A little Announcement

There's been no posts in ages and I apologize. I'm being evicted and things are hectic. Trying to find a room is making me feel fucking shit. No energy or brain ability to write stuff here for now.

Assuming I find myself settled, normal service will resume.

xxx

THE BEST OF MUSIC I FOUND WHEN I CLEANED MY ROOM YESTERDAY pt.2

Jacob Golden is bloody brilliant. I thought I'd lost his Rough Trade released e.p forever and yesterday it turned up under my bed. His fragile broken voice sounds like a thousand shattered dreams. Share the excitement and listen...

Polyamory
Carry Yourself
As she turns

Point yourself at his myspace for more recent beauty...

Someone is freaked. It might be me, or maybe it's that shadow that just jumped up, stared at the cat, then ran out the room. These Are Powers have got me shook up and scared. Anna Barie (ex Knife Skills), Ted McGraith and Pat Noecker (ex Liars) craft music for funerals of long dead and very pissed off people. As your attorney I advise you buy their e.p.
While you're waiting on the postman, get a taste with these songs..

The South Angel
Hoop Snake

telephone jim jesus - Birds in Chase

When Steve Mason (Beta Band) announced his retirement from music last year, alot of people were hoping that he'd do a Jay-Z and be back soon.. and yep, it's happened, he's dropped King Biscuit Time and returned as Black Affair. His voice is distinctive as ever and the beats and bleeps are set to storm clubs full of people with wonky haircuts. The first single 'Japanese Happening' is currently only available to stream on his myspace or to buy through u.s.a itunes.. in the meantime enjoy these beauties..

You and Me
Will She come
Sweet

My bus journeys to work are getting better and better.. this is another fine mix that has kept my ears company.. put together by beatpervert and in his words 'for the kids that like gangsta rap and kraut rock'

the king stay the king

tracklistling:
spaceman 3 - ecstasy
pink floyd - on the run
boards of canada - beware of the stranger
electro 4 - pause
Dj Shadow - midnight in a beautiful world (exteneded remix)/Project Pat - Raised in the projects (drunk and focused blend)
Trae and Young Joc/Mims - this is why I'm hot (drunk and focused blend)
mean joe green ft. juvenille - down bottom
eat cloud - bow'd brain
Young Jeezy and bun b/squarepusher - over here(drunk and focused blend)
tangerine dream - phaedra
ice cube - my dad was in the KKK, please excuse me you love to hate
can- future days
TI and beanie seigel - 2 glocks nine/ Can- Oh yeah/boom bip-from left to right (drunk and focused blend)
E-40, Juelz santana, ugk/boom bip-white gurls (evaredy loves pancake booty blend)
antithesisters - eddie winslow (remix)
aphex twin - arched maid via rdj
Slim thug, ti, bun b - three kings/neu - hallogallo ( drunk and focused blend)
radiohead - I will (scott matelic remix)
crooked lettaz - caught in the game
godspeed you black emperor - ?
black sabbath - killing yourself to live
suicidal tendencies - institionalized
emynd - hanging on

A Swiss Trio making fine Electronic music.
Sinner DC are sounding ace to my ears. I've yet to hear more than a few songs, but these three tracks are on the right side of wrongness.

they never stay (mount age lp)
romy schneider (arkle parkle avenue lp)
always rock on the western side (dave apple remix)

They've also got a few wonky mixes up.
Peep the tracklisting..

Various Artists 2006 mix

burial : forgive (hyperdub)
pan sonic : liuos (blast first)
spectrum & silver apples : the edge (space age)
sinner dc : northbeach (ai records)
extrawelt : fernweh (kompass)
the field : over the ice (kompakt)
james figurine : apologies (plug research)
afx : pwsteal.ldpinch.d (rephlex)
remote : teaser (kill the dj)
(t)ékël : smet (initial cuts)
mathew jonson : marionette (wagon repair)
klaxons : gravity's rainbow - van she tech mix (because)
mjuc : noise moving (aiding music)
vitalic : trahison (citizen records)
kinski : schedule for using pillows & beanbags (sub pop)
arpanet : probability densities (rephlex)
cluster : zum wohl (sky records)

Check the website for 2004/2005 mixes.

