5 Years Of Hyperdub

Darkstar - Aidy's Girls A Computer

Martyn - Mega Drive Generation

Zomby - Tarantula

3 of the best from the recent Hyperdub 5.1 double cd compilation. Buy it here.

Always Preferred The (Remix) 1

Nasty Habits - Shadow Boxing (The Remix)

Killer Doc Scott production from 97. Proper dirt.

Kamaal The Abstract

Kamaal The Abstract - Even If It Is So

1998 - Hip hop legends A Tribe Called Quest disband

1999 - Q-Tip releases his solo debut 'Amplified'.

2001 - Records his follow up 'Kamaal The Abstract'

The record company refuse to release it.

2008 - Q-Tip releases a 3rd lp 'The Renaissance'.

People love it.

2009 - 'Kamaal The Abstract' lp gets released.

8 years late. Record companies are fuckwits.

Breakout - Planet Rock

Breakout - Planet Rock Pt.1

Sick funk cover of Afrika Bambaataa's (Kraftwerk sampling) Planet Rock from a few years back.

For The D!!!!!

Eric Lau & Guilty Simpson - For The D

Killer London/Detroit cut gets a reeeewind round chez Bossy. Find it on the rather fine Producer No.1 compilation on Fat City.

Lemuria - Hunk Of Heaven

Lemuria - Hunk Of Heaven

Saturday night. Just after midnight.

The perfect time for this.

Fela Anikulapo Kuti

Fela Kuti - Shakara

After a tough week at work there is nothing like a blast of Fela to lift the spirit. Those BIG horn blasts bring a touch of sunshine into the current shitty English weather.

I AM DULL

Seeing as i'm home alone at the minute i'm trying to watch things i'll never get the chance to watch any other time. For example a documentary on Helvetica. Really enjoyed it too! What the fuck is going on?? Clip above (strictly for the design nerds) and yes this is typed in Helvetica.

ATP Movie

I've been threatening to go to the ATP festival year on year, and failed to make it year on year. Thankfully the lovely folks at Warp Films have made a movie of the experience which i've just ordered here. It had an outdoor screening at the Park Hill Flats, a Sheffield landmark (now ANOTHER Urban Splash development), which i also managed to miss (pic above). I vow to make the festival before i'm 40. Amen.

Hova

Thought Jay-Z was fantastic on Later last night. Can't wait for more on Friday night. BIG MUSIC!

Joy Orbison

Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo

Still undecided on this one. I like it but can't see what all the fuss is about. See what you think.

Katsen

Katsen - Let's Build A City

Katsen - Cactus

Electro-pop is like so hot right now. Lucky for Brighton based girl boy duo Katsen. Here's a couple of cuts from their debut lp It Hertz! One original and one Pixies cover, both good. Nice sleeve too. Buy here

Portico Quartet

Portico Quartet - Paper Scissors Stone

Lovely opening track from their new lp Isla.

Drake

Drake - Fear

I'd never heard of this guy until the other week, but thanks to Benji B this tracks been on constant rotation ever since. The finest hip hop track i've heard in yonks. L O V E I T!

Eve goes Dubstep??

Eve - Me N My (Up In The Club)

Signs again of US producers looking to the our fair isle for inspiration. This track swipes the backing track from Benga's "E Trips".

R.I.P. Liam Maher

Whatever you do, just make sure what you doing makes you happy

Trailer Trash Traceys

Saturday night, pissed, trying to get my head round a Hudson Mohawke record?? Soulless maybe?? Anyways gud record attached. Reminds me of the Twin Peaks theme. All gravy baby.

Candy Girl

Grape Ape

Apparently i loved this as a kid but have no recollection of it. Looks great though.

Glass Candy

I recently watched a film about Britain's most violent prisoner Charles Bronson. Definitely worth checking folks.

One piece of music that runs through the movie is this by Glass Candy, Digital Versicolor. It really suits the dark & seedy feel of the film and seems to have lodged itself in my brain.

Its taken from the fantastic lp B/E/A/T/B/O/X on the Italians Do It Better label.

