drunken kitchen dance

you really can't beat dancing to belle and sebastian in yer kitchen at 1 in the morning while drunk and waiting for coffee to brew, can ye now?

loads of new music these past few days..

smallfish, the evil buggers, had far too many good releases in yesterday, on vinyl as well, to compound the insult! I couldnt leave empty handed with so many vinyl wares on offer. I only went in for one 7" - the latest Various Productions single. What did i come out with? The Rythmn and Sound 'See Mi Yah' 7" boxset, #3 of the Sleeparchive 12"s, the new Planet Mu 12" by Pinch, oh and what i went in for, the Various Productions 7".

What shall i say about them? They are all astounding - with quite a grime feel as well - definitelt the Pinch 12 is a dubstep or sublo or something similar, and the new Various Productions, especially side B with the vocals is very Grime-like. Rythmn and Sound are Rhythm and Sound, you know what you are getting, and you know its the shit. Sleeparchive - shit.. its like, i quote, early Richie Hawtin/Plastic man, minimal analog techno, hats, drums and snares with some samples and squelches - its impossible to describe well, like you describe the sounds, and you think, *yawn!*, but theres something about it that catches that naive innocent 90's feel. really damn good.

lots of other new stuff like new Wasteland album 'All Versus All', new B. Fleischman and Earth, but havent had a chance to have a thorough listen yet..

i dont go into much detail do i? well, f*ck it! too stoned, going to bed!!

weekender

Just back from seeing Fuck-off Machete play at Silver Rocket. pretty fucking ace set, i really enjoyed it. I caughttwo other bands beforehand - Silent Front and October All Over. Silent Front were just too screamo for my liking, nary a melody in site, just by the numbers straightfaced noiserock. October All Over were a bit more varied and at times sounding like a nice noised up Superchunk, but overall still not delivering. But yeah, Machete played a good set, very confident and enjoying themselves onstage. Paul has really got a lot more confident in his stage presence and playing, while Natasha and Cal just do their stuff amazingly well. Check out a track at : http://www.highpointlowlife.com/downloads/fuckoffmachete_copperandleadfight.mp3.

too much new music of late as well, especially the past few days. Yesterday i had a melody stuck in my head, seriously took me like 5 hours to work out what it was ... boopidoo doo doo - boopidoo doo doo - then by some weird jungian connection linking i worked it back to being Dr. Dre's Xxplosive. I ended up downloading it from the itunes store, my first legal mp3 purchase. I got the bug and joined emusic for the 25 free download trial period. Damn, i got hooked, upgraded my account today and already i'm out of credit for the month. I downloaded..

Beat Happening - Jamboree
Oval - 94 Diskont
Beulah - Handsome Western States
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Lusine - Serial Hodgepodge

all of them are so good in their own way, its excellent. Oval and Beat Happening i've both previously owned, the Beulah album is the only one of theirs i didnt have, and the Lusine and Madvillain are both new to me. Ah, the Dre track has just come on my itunes, and i gotta go shake my ass before hitting the sack, westcoast shit, nigga, dont tease bitch, guatamala, bitch nigga, more of a bitch than a bitch, punk bitch, all the true gangstas know etc....

hausmusic

Still aching after the fact, but the deed is done, i'm moved into my new pad, all my furniture is build up and my music desk, speakers and mixer are nicely laid out. My adsl and wireless is all connected up. Woo! wireless - new thing for me, just got my Airport Express card last week before moving in, so i was all ready. I got the adsl from Wanadoo, so the router they give you is also a wireless base station plus VoIP device which you can just plug a regular touch-tone phone into and use. Actually, kudos to Wanadoo, the whole setup was pretty painless and straightforward, apart from requiring the use of a Windows PC for the initial setup, but that was fine as one of my new housemates has a PC we used.
I still found time to go out on friday night to the De-sonis Kranky Records special. Me, Mat and Keung all went down, and had an amazing time. Great performances by Rameses III, Boduf Songs, and then headlining was Greg Kowalsky, whose recent 'Through The Cardial Window' album i have been really enjoying. I would like to write more about it, but i'm knackered and hitting the sack. Anyhoo, check the De-sonis site at http://www.no-signal.net/desonis/

I have also found myself returning quite continually to the Nathan Fake album "Drowning In A Sea Of Love" after initially being quite dissapointed in it. I still dont love it, at least consciously, but it must have something, cos i keep craving to listen to it. Maybe he used MSG.