Buzz Will Tear Us Apart

This week I have mostly been listening to the new EP from Hot 8 Brass Band and the new album from Apparat. The reviews for these will be in March 2019's edition of Buzz Magazine, and I won't publish here before they go to print. Yet I will say that I liked one a lot, the other not at all. Like five stars liked and one star hated.

Anyway, in one of those lovely coincidences, the Hot 8 Brass Band EP is called Take Cover and features versions of Michael Jackson, George Benson, The Jacksons. As mentioned in a previous post, I'm on a covers hunt as part of the playlist challenge for the road trip to Wrexham next month for Wales vs Trinidad and Tobago.

While the previously mentioned artists may lend themselves naturally to Hot 8's hot takes, the first track on Take Cover probably took a bit work to make fit...

Who knew Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart could get so funky?

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Salty Boyz

My mate Teki Latex... OK I got a retweet once... tore it up at Boiler Room Paris last month. From the Super Mario 64 opening (Dire, Dire Docks) to pounding techno and The Prodigy, it's an absolute blast.

Even more entertaining are the couple of salty lads in the comments. It seems anything that isn't minimal, precise and straight down the line is not acceptable. Remember, clubbing is a deadly serious activity and in no way meant to be fun or enjoyable.

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Original Image: André Karwath aka Aka [CC BY-SA 2.5], from Wikimedia Commons

Wreck Some Covers

I'm off to Wrexham next month. For the first time in over 10 years, Wales will play at The Racecourse, the oldest international stadium still in use.

Trinidad and Tobago await on Wednesday 20th March 2019. And as it's a three-hour drive, we're treating it as an away day, and doing another playlist challenge for the car.

This time around the theme is covers. Yet I'm having a bit of a 'mare. We're using Spotify and it doesn't seem to have all the oddball covers that I got from the glory days of the MP3 Blogs. I can't find Metronomy covering Fascination Street by The Cure or Ladytron's take on Tweet's Oops Oh My for starters.

One banger they do have though, which Boom Bip opened his latest NTS show with, is The Williams Fairey Brass Band covering Pacific 202.

A brass band take on the acid house classic by 808 State - what's not to love?

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