ESP

Progress? Maybe.

2009-11-08T18:45:00.004Z

OOOOPS

The 6 second drum

2009-09-24T10:56:00.003+01:00

Very interesting video relating to a drum loop that has been sampled so many times it has created subcultures.

It Felt Like A Kiss

2009-08-24T15:37:00.004+01:00

Slightly behind the times I may be, but nonetheless the film below is worthwhile watching, since the installation has long since finished.

It Felt Like a Kiss is a collaboration between master documentary maker Adam Curtis and Punchdrunk, with music by Damon Albarn.

It charts the story of America’s rise to power in the golden age of pop, and the unforeseen consequences it had on the world and in our minds. Beginning in 1959, the show spotlights the dreams and desires that America inspired during the ’60s, when the world began to embrace the country and its culture as never before.

The installation ran back in July as part of the Manchester International Festival and sprawled across 5 floors of a disused office building in Manchester. The experience blended music and interactive theatre with documentary; a disorientating whirl of a fairground ghost train, soundtracked omniously by Phil Spector's wall of sound.

Link to Adam Curtis' blog with 50 minute film It Felt Like A Kiss

He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss) - The Crystals

Come Fly With Me....

2009-08-21T15:55:00.003+01:00

You know that feeling when you’ve recently done a mix and you happen across an amazing tune merely a few weeks later………………

Jan Turkenburg and his pupils of the Geert Grote School – In my spaceship

Radiohead Return

2009-08-16T12:54:00.003+01:00

The best band in the world™ returned last week with their first release since the critically acclaimed 'In Rainbows' album. The track, a tribute to Harry Patch, is a noble gesture but comes over as a little too Band of Brothers for my liking. A second track, which seemed to slip under the media radar, is quintissential Radiohead: avant-garde production, melancholic melodies and apocalyptic vocals.

The news this week that the band will not release any more albums was met with dismay by some fans, but with singles like this, Im not sure it matters:

Radiohead - These Are My Twisted Words

The Greeks

2009-08-14T12:33:00.002+01:00

The Greeks are famous for many things:

*Philosophy
*Pythagoras
*Mount Olympus
*Mousakka
*Samaras

And more, but one of their biggest and best exports comes in the shape of Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou, better known as music composer extraordinaire Vangelis.

His most famous work is perhaps his synth-tastic Blade Runner score, with the title track spawning various remixes and "edits" over the years.

Below is the lead track taken off of one of his solo albums, Spiral.

Enjoy.

Vangelis-Spiral

Meth Disco: Two

2009-08-09T00:33:00.008+01:00

1. Dj Overdose – Face Down In The Water
2. Kelpe – Sickly Situation
3. Subway – Lowlife
4. Blancmange – The Game Above My Head
5. Ajello – 2k Lightyears (Altair Nouveau Version)
6. Michael Moorcock – Time Centre (Ivan Smagghe Rough Edit)
7. Moon Unit – Part Two
8. Colder - Colder

Meth Disco: Two by Padwantwo

Daft 'n' Disney

2009-08-01T13:42:00.004+01:00

After a widely acclaimed world tour, Daft Punk are back in the studios, working on the soundtrack for Disney's Tron Legacy scheduled for release in 2010. The title track has been re-worked by Punk chum Cryda Luv and whilst the track does not represent a massive departure from the Parisians' typical style, it is a marked improvement from their last legacy-sullying album. The track in question has the same down-tempo, head-nodding qualities of 'Da Funk' and elicted much excitement at a recent nerd convention where basement-dwellers were temporarily allowed out of their usual enclosed abodes to salivate at the unveiling of the bike from said movie.

Daft Punk - Tron Legacy Theme (Reworked by Cryda Luv)

This Is An Heart Attack

2009-07-20T10:26:00.003+01:00

Everybody will remember the moment it happened. Where they were when they heard the news, what they were doing and who broke it to them. As you will be no doubt aware by now, Neil Buchanan has died of heart failure and the art world is in mourning. He revolutionized the genre. Forget Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and all the rest of the turtles, Neil Buchanan was the Splinter of his trade, the finest drawer since the Ikea Galant. Neil takes to the grave a multitude of trade secrets – how did he manage to do his Big Art Attacks ? how was someone so aesthetically talented unable to paint over that hideous mole on his face? And why did he have that handicap-with-a-ice-lolly expression on him throughout the whole show?

Neil - you will be in our thought and prayers. As a tribute to the great man, I have crafted a mix out of paper mache, pritt stick and a few tunes. I know Neil would have loved it:

Juan Kerr presents This is an Heart Attack

1) Johnny Greenwood – There will be blood
2) Sidwho? – Time to go
3) Greg Hawkes – Niagara Falls/Twenty-seven shirts
4) Parva – Mossem-e-gol (the time of the blossom)
5) Thomas Bangalter – Club Soda
6) Lindstrom – The magnificent
7) Who made who – The plot (Noze remix)
8) Bat for Lashes – Pearl’s dream
9) Ada feat. Raz O’hara – Lovestoned
10) Syclops – Where’s Jason K
11) Speedking – Millionth monkey
12) Friends of Matthew – The calling (the other planet)
13) Peaches – Lose you
14) Au Revoir Simone – Shadows (It’s a fine line remix)
15) Cold Cave – The trees grew emotions and died
16) SIS – Trompeta
17) Two man sound – Que tal America
18) Bibio – Jealous of roses
19) Dusty Springfield – Baby blue
20) Flatt and Scruggs – Nashville blues

The Tube: Night In NYC

2009-07-14T22:26:00.004+01:00

Can't say I've ever wanted to spend a night out with Jools Holland or Leslie Ash, but this video has got me thinking otherwise.

