The sun is shining in England- it doesnt happen often so lets take this opportunity to get down.
I'm particularly loving the bad wedding dancing at about 4.30 minutes, Ill let them off because of the bongo solo though....
Tuesday, 10 June 2008
Daedelus - Love To Make Music To
Reviewed this for Three Bar Fire again. Take a look and have a listen, its the business.
Daedelus- Love To Make Music To (Ninja Tune)
Daedelus aka Alfred Darlington has been dropping hip-hop flavoured electronic bombs seemingly from the dawn of time, boasting nine albums and a score of EPs to his name. Released on Ninja Tune, this latest offering is billed as a imaginary story which begins during the 1894 Chicago World’s Fair and concludes a hundred years later.
There’s a danger of classing every Ninja release as significant; more often than not however their intrepid brand of fearless experimentation throws up obscurity rather than a stone cold classic. ‘Love To Make Music To’ (clever eh?) is a real revelation though; a melting pot of soul, funk, break beat , electro and dirty rave music assembled with the skill of any classic hip hop cut ‘n’ paste merchant.
Darlington himself cuts an interesting character too, a mid American versed in the culture of underground hip hop production (who rocks Edwardian garms at every opportunity) who apparently encountered a ‘Road to Damascus’ type conversion to the burgeoning UK breakbeat rave sound of the early nineties, on a family trip to London. It takes a true outsider perspective to create a tribute album of sorts such as this. Unlike someone like Burial whose rave homage is bleak and liquid in keeping with his south London location Daedelus taps into the uplifting, euphoric side of the rave experience managing to keep it upbeat without sauntering into mainstream cheese.
Whilst there are rave elements to these songs, the sampled intro from Lennie De Ice’s proto jungle anthem ‘We Are I.E’, for instance, crops up deep in the mix at one point, proving that this is not a by the book rave pastiche. It’s a potent mix, referencing at times influences as diverse as The Avalanches, early Moving Shadow, the sonic terrorism of the Bomb Squad and the experimental electro found on Warp in the mid nineties.
The album opens on a Balearic summer soaked high point, with the sixties-fuelled ‘Fair Weather Friend’, released as an EP last year, with its driven beat and naive female vocal cutting a definitive opening. From here on in the album flits from the dark brooding techno of ‘Hrs:Mins:Secs’ to the smoother R&B influenced cut of ‘My Beau’ and back again. It’s a strange brew that Daedelus throws up here, and in hindsight its all the better for it, with the only down point being an wilful eclecticism that makes ‘Love To..’ a little too hard to pin down
Daedelus- Love To Make Music To (Ninja Tune)
Daedelus aka Alfred Darlington has been dropping hip-hop flavoured electronic bombs seemingly from the dawn of time, boasting nine albums and a score of EPs to his name. Released on Ninja Tune, this latest offering is billed as a imaginary story which begins during the 1894 Chicago World’s Fair and concludes a hundred years later.There’s a danger of classing every Ninja release as significant; more often than not however their intrepid brand of fearless experimentation throws up obscurity rather than a stone cold classic. ‘Love To Make Music To’ (clever eh?) is a real revelation though; a melting pot of soul, funk, break beat , electro and dirty rave music assembled with the skill of any classic hip hop cut ‘n’ paste merchant.
Darlington himself cuts an interesting character too, a mid American versed in the culture of underground hip hop production (who rocks Edwardian garms at every opportunity) who apparently encountered a ‘Road to Damascus’ type conversion to the burgeoning UK breakbeat rave sound of the early nineties, on a family trip to London. It takes a true outsider perspective to create a tribute album of sorts such as this. Unlike someone like Burial whose rave homage is bleak and liquid in keeping with his south London location Daedelus taps into the uplifting, euphoric side of the rave experience managing to keep it upbeat without sauntering into mainstream cheese.
Whilst there are rave elements to these songs, the sampled intro from Lennie De Ice’s proto jungle anthem ‘We Are I.E’, for instance, crops up deep in the mix at one point, proving that this is not a by the book rave pastiche. It’s a potent mix, referencing at times influences as diverse as The Avalanches, early Moving Shadow, the sonic terrorism of the Bomb Squad and the experimental electro found on Warp in the mid nineties.
The album opens on a Balearic summer soaked high point, with the sixties-fuelled ‘Fair Weather Friend’, released as an EP last year, with its driven beat and naive female vocal cutting a definitive opening. From here on in the album flits from the dark brooding techno of ‘Hrs:Mins:Secs’ to the smoother R&B influenced cut of ‘My Beau’ and back again. It’s a strange brew that Daedelus throws up here, and in hindsight its all the better for it, with the only down point being an wilful eclecticism that makes ‘Love To..’ a little too hard to pin down
Tuesday, 20 May 2008
YO GABBA GABBA
One of the benefits of having kids is the ability to watch fantasticly bonlers programmes like this.
As a tribute to Plex the robot of 'many wonders and magical powers' heres some robot music:
Friday, 16 May 2008
Paradise Garage
I found this on YouTube- short clip of The legendary New York nightspot The Paradise Garage. Larry Levan spinning Eddy Grants 1982 proto house/disco/electro groover Time Warp.
Download it here...
Eddy Grant (Coach House Rhythm Section) Time Warp
And a modern day re-edit to keep you dancin....
Chaz Jankel - Glad To Know You (Todd Terje Edit)
Download it here...
Eddy Grant (Coach House Rhythm Section) Time Warp
...and another Garage floorfiller from 79
Dinosaur (Arthur Russell) Kiss Me Again
And a modern day re-edit to keep you dancin....
