Jacksonville Jaguars Jukebox

I'm off to that London in a few hours as I'm heading to Wembley to see my beloved Jacksonville Jaguars get smashed by the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday.

So I thought I'd post a few videos by bands from Jacksonville, the largest city in Florida - two I knew were from there and two I didn't.

And if you're wondering why I support the Jags, it's because I went to Disney World in 1996 and the bar in the hotel had a ginormous poster for the recently formed Jacksonville Jaguars. My dad supports the Seattle Seahawks because that was the first city in America he went to, so I bent those rules and went for the Jags (technically I should be a Tampa Bay Buccaneers fan).

Anyway here's the two I knew...

Black Kids.



Limp Bizkit.



And the two I didn't...

The Allman Brothers Band - me neither, guessing Lemon Jelly sampled this?



Lynyrd Skynyrd - I assumed they were from Alabama?

Basement Bosh

I can't sleep so here's some pounding pounding techno music from some dude who's signed to Boyz Noize's label...



[Hot link from XLR8R] mp3 >>> SCNTST - Basement Structure

Jo_Def Vs Andrew Buchan

I walked up to Cathays earlier to see my dad in The Andrew Buchan and just before I got there the S4 chucked up this footwork-influeced bumper from Jo_Def.

Well worth a couple of minutes of your time, especially as it's a free download.

[Hot link from XLR8R] mp3 >>> Jo_Def - B_Mine

Bonobo's Flower Power

Due to me getting only one EP to review in October's Buzz (by the rather good Plyci) I got first dibs on November's releases. I went for albums by Omar Souleyman and Guido and the latest Late Night Tales mix, which is helmed by Bonobo and was the finest of a pretty superb bunch of discs.

I'll save my searing seventy words for the magazine but as I've already said on that Twitter...

“@CeefaxOfLife: Bonobo's @LateNightTales Mix is making a late charge into my albums of the year. Stunning.” @sibonobo

— Late Night Tales (@LateNightTales) October 17, 2013

One of the highlights is this deep house/broken beat bumper by Andrew Ashong and Theo Parrish...



Bonobo's Late Night Tales Mix is available for pre-order and comes out on November 17th and is an essential purchase. Below is the teaser minimix...

Oneohtrix Point Never, Oni Ayhun & Too Much Stress

So I was pretty excited about Oneohtrix Point Never's XLR8R mix and Trentemøller's Resident Advisor mix this week...

Got Trentemøller and Oneohtrix Point Never mixes to listen to at work tomorrow - Bangin'

— Sam (@CeefaxOfLife) October 2, 2013

I only listened to each mix once today but gave my 2p anyway...

Trentemøller = shoegaze meh // OPN = shitting ace "Got Trentemøller and Oneohtrix Point Never mixes to listen to at work tomorrow - Bangin'"

— Sam (@CeefaxOfLife) October 3, 2013

One track in particular stood out and that was Oni Ayhun's OAR003-B on the Oneohtrix Point Never mix. Resident Advisor seems to think it's something to do with The Knife, I haven't the foggiest but it is a stunning 11-minutes of shimmering hypnotic techno-not-techno electronic beauty.



I'm sure there are other highlights (and that Trentemøller's mix has its merits) but I was so wracked with stress today (I had a report to do in work before I took a week off... I'm also getting married on Saturday) that I may have missed them.

Alternatively it may say something about the brilliance of OAR003-B by Oni Ayhun that it burst through the clouds of my mind this afternoon.

If you download the XLR8R podcast (and I recommend you subscribe on iTunes for fantastic mixes every week) then it drops around 1 hour and 35 minutes mark.