Taken from a Tube Special in 1983, they are taken around 3 of the big NYC clubs Danceteria, Roxy and Paradise Garage, before the cabaret licenses came into force.

Some quality interview footage of the Peech Boys, Arthur Baker and Quando Quango too.

Space Cake Mix

2009-07-09T01:20:00.008+01:00

Selective Walking - Andrew Weatherall
Dubbed Out Games (Trentemøller's Unreleased Mix) - Chris Isaak
In Heaven (Lady In The Radiator Song) - David Lynch & Pete Ivers
Tatoo - The Rats
Lorelei ( Album Version) - Tom Tom Club
Suspiria - Goblin
Do It To The Max - 6th Borough Project
Vansbro Boogie - Västkustska Ryggdunkarsällskapet
Angela (Pilooski Remix) - Jarvis Cocker
Cosmos - Altair Nouveau
Prepare to Energize - Torch Song
Woman (A Makhnovshchina Repossession) - It's A Fine Line

Premier space cake by adamsrob

Download: Space cake mix

Alice

2009-06-22T13:06:00.004+01:00

Seen this video a while back and totally forgot it existed until today, so I thought I'd share it.

Made up almost entirely of sounds from Alice in Wonderland by a guy called Pogo.

If that hasn't spooked you, then this will.

Briliant stuff.

Seedy Amor

2009-06-20T12:50:00.011+01:00

French crooner and ultimate seed-athon Serge Gainsbourg has always been a man associated with poppy French love songs with a hint of sleaze sprinkled in there for good measure.

And in 1986 he showcased his true abilities to swoon the ladies with a drunken approach to the then superstar Whitney Houston on national television in France. Clearly pumped full of Bordeaux's finest, the lothario professed his intentions from the off in this delightful little video you can see HERE.

But this brazen sexual claim was clearly not a one off for Msr. Gainsbourg. A quick look at some of his album concepts are undoublty some of the seediest but hilarious ideas ever.

The album Histoire de Melody Nelson released in 1971 had this concept:

"The Lolita-esque pseudo-autobiographical plot involves the middle-aged Gainsbourg unintentionally colliding his Rolls Royce Silver Ghost into teenage nymphet Melody Nelson's bicycle, and the subsequent seduction and romance that ensues."

The popular French song "Les sucettes" was written by Serge for France Gall in 1966 and the song went on to become a national success, but what France Gall did not know was that the song was interwoven with innuendos and sexual motifs, and this might not sound too bad, so far it sounds like a normal chart song, but this was in fact a childrens song. Had Serge crossed the line? Maybe. But his ability to craft sleaze-drenched love songs was a talent.

A quick scan of his (C:) Drive would have been in order had he been alive today but we can't knock this French Adonis as he is far too much of a hero to many men and he made some excellent music.

Serge Gainsbourg-Cargo Culte

Français what you see

2009-06-19T12:05:00.002+01:00

Living in Madrid, I have noticed that English is seen to be the ‘cool’ language. If you want have your finger on the pulse of the plaza, then you need to have the admirable ability to sporadically thrust English terms into your day-to-day chit chat. It goes without saying that technology has a huge influence on this linguistic invasion (email, internet, fax, etc. are all acceptable terms in Spanish), but you do find that many other terms are used incorrectly – someone is called a ‘freaky’ rather than a ‘freak’ and a service is known as ‘alto standing’ which means ‘high level’ – no surprise then that Spanish came bottom of the league in an EU survey in 2006 with a mere 22% classing themselves as able to speak English fluently.

Are the Brits any better? Don’t be daft. The Anglophonic inability to speak a foreign language is matched only by the colossal arrogance of many Brits abroad who expect to be spoken to in English wherever they go. Yet paradoxically foreign languages have penetrated the upper echelons of the English language. Open any high-brow newspaper and they will talk condescendingly of Schadenfreude, cause célèbres, and aficionados. Indeed, don’t even bother reading anything by those patronising pricks at The Economist unless you have four foreign-language dictionaries at hand.

Anyway, the point is that musicians have adopted this trend too, believing that dropping some foreign lingo in their tunes will give them that extra kick in the cool category. Madonna famously apologized in 5 languages for kidnapping African children at the beginning of Sorry, Kylie famously told the French nation in this song that she wasn’t aware of the reasons for which at the age of 68 she still looks like Dick van Dyke’s daughter from 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang', and Dublin’s finest diva and philanthropic cockbag Bono showed the Hispanic world what a penis-face he was (as if anyone else was in doubt) by failing to count beyond three in Spanish at the start of this dreadful track.

Fortunately some bands have taken the foreign influence in the correct manner. Step forward the eloquently named Au Revoir Simone whose brilliant new album Still Night, Still Light is so warm-hearted and affectionate, you will feel like your head is being gently stroked by a group of Egyptian slave-ladies at a pyramid-period party.

This is the opening track:

Au Revoir Simone – Another Likely Story

Altair Nouveau

2009-06-18T20:50:00.013+01:00

In City of Glass, the first part of Paul Auster's mind-bending New York Trilogy there is a storyline about a man who longs for a language that is not already loaded with meaning. It is a reasonable desire (if a tad futile). But, instead of writing a scholarly essay on the subject, he has a kid (not on his own), who he locks in a basement room, only ever feeding, though never communicating with. Unsurprisingly, this did not result in said child achieving lexical putiry, but created a very pasty, oddball who had the father locked up at the first opportunity.

