Gatsby, Diet Vimto & A Minor Traffic Accident

Man, it's been a long and eventful day.

I was due down in Neyland in Pembrokeshire this morning. I caught the train to lovely Neath and got picked up for a lift the rest of the way there.

Unfortunately, we didn't make it the rest of the way, as we were duly shunted into the back of on the A477. Thankfully no one was hurt but it does add an extra bit of stress to the day. The car could not continue but I did and delivered some training, which I hadn't done before, so it was always going to a stressful day anyway.

I was kindly dropped off at Pembroke Dock station afterwards but it took a few chapters of The Great Gatsby, two cans of Diet Vimto and the beautiful, shimmering and summery Isolated by Sau Poler to truly calm the fudge down. As XLR8R correctly state, if you like a bit of Gold Panda or Four Tet, then you'll dig this...



MP3 ---> Isolated by Sau Poler [Hot link from XLR8R]

Bang Bang Beerwolf

I was in Falmouth over the weekend as my pink nose and bloated liver testifies.

One of the highlights was a visit to Beerwolf Books, an establishment that combines an interesting selection of very reasonably priced books with a proper cosy pub, a damn fine cup of coffee for £1.50 and some fantastic music on the stereo - including this interesting cover of Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) by Terry Reid during my brief visit...

GWTF 16: DFA's 12th Birthday

Did you know it was DFA's 12th birthday recently? Yep? Well you must have been online in May.

Still it's given us this lovely disco mix from James Murphy...



And this charming and tidily edited short film...



Glosses over the lawsuit between Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy, but hey it's a party right?

In more Murphy news, there's been plenty of chatter about his collaboration with the Dewaele brothers of Soulwax on the Despacio soundsystem in Manchester.