With a couple of friends and fellow vinyl junkies, we get together once a month or so to talk trash, get some food in, play some records and hit record. It’s a whole lotta fun for us, hope you enjoy too.

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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…

it seems i have my head in the sand further than usual. The CMJ 08 music and film festival has a silly amount of shit happening this week. Pissed that we missed Madlib and Peanut Butter Wolf tonight and FREE as well…

DECAMPMENT from ADULT. on Vimeo

Adult came to our town screening their film Decampment presented with a live soundtrack.  Whilst waiting inline we had some local art students moaning about the 12 bucks it cost to get in and describe it as a “mid western horror”. I thought that was pretty hilarious, but i now see it’s how it was described on their website. It was filmed entirely in Detroit and i guess we’re desensitized so it didn’t freak us out.

It’s a silent movie and the asthete continues with the themes seen in Nicola Kuperas’ photography and band cover/label art. Lots of shoes, legs and faceless or below the neckline shots. Wasn’t quite sure what to make of the movie, the soundtrack was pretty good though. It’s being released as a limited 3×7” set with stills from the movie. Acting was pretty bad but i suppose thats much of the point, it seems like it would have been fun to make. It was very kitschy and we rather appreciated the live soundtrack.