Sunday, 20 September 2009
IL VOLO - Canti e Suoni (1975)
Promo for Euphony #42. Play loud. After 3mins this becomes beautiful.
Monday, 14 September 2009
Tuesday, 25 August 2009
Anti-Pop Consortium - Volcano (Four Tet Remix) (2009)
Sometimes I feel like giving up on hip hop but then a track like this comes along and I enjoy it again. Every time I try to get out, they suck me back in!
Kenny Carter - Showdown (1966)
One of my all time favourite soul tracks. Amazingly baroque and mournful arrangement with some heavy lyrics. Skip the preamble as that's only for anal music hounds like myself.
Feeling Washed Out?
There's something about this guy. His tracks feel like faded memories. It's like browsing through hundreds of those stock photographs found in picture frames that you throw away full of listless plastic smiles, hair product, blue-eyed wholesome families or women undressing under waterfalls. Those pictures seem to illustrate that a sickening faith in consumerist culture will provide a forced optimism in the stark face of economic downturns, terrorism and nuclear annihilation. It makes you feel drained and blinkered yet somehow elated like an aural Prozac. I guess Washed Out (a.k.a. Ernest Greene) could fit in with the 'Hypnagogic Pop' movement if his music wasn't so overproduced. But thankfully it's sounds just right, somehow straddling the decades in a retro-futurist manner and leaves you dreaming of DeLorean's and electric sheep rather than recession and the hopeless decay of society.
Thursday, 20 August 2009
Marc Hunter - Big City Talk (1981)
Probably Marc Hunter's best song (perhaps somewhat akin to picking the healthiest stool from a medical chart) set to some period visuals and the only one I can use as the 'official' video version has embedding disabled. Dirty punks.
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