RIP John Barry

Rest in Peace John Barry, you blew my tiny childhood mind with your amazing scores for James Bond. Oh my God those incredible string arrangements...

Capsule in Space



You Only Live Twice



Diamonds Are Forever



Portishead much?

The Ipcress File



The Persuaders



Undoubtedly one of the best composers of the 20th Century, JB will be missed, but has already left an incredible legacy.

Peter Collins - Noir

A wee preview of a new project from Peter Collins (aka Rothko of Molotov Disco), based around the 'noir' style. As well as the obvious references (Bogart, Orson Welles, Chandler etc), there's hints to modern pulp like 100 Bullets and Sin City, all filtered through his unique blend of seemingly-choatic scribbling and bold linework. Really awesome.

"I had been commissioned to create some pieces in the "film Noir" style (dark shadows, moody figures etc). For want of a better model, I ended up using myself (in a photo shoot) - so I could draw e.g. exactly how a shirt looks when opened at the top, or how a face looks when the head is tilted backwards. I wasn't bothered whether the final pieces actually looked like me or not, in fact, if anything, I prefer the pieces that look less like me...."

Fuck Thumbs

Probably NSFW.

Prepared Turntable

Prepared Turntable from Yuri Suzuki on Vimeo.

Geek's corner: MLRV 2

MLRV is a free sampling instrument designed for live performance with grid controllers like Akai's Mp x series and the Monome. It runs with Max/Msp (and can therefore be heavily customised), although Pc and Mac users alike can download a free runtime if they don't have that software.

I'm not entirely sure how its functionality differs from Ableton Live's, so I'll have to wait until the first of February, when it becomes available for download. Here's a beautiful live demonstration by Galapagoose:

too many from t.gill on Vimeo.

Check out the MLRV 2 in greater detail.

FUCK Yeah

The highlight reel of Tamil film, 'Enthiran'. Probably a spoiler for the full film, but I'm not sure that matters.

Cheers Warren.

Come on come on

Thanks Tickle! More here.

A Little Song About Authority

Get Down. To Hell.

The Disco Exorcist, "a blood-soaked tale of revenge, sex, black magic, disco dancing, and mountains of cocaine," possibly represents a step towards the tedious in the postmodern exploitation genre (or was that the lamentable Machete?), but it certainly has a kick-ass poster!

How did this one pass me by?

Chris Korda "I Like To Watch"

Is this the most offensive song in the history of everything? Watch the vid and judge for yourself. There is no way in hell I am gonna post the original video (still below), which is like this one, but intercut with about 50 odd cum shots and lots of jocky American sport action. But hey, if that tickles your fancy, you can find it here.



This has shades of Chris Morris' extreme satyrical genius, and also a Ballardian sense of depersonalising an horrific incident through sexualisation of the subject matter. And it has teh megalolz (listen out for nostril spurting guffaw moments at c.1:20 and 2:40). This is almost ten years old now, but still retains its power.

Chris Korda is the transvestite leader of the cult The Church of Euthanasia, the four main pillars of which are Suicide, Abortion, Cannibalism and Sodomy (or any non-procreative sex). Signed to International Deejay Gigolo in the late 90's, s/he's a respected producer, though I'd never heard of this tune til a few days ago. Like a much more extreme version of the Church of Subgenius, CoE seems even more relevant today than it did in the 90s. Please come back and shock us some more Chris!

You can download I Like To Watch for free, along with remixes by Richard Bartz and Cannibal Whore Feast, right here.

Shakedown - a film by Leilah Weinraub

Give these black lesbain strippers some money. Go on. You know you want to.



Srsly tho, this film looks like it could be amazing, but the producers need to raise another 15 grand from the public by the end of next week or it will never see the light of day. Unless we make it happen!

Silver Tongues

Simon Arthur, an old friend of mine, has completed his debut feature film Silver Tongues, starring Oz's Lee Tergeson and Boardwalk Empire's Enid Graham.

He originally made a segment of the film in Scotland back in 2007, before he relocated to New York. I have watched this project develop slowly and steadily, reading countless drafts of the script along the way, so it makes me really proud to see it come to fruition. It is premiering at Slamdance film festival in Utah this week, with the last showing on the 27th. Now, I presume, comes the grueling task of finding a distributor. Seeing him inch this project forward over the last 5 years has really made me realise the dedication, tunnel-vision and sheer insanity required by a writer-director to complete their vision. Kudos!

Follow his progress on Twitter and Facebook.

