Burial - Fostercare

16 Bit - Moth

DJ Patife Vs. Max De Castro - Pra Você Lembrar

Carnivàle...

Desimal - 'Hyperboria'

Edan - 'Promised Land'

Samples 'Dark, Dark' by Arik Einstein which is also a great tune

)EIB( (Bad Company) - 'Ladies of Spain'

"Angels and sailors
Rich girls
Backyard fences
Tents

Dreams watching each other narrowly
Soft luxuriant cars
Girls in garages, stripped
Out to get liquor and clothes
Half gallons of wine and six-packs of beer
Jumped, humped, born to suffer
Made to undress in the wilderness.

I will never treat you mean
Never start no kind of scene
I'll tell you every place and person that I've been."

- The Doors - 'Angels & Sailors

Comatron - 'Platinum'

Scorcher - 'Way Down The Road'

Insanely violent Grime music

Kemal & Rob Data - 'Fucking Hostile'

Teebee - 'Black Rain

N.E.R.D. - 'Provider' (Zero 7 remix)

Wretch 32 feat. Ghetts & Badness - 'Ina Di Ghetto'

RJD2 - 'Ghostwriter'

Nas & Jay Z - Black Republicans (Instrumental)

Didn't post up a full vocal version because, to be honest, Jay & Nas's bars are a bit waste really. Makes you look upon the whole Get Money ethic in Rap in a different light though. Also takes on a different resonance in the light of a black Democrat president...

This beat's hard. Apparently it's based on a theme from 'The Godfather II' - it's got that Star Wars Imperial March kind of feel to it, epic and orchestral - which is kinda funny when you consider how (justifiably) negatively the Republican party/administrations are viewed.

Sneaker Pimps - 'How Do'

Dom & Roland - 'Sky Spirit'

Absolute rolling juggernaut of a tune

Bike For Three! - 'There Is Only One Of Us'

"...being sung to sleep each night by the ghost of you..."

Task Horizon - 'Lost & Found'

D-Bridge - 'Wonder Where'

Unknown Error - The Yearning (Apex VIP remix)

Beautiful.

The Streets - 'He's Behind You, He's Got Swine Flu'

Chezidek - 'Call Pon Dem'

Burial & Four Tet - 'Moth'

Spor - 'Do Not Shake'

SICK

Buck 65 - 'Stella (Cries a Girl)'

"She made herself invisible and hid inside a house of mirrors"

T2 - 'Dump Valve Riddim' (w/ Jammer, Tempa T & some other bloke)

"Don't wanna get parred off like Shirley" - funniest Eastenders reference in Grime I've ever heard

Ghetts - Acoustic Jam Session

"I never wake up puzzled: I wake up knowing it's a straight up struggle - it's paper above all"

Songs: Ohia - 'Coxcomb Red' JoeBeats remix

The world is so pale next to you...

J Majik - 'Solarize' (Optical remix)

All of a sudden 2001 seems like a very long time ago. They don't make tunes like this anymore. Even Optical himself. Utter sickness.

New: Clipz - 'Bionic Commando'

I usually can't stand this kind of dnb. Honestly. This tune's got something though, maybe it's the chiptune sound that reminds me of Sega Mastersystem days, I dunno.

New: Phace - 'Mammoth' (feat. Misanthrop)

She Wants Revenge - 'Red Flags and Long Nights'

Fanu - 'The Unseen' & Chris Su - 'Solaris' (+ remix)

Son Lux - 'Break'

Teebee vs Future Prophecies - 'Dimensional Entity'

The first time ever I saw your face
I thought the sun rose in your eyes...

'Blood Pt. 2' - Buck 65, Sufjan Stevens & Serengeti

You're the best around...

...nothin's gonna ever keep you down.



Of all the songs to have stuck in my head lately...

Jahdan Blakkamoore - 'Go Round Payola'

Ordinarily I don't really like autotune but this is an exception.

Reminds me a little of 'Megablast' by Bomb The Bass.

Madvillain - 'Great Day' (Four Tet remix)

Utterly rare for Doom to be upstaged by a beat but he is in this case. It's a Four Tet beat though.

"The rocket scientist with a pocket wine-list. Some even say he might need some good psychiatrist."

Flying Lotus - 'GNG BNG'

Serengeti & Polyphonic - 'Sunrise'

Just discovered Serengeti and the album 'Don't Give Up' produced in collaboration with Polyphonic. I love it. I think I've been looking for it for a while without actually knowing what I was looking for.

This track sort of reminds me of Beirut (the band), except crucially with a spoken-word/hiphop element.

Wish I could find video links for 'Eleven' and 'Puppydog Love'. Seek the album out if 'Sunrise' is your sort of thing, you won't regret it.

New(ish): Buck 65: 'Paper Airplanes' feat. Jenn Grant

Obsessed with this tune at the moment, keep hearing fragments of it in my head during quiet moments when my mind's wandering...

Amon Tobin - 'Bloodstone'

Nick Drake - 'Poor Boy'

Reminded of this song while watching 'What Just Happened?' as it's in the soundtrack, and also from seeing 'Pink Moon' in Mark Newton's 'Nights Of Villjamur' playlist. There'll be a post about the film soon.

New: Mistabishi - 'Printer Jam'

Madness.

A highly inventive exercise in "found sound" though I'm guessing.

What next, a tune called 'Modem Tones'?

Adam Freeland - 'We Want Your Soul' (Sunchase remix)

Psidream - 'Secret Life'

:Happysad:

A lovely old tune, reminds me of some times... Further proof that Drum&Bass can be beautiful.

The synth(?) that comes in at 2.35 is my favourite thing about this tune.

