Stiff Smile Just Like I’m Aphex Twin

I think Provider by Frank Ocean is the first rap track to mention Aphex Twin...

I'm a big fan of Frank Ocean, Channel Orange is always in the Celica, and this twisty, slippery, odd slice of alt R'n'B indicates there's plenty to come following Blonde. Just imagine how good an AFX remix or collab would be?

Imperial Timbaland

This is another one of those "heard it on a show on MixCloud" posts. Except this time it isn't an NTS show but Radar Radio, in particular the track that Girl Unit opened his September show with...

The key here is "Timbaland Remix". Done in 1999 as a b-side for Say My Name, it reappeared on Destiny's Child This Is The Remix album in 2002. Late 90s to early 00s R'n'B is pretty special and that is down to Timbaland. This was his imperial phase. His productions during this time frame is as close to perfection as pop music can get.

Related: Oops, There Goes My Bus

Original image: Pete Sekesan from New York, USA (DW2Q0666) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Daphni Does It

Essential listening this week has come in the form of Daphni's one-off NTS show. Daphni is the clubbier side project of Dan Snaith, more widely know as Caribou, so you should know that it's two hours of excellent and eclectic music.

I'm going to highlight two tracks from the show that have stuck with me.

First up is Medellin, which appears on Daphni's new album Joli Mai and is a bumping, twisty slice of uplifting house music.

The second is James Holden & The Animal Spirits - Each Moment Like The First, a wibbly downtempo jam that builds steadily across its five minutes...



I need an image to go with this post, and while I'm a fan of Dan Snaith's glasses, I can't resist shoe-horning in some Frasier.

Photo Credit: Alan Light [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

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Mute City Mute Blog

So it's been a little quiet on here lately. This is the reason why for the last couple of weeks...

Man, I can't quite express how much I'm enjoying the SNES mini or "Nintendo Classic Mini: Super Nintendo Entertainment System" as it's meant to be called. That hasn't meant I've stopped listening to music, and I plan to post a few things over the next couple of days, but first off I'm going to stick with the SNES and share one amazing soundtrack in particular.

Here's the Mute City (ミュートシティ) music from F-Zero.

Epic, driving, and fun I could listen to this 16bit classic on loop for hours.

Plus One Loo has been playing EarthBound loads and there's some amazing music in that game too, however I've been too busy in Hyrule to play two RPGs at once. I will share some music from EarthBound too once I've taken care of Ganon.

Related: クワカブト一家の逆襲