Obligatory Hallowe'en Post II

[Right Click and "Download Document" for mp3 of Whea Yo Ghost At, Whea Yo Dead Man by DJ Elmoe]

1 Thing Leads To Another

Hitting the My Top Rated tab last night on iTunes meant it wasn't long before Felix da Housecat cropped up.

Cue wiki trawl and this odd statement: Outside of that genre, the use of electronic Eighties backings on R&B hits such as Amerie's "1 Thing", shows the wider continuing effect of this album. [citation needed]. Gotta love the citation needed death mark.

But I didn't need a second invitation to crank up 1 Thing. A stupendous slab of mid-noughties R'n'B, it's one of the last great records of commercial urban music experimentalism before everything went David Guetta.

I remember hearing Chris Moyles slag this off when I was sat on the X91 in Cardiff Central Station, which is another reason to love this record.

[Right click and "Download Document" for an mp3 of 1 Thing by Amerie]

Slow It Down

I've talked previously about my issue with posting about Odd Future (and the endless affiliates).

But but but but but... this tune hasn't been off my Walkman (read Blackberry) for the past couple of days. Pink Chinchilla... make your own mind up.

[Right click and "Download Document" to grab an mp3 of Slow It Down by Tyler Creator Feat. Hodgy Beats (Odd Future)]

Et Hop

As I said a few posts back I didn't download anything for a few months. That wasn't because there was nothing to download, I simply didn't look.

What that has meant is that I've had pages and pages of my favourite mp3 blogs to trawl through. And good old Awara.fm came up trumps with this plinky, funky, minimal 80s electro workout from Philippe Laurent.

Apparently he's some French artist dude who works with codes, signs and symbols. And plastic. Anyway Minimal Wave have gathered together his hard-to-find recordings and wedged them together on an album called Hot Bip. I haven't heard the rest of it, but if Et Hop is anything to go by, it might well be an essential purchase.

[Right click and "Download Document" to grab an mp3 of Et Hop by Philippe Laurent]

Rajasthan Re-Edit

There are many things I want to learn how to do; animate a gif, drive a car, play the bass solo in (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang.

Another is how to do a good re-edit. I'm talking a Pilooski-level re-edit.

This is mainly down to Ae Oh Aa Zara Mudke. And mainly down to the drop at 4:50. The track is interesting by itself, the finest (and only) example I've heard of early 80s Indian disco. But that drop is something else, something that could destroy a dancefloor. In India. In the 80s. Maybe.

If only I had the skills... and if someone hasn't done it already...

[Right click and "Download Document" to get an mp3 of Ae Oh Aa Zara Mudke by Kishore Kumar]

Pearly Whites

Had one of those rare moments recently.

It's when you're listening to an album for the first time and you hear a phenomenal track. Your finger hovers over the skip button; do you rewind and destroy your first listen of the album or do you risk ruining the rest of album by continuing to think about and hankering after that phenomenal track?

Happened earlier this year with Metronomy's Everything Goes My Way. First happened with Aphex Twin's 4. This week it happened with T3ETH's This Time.

Pounding, raw but sugary sweet. I hit rewind and haven't regretted a thing.

[Right click and "Download Document" for mp3 of This Time by T3ETH]

A Falling Tree

So... it's been three months.

I've had breaks before. Nothing this long or bad though. This time was more serious.

I didn't download a single thing during August and September.

I couldn't sit here facing this screen. I now sit here for my working week, full-time. The boundaries merged. Shit novelty earphones, new podcasts, splatters of sunshine; all added to the malaise.

But I'm back. For how long I don't know. Thank you mum, Aquasky, Dave Gorman, Skullcandy and Red.