Didgeridon't

Went to Bath on Friday. Lovely place yadda yadda but there were a few too many of those shops that are crammed full of dreamcatchers, bongos and people who don't view ponchos as fancy dress.

Outside one of them was a drone of didgeridoos (I'm assuming that's the collective noun for didgeridoos) and for the rest of the lovely stroll amongst the Georgian architecture I had this in my head...

[Right-click and "download document" for mp3 of Aphex Twin's Digeridoo]

Fat Hipster Running #2: Mission Of Burma

Track = Sinewy post-punk from Mission Of Burma.

T-Shirt = Sky blue shipping forecast print from the National Maritime Museum.

Hipster Rating: **

[Right-click and "Download Document" for mp3 of Mission Of Burma's Fight Academy Song]

FHR #1: Siouxsie + The Banshees

GWTF:9.0 Roxy Music & Todd Terje

Just like Tron, here's another thing that last popped up a year ago that is making a return on Ceefax Of Life - Go With The Flow (GWTF). 2012 is the new 2011.

Todd Terje extends Love Is The Drug a bit here, adds some reverb there and cuts most of Bryan Ferry's vocals before slathering some extra percussion all over it i.e. he's done a disco dub and has no bones calling it such.

Does Love Is The Drug need a disco dub? Well I'm biased as it's my signature karaoke tune so my answer is not really, but that doesn't mean it isn't a funky seven-or-so minutes...

Definitely The Final Tron Post

Around this time last year I posted The Final Tron Post. Well this is Definitely The Final Tron Post. I promise.*

*Not really

Fat Hipster Running #1: Siouxsie + The Banshees

A power cut this morning meant that I couldn't do step-aerobics while watching The Wire for the fifth time (I know, I know). So I went for a run to get rid of some flab.

I took the Blackberry, fired up some tunes and a new strand for Ceefax Of Life was born: Fat Hipster Running. When I've been for a run I'm going to post one of the tracks I listened to while looking like a knob around Roath Rec. I'm in no way saying that this is great running music, just what popped up.

So for FHR #1...

Track = Gothy post-punk from Siouxsie & The Banshees.

T-Shirt = Black skull one from Primark.

Hipster Rating: ***

[Right-click and "download document" for mp3 of Siouxsie & The Banshees' Mirage]

Woozy Loops

I picked up the first issue of Loops the other day in the HMV in Truro for £2.

I was flicking through it on the train down to Portsmouth when I became engrossed in James Yorkston's damn funny travelogue of an Irish tour. Now I'm not really down with most of Yorkston's oeuvre, being all folky and shit, but I am down with his writing style.

A good example of this is on his collaboration with Reporter, which I found on an old Rob Da Bank compilation. It's a lovely bitter-sweet story over some burbling electronics and sounds just right in January.

[Right-click and "download document" for mp3 of James Yorkston and Reporters' Woozy With Cider]

Metronomy + Justin Timberlake = :)

First day back in work today + 45 minute walk in the wind and rain + menthol filters = :(

But I danced up the stairs to the office with a smile on my face. How? This...

Metronomy - The Bay (Trousersnake Mashup) by astroSNOOZE