Trent Reznor/Peter Murphy/Twiggy Ramirez & Atticus Ross cover "Warm Leatherette"

This kicks some serious ass - members of NIN, Marilyn Manson & Bauhaus cover The Normal's "Warm Leatherette" (made famous by Grace Jones):

Texture - Idoru's Ghost Mix

Texture's got a new mix up on his "T3XTUR3" Soundcloud - a mix of witch house/drag and some interesting downbeat stuff. It's nice and scary.



"Recorded at the abandoned weaponlabs facility, six months after 'the event'...
All degradation in sound quality is due to EMP-damaged hard drives - please adjust bass manually. For captain fauxhammer, admiral j. tacolexa and the ghosts of Whitechapel."

1 the gentle hum of anxiety / trent reznor & atticus ross
2 as the ocean sweeps you away / forest ocean
3 burnout eyess / oOoOO
4 tundra / metatron
5 rose bath [moon rmx] / raw moans
6 dreams / vortex rikers
7 new flesh / story of isaac
8 aqua net [party trash rmx] / raw moans
9 squares / fighting dan
10 mumbai / oOoOO
11 fucK that dAy [high park rmx] / raw moans
12 hearts / oOoOO
13 nightmares / vortex rikers
14 seawww / oOoOO
15 digital versicolor / glass candy
16 illusions / vortex rikers
17 trains / metatron
18 a dark wind blows / texture
19 cmyk / james blake


Idoru'sGhost [Witch House / Drag / Electro Mix] by t3xtur3

Trish Keenan: 'Mind Bending Motorway Mix'

I posted this on Dangerous Minds last week, but it deserves to be shared again. Trish Keenan was the singer in the indie/electronica band Broadcast, who died last week of pneumonia.



Image via Bobo Epileptic.

Just before the recent trip to Australia on which she contracted swine flu, Broadcast singer Trish Keenan compiled some experimental music and psyche-pop for a friend, and called it the “Mind Bending Motorway Mix.” The mix (which has no track list), has been uploaded as a tribute to the late musician, with a view to being shared with as many people as possible. Joe Muggs at The Arts Desk writes:

“A friend in Birmingham who had become good friends with Keenan in recent years has passed me THIS LINK for a “mixtape” she gave him very recently. It’s the most wonderful collection of psychedelic rarities, film music and synthesiser experiments, and perfectly illustrates Keenan’s constant mission to turn people on to exquisite and unusual sounds - but also, as the tracks are not titled, shows the sense of mystery and incentive to investigate with which she imbued all her work.”

Hobo With A Shotgun

Remember Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Grindhouse double bill project from a few years ago? Remember all the fake film trailers made for it that were actually better than the main attractions themselves? Remember there was a competition to see which member of the public could make their own fake grindhouse trailer? No? Well, it doesn't really matter, as this is all just background chat for a new film called Hobo With A Shotgun. The fan-made HWAS clip won the Grindhouse competition a few years ago, and now the producer and director have expanded it out from a trailer to a feature length. And somehow they managed to cast the amazing Rutger Hauer in the lead role. It's cheap, it's nasty, and it looks like it's gonna be great:



You can play compare and contrast with the original trailer too:



There's more info at www.hobowithashotgun.com/

Chorus of Susans

From the hands of Laurence Elliot (Chorus of Gastornis). Amazebolz!

Gravious - Junction City EP

Gravious - Junction City EP - Saigon Rec
Gravious, one of Glasgow's earliest exponents of dubstep (Kode9 doesn't count, he's from Wishaw) returns with a 3-track EP on Saigon recordings, who's debut 12" from Orphan101 was one of the more interesting releases I came across last year. Gravious' first release, Wormsign / Monolith was a brooding mass of almost imperceptible bass-frequencies, sparse percussion and Tubby-esque echochamber work, chewing up everything from grime and jungle, to dub and the sound emerging from London at the time. It was an absolute beast, and I remember a live set in the 13th Note (for Tronic, I think) totally blowing me away a couple of years back.
This 3-track EP, is frankly, great bass music from a producer who's grown massively over the years - the title track beasts in with syncopated percussion battling against a very techno synth on the 4/4, the hi-end being taken up by Joker-esque pixel melodies that rattle around with frustrated energy. Dynamic breakdowns and big filter sweeps make for a seriously beatiful experience, and Gravious manages to throw in a little bit of everything without turning schizophrenic, shifting time signature on the final 32 and moving into Autechre / Plaid territory. Nice.
Following this up, Lodestone begins as a much darker proposition, all skulking bassline and fractured breaks that sounds like 2562 minus the bongos, before a delicate plucked melody takes over, and it morphs into some kind of post-modern trance variant. Devolving the Ibiza big-room sound and scattering it over the brooding fragments of the intro to merge both the euphoric and the melancholic perfectly.
Final track, Lunar Module, is suitably cosmic, showing that Gravious has been keeping a keen ear on Rustie, Joker, Gemmy and the rest, and has really learnt how to craft rich sounds in his career. Junction City deserves to something as big as Bad Science or Brkn Clln, and it's a pretty special effort from a producer who's grown massively, but for those who were hoping for more of the shuddering darkness a la Martyn, Shackleton etc, this is much more of a 'pop' EP - a searing bag of dancefloor destroyers. Get it bought.