Here's a couple of other tracks but i strongly recommend a purchase as the whole record is great. Buy it here. Myspace

Beatific

Candy Castle

Rolling Down The Hills

September Sun

Looks like we're getting the last bit of English sun this weekend. Might get the BBQ out, crack a Red Stripe and pump a few of these. Now let's put on some classics and have a little dance shall we?

Under The Weather

I'm feeling a bit shite today. I'm also feeling a bit underwhelmed by the new Cribs record. I've only had 4 or so listens but the songs don't seem as strong as before.

Due to this (and the fact i ain't leaving the sofa today) i'm working my way through the Cribs live at the Brudenell Social Club dvd. Basically its them playing every album and b-sides over 3 nights. Well worth yer hard earned.

I'm really looking forward to seeing them live again in December though. Here's some footage from the last time i saw them back in January.

New Pepe

My No1 house producer returns with this. Great as always and vinyl only, he don't mp3 his shit. Rightly so

The Drums - Let's Go Surfing

The new Young Folks?? Check it out

Lego Wu

Wu-Tang Lego: Da Mystery of Chessboxin' from davo on Vimeo.

Your Twenties - Caught Wheel

This song is probably old news to everyone but me. Not anymore thanks to my bro at Wheels On Toast. This is a sunny pop single that rivals Phoenix in its super quality. Check ere then buy ere. I've got mine and it was worth every penny.

Smith Westerns - Be My Girl

This is f***ing great pop music. Youthful, urgent & ramshackle.

Atlas Sound - Walkabout (Feat. Panda Bear)

Atlas Sound is a solo project by Brandon Cox (a man desperately in need of a meal), the lead singer of Atlanta 4-piece Deerhunter. Panda Bear (shit name) is also a solo artist + one quarter of Animal Collective. Confusing?!? Anyway together they have made this and i likey

Crocodiles - I Wanna Kill

Good single, great sleeve. Sounding like post Bobby Gillespie era JAMC. Taster ere then buy ere.

The Cribs

The Cribs have a new single 'Cheat On Me' out soon so what better excuse to post a picture of Ryan Jarman's haircut. Marvel at that beauty!

Anyway the single is a cracker and their first release with Johnny Marr. I was worried Marr would smooth of their rough edges and on this evidence he has. But every band needs to evolve. Loving the slide guitar intro and chorus, the melodic jangle - fuck me how GOOD does he make a guitar sound. Pure Smithsian Marr brilliance. Here's the YouTube clip cos i ain't got the mp3 yet.

Dirty Projectors

Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is The Move

This is my new favourite song. A truly great pop song from the Brooklyn experimentalists. Love the 90's RnB feel and production.

The Telescopes

Stephen Lawrie from the Telescopes has recently been playing shows consisting of What Goes On & Creation era material at various gigs around the UK, USA & Europe. Most gigs have been just him with an acoustic guitar, but recent shows have seen him backed by various different bands. Here's a few great YouTube clips to whet your appetite. I really must try to get to one of these shows. Look out for more Telescopes posts in the future.

Johnny Boy

I've more ideas for posts floating around my head than time to actually post them. This single by Johnny Boy was one of them. Tonight i've noticed that the great White Noise Revisited has beaten me to it. Its a great Spectoresque song which deserves much love so please d/l here. The song name itself is worthy of greatness.

Sarah Records

As an unashamed lover of indie pop it was only a matter of time before i would do a post about my love for Sarah records. Around the age of 16/17, way back in the late 80s, i was a lovetorn indie soul who would wander the streets looking depressed with a skateboard for company. Sarah records, along with shoegaze bands (i hate to use that term), were THE soundtrack to my maudling. I don't actually remember my first Sarah purchase but i'm fairly sure it was by the Field Mice (probably Sensitive). All i remember was the feeling the records gave me - a sense of belonging. I loved everything from the cheap folded covers in plastic sleeves, the poorly designed artwork, through to the postcards you got with each release which eventually formed a picture of some sullen dockyard in monochrome. And i still love it even though i sold all my Sarah stuff when i went rave at 18! Maybe i am getting old and nostalgic but i'm sure this is great pop music. Who cares this is my blog so over the next few weeks i'm going to post stuff by various Sarah artists. Below is a Wikipedia article that explains their history far better than i ever could.