Nevertheless, there is the seed of a very good idea in this. Not the language part, which is an awful idea unless you are an overly zealous disciple of Jacques Derrida. Even if the kid stumbles upon a lyrical clarity, they will merely be using a bunch of sounds, all but meaningless in the outside world. At best this will result in severe bullying at school, at worst it is a one way ticket to Hermitsville.

For the record, the good idea is not the locking up of the kid part either, let's ditch the child bit and the locking-up side of things too. Although we are being strictly hypothetical, there is no need to do so in a way that may mistakenly alert the authorities. What it got me thinking about was, what it would be like if you could completely control the musical influences of a musician, so that the only ingredients that went into their music were of your choosing.

This makes for a very enjoyable game that you can play with friends on those drunken evenings when everyone keeps stopping each other's tunes halfway through, going "no, honestly, this is amazing..." The way it works is that you get a pen and a bit of paper and before putting on a track you write down a maximum of three influences that you, as hypothetical musical overlord of the act you are about to play, allowed them to listen to when growing up. You play the track and your listeners have to guess at least two of the three influences (they can be acts, genres, single tracks, whole albums etc.) you have written on the paper. If they do not guess right, you get to play a track by each of the two or three influences they did not manage to guess. If your compadres feel strongly that you are wrong, or that they too, see threads of influence in the music then they can also play tracks.

The following is an example:

Say the tune i am playing is Cosmos by Altair Nouveau. Before having done so, I would have written on a piece of paper the following three things:

Logic System- Unit

A Guy Called Gerald- Voodoo Ray

Omar S- Psychotic Photosynthesis

Download, listen and once you have the jist of it, then play with friends. The overall objective of this wonderful game, is to allow you and your crew to get knee deep in each other's musical worlds.

*Please note that the people you play this with must be relatively close friends who you know are into music. It will be a disaster otherwise. Also, do not play this at parties, as you and your friends will seem like muso wankers and everyone will hate you.

Tinklin' the Ivories

2009-06-16T00:19:00.007+01:00

They say everything is cyclic, and that often tends to be true. But periodic function has a lot to answer for, who could have foreseen the re- emergence of flourescent gym socks or Peter Andre?

What with the inevitable fall-out of the economic climate only now starting to come to into focus, what can history teach us? A recent expose of Thatcher's legacy in The Guardian offered a broad landscape of opinion that her anti- culture stance actually acted to create a fertile environment for some fine British independent films and music.

But come 2009, with a sleaze- ridden cabinet, inevitable vultures circling round No. 10 and rise of the BNP what can Gordy do?

Get some musical accompaniment and maybe take a leaf out of the PNP in Jamaica.
They were boosted by the vocal encouragement of one Cutty Ranks, seen here in raucous form at a PNP Rally in 1986...

So with Gordon on the rocks and his concern for recent #BGT finalist Susan Boyle, surely a sly ploy to boost his ratings and provide his D- REAM moment, may I suggest he takes a look in the history books and see a return to piano- driven house is surely on the cards...

Two recent efforts from Aeroplane and Joakim, heavy on the ol' joanna.

Baby I Can't Stop (Aeroplane Remix) - Lindstrøm & Solale

Joakim - Watermelon Bubblicious

Bin Laden and his Bush

2009-06-12T16:27:00.003+01:00

In pre-9/11 days, when the world was free of terrorism and evil-doers, Peaches had the filthiest mouth in the global playground. She could deflower a ninety-year-old nun with one flick of her acid tongue and stoked controversy by rapping about Fatherfuckers in support of mistreated paedophile priests. Yet after the September 11 attacks, Peaches suddenly found that she was moved down the pecking order as Osama bin Laden took the title of jihad jobby-mouth, splurging out expletives against infidels and beardless barbarians in videos shot in glamorous mountain locations. Peaches embarked on a halal-style beef with bin Laden to regain her cred, which culminated in a ‘rap battle’ between the two in a Dubai nightclub. Bin Laden, under his hip-hop pseudonym ‘The Desert Diss-troyer’, prevailed after a series of memorable lines which left Peaches in tatters:

“I’ll pull down your pants the way I pulled down those towers,
Make your career disappear like a female Dane Bowers.
You live in a mansion, but I hide out in my cave,
Smoking opium all day; more drugged-up than an early-90s rave.”

But there was someone in the crowd that night with a weapon of mass destruction. It was Cupid and he fired his arrow straight through Peaches’ heart. From that day forward, she was infatuated with bin Laden and the gray-haired guerrilla instantly appeared at the top of her ‘most wanted’ list. But it was not to be. Bin laden fled into the mountains of Tora Bora that same night, leaving Peaches with only a note that contained his address and msn nickname. It is said that Peaches, a sufferer of an acute form of dyslexia, was last spotted in Ibiza, weeping outside the famous seaside nightspot Bora Bora. She wrote this song as a tribute to her Saudi soul-mate, in the hope that their paths may cross again one day:

Peaches - lose you

Big Apple Reppin' (via Brooklyn, Stockholm + Goteborg)

2009-06-10T23:46:00.011+01:00

Many apologies for my tardy return to the heady climes of this blog, times are a tuff out there, got to make an honest crust. Enough of my grim up north chat though! - here are some top drawer NYC inspired tunes I've been digging recently.

