I Like Lectric Motors

I also like petrol ones as the Celica has just gone through her MOT and is now purring.

So who is Patrick D. Martin? Beats me. Beats the beeb too. Left and to the Back has a stab, however they can't uncover much either. It seems that Martin rode the New Wave in 1979, smashing Sparks, Ian Dury, Giorgio Moroder and Plastic Bertrand together and then disappeared. He left behind a series of odd yet prescient singles that focused on technology and on the future.

And that's that.

Original image: See page for author [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Floating Fridays

Happy Friday everyone! Here's 19 minutes of pulsating, driving, heady electronic music...

I could watch the trippy visuals of Floating Points' Ratio for ages. And as I ain't got much on ATM that's exactly what I'm gonna do. Quick Q - what programming language should a n00b learn? PHP? Ruby? JavaScript. Asking for a friend*.

Before I forget, I gotta wedge in this car crash of a link. From Ratio by Floating Points to radio by Floating Points, check out Sam Shepherd's monthly show on NTS, Four Tet and Caribou are frequent guests like. Jeez.

Original Image: CC BY-SA 3.0, Link

* That friend is me.

Carharrack: Hard At Work Since 1290

My mum is moving to Carharrack. Of course there's an Aphex Twin link...

Aphex Twin - Ventolin (Carharrack Mix) is not elite AFX but it has a loping trip hop charm and is definitely less grating than the original.

Original Image: Rob Lavinsky, iRocks.com – CC-BY-SA-3.0 [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

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