George Fitzgerald - Don't You / SCB Remix

George Fitzgerald - Don't You / SCB Remix (Hot Flush Records)
George Fitzgerald, whose debut EP, The Let Down, neatly tied together the dominant strains of garage, bass, house and R'n'B that were big at the time, returns to Hot Flush with another cut of fractured vocals, broken beats and lush synths. To some extent, it's more of the same; there's mournful detuned vox that warp in and around the melody, skittery half-step percussion and rich synths all bundled up in warm atmospherics. Undoubtedly, this is going to get rinsed to death, especially with Scuba, the man who's A&R skills have launched Joy Orbison, Mount Kimbie and Sigha backing it, and providing a remix on the flip. But this is no monster anthem; it's the moody, richly textured version of the garage-not-garage thing that Kavsrave, J.O. and the rest are punting at the moment. Whether or not there's space in the marketplace for more of the same remains to be seen, but Fitzgerald has his own charm and energy that makes him worth looking out for. Hell, even the vocals have their own place, unlike a few too many of Orbison's tracks.
For me, though, the B-side is where it's at - Paul Rose (Scuba), under his SCB moniker careful extracts the essentials of the original and processes them into the kind of Berlin Boom-Tish that he's been espousing lately. Honestly, it's not the best thing he's done under either moniker, but nailing the synthy, purple wow-inflected garage-isms of the original onto a solid technoid template makes for a genre-smashing synthesis. Nice work.

Edinburgh's creative industries = best in Scotland?

From the Guardian.

"Opinion: Let's celebrate our creative capital
Nearly half of Scotland's creative industry workers are here in the capital. Today's guest blogger Milo McLaughlin tells us why he believes Edinburgh's artistic community has the edge over other cities. "

Oh really?

This subheadline has really misrepresented this article, but it's an interesting read and worth commenting on.

Thanks Bram. .

Get well Nile Rodgers!!

Nile Rodgers is a fucking legend - if you don't like Chic you can get the fuck off this blog right now. Nile announced the other day via his blog that he is battling "aggressive" cancer, and we'd like to wish him all the best and a speedy recovery.

Motherfucking DISRUPT, Motherfucker

This weekend, in case you hadn't noticed...

Buy yourself a ticket or eternally regret your folly.

Livio & Roby - Moduri EP (Vakant)

Livio & Roby - Moduri EP (Vakant) (out 7th Feb)
I really wanted to like this 12" - Vakant manage to put out so much great minimal and promote any number of excellent artists, you really hope each release will manage to be as individual and experimental as the others - but I'm finding myself left a little cold by this one. It's not that this is in any way a bad record, it just errs slightly too much on the reductionist, repetitive style of minimalism, without ever growing from it. Opener Hatzmoto Song builds up a rolling tech-funk structure, with freeform snare fills, deep sub-bass and a tight minimal groove before introducing ethereal woodwind riffs that meld and collapse. It's fun, but at nine minutes, grows quite repetitive, and feels a little listless. Moduri follows a much more 4/4 techno path, sounding like Alex Smoke's more straightforward moments blended with the shuffly rhythms of Sigha. Again though, it drags a little, and in the pursuit of a restrained, delicate pallette, Livio and Roby have removed too much of the accident, noise and chaos that makes techno vibrant and powerful. Closing the record is Resoftescu, a meandering nine minutes of robot-funk, gypsy rhythms and deep groove that comes across like Wrobag Ruhme reworking Sabbath's Planet Caravan. It's warm, spacious, and hints at great possibilities for future releases. Definitely worth keeping an eye on.

Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Restructure 2 (Digital Mystikz remix)

Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Restructure 2 (Digital Mystikz remix) - Honest Jon's
Whilst DMZ have been pioneers and trend-setters since the inception of dubstep, I've always considered them more important as promoters and scene figures than producers. However, their take on the Moritz Von Oswald Trio is actually a damn fine remix, and manages to unite both the armour-plated sub-bass of UK dubstep, and the warm spaciousness of the Berlin sound in what will doubtless be a massive tune. The original Restructure 2 sees Oswald, Ripatti and Loderbauer bringing together gently plucked guitar and swathes of synth over a 4/4 rhythm to create something that's equal parts Brian Eno, Steve Reich and Basic Channel. At 12 minutes long, it risks descending into mastubatory self-indulgence, and frankly, if you're not a fan of Oswald's extended head trips, this won't really sway you either way. However, for proper dub heads, Wire-reading musos and those who think that at nine bucks, a record ought to give you something for your money, this is a pretty special piece of soft, spacious electronic dub.
The DMZ remix sees Mala going for it big style, injecting some surprisingly subtle subs and rattling percussion to transpose the airy spaciousness of the original into a dark, dread-fuelled monolith. Warping and scattering itself through various dancefloor contortions, Mala finally unleashes the rich melodies at a the crucial breakdown, creating a euphoric, textured headspace. Then the bass rolls back in again and crushes everything in it's path. Big tune.

Lola Does David (again)

Lola Dupré goes from strength to strength:

Sohrab on BBC Radio 3

Going live, right now, Sohrab, ambient / techno artist from Tehran and member of the UNOIKI collective, is being played out on BBC Radio 3. Just got the heads up from the Unoiki guys about this - Sohrab is being played on Fiona Talkington's Late Junction show, up 'till 1.15
Can't embed them, but lots of free music over on his soundcloud page. Go check it out.

BBC Late Junction homepage

Tempest

Synth and drum machine gurus Roger Linn and Dave Smith have teamed up to bring us the Tempest, the ultimate drum machine. It essentially combines the best aspects of the MPC and various analogue drum machines, and also doubles as a synth. Now all I need is 2000 spare bucks...

Peter Kirn from Create Digital Music lists its main features:

• Six analog voices, each with two analog oscillators and two digital oscillators provide deep, rich sound capabilities.
• Dave’s lowpass filter, a new highpass filter, analog VCA (voltage-controlled amplifier) with feedback, five envelopes, two LFOs, various analog modulation routings.
• In addition to percussion, you can tune sounds and play scales from the pads, or connect a MIDI keyboard and use it as a 6-voice analog keyboard synth.
• There’s a small display – 256×64 OLED – but onboard controls are designed for real-time music making (a topic Roger covered with me in more detail, along with his philosophy for how to make drum machines instruments).
• 2×8 pads, each pressure- and velocity-sensing. Roll function, which doubles as “stutter” when a beat is assigned to a pad.
• Two touch sliders, each with pressure sensitivity, for more real-time control.
• Pure analog signal path, but without skimping on effects – stereo analog compressor and distortion, beat-synced delay that actually uses note effects, and beat-synced stutter.
• Real-time swing controls.

Read an interview with its creators over at CDM.

BEN BUTLER: Skwee tomorrow! & "Worm" EP

Synth fans, tomorrow sees the first installment of Ben Butler & Mousepad's new skwee night at Stereo, with DJing from the man himself and Wavy Graves, and a special live set from Finland's Mesak (Harmonia). It sounds like top notch fun, and if you don't know what Skwee is, check out this mix from BB&MP, or watch this clip from the documentary "We Call It Skwee":

We call it Skweee -mini preview from David Giese on Vimeo.

BB&MP have a new EP up for sale on their Bandcamp at the moment too, called "Worm", which was recorded using all analogue synths and no sequencers at Worm Studios in Rotterdam. This is actually a bit less skwee than usual, but still packed full of synthy goodness.

Gucci Mane's New Tattoo.

Lookin good Gooch. Yeah. Real good.



Full story.

Frequency Painting

Using a customised modulular synth connected via a powerful amp to an air-cooled speaker, Gary James Joynes (aka Clinker) performs frequency painting- the drawing of sound wave shapes into sand. The extreme volumes required to produce the vibrations that shape the sand must render the production of these artworks an intense experience.

Read the full story and an interview with Joynes over at Vague Terrain, and see more paintings at DC3 Art Projects.

