It's taken me until the stretch that is the bank holiday weekend to jump into the mammoth mixes released for RA. 1000.
We're talking 7+ hours from Tim Reaper and 6+ for Andrew Weatherall B2B with DJ Harvey, alongside mixes from Theo Parrish, Frankie Knuckles, and Helena Hauff.
Fair play, Resident Advisor have pulled out the stop here, with a lovely mini-site to mark the 1000th edition of its mix series. Best bit for me is that you can download the mp3s - feels like ages since you could grab the files.
As I've got my finger on the pulse, I only clocked last night that there's now a semi-official video for Korg Funk 5 by Aphex Twin.
I think it's kinda cool, bit Michel Gondry-like. Reddit does not agree. Although I think anyone with the profile that Nadia Lee Cohen apparently has (NGL, this is the first time I've come across their work) would not go down well with that community.
Right, so I made this playlist a while ago, then got sick and then got depressed. Trying to work my way out of it, trying to get back on with things like a used to, fake it till you make it.
So I'm here posting this list. It's not ordered (yes, I try and sequence the playlist usually, surprising I know). I can't remember where I came across these tracks. But it's a post. A step forwards. A half-step?
I've bought a couple of Concrete Junglist t-shirts recently and I thought I should really dive back in and listen to some D'n'B.
Probably showing my age here, but my first thought was Radio 1 and seeing what the new stuff sounded like.
As you can see I've posted an old Metalheadz track from 2001 rather than anything new because what I heard on the Radio 1 Drum'n'Bass show was absolute shite. It all sounded like trance with really brittle drums. There was no weight or grit or heft. I swear one of the tracks was a Tiesto remix. Proper old man shouts at clouds moment for me.
I was getting our stuff together to take the boy to his swimming lesson and Let's Go Swimming came on the radio. I'm not sure which version, so here's Gulf Stream Dub.
A Llantwit Major-based music blog for things post-punk, electronic and a little bit left of centre, with second-hand cultural musings, third-rate sociological stabbings and very rarely the odd mp3.
I also write the odd album review for Buzz Magazine and used to present Amser Electroneg on Bro Radio.
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