Reviews / PROMO’d / 25/01/2012
SUN ARAW & M. GEDDES GENGRAS MEET THE CONGOS / ICON GIVE THANK / RVNG ITNL. / FRKWYS VOL. 9 Innergaze’s Not Not Fun groove, Hype Williams’ post-Aphex melodies, shards of King Sunny Ade Ju Ju guitar. Shattered into Morse. ON-U’s gotta be the obvious reference. ‘Some Bizarre’ or The Missing Brazilians. Bim’s work with...
Reviews / PROMO’d / 12/01/2012
Dr Rob in the reviews corner with new releases from Scenario, Golf Channel, Andy Blake’s new In Plain Sight imprint, Jansen Jardin, Beard Science, Rogue Cat Sounds, Emotional Rescue (more on them to follow) and Claremont 56.
The Hardway Brothers / A Diabolical Liberty / I`m A Cliché / 2011
A Balearic Version Excursion, at their Satanic Majesties’ request. J.B.C – We Love You (Creation) 1990 Steven Proctor being boiled. An Andy Blake favourite. Ryuichi Sakamoto – We Love You (Virgin) 1990 Robert Wyatt on vocals and highlife guitars. West India Company – O Je Suis Seul (Editions EG) 1989 Dr Patterson & Mr Weatherall...
Test Pressing 2012 Round-Up
So here we go. We got in touch with some of our friends and asked for their round-up of the year.
Dawdle & Hustle 004 / Dream / Sunny Spot
Dawdle & Hustle is the new label from Jun Kitamura, an ever-present smiling face on the Tokyo club scene. The man behind Capricious records Capricious Records and the currently dormant Outergaze, sometime drinking partner of Paul Murphy and Chris Duckenfield, and one of the hosts, alongside Max Essa, of the Higher Ground events at Club...
Rob’s Review Corner
We get sent quite a few amazing records and are pretty crap about reviewing them (see previous post) if truth be told so Rob took it on the chin and got down to listening and writing some words.
Paul’s Review Corner
Going for a minimal slant. Pretty pictures and web links. All good. Buy and please your ears.
Review / Kham Lingstang Band / Solan
I met Kham Lingstang about a month ago. He had been up for 48 hours (in the same shirt) and I had been drinking the fruit punch, so our conversation was a tad cyclical, but I distinctly remember Kham telling me that he hadn`t made any music recently. His “HR” responsibilities at LN-CC keeping him...
Review / KA§PAR / Ode To The Ancients EP
‘Ode To The Ancients’ comes across a little like C2 when he was still only 69. Or a paperclip person. That can only be a compliment. ‘Twin Sparkle’ is late night jam in a Chicago bedroom. Getting severely stoned with Larry Thompson and Rick Lenoir. House Jam on modern drugs. ‘Able To Find’ moves forwards...
Boat Drinks / Stop Making Sense Festival / Petracane
Giacomo is our roving techno reporter. Well he likes all sorts of stuff but generally he writes about techno and things related. He has just come back from the Stop Making Sense festival in Petracane so we asked him to give us a run down of how it was… Now in its second year, Stop...
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Rosas / Fase / Four Movements To The Music Of Steve Reich
I’ve just got in from Saddlers Wells after watching Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Fase – Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich. The piece first premiered in 1982 in Brussels and uses Piano Phase, Come Out, Violin Phase and Clapping Music. It’s not in my skill set to do the work justice with words...
Laurie Anderson / Trisha Brown / Gordon Matta-Clark / Pioneers of the Downtown Scene New York 1970s
Today me and the boy (my 13 year old son) visited the new Barbican exhibition. Apparently a lot of the work comes from the time that the downtown NY scene came together across the mediums of art, music, dance and architecture (often all in the same piece). By the way, excuse the bad iPhone photos...
DJ Harvey at Eleven / Macho / I’m A Man
All the smart people said they were going late. I’d been having conversations with people all week about the best time to go to see Harvey at Eleven. The last gig of his current Japanese tour. The queues would be horrendous at 10. It would be rammed until all the “non-music” club kids went home...
Four Tet / There Is Love In You / Domino
Quick review on the new Four Tet album, ‘There Is Love In You’ (nice hippie title!) here. There are some fantastic tracks ranging from mellow electronica through to some quite uptempo 4/4 business all very much in the chopped and fx’d mould of music that Kieran Hebden specialises in. My favourite track is the rolling...
Caught By The River
Been reading this recently and it’s suiting my lazy summer mood. Caught By The River (A Collection Of Words On Water) is the first book from fishing and culture website – Caught By The River – a view of the world as seen from the bankside. Contributors include (the always good) Bill Drummond, Irvine Welsh,...