Bethany Skirt - Horizontal Ground #07

Ever since Seldom Felt performed (slightly tongue-in-cheek) in ninja masks, the anonymous techno boom has been winding down a little. Admittedly Sandwell District's forthcoming album looks set to go off big time, striking a case for the collective mindset. Whether it's in response to the anonymity game, or simply the fact that this is one of the more unique 12"s so far, Horizontal Ground change tack with this new release by listing the artist as one Bethany Skirt, a DJ who's apparently been operating on the fringes of UK techno for years now.

Stylistically, it does deviate from HG's previous releases, and though it is, at heart, a minimal techno riddim, there's a wider depth of sound, and a warmer heart than some of the previous, icy cold releases. In The Meadow Under The Stars builds up minimal clicks and swung-hi-hats to create a skeletal framework, draping it with lush, spacey synths, whilst a granite-black bassline bubbles up underneath. Possessed of the same raw-yet-rich texture that permeated AFX's early records, and it begs to be dropped at some unknown hour in the morning in a darkened club, when everyone's forgotten where they are. On the flip, Ikarus is a much nastier proposition, bringing that sub-bass to the fore, and engaging in an angry industrial battery, barely recognisable snares and toms colliding and collapsing in a muchb more peak-time climax. Closing the record is a beatless, spacey collision of metallic groans and creaks that slowly shift and mutate into a monstrously heavy drone track.

Six seems to be the maximum number an anonymous collective can sustain before the interest wears off, and with their seventh release, Horizontal Ground have managed to prove that there's still life in the minimal techno game and almost convinced me to buy their records on sight. Can't wait for the next one.

Bangin' In Little Rock

I've been told about this HBO documentary a few times, mostly by the same guy, the man behind Furious Breaks. I finally got round to googling it, and it's available on Youtube. It's a look at gang culture, and the soldierising of the local yoot in the town of Little Rock.



White suburban gang bangers are not what most people imagine when they think Crips and Bloods, but it seems it was a reality in mid-nineties Arkansas.

Gene Police

The Metropolitan Genetic Surveillance Unit uses bees to monitor the unlicenced growing of GM crops - generally those modified to manufacture narcotics or copyrighted pharmaceuticals. Or so postulates Thomas Thwaites with his intriguing addition to British surveillance culture.

'Grow Your Own' - from the Policing Genes Project from Thomas Thwaites on Vimeo.

The artist's other work is worth a look too, here on his website. Other projects include: a bicycle bought to be stolen (containing an Android phone giving GPS details of its location in addition to taking photos); and his attempt to build a cheap toaster from scratch (including making the plastic and metals required), which is finely documented in his TED talk below.



Thanks to Dalai for the heads up!

Afro-Futurism

They didn't have the record I was after in the shop. It's on order, and it won't be in till next week. Thwarted, I had a listen to some African electronic music I fond lying on top of the techno 12"s. Which record it was isn't really the point. Suffice to say it was a pretty shit record, denying me the impulse buy transfer.

So I came home jonesing, and found this on Different Waters, from the usually excellent reboot.fm:

Dj Zhao - Radio Ngoma 6 Afro-Futurism by reboot.fm


No, it's still not the record I was after. It is making me feel better, though.

Levon Vincent / Jus-Ed @ Numbers

Repeating guests and billings is too often a sign of a club night getting comfortable and rich - Yes, Pressure, we're talking to you here. However, undoubtedly one of Numbers' best line-ups of last year was the double header of Levon Vincent and Jus-Ed, who utterly wrecked it, despite opening for techno godhead Robert Hood. So, to compensate for the short sets last time round, Numbers return both DJs to the subby, and turn them lose for the entire night. Banging.

Friday 4th Febuary
Sub Club, Glasgow
11pm till 3am

£10 (Advance tickets available from Nmbrs.net and Resident Advisor)

Frankly, any excuse to remind our readers of these two monsters.

Flying Lotus - Zodiac Shit

Another great Adult Swim / Flying Lotus collaboration:

Vivian Maier - a Legend is Born

Thanks to Paul McCann for the tip-off - this is pretty extraordinary.



An old nanny dies in Chicago and in her belongings are found thousands and thousands of negatives. When developed it turns out that her photos were incredible - some of the best street photography of the 20th century. They are all unseen until now:



More of the photos are in this slideshow:



WOW.

Britney's new single

Is this a nail in the coffin for dubstep? Here's hoping...

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti "Round And Round"

Directed by Wayne Coyne - oh Wayne you so crazy! Srsly tho, this video must have cost about a fiver, and looks and feels great. It was filmed on a phone, and apparently the after effects don't come out in full cos of the Youtube bitrate. Cosmic!