: D

The internet doesn't just come in English! Oh no, there's a world wide web of language out there that has me scratching my head and hovering my mouse above hyperlinks. So even with my limited grasp of language I was happy to stumble across kwadratuur, a Belguim site that contains all manner of goodness. On there a found a *brand new* múm track, the first I've heard with their new line-up (check the story here)
It's sparse, piano led with male vocals.. in short, different from what you'd expect.. Hear for yourself..

Moon Pull

Fog and Why? released their Hymie's Basement lp on Lex to little fanfare. It's an ace album and they both have a following, but there was no two man in a van world tour to promote it. That's a shame as I always sure the songs would sound great live .. and now I'm very happy to have this to prove it.. unearthed from the archives, these songs are from an ultra limited Live e.p, recorded when and where? I don't know, but I do know these performances are every bit as good as you could hope for...

America Won/America Too
The Act
All Them Boys
Ghost Dream/The Pump
Ben & Joey
Lightning Bolts And Man Hands/You Die
21st Century Pop Song

Also as another little treat....
21st Century Pop Song (Mount Eerie Remix)

One downside of downloading obscene amounts of music is that often I'll end up with lots of unlistened mp3s.. The upside is putting the ol' ipod on shuffle, hearing something new and thinking 'wow! what the *fuck* is this?'

I got that feeling on the bus this morning with this mix.. (yep, another mix, gone mix mad, me) put together by Melonhands..

Moody butterfly bass, creaking door atmospherics, unexpected world music blends and a beautiful outing of aphex twin's 'on'

melonhands - i need dub(step)

tracklisting:

nettle - halfstep
pinch and p dutty - war dub
pinch - qawwali VIP
tinariwen - amassakoul n tenere
i-wiz - habibi
digital mystikz - ancient memories (skream remix)
caspa - for the kids
distance - taipan
aphex twin - on
black ham - necron
toasty - angel
filastine - dreams from wounded mouth
mutamassik - high alert aala teta
amadou and mariam - toubala kono

cracking song
ace video

Holy Shit. I just stumbled across Marnie Stern and upon hearing her, it was like taking ecstasy for the first time. I've never been a big fan of guitar shredding but the rush here is relentless...

Her album 'In Advance Of The Broken Arm' will be released on February 20th on Kill Rock Stars.

listen to Grapefruit

(by the by, this is a myspace rip, sounds cool on my speakers, but the quality isn't gonna match the album..)

AGT Rave Cru are fucking hardcore.. you know the score.. etc etc. Twisted dark Planet Mu type wrongness.. listen here

dj snapmouth (of AGT Rave Cru) has put together a mix that will have you losing your jaw if you're not carefull.

sick day mix

tracklisting:

godspeed you black emperor - dead flag blues
mira calix - skin with me (andrea parker remix)
milanese - sadako
rustie - response
vex'd - pop pop v.i.p.
british murder boys - anti inferno
beckett & taylor - hand on the plow
a guy called gerald - downstroke
my robot friend - dial zero (modeselektor remix)
burial - versus
a guy called gerald - nasty
funk d'void & phil kieran - black worm
hrdvision - thrash 1
lfo - dj trax
alern8 - frequency
cylob - smash up the pram
aux 88 - my aux mind
anthony rother - luzifer
konrad black - medusa smile (dont look back)
second phase - mentasm (beltram mix)
surgeon - floorshow (part one)
vex'd - angels
secret frequency crew - miami eyes
the consumer - looking for the code
lfo - we are back
lfo - lfo
lfo - freak
mr oizo - latex
modeselektor - kill bill vol 4
audion - kisses
styz - mr roboto
acen - trip to tha moon
altern8 - move ur body
hug - the happy monster
cursor miner - man made man
ardisson - yes
posthuman - beautiful beast

xxxx

0_O

Gay Against You are two peeps from Glasgow, causing a bit of a hot fuss on Last.FM at the minute. They make DJ Scotch Egg style gameboy rock but with much less gabba madness, reminds me a little of the fabulous bestfwends. If these two tracks take your fancy, you can d/l the album here.

