DHS 8 - Part 13 (S)

"... it's been a long time - I shouldn'a left you..."

Sorry chaps - no excuses - just been a bit of a pathetic struggle for me getting this update done for some reason. Currently got 129 tracks sitting in the 'possibles' list so I'm not without options - just couldn't get it decided, so have basically sacked it all off and gone with five that were never, until today, an option...

Before those however, the last ten collective choices;
Eelke Klein - short and reasonably sweet
Guy J - hmmm, sounds like a track left off the Paronator album - nahh
Tycho - very nice
Steve Mill - playing again as I type and I think its penny might just have dropped on me - LUSH
Eddy - very 90s sounding tune - it's ok
Gnarls Barkley - there was a point I hated this to pieces - strangely nice to hear it again though
KC & Sunshine Band - class
Kasabian - I feel like I've given this lot sufficient chances - see below - and this, like almost all of their stuff, just doesn't quite work for me - but I really can't quite explain or justify why...
Underworld - class
Bobby Brown - ANTHEM

So...

Ennio Morricone - Chi Mai - only comment I have for this is I'm ever so slightly amazed it hasn't featured before now

Momu - Donner Pass - see Chi Mai's comment

Momu - The Dive - see Chi Mai's comment

Midland - Play The Game - I have more to say about this! For me, without a hint of doubt, THE best record released in 2010 and Midland is THE best new producer/remix talent I've heard for a long time. Deep, dubby, breakbeats that almost bleed into d'n'b territory, with some Burialesque bleakness to it and yet a underlying smile that Burial never managed. The break from 3m15s and the drop that follows it are beyond sublime. Completely flawless record that I'll treasure for a very, VERY, long time.

Kasabian - I.D. - funny one this. As I said above I'd given this band enough time over the years - including trying to get into their Glastonbury '07 set in the midst of biblical rain - and just couldn't find anything to do it for me. I gave Duff's recent selection (see above!) a fair crack of the whip - but no, not really for me. And then I was watching something online a couple of days back - it doesn't specifically matter what it was (!) and anyway it was evidently rubbish as it was the music behind the video that took my attention rather than the pictures - Googled what I could make out of the lyrics and here we are. MASSIVE drum work and bassline. Plus the lyric, '...Music is my whore...', which, I think, is nice.

Stay gorgeous.
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