over the next month however, you can immerse yourself in just-under-an-hours' worth of ten top quality pieces of music from some of our favourite artists and labels.

Spanning everything from folk, disco and psyche to rockabilly, synth-pop, and more - some are completely exclusive tracks, unable to purchase or download anywhere - all for the princely sum of £1. Here's a quick summary of each artist and track - please excuse the Nathan Barley-esque chat on the website;

Ben Butler & Mousepad - Super Motion [Unsigned]

Joe Howe aka GERMLIN / one half of Glasgow noise-duo Gay Against You has came into his own under his Ben Butler & Mousepad guise.

Super Motion is a great slab of synth-funk with a killer hook Prince would be proud of.

http://www.myspace.com/benbutlerandmousepad

Betamax Warriors - Dayman [Tidepool]

Drawing inspiration from the likes of Malcolm Middleton, Border Community and My Bloody Valentine, Betamax Warriors is made up of Glasgow based Richard Skinner aka Eddie Cointreau.

The catchy Dayman will drift by casually upon first listen - returning to plague you for months to come.

http://www.myspace.com/betamaxwarriors
http://www.tide-pool.ca

Brain Machine - Eternal Night [Thisisnotanexit]

Apparently hailing from the Federated State of Micronesia, the mysterious Brain Machine are at home on the very excellent Thisisnotanexit label.

This epic piece of kosmische could be comfortably filed alongside the great 70's pioneers of the sound - and sit just as well besides a more recent release from the Kompakt label.

http://www.myspace.com/brainmachinemusic
http://www.thisisnotanexit.net

Congregation - Never Forgive [Bronzerat]

South London duo Congregation, make infectious blues music unlike anyone else this side of the millennium.

H&P has been championing this stomping rockabilly number as often as possible over the past year and has been met by rapturous approval every time.

http://www.myspace.com/congregationband
http://www.bronzerat.co.uk

Fantastikoi Hxoi - Swma [Unsigned]

Fantastikoi Hxoi hails from Athens and came to H&P's attention towards the end of last year with his very special psychedelic edits of Greek pop songs from the 60's and 70's...

This awesome piece of electronic-psych reflects influences including Portishead, Brinkmann and Four Tet.

http://www.myspace.com/fantastikoihxoi

Galaxy Toobin' - Entering Snake Pass [Creme Organisation]

Made up of Eliot Lipp (the acclaimed electronic producer) and William Burnett (AKA Grackle / Speculator), Galaxy Toobin's album was essential listening from last year.

On Entering Snake Pass, they do their best Tangerine Dream impression and pull it off with more panache than their sonic forebearers.

http://www.myspace.com/rayannegraff

Grackle - Jungle (T. Keeler & Capablanca Rework) [Discos Capablanca]

Hugo Capablanca's parties and disco adventures in Berlin are the stuff of legend. Teaming up with T. Keeler (a Swedish producer who's recently relocated to Glasgow), they've reworked this Grackle track for this first release on his label, Discos Capablanca.

This epic piece of shimmering balearic disco is perfect for summer - and warms up winter.

http://www.myspace.com/discoscapablanca

Hidden Masters - Reading My Mind [Unsigned]

Garage-psych five piece Hidden Masters, reminisce a gone-by era from a LSD-fuelled 60's California - far removed from their native modern day Glasgow.

Fans of the very excellent Rubble / Pebbles / Nuggets compilations, look no further.

http://www.myspace.com/hiddenmasters

Jason Edwards - Hard Of Sand [Kill The DJ]

French folkster Mr Edwards released his very excellent Ouest album on the very excellent Kill The DJ label - confirming their love and recognition for all music, regardless of genre.

This very rare track is a Huntleys & Palmers exclusive.

http://www.myspace.com/jasonedwardsktdj
http://www.killthedj.com

Tokyo Knife Attack - Too Much Information [Pest Control Records]

Referencing 80's electro, disco and synth-pop, Tokyo Knife Attack has recently been causing quite a stir amongst Glasgow's underground and rightly so.

Too Much Information lays the flagstone for the label's intention to purvey 'electronic machine funk' - served here in huge quantity.

http://www.myspace.com/tokyoknifemusak
http://www.pestcontrolrecords.com

Without further ado, you can register and pay your pound here; http://www.tentracks.co.uk/channel/huntleys-and-palmers-audio-club/huntleys-and-palmers-audio-club-february-09

Thanks, enjoy and feel free to pass on.


H&P

http://www.myspace.com/huntleysandpalmers
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=48856245377

Tub Time

Go home, run a bath, stick this tune on and get in.

Beach House - Gila:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/554523755f79019d/

J-Dilla Aka Jay-Dee

Three years ago to the day J-Dilla died. Arguably the best Hip-Hop producer ever and one of the most respected producers to also rhyme. He worked with various people from The Roots to Erykah Badu to A Tribe Called Quest and even grittier rappers like Guilty Simpson. Below is a few tracks that he produced and/or rapped in. Enjoy.

Deutsche Neue Welle

Drei Klangs Dimensionen - Rheingold (1980)

Wunderbar!

Junior!!!!

Ive always seen oft-hyped Junior Boys as the kind of band whose tunes sound better remixed than they do in their original form, and this album would appear to confirm this belief. The opening track is excellent but then the album loses its way a bit, with the omnipresent Italo synths becoming a bit tiresome. Yet paradoxically, many tracks are only a tweak and a re-rub away from minor greatness.

This the first track from their third album, 'Begone Dull Care', which is not due out till mid-March but was leaked this week. Fingers crossed for some mighty remixes:

Junior Boys - Parallel Lines

http://www.zshare.net/audio/55141425c9bf2af9/

Homeless Beatboxer

This guy shits all over vocoders, auto-tunes and even some drum machines.

Telefon Tel Aviv-Charles Cooper R.I.P

Having only been introduced to the said electronic duo by a friend in the past few months, I was already keen to hear their latest album. Having just released it on Bpitch Control Records just a few weeks ago I'm sad to say that one half of the duo has passed away on the 27th of January 2009.

The sad news was released by Charlies TTA partner Joshua Eustis on their Myspace blog.



If you haven't checked them out already, do so now.



Telefon Tel Aviv Website

Myspace.com/telefontelaviv

To Be Still

To Be Still is the follow-up to Alela Diane’s follow up to 2006 debut The Pirate’s Gospel which brought the Nevada City songwriter to our attention. She has embarked on a US tour with Blitzen Trapper and sets foot on British soil in late March.

To Be Still is released Monday February 16th on Names

White As Diamonds - Alela Diane