The Phenomenal Handclap Band have been quite highly regarded for some time now - and rightly so - just the right amount of Old Skool/ Art School NYC aesthetic pioneered by Tom Tom Club with just a whiff of New Yooik attitude.

Anne Margret has been a Hollywood staple since the 1960s when the Stockholmer got noticed on the arm of Elvis after Viva Las Vegas (1964) and subsequent appearences on the Flintstones and the Cincinnatti Kid. She pursued a recording career blighted by record company comparisons as the female Elvis; luckily she was still recording by the time the 1980s swung around - with this belter being a result. There are actually two versions of this tune, this one with the disco drums, the other (Part 1), a more soulful subdued affair, email if you want a listen.

Finally, a remix from Anton Qlint one half of Tiedye and one third of the excellent Västkustska Ryggdunkarsällskapet. I've been a big fan of both these Swedes and even more so DJ Kaos following his 2005 opus Hello Stranger. Think this may be a grower.

The Phenomenal Handclap Band - 15 to 20

Anne Margret - Everybody Needs Somebody Sometime (Part 2)

Love The Night Away (Tiedye Remix) - DJ Kaos

Stockholm Syndrome

2009-06-01T21:33:00.011+01:00

Back in 1973, some Swedish desperados robbed a Stockholm bank at machine gun point, holding four people hostage for nearly five days. When the whole thing was over police and Swedish society were shocked to find the captives defending the captors. The bond that had been struck during the siege was so strong that one of the women held later became engaged to and paid for the defence of one of her captors. Psychologists, as is their wont, noticed this to be a pattern and decided to give it a name. Thus, was born Stockholm Syndrome, which was given its most famous moment by American millionairess Patty Hearst who, after being kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army actually ended up joining forces and robbed a bank with them.

Fast forward to the Eighties, and a guy called Buffalo Bill was knocking people off in and around Baltimore, after having first held them captive for a while and before eating them. These were truly horrific crimes. One of his victims Catherine Martin was captured leaving a nightclub and then bundled into a van, before spending several weeks at the bottom of a well under Buffalo Bills house. Luckily for Catherine she was saved by pasty, tomboyish FBI Agent Clarice Starling, who with help from popular cannibal Hannibal Lector managed to track down the killer. Catherine was free.

You may be familiar with the tale, as it was made into 1991 horror film Silence of the Lambs. Though, due to society’s tendency to focus on the most morbid, lurid angle of any given story Catherine’s tale has been largely relegated to a bit part in the story of Hannibal Lector, about whom there have been a string of movies. Catharine’s tale is one worth telling though. Whilst Agent Starling managed to rescue Catherine from Buffalo Bill’s cold basement, she could not stop her from falling in love with him. Catharine’s tale is textbook Stockholm Syndrome.

Having been trapped in Buffalo Bill’s cellar for a long and no doubt terrifying period, Catherine began to foster an attraction for Buffulo Bill. His behaviour went beyond that of the usual captor, as night after night he tucked his Johnson between his legs and minced around in front of her and the mirror to the sound of Q Lazarus’ Goodbye Horses, pretending to be a lady of sorts. It is debatable whether it was Buffalo Bill’s curious mix of Michael Bolton meets Otto the bus driver good looks or simply the enigmatic, ethereal beauty that is Goodbye Horses, but love captured the captive’s heart. Did Bill feel the same? We will never know.

It seems hardly to matter, as the type of love experienced by those suffering Stockholm Syndrome tends not to need reciprocation. Indeed, given that the Swedes earlier mentioned spilt-up after a short while, it is arguable that the love is stronger if it goes unrequited. What we do know is that Catharine Martin’s love is as strong as ever.

In the wake of Silence of the Lambs’ success she changed her name to Walter Jones and moved to New York to avoid any potential publicity. Having taken up music on the advice of her therapist, she has been producing electronic music as a way of channelling the effects of her captivity. Last year a couple of her tracks graced the nifty Nobody Knows Anything on Xaver Naudascher’s Supersoul imprint. Her links with the electronic music scene mean that she has record promos given to her all the time. In 2008, she found a disc of vinyl with a white label, on her doormat. When the needle hit the groove, her heart almost melted. It was the Krikor edit of Goodbye Horses. Since then she has been locked in the studio with memories of Buffalo Bill.

That is, until now. DFA have just released I Will Always Love You, which sees her address those dark days and the eternal love she feels for Buffalo Bill. Available, for the moment, on vinyl only, it is a swooning, hypnotic, heartbreaking slice of new wave house, that is not only the best thing to have come out of a hostage situation, but one of the best tracks released by anyone, anywhere this year.

Listen here.

Goodbye Horse- Q Lazarus.

Meth Disco

2009-05-25T21:05:00.004+01:00

Tuxedomoon- The Waltz
Brian Eno- In Dark Trees
Principles of Geometry- Golem
Moderat- A New Error
Brassica- The Centre
J. P. Decerf, G. Zajd & T. Cerrona- Black Safari
Whomadewho- Raveo
New Look- So Real
Sebastien Tellier- L'Amour et la Violence (Allure mix)
The Glimmers- Music For Dreams
Desire- Under Your Spell
The Chap- The Health of Nations
The Big Pink- Velvet (Gang Gang Dance mix)
Tones On Tail- Twist
The Tropics of Cancer- Mood Swings
Thick Business- Smoothest Runes
Animal Collective- No More Runnin'
Chloe- Paradise

Meth Disco

Savage-Don't Cry Tonight

2009-05-21T11:15:00.006+01:00

After hearing the aforementioned tune on this mix, I thought I would track it down and add it to my ever expanding folder of serious guilty 80's pop/italo pleasures.

