Utraísta – Smalltalk (Four Tet remix) Here’s a lovely mix from Kieran Hebden which has been played to death by Gilles P over the last few weeks. Nice and glitchy, bonkers video and well catchy tune to boot!
Saturday night vibes
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Staying in is the new staying in
Kid Koala on Beats In Space – Damon Albarn, Kid Koala And Dan The Automator – Untitled
One of my favourite Beats In Space shows is from 2011 and features the great Kid Koala and Terence Bernardo. It’s on a downtempo tip and a bit on the melancholic side but a great show all the same and on repeat play some days here.
Last week I was searching the Damon Albarn/Kid Koala/Dan the Automator track to stick on “weeds” and discovered by accident Kid Koala live in action on the show. A lovely piece of footage complete with the sound of hands at work on the mixer! Excellent!
One more…
One from the great ‘spear complete with bird noises. Dedicated to the late great Duke Vin who passed away in London last Sunday. Respect to UK’s first soundman (originally selector on Jamaica’s Tom The Great Sebastian alongside the DJ, Count Machucki). In a BBC interview in 2009 asked when he will retire the duke replied, “It’s in my blood. It is my life. Death has to retire me.” Respect, let’s hope there’s some nice bass bins in the afterlife!
http://www.right-on.org/duke-vin.html
Thursday night in a non stressed (free) stylee
Prof.Logik – Entering unfamiliar land (intro)
Here’s a lovely piece of glitchy slow-mo hip-hop heard on this week’s excellent truthseekers radio show available as a free download on bandcamp.
http://proflogik1.bandcamp.com/track/entering-unfamiliar-lands-intro http://truthseekersradio.org/
Tune of the day
Sheila Rickards – Jamaican Fruit Of African Roots – Shella
What a flipping tune! This was the first record I heard at work this morning on Gilles’ show via I-player. I’ve heard the heavy dub of this before but never the vocal, turns out it’s a Bunny Lee tune scorcher and there’s a touch of the Shirley Basseys about the intro too. What a tune and re-released on 10” vinyl in the new year, super! Only a minute on youtube, but it gives you a taste!
Full vocal and dub on this podcast http://www.studiofeed.com/main/studiofeed-radio-the-bass-kultcha-show-episode-7-ft-earl-grey/
And “The mystery of Sheila Rickards” from the gleaner http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20080528/ent/ent1.html
I never knew that…
Neal Hefti – The Mafista
Thanks to Noel Hawks, Steve Barker and the “On The Wire” team for this weeks “I never knew that” played on the recent show on BBC Radio Lanchashire. The inspiration possibly to the reggae classic Satta Amassa Gana by The Abyssinians no less, bonkers!
Thursday night on the blog
Guts – You Don’t Have To Worry – Heavenly Sweetness
http://soundcloud.com/guts/dont-worry
We featured a track from guts last week but gilles p played another one on his last show and it’s a right old cracker! We do love a bit of nice slow-mo french hip-hop here, and it turns out it’s on on the Heavenly Sweetness label which is home of the great blundetto. Big thanks to dj dick (rockers hi-fi) from birmingham for putting us onto blundetto after hearing it on his blog and dick is interviewed on the recent free school podcast which is great listening and features some nice tunes too!
http://wearefreeschool.com/post/34184358585/free-school-podcast-16-dj-dick-rockers-hi-fi
One more before bedtime
Sam Willis – Foxglissandro (Half Machine)
I’ve just got sent this glitchy recommendation from our good mate will. Reminds me of a bleepy nathan fake. Like it! One more before the cocoa boils over…
Fly me to the moon
If my Maria Thun biodynamic sowing and planting calendar 2012 goes AWOL I pop over to this site to see “what time it is”…
http://www.the-gardeners-calendar.co.uk/MoonPlanting.asp
I’ve got Friday on my mind
Guts – brand new revolution
Here’s a lovely old tune heard on this week’s gilles peterson show from last year. A nice bit of Latin-tinged electronica that puts me in mind of a very slowed down version of the excellent “together forever” by exodus (as played by the late great larry levan) crossed with fela and freddy fresh. A great combination. Tune!
Weeds up to me knees 