High on Crack Street

Made for HBO in the early nineties, High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell saw documentary makers Maryann DeLeo and Richard Farrell follow a small group of crack addicts for 18 months in the depressed town of Lowell, Massachusetts. Its atmosphere enhanced by a plain shooting style and the yellowed hues of video, the film ably depicts its characters floating in the limbo of addiction.

Dickie was a young boxer with a promising career before it was curtailed by crime and addiction. He did, however, go on to coach his brother Mickey on to success, and these two characters are soon to suffer the indignity of being portrayed by Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg in The Fighter, which is released in February. Check out the full documentary below:

Watch more free documentaries

Found's Best of 2010

The love for last year keeps on coming. Tommy Perman of Found has put together a mix of his favourite tracks from 2010 (including an exclusive version of Men Without Hats' "The Safety Dance" by Malcolm Middleton over J Dilla) - it's well worth a listen and can be heard over at Radio Megnetic.

All Things Amazing

Anyone with eyes and my email address has probably seen this site before, or at least some of the images I've found on it. All Things Amazing is a community LiveJournal showcasing rare and unusual, often vintage, photographs.  I've just added the site to our blogroll, an oversight that should have been rectified a while ago. The blog has a fluid and fairly open membership, but it also has some rules to govern that chaos, and they seem to work.

They do allow nudity and adult themes, so the link may be NSFW depending on where you work and in which century. Nothing too hardcore, and certainly nothing illegal.

The images above are an all-but random selection, grabbed in a few minutes as I wrote this post. It's well worth taking some time to go through their vast archive, if you like that sort of thing.

RIP Che Camille

After five years of knocking Glasgow into some kind of stylish shape, Che Camille has closed it doors and called it a day. We're sure the fashion and party scenes won't be the same in this town. We'd like to wish good luck and all the best to Camille Lorigo and all the designers and staff of Che in their future endevours.

Trent Reznor Update!

Trent broadcast a streaming interview the other night. I picked it up from the MetaFilter thread about it, which opens with some MegaUpload links to the stream, bootlegged in both audio and video.

If you can't be arsed wading through the whole hour and a bunch of footage, you could always look to the blogs for a summary.

Best Of The Best Of The Best Ofs

CBR's Robot6 have compiled a list of the best "Best ____ of 2010" lists.  Robot6 have compiled a few of their own too, including one a few days ago, "The Best (american) Covers of 2010". Seeing as they've included Shallow Rave's super-best-friend* Frank Quitely for his stellar work on AllStarSuperman, it seemed worth a mention. Banter(of limited use) can also be found on ComicsAlliance.com, in the form of a worst of 2010.
 

Seeing as this is the future and all (ONE YEAR LEFT!!!!) and you clearly have internet access, here's a webcomics best of from Mad Ink Beard for the paper-free among you.

*shit's legit.

Music is Killing Music!

How the Artist Became the Enemy of the Music Industry

(via Tunecore)

The Girl Effect

Rubber

Quentin Dupieux aka Mr Oizo has completed his third film 'Rubber', a comedy/horror about a killer tyre on the rampage in the USA. Definitely the most outlandish/highly boring idea for a horror flick since The Human Centipede (see below).

BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE....

Oooft.

'Tongues' a film

With its beautiful vocal manglings and blissful late night grooves, Four Tet's 'There is Love in You' was one of my favourite albums of last year. I was unaware of Kieran Hebden's improvisations with the late jazz drummer Steve Reid until I stumbled across this delightful video documenting their recording of 2006's 'Tongues' on Hebden's website.

And if you haven't heard it, Four Tet's Essential Mix for Radio 1 way back in last January is pretty amazing.

Happy New Year Mix by Ali Renault

If you're recovering from last night or getting ready for tonight, this should do the job. Happy 2011 people!




BODYBOX 2010/11 MIXXX by Ali Renault

Tracklist:

Mark du Mosch - In The Clouds
The One - Lets Get It Straight (Legowelt Remix)
Bot.Ox - Arab Drift
Stinkworx - Coelacanth (Syncom Data Nerine Remix)
Gatekeeper - Oracle
Brassica - Lydden Circuit
Alexander Robotnick - Problems D'Amour
Rude66 - As (Nicolas Courtin Remix)
Cori Josias - Takin It Straight
Bangkok Impact - Fear Of Your Eyes

Happy New Year!

Well done on making through another one. Have some breaks.