Nino Nardini – Tropicola
Brian Bennet – Solstice
Now this is an amazing piece of music. I’m really into the repetitive music at the moment. I like music that seems to do nothing, but actually does everything and this is a perfect example of it. I could regurgitate what is on the internet but I’ll just talk about it in my own words. I first heard this on a Tim Sweeney mix CD. He starts off the mix with this and then mixes in the UNKLE remix of Can – Vitamin C, which is amazing too. To get back to the point, this is a journey record. It’s great. I’ve not really said a great deal about it. Click on the image above to go to the wikipedia page. I managed to score a reissue of this on white vinyl from Piccadilly Records. Which is a great score. It really is nice to sit and listen to a record like this at high volume.
I didn’t like these when I first saw them, but now I am warming to them. Nike SB are doing something different. Some of the t-shirts and socks that are coming out as well are pretty cool. All of these are available at Flatspot.com. His shoes should be dropping soon as well.
So, last week as part of the Glasgow Film Festival, Zombie Zombie came over from Paris and performed music from the films of John Carpenter. It was brilliant! I had wanted to see them live for ages, but they had cancelled the last Glasgow gig for some reason. Anyway, they did not disappoint. I’ve never been in Mono when it has been so busy. They played songs from all the big movies and their interpretation of the Assault On Precinct 13 theme tune was a belter. Anyway, if you want to hear the gig, the wonderful people over at Subcity have been producing podcasts for the Glasgow Film Festival. Head on over there and download it now. Oh yeah, one more thing. Thanks to BitsOfBobs for letting me use his wonderful picture of Zombie Zombie.
Now this is an enjoyable album. Not only is it produced by Carl Craig, La Boca did the sleeve design for it too. The first track, For Falling Asleep, is an excellent acid house tune. Its 20 minutes long and instead of making me fall asleep it does the exact episode. Its all analogue beats and bleeps with some added saxophone! No seriously, saxophone. It works well on the tune as well. I love it and when it gets to the end of the song, man, it really is amazing! You would never expect to hear a harp in the mix. For me that track really is the highlight of the album, but Entropy, the single from the album, is really nice as well. This is someone making electronic music without really having that kind of background, so its nice and not your usual dance floor material. If you are into all things analogue then this is definitely worth checking out. Also the sleeve notes are enjoyable read too.
I really like the recent Fact Magazine mix by Space Dimension Controller. It seems that he is from Northern Ireland and he is producing some 4/4 Electro Funk music, which is really good. I’ve been listening to the tracks on his myspace page most of this afternoon and even ordered the 12″ that he has produced. There are loads of his own tracks in the Fact Magazine mix, which is cool to hear. It’s kinda electro and techno stuff. Nice to listen to and get on with some work.
So Gil Scott-Heron is back with a new album. This is the first single to be taken from it. I quite like the video. People dressed up as skeletons skating the Brooklyn Banks. Nice. Thanks to Sally for the link.