Strong stuff chaps - good work.
D - Best bunch from you for a while. Everybody is just classic - Rich In Paradise is also great fun but Everybody nicks it.
Knew it wouldn't be long before the bald headed vegan returned to our lists... and what a return it is... all of them are lovely but Lacrimae is epic; emotive; all consuming; utterly beautiful... it's basically my new heroin tune - it comes close to his "God moving over..." effort and could well reside next door to that track in my heart in the future...lots of potential for that to happen (listening to it as I type AGAIN)
K - Beyonce - good pop record, no doubt.
FGTH - I'm confused!! Do I now bat for both sides because I like this record SO much?!? The first seven and a half minutes are just fantastic, amusing and well put together - the track itself (last 4 mins) is also a good'un.
Alex Smoke - WOW. Beautiful. Think JZ has used this guy's records in his mixes, recognise the name and possibly even the track but my ears may deceive me. Fantastic addition.
Finished Symphony - no words really required for this apart from "potential top 20 record"
Gorecki - have listened to this a lot - it's on my masterlist.... the perfectly paced broody beginning slowly adding layers of orchestra and melody (albeit sad), then the top end violin melody (12:36mins for the sample/influence for Hybrid track) and then the voice which pierces through it all. Just sublime.
Right now we've let KS take over for approx an hour, I think it's about time somebody else took a turn! Tough act to follow but I'll try my best...
TEE - not sure how we've made it to the end of the 8th list without this being on here, so many artists (and even genres and sub genres!) owe so much of what they do to these guys - suffice to say they still provide inspiration to this day. What an LP this was (and still is).
HH - not sure how we've made it to the end of the 8th list blah blah...
AOL - not sure how we've....(Jam & Spoon again.... when they got it right they smashed it. Seminal track)
RB - Mothersole to thank for this. Final track on one of his recent mixes (best three track finale actually imo; Steve Mill rmx, Captain my Captain, and this). This is another of those tunes which just highlights my love for understated melody... this is so understated you could miss it until toward the end he brings it out 'in the open' for a few bars which makes you go "aaah so that's what that was" (well it did me anyway). A lovely mix of acid, warm bass and great production skills to create a slow burning beauty - lots of rotation for me.
ROCKET - I'm tempted to write nothing because the music in this does all the talking.... BUUUUT, I just don't think I can, such is my love for this record.
Okay - I don't think I know of any other track which brings together so well a collection of utterly obscure sounds.... underpinning it is that jawesome bassline sample, then of course (bringing us nicely full circle) there's the claustrophobic Kraftwerk "Hall of Mirrors" sample, the rattle snake, the Long Distance Clara Pigeon Street type noises, the mental wood pecker, the crazy vocal sample (and effects), not to mention the overal production - in my opinion there is little that touches it. A gloriously mental dance record.
Perhaps I'm so fond of this as it reminds me of Burridge and Richards at their peak playing it at The Bonaparte for the Notting Hill Carnival.... it came out of nowhere (EVERYONE there knew of it because of the TYRANT mix cd's) the place just went f-ing beserk and I do mean beserk....bar staff on the bar, people on the tables - people jumping up behind the boys on the decks, total mindloss and two grinning DJ's who looked like they'd seen it all before when they played this record. God Bless Spot for finally having this up on the site.
KOKO
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