Bela Legosi's Dead Innit

Yesterday I edited a review of the performance of Philip Glass' Dracula: The Film & Music at the Wales Millennium Centre.

There was only one thing I could listen to while doing so.

Hot Summer Hot Hot Summer

Word is that today the rain returns to Cardiff, this week-or-so of blistering sun and skin is over.

Don't cry too hard, surely it will return?


[Right-click and "Download Document" for mp3 of Metronomy's remix of Young Knives' Weekends And Bleak Days]

Night Works

Ex-Metronomy man Gabriel Stebbings, under his Night Works alias, pulls a James Blake/Woon on I Tried So Hard and it works.



There's a Gold Panda remix floating around too.

Death Disco

It's been a bad week for disco.



[Right-click and "Download Document" for mp3 of Public Image Ltd's Death Disco]

Every Night & Day

The video for Hot Chip's new track Night & Day (Directed By Peter Serafinowicz) was officially uploaded today.

BBC 6Music have been hammering this tune and I can't blame them; even the old punk in work is starting to dig a bit of Hot Chip.

Two Inch Punch

1. What a logo
2. Surprised I haven't seen someone do this before
3. Tune

Hey Boy, Hey Girl

Now we know where the Chemical Brothers got that sample from...

New Julio Bashmore...

Same as the old Julio Bashmore, which is pretty fucking good. House music for people who don't admit to liking house music. Au Seve is the first release from his new Boardwalk Records label.

Georgy Porgy Humble Pie

I reviewed Tom Findlay's Music For Pleasure mix this week for Buzz, fully expecting to hate it.



I mean it's one of the blokes from Groove Armada, mixing a load of yacht rock for the new Late Night Tales strand.

Except I didn't, I bloody loved it and I should have known, I already had a couple of tracks on my hard drive...



[Right-click and select "Download Document" for an mp3 of Toto's Georgy Porgy (Special 12" Disco Mix)]

Good Friends Not Bad Friends

Quiz Quest returned on Monday in Gwdihŵ with the theme of TV comedies (we won a Euro 2012 Panini sticker book for coming 3rd - I haven't opened it yet for fear of no shinys).

One of the rounds was guess the next line in Friends, which we sucked at. But my word we sucked nowhere near as hard as that show. I haven't watched it in about 10 years, what was I thinking?

Coincidentally search-engine-bothering-Sound-Of-2012-listed-Brooklyn-hipsters Friends released the video for their new single Mind Control, which looks like it's trying a bit to hard, especially when there's no need to with a song this good. Think Gang Gang Dance, think Tom Tom Club, think ESG and you're getting there.