Ah, Sunday evening. A time for moderate to intense reflection. A time to realise how broken your hype-o-meter is. I am no doubt so far behind the times with this one that I may as well go pick up my gal and take her to see this rockin’ new band called The Beatles down at the Liverpool docks or wherever they used to play.
This is just a wee post to inform you that I’m getting into this mini album by BNJMN. And maybe you should be too. Let’s take the material away, draw our personal conclusions, meet over coffee to discuss and collude ideas then hand the report in on Wednesday. I feel a promotion may be on the cards.
Everybody has been remixing Lana Del Rey’s ‘Video Games’ recently and by everybody, I mean Jamie Woon and now, Joy Orbison (there has actually been loads more, but these are the only two I’ve posted). Where Woon’s version splices, transposes and generally focuses on switching up the vocals — in a beautiful manner, I must add — Orbison has kept the original vocal track complete and married it to a characteristically majestic house inspired beat with rather exquisite results. Have a listen while simultaneously admiring a picture of Miss Rey. How nice.
His name may make him sound like a lumbering brute from a fantasy novel, but his music tells a different story, one of people dressed like Wesley Snipes from New Jack City chilling on sunny, evening beaches (I don’t know what this image means either, but it’s damn cool). Hailing from Bristol, Hodge, otherwise known as Jacob Martin, is one of a number of producers turning out that distinctly house-inspired dubstep sound and most of his output is smoother than the creamy hand on the Gaviscon adverts. ‘The Fall’, which drops on Monday (October 10) with ‘Crush’ as a b-side, is exquisite. Use your ears and that.
Nicolas Jaar’s Clown & Sunset label has announced the adoption of 19-year-old Montreal native Valentin Stip into its family. His Anytime Will Do EP will be out May 31 and will hopefully carry on the C&S tradition of not giving a shit and chilling the fuck out.
Talking of traditions, the label recently posted a sort of retrospective collection on SoundCloud, featured below. 18 tracks of minimal genius for those of us who believe being horizontal beats being vertical pretty much every time.
It’s about time I posted this up. Do you ever feel like there’s something missing in your life, something reminiscent of house music that celebrates its heady past while at the same time meditating selfishly in that wistful modern way that we all know and love? If not, take your delusional sense of contempt elsewhere. If so, then go back to The Drawing Board (genius wordplay such as this is what they pay me for).
After their huge single ‘Without You’, that indeed topped RA’s list of the top 50 tracks of 2010, Art Department kind of blew up. So a full-length album is as close as you’re going to get to the next logical step, and it doesn’t disappoint. Sparse, echoing and predominately male vocals (whether courtesy of Kenny Glasgow himself, the infamous Seth Troxler or Soul Clap) play out over and under elongated 4/4 patterns that at no point feel rushed or frantic. Epic opener ‘Much Too Much’ is enough to have you sprawled out, mesmerised on your beanbag. I don’t know if watching a video of Art Department’s two club music veterans shooting the shit will be beneficial in your appreciation of their debut LP, but it’s not like I can invite you round, throw the album on the hi-fi and hush any of your inquisitive mutterings. So here’s a couple of samplers and said video. Live long and prosper.
Everyone loves Julio Bashmore, especially Futureboogie because they will be releasing his Father Father EP on April 18. Seeing as its release codename thing is FBR001 I can only guess that it will be Futureboogie Recordings’ first, so ‘Go team!’ and all that.
Ummmm shovel shovel shovel? Not really much more to say. I can’t even be bothered making this post into the usual self-indulgent yet simultaneously self-depreciating questioning of the Self itself. Self. Is the human spirit, like its body, destined to slowly self-destruct? I did it! Never heard of this kid? Start with this exclusive little mixtape he put together for Vice magazine last year and work on from there. If there’s one thing those hipsters get right quite often it’s house music, cheers Vice. Your tracklist awaits (after the jump).
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