Greetings Gentleman,
My sincere apologies for a month off.... at least I didn't do an Underworld on you and give you Two Months Off (sorry I just had to considering its in the first line up to report on)
RD - your strongest additions for a while imo. Cracking stuff - very loud car tunes which I have been playing a lot, especially Dosem. Anyway, we're off and running...
Hazy March - SUPERB prog opener - love this track, good memories.
Dosem - simply beautiful - the breakdown and the choral tinges and layers of gentle melody .... smashing track - sort of stuff I'd like to hear played out. highlight of that transitions mix for sure. loved as soon as i laid ears on it.
Dosem - modern prog of sorts I suppose. Shows it isn't dead and can still work a dancefloor which this driving bassline certainly would I reckon.
TMO - classic. absolute classic. first time I heard it (before it got played at Bedrock, even) was Lawler at Harlem Nights.... he closed the night we all thought it was the end.... he turned the lights on (very bright - we all looked hideous!).... then air raid sirens kick off on the system - we all do the "what the f...???!" look and then we just get "You bring light in"....... "You bring light in" over top of the air raid (we obviously later discovered the vocal was from later in the tune and he'd looped it - but that's how he intro'd it and we thought that's how the record began..... in fact we thought the track actually started with that siren and the vocal!! hehehe.... I remember us all saying in cabs home "gotta get that siren track - immense clsoing record" !!) Anyway when the melody and beats kicked in the place just went bloody beserk and it was such a buzz - absolutely top memories and great fun bouncing about with 200 other friends and strangers at 3am...felt like a proper rave really.... aaah the good "old" days!!
Starecase - solid and cracking build/trancey rave feel but I will have to be honest and say I prefer their cheesier track that's in my options list.
KS - quite a two track opening from you old son...
Clash - WOW. Not sure I really need to say a huge amount more. Such a hugely influential record; an anthemic aural assault (some allit. for you, D) and a truly quintessentially British piece of punk. A National Treasure.... and it's not hard to see why even modern electronic producers sight it as influential.... it is, basically, 4:4 format of sorts.
Jam - big fan of these boys - I must admit more their angry early stuff but I do love their more "romantic"/soulful records too... this is super and I LOVE LOVE LOVE "English Rose"...
Madness - not big on Madness on the whole - it's ok. If I'm gonna have a dose of this style I'd rather listen to the Specials to be honest.
Moody depressing c..t - very good indeed. very very good. his outlook and interpretation of life is so melancholic it's almost laughable....and now I'm older I get that that's the whole point. from a vocal perspective and having done/tried a few bits myself I truly admire this guys unique quality and his pacing - pure class.
Perri - heard it on radio - looked it up immediately and dropped it in to my 'potentials' list. Totally welcome addition - stunning and really nice to hear top quality pop on the radio amongst some of the absolute sh1te. Restores faith in modern artists.
Right - my final offering before this project goes double on the digits - well done to us all for cracking on with it.... long may it continue:-
Com Truise - make no apology for including this kid twice in one sitting.... this re-issue extended EP (didn't catch it the first time round) has been like being a teenager again... it reminds me SO much of discovering DJ Shadow.... and he's basically picked up where Shadow left off (in the good old days prior to him going all heavy/dark hip hop/getting too many vocalists involved). LOVE this quirky tune.... the pace change ups (he likes those - see below).... and the 80's stylings.
Anorak - god bless this sort of music... so glad its making a come back in the modern era... it seems to have come around a year or so after a I discovered the "morning Goa sound" through Mothersole.... this really reminds me of that stuff and is beautifully produced.... got that chuggy 80's thing going for it.... the drums in the last quarter are just like those of an 80's rock band - i love it. Would make a great opener to a moody chuggy melodic mix imo...
Photek on Moby (!) -------- !!!!!!!! erm..... If he keeps churning out records and keeps getting top class acts like the recently back on point Photek to remix them then I cant promise I'm not gonna pick it!!! it's too good to be missed.... was unsure of this initially - thought it too samey..... then I got it on the headphones............JESUS WEPT it's soooo good on headphones - you just drown in all Ruperts heavy prduction and attention to detail; again its like being 15/16 again and hearing his modus stuff for the first time but in a dub format - granted its opressive but that's the point..... those synthy stabs - almost horror-movie-esque. Then that simple piano lick..... the ending left me shivering cold (in a good way)
Com Truise - total f-ing marmite track. Me? I'm double dropping this all over both of my morning slices of toast then licking the knife clean and trying to refrain from cooking up the entire jar and mainlining it all at once. Enough of the marmite/heroin metaphors....The first time that acidy bass dropped follwed by the cut up style drum pattern I did a little accident... then i cleaned up, rewound and listened to it again. and again. and again. This track hopefully goes a bit further in explaining why its like finding the new DJ Shadow.... just remarkable stuff to my ears. more a KS than an RD tune but I do hope you both give it at least one full play. it is heavily influenced by early 80's hip hop and has actually sparked my memory back to a classic piece of electro/hip hop crossover which will be featuring in a future list - of that I can assure.
Well I'm gonna round off with what i believe to be a modern classic piece of house/techno. The Germans are renowned for their attention to detail.... and over the last decade or so the Booka Shade boys have been the pinacle of German electronic music and dropped by all sorts of DJ's from lots of different sections/pigeonholes in the scene.... the only other person to come close is Ellen Allien imo but that's another debate. I first heard this on Digweeds 2007 Esssential Mix from The Warehouse Project in Manchester.... what a mix and what a tune. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do..... "Numbers" - play it LOUD.
K.O.K.O
H
