Seams Like Spring

As that weird blast of proto-summer has long since disappeared, we're knee-deep in proper spring. And Seams has made a track that sounds just like it.

That means birdsong and chiming, glitchy acoustic sounds in a Susumu Yokota/Four Tet vein. A beautifully ambient 294 seconds.

Thursday = Clock Opera

Clock Opera are playing 10 Feet Tall on Thursday (19th April 2012). They didn't exactly get a raving preview in The Guardian's Guide this weekend but anyone who doesn't butcher Metronomy when remixing them are OK in my book, especially when they charge £6.50 entry (there's a couple of tickets left on WeGotTickets when I typed this).


[Right-click and "Download Document" to get an mp3 of Clock Opera's remix of The Bay by Metronomy]

Blitz

Time to get tenuous. Spent the week in Falmouth. After a disappointing DVD hunt in Trago Mills, it fell to Sounds OK. I didn't even bother flicking through the walls of CDs - £5.99 now feels a lot, how times have changed (the ridiculousness of an mp3 blog noting the depreciation in the value of music is not lost).

In the promo bin I found a film called Blitz, a 3-star thriller that was surprising only for the way Jason Statham kept his shirt on. Blitz was also the name of a post-punk night in the dearly departed Shades (which is soon reopening as Mama Africa - no news on the carpet) that me and three other people used to attend on Tuesdays. Shades was just around the corner from Sounds OK. Told you it was tenuous.

Anyway I used to request this track most nights. Quite frankly I'm baffled I haven't posted it before.


[Right-click and "Download Document" for an mp3 of Delta 5's Mind Your Own Business]

Release The Secret Beast

Do you ever feel like everybody knows something you don't? I felt it this week when Andrew Collins played this on 6Music...

We need a new word because Daft Punk did more than sample this for Robot Rock.