Routine Guillotine

All about the new routines. I've started a new job. My morning's are on lockdown, regimented. The final step before I start writing is listening to this...

Guillotine by Buddy is a Kaytranada production. I like listening to it while looking at a grey Newport. I enjoy the contrast, it shimmers. It sounds like LA. Going by the comments section, it was used on Ballers so I'm not the only one to think this.

Original image via Wikimedia Commons

Desert Island RoboCop

Charlie Brooker was Kirsty Young's castaway last week on Desert Island Discs.

Brooker chose a wide-range of music from the Pixies to something off the Dougal and The Blue Cat soundtrack (a film I've only ever heard Mark Kermode talk about). And to sum up the entirety of video game music - Brooker used to be a gaming journalist - he selected the theme from RoboCop on the Nintendo Game Boy.

And good shout too, as this is an astonishing piece of 8-bit / chiptune music. It's also a bit of a meme but then isn't everything now.

The full show is up on the iPlayer for the next couple of weeks, but the abridged version, with 30 second clips of the music is available as a podcast on most platforms (I listened to it on Acast). And if you want to download and keep the RoboCop theme too, here's a link to the mp3 from under the YouTube video.

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Original RoboCop Image: Daniel Nyari

The Top 6 Things I Heard In 2017

Woah, so it turns out it's been a few years since I've done a yearly round-up. A quick scan suggests 2013 was the last one. So the deal is, here's a list of things I heard for the first time in 2017. They did not necessarily come out in 2017 nor are they all tracks or mixes. Cool? OK let's go...

#6 Sega Bodega's Studio Ghibli radio shows on NTS



#5 S U R V I V E @ Field Day 2017

#4 The news that Nicklas Bendtner won, took, and scored the penalty that made it Republic of Ireland 1 - 5 Denmark, thus providing the delicious sour cherry on top of that football cake.

#3 All Points East 2018 Friday line-up announcement. LCD Soundsystem. Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Phoenix. A roll call made for Plus One Loo and me.

#2 F-Zero's Mute City theme (I never had F-Zero as a kid).

#1 1010 Benja SL - Boofiness

Statham Moves

Another day, another track from Benji B's 2017 Mixtape, this time from Part 2.

At the time of writing, Big Sean's Moves has been watched 32 million times on YouTube.

I have my finger on the pulse.

Shout out to the Jason Statham reference.

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Original image: CC BY-SA 2.5, Link

Boofiness

What does Boofiness mean?

Who is 1010 Benja SL?

How can a track made up of just a piano, hand claps, and layered vocal sound so huge?



There doesn't seem to be an awful lot of information as to whom 1010 Benja SL is or are, but one known fact is Boofiness is one of the best things I've heard this year. And with 3 days to spare.

Pigeons and Planes had a bit of a dig and didn't come up with much. It's the only track on 1010 Benja SL's SoundCloud page and from there the only linked social media is an Instagram account.

Boofiness was first uploaded around this time last year and was made commercially available from March. Hence it rightly makes the cut for Benji B's 2017 Mixtape.

Image Credit: Public Domain