Hello

Ice Scooter

(If anyone can hook me up with the bestfwends remix of bump, I'll be very grateful)

Todd Rundgren is a mentalist. Today I've been listening to his 1973 album 'A Wizard, a True Star' and marvelling at just how fucking great it sounds. It's almost not of this planet, big songs progged out on effects.. it sounds old yet futuristic too. If you've not already heard him, grab these two songs..

Le Feel Internacionale

Sometimes I don't know what to feel

Michael Forrest - Broken into Tumbolia

This album is mostly abrupt electrics in a similar vein to all your favourites. So far, so Warp.. but Mr. Forrest steps further and lets loose a mentalist convention in a brass band bad dream. It spazzes hard and doesn't stop.

Some video niceness too..

Valentines day is fast approaching and this mix is the perfect accompaniment to a broken heart. Beautifully put together, the track selection speaks for itself.
Hats off to Bobby Corridor.

Melancholy Flowers 2

Alan Watts- Divine Madness
Talk Talk- I Believe In You
Helios- Paper Tiger
Dub Tractor- Faster
Buck 65- Food (inst)
Bob Dylan- Don�t Fall Apart On Me
Stendec- Raine
Marc Almond- Ends In Tears
Manyfingers- Some Shield
Fila Brazilia- Return Of The Red Hot Brethren
Veda Brown- Living A Life Without Love
Eliot Lipp- Real Tragic
Tom Robinson Band- Long Hot Summer
Van Morrison- Warm Love
Sketchie- Suffragist Down
Andre Gurov- Relevation Of Wrath
James and Boby Purify- I�m Your Puppet
Lord Finesse- Yes You May (remix inst)
Lhasa- My Name
Johnny Osbourne- Give A Little Love
Scientist- Give A Little Love Dub
Barry Adamson- Hollywood Sunset
Clem Snide- Find Love
Scritti Politti- Petrococadollar
Billy Childish- The Humility Of Love
Jacob Golden- Dirty Snow
Arab Strap- Phone Me Tonight
Alias & Ehren- Lillian
Esmerine- While She Swallows Bullets and Stones
Hans Appelqvist- Grammofonnummer
Sufjan Stevens- That Dress Looks Nice On You
Savath & Savalas- Two Blues For Marion Brown
Caural- Sipping Snake Blood Wine (Savath & Savalas Mix)
Art Of Noise- Moments In Love
Zane Trow- Thirtithri
Silicon Scally- Toneworks
Brendon Anderegg- They�re Still Here
Jeff Klein- Nobody�s Favourite Girl
Ammoncontact- Barbeque Plate (Telefon Tel Aviv�s Last Supper remix)
John Martyn- Hurt In Your Heart
Bernard Purdie- Summer Melody
George Russell- You Are My Sunshine
Fat Jon- Romantic Misery
Tindersticks- My Oblivion
Aoki Takamasa- Fly Variation
Souad Massi- There�s Worse
2 Tall- Shifting Tides
Mark Eitzel- Anything
Bill Near- Drumin

I was gonna write out and link up a best of 2006 list, then I realised that I know next to nothing so instead I bring you...

THE BEST OF MUSIC I FOUND WHEN I CLEANED MY ROOM YESTERDAY pt.1

Why?

A legend of odd-hop/alt-pop... emerging from cLOUDDEAD's shadows to realease 'oaklandazulasylum' An album for people with short attention spans but huge imagination..

'Cold Lunch' is a simple lullaby to the awkward feeling of approaching a party.. . it kicks like a mule as he runs off an inventory of essentials for the night..

'Dream on Coptelyou' is demented. Plain and simple. Doolally. It still makes perfect sense though.. 'simple physics make him go so fast'

'Shirtless, sleepless and' hints at the direction Why? took on 'Elephant Eyelash'. Lot's of beautiful singing but still with unusual lyrics.

No posts in a while, sorry about that. Christmas is coming and things have hectic. I've got a small selection of very fine Christmas songs for you.


Absentee and The Broken Family Band Present Hot Uncles - Chrismas Intentions

Buck 65 - TheNightBeforeXmas

The Knife - Christmas Reindeer

x

Yesterday, in an attempt to lift my spirits I downloaded an excellent Christmas Mix by The Bomarr Monk (Restiform Bodies) and there was one band in particular that jumped out of the speakers and grabbed my ears. They are Mi and L'au, a French/Finnish couple making the most beautiful music in 'complete isolation in a small cabin'

They remind me of Low and A Silver Mt. Zion.
That is very good.

