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It’s all rather confusing really

Bob Daktari — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:22:37 +0000

There always comes a time with a band or musican where you part ways, havng had fun their direction and your preferences stop overlapping and its time to move on.

Sometimes you fight this urge in the often vein hope they’re redemm themselves by dropping something that tunes you back into that happy place and sometimes they do… this is one of the elements of fandom I guess.

here’s a track that whilst I like it a lot and has brought an act I was pretty much bored with back into my listening horizons – I’m a sucker for the ravey keyboard stabs – I’m not sure how long we’ll be hanging together as the song hasn’t the legs to give it a long listening lifespan for me and well I’d rather it not.

Then again with a new album on the horizon I may just be lured back into the world of these crazy Saffas. That wouldn’t be a bad thing… for now its been mys gon for this week and several smiles upon my face its brung.

It’s all rather confusing really

Tracks of the year

Benny — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:32:23 +0000

Here, for the benefit of all who have stuck with the ‘finger throughout the droughts of the last half year’ is my mix of some tracks from albums I really loved this year.

2011Albums by Bn1

I’m not going to go into details right now but here’s the tracklisting.. I hope if you check it out you hear something you haven’t heard before and maybe something you like a lot.

“The Suck” – Roll the Dice – From ‘In Dust’
“Chrome Vox” – Tropic Of Cancer – From ‘The End of All Things’
“Double Day” – Sandwell District – From ‘Feed Forward’
“Yama” – Dead Skeletons – From ‘Dead Magick’
“Hatred Of Music II” – Tim Hecker – From ‘Ravedeath, 1972′
“Descent to the Zenith” – Earth – From ‘Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I’
“Zombies Never Die (Blues)” – Bohren Und Der Club Of Gore – From ‘Beileid’
“Microon II” – Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto – From ‘Summvs’ -
“Caladan” – Roly Porter – From ‘Aftertime’
“Badmind” – Hype Williams – From ‘Kelly Price W8 Gain vol II’
“Or” – Kangding Ray – From ‘Or’
“All You’ll Never Know’ – Matthew David – From ‘International’
“Choice” – Perc – From ‘Wicker and Steel’
“Reality Drift” – Kuedo – From ‘Severant’
“Rainy Dub” – Actress – From ‘Rainy Dub’
“Seasons” – Thundercat – From ‘The Golden Age of Apocalypse
“InnaFocusedDaze” – Dam Funk – From ‘InnaFocusedDaze’
“It Was Whatever” – Shlohmo – From ‘Bad Vibes’
“See You Tomorrow” – Henrik Schwarz and Bugge Wesseltoft – From ‘Duo’

Blowing away the cobwebs

The Ninja — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:14:25 +0000

Here’s some nice things I’ve been listening to. You might like to listen to them as well. Sweet.

The sunshine seems to seasonally adjusting my listening habits.

And this:

Plus a quite a bit of this:

Nabbs, Talabot & Hivern Discs

Mick — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 07:04:55 +0000

Shout out to our buddy Justin Nabbs who recently posted up this mix on his Soundcloud – There’s lots of good stuff in here, including 40 Thieves Ft Qzen ‘Don’t Turn it Off’, Lucky Paul ‘Thought We Were Alone (Money vs Gold Remix)’, Simon Baker ‘Plastik’ & the very excellent John Talabot ‘Leave Me’, whch was recently included on the Permanent Vacation mix ‘If This Is House I Want My Money Back’. Listen/Download Justin’s mix here
Aug mix by JustinNabbs

John Talabot’s interview linked below is worth reading – he talks about his upcoming long player which will be dark and instrument based – sounds like an interesting listen; he also talks about Hivern Discs (which he lends a helping hand with) releasing some Kassem Mosse among other things soon:
http://www.junodownload.com/plus/2011/08/23/interview-john-talabot/

Hivern Discs has been a very reliable label for releases so far; releases have included Talabot’s stunning Sunshine and while it was never officially released, the Pional remix of Frank Ocean ‘Lovecrimes’.
Frank Ocean – Lovecrimes (Pional Edit) by Hivern Discs

Benoit & Sergio

Mick — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 06:48:29 +0000

There’s been quite a lot of good music coming out of DC lately. The Beautiful Swimmers and now these two, Benoit & Sergio, who i’ve been enjoying since i heard their incredible Walk and Talk on the Wolf and Lamb Vs Soul Clap DJ Kicks; it’s the one with the lyrics “My baby does K all day. She doesn’t wash her hair, doesn’t wash her clothes. When I come home doesn’t even say hello”.
Walk and Talk

The few things they’ve released on DFA have also been pretty nice. Boy Trouble back in Feb.

