Jun '07 Archive
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Cro Magnon
Cro Magnon – Space Love
Bit slow on the uptake here…
Bloody computers…
For all you Bristol peeps out there – if you’re about we’ve got a new night starting tomorrow at The Tube – Hotplate…
Disco vibes shall be the order of the day – expect an across the board mash up from myself, Lukas and young Christophe
Here’s a little bit of the ever brilliant Cro Magnon to get you in the mood….
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Stoned on Love
“There must be a million things to make a man feel good”
I can’t find anything on the web about Forris Woods other than this track was released on Abbot Records.
So let’s make some stuff up…
Born in 1934 in Wolverhampton, Forris was the son of a local shoemaker. Disliking the smell of leather he joined the circus as a ‘dung boy’ clearing out the animals – this lay the foundations for his future love of mulching and composting, a subject in which he would gain national notoriety for being the first man to say ‘pigshit’ on Blue Peter…
Arrgghgh – just listen to the track.. its great.
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Imitator (version)
Bass warfare
This popped up on my MP3 player on the train to work yesterday and before I knew it I was writhing around winding my scrawny white boy arse in various commuters faces. Bad form.
This is the version with less vocal and more distortion released on a split EP with DJ/Rupture on Tigerbeat6 in 2003.
Low down dirty bum shaker action.
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Little Wooden Church On A Hill
Willie Eason
Pedal Steel – Part IIPsalms 150:4 “praise him with stringed instruments”
Pioneering preacher/guitarist Willie Eason first brought the lap steel into the US Pentecostal ‘House of God’ churches alongside his brother Troman during the 1930’s, beginning a tradition now know as ‘Sacred Steel’, where the steel guitarist plays an integral part of the service alongside the preacher.
Almost unheard of outside the House of God communities until relatively recently the tradition has spawned many notable names including the Campbell Brothers, Aubrey Ghent (whose live version of ‘Praise Music’ is definately worth checking out for a proper hairs-on-back-of-the-neck gospel stomp), Calvin Cooke and Robert Randolph, with the latter popularising the sound after developing a more secular rock/funk orientated style.
The track included here is by the original father of the scene Brother Willie Eason. I know he’s not playing a pedal steel on this track.. its a lap steel guitar, but he played a huge part in creating a tradition that now includes pedal steel players – i’m sure this discrepancy is enough to have some muso pedants frothing at the mouth but it’s a good enough link for me.
The track is also available on the Arhoolie Records compilation called ‘Sacred Steel’ (which also contains the Aubrey Ghent track mentioned earlier) which you can download from emusic.
There are some other good articles covering the Eason brothers and the sacred steel tradition found here:
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Ghostshrimp
Nice and Precise…
More illustration – this time from the hand of Dan James, part of Ghostshrimp.
Again, the site contains a nice shop selling prints/t-shirts/books etc.
Go see.
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Out Of The Blue
BJ Cole
Pedal Steel – Part IFollowing the joys of my little barbeque three-parter i’ve decided to do more of the same, although this time the common theme is based around the Pedal Steel guitar rather than burning meat and warm lager, a lot more sensible I think you’ll agree.
BJ Cole is an official pedal steel session legend, having worked with nearly everyone who ever recorded an album. Check out the list from his own site here to get an idea of how prolific he has been (I mean, come on… Ken Dodd and Jimmy Nail!) but the steps he taken away from the world of pop are where you’ll find his best work.
I first saw him playing with Luke Vibert after the cracking Hip-Hop/Hawaiian/Lounge/Acid album they made together called ‘Stop the Panic’ and it made me wonder at the time why the instrument isn’t played more often in the way Cole does, bearing in mind its seemingly obvious ability to create everything from swooping psychedelia to metallic screeches and shimmering resonance.
The track included here was taken from his website. It’s a piece of music written by current collaborator and cellist Emily Burridge from their album ‘Duets for Pedal Steel Guitar & Cello’ and its about five and half minutes long… making it roughly ten times longer than it took to think up that album title.
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Ninja Mi Ninja
Rougher than Rambo…
Courtney Melody being bloody brilliant. Menace and soul. Soundclash smasher of old.
Thats all…
You can puuurchase this on real vinyl from Juno.
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Share My Life - Inner City
Tunnel Vision
As featured on Dixon’s mighty mighty live futureboogie mix from last year and also dropped by our friend’s at Bump during their recent excursion to Public Life – a converted public toilets in Shoreditch…totally bizarre little club that has always been goin off when I’ve been there – and that night was no exception.
Amazing track – deep, hypnotic, haunting – bloody brilliant: as the man Kenny says ““This is electronic soul music, full of human feeling and warmth”
Too right mon….
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Try It Out
Come alive….
Another scorcher, this one’s been getting a lot of play recently on both the Club Dave & futureboogie fronts…a proper little groover from Gino Soccio, everything about this track is blinding: ace horns, super fat bassline and just enough vocal not to scare you off.
I don’t know much about him, other than he was French Canadian, this tracks from 1981 – I think – and he also put out the killer tune Dancer which was a pretty big number and still gets a lot of club action today – worth a listen if you don’t already know it…
Guaranteed to get them shakin their tail feathers – dance!!!
PS – Big up to Christophe for furnishing me with me this….hot number!!
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Wake Up And Make Love To Me
Classic Ian Dury Action!
Wowsers – technology eh???
Ian Dury and The Blockheads – what can you say about them – and him in particular, that hasn’t already been said?
The whole Stiff story and everything that goes with it is smashing, a truly inspiring label and always worth a check.
I first heard this in a field in Shropshire, the fairest Shire, many, many moons ago and thought : “What the christ is this?”....what a frontman, what a tune, what a total winner. Always in the box, not played as often as it should be but always a killer when it pops…..enjoy.
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Jillian Tamaki Illustration
I’m going to add some visual bits and bobs up here every now and again – hopefully to compliment the musical listings.
First off is the website of Canadian born illustrator, Jillian Tamaki. Which contains some nice free desktop wallpaper downloads in the shop section.
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Birds
Crying onto your mouse mat..
Apparat’s new album ‘Walls’ was released this week on the, sometimes far noisier, label he co-runs with T.Raumschmiere – Shitkatapult.
Indie pop-esque in feeling, mostly due to vocal collaborations with Raz Ohara, but constructed around a sound palatte of clunks, knocks and fizzes (is that the correct pluralisation?). It manages to be emotional whilst not sounding too schmaltzy or twee. You can almost hear him crying softly onto his mouse mat whilst tweaking his MAX/MSP patches. Poor thing.
Aaaaaanyway… there’s more (and frankly better) journo-speak on the Shitkatapult site, where you can also buy it digitally direct from the label.
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Theme from Symphony No. 6
(German classical composer + 60’s American sleaze) x Japanese guitar legend = ON FIRE!
Kapow! It’s a whammy bar spectacular today with Japanese surf guitar legend Tekeshi ‘Terry’ Terauchi and his band The Bunnys (pehaps the best backing band name ever?) playing the theme from Beethoven’s 6th Symphony.
I could’ve tried to say something interesting about all the cultural cross references going on in this record… but I won’t, because it’s boring… just keep your ears pricked for the raucous snare fill at the two minute mark.
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