So camp it’s genius!
Apologies for the crappy lack of clip. It’s a damn fine song in its faux ska grooviness.
Carl Craig at Cité de la Musique, Paris, France. Can’t believe it took me months to get round to watching this. Some wonderful tracks beautifully reinterpreted.
Jeff Mills & The Montpellier Philharmonic Orchestra had been getting plenty of play time for a while. Nice high quality presentation on YouTube. It almost makes hearing The Bells tolerable again.
I’m not sure what the state of record stores are in other parts of the US/world. I’m not coming across as much new music that has excited me lately. Largely due to shifting musical tastes and a lack of patience to sift through the sheer volume of new crap released. I am seeing lots of edits and white-label releases in the email outs and in stores I’ve been into. Seeing edits/bootlegs of stuff that is still quite readily available is baffling.
I won’t go into the legalities as I know shit about it. There was uproar over the bootlegs of Theo’s Ugly Edit records a few years back. Harvey has re-released some of his Black Cock edits because of the unauthorised boots of the releases. I was in a store recently and most of their stock consisted of edits and represses of disco/house records (of a questionable quality). Flicking through my recent purchases edits make up a small but noticeable number.
Edits aren’t necessarily evil, it’s what dj’s have been doing forever. Showing no regard for the orignal song’s structure and going straight to an interesting part or using two copies of the same record to extend the break. Ableton Live and software are making it easier to reconstruct and offer the chance to do something interesting. I suppose I’m lamenting the lack of what I perceive to be good new music for the ready consumption of old music. I’d like to make an analogy to edits being like fast food, sugar rush and disposable but it’s not always the case. Some great old tunes are being uncovered and being discovered by a new audience.
No disrepect to Greg Wilson btw i was just trying to lively up the post with a picture. He is an amazing dj and it still hurts my head to think of splicing stuff on reel to reel and still using them to this day!
The collectors and geeks out there will appreciate having musical tunnel vision occasionally. It’s my OCD again, I get slightly obsessed by an artist/label/style for a while and it gets all consuming for a period. There’s plenty of interesting music out there, what are people listening too? Doesn’t need to be new and I’m particularly interested about stuff outside the electronic/dance music spectrum…
Six years and three continents ago we left the fair shores of Sydney, so young so naive I did not expect to be away so long. The few trips back to Sydney were often bitter-sweet though we were wooed on our last trip back at Christmas. The notion of settling back in Australia isn’t totally foreign though it’s getting a little ahead of ourselves at the moment.
We’ve had an amazing adventure so far. Seen and done loads of crazy shit we’d probably not have a chance to were we based in Sydney. It can be a struggle initially getting settled improving once we assimilate. We have a unique vantage point to interact, developing a picture of a place different to the harried view often seen from tourist reference points. I make it sound like we’ve been living amongst lost tribes in the Amazon but London and New York so far are markedly different from our native land.
We blew through London last weekend, catching up with old and new friends. As mentioned in my last post, I miss London. Having spent over 5 years there it’s our closest reference point for home. Learning the lay of the land and how to deal with the natives makes things so much easier. Patience has never been one of my strong points so New York is still taking a little getting used to. I struggled at the start with London, had such a vehement dislike of the place… oh how things change.
If home is where your heart is though I think mine is somewhere in the Basque and Catalonian regions of Spain or the south of Italy… or is that just my stomach? Visnja once described in her inimmitable way that family & friends at home said she’d lost her compass. It’s such an apt description of our current state.
Update: just realised this was post #500…