Last week they released Principles and Everybody, also on DFA both great!
Principles

Everybody

Back in April they did a promo mix for Fabric, which i only just discovered, but i like it a lot.
http://www.fabriclondon.com/blog/view/audio-benoit-sergio-fabric-promo-mix
DOWNLOAD: Benoit & Sergio fabric Promo Mix

Tracklist
1. Metronomy – She wants
2. Benoit & Sergio – Walk and talk
3. Superpitcher – Rabbits in a hurry
4. Fingerprintz – Wet job
5. The Cars – Heartbeat city
6. Wild Nothing – Live in dreams
7. Benoit & Sergio – Boy trouble

You talk about your revolution, oh well, that’s fine

Bob Daktari — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 17:56:37 +0000

Went and saw Steve Ignorant fom punk band CRASS at the KA last night

it was fab

Here’s a link to footage from a Aussie show he did on his way here and an old fave of CRASS’s for good measure

Steve Ignorant (Crass) – 8 @ Tote, Collingwood (17th June 2011) from Carbie Warbie on Vimeo.

NZNTM and musical picks

Benny — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 09:53:46 +0000

Season 3 of New Zealand’s Next Top Model kicked off on friday. Being a follower of the previous 2 seasons I’m hoping that this one will be similarly entertaining, and may even keep the ‘finger appraised of my thoughts from time to time.. The first episode was the usual first episode cavalcade of screaming wannabe models, micro clips and voice-overs to establish the models’ identities. Amongst all this it was hard to establish any real favourites. I’m hopeful that Bianca (who brought her lucky lizard to the model interview) will stick around for a few more episodes at least.

Onto the tunes, and there’s been a crapload of tunes doing it for me. Enjoying the chance to dj a little bit more of late. Too many to categorise or rank, here’s just a few favourites.

Brackles and Shortstuff’s ‘Blunted Robots’ label is always worthy of a listen, and I really like Dj Dom’s recent EP for them. Deep but bouncy UK Funky.

Sticking in the UK, and LuckyMe have another big tune in the form of Jacques Greene’s ‘Another Girl’. The original is a big, rnb based record, but my favourite from the release is Mark Flash UR’s Detroit based reworking of ‘The Look’

One more Uk based, RnB influenced tune, this time coming from Deadboy who’s been mining the rnb and uk bass sound for sometime, this time coming with an uplifting bassline which will no doubt sound massive at the various festivals over the northern summer.

Moving into more traditional house and techno territory, and Move D is on his usual fine form, recently remixing leif in a very laid back deep style with some lovely jazzy touches.

His EP from a few months back is also essential deep listening, I can’t get enough of ‘Your Personal Healer’ – lush piano chords, muted vocals and snips of acid.

Also dusting off the piano keys is Reggie Dokes. I really like his new EP on Clones’ excellent ‘Royal Oak’ sub label. ‘Haiti’ brings spritely keys and a great remix from promising new producers ‘Morning Factory’ who are named after my favourite Ron Trent track, which is a cool thing to take a name from.

Time to Express is a must check label for me since Dozzy and Cio D’ors hypnotising ‘Menta’, and their compilation has yielded some new gems including new (to me) tracks from Dozzy and Van Hoesen.

Sascha Rydell comes through with some deep heaviness on the equally awesome Fachwerk label.

Perc is another consistently strong producer, his great new track on his label features (amazingly) a remix from Chris Carter of throbbing gristle. That’s not on youtube though, so check out the equally smashing Ancient Methods mix;

Finally, Andy Stott emerges again on Modern Love with some amazing music. I really like this release, each track has something unique to it, and most of it is slowed, skewed, and dark. Great stuff.

Everyone should….

The Ninja — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 05:20:56 +0000

Sometimes it is sadness that reminds you of greatness.

The recent passing of Gil Scott Heron reminded me just how powerful his music was, and will hopefully continue to be.

This live recording in particular sums up the spine tingling power his music and his message had.

Gil Scott Heron – Live at the Bottom Line (1977)

TRACKLIST
01. New Deal - 10:19
02. Gumbai - 5:05
03. Intro to Race Track In France – 1:22
04. Race Track In France - 8:06
05. Band Intros ~ Lead in to 95 South – 2:45
06. 95 South - 4:49
07. Intro to Hello Sunday, Hello Road – 1:02
08. Hello Sunday, Hello Road - 3:45
09. Intro to It’s Your World – 0:38
10. It’s Your World - 6:59
11. Home Is Where The Hatred Is - 15:29
12. Almost Lost Detroit - 5:59
13. Intro to Vildgolia – 1:36
14. Vildgolia (Deaf, Dumb & Blind) - 12:24
15. Winter In America - 6:54
16. Under The Hammer - 5:12
17. The Bottle - 15:07
18. Intro to Johannesburg – 0:53
19. Johannesburg - 5:37

http://neverenoughrhodes.blogspot.com/2008/09/gil-scott-heron-live-at-bottom-line.html

I can make you dance for me

Bob Daktari — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 22:32:14 +0000

RIP Kenny Hawkes.

Cheers for the tunes

Kenny Hawkes ft. Marcel And Kimra – Dance For Me

Moto Coda

Bob Daktari — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 04:07:39 +0000

When I was younger a friend and I would often indulge ourselves in a game of pool and a lager or two after a days surfing… they were as they say the best of times… and of the music we used to listen two tracks are firmly lodged in my mind – this is one of them, from their debut self titled album which included the simply brilliant Talking To A Stranger Aussies Hunters and Collectors give to you Run Run Run.