I know that this kind of music is deemed "trendy" or "faddy", but the simple fact is, this is good music and the original 80's gear is always miles better than the rehashed attempts of Messrs Feelmybicep, Serge Santiago and other modern "italo" producers.

This is as 80's as it gets. Rumour has it, Molly Ringwald is the exectuive producer here and Judge Reinhold is the lead vocalist of this cheddar masterpiece.

Savage-Don't Cry Tonight

La Música Tremenda

2009-05-18T12:00:00.005+01:00

I’ve been listening to lots of music lately. As per usual, most of it has been uninspiring dross, a positively steaming pile of derivative shit which could be used soundtrack my demise to hell, when the time comes (Yes I did listen to Tiga’s new album). Fortunately, throw enough shit at the wall and some of it is bound to stick. And so with this ethos in mind, I bring you a few tracks which I have had on heavy rotation of late. Particular attention should be paid to Señor Stevens’ effort, which is probably the most creative track I have heard all year. Reworking his label mates ‘The Castanets’, Sufjan produces what I perceive to be his answer to Bohemian Rhapsody – a ten-minute epic which traverses various genres and keeps the listener constantly guessing on where the track may go next. The other tunes are rather good too.

Sufjan Stevens – You are the blood

Who Made Who – The Plot (Noze remix)

Faze Action - Dannae’s Journey

Bottin – No Static (Main Version)

Love and Romance and a Special Person

2009-05-10T14:14:00.005+01:00

The problem with love and romance is that it is so very hard to tell when someone is truly special. Everyone could probably recall at least one burning passion that lit up a few nights, but grew cooler over time, as we discover that what we thought was love, was little more than lust. Things cool down as quickly as they got hot and that person, who should never have been anything other than a fling, gets chucked.

This also happens with music. If you take an honest look at your record collection, you will be sure to come across a few acts that you fell head over heels in love with, raved about to all and sundry, before realising that they were not really what you were looking for. Once you get passed the shiny beats or the spiky guitars, they become a bit repetitive, or have little to say lyrically; in short, like the hot airhead or the intelligent munter, they are just not ticking enough boxes.

Entire genres can be like this too. Like disco. Its re-emergence a couple of years ago was exciting and the right record played at the right time was enough to sex up even the dullest of nights. However, the allure has proven too much for the public at large and it is D-I-S-C-O every which way you turn your ears. That is not to say that the genre is a washout, far from it, but what was a glittering affair should have remained that. Stretching those moments of guilty pleasure over whole nights is stretching them thin.

Despite this, or perhaps in spite of this we keep on searching for that special someone or something that lasts, that is not only all the things we want, but has the capacity to surprise and excite time and time again.

Like Joakim (and the Disco).

Joakim and the Disco- Love and Romance and a Special Person

Burial/Fourtet EP

2009-05-03T14:49:00.004+01:00

The recent release from the secretive Burial and the percussion overlord Fourtet has been met with a warm response.

It's unsure exactly who makes what track, but what is sure is that both tracks on the EP are of a very high standard.

The opener Moth is a fuzzy, deep house number that you would expect to hear from the Sonar Kollektiv camp, so it's a bit of a departure for both Fourtet and Burial, although it does have some elements of Burial littered throughout it(reverb laden vocals).

Wolf Cub is probably the best of the two. From the first second the Aztec-like drums are already warming your cockles, but it's not until around the 2minute mark that the song turns upside down and glitchy kick takes over. I've got a sneaky suspsicion that this is a collaborative effort; the haunting faint vocals associated with Burial are embedded in this track as is the organised drum chaos that Fourtet does so well.

Overall this EP has delivered and one can only hope that this duo have something else in the pipeline.

Support your local record store by buying HERE.

A Baltimore score minus the Bmore bore

2009-04-17T13:08:00.003+01:00

Being an artist in Baltimore must be tough these days. The unadulterated success enjoyed by 'The Wire' has meant that the media spotlight now shines on a hitherto unknown corner of the US. Baltimore is perceived by some as the 'new' New York and as such any cultural output is now prone to critical scrutiny. Step forward Dan Deacon, who fearlessly dives head-first into the dangerous waters of the ‘difficult second album’ and emerges with his head held high.

Just like his counterparts at the HBO smash hit, Deacon is acutely aware that individuality is a more admirable creative path to take than that of simply following the crowd. He first came to my attention after Huntleys and Palmers rinsed the much-lauded ‘Wham City’ and although I didn’t love that track, I knew that this guy was onto something. With his latest offering ‘Bromst’, Deacon avoids the pitfalls of many other musical residents of his city by shunning the dross, monotonous sounds of the Bmore genre and opting for inventive, fresh and avant-garde sounds that at times make the listener feel that he has mistakenly boarded a malfunctioning waltzer (minus the vomit of course).

The prevailing sentiment to be taken away from this album is that you are listening to someone with an abundance of creativity and talent, who may be but a few short steps from reaching genius territory. ‘The Wire’ may be gone for good but rest assured – plenty of magic will still appear from way down in the hole.

Dan Deacon – Build Voice:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/58776628658499a7/

Dance Mother

2009-04-17T12:59:00.008+01:00

Any excitement gathering around Brooklynites Telepathe last year was public executed with a live show that suggested broken beats are made with broken instruments. Cheap ones. Melissa Livaudais and Busy Gagnes wailing out of time and tune with each did nothing to help their cause either.

