Music
The Dandy Warhols – Welcome To The Third World & Webster Colcord
“Welcome to the Third World” is a very funky track by the Dandy Warhols with an interesting animated video clip – different from a lot of their other stuff. Reminds me a little of Fritz the Cat which was directed by Ralph Bakshi. This one’s directed by Courtney Taylor (from the Dandy’s) & Webster Colcord – check out his show reel here: Looking forward to seeing the Dandy’s at Parklife in October hopefully. As well as The Glitch...
Terror Danjah – Powergrid E.P.
Was stumbling around on the Planet Mu website the other day and found the Power Grid E.P. by Terror Danjah. The stand out track by far for me is #7 “Horror Story” – nice distorted bass. Just how I like it. Very clean production. So phat – can’t wait to give it a rinse on the Bose. I like the ping pong sample in track #3 “Pulse”. Seems to be the year of the ping pong sample – Lorn on Glass & Silver, Flying Lotus on Table Tennis. Power...
DJ Fresh – Gold Dust & Flux Pavillion Remix
From his early days as one of the founding members from Bad Company (with D-Bridge, Maldini & Vegas making up the ), DJ Fresh has always been a solid producer. Bad Company brought a whole new sound to tech-step/neurofunk drum n bass sound in the late 90s with killer tunes like The Nine & Nitrous that made you move uncontrollably. It takes me back to when I first really started getting into drum n bass and enjoying it. One of my favourite Fresh tracks of all time is Tomb...
Crystal Castles – Empathy
I heard the track “Empathy” by Crystal Castles on FBI this morning and was instantly hooked. Good thing the DJ on the radio was kind enough to announce the song title and artist too. So, I spent the morning listening to their MySpace page and mostly liked what I heard. Here’s the track: Love those chords – so much energy. Blended with the vocals with some sort of hallroom reverb followed by some nice bassy synths. I just bought the second self titled album...
MOS DUB – Mos Def Reggae Stylees
Max Tannone has produced an album featuring the vocal styles of Mos Def with some classic reggae tracks underneath. Very cool stuff and perfect today considering I was moving to some reggae beats last night (although the Billie Jean cover they played – wtf??). Anyway, not to defocus from Max’s fine compilation – lots of cool tracks.. Nice phat kicks on History Town which uses Shanty Town by Desmond Dekker, probably my favourite. Download the album at mosdub.com...
Salmonella Dub & Tijuana Cartel at the Coogee Bay Hotel
It’s been an excellent birthday weekend so far… I caught up with a lot of people I haven’t scene in a while, heard some live amens and soaked in the World Cup atmosphere. I saw Total Science for free on Friday night (generously put on by Foreign Dub) and last night I saw Salmonella Dub at the Coogee Bay Hotel. Now THAT was an amazing gig! We got there just as Tijuana Cartel started playing – great timing really to see their set of acoustic rhythms infused...
DNB Tunes of the week by Reso (DC Breaks remix), Raiden & DJ SS (Bladerunner remix)
This weeks selection is a bit on the dark side but I’m a sucker for that so it’s good right? The first track is a remix by DC Breaks of a Reso vs Vent track called Rumble (Here’s the original dubstep version – madness!). The “rumble” sample reminds me a bit of Dizzee Rascal’s “bonkers” hehe. Anyways, here we go – Nice spiritual intro… launches into some heavy as sh*t drum n bass. But it’s all about the 2nd...
United Nations Of Sound feat. Richard Ashcroft
So my mate at work sends me an email about Richard Ashcroft (from well known outfit The Verve) and his new band United Nations of Sound playing at the Enmore Theatre end of July (the 31st to be precise). To be honest, the guy in the group shot on the left pretty much sold me to check them out on account of his Martin Luther King shirt I had a listen to the track ‘Are You Ready’ that was linked to the email. It was good (particularly the guitars towards the end til...