Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Tuesday, 9 June 2015
Wednesday, 11 April 2012
Frenzy
Okay, so serendipity strikes again. I met Dennis "Citizen" Kane just recently, only briefly on the stairs as L and myself were leaving one of David Mancuso's Loft parties in London. Dennis was just hanging out with our good friend Paul "Mudd" Murphy who runs the Claremont 56 record label. I'd not seen Paul for ages and it was really unfortunate that we didn't have time to catch up with Paul and chat some more to Dennis. Anyway, here's a quite frankly mind-boggling interview with Dennis where he talks about his art (he's been an artist for most of his life, as well as a DJ), music and how Mancuso's loft parties are the greatest pieces of performance art you've ever seen:
Tuesday, 3 April 2012
AA meeting
So, we occasionally get out and about, and last weekend saw us visit the re-opening of the rather groovy art installation space Aid & Abet with the Bibliotheque exhibition. Launch night had the music curated by Village favourites bad timing and featured modular synth geeks Solinas HiFi making kraut-inspired noise to video footage of the Castlemorton party that sounded the demise of free parties in the UK. It's a not unpleasant experience to have your innards vibrated by bass whilst your eyes are confused and entranced by pretty colours (in fact most nightclubs seem to thrive on the premise).
Thursday, 17 February 2011
Fever pitch
Well, shit, I'm just excited as a mofo right now. Everything musical is sending me into a spin. After a certain Rhythm & Sound fan encouraged me to do some digging on the tracklists for their live sets, it slowly dawned on me that a huge inspiration for both their live sets and their productions is the period in reggae music where the analogue morphed into the digital. Prince Jammy was King Tubby's apprentice in the studio and it was he that built one of the first digital riddims which mashed up the dance across the world. Sleng Teng was the name of that riddim and it has been versioned at least 120 times since it's release. Tubby was so impressed with his prodigy's invention that he decided to build a digital riddim too - this being the Tempo riddim. Now here's the freaky shit, just as I'm educating myself about this music, this week, Mark Ainley from Honest Jon's and Mark Ernestus from Rhythm & Sound co-own a record label called Dug Out which decides to reissue a rare 'one riddim' album using none other than the Tempo riddim, vocalists including Sugar Minott and Willie Williams. In addition to this, my favourite Japanese dub speciallists (Dub Store Records) are reissuing a wealth of original King Jammy (the Prince was later crowned King!) 45's in beautiful limited runs of immaculate vinyl pressings with orginal artwork - from the early dancehall period charting the crossover from analogue to digital.
Sleng Teng
Tempo
But wait, there's more!
After a very long wait, finally the two new albums on the cult label Whatever We Want Records are dropping (and disappearing fast) in the UK. Ex-Cambridge lad Thomas Bullock (partner with DJ Harvey in the Map Of Africa project) and Eddie Ruscha (West Coast psychedelic maestro) are The Laughing Light of Plenty and the first single "The Rose" from their album was simply huge for us here at the Disco Village and around the world:
The self-titled album contains another killer in the form of "The Pulse" and a splattering of other tripped out cosmic space-folk-psyche-rock-disco... Intrigued?
http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/417133-01.htm
The second LP from Whatever We Want is by UK artist Cherrystones recording under the Pseudonym "Godsy". His LP is reeeaaally out there, exotic soundtracky music, again, super psychedelic ambient/noise/concrete/folk...
Godsy - My Snow Does Not Melt
Of course there is a huge controversy around these releases owing to their frankly insane price tags (up to $50 each depending on where you get them), but as Harvey says "records are luxury items".
More Whatever We Want shizzle here:
It's out mid march on vinyl and CD from the claremont store: http://claremont56.bigcartel.com/product/dog-eat-dog-lp
You can still find my Claremont 56 retrospective mix over on soundcloud here for a taster of other music on the label:
http://soundcloud.com/village-idiot/claremont-56
Sleng Teng
Tempo
But wait, there's more!
After a very long wait, finally the two new albums on the cult label Whatever We Want Records are dropping (and disappearing fast) in the UK. Ex-Cambridge lad Thomas Bullock (partner with DJ Harvey in the Map Of Africa project) and Eddie Ruscha (West Coast psychedelic maestro) are The Laughing Light of Plenty and the first single "The Rose" from their album was simply huge for us here at the Disco Village and around the world:
The self-titled album contains another killer in the form of "The Pulse" and a splattering of other tripped out cosmic space-folk-psyche-rock-disco... Intrigued?
http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/417133-01.htm
The second LP from Whatever We Want is by UK artist Cherrystones recording under the Pseudonym "Godsy". His LP is reeeaaally out there, exotic soundtracky music, again, super psychedelic ambient/noise/concrete/folk...
Godsy - My Snow Does Not Melt
Of course there is a huge controversy around these releases owing to their frankly insane price tags (up to $50 each depending on where you get them), but as Harvey says "records are luxury items".
More Whatever We Want shizzle here:
And arrrghhh!!!! There's more!!!! Our good friend Mudd over at Claremont HQ is just releasing a hidden gem from the Post Punk era NYC girl group Dog Eat Dog. With sleeve artwork by Keith Haring and heavyweight vinyl pressing this is a surefire winner:
It's out mid march on vinyl and CD from the claremont store: http://claremont56.bigcartel.com/product/dog-eat-dog-lp
You can still find my Claremont 56 retrospective mix over on soundcloud here for a taster of other music on the label:
http://soundcloud.com/village-idiot/claremont-56
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