Franz Kirman - Liza (Charlie May mix) - I can get how this
would suit a lying-on-the-lawn-headphones-on-staring-at-the-stars moment. Played it several times now looking for
something more in it - something to lift it to a more important level - and
can't find it. Nice though.
Apparat - Song Of Los - Really nice. Difficult to say much more than that - like
the lyrics, like the music, really like the mood/feel.
Modeselektor & PVT - Green Light Go - Nice. Like the stuttering rhythm. Vocal's ok.
But then, halfway through, the drums and the vocal stop - and so does
the track for me. Shame.
Tape To Tape - Pure & Easy - absolutely the sort of
thing I've been buying/listening to/trying to build a mix from - got SO much
that sounds like this that I've almost lost objectivity about it all - I've
certainly got worse than this but I think I've got better too. Nice though!
(Have got the new 'Future Disco' mix/unmixed comp. if you're interested
- 'Poolside Sounds' - if you like this then it's loads more of the same.)
Tripswitch - Strange Parallels - first listen was nice,
second was really nice, third was really very nice. Beautiful.
The pick of your bunch.
(Shame that your original choice of 'Rings Around Saturn'
hasn't made it onto Spot yet - would've gone straight onto the 'Best Of
Contenders' list)
Fun - We Are Young - Outstanding. Every now and again, in a slightly repulsive
attempt to 'keep my hand in' as far as the charts are concerned, I ask Ashleigh
for her current Spot favourites - this topped her list a while back. Very Nice.
Agnelli & Nelson - Everyday - got quite excited when I
first saw it and then realised it wasn't actually what I'd thought it was -
favourite tune of theirs is (the Matt Darey remix) of El Nino, although it/they
sound very similar!! Decent Oaky
trance. Nice.
Delirium - Silence - Yes, yes, YES - fabulous. And yet, at the same time, oh no mate, no,
no, no, no, NO. Wrong mix. Immense tune but has to be Fade's Sanctuary
Remix. Why? Well... to my ears the song has a melancholy,
almost mournful, edge to it but the Tiesto version 'trances' it out too much
and leaves me uncomfortable - the production doesn't sit with the song - edgy,
melancholic, song crow-barred into a smiley trancer. Fade's Sanctuary remix on the other hand
leaves it dark, slightly sinister, and entirely appropriate - there's more
'space' left in the mix and it's just far more powerful.
Daft Punk medley - not for me - call me the chief
protagonist in a minority of one but Daft Punk have never managed to do anything
for me.
Lisa Gerrard - Sanvean - all the time in the world for her
voice. Very nice.
So then;
Blackbyrds - sometime around 1982 my Grandfather, hugely out
of character for him, bought me my first ever bit of 'hi-fi' (a dreadful
Binatone mono cassette/radio combination) - it wasn't even my birthday -
weird. One night, way past my official
'lights-out' time I was listening to Capital Radio, then on 1548 AM, and
fumbled in the dark to turn the 'select' switch to Cassette and accidentally
turned it to FM. Even though I'd changed
modulation the radio was, serendipitously, still tuned in to a station on the
new FM frequency. I didn't even know
there were radio stations on FM. It was
a pirate 'dance' station - can't remember if it was Horizon or JFM - no matter (although
I would go on to spend ages listening to both) - but I can remember that I was
utterly transfixed by the sudden clarity of the sound when compared to the,
relatively, dreadful AM that was all I'd ever (EVER) heard before. I listened for ages - completely stunned by what
I was hearing. The following day I got
back from school, got a TDK ready, turned the radio back to the new found FM
nirvana and pressed 'play-and-record'.
For a kid raised on Cliff Richard albums and the AM based pop stations
of Radio 1 and Capital Radio the music of an FM based pirate was almost
incomprehensible. I'd never heard any of
these records before - or anything like them - and the clarity with which they
were received almost literally made me tingle.
I played that first, home made, pirate radio, FM Stereo, tape more times
in the coming months/years than is imaginable.
I found it again a week or so ago when clearing boxes of my old stuff
out of the loft ready to move out. This
song is the first one on that tape.
Joakim - was having a bit of a Todd Terje feast a while back
and stumbled across this - listened to the original before the TT remix and
almost didn't bother - the original did nothing whatsoever for me and I
couldn't see how any sort of decent remix could be made of it. Fortuitously clicked play on the remix and
BOOM - was immediately interested and after 19 seconds, when the bass line
drops in, I was completely sold on it.
The mini-drop on 2m38s elevated it even further. One of the rare tunes that not only have I
adored upon first listening but does everything I'd want it to do, when I'd
want it to do it, if I'd been producing it.
Played it on a non-stop loop for almost 24 hours the following day. Became completely obsessed. Still am.
Baunz - I'm aware I've been rambling a bit so I'll keep this
short. The. Best. House. Record. Of.
2012. So. Far. (All the other tracks on
the EP are also excellent - the Huxley remixes of 'The Same Thing' almost
matching this but just lacking the sheer filth of the build in this track.)
Chymera - sometimes discovering a record that's new to me
simply makes me happy, sometimes it simultaneously makes me happy whilst
depressing me that it's been missing from my life since its release. This was out 5 years ago and I'm still not
over the fact I only heard it for the first time earlier this year. Utterly joyous slice of immaculate techno.
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