Once again, I am asking you to give two hoots about what I've been listening to recently.
Au Pairs - Inconvenience
Parris - Soft Rocks With Socks
As featured on Joy Orbison's new Radio 1 Residency show, Soft Rocks With Socks by Parris is a little plinky mellow roller that's tidy like.
Giorgio Moroder - The Chase
Giorgio doing what Giorgio does - 13 minutes of glorious electronic disco music.
Autolux - Plantlife
As featured on Erol Alkan's NTS show on 1 September, Autolux is one of those bands that I can't quite figure out how I've never heard of before now. Like shoegazy alt rockers going at it since 2001, I mean c'mon, how?
Scan X - The Soul
As featured on the seminal (well for me it was) Sonar 2003 CD. Got it just after my 18th birthday for £14.99 in the Virgin Megastore on Queen Street. Pretty sure there's a picture of me holding it up with a pint of Guinness outside the 'little' O'Neill's on what Google Maps says is Trinity Street. Time is slipping through our hands like sand.
Oh the track? It's driving thumping techno mate. Came out on the French label F Communications, who are celebrating 25 years this year. Bon Anniversaire, Laurent Garnier! Time again.
No_4mat - 1992
YouTube decided that last week I really needed to listen to some lo-fi house spliced with hauntological videos. And it was right.
999999999 - love 4 rave
See above but replace lo-fi house with nosebleed techno. The footage is of an Osho's dynamic meditation session. Looks a right laugh.
Bustin
I know this is a joke but it still slaps. I don't make the rules. Do you reckon Ray Parker Jr has seen it yet?
Bustin bustin bustin bustin bustin bustin bustin bustin bustin bustin bustin bustin.
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Green
I feel like this should be higher in this list, even though there's no ranking to these things. Why? Because I've been listening to so much Hiroshi Yoshimura this week.
And similar to Autolux above, I'm not sure how I've never heard of him before now. I mean he's the godfather of Japanese Ambient for crying out loud. You'd think during my big Susumu Yokota phase I would've found a pointer somewhere. But nope, and here we are in 2020.
Anyway, thanks to the YouTube algorithm for dishing up Soundscape 1 surround 1986 on Monday and kicking off a big week for Hiroshi Yoshimura in this household.
Also, I'm wracking my brain over where I've heard Green previously. Someone's either sampled it, used it in a mix, or it's a been on a soundtrack. As you can see, I've not really got very far with figuring this out
Hudson Mohawke - Vitalize
Another month, another collection of HudMo rarities dropped onto Bandcamp. Happy days. Vitalize is off Poom Gems. Lovely artwork again.
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