Right we've had almost a week and I slowed us up last time so coming out of the blocks swifter this go around.
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Straight up and down - not bad bluesy, rock. I think probably made better cos we both know what usually follows it! Great series - vey much looking forward to s.3.
Sweet Dreams - absolutely beautiful - straight into my low bpm/nighttime list. Long may he churn this sort of stuff out.
Fortitude - not for me this one. It's reasonable but I prefer his downtempo nowadays.
Slow - very hypnotic, very listenable love the very high pitch melodic twinges when everything else has dropped out, classy touch. Again - straight into my night-time playlist. Lush overall production.
Outro - very lovely. I couldn't ever put it in the same bracket as 'Lower your eyelids..' to be honest, it's just not epic enough or as emotive for my ears. It does have a superb build for such a short record of this nature.... vocal grated on first listen, now i love it... For what it's worth this is not one of his better LP's imo. It's too 'bitty' - don't get me wrong there are some lovely sounds and noises on there but he really needed some stronger records in that central section growing towards the conclusion. That's my take..... I guess it's tough when you've already made so many beautiful records already!
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Dead Can Dance - Glorious. Sounds amazing up loud in the car - you look like some kind of psychopath in towns or built up areas though... like you're off to commit some kind of massacre. Lapping it up.
Hitlist - there' every possibility this is new to me! I like it a lot - I'll be clicking on the LP to check out more of this stuff.
Stranglers - sorry mate, I like the group, but this version of this record is not for me AT ALL - I rarely skip tracks but I have to buzz this one when it comes on!
Psyche - absolutely f-ing brilliant. I have CANED this track this week - superb addition. (Who remixed it?? When I saw "Duke" I immediately thought of JLC in his Thin White Duke guise.... any idea??)
OT Quartet - :) :) :) :) :) I'll never forget the first time I heard this, it was on the very first "Annual"compilation that MOS did - think it was Tongy and Boy George on duty, 1 disc each. This featured at the back end of an otherwise non-descript mix-by-numbers routine, no doubt knocked up by a music lab technician as opposed to the DJ's - that aside the last 20 minutes o the mix was brilliant and this track was most definitely the highlight. Absolute belter.
Some tunes I've been listening to in the last 6 months, and one that I have been listening to since I was 16...
Liza (CM remix) - I could waffle a lot about this track... the original is ok, but May's pacific remix captures something missing from the original and turns the main melodic section into a thing of sheer beauty. It's one of the most lovely pieces of music I've heard in years....lying on the grass at midnight in shorts and a t-shirt (yes it was that warm not so long ago) watching the stars, this on the headphones - proper bliss.
Song of Los - This is not a bad LP, some great moments, probably not as solid as Walls, but this is a real standout track which opens the record up...and it just stuck in my brain, found myself singing the main refrain and humming the moody melodies A LOT; a worthy addition I hope you agree.
Green Light Go - more evocative mood music from the German techno B-Pitch brigade. Again, the melodies get stuck in your head.... that lyrics like "Go out and break their hearts while faking every part...Go". Class.
Pure & Easy - don't expect this to go anywhere gents, it's just a nice warm summertime groove, a real slice of feel-good disco-house with a smashing bassline and smooth overall production. Been listening to the mix which this track features on a lot recently. Very good indeed.
Rings Around Saturn - errrr..this is THE track that started an obsession with the artist if truth be told. One of the first records i sought when Spot started...I've been waiting to add it since dawn of man.... it keeps coming in and out of availability, i hope this gets added ok because my list now links it to my own digital copy...let me know. Needs no introduction to KS. But it will no doubt be new to D. This featured on a couple of bootleg tapes taken from the Blue Note that my mates had in 95/96...Bukem then featured it on the mix cd of his Logical Progression double LP and we were all over the moon (a bar was set by this compilation in my opinion and I'm not sure it has been matched in this genre since to be honest). I got some comments about a statement I made regarding my final track in my last selection 'potentially being in my top 20 of all time'...well the production on that first 'snap' on the Claro Intellecto tune took me RIGHT back to the first time I heard this record (despite its pace the overall production is incredibly moody and similar also)... Rings Around Saturn(originally known as "Pharoah" as a nod to Pharoah Sanders, who features by way of a subtle sample at the outset and througout - presumably a man of inspiration to Parkes and the mood set to the whole piece really) its drums and its production and its attention to detail is just immense.... and I will happily vouch for this track in my TOP 5 of all time, of all genres - it has just been like an old friend of sorts... one of the few tracks I can genuinely listen to over and over and over and still enjoy like I did as a kid; it's a cliche but I can still listen and hear new stuff in this record... intricate layers of drums, on and off beats - just crazy, haven't even mentioned THAT bassline....I like to deconstruct it mentally and listen to the snares alone, then I'll listen again and listen only to the hi-hats etc etc, but then I accept that I am not normal and that this way of listening to music may not be to everyone's tastes, nor the track for that matter. If so, sorry for wasting nine minutes of your life reading this twaddle an listening to that pap.
Keep on keeping on,
H
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