Swinging a giant unwieldy pendulum of taste wildly, from the reverent to the irreverent and back.
Representing reverence - BSS/DMST member and serial hugger (I believe a career highlight for him was hugging Dave during a BSS gig) Charles Spearin has released the wonderfully thoughtful “Happiness Project” which will appeal to fans of The Books; new Mum courtesy of Morr Music, contemplative as ever; the deepest of deep 10-minute workouts from Morgan Geist, remixing Whitest Boy Alive; and the classic and haunting closer from Grizzly Bear’s last record ‘Yellow House’.
Representing irreverence - Downtown labelmates Major Lazer and Miike Snow both taking some severe liberties with vocal takes (did I mention that ‘Pon de Floor’ is perhaps the most brain-staggering sound to have come out of my speakers recently?); Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs landing out of nowhere on the Grecoroman label, with ridiculous rave-pop completely appropriate for the stoopid name; The Natural Yogurt Band showing that its still not too late to be producing new old library funk sounds; and towards the end, Dave and I hinted at some kind of convergence we are both making presently on some kind of new digital funk experience. Dam Funk and Bastian jam the joints; I have a vision of Prince and George Clinton revolted but aroused, spewing technicolor rainbow erections from rotating laughing clown heads.
Too real?
Tune in next week for Dave flying solo while I celebrate my birthday in a monkey suit. I’m turning 12, again.
Lusine - Two Dots (Pezzner remix)
Charles Spearin - Mrs Morris
Pattern is Movement - Right Away
Mum - Last Shapes of Never
edIT - Certified Air Raid Material
Cleptoclectics - Move On
Paul White - Sleep Clapping
Giorgio Tuma - Mi DB (Mary Louise Song)
Anni Rossi - Ecology
Miike Snow - Silvia
Whitest Boy Alive - 1517 (Morgan Geist remix)
Major Lazer - Pon de Floor (feat VYBZ Kartel)
Nosaj Thing - Heart Entire
Moderat - Rusty Nails (Booka Shade remix)
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Moon Hits the Mirrorball
Jon Hopkins - Insides
Bibio - Lover’s Carvings
Grizzly Bear - Colorado
Donovan - Riki Tiki Tavi
Chalibaude - Arantelle
The Natural Yogurt Band - Soft Cheese
Dam Funk - Galactic Fun
Bastian - People Change
Mayer Hawthorne and the County - Maybe So, Maybe No
Findlay Brown - Promised Land (Pilooski remix)
Depeche Mode - Everything Counts
Download the show: To and Fro #94