Thus, despite the Chrome’s On It and Devil’s Trident e.p.s being two of my favourite releases of last year, I lost the inclination to get to bothered about their debut album Dance Mother, a feeling compounded on seeing that three of the nine tracks on it came from the aforementioned releases.

Perhaps there is something to be said for the role expectation plays in our eventual opinion of things. Whatever the case, Dance Mother has blown me away. Having not listened to Chrome’s On It, Devil’s Trident and the other previously released track Lights Go Down for a while, they sound startling, especially Devil’s Trident on which they growl aptly “it was a basic sensation, it is a basic sensation”. It sounds both futuristic and primal.

These songs sound like they have come from a future when the only musical influences that have survived are Eighties synth-pop, nursery rhymes and hip-hop beats- which have been reclaimed from the hands of so many turgid rappers and taken once more as the innovative tool they used to be. Take Trilogy- Breath of Life, Crimes and Killings, Threads and Knives with its barrage of low-riding gangsta synths; it is like a classic West Coast hip-hop track, albeit one with the BPM’s reduced to the pace of a pounding heart, a sound that befits the ache Telepathe infuse it with.

That said the real strength of the album lies in the way the girls utilise Dave Sitek’s production. Due to the school talent show style of their vocals, Telepathe are never going to sound slick, a fact that means Sitek’s production can never sound too polished and end-up overwhelming, as on TV On The Radio’s last album Dear Science. More radical though, is the effect generated when the girl’s adolescent vocals combine with his wall-of-sound construction; this combination causes the music to swell with an odd nostalgia which is completely heart-breaking. This is especially true of the stand-out tracks In Your Line, Can’t Stand It and album highlight Michael, which seems to use the Aurora Borealis as a backdrop for the chorus. It is at these moments when their glitchy futurism reveals itself to be something more ethereal.

In a year when strong albums are coming out of the left-field at a dizzying rate, Telepathe have created something unique that demands your attention.

Seek.

Telepathe- Can't Stand It

Telepathe- Michael

Der Raeuber Und Der Prinz

2009-04-02T18:26:00.004+01:00

Naming your new band after one of your all-time favourite tracks is a very risky move, as it invites, perhaps even demands comparison, giving said new act a lot to live up to. This is especially true of Ralf Beck (Unit 4) & Sebastian Lee Philipp (Noblesse Oblige), who have named their new project Der Raeuber Und Der Prinz after the seminal DAF (Deutshe-Amerikanishe Freundschaft) track from 1981.

Both acts hail from Dusseldorf- which if their music is anything to go by, is an industrial hinterland- but share more than geography. Clearly Beck and Phillipp are inspired by the EBM (Electronic Body Music) movement that DAF pioneered. EBM, also known as industrial dance, came about at the turn of the eighties taking its inspiration from punk’s DIY ethic, lacing it with desire to move away from the instrumentation and rock style of punk. This quickly caught on and gave us the likes of Throbbing Gristle, Fad Gadget, Cabaret Voltaire and Nitzer Ebb.

Der Elektrische Reiter is an exceptional example of people taking their influences and crafting something that manages to move beyond imitation and homage into genuinely fresh territory. A lot EBM and the industrial music of the time felt like it had been steeped in the atmosphere of the Cold War (whether that was a fear of Nuclear War or an escape from the doom and gloom), Der Raeuber Und Der Prinz do is replace this with the claustrophobia of our surviellance society. Building on a primitive drumbeat the track builds tantalisingly, helicopters swoop over-head, guitars, voices and electronics drone below, all the while managing to include the folksiness inherent to much of Krautrock. There is more than a hint of Glaswegian drone rockers Mogwai and London’s Balearic shoe-gazers A Mountain of One, in there too.

Starting off with Stevie Wonder-like keys, Torpedovogel crafts many of the same elements into a buzzing, menacing track centred around a metallic melody, that rewinds itself, about half-way through then lurches forward again with even more menace than before.

Enjoy.

DAF- Der Raeuber Und Der Prinz

Der Raeuber Und Der Prinz -Der Elektrische Reiter

Der Raeuber Und Der Prinz- Torpedovogel

Sleep Mix

2009-03-28T01:18:00.003Z

I have a playlist on my iTunes called Sleepy, it's made up of ambient, folk-y, IDM type stuff, so I thought I'd get Ableton on the go and do a "mix" of sorts with some of the tunes that help me get to sleep.

1. Samoyed-Making Snow
2. Brian Retzell & Roger J Manning-Shibuya
3. Headless Heroes-Hey, Who Really Cares?
4. Joe Hisihashi-The Merry-go-round of Life
5. Brian Eno-Another Green World
6. Grizzly Bear-Granny Diner
7. Mogwai-Now You're Taken
8. Scott Walker-Boy Child
9. Fleet Foxes-Meadowlark
10. Boards of Canada-Over the Horizon Radar
11. Philip Glass-Truman Sleeps
12. Boards of Canada-Dawn Chorus
13. Team Sleep-Ever
14. Fever Ray-Triangle Walks
15. Jesus and the Mary Chain-Just Like Honey
16. Icasol-Ongou
17. Belle & Sebastian-If You're Feeling Sinister

ERRL FLNN-Sleep

Rainbow Arabia

2009-03-24T19:14:00.005Z

With shades of Gang Gang Dance, The Rapture (circa Echoes, not the shitty second album) and Crystal Castles, L.A.’s Rainbow Arabia sound like the in-house band at a Moroccan asylum, fronted by a lusty witch. Like so many bands coming out of the States at the moment, they manage to weld experimentation to pop sensibilities in a way that no band in Britain can come near to at the moment.

