Trailer Trash Tracys

Lo-fi has been the hipsters default choice since garage rock. Today is no different. Drowning in technology, home made music can be pristine. Yet mp3s drift across the internet swathed in static and grit and rudimentary production.

A sign of authenticity or a sign of paucity?

A redundant question. What matters is the tune. "Candy Girl" is dripping in glorious melancholia, sniffs of scenes here, wafts of another there.

Beguiling is what it is, the snap of the snare, the echo of everything.

Yes a bit Jesus & Mary Chain, a bit Raincoats, a bit My Bloody Valentine, a bit Ronettes, a bit "Telstar".

Nothing new, but does it always have to be?

Sterling work from No Pain In Pop

mp3---> Trailer Trash Tracys - Candy Girl (via box.net)

RIP Donk

Radio 1 made a documentary about donk, about six months after everyone got bored of it. Bless Radio 1.

Donk is dead. Long live donk.

mp3---> Radio 1 Stories: Put A Donk On It (via box.net)

Vitalic & The Minimix

Vitalic returns on September 28th with a new LP "Flashmob". He has done the honest thing and let slip a minimix of it.

Oh the minimix, a wondrous symbol of our ever decreasing attention spans.

While ever so lovely of Vitalic to do such a thing, he unwittingly highlights the fact that nothing on "Flashmob" appears to have the guttural punch of his seminal track "La Rock 01". It must then beg the question, if you've got the minimix, why pay for the album?

We are killing music.

mp3---> Vitalic - Flashmob Minimix (via box.net)

UPDATE: mp3 mysteriously removed by box.net crew, something to do with copyright. Inevitable really.

Jukebox Escapades

I returned to Falmouth last week. The good ol', bad ol' days. I partook in the simple pleasure of the 3Ps (Pasty, Pint, Paper) in Finn's. While plonked there, I tried to figure out why I opt for that pub over the numerous other and probably better pubs in the town. Then the jukebox kicked in.

Utterly bonkers, it skipped across decades and genres, with nay thought. You can only find free-wheeling jukeboxes in free-houses now, what with chains opting for sanitised playlists, the at times chilling mp3 Jukebox or nothing at all. Another reason to support free-houses me thinks.

Back to Finn's, this came on and made my day.

mp3---> The Rolling Stones - Let's Spend The Night Together (via box.net)

Cinematic Sounds + Memory Tapes

Cinematic seems a curious word to use when talking of music. I can see the thrust behind its usage, an attempt to grasp the inherent epic scope of particular tracks, or the ability of some music to conjure a shared vision in the listeners mind.

To use such a visually-loaded word for sound tends to ruffles my feathers. But that is the only way I can portray the opening minutes of today’s track before it melts away to reveal undulating smacky space-disco.

Yet another surprising turn from the critical boomerangs, The Horrors.

mp3---> Memory Tapes – Bicycle (Horrors Cosmic Dub) (via box.net)