As prolific as a slutty frog, Dark Sky are always putting out ridiculous tunes. ‘High Rise’, for example, was definitely one of my favourite tracks of 2011 and I have spent many a night bouncing around like a sentient pogo stick to its rubbery bassline. Today I acted in a similarly mental yet happy fashion as, much to my delight, the trio decided to gift us mere mortals with a free track, entitled ‘Standoff’, as a slightly late but very much appreciated Christmas gift.
Of course, free track doesn’t always mean quality track and as one astute YouTube commenter observes, “usually free tunes are shit… not this one tho.” Although I do not agree with his use of “tho”, I am very much of the same opinion. With an offbeat, pretty chilled out vibe, this is big/massive/huge/awesome/[a positive adjective of your choice]. Download it.
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No Comments »Posted by David on 30/12/2011 at 11:58 pm
‘Light Years Popsicle’ is a fitting title for a collaboration between Joker and Rustie, two producers whose musical personalities would perfectly assimilate into the retrofitted future of Blade Runner and/or other similar sci-fi scenarios. If Chris Tucker was here dressed as Ruby Rhod, he’d catapult this tune into the stratosphere. Or beyond into, you know, space.
Played by Plastician on his Rinse FM show a week ago, trance chords mingle with electric guitaresque synth in an epic lunar concoction evocative of hallucinatory images featuring an ’80s rockstar floating through the infinite galactic night. Or maybe that’s just me…listen below.
No Comments »Posted by David on 28/12/2011 at 8:55 pm
Merry Christmas everyone. Seriously, I’m not being sarcastic, I’m sincerely wishing you all a happy day. I hope Santa Clause (who may or may not exist) brought you some spectacular gifts and that you spent all day drinking delicious alcoholic beverages. I also hope that your Uncle Fred didn’t manage to grope your sister with his classic ‘hands-on’ hug and that your weird cousin wasn’t discovered touching himself in front of the cat again. Families are funny, aren’t they?
For a little bit of festive entertainment, I have embedded Lunar C vs Uno Lavoz below, which Don’t Flop kindly uploaded this morning as a little gift to all the battle heads out there. It’s family friendly [canned laughter], so hook it up to your TV and let your grandparents hear some sick bars like back in the day. I’m off to eat some turkey sandwiches and watch some more awful Christmas specials.
P.S. To those who don’t celebrate Christmas. I hope your regular day was all spiffy and nice too.
1 Comment »Posted by David on 25/12/2011 at 6:31 pm
Mr James Blake, the new master of melancholy, has just released a video for ‘A Case of You’ from his recent Enough Thunder EP. Starring Rebecca Hall (watch The Town), it’s an appropriately nostalgic ode to one’s love which fits such an ardent and wistful song perfectly. It makes me want to be all happy and nice to people; a prospect we all know is not possible. My icy heart aside though, have a watch below, wipe a solitary tear away and contemplate a few things, like why you’re so passive aggressive with the neighbour who keeps banging on your wall when you make too much noise. Stop throwing things over his fence. Or start throwing bigger things.
While most of us are trying to inform supermarkets that we know organic vegetables are organic because of the labels and therefore do not need them to be dirtier than regular vegetables, Japanese producer Yosi Horikawa is concentrating on the more poignant field of organic sound and this beautiful tune, entitled ‘Wandering’, is fundamentally a melange of live recordings of that nature thing (I don’t know, it’s outside or something). Initially evocative of a dewy forest scene circa 5am, it evolves into a percussive frenzy verging on the tribal and is, quite simply, wicked [insert youthful hand gesture here]. Have a listen below.
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While half the world is out there doing important stuff like having a job, raising children or helping the homeless — big deal, right? — the rest of us are waiting in huddled groups for a new Burial release. Well, the time to rejoice is now because news surfaced earlier this week via Kode9 on Twitter that a release dubbed Kindred EP is imminent and set for both a vinyl and digital outing. Additionally, and more relevant to those of us with shallow pockets, it will also “def be less than 25 quid”, a comment referring to the inflated price of the recent Massive Attack remixes.
Anyway, my initial reading of the news was more exhilarating than the time Tommy Tucker told me Brucey Wammond had broken his arm playing hockey and therefore wasn’t able to beat me up after school, but it was nothing compared to this morning when I woke up to receive a clip of a tune from the EP titled ‘Ashtray Wasp’. Played last night on Hyperdub’s Rinse FM show, it’s only a snippet of what Scratcha DVA assures us is an 8 minute track, but it’s still exciting to hear. I’m sure there will be people telling me not to wet my pants just because it’s something by Burial, but seriously, have a listen and get back to me.
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