: D

Wild Xmas with The Bomarr Monk Vol.2

Mi and L'au - Older

Someone buy me a new brain. The last two weekends have completely wonked me out. At least these fabulously twisted Thom Yorke remixes are sorting me out. A pleasure to see him link up with Surgeon and Various Productions.

This is from The Eraser mail out..

' For anyone who has heard The Eraser, there are some remixes coming.

Yes.

I got excited. I've been listening through. I mean. There's some freaky shit.

They may start appearing soon. Gradually. Briefly.
Just a taste. And then gone.

On www.theeraser.net

First there is Surgeon's Rmx of The Clock.
This was the one that made me think, we got to start getting these out.
I was chuffed he wanted to do it as think he is a MASTER.
He has turned it into something really hard. And disco.
Well what i call disco anyhow.
It made me very proud.

I hope it gets played in a club somewhere.
Not that i get out much nowadays.

Peace to us all during the festive season.

Thm
x


Analyse (various remix)

The Clock (surgeon remix)

A Friday Four Tet treat for you. Seven tracks performed live at Melbourne Spanish club.

A Joy
Sun, drums and soil
Hands
Spirit fingers
Everything is Alright
Turtle Turtle Up
Smile around the face

I've been on a bit of a noise binge over the last few days, so this Digitonal remix of On/Off's 'One Day' has been something of a treat. All the bloops are in the right places and it rolls with the most beautiful of synth sounds and vocoder niceness.

(On/Off is an alias of the fabulous Posthuman.. you can buy his music from Bleep. Visit his home, Seed records too)

One Day (Digitonal remix)

Mas Y Mas specialise in NOISY *fuzzzy* guitars, chopped up with lo-fi fuckness and obtuse attitude. They describe themselves as 'total douchebags' and name their influences as 'other douchebags'. The song below is super fun and their Myspace has some more. If you fancy it, their new e.p 'Latin Outreach' out now on Shut up! I love You Records

The DeAnimator

This is the strangest mix I've heard in a while, don't expect an easy listen. It's NOISY and quite often unsettling. Packed full of doom mongers and clicky electrics, to be honest I only recognize abut half the artists, but that's always a good sign.

Heart Attack Mix by Konx-om-Pax

1. The Four Plugs - Biking Girl
2. Shellac - Prayer to God
3. Hecker - y-gwaot phase inv2
4. Earth - Divine And Bright
5. BBBlood - Chick Sick
6. Park Attack - If Music is the Food of Love, I Think I Just Threw Up
7. John Cage - Duo for Two Pianos
8. Tiger Piss - Pleasurecrowd
9. Shitdisco - Reactor Party (Konx-om-Pax Really Fucked Up Remix)
10. Ryoji Ikeda - Data.Syntax
11. Rupert Murder - Cockadoodledoo Fuckin Stupid Remix
12. Merzbow - Rice 2
13. Satanstornade - Unlock The Mysteries Of The Sun
14. Bernard Parmegiani - Etude Elastique
15. Autechre & The Hafler Trio - h3ae
16. White Noise - Movement 3
17. Earth - Rule The Divine (Mysteria Caelestis Mugivi) (Remixed By Sunn O))))
18. The Mono - Bahnhof
19. Agent Orange - Your Mother Sucks Cocks in Hell
20. Heart Attack - Shotgun

Congratulations are due to Jonny Greenwood.

Radiohead's supreme guitar spastic is enjoying great success branching out into the more refined world of Port and Smoking Jackets.

For just over the past two years he's been the BBC Concert Orchestra's Composer in Residence and last week his composition 'Popcorn Superhet Reciever' was voted The Orchestral Commission of the year by Listeners of BBC Radio 3. (Full story here)

I've only had the chance to listen once (in a room with people watching Hollyoaks) and the impression I got was that this work requires a dark space, headphones and possibly some spliffage. Inspired by White Noise and trips in the car taken as a kid, when he would zone out to the sound of the engine.. Get ready for a journey...

Popcorn Superhet Reciever

God Bless Vaatican Records.

There's some awesome music lurking on their site and it's all *free*

Sampler n°1 is a good place to start. 15 tracks of assorted electronics and oddness. Some of it is hit and miss, but there's surely something there for everyone.