Sarah Records was a UK independent record label active between 1987 and 1995,^[1] best known for its recordings of twee pop.

The label was formed in Bristol in 1987 by Clare Wadd and Matt Haynes, and grew out of the fanzine scene at the time, Haynes having previously edited Are You Scared To Get Happy?,^[2] and Wadd Kvatch. Both these fanzines had given away flexidiscs - indeed, AYSTGH had been part of the Sha-la-la organisation, a record label set up solely to produce flexidiscs. Several Sarah releases were fanzines and flexi-discs, as it was felt this summed up the aesthetic of the label better than 12" singles and albums.^[2]

Sarah Records was usually seen as being grounded in the C86 janglyindie-pop sensibility, though the late Seventies DIY scene and independent yet stylish and imaginative labels such as Postcard Records, Factory and Creation, plus the mid-Eighties fanzine culture, were bigger influences. It ceased operation with the release of There and Back Again Lane, the hundredth release in the main catalogue sequence - a booklet telling the story of the label, along with a CD of representative tracks. Half-page adverts entitled "A Day For Destroying Things" in both NME and Melody Maker marked the release. "We don't do encores", the advert announced, and the label has stuck by this sentiment, with no further releases. Bands on the label included Heavenly, East River Pipe, The Orchids,Even As We Speak, Boyracer, Brighter, Blueboy, The Field Mice, Another Sunny Day and St. Christopher.

Haynes subsequently established Shinkansen Recordings, where many Sarah artists went on to record; he now edits a zine, Smoke, dedicated to writing and art inspired by London.

Track 1, Side 1, Part 1 - Mogwai

Come On Die Young, track 1, side 1 = my favourite ever Mogwai track.  A speech from Iggy Pop over minor key guitars. Beautiful.

"I'll tell you about punk rock: punk rock is a word used by dillitante's and ah... and ah... heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies and the bodies and the hearts and the souls and the time and the minds of young men who give what they have to it and give everything they have to it and it's a... it's a term that's based on contempt, it's a term that's based on fashion, style, elitism, satanism and everything that's rotten about rock'n'roll. I don't know Johnny Rotten but I'm sure... I'm sure he puts as much blood and sweat into what he does as Sigmund Freud did. You see, what sounds to you like a big load of trashy old noise is in fact the brilliant music of a genius, myself . And that music is so powerful that it's quite beyond my control and ah... when I'm in the grips of it I don't feel pleasure and I don't feel pain, either physically or emotionally. Do you understand what I'm talking about? Have you ever felt like that? When you just couldn't feel anything and you didn't want to either. You know? Like that? Do you understand what I'm saying sir?"

Punk Rock

Great YouTube clip here

Snowman

I went to see the Drones the other week (who were great), but it was the support band Snowman who really blew me away. From the off it was clear they were far from an ordinary band. The show was crazy, even verging on performance art, but still engaging. I will not even try to describe their sound as it incorporated more ideas than most bands manage throughout a career. I have since bought their album (The Horse, The Rat & The Swan) and found it completely addictive. Here's a few tracks from it. Enjoy (but don't listen with the lights off)

Our Mother (She Remembers)

We Are The Plague

Daniel Was A Timebomb

Lightning Strike!!

Finally!!!! I'm back online after a lightning strike blew up the whole Wilson joint. On the plus side i'm sat here on a lovely new Mac, a new tv & dvd player to my side, and Sky + coming Saturday. On the downside i've lost all my music & photo's so i ain't got much to post. Shit happens my friends.

Bonkers

Fuck me its bank holiday weekend! Oh yyyesss! Nuff good times a gwan!
Busy times got in the way of posting recently + i was a bit miffed at my Doves post being removed. Anyways Dizzee Rascal has a new single out soon called Bonkers, which is bonkers. Its all over the radio and for me defines what pop music is all about.
Dizzee Rascal feat. Armand Van Helden - Bonkers

Records That Don't Do Much But Are Still Amazing Part 1

Omar S is yet another house/techno talent to burst out of underground Detroit. Similar in style and attitude to Theo Parrish his music is rough, raw and 100% independent. He releases and distributes his music from his basement studio on his own label FXHE. His earlier releases all came with hand written labels until it started taking up too much of his time.