Let them Dance could be the theme tune to a North African remake of Knight Rider in which Kit is replaced by a whooping camel that races purposefully around a congested Casablanca. The object of each episode always being to get several Moroccan nu-ravers to a party where they are playing a peak time Zouk set, the highlight of which is the electrifying Omar K. It is intoxicating stuff.

Unlike most folks, Rainbow Arabia don’t get the photo album out for friends, on return from their travels. Instead, they get home, roll up the magic carpet, get the electric guitar out, plug in the old Casio and write songs to sing to their friends, over a shisha and some minty tea, as evidenced by the lovely Holiday In Congo.

Having released two e.p.'s on the increasingly essential Merok, there are unconfirmed rumours that the husband/ wife duo are shacked up in a Harem with Ali Baba working on an album. Definitely confirmed as happening is a May tour of Europe, which if it is even half as mad as the picture up top suggests, will be amazing.

Let Them Dance

Omar K

Holiday In Congo

http://www.myspace.com/rainbowarabia

Pedro-phile

2009-03-20T11:47:00.001Z

Pedro’s back and Madrid has gone wild. With the release of his 17th feature film, “Los Abrazos Rotos” (Broken Embraces) Almodovár tells the tale of a blind film director (Lluis Omar) and how he came to lose not only his sight, but also the love of his life (Penelope Cruz). The film is by no means a departure from the Spaniard’s typical traits, with the picture employing the usual Almodóvar fodder – love, lies, tears, melodrama, comedy - to great effect. The film journeys between the past and the present, and interweaves diverse stories and viewpoints, to construct a fascinating drama full of twists and turns. The acting is terrific and there are many ‘in-jokes’ involving subtle references to previous Almodóvar films, with the picture rounded off nicely by a soundtrack produced by the ever-brilliant Alberto Iglesias (featuring original music alongside tracks by Uffie, Cat Power and Can). My only gripe would be the film’s length, clocking up over 2 hours – a factor which is noticeable given that the film’s storyline does seem to run out of steam after the 90-minute mark. But that minor complaint should not detract from the fact that Almodóvar has demonstrated himself to be one of the most individual and consistent film-makers in modern cinema. It must be said that ‘Los Abrazos Rotos’ is not the tour-de-force that some fans may have hoped for and falls short of eclipsing what in my opinion was his career high – Hable Con Ella (Talk to Her). Nevertheless, Almodóvar delivers a very engaging film which is sure to become another hit, and will no doubt earn more accolades for the man who can deservedly call himself Spain’s most successful film-maker of all time.

Gentlemen, I give you a track which features in the film and shows that Almodóvar, almost 60 years old, is still in touch with today’s youth and has an obvious penchant for Kraut rock.

Can – Vitamin C:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/573252519748691e/

Grizzly Bear

2009-03-15T19:23:00.002Z

One of my favorite bands ever, Grizzly Bear, are preparing to release their new album just in time for summer.

Having not released a full length album since the immense 2006 effort Yellow House, the band have been busy gathering new fans and touring across the globe.

In between Yellow House and their upcomng album titled, Veckatimest, they released the superb Friend EP which contained the haunting and minimalistic He Hit Me and the sombre but endearing Shift.

Their new album seems promising having heard a couple of the tracks on their Myspace. My favorite of the two is Two Weeks, a lighthearted affair that is dominated by simple notes looping on a keyboard, with the drums plodding along in the background but the vocals from Chris Taylor give it that classic Grizzly Bear finish .

Their new album is out on May 26th on the ever-impressive Warp.

Grizzly Bear-Alligator

Idle hands...

2009-03-11T14:21:00.005Z

On April 27, DJ Hell releases Teufelswerk on International Deejay Gigolo Records. The title is German for “Devil’s Work,” and divides sixteen tracks into “Night” and “Day".

The double disc set features collaborations with Bryan Ferry, P. Diddy, Peter Kruder, Billy Ray Martin, Christian Prommer, Robert Di Gioia, Mijk Van Dijk, Stefan Robbers, Anthony Rother and &ME.

Check out “The Angst”, Hell's first single from the “Day” disc, and the excellent video that accompanies it, directed by Nicole McDonald [ParanoidUS].

Angst pt.1 - DJ Hell

The sound of Curious Curious w/ David Barbarossa

2009-02-24T09:29:00.002Z

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

2009-02-24T08:21:00.002Z

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

2009-02-18T09:49:00.005Z

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

2009-02-11T13:47:00.002Z

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

2009-02-10T09:54:00.002Z

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

2009-02-06T15:38:00.001Z

Drei Klangs Dimensionen - Rheingold (1980)

Wunderbar!

Junior!!!!

2009-02-05T11:51:00.004Z

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

2009-02-05T10:10:00.001Z

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

Telefon Tel Aviv-Charles Cooper R.I.P

2009-02-03T23:19:00.002Z

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

2009-02-02T15:43:00.006Z

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

Circlesquare - Songs About Dancing and Drugs

2009-01-31T19:07:00.002Z

Jeremy 'Circlesquare' Shaw's new LP on Kompakt offshoot !K7 would initially seem to be less about dancing and more about drugs (the sedative variety). Yet the whole album is a joy and highly recommended, flawlessly blending elements of dance music with melancholic vocals, in a very forward-thinking manner.

