9 in 1 (50)

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?

Great way to mark a half-century of 9 in 1. 

50 not out, baby!

DJ Pirna - It Smells Like Bootyhole On Mars... Bring Me Back To Earth!

NGL, this is mainly in here for the title. Intergalactic ghettotech?

Altern 8 - E-Vapor-8

Ye olde rave music from 1992 with the hoover sounds and straight lifts of Derrick May and the well budget video.

John B - Up All Night

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.

Marie Davidson - Sexy Clown

Do you know what, the more Marie Davidson I hear, the more I dig it. Feels quite early 00s electroclash coded, y'know?

SCNTST - Basement Structure

This crunchy doof-doofer was a deep SD card pull-up. Not-played and shuffle and here we are. MP3s will never die.

And what to do you know, when adding a label to this post, I clocked that I posted about this SCNTST track before, back in 2013.

We go again.

Arthur Russell - Let's Go Swimming (Gulf Stream Dub)

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.

Christopher Cross - Ride Like The Wind

Yacht yacht yacht.

SOPHIE - Immaterial

Just joyous.

Shabazz Palaces - Swerve... the reeping of all that is worthwhile (Noir not withstanding)

Another SD card shuffle throw-up. Hip hop from another planet.

Original image: Mrjoshuawells, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Teki Latex - Director's Cut

The don is back on it. King of the Blends, Teki Latex dropped Director's Cut a week or two back, and it's been on heavy rotation in Castell Ceefax.

TEKI LATEX · Director's Cut

Highlights for me are the Ludacris sample, the Nintendo sounds around 53 minutes in, and the absolute panel beater dissonance at 1 hour 38 minutes.

Drum 'n' tape

"This is peak hipster. And i'm here for it."

I couldn't put it any better - Cassette-Only Drum & Bass Set by BOP | Live at SK1 Records.

9 in 1 (49)

I've got nothing.

SOPHIE - Is It Cold In The Water?

This week, I finally finished Songs In The Key of MP3: The New Icons of the Internet Age by Liam Inscoe-Jones, while sitting in the Hotel Le Plaza Brussels. It was the final kick over the line I needed to get Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides. Long overdue. Had a bit of a moment listening to Is It Cold In The Water? Goosebumps.

Looping back, it may sound like I was a little negative on Songs In The Key of MP3, but it's well worth a read. It's good, it just starts with the sections on Dev Haynes and FKA Twigs, who I'm not really into, before cracking on with Oneohtrix Point Never, Earl Sweatshirt (more on him later), and SOPHIE, so slow start before I ripped through it like.

M83 - Run Into Flowers (Midnight Fuck Remix by Jackson)

Richard Sen dropped this recently on his Do!! You!!! show, and I'd not heard it in years. Not since 2009, when I first posted about it, probs. And it's not Jackson as in Trevor Jackson, but Jackson and His Computerband Jackson.

Suzi Quatro - Warm Leatherette

Well, there's a cover I wasn't expecting. Not sure what's more surprising, covering The Normal or this being Suzi Quatro's second appearance on this blog.

XTC - Making Plans For Nigel

I try not to repeat songs in these lists, but I'll make an exception here because:

1. It's been a few years
2. It's a great song
3. It sounded great when it was covered by a band at a recent beer festival down The Old Swan
4. It's my blog, and I can do what I want

The Stranglers - All Roads Lead to Rome

Deadpan weirdo synth-pop from 1982, inject it. Was very surprised to learn it was The Stranglers when Flo played it on her NTS Breakfast show the other day.

Bran Van 3000 - Drinking in L.A.

Another Flo banger, think it was a request at the end of the Wednesday show. Ah man, what a vibe. Rolling Rocks all round.

Earl Sweatshirt - 2010

As mentioned earlier, there's a whole section on Earl Sweatshirt in Songs In The Key of MP3, and this addictive little nugget is picked out. That loop is something else.

Flying Lotus - Never Catch Me (feat. Kendrick Lamar)

Just a straight-up banger that is somehow over 10 years old.

Rufige Kru - Goldikus (feat. Cleveland Watkiss)

New Goldie sounding like old Goldie. Yes mate.

Bok Bok - FADEMIX003

Just how many posts can I get out of that old USB stick I found in April? Content is content is content.

Next up is Bok Bok's FADEMIX003 from March 2013.

FadetoMind · FADEMIX003 - BOK BOK

Is this deconstructed club? Industrial grime? UK Bass? I dunno, pal, but it sure does bang.

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