New: Burial - 'Lambeth'

Named after my borough. Well, where I used to live at any rate. You can take the boy out of South London...

I love Burial's music, have done since the first album. He doesn't sound like any other Dubstep producer out there, and that says more about what I think of most Dubstep than anything else. His stuff is more deep, atmospheric Garage in my opinion, reminds me of the old stuff I used to listen to on the pirate stations when I was fifteen or so, except filtered through cracked, rose tinted spectacles. Melancholy and beautiful, bittersweet, the perfect soundtrack to a London autumn/winter.

The Ink Spots - 'I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire'

One of my grandmother's favourite songs.

It's also apparently part of the Fallout 3 soundtrack - think I'll wait til the price drops on that one before I get it though, and GTA4's taking up all my attention in terms of videogames anyway...

Foo Fighters - 'Everlong'

I haven't really been into the Foo Fighters for over ten years ('The Colour & The Shape' was the last album by them I bought by them) but my little sister was listening to this song yesterday and it brought it all back. This tune's lovely.

New: MF Doom - 'Cellz'

The sample at the beginning is Charles Bukowski reading 'Dinosauria, We' (text here) which I assume was sampled from the documentary film 'Born Into This'. I recommend watching it whether you're a fan or just curious.

As well as this latest offering from ol' Metalface, Buck 65's also notable for producing material that's either influenced by or actually based upon Bukowski's writing - see 'The Floor' from 'Secret House Against The World' for instance, which is adapted from Bukowski's poem 'A Smile To Remember'.

It's cool to see another of my favourite hiphop artists collide with one of my favourite poets/authors. Words are words, separations of genre or artform aside. It's all one really.

'So Tinha Que Ser Com Voce'

I love this song, in whatever language. I'd have posted up the version by Astrud Gilberto as well but it isn't on Youtube unfortunately.

It may be cold here in London at the moment but at least the heating's on and I'm listening to Brazilian music...

Ed Rush & Optical - 'Bacteria'

Not an official video, use of P.O.V. and so on is cool in places though.

Mavado - 'Last Night' & 'Gully Side'

Beirut - 'Postcards From Italy'

The horns after the bridge get me every time.

Buck 65 - 'Blood Of A Young Wolf'

"It's an egg & spoon race, slow & steady
Desert highway, à bientôt"

Break & Survival - 'Dawn'

Taken from the DNAudio LP 'Hard Times'. Most of the other tracks are straight-up bangers, but this one stands out: it's a little bit cheeky. Brings to mind the 'sleazy basslines' that the likes of Matrix, Fierce, and Cause 4 Concern used to cook up during the early years of the decade.

A.R. Rahman - 'Mumbai Theme'

It starts a little slow, give it time. When the strings come in it's more than worth waiting for.

Nasir Jones (Nas) - 'New York State Of Mind pt 2'

I've always wondered if this line is a reference to Hubert Selby Jr's 'Requiem For A Dream', which happens to be set in New York city:

"Momma shoulda cuffed me to the radiator;
and why not? Mighta saved me later from my block.."

Blasted this one on repeat on the old iPod when we were in NYC early last year.

Hiphop. Street poetry. Love it. Speaks to me when writing gritty imaginary citylife too. Forget what your parents told you: there's no such thing as bad influences.

Phace - 'Cold Champagne'

Be aware that this won't be for everyone. Drum&Bass is often referred to as being 'Marmite music' - you either love it or you hate it. I am, of course, of the former persuasion.

This kind of DnB is often called 'Neurofunk', a much derided term but one I find fitting.

State-of-the-art tech'd-out future funk - my personal soundtrack to the Cyberpunk age yet to come. Or maybe we're already living in it, depending upon your perspective.

Big-up Phace each and every time.

Astrud Gilberto - 'The Gentle Rain' (RJD2 Remix)

If you see me on the tube with my headphones in and my eyes closed, this is probably what I'll be listening to while I miss my stop.

Neutral Milk Hotel - 'Holland 1945'

It's been around a decade (give or take) since I discovered 'In An Aeroplane Over The Sea' through a friend of mine. I kind of missed the boat though; the band were pretty much defunct after 1998.

I must have listened to this track, along with the others on the album, about a million times, yet it still gives me a buzz. I've been looking for other music like it for a long time and have never found anything that really comes close.

"The only girl I ever loved
was born with roses in her eyes.
But then they buried her alive,
one evening, nineteen forty-five,
with just her sister at her side,
and only weeks before the guns
all came and rained on everyone..."

There's a lot of pretty strange, surreal, wonderful imagery in the lyrics of that record. That particular song takes its inspiration from the horrors visited upon Europe during WWII. It's powerful, haunting stuff but also quite lively and upbeat. An odd mix. Songwriters like Jeff Magnum are few and far between.

I found this recently on Amazon, a "surrealist text" by Kim Cooper inspired by the album. It's on my "To Read' list - but then that's perpetually backlogged in any case.

Bike For Three! - 'All There Is To Know About Love'

I've just heard via the Bike For Three! Facebook page that the album should finally be dropping soon. I can't wait.

"Dragonflies and the agonizing blast from a gun
Under a magnifying glass in the sun
You ran fast and you won, it takes time to heal a wing
A hundred-year-old photograph doesn't feel a thing
Track courses, the parable lacked sources
Unbearable first memories of terrible black horses
Question the funeral procession and the pageant
The home we chose versus the one that we imagined..."

Magic.

Bike For Three! is a collaboration between Ricardo Terfry (Buck 65) and Joëlle Phuong Minh Lê (Greetings From Tuskan).

I've been a fan of Buck's music for a while now, and the Bike For Three! material is some of the best. Looking forward to the next gig in old London town.