Kode9 - Just Jam 125

This has been sat in my Watch Later list for weeks and I finally got round to it this morning.



It's well worth the wait, with Hyperdub head honcho Kode9 dropping plenty of footwork. Tip of the hat for including the mad gurning bloke from the Bounce By The Ounce video on the green screen.

クワカブト一家の逆襲

I found this in (Fabio &) Sue Ryder in Southsea recently for 95p.

I've never played Super Mario Galaxy, despite being a long-time Wii owner and yes I still use it, mainly for Netflix and Wii Sports Resort Golf... and Wii Fit every three months or so before the tuba gets too much.

Anyway I want to live on the level this music is from...



Google Translate says it's "Reverse of Kuwakabuto family".

Guardians Of The Galaxy Daydream

I watched Guardians of the Galaxy last week for my birthday and while there's some whacking great plot-holes in it, the movie is still an enjoyable romp.

All the more so for the music in it, which plays a central role in the film. I'm not alone in thinking this as the soundtrack album has just got to number one on the Billboard 200. I was going to say it's a mix of unfashionable tracks from the mid 70s but nothing really falls out of fashion any more. Decide for yourself, as someone has done the honourable thing and posted it on YouTube.



One of the tracks is David Bowie's Moonage Daydream and I posted Leo Zero's edit of it yonks ago and here it is again for your streaming and downloading pleasure...

Funky Punk

As mentioned in a previous post, I've been listening to a mix that The Beta Band did for Mary Anne Hobbs' Breezeblock show on BBC Radio 1.

I've got 2002 down on the tape but the numerous uploads to SoundCloud suggests a July 2001 broadcast date, so I'm guessing I caught a replay.

And it's still well worth a replay. One of the highlights is Dillinger's Funky Punk, which the video below states is reggae but it's more than that, it's reggae with a funky punk edge - it's well weapon.

Lemonade? Please!

SOPHIE's Lemonade featured on this week's Fact Singles Club and scored a respectable 7.4.

But that doesn't quite tell the whole story, as it received a 4 as well as a 10, which points to its sectarian nature - you either love it or hate it.

Me? I love it, it's sickly syrupy and twisted pop grime, and sounds like something very fresh to these ears... though there is the nagging doubt that it could be a piss-take.



What do you think?

The Slow & Inevitable Death Of This Blog

So two months of radio silence. Heck of contrast with the avalanche that was March.

Lord knows I've posted apologies many times after a few weeks/months off, (there's even a label for it) but this does feel like the beginning of the end for this blog.

As I posted last year, mp3 blogs are winding up, as are blogs in general in favour of curation.

Technology and lifestyle changes have also affected my relationship with new music (or music I haven't heard), which impacts on what I have to write about here.

I'm still living just around the corner from work, but gone are the days where I could hide in the corner with some headphones on. I've now got to talk to people and be more approachable whether on the phone or in person. This means I tend to have the radio on quietly, usually BBC Radio 6 Music but I've even gone back to daytime Radio 1 for the first-time since I was 15, in a vain hope to grasp hold of some yoof culture – I mean who the hell is Ariana Grande and why should I care?

Also, I'm using my laptop less and less in favour of my phone and I just don't seem to download anything or even go on trawls any more. That's not to say I'm listening to nothing now, just that I seem to be investigating my diminished CD collection (I Music Magpied a ton of stuff about three years ago), checking the Facebook updates from FACT and Crack, as well as the mixes that I taped off the radio from 2001-2003.

Jacques Lu Cont's stunning remix of electroclash classic Silver Screen Shower Scene by Felix Da Housecat came from one of these tapes (filler between DJ Shadow's and The Beta Band's Breezeblock mixes from August 2002) and made me come back and fingerfart what you've just read.



And y'know if I (re)find more, I'll be back but the way life is going I'm not sure how often that'll be.