instinctive travels and paths of rhythm #1

here's a classic cut from lord finesse. really loving everything i'm hearing by him and the rest of d.i.t.c at the moment. don't know about you but every line makes me wanna go 'oooooohhh' and throw up gun fingers. check out his album the awakening for more chilled east coast dopeness.

swapmeet.

picture: cinnamon,,,

here's a half hour disco electro mix i just made

enjoy!

http://www.mediafire.com/?nn2tij1qjjm

tracklisting:

1. strangers in the wind - cut copy

2. kilometer (aeroplane italo '84 remix) - sebastien tellier

3. rich girls (the twelves remix) - the virgins

4. feeling better (near dark remix) - the teenagers

5. we are the people (jimmy2sox remix) - empire of the sun

6. dreaming in - blacklight flashlight

7. paris (aeroplane remix) - friendly fires ft. au revoir simone

not exactly hot off the press.

but tooooooo good.

try and get your mitts on their in ghost colours album. amazing chilled out electro niceness.

or check them on myspace here

unbelievable.

this guy is so blates mentally ill. and they actually put him through!

listen to black lips!

cannot. fucking. wait.

Watch the full concert at baeblemusic.com

fuckin' hipsterz.

http://lookatthisfuckinghipster.tumblr.com



with my recent discovery and appreciation of noise rock i decided to mooch down to manchester last night with barely a penny to my name to the deaf institute, where l.a.'s HEALTH were putting on a show at the 'now wave' clubnight. they were pretty impressive. listening to them on their myspace i found it difficult to get into as a lot of it is, as the genre description suggests, noise. but seeing it live was a different story. they threwwww themselves around the stage along to mangled noises i have no idea how anybody would begin to create. it's difficult to describe their sound but think of about 2938479 guitar effects along to tribal sounding drums and your almost there. here's a track by them but like i say, its difficult to appreciate on a recording.





HEALTH - Die Slow (right click to download)


anyway steering away from noise rock and into more familiar territory for me, here's a remix of sebastien tellier's 'kilometer' by electro extraordinaires aeroplane. this isn't exactly new to the blog world but i recently realised how amazing the synth breakdown about two thirds in is. giveitalistennnn.


Sebastien Tellier - Kilometer (Aeroplane Italo '84 Remix) (mediafire)


and finally, a bit of classic hip hop from the fannnnntastic big l.







enjoy!

liPs 2 DA fLooR

back in liverpool now. its good to be back with ridiculous amounts of time to waste flicking ash in the wrong wine bottle.
i made a few rash purchases last night, finally bought my usb mixer i've had my eyes on for months which is good. but it now means i have fuck all money for the rest of the week so i can foresee a lot of time sat in my room losing my mind and downloading too much music.
the past few days i've been slowly getting into a lot of noisy american garage punk stuff. the one that stands out for me is wavves. it's the one man noise rock project of nathan williams. he's been compared to other californian garage bands like no age and HEALTH, all associated with the LA venue The Smell. his songs make me want to bask in the californian sun and take up skateboarding again. here's a track from his latest album, Wavvves. never before has noise been so fun.





Wavves - So Bored (MP3) - (right click to download)


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day one.

photo by cinnamon,,,

so this is my first ever blog post. i think it'll be a while until i find my blogging feet or whatever but for starters i'll just say hello and try and work out what i'm gonna be using it for.

basically i'll be posting whatever i'm enjoying at the time in the hope that other people can enjoy good things as much as i enjoy good things. cause good things are the best kind of things at the end of the day.

i'm thinking it'll mostly be music but expect ramblings on films, books, fashion and pretty much anything else i have an opinion on.

i'm probably doing this more for myself than others. call me selfish but there you go.

suppose i might as well give people something whilst i'm here, so i'll start with a band i was introduced to yesterday.

since last summer i've sort of lost touch with the whole indie scene. i mean back in the day i was a huge indie kid, and i obviously still love a lot of the stuff i was into back then, but after broadening my horizons over the last couple of years to stuff like hip hop and more electronic music, i've swayed more towards that sort of stuff and i'm sure a lot of quality bands have passed me by.

so anyway my friend sally brought round this new album by the decemberists, and its like i've remembered how to enjoy bands who play their own instruments again. they make these epic songs swooping between jaunty old-fashioned accordians and apocalyptic breakdowns that verge on heavy metal but with more pianos and actual singing. having only heard their newest album i can't really comment on their back-catalogue, but i've been told this is quite a new direction for them musically and much different from their earlier more folky sounding

material.

but this new album, hazards of love is put together reallllly well,

with all the songs flowing together like one big epic song, and this ties in with the running story of the album, "the tale of a woman named Margaret who is ravaged by a shape-shifting animal; her lover, William; a forest queen; and a cold-blooded, lascivious rake" (yeah i used wikipedia to paraphrase.) i particularly love tracks 8 and 10, the wanting comes in waves/repaid and the rake's song, just so epic and darrrrk.

having only discovered this group yesterday, i can't really speak with much authority on them, so in the words of girls aloud i'll let the funky music do the talking:

download the album here

The Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love (2009)

1. Prelude

2. The Hazards of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won't Wrestle the Thistles Undone)

3. A Bower Scene

4. Won't Want for Love (Margaret in the Taiga)

5. The Hazards of Love 2 (Wager All)

6. The Queen's Approach

7. Isn't It a Lovely Night?

8. The Wanting Comes in Waves/Repaid

9. An Interlude

10. The Rake's Song

11. The Abduction of Margaret

12. The Queen's Rebuke/The Crossing

13. Annan Water

14. Margaret in Captivity

15. The Hazards of Love 3 (Revenge!)

16. The Wanting Comes in Waves (Reprise)

17. The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned)

(for a synopsis of the plot of the album go here)