Chaz Jankel - Glad To Know You (Todd Terje Edit)
Beardy Brit Hop
I had this in the post this week from www.3barfire.com, a very fine musical website- go check it out!
Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobilus Pip – Angles
Sunday Best
The crazily titled Dan Le Sac and Scroobilus Pip first popped up on the radar last year with their Radio 1 championed “Thou Shalt Not Kill” a new age indie baiting take on Baz Lurhmans “ Everybody’s free To wear sunscreen”. Chuckled at by the people it aimed to offend, ‘Thou Shalt’ offered us such wisdoms as “Thou shalt not read NME.” And “Thou shalt not stop liking a band just because they’ve become popular”
As novelty singles go, it was slightly more bearable than Road to Amarillo, and the pair were picked up by Rod Da Banks Leftfield Sunday Best label to record an album. On the face of it, this should be a bad idea. A bearded ‘spoken word’ poet and a scruffy home studio beat maker, releasing a long player as a follow up to their version of a moronic novelty single.
Given time to flex their creative muscles and work out some of their angst however this is actually pretty good. Dan le Sac the beatmaker here has carefully assimilated a range of influences from golden age hip hop to ninja-ish scuffed beats via crackly electro. This of course is a well trodden path but Le Sac pulls it off by keeping the groove tight and pairing the drums with melody. As far as the rest goes this is definitely a song driven release, and Pip steps up with aplomb, ditching the catchy soundbites for a genuinely rewarding intelligent dissection of all things philosophical to the delights of old school comic Tommy Cooper.
Whilst others mining this vein have been happy to ‘keep it real’ and in the process produce dull and lifeless plod hop, Angles manages to keep it upbeat with a healthy sprinkling of melody and fun. Stand out track and new Single Look for The Girl, adds a lilting pop hook to the beats and ends up a cracking summertime ditty.
This is surprisingly good stuff that manages to be quintessentially British without crossing the Kate/Lilly Mockney naffness divide. Keeping it real in its truest sense, Le sac and Pip add a surprising shed of integrity to the pop canon, and in the process create something a little more substantial that the current crop of street popsters.
Tobold Hemming
Thursday, 3 April 2008
OK Pop Pickers...
Tunes For Today...
Download them here....
Fleetwood Mac- You Make Lovin Fun (Trailmix remix)
This mix from 2007 first turned up on last yaers Lindstrom Essential Mix. Acres has been written about 'cosmic disco' and its supposed claim to the new balearic crown. Much of it appears to be deritave noodling; however this is a killer adding a unusual mix of funk and electro to a FM radio classic.
Ian Dury - Spasticus Autisticus (Version)
Post punk pub rocker originally penned this ode to disability in 1981 to mark 'The International Year of The Disabled'. Subsequently banned by the BBC for its confrontational stance, this version is taken from Struts Funky Nassus comp and features Sly and Robbie on rhythm.
Paul Simon- Diamonds Dub (Tangoterje Edit)
Re edit of 'Diamonds on The Souls of Their Shoes' from 1986. The original is a brilliant mixture of western and African pop; soundtracking a highly autobigraphical road trip through the American South. This 2007 edit, by another norwegian - DJ Todd Terje twists it into a lovely downtempo dub house shape- without losing the soul of the original.
Section 25 - Looking From A Hilltop
UNKLE/Ian Brown- Reign (Anagram Mix)
Grace Jones - Slave to The Rhythm (Extended Mix)
Blondie Rapture 12" Orriginal Disco Edit http://www.mediafire.com/?yxm3jmgyzdg
Thursday, 20 March 2008
Who Needs New Music ?
Time to move this up a gear I think.......
Heres some tunes for you...
Electro auters Maps tackle Alison Goldfrapps new 'folk' direction....
Goldfrapp: A&E (Maps remix) http://www.mediafire.com/?lgtmpydmzfw
Psychedelic pop of the highest order...
MGMT: Time To Pretend http://www.mediafire.com/?t10bez0ejji
Anthony Hegarty in disco dub shocker....
Hercules And the Love Affair: Blind http://www.mediafire.com/?moy1uxzenmx
Superior live take...
Hot Chip: Boy from School (US Version) http://www.mediafire.com/?yjgmvsw9jjm
Oldie but still rocking...
CSS: Lets Make Love And Listen To Death From Above http://www.mediafire.com/?rna1banejdw
Sublime New Order styled electro pop...
Presets : Girl and The Sea (Cut Copy Remix) http://www.mediafire.com/?mm9dzxrtzi0
Pop/dance/techno/fat girl one hit wonder crossover remix...
Gossip: Standing In The Way Of Control (Tigre Mix) http://www.mediafire.com/?01detzt2gyc
DFA supremo slow burn piano funker...
LCD Soundsystem: All My Friends http://www.mediafire.com/?lxpta2ixwnr
Welsh/LA Delorean plugging electro...
Neon Neon: I lust For You http://www.mediafire.com/?mo0dwzpugji
Laid back country balearica...
Lambchop : Up with The People http://www.mediafire.com/?wxfjvqnvxwy
What are words worth...?
Tom Tom Club: Wordy Rappinghood (12) http://www.mediafire.com/?d1je95zqdpt
Paradise Garage meets Hammersmith...
The Clash: The Magnificent Dance http://www.mediafire.com/?ztlv7yxomz2
Pop supergroup hits the floor...
Electronic: Get The Message (DNA Groove Mix) http://www.mediafire.com/?42zg11g3jgz
Original Rockers: Push Push http://www.mediafire.com/?xo1otzzatyb
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