Omar S - Oasis 1

Oasis 1 was released in 2004 and originally past me by. On listening to it you will understand why. Little more than a raw beat with spooky synths and what sounds like people bashing sheet metal over the top. Thats all, but given time it really gets into your head. Good shit.
The track was taken from the latest Fabric mix Omar S - Detroit, a mix of his productions and great introduction to the man. More info here

Beyond The Wizards Sleeve

Beyond the Wizards Sleeve is a collaboration between Trash supremo and indie kids DJ of choice Erol Alkan, and Richard Norris ex of The Grid. They first came to my attention when i heard their re-animation (as they call them) of Promises by Badly Drawn Boy on a Jazzanova mix. I'd never heard the original of this track as i lost interest in Badly Drawn Boy many years ago but this mix is lovely stuff, kind of late 80's/early 90's mid tempo piano house. Proper 5am tackle.

Badly Drawn Boy - Promises (Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve Re-Animation)

Since hearing that i've been out and bought their Re-Animations cd, a 12 track compilation of their remixes to date. I'm not loving it all at the minute TBO but its early days. What i am loving though is their re-animation of Roscoe by Midlake. The original of this track is one of my favourites from recent years, so i was a little worried it could be ruined. I shouldn't have worried as what they've done is just add to beauty of the original. Dare i say bettering it!?

Midlake - Roscoe (Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve Re-Animation)

The Drones

The Drones - The Minotaur
I finally got round to checking this band at the weekend and it was well worth the effort. I had no idea what to expect but i definitely wasn't expecting anything this good. The first track on their Myspace was this single from their 4th lp Havilah. This is intense nasty stuff with huge guitars and i can't stop playing it over and over and over....
The new lp is out now on ATP records with a free download code.
Go buy people

RIP Selectadisc

Sad, sad news. After 43 years serving the good people of Nottingham independent record shop Selectadisc finally closed this weekend. Another one bites the dust.

Back from Iceland

After a month of struggle i finally have a new keyboard so i can start posting again. Due to fact that Apple don't make these keyboards anymore (and the new ones aren't compatible, thanks) i had to search ebay for one. I thought i'd picked up a bargain at £7.50 until it arrived and was an Icelandic model! After an hour spent switching the keys over from my knackered old one i'm finally back.
Here's a song from Iceland
Bjork - All Is Full Of Love

Where Would You Be

Yaw - Where Would You Be
The sun has been shining this weekend so i thought id post this stunning soul cut from Yaw. I know very little about this track other than came out on a sampler for a new label called Chisoul and that Peterson put it on 3rd Brownswood Bubblers compilation. Anyway its great so download & enjoy.
Buy the sampler 12 here
Brownswood Bubblers 3 is available here

Thespacebarhasbrokeonmycomputer

Songswithoutspaces
Love - Aloneagainor

Get On Yer Boots

Made me laugh - from yesterdays Guardian
Sonic Youth - Dirty Boots

RIP John Martyn (11.09.48–29.01.09)

John Martyn - Don't Want To Know

RIP Lux Interior (21.10.46–04.02.09)

The Cramps - Garbageman

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Everything With You
I have to confess to being an unashamed lover of indie/noise pop. This band were introduced to me recently by the excellent Guardian music podcast, when they played superbly titled This Love Is Fucking Right. Since then i have delved deeper and found this gem of a song. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart are being touted as part of a New York C86 revival scene alongside bands like Crystal Stilts & the Vivian Girls. I don't care about that. This is pure Sunny Sundae Smile era My Bloody Valentine played with a youthful exuberance and energy which makes it sound fresh and relevant. Pity the band name is a fucker to remember.
Their self titled lp is available now on Fortuna Pop. Buy it here

I'm a rare individual, young and I'm bossy

Mary J Blige feat. Nas & DMX - Sincerity
Seeing as this is the first post i thought i'd start with the track that inspired the name of this blog. I first heard it many years ago on Giles Peterson's Worldwide show and then spent ages trying to track down a copy. I finally found a booty copy in the now defunct BPM records in Derby. Its one of Mary J's finest tracks with a great verse from a young and bossy Nas.