The track I have chosen epitomises this style - it starts off as a bog-standard electronic track before metamorphosing into a head-nodding, personal jesus-esque epic. It sounds very familiar, so it could be that someone (Andy?) mentioned it before. Anyway, if this is the future of electronic music, then things look good....

Circlesquare - all live but the ending

http://www.zshare.net/audio/5492459663a66a44/

Woody Allen Interview 1971

2009-01-30T13:37:00.001Z

Kudos to the interviewer for keeping up the banter with a dry but funny Woody Allen.

Milk

2009-01-27T09:13:00.006Z

I caught this on Friday night and was thoroughly impressed. Sean Penn is his usual impressive self and the supporting cast is equally as noteworthy. The film is not a simple biopic, à la 'Ray' or 'Walk the Line', starting as it does when Harvey Milk is 40 years old. The film is very pertinent, its release coming just as commentators point to the election of a black president as a signal that the last racial hurdle in the US has been overcome. Yet the Black Civil Rights movement seems to have triumphed at the precise moment when the Gay Civil Rights movement suffered its most serious setback in years. As Obamaniacs partied in Grant Park, Chicago, on November 4th, Proposition 8 was passed in California dealing a devastating blow to Gay rights campaigners everywhere and leaving many couples in marital limbo. Ironically, it seems that the black community's courting by the religous right tipped the vote against the gay community. 'Milk' reminds you that the struggle for equality has not ended because of the election of one man, but rather, just as the film's protagonist learns, it is a fight that goes on to the death.

And now, a disco-tastic track which featured in the film for you all:

Sylvester - You make me feel (mighty real)

New Whitest Boy Alive Album

2009-01-20T16:18:00.004Z

Whitest Boy Alive return this Spring with their brand new LP - Rules.

The album follows up their excellent 2006 debut Dreams, and takes it's title due to the fact that each and every track describes a different rule.

Rules is released 3 March by Bubbles Records.

Whitest Boy Alive - Keep A Secret

Something Old/Something New

2009-01-18T16:32:00.006Z

A blast from the past and the flavour of the future for today's post.

First up, a simple yet effective track from 1983 by Italian outfit Cellophane Brain which gained new-found popularity through its appearance on the seminal "Mixed Up In The Hague" Vol.2 - one of the definitive Italo mix albums.

Cellophane Brain - Gimme Love (Italian Version)

And next up, possibly the most interesting thing to come out of South Africa since the car-jacker flamethrower:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDrzMGdYWZc

Having avoided first degree burns on the streets of Johannesburg, BLK JKS are now doused in gallons of hype, which is understandable given that they have been taken under the wing of producer du jour, Diplo. Their debut album is expected to surface later this year.

BLK JKS - Lakeside

Animal Collective

2009-01-14T18:10:00.006Z

I went to see Animal Collective at the Art School last night and could not have been more satisfied musically - bringing Beach Boys-like pop harmonies, pulsing Wolfgang Voigt-like rhythms and ethereal folk together with the same experimental ethos as any krautrock pioneer. There was even a nod to Chicago house with the Frankie Knuckles sample on 'My Girls'.

Most encouraging of all was their refusal to play anything from their back catalogue, frustrating as this could be to any fan who's not heard any new material, I would defy anyone in the room who claimed not to have been blown away by their performance. This may also be down to the fact that the new album, Merriweather Post Pavilion is their most accessible to date - an album for girls as they claim.

I liked that their was little audience interaction and although effective, their light show was pretty simple. The main focus on the night was the music and despite it being a freezing night in January, I'm sure that almost everyone left with the same glowing summery feeling as I did afterwards.

Also, in this day and age - where the familiar glow of the Apple sign has became a representative for pre-programmed 'live' shows - I should note that there was not a laptop in sight on stage and both Avey Tare and Panda Bear were at various stages at home playing bass guitar, drums - as well as an abundance of sequencers and samplers.

I struggled to choose a track from the new album as it's so strong I could have picked anything from the sublime 'My Girls', catchy 'Guys Eyes', the awesome 'In The Flowers' or the infectious 'Brother Sport'. I opted for Summertime Clothes though - grab it here;

http://www.zshare.net/audio/541340692ffda0ca/

Neighbours From Hell

2009-01-13T19:45:00.010Z

A bunch of statements made in reference to the current "phase" of Israel vs Palestine:
(names have been removed to protect the innocent and the guilty).

They fired first.
They want to wipe us out, they will not be satisfied until we are gone.
There were weapons in the school, one was fired at us.
It’s election time and I am seriously behind in the polls. Time to start bombing. (unconfirmed).
We have no information to suggest that what has been reported, actually happened.
You have no idea what it is like to have rockets fired at your home everyday.
We live in an open air prison.
It’s a terrorist state.
We will never recognise them.
Please show restraint.
We are fighting a just war, perhaps the most just war there is.
It is too complicated, you don’t understand.
It is part of the War On Terror, it is for your benefit.
My family used to live there.
God is Great.

And so it goes..

A bunch of songs that say a lot more:

Tom Waits - Road to Peace
Dj Shadow - Six Days
Vox Dei- Terroriste
Tuxedomoon - Holy Wars

Picture used with permission of Francisco Goya.

The Laughing Light of Plenty - The Rose

2009-01-12T17:19:00.002Z

This has been about for a while now but is definitely what you would call a "grower." Slowly, bubbles along nicely and comes to a pleasant climax. Nice winter music.

One half of Rub n Tug and some other guy Ive never heard of make up the act - enjoy:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/540331096fff14ab/

Hellzapoppin' (1941, HC Potter)

2009-01-08T12:15:00.001Z