Jumping out at me are The Collapsible Mammals. Cracking 7 track e.p.

Get a taste with...

Language Funeral Procession

I got back from Shanghai in one piece! Currently awaiting confirmation that I've retained both Kidneys, though the fresh scar across my belly is a bit of a worry.

Very nice to arrive back to an inbox of musical goodness. I'll be sharing what I can over the next few days. For now I can offer something a bit special for fans of The Mighty Boosh...

BBC Breezeblock Session

Howsy!

No new posts for a little while, because I'm in China.

Back in about a week.

Much Love.

x

Bed in a minute, but before that happens I really want to share this with you.

Thom Yorke's 'The Eraser' is one of my favourite albums of this year and anything else that emerges from those sessions is gonna be good.
'Iluvya' (one of two B-sides for Analyse) doesn't dissapoint. Buy the single 12" single here.

I'm also loving the solcofn remix of Radiohead's We suck young blood, which I found at The Music Slut

Iluvya

We suck young blood (solcofn remix)

x

As you can probably guess from previous posts, I'm a huge fan of Anticon and these two songs show very different sides to what they do. 'We ain't fessin' (double quotes) is an epic reworking of an older song. Pretty much all of Anticon turn up to rap, sing and produce. There's so much going on and so many twists, that it's difficult to take it all in on the first few listens.
'More from June' is a Deep Puddle Dynamics song that never made their album, although that's in no way an indication of it's quality. John Herndon (Tortoise) co-produces and the drums clatter and stutter in perfect synergy with absolutely manic rapping. Eyedea's guest spot will knock your socks off.

We ain't fessin' (double quotes)

More from June

Caustic Window

Fantasia

Aphex Twin, a man of many names.. biff baff, kite chuff,
Cliff Richard's remorse bag.*

I for one am happy about his many pyseudonyms, there's nothing better than saying
'Yes, but have you heard his analogue guise surprise mega mix? Limited to just 50 pieces of sandpaper, sold in selected B & Q stores in the late '70's.'

'The late 70's?'

'Of course! he's so great, he's built a fucking time machine! And you call yourself a fan? Go and lick some windows ya weakling child. Look mate, if you haven't got the Caustic Window compilation album go and buy it now.'

*may not be true

Múm

the ballad of the broken birdie records (ruxpin remix I)

'Yesterday was dramatic, today is OK' is probably my favourite of Icelands premier sexy-twin-glitch-melodica-folk band (I think I just invented another micro-genre) and it's remix album is beautiful too. This interpretation sounds like a 1000 kid in need of Ritalin. Chomp it up.

p.s

They were recently recording in a friends studio and he says they were the quietest band they've ever had there.

awwwww, bless.

A smokey room with a pile of records stacked high, cigar burning on the corner and this on the stereo...

Broadway Project

No Pain
Who's to Blame

Sample based music never had so much soul, taken from the album 'Compassion' these tear hearts apart. Check here for untold amount of unreleased music and live action.

Oh my Christ. How is it Friday already? Almost time to spazz your womps on another lost weekend.. These songs are some of what got me this far...

First off, A song from the 'Oscar Brown' e.p by Baxter Dury, son of Ian, beyond heartbreaking, perfect for a walk home from a disastrous day.

Oscar Brown








Next up, loveliness from The Kills that is so different from their usual style. It's beautiful and stuff, y'know.

Gypsy death & you









Finally, two songs from The Hidden Cameras first e.p.

Ban Marriage
We Oh We




Good weekend to you all.

: D

Squarepusher

Live at BBC Electric Proms

Glastonbury 2000... off my box on shrooms, taking shelter at The Glades... Squarepusher was on stage screaming 'COME ON YOU FUCKING BUNCH OF CUNTS!!!' I ran away and watched TV in the fireplace instead.
Judging by his set for BBC Electric Proms he seems to have calmed down a bit, but the music here is no less fierce. Forty minutes of Beats and Bass Wanking©. If you haven't already bought it, you can listen to his new album 'Hello Everything' (and the digital singles that preceded it) on his website. There's also a very wordy interview here, though it's a shame no-one asked about his sudden passion for red shirts.